Ep. 383 - One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap In Girls’ Track
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Planned Parenthood fires their president, Leanna Wu, and calls President Trump a racist, and Bill Whittle stops by to talk about his new podcast, Apollo 11: What We Saw on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing.
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Planned Parenthood made the difficult and personal decision yesterday to terminate their president
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after just 10 months or a little over three trimesters in the position. It is unclear
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whether Planned Parenthood used chemicals or forceps to evacuate President Leanna Wu from
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her office. Bizarrely, Wu took to Twitter to complain about the ouster as though she were
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a human being, but it's Planned Parenthood's corporate body and it's Planned Parenthood's
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choice. Besides, it's not like they killed her or anything. We will examine what the firing means
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for the modern left. Then breaking news from the floor of the House of Representatives,
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Democrats who have spent the last three years calling President Trump a racist voted, you'll
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never guess it, to call President Trump a racist. Wow, they are doing the people's work. Finally,
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our pal Bill Whittle stops by to talk about his new hit podcast, Apollo 11, What We Saw on the 50th
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anniversary of the moon landing. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles
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Show. There was some real craziness on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday and it has
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a lot to do with those tweets that President Trump sent out a couple days ago and it tells us a lot
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about the reaction of some conservatives to those tweets, of the whole left to those tweets,
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and whether the tweets in overall were productive or unproductive for the politics of 2020. We'll get
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into it. First, I want to get to Planned Parenthood because this is a pretty crazy story and the media
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aren't really covering it very much. Planned Parenthood just fired their president, Leanna Wu,
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after less than one year. Guess why? There are two reasons being reported from multiple sources within
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Planned Parenthood. The reason that they've fired their president is because the president believes,
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Leanna Wu believed, that abortion was more popular when it was framed as a healthcare issue
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rather than a political issue. Seems true enough to me. I'm sure it is more popular when you don't
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frame it as some crazy leftist political agenda, but you just try to call it healthcare.
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You know the second reason why they fired her? This is according to two sources speaking to
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BuzzFeed News. Because she wouldn't say that men can have abortions. The president of Planned
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Parenthood refused to say that dudes don't have uteruses, don't have a birth canal. She refused to say
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that dudes can have abortions. So they fired her for that. Can't make this stuff up. She said two true
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things and they fired her for that. This tells us a lot. Tells us a lot about where the left is,
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where Democrats are in, in regard to their own ideology, where they are in regard to believing
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their own press releases, where they are in regard to following their own crazy premises to their highly
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illogical conclusions. You know, I spoke yesterday about this article in the Wall Street Journal over
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the weekend about men beating women at women's sports. So Maddie Kearns wrote this piece in the
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journal about how these high school girl track stars are being beaten out. They're losing scholarships.
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They can't win any races because men keep competing in them and men are physically stronger than women.
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And so they keep winning. Now, this has significant consequences. At the high school level, obviously,
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means they could lose out on scholarships. That's real money. That really affects your college career.
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That really affects your life. Socially, though, it means that men now get to define what womanhood is.
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And if women object to this, then the women are smeared as some sort of bigot,
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as a transphobe. You know, when Maddie wrote that piece in the Wall Street Journal,
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there was this weirdo, this creepy guy, a male New York Times freelance op-ed writer and a graduate of
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Harvard Medical School, tells you a lot about Harvard Medical School. His name is Jack Turbin.
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He smeared her as a bigot. He said the Wall Street Journal shouldn't have published her because she
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referred to men as men and women as women. He said the Wall Street Journal shouldn't have published her
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because she defended women's sports. So I mentioned this on the show yesterday. Now he's smearing me.
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He's saying that I hate transgender people. Of course, he provides no evidence for this. He couldn't
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find any evidence for that. But he's smearing me as being hateful toward transgender people because I
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think that women's sports should exist. And I think that women who defend women's sports shouldn't
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be smeared by weirdos who write for the New York Times. I guess that's what qualifies hatred toward
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transgender people now. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth. And I think it's time for
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conservatives to start articulating this. Not just conservatives, by the way, moderates,
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left-wingers even, Democrats, anybody who thinks that men are not women and women are not men,
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and that women ought to be allowed to exist, and women ought to be allowed to have their own changing
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rooms, and they ought to be allowed to have their own sports. If anything, it is gender ideology
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activists like Jack Turbin who demonstrate hatred toward gender-confused people. Why is that? It's because
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they won't tell them the truth. They think, the whole gender ideology crowd, think that the very,
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very small percentage of people who suffer from this condition of gender confusion, 0.2%,
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something like that, they think that they're hopeless. They think there is no chance. These
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people are so crazy. There's no way that you could ever tell them the truth. They can't handle the truth.
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You just have to indulge their delusions like you would a small child. How condescending is that?
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How pompous is that? How self-adulatory is it to say, I know the truth. Look, we all know the truth,
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but these little feeble-minded people, there's no way we could possibly tell them that they're not
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really the opposite sex, the sex that they want to be, or that they might have deluded themselves
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into thinking that they are. They would rather, people like Jack Turbin, the gender ideology people,
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they would rather feed these people delusions, even delusions that harm those individuals,
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even delusions that harm society, even delusions that harm girl track stars, female athletes.
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They would rather feed them those delusions than give them the truth that sex is real.
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We're born with a sex. It is what it is. This is such an affront to human dignity to treat some
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people as though they're fundamentally incapable of understanding reality. It's so outrageous. And
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on this topic, I mean, from the women's sports all the way to firing a Planned Parenthood president
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because she says men can't have abortions. I have to say, as someone with a dog in this fight,
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as a conservative, I encourage them to keep it up. Oh, please, political activists,
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please keep it up. Keep on smearing women for trying to get college scholarships for sports.
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Keep on smearing women. Keep on trying to convince people that men are women and up is down and left
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is right. Keep on firing activists for saying that men can't get abortions. Keep on smearing women for,
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for trying to compete in their own sports. People have eyes and you can't tell people
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forever that they can't believe their own lion eyes. We are watching the left collapse under the
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think that this moment, this crazy gender stuff is the moment that is causing the left to collapse
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under the weight of its own illogic. How unified was Planned Parenthood not two years ago? Planned
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Parenthood was totally resurgent. I mean, they were, they're getting all this taxpayer money.
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They've got all these marches in the streets. They've got all the women wearing the pink hats.
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They were on the move and now they're firing their own president because the president said
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that men can't get abortions. So we're told the pro-life movement is a war on women, but women can
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also be men and abortion is a woman's healthcare right, but it's now it's a reproductive healthcare
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right. Even if it's not about reproduction, even if it affects men, very, very confusing topic.
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This is how we're going to win. Just keep pushing them through the looking glass. You know,
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there, there has been this, this, uh, movement on the right. This has been for a few years now.
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Those who say we've got to abandon the old school of trying to fight them point by point and just yell
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and scream and get exasperated. Just let the left destroy itself. Just let the left go crazy on its
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own. It's, I would call it accelerationism. They're saying, forget about fighting on the
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question of, uh, I don't know, forget fighting on the scientific merits of abortion. Wait until
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you're fighting on the, on the scientific merits of what sex is. Wait until you've got them trying to
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force grown men into the girl's locker room. At that point, nobody is going to support these people.
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Let them go through the looking glass. It's got to get crazier before it gets saner. And so I think
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some people now are looking at this and they're, they're saying, oh no, this is the great triumph
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of leftism because they're putting grown men in the women's room. I think it's just the opposite.
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I think there is a huge awakening going on. I mean, actually there was a study out from Pew that
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shows that the youngest generation, you know, the Gen Z types are beginning to question the LGBTQ
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transgender ideology of the left. They're actually much more skeptical of it than millennials or even
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Gen X. That's pretty interesting. How did that change happen? It's because the left has overplayed
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its hand. And it's because also you, you sort of laugh at it. I mean, it is just ridiculous on its face.
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Planned Parenthood fires its president because she says that men can't have abortions.
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50 years ago, Democrats promised to put a man on the moon. Today, their biggest battle that they're
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fighting is putting a man in the ladies' room. That is ridiculous. This is one small step for man,
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one giant leap in girls' high school lacrosse. It's ridiculous. Let's just turn for a moment.
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We'll get back to the craziness of the left because it's not just falling apart in Planned
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Parenthood. It's not just falling apart on the pages of the New York Times or in girls' high
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school track or any of that. It is falling apart in the halls of Congress. Before that though,
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let's take a break from this present nonsense. Let's get to the great historical feats and let's
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talk about the moon landing on the 50th anniversary. This month marks that anniversary and there's an
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exciting new podcast out by esoteric radio theater called Apollo 11. What we saw, it immediately
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skyrocketed to number three on the iTunes Apple Podcasts app and it's still in the top five even
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days later. Episode three in the beginning drops today and just coincidentally, it's being hosted by
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our old pal Bill Whittle, author, pilot, and space enthusiast who takes you on the journey of what it took
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to get to the moon and what happened when we got there. And also very excitingly, how things almost
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went horribly, horribly wrong. Head over to Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts and
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subscribe today to Apollo 11, what we saw when we bring on Bill Whittle.
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Welcome to Apollo 11 mission control. What's left of it anyway? The space race, 12 years of open
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warfare between two superpowers. The United States and the Soviet Union. We used our best missiles,
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our best pilots. Scientists and engineers. We employed aircraft carriers, radar stations,
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all the military hardware we had to defeat our ideological nemesis when each team had over 20,000
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nuclear warheads apiece. The space race was the defining act of the second half of the 20th
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century. Time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement. 50 years ago,
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men from planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. You owe it to yourself and to history to experience
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the space age from the inside and see how it took hundreds of small steps to get to that one giant leap.
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I will tell you the whole podcast is as impressive as that trailer. How cool does that sound? We're
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joined by the host, Bill Whittle. Good to see you, pal. How you doing, Bill? How are you?
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You're a hit. This show goes up for five hours or something and it goes straight to the top three
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on all of the iTunes charts. When I was 10 years old, I basically designed the moon landing
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and set up the Apollo program to be in place so that when I became 60, my podcast would reach
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stratospheric heights. Thank you. Thank you for the kind words. I enjoyed writing it. The production
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work done here is out of the park. And obviously the reason people are so interested in this is
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because of the anniversary. Because of the story. And you know, you're setting this up when you were
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five years old is only one of the conspiracies that I want to get to about the moon landing.
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But first, I actually just did a column on this yesterday. Because of your podcast, I'd seen a few
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rumblings about this. There is an episode from the moon landing that NASA basically blacked out.
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They didn't want people to know about. They told Buzz Aldrin to shut up about it. You've got the,
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the Eagle lunar module lands finally on the moon itself. And it's not like they just hop out. It's
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not like they park their Chevy and they're going into the movie theater. There, there is a, there are a
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number of hours in between the landing and when they go out and walk around the moon. What happens
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during those hours? Well, they were going to, they were going to make the moon walk about 12 hours
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after the landing. But for some reason, landing on the moon and having all these failures and all
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this other stuff down, having the entire planet looking at them and everybody's entire attention
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focus on them. Turns out the guys weren't that sleepy after all, you know? So they moved it up six
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hours. But during that six hours, Mike, once they, once they had the, the LEM secure and shut down,
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by the way, you just mentioned they didn't have to get out of there in a hurry. When Armstrong got
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onto the surface of the moon, the first thing he did was pick up something called the contingency
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sample. He pulled out a scoop, picked up some stuff, put it in a patch in case Buzz says,
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Neil, we got to go. We got to go right now. So we had, we had something with us. But, but during that
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time, there was still several hours before they start to get into their suits for, for the, the moonwalk,
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which was six hours after landing. And during that time, Buzz Aldrin did something that he had asked
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permission to do. And it's not like NASA covered it up. It's not like they denied any existence of
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it, but it was needless to say, not publicized. Arms, uh, Aldrin had taken with him, gotten
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permission to take with him these two pouches. When he got to the moon, he removed this little
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silver flask. He opened one of the pouches and he poured a liquid into the flask. And he said in the
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one sixth gravity, it was amazing how, how graceful all the little bits of it, you know, curling around
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the thing where, then he opened the other package and poured the contents of that into his other
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hand. He radioed mission control and he's talking to the mission controllers now, but this is not
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going out to the public. It's just for basically for NASA. He said, I think at this point, uh, I would
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like to ask everybody, uh, to take a moment to, uh, give thanks in whatever they find appropriate,
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uh, for this amazing achievement. And then since he was an elder at the Presbyterian church back in,
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uh, Houston, he took a consecrated wafer. He had a sip of wine from the chalice and he had,
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uh, communion on the moon. The first fluid ever poured on another planet was wine.
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This is an astounding moment. I mean, especially when you look at it in the context of the cold
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war in the space race, you have the first foods and liquids poured prepared on the moon
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are the consecrated body and blood of Christ. It is this, and he, I believe he read from the
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gospel of John too. I am divine. I'm sure he read an appropriate, uh, short piece of scripture
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basically to himself. Armstrong didn't participate. I don't know if Armstrong was worried about the
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fallout or not, but it's pretty clear that he wasn't, that this was Buzz's show. Right. But Buzz,
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you know, you've just, not just this one time risked your life. You've been risking the only life
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you've got for 10 or 15 years now. And, and 40 years after the landing. So 10 years ago,
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when Buzz wrote his memoirs, he actually almost started to, you could tell that 40 years of
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political correctness was starting to work on him. Look, I, you know, I don't know, maybe I regret it
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now, but at the time I just felt like, you know, what, how else can you give thanks for this incredible
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thing that we've pulled off? This was my personal way. Of course. And you know, you've got the God
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fearing Americans, basically you've got this, the, what remains of Western Christendom versus
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godless atheism. You know, we, we think of the cold war in economic terms, free markets versus
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collectivism. That was obviously a huge part of it. The other side of it was the atheism of
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communism. You know, when Pope John Paul II went to Poland, had an open air mass, you, the people
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chanted, we want God. This was so much an animating facet and we beat the Soviets. We get on the moon
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first and you had, Aldrin gives his, his broadcast and he says, everyone give thanks in a private way.
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And then deferring to NASA, deferring to political correctness, he turns off the radio. He reads the
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scripture to himself and he takes the communion privately, which is an astounding historical
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moment. Why was NASA so worried about Buzz Aldrin taking communion on the moon? You know, Mike, I grew
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up with the space program. I was going to be an astronaut. I, they asked me to do the show because I know the
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space program very well. And I'd heard about the communion thing. When I, when I did the research
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after done, having done political commentary for 10 years now, it hit me like a thunderbolt that
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we landed on the moon, uh, in at 417 Eastern time on the 20th of July, 1969. That was the end of the
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space race. That was the United States defeating communism. Six hours later, we walk on the moon
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and in the time between having our cake and eating it too, in that six hour window,
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political correctness was born and, and the, and the space ages we understood it ended in that six
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hour window. Because what had happened was, uh, on a previous mission, a year, a little over a year
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earlier, a year and a half earlier, Apollo eight, which was kind of an ad lib mission. We had a bunch
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of astronauts and capsules. We didn't have the lunar module. So what are we going to do? Well, help.
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Let's just go to the moon. We got nothing else to do. Orbit around the moon. Right. So as, as, um,
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as that crew, Lovell, uh, Borman and Anders are coming around for their final orbit, it's Christmas
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day back on earth. And they see the earth rising above the moon. No one's ever seen this before.
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And, and they decided that they were going to send a Christmas message to earth. So they read a
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little bit from the book of Genesis. And as the earth is rising on Christmas day back home, you hear the
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crew of Apollo eight with their message. And it's in the beginning, God created the heaven
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in the earth. And they read a little bit of Genesis and then they ended it. Frank, uh,
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Borman ended it with a, uh, a line. I just think it was beautiful line, improv lines. He says,
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so from the crew of Apollo eight, we'd like to wish you good night, good luck, Merry Christmas,
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and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. And they start home. Well, Madeline
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Murray O'Hare, who was a professional atheist, a real atheist rights person. And by the way,
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I just need to interrupt this and say, it bears mentioning, needless to say that large
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numbers of NASA engineers were atheists and some of them were Jews and some of them were anything
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else. But that's not the point here. Madeline Murray O'Hare was so outraged that somebody might
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say something like, like that from the moon that she sued NASA on behalf of her atheist organization.
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And this would, this is Christmas 1968. So this is not very, it was about six, seven months before
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Yeah. I said it was a year and a half earlier. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's about Christmas 68.
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We landed July 69. So she sues NASA and she loses, but NASA decides that they don't need the bad
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publicity. And here is the beginning of critical, political correctness in that six hours between
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defeating communism. We, and, and walking on the moon, we, we, we took a need of communism. We,
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we bowed to it because what NASA basically said was, Hey, Buzz, I know you've risked your entire life
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and, and, and have accomplished the most amazing thing ever in the history of the world. And we
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understand that these are your personal religious convictions. We're not saying you're speaking for
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the entire program, but we don't want anybody to know about that. Because, because the loud people
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will give us a lot of grief. Yeah. Because this one woman who, who is the head of the American
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atheists, widely called the most hated woman in America. The title she worked hard for. She
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worked hard for it. Yeah. She was by all accounts, a completely loathsome person and an avowed communist.
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And, and the point I'm making is not so much whether it's not to say that, that the American space
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program was a religious space program. It wasn't what, but what it does, what it does say is as far as I'm
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aware as an amateur historian, that was the first time I could remember when Americans were told,
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don't say what you really think, hide your core beliefs, do not do anything that might upset the
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lunatics because they write a lot of letters and they make our life. And they might sue us and they
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might, as they did. Now you said that this was the greatest achievement in all of human history,
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but I've spent a lot of time on the internet, Bill. I've read a lot of blogs. Okay. I've seen a lot
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of YouTube videos. So I know for a fact that we didn't land on the moon. Yeah. A lot of people
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know that. That's right. And so I want you, how can you explain to me how we landed on the moon
00:24:13.260
when, for instance, human beings couldn't possibly survive the Van Allen radiation belts? Checkmate.
00:24:21.240
See you next time, Bill. Yeah. Um, there, there has been an enormous lie spread about the moon landing.
00:24:27.420
There have been, uh, there've been lies about the subject since it happened, but NASA is not the
00:24:31.800
one doing the lying. The people doing the lying are the people who are selling this product, this,
00:24:35.840
this product that it's a hoax. And the Van Allen radiation belts are one of just many examples of,
00:24:42.640
of them lying in order to make money. The hoaxists, the conspiracy guys. So they say, here's the earth,
00:24:50.920
here's the Van Allen radiation belts. We can't get to the moon without flying through them because the
00:24:55.180
radiation level is going to be high. What they don't tell you is here's the earth, here's the
00:25:00.560
Van Allen radiation belts. There's the moon, but the moon's orbit is inclined at an angle,
00:25:04.240
which means that during a very brief period, when it crosses the axis, then you have to go through
00:25:10.660
the belts and then you can either fly under them or wait to that one day window when you've, if you're
00:25:16.080
really determined to kill your crew, you can fly right through them then. Or as the moon climbs above
00:25:20.320
the plane of the belts, you fly over them. Now the outer belts are a little wider, so they nick the edge of
00:25:25.100
the outer belts. And when somebody says it's absolutely impossible, my response is, okay,
00:25:30.380
what level of radiation is out there that's impossible? Oh, they'd fry them like it was in
00:25:34.360
a microwave. But microwaves don't emit radiation. Microwaves cook with electromagnetic energy. They
00:25:39.500
don't emit neutrons. So you're saying they, it's like they were put in a machine that doesn't make
00:25:44.720
any radiation. How much radiation did they take? They won't tell you. They'll just say it's impossible.
00:25:50.120
Well, as it turns out, we know what the radiation levels are. We knew in advance. And it turns out,
00:25:54.780
that they took about 1.5 rem. Just to give you an idea, it's just a, it's a name. It's a radiation
00:26:00.920
dose. But to give you an idea, today, the government has rules for how much radiation a worker can take
00:26:09.540
in a given year. If you're working in a nuclear plant or medical imaging or airline crews,
00:26:14.440
because you spend a lot of time. If you fly too much, right. So the limit per year, according to
00:26:19.400
government regulations, the maximum that you can take and still be safe is, is 5 rem. And they took
00:26:25.200
1.5 rem. So they took about a third more than they would have taken if they'd stayed out.
00:26:31.440
Okay. All right. So you've got me on the Van Allen radiation. Okay. Fair enough. Uh, how come
00:26:36.100
Bill, how, how could we have gotten to the moon when we know for a fact, we didn't have the technology
00:26:43.320
to go to the moon. And by the way, we can't even go to the moon today. Checkmate. Checker mate, maybe.
00:26:51.660
The, um, when somebody says we don't have the technology, we didn't have the technology to go
00:26:57.700
to the moon. I would respond. What gives you that idea? What makes you make that assertion?
00:27:04.980
We had built 15 Saturn V rockets and we launched 13 of them. The other two went to museums.
00:27:09.760
So there were 13 rockets that developed 7 million pounds of thrust that took off from Kennedy Space
00:27:16.680
Center, not recorded after the fact, like the Soviets live and in person. I saw two of them go.
00:27:22.880
There were tens of millions of people at the Cape watching that Saturn V go into the air.
00:27:28.140
So if what you're telling me is we have the technology to build a 365 foot rocket that can lift 6 million
00:27:35.720
pounds off of the pad and we have the technology to do this, but we don't have the technology to use
00:27:43.620
the extra 1% of energy needed to get us to the moon. I don't buy it because, because if you had told
00:27:51.200
me that, that there was no such thing as a Saturn V, in other words, if the hardest part of the equation
00:27:56.200
was missing, you might have a case, but what they will say is they'll say, okay, well, the Saturn V's
00:28:02.400
really launched. But we didn't go to the moon. We just stayed in lunar orbit. Why? But more
00:28:06.980
importantly, well, why was this giant moon landing conspiracy constructed? To beat the Soviets.
00:28:12.020
Ah, there it is. You've just, you've answered it. But here's my question. If it turns out that the
00:28:17.320
Apollo missions actually left because everybody saw them and they went into earth orbit, but they
00:28:23.240
didn't go to the moon. And since the Soviets have radars that can determine where everything is in
00:28:27.640
space, just like we do, you would think that if we were trying to lie to the Soviets in the world
00:28:32.880
by pretending to go to the moon, you think that the Soviets might've had something to say about
00:28:38.080
this. Like, uh, Hey, sorry to interrupt the fun, but we can show radar returns of the thing in orbit,
00:28:42.800
which means Mike, that the Soviets were in on the conspiracy to defeat the Soviets.
00:28:47.880
That's well, this, okay. All right. Maybe you've presented a slight problem for this theory,
00:28:53.040
but I've got one. This puts to rest all of your silly fantasies that we went to the moon.
00:29:01.220
That footage that we all saw of Apollo 11, we can almost certainly tell was filmed in a soundstage
00:29:07.220
just right here in Los Angeles. Okay. Because you know, the flag was waving or something and they,
00:29:13.180
I, and I haven't read too much about it, but anyway, what I know is we filmed it in a soundstage.
00:29:17.820
Prove me wrong. Oh, there's a couple of things I'll say about that. First of all, it's interesting
00:29:21.560
that the flag waving that they claim is evidence of air. They say a gust of wind came through the
00:29:25.560
studio. So something you worry about here in your studio, that a giant gust of wind is going to come
00:29:30.340
through and blow your hair off. That's only when Ben rips my wall out. Fair enough. So the wind
00:29:34.520
starts coming in. Interesting though, that that waving only occurs for just a few moments after
00:29:38.880
they let go of the flagpole. If you've ever had a golf flagpole in your hand, you know, if you let
00:29:42.920
that thing go, it'll vibrate and wobble. And without air resistance to slow the flag down,
00:29:48.060
it maintains that momentum a little bit longer, which is actually evidence that it was on the
00:29:51.540
moon, not that it wasn't. So here's the thing, Mike, anybody can Google this goose, uh, goosebusters,
00:29:58.260
ghost, mythbusters did a great job with this. You know what a, you know what a, a railway, um,
00:30:05.040
oil tanker looks like, right? These big heavy steel things that carry oil. Well, if you Google oil
00:30:10.200
tanker vacuum anywhere on YouTube, a couple of people have done experiments where they take most
00:30:15.220
of the air out of an oil tanker. They set up a vacuum over here. They open a valve and they pull the air
00:30:19.300
that's inside the tanker out. And these massive, huge steel things just go crunch like that. It'll
00:30:25.660
blow your mind, blow your mind under the pressure of the atmosphere. So the most, the biggest vacuum
00:30:32.160
chamber in the world is called the space power facility. You can Google that too. The walls are
00:30:37.880
something like 15 feet thick. It's enclosed inside of that as a steel chamber. The walls are like two
00:30:42.980
feet thick and it is not big enough to get the limb into. And that is the largest area that we can
00:30:48.980
make into a vacuum on the surface of the earth because of the incredible air pressure. So the
00:30:54.460
question is, if you built it on a soundstage and since the, the action of the dust is showing that
00:30:59.560
it's a dust in a vacuum, he drops a feather and a hammer and they fall at the same time.
00:31:03.220
Apollo 15. Then what you're saying is, is that the soundstage had to be in a vacuum and it's harder
00:31:07.620
to build a building the size of a soundstage than it is to go to the moon. The best way to fake the
00:31:13.240
moon landing is to do it on the moon. And I'll just say one more thing. If all of this is true
00:31:19.700
and it is a giant, enormous lie in order to convince the world that we beat the Soviets
00:31:25.300
and all of it is in danger of being exposed. And if it turns out that if, if Neil Armstrong decides to
00:31:31.220
squawk, NASA is just going to shoot him in the head, then why would we go a second time?
00:31:38.020
And why would, and why would it be that when we go after two more times, why would we put a golf cart
00:31:43.460
on the, on the moon, which is transmitting live video the entire time? Apollo 17 went 12 miles.
00:31:51.100
That's a big soundstage. Now, if there hadn't been a moon rover, would you have missed it? Hey,
00:31:56.000
that can't be right. There's no moon rover on that mission. No. So why would you go
00:32:00.420
six times every time going further and further and further in this, in the soundstage? It now
00:32:06.320
has to be the size of Montana. You know what I think it is. I think where all these hoaxes come
00:32:10.700
from is because modern people in living in 2019 who are so smart and so fabulous, they can't believe
00:32:18.660
that 50 years ago in the old timey days when everything was in black and white and they didn't
00:32:23.220
even have Snapchat, that those guys could do something that we can't do. And yet we know this
00:32:28.100
politically. Those guys could do a lot of things that we, that we can't do. I've got to, unfortunately,
00:32:32.540
I'm up at a break here. I, I hear that episode three is coming out today. It's out now. It's out
00:32:39.120
today. And then four is on the anniversary on Saturday. Four is at the, so the anniversary is
00:32:42.360
actually on Saturday. It's the 50th anniversary. Where else can people find you? All over the
00:32:46.120
internet. Uh, well, I'm at billwittle.com and that's where most of my stuff is, but it's been just
00:32:50.200
such a pleasure working here with you guys and the, and, and the work that you did to bring this to
00:32:54.300
life here is just, just tremendous. It is my pleasure to give this podcast as much publicity
00:33:00.540
as I can. Cause it is, it is really astounding work. Apollo 11, what we saw hosted by the one
00:33:06.760
and only bill Whittle. Bill, thanks for coming by. Thank you, Mike. All right. We've got to head
00:33:10.520
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00:33:14.120
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00:33:36.980
All right. We've just talked about the greatest achievement of exploration in the history of
00:33:52.120
mankind. Let's talk about the exact opposite of great achievements, stupid, petty political
00:33:59.140
trivialities on the floor of the house of representatives. There was genuinely some
00:34:03.460
craziness yesterday. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house, took to the floor of the house
00:34:08.380
and called president Trump a racist. I know this is so brave. You've never, I can't believe Nancy
00:34:16.020
Pelosi would do that. The reason this mattered, I mean, obviously Democrats have called her or have
00:34:21.160
called Trump racist now for years and years. The reason this mattered is you're not allowed to do
00:34:26.820
that. You're not allowed to engage in personality attacks under parliamentary rules in the house of
00:34:32.660
representatives. So actually, as she was giving these remarks, GOP members, uh, moved to have her
00:34:38.700
comments taken away and she refused to do it. And she was actually rebuked. The speaker of the house
00:34:44.400
rebuked in the house of representatives. Here she is.
00:34:47.860
Every single member of this institution, democratic and Republican should join us in condemning the
00:34:53.780
president's racist tweets. To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values
00:35:00.900
and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people. I urge
00:35:08.940
and yield back the balance of my... I was just going to give the gentle speaker of the house if she
00:35:15.100
would like to rephrase that comment. I have cleared my remarks to the parliamentarian before
00:35:23.980
And take it. And I ask the words to be taken down. I'll make a point of order. The gentlewoman's
00:35:27.980
words are unparliamentary and risk ready to be taken down.
00:35:30.980
The chair will remind all members, please, please do not make comments toward personality-based,
00:35:44.020
That's a pretty amazing exchange, but it's also hilarious because if you can't make personality-based
00:35:49.220
comments, then Democrats would have nothing to say. They would fall silent. So they make this
00:35:56.280
remark, you can't make personality-based comments. And then in the same breath, the house voted to call
00:36:02.760
President Trump a racist. Seriously, that's what they voted on. Doing the people's business. This is
00:36:10.340
what the American people elected them for. They called Trump a racist and then they voted to call
00:36:14.280
Trump a racist. This, uh, resolution passed along party line votes, uh, 240 to 187. There were only
00:36:22.540
four Republicans who voted to call Trump a racist. And then Justin Amash, that sanctimonious ex-Republican,
00:36:29.980
libertarian, whatever you want to call them. The rest of the Republicans voted against this
00:36:35.260
resolution. And specifically this was about President Trump's tweets just a few days ago
00:36:39.500
where he said that these Congresswomen who hate America should go back to where they came from.
00:36:45.000
The issue being that only one of them is an immigrant. Three of them are not immigrants.
00:36:48.320
And this was widely considered racially offensive. I did a lot of my show on this two days ago.
00:36:54.000
So if you're curious to hear what I thought about it, feel free to go over there. I won't,
00:36:58.100
I won't rehash all of it, but I will say the debt, the Republicans who voted against this
00:37:03.060
resolution are getting a lot of flack for it right now, really just from the mainstream media
00:37:07.620
and from squishy GOP members and from the left. They were absolutely right to vote against it.
00:37:13.600
This resolution was just completely stupid and wrong. Even if you believe that President Trump's
00:37:20.460
comments were racially offensive or racist or bigoted or whichever word you want to use,
00:37:25.880
this resolution still was extremely stupid. And the reason for that is it didn't merely call Trump
00:37:33.560
a racist. It said that President Trump's quote, racist comments have legitimized fear and hatred
00:37:39.980
of new Americans and people of color. Whatever Trump's tweets did, they didn't do that. They didn't
00:37:48.720
legitimize fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color. His comments were only very,
00:37:55.780
precisely directed toward these very progressive, loud mouth, uh, uh, progress, uh, freshman
00:38:01.940
Congresswoman. And so it may be a legitimized fear and disapproval of the squad didn't legitimize fear
00:38:10.180
and disapproval of people of color. I mean, president Trump has plenty of people of color working in
00:38:14.860
his administration. He has repeatedly disavowed racism. He's called it evil. He's condemned it
00:38:19.940
repeatedly. As far as antisemitism goes, there's a train station in a town in Israel named after him.
00:38:25.100
The charge that he is some awful racial bigot or some neo-Nazi or some white supremacist is just
00:38:30.940
plain stupid. And if his comments legitimized fear and disapproval of the squad, AOC, Ilhan Omar,
00:38:39.220
Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, they, we should point out they've legitimized fear and disapproval of
00:38:46.720
the squad themselves. For instance, when Ilhan Omar giggles about Al Qaeda and refuses to condemn
00:38:52.680
Al Qaeda, when members of the squad work to have, uh, lenient punishments for people who have left
00:39:00.860
America to go and become ISIS terrorists, when they compare America to Nazi Germany and concentration
00:39:06.760
camps, they're the ones who have legitimized fear of, uh, against themselves. When Ilhan Omar laughs about
00:39:13.920
9-11 and said, some people did something. That's why they're the ones doing it. It's no,
00:39:19.340
it's not the fault of president Trump's, uh, tweet. So this was the resolution that was passed on the
00:39:26.420
house. Obviously nobody cares. They called Trump racist yesterday. They're going to call Trump racist
00:39:30.980
today. They're going to call Trump racist tomorrow. They did the same thing to George Bush. They did the
00:39:35.260
same thing to George Bush's father. They did the same thing to Ronald Reagan. And guess what? They're
00:39:39.320
going to do the same thing to the next Republican, regardless of how many times he condemns racial
00:39:44.540
bigotry. But in case people missed it, in case people missed this point that Trump is an awful
00:39:50.520
racist, CNN decided to have a white supremacist on Jake Tapper's show, a guy named Richard Spencer,
00:39:57.040
to also call president Trump racist. And unfortunately for CNN, those guys can't win for losing.
00:40:02.360
The segment didn't go quite as they had hoped that it would. Here's CNN interviewing white
00:40:10.660
nationalist Richard Spencer. White nationalist Richard Spencer, who hailed Trump when he was
00:40:15.460
first elected, is among those who are turning on Trump. Many white nationalists will eat up this red
00:40:23.660
meat that Donald Trump is throwing out there. I am not one of them. I recognize the con game that is
00:40:31.080
going on. They say Trump is all talk and no action on maintaining white dominance in America.
00:40:38.400
He gives us nothing outside of racist tweets. And by racist tweets, I mean tweets that are meaningless
00:40:45.080
and cheap and express the kind of sentiments you might hear from your drunk uncle while he's watching
00:40:51.260
Hannity. There it is. That guy is pretty good on camera. I mean, this is why it's a bad idea,
00:40:58.700
I think, to put him on camera is because he really has no following. He is a very, very fringe figure.
00:41:05.200
And the only reason that anyone knows his name is because the mainstream media talk about him. He's
00:41:09.440
basically a contrivance of the mainstream media. So he's happy to go on TV. He thinks that if he can
00:41:14.660
go on and make a joke about Sean Hannity, then he can attract a few more followers. And he gives them a
00:41:19.940
little bit of what they want. He says that the tweet is racist. But he also says, in case you missed it,
00:41:26.240
that President Trump has not governed as a racist. Obviously, he's not governed as a racist.
00:41:33.280
They don't name towns in Israel after racists. You know, racists don't create economic conditions that
00:41:39.200
lead to record low minority unemployment. They don't hire a lot of racial minorities. They don't talk,
00:41:44.340
they don't behave the way Trump behaves. Now, all Spencer cares about is race. So he's going to
00:41:51.080
only talk in racial terms. But let's forget race for a second. Let's go beyond that to just the broad
00:41:55.980
question of political rhetoric versus political reality. It is true of virtually every Trump
00:42:01.440
supporter that I talk to. Actually, even many Trump critics. They like what he's doing, but they don't
00:42:08.800
always like the way he talks about what he's doing. They don't like when he talks about Mika's face.
00:42:13.860
They don't like the mean tweets. They don't like that he talks about psychopath, washed up singer,
00:42:19.320
Bette Midler, but they do like what he's doing. So now the whole left is calling Trump racist.
00:42:24.220
What's more interesting than what they are doing, what is happening, is what is not happening,
00:42:31.400
what they're not doing. They're calling Trump racist. They're calling America Nazi Germany. They're
00:42:36.400
calling ICE detention facilities concentration camps like Auschwitz and Dachau.
00:42:41.480
But they're not voting to impeach Trump. They're saying Trump is Hitler. This is the 1930s. Donald
00:42:48.920
Trump is the Fuhrer. But we're not going to impeach him. They're all talk. Why won't they
00:42:55.120
impeach him? Because they don't believe it. They don't believe what they're saying. They don't
00:42:58.020
think he's this awful racist bigot. They don't think America's like Nazi Germany. And they don't
00:43:02.180
think that ICE is operating concentration camps. At least the elites don't. Nancy Pelosi doesn't think
00:43:07.400
that. Maybe some of the rank and file do, but all the sideshows in the world don't matter because
00:43:15.620
Nancy Pelosi, why is Nancy Pelosi going out here and saying he's a racist? I don't care if I'm
00:43:21.000
rebuked. He's a racist. He's a racist. Why is CNN pushing this? Because then they don't have to do
00:43:25.060
the actual implication of what they're saying. They don't have to impeach him. But some people are.
00:43:29.760
Al Green, the congressman, not the singer, has now introduced articles to impeach.
00:43:34.340
And this puts Democrats in a real pickle because they don't want to vote for it because they have
00:43:39.320
the numbers and it would pass. So whoever doesn't vote for it is going to incite the fury of the
00:43:44.660
base. The radical Democratic base, the donors, the people who hand out palm cards, they want
00:43:51.500
impeachment. The American people don't want impeachment. The American people feel that since
00:43:58.100
the 2016 election, Hillary basically never conceded. She said it was rigged. She said it was stolen.
00:44:02.340
The Democrats have said this. It was the Russians. It was the Macedonians. It was James Comey.
00:44:06.320
It was everybody but us. Now there's another presidential election, and they're still trying
00:44:13.140
to take it away from him. All these investigations, all this impeachment, all these non-traverses.
00:44:18.120
But if impeachment comes up, not voting for it expresses the leftist hypocrites. And to top it all
00:44:22.460
off, the feud with the squad is back on. So we were told that President Trump's tweets had stopped all
00:44:27.160
the Democrat infighting between AOC and Nancy Pelosi. Turns out that's not true. Tune into CBS and you find
00:44:35.980
Our teams are in communication. Our chiefs are meeting.
00:44:44.980
She has every right to sit down with her in any moment, any time, with any of us.
00:44:49.180
She is Speaker of the House. She can ask for a meeting to sit down with us for clarification.
00:44:55.160
The fact of the knowledge is, and I've done racial justice work in our country for a long
00:44:58.680
time. Acknowledge the fact that we are women of color. So when you do singles out, be aware
00:45:02.940
of that and what you're doing, especially because some of us are getting death threats,
00:45:06.740
because some of us are being singled out in many ways because of our backgrounds, because
00:45:11.940
of our experiences and so forth. But I think the question should be-
00:45:16.460
We're having a conversation face-to-face with Speaker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
00:45:21.500
Yeah, no, absolutely. And we've reached out to that end.
00:45:24.220
So the feud is back on, except now, the only difference between today and a few days ago
00:45:29.020
is now the bulk of Democrats are rallying behind those women. They're rallying behind the squad.
00:45:34.080
They're not, they're not exactly backing Pelosi. I mean, Pelosi was rebuked on the floor of the
00:45:37.920
House of Representatives, for goodness sakes. She's the Speaker of the House. This raises the
00:45:41.880
question. Were the tweets politically astute? Were they the right thing to send for President Trump?
00:45:49.120
It wasn't a home run. He actually screwed up. He shouldn't have told the people who were born here
00:45:55.120
to go back to their own countries. He should have phrased it differently and said, go check out those
00:45:58.600
foreign countries. Get out of here. I think he could have gotten all the political run out of it
00:46:02.880
without putting him in that bind where he said something that was just factually untrue. So it wasn't a
00:46:08.480
home run, but it was a base hit and it really, maybe it was a double. If you look at where the
00:46:12.920
left is now, you now have the left in this political bind. They're introducing articles
00:46:16.960
of impeachment, or at least they're trying to. You've got them in the bind where the feud is
00:46:20.500
still going on. It, the tweets didn't stop the feud, except now there's a lot more support for
00:46:25.760
these women who, whose support was in the single digits just a few days ago. Now the Democrats are
00:46:30.220
rallying behind them. You've, you've got what, what Trump manages to do through his trollishness
00:46:37.120
basically is get the left to follow their own ideas to their logical conclusions. Planned
00:46:43.560
Parenthood has never been more radical. Gender ideology has never been more radical. These women
00:46:49.400
elected in Congress, the four horsewomen of the political apocalypse have never been more radical
00:46:53.700
on the basis going behind them. At the end of this whole tweet episode, which has now gone on for
00:46:58.880
like three days. It's hard to imagine how this works out any better for conservatives. It's a
00:47:05.100
good place to be. It's, you gotta, you gotta take the hits when you can get them. We will examine
00:47:10.600
tomorrow how this all looks for 2020. Get your mailbag questions in. We'll get to them then. In the
00:47:15.940
meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. I'll see you backstage tonight and on the show
00:47:27.180
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