The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 418 - Hypocrisy Is More Offensive Than Blackface

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00:00:37.800 Canadian Prime Minister and international leftist darling Justin Trudeau

00:00:42.680 has been caught wearing blackface in several photos from the 90s and early 2000s.

00:00:47.940 Right, left, and center, black, white, and brown.

00:00:51.300 No one is actually offended by the photos. 0.91

00:00:54.640 The problem is the hypocrisy.

00:00:56.340 We will examine the surprising history of blackface and how all of us should react. 0.69

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00:01:19.220 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:20.960 I love this story so much.

00:01:31.620 I want you to shoot it straight into my veins.

00:01:34.360 I can't wait for even more pictures of Justin Trudeau in blackface to come out. 1.00

00:01:38.240 This is the funniest story in weeks.

00:01:42.580 And yet, no one's actually offended by it.

00:01:44.280 We're all just pretending.

00:01:45.100 So we will get into how to respond, because on the one hand, conservatives say nobody really cares.

00:01:52.120 Obviously, nobody's actually upset about it, so maybe we should let it go.

00:01:55.560 On the other hand, we say the left uses blackface as a cudgel.

00:02:00.100 They would never let this go if this were a conservative.

00:02:02.580 And yet, the left gets to play by their own rules, so we need to smack them over the head for it.

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00:04:11.520 These photos come out.

00:04:13.340 These photos come out of Justin Trudeau.

00:04:15.460 I was on an airplane when these came out.

00:04:17.420 And obviously, you know, I had to get the Wi-Fi.

00:04:19.580 I had to get on Twitter.

00:04:20.300 It was so hilarious because the photos come out first of him dressed up in what the left

00:04:27.400 was calling brown face wearing an Arabian costume.

00:04:32.060 You know, the left is so dishonest on blackface. 0.79

00:04:35.760 When leftists wear blackface, they excuse it and ignore it. 0.79

00:04:39.080 When conservatives even so much as talk about blackface, they take their careers away from them.

00:04:45.540 They wouldn't even say that Trudeau was wearing blackface.

00:04:48.780 They called it brownface because they wanted to draw a distinction between blackface and some

00:04:54.180 other category, brownface, even though they're exactly the same thing.

00:04:57.980 So they came up ex post facto with this logic.

00:05:00.580 They came up with this logic and said, well, because Trudeau was only appearing as an Arab

00:05:05.540 person, that isn't blackface.

00:05:07.260 That's brownface. 1.00

00:05:08.180 Really what the difference is, is that brownface is blackface worn by leftists. 0.72

00:05:14.380 That's the only actual difference.

00:05:16.560 Why is that? 0.97

00:05:17.440 Because by their logic, they say, no, no, no, Arabs are brown and black people are black. 0.67

00:05:22.060 So that's why they're separate words. 0.88

00:05:24.020 Just a little correction here.

00:05:25.480 Black people aren't black. 0.97

00:05:26.640 They're brown. 0.98

00:05:28.000 They're not like actual, just like the color black.

00:05:31.500 They're different shades of brown.

00:05:32.620 It's all the same, it's all the same thing, but they want to have a distinction without

00:05:36.780 a difference because they don't want to admit that a major leftist, darling politician wore

00:05:42.320 blackface.

00:05:43.620 The Daily Beast right now, the left-wing outlet, the Daily Beast, is referring to this as face

00:05:49.140 darkening.

00:05:50.520 They couldn't even go into the brownface thing.

00:05:52.280 They couldn't go into the brownface thing because the brownface logic fell apart when it

00:05:56.720 turned out later that Justin Trudeau had worn blackface as well, meaning he was specifically

00:06:02.720 dressing up as black people, one of whom was Harry Belafonte, who's a very famous Jamaican-American

00:06:09.060 musician.

00:06:09.880 It's just so disingenuous.

00:06:13.780 For comparison, just a reminder, when Megyn Kelly, who, you know, Megyn Kelly was on a right-leaning 1.00

00:06:21.920 news channel, Fox News.

00:06:23.640 She then went over to a left-leaning news channel.

00:06:25.460 The audience never forgave her for working with conservatives.

00:06:28.520 So she was on a show on NBC, and she just discussed the question of blackface and wearing

00:06:36.200 makeup that makes your skin look darker.

00:06:38.020 She just discussed it.

00:06:39.840 They took her entire show, they tried to take her entire career away from her. 1.00

00:06:44.580 Here are the comments.

00:06:45.560 What is racist? 0.97

00:06:46.600 Because, truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface 0.98

00:06:51.100 on Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. 0.92

00:06:53.960 I mean, like, back when I was a kid, that was okay, as long as you were dressing up as

00:06:57.880 like a character.

00:06:58.820 There was a controversy on The Real Housewives of New York with Luann, and she dresses Diana

00:07:02.640 Ross, and she made her skin look darker than it really is, and people said that that was 1.00

00:07:06.900 racist.

00:07:08.100 And I don't know, I felt like, who doesn't love Diana Ross?

00:07:10.900 She wants to look like Diana Ross for one day. 0.97

00:07:13.180 I don't know how, like, that got racist on Halloween.

00:07:15.860 That comment, which is pretty much as innocuous as it gets, got Megyn Kelly's career taken 1.00

00:07:23.600 away from her.

00:07:25.080 Just for comparison, here is Jimmy Kimmel's blackface performance, not comments about blackface,

00:07:32.000 full-on blackface, black body performance that he did a few years before, before he got

00:07:39.200 picked to host one of the largest late-night comedy shows on network television in the country.

00:07:44.200 Sometime at night, Karl Malone will look up in the sky and say, what the hell going on

00:07:50.460 up there?

00:07:51.460 Do UFO live on another planet, phoning home like E.T.?

00:07:55.420 Karl Malone will read on TV about white people getting deducted by aliens, sticking all kind 1.00

00:08:00.400 of hell up their butt, and that's a damn thing. 0.99

00:08:03.400 Now, Karl Malone never seen no flying saucer himself, but if he do, that's going to be a 1.00

00:08:08.660 spooky time.

00:08:09.580 Now, that's why Karl Malone say, government got to step up and give 102% to keeping them

00:08:15.340 little green men off this here earth, because the day them dudes stick something up Karl Malone, 0.91

00:08:20.140 butt, that's going to, well, that ain't going to be no good time for nobody, especially Karl 0.97

00:08:25.640 Malone, butt. 0.94

00:08:26.200 By the way, the whole joke, the whole joke he's doing beyond just, uh, coloring his skin 1.00

00:08:34.540 brown, the joke is that Karl Malone is an idiot and doesn't speak the English language 1.00

00:08:39.960 well. 1.00

00:08:41.860 What Jimmy Kimmel is doing is much, much closer to a minstrel show, which is the origin of

00:08:47.820 blackface than any of the other examples.

00:08:50.300 But there are a lot of other examples because it isn't just Jimmy Kimmel.

00:08:52.500 It's Jimmy Fallon, it's Ted Danson, it's Joni Mitchell, you know, Joni Mitchell, they

00:08:57.260 paved paradise, put up, she wore blackface, uh, Billy Crystal, host of the Oscars, Cindy 0.54

00:09:02.700 Lauper, Sarah Silverman, Fred Armisen from Saturday Night Live, all of them wore blackface.

00:09:08.240 All of them, in all of those cases, worked out just fine.

00:09:11.120 They didn't lose their careers, nor should they have.

00:09:14.240 I don't think Jimmy Kimmel even should lose his career for doing this sketch.

00:09:17.620 I don't think any of the other ones should lose their careers for doing their blackface 1.00

00:09:20.680 sketches.

00:09:21.680 Some people have brought up the governor of Virginia, who in a yearbook photo from his

00:09:26.340 medical school yearbook was accused of having worn blackface because there was this photo

00:09:31.480 of him, a photo of a man in blackface on his page.

00:09:35.400 Now, he hasn't admitted that it was him.

00:09:37.720 He could have been the other guy in the photo who was wearing a Ku Klux Klan uniform.

00:09:41.880 That guy, Ralph Northam, still the governor of Virginia.

00:09:46.680 Oh, by the way, Northam, Northam.

00:09:49.200 So he may have worn blackface.

00:09:51.080 Okay.

00:09:52.180 He may have worn a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

00:09:55.900 That's worse.

00:09:57.240 That's definitely worse. 1.00

00:09:58.480 He also said on radio that we should kill babies after they've been born. 0.99

00:10:03.160 That, that's probably worse than either of the first two. 0.97

00:10:06.760 So if I, if you, if you were just asking me sitting governor, what's worse?

00:10:11.080 He wore blackface 30 years ago, or he wore a Ku Klux Klan costume 30 years ago, obviously

00:10:18.100 not to a Klan rally, but just as a costume.

00:10:20.600 Or he says that right now, while he has political power, while he is making and enforcing laws 0.98

00:10:26.460 in Virginia that we should be able to kill babies after they've been born. 1.00

00:10:29.120 I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that last one is worse. 0.98

00:10:34.740 I've said this comment before.

00:10:36.380 I've made this apparently controversial remark before.

00:10:39.660 When I said that last time I said that, Media Matters tried to get me fired for saying that 0.91

00:10:45.880 I'm pretty sure it's worse to kill babies after they've been born than to wear blackface, 1.00

00:10:50.560 which means according to Media Matters, it's better to kill babies after they've been born 1.00

00:10:57.500 than to wear blackface. 0.98

00:10:59.740 I guess Media Matters wants us to change the laws in this country, make it legal to kill

00:11:05.940 babies after they've been born, but make it illegal to wear blackface.

00:11:09.460 We're going to have to change all the punishments.

00:11:11.340 Now, of course, no one really believes that.

00:11:13.040 No one, nobody really believes that.

00:11:17.600 Obviously, it is the case that there are some instances of wearing blackface that are not

00:11:23.080 offensive to people.

00:11:25.020 How do we know that?

00:11:26.120 Because all those other people wore blackface and all those other people still have their 1.00

00:11:30.900 careers and all those other people haven't been boycotted and all those other people are

00:11:34.920 still perfectly popular.

00:11:37.300 You know, the last time a blackface story was breaking, I think it actually was the Ralph 0.74

00:11:41.320 Northam story.

00:11:42.620 I had just gotten into an Uber with a black driver.

00:11:46.400 The story had just broke and I asked what he thought about it.

00:11:49.920 Maybe it was on the radio or maybe it had just been all over the news that day.

00:11:53.500 And he brought up the difference.

00:11:55.160 He actually brought up the point that I just made, which is the difference between wearing

00:11:58.060 blackface and wearing the Ku Klux Klan hood.

00:12:00.360 And he said, blackface, if it's all in good fun, doesn't bother him at all.

00:12:05.000 The Ku Klux Klan hood, it's hard to wear that in good fun. 0.72

00:12:07.720 So he didn't agree with that.

00:12:10.520 He said that's different.

00:12:11.540 Of course, that's different.

00:12:12.280 So the question is, how should we react to the photos of Trudeau?

00:12:15.920 Certainly as conservatives, maybe even centrists or regular old liberals.

00:12:22.320 Nobody cares about the photos themselves. 0.85

00:12:25.720 Everybody cares about the hypocrisy.

00:12:29.540 It's the same thing, Matt Walsh tweeted this out today.

00:12:32.160 It's the same reason that the left goes after a Republican senator like Larry Craig for trying

00:12:37.240 to pick up men for sex in an airport bathroom. 0.99

00:12:39.760 It's not because the left disagrees with having sex with men in airport bathrooms. 0.99

00:12:44.400 They'll do all sorts of weird stuff. 1.00

00:12:46.160 It's because of the hypocrisy. 0.93

00:12:47.760 Larry Craig, the alleged hypocrisy at least. 0.98

00:12:50.740 Larry Craig says that he opposes redefining marriage, for instance, to include gay unions. 0.98

00:12:57.120 And yet he engages in homosexual acts himself. 0.98

00:13:00.440 And this is apparently hypocrisy. 0.92

00:13:02.760 And so that's the same thing here.

00:13:04.360 The left talks a big game on blackface, but they don't actually care unless it's politically

00:13:08.200 useful to them.

00:13:09.680 So what we like in this case is to see the liberals hoisted on their own petard.

00:13:17.660 But I think there is a third way here.

00:13:19.780 I actually think there's a way between just totally letting Trudeau off the hook and between

00:13:24.060 trying to get him to resign.

00:13:25.100 I think there is a third way.

00:13:26.540 And what it has to do is the meaning of blackface itself and the history of blackface itself

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00:15:13.820 Why is nobody actually offended by the Justin Trudeau blackface? 0.54

00:15:21.620 By the blackface itself? 0.98

00:15:22.940 Why is no one actually offended? 0.94

00:15:24.600 It's because no one believes that Justin Trudeau hates black people. 0.95

00:15:29.540 Nobody believes it. 0.81

00:15:30.420 I don't like Justin Trudeau, but I get a kick out of him, actually.

00:15:33.860 I sort of think if he didn't exist, conservatives would have had to build him in a lab somewhere

00:15:37.120 because he's such a caricature of a leftist politician. 0.71

00:15:40.340 But no one thinks he hates black people. 0.89

00:15:43.540 Nobody thinks Joni Mitchell hates black people. 0.56

00:15:46.040 Nobody believes any of that.

00:15:48.280 When Billy Crystal put on blackface to do an impression of Sammy Davis Jr., he darkened his skin. 0.82

00:15:54.980 He couldn't have done the impression otherwise.

00:15:58.160 Billy Crystal doesn't look like Sammy Davis Jr.

00:16:00.020 When you do impressions and impersonations of people, you've got to make yourself look and appear like them.

00:16:04.580 That's what an impression is.

00:16:06.340 That's what an impersonation is.

00:16:08.180 Same thing with Fred Armisen.

00:16:09.320 Fred Armisen isn't black, but he darkened his skin to look like Barack Obama.

00:16:12.640 He put on blackface, to use the term.

00:16:15.500 But he couldn't have done the impression otherwise.

00:16:17.300 You can't go and be a white guy and do an impression of Obama.

00:16:20.780 Then just don't do the impression because you're not going to look like the person.

00:16:23.420 So are we then saying that white people can't imitate anyone else?

00:16:28.180 We can't do impressions.

00:16:28.980 We can't do impersonations unless they have exactly the same skin tone that you do. 0.98

00:16:33.660 How about when the Waynes brothers whitened their faces to play white chicks? 1.00

00:16:39.200 Remember that movie White Chicks? 0.95

00:16:40.660 I actually don't.

00:16:41.560 I mean, this was like 20 years ago or something that it came out.

00:16:43.960 But they look like they whiten their faces and they play white chicks. 0.69

00:16:48.240 Is that okay?

00:16:51.200 Are they not allowed to do that?

00:16:53.000 How about when the Jersey Shore came out?

00:16:54.600 Jersey Shore TV show.

00:16:56.340 All of a sudden you saw parties start cropping up.

00:16:59.280 I went to a number of them where people were wearing, you know, the white tank top and gold

00:17:03.660 chains and things that I actually just wear under my clothing every single day of my life.

00:17:07.540 But they did it to kind of look like Italian people.

00:17:09.620 Sometimes maybe they darken their skin a little or they make their hair look a little more 0.98

00:17:12.720 slicked back or something.

00:17:13.840 They physically made themselves resemble Italian people more. 0.87

00:17:17.740 Is that not okay?

00:17:18.960 The left objects.

00:17:19.860 The left says, well, black people have been oppressed in America and white people have

00:17:25.340 not been oppressed.

00:17:26.520 So it's universally always terrible and never acceptable to wear blackface, always offensive.

00:17:33.420 But if a black person wears white face or, you know, dresses up like an Italian for a Jersey 1.00

00:17:38.500 Shore party or something, that is okay. 1.00

00:17:40.840 That's perfectly fine.

00:17:43.600 First of all, everybody suffers.

00:17:45.200 Everybody has experienced some pain and suffering in their life.

00:17:49.820 Every people group suffers.

00:17:51.920 The largest lynching in American history was of Sicilian people in the late 19th century.

00:17:59.540 They suffered.

00:18:00.760 That's a lot of oppression.

00:18:02.640 So are you still going to say dressing up like the Jersey Shore is okay?

00:18:06.340 What about the Irish?

00:18:07.900 Irish faced plenty of oppression in America.

00:18:10.080 I mean, there were signs on doors that said Irish need not apply for work.

00:18:14.080 So when we go out on St. Paddy's Day and wear green suits and go drinking and speak in fake

00:18:19.000 Irish brogues, is that, are we allowed to do that?

00:18:21.940 The Irish have been oppressed.

00:18:23.100 Everybody suffers, certainly.

00:18:25.300 But let's even indulge the premises.

00:18:27.400 Let's say that, okay, you can't, it's okay for some people to do it, but not okay for

00:18:30.940 others.

00:18:31.180 It's okay for, in the victim hierarchy, for the more oppressed class of people to dress 0.95

00:18:39.240 up like the less oppressed class of people or the oppressor class of people, but it's

00:18:44.020 not okay, vice versa.

00:18:45.720 Then what about drag?

00:18:47.780 What about drag?

00:18:48.820 What about transvestitism? 0.71

00:18:50.160 Because we're told by the left that men oppress women and have always oppressed women and only

00:18:55.940 now, thanks to feminism, do they not oppress women. 1.00

00:18:57.820 I take some issue with that history, but let's even indulge the premise.

00:19:04.820 Then how on earth are you going to let men dress up like women, put in long hair, paint 1.00

00:19:08.880 their nails, put makeup on, wear a dress and high heels? 1.00

00:19:12.800 That's just the black face of sex. 0.95

00:19:16.120 And it's, it's almost a direct analogy according to the left's premises because you have the, 0.97

00:19:20.620 the oppressor group, the men dressing up like the oppressed group, the women.

00:19:25.840 So is it not okay to wear drag? 1.00

00:19:27.820 Why are men allowed to dress up like women? 1.00

00:19:31.780 Not only are they allowed today, actually, by the way, the left is encouraging that to

00:19:36.400 happen.

00:19:36.720 They're celebrating that.

00:19:37.680 They're holding whole parades to celebrate men dressing up like women.

00:19:42.240 And none of us really has a problem with that.

00:19:44.060 I mean, I was just in New York, which, you know, I was actually down in Greenwich village

00:19:46.940 for a little bit of it.

00:19:47.720 And in and around the village, there's a drag bar, like every three, three blocks walked

00:19:51.820 by Stonewall Inn, the, uh, the very famous gay bar in New York.

00:19:57.400 Plenty of people dressing up plenty of crazy ways.

00:19:59.400 No one had a problem with it.

00:20:00.520 What it all comes down to is context.

00:20:04.440 Nobody knows the history of blackface anymore.

00:20:06.760 It's actually a very interesting history.

00:20:09.680 Blackface comes from the old minstrel shows. 0.97

00:20:11.900 So this was a form of vaudevillian entertainment in the U S and arguably it's, it's certainly

00:20:18.180 the first uniquely American form of theater.

00:20:20.800 It's arguably the only uniquely American form of theater.

00:20:23.900 And in the minstrel show broadly, you have white people dressing up like black people 0.81

00:20:30.000 and specifically stock characters of black people. 1.00

00:20:34.440 So one, one criticism of minstrel shows is they portray black people as stupid. 1.00

00:20:39.080 And this is actually different from what Jimmy Kimmel did when Jimmy Kimmel dressed up like 1.00

00:20:43.260 Carl Malone, even though they might've said the same things and look the same way.

00:20:47.500 Jimmy Kimmel was, was making fun of a single person. 0.99

00:20:50.700 He was calling one single person an idiot. 0.97

00:20:53.460 Whereas in the minstrel shows, you're talking about whole stock stereotypes of people. 0.99

00:20:57.320 So it's not just one individual, but it's black people generally or slaves generally. 1.00

00:21:01.360 That's one difference.

00:21:03.420 But what's funny is that the minstrel shows aren't only attacked by,

00:21:09.080 people who support racial equality, for instance, that you weren't even just attacked by,

00:21:14.280 by integrationists, for instance, at the time they were attacked by everybody and for opposite 1.00

00:21:20.460 reasons.

00:21:20.860 So it's, it's funny because they were very, very popular in the 19th century and the very

00:21:25.660 early part of the 20th century, but they still managed to offend everybody. 0.98

00:21:29.880 So integrationists objected to minstrel shows because they portrayed black people as dumb 0.99

00:21:34.820 and, and as happy slaves. 0.98

00:21:36.660 So it almost sort of defending the institution of slavery because it falsely portrayed the

00:21:40.820 slaves as really happy and content with the whole thing.

00:21:43.560 But the segregationists opposed minstrel shows and objected to them because they portrayed

00:21:48.800 the black characters as sympathetic and they humanized the black characters and they exposed

00:21:54.600 white audience, white audiences rather, to some actual black songs.

00:21:58.400 So some of the songs that were sung were just written by white people and they were sort

00:22:02.340 of caricatures of black spirituals.

00:22:05.260 Some of them were actual black songs though, and black spirituals that were then exposing

00:22:09.760 white audiences to some small aspects of black culture.

00:22:14.220 I say small aspects because you'd only get that for like one or two acts of the show.

00:22:17.480 The rest of it, there was a sort of vaudevillian format.

00:22:21.100 Our society does not object to non-Italians dressing up like Mike the Situation, right? 1.00

00:22:27.340 Our society does not object to men dressing up like women. 0.65

00:22:31.520 Far from it.

00:22:32.060 We actually encourage it.

00:22:33.860 Our society does not really even object to white people darkening their skin for costumes. 0.63

00:22:41.120 We know they don't because all those other people have their careers.

00:22:43.840 Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Billy Crystal, all of them.

00:22:47.600 What it all does come down to is context.

00:22:50.380 Justin Trudeau's Arabian costume is not funny because he was mocking Arab people and saying 1.00

00:22:59.780 that he's so much better than Arab people and Arab people are dumb and terrible and racially 1.00

00:23:03.780 inferior. 1.00

00:23:04.500 That's not what he was doing, I don't think. 0.98

00:23:06.980 The reason his Arab costume is funny is because it's so incongruous that it's ridiculous. 1.00

00:23:12.680 You have Justin Trudeau who is the whitest Canadianist person that has ever walked the 0.97

00:23:19.080 earth and you have him dressing up as an Arabian prince.

00:23:24.220 That's funny.

00:23:25.700 Humor very often comes from incongruity and subverting expectations.

00:23:29.520 Trudeau apparently darkened his skin on another occasion to look like Harry Belafonte.

00:23:33.960 This is very funny because Harry Belafonte is a cool, suave Jamaican-American singer who

00:23:39.120 was very popular for a long time and Justin Trudeau is a square, stiff, white as the newly 0.59

00:23:47.340 driven snow Canadian.

00:23:49.040 For the millennials and Gen Z in the audience who might not recognize Harry Belafonte, Harry

00:23:54.620 Belafonte is the guy who sang Daylight Come and Me Wanna Go Home.

00:23:57.500 This is a clip of Harry Belafonte.

00:23:59.840 Take a listen.

00:24:00.280 Work all night and I drink a rum.

00:24:04.580 Daylight come and me wanna go home.

00:24:07.960 Stuck by nine till the morning come.

00:24:12.380 Daylight come and me wanna go home.

00:24:15.880 Day, me said day, me.

00:24:18.320 You know that song.

00:24:18.880 You've all heard that song. 0.99

00:24:20.960 Justin Trudeau singing that song is even more ridiculous than me singing that song because 0.99

00:24:25.520 Justin Trudeau is whiter and more Canadian than I am. 0.99

00:24:28.400 It's funny.

00:24:28.840 It's funny to compare Justin Trudeau to Harry Belafonte.

00:24:31.740 They're very different people.

00:24:32.560 I don't think he was singing that song to disparage all black people or all Jamaican people.

00:24:38.220 He was wearing it because it's funny, because the comparison is funny.

00:24:40.980 So the question is, how should conservatives react?

00:24:45.820 We'll get to that in one second because I have a different answer than a lot of other

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00:26:59.640 So what do we do about Trudeau?

00:27:02.100 Some say it's none of our business.

00:27:03.620 You know, it's a foreign country. 0.98

00:27:04.700 It's Canada.

00:27:05.720 You know, we don't need to get in their affairs.

00:27:07.860 But that's the point.

00:27:08.440 It's Canada.

00:27:09.300 It's like America's hat.

00:27:10.460 Washington's greatest mistake.

00:27:11.540 So the best case scenario here is to get the left to admit in writing and on camera

00:27:16.480 that their attacks on people like Megyn Kelly are completely disingenuous

00:27:19.760 and that life and art are complicated.

00:27:21.540 That's what we should be aiming for.

00:27:22.960 I don't care if Justin Trudeau resigns.

00:27:24.540 I get a kick out of him and he's kind of funny to read about in the news.

00:27:27.220 That's the best case scenario.

00:27:29.400 Okay?

00:27:29.740 And we should be perfectly honest about that.

00:27:32.340 If they don't do that, then we need to make Trudeau resign.

00:27:35.740 Some conservatives have trouble holding these two ideas in their head at the same time.

00:27:39.740 The best solution is for the left to admit that they were wrong, that they're vindictive,

00:27:44.700 that they're shallow, that they're small people, and that they're not going to do it again.

00:27:47.760 Get them on record doing that.

00:27:48.920 That is the best scenario.

00:27:50.120 If they won't do that, we have to make them resign.

00:27:51.900 Because what that would mean is even though Trudeau did not commit some impeachable offense,

00:27:57.160 the left won't respond to reason and mercy and grace.

00:28:00.920 And so then you've got to make them feel the pain and the consequence of their actions. 0.98

00:28:04.060 There is news, by the way, from the left that is even more ridiculous than Trudeau wearing blackface. 0.96

00:28:09.200 This we have to get to before the mailbag. 0.94

00:28:11.160 It's a new initiative from NBC News.

00:28:12.800 It's called Climate Confessions.

00:28:14.720 Climate Confessions.

00:28:15.960 They've established a confessional.

00:28:17.920 Here is the headline.

00:28:18.800 Climate Confessions, even those who care deeply about the planet's future, can slip up now and then.

00:28:23.440 Tell us, where do you fall short in preventing climate change?

00:28:27.340 Do you blast the AC?

00:28:28.840 Throw out half your lunch?

00:28:29.860 Grill a steak every week?

00:28:31.180 Share your anonymous confession with NBC News.

00:28:34.080 It's even an anonymous confession.

00:28:35.620 They don't have the little booths, but they do it all online.

00:28:37.920 Here are some examples.

00:28:39.340 An energy confession.

00:28:41.520 I sleep with the air conditioner on year-round and justify it to myself by recycling.

00:28:45.980 Here's a meat confession.

00:28:47.100 I just can't get behind the impossible burger.

00:28:49.660 I'm sorry.

00:28:50.820 Here's a paper confession.

00:28:52.120 My work lunches are the worst, so much disposable everything.

00:28:54.880 Those are real confessions from the website.

00:28:56.280 You can read them.

00:28:57.200 The way you do it is you go and you pick a category, then you write down your confession.

00:29:01.020 I put out an energy confession.

00:29:02.920 I said I occasionally read NBC and watch NBC News.

00:29:07.220 That's my confession, and I'm really sorry that I do that.

00:29:09.120 This, obviously, is going to create some sectarian strife among Protestant environmentalists who just want to confess their sins to Mother Earth directly.

00:29:17.980 But, listen, for me, being a little more on the Catholic side of the issue here, I like that NBC is at least creating this secular sacrament.

00:29:25.960 We were just talking yesterday about this, about how climate change is the left's religion.

00:29:30.280 It's not about science.

00:29:31.240 It's about religion.

00:29:32.080 Specifically, it's about false religion. 0.66

00:29:34.580 And so, look, we don't need to get into that again.

00:29:38.100 It's very clear.

00:29:39.000 The left ditched real religion, and they had to adopt these false religions because everybody's got to serve somebody.

00:29:44.180 I'm glad to be able to tell you I was completely right, totally called it.

00:29:47.900 I've been saying it for years, and now NBC proves that that is true.

00:29:51.020 I mean, they're even creating these sacraments now, perfectly mimicking the Catholic sacraments, the traditional sacraments of our culture.

00:29:59.560 But there's another aspect here, which we haven't touched on too much, which is environmentalism also fulfills the political usefulness of religion.

00:30:09.060 Not just the religious longings themselves.

00:30:11.440 Man is a religious being.

00:30:12.700 We are born naturally with a longing for God.

00:30:15.080 It also fulfills the political usefulness.

00:30:17.160 So conservatives embraced the religious right at least 30, 40 years ago.

00:30:21.020 And that has been very useful to us politically.

00:30:24.160 It gives conservatives the moral high ground, if only because the left has ceded the moral high ground,

00:30:29.580 and they've embraced and flaunted all sorts of inversions and perversions of moral norms.

00:30:36.260 What the left, though, is doing now with the increasingly religious tenor of environmentalism is they're trying to counter that.

00:30:42.740 They realize it's useful politically, and they want it themselves.

00:30:45.360 The clearest example of that is Pete Buttigieg.

00:30:47.780 Pete Buttigieg is, just to compare him talking about climate change to abortion, tells you all you need to know about this.

00:30:55.300 We'll get to it in one second, and then we'll get to the mailbag.

00:30:58.120 But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:31:00.300 You know what you get.

00:31:00.920 Ten bucks a month, hundred dollars for an annual membership.

00:31:03.000 You get everything, and you get the Leftist Tears Tumblr, and that's the most important thing of all.

00:31:07.040 Head on over to dailywire.com.

00:31:09.480 If people don't make all their climate change confessions, and the world heats up and the ice caps melt, you are going to drown.

00:31:15.580 More likely, the ice caps aren't going to melt, but you're still going to drown because the leftist tears are going to flow everywhere.

00:31:20.880 Go to dailywire.com.

00:31:21.740 We'll be right back with a lot more. 0.99

00:31:22.860 Pete Buttigieg, my least favorite candidate running in the Democratic field, the biggest jerk out of all of them, has come out. 0.95

00:31:40.180 He's been doing this now for weeks and weeks, taking what NBC News is showing us, taking the political usefulness of religion, and most decisively describing this in terms of climate change and environmentalism. 0.97

00:31:58.540 Here's Pete Buttigieg using the word sin, using the concept of sin to describe climate change.

00:32:04.180 If you believe that God is watching as poison is being belched into the air of creation, and people are being harmed by it, countries are at risk of vanishing in low-lying areas, we suppose God thinks of that.

00:32:22.220 I bet he thinks it's messed up.

00:32:24.360 At least one way of talking about this is that it's a kind of sin.

00:32:28.100 At a certain point, I'm thinking, maybe just in my own faith tradition, but what kind of sin is it to blame God for something you did and something you can do something about while other people are getting hurt?

00:32:40.080 The way I see it, I don't imagine that God's going to let us off the hook for abusing future generations any more than you would be off the hook for harming somebody right next to you.

00:32:50.820 And with climate change, we're doing both.

00:32:52.060 The key word there is imagine, because you notice Pete Buttigieg can't really do a great job quoting scripture or the tradition of the church, because what he is expounding on is heresy.

00:33:03.360 What he is selling is heresy.

00:33:04.820 It's a religion that he's saying is Christianity, but it is not Christianity.

00:33:09.080 And so he always just talks about what he imagines, you know.

00:33:11.980 Forget that it's very clear from the book of Genesis, man has dominion over the land and the sea and the beasts and the birds.

00:33:16.940 Now forget about that, in Pete Buttigieg's made up version, fictional, heretical Christianity, we are only here to serve the natural environment.

00:33:26.560 But at least, you know, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

00:33:29.840 He's at least pretending that he's talking about Christianity.

00:33:34.340 Now listen to the religious terms in which Pete Buttigieg discusses abortion.

00:33:38.720 Now, right now, they hold everybody in line with this one kind of piece of doctrine about abortion, right, which is obviously a tough issue for a lot of people to think through morally.

00:33:51.240 Then again, you know, there's a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath.

00:33:57.460 And so even that is something that we can interpret differently and take up me too.

00:34:04.800 But I think no matter where you think about the kind of cosmic question of how life begins, most Americans can get on the board with the idea of, all right, I might draw the line here, you might draw the line there.

00:34:15.780 But the most important thing is the person who should be drawing the line is the woman making the decision.

00:34:19.920 Absolutely.

00:34:20.260 All heretical nonsense. 0.98

00:34:22.860 I mean, all just absolutely demonic and hellish heretical nonsense to defend the slaughter of babies. 0.95

00:34:29.700 We don't have time to get into it now.

00:34:31.280 Father Frank Pavone, the head of Priests for Life, has a wonderful article describing all of the scriptural references where we can see that God knows us from the very beginning when he formed us in our mother's wombs.

00:34:43.060 And you see this throughout the Bible.

00:34:45.040 And what Pete Buttigieg is talking about is really disgusting stuff.

00:34:48.760 But there's a story that just came out of South Bend, an abortion clinic that Buttigieg has supported in the past in South Bend.

00:34:55.240 An abortionist from there was found to have 2,200, more than 2,200 baby body parts found in his home.

00:35:01.560 Buttigieg was finally asked about this.

00:35:03.400 Here's his answer.

00:35:04.460 Like everyone, I find that news out of Illinois extremely disturbing.

00:35:08.180 And I think it's important that that be fully investigated.

00:35:12.620 I also hope that it doesn't get caught up in politics at a time when women need access to health care.

00:35:17.620 But there's no question that what happened is disturbing.

00:35:20.740 It's unacceptable.

00:35:22.140 He doesn't want it to get caught up in politics.

00:35:24.300 This is Pete Buttigieg, who is specifically making this a political issue, is running in part on this issue.

00:35:30.380 Abortion, of course, is a political issue now, and it has been for at least 50 years. 0.95

00:35:33.800 This guy is so in support of abortion, he's trying to twist the Bible for his sick crusade to kill babies. 0.99

00:35:41.100 He is so the worst. 1.00

00:35:42.340 Buttigieg is so the worst candidate.

00:35:44.240 But anyway, why is it disturbing?

00:35:47.200 Because that's what he said.

00:35:47.840 He said, this story is disturbing.

00:35:49.380 The story that the abortionist has 2,200 baby body parts in his home.

00:35:53.960 Why is that disturbing? 0.91

00:35:55.960 What Pete Buttigieg is saying is it's not disturbing to murder little babies and chop them up.

00:36:00.260 But it is disturbing to have the body parts.

00:36:06.020 When somebody is murdered, the disturbing thing about that is not how the family handles the funeral.

00:36:14.660 They pick this casket or that casket.

00:36:16.420 They serve chicken or beef at the funeral.

00:36:18.840 What's disturbing is the murder.

00:36:20.820 There is no way to get around this.

00:36:24.780 He says, oh, yes, we need to defend.

00:36:27.000 It is good.

00:36:28.080 It is moral. 0.99

00:36:29.000 It is Christian and biblical to chop up little babies, rip them into different parts, pull them limb from limb, discard them like they're nothing but meat. 1.00

00:36:39.960 That's good and wonderful and virtuous and true and biblical. 0.60

00:36:43.320 But then having the body parts is not.

00:36:46.240 That's bad.

00:36:46.940 That's disturbing.

00:36:47.800 It's not disturbing.

00:36:48.560 Totally backwards.

00:36:49.260 In other words, that's the bizarre moral code, the bizarre logical consequence of the immoral code of these false leftist religions, including environmentalism, which would have us.

00:37:01.660 All you hear about from environmentalism is have fewer babies, live less, thrive less, be less productive. 0.99

00:37:08.000 In some cases, kill your babies. 1.00

00:37:09.680 Go. 1.00

00:37:09.840 That would be good for the environment.

00:37:12.480 Sacrifice your babies on the altar of the climate. 0.88

00:37:15.140 No different than any other pagan religion. 0.93

00:37:16.680 We've got a lot more to get to, but we've got to get to the mailbag, so let's just fly right through it today, and we'll get to some more stories next week.

00:37:23.000 From Dave, dear St. Michael of the Blessed Covfefe, do you have any suggestions about how to improve on speaking more eloquently in day-to-day life?

00:37:32.060 Yes.

00:37:32.380 Make a point of not saying, uh, or um, or like, and to a lesser degree, but also importantly, you know.

00:37:45.340 Just take those out of your speech.

00:37:48.600 It's very difficult.

00:37:49.700 I mess up on this sometimes, too.

00:37:51.200 I use those words on occasion, but some people use those words a lot, and you'll notice that you use it a lot more than you think you do.

00:37:59.040 Don't do that.

00:38:00.480 One of the advantages is that you don't sound like a valley girl from the 80s.

00:38:04.060 The other advantage is it will cause you to stop.

00:38:07.440 You will stop speaking for a second, and that will allow you to think, which means that the things that you are saying are going to be more eloquent and better thought out.

00:38:15.780 I would recommend slowing down.

00:38:17.320 I would recommend speaking on your breath.

00:38:20.060 One way that millennials and Gen Z, and Gen Z less so, I've noticed millennials do this, though, is they'll speak in vocal fry.

00:38:26.620 But vocal fry is like when you talk like this, you know, so there's no real air supporting it, but it's just kind of in the back of the throat, and it sounds really unpleasant and ugly.

00:38:36.740 Speak on your breath.

00:38:37.920 It will give off a sense of confidence.

00:38:41.140 It will make you feel more confident about your ideas, and it will be more persuasive.

00:38:45.140 Those are just a few things you can do.

00:38:46.500 Also, read poetry, read good language, read good books, and memorize poetry.

00:38:52.560 Poetry is easy because you can memorize a poem in an hour or two.

00:38:56.300 Memorize verses from the Bible.

00:38:57.820 Memorize Shakespeare.

00:38:58.800 Memorize good quotes that you like.

00:39:00.820 We have gotten much worse about our memories because we have electronics in front of us all the time, so we don't recall anything.

00:39:08.120 But so much of speaking publicly is about recalling quotes and thoughts and ideas and who said it and citations.

00:39:14.840 So just work on building up your memory, and when you do memorize things, do it with your mouth.

00:39:19.380 Do it on your voice.

00:39:20.160 Don't just do it in your head.

00:39:21.260 Big, exaggerated movements from your mouth and from your vocal cords.

00:39:25.300 This will make it much easier to memorize things, and it will make you a better speaker.

00:39:29.640 From Kyle.

00:39:30.440 Michael, love the show.

00:39:31.200 It's art in one of its purest forms.

00:39:33.620 Thank you very much.

00:39:34.600 With Democrats racing to see who can have the most radical policy by 2020, what hope do you have for true bipartisanship or a renewal of agreement on common values between Republicans and Democrats when some of the most fundamental disagreements we have at this point seem irreconcilable?

00:39:51.560 I think bipartisanship is nonsense.

00:39:54.500 I mean, it's a contradiction in a term.

00:39:57.780 Partisanship means there is a disagreement.

00:39:59.760 There is a separation.

00:40:00.880 There is division.

00:40:01.880 So bipartisanship is a contradiction in itself, and I don't even think we necessarily want that.

00:40:08.080 I don't want a big liberal consensus in this country.

00:40:10.400 I like that I get to state my point of view, and other people get to state their incorrect points of view, and then I can persuade people to agree with what I think, to put it bluntly.

00:40:19.740 So that's fine.

00:40:21.760 I like a good rigorous debate.

00:40:23.160 I don't like the censorship.

00:40:24.580 I don't like the constant character attacks.

00:40:26.620 I don't like dredging up old tweets.

00:40:28.360 Twitter is a little bit of the problem, though.

00:40:29.820 I was on a Fox News show when I was in New York a couple days ago, and it was Martha McCallum's show, and I was on with Juan Williams.

00:40:36.020 Juan and I disagree on a whole number of things.

00:40:38.720 I'm sure we could easily go back and snipe at each other on Twitter all day long.

00:40:42.200 But when you're in the room looking at somebody face-to-face, you take them more seriously.

00:40:45.920 You treat them more respectfully.

00:40:47.320 That would be good.

00:40:47.960 I think that we could do with a whole lot more respect and reverence in this country, but that's going to come from a place of humility and personal interaction.

00:40:56.820 Unfortunately, we're losing humility because we now have a whole month that celebrates pride, which is the opposite of humility, and we have much less personal interaction because more and more and more, we're just behind our screens, and we're all keyboard warriors with the courage of people who never have to face consequences for what they say.

00:41:11.840 So, in short, I don't think that the future of good civil discourse is looking very bright.

00:41:18.840 And the only way that we can try to create that culture now with all of the technological and social challenges is to embody it and have a little reverence and have a little humility ourselves.

00:41:27.840 From Brandon.

00:41:28.340 Dear Michael, if the 2020 candidates have their way and make college free, do you think we will see a dramatic drop-off in the quality of education?

00:41:36.080 Yes, of course, we already have.

00:41:37.780 As the federal government has come in and subsidized loans and underwritten college loans, the quality of the education has declined dramatically.

00:41:45.720 As more and more people have gone to college, the quality of the education has declined dramatically.

00:41:49.740 In the 1940s, about 5% of Americans had a bachelor degree.

00:41:53.260 Today, 60% of high school graduates are going to go to college.

00:41:56.800 They may drop out, but they're going to go.

00:41:59.120 We have too many people going to college, and we have too much of a one-size-fits-all solution.

00:42:04.000 Some people shouldn't go to get a liberal education.

00:42:06.740 Some people should go and get a trade education.

00:42:08.760 And by trade education, by the way, I mean study business or study accounting or study pre-law or study...

00:42:15.180 Because even law school is really a trade education, though usually you need a liberal education before that.

00:42:20.020 Or you study some aspect of the medical field or, you know, learn how to buff hardwood floors or become an electrician or become a plumber.

00:42:27.060 You don't need... or go to seminary.

00:42:28.940 I mean, that's a different sort of education.

00:42:30.760 It involves liberal education, and it involves something else.

00:42:34.400 Education should be tailored to the individuals, and we're losing that.

00:42:39.340 And I think that's just a function of a democratic society which wants to level down and make everybody exactly equal.

00:42:44.960 So that's a process that's already been happening.

00:42:46.440 And once you make college into just 13th grade, you're going to see the colleges...

00:42:50.660 You're going to see happening at the colleges what was already happening in public school education from kindergarten through 12.

00:42:57.180 And that's part of a long process that's been going on.

00:43:00.060 It'll probably continue to happen whether or not Liz Warren gets her free college for everybody plan. 1.00

00:43:05.020 It's a much bigger problem than this election.

00:43:07.540 From Danielle.

00:43:08.260 Hi, Michael.

00:43:09.820 I listen to your show, and I appreciate your perspective into all aspects of life.

00:43:13.580 My boyfriend and I have been together for almost four years.

00:43:16.000 I'm 32, and he's 47.

00:43:18.760 Recently, the question of, are we ready to get married, came up again.

00:43:24.020 The, I'm not sure we're ready answer that I eventually received from him is obviously not what I wanted to hear.

00:43:28.840 However, this day and age seems to complicate feelings and futures, and now so many people aren't sure of anything.

00:43:34.900 What sort of insight do you have on this, given that you and your wife had a longer winding courtship,

00:43:39.080 and that dating and marrying for millennials is sort of a train wreck?

00:43:42.100 This is sort of a train wreck.

00:43:43.360 That's an understatement.

00:43:44.320 This is a heartbreaking question to have floating around in my mind, but how do I wait?

00:43:48.140 But do I wait and work on the relationship, or call it quits?

00:43:52.680 Tell him to piss or get off the pot. 0.63

00:43:55.940 Simple as that. 0.97

00:43:56.600 It is true.

00:43:57.180 I dated sweet little Elisa for so long, in part because we dated when we were little kids.

00:44:00.880 We dated when, you know, we met when we were 9 or 10,

00:44:03.200 and we were dating when we were 16.

00:44:06.040 And we split for college and then got back together and, in this very millennial way,

00:44:11.280 waited a long time and moved all around the country and those sort of things.

00:44:13.860 I wish I'd gotten married sooner.

00:44:15.320 It would have been better to do that.

00:44:16.900 And I sort of wish she had told me what I just told you.

00:44:21.340 So my grandmother and grandfather dated for a while, and eventually she gave him that ultimatum as well.

00:44:27.580 Piss or get off the pot.

00:44:28.880 That's what you should tell him to do, especially because, I mean, you're younger than he is, it seems. 0.82

00:44:34.620 You're 32 and he's 47.

00:44:36.000 But he's 47.

00:44:36.760 He's no young boy. 0.74

00:44:38.300 I'd cut him off.

00:44:41.100 I'd take the Lysistrata strategy. 0.99

00:44:43.020 I would make him make a decision and make him act like a man.

00:44:45.520 He's certainly old enough to be one.

00:44:47.120 And there's no two ways about that.

00:44:48.320 Don't wait around for even two seconds.

00:44:50.540 Make him make a decision.

00:44:51.760 You can move on with your life if he doesn't want to do it.

00:44:53.640 Or he'll get married.

00:44:54.740 Because sometimes men just need a little push.

00:44:56.880 From Melanie.

00:44:57.420 Hello, Michael.

00:44:58.440 I'd love to know your opinions on the 26th president of the U.S. of A., Teddy Roosevelt.

00:45:01.800 He was a fascinating and inspirational man in his personal life, but I've heard conflicting views on his politics as president and whether they help the U.S. in the long run or not.

00:45:10.220 What do you think?

00:45:10.780 Thanks.

00:45:11.280 I love Teddy Roosevelt.

00:45:13.000 Some libertarians don't like him because he liked national parks too much and called himself progressive, even though then that term had certainly a different connotation than it does now.

00:45:23.320 I think he's great.

00:45:24.260 I think he's basically America.

00:45:26.400 He's loud.

00:45:27.140 He's boisterous.

00:45:27.920 The guy got shot one time, finished giving a speech, and then only then went to a hospital.

00:45:32.900 You know, the guy gets attacked and he attacks the people right back.

00:45:35.760 He goes over to Africa and bags hundreds of large game.

00:45:38.260 He's just terrific.

00:45:39.160 He's just a great historical figure.

00:45:41.560 John Milius, one of the great filmmakers who's still living today, has a good movie on Teddy Roosevelt, The Wind and the Lion.

00:45:48.180 Go check it out.

00:45:48.820 There's a great speech by the character playing Teddy Roosevelt of how the grizzly bear is America.

00:45:55.560 I think he very much embodies that spirit.

00:45:57.500 Whether or not his policies in the early 20th century really matter or don't really matter, whatever.

00:46:02.820 Look, politics is contextual and politics is circumstantial and it changes over time.

00:46:07.700 So historical views of presidents change.

00:46:11.280 But as an American character, I think he's just absolutely terrific.

00:46:15.580 Final question from Samuel.

00:46:17.160 What are your favorite last words, either historical or fictional?

00:46:19.680 It is said that Pope Benedict XV, his last words on his deathbed were,

00:46:24.860 la commedia è finita, which is quoting an opera, Pagliacci or something, which is the comedy is finished.

00:46:34.240 And I love these last words because they're funny.

00:46:38.580 There's some wit there.

00:46:39.660 The idea that obviously the comedy of his life is coming to an end, but also that it's a comedy.

00:46:44.620 Life isn't just a farce.

00:46:45.760 He's not saying it's a comedy like it's an absurd joke, a big cosmic joke.

00:46:49.780 It's a comedy in that it has a happy ending.

00:46:52.760 We have a happy ending.

00:46:53.940 Our life has a happy ending.

00:46:55.020 This world has a happy ending.

00:46:56.400 This is what the divine comedy is all about.

00:46:58.560 And I think those are the perfect last words.

00:47:00.200 And if I know that my end is coming, I hope I repeat them when my time comes up.

00:47:05.760 All right.

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00:48:19.060 Should we go to war with Canada?

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 19, 2019

Ep. 418 - Hypocrisy Is More Offensive Than Blackface

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