The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 474 - Don’t You Know There’s A War On？

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00:00:37.820 Iran launches an attack on a U.S. air base in Iraq.

00:00:41.160 The missiles flopped and no Americans were killed, at least as of this airing.

00:00:46.980 But the question remains, are we at war with Iran?

00:00:50.500 We will examine what the strike means as well as the broader Trump doctrine.

00:00:55.320 Then, Covington kid Nicholas Sandman wins a big payout from CNN as the fake news company settles a $250 million defamation lawsuit.

00:01:05.600 Speaking of fake news, the media are spreading lots of it when it comes to the Australian wildfires. 0.92

00:01:11.540 And finally, the New York Times asks the right question and gives a dumb answer in the dumbest article on the internet today. 0.96

00:01:17.960 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.97

00:01:20.520 Are we at war? Are we going to war? Should we go to war? Is war ever justified?

00:01:34.940 We will answer all of those questions today.

00:01:37.540 First, the facts, because from the moment that this attack was launched last night from Iran onto these U.S. air bases in Iraq,

00:01:46.840 there was a ton of opinion, a ton of fake news, very little in the way of facts.

00:01:53.960 What do we know? We know that Iran lobbed more than a dozen ballistic missiles at Al-Asad air base in Iraq last night.

00:02:03.080 That's the bad news. The good news is, as of right now, Wednesday morning, there are no reported casualties at all.

00:02:12.120 No American casualties, no Iraqi casualties, no casualties, period.

00:02:17.880 Obviously, information is coming in in drips and drabs, but that's the latest that we have.

00:02:22.680 You might be confused to hear that because last night, left-wing media outlets, including MSNBC, Washington Post, Raw Story,

00:02:32.520 a ton of them, were reporting without any evidence, just baselessly promoting on television and in the newspaper,

00:02:40.220 Iranian propaganda that they had killed or injured 30 Americans, 80 Americans.

00:02:48.240 Complete fake news propaganda coming out of Iran, and MSNBC takes that propaganda and airs it without even trying to vet it. 0.54

00:02:55.960 Same thing with the Washington Post, same thing with Raw Story.

00:03:00.000 They said, and they would at least attribute the information to Iranian state media, but that raises the question,

00:03:06.660 why is the Washington Post just senselessly regurgitating Iranian state media while Iran is attacking the United States? 0.85

00:03:13.660 Why is MSNBC pushing Iranian state media on their television network?

00:03:18.300 I mean, the good thing is nobody's watching, but the good thing with the Washington Post is nobody's reading.

00:03:23.460 But how reckless, how irresponsible, what total fake news, what obvious, clear evidence that the mainstream media

00:03:33.960 would rather take the side of Iran than take the side of the duly elected U.S. president

00:03:39.640 because they don't like him, because orange man bad.

00:03:42.060 We'll see even before the attack how clear this was in the New York Times, but those are the facts right now.

00:03:48.060 There was a major, lots of smoke, lots of fire, missile attack on a U.S. base, and yet nobody has been killed.

00:03:56.200 So what does that mean?

00:03:59.460 Are we at war? Are we going to war?

00:04:02.420 What is the point of this attack?

00:04:04.020 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:05:23.680 So what does this mean that they've attacked this U.S. base, multiple bases?

00:05:32.860 It doesn't mean anything new in particular.

00:05:37.100 Actually, fewer people were killed in this attack last night than have been killed in

00:05:41.120 just the past few weeks by Iran.

00:05:43.520 Fewer Americans have been killed.

00:05:44.840 As of late December, there had been 11 Iran-linked rocket attacks on U.S. positions in Iraq, including

00:05:53.500 in the green zone, over just the past two months, and they produced American casualties.

00:05:58.920 Last night was less bloody for Americans in our conflict with Iran than the previous two

00:06:04.640 months.

00:06:05.360 You might not know that from watching the mainstream media or from watching the big

00:06:08.800 fire and fury that was going on on videotape, but actually it was less bloody for Americans

00:06:15.580 than the previous two months.

00:06:17.940 What does that mean?

00:06:18.700 It means that the White House strategy on Iran is working.

00:06:25.100 It means that killing Qasem Soleimani, who is probably looking up on us from the afterlife

00:06:30.880 right now, was a good strategy.

00:06:34.500 Despite all the missiles and the fizzles and the fire and the fury,

00:06:38.800 it actually appears to have de-escalated the conflict with Iran, which had been increasing

00:06:45.080 for the past several months and really for the past several years.

00:06:48.640 There was a moment where the United States and Iran cooled their tensions.

00:06:53.600 They were not openly hostile to one another.

00:06:56.020 This is in particular after we returned to Iraq in 2014, but the only reason for that was

00:07:01.500 that we had a common enemy.

00:07:03.200 The common enemy was ISIS.

00:07:05.000 And so we both fight ISIS.

00:07:07.720 We stop the hostilities with one another for that period of time.

00:07:11.840 ISIS is dead.

00:07:13.420 Trump came in. 1.00

00:07:14.160 He said, we're going to kill ISIS. 1.00

00:07:15.540 We're going to beat the crap out of ISIS. 1.00

00:07:17.100 And we did. 1.00

00:07:17.760 We killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. 0.96

00:07:20.280 Then Iran starts the shenanigans again. 0.98

00:07:22.680 They kill an American contractor in Iraq.

00:07:24.980 They attack our embassy.

00:07:27.160 Qasem Soleimani himself is responsible for the deaths of over 600 American servicemen.

00:07:31.380 So what do we do?

00:07:32.000 We have the opportunity to get him.

00:07:34.140 President Trump makes the correct decision to take out Soleimani.

00:07:38.460 This was greatly feared by the mainstream media.

00:07:42.900 They lost their minds over this.

00:07:44.220 They said, this is terrible.

00:07:45.680 This is putting American soldiers in danger.

00:07:48.520 This couldn't possibly be worse.

00:07:49.960 What a terrible escalation.

00:07:51.800 What a provocation.

00:07:52.720 First of all, it was neither an escalation nor a provocation because we'd been dealing

00:07:56.360 with Iranian attacks on us for years.

00:07:58.840 But then look at the effect of it.

00:08:00.280 Look at the actual effect.

00:08:02.900 Iran lobbed some rockets into the dirt and they give Iraq heads up, according to recent 0.68

00:08:10.000 reports.

00:08:10.480 They apparently told Iraq that they were going to launch this attack.

00:08:14.520 And yet there were no Americans that were killed as well.

00:08:18.260 So how will Trump respond?

00:08:21.320 Previously, before this attack last night, Trump said, you're not going to be able to predict

00:08:27.120 our response.

00:08:30.620 You thought we were just bluffing.

00:08:31.900 Then we took out your top military general. 0.99

00:08:35.580 He said that if you strike us, you go and try to kill some Americans, that we will hit 0.98

00:08:43.580 not just military targets, not just oil fields, but cultural sites as well. 0.98

00:08:49.900 Everybody freaked out.

00:08:50.900 They said, this is a war crime.

00:08:52.940 You're not allowed to target cultural sites.

00:08:55.240 I did not freak out because I speak Trump.

00:08:57.680 I can interpret Trump for you.

00:09:00.080 Maybe it's because I'm from New York.

00:09:01.660 Maybe it's because I've been paying attention the last three years.

00:09:04.640 But when Trump says something, you've got to read it through the mind of a guy who at

00:09:11.320 least had the art of the deal ghostwritten for him.

00:09:13.400 You've got to read it through the lens of a guy who speaks in hyperbole, who exaggerates,

00:09:18.020 who understands that in order for threats to work, you need to have the credible threat

00:09:23.380 of violence, but you also need to know when to bluff.

00:09:25.980 You need to know when to hold them.

00:09:27.360 You need to know when to fold them.

00:09:28.460 You need to know when to walk away and when to run.

00:09:30.840 And the way that Trump talks is you just never quite know what he's being serious about,

00:09:35.220 what he's joking about, what is hyperbole.

00:09:37.560 And so did I fear that Trump was going to attack some 3,000 year old site in Iran?

00:09:43.220 No, I don't think he would do that.

00:09:45.700 But maybe he would.

00:09:46.460 I mean, that's the message he's sending to Iran, which is an important message.

00:09:50.780 That is how Trump talks.

00:09:52.140 That is how Trump should talk.

00:09:53.300 I think it's an effective strategy.

00:09:55.640 He has since walked it back when they said, are you going to commit a war crime?

00:09:58.980 He was sitting in the White House and he said, no, no, I probably won't commit a war crime.

00:10:04.180 You want to figure out, Mr. President, whether the Iranian cultural sites would be on any future

00:10:09.380 target?

00:10:10.060 Well, as I said yesterday, it was very interesting. 0.96

00:10:12.460 They're allowed to kill our people. 1.00

00:10:15.460 They're allowed to maim our people. 0.99

00:10:17.820 They're allowed to blow up everything that we have.

00:10:20.680 And there's nothing that stops them.

00:10:22.860 And we are, according to various laws, supposed to be very careful with their cultural heritage.

00:10:31.600 And you know what?

00:10:32.500 If that's what the law is, I like to obey the law.

00:10:35.460 But think of it.

00:10:36.200 They kill our people. 0.98

00:10:37.380 They blow up our people.

00:10:38.500 Although we have to be very gentle with their cultural institutions, but I'm okay with it.

00:10:44.160 It's okay with me.

00:10:45.320 I will say this.

00:10:46.780 If Iran does anything that they shouldn't be doing, they're going to be suffering the

00:10:52.080 consequences and very strongly.

00:10:54.280 I love this.

00:10:54.940 I love to obey the law.

00:10:56.440 Yeah.

00:10:56.800 Okay.

00:10:57.080 That's fine by me. 0.99

00:10:58.140 It's ridiculous because we should be able to just absolutely glass the country and kill 1.00

00:11:02.700 all the mullahs, but that's okay. 1.00

00:11:03.980 I'll, I will follow the law.

00:11:07.340 This is the way that you should speak.

00:11:10.340 If you are trying to get the mullahs to pull back their attacks on US troops, you need to 1.00

00:11:17.380 keep them on their toes.

00:11:18.400 You need to remain unpredictable.

00:11:20.800 I mean, what is on Trump's mind when he's making these comments?

00:11:23.440 He's saying, we just took out their top general.

00:11:27.440 Hostilities have been building for years.

00:11:29.940 I want these guys to know that I will rain down fire and brimstone and hellfire and 1.00

00:11:37.260 fury if they kill American servicemen. 1.00

00:11:41.340 I want them to know that. 0.99

00:11:42.620 And so he is conveying that.

00:11:44.900 And apparently it worked because as of right now, all those missiles landed in the dirt.

00:11:52.680 Nobody got killed.

00:11:54.500 Let's hope that that's true.

00:11:55.640 I mean, that's, this is based on initial reports.

00:11:57.460 Let's hope that that continues to hold.

00:11:59.180 Regardless, until five minutes ago, until President Trump, the opinion that we should

00:12:08.660 take a hard line on the mullahs in Iran, the opinion that these guys are some of the worst 1.00

00:12:13.400 people on earth, the opinion that we should hit them so hard.

00:12:17.120 They've never been hit harder in the entire history of Iran, was not a controversial opinion

00:12:24.600 until the left decided that anything Trump did was terrible.

00:12:29.700 Hillary Clinton, the guy that Trump, that's a Freudian slip, the lady that President Trump 0.99

00:12:35.200 beat in 2016, years ago, in the recent past, expressed the exact same opinion on Iran that

00:12:45.480 President Trump expressed.

00:12:47.240 Here is the former future president, Hillary Clinton.

00:12:50.760 Whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program in the next

00:12:56.140 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would 0.85

00:13:01.740 be able to totally obliterate them.

00:13:04.920 That's a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that, 0.99

00:13:09.580 because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish, 0.96

00:13:15.440 and tragic. 0.96

00:13:16.480 Of course, this is common sense.

00:13:18.520 This shouldn't be a partisan opinion.

00:13:19.880 Everybody held this view until the left decided orange man bad is their organizing principle.

00:13:27.320 The left is currently rallying to the side of Iran, not just on Twitter, not just by

00:13:31.580 pushing Iran wartime propaganda on the airwaves and in the Washington Post last night.

00:13:36.840 They were doing this even before.

00:13:38.720 You can see it in two obituaries run side by side in the New York Times on the same day.

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00:14:55.700 On the same day, the New York Times runs two obituaries.

00:15:00.620 This will show you what side they're on in our international conflicts and in our domestic

00:15:05.500 conflicts.

00:15:06.660 The one op-ed is of Qasem Soleimani, the world's most notorious terrorist who we splattered all 0.86

00:15:12.680 over the Baghdad airport just a few days ago.

00:15:15.300 Here's the title of the obituary.

00:15:17.640 Qasem Soleimani, master of Iran's intrigue and force, dies at 62.

00:15:25.180 The master of the intrigue, the most interesting man in the world.

00:15:30.560 He does kind of look like the guy from the commercial who's the most interesting man in

00:15:33.520 the world.

00:15:34.420 Here he did until, you know, master of intrigue and force.

00:15:39.420 Oh, he's so handsome.

00:15:41.000 He's so brilliant.

00:15:41.760 He's so wonderful.

00:15:42.880 Dies at 62.

00:15:44.280 Okay.

00:15:45.060 Now, here is football legend Sam Weich.

00:15:50.740 Sam Weich, who was the last coach to lead the Cincinnati Bengals to the Super Bowl, but

00:15:55.460 who was later fined by the National Football League for barring a female reporter from the

00:16:00.720 team's locker room, has died.

00:16:02.680 Those, those are the two tweets.

00:16:08.440 Master of the intrigue and force.

00:16:10.840 That's how they refer to the terrorist who hates America, who's trying to kill American 0.67

00:16:13.800 soldiers.

00:16:15.860 A coach who led the team to the Super Bowl, but was later fined for barring a female reporter

00:16:19.920 from the team's locker room.

00:16:21.480 That's how they refer to an American football legend.

00:16:24.120 That's the New York Times for you.

00:16:25.300 That tells you everything you need to know.

00:16:26.740 So beyond the mainstream media, which have lost, in my view, whatever little shred of

00:16:31.200 credibility they had left by pushing Iranian propaganda as they are attacking our soldiers.

00:16:39.400 Beyond the question of the mainstream media, the question is, are we at war?

00:16:42.960 Yes.

00:16:44.160 Of course we are.

00:16:44.860 We've been at war for years, decades at this point.

00:16:47.140 We've been in a renewed conflict with Iran for months.

00:16:53.800 Killing Soleimani did not start that war.

00:16:55.920 It was a response to the war that Iran started.

00:17:00.060 Question is, should we be at war?

00:17:04.320 Well, the trouble with war is that your enemy has a say.

00:17:07.680 You're not the only guy who gets a say in war.

00:17:09.900 Your, your enemy gets to have a part in that decision as well.

00:17:15.000 Should we be at war?

00:17:16.120 The answer to that is, we must be able to deter our enemies.

00:17:21.360 Under Obama, we were not able to deter our enemies.

00:17:25.640 And things got a lot more dangerous and we got bogged down in a lot more conflicts.

00:17:29.620 Under Obama, when Iran provoked us and took our sailors hostage, how did we respond? 0.76

00:17:36.140 Did we kill their top military official?

00:17:38.020 No.

00:17:38.740 We sent them pallets of cash and apologized to them and thanked them so much for letting

00:17:42.880 our sailors go. 0.99

00:17:44.360 Pathetic. 0.99

00:17:44.800 And it gets us more bogged down in quagmires. 1.00

00:17:48.740 Under Trump, they attack our embassy.

00:17:51.260 They try to deliver us another Benghazi. 0.73

00:17:53.220 And we kill their top military official who was very likely going to be a leader of Iran 0.84

00:17:57.680 someday. 0.99

00:17:58.040 We must be able to deter our enemies.

00:18:02.420 It would appear that we have deterred our enemies because their response to our killing,

00:18:07.540 one of the most important men in their entire country, was to throw some rockets into the

00:18:11.340 dirt and make a big stink about it and get their lackeys at MSNBC and the Washington Post 0.98

00:18:15.800 and that's what we're going to do.

00:18:17.180 But ultimately, as of this moment, not to kill any American servicemen or anybody.

00:18:22.740 Then the question becomes, is war ever permissible?

00:18:27.840 And this is a question that's been coming up on the right even these days, as well, of course,

00:18:33.300 as the left.

00:18:33.820 I expect the kind of moral incoherence from the left.

00:18:36.720 But when it crops up on the right, that troubles me more greatly because the right is supposed

00:18:40.720 to know what's going on.

00:18:41.960 But you've seen it.

00:18:42.800 I mean, there have been people on the right, even on the far right, as the media calls them,

00:18:47.360 who call themselves pacifists these days.

00:18:50.680 They say war is basically never acceptable.

00:18:54.180 And that is a morally indefensible position.

00:18:58.360 Pacifism seems all really nice and happy and huggy and feely.

00:19:03.140 It is an indefensible position.

00:19:06.420 C.S. Lewis, the great theologian, the great moralist, he put this very well in a book called

00:19:11.800 The Weight of Glory in an essay in that book called Why I'm Not a Pacifist.

00:19:16.000 The key passage, C.S. Lewis writes, you should read the whole essay.

00:19:18.760 It's really, really good.

00:19:19.760 But the key passage is he writes, the doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to

00:19:25.640 imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils.

00:19:32.100 But I do not think they are.

00:19:33.920 I think the suppression of a higher religion by a lower or even a higher secular culture by

00:19:38.800 a lower, a much greater evil.

00:19:41.060 Nor am I greatly moved by the fact that many of the individuals we strike down in war are

00:19:46.260 innocent.

00:19:47.120 That seems, in a way, to make war not worse, but better.

00:19:51.080 All men die and most men die miserably. 0.98

00:19:53.840 That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right,

00:19:58.360 each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the

00:20:03.740 ascendant, should kill each other in plain battle, seems to me by no means one of the most

00:20:09.340 terrible things in this very terrible world.

00:20:12.440 Of course, one of them, at least, must be mistaken.

00:20:15.400 And of course, war is a very great evil.

00:20:18.860 But that is not the question.

00:20:21.040 The question is whether war is the greatest evil in the world, so that any state of affairs

00:20:26.800 which might result from submission is certainly preferable.

00:20:29.400 And I do not see any really cogent arguments for that view.

00:20:33.780 Absolutely right.

00:20:35.380 The question here is not between wonderful, lovely doves who want us all to get along and

00:20:41.880 those awful, terrible warmongers who are willing to send American soldiers overseas to go fight

00:20:48.020 in these endless conflicts. 0.96

00:20:49.260 That's not the question.

00:20:50.120 The question, when you're looking at these wars, is what is the least bad option?

00:20:57.680 What is the lesser evil?

00:20:59.720 What is going to protect American interests and secure peace over the long run and maybe

00:21:05.360 not just for the next week or two weeks or three weeks?

00:21:08.040 This killing of Soleimani is a great example of it.

00:21:11.460 There were many people on the left and some on the right, some prominent people on the right,

00:21:15.220 who said the killing of Soleimani is indefensible, it's going to lead to all-out war, it's going

00:21:20.340 to increase hostilities.

00:21:22.020 Trump realized that wasn't true.

00:21:25.180 Obviously, anything can happen in war, but we were already in a state of war.

00:21:29.720 The question is, will responding, will offering the credible threat of violence, will reestablishing

00:21:37.460 deterrence increase peace and prosperity over the long run, or will it diminish it?

00:21:44.160 And it would seem that taking a hard line on Iran, killing their top military guy, has

00:21:50.840 reestablished deterrence, even once all the smoke and fire clears from this missile attack

00:21:56.160 where they send some rockets into the dirt.

00:21:59.080 It's an important lesson to remember because pacifism is so seductive.

00:22:06.240 It's such a, because you want, you want to seem like a peacemaker, but pacifism is not

00:22:12.460 a terribly good way to make peace.

00:22:15.920 In, in the long run, strength establishes peace.

00:22:20.180 Strength deters violence.

00:22:22.280 And weakness, which is what pacifism is, weakness only encourages greater hostilities.

00:22:29.540 The, the key story today, I mean, the, the good news is, obviously, no reported casualties

00:22:34.980 at this moment, that the strategy worked, that Iran is making a big spectacle, but as of right

00:22:41.380 now, things are looking okay.

00:22:45.000 That's the most important thing.

00:22:46.860 The underlying story here is the absolute corruption of the media, the absolute disgusting 0.69

00:22:53.080 media that would air Iranian propaganda. 0.79

00:22:56.540 But we already knew that the media were absolutely disgusting, the mainstream media.

00:23:01.440 How did we know that?

00:23:02.440 Because of another story that broke yesterday.

00:23:05.080 And this is the greatest domestic news story of the new year.

00:23:11.580 Probably the greatest news story of the last 12 months.

00:23:16.100 Nicholas Sandman, the Covington kid who was filmed on video standing at the mall in Washington 0.88

00:23:23.680 while a bunch of black supremacists were screaming awful things at him and some maniac Native American 0.97

00:23:29.960 activist banged a drum in his face. 0.99

00:23:31.900 And this kid stood with total dignity and just took it, stared at, didn't cede his ground,

00:23:37.060 but didn't provoke anybody else.

00:23:38.640 This kid was smeared all over the mainstream media.

00:23:43.180 Reza Aslan, a former CNN contributor, said he had a punchable face. 0.96

00:23:48.040 Everybody smearing this kid is a racist and a bigot based on nothing.

00:23:53.680 That kid has just settled a lawsuit, a defamation lawsuit with CNN for an undisclosed amount of

00:23:59.940 money.

00:24:01.260 That lawsuit was initially for $250 million.

00:24:05.400 I can only imagine what this kid got from CNN.

00:24:09.880 If he got $25 million, that's amazing.

00:24:12.940 That would be a tenth of the lawsuit.

00:24:14.740 Even if he got $5 million, I don't know, that would be incredible.

00:24:17.520 Because he's also got these lawsuits out at the Washington Post.

00:24:20.700 I believe he's got one at NBC.

00:24:22.440 He's got them at all of these media outlets that smeared him.

00:24:26.500 As he should.

00:24:27.720 He should take them for all that they are worth.

00:24:30.120 Because even after it came out that the mainstream media had unfairly smeared Nick Sandman, they

00:24:36.300 still didn't recant their terrible reporting.

00:24:39.720 They actually doubled down.

00:24:41.320 He did an interview, this kid, on the Today Show.

00:24:44.180 NBC's Savannah Guthrie asked him.

00:24:46.020 During this interview, after it was clear he did nothing wrong, after it was clear that

00:24:49.900 he was the victim, she asked him if he wanted to apologize for anything.

00:24:53.840 Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology?

00:25:00.560 Do you see your own fault in any way?

00:25:05.240 As far as standing there, I had every right to do so.

00:25:10.940 I don't, I, my position is that I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips.

00:25:16.460 I respect him.

00:25:17.640 I'd like to talk to him.

00:25:18.860 And, I mean, in hindsight, I wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole thing.

00:25:25.660 Wow.

00:25:26.200 What a terrific response to an absurd question. 0.99

00:25:30.740 She says, hey, okay, so, yeah, we figured out that it was those black supremacists who 0.99

00:25:35.500 were screaming terrible things at you. 0.99

00:25:36.780 And, yeah, this, this maniac was banging a drum in your face and you were just sort of 0.92

00:25:40.180 standing there. 0.59

00:25:41.380 So, do you, do you want to apologize for standing?

00:25:44.640 You're not supposed to stand.

00:25:45.520 You're supposed to lie down and let the left and the mainstream media trample over you.

00:25:51.040 So, don't you want to apologize for, you're not allowed to stand.

00:25:54.640 You're a Catholic high school kid who was, who was in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate against

00:26:00.120 abortion and to demonstrate for life and to try to put a stop to killing a million babies 0.65

00:26:04.460 a year.

00:26:04.840 You're not allowed to stand. 1.00

00:26:06.240 You're a terrible, terrible person. 1.00

00:26:07.700 So, do you want to just apologize? 0.99

00:26:08.640 And he said, uh, no, I'm not sorry for standing at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

00:26:21.440 I don't, I'm going to check my 10 commandments here.

00:26:24.340 I don't, yeah, I don't think there's any, any commandment against standing.

00:26:28.240 Sandman's attorneys, Todd McMurty and Lin Wood, filed, it was actually more than 250, it was

00:26:36.760 $275 million lawsuit against CNN.

00:26:40.260 Uh, they said very accurately, CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas

00:26:46.100 than the Washington Post.

00:26:47.260 And CNN goes into millions of individuals' homes.

00:26:50.180 Here, I have to correct them.

00:26:51.820 Uh, CNN goes into a lot of airports.

00:26:54.960 It does not go into millions of people's homes because as far as I can tell, not a soul actually

00:27:00.800 watches CNN, but they do go into a lot of airports for some reason.

00:27:05.600 They go on.

00:27:06.220 CNN couldn't resist the idea that here's a guy with a young boy that Make America Great

00:27:10.220 again cap on, so they go after him.

00:27:12.620 CNN settles.

00:27:13.340 They've still got these lawsuits out at the Washington Post, NBCUniversal.

00:27:17.120 Those are also for $250 million.

00:27:19.400 And they're planning to sue Gannett, who are the owners of the National, of the Inquirer,

00:27:24.480 rather.

00:27:25.640 Okay.

00:27:26.440 Good news.

00:27:27.700 I'm very glad to hear it.

00:27:29.260 At the beginning of the Trump era, we were told that the greatest threat of this moment

00:27:33.820 is to the free press.

00:27:36.040 The greatest threat was to those wonderful people in the mainstream media.

00:27:39.820 Facts first.

00:27:41.660 We're apples, not bananas.

00:27:43.280 That was a CNN commercial.

00:27:45.260 We are the ones on the front line.

00:27:47.260 We're defending the Constitution.

00:27:49.100 We're defending...

00:27:49.880 BS. 0.99

00:27:51.340 These people are horrible. 1.00

00:27:52.700 They're horrible, horrible people. 1.00

00:27:54.320 Okay. 0.99

00:27:54.960 Like, I know that's a generalization.

00:27:58.440 It's generally true.

00:27:59.540 They push Iranian propaganda as Iran is attacking our troops.

00:28:05.960 They push Iranian propaganda on TV and in the newspaper.

00:28:09.400 They go after a high school kid for wearing a hat that says, make America great again.

00:28:15.240 It should be the least controversial statement in the country.

00:28:19.140 And they smear him.

00:28:20.660 They defame him.

00:28:22.260 They just lie about him.

00:28:24.460 And usually they would do it with impunity.

00:28:26.680 Except now, people are pushing back against them.

00:28:30.740 There should be...

00:28:33.100 No one should believe, even for one second anymore, the lie that the mainstream media are brave,

00:28:40.400 courageous defenders of the truth. 0.95

00:28:42.260 They're liars. 0.97

00:28:43.540 They're... 0.98

00:28:43.820 Are there good individual reporters?

00:28:45.460 Of course there are.

00:28:46.260 But the edifice, the entire system, is rotten to the core.

00:28:52.520 And it must be dismantled and rebuilt again, if you want to have any faith whatsoever in the institution of the media.

00:28:59.840 We got to get to Hollywood because there is an amazingly brave man in Hollywood who...

00:29:09.840 He's making the choice to save our entire planet by re-wearing a custom tuxedo a couple of times before discarding it and getting a new one.

00:29:22.340 It's an amazing story.

00:29:24.080 Comes to us from the fashion designer Stella McCartney.

00:29:26.900 We will get to that.

00:29:28.040 We will get to some other lies on climate change. 0.99

00:29:32.380 We'll get to the dumbest article on the internet today. 0.90

00:29:34.220 First, I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. 0.94

00:29:36.820 Go to dailywire.com.

00:29:38.800 You get me.

00:29:39.580 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:29:40.480 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:29:42.000 You get the Mount Wall show.

00:29:43.060 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:29:44.260 That's coming up tomorrow, so get your questions in.

00:29:47.080 You get another kingdom.

00:29:48.160 You get...

00:29:48.820 If you get to the all-access story, you get to speak to us personally on the website.

00:29:53.500 And you get the leftist tears Tumblr.

00:29:56.400 Who could ask for anything more?

00:29:57.680 Head on over to dailywire.com.

00:29:59.080 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:30:00.180 Take notes, everybody.

00:30:14.060 Get your pen and paper out.

00:30:15.880 And just try to understand the amazing work of this living martyr, Joaquin Phoenix.

00:30:27.900 The fashion designer, Stella McCartney, posts a photo on the internet of Joaquin Phoenix.

00:30:32.900 She writes,

00:30:33.320 This man is a winner wearing custom Stella because he chooses to make choices for the future of the planet.

00:30:43.340 He has also chosen to wear the same tux for the entire awards season to reduce waste.

00:30:50.380 I am proud to join forces with you, ex-Stella.

00:30:56.420 Wow.

00:30:57.880 He...

00:30:58.980 I was really upset because obviously the sun monster is going to destroy the entire planet unless we all make our sacrifices to the god of carbon tax credits or something.

00:31:10.320 And then one man, Joaquin Phoenix, decided to wear a very, very expensive custom tuxedo.

00:31:25.420 And that alone, the fact that he would wear a really, really nice high-end custom designer tuxedo, that would be...

00:31:34.360 That would have been enough.

00:31:35.240 Dayenu, that would have been enough. 0.78

00:31:37.580 But he went further to save our planet.

00:31:40.540 He's going to re-wear it like two or three times before he gets a new one.

00:31:47.140 Like two or three times.

00:31:48.820 Wow.

00:31:50.920 You know, I...

00:31:51.940 Some people knock Hollywood these days. 0.97

00:31:54.460 They say they're just a bunch of craven egotists who prattle on about nonsense and political silliness instead of just doing their jobs. 0.94

00:32:06.400 But Joaquin Phoenix and Stella McCartney are saving the world. 0.93

00:32:12.420 I got to get my custom tuxedo.

00:32:14.220 Maybe I'll wear mine four times before I throw it out and then I can be a living martyr too, a secular saint. 0.96

00:32:21.040 Obviously, this is a ridiculous story coming out of Hollywood. 0.99

00:32:23.560 The only thing that ever comes out of Hollywood is ridiculous. 0.96

00:32:26.480 And in Joaquin Phoenix's defense at the Golden Globes, he actually gave a pretty good speech about how if you care about climate change, 0.83

00:32:32.240 you should actually try to do things yourself like, you know, not take private jets and fly commercial.

00:32:37.460 So I don't really mean to beat up on Joaquin Phoenix here.

00:32:40.240 I do sort of mean to beat up on Stella McCartney. 1.00

00:32:42.480 She's the one who made this ridiculous and stupid statement. 0.99

00:32:45.340 But it's indicative of what we're hearing from the left around the world. 1.00

00:32:48.240 Look no further than the fires that are ablaze in Australia.

00:32:51.240 Really awful situation in Australia.

00:32:53.340 Ton of wildfires over there.

00:32:55.500 A lot of animals being killed.

00:32:56.700 People being killed.

00:32:57.780 I mean, really bad situation.

00:33:00.800 For weeks now, we have been told that Australia's devastating wildfires are caused by climate change.

00:33:08.020 NPR says, all these articles, how climate change is affecting Australia's fires.

00:33:14.340 ABC, how climate change has intensified the deadly fires in Australia.

00:33:18.200 Washington Post, Australia's apocalyptic fires are a warning to the world.

00:33:24.320 The Atlantic, Australia will lose to climate change.

00:33:27.780 BBC, is climate change to blame for Australia's bushfires?

00:33:31.340 No, is the answer.

00:33:35.460 It's not.

00:33:36.020 Do you know who's to blame for Australia's bushfires?

00:33:37.920 The people who set the fires.

00:33:40.000 Because now we found out that police have arrested 183 people in connection with these fires.

00:33:47.780 And they've charged 24 people with deliberately setting the fires.

00:33:53.120 They've already charged them.

00:33:55.560 Police have taken legal action against another 159 people.

00:33:59.880 Among them are 53 who allegedly failed to comply with a total fire ban.

00:34:04.780 And 47 people who threw a cigarette or a match on the land and helped to start the fires.

00:34:12.380 Of course.

00:34:14.100 What did you think?

00:34:15.300 Did you think, because possibly at the very, very worst case scenario,

00:34:21.880 the earth has warmed like 0.002 degrees in recent years,

00:34:28.300 that that was causing all of Australia to be set on fire?

00:34:32.480 Or was it the people who set the fires?

00:34:34.260 Obviously it was the people.

00:34:36.220 It wasn't this grand apocalyptic vision of climate eschatology

00:34:41.600 that produces all of these models, all of which turn out to be bogus,

00:34:45.680 that never actually predict anything.

00:34:47.060 New York City, not underwater, like the climate scientists, meaning Al Gore, told us it would be.

00:34:51.580 Florida, not underwater, like the climate scientists, meaning Al Gore and political activists,

00:34:56.280 told us it would be.

00:34:57.300 Obviously it's the people.

00:34:58.760 Of course it is.

00:34:59.560 But it doesn't deter them from pushing this narrative.

00:35:05.520 Because the purpose of the mainstream media today is not to report the news.

00:35:12.380 The purpose of the mainstream media is to push a narrow, specific leftist agenda.

00:35:20.680 So those are the people on one side.

00:35:24.700 They push Iranian propaganda.

00:35:26.220 They cover up the news.

00:35:27.960 They try to ascribe major, serious news stories to their own political narrative

00:35:35.520 rather than to what's actually causing them.

00:35:38.420 And then on the other hand, you've got Trump, flawed though he may be.

00:35:43.200 Trump said something the other day that I think is really important

00:35:47.660 when we try to adjudicate his presidency, or when we try to figure out where we stand,

00:35:53.720 especially in an election year.

00:35:55.740 Trump said, it's one of my favorite quotes he's said since he's been in office.

00:35:59.580 He was giving a speech to some evangelical Christians.

00:36:03.220 And he said, quote,

00:36:05.060 I may not be perfect, but I get things done.

00:36:08.880 We've done things that nobody thought was possible.

00:36:11.520 We're not only defending our constitutional rights,

00:36:14.180 we're also defending religion itself, which is under siege.

00:36:17.660 America was not built by religion-hating socialists.

00:36:20.160 America was built by church-going, God-worshipping, freedom-loving patriots.

00:36:25.300 Perfect.

00:36:27.000 Yes.

00:36:28.640 Obviously, his statement about America is true. 1.00

00:36:32.180 I also love his statement about himself.

00:36:34.820 People call Trump a narcissist.

00:36:36.840 People say he's completely absorbed with himself.

00:36:40.220 He can't see anything beyond himself.

00:36:41.800 He has no sense of what's going on in the world. 1.00

00:36:43.620 He's the worst, most wicked, most unethical, most immoral president we've ever had. 0.99

00:36:48.440 Does Trump have an ego? 1.00

00:36:49.900 Yeah, I think he's got an ego.

00:36:51.120 He slaps his name on every building he's ever looked at, okay?

00:36:54.240 Does Trump have a healthy self-confidence?

00:36:56.320 Yes, I think he does.

00:36:58.820 But as for his alleged narcissism, compare it to Barack Obama.

00:37:04.040 Would Barack Obama say, I may not be perfect, ever?

00:37:09.200 I don't think so.

00:37:10.620 I think Barack Obama is the guy who says, seriously, with a straight face, when I am elected, the

00:37:16.940 earth will begin to heal and the oceans, the sea levels will recede and we'll have peace

00:37:24.180 and harmony in the world.

00:37:25.960 He said that with a straight face.

00:37:27.680 Trump says a lot of things about how he's the only one who can ever do anything.

00:37:30.920 Very often, though, he's kind of making a joke.

00:37:32.580 He's being hyperbolic because at the same time, he'll say things like this, I may not

00:37:37.740 be perfect.

00:37:38.880 Or a little while ago, he said, I have never had a drink.

00:37:43.040 I've never had a beer.

00:37:43.920 I may be the only president who's never had a beer.

00:37:46.080 It's probably the only good thing you can say about me.

00:37:48.100 Can you imagine if I drank?

00:37:49.680 I'd be the worst.

00:37:51.520 It's almost verbatim what he said.

00:37:52.980 He was making a joke.

00:37:53.820 He had a little self-awareness.

00:37:55.060 People attack, the left attacks, Christians who support Donald Trump. 0.94

00:38:02.920 They say he's a terrible example.

00:38:04.540 He's not a Christian. 1.00

00:38:06.380 Guess what?

00:38:07.540 The simple statement, I may not be perfect, is a profoundly Christian statement.

00:38:14.660 It's a much, much more Christian statement than what we've heard in recent years from politicians.

00:38:20.040 A little touch of humility, beyond the bragging, beyond the hyperbole, beyond all the showmanship.

00:38:28.500 A little touch of humility.

00:38:29.740 I may not be perfect.

00:38:31.420 I don't have a beer.

00:38:32.240 It's the only good thing you can say about me.

00:38:33.800 That kind of thing is a keen insight.

00:38:37.360 And it also shows you the moral clarity that that humility can give you to say, look, I'm

00:38:43.620 obviously a flawed vessel.

00:38:45.680 I'm a flawed instrument here.

00:38:47.080 But we've gotten things done that are really good.

00:38:49.260 We're defending our constitutional rights, but we're defending religion. 0.98

00:38:53.220 Because America was not built by religion-hating socialists.

00:38:55.960 It was built by church-going God-worshipping freedom-loving patriots.

00:39:00.280 That's a beautiful piece of moral clarity.

00:39:02.880 And I think that for Christians who support Trump, we've known that the whole time.

00:39:07.260 We say, yeah, of course this guy is not some saint on earth, okay?

00:39:11.620 The guy has lived a pretty shady life in many cases.

00:39:14.720 But he's doing good things, and he's got a little bit of self-awareness.

00:39:17.880 More than you could say for a guy like Barack Obama.

00:39:21.520 More than you could say for much of the Republican field, for that matter. 0.99

00:39:25.100 Okay, we've got the dumbest article on the internet today. 0.88

00:39:27.440 We've got to get to it in just our remaining few moments here. 0.99

00:39:29.760 Because it's actually asking a very important question, but it gives a very dumb answer.

00:39:35.320 The question it asks, Richard Freeman is a psychiatrist who wrote this op-ed. 0.98

00:39:41.920 He said, why are young Americans killing themselves?

00:39:46.180 Suicide is now their second leading cause of death.

00:39:48.980 It's a scary number.

00:39:53.120 Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young Americans.

00:39:56.780 And this is in recent years.

00:39:58.200 You know, just in the past few years, among 12 to 17-year-olds, suicide is up 70%.

00:40:05.520 So he gives the introduction.

00:40:08.740 Then he writes, how is it possible that so many of our young people are suffering from depression

00:40:15.720 and killing themselves when we know perfectly well how to treat this illness?

00:40:21.760 There's the problem.

00:40:22.780 He's identified correctly the rates of depression skyrocketing, rates of suicide skyrocketing among teenagers.

00:40:30.820 That's all very odd.

00:40:32.620 But then he makes a mistake.

00:40:33.860 He says, we know perfectly well how to treat this illness.

00:40:36.220 And we don't.

00:40:37.760 We know how to treat depression chemically.

00:40:40.800 And sometimes you need to do that.

00:40:43.100 We know how to treat certain symptoms of depression through therapy.

00:40:50.060 But what about the root cause?

00:40:52.440 It's not for any individual person, but as a social phenomenon.

00:40:57.080 I think that it is no coincidence that almost directly in the same time frame as religion has collapsed,

00:41:05.380 particularly among young people who largely were raised without any religion,

00:41:10.540 so depression has increased and anxiety and stress and suicidality.

00:41:14.820 And it's true among the whole U.S. population.

00:41:17.140 And it's especially true among young people.

00:41:19.360 So, I'm about to do this show.

00:41:22.660 We're launching this show.

00:41:23.560 In addition to my current show, we're launching a show on PragerU called The Book Club.

00:41:27.320 And the first book that we're doing for The Book Club is called Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

00:41:32.100 It's going to be a great episode with Dennis Prager.

00:41:35.280 Viktor Frankl's thesis in that book is that man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life.

00:41:41.660 The whole book is about living in this Holocaust concentration camp and then getting out in multiple concentration camps and then getting out afterwards and making sense of his life.

00:41:52.280 Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in life.

00:41:54.880 Now, there are competing theories.

00:41:56.300 Some say that man's search for sex is the primary motivation.

00:41:59.460 That's the Freudian theory.

00:42:00.340 Some say man's search to impose his will on people is man's primary motivation.

00:42:07.740 That's the Adler theory.

00:42:09.480 There are a lot of different psychological theories.

00:42:12.340 What motivates us?

00:42:15.280 It seems pretty clear to me, as Ronald Reagan quoted Winston Churchill as saying,

00:42:19.940 that when great forces are on the move in the world, we learn that we're spirits, not animals.

00:42:23.980 That the destiny of man is not measured by material computation.

00:42:26.720 If you are going to try to treat this terrifying phenomenon going on in society, especially among young people,

00:42:35.620 you can't treat human beings as bags of flesh, as clumps of cells.

00:42:40.320 We have flesh.

00:42:41.400 We have bodies.

00:42:42.040 But we're not merely flesh.

00:42:43.440 We're not merely our bodies.

00:42:45.320 We also have a spiritual dimension.

00:42:47.680 You might say that man is fundamentally a religious being.

00:42:51.840 We have natural religious longings.

00:42:53.800 Every single one of us.

00:42:54.780 The most hardened atheist has religious longings, which is why when you get rid of traditional religion, 0.97

00:43:00.840 you don't just get cold materialist atheism.

00:43:03.780 You get a bunch of kooky superstitions, like the crystals and the chakras and the yoga,

00:43:08.840 and all of the, and Mercury is in retrograde, and all of this kind of craziness.

00:43:16.000 You know, often atheists and materialists will describe religious people, Christians, for instance, as superstitious.

00:43:23.380 Christians are some of the least superstitious people in the world.

00:43:29.740 We're the ones who are trying to ground our religious longings in fact.

00:43:35.460 You know, the Gospels aren't just poetry.

00:43:37.600 The Gospels are journalism.

00:43:38.560 And when you take that away, you get some of the craziest superstitions you've ever heard of.

00:43:45.720 I don't really understand what the crystal thing is, but there are a lot of crystals, okay?

00:43:48.800 Or the New Age religion.

00:43:49.940 Or Marianne Williamson.

00:43:51.680 Remember her when she was running for president in the Democratic primary?

00:43:56.900 She was saying all sorts of kooky New Age stuff.

00:43:58.460 Man is a fundamentally religious being.

00:44:03.120 And even if you're a little skittish about religion, at least acknowledge the spiritual dimension of life.

00:44:08.040 That our loves and our joys and our hopes and our dreams and every single thing that actually matters to us is not material.

00:44:14.720 It's not physical.

00:44:15.460 And you are not going to be able to treat something like depression.

00:44:17.800 You're not going to be able to treat despair, right?

00:44:21.680 Despair means the absence of hope.

00:44:23.580 You can't treat hope if you're only looking at man as a material being.

00:44:27.160 Because hope is not material.

00:44:29.180 Hope is metaphysical.

00:44:31.020 It's immaterial.

00:44:32.000 It refers to the spiritual.

00:44:34.780 He goes on in this article.

00:44:36.000 He asks, what explains the epidemic of teen depression and suicide?

00:44:39.520 There are lots of theories, but few definitive answers.

00:44:43.040 Drugs and alcohol are always a popular culprit.

00:44:45.020 But in this case, they're an unlikely explanation, as the studies cited above, controlled for drug use.

00:44:51.240 In addition, there's no evidence of a significant increase in the use of drugs or alcohol in young people during this period.

00:44:56.600 Of course.

00:44:58.320 Of course, the drugs and alcohol, even if they're involved, are a symptom of something else.

00:45:02.760 It's so funny.

00:45:03.700 This is a key characteristic of intellectuals and of cultural elites and of the mainstream media in our modern era.

00:45:12.280 Is they're intelligent people.

00:45:13.840 I'm sure this guy's got a very high IQ.

00:45:15.640 Most of the people at the New York Times have a very high IQ.

00:45:18.840 And yet they miss the most obvious answers.

00:45:22.660 They often totally lack common sense.

00:45:26.080 What is causing depression?

00:45:27.620 What is causing this mental health crisis?

00:45:30.500 They say, we're trying to figure out all of the physical causes, but we can't find a physical cause.

00:45:34.420 Of course not.

00:45:35.780 Because the cause is metaphysical.

00:45:38.960 It's immaterial.

00:45:40.260 It's something beyond this world and it speaks to the natural longings that we have for something beyond this world.

00:45:46.060 The only way that you are going to understand your own health, your own psychology, politics, culture, questions of domestic politics, questions of war and peace, like we're looking at right now.

00:45:59.100 Or if you examine them, not merely on the physical level, not merely as though we're all just stuff.

00:46:05.680 But if you take into account all of the metaphysical things that actually matter to us, when you take that into account, all of it, war and peace and love and hope and despair, all come into focus.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 08, 2020

Ep. 474 - Don’t You Know There’s A War On？

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