The Michael Knowles Show - October 01, 2019


Ep. 424 - The Hate Hoax Epidemic


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A 12-year-old black girl says she was attacked by three white boys at a Christian school in Virginia. The mainstream media latched on to the story and ran with it, even though there's no evidence it actually happened.

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00:00:00.000 A black schoolgirl was assaulted by three white boys.
00:00:04.200 Science shows red meat is bad for you, and men are paid less than women for equal work.
00:00:11.180 The only problem with all of those headlines is that none of them are true.
00:00:15.120 We will examine the latest hate hoax, then some science hoaxes, and then a whole slew
00:00:19.520 of political hoaxes. Then Joe Biden's corruption defense continues to crumble with a new photo
00:00:25.240 that just came out, and President Trump congratulates Communist China on 70 years of misery. 0.92
00:00:30.420 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:40.240 Oh, this story had everything the media wanted. I'm sure you saw the headlines. It was about a school
00:00:49.440 where Mike Pence's wife works, and a young black girl was assaulted, physically assaulted,
00:00:57.780 by three white boys, proving America's racism, proving that we haven't done anything to better
00:01:03.520 ourselves in this country. It had everything the media wanted. White un-black racial bigotry,
00:01:08.200 a cute little girl in a Christian school, not just any Christian school, but the one where Mike Pence's
00:01:12.500 wife works. So the mainstream media ran this story everywhere. Here is just a little smattering of
00:01:18.640 the breathless reporting. Local news, national news, CNN. I don't know if CNN counts as national
00:01:24.120 news, because three people watch it, and then it's just on in the airports. But nevertheless,
00:01:28.740 here is the media running with this story.
00:01:31.220 Police in Virginia are investigating reports of an attack at a school. 12-year-old Omri Allen says
00:01:36.540 three boys cornered her and cut off some of her locks. And here is how she describes the incident.
00:01:44.180 The boys came up to me, and they ambushed me, sort of, like caged me in. And so they put their
00:01:51.340 hands over my mouth, they put my hands behind my back, and they started cutting my hair and saying
00:01:55.360 that it was ugly. The Emanuel Christian School reported the allegations to law enforcement and
00:02:01.220 said they have a zero-tolerance policy on bullying and abuse. This is the same private school where the
00:02:06.440 wife of the vice president, Karen Pence, teaches two days a week. The office of the second lady has
00:02:12.100 not commented on the incident. School officials say that all the students involved, including
00:02:17.000 Allen, are not attending classes during this investigation. The school says it is, quote,
00:02:21.920 deeply disturbed by the allegations, adding that Emanuel has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying
00:02:27.640 and abuse. Vice President Mike Pence's wife, Karen Pence, teaches art part-time at Emanuel. That's
00:02:33.980 something that garnered national attention earlier this year when it was revealed that the school
00:02:37.680 has a policy banning gay students and parents. Okay, before we get into the actual story itself,
00:02:43.520 let's just correct the record on what they're saying about this school. They're saying it bans
00:02:47.980 gay students and parents. That is not true. It enforces traditional Christian sexual ethics. 1.00
00:02:55.140 So it doesn't care if you're gay or not gay, but you're not allowed to commit sex acts that are 0.91
00:03:03.480 outside of traditional Christian ethics. I'm sure that they're not exactly supportive of the hookup
00:03:08.260 culture either, or throuples or threesomes or any of those things too. Just a minor point. On the bigger
00:03:15.220 story, cute young girl says that she's been viciously attacked by these boys. There's a racial angle.
00:03:23.020 It's pulling on the heartstrings. It's backing up the mainstream media's biases. So local TV,
00:03:28.680 national TV, every newspaper runs this story. And if it were just those stories, if it were just what
00:03:36.880 you just heard, I could almost see it. Why? The media are biased. They like to run stories that confirm
00:03:44.660 their biases. They hate the pences. They hate Christianity. They think that America is hopelessly racist.
00:03:50.800 They're convinced of it. So I actually sort of get why they would run it. Okay. Not that this isn't
00:03:56.180 me completely knocking the media for this, but they didn't just leave it at that. They had to get
00:04:02.780 more and more sensational. Here's another story on the same story from CNN.
00:04:08.360 12-year-old sixth grader Amari Allen is healing after she says three white male classmates at
00:04:18.480 Emanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia targeted and attacked her because of her hair.
00:04:25.260 Okay. This is where the reporting becomes really irresponsible. Also, why is she playing violin? 1.00
00:04:31.640 What on earth does that have to do with the story? Why does it begin that way? Because they're
00:04:35.500 obviously constructing this narrative. This good, studious girl. She's even nicer than she seemed
00:04:41.760 on the first news clip. And now she's being victimized by, I don't know, probably mini David
00:04:46.860 Dukes or something like that. And where the reporting becomes irresponsible is they don't have any evidence
00:04:52.620 that the story actually occurred. And the wording is important here. So if they had said, if they had
00:04:57.960 said 12-year-old Amari Allen says she is healing after she alleges three boys pinned her down, that
00:05:04.920 would be one thing. That would be a news story. They don't say that. They say 12-year-old Amari Allen
00:05:10.100 is healing, is healing after she says, and then they go on. That's a big difference because it turns
00:05:17.920 out that she isn't healing because it turns out she was never hurt in the first place because the
00:05:23.280 problem with the story is that it never happened. It wasn't true. Here's how we know. We'll get to
00:05:29.840 how we know in a second. We'll get to what this means for our culture and for the news media. But
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00:07:51.300 smattering of the news stories about this. This was all over the place. Print, TV, radio. And the
00:07:56.580 problem is the story never happened. The family now admitted that it was a lie. How did we find out it
00:08:03.980 was a lie? Because law enforcement officials investigated it. Here's the girl's original story. Quote,
00:08:08.500 one of the boys put his hand over my mouth so I wouldn't scream while they used scissors on my
00:08:14.940 hair. They were all laughing, calling me ugly, and saying I should never have been born. This is
00:08:19.540 pretty awful to hear about this. Forget even the racial aspect, which is what the media ran with.
00:08:25.720 Just think about the sex aspect. You've got these three boys doing this to this vulnerable girl. It
00:08:31.700 sounds terrible. Then she goes on. She says, they ran off laughing and I was just sitting there.
00:08:35.500 I'm hurt that it happened. All I want to ask them is why. I mean, it sounds really bad. Daily Beast ran
00:08:41.920 this story breathlessly without checking on one single fact. Now they're paying for that today when
00:08:47.440 the truth came out. Her mother said it took two days for the little girl to admit that the attack
00:08:56.660 happened. Except now we know that the attack didn't happen. So what's going on here? The 12-year-old
00:09:00.980 initially said when she was asked by her mother why she was missing parts of her hair, she said she
00:09:05.260 was playing beauty salon with her friend. So she was, you know, playing a game and I guess the kids
00:09:10.300 cut each other's hair. And then two days goes by and then she changes her story and said these kids
00:09:15.180 held her down and tried to hurt her and threaten her. You do feel for the girl. I mean, what kind of
00:09:21.720 situation made this girl make up this story and accuse her classmates and do all those terrible 1.00
00:09:27.360 things. Could be the case that, you know, the girl cut her hair off with her friend or by herself
00:09:32.880 and then she didn't want to get in trouble with her mother. So she made up this story about her
00:09:36.520 classmates. Who knows? This is what the mother said though. My concern is how did they not see
00:09:43.540 what was taking place on the playground all year? Karen Pence, the vice president's wife, 0.76
00:09:48.820 works at the school. There's security and secret service anywhere, everywhere. How did they not know?
00:09:53.280 Right. This is the point in the story where you've got to turn your faculties of reason on and say,
00:09:59.820 hold on, this has got to be one of the most secure schools in America. Nobody heard about this. Nobody
00:10:05.820 saw this happen. Maybe something isn't right about the story. And the girl, the little girl made a big
00:10:12.140 issue. She said they had scissors. They could have done anything to me. They could have done it. So she's
00:10:17.480 saying they could have, I don't know, stabbed her, cut her, killed her. She went on, I was afraid if I told
00:10:22.620 the teacher, they wouldn't care. What about this teacher makes you think she wouldn't care if kids 1.00
00:10:29.800 were threatening you with scissors and cutting your hair? Doesn't hold up. So the police investigate.
00:10:34.580 That's good. And the girl's story fell apart. Why did she lie? We don't know. Maybe she didn't want
00:10:39.680 to get in trouble. Maybe she thought there would be some sort of social reward for this story.
00:10:44.440 Maybe something else happened and we just don't know. And she just wanted to do it.
00:10:47.840 I don't really blame the girl all that much. Kids do stupid things. Kids make mistakes. That's
00:10:54.240 like the definition of being a kid. I do blame the parents a little bit because they didn't look
00:10:59.000 into it. But again, parents are going to defend their kids, generally speaking. So I don't even
00:11:03.540 blame them as much. I blame the school a little bit more. Mostly I blame the culture. I blame the
00:11:11.760 pop culture. I blame society. I know. I sound like a leftist. It's society, man. But it sort
00:11:18.120 of is society here because we have become so gullible, so shallow as a society that we eat
00:11:25.780 this stuff up. The media run with it. I do blame the media a little bit. The media in some ways are
00:11:29.400 a reflection of us. We have a culture that tells us, believe all women. You remember during the
00:11:34.960 Kavanaugh hearing. That's all you heard. Believe all women. You say, well, I want to believe credible
00:11:40.760 women and I want to disbelieve women who are not credible. I want to disbelieve liars. Like we were 1.00
00:11:46.840 told we had to believe all women as though women are a different species. I can, I guess I can only 1.00
00:11:52.080 speak from experience being a man. Men are broken creatures with imperfect natures who lie and sin
00:11:59.460 invariably. I guess one exception in all of history, but we'll get into that later on a religious
00:12:04.740 show. Women are the same thing. Women are in our species. They're not a completely separate 1.00
00:12:11.160 being. Women are capable of lying. But you're not allowed to say that now because of feminist 1.00
00:12:17.560 culture, the leftist culture, and the Me Too culture. So we have this culture telling us,
00:12:21.540 believe all women. We have a culture increasingly telling us, believe all children. And there's
00:12:26.360 actually a major feminist, Megan Murphy, who's coming out against this culture. We'll try to get to 1.00
00:12:30.620 that a little bit later. But that is what the culture is telling us. Out of the mouth of babes,
00:12:34.400 we need to follow children. They know so much more than adults do. And they don't. They don't
00:12:39.820 know that. But we have a culture, that we have this culture rather, that encourages leftist lies
00:12:45.160 and excuses them until, until those lies are exposed. And even, I guess, after those lies are
00:12:51.560 exposed. So the school makes this comment. They say, quote, we can now confirm that the student who
00:12:56.980 accused three of her classmates of assault has acknowledged that the allegations were false.
00:13:00.740 We're grateful to the police department for their diligent work. While we are relieved to hear the
00:13:06.380 truth and bring the events of the past two days to a close, this is the key, we also feel tremendous
00:13:12.200 pain for the victims and the hurt on both sides of this conflict. Excuse me? There is no both sides to
00:13:22.260 this conflict. There is a little girl who lied, who was abetted by a complicit media. And then there are
00:13:29.780 the victims, who are the three little kids who were baselessly smeared as vile bigots. And maybe
00:13:34.040 their parents too. It isn't, oh, we all have something to be sorry for. No, we don't. I don't
00:13:42.140 even really blame the girl. I blame the media a lot more than I blame the little girl. I mean,
00:13:45.440 I guess the mother should punish her girl for lying. Parents should punish their kids when they lie. 1.00
00:13:49.680 But kids lie. Kids do bad things. I do blame the media. I do blame the school. I don't blame the
00:13:56.600 three little kids who were baselessly accused of being bigots. I don't, I feel sorry for them.
00:14:01.360 And I don't feel sorry for the people who perpetrated this. But the left always does this.
00:14:05.620 They do this every time one of their lies is exposed. They'll run with some story. I mean,
00:14:11.300 this is a great example of it. And then it'll turn out to be a hoax. And they'll say, okay,
00:14:15.980 so the story wasn't true, but it gets at a greater truth. Okay, well, Duke La Crosse,
00:14:23.880 that wasn't true. The Duke La Crosse team didn't rape that woman. But it gets at a greater truth
00:14:28.980 about rape culture. Okay, the Jussie Smollett hoax, that wasn't true. But it gets at a greater,
00:14:35.640 it doesn't get at a greater truth. Lies don't get at greater truths. Lies are lies. They're bad.
00:14:39.780 They should be condemned. There are victims of lies. There are victims of this dishonest culture.
00:14:44.700 And guess what? There are a lot of hoaxes. Let's just look in just the past year,
00:14:49.940 just the past year. Two weeks ago, Edwin Kaufman, I don't know if I'm even pronouncing
00:14:55.120 that right. He's an ex-Tampa Bay NFL player. He trashed two of his own restaurants. He spray
00:15:00.320 painted the N-word on the restaurant. He spray painted MAGA on the walls. Now he didn't do this
00:15:06.020 honestly out in the open. What he said is this was, he was the victim of a vicious racist attack.
00:15:11.200 He wasn't. He did it himself. Why did he do it? I don't know. The money, the attention,
00:15:16.140 the fame, who knows. One month ago, a 19-year-old guy with gender dysphoria, Andrew Smith, he was in
00:15:22.200 Illinois. He found a noose in an elevator by his room and he said that he was the victim of a hate
00:15:27.940 crime and people were coming out against him because of his gender identity. He wasn't. He
00:15:34.200 planted it there himself. This came out when the person that he tied the noose with admitted that
00:15:38.360 it was all a big hoax. That was one month ago, back in June. A bakery in Ohio won an $11 million
00:15:45.920 ruling against Oberlin College. Why? Because Oberlin College, the administrators, the faculty,
00:15:52.660 and certainly students there, accused that bakery of racial profiling against black students. Why did
00:15:59.260 they do that? Because three black students had been arrested there for attempted robbery. This was a
00:16:04.800 big deal. They basically shut down the bakery. Then it turns out the students admit that they were
00:16:09.960 actually going to rob the store. And so it was a total hoax. Back in March, the Southern Poverty Law Center,
00:16:15.060 that absolute hate organization, came out and said that white racist Trump supporters in Mississippi
00:16:21.940 burned down a black church. And they spray painted all sorts of terrible things on there and they
00:16:27.040 spray painted Vote Trump. Guess what happened? Turns out, later revealed, the guy who set the fire to the
00:16:34.040 church was not a white supremacist. He was a black man. And he wasn't coming in from somewhere far away.
00:16:41.600 He was a member of the church. Why did they do it? Couldn't tell you. And then, of course,
00:16:47.220 back in February, you have Jussie Smollett. As Dave Chappelle calls him, that French actor,
00:16:53.060 Jussie Smollett. Jussie Smollett, who pretended that he was attacked by two white supremacist Trump
00:17:00.940 supporters in the middle of the night on the south side of Chicago. Or somewhere in Chicago. I don't
00:17:05.960 remember exactly where in Chicago. Well, he was holding a Subway salad. Who gets a salad at Subway?
00:17:11.960 I don't know. Somehow during the whole attack with bleach and a noose and MAGA hats, he didn't even drop
00:17:17.320 the salad. Nobody seriously believed the Jussie Smollett thing when it happened. Well, let me
00:17:23.640 rephrase that. No serious person believed the Jussie Smollett thing. A lot of people seriously believed it.
00:17:29.760 In the media, in the left wing, especially white liberals. White liberals love this kind of stuff.
00:17:35.240 But serious people didn't believe it for a second. Those are just like the first five on the list.
00:17:40.740 This goes on and on and on. You can look. There are various websites that have indexes of all these
00:17:45.140 hate hoaxes with links to the media reports at the time and then links to the updates. This is
00:17:51.600 something of an epidemic. The left wants to pretend that this never happens. Why? Why is the right so
00:18:00.380 much better at identifying these hate hoaxes? It's not because racial attacks don't happen. Racial
00:18:05.560 attacks do happen. Or sexual attacks. Or attacks motivated by some other kind of bigotry. They do
00:18:11.100 happen. They just don't happen that much. And when they do happen, you really want to look at the
00:18:17.200 details to make sure it's true. Because who are the victims of the Jussie Smollett hoax? Well,
00:18:25.740 Trump supporters are. Conservatives are. Half of the country are. Because he tried to smear us all as
00:18:31.240 racist and being a part of a racist, bigoted movement, which is not true. The other victims are the actual
00:18:38.200 victims of hate crimes and bigotry. Because every time there's one of these hoaxes, people take them
00:18:44.980 less seriously. So who are the victims here? Well, certainly those three kids, the three white 0.92
00:18:49.740 kids who were accused of attacking this young black girl, they are certainly the victims. Other
00:18:55.560 victims are other young black girls or young white girls or young white boys or any kid who is actually
00:19:04.860 attacked in some bigoted way. They're the victims too. The big difference here is not how you view
00:19:14.180 race. It's not how you view sex. It's not how you even view crime. The big difference, why does the
00:19:21.540 left fall for it? Because the left has an unrealistic view of society and of the culture. The left always
00:19:29.380 leaps on these because they think the culture really hates women or the culture really hates black people
00:19:33.700 or the culture really hates Hispanics or any other racial minority group or homosexuals or people who
00:19:39.480 are confused about their sex or anyone else. It doesn't. Most Americans are basically good people.
00:19:46.740 Half of the country is not irredeemable and deplorable like Hillary Clinton said it was.
00:19:52.060 Conservatives are better at sussing these out because we just know that doesn't really happen,
00:19:55.880 especially at a school that's going to have secret service protection at it and has pretty heightened
00:19:59.860 insecurity. I just, it doesn't pass the smell test. These hoaxes happen. Now, one conclusion of this
00:20:10.900 for me, whenever I read politics, I learn this more and more. It's good to cultivate humility. The more I
00:20:19.140 read, the more I realize I don't know anything. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know
00:20:23.180 anything. The more books I crack open, the more I realize I don't know very much. But our society
00:20:29.240 doesn't cultivate that virtue of humility, which is the most important of the virtues in many ways.
00:20:35.820 If pride is the queen of all sins, then the opposite of pride is humility. And that's
00:20:39.820 an important beginning for understanding and for wisdom. I feel this way, not just about politics or
00:20:46.440 crime or anything. I feel this with scientific studies. It's not that I'm a science denier to use the
00:20:50.660 term that the left uses. Far from it. It's actually the opposite. Because I do believe in
00:20:55.040 the scientific method, I believe in skepticism and I believe in rigor. And I believe that studies need
00:21:00.400 to be replicated. And I believe that the inherited wisdom of thousands and thousands of years has been
00:21:05.500 tested over time. It's not that it's old wisdom. It's that it's the newest wisdom because it's survived
00:21:10.540 so much rigor over the years. And if there's some new faddish sort of study that comes out of some
00:21:17.340 university somewhere, I'm just a little skeptical of it. They do this all the time. You see this
00:21:21.500 with nutrition. So with nutrition, they tell you, one day, coffee is great for you. Drink 20 cups of
00:21:26.940 coffee a day. It's really good for you. Then about, I don't know, five hours later, they tell you coffee
00:21:31.840 is going to kill you. If you have two sips of coffee, you're going to die. And they don't just do
00:21:36.600 it with coffee. They do it with eggs. Every other day of the week, eggs are good for you. And then the
00:21:40.060 other day, they're bad for you. They do the same thing with smoking. So we learn that smoking is
00:21:44.340 probably not great for you if you're inhaling all of these things into your lungs. Then we were told
00:21:48.040 there's something called secondhand smoke, which is going to kill you if you ever walk by somebody
00:21:51.520 on the street. Now, there's no evidence for this whatsoever. There's not a lot of rigor around
00:21:55.920 secondhand smoke. Doesn't matter. Then we heard there's something called thirdhand smoke, which is
00:22:00.360 if you smoke in an apartment, let's say, and then you move out of the apartment and then someone else
00:22:04.700 moves into the apartment and they can smell it a little bit on the carpet or something, that's
00:22:08.860 thirdhand smoke. That's going to kill you too. Pretty soon there's going to be fourth,
00:22:11.640 fifth, and sixthhand smoke. Not based in science at all. They change their mind on these things
00:22:16.260 every single day. Now we get to one of my favorite ones. This just came out. For years and years and
00:22:22.720 years now, I have been told, in part by sweet little Elisa, who cares for my health. She knows I don't
00:22:28.900 treat my body very well and she wants me to live a long time. She tells me, Mike, say yes, sweet little
00:22:34.420 Elisa. She goes, Mike, eat less red meat. Say, no, no, I don't think I'm going to do that. Now,
00:22:43.080 her argument is red meat is bad for you. How do we know red meat is bad for you? A bunch of guys in
00:22:47.440 white coats told us that for a few years. So you've got to eat less red meat. I thought, no, first of
00:22:51.920 all, if I'm going to eat less red meat, life might not be worth living, so I'm going to do it. Also now,
00:22:57.800 for some reason, it's irritating the environmentalists. The environmentalists are saying that if you eat red
00:23:01.880 meat, you're destroying the environment and they get really anxious and worked up about this and I
00:23:05.760 consider that funny, so I guess I need to eat more hamburgers and also because it tastes good and I
00:23:10.020 like it. I've been pushing back on this. But the study, the scientific studies, they're so clear.
00:23:16.100 No, they're not. There's a new scientific study out, totally called it, new scientific study out
00:23:21.860 that says there is no reason to eat less red meat. What they find is that the evidence that was used
00:23:29.060 to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and also to eat less pork is weak. There's no real
00:23:38.020 way to justify that recommendation. And what they say is these findings, when you find things like
00:23:45.220 this, it erodes public trust in the scientists. It doesn't erode my trust. I know science is very
00:23:52.920 difficult and I know that the world is very complicated and I know that ideologues who want
00:23:56.580 to tell us that they have discovered something, this secret, the key to life. If you do this one
00:24:01.760 thing, your life will be perfect and that you just, that isn't true. And if scientists can't figure out
00:24:08.640 red meat, if scientists can't figure out the food pyramid generally, you remember when the food
00:24:12.700 pyramid said you got to eat a lot of carbohydrates and then some fruits and vegetables and then a
00:24:16.820 little bit of dairy and then barely any fat. And then one day, about a year or two ago,
00:24:21.340 the scientists came out really quietly. It was like a Friday afternoon and they said,
00:24:24.760 hey, by the way, you know that food pyramid? It's the opposite. All right, well, we're heading
00:24:30.520 out of work now, so sorry, no questions. No, we can't. Yeah, but what was it? Yeah, it's the opposite
00:24:34.620 now, so just do the opposite of the food pyramid. Nobody even seemed to bat an eye. They said, okay,
00:24:42.660 well, the scientists say it's the opposite now, so I guess we'll follow that. I don't believe them
00:24:45.700 on this one either. When I see my friends losing a lot of weight on the keto diet, I get a little nervous
00:24:51.500 for them. I have a lot of friends who have lost weight on the keto diet and they say, oh yeah,
00:24:56.180 keto, this is like the new way to go. This is going to give you a long life. I think you're
00:25:01.140 definitely losing weight and you look better, but I don't know if a diet that causes you to lose
00:25:05.600 lots of weight very quickly is necessarily the healthiest diet. It seems to me like for most of
00:25:11.180 human history, diets that allowed you to sort of preserve your body fat were considered better
00:25:15.880 diets. Anyway, I'm just saying what all of these things bring up is that we need to have a little
00:25:21.480 skepticism. We need to be a little more aware of our faculties of reason. We need to maybe question
00:25:29.880 some of our premises if our premises keep being proven wrong, that the scientists know everything.
00:25:35.520 They get everything wrong on coffee. They get it wrong on eggs. They get it wrong on red meat. They get
00:25:40.320 it wrong on everything. And we think that they're going to be able to predict with perfect certainty
00:25:45.780 the weather in 100 years. Hmm. I mean, kids are taking off school for this. You've got people
00:25:53.040 losing their minds. There's climate anxiety. People are going to therapists because of climate
00:25:57.860 anxiety. The scientists can't predict the weather in 100 years. They can't even predict the food pyramid
00:26:04.660 next week. Red meat is good. I'm going to enjoy some red meat tonight. Speaking of the reds,
00:26:10.200 we've got to get to the 70th anniversary of red China. Unfortunately, I have to take a little issue
00:26:17.460 with President Covfefe. He does a great job generally, but he's getting this anniversary of
00:26:21.880 the communist government in China completely wrong. Then bad news for Joe Biden again. Some more hoaxes
00:26:27.280 on the wage gap and so much more. But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. You know,
00:26:33.340 I also want to mention before we head out, just in the interest of using skepticism and your faculties
00:26:39.320 of reason, I want to correct something that we said yesterday. Yesterday, we were covering the story
00:26:43.760 of Lupron, which is the puberty blocking drug that is used on transgender children, quote unquote,
00:26:51.520 that is used on children whose parents insist they have gender dysphoria and gender confusion.
00:26:56.140 And there was a report out that that killed 6,300 people, that drug, and it's now currently
00:27:00.940 being used on children. That is true, though I think I may have said on the show yesterday that
00:27:05.680 it killed 6,300 children, and that is not accurate. It killed 6,300 people, and the drug is being used
00:27:11.600 on children. But in terms of actual specifics on that number, I just don't have it. So in the interest
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00:29:04.200 All right, it's the 70th anniversary of Communist China. President Trump tweeted about this. He said
00:29:10.800 quote, congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th anniversary of the
00:29:15.780 People's Republic of China. I give Trump slack on a lot of things because he's doing such a great job
00:29:21.720 and he's very good at cutting deals and I pretty much want to give him some grace on the tweets
00:29:28.900 because he's doing so good generally that far be it from me to throw stones when I don't need to.
00:29:34.680 This was a bad tweet. There was no reason to send this tweet. If there was a reason,
00:29:39.500 I certainly don't understand it. The Communist takeover of China is one of the greatest tragedies
00:29:43.900 of the 20th century, possibly one of the greatest tragedies in history. It should never have happened.
00:29:48.860 We could have stopped it and we didn't. After the Chinese Civil War, that was between the 0.95
00:29:54.100 Communists and the Nationalists. The Communists drove the Chinese Nationalist government under
00:29:58.760 Chiang Kai-shek from mainland China to Taiwan. This is why Taiwan is such a politically volatile issue
00:30:05.860 even today. That happened in 1949. The Korean War begins in June 1950, right after that.
00:30:13.440 And the whole idea of the Korean War was to save South Korea from falling into the invading
00:30:18.220 Communist forces' hands from the North. So that begins in June 1950. By December 1950,
00:30:26.220 it's no longer just the Korean War. You have hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops
00:30:29.760 invading North Korea and fighting face-to-face with American troops. This drives the U.S. forces
00:30:35.620 back to South Korea. This is a war that we were engaged in with China, at least briefly.
00:30:40.660 General MacArthur wanted to take the war to China because obviously China was fighting a war with us.
00:30:46.620 He wanted to bomb China and he wanted to fight alongside the nationalist Chinese government 0.92
00:30:51.180 forces which were in Taiwan against the Communists. And freaking President Truman refused. He said no.
00:30:59.400 MacArthur said yes, we got to take care of it now. We're going to have to take care of it later.
00:31:02.440 Truman said no. The conflict boiled over into public view and in April 1951, very famously,
00:31:08.340 President Truman fired General MacArthur. And this is considered a great triumph of civilian 0.99
00:31:15.360 government over the military. No way. Had we not gone weak in Korea, had we pushed to actually win
00:31:21.040 the war rather than just leave it as this stalemate, which seems to be a solution to war now favored by
00:31:28.400 many people on the left in the United States. If we had actually pushed and won, the history of the
00:31:33.220 20th century and almost certainly the 21st century would look radically different. Cold War would look
00:31:38.440 radically different. Maybe we wouldn't have gotten bogged down in Vietnam. Maybe we would have won the
00:31:44.260 Vietnam War. Maybe we wouldn't have even had to fight it in the first place. And maybe 58,000
00:31:49.020 Americans and their kids and grandkids wouldn't have perished over there in Vietnam. Also, an estimated
00:31:55.200 35 to 45 million people died as a result of the communist revolution in China. And those are even 0.90
00:32:01.220 fairly conservative numbers. All those people would have lived and their kids and their grandkids.
00:32:06.380 The communist taker of China was one of the great tragedies of history. What is President Trump doing
00:32:17.200 congratulating them on 70 years of communist oppression? Maybe, I want to keep an open mind,
00:32:23.340 maybe he's trying to signal something to Kim Jong-un because Kim Jong-un and North Korea has been a key
00:32:28.300 aspect of his foreign policy such as it is. Maybe President Trump is signaling an ideological shift
00:32:34.760 to Kim Jong-un and North Korea that we're willing to overlook certain abuses and we're even overlook
00:32:40.180 ideological wickedness like communism if you come to the table and negotiate like Trump is negotiating
00:32:45.860 with China. Maybe this would be a very blunt way to signal that. You've got the President of the
00:32:51.380 United States congratulating the dictator of China on the communist revolution. This would be a very
00:32:58.180 blunt way to do that. President Trump is a blunt instrument. In any case, we should just correct the
00:33:03.500 record on this and we should have skepticism and use our faculty as a reason, even on our own side.
00:33:09.060 The legacy of communist China is a legacy of brutality and misery and evil. It should never be celebrated 0.99
00:33:15.140 and it should always be regretted. And speaking of regrets and communists, no, that's going too far.
00:33:21.280 But speaking of regrets, I bet that Joe Biden has a few regrets right now because you remember,
00:33:27.180 we've been talking about this, giving you an update every day as new information leaks out.
00:33:30.620 Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Joe Biden about a week or two ago whether Joe Biden had ever,
00:33:37.740 ever spoken to his son about his foreign business dealings. And in no uncertain terms,
00:33:43.720 Joe Biden denied ever speaking to his son about those foreign business affairs.
00:33:49.320 I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
00:33:52.360 Okay. When that aired, when Peter Doocy was asking him that question, coincidentally,
00:33:56.240 I was actually on Fox. And so they cut back to me right away and said, what's your reaction? I said,
00:34:01.200 there's no way that that's true. I don't know anything more than listening to his response.
00:34:05.940 There's no way that that's true. Later, we found out Hunter Biden undercut the story when he spoke
00:34:11.560 to the New Yorker magazine and he admitted that he had talked on at least one occasion to Joe Biden
00:34:16.860 about the business dealings in Ukraine. And Joe Biden said, you better know what you're doing because
00:34:21.100 obviously it sounded pretty crooked. Last night, Tucker Carlson, also on Fox News,
00:34:26.060 found a photograph, exclusively found a photograph of Joe Biden playing golf with Hunter Biden
00:34:32.840 and Hunter Biden's business partner in the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings. Here it is.
00:34:40.060 Is Biden's claim true? Well, a photograph obtained exclusively by this show, not to brag,
00:34:45.580 but we did suggest that claim might not be true. The picture shows it's on the screen.
00:34:49.620 Biden on a 2014 golfing trip with his son, as well as his son Hunter's business partner,
00:34:55.420 Devin Archer. At the time, this picture was taken, both of them on the board of the Ukrainian energy
00:34:59.980 company, Burisma. There it is. There it is. So you're telling me they go out and play 18 holes,
00:35:07.860 smoking cigars, walking around the course. Not once does their work come up. Not once does the thing
00:35:15.500 unites all three of them ever come up? Very difficult for me to imagine that. Also, Joe Biden's
00:35:20.960 stop admitting to this stuff on film. You know, Joe Biden, when he, when he first went in and
00:35:28.540 allegedly got the prosecutor who was looking into his son's crooked deal, when he got that prosecutor
00:35:34.500 fired and then replaced him with a handpicked successor. If Joe Biden had just kept his mouth shut
00:35:40.500 about it, you could understand people get a little dodgy in politics, but he actually went to the
00:35:44.360 Council on Foreign Relations and bragged about it on Camry's. What are you doing, dude? Same thing
00:35:48.740 here. If you know that your son is engaging in a pretty shady business practice and trading on your
00:35:54.020 name and the power of the federal government of the United States, maybe don't smile for photographs
00:35:59.180 with your son and his business partner in the same energy company, which is what he did. Joe Biden,
00:36:05.820 I mean, just another reminder here, by the way, it is a mistake to lie in politics. Politicians lie.
00:36:13.260 We think of all politicians as lying. The good politicians don't really lie. I mean that,
00:36:18.980 you know, President Trump lies about his crowd sizes occasionally. Occasionally he exaggerates
00:36:24.380 his crowd sizes. He draws pretty big crowds anyway, but he speaks like a New Yorker. He's hyperbolic. So
00:36:30.180 in that way, he's dishonest. You'll find though, on most of the things that matter, he doesn't really
00:36:35.860 lie. He has this sort of refreshing candor, which actually some conservatives get upset about
00:36:41.520 sometimes because they think he's saying too much. He's tweeting too much. They say very often they
00:36:46.100 wish he would shut up. Joe Biden lies. He has no regard for the truth. And the reason it's a mistake
00:36:52.040 to lie in politics is not just because it's immoral and it's wrong to do. The reason is you're going to
00:36:57.140 get caught and increasingly you're going to get caught because everything's on camera and everything
00:37:00.940 is recorded these days. It does come out in the end. It looks like it's coming out. When Peter Doocy
00:37:05.920 first asked Joe Biden that question and he told that obvious lie, I reacted to it and I said
00:37:12.440 this was obviously a lie. But then the second conclusion that you draw from that is
00:37:17.740 Joe Biden's not going to be long for this race. Joe Biden had maybe the best shot going in of getting
00:37:24.700 the nomination. If he continues to focus on this, that is going to be taken away from him. The correct
00:37:30.840 answer for Joe Biden, if he's asked, did you ever talk to your son about his business dealings? You say,
00:37:34.460 I don't know what I've talked to my son about. He's my son and I love him. I'm sure we've talked
00:37:37.700 about a lot of things. You want to distract with this Trump propaganda, that's fine. But I'm talking
00:37:43.960 about the issues that the American people care about. And then he goes back and talks about his
00:37:48.340 campaign stump speech. That's the better way to do it. Then you don't get yourself in this trap
00:37:54.080 where you're backed into a corner where obviously you're going to be caught in a lie. And you don't get
00:37:58.160 yourself in this trap where you have to talk about a story that is only going to reflect negatively on you.
00:38:04.460 So Joe Biden doubles down. I never talked to him about it. And you got to talk about Trump's
00:38:09.120 dealings in the Ukraine. What Trump did is so terrible in the Ukraine. No, get the Ukraine out 0.66
00:38:13.400 of the news. When Joe Biden made that comment, nobody knew what was going on in Ukraine. Nobody
00:38:18.260 knew about Burisma Holdings. Nobody knew that he set up a crooked deal with his son to get paid $600,000
00:38:23.580 a year for doing nothing. Now they do because he pushed the story. Big, big mistake. Huge. And they're
00:38:31.760 trying to impeach Trump over this. The more that they try to impeach Trump over this hoax issue, this
00:38:37.680 total nonsense that he colluded with Ukraine after he colluded with Russia, the worse it's going to look
00:38:43.220 for Joe Biden. You got that hoax. You got the hate hoaxes. You got the meat hoaxes, the red meat hoaxes. And 0.85
00:38:48.600 then there's one more hoax. This is a pernicious hoax that just has existed in the popular consciousness
00:38:56.060 for years. Turning away from foreign policy, now turning to economics. You know about the wage gap
00:39:02.880 hoax. You know how this goes. This is the myth that men and women are paid different amounts of money
00:39:08.780 for the same work. Which is obviously ridiculous because if that were the case, then business owners
00:39:16.320 would only hire women. Unless you really think that the great capitalists of America care more about 1.00
00:39:27.000 defending the patriarchy than they do about making money, then obviously this thing falls apart. And
00:39:35.200 it's been repeatedly debunked, but it keeps coming back. Why does it keep coming back? Because it's true.
00:39:39.680 There is a wage gap between the average woman and the average man. And then they go on and say specifically
00:39:46.180 the average Latino woman or the average black woman or the average, and then they go down the identity 0.70
00:39:51.680 politics chart. There is a wage gap. It does exist. But not for the same work. Not for the same educational
00:40:00.420 qualifications. Not for the same hours worked. Not for the same time in the workforce. Not for the same
00:40:05.200 negotiated rates. Not for any of that. When you consider all of those factors, the wage gap
00:40:12.520 virtually disappears. And actually in some places it exists, except the women are paid more than the 1.00
00:40:18.720 men. And so now the media are in a sort of small way admitting that this is a hoax and they're still
00:40:25.420 presenting it as a problem for women, which I just love. This is headline actually from the New York
00:40:29.940 Post. Women are struggling to find men who make as much money as they do. Now the headline could be 0.77
00:40:37.460 women are making a ton of money. Or the headline could be women are making more money than men. 1.00
00:40:43.920 That'd be a good headline, I guess. But instead, because it's one of these identity politics stories,
00:40:49.100 and I'm not blaming the Post. Everybody's doing this and it's the way it's been framed.
00:40:51.760 And because of identity politics, because women always have to be the victims and they can't ever 1.00
00:40:57.960 have anything nice happen in this leftist view of America as being hopelessly sexist and bigoted,
00:41:05.680 even when women make more money than men, the story becomes women are struggling
00:41:09.100 to find men who make as much money as they do. Fair enough. Based on a new study published in the
00:41:15.760 Journal of Marriage and Family, which is based on research from Cornell, shows that women are having
00:41:20.980 trouble finding rich guys. The lead author of the study, Daniel Lichter, says, quote,
00:41:26.960 there are shortages of economically attractive men. And he says marriage is fundamentally an economic
00:41:35.160 transaction. I don't know if he's going to have to answer to his wife for that one. And women want 1.00
00:41:40.480 partners who are at least their economic equals, and maybe they want men who make more money than they 0.99
00:41:45.980 do. Okay, fine. My only point on this is, you've got to pick a lane. So you can either keep pushing
00:41:56.180 the wage gap hoax, or you can keep pushing that women have it really rough because they can't find men
00:42:03.660 who make more money than they do. Either one. You can make either of those, but you can't have them
00:42:07.740 both at the same time. This is not going away because of the premises that people are beginning
00:42:16.340 with. If the premise that you're starting with is society is bad for women, then if women don't make
00:42:22.060 enough money, it's bad for women. If women make too much money, it's bad for women. Same thing on race, 1.00
00:42:26.600 same thing on sexual identity, same thing on any of these issues. Maybe this means we need to re-examine
00:42:33.880 our premises. Maybe this means we're looking at things just a little bit wrong. And by we,
00:42:38.460 I of course mean the left. Brings us to impeachment, which is the big issue here, right?
00:42:45.480 Some people really like getting into the nitty gritty issues of this impeachment stuff.
00:42:50.020 Some people really want to figure out they're waiting for Adam Schiff's new document to come out.
00:42:54.260 They're waiting for it just like they're waiting for the scientific study to figure out if red meat is
00:42:58.380 good or bad for you today. I don't care. I don't care about what Adam Schiff puts out. I don't care
00:43:03.220 what the inspector general puts out, frankly. I don't care about this Ukraine thing or the impeachment
00:43:08.140 inquiry. They blew it. The Democrats blew it. I could have cared if it was their first shot at this
00:43:13.940 or their second shot or their third shot. But it isn't. They've been doing this since day one, okay?
00:43:23.000 And as a result of that, faculties of skepticism, faculties of reason, we've heard this song before.
00:43:30.240 I'm not going to get worried about it. You know, the left, if you're a leftist and you're getting
00:43:34.420 really excited for impeachment, calm down. If you're a conservative and you're getting really
00:43:39.080 worried about impeachment, calm down. We have heard this song before. Newsbusters compiled a
00:43:44.480 supercut of the mainstream media talking about impeachment since a few days after President
00:43:49.640 Trump was elected. Here it is. If he takes the risk of going to trial and he's convicted,
00:43:54.200 that could be seen as an impeachable. So this is from 2016.
00:43:58.100 Snorting cocaine in the White House. Now we're here in 2016.
00:44:01.140 There was at least a chance he'd be impeached.
00:44:02.960 If he's not. Okay. Now we're in January 2017.
00:44:06.880 There are tools that Congress has. I don't see how that wouldn't be an impeachable offense.
00:44:12.020 Still in 2017. Now we're in March 2017. More fully than what Bill Clinton was actually impeached for.
00:44:19.880 Impeachment is very difficult grounds for impeachment. Chris Matthews 2017. Chris Cuomo 2017. More 2017.
00:44:25.700 Is impeachment the appropriate remedy?
00:44:28.060 Something for the Congress like impeachment.
00:44:29.620 All of that may be impeachable.
00:44:30.780 This is two years ago, keep in mind.
00:44:32.180 Is that an impeachable offense?
00:44:33.500 Is that an impeachable offense?
00:44:35.100 Okay. Now we're in 2018. Same story.
00:44:38.200 Same story, different day.
00:44:39.640 Where do you see an impeachable offense?
00:44:41.620 It is grounds for impeachment.
00:44:43.140 This is still a year ago, by the way.
00:44:44.560 Or even impeachable.
00:44:45.480 Grounds for impeachment, or does that not go far enough in your view?
00:44:48.120 Grounds for impeachment.
00:44:49.800 This tweet alone may be an impeachable offense.
00:44:52.320 Let's talk about impeachment.
00:44:53.200 Impeachment is on the table.
00:44:54.340 Which impeachable offense is an impeachable offense? 0.55
00:44:56.960 Okay. Now we're in 2019.
00:44:58.600 It's an impeachable offense.
00:44:59.740 We're in March 2019.
00:45:00.980 I don't know what is.
00:45:02.000 The president shall be removed from office on impeachment.
00:45:04.340 Is it impeachable?
00:45:05.720 100% is impeachable.
00:45:08.360 This is the one.
00:45:09.800 They're going to get him this time.
00:45:11.560 Oh, yes.
00:45:12.560 I can't believe it.
00:45:14.340 If you are a left winger, and you're getting so excited about this,
00:45:17.740 you probably put your It's Mueller Time t-shirt back on.
00:45:21.560 You had that one in the closet.
00:45:22.720 You had to dust that one off.
00:45:23.880 Maybe you got your Stormy Daniels t-shirt.
00:45:26.220 Remember that?
00:45:26.740 Remember Stormy Daniels? 0.88
00:45:27.780 Remember Michael Avenatti?
00:45:29.640 We're going to forget about Michael Avenatti for the 335 years he's facing in prison.
00:45:33.300 But he was a big news story when he was around.
00:45:36.920 If you believe, calm down.
00:45:39.720 Skepticism.
00:45:40.900 Humility.
00:45:42.120 It'll really help you out.
00:45:43.160 And this brings me to actually one of my favorite stories.
00:45:46.020 We'll close here.
00:45:47.360 There's a new U.S. version of The Spectator, which I always enjoy reading.
00:45:52.380 And they published a column today by Megan Murphy.
00:45:55.460 Megan Murphy is a feminist. 1.00
00:45:57.360 She is the editor of Feminist Current.
00:45:59.840 And she was famously kicked off of Twitter for saying,
00:46:02.240 women aren't men. 1.00
00:46:03.300 Which is another version of what I said men aren't women
00:46:05.880 when I got attacked by some Antifa weirdo in Missouri.
00:46:09.220 This is apparently a very controversial statement these days.
00:46:12.200 Megan Murphy and I don't have a lot in common.
00:46:14.180 We see the world very differently.
00:46:15.580 She's a leftist and she's a feminist. 1.00
00:46:16.880 But on a few issues she gets it very right.
00:46:20.940 And there's a great column that I suggest you read today.
00:46:23.540 It's called, No, I Will Not Listen to the Children.
00:46:27.320 Subline.
00:46:27.980 We live in a world that tells young people anything they feel or believe must be validated.
00:46:31.980 And this is a big issue because it incentivizes very bad and very exploitative politics,
00:46:37.200 especially on the left.
00:46:38.120 But it also has us turn our faculties of reason off.
00:46:43.700 She points out, she writes, quote,
00:46:45.440 I can't help but see progressives' fetishization of youth and youth activism as self-serving.
00:46:51.020 It not only elicits an emotional reaction from people rather than a rational one,
00:46:55.300 but it is used by adults as a means to virtue signal.
00:46:58.620 Children are viewed as inherently moral and good,
00:47:00.820 and therefore those who listen to children and support our youth
00:47:03.760 are also positioned as inherently moral and good.
00:47:06.560 Listen to the Children is a terrible mantra that only exists
00:47:09.760 in order to pressure people into nodding along unthinkingly to generally over-simplistic ideas.
00:47:15.420 Couldn't have said it better myself.
00:47:17.200 Do not allow yourself to be a victim of that overly simplistic and unthinking culture.
00:47:23.640 Think for yourself, and you will help build and rebuild a culture
00:47:30.160 that actually values evidence, reason, humility, and all that is good, true, and beautiful,
00:47:36.740 which we see eroding daily.
00:47:38.820 But so much of that could come back if we just got a little more street smart,
00:47:43.580 just wised up to how people are taking advantage of us.
00:47:46.460 That's our show.
00:47:47.200 Got a lot more to get to.
00:47:48.040 We'll do it tomorrow.
00:47:49.240 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
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