The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 466 - The Gaslighting Left

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00:00:37.860 Boris Johnson wins big for Brexit, just hours after the media say he's down. Nancy Pelosi says

00:00:44.680 the case for impeachment remains very strong after dropping the only impeachment offense charge she

00:00:49.960 had on President Trump. And former FBI Director James Comey insists that the inspector general

00:00:55.520 vindicated him on partisan impropriety just days after the IG explicitly did not vindicate him.

00:01:01.540 All of which shows us a central feature about the left. Leftists will never give up the lie.

00:01:09.040 They will never give up the narrative, no matter how clearly the facts contradict them.

00:01:13.840 We will dispel the gaslighting. Then the U.S. takes the prize for the highest rate of single

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00:01:34.880 The media got a major conservative victory wrong again. Isn't that so weird? Doesn't that sound

00:01:47.400 familiar? I don't know. We will get to what happened over in the U.K. and what it means

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00:03:11.480 netsuite.com slash Knowles. All right, last week, you probably heard, you probably looked at the news

00:03:18.780 reports that were coming out, a major election in the United Kingdom. The key issue for this election

00:03:26.820 was Brexit. Why was Brexit the key issue three years after the Brexit vote? Because the media

00:03:32.580 and the left won't let you move past the Brexit vote because the left assumed that the Brexit vote

00:03:39.280 was going to end in remain. It was going to end in the voters saying that the UK should stay in the EU.

00:03:46.440 That's not what happened. The left has spent the past three years trying to undo that vote with this

00:03:51.300 vote and that vote. And you've got some conservative prime minister, but you can't actually get the vote

00:03:56.560 through because they don't have a clear enough majority. So Boris Johnson, the conservative prime

00:04:01.240 minister, comes out and he says, we're going to have a vote. We're going to put it to the people again

00:04:04.680 because the left won't let us just pull out of the EU, which shows you the danger of all these

00:04:08.740 international institutions. We're going to put it up to a vote again. Here's what the mainstream media

00:04:13.500 said about that election. This is just before the election, five days ago. Business Insider, the UK could

00:04:20.580 be heading for another hung parliament as Boris Johnson's poll lead is cut in half. CNBC pound

00:04:27.940 shaken, shaken as UK election poll puts Johnson outright win in doubt. Reuters knife edge UK's Johnson

00:04:36.980 ahead, but polls suggest majority might be tough, right? So what they're saying is, okay, maybe Johnson

00:04:42.880 is going to win more seats than everybody else. Maybe the conservatives will have the plurality of

00:04:47.640 seats, but they won't have an outright majority and therefore they can't do what they want to do.

00:04:51.280 And therefore Brexit's in trouble. One report said that Boris Johnson was hiding in a fridge,

00:04:55.980 literally in a fridge because he was so afraid of talking to reporters about this election that

00:05:00.180 wasn't going to go his way. So that's what the media said. What actually happened? Johnson won

00:05:07.360 more clearly than any British politician in 18 years. Johnson got a bigger victory than any

00:05:17.500 conservative British politician since Margaret Thatcher, since the eighties. It was a blowout.

00:05:25.420 It was an incredible conservative win. The election was all about Brexit, which the media say is

00:05:31.620 unpopular, but it's actually popular and the conservatives totally won it. Does that remind

00:05:37.620 you of anybody? Does that sound familiar to you? I don't know about you all. I don't know about how old

00:05:42.620 or young you are, but I am old enough to remember the election of 2016 when the mainstream media told

00:05:48.220 us that there was a 99% chance that Hillary Clinton was going to win. You conservatives shouldn't even

00:05:53.800 show up to the polls tomorrow. It's so clear. And then I, I, I'm old enough to remember the past three

00:05:59.180 years when they say Trump is on the ropes. The people want him out. He's going to get impeached.

00:06:03.300 He's going to get removed from office. And then none of that happened. None of that happened.

00:06:08.960 This reminds us of a central fact about the left. It's a, it's a fact I keep going back to. I'm a

00:06:15.140 New Yorker. So there's a lot of idioms, a lot of idiomatic expressions that New Yorkers have heard.

00:06:20.660 One of which is deny till you die. You hear this, especially in the Italian American community, 1.00

00:06:27.420 deny till you die. If you go out there and you tell a lie to somebody, never give it up. No matter,

00:06:32.980 how obviously the evidence contradicts you. And I've always thought this was kind of a ridiculous 0.96

00:06:38.080 strategy because, you know, eventually reality is going to be so clear that you can't get away 0.87

00:06:43.700 with it. The left never, never figured that out. The left is going to deny till they die. They're

00:06:49.460 going to keep up the lie. They're never going to give up the narrative. I think what we saw in the UK

00:06:54.200 easily could be a preview of 2020 in the United States. Not necessarily so. I'm not resting on my

00:07:01.220 laurels. I'm not saying Trump is definitely going to win, but it's the same phenomenon we saw in

00:07:04.940 2016. Oh, we saw it now over in the UK. There's something happening around the world, certainly

00:07:09.960 around the Anglosphere. But look at the polls in America. There's a poll just came out out of USA

00:07:16.400 Today, Suffolk University, which is that after the impeachment hearings, the polls have moved in the

00:07:23.760 direction of supporting Trump. Now the majority of Americans oppose impeachment and removal from office.

00:07:31.220 That was not true before the impeachment. The impeachment has hurt the Democrats case.

00:07:35.100 It's helped Trump 51 to 45%. So it's not, it's not a blowout, but this is even according to the

00:07:41.660 pollsters, 51% oppose removal from office, 45% support removal from office. So now as a result of

00:07:51.140 these numbers, Democrats are trying desperately to prove that this whole impeachment farce has not

00:07:57.040 been a failure. One of the major voices behind impeachment was Adam Schiff on the House Intelligent

00:08:02.140 Committee. He goes out and is speaking to former Clinton hack George Stephanopoulos. And he, he comes

00:08:10.480 out and says, this was not a failure. Gosh, guys, we got exactly what we wanted. Apparently right now,

00:08:16.800 you haven't persuaded a majority of Republicans that it's worthy of impeachment. And back in March,

00:08:21.260 you also warned against that. You said the only thing worse than putting the country through the

00:08:25.060 trauma of impeachment is putting the country through the trauma of a failed impeachment.

00:08:29.500 If president Trump is overwhelmingly acquitted in the Senate, is that a failure?

00:08:33.340 No, it isn't a failure. At least it's not a failure in the sense of our constitutional duty

00:08:37.920 in the House. And I'll tell you what changed my mind, George, because you're right. I resisted

00:08:42.340 going down this road towards impeachment. Oh, I resisted going down this road toward impeachment,

00:08:47.560 impeachment, except that I've been leading the charge. Literally nothing Adam Schiff just said

00:08:53.340 is true. He has been leading the charge for impeachment. And of course, this is a failure. Of

00:09:00.300 course it is. How else do you try to spin it? They thought they had him. They, they thought, I mean,

00:09:06.800 I guess there was never a chance they were going to remove him from office, but they dropped their

00:09:10.540 major charge against him. The major charge they were going after, the whole allegation about the phone

00:09:15.680 call with Ukraine is that Trump committed a quid pro quo. Trump engaged in bribery. Trump engaged in

00:09:23.280 extortion. It was always a ridiculous charge, but at least bribery is an impeachable offense. 0.90

00:09:30.040 They had the impeachment inquiry. They had the impeachment hearings. They dropped the charge.

00:09:35.120 So not only is it a failure because they won't remove him from office, it's a failure because they

00:09:39.760 couldn't even charge him with what they were trying to charge him in the first place. Nancy Pelosi,

00:09:44.740 same thing, completely straight face. They say, has this been a big flop? Is this,

00:09:49.580 you don't even get him on the bribery charge. She said, we have very strong charges against the

00:09:55.400 president. As you probably know, the president is calling this impeachment life because there are

00:10:00.520 only two articles of impeachment. He says there's no crimes in here. The president is wrong.

00:10:08.020 That, you know, what can I say? We have put forth our articles of impeachment. I'm very proud

00:10:13.320 of all the committees. Six committees have been working on this for a very long time.

00:10:19.000 This is nothing swift about it, but it is urgent. And so we will be bringing the articles.

00:10:27.120 The committee will work on it today. As you know, I don't know if it's this morning or this

00:10:32.120 afternoon. That depends on the pace in the committee. And then next week we'll take up something.

00:10:37.020 You yourself accused him of bribery. Why did you decide not to make bribery one of the

00:10:42.840 articles of impeachment? I myself am not a lawyer. Sometimes I act like one. Not as often as I act

00:10:50.500 as a doctor. I practice medicine on the side without benefit of diploma too. This is a decision that was

00:10:57.080 recommended by our working together with our committee chairs, our attorneys and the rest.

00:11:03.120 So the articles are what they are. They're very powerful. They're very strong.

00:11:09.740 They're very powerful. They're very strong. Who are you trying to convince Nancy? I love when

00:11:13.540 the little bit of humor breaks through there and they say, hold on a second, Nancy Pelosi,

00:11:18.160 you said that you were going to get them on bribery. You said you were going to get them on quid pro

00:11:21.140 quote. You don't have that. What happened to that legal case? He said, well, look, I'm not a lawyer.

00:11:25.840 I mean, I might act like one, but not as much as I act like a doctor with prescription drugs

00:11:30.900 without a degree. Look, I don't pretend to be a doctor as much as I do drugs.

00:11:37.380 And by the way, if you're wondering why I'm acting so odd, it might be because of all the

00:11:41.440 drugs that I just admitted to doing. But she, I look, if I were Nancy Pelosi, I'd probably do a

00:11:46.980 few drugs these days as well. The case falls apart and yet they're not letting up. This goes all the

00:11:52.280 way to probably the most slimy, crooked guy in the entire process, James Comey. We'll get to that in a

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00:13:56.180 K-N-O-W-L-E-S. You heard it from Nancy Pelosi. They're not going to give up the lie. The lies

00:14:02.520 are not going to end. Okay. I think we all want this moment of catharsis where after the Russia hoax

00:14:10.860 and the Ukraine hoax and the Stormy Daniels and the, this, and they're trying to oust Trump for

00:14:16.260 all these ridiculous reasons, overturn the election. We just want this moment of the left

00:14:21.320 saying, you got us, you got us. You found the texts between Strzok and Page. Okay. You read that

00:14:28.500 you got the IG report. We were wrong about Russia. You read the Mueller report. We were wrong about

00:14:33.800 Ukraine. We dropped the bribery charge. You got us, you got us. We were trying to overturn the election.

00:14:37.760 Sorry, my bad. Let's try again next time. You want that moment of catharsis. You want that moment

00:14:44.720 of honesty. You're not going to get it. You are never going to get that from the left.

00:14:51.120 Like the most hardened mobster, the left will deny till they die. They will never, ever give it up.

00:14:59.120 Just look at James Comey, James Comey, former FBI director, and really the man at the center of so

00:15:04.860 much of this controversy since 2016, since 2015. James Comey goes on Fox News Sunday with Chris

00:15:11.700 Wallace and he just does not give it up. Wallace to his credit pushes James Comey says, you know,

00:15:20.880 isn't there something wrong here? Isn't, didn't some shady go down? He won't give it up. He gives

00:15:24.780 a completely straight face and defends himself. Former FBI director, James Comey director. Welcome to Fox

00:15:30.720 News Sunday. Thanks for having me. You have been taking something of a victory lap since the IG report

00:15:36.880 was released earlier this week. The question is whether or not it's justified. Here are you and

00:15:42.880 the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, answering the same question. Do you think this is vindication?

00:15:49.920 It is. I mean, the FBI's had to wait two years while the president and his followers lied about

00:15:54.720 the institution. Finally, the truth gets told. Does your report vindicate Mr. Comey?

00:16:01.280 It doesn't vindicate anyone at the FBI who touched this, including the leadership.

00:16:05.920 The IG says you should feel no vindication. Well, maybe it turns upon how we understand the word.

00:16:12.800 Maybe it depends on what the meaning of the word is, is, you know, like, is this vindication for me?

00:16:19.360 I, uh, if is means to be the, no, no, I guess it's not. Listen to that Clintonian oily serpentine.

00:16:28.400 It's a clear contradiction here. Comey goes out. He says, I've been totally vindicated

00:16:32.960 by the IG. The IG comes out and says, Comey has not been vindicated. And you just want James Comey

00:16:39.600 sitting there in front of Chris Wallace to say, yeah, okay, you got me. Yeah, fine. You got me,

00:16:45.040 but he doesn't do it. He won't give it to you. He says, well, it depends on what that word means.

00:16:49.520 No, it doesn't. The word has a meaning. All right. And you're, you're using that word to

00:16:54.400 mean the opposite of what it means, which means you are lying. He goes on, he goes on because he

00:16:59.520 knows he can't totally get away with this. So he has to pretend that he is apologizing. He has to

00:17:03.920 pretend that he's admitting is wrong, but listen carefully. He never does anything even close.

00:17:08.400 17 significant errors in the FISA process. And you say that it was handled

00:17:15.120 in a thoughtful and appropriate way. Yeah, he's right. I was wrong. I was overconfident

00:17:20.400 in the procedures that the FBI and justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust

00:17:25.840 enough. It's incredibly hard to get a FISA. I was overconfident in those because he's right. 1.00

00:17:30.160 There was real sloppiness, 17 things that either should have been in the applications or at least

00:17:34.640 discussed and characterized differently. It was not acceptable. And so he's right.

00:17:39.440 I was wrong. You know, he was right. He was right. I was wrong. I was just too confident

00:17:45.360 in all of the processes that existed. And I, as a completely passive figure here,

00:17:50.160 I had confidence in it and I shouldn't have had that confidence. The issue at hand is not

00:17:55.360 James Comey's confidence. It's what he did. It's not what you thought about things that were

00:18:01.040 happening outside of you. It's what you did, James Comey. And what the IG is saying is you are not

00:18:07.360 vindicated in what you did in your actions. You acted inappropriately. What you did was wrong.

00:18:14.000 He says, I, no, I don't know that I did anything. It's that I, I just had too much trust. And then

00:18:20.880 James Comey goes out there and he, I can't believe he says this with a straight face. He gives the

00:18:27.120 classic archetypal epitome of a non-apology, apology, non-apology. We'll get to that in a

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00:20:19.660 Then he, he makes the most egregious statement of the entire interview. Chris Wallace says,

00:20:25.780 all right, you say you were wrong, but then you didn't really take responsibility for that.

00:20:30.580 Please acknowledge the mistakes you made. Please acknowledge the inappropriate behavior you

00:20:37.340 engaged in. And James Comey responds, well, you know, gosh, Chris, you make a great point.

00:20:44.040 I guess I'm just too accountable. You're a bystander, an eyewitness. You were the director

00:20:50.440 of the FBI. Well, a lot of this was going on, sir. Sure. I'm responsible for that. That's why I'm

00:20:54.780 telling you I was wrong. I was overconfident as director in our procedures. And it's important

00:20:59.920 that a leader be accountable and transparent. If I were still director, I'd be saying exactly the

00:21:05.520 same thing that Chris Ray is saying, which is we are going to get to the bottom of this

00:21:08.840 because the most important question is, is it systemic? Are there problems in other cases?

00:21:14.000 Yeah, it's not the most important question. The most important question is what did you do?

00:21:17.280 What was your role in all of this? James Comey, Chris Wallace, to his credit, pushes back on James

00:21:21.940 Comey. He says, you're pretending that you're some passive observer here. You're not. You're the guy

00:21:27.520 who's being accused of doing this stuff. And it looks like you did it. And he says, I know,

00:21:31.760 I admit, Chris, you're right. I admit that I was overconfident. No, James.

00:21:35.520 We're not talking about your confidence. We don't care about your confidence. We care about

00:21:39.520 your actions in the FISA abuse process. And how do you explain that, James Comey? He says, look,

00:21:46.700 it's very important for people to be accountable. That's why I'm so accountable that I'm admitting

00:21:52.800 that I was confident. A complete non-answer. Chris Wallace tries just one more time, just one

00:22:00.800 effort. Please, Comey, break that facade and that lie just for one second. He says,

00:22:07.800 the IG is contradicting what you're saying very clearly. And Comey just pretends that he can't

00:22:16.280 hear the words coming out of Chris Wallace's mouth. It wasn't part of a broader mosaic. That's

00:22:21.120 what you said, sir. I'm not sure he and I are saying different things. What his report says is that

00:22:26.420 the FBI thought it was a close call until they got the steel report, put that additional information

00:22:32.260 in, and that tipped it over to be probable cause. It said long FISA application includes steel material

00:22:37.340 and lots of other material. I don't think we're saying different things. Well, I think you are,

00:22:41.660 sir, because he's saying you're saying it's part of a broader mosaic. It's just one element. He's

00:22:46.780 saying it was the tipping point. It's what brought it over. That doesn't make it part of a broader

00:22:50.920 mosaic. It makes it the centerpiece of the whole FISA application and the ability to surveil Carter

00:22:57.720 Page. Yeah, I don't understand what to be saying that. I could be wrong about that. Well, I mean,

00:23:01.880 I got it. I got his quote here. Uh, he says, we concluded the steel reporting played a central,

00:23:08.580 a central and essential role in the decision to seek a FISA warrant that had pushed the FISA proposal

00:23:14.800 over the line in terms of establishing probable cause. I mean, he says what he says. Words are

00:23:20.900 mean something. Yeah. And I, I, I agree with his characterization. I'm just confused. I know I

00:23:25.400 don't see the disconnect between the two of us and I'm sorry that I'm missing it. Yeah, I just don't

00:23:29.460 see it. I don't see the disconnect between my lies and the reality that directly and explicitly

00:23:36.300 contradicts my lies. I guess I'm not seeing it, Chris. What James Comey is really saying here is

00:23:42.620 Chris, you're trying to get me to admit that I lied, that I acted inappropriately, but

00:23:50.500 I'm James Comey. I'm the former director of the FBI. I'm a left wing tool and I am never

00:23:59.420 going to break. I'm never going to crack this facade. The actual question at hand is over

00:24:03.920 the spying on the Trump campaign. All right. The IG says that the center of the FBI's case

00:24:11.660 to spy on the Trump campaign was the steel dossier, which was a farce completely discredited

00:24:17.040 and paid for by the Democrats, Hillary Clinton and the DNC. James Comey is saying, oh, the FISA,

00:24:23.920 the, the, the steel dossier was just one aspect of the FISA case. But so even if you lose the steel

00:24:29.140 dossier, it doesn't matter. We still had a strong case to spy on the Trump campaign. That those are

00:24:34.160 two statements that cannot simultaneously be true. And Chris Wallace is there reading the words of the

00:24:39.920 IG. James Comey is not an idiot. You would have to be so profoundly stupid to think that those two 0.99

00:24:47.100 statements are the same thing that they can simultaneously be true. And James Comey is not 1.00

00:24:50.640 stupid. So Chris Wallace reads the words from the IG Horowitz. Comey hears the words and he says, 0.96

00:24:57.360 nope. I look, maybe I, that's not what I understand those words to mean. I don't think words have any

00:25:03.000 meaning beyond what I will them to mean. Like Humpty Dumpty and Alice in Wonderland. Humpty

00:25:09.840 Dumpty says in my language, words can mean whatever I want them to mean. Alice says, can words really

00:25:15.280 mean all those things? And Humpty Dumpty says, that's not the question. The question is, which is

00:25:19.500 to be master? That's all. And that's what the left would do. They would master our culture, master our

00:25:24.700 politics by totally changing the meaning of words without any regard to objective reality. That's what

00:25:31.720 they're going to do. The narrative is everything to the left. The facts are nothing. You see this

00:25:38.540 everywhere from the national level, the international level over in the UK, all the way down to the

00:25:43.100 school bus, all the way down to football games. Two stories in the media just over the weekend,

00:25:52.360 which show you this outrageous level of bias. A young boy was viciously attacked and beaten up on a

00:25:59.860 school bus, according to his parents, because he wore a Make America Great Again hat.

00:26:04.940 How much have you heard about that? Probably not very much. Another story is some cadets at the

00:26:09.520 West Point Army Navy game made the okay sign, made the, that's the circle game where you show the circle

00:26:15.820 and you get punched in the arm. This has created headlines all over the mainstream media about white

00:26:22.060 supremacy in the military because they made the okay sign, the circle game where you get punched in the

00:26:26.580 arm. We'll get into both of those stories. We will then get into another total race hoax. We'll get 0.67

00:26:32.500 into the US highest single parenthood rate in the world. And then we'll get into a Christmastime

00:26:36.380 miracle. First, I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. Have to head over to dailywire.com.

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00:27:07.860 do that. It's Christmas time. So why not treat one of your loved ones or treat yourself? It's a little

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00:27:23.400 I'll show you how the left doesn't give up the narrative. Two stories in the media and one

00:27:36.440 response from a democratic congressman. First story out of Florida, five young students were

00:27:43.380 charged with a crime, with assault, with battery, because a video went online showing this group of

00:27:49.300 kids pummeling, beating the living daylights out of a 14 year old kid. According to the boy's mother,

00:27:55.460 who has now spoken out about this to local news stations and on Twitter, the boy's mother says

00:28:01.720 that he was beaten up because he wore a MAGA hat to school and this caused him to be just absolutely 0.97

00:28:06.860 had the, the crap beaten out of him. Here's, I'm just going to play a little tiny bit of this video 0.68

00:28:13.600 just so you can hear it. I'm not, I'm only going to play maybe 15, 16 seconds just so you get the

00:28:18.720 taste. It's actually hard to watch the whole thing. All right. The punching this kid in the head,

00:28:41.260 multiple kids, boys and girls just wailing on this kid. The school is denying it had anything

00:28:48.500 to do with the make America great again hat. The mother's saying that's what it was about. The

00:28:51.860 school's saying nothing like that. And the sheriff's office is denying to pursue it as a hate crime.

00:28:56.820 Now, why would it even be a hate crime? Because beyond the political aspect to this story,

00:29:00.700 there's a racial aspect. The kid who was getting beaten up is white. All the kids who are beating him 0.61

00:29:05.560 up are black. Does that mean that this is a racially motivated crime? I have no evidence of that. 0.92

00:29:11.260 I have no evidence that it's not that, but I certainly have no evidence that it is that.

00:29:15.060 However, if the tables were turned, if this were reversed here, certainly any sheriff's office

00:29:20.200 would pursue this as a hate crime. If it were a group of white students attacking a black student,

00:29:24.160 especially if there were some political aspect that were, were part of the story here, let's say

00:29:29.560 the kid wore an Obama shirt. Okay. Or that would certainly be pursued. They would at least investigate

00:29:35.400 it as a hate crime. They're not doing that here. Okay. That's fine. I don't think we should

00:29:40.980 have a primarily racial politics at all. I think it's a bad idea, even though the left

00:29:44.480 tries to push that all the time. Compare that story to another story out just this weekend

00:29:50.060 at the army Navy game on Saturday, a game that I've been to many times. Some cadets,

00:29:57.200 when the cameras were going by, played the circle game. You know the circle game, your index finger

00:30:02.080 and your thumb together, make a circle. You got your other three fingers out and you put the circle

00:30:06.620 down there. And if you look at it, if you make someone look at the circle, you get to punch them in the arm. 0.84

00:30:10.440 This is something we all played in elementary school, middle school, maybe even high school.

00:30:14.740 And the, the way you make the sign is by making the okay sign, which is a very normal gesture that

00:30:21.240 people make. There's an emoji for it. And it's something that the left has now determined

00:30:25.940 and decided is a white supremacist hand gesture. Now, how did that begin? It began because of trolls

00:30:33.800 on 4chan who decided to troll the left and pretend that the okay sign means white power. Because I don't, 0.68

00:30:40.080 I don't even really get how this works, but they're trying to pretend that in your hand,

00:30:43.760 it would spell a W and a P. And the, they did this also with a glass of milk. The, the people on 4chan

00:30:50.520 said, you know, a glass of milk is a white supremacist symbol because milk is white. And so

00:30:55.740 therefore it means white supremacy. And then the left just runs with this. So, so the ADL,

00:31:01.660 the Anti-Defamation League says, this is a white supremacist hand symbol.

00:31:06.380 I think the media should laugh this into oblivion. I mean, this should not be a story at all. A bunch

00:31:11.760 of cadets making the circle game sign is obviously not a news story. Wall Street Journal, West Point,

00:31:18.460 Annapolis officials investigating possible white power hand sign. New York Times, military investigating

00:31:24.520 suspected white power hand gestures flashed a game. Washington Post, Army, Navy officials investigate

00:31:30.460 white power gestures by students. It's the okay sign. At least the Wall Street Journal to their 0.87

00:31:38.120 credit notes. The sign has also been used in what's known as the circle game where someone extends the

00:31:43.140 okay sign. And if another person is tricked into looking at it, the second person gets punched in

00:31:47.400 the arm. The sign took on a different significance for some people around 2017, according to the Anti-Defamation

00:31:54.100 League, when it began to be used to signify white power. Yeah, it took on a different meaning for

00:32:00.640 hysterical leftists. It didn't take on a different meaning for racial bigots beyond the racial bigots 0.95

00:32:07.660 on the left. The left sees white supremacy everywhere. And when they get it wrong, they just move on.

00:32:14.240 There, we now have a case in Florida where these students racially divided, right? There's a racial

00:32:20.780 divide between the perpetrators and the victim here. Over a political question, which might have

00:32:27.520 racial overtones to it as well. You get this on video. You get the kid's mother saying it. No one

00:32:33.100 will pursue it. Doesn't matter at all. Please tamp it down. Stop it. Then you have some cadets at a

00:32:37.520 football game playing the okay sign, the circle game with the okay sign. This is a national news story

00:32:43.540 about white supremacy. What are the implications for actual racial violence? Very little, other than

00:32:53.260 the left will pursue their narrative. They will ignore facts that contradict their narrative.

00:32:58.380 They will double down on it all the time. Where do we see this most particularly? There was this awful

00:33:03.740 shooting last week. I'm sure you saw it in the news. A mass shooting at a kosher grocery store in the

00:33:10.140 Greenville section of Jersey City. Five people killed, including the two attackers and then the

00:33:16.180 three civilians who were being attacked. A civilian and two police officers were wounded and a Jersey

00:33:23.340 City PD detective was shot and killed at a nearby cemetery just before the attack. Rashida Tlaib,

00:33:31.500 leftist Democrat congressman, tweets out immediately when this happens. This is heartbreaking.

00:33:36.340 Watching white supremacy kills. Just one problem with her narrative. The attackers were not white 0.98

00:33:42.480 supremacists. At least one of them was a black supremacist, a member of a group called the Black 0.90

00:33:47.380 Hebrew Israelites. Black Hebrew Israelites are a vicious group. If you've ever lived in New York or D.C., 1.00

00:33:53.700 you've probably come across these guys. I've actually spoken to them at length because I get a kick out

00:33:59.620 of people. And they stand on street corners and they scream about the white devil and all the awful 0.95

00:34:05.060 Jews. And they're really vicious racial bigots. And yet I was talking to them for some long time. 1.00

00:34:12.120 The only, I said, why are you talking to me? They said, what are you, what are you Italian? I said,

00:34:16.080 yeah. He goes, where in Italy? I said, my family's from Sicily. They say, okay, that's all right. You're

00:34:20.460 not really white. You're Moorish. You're not. That could be a whole other discussion. They would not 1.00

00:34:27.780 have spoken to me if they thought I was white. And it's not just white people that they hate. They 0.98

00:34:32.500 specifically hate Jews. And now they've actually gone out and, and murdered Jews. Okay. Horrific 0.99

00:34:39.980 thing. These are the same guys that were screaming at the Covington kids in Washington, D.C. with the

00:34:44.000 MAGA hat. Obviously you didn't hear about that in the media either because a black supremacist group 0.63

00:34:49.700 killing Jews doesn't go along with the media narrative. What did Rashida Tlaib do when it was 1.00

00:34:54.980 obvious that she was lying? Did she apologize? No. Did she rethink her views? No. She just

00:35:01.400 deleted the tweet. That's all. She just deleted the tweet. She's not going to admit she was wrong.

00:35:11.000 That's where we're at. Okay. Stop hoping for the catharsis here in politics. The left isn't going

00:35:17.460 to give it to you. What you need to do is develop your own really thick skin here. You need to just look

00:35:23.400 at the facts as you get them. When a report comes out, the IG report or the Mueller report or whatever,

00:35:27.780 you got to read it. You are not going to be told the truth by the mainstream media.

00:35:32.400 You have to read it yourself. And when they gaslight you, which they will do until the end of time,

00:35:37.840 you have to have the fortitude to withstand it. Requires a real level of independent thinking.

00:35:43.860 Shifting gears a little bit, there's a, a new award that the United States has won.

00:35:48.540 This award comes by way of polling from the Pew Research Center, chose that the United States

00:35:54.540 has a higher share of single parent households than any country in the world. Hooray. Congratulations.

00:36:02.320 We did it guys. This survey shows 23% of U.S. children live with a single adult compared with

00:36:11.300 an average of just 7% around the world. Of these 130 countries, rates of single parent households

00:36:20.080 ranged from the low 20s in the United States and in the United Kingdom throughout the Anglosphere

00:36:25.740 and the West generally to as low as one, one or 2% in countries like Turkey or Afghanistan.

00:36:31.580 Obviously, I wouldn't prefer to live in Turkey or Afghanistan, but it's pretty, pretty big indictment 1.00

00:36:37.080 of our culture that Turkey and Afghanistan are beating us when it comes to single parent households.

00:36:42.720 This is important for the current debate going on on the right. There's this debate we've been

00:36:46.760 having for a long time between libertarians and conservatives. Libertarians on the one hand are

00:36:50.720 saying that government has no role whatsoever in fixing our broken culture. The conservatives on the

00:36:56.760 other hand are saying that politics obviously affects culture in some ways. This is a good example

00:37:01.820 of how the conservatives are right. We're not saying politics is the sure all fix to culture or even

00:37:08.260 the primary fix to culture, but it does have some effect. Libertarians here are trying to take the 0.93

00:37:14.660 Andrew Breitbart maxim to this completely radical extreme. You know, Breitbart said politics is

00:37:19.200 downstream of culture. That is true, but that, that slogan only takes you so far. Obviously,

00:37:24.480 politics does have some effect on culture. All right. Here's how you can see it in just one

00:37:32.860 specific example. Even those libertarians would admit that the new deal or the, the great society

00:37:39.100 programs of the 1960s, the vastly expanded welfare state had a very harmful effect on the black

00:37:45.260 community. You had all the numbers going in the right direction among black Americans, murder rates, 1.00

00:37:50.620 dropout rates, welfare, out of wedlock birth, abortion, right? They were all going in the 0.89

00:37:55.540 right direction. They were all getting better. And then you had the great society programs of the

00:38:00.780 1960s. You had these massive expansions of welfare programs. All of a sudden, all the numbers track in

00:38:06.620 the wrong direction. The great society devastated the black community. I'm not even debating the great 1.00

00:38:12.240 society programs. I'm just saying, obviously politics and government had an effect there on

00:38:16.280 culture. Now consider other political factors when it comes to single parenthood.

00:38:21.320 No fault divorce. No fault divorce. We've had it since the seventies. Ironically, California was the

00:38:27.400 first state to pass no fault divorce laws under Ronald Reagan. So the great conservative president

00:38:32.120 actually signed those no fault divorce laws into law in the 1970s. No fault divorce means it's a lot

00:38:40.420 easier to get divorced. You don't have to sue someone and give cause for divorce to break the contract.

00:38:44.420 You just split. You have a conscious uncoupling to use Gwyneth Paltrow's line. And as a result of

00:38:54.800 this, single parent households explode. There's another factor, single parent adoption. A single 1.00

00:39:00.300 woman can adopt a kid in the United States in most cases. Those are two political questions. Those were 1.00

00:39:09.480 decided at the political level. They've had an effect on culture. And it would seem to me pretty

00:39:14.080 clearly not a good effect. When you want to talk about privilege, growing up in a two family, two

00:39:18.640 parent household rather, is an immense privilege to children with their, in particular with their

00:39:24.540 mother and father. That is what you want. That's the best scenario for children. Our politics has

00:39:31.960 moved away from that and our culture has broken as a result. And we have to go back and try to

00:39:36.560 change that. You know, Rand Paul made a great point about this the other day on Jake Tapper's show.

00:39:41.540 Not about single parent households, not about this broader question of a government and culture.

00:39:47.880 He made the point when it comes to impeachment. He said, what we're seeing impeachment as a symptom

00:39:52.220 of is this move by the left and maybe even some aspects of the right to criminalize politics.

00:40:00.580 You have said you do not think there will be any Republican support for removing President Trump

00:40:07.480 in a Senate trial. You will, of course, be a juror in that trial. So are you still keeping an open

00:40:12.460 mind about this or have you already decided you will acquit the president? You know, we've seen the

00:40:17.860 evidence. We're going to hear the evidence repeated, but we're not going to see any new evidence. So I

00:40:21.520 think all of America has seen this. What we've found is this is a very partisan exercise. There's not

00:40:26.420 going to be any Republicans in the House. In fact, there'll be a handful of Democrats who will vote

00:40:30.240 against impeachment in the House. In the Senate, I think all Republicans will vote against the House.

00:40:34.840 And I think two Democrats have a very good chance of voting against impeachment also.

00:40:38.600 So I think what we've seen is it's just a very partisan thing. This is a disagreement. People

00:40:42.560 on the Democrat side don't like President Trump. They don't like his demeanor. And so they decided to

00:40:47.300 sort of criminalize politics. But I don't think it's a good thing. I don't think it's a good day for

00:40:51.080 the country. I think it's a sad day because I hope it doesn't devolve into that. Every president,

00:40:55.840 like in different parts of Latin America, we either impeach or throw presidents into jail

00:41:00.260 just because we don't like their politics. I think that will really dumb down and destroy the country.

00:41:05.540 Bingo. Right on. Great point, Rand Paul. We are trying to criminalize politics now. Obviously

00:41:11.000 in this specific case, we're trying to turn maladministration or politically incorrect

00:41:16.280 views into impeachable events. And that, that shouldn't be the case. The left is the one by

00:41:21.280 far leading the charge on criminalizing politics. But the sort of hands-off, you call it classically

00:41:28.040 liberal or libertarian right, is sort of letting them do it because they're saying there's really

00:41:32.000 no legitimate role of government and no legitimate role of politics in shaping what happens around us.

00:41:39.220 But politics is just how we live in society with one another. I mean, that's a very basic

00:41:43.140 definition of politics, a definition such that Aristotle would give, right? The line between

00:41:48.860 culture and politics is a little bit blurry. Is abortion a political issue or a cultural issue?

00:41:54.160 Both. Is marriage a political issue or a cultural issue? Both, obviously. What's, what's the distinction?

00:41:59.820 You see a hard and fast distinction when you get to government bureaucracy meetings and writing great

00:42:07.620 novels, right? That's a pretty clear politics culture. But on so many of the issues we're talking about,

00:42:12.000 it's a little bit blurry. We should not criminalize politics. We should not back away from politics,

00:42:17.680 okay? We shouldn't make it such that if you have a disagreement with someone, you try to throw them

00:42:21.120 in the clink unless they committed actual serious crimes. Likewise, we shouldn't be afraid of engaging

00:42:28.800 in the political process, even if we're on the right. We're going to have to mature a little bit.

00:42:35.840 We're going to have to learn. You know, I don't know why people think that you can just be born

00:42:40.880 into this world and not learn anything about your country or your history or your politics

00:42:44.720 and then go out there and vote. That's very dangerous. A vote in the hands of someone who

00:42:50.120 doesn't know what it's worth is a very dangerous thing. You need a populace that is educated in the

00:42:56.980 traditions of the country, in the history of the country, in the mechanisms of government,

00:43:00.300 in philosophy, in our own liberty. You need people to be educated into that. You need to earn

00:43:06.300 that if you want self-government to endure. Great point from Rand Paul. Before we go,

00:43:12.940 I want to talk about a Christmastime miracle because right now we're talking about how

00:43:17.820 in the realm of politics, hoaxes are being passed off as truth.

00:43:22.940 More broadly, especially in the realm of religion, truth is being passed off as a hoax without any reason.

00:43:28.340 And you see this specifically with something we celebrated on December 12th, Our Lady of Guadalupe.

00:43:33.520 Our Lady of Guadalupe is a miracle that the Catholics celebrate, but a lot of people don't

00:43:39.500 know anything about it, especially atheists or agnostic or religiously unaffiliated or some

00:43:46.560 Protestants or frankly even some Catholics don't know anything about it. So I just want to bring

00:43:50.760 this to your attention and maybe expand your mind a little bit in this Christmastime miracle.

00:43:56.040 Our Lady of Guadalupe refers to a miracle that, and if you don't believe in miracles,

00:44:03.140 stick with me for a little bit. I'll present you the evidence. It's a miracle that happened

00:44:07.180 almost 500 years ago now. It started to happen on the morning of December 9th, 1531. There was an

00:44:13.340 apparition of Mary, Mary, the mother of Jesus. And Mary, Our Lady, introduces herself to this

00:44:20.120 kind of peasant or slightly better off than a peasant Native American in Latin America outside

00:44:27.420 of Mexico City named Juan Diego. And in his language, in the Nahuatl language, the apparition,

00:44:34.540 the lady, introduces herself as the mother of the very true deity. And she tells Juan Diego to go to

00:44:39.660 the bishop and tell the bishop to build a church on that spot. So Juan Diego goes to the bishop.

00:44:44.580 Uh, the bishop at that time was Frey Juan de Zumarraga. He goes to him and he says,

00:44:50.440 this woman appeared to me, says, build a church. The bishop doesn't believe him.

00:44:55.260 Good. The bishop shouldn't just believe some guy who says, I had this vision and I don't have any

00:44:59.220 evidence of it, so do what I say. Bishop acted completely appropriately. So Juan Diego goes back,

00:45:05.060 he's going up the hill, sees the lady again. The lady says, go back to the bishop, tell him to build

00:45:09.240 the church. Juan Diego goes back again to the bishop. He gets in, speaks to the bishop. Bishop

00:45:14.020 says, I need some evidence. Okay. I'm not going to just blindly do what you tell me to do. So Juan

00:45:20.240 Diego then is, is upset, I suppose, that he failed to do what the lady told him to. So he's going on

00:45:27.640 his same track, but he goes a different way because he doesn't want to run into the lady again. Well,

00:45:32.560 as far as apparitions go, Marian apparitions go, it's very hard to avoid them if you don't want to see

00:45:37.760 them for some reason. So he goes around a different way and he sees the lady again.

00:45:42.200 And, uh, so what she tells him to do to give evidence of this is to go to, uh, the top of

00:45:50.020 to pay a kill outside of Mexico city, which is normally barren. This is the dead of winter.

00:45:54.560 This is the middle of December and to gather flowers. Juan Diego goes there and he finds

00:45:59.020 Castilian roses, which are not native to Mexico. And it's the middle of winter anyway. He finds these

00:46:04.900 flowers and he puts them in his garment, which is called a tilma, right? It's this long garment.

00:46:08.540 It's like a working garment. So it looks like a poncho made out of rough plant fiber. They

00:46:12.580 disintegrate within five to 10 years just to work in. He puts the roses in there, pulls it up

00:46:17.040 and goes back to the bishop, gets into the bishop. And as a sign shows the flowers, the flowers would

00:46:23.760 be a sign. They don't grow in that area. And it's the middle of winter. As he's showing the roses,

00:46:28.200 there's an image that miraculously appears on the tilma. And it's an image of this woman,

00:46:33.520 our lady standing on the moon clothed in the sun. And everyone is amazed by this and they have the

00:46:41.780 image and that's the miracle. Now, now you might be saying, okay, I don't believe any of that. I don't

00:46:47.440 believe this happened. I don't believe there was the apparition. I don't believe that the image got

00:46:51.100 there miraculously. Okay, fine. Here is where you have to question your disbelief. No one has any

00:46:57.000 idea how that image got there. It's not paint. Scientists have examined this very, very closely with

00:47:02.380 super microscopes for decades now. It isn't paint. The color is just in the fiber somehow. That's the

00:47:10.500 first thing that's a little weird. We don't know what it is. The second thing that's weird is the

00:47:14.200 tilma is a working garment. It should have dissolved. It should have decayed rather within five to 10

00:47:19.040 years. It survived perfectly intact for 500 years. They make reproductions of it on tilma and those all

00:47:26.380 decay within five to 15 years. And yet this one has lasted perfectly for 500 years. If that doesn't

00:47:33.520 do it for you, consider this. It survived a bomb blast in, uh, in the 1920s on November 14th, 1921,

00:47:41.540 this anti-Catholic secularist planted explosives in a plant right in front of the tilma. The thing

00:47:47.420 explodes, the windows explode. The altar that is right below the tilma completely explodes. A crucifix is

00:47:53.380 all bent over, uh, in the sight of the bomb blast. And yet the tilma completely untouched looks exactly

00:48:02.360 like it did the day that it appeared. So not only does it survive 500 years of people handling it and

00:48:08.620 soot from candles and all sorts of things that should make it decay, it survives a bomb. No

00:48:14.200 explanation for that whatsoever. And then one of the wildest aspects of this is they looked at this

00:48:19.280 very tiny image. It's really not that big. They put it under a super microscope and they look into

00:48:24.560 the eye and the way that our eyes work, right? As you can see in your eye, what I'm seeing, you can

00:48:30.320 see it in the reflection, right? So if you zoomed into my eye right now, you would see some cameras

00:48:34.520 and some lights and things like that. This is the reflection of what we're seeing, right? So they zoom

00:48:41.260 in on this very, very tiny microscopic eye in the image. And when they blow it up, they see the reflection

00:48:49.560 of an old man looking shocked in the image and the people in the room. First of all, there's no way

00:48:58.360 that we, we wouldn't have understood how the human eye works 500 years ago in, and certainly a Native 1.00

00:49:04.940 American peasant in Mexico wouldn't have understood that. This was not acknowledged until recent decades,

00:49:11.140 because we just didn't know it was there because we didn't have the technology to see it. And it

00:49:14.740 isn't paint. So it's not as though someone painted it on, but even if they did paint it on, there's no

00:49:18.280 way that it could be small enough for them to possibly paint this. There is no explanation for

00:49:23.580 it. This is an important flip side to what we're talking about today, especially as we move into the

00:49:29.020 Christmas season. So much in politics that we see that we know to be a hoax is passed off as truth in

00:49:35.940 this absolute regime of lies that we see from the left, from the media. So many people

00:49:41.020 telling us political lies, even occasionally people on the right stretch the truth. All right,

00:49:45.300 willing to acknowledge that. That's what we get in politics. And yet on these eternal questions,

00:49:51.240 on these metaphysical questions, on these things that are utterly unexplained, other than by revelation,

00:49:57.520 other than by the miraculous, we're told that the truth is a hoax. And the people who tell us the

00:50:04.340 truth is a hoax never explain how it's a hoax. They never give any evidence for their claim. They

00:50:08.440 never give any explanation for the unexplained. They just want us to believe that the truth is

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 16, 2019

Ep. 466 - The Gaslighting Left

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