The Michael Knowles Show - September 26, 2017


Ep. 33 - Is Trump Playing 4-D Football？


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

183.47299

Word Count

5,043

Sentence Count

342

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

A member of Congress takes a knee, the Cowboys try to take their knee and stand up too, and the President s popularity surges? Is Donald Trump playing 4D football? We ll discuss the relationship between national sports and nationalism in elections around the world with an actual journalist, Mary M. Lane.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A member of Congress takes the knee.
00:00:03.320 The Cowboys try to take their knee and stand up too,
00:00:06.240 and the President's popularity surges.
00:00:08.700 Is Donald Trump playing 4D football?
00:00:11.500 We will discuss the relationship between national sports
00:00:14.260 and nationalism in elections around the world
00:00:17.280 after Germany's shocking election Sunday
00:00:19.300 with an actual journalist, Mary M. Lane.
00:00:22.460 Then, Ariel Davidson, Amanda Prestigiacomo,
00:00:25.040 and his eminence, Paul Bois,
00:00:26.680 join the panel of deplorables
00:00:28.260 to discuss the cowardly Republicans
00:00:30.440 who killed Obamacare repeal,
00:00:32.240 the New York Times' creepy communism obsession,
00:00:35.280 and the Paris Hilton climate accord.
00:00:37.420 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:47.220 We have an actual journalist coming on this show.
00:00:50.100 Typically, we try to stick strictly to fake news reporters,
00:00:53.620 but we're breaking that rule for once.
00:00:56.460 We're going to have Mary Lane on.
00:00:57.740 She's written for The Washington Post, New York Times,
00:01:00.700 or I'm sorry, The Wall Street Journal,
00:01:01.800 The New York Times, Associated Press,
00:01:03.320 and she has a really interesting perspective
00:01:05.200 on how these sports protests and football protests
00:01:09.820 relate to nationalism and national elections.
00:01:12.840 But first, we have got to run down very quickly
00:01:15.900 all that has happened in the NFL in just the last 24 hours.
00:01:20.300 You know, Kim Jong-un is about to fire rockets all over the world,
00:01:22.980 but we need to focus on the important things
00:01:24.740 like the National Football League.
00:01:26.140 So, to begin, this just broke about 20 minutes ago.
00:01:30.800 Sports Illustrated is going to run a cover now
00:01:33.120 that says, A Nation Divided, Sports United,
00:01:37.200 and it's going to show all these athletes
00:01:38.780 photoshopped in to be linking arms against President Trump
00:01:42.120 because that's why we read Sports Illustrated.
00:01:44.380 That's why we watch ESPN,
00:01:45.780 because we want to hear liberals rattle on
00:01:49.200 about how much they hate Donald Trump.
00:01:52.240 Obviously, they're just moving further
00:01:53.900 in this left-wing direction.
00:01:55.440 It's cost them subscribers.
00:01:56.720 It's cost ESPN subscribers.
00:01:58.240 It might destroy bundled cable,
00:01:59.680 but nevertheless, they will persist.
00:02:02.400 Last night, the Dallas Cowboys joined the kneeling gesture
00:02:05.400 during the national anthem.
00:02:07.200 I got a little bit of flack for this.
00:02:08.760 I wrote a piece at the Daily Wire called
00:02:10.760 It's a Grand Old Flag,
00:02:12.540 and in that, people said that I unfairly
00:02:15.160 marred the Dallas Cowboys.
00:02:16.740 Here is a clip of what the Cowboys did last night.
00:02:20.040 He said the Cowboys players wanted to show unity,
00:02:22.860 but they were very adamant about wanting
00:02:24.920 to separate that message from the national anthem.
00:02:28.600 Sean?
00:02:29.860 All right, Lisa, as they take a knee collectively,
00:02:32.940 boos can be heard from this sellout crowd in Arizona.
00:02:39.160 Can be heard over the sellout team of the Dallas Cowboys.
00:02:43.180 What you could hear there is there was massive booing
00:02:45.740 when they all got down.
00:02:46.540 Even Jerry Jones, the owner, got down on one knee.
00:02:48.940 But what they did was they kneeled down
00:02:50.920 before the national anthem,
00:02:52.540 and then they stood up for the national anthem.
00:02:56.140 This seems to me a distinction
00:02:57.580 without very much of a difference.
00:02:59.540 They are clearly participating in the protest
00:03:02.920 that Colin Kaepernick began,
00:03:04.280 which is a protest of this country,
00:03:06.200 an assertion that the country is fundamentally oppressive
00:03:08.660 toward non-whites,
00:03:10.620 and it is part of that exact same protest.
00:03:15.180 Now, they wanted to have their protest
00:03:16.840 and eat it too or something like that.
00:03:18.860 They wanted to have it both ways.
00:03:20.200 I think it was too clever by half,
00:03:22.100 an absolute cynical failure.
00:03:24.680 But Dave Rubin brought up this point yesterday.
00:03:26.800 With all of these teams kneeling down,
00:03:28.400 what are they going to do?
00:03:29.140 Are they going to stand up in three weeks?
00:03:30.800 They say, okay, all of the racial problems
00:03:32.200 in the country are over.
00:03:32.940 We can stand up now.
00:03:33.960 Of course not.
00:03:35.080 They've backed themselves into a political corner.
00:03:37.120 If the Cowboys think that this is their way
00:03:39.120 of getting out of that political corner
00:03:40.680 by changing the timing of the kneeling, whatever.
00:03:43.360 I think it's pathetic.
00:03:44.420 I think these people are cowards
00:03:45.660 and too big for their britches.
00:03:47.660 They're paid tens of millions of dollars a year,
00:03:49.580 and they're paid to run around a field
00:03:52.820 and to entertain us.
00:03:53.960 They have to run their mouths about politics,
00:03:56.020 about which they know absolutely nothing.
00:03:58.700 It's totally ungrateful.
00:04:00.360 It's inexcusable.
00:04:01.780 I won't be watching,
00:04:03.140 not that I watched a lot of football to begin with.
00:04:04.880 I'll be watching even less now.
00:04:06.300 But if it can end this nonsense,
00:04:09.220 then sure, I suppose that's fine.
00:04:11.880 Sarah Sanders made a very good point,
00:04:13.580 a point that a number of us have been making over here,
00:04:15.920 which is that the protest doesn't make any sense.
00:04:18.440 She said yesterday, quote,
00:04:20.320 I think if this, the debate is really for them
00:04:22.720 about police brutality,
00:04:24.420 then they should probably protest the officers in the field
00:04:26.660 who are protecting them instead of the American flag.
00:04:29.000 Absolutely right.
00:04:30.080 It is a nonsense to protest the American flag.
00:04:33.280 The very fact of your being able to protest
00:04:35.340 that American flag without prosecution
00:04:37.380 is a defeater for your protest in the first place.
00:04:40.720 It undermines the premises of your protest,
00:04:44.520 which is that the country is fundamentally rotten
00:04:46.300 and oppressive toward whichever demographics of people.
00:04:49.260 So a good point from Sarah Sanders.
00:04:51.800 I'm glad we missed Scaramucci.
00:04:53.880 We were very upset when the mooch had to leave,
00:04:55.700 but Sarah Sanders is doing a good job.
00:04:58.080 Maxine Waters says that Trump should be impeached over his tweets.
00:05:01.680 I don't think that requires any commentary.
00:05:04.160 Got to love Maxine Waters.
00:05:05.900 And then a Congressional Black Caucus member
00:05:07.740 has decided to take the knee.
00:05:09.540 Here is Sheila Jackson Lee.
00:05:11.500 And you cannot abridge without law and regulation.
00:05:14.520 And there is no regulation that says that these young men
00:05:17.240 cannot stand against the dishonoring of their mothers
00:05:22.040 by you calling them fire the son of a bee.
00:05:25.780 You tell me which of those children's mothers
00:05:28.240 are a son of a bee.
00:05:29.920 That is racism.
00:05:31.300 You cannot deny it.
00:05:32.800 You cannot run for it.
00:05:33.980 And I kneel in honor of them.
00:05:38.220 If anybody could quite make out what the point was
00:05:41.320 that Sheila Jackson Lee had to say,
00:05:42.980 please write in and let me know.
00:05:44.740 This is the same woman who compared the Tea Party
00:05:46.620 to the KKK in 2010.
00:05:48.620 She has nothing of value to add to this country
00:05:52.020 or to the federal government.
00:05:54.220 And she is funny to watch, though.
00:05:56.900 She made this, she did make one small point,
00:05:59.240 which is that there's no rule that says
00:06:00.940 that they can't take a knee during the national anthem.
00:06:03.240 I'm not sure about that.
00:06:04.660 There are regulations in the league
00:06:06.480 governing what they can dance to in the end zone.
00:06:09.580 I recommend the lyrics to a song
00:06:11.600 that would be great for them to dance to
00:06:13.060 called It's a Grand Old Flag,
00:06:14.640 It's a High-Flying Flag,
00:06:15.680 and Forever in Peace May She Wave,
00:06:17.260 The Emblem of the Land I Love,
00:06:18.540 The Home of the Free and the Brave.
00:06:20.680 I'm not sure that they'll learn that anytime soon.
00:06:22.880 But anyway, there is now a bipartisan effort underway
00:06:26.700 to strip the NFL of taxpayer funding for stadiums.
00:06:30.640 This bill was co-sponsored by Cory Booker,
00:06:33.620 a Democrat, and James Lankford, a Republican in June.
00:06:36.700 It is now gaining steam,
00:06:37.800 obviously under very different circumstances,
00:06:40.180 and it's gaining steam on Capitol Hill.
00:06:42.300 Probably people like Cory Booker will pull out of that
00:06:45.100 now that there is this partisan,
00:06:47.140 anti-Trump racial tinge to it,
00:06:48.800 but we'll see what happens.
00:06:50.500 That is all the background.
00:06:52.160 Now we have,
00:06:52.920 if I can ever get my earpiece to work properly,
00:06:55.220 with that,
00:06:56.100 we have to bring in
00:06:56.780 our excellent panel of deplorables.
00:06:58.560 We have a wonderful one today.
00:06:59.900 We have Ariel Davidson from the Hoover Institution,
00:07:02.220 Amanda Presto Giacomo from the Daily Wire,
00:07:04.120 and his eminence,
00:07:05.880 Paul Bois.
00:07:07.820 So very quickly,
00:07:08.940 I don't want to harp on the NFL too much,
00:07:11.000 but just going around the horn here,
00:07:12.920 Ariel, do you agree
00:07:14.040 with President Trump's handling of this cultural issue?
00:07:17.040 And is he playing 4D football?
00:07:21.120 It's a tough question.
00:07:22.660 It's hard to always predict
00:07:24.200 what's going on in the mind of President Trump.
00:07:26.780 Certainly true.
00:07:27.320 I will say this.
00:07:29.820 I've had a few people ask me this now,
00:07:31.960 and I'll try to keep it short and sweet.
00:07:34.320 And I always direct people to this article
00:07:36.460 that Matthew Betley put out in Weekly Standard.
00:07:41.600 I think it was earlier this morning.
00:07:43.380 And I thought it was really a wonderful piece
00:07:44.780 written by a Marine veteran.
00:07:47.480 And he said that
00:07:49.420 we should try to approach
00:07:51.940 some level of understanding,
00:07:54.080 perhaps,
00:07:54.420 with both the people who are frustrated
00:07:56.560 by those who are kneeling
00:07:57.640 and for those who are kneeling.
00:07:59.380 My one critique would be that
00:08:01.500 I don't really know what the kneelers want,
00:08:03.560 what the ultimate objective will be
00:08:05.340 after this is done.
00:08:08.060 Are they going to continue to kneel
00:08:09.560 for three or four weeks?
00:08:11.820 Are they going to kneel indefinitely?
00:08:13.980 So my question would be,
00:08:16.140 whenever we see any sort of activism,
00:08:18.260 there's usually a primary objective
00:08:19.760 at the end of that activism.
00:08:22.460 Not on the left.
00:08:23.600 It's perpetual revolution, Ariel.
00:08:25.740 It's perpetual revolution.
00:08:27.620 I know that.
00:08:28.260 And Stacey on the right
00:08:29.220 this morning did a radio show in St. Louis,
00:08:31.820 and she's a great,
00:08:32.900 wonderful political commentator.
00:08:34.040 If you don't listen to her,
00:08:34.820 I recommend it.
00:08:36.060 But she sort of commented,
00:08:37.320 she said,
00:08:37.740 I'm really curious what they want
00:08:39.180 at the end of this protesting.
00:08:40.900 Is there a final objective
00:08:42.500 that they're working towards?
00:08:44.680 In which case,
00:08:45.380 let's talk about that.
00:08:46.760 But I think the lack of sort of
00:08:48.660 having a clear-cut objective
00:08:50.080 is what's most troubling to me.
00:08:52.420 Because, you know,
00:08:53.200 I don't have a problem with protests.
00:08:55.020 That's the American,
00:08:56.620 you know,
00:08:56.880 that's our fine art in America.
00:08:58.980 We protest like no one else can protest
00:09:00.740 because we have wonderful laws
00:09:02.700 that protect us
00:09:03.440 and allow us to do that.
00:09:04.840 So I'm fine with people protesting.
00:09:06.780 I just want to know,
00:09:07.580 you know,
00:09:07.760 is there,
00:09:08.640 what are you protesting?
00:09:09.940 If you're not protesting the flag
00:09:11.620 and, you know,
00:09:12.500 why are you kneeling during it?
00:09:13.820 And, you know,
00:09:14.120 there are two questions here.
00:09:15.340 There's the meta-political question,
00:09:16.900 which is,
00:09:17.440 am I,
00:09:18.260 do I think it should be outlawed?
00:09:19.640 Of course not.
00:09:20.400 In that sense,
00:09:21.040 I'm fine with it.
00:09:22.040 I like our constitutional protections.
00:09:23.800 But then there's
00:09:24.260 the real political question.
00:09:25.600 Is it a good protest
00:09:26.480 or is it a bad protest?
00:09:27.620 Does it help America?
00:09:28.660 Does it hurt America?
00:09:29.780 Is it truthful or is it false?
00:09:31.080 And I think it's absolute nonsense.
00:09:32.940 Amanda,
00:09:33.360 is he playing 4D football?
00:09:35.460 And should he be?
00:09:36.080 Well,
00:09:38.160 I think,
00:09:38.640 so I think President Trump
00:09:39.920 is doing this
00:09:41.320 kind of for personal reasons.
00:09:43.560 He's just trying to rally his base.
00:09:44.820 Absolutely.
00:09:45.140 A lot has happened with DACA
00:09:46.300 and, you know,
00:09:48.160 healthcare is a disaster tax reform
00:09:50.000 again on the back burner.
00:09:51.480 So that being said,
00:09:53.320 this was the easiest trap in the world.
00:09:55.140 I mean,
00:09:55.320 this is clearly,
00:09:56.920 I don't typically say
00:09:57.900 it's about President Trump,
00:09:58.700 but this is clearly
00:09:59.400 4D chess or football,
00:10:01.220 as you said.
00:10:01.880 4D football,
00:10:02.280 yeah.
00:10:02.580 I think that makes it rugby.
00:10:03.920 I'm not sure.
00:10:04.460 I don't know a lot of sports.
00:10:05.520 Right.
00:10:06.400 This was the easiest trap in the world.
00:10:08.140 I mean,
00:10:08.340 he's getting his enemies to kneel
00:10:10.880 during the playing
00:10:11.860 of our national anthem.
00:10:13.420 I mean,
00:10:13.660 this is not rallying just the base.
00:10:15.960 This is rallying most of America,
00:10:17.840 a majority of Americans
00:10:18.740 who think that's disrespectful
00:10:19.900 and disgusting
00:10:20.660 to basically spit on,
00:10:22.360 you know,
00:10:22.760 the graves of those people
00:10:23.460 who fought for your freedom
00:10:24.300 to do that.
00:10:25.000 Like you said,
00:10:25.460 of course you can.
00:10:27.140 It's,
00:10:27.560 is it politically advantageous?
00:10:29.260 Does it make any sense?
00:10:30.660 Is it disrespectful?
00:10:31.600 Should you do it?
00:10:33.200 So President Trump,
00:10:34.340 this is a big win on his part.
00:10:36.260 And,
00:10:36.380 and I don't also,
00:10:37.860 I know Rush Limbaugh
00:10:38.440 was mentioning this today.
00:10:40.000 People kind of overlook
00:10:40.880 the cultural war,
00:10:42.280 but it's so important to politics.
00:10:44.520 I mean,
00:10:44.700 like Andrew Ray.
00:10:45.020 Everything else is just accounting,
00:10:46.640 Amanda.
00:10:47.180 Everything that isn't cultural
00:10:48.440 is just accounting.
00:10:49.420 Exactly.
00:10:49.960 So this was actually,
00:10:52.180 it's,
00:10:52.880 it's,
00:10:53.240 it's a little,
00:10:54.080 you know,
00:10:54.440 it's divisive,
00:10:55.460 sure.
00:10:56.100 But it's kind of a war
00:10:57.620 that needs to be fought
00:10:58.680 and President,
00:10:59.640 they walked right into
00:11:00.320 President Trump's trap.
00:11:01.240 So a smart move by him.
00:11:03.360 Your eminence,
00:11:03.860 Mr. Bois,
00:11:04.360 I know that you think
00:11:05.180 it's 40 chess,
00:11:05.900 so we have to move on
00:11:06.620 to more news.
00:11:07.980 Nominally Republican Senator
00:11:09.440 Susan Collins
00:11:10.220 has given the final nail
00:11:11.760 in the coffin
00:11:12.260 for Obamacare repeal
00:11:13.480 after other nominally
00:11:14.940 Republican senators,
00:11:16.060 John McCain and Rand Paul,
00:11:17.700 also vowed to keep in place
00:11:19.000 the law they promised
00:11:19.800 for eight years to repeal.
00:11:22.180 Paul Bois,
00:11:23.140 we constantly attack
00:11:24.380 Collins and McCain
00:11:25.680 for stabbing their party
00:11:26.580 in the back,
00:11:27.360 but we seem to let Rand Paul
00:11:28.720 off the hook.
00:11:29.440 What's up with that?
00:11:30.040 Well, because Rand Paul,
00:11:32.600 he dresses it up
00:11:33.640 in the
00:11:34.340 my principles rhetoric.
00:11:37.860 And, you know,
00:11:39.660 Susan Collins
00:11:40.480 and John McCain,
00:11:41.860 they do it
00:11:42.260 for political reasons.
00:11:43.460 They do it
00:11:44.260 so they can
00:11:44.920 look nice
00:11:46.120 to the mainstream media
00:11:47.420 and yada, yada, yada.
00:11:49.300 But Rand Paul,
00:11:50.340 he's just doing it
00:11:51.100 because he's Mr.
00:11:52.120 Ideologically Motivated
00:11:53.680 and I'm standing
00:11:54.920 for my principles.
00:11:56.380 And frankly,
00:11:57.420 it's narcissistic
00:11:58.640 and we should call it out
00:11:59.680 every bit as much
00:12:00.420 as John McCain
00:12:01.380 and Susan Collins.
00:12:02.420 It's getting ridiculous
00:12:03.340 at this point.
00:12:03.860 It is navel-gazing.
00:12:05.280 I'm sorry, go ahead.
00:12:06.520 Grow up, Rand Paul.
00:12:08.860 It is navel-gazing.
00:12:10.300 You know,
00:12:10.500 there's this excellent essay
00:12:11.740 which I frequently recommend,
00:12:13.000 Rationalism and Politics,
00:12:14.640 by Michael Oakeshott.
00:12:15.680 And in it,
00:12:16.100 he says,
00:12:16.780 the rationalist,
00:12:17.760 the ideologue,
00:12:18.420 ideologues like Rand Paul,
00:12:19.920 they're always standing
00:12:21.140 for something.
00:12:22.040 They're never really doing anything,
00:12:23.140 but they're standing,
00:12:24.160 you know,
00:12:24.360 and then they stand there.
00:12:25.600 Their legs probably get tired
00:12:26.600 because of all this standing.
00:12:27.960 Well, thanks for your principles,
00:12:29.100 Rand Paul.
00:12:29.520 It's gotten us absolutely nothing.
00:12:31.420 Good job.
00:12:32.020 You've accomplished nothing.
00:12:33.040 Go home.
00:12:34.000 Ariel,
00:12:34.540 Collins seems to have voted
00:12:35.740 against this
00:12:36.440 because her state is poor
00:12:38.000 and because Obamacare
00:12:39.520 expanded Medicaid.
00:12:40.660 If that is the case,
00:12:42.660 if we can get poor states
00:12:44.900 hooked on this
00:12:45.720 with the dependence
00:12:47.040 to the federal government,
00:12:48.180 then is there ever any hope
00:12:49.660 to repeal entitlements?
00:12:51.600 I mean,
00:12:51.900 that's sort of,
00:12:52.520 that was Milton Friedman's point,
00:12:53.900 right?
00:12:54.280 I think we might have
00:12:55.260 brought this up in the past
00:12:56.240 where there's nothing
00:12:56.980 more permanent
00:12:57.700 than a temporary
00:12:58.460 entitlement program.
00:13:00.820 So that's sort of,
00:13:01.820 you know,
00:13:02.000 that speaks to how hard
00:13:03.040 it is to roll back something
00:13:04.240 once you give it away
00:13:05.340 or once you start giving in
00:13:06.680 to people's demands.
00:13:08.480 You know,
00:13:08.880 I think I'm on board again,
00:13:10.080 going back to the Rand Paul notion.
00:13:11.420 I'm on board with that.
00:13:12.280 We,
00:13:13.020 you know,
00:13:13.320 I'm happy to be critical
00:13:14.660 of Rand Paul
00:13:15.240 because even though
00:13:15.940 he's sticking to his
00:13:16.940 quote unquote principles,
00:13:18.700 at this point,
00:13:20.200 you know,
00:13:20.420 it's sort of like
00:13:20.960 we can take what we can get.
00:13:22.660 And this is,
00:13:23.040 this would be,
00:13:24.100 this would have been
00:13:24.760 a step in the right direction.
00:13:26.700 In terms of Susan Collins,
00:13:28.220 I think we just have
00:13:29.020 a bunch of people
00:13:29.880 in the GOP
00:13:31.400 who are what I call
00:13:32.340 spineless jellyfish.
00:13:34.000 You know,
00:13:34.260 they run on a certain platform
00:13:35.580 and they're unwilling
00:13:37.140 to pull the trigger
00:13:38.900 when it comes to
00:13:39.880 actually enacting
00:13:40.880 what they've run on.
00:13:42.580 You know,
00:13:42.760 I was one of the people
00:13:43.440 that sort of
00:13:44.760 called Susan Collins' office
00:13:46.700 multiple times
00:13:47.920 during various votes.
00:13:49.700 And so I,
00:13:51.000 you know,
00:13:51.220 I have no shame
00:13:51.860 in doing so.
00:13:52.680 I think that,
00:13:53.760 you know,
00:13:54.700 it's been,
00:13:55.420 she's been sort of
00:13:56.300 an embarrassment
00:13:56.900 for the GOP.
00:13:58.540 She's not a reliable vote
00:14:00.040 when it comes to
00:14:00.820 conservative principles.
00:14:02.560 And,
00:14:02.840 you know,
00:14:03.000 same thing with McCain
00:14:03.900 as well.
00:14:04.380 I think I sort of
00:14:05.120 categorize them
00:14:05.780 as GOP sellouts.
00:14:07.400 Does that mean
00:14:07.980 I think they're bad people?
00:14:09.080 No.
00:14:09.840 But I think when it comes to,
00:14:11.380 you know,
00:14:11.640 just that's one thing
00:14:12.380 that bothers me,
00:14:13.360 especially on Twitter.
00:14:14.200 People say,
00:14:14.760 oh,
00:14:15.020 you know,
00:14:15.220 you can't criticize
00:14:16.040 these politicians
00:14:17.520 because,
00:14:18.620 you know,
00:14:18.780 they really are good people.
00:14:20.000 I'm like,
00:14:20.260 yeah,
00:14:20.380 that's fine.
00:14:20.960 But I'm criticizing
00:14:21.720 their policies.
00:14:22.440 Yeah,
00:14:22.640 I don't care
00:14:23.160 if they're good people.
00:14:24.380 And it must be nice
00:14:25.380 for Rand Paul.
00:14:26.140 It must be nice
00:14:27.100 to be able to stand
00:14:28.320 on the sidelines
00:14:29.300 and pretend
00:14:30.180 at moral superiority
00:14:31.220 while real men
00:14:32.540 go out
00:14:33.020 and do the things
00:14:34.260 that you're too afraid
00:14:35.100 to do
00:14:35.620 and actually risk
00:14:36.980 their political careers
00:14:38.160 to accomplish the thing
00:14:39.480 that they've been promising
00:14:40.200 for eight years.
00:14:40.940 Must be real nice
00:14:42.040 for Rand Paul.
00:14:42.760 What a principled guy.
00:14:44.120 I love your principles,
00:14:45.060 Rand Paul.
00:14:45.700 Amanda,
00:14:46.260 is it worth primarying
00:14:47.700 these rhinos
00:14:48.400 and running them
00:14:48.900 all out of Congress
00:14:49.620 or is a liberal Republican
00:14:51.500 better than no Republican
00:14:52.560 at all?
00:14:54.780 Liberal Republicans
00:14:55.780 have gotten us nowhere.
00:14:57.440 So if we can primary them
00:14:58.820 and we can kind of use,
00:15:00.180 if President Trump
00:15:00.800 can maintain his base,
00:15:03.260 you know,
00:15:04.120 and he can kind of push
00:15:05.860 for these people
00:15:07.480 to be primaried,
00:15:08.500 these liberal Republicans,
00:15:10.340 then, you know,
00:15:11.460 I would say go for it
00:15:12.460 because as we saw
00:15:13.340 during the election,
00:15:14.120 and President Trump
00:15:14.800 spent, you know,
00:15:15.700 no money
00:15:16.220 and he still won.
00:15:17.700 He just used social media.
00:15:18.820 So that populist base,
00:15:20.960 there is something to it
00:15:22.380 and all people
00:15:22.760 don't like to admit that,
00:15:23.620 but there is something
00:15:24.140 to that.
00:15:25.080 So if we get,
00:15:26.120 you know,
00:15:26.280 if you can get
00:15:26.640 President Trump behind it
00:15:27.580 and you can get
00:15:28.060 this populist base
00:15:29.260 who voted for Trump
00:15:30.040 for his principles,
00:15:31.500 not just necessarily
00:15:32.440 for the man,
00:15:33.660 maybe we could see
00:15:35.000 some change in that regard.
00:15:36.440 It's always hard
00:15:37.400 to challenge an incumbent,
00:15:39.280 but it's possible.
00:15:40.940 I voted for the covfefe.
00:15:42.340 I didn't vote
00:15:42.700 for the principles
00:15:43.240 or the man,
00:15:44.180 but it's a minor point.
00:15:45.760 Okay, listen,
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00:16:50.460 The New York Times
00:16:51.520 is continuing
00:16:52.140 its creepy obsession
00:16:53.700 with communism.
00:16:54.860 The former newspaper
00:16:55.820 of record tweeted yesterday,
00:16:57.400 quote,
00:16:58.040 for all its flaws,
00:16:59.220 the communist revolution
00:17:00.480 taught Chinese women
00:17:01.440 to dream big.
00:17:02.760 As our pal Ben Shapiro
00:17:04.140 recalls today
00:17:04.820 in the Daily Wire,
00:17:05.960 other New York Times headlines
00:17:07.160 in just the past few months
00:17:08.220 include,
00:17:09.140 quote,
00:17:09.640 when communism
00:17:10.420 inspired Americans,
00:17:12.360 quote,
00:17:12.740 when the Harlem Renaissance
00:17:14.020 went communist,
00:17:15.440 quote,
00:17:16.240 socialism's future,
00:17:17.680 maybe its past.
00:17:19.120 And finally,
00:17:20.040 quote,
00:17:20.640 why women had better sex
00:17:22.460 under socialism.
00:17:23.680 That is not a joke.
00:17:24.520 That's an actual
00:17:25.100 New York Times headline.
00:17:26.680 Amanda,
00:17:27.460 two questions.
00:17:29.020 Do women have better sex
00:17:30.660 under socialism
00:17:31.360 and has the communist revolution
00:17:33.200 taught you
00:17:33.860 to dream big?
00:17:36.180 Yeah,
00:17:36.720 well,
00:17:37.380 I mean,
00:17:38.120 you know,
00:17:38.660 once you're out of the breadline
00:17:39.940 and once you defend off starvation,
00:17:41.520 I heard the sex is fantastic.
00:17:43.500 I'm going to take their word for it,
00:17:45.220 but that's what I hear.
00:17:46.960 And then also,
00:17:47.720 actually,
00:17:48.420 you know,
00:17:48.740 once you have so many abortions,
00:17:50.220 forced abortions by the government,
00:17:51.740 you'll become,
00:17:52.380 you know,
00:17:52.760 sterile,
00:17:53.120 you'll be infertile,
00:17:53.780 and then you can just have
00:17:54.460 as much sex as you want
00:17:55.440 and, you know,
00:17:55.940 there'll be no consequences at all.
00:17:57.020 So it could be great,
00:17:58.800 you know.
00:17:59.880 Yeah,
00:18:00.300 it's a utopia you're painting.
00:18:02.420 Ariel,
00:18:03.060 socialism is an old,
00:18:04.480 failed,
00:18:04.800 dead philosophy.
00:18:06.140 Why is it being trotted out
00:18:07.520 as fresh and fun
00:18:08.760 134 years
00:18:10.300 after the death
00:18:10.880 of Karl Marx?
00:18:12.440 Right.
00:18:12.960 So I say this is,
00:18:14.020 I focused on Soviet politics
00:18:16.140 in college.
00:18:16.760 That was like my main
00:18:17.800 forte.
00:18:18.680 I will say this,
00:18:19.600 that I think the left
00:18:20.500 is having some,
00:18:21.780 they need to engage
00:18:22.480 in some sort of apology
00:18:23.660 because one of the main
00:18:25.020 attack lines
00:18:25.900 of the conservative movement
00:18:27.240 is that,
00:18:28.280 hey,
00:18:28.720 you know what,
00:18:29.260 the left end of the spectrum,
00:18:30.440 they're the ones
00:18:30.920 that are responsible
00:18:31.580 for communism.
00:18:33.020 Absolutely and factually true.
00:18:35.060 However,
00:18:35.940 now the left,
00:18:37.020 in order to undermine
00:18:38.020 this talking point,
00:18:39.200 has to paint communism
00:18:40.540 with some sort of rosy lens.
00:18:42.720 Right?
00:18:42.980 Even,
00:18:43.320 okay,
00:18:43.500 so they've accepted
00:18:44.180 that somehow they're
00:18:45.080 associated with communism now
00:18:46.500 because you have
00:18:47.420 Bernie Sanders,
00:18:48.160 quasi-communist,
00:18:49.360 who ran for public office.
00:18:51.360 So they've accepted
00:18:52.540 that communism
00:18:53.840 is part of,
00:18:55.220 you know,
00:18:55.420 sort of the,
00:18:56.440 one branch
00:18:57.860 of their party.
00:18:58.760 But now they need
00:18:59.920 to engage
00:19:00.560 in some sort
00:19:01.140 of apology tour
00:19:02.060 or at least
00:19:03.080 whitewash it
00:19:03.960 in some way
00:19:04.580 in order to make it
00:19:05.620 an easier pill
00:19:06.260 to swallow.
00:19:07.080 I think this plan
00:19:07.960 is going to backfire
00:19:09.000 tremendously
00:19:09.760 because there are
00:19:10.760 millions and millions
00:19:11.780 of people
00:19:12.320 who have died
00:19:12.980 under communist regimes
00:19:14.240 that are sort of,
00:19:16.440 there's,
00:19:16.680 I mean,
00:19:16.820 there's no better
00:19:17.440 argument against communism
00:19:18.760 than its existence.
00:19:20.660 So with that being said,
00:19:22.540 I think this is sort
00:19:23.360 of the left's attempt
00:19:24.660 to try to whitewash
00:19:26.400 a part of their history
00:19:27.240 that they don't want
00:19:27.960 to own.
00:19:29.180 But the fact is
00:19:30.160 they own it.
00:19:31.000 They have to own it.
00:19:32.360 And communism
00:19:33.100 will continue
00:19:33.880 to be the biggest
00:19:34.680 argument against
00:19:35.400 any sort of
00:19:36.460 leftist utopia.
00:19:37.560 And the left
00:19:38.160 has been doing
00:19:38.580 this forever.
00:19:39.320 The New York Times
00:19:39.820 is Walter Durante
00:19:40.780 famously said
00:19:41.860 we've seen the future
00:19:42.940 and it works
00:19:43.560 about the Soviet Union.
00:19:45.040 He denied
00:19:45.500 that there were
00:19:45.980 famines there.
00:19:46.680 I mean,
00:19:46.800 he was an absolute
00:19:47.640 shill and propagandist
00:19:49.100 for them.
00:19:49.980 But,
00:19:50.820 Mr. Bois,
00:19:52.360 Your Eminence Paul Bois,
00:19:53.580 Andrew Clavin says
00:19:54.760 that the New York Times
00:19:57.180 is a former newspaper.
00:19:58.760 He says that
00:19:59.200 because it was
00:19:59.760 a revered institution
00:20:00.600 and now the left
00:20:01.280 has hollowed it out
00:20:02.100 and destroyed it,
00:20:03.380 made it a zombie.
00:20:04.360 Now,
00:20:04.540 we've seen the left
00:20:05.040 do this in a lot
00:20:05.640 of other great institutions.
00:20:06.780 They've done it
00:20:07.100 to my dear old Yale.
00:20:08.300 They've done it
00:20:08.820 to corporate America.
00:20:09.700 They've done it
00:20:10.040 to the mainline
00:20:10.560 Protestant churches.
00:20:12.520 It is also said
00:20:13.520 that nostalgia
00:20:14.820 is history
00:20:15.540 after a few drinks.
00:20:17.480 Were these institutions
00:20:18.640 ever really great
00:20:19.980 or are we just being
00:20:21.820 sentimental and nostalgic?
00:20:24.000 Well,
00:20:24.440 I mean,
00:20:25.340 yes,
00:20:26.160 I mean,
00:20:26.440 you went through
00:20:27.100 a lot of institutions there.
00:20:28.360 You went through
00:20:28.660 corporate America,
00:20:29.740 mainline Protestantism.
00:20:31.460 When it comes
00:20:32.260 to the news media,
00:20:33.740 I mean,
00:20:34.260 not so much.
00:20:35.520 I think
00:20:36.140 if you really
00:20:37.800 look at the history
00:20:38.420 of it,
00:20:38.700 like you just said,
00:20:39.440 you spoke about
00:20:40.360 Walter Durante.
00:20:41.760 Also in the 1950s,
00:20:42.960 there was Operation
00:20:43.720 Mockingbird that was
00:20:44.940 uncovered in the 1970s
00:20:46.260 that showed dozens,
00:20:48.300 hundreds of journalists
00:20:48.980 across the country
00:20:49.680 were also in bed
00:20:50.720 with the CIA.
00:20:52.460 And we also have
00:20:53.420 that famous moment
00:20:55.000 during the Vietnam War
00:20:56.180 when Walter Cronkite,
00:20:58.280 after the Tet Offensive,
00:20:59.540 said the war
00:21:00.100 is unwinnable
00:21:00.700 even though we were
00:21:01.540 winning hand over fist.
00:21:02.560 You had Vox's Ezra Klein
00:21:04.600 creating an entire list serve
00:21:06.240 called Journalist
00:21:07.240 to help Barack Obama
00:21:08.760 and hurt John McCain.
00:21:10.200 I'm sorry,
00:21:10.680 can you repeat that again?
00:21:11.900 We've got,
00:21:12.480 yes,
00:21:12.760 we had Vox's Ezra Klein
00:21:14.640 created an entire list serve
00:21:16.000 called Journalist
00:21:17.620 to hurt John McCain
00:21:19.360 and to help Barack Obama.
00:21:20.720 Oh yeah,
00:21:21.240 there was of course that.
00:21:22.020 I mean,
00:21:22.260 so it's been prevalent
00:21:24.780 for decades now.
00:21:26.840 Fair enough.
00:21:27.320 We need to move on
00:21:27.900 to much more important issues,
00:21:28.980 global issues,
00:21:29.700 like the brand new
00:21:31.100 Paris Climate Accord,
00:21:32.620 the Paris Hilton Climate Accord.
00:21:34.120 She has solved
00:21:35.200 the so-called climate crisis.
00:21:36.720 She tweeted out yesterday,
00:21:38.900 quote,
00:21:39.260 this is earth,
00:21:40.160 it's hot,
00:21:41.260 don't pollute.
00:21:42.540 As Emily Zanotti pointed out,
00:21:44.660 Paris has now accomplished
00:21:45.720 more in three sentences
00:21:46.700 than Al Gore has done
00:21:47.940 in the last 20 years.
00:21:50.380 Ariel,
00:21:50.860 is Paris' summary of the issue
00:21:52.300 really more frivolous
00:21:53.640 than that of most other
00:21:54.860 global warming activists?
00:21:56.200 Or is it just more honest?
00:21:57.320 Is it more honestly frivolous?
00:21:58.740 I think maybe
00:22:00.240 it's more honestly frivolous
00:22:01.940 because she's not citing
00:22:03.140 a potentially shaky study.
00:22:05.980 So in that sense,
00:22:07.060 she's actually credited
00:22:07.980 her argument a bit
00:22:08.840 because she's not citing
00:22:09.900 something that hasn't been
00:22:11.100 at least,
00:22:12.920 you know,
00:22:13.900 that hasn't been
00:22:14.800 perpetrated as truth
00:22:15.640 when it has very shaky evidence.
00:22:17.140 So I commend her
00:22:18.280 on that front.
00:22:19.620 You know,
00:22:20.200 I think it's funny to me
00:22:22.280 that we have sort of
00:22:23.160 celebrities entering
00:22:24.100 the ring as,
00:22:25.480 you know,
00:22:25.880 quasi-experts.
00:22:26.900 You have Jimmy Kimmel
00:22:27.740 who got health care
00:22:28.600 and now you have
00:22:29.140 Paris Hilton on climate.
00:22:31.300 You know,
00:22:31.460 I'm really curious
00:22:32.180 to see what celebrity
00:22:33.580 is going to step up
00:22:34.560 to the plate
00:22:35.000 and become sort of
00:22:36.420 the quote-unquote
00:22:37.180 voice of reason.
00:22:38.820 I think this is,
00:22:40.060 we're trending towards
00:22:41.160 a somewhat dangerous time
00:22:43.560 in terms of
00:22:44.560 who we look to
00:22:45.480 for advice.
00:22:47.020 I think what's most alarming,
00:22:48.360 even going back
00:22:49.460 to the Jimmy Kimmel thing,
00:22:50.500 was that he had been
00:22:51.460 fed talking points
00:22:52.700 by Chuck Schumer.
00:22:53.840 So I'm curious to see
00:22:55.060 who's going to start
00:22:55.700 feeding Paris Hilton
00:22:56.460 talking points
00:22:57.300 in order to spread
00:22:58.800 her message far and wide.
00:23:00.800 But it is very simplistic
00:23:02.040 and it's not too pushy,
00:23:03.300 so I'm not going to rag
00:23:04.580 on her too much, right?
00:23:05.440 I can get behind
00:23:06.140 not polluting.
00:23:07.240 You know,
00:23:07.440 I don't want to see garbage
00:23:08.360 all over the street.
00:23:09.220 I can do that.
00:23:09.960 I guess the left
00:23:10.640 makes me so reactionary.
00:23:11.940 I just want to like
00:23:12.580 pour vats of oil
00:23:13.580 on little baby seals
00:23:14.740 and stuff.
00:23:15.440 Right.
00:23:15.740 They do this to me.
00:23:16.740 Why do they make me do this?
00:23:18.020 Amanda,
00:23:18.600 something tells me
00:23:19.560 that Paris does not
00:23:20.880 lose much sleep
00:23:21.560 over the climate.
00:23:22.800 Now,
00:23:23.020 I'm curious for what
00:23:24.540 percentage of climate
00:23:25.540 alarmists are they
00:23:27.020 genuinely concerned
00:23:28.180 and worried about
00:23:29.060 global warming?
00:23:29.880 And for what percentage
00:23:30.980 of them is this just
00:23:32.000 a social signaling
00:23:33.420 mechanism?
00:23:35.360 I think there's
00:23:36.580 a healthy majority
00:23:37.380 who see this as
00:23:38.100 a money-making scam,
00:23:39.220 I think,
00:23:39.700 and, you know,
00:23:40.200 for prominence.
00:23:40.880 If you look at Al Gore,
00:23:41.840 I mean,
00:23:42.000 he has the beachfront home.
00:23:43.460 Why?
00:23:44.060 Aren't the sea levels
00:23:44.800 going to eat everything up?
00:23:45.840 I mean,
00:23:46.100 it's very phony.
00:23:47.180 He'll just keep floating.
00:23:48.900 Yeah,
00:23:49.520 but I also would not put,
00:23:52.020 what's her name,
00:23:53.360 Paris Hilton in this category
00:23:54.640 because I actually
00:23:55.240 admire Paris Hilton.
00:23:56.980 I mean,
00:23:57.180 she has done,
00:23:58.320 I've never seen anyone
00:23:59.420 do so little
00:24:00.080 to get so much money
00:24:01.240 and fame,
00:24:01.780 so I'm actually,
00:24:03.000 I admire Paris Hilton.
00:24:03.940 You're on the
00:24:04.460 Michael Knowles show,
00:24:05.320 Amanda.
00:24:07.520 Paris Hilton is amazing.
00:24:09.480 Aside from Michael Knowles,
00:24:10.980 no one has done less
00:24:12.020 to get more.
00:24:12.700 That is true.
00:24:13.520 I do take personal
00:24:14.820 inspiration from her,
00:24:16.140 but she's amazing.
00:24:16.940 I mean,
00:24:17.420 she's pretty,
00:24:18.740 she got famous
00:24:19.420 for being famous,
00:24:20.280 she got rich
00:24:20.800 for being rich.
00:24:21.880 God bless her,
00:24:22.500 that's the American dream.
00:24:24.240 She voted Trump.
00:24:25.140 And she voted for Trump.
00:24:26.620 Mr. Bois,
00:24:27.560 your eminence,
00:24:28.560 in many ways,
00:24:29.960 Paris' summary
00:24:30.720 is more reasonable
00:24:31.760 than Al Gore's.
00:24:33.340 Many climate activists
00:24:34.540 seem to worship the earth,
00:24:36.020 to refute the man
00:24:36.900 as the measure
00:24:37.340 of all things.
00:24:38.060 Is Paris Hilton
00:24:38.960 the voice of reason?
00:24:40.640 I mean,
00:24:40.940 hey,
00:24:41.560 she just says,
00:24:42.440 don't pollute.
00:24:43.840 Okay.
00:24:45.080 All right,
00:24:45.740 I won't pollute.
00:24:46.500 I mean,
00:24:47.180 in a sense,
00:24:47.860 I mean,
00:24:48.040 Paris really boils
00:24:49.160 it all down
00:24:49.740 to their essence.
00:24:50.620 It's just like,
00:24:51.680 it's hot,
00:24:52.360 don't pollute.
00:24:53.080 Okay,
00:24:53.780 all right.
00:24:54.160 All right,
00:24:54.620 that's fine.
00:24:55.220 I guess I'll try,
00:24:55.960 I'll use the blue bin
00:24:56.680 or whatever.
00:24:57.540 Fair enough.
00:24:58.320 Panel,
00:24:58.940 what a reasonable
00:24:59.640 discussion we've had today.
00:25:01.140 Thank you for being here,
00:25:02.040 a rare reasonable discussion.
00:25:03.640 Ariel Davidson
00:25:04.160 from the Hoover Institution,
00:25:05.580 Amanda Presto Giacomo
00:25:06.440 from the Daily Wire,
00:25:07.340 and his eminence,
00:25:08.500 Paul Bois.
00:25:09.540 Now that brings me to
00:25:10.980 my smart glasses
00:25:12.100 and the final thought.
00:25:13.340 The president's critics
00:25:19.280 on the left and right
00:25:20.480 are lambasting him
00:25:21.540 for wading into
00:25:22.300 the NFL's disrespect
00:25:23.620 for the star-spangled banner.
00:25:25.740 They say the protest
00:25:26.660 isn't a big deal,
00:25:27.720 that it's not worth
00:25:28.520 the president's attention.
00:25:29.980 As a rule,
00:25:31.300 nobody has ever
00:25:32.260 honestly insisted
00:25:33.340 that, quote,
00:25:34.320 it isn't a big deal.
00:25:35.400 Whenever they say that,
00:25:36.160 you can bet
00:25:36.560 it's a big deal.
00:25:37.480 The flag is a symbol
00:25:38.400 of the country,
00:25:39.160 and it is perfectly
00:25:40.080 within the scope
00:25:40.720 of the president's
00:25:41.420 rhetorical responsibilities
00:25:42.840 to stand up against
00:25:44.220 those who attack
00:25:44.840 the country itself.
00:25:46.060 But, his critics insist,
00:25:48.060 it isn't seemly
00:25:49.000 for a president
00:25:49.600 to wade into
00:25:50.320 these cultural issues.
00:25:51.940 The country, they say,
00:25:52.820 has never been wealthier,
00:25:54.200 never more economically
00:25:55.340 prosperous.
00:25:56.780 But that's precisely
00:25:57.520 the point.
00:25:58.540 The country's troubles
00:25:59.400 at this moment
00:26:00.000 are not primarily economic,
00:26:01.480 they're cultural.
00:26:02.740 America did not elect
00:26:03.760 Donald Trump
00:26:04.320 because he offered
00:26:05.020 the most free market
00:26:05.960 tax policies.
00:26:07.220 He didn't.
00:26:07.980 We did not elect
00:26:08.660 Donald Trump
00:26:09.140 because he promised
00:26:09.820 to finally address
00:26:10.800 entitlement reform
00:26:11.640 and right the country's
00:26:12.760 fiscal ship.
00:26:13.560 He explicitly
00:26:14.260 did not promise that.
00:26:15.980 We elected Donald Trump
00:26:17.140 because he is a singular
00:26:18.500 cultural figure
00:26:19.480 who echoed
00:26:20.380 not just the words
00:26:21.160 of Ronald Reagan,
00:26:22.200 but the wish of patriots
00:26:23.440 horrified to see
00:26:24.340 Barack Obama
00:26:25.080 apologize for the
00:26:26.460 greatest, freest,
00:26:27.880 most charitable nation
00:26:28.940 in the history of the world
00:26:30.220 who hoped to make
00:26:31.380 America great again.
00:26:32.880 The culture is rightly
00:26:33.980 at the fore
00:26:34.620 of most Americans' minds,
00:26:36.140 and we elected
00:26:36.860 a culture warrior
00:26:37.740 to beat back
00:26:38.580 the destructive
00:26:39.340 anti-American barbarians
00:26:41.220 to restore a culture
00:26:42.440 of gratitude
00:26:43.120 for the country
00:26:44.080 that has given us
00:26:44.900 and the rest of the world
00:26:45.880 so much
00:26:46.500 and asked so little
00:26:47.800 in return.
00:26:48.740 Now more than ever,
00:26:49.920 despite the constant
00:26:50.880 negative press,
00:26:52.220 covfefe.
00:26:52.940 I am Michael Knowles.
00:26:53.940 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:26:55.100 Come back tomorrow.
00:26:55.820 We'll do it all again.
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00:26:59.200 We'll be right back.