The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 351 - Has Biden Already Won？

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00:02:33.620 Has Joe Biden already won the 2020 race? I'm not even just talking about the primary. I'm talking

00:02:40.240 about the whole election. Right now, the RealClearPolitics average. So there are all these

00:02:44.780 different polls. RealClearPolitics comes in, creates the average of all the polls. Has Joe Biden

00:02:49.480 at 38.3 percent? Bernie Sanders, who is in second place in the Democrat primary, at 18.8 percent?

00:02:56.620 Warren at eight and a half percent? Harris at 7.3 percent? Buttigieg at 7 percent? Beto at a pathetic

00:03:04.040 3.8 percent? Booker at a still more pathetic 2.5 percent? Castro down at 1.5 percent? I kind of 0.98

00:03:10.780 forgot that guy was even running. Not Fidel, not Raul, Julian Castro. Klobuchar at 1.3 percent?

00:03:16.820 Tulsi Gabbard at 1 percent? Andrew Yang at 1 percent? Kirsten Gillibrand at 1 percent? And I think like

00:03:23.260 20 other people who aren't even registering. Interesting to note here, all of these people

00:03:29.620 people in this polling were national figures before they ran for president, except for Pete

00:03:36.700 Buttigieg and Andrew Yang. But right now, Pete Buttigieg is polling at seven times the rate of

00:03:42.540 Andrew Yang. So Buttigieg actually putting up some pretty decent numbers for a small town mayor from

00:03:47.860 the Midwest. Everyone else was a national figure. They are all getting trounced by Joe Biden. And

00:03:53.140 President Trump has already declared this primary over. One of my favorite things that President Trump

00:03:58.760 does is when he acts as a political pundit for the other side. So he tweeted this out. He said,

00:04:04.400 quote, looks like Bernie Sanders is history. Sleepy Joe Biden is pulling ahead. And think about it. I'm

00:04:10.980 only here because of Sleepy Joe and the man who took him off the 1 percent trash heap. That's President 1.00

00:04:16.500 Obama. President, oh, China wants Sleepy Joe badly. I just love this idea. It gives me something to

00:04:24.200 look forward to that eventually in six years when, or I guess, no, not six years, five years,

00:04:30.300 when President Trump is out of office, that we can look forward to him being on cable news. 0.97

00:04:35.100 Listen, these crazy Democrats. Oh my goodness. So he's already done this before. He did it with 0.97

00:04:40.080 Elizabeth Warren. He said, I think Elizabeth Warren is finished in the race because it turns out that

00:04:45.480 I'm more Indian than she is and I'm 0% Indian, but she's done. So even, even President Trump right now

00:04:54.260 is saying Joe Biden is doing very well. He's already kind of talking about Joe Biden as if he

00:04:58.960 is the general election candidate. The problem with this is that Joe Biden isn't only beating all the

00:05:05.620 other Democrats. He's also beating President Trump in the polls and, and by a lot. Now you might say,

00:05:12.000 well, who cares if Joe Biden is beating Trump in the national polls? We don't hold a national

00:05:17.060 election. We hold presidential elections by state. So all that matters is whether Joe Biden is beating

00:05:22.960 Donald Trump in the states that matter, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, those swing states.

00:05:29.340 Again, here, the trouble is that Joe Biden is not just leading President Trump in the polls in those

00:05:35.260 states. He's trouncing him. He's up by almost 10 points in all those states. In Pennsylvania,

00:05:40.860 he's up by over 10 points. Biden is beating Trump for 54 to 43.5. In Michigan, Biden is beating Trump

00:05:49.000 53.5 to 43. And in Wisconsin, he's beating Trump 54 to 46. So an eight point lead, even in Wisconsin,

00:05:58.540 that is not good news for Donald Trump. And so I see why Donald Trump wants to fight back already in

00:06:07.000 the general. That's a bad idea. Let the Democrats all start to kill each other. This is not even begun

00:06:14.000 yet. I mean, right now we're looking at a lot of name recognition. Joe Biden has a lot of name ID. So

00:06:19.320 naturally he's doing quite well in the polls, but we haven't even had the first debate yet. This hasn't

00:06:24.120 really gotten started. Better to let the Democrats all duke it out themselves. So is the 2020 Democrat

00:06:30.960 race over? I mean, is, or is it even 2020 election over? They'll, the, the debates will play out.

00:06:36.760 You'll have multiple debates. Then you'll get the nominating contest. Then eventually you'll get

00:06:41.480 the general election. Looking at these poll numbers, Trump's down by 10 in the swing states.

00:06:46.340 Is the election over? I think Biden has three big weaknesses. Now the weaknesses pose a problem when

00:06:53.440 you're running against President Trump, but they are weaknesses nonetheless. Number one,

00:06:57.320 he's corrupt. People aren't really talking about this story, but he's corrupt. Number two, 0.99

00:07:04.720 he's a liar and a bloviator. He lies a lot and he always exaggerates. Number three, he's been in 1.00

00:07:12.520 government forever and he hasn't done very much. Those are the three weaknesses. Corruption, lies,

00:07:19.620 ineffectiveness. Now what's the trouble? The trouble is if you say he's corrupt,

00:07:25.580 then what are you going to point to? You point to the business deals, the shady, sketchy, unfair

00:07:32.000 business deals that his son got in China and the Ukraine. In China, Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden,

00:07:40.960 got his, his private equity firm, got a $1 billion deal with the Chinese government. This is according

00:07:47.260 to investigative journalist, Peter Schweitzer. Who is Hunter Biden? It's not Beau Biden. Beau Biden is

00:07:53.200 Joe Biden's son who died tragically of brain cancer a few years ago. Hunter Biden is the other son and

00:07:58.960 Hunter is basically an influence peddler. He's counselor, counsel at Boys Schiller, which is a

00:08:04.060 Democrat law firm. He set up a few front companies, one called Rosemont, and he's just peddles influence

00:08:10.500 and he's not peddling his own influence because he's never held public office. So he's peddling his

00:08:14.280 father's influence. And so while Joe Biden, as a vice president of the United States, was negotiating

00:08:20.540 with the Chinese, Hunter Biden's firm received a $1 billion private equity deal with the government.

00:08:28.480 This later increased to $1.5 billion, according to Peter Schweitzer. When did that deal happen? That deal

00:08:37.220 came through hours before Vice President Biden met with the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, in DC for a

00:08:44.260 nuclear security summit. Sure looks like a crony deal to me. I mean, more information will come

00:08:50.760 out. Of course, these are all just allegations for now, but sure looks shady. Similar issue in the

00:08:56.280 Ukraine. So same guy, Hunter Biden, same influence peddler, was being investigated in the Ukraine.

00:09:03.280 Ukraine's top prosecutor was looking into a money laundering scheme by a company called Burisma.

00:09:09.260 Burisma, on their board of directors, had Hunter Biden there. They were paying Hunter Biden

00:09:13.980 $50,000 a month. Why? Hunter Biden has never demonstrated any particular skill at anything

00:09:20.980 other than selling influence. But obviously, if the guy's father is the vice president of the United

00:09:25.560 States, if the father is the point person on Ukraine issues with the United States, maybe it

00:09:32.340 would behoove certain actors in the Ukraine to pass over 50 G's a month to Hunter Biden in the hope

00:09:38.680 that some favorable treatment would come from the United States. Now, the top prosecutor in Ukraine

00:09:45.140 was investigating this money laundering scheme. And at that time, Vice President Biden insisted

00:09:53.320 that the prosecutor be removed from office. So Biden, point guy on Ukraine, he goes in, he says,

00:09:59.960 we will withhold $1 billion from Ukraine if this prosecutor is not fired. And you don't need to

00:10:08.320 just take my word for it. You don't need to worry that I'm some conspiracy theorist. Because Joe Biden

00:10:13.540 is so gaffe prone, he actually managed to brag about this crooked deal at the Council on Foreign

00:10:19.160 Relations. Here he is.

00:10:20.120 I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kyiv. And I was supposed to announce that there was another

00:10:28.480 billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that

00:10:36.520 they would take action against a state prosecutor. And they didn't. So they said they had, they were

00:10:41.360 walking out to press conference, said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're not going to give you the

00:10:45.280 billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You're not the president. The president said,

00:10:49.860 I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. I said,

00:10:55.180 you're not getting a billion. I'm going to be leaving here. And I think it was, what, six hours.

00:10:58.480 I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the

00:11:02.640 money. Well, son of a b****, got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. 1.00

00:11:11.100 People knock Trump for sounding like a mobster when he talks, you know, we're going to end Iran. 1.00

00:11:17.000 You're going to do this. This guy's a killer. This guy's a shark. Joe Biden there sounds like a 1.00

00:11:21.480 mobster. He said, yeah, I went over to Ukraine. I had all my influence. I had a billion dollars

00:11:26.520 of taxpayer money on the table. I said, you're not getting a billion unless you fire that guy

00:11:30.020 that I don't like who's looking into my son's company. And they say to me, you can't make that

00:11:35.040 decision. I says to him, I says, listen to what I says to him. I says, call up the president.

00:11:38.540 Listen, you're not getting a billion dollars. Do what I say. Fire that prosecutor. Who's looking,

00:11:42.940 he's looking a little too close, getting a little too big for his britches over there,

00:11:46.920 looking into my son's company. All right. Guess what happened? Son of a gun. The guy gets fired.

00:11:52.600 How about that? He's bragging about it like Tony Soprano. So there is very legitimate corruption.

00:12:00.100 Now, why would Joe brag about this? Is it just because he's a total idiot? Possibly. The other reason 1.00

00:12:05.020 it seems is maybe he wants to get in front of the story. He wants to frame the story

00:12:08.920 in a way that might be somewhat favorable to him. You know, Joe Biden's whole career

00:12:12.720 is ingratiating himself to people, right? This is why he got in trouble for smelling hair and giving

00:12:18.160 back massages and putting his forehead on another person's forehead. I don't think it's because he's

00:12:22.780 a sexual predator. I think it's because he is a slick, oily politician whose entire skill 0.99

00:12:29.720 is getting people to like him. But behind the scenes, he's working. He's working angles.

00:12:36.380 His son is cashing in on his father's influence. He's a politician. He's been in office for a very

00:12:40.840 long time. So you could, you could knock Joe Biden on being corrupt. The issue is if you go after

00:12:46.780 Joe Biden for being corrupt, then they're just going to go after Donald Trump for being corrupt.

00:12:51.020 And it's worth noting, there is not really a comparison here. There is no evidence of any sort

00:12:56.460 of public corruption that President Trump has engaged in while president, even close to the

00:13:02.200 scale of what Joe Biden is bragging about in that clip. However, Donald Trump has bragged about his

00:13:08.060 corruption of the political process before he was president, while he was running for president. He

00:13:12.060 said, for so many years, I bought off politicians. He joked about it when Rand Paul was going after him

00:13:17.260 during the 2016 primary. He said, you know, it's funny, Rand. I remember you coming to me and asking for

00:13:21.820 money. And I wrote you that check, huh? I'm the puppet master, right? I'm the guy who's running

00:13:26.300 things. He said, uh, the way he excused donating to Democrats is he said, I was a real estate developer

00:13:32.000 in New York. I had to buy off politicians of both parties. That's just how politics works. 0.96

00:13:37.100 So if you go after Biden for corruption, they're going to go after him. Speaking of real estate in

00:13:41.340 New York, if you're developing real estate in New York, you are almost by definition in some way

00:13:47.000 working with the mob. So they'll go after him. They'll say he's literally working with the

00:13:51.420 mobsters. So I just think that angle is going to end up becoming impotent. It's not going to really

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00:15:33.240 Please don't hire. That's just, that's my personal editorial. You can go after Joe Biden

00:15:38.320 on his corruption, but they're going to go after Trump on corruption. So the next one is you can go

00:15:43.760 after Joe Biden on his lies. And Joe Biden tells some pretty horrifying lies. Again, this has not

00:15:52.700 been covered by the mainstream media. I bet very few people would be able to recall this if you ask them

00:15:59.840 on the street. We know some of Joe Biden's basic lies. We know that when he ran in 1988 for president,

00:16:05.260 he was chased out of the race for plagiarism and for lying about his academic record.

00:16:10.480 We know in 2012, when he was vice president, that he lied about Mitt Romney. He was before an entire

00:16:15.560 auditorium full of black voters. And he said, Mitt Romney wants to put y'all back in chains. 0.66

00:16:22.060 Pretty shameless lie, pretty shameless race baiting. The lie that is really bizarre and really pretty

00:16:30.960 scary is that Joe Biden has actually lied about the tragic death of his wife and daughter. And he's

00:16:37.960 demonstrably lied about it. And it's been sporadically called out by the mainstream media,

00:16:43.080 but people let him get away with this. Really weird. So decades ago, Joe Biden's wife and daughter

00:16:50.100 were tragically killed in a car accident. His wife, Nelia, and his daughter, Naomi. His sons,

00:16:55.340 Bo and Hunter were both in the car as well. They were injured, but they luckily survived.

00:17:00.920 How did the car accident happen? It's because Mrs. Biden was driving. She drove into a busy

00:17:05.700 intersection and unfortunately she was in the path of an oncoming truck and the truck hit the car. 0.98

00:17:12.080 So what happened here? There was an investigation at the time. The investigators found that the driver

00:17:17.440 of that truck, Curtis Dunn, was blameless. It was just a horrible accident, but he didn't

00:17:23.340 cause it. It wasn't, it wasn't through his negligence or some criminal wrongdoing that

00:17:28.360 this accident happened. It was just an awful accident. Awful car accidents happen all the

00:17:32.740 time. Doesn't make it any less sad or tragic, but he didn't do anything wrong, the driver.

00:17:39.020 Okay. Apparently this guy, by the way, Curtis Dunn, carried this weight with him until 1999.

00:17:43.960 He talked about it all the time, this awful guilt that he carried.

00:17:46.420 Over the course of the decades, Joe Biden started to embellish the story of the death of his wife

00:17:54.340 and daughter, so much so that he just came to lie about it. So over the years, what Joe Biden would

00:18:00.940 start to do is portray the driver as a drunk driver. He said about this poor guy, Curtis Dunn,

00:18:06.520 quote, he allegedly drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch. Then he said he was an errant

00:18:13.900 driver who stopped to drink. Where did this story come from? Even the Atlantic, a left-wing outlet,

00:18:22.600 has admitted that this was just a total lie. This is what the Atlantic wrote, quote,

00:18:25.900 the family of the truck driver has labored to correct the record, but Biden made the reference

00:18:30.820 to drunkenness as recently as 2007, needlessly resurrecting a false and painful accusation.

00:18:37.640 Now, you'll notice something else there when you mentioned 2007.

00:18:45.220 One explanation for this is that Joe Biden is just so full of anger over the death of his wife

00:18:50.080 and daughter. He hasn't been able to forgive the driver. He's so full of some denial about the

00:18:55.620 accidental nature of it that he's just convinced himself of this and it's a coping mechanism.

00:18:59.820 And that would be understandable. Not, I mean, it would raise a lot of questions about his judgment

00:19:04.680 and his fitness for office, but it would at least be understandable. Except this lie about his wife

00:19:11.000 and daughter's death tends to just come up around election time. So he's bringing this up apparently

00:19:17.600 to gain political advantage. That's pretty disgusting. That's pretty awful. One, because of the memory of 0.92

00:19:24.120 what happened and two, because you're, you as a major public figure in the United States, a very

00:19:29.200 important person given the public trust are baselessly defaming a guy who was involved in an

00:19:37.360 accident that he's carried guilt around for, for decades. That's pretty bad stuff. And of course,

00:19:43.200 the family wants to correct the record. If you've got a guy who would be the president of the United

00:19:47.020 States, smearing your family member as a drunk driver who through negligence killed his wife and

00:19:54.680 daughter, when you know that didn't happen, when there was a full investigation and you know for

00:19:59.240 a fact it didn't happen, that's pretty awful. That's, that's, it's pretty low stuff. A bizarre

00:20:05.680 and a shameless lie. Okay. So you could go after Joe Biden on that front. Could call him Lion Joe

00:20:11.340 instead of Sleepy Joe or something like that. However, if you go after Joe Biden as a liar, 0.85

00:20:17.540 what are they going to do? They're going to go after Donald Trump as a liar. Donald Trump for 0.99

00:20:20.920 playing fast and loose with the facts. Again, as far as I can tell, Donald Trump has told a lot of

00:20:26.320 lies. Donald Trump has made a lot of false statements. He has never made a false statement

00:20:31.020 so pathological, so bizarre, so low and shameless as that one, as far as I can tell.

00:20:38.180 It actually, when Donald Trump lies, they, they tend to be less tragic and more fantastical. So 0.94

00:20:44.420 when Donald Trump lies, he, he suggests that Ted Cruz's father murdered JFK, which, which, you know,

00:20:52.420 I mean, I would, if I were Ted Cruz, I would be upset about that. But it's so outlandish that you

00:20:58.240 sort of just have to laugh at it, right? There's nothing, it's not like you're painting some guy as

00:21:02.260 a drunk driver for killing your wife and daughter. How about, uh, when he said that, uh, he spent years

00:21:08.940 talking about the Obama birth certificate thing. Again, it, I guess it's untrue, but also it doesn't

00:21:17.600 really matter. Barack Obama would have been a, a U.S. citizen, even if he had been born in Kenya,

00:21:22.360 because he received citizenship at the time of birth from his mother. So it's just a kind of weird,

00:21:27.460 weird outlandish lie that he would tell. Okay. Now, again, if you hit Joe Biden for the lies,

00:21:35.120 they're going to go after Donald Trump. You can try to explain the difference between the lies.

00:21:38.960 It's probably not going to land. It's probably too subtle for a general election. So then you just get

00:21:44.940 to the third weakness that Joe Biden has, which is that he's been in government forever and he hasn't

00:21:53.640 accomplished anything. This I think is a great area. I think this should be all the focus of the

00:21:59.200 Trump reelection campaign. If Joe gets the nomination, Joe Biden has been in government

00:22:04.660 for 50 years. He's been in government for half a century. He's been in politics since he was 26 years

00:22:12.440 old. And now I think he's 175 years old. Maybe I didn't do that math, right? But he's been in

00:22:17.340 government forever. What has he accomplished? Can, can you name any major piece of legislation that

00:22:28.300 Joe Biden gets credit for any major national initiative, any major problem solved because

00:22:33.860 of Joe Biden? No, he's just kind of been there. He's, he's also a loser. I mean, he ran for president

00:22:42.280 in 1988, 30 years ago, and he lost. Then he ran for president in 2008, 20 years after that fact,

00:22:51.260 and he lost. And he would have gone nowhere except that Barack Obama hated Hillary Clinton enough to

00:22:55.360 make Joe Biden his vice president. He's never accomplished anything. Contrast that with Donald

00:23:00.400 Trump. Donald Trump has been in politics for what, three and a half years now. And he's had the most

00:23:05.880 effective record of any president in my lifetime on the right or the left. The Heritage Foundation,

00:23:12.280 pointed out in 2017, 2018, Donald Trump has effected a conservative agenda more quickly,

00:23:19.940 even than Ronald Reagan. That's pretty good. And you remember, this was a major theme in 2016. Trump

00:23:25.280 talked about, there are all talk, no action politicians. And then there are people like

00:23:29.540 me who are action. We're, we're developers, we're builders, we're businessmen. That is, I think,

00:23:35.160 the way to go after Joe Biden. And I think it's pretty devastating because

00:23:39.120 no matter how generic Joe Biden looks, no matter, he looks so good in a suit, he's got a good smile.

00:23:44.860 Okay. You've, he's got name recognition. Are people really going to pick that? A guy who's

00:23:50.380 never accomplished anything over the guy who has delivered solid economy, record low unemployment,

00:23:57.640 relative peace abroad. I just, I, I don't think the race is over. I don't think Joe Biden has the

00:24:03.080 nomination locked up. Even the New York Times, Jill Filipovich writing in the Times today had this

00:24:08.300 great headline. Does anybody actually want Joe Biden to be president? No, people would, would

00:24:14.320 tolerate him. I guess he's probably everybody's number two choice. He's doing well in the polls

00:24:19.780 with name IDs, basically unobjectionable. But does anyone really want him to be president? It doesn't

00:24:26.620 seem so. Also remember at this point in 2016, who were the top GOP contenders? You probably don't

00:24:32.800 remember this, but during the 2016 election in, I guess, late 2015, the top contenders were,

00:24:38.840 drum roll please, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Scott Walker. Have they, how are they doing now?

00:24:50.520 Rubio is still in the Senate at least. The other two guys aren't anywhere near the government.

00:24:56.620 Anything could happen. I mean, these polls don't tell us a whole lot.

00:25:00.300 And when you see, when you see people polling at a low level, but they've kind of surged,

00:25:05.160 they've, they've kind of made a name for themselves, like Buttigieg, you start to wonder

00:25:09.640 if this race is going to start looking radically different. Buttigieg was at a town hall last night

00:25:13.020 at Fox News, the supposedly conservative outlet, and he got a standing ovation. We'll explain how that

00:25:18.180 happened. We'll get to a Justin Amash, the anti-Trump Republican who's calling for impeachment.

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00:25:58.960 You know, it just occurs to me, I think maybe the Trump campaign has a sense that the only way they

00:26:15.480 can really go after Biden is on his effectiveness. Because you know, they don't, they're not calling

00:26:22.000 him Lion Joe. They're not calling him Corrupt Joe or Crooked Joe. They're calling him Sleepy Joe.

00:26:30.020 And I told you, I said Sleepy Joe, it's a little weird. I wonder why they're going after that.

00:26:34.480 In part, it's to contrast Donald Trump has much more energy than Joe Biden, and that'll be clear

00:26:40.000 on a debate stage. In part, it's because it rhymes with Creepy Joe, which is another one of his nicknames.

00:26:44.540 So you can get that evoking the creepy sense. But I think a lot of it is he's been in politics for 50

00:26:50.020 years. What has he done? He's basically just slept. He's been asleep at the wheel. He hasn't

00:26:55.620 done anything. He's just this lethargic guy who's just kind of there. I wonder if that somehow plays

00:27:02.860 into it. Maybe not at a conscious level, but I think there might be a sense that the way to go

00:27:07.820 after Joe is on the fact that he's never done anything. Now, Buttigieg is surging. Pete Buttigieg,

00:27:13.820 Mayor Pete from Indiana, from South Bend, did this Fox News town hall. He was roundly

00:27:19.820 criticized for it by the left. They didn't want them going on Fox News, the awful, evil conservative 0.93

00:27:24.360 network. And guess what happened? Did the awful, evil conservatives kill him? Did they batter him?

00:27:30.020 Did they tar and feather him? No. They gave him a standing ovation. Here he is.

00:27:35.380 What we're trying to do here is different because the moment that we're in is different. I get that a

00:27:41.680 millennial Midwestern mayor is not what leaps to mind when you think about a prototypical candidate

00:27:47.260 for president. But I also think we're living on a moment. If it's hard to figure out what's going

00:27:51.080 on right now, it's because we are living on one of those blank pages in between chapters in

00:27:55.580 American history. And what comes next could be ugly or it could be amazing. And I believe running

00:28:01.860 for office is an act of hope. And so is voting for somebody and supporting somebody and volunteering

00:28:06.640 for somebody. I hope you'll join me in making sure that that next era is better than any that

00:28:11.400 we've had so far. You'll see, they all go up and they stand for him. They give him a standing

00:28:17.800 ovation at the Fox News town hall. You hear them say, Pete, Pete, Pete, Pete. They're chanting his

00:28:24.180 name. So a few quick takeaways here. One, Pete Buttigieg is many multiples more intelligent than any

00:28:31.500 other Democrat in the race. He's a liar. He's a radical. He's a leftist. Sure. Nevertheless, 1.00

00:28:37.440 he's much smarter than them. He holds himself better. He speaks better. He thinks better.

00:28:43.720 He is much smarter than they are. The other takeaway is Fox News is not just the conservative

00:28:49.960 network. I know that there's this idea in the public sphere that Fox is just the right-wing,

00:28:55.500 hardcore conservative network. I go on Fox News frequently. I go on once or twice a week at least.

00:29:01.060 And I'm a conservative. That's true. They also have a lot of left-wingers on.

00:29:05.100 They, it's true. They have some opinion people like Laura Ingram or Sean Hannity who are hardcore

00:29:12.740 right-wingers, but they have a ton of journalists who are central, centrist, or even lean to the

00:29:18.460 left. And they're a news organization. They're not just preaching to a conservative choir. They want

00:29:24.500 the Democrats to come on. And so I think this helps to explain why, why did Bernie Sanders get such a

00:29:30.180 great round of applause when he was at the Fox News town hall? It's because they stacked the audience

00:29:34.940 with Bernie supporters. Why did Pete Buttigieg get such a great round of applause and a standing

00:29:39.360 ovation at his town hall? It's because they stacked the audience with Pete supporters. And why are they

00:29:44.100 doing that? They're doing that to encourage the Democrats to come on the network. That's the only

00:29:49.840 way they can get the Democrats to come on is say, listen, we'll give you really favorable coverage.

00:29:54.280 And in Fox's defense, they're a news organization. They don't want to be shut out of the 2020 race

00:30:00.400 for all of the various candidates. The GOP already has its candidate, Donald Trump. There are 23

00:30:06.100 candidates and a news organization wants to get them on to talk about it. So that's what they're

00:30:10.280 doing. I don't think this is the standing ovation is evidence that all of a sudden middle America and

00:30:15.120 conservatives are supporting this far left wing mayor of South Bend, Indiana. But it does show you

00:30:22.200 that Fox wants to be a player in the 2020 Democrat primaries. Joe Scarborough was so enthusiastic about

00:30:29.780 this Buttigieg town hall that over at MSNBC, he actually said that Pete Buttigieg single-handedly

00:30:36.960 is mainstreaming the Democrat party. Here's why. I've seen the future of the Democratic party and it's

00:30:43.900 Mayor Pete. It may not be in 2020. Perhaps it's in 2024 or beyond, but this guy is going to play an

00:30:54.240 important role in the mainstreaming, the mainstreaming of the Democratic party for many years to come.

00:31:00.880 And believe you me, that is exactly what he does. Regardless of ideology, Mayor Pete

00:31:07.800 mainstreams a Democratic party. I wonder whether we're, Meek and I are being a bit excessive in our

00:31:17.180 praise of Mayor Pete, but I've seen a lot of candidates. I think this guy, I almost called

00:31:23.740 him kid. Yeah. Because he's like 20, 20 years younger than me. I think this, this, I think this kid is

00:31:31.260 special. So just listen to that statement. The mainstreaming of the Democrat party. The Democrat

00:31:40.520 party is the oldest continuously operating political party in the world. And yet they

00:31:46.220 have radicalized themselves so much that they now need to be mainstreamed. Think about how crazy that

00:31:53.540 is. You've got a party that's been around for centuries. They need to be mainstreamed because

00:31:57.780 they've driven themselves so far to the left. Joe Biden thinks Pete's going to do it. So

00:32:01.240 let's look at Pete's record. Is he going to do it? No, I don't think so. I mean, yeah, he talks

00:32:06.400 good and he's got a nice little Midwest smile on his face and he wears a tie with his rolled up

00:32:11.340 shirt sleeves, but he is just as radical as all of the other candidates. He supports abortion until

00:32:16.220 birth. He was asked if he supports limits on abortion. He said, no, he supports reparations for

00:32:21.160 the great, great, great, great grandchildren of black slaves in America. He supports wild conspiracy 1.00

00:32:27.220 theories, even about this current administration. He talked about them last night on Fox.

00:32:31.240 Now you see the same thing or something different, but that same kind of saber rattling with Iran. 0.89

00:32:37.400 By the way, reportedly engineered by John Bolton, who was one of the people who built the war in

00:32:43.480 Iraq. How somebody who is behind that, one of the worst foreign policy mistakes in American history, 0.99

00:32:48.400 is allowed anywhere near the situation room of a president who claims, probably falsely,

00:32:53.500 but claims that he was against the Iraq war all along, is unbelievable to me.

00:32:56.900 Iranian threats against the United States are just being conjured up by John Bolton.

00:33:02.520 I don't think that's true. We've seen Iran take decisive actions against the United States in just the last

00:33:09.840 two weeks, threaten our interests in the region. That's not just imagined. That's on, it's being

00:33:14.880 reported in the news and lots of different news outlets. We've seen it happen. But Pete Buttigieg is,

00:33:20.220 is ginning up these conspiracy theories that, that John Bolton is somehow the puppet master of the

00:33:25.460 mullahs in Iran. Probably not true. Even worse than that, if you want to talk about radicalism, 1.00

00:33:32.920 Pete Buttigieg, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt the other day on the radio,

00:33:36.800 called for the renaming of memorials to Thomas Jefferson. Here's why.

00:33:43.660 Let's go to policy now. A very blunt question, because you talk about going to every Jefferson

00:33:49.520 Jackson dinner in Indiana when you're running statewide. Should Jefferson Jackson dinners be renamed

00:33:53.920 everywhere because both were holders of slaves? Yeah, we're doing that in Indiana. I think it's

00:33:59.080 the right thing to do. You know, over time you, you develop and evolve on the things you choose

00:34:04.940 to honor. And I think we know enough, especially Jackson, you know, you just look at what basically

00:34:10.660 an anti-genocide that happened here. Jefferson's more problematic. You know, there's a lot to,

00:34:15.560 of course, admire in his thinking and his philosophy. Then again, if you plunge into his writings,

00:34:20.140 especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew that slavery was wrong.

00:34:26.040 Yes. And yet he did it. Now, we're all morally conflicted human beings. It's not like we're

00:34:32.940 blotting him out of the history books or deleting him from being the founding fathers. But, you know,

00:34:37.100 naming something after somebody confers a certain amount of honor. And at a time, I mean, the real

00:34:42.600 reason I think there's a lot of pressure on this is the relationship between the past and the present.

00:34:47.760 Listen, even the language he uses, he doesn't say we're all morally broken. We're all morally

00:34:52.900 fallen. We're all morally imperfect. He says we're all morally conflicted. You see, bad guys like

00:34:59.920 Jefferson, they were conflicted and they made the bad choices. But good guys like Pete Buttigieg, I mean,

00:35:05.620 Thomas Jefferson's not fit to shine Pete Buttigieg's shoes, right? Pete Buttigieg is a good modern guy who

00:35:10.680 doesn't have slaves. Thomas Jefferson, he's a bad old guy who did have slaves. So the argument

00:35:16.080 Buttigieg is making is, no, listen, we're not blotting Jefferson out of the history books for

00:35:21.900 now. We'll still let him be in the history books, but we shouldn't honor him by naming things after

00:35:27.680 him either. So we're going to rename the Jefferson Jackson dinner. Should we also rename towns named

00:35:35.240 after Thomas Jefferson, such as, I don't know, Jefferson, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio,

00:35:41.540 Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky,

00:35:46.760 and New York? Should we rename those towns? How about Jefferson counties? Should we rename

00:35:53.640 Jefferson County, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, New York,

00:35:59.320 Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia, and Louisiana? Maybe we'll do that,

00:36:05.940 huh? How about the Jefferson Memorial? He's saying we shouldn't memorialize Thomas Jefferson.

00:36:11.660 Because that gives him honor. So I guess we got to knock down the Jefferson Memorial in D.C.

00:36:15.920 How about other guys who held slaves who were founding fathers? Like, I don't know,

00:36:19.620 George Washington. Should we now rename the capital of our country, Washington, D.C.? We're not going to

00:36:25.620 wipe Washington out of the history books. We'll still let him be in those books. Nobody's going to

00:36:29.740 read the books. We just aren't going to name things after him because that gives him too much honor,

00:36:34.720 and we shouldn't allow people who held slaves to have any honor, so we have to rename Washington, D.C.

00:36:39.320 Hi, I'm Mayor Pete. I'm going to mainstream the Democrat Party by calling to rename Washington,

00:36:43.560 D.C. How about the state of Washington? Washington's also a state. Buttigieg is asking,

00:36:51.820 he's raising a good question. His question is, what is our relationship to history? What's our,

00:36:58.500 what's the relationship of the past to the present? He's giving the worst possible answer and the most

00:37:04.880 radical answer that has ever been given in the history of the United States. Good old Mayor Pete,

00:37:09.000 mainstream in the Democrat Party. But what is our relationship to our history? Do we hate our

00:37:15.920 history? Do we like our history? Do we want to preserve our history? Do we even know our history?

00:37:22.320 A culture that forgets its past loses its identity. This is what the left wants. This is why the left is

00:37:28.140 always fighting against history. This is why the left is always trying to get us to undo our history.

00:37:33.700 These are the stakes that we've got. Renaming Washington, D.C. is the not very far off logical

00:37:39.660 conclusion of what Mayor Pete is saying. And the right is insufficiently aware of these stakes.

00:37:44.420 This is not a normal election. We are not in normal times. I know they say this about every election,

00:37:49.920 but we really aren't. The erasure of history is not normal. The call to radically overhaul the economy,

00:37:57.180 the transportation, the energy industry, all of American housing, that's in the Green New Deal.

00:38:01.220 Virtually every Democrat has endorsed it. A hundred trillion dollar program that would knock down

00:38:05.240 your home and every other building in the country and erase 90% of the American energy industry and

00:38:11.080 radically redistribute wealth. That's not normal. Culturally, calling men women and women men is

00:38:16.700 not normal. There's a story now that a baby was just killed because a man went into the hospital with

00:38:23.720 abdominal pains and he said, hey, I'm a man. And so they treated him as though he were a man.

00:38:28.360 And then he gave birth to a stillborn child because he's not a man. He's a woman. And this

00:38:36.120 appeared in a medical journal. They insisted on referring to her as him. They insisted referring

00:38:45.120 to this woman as a man. And they said, see, this brings up the stakes. Our medical professionals

00:38:50.080 really need to understand that men can be pregnant. Men can't be pregnant. 0.97

00:38:55.000 Saying that we should pump little boys full of hormones to make them look more like little

00:38:59.580 girls is not normal. Ernest Hemingway, when he talks about bankruptcy, he says, how does bankruptcy

00:39:06.300 happen? It happens gradually, then suddenly. That's what we're seeing. We're seeing leftism has happened

00:39:10.880 gradually for a hundred years. Now it's happening suddenly. And some conservatives are whistling past

00:39:16.180 the graveyard. Like this empty head, Justin Amash, the Michigan Congressman. He's a libertarian Republican.

00:39:24.540 He is calling for Donald Trump to be impeached. Why, you ask? Well, he's highlighting the divide

00:39:31.420 right now on the right. There is a major divide on the right. And what the people like Justin Amash,

00:39:38.440 I don't even know how to pronounce his name, Amash, Amash, Amash, I don't know. What people like him

00:39:43.440 and his side, the ones who are highly irreparably critical of the president, what they are advocating

00:39:51.000 is a perfectly abstract conservatism. What they're saying the divide is between is between the good

00:40:00.880 people who have universal values and then all the bad, awful, bigoted, terrible people. That's kind of

00:40:06.260 how they're portraying it. Now the mainstream media is portraying it that way too. That's not really

00:40:10.840 what's happening. The actual divide is between a conservatism that is rooted in something tangible

00:40:17.760 and a conservatism that is primarily, if not purely, abstract. That's the distinction. And Justin Amash

00:40:26.140 is showing this. So he sent out a 13 tweet long thread explaining why Donald Trump should be impeached.

00:40:33.560 He wrote, here are my principal conclusions. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented

00:40:38.720 Mueller's report. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. Partisanship has eroded our

00:40:44.440 system of checks and balances. Few members of Congress have read the report. Next tweet. I offer

00:40:49.480 these conclusions only after having read Mueller's redacted report carefully and completely, having read

00:40:54.420 or watched pertinent statements and testimony, and having discussed this matter with my staff,

00:40:58.460 who thoroughly reviewed materials and provided me with further analysis. Next tweet. In comparing

00:41:03.460 Barr's principal conclusions, congressional testimony, and other statements to Mueller's report,

00:41:07.720 it is clear that Barr intended to mislead the public about special counsel Robert Mueller's

00:41:13.480 analysis and findings. Next tweet. Barr's misrepresentations are significant, but often

00:41:19.340 subtle, frequently taking the form of slate of hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes

00:41:26.300 people will not notice. There are many, many more tweets. If you're still awake, I'll point something

00:41:32.400 out to you. 13 tweets long. 494 words. Did you notice what was missing from those? All of those

00:41:44.380 tweets? He never once gives an example of a lie from William Barr or a crime committed by Donald Trump.

00:41:51.740 He goes on. He talks about, oh, our beautiful constitution, the rule of law, the rule of law is being lost.

00:41:58.040 We have to read the report. We have to see the conclusions. The institutions depend on blah, blah,

00:42:02.940 blah, blah, blah, blah. If you're making an allegation, which is that A.G. Barr lied and Donald

00:42:07.440 Trump committed a crime worthy of impeachment, cite the crime. Put up or shut up. But he doesn't. 0.98

00:42:14.600 He blathers on and on and on for almost 500 words. It's the length of an op-ed in a lot of outlets.

00:42:19.560 And yet he never actually points it out because it doesn't matter. This is the purely abstract

00:42:25.760 conservatism. It's no coincidence that Justin Amash would consider himself really a libertarian.

00:42:31.880 Here are the aspects of this purely abstract conservatism. It's always sanctimonious and

00:42:37.400 it's always holier than thou. And the people who are articulating it are always morally perfect and

00:42:42.600 the people they're talking about are always the worst of the worst and they're always assuming the

00:42:46.260 worst intentions. The other aspect of it is that it's very whiny because it never jibes with reality.

00:42:54.000 So it's wah, wah, wah. We've got to impeach Trump. Oh, it's so bad. Our institutions, wah, wah, wah, wah,

00:42:59.540 wah. It's really, really whiny. It doesn't offer any practical solutions. We all want to change aspects

00:43:05.360 of our culture and our politics. It doesn't offer really tangible things you can hold on to. It's just

00:43:10.920 wah, wah, wah. Everything's so bad. And then finally, the key aspect is it's vague.

00:43:16.260 He never cites any concrete example. Roger Kimball had a tremendous column at American Greatness

00:43:22.540 over the weekend where he explained this divide on the right as the great realignment.

00:43:29.220 And he says it basically comes down to two views of liberty. On the one hand, you've got conservatives

00:43:35.860 who want to conserve something. On the other hand, you have conservatives who want to affect this

00:43:40.040 universal utopian vision. Roger writes, quote,

00:43:42.900 The real battle that has been joined, and it is a battle that is forging a great political

00:43:46.740 realignment, is not between virtuous progressive knights riding the steeds of liberalism on the

00:43:52.300 one hand and the atavistic forces of untutored darkness represented by populism on the other.

00:43:58.100 The real battle is between two views of liberty. One is a parochial view that affirms tradition,

00:44:04.060 local affection, and the subordination of politics to the ordinary business of life.

00:44:08.080 The other is more ambitious but more abstract. It seeks nothing less than to boost us all up to

00:44:14.280 that plane of enlightenment from which all self-interested actions look petty, if not criminal,

00:44:20.100 and through which mankind as a whole, but not, alas, individual men, may hope for whatever

00:44:25.740 salvation secularism leavened by utilitarianism may provide. That's the distinction. A conservatism

00:44:35.080 that seeks to conserve something, and that seeks to conserve ideas as they have been embodied,

00:44:42.160 to conserve liberty as has, as our traditional, our political tradition has embodied liberty,

00:44:47.960 to preserve our bonds of love and kinship between our neighbors and each other and our countrymen,

00:44:53.160 and our loyalty to the country. That's one version. The other version is just this totally abstract,

00:44:59.580 sanctimonious, holier-than-thou conservatism, which isn't really conserving anything at all.

00:45:04.440 It's just bringing about a utopian vision of what the perfect political order would look like.

00:45:09.900 In that, in those terms, that kind of conservatism, quote-unquote, sounds a lot like leftism. It

00:45:17.060 sounds just as utopian. I think that's the big difference, and you're seeing this play out in

00:45:21.660 Australia, in the United Kingdom, even in the U.S. In Australia, the, the mainstream media and the

00:45:27.900 experts were shocked because the conservative prime minister, Scott Morrison, won in his election.

00:45:33.160 Why did he win? Everyone thought the left winger was going to win. It's because the left was running

00:45:37.400 on the Green New Deal and the whole world and this perfect order, and the conservative guy was running

00:45:42.740 on our economy and keeping our affairs as we like them and, and, and keeping things roughly as they

00:45:48.980 are, getting better over time, but, but maintaining our identity as Australia. In the United Kingdom,

00:45:55.960 right now, it looks like Theresa May, the conservative prime minister, is going to get thrown out 0.98

00:46:01.120 because the conservatives and labor both are not supporting Brexit. And you've got Nigel Farage,

00:46:07.220 who has the Brexit party. The Brexit party is surging in the elections. Is it conservative? Is

00:46:12.720 it liberal? Is it, no, it's, it is literally conservative. It's trying to conserve Britain and

00:46:17.520 Britain's political independence and Britain's political traditions and what makes Britain, Britain.

00:46:22.680 Same thing is happening in the United States. Donald Trump won in 2016. Why? How did that happen?

00:46:28.560 Why are people still supporting Donald Trump? What did he run on? He ran on America first,

00:46:33.240 protect our country, not racism, not sexism, not misogyny. He didn't run on those things.

00:46:38.180 He ran on keeping America, America, allowing America to be America again. That's, there's not a,

00:46:47.620 there's not a totally abstract government policy for everything. Sometimes we just want to conserve

00:46:53.720 who we are. It brings me, we'll get to it in just this last minute here, to this revenge porn story.

00:47:00.340 There's a story that just came out. I know it doesn't sound connected, but it actually is.

00:47:04.240 There's this story of, okay, a guy is living with this girl and then they're engaged to be married and

00:47:09.580 he starts having an affair with the neighbor. The fiance finds out, she calls off the wedding. Obviously,

00:47:14.640 this is not an amicable breakup. And so because they shared an iCloud account on their iPhones,

00:47:23.200 this jilted woman can see all of the texts that her fiance was getting. Some of them were a little 0.89

00:47:30.000 saucy from this neighbor girl. So what the jilted woman does is she exposes the texts, 1.00

00:47:35.760 sends them to all of their friends. See what a, see what a schmuck this guy is. Now there's a big 1.00

00:47:40.060 case. Is revenge porn protected by the first amendment? Is it constitutional? What government

00:47:46.400 policy can we have to, look, ladies, here's, it certainly seems like this jilted woman acted within 1.00

00:47:51.820 her rights. I don't think there's some law against her exposing what a schmuck her, her boyfriend is 1.00

00:47:56.560 and how awful the neighbor girl is either. Now, revenge porn is, is pretty bad. You know, you take 1.00

00:48:02.780 naked photos and then they get exposed to everybody when the relationship breaks down.

00:48:06.020 There doesn't necessarily need to be a government policy to stop that. You just need to stop sending 0.98

00:48:12.320 naked photos to each other. How stupid do you have to be? Don't send naked photos. Everything 1.00

00:48:17.860 you send over the internet is going to be published on the cover of the New York times. Think of it that

00:48:23.300 way. There's not a government policy for everything. There's not a utopian political solution. There's not

00:48:29.080 an abstract right where you can discern, ah, yes, this is the perfect government policy for revenge

00:48:35.000 porn in 2019 that I have deduced from my universal set of rights. No, don't be stupid. Don't, don't 1.00

00:48:42.740 cheat on your wife or your fiance and don't send naked photos to and from your mistress. This, I think

00:48:48.780 this is this conservatism that is now coming up. It's being called populism or nationalism, all these

00:48:53.840 things. I think it's people just saying, we want reality. We want to conserve the things that we like

00:48:59.960 about, our, our place. We like our neighborhood. We like our friends. We like America. We like our

00:49:04.720 traditions. We don't want to give all of that up for the Green New Deal. We don't want to give up our

00:49:11.640 homes and our cars and the American energy industry and our jobs. We don't want to knock it all down

00:49:16.860 for pure universal abstraction. Now, some people like Justin Amash or like some of the really

00:49:25.740 rationalistic, dogmatic, conservative ideologue types. They say, here's the, here's the 10 point

00:49:31.540 manifesto of conservatism. That conservatism is not a manifesto. You can't put it into a manifesto.

00:49:38.140 It's about conserving something. That is what we're talking about. The voters in Australia,

00:49:43.580 they wanted to conserve their good economy. They've got the best economic run in the history of the

00:49:47.600 world, about 29 years. And so when you look at these polls, you look at all the big, crazy plans

00:49:52.860 that the left is proposing, the Democrats in 2020, the Green New Deal, reparations, free income,

00:49:58.680 free, all these things. You say, oh, they're leading in the polls. I don't, I don't always buy

00:50:03.140 the polls. I think there is a conservative revolution. Maybe it's not ideological. Maybe

00:50:07.700 it's not dogmatic. People want reality. They want to keep what they have. They like their country.

00:50:13.840 They don't want to get rid of their history. They don't hate their history. They have, they have a sense

00:50:18.480 of gratitude toward their country. I think that's the new conservatism. I think it's a wonderful

00:50:22.480 thing. We've got a lot more to get to, but got to do it tomorrow. In the meantime,

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 20, 2019

Ep. 351 - Has Biden Already Won？

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