The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 473 - Known By The Friends You Keep


Summary

As the left enters day five of mourning dead Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani, the outcry takes an explicitly traitorous turn. We examine an important political reality: You are known by the friends you keep. Then, the most prolific rapist in British legal history is sentenced to life in prison. We analyze a story that doesn t fit the leftist narrative. Finally, some big little endorsements in the 2020 Democratic primary.


Transcript

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00:00:37.740 As the left enters day five of mourning dead Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani,
00:00:43.660 the outcry takes an explicitly traitorous turn.
00:00:47.360 We examine an important political reality.
00:00:50.080 You are known by the friends you keep.
00:00:52.340 Then, the most prolific rapist in British legal history is sentenced to life in prison.
00:00:59.460 But even amid the Me Too movement, virtually no media outlets are reporting on it.
00:01:04.320 We analyze a story that doesn't fit the leftist narrative.
00:01:08.100 Finally, some big little endorsements in the 2020 Democratic primary
00:01:11.600 and a proposed split in the Methodist church over same-sex marriage.
00:01:16.620 All that and more.
00:01:17.520 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:22.340 Big news in the Democratic primary.
00:01:29.840 We will get to who won the coveted Judge Judy endorsement.
00:01:34.960 But before we can get to that, we have got to cover what all of the other Democrats in America are up to
00:01:40.240 and that is mourning the death of the world's most notorious terrorist, Qasem Soleimani.
00:01:44.640 I don't want to be accused of hyperbole here.
00:01:50.140 So, I've plucked just a handful of random examples of major leftists in this country
00:01:57.660 actually mourning this guy, actually taking the side of Iran over the United States,
00:02:03.400 actually posting glowing tributes and elegies and reviews to this dead terrorist, Soleimani.
00:02:10.760 Here's just a little quick montage somebody on Twitter put together of the mainstream media shedding those leftist tears.
00:02:18.260 He was a war hero, the commander of Iran's feared Quds Force.
00:02:22.500 Qasem Soleimani was no ordinary general.
00:02:25.340 The U.S. officially classified him as a terrorist, but in Iran, he was a national hero.
00:02:30.360 He's regarded as personally incredibly brave.
00:02:32.800 The troops love him.
00:02:33.860 I was trying to think of somebody and I was thinking of de Gaulle.
00:02:36.380 A revered figure in Iran and some other places in the Middle East.
00:02:40.180 Smart, charismatic, ruthless, strategic and bold.
00:02:43.660 His power made Iranians proud.
00:02:46.060 But even many of Soleimani's enemies admitted he was a military genius.
00:02:51.120 Qasem Soleimani was an evil genius.
00:02:54.400 Soleimani was in charge of spreading Iranian influence around the world and he was extremely good at it.
00:03:00.960 He is the, think of the French Foreign Legion, you know, if you will.
00:03:04.220 By killing Qasem Soleimani, the U.S. has stripped Iran of an inspirational military leader.
00:03:10.240 The crowds are massive and emotional.
00:03:12.700 There are many tears here.
00:03:14.220 Thousands of mourners on the streets in Iran.
00:03:17.280 Symbolic caskets aloft, weeping and chanting, I am Soleimani.
00:03:22.460 The supreme leader of Iran weeping and praying over a coffin draped in the Iraqi flag.
00:03:28.840 It's difficult to convey how revered he is.
00:03:32.000 It's difficult to convey how revered he is among the mainstream media.
00:03:35.800 Qasem Soleimani, the U.S. officially called him a terrorist, but terrorists really liked him.
00:03:42.160 As though that's sort of some contradiction.
00:03:44.140 They compare him to Charles de Gaulle.
00:03:45.920 They compare him to the French Foreign Legion.
00:03:48.460 I mean, I don't know where they get all of these comparisons from.
00:03:51.780 Bold, ruthless, courageous, so handsome.
00:03:56.000 You just melt in his eyes.
00:03:58.480 Oh, oh, Qasem, Qasem.
00:04:00.860 I mean, really, really pathetic stuff.
00:04:03.100 Add on to that the Washington Post headline, highly revered military leader.
00:04:08.560 You know, the Washington Post, which called al-Baghdadi an austere religious scholar.
00:04:13.020 In the future, by the way, I would like to be referred to only by my mainstream media title
00:04:17.780 of highly revered austere religious podcaster.
00:04:21.320 So please, in the mailbag, wherever you address me, please, I want the mainstream media treatment.
00:04:27.160 I want to be treated as good as the mainstream media treats terrorists.
00:04:30.560 That is just the press.
00:04:34.480 And Nikki Haley, former U.N. ambassador and governor of South Carolina,
00:04:38.080 went on Fox News, on another cable news outlet, and called them out for it.
00:04:43.360 You don't see anyone standing up for Iran.
00:04:45.920 You're not hearing any of the Gulf members.
00:04:48.340 You're not hearing China.
00:04:49.640 You're not hearing Russia.
00:04:51.040 The only ones that are mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership
00:04:57.180 and our Democrat presidential candidates.
00:05:00.200 No one else in the world because they knew that this man had evil veins.
00:05:04.600 They knew what he was capable of, and they saw the destruction
00:05:07.600 and the lives lost based from his hands.
00:05:11.420 Totally.
00:05:12.100 She got it exactly right.
00:05:13.400 The only thing Nikki left out is the mainstream media.
00:05:16.480 But she referred to the Democratic leadership, and that includes the mainstream media.
00:05:20.360 That pretty much is the mainstream media.
00:05:22.080 So I guess she included that, too.
00:05:24.440 But it isn't just them.
00:05:25.780 It isn't even just the elected Democrats.
00:05:27.580 It isn't just the mainstream media.
00:05:29.020 We will get to major left-wing figures in this country who are now explicitly taking the side of Iran
00:05:33.900 and joking about and threatening to kill the President of the United States.
00:05:37.700 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:07:23.080 Nikki Haley gets it totally right.
00:07:24.860 The only people in the whole wide world who are mourning the death of Soleimani are terrorists,
00:07:31.580 the supporters of terrorists, and the Democratic leadership in the mainstream media,
00:07:35.580 and even elected Democrats, and even cultural figures who are Democrats.
00:07:39.340 Michael Moore, one of the most prominent left-wing voices in the United States,
00:07:46.580 privately messaged the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei,
00:07:51.440 and begged him, begged him not to attack us and apologized for America and apologized for Trump
00:07:59.000 and said he would deal with Trump.
00:08:01.240 The left has been so whipped up into a hysterical frenzy over this
00:08:06.240 that they are now sliding into the DMs of mullahs to apologize for the president
00:08:12.320 and beg that Iran, some little nothing country,
00:08:16.180 a country that should not be recognized as a nation state after the revolution,
00:08:21.720 that country is threatening the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:08:25.540 Please, please, mullahs, don't bomb us to death.
00:08:29.060 This is what Michael Moore tweeted out publicly.
00:08:31.820 Quote, I have just sent the Ayatollah of Iran a personal appeal,
00:08:36.460 asking him not to respond to our assassination of his top general with violence of any kind,
00:08:41.180 but rather let me and millions of Americans fix this peacefully.
00:08:47.660 Now, in Michael Moore's defense, at least when he's begging the Ayatollah of Iran
00:08:54.460 to forgive us our trespasses,
00:08:57.060 he's saying that the way that we'll deal with it is through the election, right?
00:09:00.760 Allow millions of Americans to deal with this peacefully.
00:09:03.400 That isn't what many other prominent leftists have been doing.
00:09:08.260 But this is a moral violation at the very least.
00:09:13.520 This may be a legal violation
00:09:14.820 because you've got a private American citizen
00:09:17.300 trying to negotiate with the head of a foreign state.
00:09:20.700 The Logan Act often comes up, you know,
00:09:23.100 these sort of arcane laws come up
00:09:25.400 that every few years when some private citizen deals with a head of state,
00:09:31.380 I don't think Michael Moore is going to be prosecuted for this.
00:09:34.220 But it's a serious violation that he's doing.
00:09:37.440 I mean, to basically betray your own country
00:09:41.240 and try to negotiate with a major state funder of terrorism
00:09:46.060 against the United States,
00:09:48.060 against the president of the United States,
00:09:49.140 really bad stuff.
00:09:50.220 And Michael Moore isn't even the worst one, far from it.
00:09:52.800 AOC, AOC, the future of the Democratic Party,
00:09:57.280 according to the head of the DNC, Tom Perez,
00:10:00.520 AOC has been promoting pro-Iran Russian propaganda
00:10:06.000 on Twitter regarding Soleimani.
00:10:09.780 It's so funny.
00:10:10.700 I mean, the left always projects,
00:10:13.240 they always accuse you of doing what they themselves are doing.
00:10:16.840 So they've been accusing Trump of promoting Russian propaganda now for three years.
00:10:22.640 The left, prominent leftists,
00:10:25.000 are actually the ones promoting Russian propaganda with regard to Iran.
00:10:29.680 So AOC just liked on Twitter,
00:10:32.800 which exposes this tweet to her millions of followers,
00:10:35.880 a tweet by Rania Kaleck,
00:10:38.220 who is a journalist for In The Now.
00:10:41.980 This is a Russian propaganda outlet,
00:10:43.760 who tweeted out,
00:10:45.680 A friend flying into the U.S.
00:10:47.700 says he hasn't seen so much security since 9-11.
00:10:50.880 The U.S. is terrified of how Iran will retaliate.
00:10:53.960 Iran won't attack civilians.
00:10:55.960 That's what Al-Qaeda does.
00:10:57.400 But it shows this assassination did the opposite of making Americans safer,
00:11:01.620 and our leaders know it.
00:11:03.360 So this is just a flat-out lie.
00:11:04.940 Iran regularly murders civilians,
00:11:07.480 its own civilians,
00:11:08.500 and the civilians of other countries.
00:11:09.820 And actually, Qasem Soleimani was personally responsible for much of it.
00:11:14.480 A complete lie.
00:11:16.100 Imagine if during World War II,
00:11:18.560 you had Democratic congressmen posting Nazi propaganda on Twitter,
00:11:23.700 or fascist propaganda on Twitter,
00:11:26.460 Japanese propaganda on Twitter.
00:11:28.940 Good thing there wasn't Twitter back in 1945,
00:11:31.860 but really there wasn't the Democratic Party as we know it today.
00:11:34.560 I mean, this radical leftist Democratic Party
00:11:36.700 that would take the side of Iran over the president of the United States.
00:11:39.780 That is a new thing.
00:11:41.820 We haven't seen that really before.
00:11:43.820 It's been growing over the past several decades.
00:11:47.680 That's AOC,
00:11:48.900 and that is a betrayal of her country.
00:11:51.980 Not just AOC.
00:11:53.380 AOC's preferred presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders,
00:11:56.540 goes on television,
00:11:58.040 goes on CNN,
00:11:59.220 the Clinton News Network,
00:12:00.520 the Communist News Network,
00:12:01.640 and compares the United States' action here
00:12:06.700 in killing the world's top terrorist
00:12:08.100 to Vladimir Putin assassinating journalists.
00:12:11.380 Here's Bernie.
00:12:12.440 This guy is, you know,
00:12:13.520 was as bad as he was an official
00:12:15.600 of the Iranian government.
00:12:17.980 And you unleash.
00:12:18.740 Then, if China does that,
00:12:20.940 you know, if Russia does that,
00:12:22.200 you know, Russia has been implicated
00:12:23.900 under Putin with assassinating dissidents.
00:12:26.900 So, once you're in the business of assassination,
00:12:30.920 you unleash some very, very terrible forces.
00:12:33.880 What kind of perverted logic is that?
00:12:37.180 By this logic,
00:12:38.440 if any country kills anybody,
00:12:40.760 they're just as bad as every other country.
00:12:43.020 Well, if a country goes in
00:12:44.880 and kills men, women, and children,
00:12:46.940 and then a country kills the people
00:12:49.300 who kill men, women, and children,
00:12:51.020 that is not the same action.
00:12:54.240 I'll put it more clearly.
00:12:57.420 If a country is committing terrorism,
00:13:00.280 if a country is targeting civilians,
00:13:02.680 if a country is violating international law,
00:13:06.140 and then a country goes in
00:13:08.720 and stops them from doing that,
00:13:11.000 those are not the same act.
00:13:13.780 Actually, they're opposite acts.
00:13:15.980 And Qasem Soleimani
00:13:17.100 was a major terrorist leader.
00:13:20.200 And what makes Soleimani so dangerous,
00:13:22.340 well, it used to before we just,
00:13:23.620 all over the Blagdad airport.
00:13:26.360 What makes Soleim,
00:13:27.400 what did make Soleimani so dangerous
00:13:29.180 is that he wasn't just a terrorist.
00:13:31.100 He also had the backing
00:13:32.060 of sort of a nation state.
00:13:34.700 And that's what Iran has done
00:13:35.820 since the revolution,
00:13:37.040 is they play both sides
00:13:38.540 of the international system.
00:13:40.120 They fund terrorism all around the world.
00:13:43.120 They violate all the international norms.
00:13:45.820 And they try to pretend
00:13:47.500 that they're a regular nation state
00:13:48.980 with all the privileges thereof.
00:13:51.060 And they're trying to have it both ways.
00:13:52.940 And we, in this case,
00:13:54.420 stop them from doing that.
00:13:55.880 When you have a guy
00:13:56.920 who is targeting civilians,
00:13:58.640 who is funding terrorism around the world,
00:14:00.520 who is violating international norms,
00:14:02.380 and then you go in and take him out,
00:14:04.840 that does not make you the same as that person.
00:14:06.680 It makes you the solution
00:14:07.940 to the problem that that person was.
00:14:11.320 But this is what the left always wants to do.
00:14:13.560 The left wants to make America seem wicked,
00:14:16.720 seem evil,
00:14:17.720 seem just as bad as the terrorists.
00:14:19.560 And when we pointed this out about the left
00:14:23.600 over the past, I don't know, 10, 15 years,
00:14:26.120 the left has shrieked and yelled
00:14:28.220 and said that isn't true.
00:14:29.220 Well, now we're seeing it explicitly.
00:14:31.640 Okay, not just Bernie Sanders,
00:14:33.520 not just AOC,
00:14:34.220 not just these elected officials.
00:14:35.500 George Lopez saw an Instagram post
00:14:38.420 that said that the Ayatollah of Iran
00:14:41.060 was offering $80 million
00:14:42.260 for Donald Trump's head on a platter.
00:14:44.540 And do you know what George Lopez said?
00:14:45.840 He said he'd do it for half.
00:14:48.600 George Lopez, with his verified Instagram account,
00:14:50.960 went on that post and said,
00:14:53.800 we'll do it for half.
00:14:57.260 Look, I get it.
00:14:59.220 George Lopez is a comedian.
00:15:01.700 That joke, if you made that joke
00:15:03.760 as an offhanded, blue, irreverent,
00:15:08.160 dirty, rotten, dark joke
00:15:10.060 in a bar with your friends,
00:15:11.820 I get how that's sort of funny.
00:15:13.860 If you're making that joke publicly,
00:15:17.020 particularly as the US
00:15:18.700 is potentially headed for a war,
00:15:21.740 that is a bridge too far.
00:15:24.280 I mean, it's funny to a certain audience
00:15:25.960 that hates the president of the United States
00:15:28.520 so much that they're willing to side with Iran,
00:15:31.020 that they're willing to make common cause
00:15:32.440 with terrorists over the president.
00:15:34.600 But it's not funny to the rest of us.
00:15:36.160 It's a bridge too far.
00:15:38.000 I mean, it is actual betrayal of your country.
00:15:41.220 And then the best of them all,
00:15:42.240 this is my favorite cultural figure
00:15:44.460 taking the side of Iran over Trump,
00:15:47.020 is a rapper named T.I.
00:15:49.600 who is siding with the Ayatollah Khamenei
00:15:51.900 in calls for death to America.
00:15:54.300 I didn't know who T.I. was,
00:15:56.100 so I Googled him.
00:15:56.900 We'll get to that in a second.
00:15:57.820 Here is what T.I. tweeted out.
00:16:00.980 Yup, dot, dot, dot, um, hmm.
00:16:03.660 Hmm, exactly what he said.
00:16:07.380 And by he, he's referring to Ayatollah Khamenei,
00:16:10.140 who's calling for death to America.
00:16:12.600 Ain't no Iranian never called me no N-word,
00:16:15.720 infested our communities with dope,
00:16:18.000 and then locked us up for it,
00:16:20.080 allowed the police to pull us over
00:16:21.840 and gun us down with no accountability,
00:16:24.400 or enslaved us and tried to act like,
00:16:27.180 duh, S-H-I-T ain't happened.
00:16:29.440 So, as I pray for our soldiers,
00:16:32.340 I'm also gonna be praying for theirs.
00:16:35.300 This ain't our war, champ.
00:16:37.120 Hashtag don't start S-H-I-T,
00:16:39.280 won't be S-H-I-T.
00:16:40.920 Hashtag MAGA hats ought to go first.
00:16:44.180 He misspelled ought to.
00:16:45.100 He misspelled a lot of things.
00:16:46.780 MAGA hats ought to go first.
00:16:49.620 What does that mean, ought to go first?
00:16:51.320 Does it mean ought to go be sent into war,
00:16:53.920 or ought to go be wiped out in war first?
00:16:56.600 He then tweets out afterward,
00:17:00.460 or Instagrams out afterward.
00:17:02.280 Riddle me this.
00:17:03.440 How come America can go to other countries
00:17:05.780 and wipe out evil people,
00:17:07.160 but can't get rid of the KKK right here?
00:17:10.660 Wow, really profound stuff, T.I.
00:17:13.360 First of all, the United States
00:17:14.480 did get rid of the KKK.
00:17:15.900 We decimated that organization decades ago,
00:17:19.460 that Democratic organization, I'll point out.
00:17:22.400 We did.
00:17:22.960 Now, the reason that we can't ban them from speaking,
00:17:25.880 the reason that the ACLU came to their defense
00:17:28.020 is because we have freedom of speech,
00:17:29.680 the same freedom of speech that allows T.I.
00:17:31.660 to spout his traitorous, idiotic propaganda.
00:17:35.220 Look, if I were king,
00:17:36.600 T.I. wouldn't be saying this kind of stuff,
00:17:38.300 but I am not king.
00:17:39.640 This is what Antonin Scalia said
00:17:41.080 about the First Amendment.
00:17:42.180 He said, if I were king,
00:17:44.040 I would throw in jail
00:17:45.400 every scruffy, bearded, sandal-wearing creep
00:17:48.840 who burns the American flag,
00:17:50.740 but I am not the king.
00:17:52.340 So that's the reason we have free speech
00:17:54.360 in this country,
00:17:56.180 but he is actively taking the side
00:17:58.040 of Iran over the United States.
00:17:59.960 He's saying, yup, exactly what he said
00:18:02.380 about the Shah, if only it were the Shah,
00:18:05.020 about the Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:18:07.140 I didn't know who T.I. was,
00:18:08.380 so I looked him up on Wikipedia.
00:18:10.780 This is from Wikipedia,
00:18:12.700 just for those of you who don't know
00:18:13.940 who T.I. is either.
00:18:15.520 Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.,
00:18:17.640 known professionally as T.I. and Tip,
00:18:19.500 is an American rapper, actor, songwriter,
00:18:21.880 producer, entrepreneur, record executive,
00:18:23.840 and author.
00:18:24.660 He must be busy.
00:18:25.880 In 2001, Harris formed the southern hip-hop group
00:18:28.580 P$C, alongside his longtime friends
00:18:32.760 and fellow Atlanta rappers,
00:18:34.560 Big Country King, Mac Boney, and C-Rod.
00:18:39.240 Harris is also known as one of the artists
00:18:41.420 who popularized the hip-hop sub-genre trap music,
00:18:44.180 along with Jeezy and Gucci Mane.
00:18:46.640 I hope that clears it up.
00:18:48.260 I'm sure it's much clearer for you now.
00:18:50.280 Then I read further down his Wikipedia,
00:18:52.480 and it turns out that T.I. is a complete
00:18:54.600 criminal degenerate.
00:18:56.620 T.I. was arrested several times by the age 14
00:18:59.660 for dealing drugs.
00:19:01.820 He was sent to prison on various drug,
00:19:04.140 assault, and weapons charges.
00:19:06.060 In 2007, he was arrested for possession
00:19:07.860 of three unregistered machine guns and two silencers,
00:19:11.260 and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
00:19:14.220 Arrested lots more over the years
00:19:15.800 than arrested last year for disorderly conduct
00:19:18.340 and simple assault.
00:19:19.640 And this is the guy now siding with the Ayatollah of Iran.
00:19:23.880 What's very interesting about the first thing
00:19:25.400 that he posted in his agreement with Khamenei
00:19:29.280 is he blames everybody else for things that he did, right?
00:19:37.280 So he's blaming other people.
00:19:40.640 I don't know who, them, white people, Americans, I don't know.
00:19:43.820 He's blaming others as he's got this sort of racially loaded post
00:19:48.700 for infesting our communities with dope.
00:19:53.720 Nobody infested your communities with dope,
00:19:56.060 whatever your communities are.
00:19:57.400 You dealt drugs for your entire life, basically,
00:20:00.160 and you got arrested for it,
00:20:01.440 and you take no accountability for it.
00:20:03.980 You take no responsibility.
00:20:05.560 Everybody else, it's their problem.
00:20:08.320 Somebody else made you have all those illegal machine guns.
00:20:10.760 It wasn't you.
00:20:11.660 You're a poor, oppressed victim, T.I.
00:20:14.100 Somebody, I don't know, I don't know,
00:20:15.740 you were just holding those machine guns for a friend,
00:20:18.080 and those silencers,
00:20:19.020 and you were just dealing those drugs for a friend.
00:20:20.740 It's a huge misunderstanding, a huge mistake.
00:20:23.340 Aren't you a victim?
00:20:25.280 You and the Ayatollah of Iran,
00:20:27.140 you're both just such victims of America.
00:20:30.340 Give me a break.
00:20:32.420 He says that the people who are doing this have no accountability.
00:20:36.280 You have no accountability.
00:20:37.480 You take no accountability at all.
00:20:39.280 This guy, T.I., is such a degenerate.
00:20:42.040 He posted a video last year of a music video
00:20:45.140 that he was going to release
00:20:46.120 in which he very graphically has sex with Melania Trump
00:20:52.340 in the first office.
00:20:54.320 This was so edgy
00:20:55.940 that they actually wouldn't let him release it.
00:20:57.560 It never came out.
00:20:59.180 That is T.I.
00:21:02.760 That is the kind of person
00:21:04.180 who is siding with the Ayatollah of Iran over Trump,
00:21:09.020 all of which brings us
00:21:10.700 to a very important political reality.
00:21:14.120 You are known by the friends you keep.
00:21:17.680 You are known by the friends you keep.
00:21:19.560 Now, if you find,
00:21:21.660 everybody, everybody listening,
00:21:24.340 if you find that your ideological allies
00:21:27.200 are all vicious, stupid, selfish, prideful,
00:21:32.120 unaccountable, terrible people,
00:21:34.840 maybe you should reconsider your political philosophy.
00:21:38.880 Maybe there's something wrong with what you're thinking.
00:21:40.940 If you find that you are siding with terrorists
00:21:45.160 and mullahs and criminals and traitors
00:21:48.960 over the president of the United States,
00:21:51.960 regardless of who that president is,
00:21:53.560 Obama, Trump, Democrat, Republican, left, right,
00:21:56.920 if you find that you are siding with
00:21:58.580 the worst people on earth
00:22:00.380 over the president of the United States,
00:22:02.680 maybe you should rethink your political philosophy.
00:22:06.380 Maybe something has gone wrong
00:22:08.320 in your stream of logic.
00:22:10.980 You know, it's a logical fallacy
00:22:12.800 to appeal merely to authority.
00:22:16.040 So to say, my argument is correct
00:22:18.480 because this very smart person believed it,
00:22:21.320 or my argument is correct
00:22:22.760 simply because this wise, revered, austere,
00:22:28.140 religious person believed it over history.
00:22:29.880 You can't merely argue from authority,
00:22:33.880 but authority does carry weight.
00:22:37.680 Authority always carries weight.
00:22:39.100 And the question is,
00:22:39.840 what authority are we appealing to?
00:22:41.140 When you just look at the clusters of people
00:22:42.980 who are siding with Soleimani here,
00:22:46.300 who are attacking Trump
00:22:47.240 for killing the world's most notorious terrorist,
00:22:49.400 who is it?
00:22:50.780 It's the mullahs of Iran,
00:22:54.020 the worst people on earth.
00:22:55.760 I mean, probably the most dangerous,
00:22:57.460 vicious, vile political figures
00:22:59.680 on the planet,
00:23:01.280 certainly in the top three.
00:23:03.640 The most traitorous American politicians
00:23:06.940 who vacation in the Soviet Union,
00:23:11.240 who honeymoon in the Soviet Union,
00:23:13.300 who don't know anything,
00:23:15.620 who are terribly ignorant of American history,
00:23:18.820 who spread Russian and Iranian propaganda,
00:23:22.120 who post disgusting videos of them
00:23:26.320 having sex with the first lady
00:23:28.560 in the Oval Office,
00:23:29.420 who joke about killing the President
00:23:31.580 of the United States.
00:23:32.720 I mean, if you're siding with these people,
00:23:36.400 wake up, look around you,
00:23:38.560 think, hmm, maybe I got this wrong,
00:23:40.940 and take a step back.
00:23:42.520 C.S. Lewis has this line about progress.
00:23:45.020 He says,
00:23:45.560 the whole idea of progress,
00:23:47.780 progressivism,
00:23:49.120 is you gotta know where you're going.
00:23:51.480 It implies that you've got a direction.
00:23:52.980 If you find that you're going down the wrong road,
00:23:54.920 then the first guy to turn around
00:23:56.740 and walk in the other direction
00:23:57.980 is the true progressive.
00:24:00.420 Another important lesson here
00:24:01.780 from all of this mourning and weeping
00:24:03.900 and gnashing of teeth over Qasem Soleimani,
00:24:06.720 may he rest in hell,
00:24:08.620 is don't be defined
00:24:10.660 simply by what you're against.
00:24:14.780 Okay, if you are just fanatically against Trump,
00:24:17.980 if that is the definition
00:24:19.340 of your political philosophy,
00:24:22.180 you're gonna wind up defending terrorists
00:24:25.040 because anybody that Trump is against,
00:24:27.680 you're gonna be for.
00:24:28.980 Like the mainstream media
00:24:30.060 and TI and AOC and Bernie
00:24:32.220 and George Lopez
00:24:32.980 and all these people, right?
00:24:34.560 I'm not saying they're all terrible people.
00:24:36.760 I actually don't think most of them
00:24:37.900 are terrible people.
00:24:38.620 I think they're extraordinarily misguided
00:24:39.980 and they've allowed this fanatical
00:24:42.080 anti-Trump political ideology
00:24:44.320 to make them side with terrorists
00:24:46.320 and mullahs.
00:24:47.660 Don't do that.
00:24:48.500 You've got to be for something.
00:24:51.240 You can't,
00:24:51.620 look, I'm against Hillary Clinton.
00:24:52.960 I'm against Barack Obama.
00:24:54.020 I'm against leftism.
00:24:55.620 But I'm also for something else,
00:24:59.280 which is a conservative worldview.
00:25:01.480 The American tradition.
00:25:03.140 The American founding.
00:25:04.860 I'm for a virtuous politics.
00:25:07.640 I'm for the Christian understanding
00:25:11.980 of the world
00:25:12.500 that has formed the basis of our politics.
00:25:14.720 I'm for all of those things.
00:25:16.660 You've got to be for something
00:25:18.680 if you want to have a political vision
00:25:20.420 that doesn't lead you
00:25:22.020 to defend the indefensible.
00:25:24.620 A lot of political division
00:25:26.520 in this country, I think,
00:25:27.780 around the world even,
00:25:29.360 comes from the fact
00:25:30.480 that even when the left
00:25:32.960 pretends to be for something,
00:25:35.440 they're actually just against something.
00:25:37.820 They're using what they pretend to be for
00:25:40.360 as a mask to just hide
00:25:41.780 that they're merely opposed
00:25:43.840 to something else.
00:25:44.620 I know that's a little confusing,
00:25:46.140 so I'll give you an example.
00:25:47.600 The Me Too movement.
00:25:49.180 The Me Too movement
00:25:50.120 is the perfect example of this.
00:25:52.400 The UK, just yesterday,
00:25:54.640 just sentenced the most prolific rapist
00:25:57.540 in British history
00:25:59.040 to life in prison.
00:26:02.080 This rapist was convicted
00:26:04.520 of raping 48 victims,
00:26:07.220 but he actually raped many more.
00:26:09.100 195 victims were filmed
00:26:13.520 being raped in his apartment.
00:26:16.920 Those are just the ones
00:26:17.980 who got filmed.
00:26:19.880 You probably haven't heard
00:26:21.300 about this story.
00:26:22.180 The mainstream media
00:26:22.840 is not really reporting on it.
00:26:24.220 Why?
00:26:25.040 Because it doesn't fit
00:26:26.460 the Me Too narrative
00:26:28.100 of rich, powerful,
00:26:30.180 American white men
00:26:31.500 raping women.
00:26:32.800 In this case,
00:26:33.940 it was an Indonesian man
00:26:35.480 who raped men.
00:26:36.660 It was a gay guy.
00:26:37.320 So it's just not in the news.
00:26:40.660 I doubt you've seen it anywhere
00:26:42.280 or heard it anywhere
00:26:43.060 other than on this show.
00:26:45.240 This is the Me Too story
00:26:47.340 to end all Me Too stories.
00:26:48.960 The most prolific rapist
00:26:50.940 in British history.
00:26:53.060 Gone.
00:26:54.180 Because so often
00:26:56.580 the political activists
00:26:57.700 who are running
00:26:58.220 the Me Too movement
00:26:59.000 are not really for
00:27:00.260 defending victims
00:27:01.740 of sexual assault.
00:27:02.740 They're not really for
00:27:03.740 changing a culture
00:27:04.920 of sexual violence
00:27:05.900 or a rape culture
00:27:06.800 is the popular term
00:27:08.600 that's being used
00:27:09.160 on the left.
00:27:09.960 They're not really for that.
00:27:11.880 They simply use it
00:27:13.240 as a political cudgel
00:27:14.340 to take down people
00:27:15.240 that they don't like.
00:27:17.380 Some of whom
00:27:18.180 are complete derelicts.
00:27:19.480 I mean,
00:27:19.680 these guys in Hollywood
00:27:20.500 are absolute criminals.
00:27:24.160 They're awful.
00:27:24.840 In some cases
00:27:26.640 if they're not criminals
00:27:27.300 they're just really
00:27:27.960 scummy, skeezy people.
00:27:30.260 But it's really about
00:27:31.840 taking somebody down
00:27:33.960 rather than pushing forward
00:27:35.040 a positive message.
00:27:36.400 I'll give you
00:27:36.660 another example of this.
00:27:38.280 The same story
00:27:38.840 happened last month.
00:27:40.000 There was an anti-Semitic
00:27:41.020 attack in New Jersey.
00:27:42.940 There were a number
00:27:43.960 of anti-Semitic attacks
00:27:44.880 actually all around
00:27:46.020 the tri-state area.
00:27:48.500 What happened after that
00:27:50.960 is Rashida Tlaib
00:27:53.440 Rashida Tlaib
00:27:55.600 the congresswoman
00:27:57.300 the member of the squad
00:28:00.720 comes out and says
00:28:02.440 that this is an example
00:28:05.380 of how white supremacy kills.
00:28:07.140 And then the news came out
00:28:08.080 that it wasn't a white supremacist
00:28:09.160 who committed the attack.
00:28:10.640 Actually,
00:28:11.340 it was a black supremacist
00:28:13.240 a member of the Hebrew Israelites.
00:28:15.100 What did Rashida Tlaib do?
00:28:16.920 Did she change her tweet?
00:28:18.700 Did she post
00:28:19.120 actually black supremacy
00:28:20.360 can kill too?
00:28:21.600 Actually,
00:28:22.480 racial hatred
00:28:23.420 knows no color.
00:28:24.820 Actually,
00:28:25.600 everybody can be guilty
00:28:26.720 of this because man's heart
00:28:27.680 is evil from the beginning.
00:28:28.980 No,
00:28:29.340 she didn't do any of that.
00:28:30.100 She just deleted the tweet
00:28:31.040 because the minute
00:28:33.020 that this attack
00:28:34.000 didn't correspond
00:28:35.160 with her leftist narrative,
00:28:36.700 she had to get rid of it.
00:28:38.440 She had to bury it.
00:28:39.340 She had to forget about it.
00:28:40.360 She had to pretend
00:28:40.960 it wasn't real.
00:28:43.440 Whole spate
00:28:44.120 of anti-Semitic attacks
00:28:45.240 going on in New York
00:28:46.200 currently.
00:28:47.400 But because it doesn't
00:28:48.160 fit the narrative,
00:28:48.880 because in many cases
00:28:49.680 the perpetrators are black
00:28:50.760 rather than white,
00:28:51.900 then we forget about it.
00:28:54.760 It's gone.
00:28:55.240 It's out of the mainstream media.
00:28:56.660 And then these leftists
00:28:58.440 have the audacity
00:28:59.780 to malign all of us
00:29:03.040 as not taking racial attacks seriously,
00:29:05.880 as not taking sexual attacks seriously.
00:29:08.820 In reality,
00:29:10.360 we are taking these sorts of things
00:29:12.280 much more seriously
00:29:14.340 than the left.
00:29:15.740 Much more seriously.
00:29:16.920 We take it seriously
00:29:20.400 regardless of the perpetrator's race
00:29:22.580 or sex
00:29:23.160 or the victim's race
00:29:24.960 or sex.
00:29:26.480 The left only cynically
00:29:28.180 uses these incidents
00:29:29.520 when it suits
00:29:30.700 their narrative.
00:29:32.140 They have no credibility
00:29:33.720 whatsoever,
00:29:35.000 no moral authority
00:29:36.240 whatsoever
00:29:36.980 on these issues.
00:29:38.860 You know,
00:29:39.780 to the question of authority,
00:29:41.700 to the question of accountability,
00:29:43.340 T.I. brought up accountability.
00:29:44.580 Of all people,
00:29:46.240 a Hollywood leftist,
00:29:47.260 Joaquin Phoenix,
00:29:48.060 actually raised this point
00:29:49.500 at the Golden Globes
00:29:50.400 and in an otherwise
00:29:51.840 kind of meandering,
00:29:52.980 strange left-wing message,
00:29:54.300 he actually had
00:29:55.120 an important thing to say
00:29:56.280 to Hollywood
00:29:57.400 and to the left more broadly.
00:29:58.640 We'll get to that in a second.
00:29:59.740 Then we'll get to
00:30:00.220 the big little endorsements
00:30:01.580 in 2020.
00:30:03.700 We'll get to who won
00:30:04.880 the coveted
00:30:05.540 Judge Judy endorsement.
00:30:07.520 And then we will get to
00:30:09.000 why the Methodist Church
00:30:10.180 is splitting up.
00:30:11.480 First,
00:30:12.020 I've got to say goodbye
00:30:12.620 to Facebook and YouTube.
00:30:15.080 Head on over to
00:30:15.680 dailywire.com.
00:30:16.380 You get me.
00:30:17.700 You get the Andrew Klavan show.
00:30:18.620 You get the Ben Shapiro show.
00:30:19.400 You get the Matt Walsh show.
00:30:20.460 You get to ask questions
00:30:21.460 in the mailbag.
00:30:22.120 You get another kingdom.
00:30:23.160 You get
00:30:23.620 the Leftist Tears Tumblr.
00:30:25.640 Make sure you head over there
00:30:26.600 right now,
00:30:27.100 dailywire.com.
00:30:27.860 We'll be right back
00:30:28.660 with a lot more.
00:30:29.380 Joaquin Phoenix
00:30:43.600 had an important message
00:30:44.940 at the Golden Globes.
00:30:45.820 It kind of got buried
00:30:46.660 because Ricky Gervais
00:30:48.160 just absolutely killed it
00:30:49.460 the other night
00:30:50.020 and Michelle Williams
00:30:51.980 gave a very stupid speech
00:30:53.100 about abortion.
00:30:53.840 So this moment
00:30:55.200 was not really promoted
00:30:57.060 all over the internet,
00:30:57.940 but it's an important one.
00:30:58.840 On the question
00:30:59.900 of accountability,
00:31:01.300 on the question
00:31:02.040 of how our political philosophies
00:31:05.800 relate to ourselves
00:31:07.460 and relate to politics,
00:31:09.560 Joaquin Phoenix said
00:31:10.840 that if you want
00:31:11.500 to make change in the world,
00:31:12.480 you want a virtuous world,
00:31:13.440 you want a good politics,
00:31:14.640 you've got to start
00:31:15.960 with yourself.
00:31:17.880 It's great to vote,
00:31:20.160 but sometimes we have to
00:31:21.260 take that responsibility
00:31:22.140 on ourselves
00:31:23.380 and make changes
00:31:24.700 and sacrifices
00:31:25.440 in our own lives,
00:31:26.880 and I hope that we can do that.
00:31:28.820 We don't have to take
00:31:29.520 private jets
00:31:30.180 to Palm Springs
00:31:31.260 for the awards sometimes
00:31:32.500 or back, please.
00:31:34.400 And I'll try to do better
00:31:35.580 and I hope you will too.
00:31:36.560 Thank you so much
00:31:37.180 for putting up with me.
00:31:38.100 So, on this issue,
00:31:40.980 he's just talking
00:31:41.880 about global warming.
00:31:43.620 Right?
00:31:44.120 He's saying,
00:31:44.780 we're having this
00:31:45.940 Golden Globes awards dinner.
00:31:47.840 You're all eating vegan
00:31:49.180 to make a big message.
00:31:50.460 You're all going to go vote
00:31:51.140 for Liz Warren or somebody.
00:31:52.740 But in your own personal lives,
00:31:54.560 you don't really live up
00:31:55.760 to what you proclaim
00:31:57.500 on television
00:31:58.160 and when you go
00:31:58.640 to the voting booth
00:31:59.340 because you all take
00:32:00.120 private jets,
00:32:00.840 which are horrible
00:32:01.820 for the environment.
00:32:03.060 So, really,
00:32:03.860 what you've got to do
00:32:04.720 is just start looking
00:32:06.000 at the man in the mirror
00:32:06.800 and shape up your own life
00:32:08.440 and then you'll have
00:32:08.880 a virtuous society.
00:32:10.140 The minute he suggests this,
00:32:12.120 the minute he says,
00:32:13.000 hey, leftists
00:32:13.700 who are all prattling on
00:32:14.600 about climate change,
00:32:15.860 maybe don't fly
00:32:16.840 as many private jets,
00:32:18.480 they start playing them off.
00:32:20.180 You can hear the music
00:32:20.960 start to rise up
00:32:21.800 in the clip.
00:32:23.560 It's an important note.
00:32:27.000 If you want
00:32:28.080 a virtuous society,
00:32:29.900 you have to practice virtue.
00:32:32.560 All of these guys,
00:32:33.580 George Lopez,
00:32:35.380 Bernie Sanders,
00:32:36.260 AOC,
00:32:37.900 Michael Moore,
00:32:38.980 all the ones
00:32:39.620 who are siding now
00:32:40.500 with the Ayatollah
00:32:42.100 over President Trump
00:32:43.140 because of how awful
00:32:43.960 and immoral
00:32:44.440 the,
00:32:44.980 how awful and immoral
00:32:46.120 Trump is.
00:32:47.120 Take a look at yourself.
00:32:48.540 Take a look at
00:32:49.000 who you're defending.
00:32:50.040 Take a look at
00:32:50.500 who your friends are.
00:32:51.460 Take a look at
00:32:52.020 who you're allying with.
00:32:53.780 Take a look at
00:32:54.220 how you're behaving.
00:32:55.020 I mean,
00:32:55.180 George Lopez said,
00:32:56.260 we'll kill the President
00:32:57.040 of the United States
00:32:57.720 for only 40 million.
00:32:58.720 We hate him so much.
00:33:01.240 Why?
00:33:01.700 Why are you going
00:33:02.220 to kill the President?
00:33:02.920 Because he says
00:33:03.640 mean things
00:33:04.240 on the Internet?
00:33:05.300 Hey,
00:33:05.660 buddy,
00:33:05.960 take a look
00:33:06.300 in the mirror.
00:33:07.180 Why are you going
00:33:07.900 to kill the President?
00:33:08.660 Because he's disrespectful
00:33:09.620 of his country
00:33:11.120 and his countrymen?
00:33:12.240 You just threatened
00:33:12.720 to kill the President.
00:33:13.840 Take a look
00:33:14.280 in the mirror,
00:33:14.820 okay?
00:33:15.260 If you want
00:33:15.940 a virtuous society,
00:33:17.200 it is not enough
00:33:18.700 to vote a certain way
00:33:21.380 or to have the right
00:33:24.260 bumper sticker
00:33:24.880 on your car.
00:33:25.880 You have to practice
00:33:27.100 the virtue.
00:33:27.820 I mean,
00:33:28.000 how absurd
00:33:28.660 is it
00:33:29.060 for you
00:33:30.220 to demand
00:33:32.200 that other people
00:33:32.860 practice virtue,
00:33:33.740 including the President
00:33:34.440 of the United States,
00:33:35.480 when you're not even
00:33:36.160 trying,
00:33:36.920 when you're not even
00:33:37.620 making an effort.
00:33:38.880 You're not even
00:33:39.560 trying and failing
00:33:40.620 to live up to virtue.
00:33:42.320 You're just
00:33:43.180 taking vicious potshots
00:33:45.980 from your own corner
00:33:46.820 and allying
00:33:47.320 with the worst people
00:33:48.060 on earth
00:33:48.500 while you harangue
00:33:50.480 people like Donald Trump
00:33:51.580 for not living up
00:33:54.340 to this Madisonian,
00:33:55.540 George Washingtonian
00:33:56.640 ideal of the
00:33:57.980 American leadership.
00:34:00.300 Take a look
00:34:01.160 in the mirror.
00:34:03.140 Now,
00:34:03.440 speaking of the
00:34:04.100 political scene
00:34:04.980 and the future
00:34:05.940 leaders of America,
00:34:07.320 we've got some
00:34:08.040 major little endorsements
00:34:10.620 in the 2020
00:34:11.420 Democratic
00:34:11.940 Presidential Primary.
00:34:13.320 Before we get
00:34:14.140 to the coveted
00:34:14.680 Judge Judy endorsement,
00:34:15.800 there is
00:34:16.420 the question
00:34:17.820 of Julian Castro,
00:34:19.300 my favorite
00:34:20.040 Democratic candidate,
00:34:21.640 the bold leader
00:34:23.100 who endorsed
00:34:23.740 abortion rights
00:34:24.520 for men
00:34:24.960 in a Democratic
00:34:26.660 debate.
00:34:27.180 He dropped out,
00:34:27.940 obviously,
00:34:28.340 because nobody
00:34:29.520 supported him
00:34:30.180 in the whole country.
00:34:31.580 He is now
00:34:33.260 choosing to endorse,
00:34:34.720 drum roll please,
00:34:37.260 Elizabeth Warren.
00:34:38.220 He says that
00:34:38.740 Elizabeth Warren
00:34:39.460 is the most qualified,
00:34:40.640 best equipped candidate
00:34:41.640 to win the nomination.
00:34:43.680 That is not true,
00:34:44.900 but he is endorsing
00:34:46.300 her anyway.
00:34:48.380 This is
00:34:49.360 maybe a smart move
00:34:51.480 for Castro.
00:34:52.720 It's one of the only
00:34:53.820 two moves
00:34:54.460 he could have made.
00:34:55.600 He can't endorse
00:34:56.640 Biden because he
00:34:57.820 humiliated Biden
00:34:58.820 on stage and said
00:35:00.060 that he was an old man
00:35:00.980 who had dementia
00:35:01.980 and was forgetting
00:35:02.560 things that he said
00:35:03.200 two minutes before.
00:35:04.060 It was a really,
00:35:04.460 really ugly attack.
00:35:06.300 He's not going to go
00:35:07.080 for Buttigieg
00:35:07.740 because Buttigieg
00:35:08.360 is now playing
00:35:09.080 the moderate role
00:35:10.000 in the race
00:35:10.660 and Castro decided
00:35:11.640 to play the far
00:35:12.340 leftist role in the race
00:35:13.360 endorsing abortion
00:35:14.120 for men.
00:35:15.060 So that leaves
00:35:16.120 Warren and Sanders.
00:35:17.560 Sanders is the
00:35:20.720 real deal radical.
00:35:22.740 Sanders honeymooned
00:35:24.020 in the Soviet Union.
00:35:25.420 Sanders was friends
00:35:26.680 with Karl Marx,
00:35:27.440 I think.
00:35:27.840 I'm pretty sure.
00:35:28.460 I think it was
00:35:28.700 Marx, Engels,
00:35:30.100 and Sanders
00:35:30.720 who were drafting
00:35:32.020 the Communist Manifesto.
00:35:33.240 Poor Bernie
00:35:33.640 was left out.
00:35:36.640 So he could go
00:35:37.580 for Sanders,
00:35:38.360 the real deal radical,
00:35:39.720 or he could go
00:35:40.320 for Warren,
00:35:41.100 who is the more
00:35:42.200 cynical radical.
00:35:43.660 Warren has positioned
00:35:44.600 herself as an
00:35:45.240 establishment figure
00:35:46.020 at various times
00:35:46.700 in her life
00:35:47.200 and she's positioned
00:35:48.760 herself as a radical
00:35:49.960 now.
00:35:51.120 She doesn't have
00:35:52.320 much regard
00:35:52.780 for the truth.
00:35:53.320 The same thing
00:35:53.740 could be said
00:35:54.100 of Julian Castro.
00:35:55.000 Julian Castro
00:35:55.680 was a Clinton Democrat
00:35:57.060 until the day
00:35:57.640 before yesterday
00:35:58.440 when he thought
00:35:59.200 it would behoove him
00:36:00.120 to move further
00:36:01.360 to the left.
00:36:02.360 He's a real
00:36:02.900 calculating politician
00:36:04.020 so he sees
00:36:04.960 a similar figure
00:36:06.840 in Elizabeth Warren.
00:36:09.080 Now I think
00:36:09.760 if he were really
00:36:10.520 making a play
00:36:11.320 for 2020,
00:36:12.960 he probably would
00:36:13.740 have gone for Sanders.
00:36:14.640 I think right now
00:36:15.600 Sanders has a better
00:36:16.720 chance of getting
00:36:18.640 this nomination.
00:36:19.580 Sanders is vastly
00:36:20.840 outraising Elizabeth Warren.
00:36:22.540 He's vastly outraising
00:36:23.400 everybody in the field
00:36:24.300 and he's actually
00:36:26.640 standing for something.
00:36:27.760 He is sort of
00:36:28.240 outside the mainstream
00:36:29.260 which at this moment
00:36:30.560 in politics
00:36:31.080 is pretty helpful.
00:36:33.000 And Elizabeth Warren
00:36:33.940 is tanking, right?
00:36:34.940 Her momentum
00:36:35.700 is totally dropped.
00:36:37.260 It doesn't exist anymore
00:36:38.260 and Sanders
00:36:39.160 is gaining momentum.
00:36:40.080 So if he were really
00:36:40.720 concerned about 2020,
00:36:42.120 probably Castro
00:36:42.820 would have endorsed Sanders
00:36:43.780 but I think Castro
00:36:45.240 is looking down the road.
00:36:46.520 I think the whole
00:36:47.020 Democratic Party
00:36:47.680 is not terribly hopeful
00:36:48.580 that they're going
00:36:49.060 to win in 2020.
00:36:50.220 They don't really have
00:36:50.860 a top tier candidate.
00:36:52.180 So I think he's looking
00:36:53.300 at 2024, 2028.
00:36:55.140 He's saying, you know,
00:36:55.940 Bernie Sanders
00:36:56.480 is pretty up there in age
00:36:57.720 and Elizabeth Warren
00:36:59.560 has a long career
00:37:00.420 ahead of her.
00:37:01.280 This might be a good
00:37:01.940 partnership to begin
00:37:02.860 and especially right now
00:37:03.980 that Liz Warren's
00:37:05.000 stock is dropping,
00:37:06.280 that he could buy
00:37:07.660 pretty cheap,
00:37:08.800 that she needs
00:37:09.580 these sort of endorsements.
00:37:10.700 I think he thinks
00:37:11.760 that his endorsement
00:37:12.380 is going to go
00:37:12.960 significantly further
00:37:14.220 with Elizabeth Warren.
00:37:16.140 This is a signal
00:37:16.880 of the weakness
00:37:17.900 of the Warren campaign.
00:37:20.140 The fact that she's got
00:37:20.940 to pick up these cheap
00:37:21.720 little endorsements
00:37:22.460 right now.
00:37:23.400 The fact that they
00:37:24.120 would be so helpful
00:37:25.260 to the people
00:37:26.020 who are endorsing.
00:37:28.080 Another candidate
00:37:29.340 to trot out an endorsement
00:37:30.500 this week
00:37:30.820 was Michael Bloomberg.
00:37:32.440 You might have forgotten
00:37:33.100 that former New York City
00:37:35.100 half Republican,
00:37:36.460 half Democrat,
00:37:37.380 billionaire extraordinaire
00:37:38.300 Mike Bloomberg was running.
00:37:40.180 Bloomberg trotted out
00:37:41.460 the coveted
00:37:43.760 Judge Judy endorsement.
00:37:46.200 Here she is.
00:37:47.780 I'm Judge Judy Scheindler.
00:37:49.960 I like to say
00:37:50.880 you can judge
00:37:51.820 someone's character
00:37:52.680 by what they've done.
00:37:54.820 Mike Bloomberg
00:37:55.300 has done amazing things
00:37:56.680 and will be
00:37:57.760 a truly great president.
00:37:59.720 No one comes close
00:38:01.040 to Mike Bloomberg's
00:38:01.980 executive achievement,
00:38:03.620 government experience,
00:38:05.180 and impactful philanthropy.
00:38:07.080 His steady leadership
00:38:08.080 will unite our country
00:38:09.320 and bring us through
00:38:10.600 these very challenging times.
00:38:13.040 I'm Mike Bloomberg
00:38:14.000 and I approve this message.
00:38:16.660 All right,
00:38:17.280 you got it, Mike.
00:38:18.280 Congratulations.
00:38:19.420 This highlights
00:38:20.340 the central problem
00:38:21.680 with the Bloomberg campaign,
00:38:22.860 which is that
00:38:23.280 there's nobody
00:38:23.840 to vote for him.
00:38:24.960 Nobody likes
00:38:25.960 his point of view,
00:38:26.880 which is as a sort of
00:38:28.200 fiscal conservative,
00:38:30.220 you might say,
00:38:31.080 or low taxes,
00:38:33.700 pro-free trade,
00:38:35.180 pro-free,
00:38:35.800 generally pro-free market
00:38:37.180 economics guy,
00:38:38.220 and a big social liberal
00:38:39.860 who wants to take away
00:38:41.200 all of our guns
00:38:41.920 and promote a radical
00:38:42.820 social agenda.
00:38:44.840 Abortion,
00:38:45.820 the whole nine yards.
00:38:48.800 Every elite person
00:38:50.280 on the coasts
00:38:51.420 who went to
00:38:52.260 very fancy schools,
00:38:53.580 who has a very fancy job,
00:38:55.400 everybody
00:38:55.820 in that social strata
00:38:58.240 believes what
00:38:59.340 Mike Bloomberg believes,
00:39:00.520 but they account
00:39:01.520 for like 4%
00:39:02.440 of the country.
00:39:03.020 I think the actual number
00:39:04.800 according to polling
00:39:05.400 is 4% to 4.5%
00:39:06.800 who would call themselves
00:39:08.560 fiscal conservative
00:39:09.280 social liberals
00:39:09.980 like Mike Bloomberg.
00:39:11.400 And so there's just
00:39:12.360 no audience for this.
00:39:13.740 I mean, Judge Judy,
00:39:14.960 she's a celebrity
00:39:15.880 New Yorker
00:39:16.700 who's a kind of
00:39:17.360 political moderate,
00:39:19.100 so she's a natural fit
00:39:20.960 for Mike Bloomberg,
00:39:21.800 but very few people
00:39:23.120 fit that bill.
00:39:25.620 It's evidence
00:39:27.820 even further
00:39:28.920 of an AstroTurf campaign.
00:39:30.480 Another good evidence
00:39:31.140 of this yesterday,
00:39:33.020 Team Bloomberg,
00:39:34.240 the Bloomberg campaign
00:39:35.500 Twitter account,
00:39:36.620 posted a photo
00:39:37.800 of Bloomberg
00:39:39.160 somewhere on the
00:39:39.780 campaign trail
00:39:40.560 at a barbecue joint.
00:39:42.600 And it says,
00:39:43.780 find someone
00:39:44.240 who looks at you
00:39:45.100 the way Mike
00:39:45.740 looks at ribs
00:39:46.620 with the big
00:39:47.360 googly eyes emoji.
00:39:50.100 And the trouble
00:39:50.960 with the photo
00:39:51.940 is that nobody
00:39:53.220 is eating ribs.
00:39:54.820 They're actually
00:39:55.580 eating brisket.
00:39:56.620 The only ribs
00:39:57.420 in the photo
00:39:58.160 are human ribs,
00:39:59.360 and if that's what
00:40:00.360 the team was implying
00:40:01.420 there with the tweet,
00:40:02.140 that's pretty creepy.
00:40:04.060 Really,
00:40:04.560 what you need to do
00:40:05.220 is find someone
00:40:06.280 who knows what ribs are,
00:40:07.520 unlike the Mike
00:40:08.120 Bloomberg staffer
00:40:08.860 who posted that tweet.
00:40:10.760 It's all just
00:40:12.100 AstroTurf.
00:40:13.040 I don't think
00:40:13.460 Mike Bloomberg
00:40:14.000 eats ribs.
00:40:15.780 I don't think
00:40:16.320 Mike Bloomberg
00:40:16.860 rolls his shirt sleeves up.
00:40:18.460 I think Mike Bloomberg
00:40:19.340 is a very fancy
00:40:20.940 billionaire
00:40:21.380 who has lived
00:40:22.620 in New York
00:40:23.360 for his entire life,
00:40:25.080 who drinks
00:40:26.640 very good wines,
00:40:27.820 and who talks
00:40:29.160 to very elite people
00:40:30.340 about very elite things,
00:40:31.840 which is perfectly fine.
00:40:33.700 I think he should be him.
00:40:34.820 I think he's going
00:40:35.240 to have a much better job
00:40:36.260 convincing people
00:40:37.340 that that's who he is
00:40:38.180 rather than that he's
00:40:38.860 some working class guy
00:40:39.800 who doesn't even know
00:40:40.300 what ribs are.
00:40:41.960 But it shows you
00:40:43.620 a key aspect
00:40:44.900 of Trump's appeal,
00:40:46.020 which is that
00:40:47.020 he is a billionaire
00:40:47.860 who doesn't act
00:40:48.900 like a billionaire.
00:40:50.320 He is a billionaire
00:40:51.360 who doesn't talk fancy.
00:40:53.420 He talks like
00:40:54.320 a construction worker
00:40:55.120 and always has.
00:40:56.100 It's not like
00:40:56.480 he's putting on a show
00:40:57.120 to run for president.
00:40:58.320 He has always
00:40:59.040 talked that way.
00:41:00.000 He's a billionaire
00:41:00.580 who wants to eat KFC
00:41:02.600 rather than
00:41:03.700 all the fancy food
00:41:05.020 that Mike Bloomberg eats.
00:41:06.460 Right?
00:41:06.600 He's a billionaire
00:41:07.000 who actually probably
00:41:07.800 knows what ribs are.
00:41:09.460 He's a billionaire
00:41:10.260 who famously
00:41:11.040 when he orders steak,
00:41:12.100 he orders it burnt
00:41:12.980 with ketchup.
00:41:13.880 He doesn't order
00:41:14.440 steak tartare
00:41:15.240 with a very nice
00:41:16.180 Chablis
00:41:17.200 or an Albarino wine
00:41:19.180 on the side.
00:41:19.540 Right?
00:41:19.720 He doesn't do that.
00:41:20.460 He drinks Diet Coke.
00:41:21.260 He actually doesn't drink
00:41:21.940 alcohol at all.
00:41:23.220 That is a real
00:41:24.000 political advantage
00:41:24.780 for Trump.
00:41:25.280 These guys
00:41:27.040 are just jokers
00:41:28.280 in the democratic field
00:41:29.300 and if the recent
00:41:30.920 endorsements
00:41:31.420 are any indication
00:41:32.120 it's not getting
00:41:33.000 better for them.
00:41:33.700 Before we go
00:41:34.200 I've got to talk about
00:41:35.460 the Methodist church
00:41:37.360 splitting up.
00:41:38.740 The United Methodist
00:41:39.880 church leaders
00:41:40.560 are now proposing
00:41:42.240 a split
00:41:42.920 in their church
00:41:43.880 to resolve
00:41:45.460 a debate over
00:41:46.300 LGBT clergy
00:41:48.180 and same-sex weddings.
00:41:50.340 So they're actually,
00:41:51.020 I mean that's pretty radical.
00:41:52.060 They're talking about
00:41:52.600 the church actually
00:41:53.420 officiating
00:41:54.200 same-sex wedding ceremonies.
00:41:57.740 This is a proposal
00:41:59.300 from the 16-member group
00:42:00.460 of bishops
00:42:00.860 and church leaders
00:42:01.720 and they say
00:42:02.940 the separation
00:42:03.500 may be quote
00:42:04.560 the best means
00:42:05.400 to resolve our differences
00:42:06.340 allowing each part
00:42:07.340 of the church
00:42:07.820 to remain true
00:42:08.860 to its theological
00:42:09.720 understanding
00:42:10.520 while recognizing
00:42:11.880 the dignity,
00:42:12.440 equality,
00:42:12.800 integrity,
00:42:13.140 and respect
00:42:13.460 of every person.
00:42:14.240 So they can't figure out
00:42:15.160 this question
00:42:16.040 of radical
00:42:16.740 social
00:42:18.000 progressivism
00:42:20.960 I guess you would call
00:42:21.620 or leftism
00:42:22.260 and so now
00:42:23.100 they're going to split up.
00:42:24.840 I mention this story
00:42:25.820 for a couple of reasons.
00:42:28.240 One,
00:42:28.820 it's to show you
00:42:29.740 that
00:42:30.660 it's a fool's errand
00:42:33.000 for the church
00:42:33.800 to try to become
00:42:34.620 more like the world.
00:42:35.860 Every Christian denomination
00:42:37.660 has done this
00:42:38.820 at various points
00:42:39.680 including
00:42:40.180 maybe especially
00:42:41.060 the Catholic church.
00:42:42.120 They've tried to
00:42:43.260 become more like the world.
00:42:44.880 They say if only we
00:42:46.020 more closely resemble
00:42:47.420 the world
00:42:48.040 then we'll be able
00:42:49.000 to attract people
00:42:49.700 to our pews
00:42:50.400 and what happened?
00:42:51.860 The exact opposite
00:42:52.840 proved true.
00:42:54.080 When the mainstream
00:42:54.640 Protestant churches
00:42:55.440 in America
00:42:55.980 tried to become
00:42:56.920 more modern,
00:42:57.780 more hip,
00:42:58.320 more cool,
00:42:58.840 more like the world
00:42:59.540 the pews emptied out.
00:43:01.160 When the Catholic church
00:43:02.000 tried to become
00:43:02.520 more modern,
00:43:03.140 more hip,
00:43:03.540 more cool,
00:43:04.020 more like the world
00:43:04.620 after Vatican II
00:43:05.900 guess what happened?
00:43:06.640 The pews emptied out.
00:43:07.560 The only people
00:43:08.060 who go to church anymore
00:43:08.960 the only people
00:43:09.900 who are increasing
00:43:10.720 their church attendance
00:43:12.080 are the traditionalists
00:43:13.460 who are going
00:43:13.800 to Latin masses
00:43:14.540 ever since Pope Benedict
00:43:15.960 permitted the Latin mass again.
00:43:18.140 The same thing is true
00:43:19.000 in evangelical churches.
00:43:20.280 The ones that try
00:43:21.400 to become more hip
00:43:22.220 and more cool
00:43:22.760 and more like the world
00:43:23.640 with a few exceptions
00:43:24.760 are the ones
00:43:25.680 that empty out
00:43:26.260 and the ones
00:43:26.720 that try to preach
00:43:27.660 a more orthodox message
00:43:28.840 those are the ones
00:43:29.900 that fill up.
00:43:32.700 That's one aspect
00:43:33.720 of this story.
00:43:34.280 The other one
00:43:35.040 is to just show
00:43:37.260 one of the arguments
00:43:39.240 for the Catholic church
00:43:40.220 because I get these questions
00:43:41.380 all the time
00:43:42.060 in the mailbag.
00:43:42.680 They say,
00:43:42.860 why are you Catholic?
00:43:43.460 And I usually give
00:43:44.320 theological answers
00:43:46.240 to that
00:43:46.760 or answers
00:43:47.440 from symbolism
00:43:48.380 or from literature
00:43:49.280 or from the nature
00:43:49.900 of language
00:43:50.420 or philosophical
00:43:51.100 at right.
00:43:52.600 This is just
00:43:53.440 a very practical
00:43:54.380 reason
00:43:55.660 for the Catholic church
00:43:57.440 which is
00:43:58.000 after you had
00:43:59.940 the Protestant revolution
00:44:01.040 you got
00:44:02.740 tens of thousands
00:44:04.160 of different
00:44:04.700 Protestant denominations
00:44:05.880 each claiming
00:44:06.640 to be the truth
00:44:07.420 each claiming
00:44:08.300 to represent
00:44:08.900 the truth
00:44:09.560 of the Bible
00:44:10.260 you know
00:44:10.680 to be a Bible church
00:44:11.560 or the truth
00:44:12.600 of the apostolic tradition
00:44:13.820 or the truth
00:44:14.500 of Christian history
00:44:16.220 or whatever
00:44:17.340 they can't all be right
00:44:20.240 there has to be
00:44:21.880 some authority
00:44:22.700 and this argument
00:44:24.460 that actually does
00:44:26.380 sort of come
00:44:27.080 from the authority
00:44:28.020 of the apostolic tradition
00:44:29.760 refers to a passage
00:44:31.640 in scripture
00:44:32.120 where Christ
00:44:34.340 looks at his apostles
00:44:35.280 and the ones
00:44:36.220 who haven't left him
00:44:37.160 after he makes
00:44:38.000 the hard saying
00:44:38.800 about the Eucharist
00:44:39.640 after he says
00:44:40.180 you've got to eat
00:44:40.920 my flesh
00:44:41.860 and drink my blood
00:44:42.680 or you have no life
00:44:43.540 in you
00:44:43.840 a lot of people
00:44:45.040 go away
00:44:45.640 and then
00:44:47.260 his apostles
00:44:49.020 stay
00:44:49.520 and he says
00:44:50.760 you haven't left me
00:44:51.520 and Peter says
00:44:52.240 where shall we go
00:44:54.140 where else
00:44:55.300 could we go
00:44:55.800 and that is
00:44:56.440 the argument
00:44:57.240 for Christianity
00:44:59.720 from authority
00:45:00.560 and specifically
00:45:01.180 for the Catholic church
00:45:02.320 I mean that
00:45:02.720 that is one
00:45:03.260 that refers directly
00:45:04.160 to that authority
00:45:05.080 because if you
00:45:05.840 crack that authority
00:45:07.140 then you get
00:45:08.340 30,000 different
00:45:09.600 denominations
00:45:10.260 that split up
00:45:10.900 you know
00:45:11.460 every few weeks
00:45:12.680 it would seem
00:45:13.540 and that authority
00:45:15.020 is important
00:45:15.480 in politics too
00:45:16.660 it's not sufficient
00:45:18.180 it can't be
00:45:18.780 the only argument
00:45:19.700 but
00:45:20.680 when you
00:45:22.380 look at
00:45:24.240 your political
00:45:25.040 point of view
00:45:25.620 and you see
00:45:27.480 that it's leading
00:45:28.140 you to oppose
00:45:29.600 the very
00:45:30.620 bonds of loyalty
00:45:32.460 to your country
00:45:33.220 themselves
00:45:34.060 that they
00:45:35.100 lead you to
00:45:35.820 oppose your tradition
00:45:36.800 they lead you
00:45:37.640 to oppose
00:45:38.220 your own countrymen
00:45:39.180 and decide
00:45:39.760 with vicious
00:45:41.060 terrorists
00:45:41.640 and the worst
00:45:42.180 people on earth
00:45:42.900 maybe you've
00:45:43.880 got to rethink
00:45:44.780 your point of view
00:45:45.780 that's true
00:45:46.560 politically
00:45:47.600 culturally
00:45:48.220 it's true
00:45:49.440 all the way
00:45:49.920 up the line
00:45:50.360 all the way
00:45:50.620 up to religious
00:45:51.240 questions
00:45:51.840 there are
00:45:53.440 practical effects
00:45:54.640 of ideas
00:45:55.520 in the real world
00:45:57.200 they will lead you
00:45:58.240 to real human
00:45:59.200 interaction
00:45:59.860 they will lead you
00:46:00.960 to real political
00:46:02.100 institutions
00:46:02.900 to put it simply
00:46:05.100 ideas matter
00:46:06.580 and if
00:46:07.500 all of the
00:46:08.060 matter around
00:46:08.720 you
00:46:08.880 if all of the
00:46:09.360 relationships
00:46:09.840 around you
00:46:10.480 seem to be
00:46:11.160 a little off
00:46:12.320 kilter
00:46:12.800 if all of the
00:46:14.260 actions that you're
00:46:15.000 being impelled to do
00:46:15.840 seem a little off
00:46:16.580 kilter
00:46:16.840 then maybe
00:46:17.280 you've got to
00:46:18.000 change the ideas
00:46:19.180 that's our show
00:46:20.260 I'm Michael Knowles
00:46:20.920 this is the Michael
00:46:21.480 Knowles show
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