The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 441 - Impeachment Gets Real

00:00:00.000 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally agrees to hold a vote on the impeachment inquiry at the behest of, wait for it, Republicans.

00:00:07.880 We examine Pelosi's impeachment bind and the Democrats' biggest mistake.

00:00:13.340 They believe their own press releases. 0.90

00:00:15.380 Then a group of Indians attacks black girls in New Jersey because of white supremacy or something, 0.99

00:00:21.920 according to the New York Times and the dumbest article on the Internet today. 0.98

00:00:24.920 And finally, more bad news for Joe Biden as the nominally Catholic, nominal Democratic presidential frontrunner 0.95

00:00:31.320 is denied the Eucharist at a Catholic church in South Carolina.

00:00:35.200 Why? Well, because he supports killing babies. 1.00

00:00:37.860 That's no good. All that and more. 1.00

00:00:39.640 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:49.380 The one thing we can say about the top story and the bottom story today is at least,

00:00:53.640 finally, people are following their ideas to their logical conclusions.

00:00:57.460 Nancy Pelosi has been talking about the super official, formal, totally serious impeachment inquiry for weeks and weeks now,

00:01:05.580 even though she's never held a vote on the subject because nobody actually wants the political accountability on impeachment.

00:01:11.720 Now we're going to get that. Same thing with the Catholic church. 0.80

00:01:14.500 This priest down in South Carolina should be given a lot of plaudits because he's following the ideas of the Catholic church 0.73

00:01:21.740 to their logical conclusion and saying, if you support killing babies, you are not in communion with the church.

00:01:27.140 We will examine what both of both of those stories mean because the story for the left, not so great.

00:01:32.480 The story for the Catholic church and for the culture, pretty good news.

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00:03:38.940 So Nancy Pelosi had her bluff called on impeachment, and she is finally going to take an actual vote,

00:03:47.660 put people on the record on whether they want this impeachment inquiry.

00:03:51.120 Now, she's not voting on impeachment itself.

00:03:53.480 Nobody would be willing to do that right now, but she is willing to have a proper vote to authorize impeachment.

00:04:00.520 Why does this matter?

00:04:01.620 Because so far, this impeachment has been absolutely lawless.

00:04:05.760 In the history of our country, we impeached President Johnson.

00:04:09.800 We then were about to impeach Richard Nixon, though he resigned, and we impeached Bill Clinton.

00:04:16.260 In all of those cases, when the impeachment inquiry was taken up, the House went on the record and had a formal vote on it, except this time.

00:04:25.380 Why not this time? 0.97

00:04:26.640 Because this one is so obviously ridiculous. 0.99

00:04:30.980 How do we know that this one is ridiculous? 0.98

00:04:32.560 Even without looking into the details of the case of the phone call to Ukraine, we know it's ridiculous because the Democrats have been trying to impeach President Trump since before he took office. 0.82

00:04:42.040 Since right after the election, before Trump took office, Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren and others, tried to set the stages for impeachment.

00:04:52.020 Then, after Trump took office in 2017, Representative Al Green, the congressman, not the singer, put forward a resolution for impeachment.

00:04:59.580 That resolution failed.

00:05:01.120 Then they tried to impeach him for Russian collusion.

00:05:03.740 That was the premise of the Mueller investigation.

00:05:06.500 Then they threatened to impeach him over Stormy Daniels and paying off a porn star.

00:05:10.340 Now they're trying to impeach him over colluding with Ukraine, the sworn enemy of Russia. 0.68

00:05:14.520 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

00:05:17.660 That alone shows you how lawless the impeachment is.

00:05:22.860 So Pelosi doesn't want to get people on the record.

00:05:25.640 Her caucus doesn't want to go on the record for this.

00:05:28.480 But Lindsey Graham, Republican and Trump ally in the Senate, very forcefully went on TV and said,

00:05:35.780 We need to take a vote where this is absolutely lawless.

00:05:39.380 And Pelosi eventually agreed. 0.98

00:05:41.960 This is an unfair process being driven by sore losers.

00:05:46.220 And there's not one vote in the United States Senate to impeach President Trump based on this phone call because he did nothing wrong.

00:05:52.740 In the history of the country, we've never had the Intelligence Committee participate in an impeachment inquiry.

00:05:57.900 Under the resolution they're going to pass tomorrow, the president's counsel cannot participate in the intel committee inquiry.

00:06:06.960 So the president's denied right to counsel.

00:06:09.440 And Republicans can't call witnesses without Schiff agreeing.

00:06:12.880 So this whole thing is a sham.

00:06:14.460 The backlash is going to be wide and deep because what they're doing to the president Trump is unfair. 0.94

00:06:19.820 It's sore losers can't accept the consequences of losing an election.

00:06:23.160 And this process in the House is a joke. 0.93

00:06:26.240 President Trump is being treated unfairly.

00:06:28.420 And most Americans are going to say so when they understand what's happening.

00:06:32.500 So Lindsey Graham has a lot of clarity on this.

00:06:35.200 He's showing not just the irregularity of not voting to initiate the impeachment inquiry, but all of the other irregularities.

00:06:41.580 Why does Adam Schiff get to do whatever he wants?

00:06:43.540 Why is the House Intel Committee chairman, who has very publicly lied before about this president, who has dealt in a very improper way with the intelligence community and with the media?

00:06:56.480 Why does this guy get to do anything and the White House has no right to fight back?

00:07:00.640 The president has no right to face his accuser.

00:07:03.100 All of the so-called whistleblowers are opaque.

00:07:06.280 We haven't seen them, even though the IG has determined that the whistleblowers have an anti-Trump bias in three different ways.

00:07:12.220 It's so murky, I think, when most Americans hear about this, their eyes glaze over.

00:07:17.920 They just don't understand it.

00:07:19.300 Their opinions have been made on this months and months, if not years ago.

00:07:23.240 And so what Lindsey Graham is trying to do is bring some clarity to this, bring it all out into the open, not just on the witnesses, not just on the investigation,

00:07:30.160 but the premise of the investigation itself, who's calling for it and who is not.

00:07:35.080 So he comes out there and he passed this resolution.

00:07:37.780 He said, Lindsey Graham calls on the House of Representatives prior to proceeding any further with its impeachment investigation into President Trump to vote to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry.

00:07:50.540 Calls on the House of Representatives to provide President Trump, like every other American, with due process to include the ability to confront his accusers,

00:07:58.680 call witnesses on his behalf, and have a basic understanding of the accusations against him that would form any basis for impeachment.

00:08:07.340 And calls on the House of Representatives to provide members of the minority, that's the Republicans,

00:08:11.220 with the ability to participate fully in all proceedings and have equal authority to issue subpoenas and other compulsory process.

00:08:19.240 So, those last two are important as well.

00:08:24.640 Trump needs to be able to call witnesses on his behalf and Trump needs to have a basic understanding of the accusations against him that would form any basis for impeachment.

00:08:34.060 Let me ask you, this is kind of similar to the Syria question.

00:08:38.400 When President Trump redeployed those troops from Syria, everyone had a lot of strong opinions about it and very few people had any knowledge about the situation.

00:08:46.420 So, I'll ask the same for, for impeachment on this front.

00:08:49.680 Close your eyes.

00:08:51.380 Tell me what they're trying to impeach Trump for.

00:08:55.400 Can you do it?

00:08:56.900 Specifically.

00:08:57.500 I know, something with Ukraine, right? 0.91

00:08:59.660 Specifically, what are they trying to impeach Trump for?

00:09:02.380 What we've heard is they're trying to impeach Trump for a quid pro quo with Ukrainian military aid.

00:09:09.880 Well, what specifically?

00:09:10.900 What aid did he withhold?

00:09:12.020 What evidence is there against them?

00:09:13.360 What law did he violate?

00:09:15.580 Now, many Democrats are admitting that he didn't violate any law.

00:09:19.620 That's why you have pieces in USA Today saying it doesn't matter if he didn't commit a crime.

00:09:23.720 You can impeach the president for not committing a crime, which is false and it's unconstitutional.

00:09:28.160 And it's very clear from the debates that took place at the founding of our country.

00:09:32.480 It's the same thing.

00:09:33.500 And they're just the media and the left, but I repeat myself, are trying to run roughshod over this process with a lot of insinuation and not a whole lot in the way of specifics.

00:09:44.440 So, Lindsey Graham is trying to get specific here.

00:09:47.640 And he's trying to get the Republicans to participate much more fully in this.

00:09:51.560 Democrats are making a huge mistake.

00:09:54.320 What is the mistake?

00:09:55.440 The Democrats are starting to believe their own press releases.

00:09:59.740 This is true not just in the impeachment.

00:10:01.400 This is true of the left broadly.

00:10:04.680 The problem with the left right now is not that they're hurling some unfair or opportunistic attacks.

00:10:10.400 That's politics.

00:10:11.940 The problem is they're starting to believe the nonsense that they're spewing.

00:10:16.300 I remember, this is some of the best advice my mother ever gave me.

00:10:19.380 When I was a young man, I don't know, I was probably 11 or 12 years old, and I was always very good at school, you know, top of the class, all this.

00:10:26.820 So, there's a little 11-year-old Michael, and I was just getting a little full of myself.

00:10:31.640 My head was getting a little too big.

00:10:33.940 And my mother turned to me and said, Michael, yeah, you did great on that test, or yeah, you got that award, or whatever.

00:10:40.620 She goes, very important.

00:10:42.340 Don't ever believe your own press releases.

00:10:44.340 Meaning, it's true that we all present an image to the world of some kind of success or achievement.

00:10:53.160 But just remember, the image you're putting out to the world is not necessarily the reality of the situation, or it's certainly not the sum total of the situation.

00:11:03.120 Same thing with social media.

00:11:04.540 On social media, we put out a highlight reel of our lives, but that's not the totality of our lives.

00:11:09.240 We also make mistakes.

00:11:11.040 We also sin.

00:11:11.840 We also have imperfect information.

00:11:13.220 We also are lazy.

00:11:15.000 We also glut ourselves.

00:11:16.420 We also, there's a lot more to life than this best of reel.

00:11:21.400 And for the Democrats, if they're going to go out there and they're going to say, all right, we caught Trump using Joe Biden's name on a phone call with the president of Ukraine.

00:11:32.240 Therefore, we need to remove him from office.

00:11:34.900 I think they're going to go out there.

00:11:35.800 I think they're going to go out there.

00:11:36.700 I think they know deep down, or at least they knew, that that is not sufficient basis to throw a president out of office and to overturn a presidential election.

00:11:45.680 But they're beginning to buy it.

00:11:49.340 They're trying to make a meal out of a cupcake.

00:11:51.280 And it doesn't look good.

00:11:52.580 Here's another example.

00:11:53.660 President Trump, within just the past few weeks, he redeploys the troops out of northern Syria.

00:11:57.900 The Democrats say ISIS is going to be reformed.

00:12:01.780 Then, days later, President Trump announces, we've killed the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

00:12:09.740 Totally undercuts the democratic narrative.

00:12:12.440 They double down. 0.74

00:12:13.340 They say, well, it doesn't matter if you kill al-Baghdadi. 0.51

00:12:15.720 Some other guy is going to take over in his place. 0.81

00:12:18.260 Two days later, we announce, we killed the other guy.

00:12:20.200 We killed the guy who was going to take over for al-Baghdadi, the spokesman for ISIS.

00:12:24.600 Doesn't matter. 0.90

00:12:25.280 They double down.

00:12:25.840 When you still have left-wingers at academic conferences and elsewhere, there was actually

00:12:33.060 one the other day who came out and said, President Trump has aligned the United States and aligned

00:12:39.340 himself with ISIS.

00:12:41.820 The inspiration of leaders who are going to put people first is so important.

00:12:48.920 And that's going to make people vote.

00:12:50.140 Another reason why people are going to vote, because Donald Trump is manipulating the White

00:12:56.600 House and has aligned himself with ISIS and Saudi Arabia.

00:13:01.960 I have to say that that is not true.

00:13:05.280 That is not true.

00:13:06.200 But just let me say, the most important thing that we can do today is vote for civility, vote

00:13:13.380 for a president who's not going to align himself with the most dangerous foreign nations that 1.00

00:13:19.340 are the reason why we had 9-11.

00:13:22.860 Okay.

00:13:23.340 So that was the Arizona Democratic Party chairman, Felicia Rotellini. 0.94

00:13:27.300 Obviously, she's on a panel there. 0.97

00:13:28.480 They're discussing foreign policy.

00:13:30.400 And she says Trump has aligned himself with ISIS.

00:13:33.100 How does that make sense?

00:13:35.060 That makes sense in a world where you believe all the BS that you're spewing.

00:13:38.940 That does not make sense in a world where Trump just killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the

00:13:44.080 head of ISIS, and the next leader of ISIS, the spokesman for ISIS, and took out ISIS in

00:13:50.260 the first place, something that Barack Obama was not able to do.

00:13:53.220 It doesn't make sense in that world.

00:13:54.820 And it doesn't help politicians to just follow their opportunistic hack attacks forever.

00:14:00.740 You've got to ballast yourself a little bit with reality.

00:14:04.460 Otherwise, nobody is going to believe you.

00:14:06.300 It's not going to serve them very well.

00:14:07.380 You know, Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.

00:14:09.840 Scarborough hates Trump because Trump makes fun of him fairly regularly and said that 0.99

00:14:15.400 his girlfriend has an ugly face. 1.00

00:14:17.600 And so Joe is on there with his girlfriend on MSNBC. 0.98

00:14:20.980 And he was listening to President Trump announce the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, great thing. 0.96

00:14:28.280 And he couldn't give it to him.

00:14:29.920 He said, Trump, it was so awful the way he talked about killing the worst terrorist in 0.95

00:14:33.500 the world. 1.00

00:14:34.340 Trump actually, he sounded like a terrorist. 0.98

00:14:36.300 He sounded like Saddam Hussein. 0.92

00:14:39.260 The raid that killed bin Laden was a seminal moment in the Obama administration.

00:14:44.760 How will Baghdadi's death shape the Trump presidency?

00:14:48.460 That's the question we're looking at this morning.

00:14:50.420 That is a question we're looking at.

00:14:51.640 And of course, Richard Haas, the president of the United States, went on talking about how 0.90

00:14:56.040 Baghdadi died like a, quote, dog, a coward, a whimpering, whimpering and sniveling. 0.91

00:15:04.100 Uh, he sounded not like a president of the United States. 0.98

00:15:07.740 He actually sounded like Saddam Hussein after torturing people, uh, sounded like Muammar 0.79

00:15:14.140 Gaddafi after he would torture, uh, uh, people.

00:15:17.400 Uh, it was again, just like the chance of lock him up last night at the game.

00:15:22.440 It was steeply un-American, deeply troubling. 0.96

00:15:25.200 So what Joe did is the same thing the left does when they call right-wingers Nazis.

00:15:30.980 They draw a moral equivalence between opposite things.

00:15:36.780 So what, what Joe is saying, this is something that I've noticed left-wingers do.

00:15:42.160 It's a very postmodern kind of tactic. 0.95

00:15:45.100 They'll say, okay, you've got a terrorist who killed a lot of people and raped, killed, 0.99

00:15:50.120 pillaged, and burned. 0.99

00:15:52.640 And if you kill that terrorist, you're the same as the terrorist. 1.00

00:15:57.280 You're not. 0.99

00:15:58.140 If you kill that terrorist, you're the opposite of the terrorist. 0.87

00:16:01.160 If you've got a really, why?

00:16:03.980 Because to exact justice is not the same thing as to inflict injustice.

00:16:09.640 You might do the same act or a similar act.

00:16:12.660 I mean, in the case of Baghdadi, that's not the case. 0.98

00:16:14.800 Baghdadi was personally a rapist, a murderer, a, an absolute monster, and a dog who was tracked 0.99

00:16:22.580 down and eaten by dogs before he blew his guts up all over the walls of a cave. 1.00

00:16:26.220 But let's say that, let's say what we're really getting Baghdadi for is because he just killed 0.93

00:16:32.880 people. 0.65

00:16:33.300 Take all the rape and all the, the things that make it even more vicious out of it. 0.98

00:16:37.640 He just went out and killed a lot of people. 1.00

00:16:39.660 And then we go in and kill him. 0.99

00:16:42.040 The acts themselves look exactly the same, but they're not the same act because the killings 0.98

00:16:48.680 that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was committing were unjust.

00:16:53.100 And the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is just.

00:16:57.680 The justice is the thing.

00:17:00.280 I'll give you another example from American history because what the left is banking on

00:17:04.640 is that you have no sense of history.

00:17:07.420 I mean, not forget 200 years ago or 300 years ago, they want to hope that you have no sense

00:17:12.080 of history 50, 60 years ago.

00:17:13.760 So they say, listen to Trump. 0.71

00:17:15.660 He said that Baghdadi died like a dog. 0.90

00:17:19.740 That makes him pretty much the same thing as a terrorist.

00:17:22.220 Why?

00:17:22.740 Because he used very evocative language.

00:17:27.120 Here's, here's an example from the second world war.

00:17:30.260 A war I think we can all agree was a, a good, just war. 1.00

00:17:32.900 The best war ever.

00:17:33.900 You know, we, we were the good guys and the other guys were the baddies.

00:17:39.000 During the second world war is very famous speech.

00:17:41.340 Patton's speech to the third army.

00:17:42.740 General Patton.

00:17:43.640 Nobody would call him a terrorist.

00:17:45.880 Here's just, just a little sampling of the speech.

00:17:48.200 He said, I don't want to get any messages saying I am holding my position.

00:17:52.560 We are not holding a GD thing.

00:17:55.160 I'm going to, I'm going to abbreviate all of the copious swear words that Patton used

00:17:58.560 because this is a family show.

00:18:00.200 Let the Germans do that. 0.95

00:18:01.800 We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy's

00:18:07.260 gullioni.

00:18:08.720 You know what I'm talking about down there. 0.81

00:18:10.660 We are going to twist his gullioni and kick the living S-H-I-T out of him all of the time. 1.00

00:18:17.620 Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether 0.50

00:18:21.980 we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. 0.97

00:18:24.900 We are going to go through him like crap through a goose, like S-H-I-T through a tin horn. 1.00

00:18:30.640 We're not going to just shoot the sons of female dogs. 1.00

00:18:34.580 We're going to rip out their living GD guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. 1.00

00:18:39.760 We're going to murder those lousy Hun people who deal with male genitalia by the bushel effing 1.00

00:18:47.700 basket. 1.00

00:18:48.660 War is a bloody killing business.

00:18:50.560 You've got to spill their blood or they will spill yours. 0.96

00:18:53.380 Rip them up the belly. 1.00

00:18:54.980 Shoot them in the guts. 1.00

00:18:56.380 When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize 1.00

00:19:01.280 that instead of dirt, it's the blood and guts of what was once your best friend beside you,

00:19:06.220 you'll know what to do.

00:19:07.360 It's a little more evocative than Trump saying that a terrorist died like a dog.

00:19:12.780 That's a little more gruesome and bloody.

00:19:15.080 Are we going to say that General Patton is the same thing as Hitler?

00:19:19.560 No.

00:19:20.400 General Patton is not the same thing as his enemy.

00:19:24.080 Because General Patton was advocating just killings.

00:19:28.740 He was on the right side of that war.

00:19:30.420 He was fighting for our country, which was not just in the right because it's our country.

00:19:35.240 It was morally in the right.

00:19:37.820 Same thing here with Trump.

00:19:39.640 But if Joe Scarborough were on the air in the Second World War, he'd say, oh, this General

00:19:45.200 Patton, he's pretty much Hitler. 0.51

00:19:46.480 I mean, we're pretty much a Nazi country. 0.93

00:19:47.960 I mean, he sounds like the worst person on earth. 0.77

00:19:52.280 No.

00:19:52.680 There is a difference here.

00:19:53.700 There is no moral equivalence.

00:19:56.000 Now, I think if you got Joe Scarborough out for a beer or a wine cooler or whatever Joe

00:20:01.340 Scarborough drinks, if you got him out at a bar and you said, hey, I know that Trump made 0.97

00:20:06.620 fun of your girlfriend and said that she has an ugly face. 0.97

00:20:09.460 Putting the personal stuff aside, do you really think that Trump is the same thing as Saddam 0.98

00:20:15.360 Hussein?

00:20:16.440 Do you really think there's a moral equivalence?

00:20:17.960 I think he would have to admit, no, I don't believe it.

00:20:20.920 I'm just getting a little carried away with my rhetoric, but it's okay because my audience

00:20:25.020 buys it and I've whipped them up into a frenzy.

00:20:27.720 And so I'm just going to keep it up.

00:20:30.580 This is not going to end well because the people are a lot smarter than the left thinks.

00:20:38.420 And the people can see a nonsensical impeachment for face value.

00:20:45.120 They can see it for what it is.

00:20:46.440 The people can see that Donald Trump is not the same thing as Saddam Hussein.

00:20:49.700 The people can see, this is my favorite one of the whole day.

00:20:52.640 Katie Hill.

00:20:54.060 Katie Hill is that Democratic congressman who was caught in a throuple with a 22-year-old

00:20:59.580 female staffer and her husband taking nude photos, ripping bong hits that showed, she 1.00

00:21:05.340 has this weird Nazi tattoo on her. 0.97

00:21:07.300 I don't even know how to begin. 0.94

00:21:09.080 Then she decided to not only have this sexual relationship with a staffer, which is an ethics 0.99

00:21:14.500 violation in and of itself, not just to cheat on her husband or cheat with her husband,

00:21:20.240 I guess, but she then dumped the staffer and her husband for her male finance director. 1.00

00:21:27.520 Katie Hill is pretending to be the victim here. 1.00

00:21:31.160 She's pretending to be the victim of sexual oppression and abuse and a patriarchal society because 1.00

00:21:38.140 she dumped her female 22-year-old staffer and her husband for some other guy on her staff. 1.00

00:21:46.520 She's pretending that this, now how does she get away with this? 0.98

00:21:48.900 Because in the Me Too era, we have to believe all women. 0.97

00:21:51.900 In the Me Too era, all men bad, all women good.

00:21:57.580 Even women like Katie Hill, who are engaging in extraordinarily inappropriate relationships 1.00

00:22:01.900 with young staffers who work for her.

00:22:06.000 But in the Me Too, she's banking on this Me Too era, widespread blanket rule that women 1.00

00:22:13.400 can do no wrong.

00:22:14.440 Nobody really believes that.

00:22:16.440 Nobody believes that women are biologically incapable of lying. 0.94

00:22:19.280 Nobody believes that women are biologically incapable of exploiting their staff members. 1.00

00:22:24.800 This is Katie Hill announcing her resignation as though she were the victim.

00:22:30.820 I'm Katie Hill, and last night I announced the most difficult decision of my life,

00:22:35.580 that I would be resigning from Congress.

00:22:38.140 I made this decision so that my supporters, my family, my staff, and our community will no

00:22:43.740 longer be subjected to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hate

00:22:49.240 political operatives.

00:22:51.040 This coordinated campaign carried out by the right-wing media and Republican opponents, 0.82

00:22:55.780 enabling and perpetuating my husband's abuse by providing him a platform, is disgusting

00:23:01.240 and unforgivable, and they will be held accountable.

00:23:04.500 But I will not allow myself to be a distraction from the constitutional crisis we're faced with

00:23:09.600 and the critical work of my colleagues.

00:23:11.460 And so I have to take my personal fight outside the halls of Congress.

00:23:17.000 Too many Americans are counting on Washington to fulfill our promises of quality health care,

00:23:22.160 housing we can afford, and a government that works for the people.

00:23:25.480 And I cannot let this horrible smear campaign get in the way of that work.

00:23:30.600 To my supporters in our district and across our great country, please know that we did something

00:23:36.160 incredible.

00:23:36.560 We proved that an imperfect woman, the 31-year-old daughter of a nurse and a police officer, 1.00

00:23:43.180 who never planned to run for office, has a place in the people's house.

00:23:48.180 No, she doesn't.

00:23:49.940 She didn't prove that at all.

00:23:52.620 She's resigning right now because of her abuse of power and exploitation of her staff 1.00

00:23:57.900 and extraordinarily poor judgment.

00:24:00.440 She proved the opposite of what she's saying.

00:24:04.780 And then she brings up her husband's abuse.

00:24:07.760 How did her husband abuse her?

00:24:09.540 Has she ever named a single actual instance of abuse?

00:24:14.480 I guess she's saying her husband abused her by not just allowing her to leave him consequence-free

00:24:22.940 without ever giving any of his side of the story for her other staffer.

00:24:27.660 She didn't prove anything.

00:24:28.760 She proved that she has committed abuse, abuse of power. 0.65

00:24:32.860 She's abusing her power to exploit her young female staff members. 1.00

00:24:37.700 She's abusing her marriage bond. 1.00

00:24:41.560 She's abusing that marriage vow. 1.00

00:24:42.840 Obviously, that didn't mean very much.

00:24:43.980 Who knows for how long?

00:24:45.340 She's abusing her power to do illegal drugs. 1.00

00:24:48.460 Actually, I don't know.

00:24:49.100 Pot now is being legalized everywhere. 0.62

00:24:50.880 We'll get into the specifics of that because it actually ties in with the exact theme of today's show.

00:24:56.300 But she abused that. 1.00

00:24:57.300 She was found to having Nazi tattoo in the naked photos that she unbelievably irresponsibly allowed to be taken. 0.86

00:25:05.820 And now she's pretending to be the victim.

00:25:09.020 She proved that she's a derelict and that even left-wingers have some sense of shame because they forced her to resign. 0.99

00:25:14.000 But she can't admit it because facts can never get in the way of the narrative.

00:25:20.200 That Time Magazine, covering this whole story.

00:25:23.340 If I were a left-winger, I would just let her go away quietly. 1.00

00:25:27.060 She's obviously a kook and a lunatic. 1.00

00:25:30.360 Get her out of there. 1.00

00:25:31.380 Get some bland Democrat politician in office. 1.00

00:25:34.140 No big deal.

00:25:35.060 Don't blow it up.

00:25:36.740 Time Magazine can't help themselves.

00:25:39.280 They can't help but believe their own press releases.

00:25:41.800 They have a headline, quote,

00:25:43.120 Katie Hill is the first millennial lawmaker to resign because of nudes. 1.00

00:25:48.180 She won't be the last.

00:25:49.500 She's not resigning because of nudes. 0.85

00:25:50.560 She's resigning because she exploited a young female staff member in a bizarre sexual relationship 0.95

00:25:55.940 and then exploited another staff member in a relationship.

00:25:59.380 That's why she's resigning. 1.00

00:26:01.120 Time Magazine doesn't matter.

00:26:02.360 Facts can't interrupt the narrative.

00:26:04.160 Last year, Hill was one of 20 millennials, most of them women, who won seats in Congress,

00:26:09.540 increasing the generation's representation six-fold in one cycle and giving voice to the

00:26:14.420 second-largest block of eligible voters.

00:26:16.580 This week, she resigned after nude pictures of her throuple relationship with a female campaign 0.94

00:26:20.720 staffer were released online without her consent and after she came under a House ethics 0.84

00:26:26.120 investigation for an alleged relationship with a male legislative staffer.

00:26:30.020 Hill's case lands smack in the middle of the three-way intersection between tech, sex,

00:26:43.980 and power.

00:26:45.220 Technology has changed sex. 0.99

00:26:47.760 Sex has changed power. 0.79

00:26:49.740 And power is newly vulnerable to strains of disgrace that didn't exist a decade ago.

00:26:54.720 Hold on.

00:26:55.080 Stop.

00:26:56.780 None of that is what's going on here.

00:27:00.020 This isn't a totally arbitrary, random intersection of technology which changed sex and...

00:27:08.820 No.

00:27:09.900 This woman violated her marriage bond with a young female staffer and then left both her 1.00

00:27:14.680 husband and the staffer for another staffer. 0.97

00:27:17.200 There's nothing new here.

00:27:18.320 There's nothing about technology that changed that.

00:27:21.080 She committed very immoral acts and exercised extremely poor judgment, and now she's being

00:27:25.940 thrown out of office for it.

00:27:27.000 I'm not judging her.

00:27:29.260 I'm not even throwing stones at her.

00:27:32.000 I'm just saying there's consequences to your decisions when you sleep with your staffers

00:27:37.120 while in public office.

00:27:39.960 This isn't, this isn't like cancel culture even.

00:27:42.220 This isn't even that tweets or photos from a decade ago showed up and therefore what you're

00:27:46.820 doing now, you have to stop doing that.

00:27:49.140 Because that, I guess that would be an example of technology changing the nature of sex. 0.99

00:27:52.760 It's not that.

00:27:54.940 She has a sex scandal that is currently going on and she got thrown out of office for it. 1.00

00:27:58.880 That's the oldest story in politics.

00:28:00.820 Time magazine goes on.

00:28:02.000 Technology provides new and humiliating ways to document sexual encounters and all sexual

00:28:07.400 encounters, especially when they involve a public figure, are now subjected to brutal

00:28:11.740 public dissection.

00:28:13.920 Sex scandals have always been part of politics.

00:28:15.960 That's gone on since time immemorial.

00:28:17.480 Let's not forget, in the founding days of our republic, Alexander Hamilton, one of our

00:28:21.620 founding fathers, got caught in a major sex scandal where he was cuckolding some guy

00:28:26.500 and then the guy and the wife decided to extort Hamilton for it. 0.78

00:28:31.940 Major sex scandal. 0.99

00:28:33.540 John Adams said there weren't enough whores in Philadelphia to contain Hamilton's secretions. 1.00

00:28:38.440 Very new. 0.99

00:28:39.300 And what are we saying?

00:28:39.900 Is the new technology photographs?

00:28:42.060 Photographs have been around for a very long time.

00:28:43.980 Hill may be the first millennial lawmaker to have to grapple with this particularly thorny

00:28:49.640 21st century code of conduct, but she won't be the last.

00:28:53.780 She's like, Hill is a totally passive person in this entire story.

00:28:57.820 She's not.

00:28:58.540 She committed the acts.

00:28:59.700 She decided to sleep with her staffers on the campaign. 1.00

00:29:02.380 She decided to bring her husband into it for some reason.

00:29:04.660 She decided to leave her husband and the staffers.

00:29:06.540 She made those decisions.

00:29:09.100 She's not a totally passive creature.

00:29:12.220 She has moral agency.

00:29:14.980 And if you took Katie Hill out for a beer, well, I don't know what would happen if you

00:29:18.620 took Katie Hill out for a beer, but if you took her out for a beer and just asked her

00:29:22.280 very specifically, you said, Congressman Hill, did you do something wrong?

00:29:29.080 Should you maybe not have done that?

00:29:30.600 I think she would say, yeah, yeah, you caught me.

00:29:33.620 I shouldn't have slept with my staffers and I shouldn't have left my husband for it.

00:29:36.840 Yeah, it was my mistake.

00:29:38.420 But they can't allow that honesty to get in the way of their narrative.

00:29:41.620 That narrative is just not believable to anybody.

00:29:46.580 And, and the left has a choice here.

00:29:48.680 They can continue to pursue their narrative relentlessly or they can speak to the American

00:29:56.540 people.

00:29:57.060 They're not going to be able to do both.

00:29:58.740 And this is going to affect the presidential campaign because the people are a lot smarter

00:30:02.800 than the left thinks. 0.99

00:30:04.400 We've got to get to the dumbest article on the internet today. 0.97

00:30:07.660 I mean, talk about not letting the facts get in the way of narrative. 0.98

00:30:11.660 In the New York Times, they are actually making the argument with a straight face that an attack 0.94

00:30:17.000 by Indian people on black girls is an example of toxic whiteness. 1.00

00:30:22.940 I have many Indian friends. 0.63

00:30:26.620 None of them are particularly white.

00:30:28.360 The New York Times must have, well, the New York Times invented the white Hispanic in the case of 1.00

00:30:33.120 George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.

00:30:34.680 So I guess now they've invited the white, they've invented the white Indian. 0.99

00:30:38.440 We will get to that.

00:30:39.320 We will also get to a lot of BS on pot and Joe Biden being refused communion.

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00:31:14.780 A racist attack shows how whiteness evolves.

00:31:31.340 That's the headline from the New York Times.

00:31:33.460 What's the story?

00:31:34.720 Story is police in Lawrence Township, New Jersey arrested two 17-year-olds and charged them with a lot of harassment and intimidation because this group urinated on black girls and hurled racial slurs at them.

00:31:52.420 This was obviously a racially bigoted attack.

00:31:55.160 That was the story.

00:31:58.100 New York Times already said, those are the facts they got. 0.96

00:32:00.540 New York Times said, oh great, we're going to run a story about white supremacy and white bigotry and toxic whiteness. 0.76

00:32:05.820 And they said, hold up, hold up, New York Times. 0.98

00:32:07.140 The problem is, the people who did the attack are Indian.

00:32:11.680 They're not white. 0.94

00:32:12.620 They're like very much not white.

00:32:15.040 New York Times said, huh.

00:32:17.460 Okay, give me a minute.

00:32:18.700 Let me work with this.

00:32:19.500 So the mainstream media didn't cover the story for a few days.

00:32:21.680 And then the New York Times realized, they said, oh wait a second.

00:32:26.620 An attack doesn't need to be perpetrated by white people to be the fault of white people. 0.98

00:32:31.720 Whiteness is still the problem here even if the people are very, very brown. 1.00

00:32:35.180 Here's the New York Times.

00:32:38.480 While it's tempting to see the reported ethnicity of the boys suspected in the assault as complicating the story

00:32:43.900 and raising questions about whether the assault should be thought of as racist,

00:32:47.960 I looked at it through a different lens.

00:32:50.900 Instead of asking what the boys reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack.

00:32:56.580 By the way, I love, they keep trying to muddy up the waters here.

00:33:00.380 They say, look, the reported ethnicity.

00:33:03.120 It's their, their Indian. 0.99

00:33:04.180 Okay, it's their ethnic identity.

00:33:07.160 It's, it's not just how they identify.

00:33:08.800 They are Indian, okay. 1.00

00:33:11.180 Well, can, can someone who's not white commit a racist act? 0.92

00:33:16.180 Yes, they can. 0.79

00:33:17.440 Of course they can.

00:33:18.960 Any race can commit a racist act. 0.87

00:33:21.560 The piece goes on.

00:33:22.560 Instead of asking what the boys reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack.

00:33:29.120 We should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way. 0.91

00:33:37.420 So, they're not white. 0.54

00:33:41.040 But they are enacting whiteness because, according to the New York Times, any racially motivated attack is white. 0.97

00:33:50.820 Even, even if a black person attacks a black person on the basis of race, if that were possible, they would still be performing a white supremacist, white, bigoted attack. 0.93

00:34:04.800 Because any attack on black people is white, somehow, in the bizarre logic of the New York Times. 0.98

00:34:11.160 They go on.

00:34:12.080 This, it gets even better.

00:34:14.500 Race is something we perform.

00:34:16.720 Not just something we are in our blood and in the color of our skin.

00:34:20.180 Hold up.

00:34:20.680 Full stop.

00:34:21.940 Race is your skin color. 0.93

00:34:24.100 It is.

00:34:24.580 You, I know, this is like what happens when people pass around the pot.

00:34:28.800 They take, they take the Katie Hill bong and they just go, you know, man, what if race isn't really about our race?

00:34:37.020 You know what I mean?

00:34:37.860 Like, if you really think about it, you know, and you really think, no, it's just your race.

00:34:42.380 Times goes on.

00:34:43.000 In the New Jersey incident, the heritage or skin color of the boys suspected of the assault doesn't matter.

00:34:49.160 What matters is that they were participating in this pattern and thus enacting whiteness in a very traditional way. 0.62

00:34:57.500 One potent way of being American, no matter where you or your parents are from, is enacting anti-blackness. 0.63

00:35:04.380 And traditionally, acting out anti-blackness has meant acting white.

00:35:10.400 Wow.

00:35:12.400 So, the Times gets the story completely wrong.

00:35:16.080 So, they're very upset that the perpetrators of this crime are not white. 0.59

00:35:21.160 They have the opportunity to expand their thinking.

00:35:24.580 They have the opportunity to perceive something about the world that they didn't perceive before.

00:35:28.020 They have the opportunity just not even to cover the story.

00:35:30.460 But they can't do it.

00:35:31.980 They can't let the facts get in the way of their narrative because they are actually starting to believe their own narrative.

00:35:37.180 Imagine if you took those New York Times editors out for a Zima after work and you said,

00:35:44.100 Hey, guys, they're sipping on their Smirnoff ice or whatever. 0.93

00:35:47.320 You're going to say, Guys, do you really believe that when Indians attack black people, that's white supremacy? 0.94

00:35:53.880 After a couple sips, they'd probably say, Nah, you're right. 0.95

00:35:57.480 You're right.

00:35:58.160 Okay, that's obviously absurd.

00:35:59.700 So, no, we don't believe that.

00:36:00.920 But in public, they are clinging so desperately to their own narrative.

00:36:10.080 They're saying, Yes, this, no, it is, it is white.

00:36:13.640 La, la, la.

00:36:14.400 I won't let the facts get in my way.

00:36:16.020 I will believe the story that I am pushing.

00:36:21.500 People know better than this.

00:36:22.980 This is why the New York Times readership is down.

00:36:25.960 This is why people are making fun of the New York Times.

00:36:28.820 This is why they've lost their credibility.

00:36:30.040 What the left believes, ultimately, is that there's really no such thing as objective truth.

00:36:39.100 It's that same cynicism that you see in Pontius Pilate who asks, What is truth?

00:36:44.140 It's the same cynicism that you see in intersectionality.

00:36:47.000 There's really no such thing as race or gender or it's all fluid.

00:36:50.420 It's all intersecting identities.

00:36:52.200 The only thing that is real is my subjective perception of my own suffering, of my own oppression.

00:36:57.840 And if I can convey that oppression, that is the actual power and core of my identity.

00:37:04.540 That is the only reality.

00:37:06.120 So, all that matters is the narrative that I spin.

00:37:10.180 It's the same thing in 1984 by George Orwell.

00:37:12.720 It's the same thing as Big Brother.

00:37:14.640 If Big Brother tells you that 2 plus 2 equals 5, you have to believe it.

00:37:21.100 If Big Brother tells you that 2 plus 2 equals 5, then 2 plus 2 really does equal 5.

00:37:28.460 And you have to not just say that.

00:37:30.140 You have to believe it.

00:37:32.000 They've worked themselves up into this belief.

00:37:35.180 But it isn't true.

00:37:37.280 There is objective reality.

00:37:40.360 2 plus 2 does not equal 5.

00:37:42.780 2 plus 2 equals 4.

00:37:44.540 The American people know this, I think.

00:37:47.980 I think.

00:37:48.520 I think that's what explains the 2016 election.

00:37:51.160 The fact that you had this very flawed candidate in Donald Trump.

00:37:54.340 You had the entire media political establishment, really on the left and the right, pushing for Hillary Clinton.

00:38:02.420 And still, and still, they picked Trump because they just knew something was wrong with Hillary. 1.00

00:38:09.780 They just didn't want to be lied to.

00:38:11.160 They just, it's this James Burnham's major law.

00:38:15.120 He had, the political philosopher James Burnham had these 10 laws, one of which is everybody knows everything.

00:38:20.640 People are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

00:38:24.300 You know, I'm always wary of proclamations where we say, the American people believe X, Y, and Z.

00:38:30.000 The American people believe everything that I want them to believe.

00:38:32.280 The American people believe, look, I'm not saying that I'm the spokesman for the American people here.

00:38:36.100 However, I think that the American people can see reality most of the time.

00:38:43.980 I think they're a lot smarter than politicians and media elites believe that they are.

00:38:51.220 I think they see through this.

00:38:52.900 They see that Katie Hill is not a victim.

00:38:54.440 She's the perpetrator. 0.97

00:38:55.520 They see that Indians attacking black people is not white supremacy. 0.90

00:38:58.400 They see that an impeachment inquiry in search of a crime is not a legitimate impeachment.

00:39:05.040 They just see that, even if they don't know all the details exactly.

00:39:10.060 Same thing on, this is obviously slightly less relevant to these intense political fights,

00:39:15.080 but it's the same sort of thing with the legalization of marijuana.

00:39:18.240 People ask me this sometimes when I'm out on the road.

00:39:20.340 Michael, what do you think about the legalization of pot?

00:39:22.480 I don't like it.

00:39:24.260 Why don't I like it?

00:39:25.680 Because, not because I've never smoked pot.

00:39:27.780 I've smoked pot a number of times.

00:39:30.020 Never cared for it as much as stogies and a good drink.

00:39:33.180 But the main reason that I oppose the legalization of pot is because of the people who are clamoring for it.

00:39:39.780 The people who are clamoring to legalize marijuana.

00:39:43.700 They're just so annoying about it that I don't want to give it to them.

00:39:47.080 And one of the things they do is they say, you know, actually, marijuana is, like, really good for you.

00:39:54.220 Actually, it solves, like, every problem.

00:39:56.920 If you're depressed or anxious or if you are, like, have anything that's wrong in your life at all, a pot will solve it.

00:40:04.640 I mean, the CBD oil, you can just, you just basically take a bath in that and all your troubles melt away.

00:40:09.920 And that just isn't true.

00:40:10.920 There's a new study out that actually debunks pretty much all of that.

00:40:14.100 It shows that the use of cannabis, THC, the active agent in marijuana, the use of that to treat people with depression, anxiety, psychosis, other health issues, can't be justified because there's no evidence that they work.

00:40:29.520 There's no evidence that they're safe.

00:40:31.780 Actually, this new study, which was published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, concludes that the risks very likely outweigh the benefits.

00:40:39.000 That actually, it shows that there's very low quality evidence that THC helps these problems and there's a fair bit of evidence that it actually makes the problems worse, anxiety, depression, and psychosis.

00:40:51.100 And having been friends with a lot of potheads over the years, I can say firsthand, I've sort of seen that happen.

00:40:56.380 So, not for everybody, but a lot of the time.

00:40:58.700 It's all that narrative that when people are, have a real interest in pushing a narrative, they're much more likely to ignore relevant facts.

00:41:10.620 Okay, this is true of everybody.

00:41:12.460 But the left is taking that right now to a radical extreme, to an absolutely outrageous extreme.

00:41:20.760 And those of us who are not there, those of us who are not puffing on the Katie Hill gonge, you know, we're not smoking that Haitian oregano like the soon-to-be former congressman, we're not believing our own press releases.

00:41:34.940 Those of us who see, we just have a little bit more clarity, and I think it's why the left is so screechy.

00:41:41.440 It's why they're so screamy.

00:41:42.540 It's why they're so emotional right now, is because the reality of what's going on in politics and culture is colliding with their narrative, and they're realizing that those two things, reality and their storyline, are not very well connected.

00:41:58.580 And they are having a breakdown because of it.

00:42:00.960 Same thing, this just happened to Joe Biden.

00:42:03.300 Happened to Joe Biden.

00:42:04.420 He's on the campaign trail in South Carolina.

00:42:06.600 Biden says he's a practicing Catholic.

00:42:10.220 And yet Biden supports abortion.

00:42:12.540 Pretty radical abortion support, too.

00:42:15.140 Now he's saying he supports forcing people to pay for abortions.

00:42:20.220 Within the Catholic Church, there's a lot of disagreement on public policy issues, and this is mostly tolerated.

00:42:28.140 Abortion is sort of where the rubber meets the road, because in abortion, you're just killing babies. 0.97

00:42:33.580 And the Catholic Church cannot support the killing of babies.

00:42:36.720 So it has been the position of the Catholic Church that the Church is within its rights to withhold communion or to excommunicate you, to keep you out of communion with the Church, to withhold the body of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.

00:42:50.380 But so many priests and bishops are wishy-washy on this.

00:42:54.600 They don't want to do it.

00:42:55.320 They want to be seen as cool.

00:42:56.240 They want to be liked by politicians.

00:42:57.640 They're afraid that politicians are going to attack them if they do it.

00:43:00.800 So they'll allow people who openly advocate killing babies, they'll allow them to receive the Eucharist.

00:43:07.460 This began with Chris and Andrew Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo, when he was governor of New York.

00:43:12.660 He pioneered the Catholic leftist line, which is, look, I oppose abortion personally, but I support the right of people to have them.

00:43:23.240 But it's like saying, I oppose murder personally, but I don't think we should have laws against murder for some reason.

00:43:29.060 Can't quite explain why.

00:43:30.680 And it's this wishy-washy way of having both sides of the issue and getting out of a tight spot.

00:43:35.020 This priest in South Carolina denied Joe Biden the Eucharist.

00:43:39.240 He was almost certainly referring to Canon 915 of the Canon Law, which says,

00:43:44.380 Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty,

00:43:48.200 and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.

00:43:57.020 This was the right thing to do.

00:44:00.260 One of the reasons it's the right thing to do, the most important reason from the pastoral point of view of the priest,

00:44:05.700 is to save Joe Biden's soul.

00:44:07.440 Joe Biden needs to be aware of the grave sin of supporting infanticide.

00:44:13.380 That is a grave matter that imperils his eternal soul and will have him roasting down below

00:44:20.420 or greatly increase the chances that he's roasting down below if he doesn't correct his ways.

00:44:25.300 That's the rehabilitative, that's the medicinal effect of withholding the Eucharist,

00:44:29.540 is to clarify the reality, to take away that leftist narrative and just give Joe Biden a little dose of reality.

00:44:39.320 You're not supposed to receive the Eucharist if you have committed a grave mortal sin without going to confession.

00:44:43.980 So you'll see very often in Catholic churches, people just stay in the pews if they haven't gone to confession.

00:44:48.880 Joe Biden out there refusing to acknowledge the reality of that sin.

00:44:54.420 It's the same situation here.

00:44:56.260 Joe Biden, I think after decades and decades of Democrats pushing this line that,

00:45:00.200 look, I oppose abortion, but I also support abortion, that that could somehow be okay, 0.99

00:45:05.040 that that in any world makes sense.

00:45:07.740 We're now seeing the collision of that narrative and that reality.

00:45:12.180 Some people who are a little more wishy-washy and squishy think that we should downplay those differences

00:45:19.360 between reality and the leftist narrative, that somehow that will bring them back.

00:45:23.480 It won't.

00:45:24.120 We need a choice, not an echo.

00:45:25.560 We need to draw a stark distinction.

00:45:27.420 When we're debating the left, we don't need to be cruel.

00:45:29.940 We don't need to be mean.

00:45:30.960 We shouldn't do any of those things.

00:45:31.920 But we should make clear the stark differences to wake them out of a stupor,

00:45:37.460 a stupor that has been brought on by arrogance and pride and cynicism and dishonesty for decades and decades,

00:45:43.300 the stupor that causes them to believe they're on press releases.

00:45:47.160 We need to shake them a little bit, and we need to tell them the truth.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 30, 2019

Ep. 441 - Impeachment Gets Real

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