The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 369 - Joe Biden’s Very Bad Week

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00:00:15.260 Joe Biden's bad week just got worse,

00:00:18.040 as Democrats call him racist,

00:00:19.880 and the mainstream media, but I repeat myself,

00:00:22.280 accuse him of corruption, very bad.

00:00:24.620 Then a black NFL star pushes back at Democrats

00:00:28.800 on yesterday's reparations hearings on Capitol Hill.

00:00:32.840 Finally, the mailbag.

00:00:33.720 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:34.580 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:43.040 Absolutely brutal week for Joe Biden.

00:00:45.620 Tough times for him.

00:00:47.280 On Tuesday, I didn't even want to cover this story at first

00:00:50.900 because I thought it was people making something out of nothing.

00:00:54.740 I now realize this story of what Joe Biden said,

00:00:57.860 how people are reacting to it,

00:00:59.680 actually does tell you about a major issue

00:01:02.160 that the Democrats are grappling with.

00:01:03.640 So what did he say?

00:01:04.300 He was at a fundraiser at the Carlisle

00:01:06.240 in New York City on Tuesday night,

00:01:07.960 and Joe Biden cited his ability to work

00:01:11.480 with two segregationist Democrat senators

00:01:15.800 as evidence that you can be civil,

00:01:18.620 even with people that you disagree with,

00:01:20.120 and that's how you can come together

00:01:21.300 and get something accomplished for the country.

00:01:23.500 So he was referring to the segregationist senators

00:01:26.240 James O. Eastland of Mississippi

00:01:28.640 and Herman Talmadge of Georgia.

00:01:31.360 And he, in typical Joe Biden, awkward, old-timey joke way,

00:01:37.280 he came in and he said,

00:01:38.940 you know, they never called me boy,

00:01:40.900 like, but they called me son.

00:01:43.020 They never called me boy, 0.85

00:01:44.220 like racists will call black men boys.

00:01:47.520 They called me son because they were of this older school,

00:01:50.060 and I disagreed with them,

00:01:51.600 but we came together and worked together.

00:01:53.500 And this story is being twisted,

00:01:55.600 not really so much by the right,

00:01:57.280 but certainly by the left and by fellow Democrats,

00:02:00.580 as portraying Joe Biden in this bigoted light. 0.95

00:02:05.140 Joe Biden is somehow a secret racist 0.98

00:02:06.820 that we didn't know about. 0.93

00:02:08.140 There's really no evidence of that.

00:02:09.920 He's certainly made racially awkward

00:02:12.280 and insensitive and offensive comments.

00:02:14.800 He said about Barack Obama

00:02:16.260 when they were running in 2008,

00:02:18.440 he said that Barack Obama

00:02:20.260 was the first articulate, clean,

00:02:22.520 good-looking black guy that ever ran for office.

00:02:25.920 And so that was a storybook.

00:02:27.620 I mean, he's said things that are a little awkward,

00:02:29.620 but I don't think there are evidence

00:02:31.220 that he's this racial bigot or something like that. 0.90

00:02:33.860 He's just a weird old guy. 0.96

00:02:36.400 Still, this does tell us something.

00:02:40.080 This tells us something very important

00:02:41.540 about what the Democrats are debating right now.

00:02:43.840 So of course, Joe Biden's Democrat opponents

00:02:45.980 piled on here.

00:02:46.760 Liz Warren said, quote, 0.99

00:02:48.440 I'm not here to criticize other Democrats,

00:02:50.840 but it's never okay to celebrate segregationists.

00:02:54.720 Never.

00:02:55.860 Celebrate.

00:02:56.360 You see what they're doing?

00:02:57.060 Joe Biden said,

00:02:57.620 I worked with segregationists

00:02:58.920 and I disagreed with them,

00:03:00.100 but I was able to get something done.

00:03:01.640 Liz Warren paints that as celebrating segregationists.

00:03:05.540 Same thing.

00:03:06.120 Here's Kamala Harris responding to Biden's remarks. 0.98

00:03:09.000 I have a great deal of respect for Vice President Biden.

00:03:14.820 He's done very good work and he has served our country in a very noble way.

00:03:19.380 But to coddle the reputations of segregationists,

00:03:23.400 of people who, if they had their way,

00:03:25.140 I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate,

00:03:28.280 is, I think, it's just, it's misinformed and it's wrong.

00:03:32.860 Should he apologize for that?

00:03:34.840 He's going to have to make that decision.

00:03:36.540 But, you know, let's be very clear that the senators that he is speaking of with such adoration

00:03:42.620 are individuals who made and built their reputation on segregation.

00:03:47.260 So this is a very serious matter.

00:03:50.460 Adoration.

00:03:51.200 He's adoring them.

00:03:52.100 There's nothing in Joe Biden's remarks that he's adoring those senators or that he's coddling those senators.

00:03:58.340 When did he coddle them?

00:03:59.260 Or as Liz Warren said, he's celebrating them.

00:04:01.340 That is totally made up and that is completely unfair. 0.97

00:04:04.440 And I hate to defend Joe Biden, but it's, that's ridiculous. 0.92

00:04:07.080 And you'll, you'll listen to how Kamala Harris phrases this here. 0.84

00:04:11.040 She goes, I have the most respect for Joe Biden.

00:04:12.660 He's a great guy because she knows she's not going to win this race. 0.96

00:04:15.140 And so she's trying to suck up to maybe be the vice president. 1.00

00:04:17.960 She can't hit Joe too hard, 0.99

00:04:19.140 but she's got to take the shot at him because this is open. 0.97

00:04:22.320 This is an open and vulnerable moment.

00:04:25.120 You don't run for number two.

00:04:26.620 You've got to run hard.

00:04:27.460 The only way you're going to become a number two is if you run hard.

00:04:30.060 So, okay, they're, they're all taking their shots.

00:04:33.060 And, and what did Joe Biden actually say?

00:04:35.920 He's mentioning people that he disagreed with that he was able to work with.

00:04:39.560 The thing that people keep forgetting here though, including Joe Biden,

00:04:42.540 is the example that he's giving is not an example of him working across the aisle with Republicans.

00:04:47.280 He's talking about working with members of his own party because those two segregationists,

00:04:53.040 like virtually all segregationists were Democrats.

00:04:56.220 They weren't Republicans.

00:04:58.780 The Democratic Party is the worst party in the history of the world on race relations. 0.97

00:05:05.100 They're the party of slavery. 0.86

00:05:05.960 They're the party of Jim Crow. 0.98

00:05:06.800 They're the party of the KKK. 0.83

00:05:08.040 They're the party of segregation. 0.57

00:05:09.960 And this was true, not in the way distant past.

00:05:12.000 This was true in Joe Biden's lifetime.

00:05:14.180 And he was working with them as members of his own party.

00:05:16.320 He hasn't been able to give a good example of working across the aisle and maintaining

00:05:21.100 civility, but it's okay because the mainstream media is doing his work for him.

00:05:25.760 Joe and the mainstream media are pretending that this is an example of working with Republicans.

00:05:30.680 And on one particularly egregious MSNBC show, this is Casey Hunt's show.

00:05:36.080 She just lied about it right on air. 0.70

00:05:38.260 Still to come, Joe Biden references his relationships with two former Republican colleagues at an event

00:05:43.460 in New York City.

00:05:44.400 The only problem, they were both segregationists.

00:05:48.680 They're not Republicans.

00:05:49.980 They are Democrats.

00:05:50.840 They're definitely Democrats.

00:05:52.080 Anytime that you have a party behaving in a sustained way, in a bad way on race relations,

00:05:59.680 you can bet that it's the Democrat Party.

00:06:01.480 This has been true since the 19th century and it remains true today. 0.99

00:06:06.580 They are not the party of racial harmony.

00:06:08.540 They have never been that party.

00:06:09.980 Even when they say that they were the party of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s, first 0.98

00:06:14.260 of all, there have been something like nine civil rights acts.

00:06:16.620 They were all pushed by Republicans, except for this one, which was pushed by a Democrat

00:06:21.360 president.

00:06:22.040 And yet it was only pushed through the LBJ Civil Rights Act.

00:06:25.400 It was only pushed through because of Republicans.

00:06:28.180 The Democrats largely voted against it and Republicans largely voted for it.

00:06:33.300 Still, all of that is forgotten.

00:06:34.480 All of that is almost besides the point.

00:06:36.880 The point is what this attack says about 2020.

00:06:39.880 And the toughest one came from Cory Booker.

00:06:42.560 Cory Booker said, quote,

00:06:43.660 So he then went on and said, Joe Biden needs to apologize.

00:07:13.060 I mean, this is very hard.

00:07:14.900 He's, he's lumping Biden in.

00:07:17.820 He's saying Biden's joke itself was racist, talking about how he, they didn't call him

00:07:22.720 boy, but they called him son.

00:07:24.340 And that he palled around, he, he, he was working with people who were white supremacists

00:07:30.140 and he had those relationships.

00:07:31.380 And that's a terrible thing.

00:07:33.000 When Cory Booker asked Joe Biden to apologize for this, this was the straw that broke the camel's

00:07:37.460 back and Joe Biden pushed back very hard on it.

00:07:40.380 Here he is.

00:07:40.780 I apologize for what?

00:07:44.400 Cory Booker's called for it.

00:07:45.760 Cory should apologize.

00:07:48.140 He knows better.

00:07:49.660 There's not a racist bone in my body.

00:07:51.380 I've been involved in civil rights my whole career, period, period, period.

00:07:57.620 Of course, Joe Biden's right here.

00:07:59.140 He doesn't need to apologize for this.

00:08:00.740 I mean, politically, he may have to.

00:08:02.660 I mean, they're trying to back him into a corner that he does.

00:08:04.500 But just as a matter of morality, a matter of what he actually said, he has no moral obligation

00:08:10.520 to apologize.

00:08:12.180 This is totally contrived political theater, except it does serve a purpose in this campaign

00:08:20.280 and in the light of how the Democrat Party is dealing with politics on a national level.

00:08:26.060 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:10:08.100 So this is obviously a totally contrived political attack.

00:10:12.820 One thing that it does show and one way that I think it's pretty effective is, sure, nobody

00:10:18.280 thinks that Joe Biden is some anti-black bigot, but it does remind people that Joe Biden is

00:10:22.240 very old.

00:10:23.320 He's so old, in fact, that he served in the U.S. Senate with pro-segregation senators when

00:10:29.580 segregation was still a thing, when segregation was still a hot political issue.

00:10:34.020 So I think that's pretty good because he is a little past his sell-by date.

00:10:39.580 He's not a bigot.

00:10:40.560 And the story matters because what it shows is not the Democrats' view on race or the

00:10:48.100 Democrats' view on reparations or the Democrats' view on segregation.

00:10:52.380 It shows the Democrats' view on civility.

00:10:56.840 What people are saying, what the question that Cory Booker and other people are bringing

00:11:02.060 up is not, is Joe Biden a segregationist?

00:11:06.000 It's, was Joe Biden right to be civil to segregationists?

00:11:12.140 Is it right, when there are battles over segregation, some awful political issue, is it right to be 0.99

00:11:17.920 people, to be civil rather, with the people that you disagree with?

00:11:23.140 Of course it is.

00:11:24.180 Of course Joe Biden was right to be civil with segregationists.

00:11:27.600 Yes, we should be civil with the people that we disagree with politically.

00:11:33.320 That is the only way a Democratic Republic can survive.

00:11:35.980 This used to be a totally uncontroversial opinion.

00:11:38.580 This was not a left or right idea.

00:11:40.840 Now it's become a right-wing idea.

00:11:42.500 The left says you can't be civil with people that you disagree with.

00:11:46.180 Well, but what about a terrible, awful issue like segregation?

00:11:50.220 There's no defense of segregation.

00:11:51.920 Why would you be civil with those people?

00:11:53.340 Because a republic such as ours, self-government, requires civility.

00:11:59.100 It requires that we understand one another.

00:12:01.040 It requires that we persuade one another.

00:12:03.420 It requires that we not just scream and shout and insult one another.

00:12:07.700 And here's an example of this.

00:12:09.480 Today, forget segregation, today, half of all politicians in this country support abortion. 0.98

00:12:16.380 They support killing innocent babies in the womb and disproportionately black babies, since 1.00

00:12:20.880 we're talking about race. 1.00

00:12:21.700 They're talking about killing babies. 0.99

00:12:25.140 We don't just randomly start punching them on the floor of the U.S. Congress. 0.97

00:12:29.440 We don't just shriek.

00:12:30.780 We don't refuse to speak with people who support abortion, even though abortion is worse than 0.89

00:12:35.700 segregation.

00:12:36.980 Segregation was terrible. 1.00

00:12:39.600 Murdering babies is worse.

00:12:40.880 Murder is worse than other forms of oppression.

00:12:44.540 Because you are totally robbing someone of their life, not just their liberty, not just their

00:12:48.820 ability to pursue happiness and property.

00:12:50.360 You're killing a baby before the baby's even born.

00:12:54.100 That is worse.

00:12:55.100 And yet we're civil with pro-abortion people.

00:12:58.100 Why?

00:12:58.780 Because that's the only way that we're going to move the issue.

00:13:00.820 That's the way that pro-life has been able to win so many battles over the last four decades,

00:13:05.420 five decades.

00:13:05.940 But the left can't be civil.

00:13:08.880 Don't take my word for it.

00:13:10.520 Here's Hillary Clinton explaining why the left won't be civil anymore. 1.00

00:13:14.300 You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what

00:13:22.100 you care about.

00:13:23.120 That's why I believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's

00:13:29.820 when civility can start again.

00:13:31.560 But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.

00:13:39.020 You can't be civil with people who oppose everything you stand for.

00:13:44.600 That's her theory.

00:13:47.080 Then who are you supposed to be civil with?

00:13:50.300 If you don't have to be civil with the people who disagree with you, then what's the point

00:13:53.960 of civility?

00:13:54.560 Of course you're civil with the people who agree with you.

00:13:56.880 You're not just civil with them.

00:14:00.320 You embrace them.

00:14:01.360 You celebrate them.

00:14:02.420 They're on your team.

00:14:04.100 The only purpose of civility in politics is to be civil to the people that you disagree

00:14:08.640 with.

00:14:08.940 But Hillary doesn't grant that people who disagree with her have any legitimacy, have any right 0.99

00:14:13.680 to speak, have any right to vote.

00:14:15.200 They're deplorable. 0.97

00:14:16.220 They're irredeemable. 1.00

00:14:17.740 They're the worst kind of people in this country. 0.99

00:14:20.760 They shouldn't have a voice. 0.72

00:14:21.920 They shouldn't be able to elect a president.

00:14:23.480 Guess what happened, by the way, when she said that?

00:14:25.480 That those very people made sure that she never came within a stone's throw of the White 0.99

00:14:29.920 House again.

00:14:32.360 It's the same thing with free speech.

00:14:34.060 People say we can protect free speech, but we can't protect hate speech.

00:14:39.660 The whole purpose of the First Amendment is to protect hate speech, so-called.

00:14:43.360 What is hate speech?

00:14:44.040 I don't know.

00:14:44.640 Good luck defining it.

00:14:45.480 Who defines what's hateful?

00:14:46.760 Something that's hateful to one person is maybe not hateful to somebody else.

00:14:50.740 The purpose of the First Amendment is to defend unpopular speech.

00:14:55.480 Popular speech is already going to be protected by the mob because everyone likes it.

00:15:01.920 The only reason to do it, the only reason to have civility, is to be civil with the people

00:15:07.840 that you disagree with.

00:15:09.100 But what does this look like?

00:15:10.220 It's not just Hillary Clinton who's saying this.

00:15:12.220 Current elected Democrats, Maxine Waters, very prominent Democrat congresswoman, is coming

00:15:17.300 out and showing you what it looks like when you stop being civil to your political opponents.

00:15:21.040 If we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody.

00:15:25.400 If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline

00:15:33.140 station, you get out and you create a crowd.

00:15:37.260 And you push back on them.

00:15:39.380 And you tell them they're not welcome.

00:15:41.980 That's what it looks like.

00:15:43.060 You get in their face.

00:15:43.980 You go to where they sleep.

00:15:45.220 You go to where their children sleep.

00:15:46.500 You scream.

00:15:47.020 You physically intimidate them.

00:15:48.420 That's what they want to do.

00:15:49.720 I mean, that is a recipe to get rid of self-government.

00:15:51.980 You cannot have a democratic republic very long.

00:15:54.680 If you keep that up, you're going to have to impose more order from the top down.

00:15:58.220 If you cannot, I mean, this is the deal that we've made with self-government and with a

00:16:04.240 democratic republic.

00:16:06.100 We say we're going to have political freedom.

00:16:08.360 We're going to run our own country.

00:16:09.560 We the people.

00:16:11.000 We can only do that if we discipline ourselves.

00:16:13.300 If we are mature, if we educate ourselves about what the political issues are and we

00:16:19.360 educate ourselves about how we're supposed to behave and if we can be civil and if we

00:16:23.400 can deal with people that we disagree with, that's the only way we can do it.

00:16:27.260 If we can't do that, we will lose self-government.

00:16:30.180 We will lose political freedom because we have to.

00:16:33.280 You can't, the country must have order.

00:16:36.020 Order will reassert itself.

00:16:37.460 It will either assert itself from the bottom up, from people who are disciplined and educated

00:16:43.560 and serious people who are worthy of freedom, or it will be imposed on us from the top down.

00:16:48.900 But we will not have anarchy.

00:16:50.480 It's never happened and it's never going to happen.

00:16:52.880 And this is the very risky gamble that Democrats are trying to foist on us right now. 0.95

00:16:58.580 So the Joe Biden issue is a really important one, not because of the stupid race stuff, but 0.98

00:17:03.500 because Joe Biden represents the old school of Democrats who say, I hate Republicans. 1.00

00:17:08.360 They're awful. 1.00

00:17:09.060 They're racist. 1.00

00:17:09.700 They're bigots. 1.00

00:17:10.220 They're terrible, but I'll be civil with them. 1.00

00:17:13.000 Or in the case of Joe Biden, I guess, I hate other Democrats who are racist and bigot and 0.99

00:17:17.640 awful, but I can be civil with them. 0.98

00:17:19.340 That's the old school and the new school saying, don't be civil.

00:17:22.260 Don't be civil at all.

00:17:23.360 Ruin them, get physically violent, go to their houses. 0.98

00:17:26.080 That's the debate we'll see in this 2020 race, which side of that is going to win.

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00:18:50.340 Speaking of the race hustling that we're seeing in the Democrat Party, sparks were flying yesterday 0.96

00:18:54.600 during this absolute exercise in national idiocy where we have so few problems in this country.

00:19:03.580 Unemployment at record lows. 0.96

00:19:04.640 The economy going gangbusters.

00:19:05.980 Everybody living in relative luxury, historically speaking, that we've got to dig up slavery 150

00:19:12.640 years ago and argue over reparations so that the great, great, great, great grandchildren

00:19:17.580 of slaves, but maybe also slave owners can get some reparations from, I don't know, modern

00:19:24.180 American immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery.

00:19:26.240 And we're going to have to figure out who's exactly the right percentage of victim and figure

00:19:30.320 out who's going to get what amount of money, which will accomplish absolutely nothing. 0.94

00:19:33.580 In this melee of idiocy and victimhood, the NFL star, Burgess, Burgess Owens showed up 0.93

00:19:40.960 and he just gave a total smack down of the whole premise of the hearing. 0.98

00:19:46.720 Here he is.

00:19:47.660 I'm going to talk about some ideologies.

00:19:49.800 And when I talk about them, I'm going to talk about people.

00:19:51.920 People change.

00:19:52.860 I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found out the, the, the, the misery that

00:19:58.880 that party brought to my race.

00:20:00.040 I do not believe in reparation because what reparation does, it points to a certain race, 0.60

00:20:05.160 a certain color, and it, and it points them as evil and points to the other race. 0.97

00:20:09.340 My race is one that has not only becomes racist, but, but also beggars.

00:20:16.220 I do believe in restitution.

00:20:18.880 Let's point to the party that was, that was part of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, that has killed

00:20:25.320 over 40% of our black babies, 20 million of them.

00:20:29.160 State of California, 70, 75% of our black boys cannot pass standard reading and writing 1.00

00:20:33.680 tests, a democratic state.

00:20:36.280 So, yes, let's pay rest, rest, rest, restoration.

00:20:39.420 Let's pay rest, restitution.

00:20:42.860 How about a democratic party?

00:20:44.240 Pay for all the misery brought to my race.

00:20:45.740 And those, after, after we learn our history, decide to stay there, they, they should pay

00:20:53.220 also, they're complicit.

00:20:54.580 And every white American, Republican or Democrat, that feels guilty because of your white skin,

00:20:59.620 you should need to pony up also.

00:21:02.240 That way we can get past this reparation and recognize that this country has given us

00:21:05.480 greatness.

00:21:06.920 I love this idea.

00:21:08.340 I mean, he really just goes for the jugular.

00:21:10.000 The left and the Democrats, they want to say slavery, it's the, the original sin of America

00:21:17.240 and it's all of Americans and all of white America.

00:21:20.040 Like, well, no, actually, to be specific, it's Democrats.

00:21:22.340 And the Republican Party was founded to oppose slavery.

00:21:24.980 And then the founding of the Republican Party led to a civil war where 600,000 to 750,000 Americans

00:21:30.880 died to end slavery.

00:21:32.380 It's actually a Democrat problem.

00:21:33.980 And then the issues of the KKK, the Jim Crow laws, segregation, lynchings, that also was

00:21:41.880 not just an American problem.

00:21:43.300 It was specifically a Democrat problem.

00:21:45.500 The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.

00:21:48.540 Burgess Owens calling them out for that entirely.

00:21:50.760 So that was very enjoyable.

00:21:52.040 I don't know what it does to the debate on reparations, but it was very fun to watch.

00:21:55.920 The, the case for reparations broadly, I think one thing he really expressed well is that

00:22:00.080 it's very disrespectful.

00:22:01.300 The premise of reparations in 2019 is that blacks need handouts from whites because there's 0.86

00:22:08.540 no other way that they could succeed.

00:22:10.120 And you'll look at that guy, Burgess Owens, and you say, well, he succeeded pretty well.

00:22:13.600 He's a pretty sharp guy.

00:22:15.220 He had an incredible athletic career.

00:22:16.540 Now he's got a great career in, in commentary and politics.

00:22:20.400 Does Burgess Owens get reparations?

00:22:22.880 Is some poor white guy in Appalachia supposed to pay Burgess Owens?

00:22:26.360 How about, is some poor white guy in Appalachia who maybe descended from slave owners or maybe

00:22:30.720 didn't?

00:22:31.060 Is he supposed to pay Jay-Z and Beyonce reparations for slavery?

00:22:35.720 Is he going to pay Barack Obama reparations for slavery?

00:22:38.700 Present, former president of the United States, half black, half white, actually not descended

00:22:43.640 from black slaves, descended from African, an African immigrant or an, but actually just

00:22:49.900 an African national who happened to have been in America.

00:22:52.360 You know, we talked yesterday about how the first formally recognized American slave owner

00:22:57.500 of, of an arbitrary, arbitrarily declared slave for life was a black guy. 0.51

00:23:02.460 Does that guy's ancestors, do they get reparations?

00:23:05.380 Let's say, as is the case for most black Americans, that they have some white ancestry, maybe a white

00:23:10.220 slave owner ancestry. 0.51

00:23:12.180 Do they get reparations?

00:23:13.500 How white is too white?

00:23:14.760 How black is black? 0.98

00:23:15.760 Are we going to resurrect the racist one drop rule to say, if you have one drop of black 0.99

00:23:20.740 blood, then you are black? 0.99

00:23:22.940 That makes you essentially racially black and defines you and entitles you to some reparations. 0.97

00:23:29.100 One of the reasons, there are many reasons that reparations are totally impracticable in

00:23:33.540 2019.

00:23:34.000 But one of them, well, the most offensive one is that it is a racially essentialist idea

00:23:39.580 that just does not jibe with reality.

00:23:41.860 It doesn't jibe with 150 years of American history and immigration and, and dissent.

00:23:48.460 Just even my, I don't know, I'm descended from Italians, Irish, Welsh, English, old, Sicilians,

00:23:55.600 all these sorts of people.

00:23:57.560 Which is me?

00:23:59.220 For mixed race people, are they black or are they white?

00:24:02.080 Which weighs out the other one?

00:24:04.360 Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:24:05.560 Burgess Owens showed some of that absurdity, but the entire reparations debate yesterday

00:24:12.860 was a sideshow and it was all just part of the broader absurd clown show, which is the

00:24:18.540 2020 Democrat presidential primary.

00:24:21.180 Other bad news came out for Joe Biden yesterday beyond the race stuff.

00:24:24.800 The mainstream media are finally asking questions about his shady deals with his son in Ukraine

00:24:29.920 and in China.

00:24:30.820 So while Joe Biden was chief diplomat, was vice president, he was, he was leading American

00:24:35.740 negotiations in the Ukraine and in China.

00:24:39.100 Hunter Biden, his son was getting shady deals.

00:24:42.500 He got, uh, I think a billion dollars or more of, uh, funding out of China for a company called

00:24:49.240 Rosemont that he was working with.

00:24:51.980 And in the Ukraine, he was able to get a, I think, $55,000 per month retainer when he

00:24:58.180 was on the board of a company called Burisma Holdings.

00:25:01.620 This was while Biden was there negotiating with Ukraine.

00:25:06.200 Biden, as the chief diplomat for Ukraine, was threatening to withhold American aid to

00:25:11.360 the Ukraine if the Ukraine didn't fire a prosecutor looking into his son's shady business

00:25:15.680 dealings.

00:25:16.100 It was pretty, pretty rough.

00:25:18.160 And we've been talking about this for months on the show.

00:25:20.840 Finally, the mainstream media started asking the questions just within the last two days.

00:25:27.220 Was Hunter Biden profiting off his dad's work as vice president?

00:25:30.700 And did Joe Biden allow it?

00:25:32.340 We're talking about millions of dollars in at least two countries.

00:25:36.160 Mr. Vice President, Tom Yalmus with ABC News.

00:25:38.240 How you doing?

00:25:38.760 Got a quick question for you.

00:25:40.100 It's a question we tried to ask repeatedly.

00:25:42.520 Can we ask you about Ukraine and China?

00:25:45.360 But kept getting blocked.

00:25:46.760 Questions about foreign deals his son Hunter Biden pursued.

00:25:50.240 My father, Joe Biden.

00:25:52.080 In countries where Joe Biden was working as America's top diplomat.

00:25:56.220 Mr. Vice President, what's your take on that?

00:25:57.940 Was there a conflict of interest there?

00:25:59.660 Was there a clear conflict of interest?

00:26:02.400 Hey, look, we've got journalists in the mainstream media finally.

00:26:06.560 This is, I know it's a cold and chilly day in hell and pigs are flying all over the world

00:26:10.740 because a mainstream network journalist is asking tough questions of Joe Biden.

00:26:15.140 Questions that we've been asking on this show for months.

00:26:18.200 So why are they asking it now?

00:26:21.920 What changed?

00:26:23.560 I mean, we've known this story for a long time.

00:26:26.140 Obviously, Joe Biden is ducking the question because he knows he's guilty as sin here.

00:26:31.400 He later gave a statement or his campaign gave a statement that said that if he were elected

00:26:36.080 president, he would empower White House ethics lawyers to monitor these sorts of activities

00:26:40.880 that he engaged in.

00:26:42.300 So he's basically admitting guilt here.

00:26:44.720 He's admitting he acted inappropriately and let his son peddle his influence to make a lot

00:26:48.700 of money out of both of those countries.

00:26:50.280 Still looks like he's dodging.

00:26:52.300 Now, finally, June 20th, the mainstream media will ask the question, why?

00:26:58.840 The reason is because back then, months ago when this came up, the mainstream media were

00:27:05.800 backing Joe Biden as the leading candidate for president.

00:27:09.100 Now it seems they're moving toward another candidate and so they're willing to ditch Joe

00:27:14.140 Biden.

00:27:14.540 Who's that other candidate?

00:27:16.100 According to a June Wall Street Journal NBC News poll, Liz Warren is surging. 1.00

00:27:22.020 This poll looked at Democrat primary voters who are enthusiastic or comfortable with candidates.

00:27:26.720 So back in March, they said, who are your most comfortable candidates?

00:27:30.700 Who are you most excited for?

00:27:32.560 Joe Biden then got 77% support.

00:27:36.980 Now, a few months later, down to 66%.

00:27:40.320 He's lost 11 percentage points.

00:27:42.440 Bernie Sanders down from 62% in March.

00:27:45.760 Now he's at 56% in June.

00:27:48.380 Liz Warren surging. 0.99

00:27:49.580 She had 57% in March.

00:27:51.180 She's now up to 64%.

00:27:52.940 So she made a significant gain, seven percentage points, and she's moving in the right direction.

00:27:58.500 So what Democrats and the media are saying now is that Liz Warren might be a compromise

00:28:03.100 candidate.

00:28:04.040 She's got all those left-wing bona fides and she's sort of acceptable. 0.99

00:28:10.600 She's really annoying and unpleasant, but she's not detestable. 1.00

00:28:14.800 She's not that old. 0.94

00:28:16.520 She's a woman. 0.82

00:28:17.460 She's very white, but she pretends to be Native American. 0.70

00:28:19.740 So she checks a few intersectional boxes because the Pocahontas thing has been around for so 1.00

00:28:24.620 long.

00:28:25.200 There's, I guess, a chance she can survive it.

00:28:27.300 She's never come up with a good answer on it.

00:28:29.440 But more importantly, all the other candidates have proven themselves really weak.

00:28:33.780 Joe Biden had his best day basically on his first day of his campaign, and he's been tanking.

00:28:39.140 They call him creepy.

00:28:39.960 They call him old. 0.99

00:28:40.700 They call him corrupt. 0.99

00:28:41.640 They now call him racist. 0.98

00:28:42.860 They call him too conservative.

00:28:45.020 So he's having a tough time.

00:28:46.480 And other candidates who we thought would be good, like Kamala Harris, have just proven

00:28:50.160 themselves mostly incompetent.

00:28:52.300 Other candidates, Cory Booker, kind of a joke.

00:28:55.240 Pete Buttigieg is a fairly talented candidate, but he's a very young mayor of a very small

00:29:02.140 town.

00:29:02.680 So how serious is he going to be?

00:29:04.340 I'm not quite sure.

00:29:05.300 He's also a white guy.

00:29:06.340 So Liz Warren is starting to define herself as possibly a compromise candidate. 1.00

00:29:12.860 She might have a moment to make a comeback here. 0.99

00:29:15.040 And that is really, that's the worst news of all for Joe Biden, because if the media

00:29:18.340 do get behind her, he doesn't have a chance.

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00:30:39.180 I'm going to fly through these questions today.

00:30:41.540 I'm going to get to all of them.

00:30:43.040 Maybe.

00:30:43.360 We'll see.

00:30:44.040 From Anonymous.

00:30:45.080 Hi, Michael.

00:30:45.880 Of all the books adapted into Hollywood movies, what is one story yet to be faithfully adapted

00:30:51.780 to the big screen that needs to be?

00:30:54.060 There have been a lot of bad movies out of books, a lot of books.

00:30:59.300 I don't read a ton of fiction anyway, so I don't totally care, except for one book that

00:31:03.600 I really want to see made into a movie, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

00:31:10.240 This is a book that was published posthumously by this guy who killed himself.

00:31:16.380 The book was found by his mother, I think.

00:31:18.020 It ended up getting published, and then it ended up winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

00:31:21.740 in 1981.

00:31:23.020 And this book, if you haven't read it, gave America one of the great characters of its 0.80

00:31:28.760 literature, which is Ignatius J. Riley, this big, fat, weird, lazy, layabout, medievalist 0.93

00:31:37.180 guy.

00:31:37.740 It's just, I can't describe what a great character he is and all of the adventures that he has

00:31:43.260 living with his mother, wandering around New Orleans, getting a job and trying to, it's

00:31:49.040 just, he's just a fabulous character.

00:31:50.820 I think it would be a great movie.

00:31:51.880 They've never made one before.

00:31:54.000 There are always been rumors that they're going to make one, but that's one, if I had

00:31:57.680 any clout in Hollywood, which I don't, if I were able to, you know, even walk down the

00:32:03.100 street in Hollywood without people throwing rotten tomatoes at me for my politics, that

00:32:06.820 would be one book that I'd try to make into a movie.

00:32:09.500 From Max.

00:32:10.060 Hey, Michael, I'm a Catholic and therefore believe marriage is between one man and one

00:32:14.620 woman in the church.

00:32:15.860 Do you think the government should get out of marriage entirely?

00:32:20.560 And do you think a Christian can hold this position? 1.00

00:32:24.100 No, I don't.

00:32:25.400 I think it's, I don't think the government can get out of marriage.

00:32:28.180 I think this is a total cop out.

00:32:30.100 I know probably the majority of conservatives these days say that they just want the government

00:32:35.240 completely out of marriage.

00:32:36.480 This has always been a sort of libertarian position or it's been at least viewed as a

00:32:40.620 libertarian position.

00:32:41.720 I think it's completely incoherent.

00:32:43.440 It doesn't make any sense.

00:32:45.820 The government, if the government has an interest in any aspect of your life, it has an interest

00:32:52.580 in marriage.

00:32:53.360 Marriage is the essential building block of society.

00:32:57.600 And it always has been.

00:33:01.180 Why does the government have an interest in marriage? 1.00

00:33:03.360 Well, if the government has an interest in any aspect of society, which obviously it does,

00:33:07.060 it has an interest in marriage.

00:33:08.340 Also because of children.

00:33:09.720 The government does have an interest in children.

00:33:12.080 The government has an interest in what you can do to your children.

00:33:15.140 If you abuse your children, the government can come in and take them away.

00:33:18.480 Well, how are children raised?

00:33:20.140 They're raised within the context of the family and the essence of the family is marriage.

00:33:25.320 How about adoption?

00:33:26.920 The government has plenty of regulations surrounding adoption, as well it should.

00:33:31.600 Well, rules about adoption ultimately come down to marriage. 0.85

00:33:35.700 Now, we have loosened laws about adoption in recent years.

00:33:39.240 So single people can adopt.

00:33:41.820 Gay couples can adopt.

00:33:43.400 There are all of these questions.

00:33:44.440 And even if you support those policies, those questions still surround marriage, either because they're saying we're going to change the definition of marriage or we're going to change the importance of marriage.

00:33:54.300 But nevertheless, the government is interacting with that.

00:33:57.600 I think the lie that some people who don't want to have to deal with the difficult question of what marriage is, who don't want to offend people and say marriage obviously involves sexual difference, it involves men and women, is they say, well, listen, I've got the neutral position.

00:34:14.200 I'm going to get the government out of marriage entirely.

00:34:16.820 Well, that is a position.

00:34:18.640 To say that the government is getting out of marriage is to say that the government does not view, does not have a definition of marriage.

00:34:27.180 Or rather that the government, obviously the government does have a definition of marriage by saying that monogamous same-sex couples can now be marriage.

00:34:35.380 But words need to have meaning.

00:34:37.660 The marriage debate was totally lost by conservatives because we allowed the left to define it in terms of rights.

00:34:45.300 Do gay people have the right to get married? 1.00

00:34:48.180 Gay people have always had the right to get married.

00:34:50.500 The question is, what is marriage?

00:34:52.940 Marriage and for all of human history, virtually everywhere, certainly throughout the West, marriage has been the union of husbands and wives.

00:35:00.060 Sexual difference has been essential to marriage.

00:35:03.160 And then about five minutes ago, the left decided that sexual difference had nothing to do with marriage.

00:35:07.920 Love is love.

00:35:08.720 Love wins.

00:35:09.260 There are all sorts of love.

00:35:10.940 I have love with my brother.

00:35:12.040 I have love with my friends.

00:35:12.860 I have love with my parents.

00:35:13.840 I have love with my country.

00:35:15.080 Love is not just love.

00:35:16.180 There are lots of different kinds of love.

00:35:18.020 I have love with my girlfriend.

00:35:19.080 But my girlfriend, oh, shoot, I hope my wife isn't watching now. 1.00

00:35:22.720 No, I mean, before I was married, you know, you love your girlfriend, but then the love you have with your fiancé is a little different.

00:35:29.220 That's a different union.

00:35:30.500 The love you have with your wife is different than the love you have with your fiancé.

00:35:33.940 And marriage has a meaning.

00:35:37.280 And the government establishes, at least at a very basic level, establishes the very definitions that we're working with.

00:35:44.660 We all need to be on the same page for certain institutions.

00:35:47.920 And one of those, the bedrock one of those, is marriage.

00:35:51.060 We need a definition of marriage. 0.92

00:35:55.060 Conservatives basically are surrendering that to the left, I think, because we just don't want to have to deal with an issue that, in the popular culture at least, has been lost.

00:36:03.280 But it doesn't change the fact marriage is between a man and a woman.

00:36:06.940 No amount of social engineering is going to change that.

00:36:10.660 And I think it's ultimately an act of political cowardice for us to back away and say we don't have anything to do with that.

00:36:19.300 We don't want to fight that fight anymore.

00:36:21.040 From David, greetings to Michael Knowles or Eric Swalwell.

00:36:24.480 Well, it's not an either or.

00:36:25.860 Eric Swalwell is all of us.

00:36:27.540 So there are two parts of this question.

00:36:45.560 One is, what is racism?

00:36:50.860 So what is racism?

00:36:52.520 Racism obviously is an antagonism or a discrimination against another person based on feelings of racial superiority or racial inferiority.

00:37:01.180 That is racism.

00:37:02.100 The left is redefining racism because they always want to redefine words because that's how you control the culture and the politics.

00:37:08.200 And the way they're redefining racism is to say, sure, racism is hostility, antagonism, discrimination on the basis of race.

00:37:15.720 But only if you're the more powerful race.

00:37:18.280 Never if you're the less powerful race and we're going to define more powerful race as white and less powerful race as black or Hispanic or Native American. 0.98

00:37:25.880 And therefore, only whites can be racist. 0.95

00:37:27.900 They just redefine the word racism to mean that only white people can be racist. 0.98

00:37:33.000 But that's absurd.

00:37:34.300 I mean, you're just changing the definition of the word to something that it is not.

00:37:39.160 And on the question of how wrong bigotry is, racial bigotry is wrong because it is an affront to human dignity.

00:37:46.420 That's why.

00:37:46.820 That's why racism is wrong.

00:37:49.260 And the left is trying to have its cake and eat it too.

00:37:54.320 They're trying to agree with that point and then say, except it's not wrong if you're racist against whites.

00:38:00.500 It's just wrong.

00:38:01.320 If you have an antagonism or you discriminate against another person because of feelings of racial superiority or inferiority, whether it's against whites or blacks or Hispanics or whatever, that is racism and you are guilty of it.

00:38:13.820 And that is an affront to human dignity.

00:38:15.300 From Anonymous, Michael, I am a student entering my first year of college.

00:38:22.180 Do you have any date ideas for a poor college student?

00:38:26.800 Hashtag came for Ben, subscribe for Michael.

00:38:28.560 Well, speaking of how the left gets things exactly backwards, I got to tell you, back in my atheistic, reckless, irresponsible days when I was single and in college, I too engaged in, I guess what you would call the backwards culture of the left, which is that at least when I was there, the dominant kind of culture was not dating.

00:38:50.720 It wasn't courtship.

00:38:51.600 It wasn't dating for marriage.

00:38:52.640 It was the hookup culture.

00:38:53.820 And I think that's still the dominant culture on campus.

00:38:56.000 So instead of taking a girl out on a date and then going back and hooking up, it was actually the opposite.

00:39:01.480 You'd see a girl at a party or a bar and you'd go hook up and you'd go back to your room and then you'd do this like five or six times and then maybe eventually you'd go on a date.

00:39:11.680 So I really am not the best person to ask for advice here because I was engaged in this totally inverted culture as well. 0.99

00:39:18.880 But the nice thing about college is everyone has pretty low expectations because everyone's broke.

00:39:23.920 So you just, you don't need to worry about that college offers so many opportunities to have fun for not all that much money.

00:39:31.580 So I don't know, take a girl, anything from a dorm party to a cheap restaurant or a cheap college bar to a walk in the park or walk around campus.

00:39:39.800 You can really get away with just about anything because the expectations are low.

00:39:44.400 Once you get out into the real world and start making money, the expectations for dates become much, much more expensive.

00:39:49.160 So enjoy it while you can. You can't go wrong. Just be, just be a good guy. Be interested in the girl.

00:39:54.520 Find a girl that you like and don't try to be a jerk about it. Don't try to play a game. 1.00

00:40:01.000 Don't try to be something that you're not. Be confident. Go pursue the girl. Kiss the girl.

00:40:05.920 From Benjamin, Michael, last week you had a very insightful episode about pride and how pride is the queen of all sins.

00:40:12.980 I generally agree, but it got me wondering if there is a distinct difference between having pride and being proud of accomplishments.

00:40:21.380 For example, should I be proud of getting good grades in school or successfully overcoming some challenge?

00:40:27.480 Thanks, Ben.

00:40:28.720 I was wondering about this, this question of pride and personal accomplishment or national pride, for instance.

00:40:34.260 I'm proud of my country.

00:40:35.840 I think pride is wrong in both cases still.

00:40:39.640 So the tougher one is pride and accomplishments because let's say you, you write a really good blank book, you know, and you're really proud of how successful it was.

00:40:47.740 Or you do a really good podcast or you do well on a test or whatever.

00:40:51.460 You naturally feel a temptation to pride, to take, to claim total responsibility for that.

00:40:58.680 But actually the traditional response to this is that you should give all glory to God.

00:41:03.540 And that's not just a soft words or something.

00:41:08.580 That's not just some sentimentality.

00:41:10.420 That's not just pretending.

00:41:13.040 You really do give glory to God.

00:41:14.860 Why?

00:41:15.620 Because the circumstances of your life were given to you.

00:41:20.800 You didn't earn them.

00:41:21.680 You were born into a certain family, born into the United States, born into privilege.

00:41:25.220 I mean, when you think about the privileges that you had from a position of gratitude rather than a position of guilt or envy, I think it's actually a good way to think about your life.

00:41:34.500 Even your own intelligence.

00:41:35.720 You didn't earn your own intelligence.

00:41:37.240 You have your own intelligence.

00:41:38.720 Your work ethic is a product in part of your culture and a product of your will and a will that you are turning toward the good, which is something outside of you.

00:41:47.580 So when it comes to your own accomplishments, give it up to God.

00:41:51.560 Give glory to God.

00:41:52.600 This is something that you are doing the accomplishment not just for yourself or for your own vain glory, but for the glory of God, for the good.

00:42:01.540 And so that's how I would deal with personal accomplishments.

00:42:04.840 As for national pride, I don't think that you actually take pride in your country in the way that we talk about pride month or pride is the queen of all sin.

00:42:15.340 I think what you have is really a form of piety for your country.

00:42:19.740 It's a form of piety like the respect for your father and mother, like respect for your family, your parents, your ancestors, things that came before you.

00:42:28.240 It's a question of love and allegiance rather than pride as well.

00:42:32.620 And I don't really see people like spiking the football too much and saying, yeah, woohoo, America, it's all because of how great I am and how great.

00:42:43.320 No, it's actually a form of gratitude and respect for things that actually you did not do.

00:42:48.760 It's not really a form of pride and because pride essentially is just exaggerating one's own excellence.

00:42:54.900 From Brittany, Michael, how can conservatives make nuanced and complex issues such as taxation, health care, and immigration reform more relatable to college students?

00:43:06.480 I'm 30 years old and a lifelong conservative, but I wasn't able to truly relate to these issues until I was in the workforce myself and saw how the real world worked.

00:43:15.640 This is why I think it's much easier for these young students to be outspoken on social issues such as gay marriage and hate speech and ignore everything else.

00:43:22.780 Yes, thank you. Yeah, I think this is true in part.

00:43:26.000 Obviously, the finer points of tax policy are a lot more boring than talking about abortion or something,

00:43:31.460 but that's because the only thing that actually matters are social issues and everything else is just bean counting,

00:43:37.180 including the finer points of health care policy and tax policy.

00:43:40.820 I don't actually care that much about taxes.

00:43:43.220 I like lower taxes because I like keeping more of my property and I think it's more moral and I like having more liberty,

00:43:48.140 but I don't really care.

00:43:50.220 What I care about are the foundations of those issues.

00:43:56.080 What I care about are what are underneath tax policy, what's underneath health care policy.

00:44:01.340 And I think sometimes conservatives, especially in that 1980s policy wonk mold,

00:44:06.700 they get a little too focused on the particulars of policy,

00:44:09.740 but you're not going to win anybody by being the most efficient bureaucrat or technocrat.

00:44:14.700 That's not compelling, not for college students and not for voters more generally.

00:44:18.320 The left focuses on social issues because they work, because they're compelling, because they actually stir people's souls.

00:44:24.900 We're not just here trying to rearrange certain aspects of the federal bureaucracy to make life a little more efficient.

00:44:32.480 We're talking about things that matter.

00:44:34.580 Why do you get to keep your money?

00:44:36.440 Why should we be in control of our own health care and be able to choose our own doctors?

00:44:40.220 What does that say about us and our freedom and our national political traditions and the good that it does for us and the whole rest of the world?

00:44:47.400 That's what I would focus on.

00:44:48.560 And I wouldn't cede the question of so-called social issues to the left.

00:44:52.480 The great example of this is abortion. 0.75

00:44:55.380 Abortion was winning at the time that Roe v. Wade was decided.

00:44:58.440 And since then, public opinion has moved steadily in our direction because the arguments for abortion cannot sustain themselves in the light of truth and in the light of sonograms and in the light of science and the arguments that we're making for it.

00:45:14.400 So I would, even when you're making tax arguments, even when you're making health care arguments, I would make them from a cultural, from a social, from a moral standpoint.

00:45:24.620 It's, you know, the left, just on taxes, the left says that if you want to keep your own money, you're greedy.

00:45:32.820 But if you want to steal somebody else's money and take it for yourself and give it to everybody else, then you're compassionate.

00:45:39.560 That's, of course, the opposite.

00:45:40.880 The opposite is true.

00:45:43.020 If I want to keep my own money, that's my money.

00:45:45.260 And then I can give it out in charity.

00:45:46.680 And if you want to steal my money, you're envious. 0.68

00:45:48.920 You're greedy.

00:45:49.580 That's wrong.

00:45:50.220 That's immoral.

00:45:51.240 And we should speak in those terms.

00:45:52.900 And I think we'll win.

00:45:53.520 And I think we are winning on that.

00:45:54.920 All right.

00:45:55.120 That's our show.

00:45:56.280 Come back on Monday.

00:45:57.060 We'll have a lot more.

00:45:58.160 I'm going to be up in Santa Barbara speaking to the Young America's Foundation over the weekend.

00:46:02.040 Go ahead and over to the Reagan Ranch.

00:46:03.100 Should be a lot of fun.

00:46:04.160 Maybe you'll be able to catch that on live stream.

00:46:05.840 Otherwise, I'll see you next week.

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00:46:45.920 But I think there are a lot of very serious problems with the reparations idea.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 20, 2019

Ep. 369 - Joe Biden’s Very Bad Week

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