Ep. 45 - Bowe Bergdahl： Aiding The Enemy And Obama’s Art of the Deal
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U.S. Army Sergeant Beau Bergdahl is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, which could land him in prison for life. We ll discuss how Barack Obama got us into this mess. Then, Amber Athie and Paul Bois join the panel of deplorables to talk about the woke UPenn TA who refuses to call on her white male students, a vicious dictator and World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador Robert Mugabe, and Snoop Diggity-Dap s latest hip-hop ditty, Make America Crip Again.
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U.S. Army Sergeant Beau Bergdahl is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, which could land him in prison for life.
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We'll discuss how Barack Obama got us into this mess.
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Then, Amber Athie and his eminence Paul Bois join the panel of deplorables to talk about the woke UPenn TA who refuses to call on her white male students, lucky kids,
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vicious dictator and World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador Robert Mugabe, and Snoop Diggity-Doo-Dap's latest hip-hop ditty, Make America Crip Again.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We have to analyze this Beau Bergdahl thing because everybody forgets about these really important political moments.
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He has pleaded guilty, and I don't know if you remember him, but Bo Bergdahl is the deserter
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for whom Barack Obama traded five extremely dangerous Taliban operatives.
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He dumped a lot of guys out of Gitmo, high-profile terrorists, to get this guy back.
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Trump has called Bergdahl a traitor who should be executed in typical Trumpian nuance,
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But it's easy to gloss over all of this recent history.
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Barack Obama's radicalism and ineptitude is what got us here.
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Six Americans died looking for this guy when he deserted his post.
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Five high-profile terrorists are back in the region, so, you know, it's a win-win by Barack
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And I actually don't mean that disrespectfully or glibly.
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This is the art of the deal, according to Barack Obama.
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But a traitor, a deserter back in our country, and five terrorists back on the battlefield,
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So let's go to Barack Obama announcing Bergdahl's return in 2014.
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This morning, I called Bob and Jannie Bergdahl and told them that after nearly five years
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Sergeant Bergdahl has missed birthdays and holidays and the simple moments with family and friends
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which all of us take for granted, but while Beau was gone, he was never forgotten.
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His parents thought about him and prayed for him every single day, as did his sister, Sky,
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He wasn't forgotten by his community in Idaho or the military, which rallied to support the Bergdahls
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And he wasn't forgotten by his country because the United States of America does not ever leave
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So you see, during this press conference, he's careful with his language.
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He doesn't say, this is a great hero, we're welcoming a hero home, because he knows the
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He knows that the guy's responsible for six American soldiers being killed trying to find
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But he's building the case for why we had to trade these huge assets that were being held
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at Guantanamo Bay, why we had to send them back to Qatar so that we could get this deserter
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He said, we never, as Americans, we never leave our guys on the battlefield, even if
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There is a tradition of this going back even to the French and Indian War, even before the
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country was founded, where we always go and that's sort of the agreement.
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You enlist to serve the country, and we make sure that we don't leave you behind.
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This is not always worked out in practice as it does in theory.
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During the Civil War, the Union military made attempts to rescue thousands of captured soldiers
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The South had this idea, which was if they captured a black Union soldier, they would
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So the Union Army halted all prisoner exchanges until the South agreed to treat black soldiers
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This resulted in about 13,000 Union soldiers being killed and dying, excuse me, while in
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There were certain other considerations that we had to take into account.
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It's not an automatic rule that the moment someone is in captivity, we send out this battalion
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There are considerations that have to be made by the military leadership, by the civilian leadership.
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In World War II, Americans were being held POW in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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You might remember those two cities because we vaporized them.
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The United States government made that decision, knowing that there may very well be American
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prisoners being held there, but obviously they took into account the million American
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soldiers who could have died trying to island hop in Japan, trying to go conventionally
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So they made that decision, but there were American POWs who got zapped because we had
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to make certain decisions and because our enemies behaved in a certain way.
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You know, on the other side, there have been tremendous raids.
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There was the raid at Kabantuan, I'm sure I'm butchering that, in the Philippines during
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American forces went into the heart of Japanese forces to save 500 Americans.
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I'm not suggesting that we're not, we don't do this, but it isn't nearly as clear cut
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as Barack Obama needs to pretend it is, to justify his terrible decision.
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As part of this effort, the United States is transferring five detainees from the prison
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The Qatari government has given us assurances that it will put in place measures to protect
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I can't, I was going to try to hold a straight face for that.
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The Qatari government is, because the Qatari government, we can really rely on these guys,
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They're going to protect American national security, one of the largest state sponsors
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of terrorism in the world, tied to the Al-Nusra Front, tied to Al-Qaeda, tied to Hamas, tied
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We're going to send back some of the most high-profile terrorists in the world to one
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of the largest state sponsors of terror in the world and one of the richest countries
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I'd like to say to Beau right now, who's having trouble speaking English,
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bismillah rahman al-Rahim, I'm your father, Beau.
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Khalifa al-Thani, the complicated nature of this recovery will never really be
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So that was Beau Bergdahl's father speaking at that press conference.
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Obama has Bergdahl's parents on either side of him.
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I don't know what drives him to think the things he does or behave the way he does.
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He does invoke a law at this press conference, which raised a lot of eyebrows.
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He does have a very kind of terrorist-y looking beard that he grew out, ostensibly to understand
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There was a deleted tweet that he had sent out, which said, quote,
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I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners.
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God will repay for the death of every Afghan child.
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He also retweeted a bunch of enemy propaganda about the United States.
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This was not a good-looking press conference for Barack Obama, and it raises a lot of questions.
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Was Beau Bergdahl sympathizing with the enemy when he was in Afghanistan?
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What are his parents, or his father at least, seems to have been sympathizing with the enemy
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during the captivity, though we can't really know.
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It all, as Bergdahl's father says, it was a complicated process to get this guy out.
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I think that is the understatement of the century.
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The complications that he's alluding to here are ideological complications,
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both for Barack Obama's radical ideology and perhaps the ideology of those who are sympathizing
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Here is Mike Flynn before he was thrown under the bus because of this Russia probe.
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Here is Mike Flynn, who had knowledge of the circumstances, explaining it.
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So for the first 24 to 72 hours, I mean, we were in crisis operations,
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and I was personally diverting every single capability, human intelligence-wise,
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to signals intelligence, to unmanned aerial vehicles, to space-based systems.
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I mean, we really turned on to find this soldier.
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So you believe, sir, that he did walk off the base with the intention of meeting the Taliban?
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This is Republican propaganda to attack President Obama.
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Barack Obama kind of leaned into that and defended that at the time anyway.
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And President Trump, in his typical understatement, nuanced way,
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So we get a traitor named Bergdahl, a dirty, rotten traitor.
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Who, by the way, when he deserted, six young, beautiful people were killed trying to find him.
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Somebody said the other day, well, he had some psychological problems.
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So we get Bergdahl, a traitor, and they get five of the people that they most wanted anywhere in the world,
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five killers that are right now back on the battlefield doing a job.
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He's got, if you couldn't hear on the bing, bong, he's making the image of a rifle.
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So he's suggesting that we kill traitor, we just execute them.
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The six Americans that died looking for Bergdahl are, you don't hear their names a lot.
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You hear Bo Bergdahl's name, you don't hear their names.
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It's Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen, Private First Class Morris Walker, Staff Sergeant Curtis, Second Lieutenant Darren Andrews, Staff Sergeant Michael Murphy, and Private First Class Matthew Martinik.
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So six guys go out there trying to find this guy, and we trade him for the Taliban five, called by John McCain, the hardest of the hardcore, all five deemed high risk to the United States.
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He did it because he made it a plank of his first campaign to close Guantanamo Bay.
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He realized he couldn't do it because the worst people on the face of the earth were being held captive there.
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So Barack Obama saw an excuse to trade five terrorists for this deserter to bring him back.
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I'm sure if he could have, he would have traded ten for the deserter because the incentives here were so perverse for Barack Obama.
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He didn't view it as a letdown to let these people out.
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He had been looking for a way to empty that prison, openly so, since 2008.
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He told us exactly what he wanted to do, and then we got, as Donald Trump said, perfectly.
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Some of that speech that he gave about Bo Bergdahl was not articulate, to say the least, talking about bing-bang and a dirty rotten traitor.
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Maybe he shouldn't have used that language, but he got it exactly right when he talked about Barack Obama's art of the deal.
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Those are the kind of deals that we get because of Barack Obama's radicalism, because of his radical ideology,
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an ideology that says that we are the cause of a lot of troubles in the world.
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We can't have these awful terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.
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And, you know, unfortunately now there's a new sheriff in town, and Bo Bergdahl appears to be getting what he deserves,
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Before the sentencing, we have to bring on our panel.
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We have an excellent panel today of his eminence, Paul Bois, and of the Daily Caller's Amber Athey.
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Six dead Americans, five terrorists in enemy hands.
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This sounds like a loaded question, but it really isn't, because you do have to take into account leaving a man on the field.
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Was it worth it so that we didn't leave this guy on the battlefield?
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I would say that the righteous law of leaving no man behind fell completely out the window the second he deserted his squadron
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and put the lives of American soldiers at risk, so I believe the intensity to retrieving him severely lowers at that point.
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And trading five terrorists for him, for someone who deserted his base and people died as a result of it?
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Sure, he's a dirty, rotten terrorist, as Trump says, but he's still our guy.
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Even if he deserts, you can't desert for long, pal.
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You know, I mean, maybe we shouldn't have traded five terrorists for him,
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but should it be the policy of the United States to always go after guys that we lose on the field?
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I would agree it still should be in our policy and our priority to get him back.
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But, like I said, the intensity by which we do it severely goes down when they desert and put other Americans at risk.
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Fair enough, and maybe we don't give up five of the worst guys on Earth.
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Amber, do people understand that Barack Obama did this intentionally?
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Do people get that this was a strategic decision, or will his radicalism be whitewashed by history
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and he'll just be a sort of amiable middle-of-the-roader when historians look back?
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I don't think people fully understand that this was clearly just a ploy, as you said, to close Guantanamo Bay,
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because when he first talked about doing that, the normal person's reaction was,
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well, what are you going to do with all of these terrorists that are there?
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And this was a really easy way for him to just get rid of five of them.
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But the problem is that history always looks more favorably upon past presidents,
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unless, of course, you're George Washington or Thomas Jefferson,
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in which case liberals will try to tear down your statues.
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But, I mean, let's look at some of the other Obama-era scandals.
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People aren't talking about Fast and Furious anymore.
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The only reason they're talking about Benghazi is because they want the incident with Niger to be Trump's Benghazi.
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So I think this is just going to be another example of things being whitewashed throughout history,
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and Obama's going to be considered the perfect moderate Democrat.
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Just on that point, that awful congresswoman with the silly hats, Frederica Wilson,
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who completely politicized this fallen American hero, LaDavid Johnson,
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She's saying that Trump's alleged impoliteness on the telephone,
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which we don't have a ton of reason to believe was impolite,
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because we've heard other calls of his to Gold Star families.
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But she's saying this alleged impoliteness, this is his version of Benghazi.
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The best part about that statement is that it acknowledges that Benghazi was Benghazi.
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It acknowledges that that was, finally, a Democrat is admitting that was a terrible scandal
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that rightly plagued Hillary Clinton and plagues her today.
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People seem to be missing that point, that in her criticizing Trump,
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Which makes herself look so silly, because she only has tweeted about Benghazi twice.
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She tweeted about it once the other day when she said this was Trump's Benghazi,
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and then she tweeted about it when it very first happened to offer her condolences to the families of the soldiers who died.
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So if she's going to sit here and say Benghazi was a big deal now, she's just making herself look idiotic.
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You're telling me that a woman who wears sequined cowboy hats on the floor of the United States Congress,
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This is the intrepid reporting at The Michael Knowles Show.
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So the woke UPenn teacher won't call on white males.
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We're talking about theoretically one of the top academic universities in the country.
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A teaching assistant PhD student named Stephanie McKellup just tweeted out, quote,
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I will always call on my black women students first.
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Other POC, that's people of color, which for some reason, that's the nice term,
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Other people of color get second-tier priority.
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White women come next, and if I have to, white men.
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I believe the tuition at the University of Pennsylvania is like 60 grand a year right now,
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In the spirit of this woke T.A. McKellup, I'll have to call on Amber first.
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Is this intersectional oppression ideology just the ravings of some kook, or is it widespread?
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This specific example is the first time I've seen this, but overall, the ideology behind it,
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What you see is professors and these social justice warriors, they can't just have people of different races be equal.
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They actually have to glorify and hold the so-called oppressed minority classes above the people who are historically not oppressed in their eyes.
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So, this is just an example of how, in her view, the black women get special treatment, not just equal treatment,
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because they have had some kind of injustice done to them.
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Meanwhile, while you said they are attending one of the best schools in the country at a super high price tag,
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and are probably some of the most privileged people in society.
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You know, I believe the largest mass lynching in American history was against Sicilians.
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Eleven Sicilians were lynched in, I think, 1891.
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It's one of the reasons Columbus Day became a holiday.
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As a Sicilian-American, as a partially Sicilian-American, historically very oppressed?
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Well, we could raise your payment for the Michael Knowles Show panel of deplorables infinitely,
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because we here, of course, pay nobody anything, probably including me.
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Paul Bois, isn't this just an example of patriarchy and institutional racism?
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Because I never wanted to be called on in class.
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Just the white man getting one over on everybody else yet again.
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Yeah, Michael, I mean, doesn't it seem rather counterintuitive to just make the white men
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just, like, sit around and be lazy during the class and make all the colored students
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It's almost beyond parody, you know, how this works.
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All you white men, kick back and have a pina colada.
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And all you black students, now you have to do all the work.
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Might as well just raise the curriculum for all the minority students and make them work,
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Do you think that this is—because I think most people in America, when they read stories
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But I remember—I was in college not too long ago.
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I was in a place just as crazy as you, Ben—that this really is what—this is common sense
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It is common sense that white male students should be disadvantaged because of historical
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That—like, it goes—you are looked at as insane if you question that ideology.
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And is it creeping down at all in the regular culture?
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Or is the regular culture just going to vote for Donald Trump and say enough of your craziness?
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I would say, yes, it is very widespread in elite institutions.
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I mean, I went to Cal State Northridge, and even it was prevalent there, and that's a small—smaller
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And I can only imagine how bad it gets in, you know, Ivy League and elite institutions like
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And then in terms of how it trickles down to the broader culture, I mean, that is an interesting
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I certainly think that the institutions, the cultural institutions, have bitten the apple
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Hollywood certainly has major corporations, Starbucks, Target, what have you.
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And so they try and use their institutional power to translate it into the broader culture,
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and they utilize it to beat people with a club and say, oh, you know, well, we're woke.
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If you want to be woke like us, you know, you want to be cool and hip, or, you know, unless
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you want to be one of those deplorables over there, then you better sign on to this whole
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white privilege and gender intersectionality narrative.
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So that's really how they try to translate it into the broader culture, and that's why
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I think we elected Trump, to tell all of those people, screw you.
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Woke like moi, that should be the title of your memoir.
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Speaking of coolness and hipness, oh, no, we'll get to that story after.
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We're going to talk about Snoop Diddley Doodap later.
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But we have to first talk about Robert Mugabe, the Goodwill Ambassador.
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Robert Mugabe has been named by the World Health Organization a Goodwill Ambassador.
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The director said, quote, I am honored to be joined by President Mugabe of Zimbabwe, a country
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that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies
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That's from WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom, and he told that to a global health care conference
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In Zimbabwe, one in three children are starving.
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Mugabe is the oldest leader or really just dictator in the entire world.
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He even won, quote, unquote, the Zimbabwean lottery in 2000.
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He said that whites are second-class citizens in Zimbabwe and that they're better dead.
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This is the guy who is a Goodwill Ambassador for the WHO.
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WHO, we will point out, has since rescinded its offer.
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Paul Bois, does this prove that multinational organizations like the WHO, the United Nations,
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that they're just mouthpieces for dictators, as we on the right have claimed for decades?
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I'm actually kind of surprised they kicked him out because he fits right in.
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I mean, this is an organization who one of their founding members was Stalin.
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This is an organization who, on their 70th anniversary, they parade a bunch of dictators
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to talk about the importance of dignity and human rights.
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People, you know, leaders of China and Cuba, it's an organization.
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Half of their 193 members are deemed by human rights groups to be not even free at all
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and in violation of every human rights principle we have on record.
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So, I mean, my opinion of the U.N. is just basically disband them as an organization,
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just keep them as just like a forum for nations to come and, you know, debate about their spit spats,
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There's a great cigar bar nearby called the Cigar Inn on 53rd and 2nd.
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And you have made a good point, Your Eminence, Mr. Bois,
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because I've never heard someone make a positive case for Mugabe,
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but compared to Stalin, Robert Mugabe is pretty good.
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Robert Mugabe, better than Stalin, goodwill ambassador.
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Amber, doesn't this highlight the absurdity of liberals do this all the time?
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They point to places with crushing poverty and corruption, like Cuba,
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and they laud them for so-called universal health care,
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universal health care that doesn't have any medicine, that's rife with corruption,
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Anybody can go in, and you have to bring your own medicine and your own tools
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You have to basically bribe doctors to work on you
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because the doctors don't make any money either.
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Doesn't every tin pot dictator in every banana republic around the world
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have a whole host of goods that don't ever seem to materialize?
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I mean, you can say whatever you want when you're a dictator
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because you also have to imagine the press and the military are on your side.
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And you're right that liberals will often overlook the real story behind these promises
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because they're so desperate to prove that socialism and communism are beneficial ideologies.
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Back when Fidel Castro died, I went to American University
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speaking of crazy social justice warriors, and I interviewed them,
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and I asked them if they thought that Fidel Castro or Donald Trump was a better leader.
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And almost all of them said that they preferred Fidel Castro
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because they cited, like you said, the apparent universal health care,
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and they cited the high literacy rates, which are also shown to not be accurate.
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So they have no examples of actual working communism or socialism,
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but because they keep pushing for it in the U.S.,
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they have to just go by what these dictators are saying,
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which is a really distorted version of reality.
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And they have the press on their side, as you say.
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And it must be what it feels like for Barack Obama to have CNN,
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you know, for Mugabe to have the Zimbabwean press
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or Pravda for the Soviets or something like that.
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When we talk about fake news, the worry isn't—
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I don't think there's any worry right now that we're going to ban
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The worry is that they're sycophants for Democrats.
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The worry is that they're just machine guns for the Democratic Party.
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They're a communications firm flacking for them.
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Hip-hop crooner Snoop Doggy Puff has a new piece out on our fearless leader.
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Now, I wanted to play this clip of the random noises and cacophony
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But unfortunately, there's so much expletive in it that we can't do it on the show.
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The president wants to make America great again.
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Crip referring to the gang that I guess he was associated with.
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But hip-hop used to love Trump because he was a symbol of conspicuous wealth
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So a young musician named Young Jeezy once warbled,
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quote, and I'm going to change a couple words because I don't want to get yelled at,
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Richest ninja in my hood, call me Donald Trump.
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There were 318 mentions, according to Nate Silver at 538,
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Amber, why does hip-hop not like Donald Trump anymore?
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Most of these rappers are good buddies with Barack Obama
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although I don't think she's quite hip enough for most of them.
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But the part that really got me about Snoop Dogg's rap
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is mentioning he wants to make America crip again.
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He explained that the Crips were originally founded to be sort of the new Black Panther Party.
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Obviously, what they ended up being was a very violent gang in California.
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So for him to lecture about Donald Trump being a terrible person
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but then to promote gang culture is a bit absurd, I would think.
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So, you know, I mean, it's at least it's of a piece when he says we want to make,
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pun intended, that he wants to make America crip again.
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Paul Bois, is there anything redeeming about this terrible music?
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Because I try, you know, people say I'm like an old curmudgeon.
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I sound like a caricature of just an old Republican who's like,
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that hip-hop songs are like, are good or in any way,
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I'm glad you don't sound like an old curmudgeon.
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Yeah, as Aristotle said, Michael, music gives soul to the universe.
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And to be quite honest, I've always found hip-hop to be a very miserable genre of music.
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And that's why if you listen to even like a quote-unquote good hip-hop song,
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you're pretty much bored with it within like two or three days
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and you never really want to return to listen to it ever again.
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especially when you look at previous musicians, black musicians of previous generation,
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you had soul music, you had gentlemen like Nat King Cole,
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such beautiful music that contributed so wonderfully to the American Songbook.
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And there's nothing that's going to be remembered in hip-hop 50 years from now.
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It's just going to be considered just like, oh, yeah, a music genre that came in.
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But nobody's going to be returning to the classics of Snoop Dogg,
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you know, singing about money on his mind 50 years from now
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and, you know, the horrible culture of misogyny that it bred.
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I think they probably will be looking back on these guys.
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It's all about sex and treating women terribly.
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Soul music is extremely sensual and in some ways carnal.
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There are a lot of excellent songs in soul and Motown that kind of take you on a journey,
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and they're musically somewhat sophisticated and lyrically compelling.
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I tried to listen to Kanye one time because everyone told me.
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Well, mostly Kanye just told me he's the greatest musical genius ever.
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And the thing is he is sort of good in that he has good taste in music.
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So he samples good songs, and then he makes them worse by singing on them.
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So, like, he even wrote a song with Paul McCartney.
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Kim Kardashian said it was her favorite Kanye song.
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It's her favorite Kanye song because Paul McCartney wrote it.
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And it sounds really good except for Kanye's awful voice.
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Maybe they have a good sense of music, but just they don't have any talent,
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But we'll have to tie that into maybe one of Andrew Klavan's segments,
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Okay, panel of deplorables, thank you for being here.
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