The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 486 - The Left Loves Humanity, Hates Humans

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00:00:30.540 CNN's Don Lemon and two talking head sidekicks spend nearly a minute and a half of airtime

00:00:36.400 laughing about how stupid they think half of Americans are.

00:00:39.920 We examine why leftists love humanity but always seem to hate actual humans.

00:00:44.840 Then, liberal Democrat Alan Dershowitz demolishes House Democrats' impeachment case

00:00:48.920 in a little under three minutes.

00:00:50.820 Liz Warren throws a Hail Mary, Hillary threatens to run again, heaven forfend, 1.00

00:00:54.780 and drag queen story hour is coming to a public school near you.

00:00:58.060 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:07.440 If you ever wondered what the mainstream media really think of you,

00:01:12.380 you need to look no further than CNN's Don Lemon.

00:01:15.780 I know we're always knocking the mainstream media and those left-wing cable news networks,

00:01:21.080 and maybe sometimes people think it's unfair.

00:01:23.140 We're a little too harsh on them.

00:01:25.200 We're not.

00:01:26.080 We're not.

00:01:26.540 They hate your guts, and CNN's Don Lemon finally admitted it in a segment.

00:01:32.520 It lasted almost a minute and a half of them just laughing at Trump supporters,

00:01:37.680 at half of America, calling them rubes, calling them idiots. 0.96

00:01:40.780 They could barely get the words out because they were laughing so hard.

00:01:43.200 Here's just the first part of it.

00:01:44.860 He also knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you

00:01:48.640 had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.

00:01:52.960 He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world.

00:01:57.680 And so that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know,

00:02:03.580 the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump that wants to think that Donald Trump's the smart one,

00:02:11.500 and they're all elitists or them.

00:02:15.180 All right, now there's the turn, right?

00:02:16.880 So at the very beginning, Don Lemon cracks up.

00:02:19.320 He cracks up so much in his head.

00:02:20.640 He puts his head down on the desk.

00:02:22.340 He just keeps laughing.

00:02:23.360 He keeps laughing.

00:02:24.140 And the person who was speaking there, Rick Wilson, is a kind of fake Republican.

00:02:28.580 He was a former Republican strategist who then in 2016 was so offended by Trump,

00:02:33.540 he worked on that independent candidate, Evan McMullin's campaign.

00:02:37.120 He was colloquially referred to as the Egg McMuffin campaign, and he ran that.

00:02:42.300 Obviously, he didn't go anywhere.

00:02:43.480 And now he spends all of his time knocking Republicans and conservatives on CNN.

00:02:47.620 So it starts out, he makes this thing.

00:02:49.360 He says it's defined by ignorance.

00:02:51.020 Republicans couldn't even find Ukraine on a map.

00:02:53.440 Now, just a little note here.

00:02:55.860 Republicans know a lot about maps because, for instance, we found Wisconsin on a map in

00:03:00.240 2016, which is why Trump won and Hillary lost.

00:03:03.020 I digress.

00:03:04.120 He makes the point, and then Rick Wilson is going to go on, but Don Lemon is the one who

00:03:09.700 keeps the joke going.

00:03:12.280 Don Lemon is the one who is encouraging this whole thing.

00:03:15.940 And that's the real problem here.

00:03:17.840 When the commentators come on, when the guests come on these talk news shows, they often go

00:03:25.600 a little further than the anchor does, right?

00:03:27.420 That's kind of their purpose there is they come on and they have more personality.

00:03:30.720 They inject more opinion into it.

00:03:32.900 And the anchor is supposed to be there to be the anchor.

00:03:35.800 But on CNN, it's exactly the opposite.

00:03:38.280 CNN is the one encouraging this to break down.

00:03:40.600 Don Lemon here is breaking down and behaving in this childish way in a play for ratings.

00:03:46.840 He's done this many, many times.

00:03:48.480 And it does play for ratings in the same way that a screaming child gets attention.

00:03:53.280 But in the long run, that's not the kind of attention you want because people are not

00:03:56.940 going to take you seriously.

00:03:58.460 Ultimately, that wears pretty thin.

00:04:00.960 So he encourages him.

00:04:02.580 And this is where the segment really, really looks bad for CNN and really looks bad for

00:04:07.880 the left and gives us a little glimpse into why the left loves humanity and hates actual

00:04:12.280 humans.

00:04:13.500 Because as Don Lemon is laughing, Rick Wilson thinks he's got to play to his audience now.

00:04:18.280 So he puts on this Southern accent to show the dumb, rube, idiot Trump voter who can't

00:04:25.040 identify nothing on a map or nothing, right?

00:04:27.480 So he goes on with this.

00:04:29.040 And then the third guy, Wajahat, Wajahat, I don't know if I'm pronouncing his name correctly.

00:04:34.260 He goes on and he starts getting in on the joke as well.

00:04:39.600 You elitist with your geography and your maps and your spelling, even though my math and

00:04:45.000 you're reading.

00:04:45.920 Yeah, you're reading, you know, your geography, knowing other countries, sipping your latte.

00:04:52.640 All those lines on the map.

00:04:54.340 Only them elitists know where Ukraine is.

00:05:01.160 Sorry, I apologize.

00:05:03.280 But by the way, it was Rick's fault.

00:05:08.900 I blame Rick.

00:05:11.460 Now, Wajahat Ali, he's the only one of these three who actually realizes this doesn't look

00:05:17.040 good.

00:05:17.500 Of all these three knuckleheads on CNN, Wajahat Ali is the one who, after he makes the same

00:05:22.140 joke, right, it's just the same joke over and over, which is that Trump supporters are

00:05:25.460 stupid. 0.90

00:05:25.900 Half of America is stupid.

00:05:27.980 He says, oh, they can't find anything on a map.

00:05:29.480 They can't spell.

00:05:30.680 Ha ha ha ha.

00:05:31.460 It's the same joke.

00:05:32.160 But he realizes, gosh, it doesn't look good if a bunch of us from CNN, these media elites,

00:05:38.320 are going on condescending and making fun of half of America.

00:05:42.640 It doesn't look good.

00:05:43.200 So he says, hey, hey, Rick started it.

00:05:45.160 Not me.

00:05:45.700 OK, Rick started it.

00:05:46.580 I blame Rick.

00:05:47.100 And then he starts to move on as though they're going to continue the segment, but they don't

00:05:53.280 even let it go there.

00:05:55.320 Don Lemon finally gets it together at the end, but they keep laughing.

00:05:59.680 Honestly, but I blame Rick.

00:06:01.500 Why not?

00:06:02.580 Sorry.

00:06:03.020 Hold on.

00:06:03.260 Wait, wait.

00:06:03.680 Can I tell you a second?

00:06:04.560 Hold on.

00:06:04.860 Hold on.

00:06:05.120 Hold on.

00:06:05.780 Sorry.

00:06:07.240 That was good.

00:06:08.240 Sorry.

00:06:09.040 Rick, that was a good one.

00:06:10.360 I needed that.

00:06:11.640 OK.

00:06:12.140 The funny thing about it was that it wasn't actually a good one.

00:06:16.040 It was fine.

00:06:16.640 And I'm not saying it's kind of a basic joke, but it's a joke, right?

00:06:20.840 It's a chuckle joke.

00:06:22.060 It's not a guffaw joke.

00:06:24.380 It's not a laugh for 90 seconds joke.

00:06:26.560 It's a like sort of, oh, ha ha.

00:06:27.760 OK, moving on.

00:06:29.340 They dragged it out so far.

00:06:33.400 The reason that they're laughing this much is not because the joke is 90 seconds funny.

00:06:39.200 It's about nine seconds funny.

00:06:41.680 The other 81 seconds of laughing is not because the joke is funny.

00:06:45.100 It's because of how much these guys in the media despise conservatives, despise half of America.

00:06:56.900 They truly do not like you.

00:07:00.960 They do not like half of their countrymen.

00:07:03.740 And they're mocking them that much because of it.

00:07:06.120 Now, at first, Wajahat Ali, the guy on CNN, the only guy on CNN who sort of understood it wasn't a great look, he doubled down.

00:07:14.640 So he tweeted out, quote, in response to an article that said Wajahat Ali and Rick Wilson and Don Lemon trash Trump supporters as ignorant rubes, he said, we did.

00:07:24.420 Not going to apologize for it either.

00:07:26.460 If you're willing to believe and promote these absurd and dangerous lies, well, you deserve to be mocked for it.

00:07:32.580 He doesn't identify what the absurd and dangerous lies are, but he owns it.

00:07:36.640 He says, yes, we were mocking and trashing Trump supporters as ignorant rubes.

00:07:42.720 He got a lot of criticism for that.

00:07:44.560 When that didn't work, he did what leftists always do.

00:07:46.940 He played the victim.

00:07:47.820 So he tweeted out right away, quote, Trump tweeted our CNN clip from two days ago.

00:07:52.920 Friends are now concerned about my safety.

00:07:55.380 I refuse to be intimidated and bullied by bad faith actors who cry fake victimhood whining about a harmless, silly 30 second clip while endorsing Trump, a cruel vulgarian who debases everyone.

00:08:07.660 OK, nothing about what he just tweeted out was true, right?

00:08:10.980 First of all, it wasn't a 30 second clip.

00:08:12.340 It was a 90 second clip.

00:08:13.480 But also, who's worried about your safety?

00:08:15.860 That's not what happened at all.

00:08:17.700 That's not what happened at all.

00:08:19.000 You mocked half of America and you thought it was really, really funny, and then some people on Twitter mocked you and you cried and you whined and you pretended that you were in physical danger.

00:08:27.700 Give me a break.

00:08:28.520 There are some big takeaways here that the left would do well to consider, but I think really helps the right understand the way that the left thinks about us.

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00:09:58.460 Big takeaways here.

00:09:59.880 That clip from CNN on Don Lemon's show was not from last night.

00:10:05.600 That's a two-day-old clip.

00:10:07.540 So why is it only making the rounds now?

00:10:09.940 It took two days to percolate because no one watches CNN.

00:10:14.120 Okay, we have people, we have left-wing media operatives who watch and listen to this show along with every other Daily Wire show, along with virtually every other conservative show on the air every single day.

00:10:28.560 They're watching it all the time.

00:10:29.800 Why are they watching it?

00:10:30.960 Because the conservative shows matter.

00:10:34.620 The conservative shows are engaging audiences.

00:10:37.280 I mean, again, not to toot my own horn, really, the vast majority of it was Senator Ted Cruz.

00:10:43.520 We launched this podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz, the other day.

00:10:46.120 It immediately jumped to the top of the charts.

00:10:49.240 Number one in the country.

00:10:50.820 You don't see CNN podcasts jumping to number one in the country because nobody's watching CNN.

00:10:55.500 The only people who watch CNN are the people who are forced to do that in airports.

00:11:00.000 Otherwise, it's nobody at all.

00:11:02.240 It just doesn't matter as much for them.

00:11:04.940 So it finally makes the rounds and it comes out here.

00:11:07.960 And they double down on it.

00:11:09.900 I mean, that's the part that's so crazy to me.

00:11:11.740 They realize it's not a good look, but they double down.

00:11:14.380 They had the opportunity to apologize and they didn't.

00:11:17.380 And then Wajah Adali, when doubling down didn't work, he plays the victim.

00:11:20.920 And somehow, when you go on national television and mock half your countrymen as a bunch of dumb idiots who are just not even worth talking to because they can't even spell,

00:11:30.760 somehow that makes you the victim, according to leftist logic.

00:11:34.720 Because according to left-wing logic, the liberal, the progressive, the leftist can never be the oppressor or the tyrant.

00:11:42.580 It's simply not possible.

00:11:43.880 They're the ones trying to go toward progress.

00:11:46.040 So anything they do has to be good.

00:11:49.560 And therefore, if they're ever getting negative feedback for something they say, it has to be that they are the victim.

00:11:54.640 I wish Wajah Adali would just maybe consider for a moment the alternative option, which is to apologize. 0.53

00:12:01.480 And if you don't want to apologize, just, I don't know, keep your mouth shut for two days and don't pretend that one guy on Twitter being mean to you or a number of guys on Twitter being mean to you is putting you in physical danger.

00:12:12.900 It's just not true.

00:12:13.660 You see actually another example of this in the media.

00:12:15.640 It happened not specifically with regard to conservatives, but it happened in the Washington Post right after the death of Kobe Bryant.

00:12:22.920 On Sunday, hours after the news breaks that Kobe Bryant and his daughter and seven other people were killed tragically in this helicopter crash, she tweets out an article about Kobe Bryant's rape case.

00:12:44.360 It's a headline.

00:12:44.940 Kobe Bryant's disturbing rape case, the DNA evidence, the accuser's story, and the half confession.

00:12:50.020 Now, this refers to a case in 2003.

00:12:53.860 Kobe Bryant was accused of rape.

00:12:55.860 He was never convicted of rape because the woman who accused him withdrew the charge.

00:13:00.920 She refused to testify.

00:13:02.800 Kobe Bryant maintained his innocence the whole time that he ended up coming to some sort of settlement, and he apologized to her for what he continued to maintain was a consensual sexual encounter.

00:13:12.200 Obviously not a good look if you're married anyway, but he still, there's really no evidence here that he raped somebody.

00:13:20.020 And this is before his body's even cold, that this reporter decides in the whole life of this man she is going to go after him for the worst accusation you could possibly put up against him.

00:13:33.320 This is a theme with the left.

00:13:34.860 They've been doing this for at least 250 years.

00:13:37.180 We're going to be discussing this very topic on an upcoming episode of my PragerU show, The Book Club, because there's a whole book about this called The Intellectuals.

00:13:46.140 But going all the way back to the first leftist ever, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, back in the 18th century, all the way up through Karl Marx, up through Jean-Paul Sartre in the 20th century, all these very prominent leftists.

00:13:58.660 The thing you notice about them is they judge everybody else by those people's worst moments, the worst flaws they ever had, and yet they never apply that same standard to themselves.

00:14:12.580 They judge themselves by their best intentions.

00:14:16.940 They can do no wrong, and it's the same on CNN.

00:14:20.740 It's the same in The Washington Post.

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00:15:56.180 The left has been doing this all the time.

00:15:58.880 If you look at the most prominent leftists in history, all the way back to Rousseau and Marx and Sartre and all these guys,

00:16:04.160 they're always terribly cruel to the people around them.

00:16:08.040 They're always terribly cruel to acquaintances, all while professing love of humanity.

00:16:12.900 They always seem to think that everyone's got to follow the rules except them.

00:16:16.880 Wajahad Ali can go on CNN and just cruelly mock half of the country.

00:16:21.160 I mean, not even in that funny a way.

00:16:23.520 It's one joke.

00:16:24.220 It's a one-note joke.

00:16:25.260 And then the minute anybody goes and makes a joke about him, it's the end of the world.

00:16:29.560 He's in trouble.

00:16:30.480 He's vulnerable.

00:16:31.280 He's in physical danger.

00:16:33.180 Give me a break.

00:16:34.420 They've always been doing this.

00:16:35.740 Journalists like Felicia Sonmez want to judge people on the worst things you could possibly accuse them of,

00:16:41.860 but they always judge themselves on their best intentions.

00:16:45.500 That's why they want to impeach Trump for possibly doing, for possibly thinking about doing what we know for a fact Joe Biden actually did.

00:16:55.600 It comes all right back to this impeachment trial.

00:17:00.420 In this impeachment, the House Democrats are impeaching Donald Trump for maybe thinking about engaging in a quid pro quo and withholding Ukrainian aid in exchange for a Ukraine investigation of Joe Biden.

00:17:13.740 Now, that didn't actually happen.

00:17:15.160 We know for a fact it didn't happen.

00:17:16.420 We don't know for a fact Trump was even thinking it.

00:17:18.220 But the whole reason Trump would have been calling for that investigation in the first place is because Joe Biden actually withheld American aid,

00:17:25.860 threatened to withhold American aid, if Ukraine didn't fire the prosecutor who was investigating his crook son.

00:17:31.840 And yet the left can say, perfectly straight-faced, yeah, we need to impeach Trump for that, but Joe Biden, he's perfectly fine.

00:17:38.340 He might be our presidential nominee.

00:17:39.580 They can say that they love humanity while not really hating or while not really loving humans because really they just love themselves.

00:17:50.860 And conservatives are pretty much the exact opposite.

00:17:53.980 Conservatives don't really like humanity that much.

00:17:56.320 I'm very skeptical of humanity.

00:17:58.860 I think that human nature is broken.

00:18:00.880 I think it is flawed.

00:18:02.060 We are never, ever going to perfect it.

00:18:04.620 However, I love actual humans.

00:18:07.660 I really like individuals.

00:18:09.320 I really like talking to actual humans.

00:18:11.140 If I can, I'd like to help them out.

00:18:13.540 It's like a perfect flip.

00:18:15.060 You see this President Trump showed this just the other day.

00:18:17.320 President Trump was driving up.

00:18:19.580 He was in his motorcade, and he saw that there were a bunch of firefighters waiting to salute him.

00:18:25.580 So he pulled on over and got out of his car.

00:18:29.780 And you can see him.

00:18:30.780 It's kind of obviously a little bit hard to hear in the clip, but you can see him.

00:18:33.580 He pulls over.

00:18:34.180 I'm sure the Secret Service are completely freaking out here.

00:18:36.960 And he walks up to them.

00:18:38.960 And he just starts shaking their hands.

00:18:40.360 You can hear one of the firefighters say, like, oh, that's so cool.

00:18:46.620 That's so right.

00:18:47.540 And he does, and he gets back in his car, and he leaves.

00:18:49.840 Now, look, Trump is a good retail politician, and it's cool that this clip went viral, and it was good retail politics.

00:18:55.300 But you see this with Trump a lot.

00:18:57.040 I'm not sure that Trump loves humanity all that much, but when he's talking to individual humans, he really seems to like them.

00:19:03.300 I mean, he finds a way to like Kim Jong-un in North Korea.

00:19:07.300 He finds a way to make friends with enemies, you know, people that he would scream at and call horrible names on the campaign trail.

00:19:13.560 But then they kind of get along, and they can be friends later on.

00:19:16.960 One of the other very similar moments from Donald Trump, Trump was getting onto Marine One.

00:19:23.140 He was getting onto the helicopter, and the Marine's hat fell off his head.

00:19:28.220 And Trump just casually leans down and picks up the hat for him.

00:19:31.060 This is a minor thing to do.

00:19:32.620 I don't think Trump pre-planned it.

00:19:33.940 I don't think it's part of some grand strategy.

00:19:35.700 It's just the way that people interact.

00:19:38.100 One of the criticisms of Trump's administration is he's not strategic and abstract and cold enough.

00:19:43.700 It's too much about relationships.

00:19:45.540 I think that's the conservative instinct.

00:19:48.160 And frankly, I'd much rather have an instinct in politics of really liking and engaging with individual people, even if it messes up your theories,

00:19:56.300 than an instinct to love humanity in theory and hate them in real life.

00:20:01.500 Now, speaking of President Trump, the impeachment trial is still underway.

00:20:05.460 His legal team is still making their arguments.

00:20:09.000 We heard from Ken Starr.

00:20:11.060 We heard from his other lawyer, Pam Bondi.

00:20:14.480 We heard from a bunch of the Trump team lawyers.

00:20:17.060 I think one of the lawyers working for Trump's legal team, Alan Dershowitz, maybe better than anyone,

00:20:24.200 shot down the Democrats' impeachment case in about three minutes.

00:20:28.260 And Alan Dershowitz, who has been on my show and he's been on other shows that I've guest hosted,

00:20:34.000 you know, I mean, he goes on the media a whole lot.

00:20:36.800 I think part of the reason why he was so able to articulate this case is, one, because he's very media savvy,

00:20:44.480 and two, because he's actually been the professor for many of the senators who were in that chamber.

00:20:50.380 You know, he's a very well-known Harvard law professor.

00:20:52.740 He's got a relationship with these senators, including Senator Ted Cruz, who's hosting the podcast that I'm co-hosting, Verdict.

00:21:01.140 He gets up there and in three, four minutes, shoots down the whole thing.

00:21:05.780 First, he shot down this idea that John Bolton's book leak is a bombshell.

00:21:12.440 You know, yesterday we heard that the former national security advisor for Trump, John Bolton,

00:21:17.700 in his book accused Trump of engaging in a quid pro quo, this has thrown impeachment into chaos.

00:21:24.140 Alan Dershowitz gets up there and makes the point no one else had made,

00:21:27.060 which is not to dispute the alleged claims in John Bolton's book,

00:21:32.840 but actually just to get up there and say, hey, even if everything John Bolton said is true,

00:21:37.520 it still is not an impeachable offense.

00:21:41.880 Demonstrate the dangers of employing the vague, subjective, and politically malleable phrase

00:21:47.020 abuse of power as a constitutionally permissible criteria for the removal of a president.

00:21:52.500 Now, it follows.

00:21:54.180 It follows from this that if a president, any president,

00:21:58.460 were to have done what the Times reported about the context of the Bolton manuscript,

00:22:04.280 that would not constitute an impeachable offense.

00:22:08.380 Let me repeat, nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true,

00:22:16.240 would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense.

00:22:21.860 That is clear from the history.

00:22:24.820 That is clear from the language of the Constitution.

00:22:28.480 You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct

00:22:34.360 simply by using words like quid pro quo and personal benefit.

00:22:40.460 Thank you.

00:22:41.580 Thank you for saying that.

00:22:43.400 The reason that this leak came out right now,

00:22:48.020 right before the Republican senators are going to vote on whether or not

00:22:51.860 to require more witnesses to testify in impeachment,

00:22:55.380 potentially dragging this whole impeachment farce out for weeks and weeks

00:22:59.880 rather than letting it just die on Friday or Saturday,

00:23:03.020 the reason it happened now is because the Democrats failed.

00:23:07.860 They failed to get Trump.

00:23:09.740 They failed to get Trump on Russia.

00:23:12.060 They failed to get Trump on his taxes.

00:23:14.680 They failed to get Trump on Stormy Daniels.

00:23:17.420 They failed to get Trump on Ukraine.

00:23:20.840 They had a whole House investigation of Ukraine.

00:23:23.840 They had three potential impeachment articles,

00:23:27.400 vague abuse of power, vague obstruction of Congress, and bribery.

00:23:32.820 They had one actual crime they were accusing him of.

00:23:35.040 They dropped that article because they knew they didn't have him.

00:23:39.800 So now they're just trying to grasp any straw they can

00:23:42.600 and wait for the most convenient moment to set these leaks

00:23:46.020 to try to pretend like it's a big deal.

00:23:47.800 What Alan Dershowitz says is not a big deal.

00:23:50.380 Even if this is true, and we don't know if it's true,

00:23:52.460 but even if it is, still not an impeachable offense.

00:23:57.220 Then what Professor Dershowitz does very well is just dismantle the whole argument

00:24:03.860 because he showed that if we adopt the House's new standard for impeachment,

00:24:09.060 which is basically if House Democrats don't like the cut of your jib, you're gone,

00:24:12.840 how that would have caused many, many American presidents to be impeached

00:24:16.860 all the way back to George Washington.

00:24:19.440 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:25:47.460 So, very important that Professor Dershowitz knocks down the John Bolton argument,

00:25:54.740 especially because senators like Mitt Romney, Susan Collins,

00:25:59.660 the squishier Republican senators,

00:26:01.420 they've been using the Bolton bombshell as an excuse to try to drag out impeachment.

00:26:08.240 And Dershowitz says there's really no reason to do that,

00:26:11.340 other than you don't like the president.

00:26:12.640 Then, he knocks down the House's entire argument,

00:26:17.180 their entire new standard for impeachment,

00:26:18.820 by showing the chaos that it would have wrought in American politics

00:26:23.380 all the way back to George Washington.

00:26:25.500 I will now give you a list of presidents who, in our history,

00:26:30.160 have been accused of abusing their power,

00:26:32.560 who would be subject to impeachment

00:26:34.340 under the House manager's view of the Constitution.

00:26:38.220 George Washington, refusal to turn over documents related to the Jay Treaty.

00:26:45.100 John Adams, signing and enforcing the alien and sedition laws.

00:26:48.740 Thomas Jefferson, purchasing Louisiana without congressional authorization.

00:26:53.280 I'll go on.

00:26:53.900 John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Byrne,

00:26:56.280 John Tyler, arbitrary, despotic, and corrupt use of the veto power.

00:27:00.580 James Polk, here I quote Abraham Lincoln.

00:27:02.780 Abraham Lincoln accused Polk of abusing his power of his office,

00:27:06.200 contemptuously disregarding the Constitution,

00:27:09.160 usurping the role of Congress, and assuming the role of dictator.

00:27:12.280 He didn't seek to impeach him, he just sought to defeat him.

00:27:15.520 Abraham Lincoln.

00:27:16.560 Abraham Lincoln was accused of abusing his power

00:27:19.560 for suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.

00:27:23.860 President Grant, Grover Cleveland,

00:27:25.980 William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt,

00:27:28.080 William Taft, Woodrow Wilson,

00:27:30.020 Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman,

00:27:31.680 Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan.

00:27:34.200 Quote, concerning Iran Contra,

00:27:36.200 he goes on, he goes on.

00:27:38.000 There are more presidents even after that.

00:27:40.680 They would all have been subject to impeachment

00:27:43.260 if we adopted this new fantasy

00:27:47.240 of the constitutional requirement

00:27:49.940 that the House Democrats are coming up with now.

00:27:52.460 I've been saying this since the very beginning of impeachment.

00:27:55.540 You know, there are some conservatives out there

00:27:57.080 who say that we don't use impeachment enough,

00:27:59.500 that actually the House of Representatives

00:28:01.920 should impeach more presidents. 0.99

00:28:03.240 They should take more power back into the House. 0.56

00:28:05.640 I don't want that.

00:28:06.800 I think that's a terrible idea.

00:28:08.760 I don't think that we need to give more power

00:28:10.600 to the legislature.

00:28:11.700 I think we've given a lot of power to the legislature,

00:28:13.400 and frankly, the legislature has given a lot of that power away.

00:28:17.240 We cannot, we should not, get into a situation

00:28:21.260 where the president is serving at the pleasure

00:28:23.620 of the House of Representatives.

00:28:25.540 Some of the greatest presidents,

00:28:27.100 perhaps all of the greatest presidents in American history,

00:28:29.300 would have been thrown out of office because of that.

00:28:33.640 We must have order in this country.

00:28:36.880 You know, the argument that some conservatives make

00:28:39.260 for using impeachment more

00:28:40.420 is that it gives us more liberty.

00:28:42.400 The House of Representatives is more accountable

00:28:44.600 to the American people

00:28:46.080 because they're elected every two years,

00:28:48.020 they know their districts,

00:28:49.740 and so therefore we should give more power to them.

00:28:52.780 That's not a real kind of liberty.

00:28:54.740 You know, the only way that we can enjoy

00:28:57.140 the blessings of liberty, as we call them,

00:29:00.080 is if we have a stable government.

00:29:01.560 You don't get to enjoy blessings of liberty

00:29:03.340 if you don't have a stable government,

00:29:04.580 and if you get into a situation

00:29:05.900 where we're just impeaching every president

00:29:07.900 the minute that a different party

00:29:09.480 gets into the House of Representatives,

00:29:11.160 if you get in there to that situation,

00:29:15.500 you are not going to have any kind of stability whatsoever.

00:29:19.960 Now, speaking of the presidency,

00:29:21.780 and we have a lot of 2020 news to get to,

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00:30:42.940 All right.

00:30:56.920 2020 news.

00:30:58.800 Elizabeth Warren is probably coming

00:31:01.000 to the end of the line here.

00:31:02.140 Poor old Liawatha. 0.97

00:31:04.440 Just not going to make it over the finish line

00:31:06.760 if the polls are to be believed.

00:31:08.240 And I think Liz Warren knows that too.

00:31:09.820 She knows her campaign is in serious trouble.

00:31:11.720 She's way down in Iowa.

00:31:13.200 She's way down in New Hampshire.

00:31:14.440 If she pulls an upset,

00:31:15.440 then she's back in the race. 0.89

00:31:16.820 But if she really gets clobbered in both those states,

00:31:19.240 it's hard to see how she comes back,

00:31:20.700 especially in New Hampshire,

00:31:21.740 which is right in her backyard,

00:31:23.320 right near Massachusetts.

00:31:24.480 So this could be the end.

00:31:26.060 Liz Warren is throwing a Hail Mary here. 0.96

00:31:28.240 She's pretending that she has already won the nomination,

00:31:31.720 and she is launching an ad directly against Donald Trump.

00:31:36.680 He grew up in a mansion in New York City.

00:31:39.440 She grew up here in Oklahoma.

00:31:41.720 He got millions from his dad's real estate empire.

00:31:44.980 Her dad ended up a janitor.

00:31:47.020 He scammed students at his for-profit school.

00:31:49.840 She got debts forgiven for students who were scammed.

00:31:53.060 When someone shows you who they are,

00:31:55.600 believe them.

00:31:56.660 Trump's life taught him how to get rich on the backs of others.

00:32:00.280 Elizabeth Warren will be a president who works for you. 1.00

00:32:04.080 I'm Elizabeth Warren, and I approve this message.

00:32:06.220 So this would be a desperate play,

00:32:08.760 regardless of how the actual content of the ad turned out.

00:32:12.040 But how tone-deaf to make the thesis of the ad

00:32:16.140 when someone shows you who they are,

00:32:19.460 believe them?

00:32:21.480 Okay.

00:32:22.480 Well, is Elizabeth Warren a Cherokee 0.95

00:32:25.160 who submits recipes for Pow Wow Chow?

00:32:28.520 Oh, no, she's a liar and a fraud, 1.00

00:32:30.340 and the whitest woman in America 0.98

00:32:31.540 who pretended to be a minority for decades

00:32:34.540 to advance her own career

00:32:35.860 at the expense of minorities. 0.58

00:32:37.720 Is that when Elizabeth Warren tells you

00:32:39.600 that her kid goes to public school,

00:32:41.340 don't believe her because she's lying to you.

00:32:43.940 When Elizabeth Warren tells you

00:32:45.400 she was fired for being pregnant as a teacher, 1.00

00:32:47.960 don't believe her because she lied about that too,

00:32:50.280 and she lies about just about everything.

00:32:54.040 It's a really pathetic ad.

00:32:55.220 Campaigns do this when they get to the end of the line,

00:32:57.500 when they need to throw a Hail Mary.

00:32:59.380 So what they'll do is pretend to be very confident.

00:33:03.560 You know, you'll see candidates start running ads

00:33:06.900 against the general election opponent.

00:33:08.500 You'll see them talking about their cabinet

00:33:10.720 that they're going to fill,

00:33:11.720 or their running mate,

00:33:12.860 and that you do it because you need something.

00:33:15.140 You need any momentum to try to stave off

00:33:17.700 what is usually the inevitable,

00:33:19.600 and it would seem to be the inevitable

00:33:20.640 for Elizabeth Warren.

00:33:21.820 Nobody is happier about that than Hillary Clinton, 0.99

00:33:24.740 who I think would probably have to go get

00:33:26.720 Liz Warren Epstein'd

00:33:28.240 if Warren became the first female president

00:33:30.440 instead of Hillary. 1.00

00:33:31.760 So Hillary Clinton is making the rounds right now. 1.00

00:33:33.620 She's promoting a documentary about herself,

00:33:35.880 her favorite subject,

00:33:37.040 and she is attacking Bernie Sanders. 0.87

00:33:40.540 She's saying, you know,

00:33:42.400 she's trying to downplay the attacks on Bernie a little bit,

00:33:44.700 but she's still getting them in there,

00:33:46.000 and in interviews she's saying,

00:33:48.560 initially she said nobody likes Bernie Sanders,

00:33:50.560 and he's never accomplished anything in his life.

00:33:52.300 Now she's just saying,

00:33:53.520 I think it's important to look at somebody's record

00:33:55.200 and look at what they've gotten done

00:33:56.940 and see whether you agree with them or not.

00:34:00.500 And then, of course, the question comes to her,

00:34:02.860 is she going to run for office? 1.00

00:34:04.660 And she cannot possibly quell her urge to be president.

00:34:10.180 I know that you're not running,

00:34:11.440 but do you ever feel the urge that, like,

00:34:13.240 I could beat him if I were,

00:34:14.960 or, like, I wish I'd go?

00:34:16.160 Yeah, I certainly feel the urge

00:34:19.620 because I feel like the 2016 election

00:34:22.760 was really an odd time and an odd outcome,

00:34:29.140 and the more we learn,

00:34:31.100 the more that seems to be the case.

00:34:32.720 But I'm going to support the people who are running now

00:34:35.520 and do everything I can to help elect the Democratic nominee.

00:34:39.940 Classic Hillary.

00:34:40.880 Hillary, she's implying here not so subtly

00:34:43.340 that the 2016 election was rigged and illegitimate.

00:34:47.140 That's what she means by odd.

00:34:49.320 And she says the more we learn,

00:34:51.280 the odder it seems, which is just not true.

00:34:54.080 Initially, they said that Trump conspired with Russia

00:34:55.960 to steal the election,

00:34:56.940 and that was completely disproven

00:34:58.400 by a two-and-a-half-year, $32 million investigation

00:35:00.740 that you and I all paid for.

00:35:03.180 Anyway, I digress.

00:35:05.080 The reason that Hillary is able to get these kind of hints in, 0.99

00:35:09.740 and she's able to talk about

00:35:10.740 how she really wants to run for president now, 0.83

00:35:12.560 the reason that reporters are even asking her about it 0.99

00:35:14.780 is because the Democratic field is so weak

00:35:16.860 because they don't really have anybody.

00:35:19.760 Elizabeth Warren,

00:35:20.760 who was once considered a bright star in this field,

00:35:23.840 is really fading.

00:35:24.820 She's fading in the polls.

00:35:25.880 She's fading in the minds of the elites

00:35:28.700 who were promoting her on television and elsewhere.

00:35:31.480 So she's throwing the Hail Marys. 0.99

00:35:33.140 Pete Buttigieg, he's also dropping in the polls.

00:35:35.600 He's not doing very well.

00:35:37.040 We spoke yesterday about how he's really not ready

00:35:39.280 for primetime.

00:35:40.500 Now it's coming down to Bernie and Biden.

00:35:42.660 And Biden, the House Democrats,

00:35:44.380 pretty much threw him under the bus the other day

00:35:46.120 during the impeachment trial.

00:35:47.800 It's because Biden just doesn't have what it takes.

00:35:49.640 Biden's eyeball is exploding,

00:35:50.980 and his teeth are falling out on the debate stage.

00:35:53.040 Doesn't really set you up,

00:35:54.240 and that's before you even look at his record,

00:35:55.980 which is pretty unimpressive.

00:35:57.740 He's run for president twice, lost both times.

00:36:00.260 One time had to drop out for being a plagiarist and a liar.

00:36:04.120 So that leaves Bernie Sanders,

00:36:05.600 who honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

00:36:08.180 Nearly 80 years old, videos of him singing communist folk songs

00:36:12.220 with the Ruskies shirtless, swilling vodka in the Soviet Union.

00:36:18.160 So they're really in a terrible spot.

00:36:20.400 And Hillary Clinton is a fairly attractive candidate in this spot now. 1.00

00:36:23.260 We're all hoping that she runs

00:36:24.780 because it would be so, so incredibly funny to beat her again.

00:36:29.440 But unfortunately, I think she knows that that ship has sailed as well.

00:36:34.280 Onto the culture, beyond the politics, onto the culture,

00:36:37.720 and maybe back into the politics then.

00:36:39.820 Drag Queen Story Hour is coming to a public school near you. 0.84

00:36:45.100 Those of us who pay attention to the culture predicted this.

00:36:49.980 We told you it would happen.

00:36:51.820 We were told that we were being hysterical,

00:36:54.960 that what a ridiculous argument.

00:36:56.660 It's just at a couple libraries.

00:36:58.060 It's not going to schools.

00:36:59.380 It's going to schools.

00:37:01.220 The left-wingers and the squishy right-wingers initially said,

00:37:05.220 this is no big deal.

00:37:07.140 Some people even said that Drag Queen Story Hour,

00:37:11.200 which is this phenomenon of drag queens twerking 1.00

00:37:13.760 for little toddlers at libraries,

00:37:16.500 they called it a blessing of liberty.

00:37:19.040 Don't know what kind of blessing that would be,

00:37:21.520 but that's what they said.

00:37:23.140 More tradition-minded conservatives knew that was BS.

00:37:25.600 That is never how the culture war works.

00:37:29.000 It never stays contained.

00:37:30.660 It always spreads.

00:37:32.940 The leftist culture war always starts from a position

00:37:36.740 of individual rights and privacy.

00:37:39.120 So what they usually begin with is they say,

00:37:40.920 hey, what people do behind closed doors,

00:37:43.180 that's none of your business.

00:37:44.940 Okay, what people do in their own bedrooms,

00:37:46.380 that's none of your business.

00:37:48.040 Then the private quickly becomes the public.

00:37:51.540 All of a sudden it's, hey, what people do

00:37:53.740 in their local library, that's none of your business.

00:37:56.440 Hey, what people do in all the libraries in San Francisco,

00:37:59.880 that's none of your business.

00:38:00.800 Hey, what people do in states all around the country,

00:38:04.620 that's none of your business.

00:38:05.460 Pretty soon it's the whole culture.

00:38:07.740 The private becomes public.

00:38:09.920 You know, the left told us this in the 1960s.

00:38:11.280 One of the slogans of the feminists in particular,

00:38:14.860 but many of the left-wing radicals in the 60s,

00:38:17.240 was the personal is the political,

00:38:19.820 which means that the private is the public.

00:38:23.140 What is private and personal to me

00:38:24.920 is actually a political statement.

00:38:26.760 And that is where politics can be fought

00:38:28.220 because that will affect what we do in public.

00:38:30.520 So that's what happened with so-called gay rights, right? 0.99

00:38:33.560 It turned quickly from an acceptance

00:38:35.420 and a tolerance of homosexuality,

00:38:37.280 which was the argument in the 90s and the 2000s,

00:38:39.500 into fundamentally redefining marriage.

00:38:43.420 And if you don't accept

00:38:44.960 this radical redefinition of marriage,

00:38:46.900 you're a bigot, you could lose your job,

00:38:48.880 you could be excluded from public life.

00:38:51.080 It happened with transgender ideology. 0.92

00:38:53.700 Initially it was, hey, be nice to people,

00:38:56.240 be nice to men who wear dresses.

00:38:57.680 I don't think anyone disagreed with that.

00:38:59.240 All of a sudden it became abolishing same-sex bathrooms,

00:39:03.200 abolishing the girls' locker room.

00:39:04.520 Little girls have to change next to grown men now. 1.00

00:39:07.640 Very quickly.

00:39:08.240 Same thing is happening with Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:39:10.920 Same exact formula.

00:39:12.380 The left proposes a radical change.

00:39:14.840 Conservatives point to the slippery slope.

00:39:17.000 Then the left mocks us for talking about the slippery slope.

00:39:20.340 And before you know it, not five minutes later,

00:39:22.740 we are way, way down that slippery slope.

00:39:25.140 We're exactly where we said that we would be.

00:39:27.740 Drag Queen Story Hour starts in San Francisco in 2015.

00:39:30.740 Starts because a queer author, self-described, 1.00

00:39:33.900 I'm not using any sort of epithets,

00:39:35.320 Michelle T organized the first Drag Queen Story Hour in San Francisco.

00:39:41.080 Now Drag Queen Story Hour on its website

00:39:43.220 boasts of 45 independently operated chapters across the U.S.,

00:39:47.820 New York, Washington, Chicago, many other cities.

00:39:51.000 Now it's leaving the libraries and it's entering schools.

00:39:54.660 It's entering schools all the way up to 12th grade

00:39:58.340 and all the way back to pre-K,

00:40:01.620 earlier than kindergarten.

00:40:04.680 One teacher who's had Drag Queen Story Hour in his school said,

00:40:08.980 quote, Drag Queen Story Hour gave my first graders a fun and interactive platform

00:40:12.880 to talk and think about social and emotional issues,

00:40:15.260 like acceptance, being yourself, and loving who you are.

00:40:18.760 Not necessarily a bad thing.

00:40:20.940 He goes on.

00:40:22.420 During our debrief, students were preaching the incredible lessons they had learned,

00:40:25.700 like, it's okay to be different.

00:40:27.800 Okay, it depends on what we mean by different.

00:40:29.480 It's not okay to be evil.

00:40:31.100 It's not okay to, like, punch your classmate.

00:40:33.120 I guess that'd be different.

00:40:33.800 But it's okay to certainly be a different color, be a different sex, 0.98

00:40:38.960 be a different personality.

00:40:40.480 Sure, okay.

00:40:42.600 And, the teacher goes on,

00:40:45.240 there is no such thing as boy and girl things.

00:40:49.280 No such thing.

00:40:50.120 Now, that's a little bit different.

00:40:52.200 What do you mean there's no such?

00:40:53.580 You're saying there's no such thing as boys and girls then.

00:40:56.720 If there's no such thing as things that pertain to boys and girls,

00:40:59.460 then there's no such thing as boys and girls.

00:41:01.620 That's some pretty radical stuff.

00:41:03.800 It's both untrue and also psychologically potentially very, very damaging

00:41:09.320 to kids who are three and four years old.

00:41:11.340 And that is the agenda of Drag Queen Story Hour, 0.99

00:41:14.080 as I and many others have been telling you for months now

00:41:18.260 as the left and the squishy conservatives were mocking us.

00:41:23.160 Beyond the Drag Queen Story Hour,

00:41:24.800 here's a lesson, a lesson plan from a public school in Brooklyn

00:41:27.940 just reported in the New York Post.

00:41:29.500 This is from pre-K, preschool, at PS58.

00:41:33.900 Quote,

00:41:34.780 everybody has the right to choose their own gender

00:41:37.420 by listening to their own heart and mind.

00:41:40.200 Everyone gets to choose if they are a boy or a girl,

00:41:42.980 or both, or neither, or something else.

00:41:46.640 That's from a lesson plan at a public school in Brooklyn.

00:41:51.440 Now, the usual conservative response here is not enough.

00:41:57.520 Because here's the usual conservative response,

00:42:00.160 at least in the kind of libertarian conservative culture we live in.

00:42:04.900 The left pushes a radical agenda,

00:42:07.540 and then conservatives, rather than pushing back,

00:42:10.800 retreat into their own private spheres.

00:42:12.660 So, for instance, the left pushes this radical agenda

00:42:17.500 into the public schools, and what do conservatives do?

00:42:19.640 Do they duke it out on the field of the public school?

00:42:21.800 No.

00:42:22.340 They retreat into private school,

00:42:24.200 or they retreat into homeschool.

00:42:26.920 The private school and the homeschool movement,

00:42:28.820 great thing, all for it.

00:42:30.500 But you also have to fight the actual battle that's being waged,

00:42:34.180 which is in the public schools.

00:42:35.700 If you don't,

00:42:37.420 then the left simply dominates the culture.

00:42:39.860 Often, conservatives are fond of saying

00:42:43.400 politics is downstream of culture,

00:42:45.940 which is true.

00:42:47.480 However, politics also affects culture.

00:42:51.960 Politics has a big effect on our culture.

00:42:55.140 Look at even how economic policies can affect culture.

00:42:59.560 We saw this in the Soviet Union.

00:43:01.180 We see this after Ronald Reagan liberalized

00:43:03.580 the economic policies in the United States.

00:43:06.120 We had flourishing.

00:43:06.820 We had thriving.

00:43:08.240 Saw this in the Great Society,

00:43:09.360 the economic policies in the 1960s and 70s,

00:43:12.520 wrought crazy effects all over the culture.

00:43:17.200 It is not enough to say,

00:43:20.060 hey, conservatives can just private school. 0.92

00:43:21.900 They can just go to homeschool.

00:43:23.200 Do you know how many students are homeschooled in America?

00:43:25.620 1.6 million.

00:43:27.300 That's cool.

00:43:28.060 I mean, good for them.

00:43:29.660 Hopefully, they're getting a good education.

00:43:31.720 Glad that people have more control

00:43:33.440 over their own kids' education.

00:43:35.540 Only 1.6 million.

00:43:36.820 You know how many kids go to private school?

00:43:37.800 5.8 million.

00:43:41.060 It's good.

00:43:42.060 It's more, obviously, more than go to a homeschool.

00:43:46.760 Still 5.8 million.

00:43:48.580 Do you know how many students go to public school in the United States?

00:43:52.000 More than 50 million.

00:43:53.800 1.6, 5.8, 50 million.

00:44:02.060 So if conservatives, if all we do is retreat into our own little culture,

00:44:07.340 into our own little institutions,

00:44:09.140 and cede all the big institutions to the left,

00:44:12.580 then that will be the fastest way to lose the culture.

00:44:15.980 And it's been our strategy for at least 50, 60 years now,

00:44:19.200 and it hasn't worked out well.

00:44:20.280 And the left's argument is BS anyway.

00:44:22.000 Here's how you can fight the argument.

00:44:24.080 The pro-Drag Queen Story Hour type people say 0.89

00:44:27.320 that we need to let Drag Queen Story Hour into public schools

00:44:30.880 because that's just neutral.

00:44:33.220 You know, that's just exposing students to new ideas,

00:44:36.240 and we want students to be exposed to all sorts of ideas.

00:44:39.280 We don't teach them what to think.

00:44:41.120 We teach them how to think,

00:44:42.800 which is a completely meaningless statement and BS.

00:44:45.580 You cannot teach someone without teaching them what to think.

00:44:48.860 You cannot teach history without teaching people what to think about history.

00:44:52.620 You can present different arguments,

00:44:54.240 but ultimately one of those arguments is going to be more persuasive than the other.

00:44:57.860 You can't teach people mathematics without teaching them what to think about mathematics.

00:45:01.800 You can't teach people language without teaching them what to think about language.

00:45:06.200 Okay.

00:45:06.920 They start from that premise.

00:45:08.860 It's just neutral.

00:45:10.240 Just let that idea in.

00:45:11.620 Okay, well, what do you think they would say if you suggested teaching the Bible in schools

00:45:17.160 or if you suggested opening school each day with a prayer

00:45:20.440 as we did throughout the United States until about 60 years ago?

00:45:23.960 Do you think they would say, oh, of course.

00:45:25.900 Well, yeah, because we have this neutral ground,

00:45:28.140 and absolutely we want all these ideas.

00:45:30.600 We don't want to limit anybody's exposure to ideas.

00:45:33.320 I mean, especially the Bible, which is the single most important book ever written,

00:45:36.800 and without which you can't understand anything else in our culture.

00:45:39.420 Do you think they would say that?

00:45:42.140 I don't think they would say that.

00:45:43.820 I think they would do as they've done for 50, 60 years

00:45:46.400 and get both of those things straight out of the public schools.

00:45:50.480 Their argument is disingenuous.

00:45:53.260 The key here is that liberalism is not neutral.

00:45:57.080 We need to fight back and stop ceding these institutions and arguments to the left.

00:46:02.740 The left does not have your best interests at heart.

00:46:05.360 They might prattle on about how much they love humanity,

00:46:08.140 but they don't seem to care very much for actual humans,

00:46:11.660 and you and your children are the actual humans

00:46:13.780 who could be harmed by this leftist culture.

00:46:17.800 If we don't fight back, we're just going to find ourselves

00:46:20.160 further and further and further down that slippery slope.

00:46:23.540 Hope I don't have to see you there.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 29, 2020

Ep. 486 - The Left Loves Humanity, Hates Humans

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