The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 400 - America's Original Sin

00:00:00.000 Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who openly campaigns for the destruction of the 0.96

00:00:05.280 state of Israel, is refused entry into Israel, at which point she begs Israel to let her in to

00:00:10.980 see her Arab grandmother, at which point Israel offers to let her come in, at which point Tlaib

00:00:15.880 says she doesn't want to go. We will examine what Congresswoman Tlaib finds so objectionable

00:00:21.220 about Israel. Spoiler alert, it's all the Jews. Then President Trump proposes buying Greenland.

00:00:28.040 The mainstream media laugh, but it's actually one of Trump's best ideas yet. Planned Parenthood

00:00:32.340 threatens to defund itself. A witness corroborates a bartender's account of being sexually harassed

00:00:37.740 by Don Lemon. And the New York Times has a bold new strategy for covering President Trump and

00:00:43.220 conservatives. They're going to call us all racist. We will examine America's original sin from the

00:00:49.120 very beginning. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:57.520 A lot to get to today, guys. On this, my 400th episode. I didn't think Ben was going to let me

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00:01:17.600 Today's show is going to be all about sin, specifically America's original sin. But let's

00:01:22.560 start with a more immediate sin first. Actually, great news with regard to this sin. The sin is

00:01:29.020 abortion, and the great news is that Planned Parenthood is being defunded, at least partially.

00:01:34.820 Planned Parenthood, we're going to get final word on this today, but it looks as though Planned

00:01:39.360 Parenthood is going to be defunded. And the funnier part is, it's going to be defunded by Planned

00:01:44.940 Parenthood. It's not going to be Congress. It's not even going to be really technically the White

00:01:51.240 House. It's going to be Planned Parenthood that is defunding itself. Now, that will be to the tune

00:01:55.880 of about $60 million, maybe a little bit more. Planned Parenthood gets half a billion dollars

00:02:00.200 each year in taxpayer funding. So it's not the whole thing, but it's a pretty good

00:02:03.700 dent. How is this happening? This is all because of a Trump administration rule change to the Title

00:02:10.680 10 program. And it tells you a lot about the way that President Trump does business and how he does

00:02:15.780 government, because this was a pretty brilliant move that a lot of us didn't see coming. What is

00:02:22.340 Title 10? Title 10 is the federal program dedicated to providing individuals with comprehensive family

00:02:28.700 planning and related preventative health services. Now, family planning has become a euphemism to mean

00:02:35.780 killing babies, but it doesn't have to be that way. It can also involve birth control or prenatal care

00:02:41.320 or all of these aspects related to sexual health and to pregnancy. Now, though, Planned Parenthood

00:02:47.960 just uses family planning to be a euphemism for planning to get rid of your family by killing your

00:02:53.840 babies through reproductive health, which is actually a service to stop reproduction. There's a lot of

00:02:59.180 politically correct irony and inversion going on. Title 10 was established by President Nixon in 1970.

00:03:06.200 And now in recent years, it's just been used by Planned Parenthood as a slush fund

00:03:11.160 so that you, the taxpayer, can pay for abortions, even though legally you're not supposed to be

00:03:16.300 forced to pay for abortions. So the Trump administration very quietly, very sneakily

00:03:20.920 established a new rule. The new rule bars taxpayer funded family planning clinics from talking with

00:03:28.700 their patients about abortion or referring them to abortion providers. So they're saying, okay, look,

00:03:34.900 we have all this federal money that's going toward family planning. You can get the money,

00:03:39.140 no big deal. Planned Parenthood, you're welcome to the money. Only thing is you can't talk about

00:03:43.520 abortion. But that's okay, Planned Parenthood, right? Because Planned Parenthood always talks

00:03:47.620 about how they barely do any abortions. Abortion's a tiny, tiny percentage of their business. 1.00

00:03:53.940 97% of services, they say, are not abortion related. Now we know that that's BS. We know that

00:03:59.840 Planned Parenthood only exists to perform abortions and that makes up the actual lion's share of their

00:04:04.760 business, the vast, vast majority of it. But they cook the numbers and they try to pretend otherwise.

00:04:08.840 So the federal government says, okay, fine, good, good, good thing. If abortion's only 3% of your

00:04:15.100 business, then it's no big deal. Don't talk about abortion and you get the money. But Planned Parenthood 0.99

00:04:20.420 can't do that because all they exist to do is perform abortions. So Planned Parenthood has been 1.00

00:04:26.160 fighting this rule change for months now. And we've now seen two court decisions rule in favor of the

00:04:33.300 Trump administration and against Planned Parenthood. What's even crazier about this is the decisions

00:04:39.320 came from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ninth Circuit is that very liberal left-wing circuit,

00:04:47.480 the one that Trump himself has called out and said that that's awful and it's very left-wing.

00:04:52.400 They always come to these left-wing decisions. And yet, twice, they rule in favor of Trump and against

00:04:58.360 Planned Parenthood. Even more than that, the court denied Planned Parenthood's request for an en banc

00:05:06.580 hearing, meaning all of the judges, not just a panel of judges, and they did it unanimously.

00:05:14.280 That is pretty brutal for Planned Parenthood. You've got the most left-wing court in the land 1.00

00:05:19.080 ruling unanimously against you. So they're not going to bring it up to the Supreme Court. There's not a

00:05:23.240 chance. If they can't win at the Ninth Circuit and if they lose unanimously, they're certainly not going to

00:05:27.780 take it all the way up to the Supreme Court. This shows us an incredible pattern emerging with President

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00:07:39.600 slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S. What this tells us about Trump, the fact that he sort of secretly

00:07:48.100 defunded a good amount of Planned Parenthood. We'll find out if Planned Parenthood formally

00:07:52.860 pulls out of Title X today. I mean, it's probably happening right now, but most people are predicting

00:07:59.200 that they will because they can't go on as the abortion mill that they are if they agree to 0.82

00:08:05.180 this new rule. That means President Trump just, while everyone was looking over here,

00:08:11.120 while everyone was looking at all the tweets and all the covfefe, President Trump accomplished

00:08:14.820 a significant portion of a significant promise of something that conservatives have been trying

00:08:19.420 to do for decades. We're seeing this pattern. In 2017, President Trump failed to repeal Obamacare.

00:08:28.460 Do you remember that? He campaigned on Obamacare. Forget him. Republicans had been campaigning

00:08:33.140 against Obamacare since 2009. And they just had failed to do it. 2010, they didn't do it. 2012,

00:08:39.660 they didn't do it. 2014, they didn't do it. 2016, Trump gets elected. He campaigns on it.

00:08:44.080 2017, they failed to defund Obamacare, to overturn and repeal Obamacare. And that's mostly because

00:08:51.280 John McCain changed his mind at the last minute and really messed us over on an important campaign

00:08:58.580 promise for the American people. But then what happened? Trump was upset about that. He still,

00:09:05.120 you know, can't even hear the name John McCain without shivers going up his spine. But in 2018,

00:09:10.540 the following year, President Trump passed a tax bill. Tax bill was good. It lowered rates. It saved

00:09:16.080 people money on their taxes. And what people weren't reporting at the time is that the tax bill

00:09:20.520 repealed the individual mandate, which was the heart and soul of Obamacare. The whole problem of

00:09:26.000 Obamacare, well, there are a lot of problems with Obamacare, but the central problem is that it forced

00:09:29.780 you to purchase a product from a private company that you maybe don't want to purchase, that a lot of

00:09:35.720 Americans didn't want to purchase. Totally crooked, totally unconstitutional. And that Trump tax bill

00:09:41.940 got rid of the Obamacare mandate without anybody noticing, because we were all paying attention to

00:09:46.040 the taxes. We were all paying attention to the crazy tweets. We were all paying attention to the

00:09:49.640 covfefe. Meanwhile, President Trump fulfilled a good percentage of an important promise that no one

00:09:55.700 else had been able to fulfill. He did it while we all weren't paying attention. It's the same thing

00:10:00.640 here. You know, Trump gets elected in 2016. He becomes president in 2017. And so 2017, 2018,

00:10:06.620 up through 2019, he had failed to defund Planned Parenthood. Now, is that his fault? I guess he

00:10:13.000 could have leaned more on the House and the Senate when we still had the House and obviously controlled

00:10:18.020 both branches or both houses of the legislature. But it's also on the legislators. What happened?

00:10:23.420 Why didn't Mitch McConnell bring this up? Why didn't Paul Ryan at the time bring this up? Because

00:10:28.880 Republican lawmakers are total cowards when it comes to Planned Parenthood. They don't really 1.00

00:10:33.600 want to defund it. There's a ton of squishes among Republicans. They don't want to make Lisa 0.58

00:10:38.040 Murkowski or Susan Collins vote on that. And frankly, they like to keep the pro-life issue

00:10:43.080 available. They like to keep Planned Parenthood being funded because it's a good fundraiser from

00:10:47.960 us conservatives, us pro-lifers. The minute that you get rid of abortion, conservatives and Republicans

00:10:54.440 lose a great fundraising tool, which is keeping all of us pro-lifers eager to defund these abortion 0.85

00:11:00.260 mills. So I think cynically, they moved not to do it. And so what does President Trump do? He doesn't

00:11:06.020 get it through the normal way, the way that we were all expecting him to. And so now, 2019,

00:11:12.800 well into his first term, he changes this rule at Title 10. Maybe he didn't even know that they were

00:11:18.600 changing this rule. Maybe he just appointed good people who were able to fulfill that campaign

00:11:22.660 promise. I mean, that's what presidents do is they delegate. And one way or another,

00:11:28.680 this rule gets changed. And what you're looking at today is the possible defunding of Planned

00:11:33.460 Parenthood by Planned Parenthood's own hand. This actually gives credence to the idea that

00:11:40.260 President Trump is a dealmaker, that he does the art of the deal, that he does negotiate,

00:11:44.780 that he does get things done. He doesn't do it in the way that we all expect because we are used to

00:11:50.200 that typical Republican. They know how to talk. They know the phrases. We know what the phrase

00:11:55.080 means. When they say they're going to move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, they don't really

00:11:58.520 mean that, but it does mean that they'll do this and it means that. And you've got to play like 7D

00:12:02.500 chess just to figure out what these people are even saying because they won't speak in plain English.

00:12:07.940 And Trump comes in and he actually does manage to keep a lot of his promises. I don't know if it's

00:12:12.940 most, but more promises than his predecessors at least. And he does it in ways that we don't expect.

00:12:18.140 Of course, the way to defund Planned Parenthood is to go through Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.

00:12:23.160 Well, that hasn't worked. So maybe while we're all looking over here, they're going to change

00:12:28.020 a rule in Title X. Maybe that doesn't get us half a billion dollars defunded from Planned Parenthood.

00:12:32.940 But if we start with 60 million, that's a good start. And if we establish the precedent

00:12:37.580 that Planned Parenthood has to give up its abortions or give up all that money, maybe that's a good 1.00

00:12:44.620 start. Maybe that's a compromise. Maybe that's not what we're used to in politics, but it is

00:12:49.300 unbelievably, I mean, to many people who thought that President Trump was a fraud, he's a fake 0.90

00:12:56.280 conservative, he's a fake deal maker, he's a game show host. What we're seeing is, I think, evidence 0.88

00:13:02.220 of the art of the deal. Speaking of bad people in our government, not just all those bad people who

00:13:09.780 weren't able to fulfill their promises. Let's talk about some really bad people in our government

00:13:14.420 like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. This blew up on Friday. Unfortunately, we didn't have a show then.

00:13:23.020 Big hubbub. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were not going to be permitted to go to Israel.

00:13:30.580 These anti-Israel Congresswomen wanted to go to Israel and then Israel said that they can't go to

00:13:35.100 Israel and Rashida Tlaib has a grandmother in Israel, but she calls it Palestine. And so it's

00:13:41.600 a big, awful mess. What's the long and short? The long and short is Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar

00:13:46.480 still don't like Jews and Israel still has a right to defend itself. And really, regardless of what 0.97

00:13:51.760 you think about American policy toward Israel or Israeli policy toward the Arabs in the contested

00:13:57.120 territories or the Democrats or the Republicans, those two things remain true. It's pretty clear 0.66

00:14:02.120 Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar don't like Jews. And it's pretty clear to people who respect the concept 1.00

00:14:07.720 of nation states, who respect the world order, that Israel has a right to defend itself. It's

00:14:13.880 simple as that. So what happened? Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, half the squad announced they're

00:14:21.160 going to go on a trip to Israel, except they didn't call it a congressional delegation to Israel.

00:14:25.440 They called it a congressional delegation to Palestine. Palestine, which is that country right

00:14:30.960 between Narnia and Wakanda, as you'll recall. It's a country that only exists in fiction.

00:14:36.860 There has never been a nation called Palestine at any point in history, and there still is no nation

00:14:42.040 called Palestine. But the people who want to get rid of Israel refer to this mythical nation called

00:14:47.020 Palestine because they want to get rid of the country that is currently where Palestine is, 0.99

00:14:51.740 which is Israel. The trip was not just on this sort of, I don't know, I guess you could call it

00:14:58.220 academic question of the nature of the foundation of the state of Israel and the contesting the right

00:15:06.060 of Israel to exist as a nation. We can actually just look at the people involved here. This trip

00:15:11.080 was sponsored by virulently anti-Jewish people, specifically a group called Mifta, which has accused

00:15:17.880 Jews of using the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover. They published an American neo-Nazi

00:15:24.340 essay called Who Rules America? The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken.

00:15:29.640 Again, I'm not using the term neo-Nazi lightly. I'm using it to refer to people who do describe

00:15:34.620 themselves in that way and who do look favorably on Nazis and on fascism. And the group, this group,

00:15:41.400 Mifta, also celebrates terrorists and suicide bombers, really bad hombres, to use President Trump's 0.81

00:15:47.200 phrase. This is not a good faith or goodwill visit to Israel from these two women. And they're

00:15:53.840 associating with truly horrific people. So, Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, gets on Twitter

00:15:58.780 and he says, quote,

00:16:00.600 No country in the world respects America and the American Congress more than the state of Israel. 0.87

00:16:05.500 As a free and vibrant democracy, Israel is open to critics and criticism. With one exception,

00:16:10.560 Israeli law prohibits the entry into Israel of those who call for and work to impose boycotts on Israel,

00:16:15.800 as do other democracies that prohibit the entry of people who seek to harm the country. In fact, 0.78

00:16:21.720 in the past, the U.S. did this to an Israeli member of the Knesset, as well as to other public

00:16:27.060 figures from around the world. Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar are leading activists in promoting the

00:16:31.880 legislation of boycotts against Israel in the American Congress. Only a few days ago, we received

00:16:37.280 their itinerary for their visit in Israel, which revealed that they plan to visit whose sole objective

00:16:41.900 is to strengthen the boycott against us and deny Israel's legitimacy. Nonetheless,

00:16:47.200 if Congresswoman Tlaib submits a humanitarian request to visit her relatives, the Minister of

00:16:51.820 the Interior has announced that he will consider her request on the condition that she pledges not

00:16:56.660 to act to promote boycotts against Israel during her visit. Pretty measured response. A country has a

00:17:05.320 right to exist. A country has a right to keep people out who hate the country. I understand the

00:17:11.040 argument. The argument was, how dare Israel keep out a member of the U.S. government, an elected

00:17:15.760 member of the U.S. Congress? Sure, but this elected member of the U.S. Congress is calling for the

00:17:22.960 destruction of Israel. We wouldn't allow a foreign government official who calls for the destruction

00:17:29.460 of the U.S. into our country. Sometimes, actually, that's not true. Sometimes we do because we host the

00:17:33.920 UN in this country because we're dolts and we allow some of the worst people on earth who call for the 0.99

00:17:38.740 destruction of America to come to our soil. I think that's a bad idea. I don't think we should

00:17:42.660 do it. We should probably knock down the U.N. and build Trump condominiums on the East River. But 0.82

00:17:47.220 the point is, if we believe that that's true for America, that we shouldn't allow people who want 0.98

00:17:52.780 to hate our country and destroy our country into our country, the same should be true of Israel. 1.00

00:17:57.360 So, Bibi Netanyahu says, you can come into this country for a humanitarian visit as long as you

00:18:03.420 don't call for the destruction of Israel while you're here. And what does Tlaib say? Does she say,

00:18:08.880 okay, I'm going to go visit my grandmother? No. She says she doesn't want to go. She said, quote,

00:18:13.340 when I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about 0.92

00:18:18.000 the inhumane conditions. Hold on a second. I thought Rashida Tlaib was an American. 1.00

00:18:22.900 I thought she was elected to give voice to her constituents in America, in Michigan.

00:18:27.000 Now she's saying, I was elected to give the Palestinian people hope. What? You're not the 0.98

00:18:34.800 representative of the Palestinian people. At least you're not supposed to be. It's unbelievable. 1.00

00:18:38.800 President Trump gets called a racist for saying that the members of the squad, Tlaib, Omar, AOC,

00:18:45.820 and Ayanna Pressley seem foreign. They're representing foreign interests. They should go back to other 0.99

00:18:50.700 countries. He gets called a racist for that. He gets called a bigot for that. He did speak technically

00:18:55.680 and accurately because a lot of them weren't immigrants. But they say, how dare you refer

00:19:02.520 to these women as foreigners? Rashida Tlaib's admitting that she views herself as a foreigner. 1.00

00:19:06.380 She says, I won. When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope. You don't represent the Palestinian 1.00

00:19:11.820 people. First of all, there's no such country as Palestine. But if she's referring to the Arabs who

00:19:16.180 are in Israel, you don't represent them. You're not supposed to, at least. You're supposed to represent

00:19:20.500 Americans. She goes, I can't allow the state of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me 0.68

00:19:27.280 and use my love for my siti to bow down to their oppressive and racist policies. Now, I don't know

00:19:33.340 what siti means. I Googled it. Apparently, siti means grandmother. By the way, Rashida Tlaib doesn't

00:19:38.340 know what siti is either because she used the word siti to race bait, basically, to present herself as

00:19:46.100 a foreigner, which she often does. But she actually changed the way she spelled it as the tweets went

00:19:50.880 on because apparently the more common spelling is S-I-T-T-Y. And she spelled it S-I-T-Y in the

00:19:56.860 first one. So she changed the spelling of it. So she, she doesn't use these terms. And by the way,

00:20:01.160 in America, we speak English. So if you want to use, I don't, when I talk about my Italian American

00:20:07.740 grandmother, I don't say like, oh yes, the other day I went to New York to go visit my nonna.

00:20:15.660 Yeah, yeah. We, I took a plane to New York and then I sat with my nonna and we went there and we

00:20:20.680 ate la pasta, la carbonara. And then we had some pizza. Even when I use the words that are borrowed,

00:20:26.360 I at least use the American pronunciation. That's what you do in America. But she doesn't do that. 0.98

00:20:30.520 In other words though, in her, in her tweet, she says, I love my grandmother or Siti or whatever. 0.97

00:20:38.280 I love my grandmother, but I hate Jews more. The left ring media actually tracked down Rashida

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00:23:06.100 So they tracked down Rashida Tlaib's CT in Israel. And here is what her grandmother had to say

00:23:16.120 about President Trump. Spoiler alert, it wasn't terribly flattering. She's obviously not speaking

00:23:21.620 in English, so I will translate. May Allah ruin him. I was happy that Rashida was coming. Everyone 0.99

00:23:31.080 was excited that she was coming for her grandmother to see her. So what's interesting about this is the

00:23:39.760 way that the left-wing organization, now this translates it, is may God ruin him. May God

00:23:46.420 ruin Trump. That's not what she says. What she actually says is may Allah ruin Trump. And they

00:23:52.980 don't translate it that way. What they would say is, well, the Christian and Muslim understanding of

00:23:58.060 God is exactly the same. Now that's obviously not true for anyone who's ever read the Quran or the

00:24:03.720 Bible or I don't know, even done a Wikipedia search. But that's the way that it's being presented. And

00:24:09.040 it's, it's, I mean, if, if they had translated this and, and you had this picture of this foreign

00:24:14.780 national saying, may Allah ruin the president of the United States. In a normal country at a normal 0.90

00:24:20.780 time, that would, that would spark some outrage. We don't, we don't like that. We don't like when

00:24:26.440 foreign nationals call for our president to be ruined by her conception of God, which by the way, 0.95

00:24:33.500 is a conception of God that traditionally, historically in the United States has not been one held by

00:24:37.680 Americans. Now they translated it, may God ruin him. They're trying, they're, they're trying to have

00:24:45.640 their cake and eat it too on this foreign, Rashida Tlaib and the squad are totally American, but actually

00:24:53.380 they're foreign and actually America's terrible. So it's better to be foreign, but being foreign is 1.00

00:24:56.920 American. It's very confusing. Tlaib put it all together. She said, quote, on Twitter, my CT is the

00:25:03.200 original hashtag squad member. So now she's not even just saying we're the squad. She's saying this

00:25:10.340 foreign national is the original squad member, which is the original point that president Trump was making

00:25:15.160 when everybody freaked out. She says the squad originally is foreign. Trump says, you know, the squad

00:25:23.020 seems foreign. And then everyone calls Trump a racist, including the squad. They can't have it both

00:25:29.000 ways. And what this brings up are major questions of the nation. Israel's a nation. Does it have a right 0.89

00:25:35.880 to exist? We now have two members of the U S Congress who'd say they don't, that Israel doesn't have a right

00:25:41.100 to exist at least two. It's actually more, but certainly Omar and Tlaib. We have a lot of people

00:25:47.380 in this country who say the United States doesn't have a right to exist as a nation. We don't have a

00:25:50.860 right to enforce our borders. We don't have a right to determine who comes into the country, who uses our

00:25:55.560 services, who votes in our elections, who becomes a U S citizen. We don't have a right to do that

00:25:59.660 anymore. That is the question that's being argued. And the way that the squad is currently arguing it

00:26:05.420 is through this proxy Israel, but their ultimate question, the ultimate end of, of these concepts

00:26:12.460 is the notion of the American nation. And the 2020 race is going to be a referendum on that question

00:26:18.660 as well. We'll see which side wins. Speaking of nations and nationhood and what makes up a nation,

00:26:23.380 president Trump proposed an idea to expand our own country by buying Greenland. Seems like a little

00:26:30.100 bit of a wacky idea, perhaps the mainstream media has pilloried him for this and said it's 0.99

00:26:35.280 laughable and crazy and ridiculous. Actually, it's one of the best ideas he's ever had. 0.61

00:26:40.080 Because to quote Tony Soprano and others, it's a good idea to buy land because it's the only thing

00:26:46.100 that God ain't making any more of. The United States has always done very well in real estate.

00:26:51.880 The Louisiana purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the country. I don't think we've ever regretted

00:26:56.340 that purchase. The annexation of Texas in 1845, the annexation, the bringing in of California in 1848,

00:27:03.040 we bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. That turned out pretty well for us. A lot of good natural

00:27:07.860 resources up there. And it's a pretty strategic location. Now, Greenland, by the way, right now,

00:27:13.840 isn't just its own completely autonomous country. It's owned by Denmark. So we'd be purchasing it from

00:27:18.520 Denmark. Why does Denmark have a right to own Greenland? Greenland is closer to us. We're the

00:27:23.760 superpower. It's strategically very important because it's in the Arctic. It's right off our coast. I don't

00:27:30.400 know. It seems great. This is being presented as one of these crazy ideas that President Trump

00:27:35.520 tweeted out while he was eating Cheerios or something. This idea actually has a long history

00:27:39.880 to it. We've been talking about buying Greenland for years. In 2001, National Review's John J. Miller

00:27:45.760 talked about it, said that this would be a great idea. I think the headline of his article was,

00:27:50.600 let's buy Greenland. Then in 1946, we actually tried to do it. President Truman tried to buy Greenland

00:27:57.200 for $100 million in gold bars. They turned that down. Apparently, Andrew Johnson in the 19th century

00:28:03.160 considered buying Greenland as he was buying Alaska. Makes a lot of sense. You know, Media Matters,

00:28:10.800 those just scum of the earth, cackling hyenas over there. I was on a television show. I was on 0.99

00:28:17.640 Martha McCallum's show talking about how it's a good idea to try to buy Greenland. And they lost their 0.94

00:28:23.080 minds about this. Media Matters, which writes about me constantly, lose their mind about it.

00:28:27.760 They say, this is absolutely ridiculous. I said, was it ridiculous when Harry Truman tried to do it? 0.77

00:28:31.580 Was it ridiculous when Andrew Johnson looked into it? Was it ridiculous when we bought a ton of other

00:28:35.260 land to grow our country? Why is that ridiculous? Then they couldn't say anything. So they actually, 0.78

00:28:41.580 they responded. They said, we don't know who you are. Media Matters published a giant piece trying

00:28:47.360 to make me lose my job a couple weeks ago. And so I reminded them. I said, oh, I'm the guy that you

00:28:52.200 write about for a living. And the Media Matters, but that's what they do. Media Matters is a leftist

00:28:56.540 operation that only exists to get conservatives fired from their media jobs. And so it's worth

00:29:02.500 calling them out, not just the leftists in the media, but the leftists who try to shut us down.

00:29:07.040 It's worth calling them out because all they have is innuendo. All they have is insinuation. They say,

00:29:12.060 oh, what a, yeah, that's a good idea. Sure. Yeah. Buy Greenland. That's a good idea. I think it

00:29:16.480 actually, it's got a lot of historical precedent to it. We've been trying to buy it for 70 years.

00:29:20.640 Why is it a good idea? If predictions on global warming ever do come to pass,

00:29:27.060 then as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed out, this could open up new trade routes.

00:29:31.900 It could reduce the time it takes to ship goods from the U.S. to Asia by like 20 days. It could

00:29:38.740 open up trade routes through the Arctic. It could make Greenland crucial. And Secretary of State Mike

00:29:42.960 Pompeo said, steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and opportunities for trade.

00:29:47.940 Arctic sea lanes could become the 21st century Suez and Panama canals. I think it's a good idea.

00:29:53.720 Denmark said they're not interested in selling. It's something that the Trump administration could

00:29:56.980 pursue. And as he often does, he accomplishes policy goals in uncommon ways. You don't expect

00:30:05.080 Obama or Bush or Clinton or Bush to purchase whole gigantic land masses. But, you know, look,

00:30:11.720 we're in the Trump era. We're through the looking glass. Maybe it's not such a bad idea.

00:30:15.000 We have got to get to new allegations against Don Lemon and why CNN is a hack outlet. But then,

00:30:21.660 most importantly, we've got to get to why the New York Times is a hack outlet. Because they have a

00:30:24.900 new idea, a new strategy to attack Trump and conservatives, which is to call us all racists.

00:30:32.920 I know they've never done this before. It's going to be so fascinating to see how that works. But

00:30:36.780 they're going after America. They're saying America's rotten and racist to the core. And we're 0.98

00:30:40.340 going to correct the historical record. But first, I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:30:45.680 You know, we've got Daily Wire Live, the backstage show live on the road at the Terrace Theater in

00:30:51.080 Long Beach coming up on Wednesday. If there are still tickets available, go get them now. It's

00:30:55.000 going to be a ton of fun. Go to dailywire.com. You know, you get everything. My show, Ben's show,

00:31:00.440 Drew's show, Matt Walsh's show, Ask Questions in the Mailbag coming up on Thursday. You get all of that

00:31:04.960 and you get the Leftist Tears Tumblr. You're going to need it now more than ever. Go to dailywire.com.

00:31:09.400 We'll be right back. So, President Trump has called out the fake news media again and again

00:31:28.520 and again. He pointed out that we go too easy on these guys. You know, they jump on us. Anything

00:31:33.860 we do. I mentioned media matters a lot because they just exist to pounce on whatever conservatives

00:31:40.120 ever say and get us to lose our jobs. And conservatives don't do that back to them.

00:31:44.760 We don't even have an organization that does that. So, last week news came out that Don Lemon

00:31:50.020 is being accused of sexual assault at a bar that just happens to be one of my favorite bars in New

00:31:54.660 York. It's in Long Island in Sag Harbor. And I said, look, conservatives should give it to Democrats

00:32:03.640 as good as we get it from Democrats. Conservatives should give it to the left as good as we get it. 0.82

00:32:07.740 And when the left starts offering us grace three times in a row, then we can offer grace to the left.

00:32:14.040 But on the point itself, you just don't know if these allegations are true. Now we're getting more

00:32:18.420 information. It looks like this allegation against Don Lemon might be true. He's alleged to have been at

00:32:23.280 this bar at Murph's, one of my favorite bars, good hard drinking spot. So people are definitely having

00:32:28.100 a couple of Coca-Colas over there. And some guy goes up to him and says, hey, you're Don Lemon.

00:32:32.300 Can I buy you a drink? And he's like, nah, I'm actually hanging out with my friends. Then later

00:32:35.340 on in the night when everybody is plastered, Don Lemon walks up to him and allegedly asks the guy if

00:32:41.640 he's sexually attracted to him, reaches into his own pants, touches himself, and then puts it in the

00:32:46.660 guy's face. And now the guy is suing Don Lemon. George Gunelas, who was the boss of the plaintiff 0.97

00:32:56.700 at the time, came forward and corroborated the account. So he said, yep, Dustin, that's the

00:33:02.360 plaintiff, worked for me as a bartender. And we went out after work one night. We were standing there.

00:33:07.240 He said, hey, it's Don Lemon. Murph's is a place you go to drink after you've been out drinking.

00:33:11.680 As I told you, he's corroborating my story as well. We'd just gotten off work. That's why we ended up

00:33:15.980 there because we worked in the restaurant business. By the time everything is done,

00:33:19.220 we can only hit up a late night spot. Don Lemon comes around the corner, stands face to face with

00:33:23.860 us. He's saying, so you like me? Is that why you're bothering me? The other guy says, nah, man,

00:33:30.400 I just wanted to say what's up. Then, according to this guy Gunelas, Don Lemon said, do you like me?

00:33:38.940 Is that why you're bothering me? Because you want to F me. Put his hands down his pants,

00:33:42.640 inside his board shorts, grabbed his genitals, then came out with two fingers and clipped Dustin's 1.00

00:33:48.820 nose up and down with the two fingers and said, do you like female genitals or male genitals? I'll 1.00

00:33:56.520 clean up the language that was apparently used. So he's corroborating it. You got a guy going on the

00:34:00.520 record talking about that. Looks like Don Lemon might be in a little bit of trouble. Lemon apparently,

00:34:05.000 allegedly offered to settle for a couple hundred thousand dollars, some amount under a million

00:34:09.260 dollars. The guy said, no, you're going to give me more money than that. And so now this is going,

00:34:13.640 going into a lawsuit. I don't even say this to go after Don Lemon. I don't care about Don Lemon.

00:34:21.180 I don't watch his show. I don't care if he has a show that is only sustained because in airports,

00:34:25.720 the televisions are on CNN. I don't care if he's got the three viewers who actually watch him.

00:34:30.120 Doesn't matter to me. Unlike the left, I don't care if they have their own shows.

00:34:33.580 But imagine if any conservative commentator, journalist, politician, if this had happened to

00:34:44.220 any of us, you had an allegation like this corroborated by another eyewitness. Imagine

00:34:51.740 there would be calls to take off our heads. There would be calls to tar and feather us. We would

00:34:57.880 immediately lose our show, immediately lose our advertisers. We would be kicked out of polite

00:35:02.260 company. There would be sexual assault investigations. You would, you would be told

00:35:06.840 that the Republican party has a rape problem, that the conservatives have, that all the outlets have 0.99

00:35:11.260 a rape problem. That's what you hear. If any of that would come against conservatives. And yet the 0.98

00:35:16.100 story about Don Lemon, has he been kicked off his show? Have his advertisers dropped? No, of course.

00:35:21.360 It's a total double standard. And this is, I think what president Trump was talking about when he was

00:35:27.140 actually chastising Sean Hannity for defending Chris Cuomo, a CNN host, in his own little PR scandal,

00:35:35.200 which is they don't defend us. They go for the jugular against us. They try to kill us.

00:35:42.680 And we don't fight back because we believe in a civil society. We believe in having a little bit

00:35:48.720 of grace, extending that to us, having a little gratitude, having a little humility. They don't have it.

00:35:54.200 And so there's nothing moral or compassionate or nice about lying down and letting the left ruin our

00:36:00.320 culture and our politics. Sometimes that means you have to fight back a little bit hard. You have

00:36:04.160 to fight the lies. You have to use clear language, even if it's not pleasant, even if you'd rather

00:36:09.540 not do that. And this brings us to our main question today. The New York Times, they've got this new

00:36:15.800 strategy, new strategy, same as the old strategy. And that strategy is they're going to call

00:36:21.380 conservatives and Republicans and Trump a racist. Wow, how novel. But they're really turning the

00:36:27.180 volume up to 11 here. They're, they're not just saying they have these racist policies. They do

00:36:31.100 this racist sort of thing. They're saying the whole country is rotten to the core. They call it the 1619

00:36:36.660 project. 1619, what does that refer to? New York Times tells us, in August of 1619, a ship appeared on

00:36:45.120 the horizon near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia. It carried more than

00:36:51.100 20 enslaved Africans who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here 0.93

00:36:56.600 has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful

00:37:01.540 moment, it is finally time to tell our whole story truthfully. Finally time. It's finally time to

00:37:09.840 acknowledge that America had slavery. Is this news to anybody? I guess it's news to the uneducated

00:37:15.620 people who read the New York Times, but it's not news to all the rest of us. We know that there's

00:37:19.980 slavery. America is more honest than any country in the world about the tragedies of our history.

00:37:26.220 Finally time. What is this about? What this is about is making this fundamental argument that

00:37:32.300 America is terrible. You have, you have two choices on the left. Some leftist politicians say America is

00:37:39.440 awful. Foreign things are good and America is awful. That's what Rashida Tlaib and the squad are

00:37:45.720 doing. But then the left wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want to claim the mantle and

00:37:49.460 say, but we're the true Americans and the right, they're bad Americans. And, and it's actually the

00:37:54.060 most American thing we can do is, I don't know, go to Israel and talk about how awful Israel is. 0.89

00:38:00.380 The most American thing we can do is denigrate our country. The most American thing we can do 0.51

00:38:03.480 is denigrate our American flag. And those are contradictory because the question you have to ask,

00:38:08.300 is America good or is America bad? Do we, even more basic than that, because history is complicated.

00:38:13.700 Do we like America? Do we not like America? And the left does, they want to have both sides of that.

00:38:19.920 It seems pretty clear to me if you're protesting the flag, which is a symbol of the country itself,

00:38:24.840 you don't like America. It seems pretty clear if Colin Kaepernick, he used to pretend the flag

00:38:29.140 protest wasn't about protesting America. He said it was about police brutality, but then he protested the

00:38:33.880 Betsy Ross flag from the late 19th, late 18th century. So I guess he thought there was police

00:38:38.940 brutality in the late 18th century too, or so he's protesting the local police from 1787. I don't,

00:38:45.860 doesn't make a lot of sense. The reality is they don't like the country, but sometimes they like

00:38:50.380 to pretend that they do. They should like the country because their, their view of history that

00:38:55.120 has brought them to hate this country is just profoundly wrong. So the New York Times explains the

00:39:00.100 purpose of this project. They say, the 1619 project is a major initiative from the Times

00:39:04.700 observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country's

00:39:10.280 history, understanding 1619 as our true founding and placing the consequences of slavery and the

00:39:18.360 contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.

00:39:23.540 So they're very honest. They say, we want to rewrite American history and we don't want to say that

00:39:29.020 our founding was in 1776 or 1787 or 1812 or 1620. It's 1619. The defining essential feature of America

00:39:38.680 is slavery. That's what they want to say. Now, what they want to pretend is that Americans 0.95

00:39:45.480 have covered up some dark aspect of our past. Obviously not. We talk about slavery all the time.

00:39:50.960 We talk about race all the time. We've actually argued about slavery since the very beginning.

00:39:55.880 These were debates that happened. We almost didn't get a constitution because of debates about

00:40:00.880 slavery. In the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote about how awful

00:40:07.740 slavery was, how they hated that the British forced the institution of slavery on them. We've been

00:40:12.360 arguing about it since the beginning. And when you talk about rough treatment of Native Americans,

00:40:16.880 for instance, or systems of slavery, even well before 1619, you see from the very beginning,

00:40:22.500 from Columbus's voyages. There are arguments over slavery, human dignity, the treatment of the

00:40:28.800 Natives. Bartolome de las Casas writes about this, one of the great admirers of Christopher Columbus,

00:40:33.400 but he defends the Natives against this treatment and this slavery. We fought a bloody civil war in

00:40:39.500 America that killed 700,000 Americans or thereabouts. To resolve the question of slavery, we concluded that

00:40:47.420 slavery is contrary to our national soul. We got rid of slavery. Now the New York Times and the left are

00:40:52.700 telling us that slavery is essential to the American soul. Here's the first piece. They're running all 0.79

00:40:57.320 these absolutely awful, just tripe essays about how awful America is. Here's one of them. This is the

00:41:05.200 big one that's been going around. Our democracy's founding ideals were false when they were written.

00:41:09.600 Black Americans have fought to make them true. This is anti-historical, race-baiting drivel. 0.62

00:41:14.200 It's written by a woman named Nicole Hannah-Jones, who has lived as privileged a life as they get in

00:41:20.440 the United States. She's a former MacArthur Fellow. That's the genius grant where you get half a

00:41:27.200 million dollars just for how you write. She's won the National Magazine Award, a Peabody Award, and a

00:41:32.160 George Polk Award. And what's funny is the entire thesis of this article is that white people are 0.60

00:41:37.000 terrible, America is terrible, and only black people have been good in America. And what's funny is 1.00

00:41:41.720 she then lists all of her awards and fellowships, including the MacArthur one. She names a whole lot

00:41:46.700 of white people who are in those lists, and she names a whole lot of American institutions that

00:41:50.620 have helped her. She's lived an American dream by becoming a very successful person in a country

00:41:55.360 that she says is hopelessly terrible and bigoted and racist. Listen to what she says. It's quote,

00:42:01.380 My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. Our corner lot, which had been redlined by the

00:42:07.700 federal government, was along the river that divided the black side from the white side of

00:42:11.000 our Iowa town. At the edge of our lawn, high on an aluminum pole, soared the flag, which my dad would

00:42:16.660 soon, would replace as soon as it showed the slightest tatter. Like all the black men and women 1.00

00:42:21.300 in my family, he believed in hard work. But like all the black men and women in my family, no matter how

00:42:26.360 hard he worked, he never got ahead. So when I was young, that flag outside our home never made sense to

00:42:31.800 me. I didn't understand his patriotism. It deeply embarrassed me. Now, why is that? Why did her

00:42:38.760 father have this sense? Do you think her father was an idiot? I don't think so. I think he obviously 1.00

00:42:44.060 sired this woman who has achieved quite a lot in writing and journalism. She's thought about these

00:42:50.400 things. I don't think he was an idiot. I think he knew that there were challenges. He was overcoming 1.00

00:42:54.540 challenges. He still loved his country. And in some ways, the country was improving for him. And that

00:42:59.940 was a good thing. And he was fighting for it because he believed in America. So where did she

00:43:04.220 get this awful anti-American view? Well, she tells us. Because I had been taught in school through

00:43:08.440 cultural osmosis that the flag wasn't really ours, meaning ours, meaning black people, that our

00:43:13.680 history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed a little to this great nation. 0.96

00:43:18.020 So she had been taught by leftist indoctrination in schools that America was awful and black people

00:43:24.080 didn't have a connection to it. Now, she eventually comes to the conclusion that her father knew more 0.86

00:43:31.320 than she did, that there actually was a reason to like the country. But her conclusion remains

00:43:39.860 nevertheless limited, ultimately wrong. And her conclusion basically is that the only good thing

00:43:46.480 that ever happened to America was black people. And black people never got anything from America. 1.00

00:43:51.580 And America is still a rotten place, but at least there are black people to help America. Now, 1.00

00:43:55.480 nobody says black people haven't contributed quite a lot to America. Of course, that's what we all,

00:43:59.760 but we believe we've all contributed something to America. This is a wonderful place. Everyone's gone

00:44:03.780 through hardships and struggles. Immigrant groups have gone through hardships and struggles. The

00:44:07.860 settlers obviously went through hardships and struggles. And we've done it. We've worked it out.

00:44:11.280 There's a country that we love. But that's not her conclusion. Her conclusion is essentially

00:44:16.700 race hustling, anti-history. She writes, the nation, the United States is a nation founded on both an

00:44:23.180 ideal and a lie. This lie of, of liberty, this lie that gives us our love of country. That's not a lie.

00:44:34.220 It's, it was a political tradition that at that time was not extended to everyone in the country.

00:44:39.520 Like it, like it wasn't extended to everyone in the country, anywhere in the world.

00:44:45.240 But she goes, without the idealistic, strenuous, and patriotic efforts of black Americans, 1.00

00:44:49.240 our democracy today would most likely look very different. Well, of course that's true.

00:44:53.760 It might not be a democracy at all. Actually, we're not a democracy. We're a republic, which

00:44:57.340 as we see in the corrections to this article, it becomes abundantly clear that the New York

00:45:04.020 Times generally doesn't know very much about our own country and its history. The very first person to

00:45:08.020 die for this country in the American Revolution was a black man who himself was not free. This is true. 1.00

00:45:12.760 This is, there are also strange historical coincidences though, that, and ironies, I guess,

00:45:18.500 that complicate the historical record. There's this incredible irony, which obviously American

00:45:22.980 slavery develops into this pretty hardline racial system, at least by the end of it. In the early

00:45:28.660 days though, the first legally recognized owner of a slave for life in what would become the American

00:45:33.940 slave system, was a black man. The slave was black and he himself was black. That's a strange historical 0.93

00:45:40.500 irony. We also know that Native Americans of the five civilized tribes owned black slaves at a rate 1.00

00:45:46.440 similar and comparable to the neighboring whites. We know that Native Americans marched black slaves 0.99

00:45:51.000 down the Trail of Tears or shipped them on boats to the new territories. This complicates the historical

00:45:55.980 question and it complicates ideas such as the original sin of the nation. This is where, so,

00:46:02.800 but even with all of this, she hasn't gone totally wrong yet in this article. Here is where she goes

00:46:09.240 wrong. She goes, black Americans fought back alone. Yet we never fought only for ourselves. The bloody

00:46:16.540 freedom struggles of the civil rights movement laid the foundation for every modern civil rights

00:46:20.880 struggle. Black Americans fought back alone. No Abraham Lincoln, no 700,000 white Americans dying

00:46:27.740 to fight this question. No heated arguments at the Constitutional Convention. No heated arguments among

00:46:34.060 people who weren't black who wanted to limit and reduce the institution of slavery. No bloody Kansas. No 0.88

00:46:39.520 bloody history at all. It's what, what this boils down to is white people bad, only black people good. 0.99

00:46:47.440 America is a terrible place, but, but we're the most American, which is good, but we're, but it's the 0.97

00:46:53.820 same struggle that the left has been having. Do they like their country or do they not like their

00:46:59.020 country? It's funny as in the corrections to the, the article, they, they actually incorrectly got the

00:47:05.300 date of the, they wrote incorrectly the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which is a

00:47:10.160 pretty important one. They also misspelled the surname of a Revolutionary War era writer.

00:47:17.440 So in the rights view of America, everyone has contributed. There has been historical difficulty.

00:47:23.700 There has been tragedy. There have been evil institutions such as the evil institution of

00:47:27.500 slavery, in part foisted upon us, in part embraced by the, by American history. We then fought a bloody

00:47:33.700 civil war to get rid of it. That was a good thing. There were wonderful movements to, to make America

00:47:38.760 a better place. Around the world and other places, slavery persists even to this day, but we got rid of it.

00:47:45.880 And relatively quickly, that's a good thing. That's something to be proud of. That's something

00:47:48.800 to love about this country. It's a reason to love the country. And yet there's this idea that America's

00:47:53.600 original sin was slavery. It was a sin that we will never recover from. There's no redemption from

00:47:59.320 that. That's the premise of, of the, the entire New York Times 1619 project. And you hear a lot of

00:48:05.360 conservatives refer to slavery as our original sin. It's not. It's a sin. No doubt about it. Slavery is a sin.

00:48:12.080 America's original sin is not slavery. America's original sin is original sin.

00:48:19.840 We have a fallen human nature. We are not going to get to utopia. We are not going to get to

00:48:25.440 paradise on earth. All we can do is join arms together, have some love for each other, have

00:48:30.540 some love for our fellow countrymen and for our country, try to make this place better while we

00:48:34.480 can. It will never be perfect. There is no going back to the garden of Eden. That is the fundamental

00:48:39.480 lie. That is the fundamental divide between the right, which is trying to make the best out of

00:48:44.020 what we've got and is grateful for the things we've been given and the left, which has a utopian

00:48:49.200 vision of America that looks with their friends and countrymen with disdain, with absolute hatred

00:48:58.300 of American history, Americans' origins, and only wants to get to that perfect paradise, which

00:49:05.200 doesn't exist. That's the option. What kind of country do you want? Do you want a country at all?

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 19, 2019

Ep. 400 - America's Original Sin

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