Ep. 462 - Culture Is Downstream Of Politics
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Summary
The impeachment hearings are a train wreck, but there's good news and bad news for the White House and the Democrats in Congress. Plus, the dumbest article on the internet, a banana that sells for $120,000 at Art Basel, and a book about internet porn written by a disgraced former Congressman.
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The great Andrew Breitbart told us that politics is downstream of culture.
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Pop culture has dictated plenty of political transformations over the years,
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from public opinions on socialism to redefining marriage.
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As a banana duct taped to a wall sells for $120,000 at Art Basel,
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and as kids get hooked on hardcore internet porn before the age of 10,
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We examine whether politics can help fix our screwed up culture, too.
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Then, speaking of bad politics and creepy sex,
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disgraced former Congressman Katie Hill publishes an op-ed in the shameless New York Times,
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which we will analyze as the dumbest article on the internet today.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We've been waiting for our new set for about 55 years now, I think.
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We are on it. Very exciting. That's the good news here.
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There's a lot of good news in Washington, at the White House.
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And all of this actually tells us a little bit about our culture.
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The impeachment hearings, the way that's going,
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actually does relate to $120,000 bananas and drag queen Story Hour and internet porn.
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First, we just have to mention the really great news for the White House,
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because obviously no one else is going to do that at CNN or MSNBC,
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or increasingly even on ostensibly right-wing sources.
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So, last week's impeachment hearings, train wreck, right?
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Don't believe the spin from the Washington Post or anybody else.
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The impeachment inquiry hearings didn't come up with any evidence that Trump committed wrongdoing.
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and the only one who had any sense was Jonathan Turley,
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who's actually a liberal law professor, though he was called by the Republicans.
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And he pointed out in a really calm, erudite, ironclad way
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that the Democrats don't have nothing on President Trump.
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oh, Michael is putting spin on this for the president.
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believes that last week's impeachment hearings were a train wreck.
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if she's afraid that she ended up helping Trump with the impeachment.
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He's asking if she will regret the impeachment process
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if the impeachment process ends up helping Trump.
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She's not going to say, yeah, you're right, Chuck.
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We made a huge, or yeah, you're right, whatever his name is, Jake.
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We never should have initiated the impeachment hearings.
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and exit polls show that impeaching President Trump
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helped him get reelected, would you have any regrets?
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This is the first president has committed all of these things,
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Nobody ever has even come close, not Richard Nixon,
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even came close to his dishonoring his own oath of office.
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So, no, this isn't a politics is not even a consideration in this.
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This is about protect and defend the Constitution.
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You know, it is actually impressive that somebody could tell
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as the impeachment of Donald Trump has nothing to do with politics,
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It is impressive that someone could be in politics so long
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an absolutely egregious lie with a straight face.
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But you can see, even in the way Pelosi's talking,
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She's, even for her, and she's so past shame on this,
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She might as well go back to Russia collusion.
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So Nancy Pelosi does her best to stammer through this.
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like Al Green said at the very beginning of Trump's,
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So Al Green has a new argument for impeachment.
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The new argument is that we have to impeach Trump
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one of those first impeachment resolutions against Trump,
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and then we needed to impeach the 45th president
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that I think Al Green heard it in his head.
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So then he corrected it even during the statement.
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They can't nail him on any actual impeachable offense.
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new words that have been created for an ideological purpose,
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