The Michael Knowles Show - May 23, 2019


Ep. 354 - Are We Ever Going To Build The Wall？


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

173.60745

Word Count

8,250

Sentence Count

673

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

The White House pushed back on news reports Tuesday that just 1.7 miles of wall along our southern border had been built with $1.6 billion allocated by Congress. Meanwhile, in the UK, the failure of Prime Minister Theresa May to secure her national borders has her premiership in freefall. If the U.K. doesn t get immigration under control, is President Trump headed for the same fate? Then, Quentin Tarantino rejects feminism at the Cannes Film Festival.


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00:00:37.700 The White House pushed back on news reports Tuesday that just 1.7 miles of wall along our southern border had been built,
00:00:44.640 with $1.6 billion allocated by Congress.
00:00:48.140 But even the real number reveals that barely any wall has been built.
00:00:51.960 Meanwhile, in the U.K., the failure of Prime Minister Theresa May to secure her national borders has her premiership in freefall.
00:00:59.740 If the U.S. doesn't get immigration under control, is President Trump headed for the same fate?
00:01:04.400 Then, Quentin Tarantino rejects feminism at the Cannes Film Festival.
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00:01:10.220 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:12.060 1.7 miles of wall with $1.6 billion.
00:01:24.960 That was the allegation.
00:01:26.440 The real number is better than that, but it's not much better than that.
00:01:30.280 Sarah Sanders will explain, and we will analyze what it means for 2020.
00:01:34.660 There are a lot of things in life that just aren't right, like spending that much money on that little wall.
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00:03:18.060 All right, I wish our federal government was that interested in cutting costs and saving money and actually getting something affected here.
00:03:27.320 There was a report out on Tuesday that outlets were saying that the Trump administration had built only 1.7 miles of border wall in two and a half years in office.
00:03:38.840 And they had used $1.57 billion from Congress to do that.
00:03:43.600 Now, because I read that in the mainstream media, I knew it wasn't true.
00:03:47.580 Just sort of assumed.
00:03:49.480 However, just looking around, looking at the pictures on the border, I don't see a whole lot of new border wall.
00:03:54.980 And if the Trump administration had built a whole lot of new border wall, you know that we would have heard about it.
00:04:00.320 He would have been tweeting it all the time, tweeting pictures, tweeting videos, giving rallies down there.
00:04:04.040 So, what is the reality of this?
00:04:06.320 Sarah Sanders went on Fox & Friends to discuss.
00:04:09.300 Here she is shooting down the reports from the mainstream media.
00:04:13.480 Hey, Sarah, just building on the wall comment, first story in the drudge today, it looks like the wall, we only have two miles built of the wall.
00:04:22.840 What's going on there?
00:04:24.080 And does the president still think he can get 400 miles done of the wall by the end of the year?
00:04:29.140 Absolutely.
00:04:29.860 And that's an incorrect figure.
00:04:31.340 There's far more than two miles that have been built.
00:04:34.280 We're still on track to get close to 500 miles built by the end of the year.
00:04:39.060 The Army Corps of Engineers working with DHS and DOD are putting a tremendous amount of effort into not just building a new wall,
00:04:48.480 taking down some of the barriers that have existed that are completely ineffective
00:04:53.240 and putting in the very effective border wall that they've been building over the last couple of months.
00:04:59.380 That's going to continue, and we're making great progress on that front.
00:05:02.900 Okay, so you notice the language shift that Sarah Sanders has.
00:05:08.460 They say, look, they've only built 1.7 miles of new border wall.
00:05:12.240 And she says, listen, there is plenty of border wall that is going to be built.
00:05:16.860 And so what's missing in that statement is, is it old border wall or is it new border wall?
00:05:21.400 Well, they're going to build 500 miles, she says.
00:05:25.060 First of all, it's in the future tense.
00:05:27.260 So she's not saying we've built 500 miles.
00:05:29.540 She's saying by the end of the year, by the day after tomorrow, we're going to build 500.
00:05:32.740 But then she's also saying we're just going to build wall.
00:05:36.880 Okay, is it replacing old broken down wall or is it actually new border wall?
00:05:41.580 We already have wall along our southern border.
00:05:45.640 Good, we want to update that.
00:05:46.980 We want to build a lot more though.
00:05:48.940 And so you've got to look to customs and border protection to actually get the real numbers here.
00:05:54.040 So CBP reports that thus far,
00:05:57.720 $6.1 billion has been allocated to building the wall or the slats or the really strong fence or whatever you want to call it.
00:06:05.260 It estimates that this will result in a total of approximately 336 total miles of border wall over the next couple of years.
00:06:12.980 So the White House is saying 500 miles by the end of this year.
00:06:16.100 Customs and Border Patrol, which is actually going to be affecting a lot of this,
00:06:19.640 is estimating about 336 miles over the next couple of years.
00:06:25.420 Okay, how much of that is new wall?
00:06:28.580 Reports from Customs and Border Patrol are saying,
00:06:31.560 Customs and Border Protection rather are saying 86 miles of new primary wall.
00:06:37.580 So you've got 86 of that, 24 miles of new levee wall, 68 miles of updated primary wall,
00:06:46.520 144 miles of updated vehicle wall, 14 miles of updated secondary wall.
00:06:52.760 So you're going through all of these numbers, the primary, the secondary, the new, the updated.
00:06:56.100 What does that mean?
00:06:57.180 It means that ultimately, only 110 miles of this 336 mile promise is going to be new wall.
00:07:06.040 226 of it is going to be updated.
00:07:09.320 Now, when President Trump promised the wall, I think a lot of us had in our minds that there would be 2,000 miles of wall built.
00:07:18.200 Maybe you don't need 2,000 miles of wall.
00:07:20.020 Maybe you just need it at the hotspots or where people are actually crossing.
00:07:22.680 Okay, but that's a far cry from 110 miles of new wall over the next couple years.
00:07:30.880 It gets even worse than this.
00:07:32.920 So 20 miles of new border wall has been constructed through this traditional funding process during the Trump administration.
00:07:40.780 And additionally, there are about 40 miles of new wall in place of pedestrian fencing that was funded by the fiscal year 2017 budget.
00:07:49.380 But the fiscal year 2017 budget comes from 2016, before President Trump was in office.
00:07:55.860 So now, even that number of 110, you get down to what do we have now?
00:07:59.140 We have 60 miles total.
00:08:02.120 And about 40 of it was funded under Barack Obama.
00:08:06.920 So then you have to ask how much of it was built under Barack Obama.
00:08:09.780 Even, let's say, none of it.
00:08:10.800 Even if you're just looking at funding, the majority of the new wall that we have was funded by Barack Obama in the last few months of his administration, rather than in two and a half years of the Trump administration.
00:08:23.660 This is a major political loss for the Trump administration.
00:08:28.540 This is really bad.
00:08:29.960 Ann Coulter, one of the earliest Trump supporters, has been complaining about this for months now, over a year now, and saying,
00:08:37.860 Hey, Trump's not really building the wall.
00:08:39.220 Trump's not really building the wall.
00:08:40.400 Trump fires back and says, yes, I am.
00:08:42.100 I'm totally doing it.
00:08:43.540 And you've had this political fight.
00:08:45.440 And she said, no, it's really not happening.
00:08:48.080 Some of President Trump's supporters have started to believe her.
00:08:50.600 I didn't want to believe her.
00:08:52.720 I thought, no, I'm sure they've got this under control.
00:08:55.800 60 miles of border, 40 of which were funded under the Obama administration.
00:09:00.860 That's a total failure on the promise of building the wall.
00:09:06.780 There have been so many other wonderful aspects of the Trump administration.
00:09:11.040 It has vastly exceeded my wildest dreams for how great it would be.
00:09:16.240 When you just compare conservative domestic legislation, he's done better than Reagan.
00:09:21.600 But what about the central promise?
00:09:24.780 Where is the wall?
00:09:27.260 I'm not just asking because I want the wall to be built.
00:09:29.680 I'm asking because if that was a central promise in 2016,
00:09:33.360 how is President Trump going to face voters in 2020 and explain why the wall hasn't been built?
00:09:40.860 This is not just an American problem.
00:09:43.340 The demand for border protection is not just an American phenomenon.
00:09:47.500 This is going around all over the Western world.
00:09:50.080 In the United Kingdom, right now, as we speak, the UK is voting in the European elections.
00:09:55.300 So, the UK has its own government and then the European Union has its government.
00:10:01.080 Now, you probably remember three years ago, the UK voted to leave the European Union.
00:10:06.100 So, why are they still voting in the European elections?
00:10:09.140 They're still voting because Brexit never happened.
00:10:13.520 We were promised Brexit initially.
00:10:16.120 The date that the United Kingdom was supposed to leave the European Union was March 29th of this year.
00:10:20.800 Yep, that's gone.
00:10:23.080 Okay, so then it was pushed back to April 12th of this year.
00:10:25.740 Is that...
00:10:26.340 Nope, that's gone too.
00:10:27.820 Now, we're being told that they'll leave on October 31st.
00:10:30.940 And if you believe they're actually going to do it, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
00:10:35.220 A major issue.
00:10:36.940 Theresa May is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
00:10:39.180 For now, she very likely won't be Prime Minister for long because she has failed to affect the Brexit vote.
00:10:46.580 She has failed to secure her national borders.
00:10:51.060 Polling shows that support for Theresa May and her leadership of the Tories, of the Conservative Party, has collapsed.
00:10:57.580 What is surging in her wake?
00:10:59.800 Nigel Farage, the guy who used to be the head of the UK Independence Party, he was one of the main forces behind Brexit.
00:11:06.380 He has now founded a Brexit party.
00:11:09.340 And polling shows they are surging in the EU elections.
00:11:12.620 And Farage said that he's got over a thousand candidates, thousands of candidates, ready to stand for the UK elections the next time that those will be up in a few years.
00:11:24.480 How did this happen?
00:11:26.180 It happened because people want to protect their borders.
00:11:29.000 By the way, you won't see a lot of reporting on the status of Theresa May today or on the EU elections and the Brexit party.
00:11:36.860 Because in the United Kingdom, they have laws to prohibit reporting on elections during election day.
00:11:42.800 So if you're wondering why this isn't trending globally on Twitter or something, it's because the British press legally cannot report on these elections until the elections are over.
00:11:51.460 But the mainstream media are stunned by this.
00:11:53.840 The mainstream media in the UK and in the United States.
00:11:57.220 The New York Times wonders, they have their big explanation, how Farage's Brexit party is crushing its opponents.
00:12:07.700 They completely get it wrong.
00:12:09.240 But the mistake that the New York Times makes, the mistake that the elites in Britain make, could spell serious political trouble for Donald Trump if he doesn't fix it.
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00:13:50.880 The New York Times, the mainstream media, still, somehow, years later, don't understand this issue of border security and this issue of immigration.
00:14:02.180 This is what they wrote.
00:14:03.580 How Farage's Brexit party is crushing its opponents.
00:14:06.700 They're describing the Brexit rally scene.
00:14:09.700 The candidates walk down the ballroom aisle to loud ovations and corporate rock, taking turns at the lectern delivering pitches for the Brexit party.
00:14:17.220 A deep-pocketed Tory known for churning through managers at his soccer club.
00:14:21.680 An ex-labor voter and son of a coal miner whose hometown despised Margaret Thatcher.
00:14:27.080 A dental surgeon who said in an interview that she believed the European Union was indoctrinating children like Stalin's kids and Komsomol and Hitler Youth.
00:14:36.480 One by one, they let loose with a bare-bones populism largely bereft of any demonstrable political ideology or, for that matter, any detectable policies save one.
00:14:46.160 One by one, taking Britain out of the European Union promptly and, if necessary, with no deal.
00:14:52.980 No issues.
00:14:54.560 You see, the New York Times, they just, they can't understand why is the Brexit party surging in the polls?
00:15:01.340 They have absolutely no issues whatsoever.
00:15:04.680 Oh, yeah, well, except for pulling Britain out of the European Union.
00:15:08.620 But they have no real issues.
00:15:10.300 You see, according to the New York Times, national security, border security, immigration, that's not a real issue.
00:15:17.360 A real issue would be something like raising taxes or lowering taxes.
00:15:21.760 A real issue would be changing some aspect of the healthcare system.
00:15:26.100 A real issue would be the Green New Deal.
00:15:28.560 Because the sun monster is going to destroy the world in 12 years and so we need to outlaw planes, trains, and automobiles and knock down every building in the country.
00:15:37.400 That would be a real issue, according to the New York Times.
00:15:40.440 But securing national borders, protecting national sovereignty, protecting self-government, immigration, legal and illegal, those are not real issues.
00:15:52.560 This is the mistake they make.
00:15:53.700 This is the mistake Democrats and Republicans have made in the country.
00:15:57.340 And frankly, if the Trump administration cannot build more wall, it's a mistake that the president is going to be making as well.
00:16:05.240 This is a big issue.
00:16:07.940 This is not just a big issue.
00:16:09.640 This is the big issue.
00:16:11.160 Because it touches on so many aspects of politics.
00:16:14.080 One, security really matters.
00:16:16.080 If people don't feel secure, they don't care about anything else in politics.
00:16:19.060 So it touches on a question of personal security.
00:16:22.040 It touches on questions of culture.
00:16:24.520 You've got people coming in and out of countries in the United Kingdom, in Europe, in the United States, who aren't speaking the languages, who are not engaging in the political customs of those regions, who are not respecting local laws.
00:16:37.380 I mean, they're literally not respecting laws when they come into the country illegally.
00:16:41.340 And then, at a really basic bedrock level, the question of immigration, illegal and illegal, gets to the question of self-government.
00:16:52.540 All of our Western countries, all of these developed countries, have a political tradition of self-government.
00:16:59.240 So the people get to decide who governs them, what their laws are, how they're going to live, what rules they're going to follow.
00:17:05.720 When a small cabal of elites decides to flood the country, either legally or illegally, with immigrants, who will then eventually, they or their children, will have the right to vote and shape that government, you are getting into the question of sovereignty.
00:17:23.440 Who gets to rule?
00:17:24.740 Who gets to decide?
00:17:25.940 On this Brexit question, who gets to rule and who gets to decide?
00:17:29.160 Some elites in Brussels or the British people?
00:17:32.240 Who gets to decide who goes in and out of the United Kingdom?
00:17:34.800 Some elites in Brussels or the British people?
00:17:38.480 The mainstream media want to convince you that somehow it is wrong or immoral to care about immigration.
00:17:45.400 You see, it's okay to care about health care.
00:17:46.940 It's okay to care about any other political issue.
00:17:48.840 But for some reason, caring about immigration policy is wrong.
00:17:53.260 You know, in the United States and in various parts of Europe, there were very strict immigration policies in place at different times until very recently.
00:18:01.940 In the United States, until 1965, until Ted Kennedy's immigration law, we really controlled our immigration system pretty well.
00:18:10.780 Since then, our immigrant population as a share of the total U.S. population has tripled or quadrupled.
00:18:18.720 We have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population in the United States right now that we have had since the 1890s.
00:18:23.940 It is perfectly reasonable for people to be concerned about that.
00:18:30.620 This isn't just some bigoted reaction to a trivial issue.
00:18:37.140 This is a major change in national policy.
00:18:39.800 It poses serious problems for the culture and for politics.
00:18:42.660 And so it's perfectly natural for people to respond.
00:18:45.680 You know, in the United States, we're talking about low-skilled illegal immigration from Central and South America.
00:18:52.160 In the European continent, we're talking about whole masses of Muslim immigrants coming over who are hostile to the culture, who don't speak the language, who don't follow the faith that crafted Europe, who are hostile to many laws and customs.
00:19:07.340 And what we are told, not just by the elites, not just by the mainstream media, but even by our own religious institutions, we are told, you have to let them in.
00:19:16.320 You can't do anything.
00:19:17.160 You can't oppose it.
00:19:18.220 This is true in the faith that crafted Europe, in Christianity.
00:19:22.340 This is true of virtually every Christian denomination.
00:19:25.520 This is true, perhaps especially, of the Catholic Church.
00:19:28.900 There is one guy, as far as I can tell, there is one major figure in international Christendom.
00:19:35.260 He's a Catholic cardinal named Raymond Burke, who is a very conservative cardinal, very sharp guy, really has a great deal of moral clarity on these questions.
00:19:47.100 He came out and he said, listen, folks, you don't have to support open borders to be a good Christian.
00:19:55.280 Here he is.
00:19:55.720 The fundamental question here is someone who resists large-scale Muslim immigration committing an immoral act and therefore should be, let's say, denied Holy Communion or in some way recognized as a public sinner.
00:20:14.340 To resist large-scale Muslim immigration, in my judgment, is to be responsible in the sense of making sure that those who are immigrating to the country remember that the definition of the church's teaching is that the individuals are not able to find a way of living in their own country.
00:20:38.700 And this is not true of immigrants who come, who are opportunists, and in particular in the case of Islam, which by its definition believes itself to be destined to rule the world, coming in large numbers to countries.
00:21:00.020 And you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see what's happened, for instance, in Europe, in countries like France and Germany and also here in Italy.
00:21:11.020 And it's also happening in the United States.
00:21:13.480 It is happening in the United States.
00:21:15.260 Cardinal Burke would know that because he's an American.
00:21:17.360 He goes on to say that it is not just not immoral to oppose unfettered immigration, but actually it's responsible.
00:21:26.600 It's a responsible act of patriotism.
00:21:28.360 It's a responsible act of prudence.
00:21:30.560 You know, charity is a virtue.
00:21:31.680 It's wonderful to have charity.
00:21:33.160 Prudence is also a virtue.
00:21:35.560 And not letting huge, limitless numbers of people who are hostile to you, your culture, and your system of government to flood into your country, especially countries that have a system of self-government.
00:21:47.520 So eventually they'll be able to change the government over time.
00:21:52.840 That's perfectly prudent to oppose that.
00:21:55.380 But unfortunately, the Catholic Church is probably never going to make Cardinal Burke pope.
00:22:00.420 I don't think that's going to happen.
00:22:01.540 But if he keeps talking like this, he could probably run for president in the United States in 2024.
00:22:06.380 He could probably run for the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
00:22:09.140 Because even if the elites don't understand what he's saying, the people in both of those places do.
00:22:16.860 This is a major issue.
00:22:19.260 Poll after poll shows this.
00:22:21.120 The majority of Americans, according to an ABC Washington Post poll, feel that too little is being done to prevent illegal immigration.
00:22:27.980 That's not the majority of Republicans, not the majority of conservatives, the majority of all Americans.
00:22:32.620 Only one-third of Americans believe our border is secure enough.
00:22:35.700 Gallup polling shows that 77%, more than three-quarters of Americans, want to stop the flow of illegals.
00:22:43.360 Totally.
00:22:44.180 A Harvard-Harris poll last year showed it's not just that people want to radically reduce illegal immigration.
00:22:50.580 They want to radically reduce, in the United States, legal immigration as well.
00:22:55.640 The majority want to reduce legal immigration by upwards of 60%.
00:23:01.140 Why?
00:23:02.600 Because of the very real fear that immigrants pose a threat to our cultural traditions and system of government if they do not assimilate.
00:23:08.900 And if they come in in huge numbers and are not made to assimilate.
00:23:13.260 This is not just about speaking English rather than Spanish.
00:23:16.980 This is not just about watching baseball rather than soccer.
00:23:20.980 This is about self-government.
00:23:22.540 And there's such an irony today when you look at prominent immigrants in the United States.
00:23:28.060 Ilhan Omar, Democratic Congresswoman, freshman in Congress.
00:23:31.860 She is an immigrant herself.
00:23:34.600 She fled a horrible country.
00:23:37.200 A country that was wrecked by a socialist dictatorship.
00:23:40.520 She fled Somalia.
00:23:41.840 She was finally able to come with her family in 1992 to the United States.
00:23:46.160 And what is she doing now?
00:23:47.360 She is advocating the same policies that helped to ruin the country that she fled from.
00:23:52.840 If she wanted to continue to live under those policies, why didn't her family stay in Somalia?
00:23:57.860 Why did they escape to something better only to turn that better place into the same rotten political culture that she fled?
00:24:07.640 You see this a lot with the question of illegal immigration on our southern border.
00:24:12.100 There's an organization, they've since changed their name because they were getting bad PR, called La Raza.
00:24:19.240 It means the race.
00:24:20.540 This was on virtually every college campus in the country.
00:24:23.100 It started here in Southern California.
00:24:25.060 And it's a Hispanic supremacist group.
00:24:27.700 I don't know how else to say it.
00:24:28.980 Now they've restyled it Unidos because it's very difficult to say you oppose racism when your group is called the race.
00:24:36.260 At a lot of La Raza marches and protests, at a lot of immigration protests, at a lot of illegal immigration protests that I have personally witnessed from sea to shining sea, from Washington, D.C. to Southern California, you will see people waving the Mexican flag.
00:24:54.220 You will see illegal aliens waving the Mexican flag.
00:24:57.900 If you want to live under the Mexican flag, go back to Mexico.
00:25:07.100 Problem solved.
00:25:08.740 Good, we agree.
00:25:10.280 People who oppose illegal immigration want you to go back to Mexico.
00:25:14.200 You, yourself, just say you want to go back to Mexico.
00:25:17.060 Go back to Mexico.
00:25:17.840 Why are you here?
00:25:19.320 Now they don't really mean it.
00:25:20.700 Nope, they don't want to go live in Mexico.
00:25:22.500 They fled these places.
00:25:23.780 They don't want to live in Somalia.
00:25:25.080 They fled those places.
00:25:26.360 They want to come to the United States.
00:25:27.900 Because it's much, much nicer to live in the United States.
00:25:32.080 And yet, when they're here, and it's not just their fault, by the way.
00:25:35.240 This is being encouraged by the popular culture.
00:25:37.600 It is being encouraged by the left not to assimilate.
00:25:41.100 It's being encouraged by a leftist culture in America that hates itself, that hates the West, that hates our traditions, that hates our system of self-government, that rewrites and lies about our history,
00:25:51.840 that says we are the worst place on earth, and we shouldn't support immigration to be nice to the people living in squalor and living under threat of death.
00:26:00.980 We shouldn't support immigration to give them a better life.
00:26:03.360 We should support immigration so that they can come here and erase our own culture and bring over their, obviously, superior culture from Honduras and El Salvador and Somalia.
00:26:16.500 That's the argument, when you boil it down, that they are making.
00:26:20.740 Obviously, it's ridiculous.
00:26:24.320 It's exactly the opposite of reality.
00:26:26.660 But you're seeing that play out, and it is really driving people from the U.S. to the U.K. to Europe up a wall.
00:26:35.100 This issue caused Theresa May to have the worst premiership ever.
00:26:38.960 It got her thrown out, or it very likely will get her thrown out of office.
00:26:42.880 Will the failure to build the wall get President Trump thrown out of office?
00:26:46.540 Hard to say.
00:26:47.180 He has some advantages over May.
00:26:49.680 May was only in there to effect Brexit.
00:26:52.620 That was her whole job.
00:26:54.580 President Trump was not just elected to build the wall.
00:26:56.600 He was elected to fix the economy, to create a lot of jobs, to bring some manufacturing back.
00:27:02.520 He was to give us good conservative judges, originalist judges.
00:27:06.040 He has done all of that.
00:27:07.100 He's succeeded very well on that.
00:27:08.460 So he does have an advantage.
00:27:10.060 Still, a major pillar of that campaign was securing the southern border.
00:27:14.920 And that has not happened.
00:27:16.760 We have 3,000 illegal aliens per day pouring across a totally porous border.
00:27:22.600 I get that it's hard.
00:27:23.960 Being President is hard.
00:27:25.560 And the American people are not going to reward you for trying.
00:27:29.400 They're not going to.
00:27:30.220 If this remains a top issue or the top issue, it doesn't matter how hard you tried.
00:27:36.020 I get it.
00:27:36.640 The Democrats and the bureaucracy are shutting this down at every turn.
00:27:41.700 Doesn't matter.
00:27:42.500 The buck stops with the President.
00:27:43.640 We have a lot more to get to.
00:27:46.140 We will get to Quentin Tarantino shutting down feminism at Cannes.
00:27:49.680 And we will get to what that says about the left and the right.
00:27:53.660 We will get to what that means for the emotional appeals that the left and the right have.
00:27:57.700 Because they each have a special tool in their toolbox.
00:28:00.820 And we're going to have to make sure that we use the one that we have if we want a chance in 2020.
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00:28:47.140 Shifting gears just slightly.
00:28:49.040 We go to the European continent.
00:28:50.420 We go to the Cannes Film Festival.
00:28:51.860 Quentin Tarantino was there.
00:28:54.660 He was asked a question about his new movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
00:28:59.100 But it wasn't asked a question really about the movie or about the story or about his legendary career in film.
00:29:04.420 He was asked a question about why he isn't feminist enough.
00:29:09.600 And he handles it beautifully.
00:29:11.700 Quentin, you have put Margot Robbie, a very talented actress, actor, in your film.
00:29:18.820 She was with Leonardo in Wolf of Wall Street.
00:29:22.480 I, Tonya, this is a person with a great deal of acting talent.
00:29:26.760 And yet you haven't really given her many lines in the movie.
00:29:30.140 And I guess that was a deliberate choice on your part.
00:29:32.940 And I just wanted to know why that was, that we don't hear her actually speaking very much.
00:29:38.780 And Margot, I wanted you to also comment about being in the film in this part.
00:29:42.920 Well, I just reject your hypotheses.
00:29:45.180 I, like I said earlier, I always look to the character and what the character is supposed to serve to the story.
00:29:57.460 Um, I, I think the moments that I got on screen gave an opportunity to honor Sharon and the lightness.
00:30:07.960 I don't think it was intended to delve deeper than, like Brad also mentioned, I think the tragedy ultimately was the loss of innocence.
00:30:16.740 And to really show those wonderful sides of her, I think, could be adequately done without speaking.
00:30:23.900 First of all, what a stupid question from this.
00:30:26.580 Uh, they both handled this wonderfully, this answer.
00:30:29.540 But what a stupid question from that reporter.
00:30:31.600 I mean, obviously she doesn't know anything about film.
00:30:33.860 So, hey, filmmaker, how come you didn't write the movie that I wanted you to write?
00:30:37.620 How come you wrote the movie that you wanted to write?
00:30:41.240 Hey, hey, um, hey, Star Wars.
00:30:45.240 Um, I thought that, uh, uh, Boba Fett should have been the star of the movie instead of Luke Skywalker.
00:30:51.100 Why didn't you do that?
00:30:52.640 Oh, because I made my movie and not your movie.
00:30:54.600 And if you want to make a movie, you can make your own movie.
00:30:56.360 The premise, though, is even more ridiculous than that because Quentin Tarantino has created probably the strongest female characters in the history of cinema.
00:31:07.340 Just a quick look down his history.
00:31:09.500 You've got Broomhilda in Django Unchained.
00:31:12.040 You've got Arlene in Death Proof.
00:31:13.960 You've got Jungle Julia in Death Proof.
00:31:15.900 You've got Abernathy in Death Proof.
00:31:17.520 You've got Kim Mathis in Death Proof.
00:31:19.480 Death Proof literally ends, spoiler alert, with a group of women punching a man to death.
00:31:25.520 You've got Alabama Whitman in True Romance.
00:31:28.860 You've got Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction.
00:31:30.360 You obviously have The Bride in Kill Bill.
00:31:32.320 The entire Kill Bill franchise is about a woman killing a man named Bill.
00:31:38.060 Also, spoiler alert, I guess it was in the title.
00:31:39.860 Well, Quentin Tarantino has stronger female roles than any other filmmaker, but it's not enough for the left, is it?
00:31:47.880 That's the takeaway.
00:31:48.880 This is actually how this ties in to our story on open borders, illegal immigration, and ultimately the elections that are coming up.
00:31:56.420 It's never enough for the left.
00:31:59.260 You can't give them enough.
00:32:01.100 Appeasing the left is like appeasing a militaristic dictator.
00:32:04.980 Things might go fine for a little while.
00:32:06.780 Eventually, he's going to turn on you.
00:32:08.260 Eventually, the left is going to turn on you.
00:32:11.320 And why?
00:32:12.100 Because beyond the arguments, the left doesn't really have any arguments left, but beyond the arguments, the left and the right both have tools at their disposal.
00:32:20.600 And the tool at the left's disposal, it only has one.
00:32:23.340 It's resentment.
00:32:25.300 Resentment for countrymen.
00:32:26.980 Resentment between races.
00:32:28.280 Resentment between sexes.
00:32:29.760 Resentment for your history.
00:32:31.600 Resentment for your institutions.
00:32:33.220 That is what the left uses.
00:32:36.640 Resentment.
00:32:37.120 And so here, to affect her leftist agenda, this journalist, if you can call her that, tries to gin up resentment where it obviously doesn't exist.
00:32:48.740 To try to portray Quentin Tarantino as some anti-woman filmmaker.
00:32:54.340 All of his films star women in really strong roles.
00:32:59.260 But that's the way they do it.
00:33:00.360 The main emotional tool of the right, we make a lot of arguments, but the main emotional tool that we have is actually the opposite of the left's tool.
00:33:09.320 Our main emotional tool is affection.
00:33:11.680 So the left has resentment, division.
00:33:15.020 Resentment between every class of people, every group of people, every sexual preference of people, every country, every state, every community.
00:33:22.960 What the right has is affection.
00:33:24.960 Affection for your neighbors.
00:33:27.520 Affection for your institutions.
00:33:29.200 Affection for your traditions.
00:33:30.780 Affection for the rituals that you do.
00:33:32.620 Affection for your country.
00:33:33.880 This is why when you go to a right-wing political rally, it's like the 4th of July.
00:33:40.120 They talk about patriotism.
00:33:41.920 They talk about love of country.
00:33:43.000 They talk about love of family.
00:33:44.480 They talk about love of God.
00:33:45.720 Love of our political traditions.
00:33:47.440 Love of freedom.
00:33:48.920 And when you go to a left-wing political rally, it's screeching and whining and complaining and vilifying and saying,
00:33:56.120 this person is bad and this person is the cause of all of our problems, this person is an oppressor, America is a horrible place, we should ruin our past, we should forget our past, we should pull down monuments, we should erase our history, we should bring in everybody else from everywhere in the world and we should take on their culture because our culture is so awful and I hate everything.
00:34:16.060 That's what the left says.
00:34:17.540 What we have is affection.
00:34:18.840 And affection is really strong.
00:34:20.520 Affection is what gave us the Brexit vote.
00:34:22.560 Affection is what gave us the Trump 2016 election.
00:34:26.740 Affection is what can propel the right to what I think is a quiet conservative movement sweeping throughout the Western world.
00:34:34.980 That's what we've got to focus on.
00:34:37.040 And we don't have time to check in on the 2020 race, but if you just take a look around those candidates, you'll see, obviously, they can't pull that tool out of their belt.
00:34:48.940 They can't talk about affection.
00:34:50.320 They just have to talk about resentment.
00:34:51.800 People are sick of that.
00:34:53.400 People don't like it.
00:34:54.880 Make that difference stark.
00:34:57.380 Make that difference clear and I think we'll have a fighting chance.
00:34:59.800 Let's get to the mailbag late as we always are.
00:35:01.800 From Mark.
00:35:03.800 Michael.
00:35:04.600 As a member of the youngest part of the millennial generation and or the oldest part of Generation Z, I'm 21.
00:35:11.300 How do you recommend I start going about finding a suitable girlfriend who shares my views?
00:35:17.060 Specifically starting a family, working hard to provide them, raising them in the faith, etc.
00:35:21.840 Thanks.
00:35:25.560 First thing you've got to do.
00:35:26.880 I give this advice to people who write in about love questions all the time.
00:35:30.780 You've got to change your language.
00:35:33.040 How to find a suitable girlfriend.
00:35:36.520 It's so clinical.
00:35:37.780 It's so sterile.
00:35:38.820 That doesn't sound sexy at all.
00:35:40.460 That doesn't sound fun.
00:35:41.880 I wouldn't want to do that.
00:35:42.880 But don't be so intellectual about it.
00:35:47.960 Don't be so clinical about it.
00:35:51.340 Go out and find a girl.
00:35:53.620 Fall in love.
00:35:54.940 Have a good time.
00:35:55.700 Want to be with them.
00:35:59.460 Want to go find them.
00:36:00.760 Chase them.
00:36:02.420 Get them.
00:36:03.720 That's what you want to do.
00:36:04.620 The joke is Cole Porter never sang, let's do it.
00:36:08.480 Let's be in a relationship with a girl who shares some of my views and aspirations.
00:36:14.280 It's let's do it.
00:36:15.720 Let's fall in love.
00:36:17.020 That's what it is.
00:36:17.580 Go fall in love.
00:36:18.160 That's the first thing.
00:36:18.960 Now you're saying when I put myself out there to fall in love, where am I going to be able
00:36:22.840 to do it with someone that isn't going to be some purple haired wacko that I don't want
00:36:26.920 to spend my life with?
00:36:28.000 Well, you say you want her to share your views on faith.
00:36:30.640 Maybe you meet her around church circles.
00:36:33.020 I'm not saying during the Holy Communion you've got to start some pickup lines with the girl
00:36:38.780 next to you in the pew, but a lot of times after church, the churches that I attend, they'll
00:36:43.860 have a little coffee or donuts or something afterward.
00:36:45.960 Maybe hang around there.
00:36:46.960 Maybe see how that works.
00:36:48.440 Maybe get involved in some groups at your church.
00:36:51.080 If you want to meet a girl that you agree with politically, go to some events that are
00:36:55.180 a little more politically minded.
00:36:56.500 I'm a member of probably a dozen political organizations, and you're not always there just debating
00:37:01.760 tax policy.
00:37:02.640 Usually what you're doing is having drinks and talking about things that matter and having
00:37:05.920 a good time.
00:37:06.640 That's a good place to meet people as well.
00:37:09.980 Obviously, the dating apps do exist.
00:37:11.820 I've been to multiple weddings of people who met on those apps.
00:37:15.420 I think they can be used for ill and they can be used for very good, just as freedom can
00:37:20.320 always be used for ill or can be used for good.
00:37:22.480 So maybe if you want to meet a girl who's Christian, you go on Christian Mingle.
00:37:25.560 If you want to meet a girl who's Jewish, you go on J-Date.
00:37:28.980 That's the one, right?
00:37:29.900 J-Date.
00:37:30.280 If you want to meet a girl that's Republican, go on TrumpMingle.com.
00:37:37.240 I don't know if that exists, but if it doesn't, it should.
00:37:40.080 There are ways to put yourself in a situation where you will be around like-minded people.
00:37:44.820 Probably you just do that naturally.
00:37:46.620 We want to be around people that we enjoy and that enjoy us.
00:37:50.820 But when you're there, don't be planning too far ahead.
00:37:54.540 It's the only way that you can make love and sex boring.
00:37:59.980 And don't do that because, you know, at that point, what's the point?
00:38:03.280 From Tommy.
00:38:04.640 Dear Michael, what is your argument for Christians to be pro-life?
00:38:07.960 I've run into a lot of professing believers who support abortion strongly.
00:38:12.740 Thanks for all your historical insights and your hard work.
00:38:15.660 Yeah, I've noticed this too.
00:38:19.440 People who say that they're Christian and then say that they support abortion.
00:38:23.140 There is simply no way to be Christian and support abortion.
00:38:26.420 I can't speak to the other religions because I don't practice them and I don't know a tremendous amount about them.
00:38:32.420 But certainly in Christianity, there is no way to be Christian and to support abortion.
00:38:38.000 It is not possible.
00:38:39.980 What are some scriptural arguments?
00:38:43.140 Well, the phrase conceived and bore appears repeatedly in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
00:38:49.360 In Psalms, the psalmist says he was knit in his mother's womb and he traces his identity back to his moment of conception in Psalm 51, verse 7.
00:38:58.560 So, Luke, in the Gospel of Luke, uses the same word in Greek to describe children before and after they are born.
00:39:07.480 Obviously, we're talking about the same people.
00:39:09.360 And the Apostle Paul writes, quote,
00:39:11.040 God, from my mother's womb, had set me apart and called me through his grace, from my mother's womb.
00:39:17.940 God knew us before we were born, as we were formed in the womb, hairs on our head, right?
00:39:22.640 This is throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.
00:39:25.280 Father Frank Pavone, I think it is, who is the National Director of Priests for Life, he has a great article on the Internet outlining some of the religious arguments against abortion.
00:39:36.520 There's no religious argument for abortion.
00:39:39.000 The closest that anyone I've ever seen come up with is a mistranslation of one verse in the Book of Numbers,
00:39:46.520 which suggests, in one bad translation in the NIV, it suggests that a command from God could lead in certain circumstances for an abortion to be committed.
00:39:59.420 But no other major translation renders it that way and no other major translation suggests that miscarriage or abortion are implied at all in the text.
00:40:08.240 So there's just none.
00:40:09.740 It's just a totally bankrupt argument for people who are following the church of themselves.
00:40:14.240 You know, this happens a lot when people are, say, reading the Bible without any interpretive scheme,
00:40:20.700 without any context, historical or exegetical or from tradition or the church fathers,
00:40:25.700 which is what it's like is staring down a deep, deep, dark well,
00:40:29.860 and when you look down into that well, all you see is yourself on the surface.
00:40:34.440 You're just seeing your own reflection.
00:40:36.000 You're reading into the scripture whatever you want it to say.
00:40:38.920 You're following cafeteria Christianity, taking a little bit here and a little bit there and ignoring all of the rest.
00:40:46.000 You say, well, it's so clear from this one verse that I'm choosing to interpret how I want to.
00:40:50.600 Don't forget, as Dr. Johnson famously said centuries ago, all shallows are clear.
00:40:56.860 Shallow thinking is clear.
00:40:58.660 Shallow interpretation is clear.
00:41:00.700 And profound things are a little more complicated than that.
00:41:03.900 They have a little more context than that.
00:41:05.280 Obviously, this is true in Divine Revelation.
00:41:09.240 From Jack.
00:41:10.580 Hi, Michael.
00:41:11.380 You recently talked about Jay Inslee, governor of Washington and presidential candidate,
00:41:16.240 and his composting program, composting dead bodies.
00:41:20.460 People who aren't religious might not care about that form of respecting the dead.
00:41:24.480 I think that there's some sort of beauty in using a dead person to give life to something else.
00:41:28.820 It's certainly not worse than burning them and keeping their ashes in a jar.
00:41:32.340 My question is, why is this bad exactly from a non-religious standpoint?
00:41:39.800 Well, the composting our dead idea is bad from a public health standpoint in so much as this is going to lead to bubonic plague.
00:41:50.140 This very likely could lead to awful public health outbreaks.
00:41:53.340 If you compost a dead body, a rotting body, and then you use that compost to grow other crops, you're really threatening public health.
00:42:02.940 This is not terribly sanitary.
00:42:05.800 That's just one reason.
00:42:07.040 The reason that it is offensive, though, just from a sort of ethical or philosophical standpoint,
00:42:12.040 is that we revere human beings.
00:42:16.580 We have reverence for human beings.
00:42:18.060 They don't lose that the minute that they die because humans are not just their minds or their spirits.
00:42:22.980 We are our bodies as well.
00:42:24.620 We're a unit.
00:42:26.860 There is a unity between our bodies and our souls.
00:42:29.660 And so it is offensive to humanity, per se, to desecrate a body.
00:42:34.200 I mean, just think about this very practically.
00:42:36.200 Let's say a very close family member of yours died.
00:42:38.480 And then you said, okay, I know I'm going to dispose of the body.
00:42:43.560 And someone came in and took the body and started throwing it up in the air and juggling it and stabbing it and urinating on it and graffitiing it and doing all manner of horrific things.
00:42:54.740 Would you just say, well, it's just a dead body.
00:42:57.340 It's nothing.
00:42:57.800 No big deal.
00:42:58.840 No, you'd kill the guy.
00:43:00.280 You'd be so angry because it is disrespectful to the person who has died.
00:43:05.940 Nevertheless, it is disrespectful to the person.
00:43:09.560 And so in the same way, letting dogs or bugs or something eat the dead is also disrespectful.
00:43:15.840 It says that human beings are no different than any other animal, just to be thrown out and discarded.
00:43:20.460 But we're not.
00:43:21.100 We have dignity.
00:43:22.700 We have an inherent dignity as by virtue of the fact that we are humans.
00:43:28.040 And therefore, we should treat each other with dignity while we are alive, while we are dead, before we are born on the whole spectrum of human life.
00:43:36.880 From Reagan.
00:43:38.280 Great name.
00:43:39.800 Excellent Michael Knowles.
00:43:41.320 Thank you for getting that right.
00:43:42.800 Some people think that people are referring to me around here as ex-cripple Michael Knowles, but I'm pretty certain it's excellent Michael Knowles.
00:43:49.820 So thanks for getting that right.
00:43:51.540 Excellent Michael Knowles.
00:43:52.660 In an interview, in an American history class, I am to give a presentation on either the most effective or the least effective political advertisement in American history.
00:44:02.500 Any thoughts?
00:44:03.420 Thanks.
00:44:04.920 Yes.
00:44:05.560 I'll give you just, there are so many great examples.
00:44:07.820 The Daisy ad that LBJ used against Barry Goldwater was pretty effective.
00:44:13.040 He used this in the 1960s.
00:44:14.720 And it implied that Barry Goldwater was going to blow up the whole world.
00:44:19.340 He was a radical and he had his finger on the nukes.
00:44:22.020 And this was at the height of the Cold War.
00:44:23.980 And by all measures, it was very effective.
00:44:26.280 Many other, the Willie Horton ad was very effective.
00:44:28.380 Ronald Reagan's Morning in America ad was very effective.
00:44:30.880 There are so many good ones that we can think of.
00:44:32.900 And I can think of some pretty awful ads.
00:44:35.140 There was one from a candidate, Christine O'Donnell, running for Senate in Delaware, who said, as the thesis of the ad, I am not a witch.
00:44:47.060 Because there was some accusation that she had practiced Wicca or witchcraft in her past.
00:44:53.140 And rather than just ignore this or laugh about it, she made a whole video where she said, I am not a witch.
00:44:58.180 I am you.
00:44:59.600 I am nothing you've heard.
00:45:00.920 I'm not a witch.
00:45:01.720 And all people heard is, oh my God, was this woman a witch?
00:45:03.980 Oh, dear, I didn't even know that someone suggested she was a witch.
00:45:07.700 That was pretty bad.
00:45:08.860 That was a pretty bad political ad as well.
00:45:11.780 A few examples for you.
00:45:13.700 And there are certain things that stand out.
00:45:17.880 I mean, negative ads do work.
00:45:19.760 When you attack your opponents, they do work.
00:45:23.300 Ads where you are defending, ads where you are explaining, tend not to work.
00:45:28.980 Because as Ronald Reagan said, when you're explaining, you're losing.
00:45:32.060 So you've got to push hard, boast on your successes, ride that success, give people something to aspire to.
00:45:39.120 But when you defend yourself, that's probably not going to work very well.
00:45:42.720 We've got a whole lot more to get to, but we're out of time.
00:45:46.840 This is what happens.
00:45:48.240 We just get too excited.
00:45:49.340 That's our show.
00:45:50.640 Have a good weekend.
00:45:51.720 Tune in on Monday.
00:45:52.660 I want to just quickly say our thoughts and prayers are with the people in Missouri and especially in Jefferson City.
00:45:59.260 I was just out there a little while ago and a major tornado has blown through there.
00:46:03.580 So we're thinking of you and praying for you, hoping everything turns out all right there.
00:46:09.380 And then I'll see you on Monday.
00:46:10.620 Come back here.
00:46:11.440 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:46:12.220 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:13.220 I'll see you then.
00:46:13.680 We'll see you then.
00:46:43.680 Hey, guys.
00:46:45.140 Over on The Matt Wall Show today, NPR has issued an Orwellian language guide for discussing abortion, telling us all the words and phrases we should avoid or use when discussing it.
00:46:55.760 Well, I've got my own language guide that I'd like to offer up for as a suggestion.
00:47:01.420 Also, Quentin Tarantino has been accused of sexism because the women in his latest film don't spend enough time talking, apparently.
00:47:09.440 Jeff Daniels says that democracy is coming to an end.
00:47:12.580 Our democracy is coming to an end if Trump is reelected.
00:47:15.600 And finally, Michael Avenatti has been charged with fraud.
00:47:19.700 We'll take a trip down memory lane and remember all of the time that the media spent hyping this guy up, hyping him up as the savior of the republic, literally.
00:47:29.300 We'll do all that today over on The Matt Wall Show.
00:47:31.220 We'll do all that today over on The Matt Wall Show.