The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 452 - Our Leaders Are Gasbags

00:00:00.000 Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell broadcasts hot air on MSNBC, but not so much hot air as

00:00:07.280 Democratic Senator Chris Murphy or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We will examine the shameless gas

00:00:13.480 baggery of our leaders. Then across the pond, the UK's Prince Andrew sweats over questions

00:00:19.040 about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who didn't kill himself. A New Zealand hunter gets

00:00:24.880 death threats for killing her own food, and conservatives' favorite chicken restaurant

00:00:29.880 gives in to the leftist mob. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.580 Some people are just catching wind of Eric Swalwell's appearance on MSNBC last night,

00:00:48.900 but a whistleblower showed that Eric Swalwell passed gas on live television. Swalwell himself

00:00:55.860 has been gaslighting on the subject and insisting that it never happened, but something about his

00:01:02.360 denial just doesn't smell right. Listen for yourself. The evidence is uncontradicted that the president

00:01:09.400 used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election. Now that, I know it's 1.00

00:01:14.980 sometimes it's hard to figure out when it's just Eric Swalwell talking and when he literally passed

00:01:19.540 gas on television. Sometimes it's very confusing. It would appear to me that he did, in fact,

00:01:26.820 break wind on national television. This is trending on Twitter as hashtag fartgate.

00:01:33.900 I'm sorry that I even have to say that publicly, but it was the top trend on Twitter for many,

00:01:39.860 many hours yesterday. I love Eric Swalwell. I just love him so much. I don't really have very

00:01:45.820 much to say about the incident itself. It's very, very unfortunate. That's probably the worst thing

00:01:52.400 I could possibly imagine having happen if you're on national television. But one of the keys to Eric

00:01:57.400 Swalwell is that he feels no shame. One of the key defining characters of Eric Swalwell is he is just

00:02:04.440 completely oblivious to his own absurdity. So he does this and you could all hear it. And then Eric

00:02:13.620 Swalwell comes back and says, no, that wasn't me. I don't know who it was. It obviously was, by the

00:02:20.440 way. If you just look at the clip, he becomes physically uncomfortable during it. So it would

00:02:23.940 appear that it was Eric Swalwell. But, you know, he just keeps trucking on, trucking on. And what is

00:02:29.140 really incredible is that that clip literally breaking wind was not the most absurd thing that

00:02:37.060 Eric Swalwell did on television all day. Eric Swalwell then goes back on television. He's on CNN

00:02:42.900 and he insists with a straight face that President Trump needs to be thrown out of office because he

00:02:50.560 conspired with a foreign power to steal the 2016 election. Here he is.

00:02:55.060 But the House Speaker seems to have already made up her mind about impeaching the president. What 1.00

00:03:01.060 say you? I have not. And I don't think she has either. But the evidence points in one direction

00:03:07.040 that this president leveraged our taxpayer dollars to have the Ukrainians help him cheat an election. 0.84

00:03:12.580 And he has had every opportunity to send in witnesses that would show his innocence. And he has blocked

00:03:18.540 those witnesses from coming forward. And so we can only conclude that that's where the evidence is going

00:03:22.780 too early to reach an ultimate conclusion, Wolf. But the president has an opportunity to send over

00:03:28.680 the witnesses we've asked for. Is that so, Eric Swalwell? You, Eric Swalwell, a Democrat,

00:03:35.220 a member of a party that purchased foreign intelligence from an operative team, Fusion GPS, during the 2016

00:03:47.480 election. You went in, paid off former journalists to work with a foreign intelligence officer to dig up

00:03:56.460 dirt on Donald Trump. You then used the power of the state illegally to spy on the opponent's campaign.

00:04:05.580 You actually colluded to try to steal the 2016 election. You are going to accuse President Trump

00:04:11.680 of doing that very same thing. That's what they're doing. The left always does this, by the way.

00:04:16.820 The left always accuses the right of doing what the left is doing. And Swalwell can say that with a

00:04:25.040 straight face. Frankly, I feel it's less absurd to break wind on television with a straight face than

00:04:31.860 it is to expel that ridiculous hot air from his mouth. For Eric Swalwell to go out there and say, 0.99

00:04:38.800 the president can exonerate himself. He just needs to let people testify. Democrats have called three

00:04:45.680 key witnesses already. They called Bill Taylor. Remember that a few days ago? The ambassador.

00:04:52.100 They called George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state. They called Marie Yovanovitch,

00:04:58.600 the ambassador to Ukraine. All three of these people were supposed to be the bombshell testimony.

00:05:02.980 Remember that? And then Bill Taylor said he had no evidence of a quid pro quo. George Kent said it was

00:05:07.860 perfectly legitimate for President Trump to ask for an investigation into Ukrainian corruption in 2016.

00:05:12.760 And Marie Yovanovitch was asked, point blank, do you have any evidence that the president committed

00:05:16.660 any sort of crime? And she said, no, no, I don't. She said it twice in a row. And Eric Swalwell goes on TV

00:05:24.500 and says, the president is stealing the election. He's committing collusion. And we need to throw him

00:05:32.080 out of office for that. Four times now in this country, impeachment has been invoked. Andrew Johnson,

00:05:41.300 Richard Nixon, who resigned before he could be impeached, Bill Clinton, now Donald Trump.

00:05:47.420 This fourth impeachment, Donald Trump, by far the least legitimate, by far there is so little evidence

00:05:56.120 of any sort of crime. And Swalwell goes on TV and insists that we need to throw him out of office

00:06:01.680 for it. And even Swalwell wasn't the most ridiculous person here. Chris Murphy, a Democrat in the Senate, 0.95

00:06:08.080 went on television. And instead of just hitting Trump for the Ukraine non-troversy, he's defending

00:06:14.180 the Bidens, who are actually the subject of the non-troversy because of the corruption they engaged in

00:06:18.720 in Ukraine, which prompted the call for an investigation, which prompted the impeachment in the first place.

00:06:24.500 Here's Senator Chris Murphy. I get that in your view, what's going on right now with President Trump

00:06:28.860 is a much, much bigger deal and much more important than the Hunter Biden situation. But

00:06:33.680 just point blank, should Hunter Biden have taken that role on the board of Burisma while his dad

00:06:38.960 was vice president? Well, I think in an interview, Hunter Biden himself admitted that he had possibly

00:06:46.240 made a mistake. But let's be clear, Hunter Biden didn't do anything illegal. And his father,

00:06:50.820 the vice president, didn't do anything illegal or unethical. And all of these attacks on the Bidens

00:06:56.300 and the effort to bring the whistleblower in to testify are just an attempt to try to put more

00:07:02.000 chum in the water and distract from the corrupt scheme that is at the heart of this inquiry.

00:07:07.100 The Bidens are totally innocent. The Bidens, the Biden corruption, that's not even an important story

00:07:14.560 here when we're talking about how President Trump was trying to investigate Biden's corruption.

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00:09:14.960 goes on television. He says, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, they did nothing wrong. Now, of course,

00:09:22.620 we know they did something wrong here because Hunter Biden came out and said that he was sorry

00:09:28.840 that he did it and he got off of the board. He resigned from the board of the Ukrainian energy

00:09:34.080 company Burisma. It's like saying, hey, look, I did nothing wrong. I'm completely right. I'm

00:09:38.720 totally exonerated. And by the way, I'll never do it again. Very sorry. Of course, he did something

00:09:42.840 wrong. Joe Biden knows that he did something wrong, which is why when Joe Biden found out that Hunter

00:09:49.500 Biden was on the board of Burisma, he said to him, you better know what you're doing. That's according

00:09:56.300 to a magazine interview that Hunter Biden gave in July. That's according to TV interviews that Hunter

00:10:00.960 Biden gave just a month or two ago. Biden knew there was something very, very fishy here.

00:10:05.900 Biden said in his administration, he's not going to allow this kind of nepotism and corruption.

00:10:10.140 Well, if he's not going to allow it for the president, why was it okay when he was the vice

00:10:14.460 president? Simply doesn't add up. Obviously, this was pretty crooked. And by the way, we're only talking

00:10:19.080 about Ukraine right now. He did the same thing in China. Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two with

00:10:23.880 then Vice President Joe Biden, goes to this meeting in China, and then just coincidentally,

00:10:28.800 not long after that winds up with a billion and a half dollars worth of financing out of China.

00:10:34.960 So obviously, there's a lot of corruption going on here. And Chris Murphy says, don't talk about

00:10:39.960 that corruption. Talk about the impeachment. What I have said from the very beginning is impeachment

00:10:44.820 is not going to look good for Democrats, especially not going to look good for Joe Biden,

00:10:48.500 because in order to talk about impeachment, you have to talk about Biden's corruption.

00:10:52.480 That's what they're impeaching him over is he had a phone call with Ukraine, President Trump,

00:10:57.720 and Trump said, hey, by the way, look into that corruption in Ukraine and look into

00:11:03.060 the interference in the 2016 election. So he's allowed, he's not allowed to do that. But Democrats

00:11:09.260 are allowed to spend two and a half years investigating Russian collusion, which totally exonerated the

00:11:15.260 president. And by the way, Democrats are allowed to get off scot-free when they themselves

00:11:20.140 interfered and bought off foreign intelligence in the 2016 election. Now, I'm actually not sure

00:11:26.920 they're going to get off scot-free. We're obviously waiting for the IG report and the John

00:11:30.780 Durham investigation into how the whole Russia hoax came to be in the first place and maybe which

00:11:37.220 Obama administration officials and Democrats and foreign assets are culpable in the attempt to rig the

00:11:46.100 2016 election and the now known and demonstrable spying on the Trump campaign. So what I actually

00:11:52.540 think is that this impeachment push is an early defensive measure to mitigate whatever comes out

00:11:59.660 in that investigation in 2016. But regardless, absolutely shameless. And then Nancy Pelosi,

00:12:05.820 the most shameless one of all, comes and puts the little cherry on top of the sundae. 0.96

00:12:09.560 She wants President Trump to testify.

00:12:14.000 Does the president get, as he says, to confront his accuser or get due process?

00:12:20.100 What do you mean confront his accuser? Confront the whistleblower?

00:12:22.460 Presumably.

00:12:23.040 Well, I will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower. I was there, I told the president,

00:12:29.280 you're in my wheelhouse when you come after the whistleblower. And this is really important,

00:12:33.460 especially when it comes to intelligence, that someone who would be courageous enough to point out

00:12:38.520 truth to power. And then through the filter of a Trump-appointed inspector general who found it

00:12:46.580 of urgent concern and then took it to the next steps. So the president could come right before

00:12:55.980 the committee and speak all the truth that he wants if he wants to take the oath of office,

00:13:01.660 or he could do it in writing. He has every opportunity to present his case. But it's really

00:13:08.500 a sad thing. I mean, what the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did.

00:13:16.320 But at some point, Richard Nixon cared about the country enough to recognize that this could not

00:13:22.740 continue.

00:13:23.720 Allow me to translate that for you. Nancy Pelosi is saying that what Trump did is so much worse than

00:13:29.960 what Richard Nixon did. By the way, what Nixon did was his goons didn't know how to tape a door.

00:13:35.700 This is how the fall of Richard Nixon came because the two burglars who broke into Watergate

00:13:41.160 should have taped the door up to down to keep the door open once they were stealing the documents out

00:13:47.000 of Watergate. But instead, they taped it side to side so a security guard was able to see it.

00:13:52.320 And so these burglars engage in a dirty trick, which Richard Nixon, by all accounts, didn't know

00:13:57.260 anything about, by the way. And then he covered it up and then they threw him out. Why did they

00:14:01.020 really throw him out? They wanted to overturn the presidential election because they were furious

00:14:04.840 that Nixon won in the first place. They were certainly furious that he got reelected. They

00:14:09.140 stole the election from him in 1960 successfully. And they never forgave the guy for following

00:14:15.280 Alger Hiss, who is a leftist darling at the State Department, who was a communist spy.

00:14:21.920 And he was called out as a communist spy by Whitaker Chambers. And Richard Nixon was the only

00:14:26.100 one who believed him and went and got him in the left, never forgave him for it. That is the

00:14:29.920 background that very few people talk about when you talk about the Richard Nixon impeachment. But

00:14:34.340 what Pelosi is saying is what Trump did is so much worse than that. Let me ask you a question,

00:14:38.820 Nancy Pelosi. What did Trump do? Because the storyline now has changed about a million times,

00:14:44.200 not even just from the Russia hoax to Stormy Daniels to taxes to now Ukraine, but even within

00:14:49.780 Ukraine, what did he do? You're saying it was bribery? You're saying it was a quid pro quo?

00:14:54.400 You're saying it was an abuse of power, so maybe it wasn't a crime? What are you talking about?

00:14:58.780 If Nancy Pelosi were telling the truth, if what Trump did with regard to Ukraine was worse than

00:15:05.860 what Richard Nixon did, it's an impeachable offense, then Nancy Pelosi would state the offense. 1.00

00:15:11.840 This is how you know the Democrats are full of hot air here, is they can't even state what the

00:15:16.540 offense is. I can't even state what the offense is. I follow this story every single day. But the

00:15:21.140 storyline changes every day because all the witnesses that the Democrats are calling to

00:15:25.200 testify say that Trump did nothing wrong. You've got Bill Taylor, George Kent, Maria Yovanovitch.

00:15:33.440 Who else are they going to get to say that Trump committed an impeachable offense? Nobody. So

00:15:38.100 disingenuous. So totally disingenuous. But if you want the height of gas baggery,

00:15:43.880 you actually can't even stay in America. You got to cross the pond and head over to the UK where

00:15:49.200 Prince Andrew, good buddies with Jeffrey Epstein, who definitely didn't kill himself, is now trying

00:15:53.960 to defend his relationship with the possibly dead disgraced pedophile in a way that it made me blush 0.65

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00:18:37.140 Eric Swalwell and Chris Murphy and Nancy Pelosi. You got to go to the United Kingdom. You got to go to

00:18:41.880 Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth, who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and took a lot of photos

00:18:49.500 with Jeffrey Epstein and has allegations that he slept with some of Epstein's girls.

00:18:54.980 He's finally answering questions about this. Jeffrey Epstein thought, or rather Prince Andrew

00:19:00.580 thought, that the best way to get in front of this story was to go and do a television interview.

00:19:08.080 This became one of the biggest PR disasters in recent royal memory. And it shows you, if you're not a 0.98

00:19:18.280 good BS-er, like, for instance, Nancy Pelosi or Eric Swalwell, don't go on television and try to lie to

00:19:25.280 the entire world because it looks really dishonest. He got caught in a couple lies here. Here is Prince

00:19:30.800 Andrew, asked about his old pal Jeffrey Epstein. What does he have to say?

00:19:34.880 He has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming. Yes.

00:19:40.360 Unbecoming. He was a sex offender. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm being polite in the sense that he was a sex

00:19:46.480 offender. Oh, not a great start, Prince Andrew. Now, in Prince Andrew's defense, I don't like using

00:19:54.660 ugly words in public. I don't like it. I don't like using swear words in public. I don't even like

00:20:00.500 mentioning what Eric Swalwell did on national television. It's just that itself is unbecoming.

00:20:04.740 However, I'm not sure that's exactly what Prince Andrew's doing here. I don't think it's simply

00:20:09.280 because of the dignity of his role and his office that he's not using this line. I think it's because

00:20:15.280 he doesn't want to admit that his friend of many years, who he hung out with even pretty recently,

00:20:20.200 was one of the most notorious sex offenders in history. So he says, well, you know, what he did,

00:20:24.900 it was something, you know, a little bit unbecoming. You mean that he was a notorious sex abuser 0.99

00:20:31.900 and child sex trafficker? Well, yes, that's what I meant. Then the interviewer gets down to brass 0.99

00:20:38.500 tacks, asks Prince Andrew about sleeping with Epstein's harem. For the record, is there any way

00:20:46.740 you could have had sex with that young woman or any young woman trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein in any of 0.68

00:20:53.880 his residences? No. And without putting too fine a point on it, if you're a man, it is a positive act 0.98

00:21:06.580 to have sex with somebody. You have to have to take some sort of positive action. And so therefore,

00:21:14.760 if you try to forget, it's very difficult to try and forget positive action. And I do not remember

00:21:25.100 anything. I can't, I've racked my brain and thinking, oh, well, when the first allegations,

00:21:31.160 when the allegations came out originally, I went, well, that's a bit strange. I don't remember this.

00:21:36.100 And then I've been through it and through it and through it over and over and over again. And no,

00:21:44.360 nothing. No, no, nothing. I don't, I don't think, I don't believe that I remember that if I were to

00:21:52.440 have slept with the girls, I would have had to put my little mini royal into the, and I don't believe

00:22:00.520 if I, I'm scratching my head and it's just not coming up, then a very bad excuse. You could just

00:22:07.340 say, no, you just say it didn't happen. Yeah. If it didn't happen, then you come out and say, nope,

00:22:11.400 didn't happen. If you want to leave yourself leeway, then you need to pretend like you might

00:22:16.400 not remember. Look, I don't have a great memory either. Okay. And Prince Andrew has been seen out

00:22:21.640 partying and he's had a bit of a colorful life. So I could understand if your long-term memory is a

00:22:27.960 little hazy. If you regularly frequent the private residences and islands of the world's

00:22:35.940 most notorious sex trafficker filled with young and underage girls, I think you would remember

00:22:43.180 that. I think you would remember whether you slept with any of them or not. I don't think it would be

00:22:49.740 confusing. I don't think you'd have to rack your mind and say, did I, did I accidentally trip over a

00:22:55.280 rock on little St. James Island and perhaps fall on top of one of the, you wouldn't do that. You

00:23:00.740 would just, you either did it or you didn't do it. The fact that he's now backtracking and he used to

00:23:06.940 deny these allegations, now he's saying he can't remember. Not a great look. Then the interviewer

00:23:12.360 keeps pressing and the interviewer keeps going off the rails. And so does Prince Andrew Kopp do it? No.

00:23:16.920 He puts out even more hot air. We will get to that in a second when Prince Andrew is asked why

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00:27:06.960 back with a lot more. Okay, so you've got a masterclass in gas baggery from Prince Andrew,

00:27:22.560 a masterclass in how not to comport yourself in public. First, Prince Andrew's asked about his

00:27:28.420 old friend Jeffrey Epstein. He says it's unbecoming to have sex with children. Then he's asked whether 0.98

00:27:33.880 or not he sleeps with the young girls. And he says, well, you know, I can't quite remember. I

00:27:37.840 don't think I did. No, it doesn't sound right. Then he's asked why he stayed at Epstein's house

00:27:42.460 after Epstein was very publicly convicted for child sex crimes. And you know, Prince Andrew's

00:27:47.460 answer, he's just too damn honorable. But you were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender. 0.77

00:27:55.320 It was a convenient place to stay. I mean, I've gone through this in my mind so many times.

00:28:01.100 At the end of the day, with the benefit of all the hindsight that one could have,

00:28:09.560 it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time, I felt it was the honorable and

00:28:16.740 right thing to do. And I admit fully that my judgment was probably colored by my

00:28:27.100 tendency to be too honorable. But that's just the way it is.

00:28:33.300 Oh, my gosh, you've got to be kidding me. So you did hear there are two excuses in here.

00:28:38.980 He said, why did you stay at that convicted sex offenders, child sex abusers house? Well, 0.95

00:28:46.800 you know, it was very convenient. Because the prince, a British prince cannot afford a hotel room.

00:28:56.100 It was so convenient. You know, it was much closer to the airport than the Marriott. So I just felt I

00:29:02.440 would stay there. I'm pretty sure the prince can stay wherever he wants in the whole world. I think

00:29:07.600 he's got other friends. I think he can go to other private residences. Pretty sure he could stay at the

00:29:12.260 top floor of the Ritz whenever he wants to. So that's the first excuse. And then the second one,

00:29:16.620 the second one is so great. He stayed with the convicted sex offender because he's too honorable.

00:29:23.800 This is the excuse you hear like in job interviews. I'll say, what's your worst quality? And then when

00:29:30.040 it's a kid right out of school, I'll say, you know, I think my worst quality is probably,

00:29:33.940 I'd say I probably care too much. You know, I just work too hard. And so it's really, sometimes it's

00:29:40.180 really hard for me to separate my work life from my professional life because I just give too much

00:29:44.620 to the company. That's my problem. I'm too good. I'm too good. Prince Andrews. I guess it's because

00:29:52.760 Prince Andrew has never had a job in the way we think of jobs. He's never had a job interview,

00:29:58.700 that's for sure. And so he gives this absurd line with a straight face. Instead of just, if he just

00:30:04.000 came out and said, yeah, he was a friend of mine. Obviously I was associating with a disreputable

00:30:09.700 character and I shouldn't have stayed with him. Okay. It's not a satisfying excuse, but at least

00:30:15.900 it's, you can believe it. And then finally, Prince Andrew gets caught in a lie. He's asked, wait,

00:30:21.220 hold on a second. We see pictures of you holding the bare midriff of these underage girls with 1.00

00:30:25.560 Jeffrey Epstein at Jeffrey Epstein's place. Well, doesn't that seem to be incriminating? And he said, 0.91

00:30:32.280 it couldn't have been me that the accounts that these girls are describing where we had sweaty sex

00:30:38.760 can't be real because I can't sweat. That's what he said. Here he is.

00:30:44.700 She described dancing with you and you profusely sweating and that she went on to have baths,

00:30:52.560 possibly. There's a slight problem with the sweating because I have a peculiar medical condition,

00:31:03.020 which is that I don't sweat or I didn't sweat at the time. And that was, oh, actually,

00:31:08.960 yes, I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of

00:31:16.600 adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at. And I simply, it was, it was, it was almost

00:31:23.440 impossible for me to sweat. And it's only because I have done a number of things in the recent past

00:31:30.040 that I'm starting to be able to do that again. So I'm afraid to say that there's a medical condition

00:31:36.240 that says that I didn't do it. So therefore. Oh my God, dude, why on earth? His PR guy,

00:31:42.540 his, his publicist quit when Prince Andrew agreed to do this interview, he should have quit long

00:31:49.180 before that. I mean, he's still going to get some blame here. One earth prepared him for this

00:31:52.820 interview because photos have since come out showing Prince Andrew at parties surrounded by women

00:32:01.040 sweating. I couldn't have had sex with these girls because they said that I was sweaty and 1.00

00:32:08.560 I can't sweat because I was shot at during the Falklands War. What? Very bad gas baggery. 0.92

00:32:16.700 And it's, it's important to see this because the Royals are always kind of a kooky family and it's

00:32:22.380 especially the ones who are a little more degenerate than, than the queen who is really just a model of 1.00

00:32:28.140 grace. But when you watch them just fall apart under this kind of scrutiny, you look back at our own

00:32:35.360 politicians and it gives you a certain respect for them because they're so shameless and they're so

00:32:40.280 practiced and they're so skilled at it, but they're just as full of it. And occasionally just a little

00:32:45.220 evidence of that hot air squeaks out of them, such as Eric Swalwell on live television. It's the same

00:32:52.880 sort of gas baggery. And what they do is they gaslight us. I know these are puns. I'm actually not even

00:32:57.520 doing that intentionally. These, at least not anymore. These, this gaslighting is what's so offensive to us.

00:33:04.440 Because these people, Prince Andrew, I guess most ridiculously, but Pelosi, Swalwell, Chris Murphy, 0.89

00:33:10.980 these guys go on television and they tell us not to believe our own lying eyes. They tell us not to 0.93

00:33:16.780 believe our own lying ears. They're trying to force a narrative on us that is obviously untrue. And

00:33:24.060 people really don't like being lied to. I've found if you're just straight with people, they appreciate

00:33:29.520 that. You know, President Trump during the 2016 election more or less came out and said, yeah,

00:33:33.360 I hear all my flaws. Okay. I've never pretended to be a saint, but here's what I'll do for you.

00:33:39.160 Here's what I'm promising. And I, I won't lie to you. I'll talk straight to you. And generally

00:33:43.180 speaking by politician standards, he has done that. If Democrats think that they are going to win in

00:33:48.080 2020, and that is what all of this circus about impeachment is about. If they think that they're

00:33:55.180 going to be able to win in 2020 by continuing to push a false narrative, by continuing to tell the

00:34:00.820 American people not to believe their lying eyes and ears, then they are going to lose. And it doesn't 0.97

00:34:05.020 matter how many candidates are in the race. More candidates are entering the race even now because

00:34:10.220 Deval Patrick entered the race. We haven't even talked about that because eh, who cares? But you

00:34:15.060 know, they had 25 candidates. That wasn't even enough because they are not dealing with any relation

00:34:21.460 to reality here. That is not going to serve them in 2020. And if they want to have any chance,

00:34:28.500 any chance in hell, they've got to deflate themselves, expel the hot air, presumably or

00:34:35.300 preferably off camera and deal with the reality of the political situation. I'm not holding my breath.

00:34:43.000 Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A caved to the left after years and years of defending their Christian values.

00:34:54.740 You know, they're closed on Sunday as Kanye West recently rapped. They would donate to a number of

00:34:59.480 Christian charities, but you know, really unobjectionable charities like the Salvation Army.

00:35:03.940 They caught a lot of flack for this from the left because the left hates Christianity. So the left

00:35:10.400 doesn't want them to donate to Christian charities like the Salvation Army. And they say that it's

00:35:14.460 because the Salvation Army discriminates against homosexuals or something, but that isn't true at

00:35:20.240 all. Anyway, after years and years of this, Chick-fil-A has caved to the left. And I think I'm the only

00:35:28.520 person who's a little bit relieved to hear this news because for years I've had to pretend that I

00:35:35.580 really like Chick-fil-A sandwiches. I don't. I don't really like any fast food chicken sandwich.

00:35:41.640 Fast food hamburgers are much better than fast food chicken sandwiches. But I've had to pretend

00:35:45.420 because Chick-fil-A has been such a good company and such a symbol of conservative resistance to

00:35:50.060 leftist cultural tyranny. And now they're not. Here's what Chick-fil-A said. Quote,

00:35:54.180 as Chick-fil-A expands globally and into more liberal parts of the U.S., the chicken chain plans to

00:35:59.320 change which charities it donates to after years of bad press and protests from the LGBT community.

00:36:04.720 This is from a report, obviously. So beginning next year, Chick-fil-A will move away from its

00:36:10.000 current philanthropic structure. After donating to more than 300 charitable organizations this year,

00:36:15.820 the Atlanta food chain will instead focus on three initiatives with one accompanying charity, each

00:36:21.380 education, homelessness, and hunger. So they've gotten all this bad press. They're expanding their

00:36:25.500 business and they don't want any more bad press. A couple things to learn here.

00:36:30.320 One, Chick-fil-A is going to learn this if they haven't learned this already. For most companies, with a few

00:36:37.900 notable exceptions, if you get woke, you go broke. If you kowtow to the leftist mob, you will collapse.

00:36:45.440 Look at Dick's Sporting Goods. Takes guns out of there. Their sales drop tremendously. That's going to

00:36:50.880 happen to Chick-fil-A here. They're basically saying, hey, all of our conservative supporters, we don't care about

00:36:56.980 you. We're going to try to get forgiveness from the woke mob. By the way, you're never going to get

00:37:01.580 forgiveness from the woke mob anyway. They're just going to ask for more and more and more. But the

00:37:05.960 other thing that this shows you, which is important in conservative debates right now, is

00:37:10.700 perfectly free markets, perfectly economic views of politics are insufficient. Because let's say

00:37:23.020 that Chick-fil-A's decision to stop donating to the Salvation Army, to more or less apologize for

00:37:30.160 being Christian, let's say that that decision increases the bottom line by 5%. I don't know. I'm

00:37:37.320 just pulling a number out of thin air. Let's say that that were to happen. It would still be bad.

00:37:42.600 It would be bad for the culture. We would have a better culture if businesses made 5% less, but

00:37:50.080 actually stood for some values, actually helped to maintain our American culture and at least pay lip

00:37:58.740 service to the faith that founded our civilization. That would be better. And that's not what's happening

00:38:04.180 here because Chick-fil-A is selling out to mammon. Seek ye first the kingdom of mammon, I guess, is 0.99

00:38:09.540 what they're saying. Salvation Army has issued a statement because Salvation Army is losing

00:38:15.120 donations from Chick-fil-A, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the Paul Anderson Youth Home.

00:38:20.300 Here's what Salvation Army had to say, quote,

00:38:21.840 We're saddened to learn that a corporate partner has felt it necessary to divert funding to other hunger

00:38:27.440 education and homeless organizations, areas in which the Salvation Army, as the largest social services

00:38:33.320 provider in the world, is already fully committed. We serve more than 23 million individuals a year,

00:38:38.260 including those in the LGBTQ plus community. In fact, we believe we are the largest provider of

00:38:43.680 poverty relief to the LGBTQ plus population. When misinformation is perpetuated without fact,

00:38:49.000 our ability to serve those in need, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, religion,

00:38:53.220 or any other factor, is at risk. We urge the public to seek the truth before rushing to ill-informed

00:38:59.800 judgment and greatly appreciate those partners and donors who ensure that anyone who needs our

00:39:04.340 help feels safe and comfortable to come through our doors. Very good statement. I've always liked

00:39:08.800 the Salvation Army. I always like to put a buck or two in their pots when they're ringing the bells at

00:39:14.340 Christmas time. Absolutely pathetic stuff here from Chick-fil-A. Absolutely pathetic stuff. 0.97

00:39:22.080 What is going to be the effect of this, of this LGBTQ leftist activism, is that this charity is going 0.98

00:39:29.640 to get a lot less money. They're going to be able to do a lot less good. But it doesn't matter. They

00:39:33.080 don't care about doing good. They just want to virtue signal. And what is the virtue that they're

00:39:37.760 sending? Sure doesn't look like a virtue to me. Chick-fil-A is not the only company doing it. Sprite right

00:39:42.060 now, Lemon Lime Soda, is testing out an advertisement in Argentina. And I watched this advertisement a

00:39:49.760 couple times. I don't see anywhere in the advertisement where they mention Sprite Soda. Here it is.

00:40:01.780 For those who can't see, who are just listening, I'll describe the scene.

00:40:06.920 You've got a mother painting makeup onto her transvestite son. 1.00

00:40:15.600 Throughout the whole commercial, you've got these, you know, a mother binding the breasts 0.99

00:40:27.460 of her young, I guess, transgender child. So a young girl who wants to be a boy. The mother is 1.00

00:40:34.620 binding the breasts up so that the girl can more closely resemble a boy. 0.50

00:40:39.700 Throughout the rest of it, you see parents coming out and just affirming the gender identity of their

00:40:48.520 child, regardless of that child's actual biological sex. Now, one thing that's missing from the

00:40:56.480 commercial, I'm not casting aspersions on this kind of bizarre commercial, at least not yet. One thing

00:41:02.300 that's missing is Sprite. Where's the product? Where's the soda? You're not selling this at all.

00:41:08.720 What you're selling is this really weird ideology where you're forcing gender ideology on children,

00:41:15.660 on actual children in this case. I don't care if somehow this increases Sprite's bottom line by

00:41:23.860 5%. I don't think it will. But even if it did, I don't care. I want a good culture. I want a culture

00:41:33.860 where we can say, hey, forcing sex and gender ideology on 10-year-olds is a bad idea. I want a

00:41:40.800 culture where we can say, hey, if you want to donate to the most famous homelessness charity in

00:41:46.840 America that's been around for a very, very long time and has always done great work, you can do

00:41:51.140 that without being called a bigot. I want to live in that culture. I want to live in a culture where

00:41:54.620 the CEO of a company can be a Christian and not threaten his entire corporation over it

00:42:00.340 and not be forced to kowtow to a small but vociferous leftist mob. Andrew Breitbart very

00:42:07.800 famously said politics is downstream of culture. That's true. Culture is also downstream of politics,

00:42:12.960 okay? And there are policies in this country that are encouraging this sort of culture.

00:42:17.880 policies which always privilege, for instance, atheism over the religion that founded our

00:42:23.920 country, Christianity. Policies which force sex and gender ideology on children in schools.

00:42:32.000 These sort of policies are affecting our culture. And when we think about politics, we want as much

00:42:40.480 economic freedom as is possible. Economic freedom is a great thing, allowing people to do what they want

00:42:46.220 with their own property and their own labor and their own money. We also want a culture because

00:42:53.620 you can have all the money in the world, but if you don't have a coherent society, all that money

00:42:59.380 isn't going to buy you very much. Before we go, I have to get to this. A woman, a mother of three in 0.90

00:43:07.060 New Zealand is now saying she's faced death threats because she shared pictures from hunting trips

00:43:12.500 which show her carrying animals' carcasses away after a hunt. She's gotten death threats for this

00:43:17.720 for posting it on social media. I think this would be fine if she wanted to take the animals and cut 1.00

00:43:24.060 off the heads and put them on the wall. I think this would be fine if she just wanted to leave the 1.00

00:43:27.040 animals and let other animals eat them. But what she's actually doing is killing the animals and then 1.00

00:43:31.520 eating them herself. She's feeding her family with these animals that she's eating, or that she's 0.65

00:43:36.800 hunting rather. And part of the reason she's doing this is because she thinks it's more

00:43:40.340 sustainable, it's better for the environment, and it's better for the health of her family

00:43:44.020 than using a factory farm. So the people who are environmentalists, who are terrified about

00:43:49.400 global warming, should actually support what this woman is doing because it's really, talk about 1.00

00:43:53.820 farm to table. She's going out, killing her own food, and eating it takes out so much of the 1.00

00:43:58.820 environmental impact of factory farming. But it doesn't matter because people want to virtue signal

00:44:05.140 without any sense of virtue. I gave a speech last night at the University of Kentucky. Go check it

00:44:11.640 out. The speech is online. It's called Babies Are Not People. It was a lot of fun. The Q&A got pretty 0.67

00:44:16.300 feisty too because we had some, I think the people are called groipers. They're critics of conservatives

00:44:24.160 from the right who showed up also, and we had a fun Q&A with them. So go check that out. But the thrust of

00:44:30.280 the speech was that in America today, if you disturb the nest of a bald eagle, you'll be fined a quarter

00:44:36.080 million dollars and go to jail for two years. But if you kill a human baby at any stage of development,

00:44:41.460 practically, you'll be applauded as a great defender of freedom. I mean, if you kill a baby after birth in

00:44:47.620 Virginia, the governor of Virginia says that's perfectly fine. That is a bizarre moral system.

00:44:54.180 Right now, speaking at the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law in Rome,

00:45:00.260 the Pope, Pope Francis said, quote, we have to introduce, we're thinking about it, to the

00:45:05.240 catechism of the Catholic Church, the sin against ecology, the ecological sin against our common home

00:45:11.380 because a duty is at stake. Far be it from me to ever criticize the Pope, but consider this a filial

00:45:17.220 correction, very respectfully. There's no such thing as a sin against ecology. You cannot sin against

00:45:23.760 ecology. Sin can only be against God and those made in the image of God. We are the stewards of

00:45:29.600 creation. Now, of course, we can abuse those things, and to abuse creation is a transgression,

00:45:36.100 but sins can only be committed against people. We are in a culture now. I mean, it's why I bring up

00:45:44.360 the Chick-fil-A example. It's why I bring up the extreme of that, the Sprite example. We are in a

00:45:51.560 culture that is getting things, not just a little off kilter, but actually completely backwards. We're

00:45:58.060 now living in a culture where people who hunt animals for their own food are getting death threats,

00:46:03.080 but people who kill babies are being celebrated as heroes. That is a shameless culture. That is a

00:46:13.440 culture full of hot air. That is a gas bag culture that is telling you not to believe the reality that 0.68

00:46:20.060 we're all seeing in front of you, but instead to believe the narrative. Unfortunately, at least on

00:46:25.340 the cultural level and on the religious level, some people, a lot of people, have gone along with that

00:46:31.020 narrative. Don't do it. Put a little pinprick in it. Deflate that gas bag narrative, and let's all come

00:46:38.360 back to reality. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. If you missed the

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Ep. 452 - Our Leaders Are Gasbags

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