The Michael Knowles Show - August 06, 2019


Ep. 393 - The Left Should Be Ashamed Of Itself

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Donald Trump Dan Rather Mitch McConnell Barack Obama Reza Aslan Mika Brzezinski Kellyanne Conway Moscow Mitch Cory Booker Elizabeth Warren Sam Harris Ring Ben Shapiro George W. Bush Joe Scarborough Good Ranchers Nate Silver Bob Mueller Wajahat Ali Ditch Mitch and 31 more
Ep. 392 - Very Terrible People On Both Sides Ep. 394 - Red Flags All Around

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Two days after two mass shootings, one perpetrated by a racist eco-fascist, the mainstream American left blames conservatives for the shootings, maligns half the country as bigots, and threatens physical violence against leading Republicans. We examine the profound shame that the left ought to feel for exploiting the not yet cold bodies of dead Americans. Then, the usually correct and usually right New York Post gets guns totally wrong, and woke whites play audiences of color for fools. Finally, the Trump administration ramps up the trade war against China, and that s a very good thing.

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00:00:30.000 Two days after two mass shootings, one perpetrated by a racist eco-fascist, 0.95
00:00:35.780 the other perpetrated by an avowed leftist, 0.87
00:00:38.680 the mainstream American left blames conservatives for the shootings,
00:00:42.580 maligns half the country as bigoted,
00:00:44.480 and threatens physical violence against leading Republicans.
00:00:48.000 We examine the profound shame that the left ought to feel
00:00:52.240 for exploiting the not-yet-cold bodies of dead Americans. 0.51
00:00:56.240 Then, the usually correct and usually right New York Post gets guns totally, totally wrong, 0.99
00:01:04.420 and woke whites play audiences of color for fools. 0.99
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00:01:11.980 and that's a very good thing.
00:01:13.380 All that and more.
00:01:14.060 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:16.140 A lot to get to today, in part on the left's reaction to those mass shootings over the weekend.
00:01:31.160 Really, I've never seen a worse, more shameful reaction to a national tragedy like we're seeing
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00:01:46.820 The right is also reacting in not a great way, not in their condemnations of the left,
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00:01:54.080 We'll separate fact from fiction at the New York Post.
00:01:56.940 And then the big story that no one's talking about,
00:01:59.260 because we're all calling each other bigots and racists and blaming each other for shootings,
00:02:04.240 the big story is on currency manipulation in China and what the Trump administration is doing
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00:04:03.280 We all know the awful tragedy that happened over the weekend,
00:04:06.260 one shooting in El Paso, Texas, one shooting in Dayton, Ohio,
00:04:10.080 one perpetrated by an eco-fascist,
00:04:12.380 so a guy who has certain right-wing leanings and certain left-wing leanings,
00:04:15.900 right-wing leanings, say, on the nation and preserving the nation and conserving the nation,
00:04:20.640 left-wing leanings on insane environmentalism, so a rabid environmentalism,
00:04:28.260 and then racial bigotry on top of that, which doesn't really cut neatly on party lines.
00:04:32.980 That was in El Paso in Dayton, Ohio.
00:04:35.040 We don't know the motive for that shooting,
00:04:36.440 but we do know that the guy who did it was a fan of Elizabeth Warren.
00:04:40.520 He was a self-described socialist, self-described Satanist, a leftist.
00:04:45.400 We know that he was a fan of Media Matters for America,
00:04:48.520 one of the most despicable organizations in the country.
00:04:50.960 He was regularly posting their content as well.
00:04:53.820 I'm not blaming Media Matters for it,
00:04:55.860 because I'm not as shameful and disgusting as they are,
00:04:59.240 though the left is blaming the right for all of this.
00:05:02.140 I mean, totally bizarre, because one of the guys who did it was an Elizabeth Warren supporter.
00:05:07.220 It doesn't stop the left.
00:05:09.340 They are blaming the right for the shooting.
00:05:11.340 They are blaming the right for dead Americans. 0.92
00:05:13.980 They're calling President Trump a white supremacist.
00:05:16.280 None of it makes sense, and it is so hyperbolic.
00:05:20.080 In all of the awful things that the right has ever said about Democratic presidents,
00:05:23.760 I don't think we've ever gone this far.
00:05:26.060 It's just awful.
00:05:27.560 Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough's girlfriend over at MSNBC,
00:05:31.360 said, she actually said this today, 0.87
00:05:33.200 that President Trump wants more white supremacist mass murders, 0.95
00:05:37.300 that he wants that. 0.96
00:05:38.420 That's what he's hoping for in the country.
00:05:40.320 Let me ask you something.
00:05:41.640 What has President Trump said that could lead you to believe 0.59
00:05:44.200 that he wants more white supremacist mass murders?
00:05:48.520 Anything? 0.96
00:05:49.120 Anything coming to mind?
00:05:50.040 Of course not.
00:05:51.520 That's an outrageously defamatory thing to say. 0.97
00:05:54.200 That's a sick and perverted thing to say about the President of the United States, 0.97
00:05:57.720 especially one who has repeatedly condemned violence and racism and bigotry and white supremacy. 0.97
00:06:02.840 During a panel on MSNBC, the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson
00:06:07.700 said that we're going to see a white supremacist 9-11.
00:06:11.700 That's what he said's coming up.
00:06:13.040 Then Mika said, that's just what Trump wants.
00:06:17.520 There could be another Oklahoma City bombing, you know, or something like that.
00:06:23.860 I mean, we're going to have the equivalent of a racist, right-wing, white nationalist 9-11
00:06:32.720 here, I think.
00:06:34.920 And I make that prediction.
00:06:37.720 I don't think I'm going out on a limb here.
00:06:40.820 And yet, I have no confidence.
00:06:43.060 There are a lot of things he can do.
00:06:45.440 But he won't.
00:06:46.220 And so you have to ask the question, Joe.
00:06:48.720 And I'll ask you.
00:06:50.840 Isn't it okay to deduce that at this point, this is what he wants?
00:06:56.280 He is inciting hatred, inciting violence, inciting racism.
00:07:00.880 If he doesn't unequivocally call it off and say, this is wrong, and we stand together against
00:07:09.020 this, and we are doing this, this, and this to help fight hate crime.
00:07:13.300 I mean, this is a president who seems to want these things to happen.
00:07:19.120 How else can this be explained?
00:07:21.260 How else can this be explained?
00:07:23.140 Any other way, that's how.
00:07:24.420 And the only way it can't be explained is what you just said, Mika Brzezinski.
00:07:27.520 Let's just take a jog down memory lane all the way back to 15 hours ago, when President
00:07:33.360 Trump made these comments yesterday on the attack in El Paso.
00:07:37.360 In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.
00:07:45.040 These sinister ideologies must be defeated.
00:07:49.020 Hate has no place in America.
00:07:50.780 Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul.
00:07:58.120 Warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul.
00:08:01.500 We must unite in one voice and condemn racism and bigotry and white supremacy and white nationalism
00:08:07.440 and neo-Nazism and whatever.
00:08:09.100 Fill in whatever racist category you want in there.
00:08:12.920 But that's probably the first time President Trump said that, right? 0.97
00:08:15.540 That's why Mika knows that he secretly wants more white supremacist mass shootings to occur.
00:08:21.140 Notice she doesn't talk about the leftist Elizabeth Warren supporter who shot up a bar in Dayton, 0.74
00:08:25.800 Ohio.
00:08:26.220 She just, I guess that slipped her mind, even though that's the most recent mass shooting
00:08:29.900 that occurred on Sunday.
00:08:31.080 No, no, she's talking about the guy in El Paso.
00:08:33.660 Notice she doesn't talk about how he was a rabid environmentalist, eco-fascist.
00:08:37.320 No, doesn't bring that up. 0.77
00:08:38.240 She says he's a white supremacist, which is part of the story.
00:08:41.400 And then she says President Trump wants more of that to happen.
00:08:43.960 She doesn't talk about when Trump condemns racism.
00:08:46.140 She doesn't talk about, just another little jog down memory lane, the many times over
00:08:51.480 the past three years that President Trump has explicitly condemned racism, bigotry, white
00:08:57.520 supremacism, white nationalism, every other form of bigotry, just to jog your memory.
00:09:03.500 Racism is evil. 0.99
00:09:05.200 And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, 1.00
00:09:13.040 white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear 1.00
00:09:20.240 as Americans. 0.99
00:09:21.020 And I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should 0.95
00:09:25.580 be condemned totally.
00:09:27.340 We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal.
00:09:33.000 We are equal in the eyes of our creator.
00:09:37.000 We are equal under the law.
00:09:39.560 And we are equal under our constitution.
00:09:44.380 Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.
00:09:50.720 How many times do I have to reject?
00:09:52.200 I've rejected David Duke, rejected David Duke.
00:09:56.080 I've rejected the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan.
00:10:00.260 From the time I'm five years old, I rejected them.
00:10:03.260 I put it on Twitter last week.
00:10:05.560 Now, I have been asked this question so many times.
00:10:08.080 I have rejected it so many times.
00:10:09.960 Oh.
00:10:11.100 So I guess from just that little mashup of everything Trump has said over the last three
00:10:15.300 years he's been in politics, I mean, I could go back further.
00:10:17.580 I could go back to when he rejects racism when he was flirting for running for president
00:10:21.800 in 2000.
00:10:22.840 I could go back to when he was palling around with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in the 80s
00:10:26.400 and 90s.
00:10:27.560 Seems to me pretty consistent that President Trump has rejected all of this.
00:10:30.820 And Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough's girlfriend, who has a show on MSNBC, has the audacity to go
00:10:38.380 on television and accuse the President of the United States of wanting there to be more white 0.51
00:10:44.500 supremacist mass murders.
00:10:46.060 Can you imagine, imagine if a talking head on the right said that sort of thing about
00:10:53.820 Barack Obama? 1.00
00:10:55.460 Yeah, Barack Obama wants more black people to kill white people in America. 1.00
00:10:59.920 Yeah, that's what Barack Obama wants. 1.00
00:11:02.580 Could you imagine the outcry?
00:11:04.840 But it wasn't just Mika.
00:11:05.860 Mika's going to get away with it. 1.00
00:11:07.520 One, because no one's paying attention to Joe in the morning.
00:11:10.340 And two, because everyone else on the left was saying that too.
00:11:13.080 Not just her, not just a cable news host.
00:11:16.960 The disgraced former journalist Dan Rather used to be a network anchor.
00:11:21.880 Then he reported on false forged documents about George W. Bush's military service just
00:11:28.800 weeks before the 2004 presidential election.
00:11:32.160 I mean, totally egregious act of a political hack, which is what Dan Rather is.
00:11:36.580 Dan Rather went on television, he was discussing with Don Lemon, another fake journalist on the
00:11:42.120 cable channel CNN, why we shouldn't take Trump at his word.
00:11:46.220 We shouldn't believe what he has repeatedly said for decades about racism and bigotry.
00:11:50.220 We should just believe what Dan Rather wants to believe that Donald Trump believes.
00:11:54.480 Here they are.
00:11:55.200 To my fellow members of the press, I suggest we refrain from quoting the President's words
00:11:58.960 from prepared speeches into headlines and tweets without context.
00:12:02.420 He sometimes says the right thing.
00:12:04.820 The real questions are what he does and what he really believes.
00:12:09.040 So, you have been watching this all along.
00:12:12.140 What does he really believe, you think?
00:12:14.460 He believes that fear conquers.
00:12:17.260 That's his basic belief.
00:12:18.680 He's all about fear.
00:12:20.680 And you know, Don, this moment in our history, which I want to make clear, I'm here with a
00:12:26.300 strong sense of compassion and grieving for all of those families who suffered in these
00:12:32.060 most recent shootings.
00:12:33.080 But this moment in our history reminds me a great deal of when I was covering the civil
00:12:38.560 rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King in the early 1960s.
00:12:43.320 It was clearly, definitively right and wrong.
00:12:48.920 That was the truth of the situation.
00:12:51.680 Then and now, it's the job of journalists not to try to hide or obscure, but to speak the truth.
00:12:59.420 And that's where we are now.
00:13:01.880 People say, well, I'm not sure President Trump is racist. 0.50
00:13:05.160 Well, racist is as racist does.
00:13:07.640 I can't read President Trump's heart, but by what he does.
00:13:12.300 This is an amazing statement from Dan Rather.
00:13:15.360 This is an incredible statement from him, one of the most famously disgraced journalists
00:13:19.380 in recent American history.
00:13:21.080 Dan Rather says it's the job of journalists.
00:13:23.900 The job of journalists is to report the truth.
00:13:29.360 Dan Rather famously didn't report the truth.
00:13:31.360 He reported lies because he's such a partisan hack that he wanted to swing the 2004 election
00:13:35.340 and he was willing to peddle false documents in order to do it.
00:13:39.780 But even on this question, what is the truth of this situation?
00:13:43.440 The truth is President Trump has repeatedly, consistently, constantly condemned racism and
00:13:48.220 bigotry for years and years and years.
00:13:50.360 And Dan Rather is reporting the opposite because he doesn't like the truth, because the truth
00:13:55.500 doesn't fit his narrative, which is false.
00:13:58.160 So what does Dan Rather report?
00:13:59.680 The lie.
00:14:00.340 He reports that it's, that it is not the case that President Trump condemns racism and bigotry.
00:14:07.660 And then he has the gall to say, well, I can't, I can't purport to know Donald Trump's heart.
00:14:13.100 But racism is as racism does.
00:14:16.220 What does that mean?
00:14:19.420 We know Trump has condemned racism.
00:14:21.620 By the way, in politics, speech is most of what you do.
00:14:28.380 Politics is, uses language.
00:14:31.300 Speech is politics.
00:14:32.980 Going back to the orations of Pericles in ancient Greece, all the way to the present.
00:14:37.920 The way that politicians do their job is by making speeches, is by persuading their fellow
00:14:43.300 citizens and persuading legislators and by persuading the public.
00:14:47.660 With rhetoric, oratory and statecraft.
00:14:51.260 In many ways, oratory is statecraft.
00:14:53.280 So the very fact that President Trump is consistently saying these things constitutes what he is doing.
00:15:00.360 Even if there were something he were doing separate from what he is saying, can Dan Rather point to what that is?
00:15:05.560 I mean, Dan Rather's idea is that President Trump is saying we need to condemn racism, but he's doing a lot of awful, bigoted, racist things.
00:15:12.800 Let's name them.
00:15:13.580 Uh, he's bringing black unemployment to the lowest level ever.
00:15:18.240 That doesn't seem too bigoted, does it?
00:15:19.920 Bringing Hispanic unemployment to the lowest level ever.
00:15:23.820 Uh, doesn't seem too bigoted either.
00:15:25.280 He is appointing ethnic minorities to positions in his administration.
00:15:31.040 Okay, doesn't seem too bigoted.
00:15:33.160 Just as a matter of pop culture, the most famous black superstar in the world is endorsing President Trump.
00:15:39.140 Wore a MAGA hat in the Oval Office, said, I love this guy.
00:15:41.460 That's the same guy who said George Bush doesn't care about black people.
00:15:44.420 Doesn't seem too bigoted to me.
00:15:46.620 What else?
00:15:47.000 How about, uh, beyond a black and Hispanic vote?
00:15:49.420 How about Jewish?
00:15:50.580 Oh yeah, he got a town in Israel named after him.
00:15:54.100 Doesn't sound too bigoted.
00:15:55.060 So if we're just judging by the other actions, it seems like President Trump is either the least,
00:16:00.580 among the least bigoted people that have ever occupied the office.
00:16:03.960 No one's less bigoted than him.
00:16:07.220 Or he's the least effective bigot that has ever occupied the White House. 0.99
00:16:12.580 I guess he could be really just so ineffective and totally bungling at the job of being a white supremacist. 0.99
00:16:19.040 That's what it is. 0.97
00:16:20.300 How about the New York Times headline?
00:16:21.720 So the first New York Times headline was actually pretty good.
00:16:24.020 The headline read, Trump urges unity versus racism.
00:16:29.100 Now, you'll notice that's not editorial.
00:16:31.440 That's not giving their opinion.
00:16:33.300 That's just reporting on the facts.
00:16:34.800 President Trump's speech said, we need to be unified against racism.
00:16:37.880 That was the thesis sentence of the speech.
00:16:39.960 So in a very simple way, and just here's the facts.
00:16:43.580 That's what the speech did.
00:16:45.120 Good headline.
00:16:46.000 Left was furious about it.
00:16:47.040 They were so angry because they're angry that reality is not comporting to what they want the narrative to be.
00:16:54.200 They would have much preferred if Trump went out there and said, wahoo, we love white supremacy.
00:16:58.840 Yeah, Hitler forever. 0.87
00:17:00.400 All right, race war now. 0.87
00:17:01.800 That's what they imagine President Trump to be doing.
00:17:04.260 And that's the lie they're peddling to the American people. 1.00
00:17:06.300 So when reality doesn't jive with their stupid, bigoted narrative, they have to change the reality. 0.99
00:17:12.980 So even Nate Silver, who's a leftist, usually is one of the more reasonable leftists. 0.99
00:17:17.400 Nate Silver is the statistician at FiveThirtyEight.
00:17:19.960 He tweets out, quote,
00:17:21.140 not sure Trump urges unity versus racism is how I would have framed the story.
00:17:26.940 Right, you would have framed it with a lie.
00:17:29.200 If that's not how you would have framed the story, then you would have framed it with a lie, I guess.
00:17:32.900 Because if you frame it with the truth, that's what the story says.
00:17:35.860 Cory Booker, Senator Spartacus, crying tears of rage over his own dwindling poll numbers, tweeted out, quote,
00:17:42.880 lives literally depend on you doing better, New York Times.
00:17:47.160 Please do.
00:17:47.960 I was trying to get my tears of rage, Spartacus voice there.
00:17:52.140 Lives literally depend on you doing better, New York Times.
00:17:55.700 Please do.
00:17:57.300 The New York Times headline is going to kill people.
00:18:00.100 Now, talk about a little emotional manipulation.
00:18:04.400 Talk about a threat to the New York Times.
00:18:06.840 Say, hey, New York Times, if you don't report the lies that are politically convenient to me that I want you to use,
00:18:11.960 I'm going to accuse you of killing people.
00:18:15.440 Cory Booker, very serious man.
00:18:17.500 Totally serious Spartacus candidate for president.
00:18:21.140 Then we have AOC, the piece de la resistance.
00:18:24.200 Quote, let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by and often relies upon the cowardice of mainstream institutions.
00:18:34.480 The New York Times is now an organ of white supremacy.
00:18:39.940 You've seen this creep up in the last year or two.
00:18:43.620 The old word that the left would irresponsibly and recklessly use to smear everyone they don't like was racist.
00:18:51.620 Now they're turning it up to 11.
00:18:53.760 They're turning it up a notch and they're saying anyone who disagrees with them is a white supremacist, including now apparently the New York Times.
00:19:00.580 That's it.
00:19:02.640 So this is pretty unfortunate because there are genuinely bigots out there, which I'm more than happy to ostracize and point out that they're bigots and say, therefore, we shouldn't listen to them or take them seriously.
00:19:14.500 When you use the phrase racism, white nationalism, white supremacy, whatever phrase you want to use to describe everybody, it loses its meaning.
00:19:26.600 So you actually can no longer use it to describe even people that it would accurately describe because it doesn't have meaning.
00:19:33.600 The left has robbed it of meaning, another reason that they should feel profound shame in their handling of this story.
00:19:40.860 So what did the New York Times do?
00:19:42.400 Did they keep the headline, all the news that's fit to print, the great lady, the standard of journalism in the world?
00:19:48.700 No, of course not.
00:19:49.380 They capitulated to the left.
00:19:50.780 How could they not?
00:19:51.520 It's their whole audience.
00:19:52.740 It's their whole editorial board.
00:19:55.060 And they're being threatened by the left.
00:19:58.560 I mean, Cory Booker said that we'll accuse you of killing people if you don't change the headline.
00:20:01.600 So they changed the headline to assailing hate, but not guns.
00:20:08.380 Right.
00:20:09.720 We'll get into why in a second because the right is getting this a little bit wrong too.
00:20:13.060 But first, you know, look, you can say the New York Times has totally gone overboard.
00:20:17.140 The New York Times is a former newspaper like Drew calls them.
00:20:20.060 You can say that the cable news networks, MSNBC and CNN are a joke. 0.52
00:20:23.760 They're nothing but Pravda trash for leftist cosplayers and LARPers who want to pretend that we're living in the 1930s Germany, 0.79
00:20:32.900 even though when you look outside at the facts, obviously the human condition is broken. 0.74
00:20:38.500 Obviously there are tragedies that are going to happen and they've happened in the past and they're going to happen in the future.
00:20:42.920 But broadly speaking, everything's going pretty well.
00:20:46.740 Even network news, which is supposed to be more moderate, stalwart, more sober.
00:20:55.220 This is the mainstream that's going out to way more people in the country.
00:20:59.800 Even network news, NBC news network, not cable, accused President Trump of inspiring mass murderers.
00:21:08.060 Here they are.
00:21:09.480 We found the ideology that can inspire some to mass murder is taking inspiration from the president.
00:21:17.040 We went to a neo-Nazi festival in Germany a few weeks ago.
00:21:21.540 But what surprised us most is what organizers were handing out at the door.
00:21:27.280 So they're giving out hats.
00:21:29.600 M-G-H-A, make Germany hate again. 1.00
00:21:34.080 We found the man who made the hats.
00:21:35.960 So people are using his hat as a inspiration.
00:21:40.280 Yes.
00:21:40.880 Do people here like him?
00:21:42.680 Do you like him?
00:21:43.500 I like his style. 0.61
00:21:45.380 NBC news had so much trouble linking President Trump to white supremacists and bigots and racists in America.
00:21:53.960 They had to fly all the way over the Atlantic Ocean. 0.72
00:21:56.900 They had to go to Germany.
00:21:58.920 They had to find some random festival somewhere.
00:22:01.620 They had to pick up a red hat that was totally changed to become a parody of the make America great again hat.
00:22:12.500 It wasn't great.
00:22:13.560 It was hate.
00:22:14.720 It said make Germany hate again.
00:22:16.800 So it wasn't saying we're going to model ourselves after the Trump movement.
00:22:20.140 It was saying we're going to take the Trump movement and invert it.
00:22:23.260 Right?
00:22:23.420 Not great, but hate.
00:22:24.280 They had to go all the way over there to tie President Trump to this kind of bigotry.
00:22:30.900 And then they say, they said, do you like Trump?
00:22:32.220 And they said, well, I like his style.
00:22:34.380 Yeah, they like the style.
00:22:35.400 They like the hat.
00:22:36.760 They don't like what he's doing.
00:22:37.920 They don't like what he's saying.
00:22:38.920 They don't like his policies, but they like, you know, the hat.
00:22:43.220 Breaking news report.
00:22:44.100 We found a team that flew to Germany to find a festival where the people liked red hats.
00:22:53.880 NBC News. 0.64
00:22:54.880 All so that they can say that Trump inspires neo-Nazis and mass murderers.
00:22:59.040 Then the phrase on Twitter, massacre Moscow Mitch, started to trend. 0.98
00:23:03.840 These are people who refer to Mitch McConnell as Moscow Mitch because they can't get over that ridiculous conspiracy
00:23:10.360 that President Trump is a puppet of the Russian government, even though even, even Bob Mueller
00:23:15.200 totally disproved that in his Mueller report.
00:23:17.960 Even though you would think the more educated Democrats, maybe I'm, maybe I'm using a phrase
00:23:22.780 that's a contradiction in terms.
00:23:24.200 You would think they would get over that hoax after three years.
00:23:26.600 They haven't.
00:23:27.760 So massacre Moscow Mitch. 0.91
00:23:30.320 Slaughter the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, was trending on Twitter.
00:23:33.240 And I wouldn't even bring it up because Twitter is not real life.
00:23:36.180 I've said this many times.
00:23:37.080 Twitter is not real life.
00:23:38.060 However, it wasn't just the wacky anonymous accounts that were tweeting.
00:23:41.880 It was CNN contributors, CNN contributor Wajahat Ali.
00:23:45.440 I don't know how to pronounce his name because I don't know who he is because I don't watch
00:23:48.360 CNN, but he is a CNN contributor.
00:23:50.720 Wajahat Ali tweeted out, quote, massacre Moscow Mitch is trending.
00:23:54.520 I still have faith in America.
00:23:56.820 Imagine if a Fox contributor in 2011 tweeted out massacre Barack Obama is trending.
00:24:03.880 I have faith in America.
00:24:05.500 Imagine what would happen.
00:24:06.900 The guy would probably be arrested.
00:24:09.320 But what's happened to this guy, Wajahat Ali, as of now, nothing.
00:24:13.460 He tweets us about Mitch McConnell.
00:24:15.080 Right now, Mitch McConnell is at his home recovering from a shoulder injury because he
00:24:18.720 fell because he's got weak legs because he's a recoverer and victim of polio in his youth.
00:24:24.840 A lot of people don't know that about Mitch McConnell, but he had polio.
00:24:27.480 So how did the left treat him?
00:24:28.880 Why, of course, a mob showed up outside his house while massacre Mitch was trending to physically
00:24:33.840 intimidate him.
00:24:34.520 Here they are.
00:24:35.720 We're at McConnell's house.
00:24:37.740 This think he's about to get some rest.
00:24:39.880 Not if the kills, the children that you're kidnapping can't get any rest.
00:24:43.660 Not if families are getting murdered can't get any rest.
00:24:47.660 Mitch.
00:24:49.600 Ditch Mitch.
00:24:52.060 Ditch Mitch.
00:24:53.200 That's a mob in the middle of the night outside the home of the elderly Senate majority leader
00:25:18.680 polio, polio victim recovering from a shoulder injury because of children he's kidnapping.
00:25:26.220 I guess that refers to the fact that we arrest illegal aliens and this myth that we're keeping
00:25:32.460 children in cages using photos that actually are from the Obama administration.
00:25:37.120 That's the left for you.
00:25:38.700 And then my favorite one, Riza Aslan, who's a former CNN contributor and an admitted cannibal,
00:25:44.580 actual cannibal, actually ate human brains on camera, he came out and called for the
00:25:49.960 murder of Kellyanne Conway, the senior advisor to the president.
00:25:52.300 We'll get to that in a second.
00:25:53.280 We'll get to what this means for the left.
00:25:54.900 We will get to a really terrible editorial from the New York Post, usually right, usually
00:25:59.100 conservative.
00:25:59.980 They've gone totally bonkers on guns.
00:26:02.740 And then really we'll get to the most important story, which is China's currency manipulation
00:26:06.440 and what we're doing to combat it.
00:26:08.540 But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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00:26:28.620 I have to thank all of you for going over and listening to it.
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00:26:37.960 You can check that out on the Ben Shapiro show RSS feed and podcast feed.
00:26:43.440 And it was a lot of fun to sit down with Ben.
00:26:45.920 So please go over there and look also, because if we get it to trend higher, Ben will have
00:26:50.020 to have me back on and that will make him very sad and it will make me giggle.
00:26:53.600 So go over there, go to dailywire.com.
00:26:55.840 We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:26:57.040 Finally, this is the little cherry on top of this hate filled Sunday from the left reacting
00:27:13.020 to a national tragedy and blaming the right for it with no base whatsoever.
00:27:17.380 Former CNN contributor and admitted cannibal Riza Aslan called for the murder of the senior
00:27:22.960 advisor to the president, Kellyanne Conway. 0.99
00:27:24.840 He tweeted out, quote, you are the depraved evil we need to eradicate. 0.56
00:27:30.400 Because Kellyanne Conway said we need to eradicate depraved evil. 0.95
00:27:33.220 Obviously, that's what we all want to do.
00:27:36.120 Evil doesn't have a political party.
00:27:39.520 The shooter in Texas might have been a little more right wing, maybe.
00:27:43.400 He's very left wing too, but even let's just say he was a little more right wing.
00:27:47.740 The shooter in Ohio was obviously very left wing.
00:27:50.140 Evil doesn't have a political party.
00:27:52.780 We need to eradicate evil. 0.99
00:27:54.680 And Riza Aslan responded to that by saying we need to eradicate you. 0.78
00:27:59.020 He didn't say we need to eradicate you from office. 0.71
00:28:01.200 Didn't say we need to eradicate you from politics. 0.99
00:28:04.460 Said we need to eradicate you. 1.00
00:28:06.160 We need to murder you. 1.00
00:28:09.780 Imagine, imagine if someone, a conservative, tweeted out about a senior advisor to Barack Obama. 1.00
00:28:16.220 We need to kill you. 1.00
00:28:17.000 We need to eradicate you. 1.00
00:28:18.020 Roseanne Barr once tweeted out a racially insensitive joke about the senior advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett. 1.00
00:28:27.620 She lost her hit sitcom within hours.
00:28:32.760 This guy, CNN contributor Riza Aslan, calls to murder the senior advisor to the president.
00:28:37.240 And what has happened?
00:28:39.320 Nothing.
00:28:39.880 This in a situation where one of the shooters is an admitted socialist and Liz Warren supporter.
00:28:49.840 But the left doesn't care.
00:28:51.140 They don't report on it.
00:28:52.260 They blame the right for everything.
00:28:53.700 They call the right bigoted.
00:28:55.500 No introspection, no humility, no grace. 0.77
00:28:58.140 They just pretend that they're all white supremacists and so is Trump and so is everybody else.
00:29:01.980 This, this reminds me, when we're, when the right is looking about how to respond to this, it makes me think, you know, when you're in middle school or high school, everyone's giving each other or they're breaking each other's coolions, you know, they're giving each other a hard time, busting each other's chops.
00:29:20.760 And there's sometimes, at least among guys, I assume this is true among girls too, where, you know, you're giving it back and forth to each other and you're insulting one another and you can do it in kind of good fun or it can turn a corner and it becomes serious and it becomes really bullying and it becomes like you realize the other guy hates you.
00:29:41.920 You're not just kidding around anymore.
00:29:43.260 And I think in American politics, the right is under this misapprehension that we're just kind of joking around and look, the right says bad things about the left, which we do. 0.93
00:29:51.920 We call them kind of dummies sometimes or hysterical children.
00:29:54.900 And then the left says bad things about the right. 0.94
00:29:56.920 But, you know, look, at the end of the day, we're all Americans.
00:29:58.720 We all get along.
00:30:00.400 That's not what we're seeing here.
00:30:02.960 They hate us.
00:30:04.860 They hate our guts. 1.00
00:30:07.180 They wish we were eradicated. 1.00
00:30:09.400 They think that we are Nazis. 0.98
00:30:11.180 They think we're the same thing as Hitler.
00:30:14.860 They hate us.
00:30:18.460 It's not just in good political fun back and forth.
00:30:24.220 They despise us.
00:30:26.180 They want our shows taken off the air.
00:30:28.520 They want us to leave the country.
00:30:30.220 They hate us.
00:30:31.560 It's not the same thing.
00:30:33.900 And what this means, like when you got to stand up to the bully in middle school or high school,
00:30:38.420 it means you can't just kind of make a joke about it anymore.
00:30:41.680 You've got to really, you've got to really take them on seriously.
00:30:46.020 And what this means is that probably on the right, we need our own media matters.
00:30:50.180 What this means on the right is we need to really speak with brutal honesty about them.
00:30:55.460 Not in the way that you talk about a friend and you say, well, I'm going to have a little grace.
00:30:59.200 I'm going to, no, I don't think we can have grace right now with the left.
00:31:03.180 I think we need to speak brutally, honestly about them. 0.91
00:31:08.900 What hopeless bigots they are. 0.99
00:31:11.560 How vile and filled with hatred they are. 1.00
00:31:15.000 How despicably they're exploiting the not yet cold bodies of dead Americans for their own sick, shallow political purposes. 0.99
00:31:24.560 It's so shameful. 0.55
00:31:26.520 They should feel profound shame.
00:31:28.080 Their parents should feel shame for what they're doing.
00:31:30.120 Their parents should be deeply ashamed of them.
00:31:34.080 And they should be ashamed of themselves.
00:31:35.640 And they should go and sit at home and cry.
00:31:38.080 And think about what terrible actions they've undertaken.
00:31:41.060 And what terrible people they've become.
00:31:43.220 And then they should ask forgiveness of their God.
00:31:46.120 And ask forgiveness of all of us.
00:31:48.080 And ask forgiveness of the President.
00:31:49.680 And ask forgiveness of Kellyanne Conway.
00:31:51.280 And ask forgiveness of Mitch McConnell.
00:31:52.740 And ask, plead on their hands and knees, 0.76
00:31:55.340 if they can be permitted back into polite civil society. 0.97
00:31:58.140 It's really, really disgusting. 0.98
00:32:01.800 All of them.
00:32:04.820 The Pod Save America guy is saying that if you watch Fox News, 0.85
00:32:08.600 you're contributing to white supremacy and mass killings. 1.00
00:32:12.140 Disgusting. 1.00
00:32:13.060 That man should not be, Dan Pfeiffer is his name. 0.99
00:32:15.600 He should not be permitted in polite society. 0.95
00:32:17.900 The cannibal, Risa Aslan. 0.72
00:32:18.840 I guess cannibals generally shouldn't be permitted in polite society. 1.00
00:32:21.600 Risa Aslan should not be permitted in polite society. 1.00
00:32:24.480 You know, when Bill de Blasio basically maligned all of his New York City police officers
00:32:31.800 as killers and thugs and racists, you know what they did?
00:32:35.120 They didn't attack him. 0.97
00:32:36.060 They didn't physically attack him.
00:32:37.180 They shouldn't do that.
00:32:38.320 They just turned their backs on him.
00:32:40.400 That's what we should do.
00:32:41.320 We should take a moment after this awful temper tantrum from the left.
00:32:45.460 Vile, vicious temper tantrum.
00:32:46.980 We should just turn our backs, not give them attention, not engage with them for a little
00:32:54.340 bit.
00:32:55.140 Just turn our backs and like vicious teenagers, when they calm down, they can come back and
00:33:03.800 ask forgiveness and maybe we can, we can show them grace.
00:33:06.740 We can show them grace then.
00:33:07.960 We can't right now.
00:33:08.640 Got to turn to the right very briefly because at the New York Post editorial board, they 0.99
00:33:14.680 published a very stupid op-air, editorial rather, on this tragedy about guns called 0.99
00:33:21.280 Ban Weapons of War. 1.00
00:33:24.880 This could have been written by a leftist or by someone who's never fired a gun or even
00:33:29.500 read a book about guns in their lives.
00:33:31.100 It's really, I like the editorial board at the New York Post. 1.00
00:33:33.580 I don't want to beat up on them, but this is just really stupid. 0.99
00:33:36.280 So very briefly, we'll, we'll go through it. 0.98
00:33:39.140 They go on, you can read the whole editorial with just a few lines that stand out.
00:33:43.160 Ban Weapons of War.
00:33:44.200 God save us all, sir.
00:33:45.800 People across the nation are scared.
00:33:47.420 Many feel like the country is spinning out of control.
00:33:49.620 They're looking to their leaders for more than prayers.
00:33:52.300 America is terrified.
00:33:53.740 Okay, good.
00:33:55.100 That's true.
00:33:55.660 We all agree.
00:33:56.340 But you see what they're doing is they're ginning this up as a purely emotional issue.
00:33:59.760 So we're not talking about statistics.
00:34:01.740 We're not talking about data.
00:34:02.680 We're not talking about how guns actually are operated.
00:34:04.940 Just saying we have a lot of feelings and now we need feelings.
00:34:08.640 President Trump, you're positioned to assuage that fear on gun control.
00:34:11.620 You're a pragmatic centrist.
00:34:13.100 Someone who knows there's a vast majority of Americans who are not to the extreme left
00:34:16.960 or right on the issue.
00:34:17.740 They just want the killings to stop.
00:34:20.060 So again, this is just appeal to emotion.
00:34:22.480 Just appeal to how people are feeling.
00:34:25.460 And this premise that if you ban guns or certain guns, the killings will stop.
00:34:29.040 The Second Amendment leaves ample room for regulating gun rights, just as every other constitutional
00:34:34.900 right has limits.
00:34:36.220 Yeah, that's true.
00:34:36.860 We do regulate gun rights.
00:34:38.140 The New York Post doesn't mention that we have an estimated 20,000 gun laws on the books
00:34:42.300 at the state, municipal, and federal level.
00:34:44.560 We actually don't know how many gun laws there are because we have a federalist system,
00:34:48.100 federalist system.
00:34:48.920 So there are a lot of different laws everywhere.
00:34:50.720 But it's been estimated for about 50 years that we have around 20,000 laws.
00:34:54.120 Trump has sneered at others for being afraid of the NRA when it comes to passing common
00:34:59.220 sense gun laws.
00:35:00.140 What's a common sense gun law?
00:35:01.500 You tell me.
00:35:02.100 I don't know.
00:35:02.840 He'd surely have rather had Congress pass a law banning bump stocks, although his administration
00:35:07.380 got it done eventually through executive action.
00:35:10.320 Yeah, right.
00:35:10.860 He banned bump stocks and that didn't do anything to reduce any mass shootings whatsoever.
00:35:15.740 The New York Post, through this one little bit, little fact that they managed to sneak
00:35:19.940 in in this emotivist editorial, they undermine their premise.
00:35:24.400 Trump did ban bump stocks. 1.00
00:35:25.940 It was a stupid decision to do that at the time. 1.00
00:35:27.940 It didn't have any bearing in the reality of crime or gun deaths. 1.00
00:35:32.320 And, and guess what?
00:35:33.880 We had two mass shootings two days in a row over the weekend.
00:35:37.600 Didn't do anything.
00:35:38.820 But I'm sure this, this totally emotionally driven piece of gun control, I'm sure this
00:35:44.080 will do something now, right?
00:35:45.400 Come up with answers.
00:35:46.340 Now, beginning with the return of an assault weapons ban.
00:35:49.400 By the way, assault weapons, not a real category of gun.
00:35:52.640 There are assault rifles.
00:35:53.740 Those are fully automatic rifles.
00:35:55.620 Those are virtually banned in the United States, more or less totally banned.
00:36:00.200 Assault weapons is a term invented in the 1980s to confuse people who don't know anything
00:36:03.900 about guns.
00:36:04.740 They just refer to any sort of regular old rifle where you pull the trigger once and
00:36:08.360 one round is fired.
00:36:09.680 And they have a few cosmetic features that make them look a little scarier.
00:36:13.340 But functionally speaking, they're the same as just about any rifle.
00:36:15.840 The New York Post uses that meaningless language, that deceptive language.
00:36:21.360 We know that label doesn't actually describe a clear class of guns.
00:36:24.460 Okay, then why'd you use the label?
00:36:26.720 And that some studies show that the last ban, in effect from 1994 to 2004, had a limited impact.
00:36:32.000 Yep, also true.
00:36:33.000 But that simply means the next ban should be better written with a clear definition focused
00:36:37.000 on factors like firepower, rate of fire, muzzle velocity, et cetera, not on cosmetic features.
00:36:42.420 Now, this shows their just total ignorance of guns because there is no difference in the
00:36:48.780 rate of fire or the muzzle velocity of this one class that they're calling assault weapons
00:36:53.800 and other types of rifles.
00:36:55.680 They're just, they're just rifles.
00:36:57.340 The cosmetic feature is the thing.
00:37:01.160 The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to own guns in
00:37:04.160 common use, but that doesn't cover semi-automatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings.
00:37:09.140 Yes, it does because they're not regularly used only in mass shootings.
00:37:12.300 AR-15s are like the most popular gun in America.
00:37:15.180 And they're popular because they're pretty good guns.
00:37:16.900 I mean, they're, they're light, they're, they're good rifles, but they're just guns.
00:37:20.280 They are, they are the common weapon.
00:37:22.340 Again, it just belies this ignorance about guns that usually we see on the left, but occasionally
00:37:27.060 we see on the right.
00:37:29.040 Guns don't kill people. 1.00
00:37:30.040 People do, says the cliche.
00:37:31.840 It's not a cliche.
00:37:32.760 It's a fact.
00:37:33.960 But the twisted and the evil can kill a lot more when handed a murder machine.
00:37:38.440 A murder, what a murder machine that we're to AR-15s are murder machines, but pistols
00:37:42.300 are what?
00:37:43.220 Lollipops?
00:37:44.160 Pistols are cotton candy?
00:37:46.140 No, actually.
00:37:47.480 Actually, if you look at the data, handguns kill over 22 times as many people each year
00:37:52.960 as all rifles, not just the murder machine, assault weapon, whatever fake term you want
00:37:57.880 to use, all rifles put together, including AR-15s and any other assault weapon you want
00:38:03.700 to include in there.
00:38:04.880 22 times more people.
00:38:09.440 Handguns killed many more people over that 48-hour period where we saw the shootings in
00:38:14.340 El Paso and Dayton, Ohio than rifles of any kind, including assault weapons, quote unquote.
00:38:23.280 Our founding fathers gave us the right to bear arm in a time of muskets. 1.00
00:38:26.340 Again, not true. 1.00
00:38:27.760 First of all, I love this idea that our founding fathers are these idiots who just, they could 1.00
00:38:31.660 construct the greatest republic in the history of mankind. 1.00
00:38:34.640 They were some of the most learned people who lived in history, and yet they couldn't
00:38:39.540 suspect that, hmm, maybe guns which have been improving in technology for the past hundreds
00:38:44.200 of years will continue to improve in technology.
00:38:47.400 Also, we didn't just have muskets at that time.
00:38:50.000 We had the Kentucky rifle as early as the early 18th century.
00:38:54.260 It was a powerful gun, a murder machine, a weapon of war.
00:38:58.820 We had weapons of war, and weapons of war particularly, specifically were protected by the Second Amendment.
00:39:04.220 The Second Amendment protected the weapons that were used in the Revolutionary War.
00:39:07.420 Peace goes on.
00:39:09.660 They did not foresee a time when a 21-year-old could kill 20 people in the span of minutes.
00:39:14.280 Yes, they did. 1.00
00:39:15.460 They weren't idiots. 0.99
00:39:17.320 Contrary to this modern belief that everyone who lived more than five minutes ago was a 0.99
00:39:21.300 total dummy and were really smart, believe it or not, even the old-timey people with 0.99
00:39:26.660 the powdered wigs were not total idiots. 1.00
00:39:30.240 It does not have to be this way. 1.00
00:39:31.620 It should not have to be this way, Mr. President.
00:39:33.200 Do something.
00:39:33.680 Help America live without fear.
00:39:34.820 More people are killed each year by bats, hammers, hands, fists, feet than are killed
00:39:40.460 by any kind of rifle, including the AR-15.
00:39:46.480 An assault weapons ban, quote-unquote, would do nothing.
00:39:50.160 It would accomplish nothing.
00:39:51.800 It would just make people feel good and make right-wingers who are usually pretty clear
00:39:57.340 thinking but are on occasion susceptible to emotional, emotivist arguments, make them feel
00:40:02.700 like they've done something, but they haven't.
00:40:05.200 This is why the left always wants us to leap into action.
00:40:07.800 Think.
00:40:08.160 We can't wait.
00:40:08.960 The time is now.
00:40:09.980 We have to act.
00:40:10.840 They want us to act before we think because when we think, we look at the numbers and
00:40:15.860 we realize this is nothing but emotional manipulation.
00:40:19.620 It would not really save American lives.
00:40:22.000 It would only take away a cherished and inherited right that we in this country have had for centuries
00:40:27.840 and that we inherited from our political ancestors centuries before that.
00:40:33.620 We need to defend reality.
00:40:35.520 Conservatives need to defend reality in the face of this frivolous emotivism.
00:40:41.980 You know, that's all the left has in this election is frivolous emotivism.
00:40:47.620 This is one of my favorite things.
00:40:48.940 Going back to the race issue.
00:40:50.640 You have this new phrase that's cropped up on the left.
00:40:53.620 You see it in the presidential debates.
00:40:54.840 It's called pass the mic, this idea that white people shouldn't be able to say anything. 0.60
00:40:59.400 Only people of color should say something. 1.00
00:41:02.620 They are the only ones who should have political opinions.
00:41:04.940 And what's so funny is the people who use this phrase don't believe it themselves because
00:41:10.820 the people who use that phrase are always the white people.
00:41:12.760 It's always these white liberals saying, I love passing the mic.
00:41:16.140 There was a guy, this got tens of thousands of retweets and likes over the weekend.
00:41:20.960 This guy, Ethan Wright, some young leftist guy.
00:41:23.660 He tweets out, attention, white activists, take notice of this great tactic to help uplift
00:41:28.480 other voices.
00:41:29.520 And it's a video of him with a little smug smile passing a microphone.
00:41:34.100 You know, if you believed it, he would actually just pass the microphone instead of posting
00:41:38.000 a tweet about how great he is and why people should listen to him and watch him passing the
00:41:42.360 microphone to get tens and tens of thousands of retweets.
00:41:45.420 Kirsten Gillibrand did this at the last presidential debate.
00:41:48.160 There's a great photo of her.
00:41:49.260 Kamala Harris starts speaking and she puts her hand out and stops Kamala Harris, a black 0.99
00:41:54.220 woman, from speaking so that she, a blonde white woman, can talk about how important 0.99
00:41:58.300 it is to not have blonde white women speak and only have black people speak. 1.00
00:42:02.140 So I don't believe that it's the responsibility of Corey and Kamala to be the only voice that
00:42:10.600 takes on these issues of institutional racism, systemic racism in our country.
00:42:14.700 I think as a white woman of privilege who is a U.S. senator running for president of 0.99
00:42:19.520 the United States, it is also my responsibility to lift over those voices that aren't being
00:42:24.580 listened to.
00:42:25.460 And I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to 1.00
00:42:29.180 them what white privilege actually is.
00:42:31.140 That when their son is walking down a street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie,
00:42:36.160 his whiteness is what protects him from not being shot. 0.89
00:42:38.760 When their child has a car that breaks down and he knocks on someone's door for help and
00:42:49.060 the door opens and the help is given, it's his whiteness that protects him from being 1.00
00:42:52.720 shot. 0.71
00:42:53.520 That is what white privilege in America is today.
00:42:56.320 And so my responsibility is to not only lift up those stories, but explain to communities
00:43:00.760 across America, like I did in Youngstown, Ohio, to a young mother, that this is all of our
00:43:06.100 responsibilities and that together we can make our community stronger.
00:43:09.900 Who better to uplift black voices than a blonde white woman? 1.00
00:43:12.880 Maybe the most Aryan looking woman ever to walk the face of the earth. 1.00
00:43:15.940 Who better?
00:43:17.500 I actually now might believe in white privilege.
00:43:19.640 I think white privilege is just the obliviousness to shut up Kamala Harris and Cory Booker so that
00:43:27.220 you can ramble on for over a minute about how terrible white privilege is and how we just 0.96
00:43:31.840 need to uplift black voices and not have white voices. 0.96
00:43:34.360 That, you know, Eric Swalwell, before he dropped out of the race, someone asked him, you're
00:43:38.220 just a white guy.
00:43:38.940 Why are you running?
00:43:40.560 And he said, well, I'm a white guy who understands and I'm going to pass the mic when, when I,
00:43:46.220 other people have experiences that I don't.
00:43:48.600 Well, he's passed the mic only because his campaign ran out of money and support.
00:43:53.520 It's, it's a total lie.
00:43:56.400 They, they don't pass the mic.
00:43:58.000 They want to keep the mic and then they want to hold that mic and they want to tell you about
00:44:01.640 how much they love passing the mic.
00:44:03.420 It is just a totally empty virtue signal on race.
00:44:09.760 And it's meant to gin up racial division, racial hatred, and make you think that anyone 0.98
00:44:15.000 to the right of them is some racist, awful, terrible bigot. 1.00
00:44:19.180 It's disgusting. 1.00
00:44:20.780 They should feel deeply ashamed for it.
00:44:23.320 And if they, I fear that it's going to tear the country apart in many ways.
00:44:29.940 I mean, their, their whole political career is just ripping open old racial wounds, racial 0.60
00:44:34.480 wounds that were caused by the way, by their own political party, but, or mostly by their
00:44:39.560 own political party, but they don't care.
00:44:42.860 I mean, they don't care about the country.
00:44:44.480 They don't like the country.
00:44:45.340 They say they want to fundamentally transform it anyway.
00:44:47.200 And it looks like that process is underway, but at least we should open our eyes to see what
00:44:50.900 they're doing.
00:44:51.280 Before we go, I just have to make one point on this news coming out of the White House,
00:44:57.060 the actual news of the day, instead of all this emotivist frivolity from the left, which
00:45:01.240 is that the Treasury Department is now officially labeling China a currency manipulator.
00:45:06.960 This is long overdue.
00:45:09.000 And I know this is kind of a complex issue.
00:45:10.600 So just to, to put it in, in simple terms, a lot of times the left and the, the institutional
00:45:16.700 right doesn't want to acknowledge that we do have an issue on trade.
00:45:20.620 We, that President Trump is right on this trade issue, that we're going into a trade
00:45:25.640 war, which big business and the Chamber of Commerce hates, but we're going into it 15
00:45:29.660 years overdue.
00:45:30.580 We're already in a trade war.
00:45:31.820 China has been leveling this trade war against us for years and big business basically just
00:45:36.580 wanted to turn a blind eye to prioritize their own profits over the health of the country
00:45:40.260 in the long term.
00:45:41.400 Fair enough.
00:45:41.840 That's big business's prerogative, but it's not terribly patriotic and we've got to do something
00:45:45.280 about it.
00:45:47.240 China has been illegally manipulating their currency.
00:45:51.300 About 18 years ago now, we allowed China into the World Trade Organization.
00:45:55.020 This was probably a mistake.
00:45:56.760 We, we have the World Trade Organization, we have Global Trade and the Global Trade Order
00:46:01.020 in order to facilitate the movement of goods and services around the world.
00:46:04.740 And what we had been doing is allowing smaller economies into the World Trade Organization,
00:46:09.920 Japan, South Korea.
00:46:11.760 And because they were smaller economies and because they were under US military protection,
00:46:16.340 we had some leverage over them.
00:46:18.460 So we open up our markets, they open up their markets, and if they start violating the trade
00:46:22.420 rules, then we have this leverage over them.
00:46:24.760 And so we can keep things in, in order.
00:46:27.260 When we allowed China in, China had a way, way bigger population and a way, way bigger economy,
00:46:32.240 trillions and trillions of dollars in their economy and over a billion people.
00:46:36.040 And we allowed them in.
00:46:37.440 Obviously, they're not under our military protection.
00:46:39.640 It meant that we had no leverage on them and they consistently would violate trade.
00:46:43.600 They would steal our intellectual property.
00:46:45.740 They would force hidden taxes on foreign businesses, really meaning US businesses that would operate
00:46:52.580 there.
00:46:52.880 They would force them to use local banking partners, which was just a grift.
00:46:56.300 It was a total extortion racket.
00:46:59.080 They spy on us.
00:47:00.200 They obviously put spyware in our technology, which they're producing.
00:47:03.920 And they illegally subsidize steel and aluminum, which is in violation of the World Trade
00:47:07.880 Organization.
00:47:08.780 And they manipulate their currency.
00:47:11.760 So the reason they manipulate their currency and devalue their currency is it gave them a
00:47:16.240 trade advantage over the United States.
00:47:18.220 So the way this works is when China is exporting lots and lots of goods, they want to keep exporting
00:47:25.320 lots and lots of goods, but as the price of the yuan, their currency increases, that compromises
00:47:31.080 that.
00:47:31.380 So what they do is they sell off a lot of their yuan and they buy other currencies, really
00:47:35.740 meaning the dollar.
00:47:37.120 And they buy this dollar, which artificially and illegally devalues their currency and allows
00:47:42.360 them to keep exporting lots of goods and not have to import as many goods so it protects
00:47:46.400 their own companies.
00:47:47.700 This has cost the United States at least a million jobs over the years, probably more
00:47:52.560 than that, maybe three million jobs or even more.
00:47:55.080 This has really hurt manufacturers in the United States and it's illegal.
00:47:59.000 This is not free trade.
00:48:00.120 There is nothing free or fair about it.
00:48:02.620 It has also exacerbated our trade deficit.
00:48:05.480 We would not have had nearly as big a trade deficit if China had not been doing this, if
00:48:09.580 we called them out for this.
00:48:11.560 Now, the United States can't really have a tit for tat here and devalue our currency by
00:48:16.680 buying more of their currency because we're the global reserve currency.
00:48:20.480 So if we did that, it could really throw the global financial system into chaos.
00:48:25.380 The long and short of this is we have to fight back for the long-term health of our country,
00:48:30.020 for the long-term health of our economy, for the long-term health of our national security.
00:48:34.000 And it's going to cause financial trouble in the short term.
00:48:37.780 It might cause a dip in GDP.
00:48:39.360 It might cause our stocks to drop.
00:48:41.760 That's the cost of citizenship.
00:48:43.240 That's the cost of, of nationhood.
00:48:45.820 Politicians of both parties, when they've been honest over the last 20 years, including
00:48:49.000 Chuck Schumer just recently, said, we need to get tough on China.
00:48:52.880 We can't kick this down the road anymore.
00:48:54.900 President Trump is doing this.
00:48:56.180 He's taking a political hit for doing it, but it's the patriotic thing.
00:48:58.900 It's the right thing to do.
00:48:59.960 And I hope he, I hope he doesn't go weak.
00:49:01.740 I hope he stays, stays strong on China. 0.84
00:49:04.000 Okay, that's our show.
00:49:04.660 We got a lot more to get to.
00:49:05.660 We'll have to do it tomorrow.
00:49:06.520 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:49:07.900 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:49:09.220 See you then.
00:49:11.560 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz, director Mike Joyner, executive
00:49:20.320 producer Jeremy Boring.
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00:49:40.600 Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:49:44.280 You know, Donald Trump may be rude, but the mainstream left is truly appalling.
00:49:49.280 They use the bodies of the innocent to push their agenda, and they demonize every point
00:49:53.360 of view that's not their own. 0.97
00:49:55.020 To paraphrase the immortal final line from the film Jagged Edge, screw them. 1.00
00:49:59.200 They're trash. 1.00
00:49:59.900 If the New York Times won't help us find a way to discuss our problems, we'll do it 0.99
00:50:03.620 ourselves on The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:50:05.620 I'm Andrew Klavan.
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