The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 372 - Democrats Embrace Crisis

00:00:00.000 Democrats, who when President Trump wanted to address the border crisis told us it wasn't a

00:00:05.180 crisis, are now excoriating Republicans for not dealing with the unprecedented humanitarian crisis

00:00:10.620 while not allowing those same Republicans to deal with the crisis. We will examine the left's

00:00:16.420 strange relationship with crises. Then Google calls Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager Nazis.

00:00:22.100 And the Washington Post smears me, your humble host, for mentioning historical facts.

00:00:26.840 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Is there a crisis at the southern border or not? Here's what the left is saying right now,

00:00:42.980 care of Don Lemon. We have some breaking news tonight, and that is on the House. The House

00:00:47.500 has voted 230 to 195 to pass the border supplemental bill to provide four and a half billion dollars

00:00:55.500 in aid to address the crisis at the border. And for anybody who doesn't think immigration is a

00:01:00.500 crisis, a deadly, serious crisis, a humanitarian crisis,

00:01:05.760 I got to show you this picture.

00:01:09.640 It's a shocking, devastating picture.

00:01:13.460 Sounds like it's a crisis. OK, that's what the left is saying now. Here's what the left was saying

00:01:17.820 three months ago when President Trump pointed out that we have a crisis at the southern border and

00:01:22.720 he wanted to declare a national emergency and get funding to stop that crisis. Here's what

00:01:27.260 that exact same leftist was saying.

00:01:29.640 Here's a really, really disgraceful thing, OK? You listening? All of this, this whole mess

00:01:38.180 is manufactured. It's a manufactured crisis. A non-crisis at the border that's really not fooling

00:01:45.060 anybody. People may think, oh, it's a crisis, a crisis. They know it's not a crisis. That's all

00:01:53.960 for political expediency. Oh, they know. They know better. Was past Don Lemon just talking about

00:02:01.700 future Don Lemon? I think that might be the case. He's a prophet. It wasn't just Don Lemon,

00:02:06.220 though. There were a lot of other Democrats who at that time, three months ago, were referring to

00:02:10.820 the border crisis as a fake manufactured crisis.

00:02:15.480 This is a manufactured crisis and a crisis that manufactured by the Trump administration.

00:02:20.720 Manufactures crises.

00:02:21.700 The president has manufactured a crisis.

00:02:25.000 Final point, Steve Cortez.

00:02:25.840 What you just cited about criminality between native-born and immigrants. First of all, 0.99

00:02:30.160 that's not true. There's a lot of conflicting studies.

00:02:32.620 But even if it were true, only when you include legal entry as criminality do you get the numbers

00:02:38.380 where you want them.

00:02:38.980 No, that's not true.

00:02:39.920 Yes, that's a genuine humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border.

00:02:45.640 Yes, there are. But even if that's fake news, there are not. It's fake news.

00:02:49.000 It's fake news for you to inject BS. They say that it's equal to the real data.

00:02:52.960 The fact is, President Trump must stop holding American people hostage, must stop manufacturing a

00:02:59.060 crisis.

00:02:59.600 What the president is doing is manufacturing a crisis.

00:03:03.340 Chris Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Kaine, the man who was almost going to be the second woman

00:03:08.440 president, all of them calling this a manufactured crisis. I also, I have to be fair to my pal Ed Henry

00:03:13.480 there. He was quoting national Democrats who were saying that when he brought it up as a

00:03:17.780 talking point on the show. They were all saying it's a fake crisis.

00:03:23.100 Now, Elizabeth Warren just tweets, she tweeted out at that time in March, quote,

00:03:26.720 a fake crisis at the border is fear-mongering of the worst kind and we're not falling for it.

00:03:32.580 I voted to terminate the president's ridiculous national emergency. That was then, that was in March.

00:03:38.540 Now, what is Elizabeth Warren saying? She just tweeted out this video yesterday.

00:03:42.500 I'm in McAllen, Texas, because I want to see with my own eyes what's happening at the processing

00:03:48.420 and detention centers. I'd like to be able to show pictures of it, but they won't let us take

00:03:53.060 any cameras or recording equipment inside. So I'll just do my best to tell what I saw.

00:03:58.040 The processing center, it was like nothing I've ever seen before. It was a giant warehouse

00:04:06.980 with cages full of people. It was a processing center, only what they process are human beings.

00:04:16.680 I've seen a couple of the pictures that have been released of what the cages look like,

00:04:21.100 but there are cages that are much smaller, maybe 10 by 30, densely packed with men.

00:04:32.360 One cage after another cage, after another cage, after another cage. And then in another part of

00:04:38.780 the facility, the same sort of thing with women. First of all, 10 by 30 is not that small. My first

00:04:45.780 bedroom in Manhattan was 10 by 7 feet. It was 70 square feet. Just a minor point.

00:04:51.100 But they keep using the word cages, right? Because this is the crisis. We've got people

00:04:55.240 in cages. What do they mean by cages? It's not cages. It's a big room. They've got a big room

00:05:00.200 where illegal aliens are being held because you have to hold them somewhere. The only reason 1.00

00:05:05.040 they're calling it a cage is because the people are not allowed to leave. They're not allowed to

00:05:08.540 come and go freely. Why are they not allowed to come and go freely? Because they're under arrest.

00:05:13.580 They have been arrested coming into this country illegally. They are foreign nationals. They're not 1.00

00:05:18.520 American citizens. The only alternative to that would be to let them just come in and roam free 1.00

00:05:22.780 with open borders. That's the difference. But there are fences there. Okay. First of all,

00:05:30.300 left-wingers, I thought you said that fences don't work. Clearly the fences are working pretty well

00:05:33.820 there. So what do they want? It seems they want open borders, but let's say they don't want to quite

00:05:39.260 admit that yet. Maybe they want nicer conditions or something like that. Maybe. For the past two months,

00:05:45.260 the left has been arguing that the detention centers are torturous. AOC said they're concentration

00:05:50.480 camps because the people there don't have beds. The children don't have beds. Here's Lawrence

00:05:57.100 O'Donnell on MSNBC going off on this. Our next guest has been visiting children in custody at the

00:06:02.380 southern border for 12 years. She says that she has never seen conditions as bad as what she saw there

00:06:08.880 last week. That is when the Trump administration was in federal court arguing that they can provide

00:06:14.860 safe and sanitary conditions for the children without providing the children with soap or

00:06:21.400 toothbrushes or toothpaste, and that it is perfectly safe and sanitary to sleep on cement floors where

00:06:29.620 so many of the children are now forced to sleep. They're sleeping on cement floors. They don't have

00:06:35.660 beds. Okay. Fair enough. So the Democrats won't fund border security and they don't have enough beds

00:06:41.920 because we've got 3,000 people coming into this country illegally every single day. So what does

00:06:46.760 the Trump administration do? They order some more beds. They order $200,000 worth of beds for the

00:06:54.540 facilities. Problem solved, right? The left is going to be happy, right? Not quite. We'll get to their

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00:09:05.400 administration now has ordered $200,000 worth of beds because we're being flooded by illegal aliens.

00:09:11.520 There aren't enough beds for all of them. The left is making a big issue out of this, so fair enough.

00:09:15.680 We're ordering the beds. How does the left react to that? Are they happy? No, they're not happy because

00:09:21.640 they don't want the beds. They want open borders. Actually, they're now doing their best to not

00:09:27.780 provide the beds to the Trump administration. The employees at the company Wayfair, which is

00:09:33.440 sort of, you know, middle of the road furniture company, they, you know, they're very big. They,

00:09:39.780 they service a lot of America. Trump administration orders from them and the employees actually walked

00:09:48.000 out on the job rather than fill the order for the beds. They staged a walkout at the company's

00:09:54.020 Boston offices. The report said, quote, employees of the Boston-based online housewares giant Wayfair

00:10:00.080 announced Tuesday they would stage a walkout at the back bay offices to protest the company's decision

00:10:04.900 to sell furniture to operators of facilities for immigrant children detained at the U.S. border.

00:10:10.520 So they're upset that the Trump administration is ordering $200,000 worth of bedroom furniture for

00:10:15.860 detention centers. Their statement read, quote, over the last two days, it has come to our attention

00:10:21.960 that Wayfair has again engaged in sales with BCFS, a nonprofit government contractor managing camps for

00:10:30.100 migrants at our Southern border. So now the left is not willing to provide beds to illegal alien children 0.99

00:10:39.500 in order to own the cons for not providing beds to illegal alien children fast enough, even though

00:10:47.760 they're trying to do it now and they can't, they can't do it. That's the idea. Obviously, if the left

00:10:53.380 cared about providing the beds, they'd ship the beds, they'd ship double the beds. They'd give them a

00:10:58.280 discount on the beds. They'd get them there one day shipping, two hour shipping like Amazon Prime or

00:11:02.700 something. But they don't care about that. They just want open borders. It's also an incoherent protest.

00:11:08.300 It doesn't make a lot of sense. If they're still working with any federal contract,

00:11:13.420 then they're working with the people who are hosting these detention centers.

00:11:19.580 The left tries to pretend that money is not fungible. Money is fungible. You can't work

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00:11:55.260 it to keep the lights on. They're going to use it to pay their phone bills, but they're not going to

00:12:00.140 use it literally to perform abortions. Money is fungible. If this company is doing business with any

00:12:06.500 other department of the federal government, the EPA, the energy department, the whatever,

00:12:11.700 the military, they're working with the institution, the federal government, which is housing these

00:12:17.420 detention centers. But it's, it's virtue signaling. It's trying to create some pressure. It's trying to

00:12:22.560 create open borders. So in March, when President Trump described the border crisis as a national

00:12:28.560 emergency, Democrats said it was a fake crisis. Now the Democrats say it's a real crisis.

00:12:37.300 Okay, that's fine. I think it's a real crisis too. So I'm glad they came around, except the Democrats

00:12:41.820 don't want the Republicans to do anything to actually fix the crisis. They don't want us to

00:12:47.360 declare a national emergency. They don't want us to fund a border wall. They don't want us to fund

00:12:53.000 immigration enforcement. They want to abolish immigration enforcement. They want to abolish ICE.

00:12:57.620 They don't even want us to buy beds for the illegal aliens that they're complaining don't have any 1.00

00:13:02.840 beds. Two factors are at play here. Why are they doing this? The first factor is that we have the

00:13:09.740 first Democrat presidential debate tonight, and it is going to be such a delight. I can't wait.

00:13:17.600 So they're all trying to out left-wing one another. They're all basically, they're going to all be

00:13:21.220 speaking in Russian by the end of this. They're going to be calling each other comrade by the end of

00:13:25.220 the day before they get to this debate. The second, and this is the more important aspect of this,

00:13:29.720 is that the left and the Democrats want open borders. They're now actually admitting this.

00:13:35.520 So don't, some people I think accuse me of being hyperbolic sometimes. Don't take my word for it.

00:13:41.660 Cory Booker, Democratic Senator, current candidate for President of the United States, possibly. I think

00:13:46.940 he's polling below zero percent, but he's still a candidate. He tweeted out, quote,

00:13:51.020 there is nothing criminal about seeking a better life for your family. I've said it before and I'll

00:13:57.320 say it again. We have to do the right thing and decriminalize border crossing. There it is. The next

00:14:05.480 time that the left tells you they don't want open borders, read them that tweet. He is saying we need

00:14:10.920 open borders. If crossing the border illegally is no longer illegal, that's an open border. Now,

00:14:17.700 what's so funny, poor Cory Booker can't catch a break. The same day that he tweets this,

00:14:22.540 Nicaragua announces that it's arrested four ISIS terrorists who were in Nicaragua on their way to

00:14:28.280 cross into the border illegally, cross into the United States illegally. They gave out this

00:14:33.560 announcement. The three men are identified as Mohammed Ibrahim and Mahmoud Sami Asa from Egypt and

00:14:39.660 Ahmed Ghani Mohammed Al-Juburi from Iraq. The fourth man, Mustafa Ali Mohammed Yaoub from Iraq,

00:14:47.300 had travel documents issued on June 13th. Those guys don't sound Nicaraguan to me. I don't know,

00:14:51.740 my Spanish isn't so great. They don't sound like they were, they were poor Nicaraguan people just 1.00

00:14:56.760 trying to find a better life in the United States. Maybe I don't want to be judgmental or anything.

00:15:01.700 You've got four ISIS terrorists trying to come up through that porous border, a major national 0.99

00:15:07.600 security crisis, and the Democrats won't admit it. They admit now they want open borders. So why do they

00:15:14.180 want open borders? On a very basic and electoral level, they want open borders because open borders

00:15:20.620 guarantee Democrats a steady stream of voters. This is just the way it works. People who cross 1.00

00:15:29.460 illegally into the country, obviously they can't vote unless they get legal status. But over time,

00:15:35.300 their children, their grandchildren will be able to vote. And study after study shows they are between

00:15:39.360 three and eight times as likely to vote for Democrats as Republicans. So this is just a basic

00:15:43.920 electoral matter. They can take over the country politically if they flood it with illegal aliens 1.00

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00:17:51.540 So on the basic level, Democrats want open borders because it gives them a bunch of voters.

00:17:55.880 On the broader level, they want open borders because, or rather they want open borders because

00:18:02.360 it gives them all of these voters. On a broader level, they want open borders because progressives

00:18:06.960 seek to destroy tradition. That's what they do. That's what progressive ideology is. It's the

00:18:13.860 idea that things in the past were bad and things in the future are better and there's a clear path

00:18:18.400 to get to the future. So we're going to march on the way there. The conservative movement was founded

00:18:23.320 against this. Bill Buckley, when he founded National Review said, a conservative is one who

00:18:28.500 stands athwart history yelling, stop. Now the left is going to march toward progress faster and faster

00:18:36.460 and faster. An expedient way to undermine American traditions and culture and all those 0.99

00:18:43.440 conservatives who are trying to stop you is to flood the country with people who don't speak

00:18:47.700 English, who don't know anything about the American system of government or American history

00:18:51.620 or our traditions here, and also people who are desperate and who are therefore vulnerable to

00:18:57.300 political coercion. The Democrats have been doing this since Boss Tweed. They've been doing this since

00:19:02.660 Tammany Hall in the early 20th century, late 19th century. They have embraced immigrants who come

00:19:08.160 in and they use them. They use them, one, as a cudgel to sort of undermine the conservative aspects of

00:19:16.960 the culture that they don't like. And they use them as vulnerable and exploitable people. That's what the

00:19:22.600 Democrat machines were. This is, you got to tip your hat to them. This is the best strategy that

00:19:29.300 Democrats have at their disposal. It's very effective. It's worked for them for over a hundred

00:19:35.100 years. So tip your hat to them, but no one should ever pretend that open borders advocates are

00:19:41.400 exhibiting generosity or charity. It's not that. It is purely cynical politics. 60 to 80 percent of women 1.00

00:19:47.320 and girls are raped as they cross that border illegally, according to Fusion and Amnesty International

00:19:52.060 and the Huffington Post. There's nothing charitable about encouraging that system. Children are being

00:19:59.480 victimized. You know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the detention centers are like Holocaust

00:20:04.940 concentration camps, Nazi-esque concentration camps. Well, if that's so, then I guess the children's 0.51

00:20:11.560 parents are Nazi collaborators because it's the children's parents who are bringing them into this 0.83

00:20:16.200 country to go to what AOC is calling a concentration camp. This is, obviously they're either concentration

00:20:26.040 camps or they're not. If they are concentration camps, it's the parents who are doing it. They're,

00:20:31.160 they're being brought over here. This is not just some right-wing talking point. No less a leftist

00:20:37.260 than Barack Obama made this point when he faced down his own immigration crisis in 2014. And he said,

00:20:43.060 what we should all be saying now, but what the left won't say, which is stop bringing your children 0.99

00:20:48.340 here. This is creating an untenable situation. It's creating a crisis. There's a humanitarian crisis

00:20:55.700 on the border. Some of your critics have said, you have to speak out more directly to the people of

00:21:00.760 Central America and say, don't come. If you come, you will be deported. Well, we actually, we've done 1.00

00:21:06.340 that. The problem is, is that under current law, once those kids come across the border, there's a

00:21:12.640 system in which we're supposed to process them, take care of them until we can send them back.

00:21:18.460 So is your message, don't come? Oh, our message absolutely is don't send your children

00:21:23.800 unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers. That is our direct message to the families

00:21:32.860 in Central America. Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they'll get sent back.

00:21:38.660 More importantly, they may, may not make it. Could you imagine if he were running in the

00:21:42.740 Democrat presidential primary right now? No one would give him a second look because that's not

00:21:47.360 Barack Obama's party anymore. He was already a very left-wing guy. They've moved so much further

00:21:51.860 left. We'll see how far tonight that the party has veered left and it'll be a lot of fun and I can't

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00:22:26.240 Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro and Prager University. Why do they want to suppress them? Because

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00:22:41.880 and Dennis Prager, both members of a certain ancient nomadic tribe of monotheists known for their bad 0.99

00:22:52.360 wine and delicious pastries. I think you know which group I'm talking about and they are not the Nazis.

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00:24:27.860 Employees on the Transparency and Ethics Committee of one of the most powerful companies in the history

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00:26:13.600 and Google responded here? Project Veritas gets the whistleblower, gets the emails,

00:26:19.440 shows all, you can't deny it, right? So what do they do? Because Google has such transparency,

00:26:26.580 such ethics, they pull the video. They pull the video from YouTube because they control the internet.

00:26:31.500 They control the flow of information. So if some video comes out that makes them look bad,

00:26:35.720 they're just going to delete it. No answer. It doesn't matter. That video was already approaching

00:26:39.600 50,000 likes and 1 million views. They just pulled it. And then after they pulled it,

00:26:45.760 what are they going to do when they're called out for pulling it? They're going to lie.

00:26:49.040 They're going to pretend they didn't do it. They're going to pretend that we shouldn't believe

00:26:52.660 our own lying eyes. They tweeted out, quote, we've had a lot of questions today, clarifying we apply

00:26:58.640 our policies fairly and without political bias. All creators are held to the same standard. I guess

00:27:04.460 the people running the YouTube Twitter didn't see the email leaked from their very company where

00:27:11.140 they admit that that tweet is a lie, right? I guess that makes sense. What does this all come down

00:27:16.000 to? What it comes down to is that the 2020 race has barely begun and already they are censoring

00:27:24.300 conservatives shamelessly and they are lying about it shamelessly. And it's coming from the most

00:27:30.520 powerful companies in the history of the world who control the flow of information.

00:27:37.260 By the time of this election in 2020, I would be surprised if we're still on YouTube.

00:27:44.800 I don't see how they keep, they're already censoring so many of our videos. They're already

00:27:48.660 demonetizing. They're already suppressing us. They are restricting a video that I did for Prager

00:27:52.780 University on language and words. They're censoring and restricting this video.

00:27:59.520 What's in a word? Why does it matter whether we call someone who breaks the law to enter the country 0.89

00:28:05.240 an illegal alien or an undocumented immigrant? What's the difference between a Christmas tree 1.00

00:28:10.680 and a holiday tree? It's just semantics, right? Yes and no. It is just semantics, but semantics

00:28:18.500 means the meaning of words. Words exist so that we might discriminate one thing from another.

00:28:25.160 Without words, we have chaos. And it starts with the first words. A baby says mama to distinguish 0.86

00:28:31.760 mommy from daddy. Words shape how we think. They color how we view the world.

00:28:38.500 Pretty, pretty crazy stuff, huh? Pretty provocative stuff, talking about words and how we use language.

00:28:45.620 Wow. Oh gosh. Can't, can't show your kids that. If anything, that is a dry video, but the left is

00:28:53.460 restricting it. YouTube is restricting it because it shows one of the chief leftist strategies for

00:28:59.500 shaping the culture, which is forcing us to say certain words to not say other words. So YouTube

00:29:04.560 restricts it. They're actually proving my point by what they're doing. Now, the one way that they're

00:29:11.060 able to justify this is by pretending that conservative content has no value beyond shock

00:29:17.460 and entertainment. And guess what? The Washington Post did this to me, to yours truly, your humble

00:29:23.280 host, just yesterday in a totally ridiculous hit piece. We'll get to it in a second, break it down.

00:29:28.580 But first, I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. Go to dailywire.com, 10 bucks a month,

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00:30:06.480 So one way that the left can justify censoring conservatives is they have to pretend that we

00:30:12.480 don't have anything of value to say. Lionel Trilling, a leftist intellectual, said 50 years

00:30:18.460 ago now, 60 years ago, that conservatism wasn't a coherent thought or philosophy. It was just a

00:30:25.420 series of irritable mental gestures. Liberalism was the only intellectual tradition in the United

00:30:30.480 States. So you could just dismiss conservatism. The left is doing that now. And the WAPO did this to

00:30:35.240 me yesterday. This was a piece by Tyler D. Perry. I've got it here. And the headline is

00:30:41.260 how right-wing talking points distort the history of slavery. The alternate headline for this could

00:30:46.960 be how the Washington Post distorts the content of the Michael Knowles show. Subheader, as we debate

00:30:52.280 reparations, we need to get the facts right. I agree. I totally agree. What's so funny about this piece

00:30:57.200 is the whole thing is calling me out for getting the facts wrong on the question of the history of

00:31:03.840 slavery. But then never at one single point in the entire article can they point out one fact that

00:31:11.340 I got wrong. And actually a couple of times they get some things wrong. So he writes, this guy,

00:31:15.440 Professor Tyler Perry, that obviously brings an image to your head of Tyler Perry, the movie star.

00:31:21.860 That's, I think that's why this guy puts a D in the middle of his name. He writes, quote,

00:31:25.480 The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles led the critique of reparations on his podcast,

00:31:29.480 arguing that the United States was less responsible for slavery than other countries

00:31:33.760 and that slavery was not based on race. So on the first point, that's true. The United States 0.95

00:31:39.440 did import many fewer slaves than other Western Hemisphere countries. Over 40% of the slaves that

00:31:46.020 were brought to the Western Hemisphere went to Brazil. Between 4% and 6% that came to the Western

00:31:50.660 Hemisphere went to the United States. He never disputes that fact. He's just insinuating that this is

00:31:56.160 somehow a bad thing. Then he says that I said that slavery was not based on race. I never said

00:32:01.060 that. And he actually admits that I never said that later in the piece. He goes on. These arguments

00:32:05.100 have become reflexive right-wing talking points that rely on faulty information and historical

00:32:10.220 misrepresentations to dismiss the devastating consequences slavery had on generations of African

00:32:15.500 Americans. So in my show, I actually begin the discussion by explicitly agreeing with the fact that

00:32:22.960 slavery had devastating consequences on generations of African Americans. I point out that there's a

00:32:27.940 very strong emotional case to be made for reparations, but there's not a strong logical or historical

00:32:34.700 case. But I admit there are very real consequences of slavery from the beginning. Now, he says I rely on

00:32:41.240 faulty information and historical misrepresentations. Let's see what those are. It was myth number one.

00:32:46.720 Due to its lower imports, the United States' involvement in Atlantic slavery was insignificant.

00:32:51.840 Never said that, just said they played a much smaller role in it than other countries, which

00:32:57.400 is true. As he writes, critics of reparations often assert that the United States imported a small

00:33:02.340 number of enslaved people compared to other countries in the Western Hemisphere, correctly 1.00

00:33:06.560 citing Brazil as the largest importer. Correctly. Okay, good. So one of those misrepresentations

00:33:12.500 turns out I was right and he's admitting I was right. But the low percentage of imported slaves 0.91

00:33:17.280 does not exonerate the United States. That's fine. I never said it exonerated the United States. I

00:33:23.380 explicitly said it did not exonerate the United States. So I guess the way that this professor

00:33:29.680 wants to deal with misrepresentations is he's going to admit that everything I actually said is true.

00:33:34.720 Then he's going to misrepresent what he, what he wishes that I said. And then he's going to explain

00:33:39.960 why that is false. He is a pyromaniac in a field of straw men. He goes on, what's more, low imports

00:33:46.520 did not necessarily result in a more benign form of slaveholding in the United States. I never said

00:33:51.720 it did. Myth number two, slavery was about class, not race. In dismissing the reparations claim,

00:33:58.580 Knowles states that slavery was not simply a racial issue and could not be boiled down to white people

00:34:04.380 had black slaves. That's correct. I never said it was not a racial issue or that it was about 0.96

00:34:11.160 something other than race. I said it was not simply a racial issue. Now, is that claim true or false?

00:34:19.420 The guy writing the article admits it's true. He goes on the next sentence. Yes, systems of slavery

00:34:24.700 existed in the ancient world and there are still enslaved people in the 21st century, regardless of

00:34:30.660 race. Right. That's true. So I'm glad we agree. Then he goes on to assail me for an opinion that I

00:34:38.100 never stated. He said, conservatives note that Irish bonds people labored alongside enslaved Africans in

00:34:44.880 the colonies. So he's saying, he's accusing me of saying that the Irish form of indentured servitude

00:34:53.280 was exactly the same as African slavery in the United States. I never said that. I never made that

00:34:57.620 point. Now he knows I never made that point. So he has to, he has to couch it in this vague language,

00:35:03.000 conservatives note. He's just talking about broad conservatives, except I'm the only conservative

00:35:07.680 that he actually names in the article. And he alludes to me throughout the entire article. So

00:35:12.380 what he's implying is that I said that, never said it. Myth number three, a black man was the first slave

00:35:19.100 owner in North America. This is an interesting myth because it's true. So let's see how he gets around

00:35:24.160 this. So the third most egregious talking point or the third most egregious point circulating in

00:35:28.600 conservative media is that America's oldest original sin was in fact, innovated by a black 1.00

00:35:33.480 man, Anthony Johnson, whom Knowles called the first formally recognized slave owner in the United

00:35:38.800 States. I never said that slavery was innovated by a black man. What I said was, as he quotes me,

00:35:45.540 that Johnson was the first formally recognized slave owner in the American system of slavery that we

00:35:50.960 would come to recognize. The next sentence, yes, Johnson owned slaves. Okay. Sounds like I was

00:35:57.900 right. He goes on. His status as the first known slave holder probably stems from his successful suit

00:36:03.980 against his indentured servant, John Kaser, in which Kaser was deemed a slave for life and identity that

00:36:09.020 became a determining feature of U.S. chattel slavery. So the first formally recognized slave owner in the

00:36:17.620 United States in the system of slavery that we would come to recognize as American slavery was a black 0.97

00:36:23.300 man. He admits that in the paragraph immediately after he refers to that as a myth. Complete contradiction

00:36:32.680 right after one another. Well, how does he try to make this into a myth? Well, he says later on,

00:36:40.180 the focus on Johnson's unique status is not unique, by the way. There were other black slave holders.

00:36:44.920 The focus on Johnson's unique status is designed to convey their underlying argument. Not the argument

00:36:50.780 we're actually making, but the argument this guy imagines we're making. If a black man could own 0.56

00:36:54.900 slaves in early America, then black people and white people held access to the same opportunities 0.86

00:36:58.800 for social mobility. When did I ever say that? Never once. All I said was slavery was not simply a

00:37:07.520 matter of race. Now, why did I say that? Because the first slave owner was black and because at the time of

00:37:13.920 the civil war and even after the civil war, after the United States officially abolished slavery,

00:37:20.780 Native Americans of the five, five civilized tribes held black slaves at similar rates to neighboring 0.73

00:37:27.520 whites. Is that about white supremacy? When Indians own slaves at the same rate as whites, is that 0.86

00:37:34.500 about white supremacy? I don't think the Indians are white, are they? No. So he has to assail arguments

00:37:40.760 that I'm not making and he has to pretend that arguments that I did make, which are correct and

00:37:46.160 he admits are somehow not true even though they're correct. He goes on a little bit and by the end,

00:37:52.680 he says, scholars of slavery in the African diaspora must engage the public with renewed vigor and

00:37:59.320 challenge such misrepresentations. Otherwise, we surrender the narrative to dishonest public figures

00:38:05.280 who selectively edit the system's overtly racist features and its devastating legacy. So he ends

00:38:10.380 by calling me a dishonest public figure. Even though every point that he talks about the historical

00:38:15.600 misrepresentations, we need to get the facts right. Every point that I actually made that he cites is

00:38:21.320 correct. And yet the headline, what's the headline of the piece? How right-wing talking points distort the

00:38:28.720 history of slavery? We need to get the facts right. But everything I said was true. Who's the one who's 0.99

00:38:38.780 distorting history? Who's the one who's not getting the facts right? Who's the dishonest public figure

00:38:44.440 here? Obviously, Professor Perry. Now, why did they publish this at all? I mean, this is a terribly

00:38:51.960 written column. Like this should not have gotten past a 10th grade English teacher. Why did they

00:38:58.540 publish this in the Washington Post, which used to be a newspaper? Because people are just going to

00:39:02.820 read the headline. They're not going to go watch my show. They're going to read the headline and

00:39:06.900 they'll see right-wing talking points distort history. We need to get the facts right. The Daily

00:39:11.300 Wire's Michael Knowles led the critique. Oh, I guess Michael Knowles got the history wrong.

00:39:15.600 I guess Michael Knowles didn't get the facts right. Well, if you read the piece and you read beyond all

00:39:20.460 the innuendo and all of the misrepresentations, actually, you'll see everything I said was true.

00:39:25.260 I got the history right. This professor got the history wrong. The editors got the history wrong.

00:39:30.020 The Washington Post got the history wrong. But they're going to engage in outright lies and smears

00:39:35.140 because they don't want to lose another election. They were very upset they lost in 2016.

00:39:40.380 They're not going to lose again if they have anything to say about it.

00:39:46.160 Speaking of dubious facts, we need to check in. I think we got to check in every

00:39:50.340 single day on that crazy lady who's accusing Donald Trump of rape. And then she said it 0.95

00:39:54.560 wasn't rape, but a lot of people are still saying it was rape 23 years ago. In a bizarre

00:40:00.220 twist, it turns out that the story that this woman is describing about her rape by Donald

00:40:06.040 Trump is actually an episode of Law and Order.

00:40:10.400 Yes, there was one a bit plain and it was not her fantasy. It was mine. Okay. Yeah.

00:40:22.560 Ah, well, play took place in the dressing room of Bergdorf's. While she was trying on lingerie,

00:40:30.620 I would burst in. Hold on. I'm mad, you know.

00:40:37.580 Of course, of course, this is the end of this whole ridiculous saga is that we find out that

00:40:43.260 this woman who is obviously not stable, who went on Anderson Cooper and said rape is sexy, 1.00

00:40:48.220 who said she was raped and she wasn't raped, who said it was 23 years ago, but she never mentioned

00:40:52.180 it until now when she's selling a book. Of course, it turns out that she's just reliving in a fantasy,

00:40:59.620 an episode of Law and Order. I got to give credit to Mindy Robinson. She's the one who dug this up. 0.99

00:41:06.580 Really brilliant. I mean, I guess there's a Law and Order episode about everything, but, you know,

00:41:12.060 every single day that this story has gone on, we found out that the story is less and less credible.

00:41:17.980 You had Trump critics on the right, anti-Trump conservatives, and you had the entire left

00:41:22.940 immediately believes this woman, Trump's a rapist. Then it turns out she's just a crazy lady. 1.00

00:41:29.420 And I say this actually with some compassion. She's not well, and the left is exploiting her

00:41:35.100 and putting her on television. And she's just confusing reality for an episode of Law and Order.

00:41:41.720 The left does not want to reduce sexual assault. They don't care. They don't actually care.

00:41:47.920 If they did, first of all, they wouldn't exploit crazy ladies, which totally undermines this whole 0.99

00:41:52.260 case. If they did, they would close up the border for one. We said earlier, 60 to 80% of women and 1.00

00:41:57.540 girls, according to Fusion and Amnesty International, raped as they cross it. If they did want to reduce 0.89

00:42:02.580 sexual assault, they would deal with it on campus by sending it to the criminal justice system,

00:42:07.840 to the cops, to trials and juries. They wouldn't deal with it by having a bunch of professors

00:42:13.480 host a committee to expel students. That's not taking rape and sexual assault seriously.

00:42:19.120 If they wanted to reduce rape and sexual assault in corporate America,

00:42:21.820 they would totally burn down our current HR infrastructure.

00:42:26.860 All of these Me Too scandals, all of this sexual assault has happened during the period of a total

00:42:31.680 proliferation of HR policies, mandatory sexual harassment trainings. It turns out none of that

00:42:38.600 has worked at all, has it? Seems that the problem's only gotten worse while all of that is happening.

00:42:43.180 Turns out that those ridiculous mandatory videos of why you shouldn't grope your secretary,

00:42:50.000 turns out that doesn't actually accomplish very much. People don't pay them a lot of heed.

00:42:54.900 Obviously, it's not working. Maybe it's counterproductive. But the left is expanding

00:42:59.080 that infrastructure, expanding regulation, expanding control, even though it doesn't work.

00:43:03.060 They're keeping the border completely open, even though it increases sexual assaults.

00:43:07.660 They're not referring cases of campus sexual assault to the criminal justice system.

00:43:11.820 They just want more and more arbitrary bureaucratic control.

00:43:17.900 The left doesn't want to fix the immigration crisis. It doesn't want to fix the homeless crisis.

00:43:23.280 They just want all of these crises. Why does the left thrive on crises?

00:43:28.640 The left loves crisis because crisis justifies leftism.

00:43:33.360 Leftism is the philosophy of crisis. Leftism only works when the problems are really urgent.

00:43:43.040 They can't wait. We can't have a reasonable debate. We can't discuss this. We can't think about this.

00:43:48.440 We can't reflect on whether the solutions they're offering are actually going to help the problem

00:43:52.460 or maybe they'll make it worse. Leftism only thrives when there's a crisis. We've got to do

00:43:57.640 something now. We've got to change now. Conservatism is the philosophy of prudence,

00:44:04.060 of reason, of taking your time, of some context, of taking things slowly.

00:44:09.620 Let's calm down and let's make sure that we're not going to make the problem worse. At first,

00:44:13.600 do no harm. That's what conservatism is. And when people relax, when they take a moment,

00:44:18.720 when they take a beat, they think, they tend to favor conservative solutions. The left can't have that.

00:44:24.260 But we've been told Trump is a rapist, racist, sexist, monster, traitor, colluding with Russia.

00:44:31.220 We've been told all these things. It's a crisis. We need to take him out. We've got to use the 25th

00:44:34.760 Amendment, get rid of the president. We need to impeach him. We need to get him out. Why?

00:44:39.300 Because his presidency has been very effective, very good. Good for the economy. Good for peace

00:44:43.940 abroad. Good for Americans who have been left behind in some ways by the global economy. Good for 0.89

00:44:50.040 minorities. Good for everybody. And the minute that we realize that there's not this intense,

00:44:57.580 immediate crisis going on, then we're going to realize that. Ironically, the one crisis,

00:45:04.840 the one crisis that actually is a crisis going on right now is we're being flooded by illegal aliens. 0.93

00:45:11.280 Democrats, because it's convenient for them, are going to admit that that's a crisis, but they're

00:45:14.800 not going to let us do anything to solve the crisis because they don't want to solve the crisis

00:45:17.620 because the crisis is what gives them their power. And we're going to see a lot of that

00:45:21.140 at the Democrat debate tonight. I can't wait. We'll talk about it tomorrow. In the meantime,

00:45:24.840 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you then.

00:45:32.580 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz and directed by Mike Joyner,

00:45:36.820 executive producer Jeremy Boring, senior producer Jonathan Hay. Our supervising producer is Mathis

00:45:42.800 Glover, and our technical producer is Austin Stevens. Edited by Danny D'Amico. Audio

00:45:47.460 is mixed by Dylan Case. Hair and makeup is by Jesua Olvera. And our production assistant is Nick

00:45:52.860 Sheehan. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2019.

00:45:57.980 Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, there's a crisis on the southern border. I think

00:46:01.800 leftists are finally waking up magically to this fact. What can we do about it though? Is it,

00:46:07.160 is the answer to just fling open the doors, open the border, not enforce our immigration laws? Is

00:46:11.900 that really the most compassionate answer to the crisis? I don't think so. We'll talk about that

00:46:16.240 today. Also, and this is not a joke, a liberal film critic is saying now that Toy Story 4 is racist

00:46:22.720 because there are no black toys. Yes, really. Not a joke. She really said that. We'll talk about

00:46:28.100 that today. Also answer your emails over on the Matt Wall Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - June 26, 2019

Ep. 372 - Democrats Embrace Crisis

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