The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 487 - Why The Left Never Says Sorry

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00:00:30.440 CNN's Don Lemon makes an awkward on-air apology for mocking half of his fellow countrymen as ignorant, illiterate rubes.

00:00:37.760 The only problem with Don Lemon's apology is that he never actually apologized.

00:00:42.540 We will examine why being a leftist means never having to say you're sorry.

00:00:46.660 Then the fate of impeachment comes down to a nail-biter on Friday.

00:00:49.600 We take a look at the stakes.

00:00:51.520 The Iowa caucuses are just four days away.

00:00:53.460 And finally, the mailbag.

00:00:54.620 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:00.000 Do we have a lot to get to today?

00:01:05.760 My favorite, of course, is Don Lemon's Sorry, I'm Not Sorry, which isn't just about Don Lemon.

00:01:10.580 It's not just about CNN.

00:01:11.900 It's about the whole left wing.

00:01:14.240 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:02:46.960 My favorite sorry I'm not sorry that I've ever seen comes from Don Lemon.

00:02:51.720 You remember the other night we saw Don Lemon on CNN along with two panelists mocking all conservatives, all Trump voters as idiots, ignorant, illiterate rubes.

00:03:03.460 They can't find anything on a map.

00:03:05.780 They can't spell.

00:03:06.960 They mocked their southern accents, right, laughing for almost 90 seconds.

00:03:11.420 So the bigwigs over at CNN, it would seem, leaned on Don Lemon and said, man, you got to apologize because our ratings are plummeting.

00:03:18.760 Now we're down to six viewers.

00:03:20.140 Before, we were up at eight viewers, and so we were able to appease the advertisers.

00:03:24.020 But now we're down at six, and we're starting to face some trouble, other than everyone at the airports that we forced to watch our network.

00:03:30.080 So they get Don Lemon to come on out and give his apology.

00:03:33.300 And Don Lemon, you got to appreciate the cojones on that guy.

00:03:36.980 He goes to give his apology and never actually apologizes.

00:03:40.780 Here he is.

00:03:41.120 And one final note that I have for you, because this is personally important to me to address this, okay?

00:03:51.180 Anyone, ask anyone who knows me, they'll tell you, I don't believe in belittling people, belittling anyone for who they are, what they believe, or where they're from.

00:04:02.380 He doesn't believe in belittling people.

00:04:05.340 Not Don Lemon.

00:04:06.080 He would never believe in belittling people, right?

00:04:08.480 Oh, except let's go back to that clip from three nights ago and see if you would call that belittling people.

00:04:13.960 He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world.

00:04:19.800 And so that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump,

00:04:29.040 that wants to think that Donald Trump's a smart one in there, y'all elitists are dumb.

00:04:36.500 You elitist with your geography and your maps and your spelling, even though my math and you're reading.

00:04:42.760 Yeah, you're reading, you know, your geography, knowing other countries, sipping your latte.

00:04:49.960 All those lines on the map.

00:04:54.100 But you know what?

00:04:58.280 It was Rick's fault.

00:04:59.780 I blame Rick.

00:05:01.280 But in all honesty, blame Rick.

00:05:05.300 Sorry, hold on, wait, wait, give me a second.

00:05:07.400 Hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:05:08.660 No, it was good.

00:05:11.060 Sorry.

00:05:11.340 Rick, that was a good one.

00:05:13.200 I needed that.

00:05:14.480 That was good.

00:05:15.260 I needed to spend 80 seconds laughing at half of the country, but I totally, totally would never belittle them.

00:05:20.940 What would give you the idea that Don Lemon would belittle them?

00:05:23.420 Then he goes on.

00:05:24.660 He sets up the apology, right?

00:05:26.240 And with absolutely no credibility because he's just lying to your face.

00:05:29.400 He did belittle people.

00:05:30.700 He did mock half the country the other night.

00:05:32.240 Then he goes on with a straight face.

00:05:35.100 During an interview on Saturday night, one of my guests said something that made me laugh.

00:05:39.480 And while in the moment, I found that joke humorous.

00:05:42.960 And I didn't catch everything that was said.

00:05:45.280 Oh, there it is.

00:05:46.360 Did you see that?

00:05:46.940 I hope you caught everything that was just said.

00:05:49.740 He starts out not by apologizing, but by defending himself.

00:05:54.080 He says, look, there was a joke.

00:05:55.800 And I thought that joke was funny.

00:05:57.560 And then the denial.

00:05:59.980 And look, I didn't catch everything that was said.

00:06:02.180 Yes, you did.

00:06:04.100 Of course you did.

00:06:04.680 There was only one thing that was said.

00:06:06.000 The only thing that was said is that Trump voters are a bunch of idiots.

00:06:09.380 That's actually the problem with the joke is it was just a one-note joke.

00:06:13.100 Rick Wilson and that other guy, Wajahad Ali, both said that Trump voters are idiots.

00:06:18.500 And then they said that same thing over and over in multiple ways.

00:06:22.080 And Don Lemon broke down laughing for 90 seconds.

00:06:25.980 That's the whole, so you did hear it.

00:06:27.520 Even if you missed 70 seconds of that joke, you did hear the joke, which was that these

00:06:33.100 Trump voters are complete idiots.

00:06:35.080 He denies it.

00:06:36.260 He says, nope, I didn't hear it anyway.

00:06:39.120 Never mind.

00:06:39.620 Moving on, moving on.

00:06:40.420 And then he finishes up his non-apology apology.

00:06:43.440 Just to make this perfectly clear, I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people.

00:06:51.120 Yeah, but the joke was the people.

00:06:53.380 What are you talking about?

00:06:55.360 You were laughing at the joke.

00:06:56.880 What was the joke?

00:06:57.520 The joke was Trump voters are total idiots and they talk like this and they don't read

00:07:02.200 and they don't know geography.

00:07:03.600 That was the whole joke for 80, 90 seconds.

00:07:05.900 So you were laughing at the joke and the joke was the people.

00:07:09.400 Being a leftist means never having to say that you're sorry because you can just excuse

00:07:13.620 yourself all the time.

00:07:15.020 And what makes this so bad for Don Lemon is the first segment that he's apologizing for

00:07:22.140 was insulting people's intelligence.

00:07:25.100 And then the apology is an even greater insult to people's intelligence because he's not

00:07:29.520 actually apologizing.

00:07:30.400 I'll give you an example how you don't see this on the right.

00:07:34.280 The premise of this new podcast that I have with Ted Cruz, Verdict with Ted Cruz, number

00:07:39.080 one podcast in the country.

00:07:40.820 The whole premise of that is that people are smarter than you give them credit for.

00:07:45.740 Right?

00:07:46.220 Maybe they don't speak legalese, maybe they don't speak like politicians, but if you take

00:07:50.660 these highly specialized terms, you translate them into common language, people actually

00:07:54.240 understand what's going on because people are actually pretty smart.

00:07:58.140 The whole premise of CNN is people are a bunch of idiots.

00:08:00.640 They actually say that on air and then when they go to apologize for it, they think the

00:08:04.060 viewers are so stupid that they're going to believe a non-apology is an apology.

00:08:06.880 I'll give you another example of this beyond Don Lemon, Elizabeth Warren.

00:08:10.720 Elizabeth Warren is now proposing criminal penalties for spreading misinformation on 0.90

00:08:17.320 the internet.

00:08:18.760 I'll repeat that.

00:08:20.060 Elizabeth Liawatha Warren is proposing criminal penalties for posting misinformation on the

00:08:27.620 internet.

00:08:28.000 She said, I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly

00:08:32.720 disseminating this kind of information.

00:08:35.120 Just to remind you of who Elizabeth Warren is, here's just a little clip of her when

00:08:39.680 she was on The Breakfast Club, asked about her racial history.

00:08:44.120 You're kind of like the original Rachel Dozo a little bit.

00:08:47.100 Rachel Dozo is a white woman pretending to be black. 1.00

00:08:50.160 This is what I learned from my family.

00:08:51.960 Yeah.

00:08:53.120 I love that clip.

00:08:54.420 Yeah, well, it wasn't true.

00:08:55.800 And you lied and you never apologized for it.

00:08:58.600 Liz Warren, you never apologized for decades of lies.

00:09:01.580 You never apologized to the Native American whose job you might've taken in the academy.

00:09:06.320 You never apologized to the school administrators that you smeared when you said that you were

00:09:10.200 fired by a school for being pregnant when that actually wasn't true.

00:09:13.480 You never apologized to the voters that you regularly insult by lying to them.

00:09:18.460 One of Elizabeth Warren's big problems right now on the campaign trail, she doesn't learn, 1.00

00:09:23.740 she doesn't adapt.

00:09:24.480 She just keeps up this same old strategy. 0.88

00:09:26.480 She keeps on lying.

00:09:28.500 You actually see this same problem all the way in the United Kingdom in the Brexit vote.

00:09:33.380 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:10:47.540 You see this problem, this lying, this inability to admit your own mistakes, this inability to

00:10:53.600 adapt from the left, even in Great Britain, even in the European Union.

00:10:57.460 Big, big news coming out of Europe right now.

00:10:59.960 We've been talking about Brexit for three, four years at this point.

00:11:04.360 The UK voted for Brexit to leave the European Union in 2016.

00:11:07.880 For some reason, it just hasn't happened.

00:11:09.800 It's because liberal elites keep trying to keep them in.

00:11:12.260 It's finally going to happen.

00:11:13.700 As of 11 p.m. tomorrow, Great Britain will no longer be a member of the European Union.

00:11:20.580 The conservative leader, Nigel Farage in the European Union, he stood up there.

00:11:27.140 He gave his farewell address.

00:11:28.500 He's been pushing for Britain to leave the European Union for years and years now.

00:11:32.600 They laughed at him.

00:11:33.320 They told him it wouldn't happen.

00:11:34.300 He gave his farewell address.

00:11:36.200 And the EU was so furious about it, they actually cut his microphone.

00:11:41.280 Take a listen.

00:11:41.700 So this is it, the final chapter, the end of the road.

00:11:45.400 A 47-year political experiment that the British, frankly, have never been very happy with.

00:11:51.680 It is globalism against populism.

00:11:55.300 And you may loathe populism, but I tell you a funny thing.

00:11:59.540 It's becoming very popular.

00:12:00.880 And it has great benefits.

00:12:05.580 No more financial contributions.

00:12:07.820 No more European Court of Justice.

00:12:10.300 No more common fisheries policy.

00:12:12.600 No more being talked down to.

00:12:14.520 No more being bullied.

00:12:16.680 No more Guy Verhofstadt.

00:12:19.080 I mean, what's not to like?

00:12:22.240 I know you're going to miss us.

00:12:23.740 I know you want to ban our national flags, but we're going to wave you goodbye.

00:12:29.260 And we'll look forward in the future to working with you as sovereign.

00:12:36.480 If you disobey the rules, you get cut off.

00:12:40.160 Could we please remove the flags?

00:12:45.280 Mr Farage.

00:12:48.220 Could we remove the flags, please?

00:12:50.420 That's it.

00:12:50.960 It's all over.

00:12:51.940 Finish.

00:12:52.220 Oh, what a magnificent moment.

00:12:56.240 How this highlights the difference between the conservative view and this liberal view,

00:13:02.980 never admitting that you were wrong.

00:13:04.940 After so many obstacles, Great Britain finally is pulling out of the European Union.

00:13:10.040 And in this last act, they say, look, we are looking forward to working with you, Europe,

00:13:16.700 but we are going to work with you as a sovereign nation.

00:13:20.140 And before he can say nation, they cut his microphone and they cut his microphone because

00:13:26.660 he's waving the flag of his nation.

00:13:29.040 And several of the other members of the delegation are actually wearing the flag on a necktie,

00:13:34.020 the Union Jack.

00:13:34.760 And when she cuts the microphone, the speaker says, put away the flags, put away the flags.

00:13:41.580 That's a violation of the rules.

00:13:43.020 Hey, listen, lady. 1.00

00:13:45.080 If you want to ensure that the EU completely dissolves, keep telling people to put away their flags.

00:13:49.960 Because guess what?

00:13:50.420 People like their flags and they like their countries.

00:13:52.160 And that has been what these elections, whether it's the United States election,

00:13:56.720 whether it's in Hungary, whether it's in Great Britain, whether all over the West right now,

00:14:01.600 there is a resurgence of love of country, of love of nation, of these bonds of loyalty

00:14:06.600 that go beyond this liberal, utopian, one-world scheme that they've been trying to foist on us for decades.

00:14:13.660 You would think that the left could have some humility after all of these devastating losses,

00:14:18.900 the Brexit loss, the Donald Trump loss, the Boris Johnson loss, the losses all throughout

00:14:25.220 continental Europe, but they don't learn.

00:14:26.980 They can't learn.

00:14:27.940 They can't change their minds.

00:14:30.140 And it's not as though you couldn't predict this.

00:14:32.140 Margaret Thatcher, one of the great prime ministers in the history of Britain, predicted all of this

00:14:36.640 years and years ago in the 1980s.

00:14:39.160 Margaret Thatcher predicted exactly what would happen if Britain entered into the European Union.

00:14:45.280 She could have given this speech three years ago instead of over 30 years ago.

00:14:49.600 Here she is.

00:14:50.580 The political consequences can already be glimpsed.

00:14:53.940 The growth of extremist parties,

00:14:57.760 battening on fears about mass immigration and unemployment,

00:15:03.060 offering a real if thoroughly unwelcome alternative to the Eurocentricist political establishment.

00:15:09.160 If, in addition, you were to create a supranational European federation and the people could no longer

00:15:17.100 hold their national parliaments to account, extremism would only grow further.

00:15:23.320 You'll see the growth of extremism.

00:15:25.260 You'll see a lot of worry about mass migration.

00:15:29.100 You'll see, guess what?

00:15:29.680 That's what defines our political era.

00:15:31.960 And she was right.

00:15:32.720 Now, is Margaret Thatcher a mind reader? 1.00

00:15:34.260 Are conservatives just wizards dealing in the dark arts that they can predict all these things?

00:15:40.060 No, they just maintain a healthy skepticism about all of these liberal utopian ideas.

00:15:44.880 And guess what?

00:15:45.600 It turns out that they're correct. 0.65

00:15:48.020 The big takeaway here, from Don Lemon to Brexit to even beyond,

00:15:53.620 the left can never acknowledge that they're wrong

00:15:58.220 because their vision of progressivism does not allow it.

00:16:03.740 Progressivism insists that there is an end goal.

00:16:06.020 There is a utopia.

00:16:07.000 There's this perfect place that we're getting to and we're getting a little bit closer all the time,

00:16:10.780 but you just got to follow their path to progress.

00:16:14.320 Now, it doesn't matter if their path to progress doesn't work.

00:16:16.940 It doesn't matter if those utopian schemes breed human misery everywhere they're tried.

00:16:20.920 The left doesn't care if their programs work in practice.

00:16:23.180 They care if they work in theory.

00:16:25.960 They care that they're really consistent all the time.

00:16:28.820 They're consistently wrong, but at least they're consistent.

00:16:31.120 Actually, nowhere do you see this better than on the podcaster Joe Rogan's recent endorsement of Bernie Sanders.

00:16:39.420 Joe Rogan came out.

00:16:40.940 He tries not to be too political or too partisan, but he recently came out on his podcast.

00:16:45.920 His is the number two podcast in America.

00:16:48.120 It's right below the number one podcast in America, Verdict with Ted Cruz,

00:16:51.020 a show that I happen to co-host.

00:16:53.180 He came out right away and he said that he's going to vote for Bernie Sanders because Bernie Sanders has been so consistent.

00:17:04.300 Who are you going to vote for in the primary?

00:17:05.900 I think I'll probably vote for Bernie.

00:17:11.260 Him as a human being, when I was hanging out with him, I believe in him.

00:17:15.460 I like him.

00:17:16.060 I like him a lot.

00:17:16.960 What Bernie stands for is a guy who, look, you could dig up dirt on every single human being that's ever existed if you catch them in their worst moment and you magnify those moments and you cut out everything else and you only display those worst moments.

00:17:30.640 That said, you can't find very many with Bernie.

00:17:35.320 He's been insanely consistent his entire life.

00:17:38.840 He's basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life.

00:17:43.460 And that, in and of itself, is a very powerful structure to operate from.

00:17:50.740 Bernie Sanders has been insanely consistent.

00:17:53.640 He's been insanely consistently wrong.

00:17:56.880 He's been consistently communist.

00:18:00.140 He honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

00:18:02.920 There are videos of him with his shirt off, swilling vodka, singing communist folk songs in the Soviet Union with the Ruskies before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

00:18:12.300 He's been consistently in support of the worst communist regimes on earth.

00:18:16.720 Castro, communists all throughout Latin America.

00:18:20.840 But he has been consistent.

00:18:22.720 Shows you a big difference between the left and the right.

00:18:24.720 The left, above all, values consistency.

00:18:29.660 The worst thing you can be on the left is a hypocrite.

00:18:32.680 This is why the left all the time goes so hard after Republican senators who get caught getting feely with other men in airport bathrooms, that kind of thing. 0.98

00:18:42.840 It's not because the left disapproves of homosexuality, right?

00:18:48.220 The left celebrates homosexuality. 0.99

00:18:49.740 They should be happy when Republican senators are getting frisky with other guys in the airport bathroom. 1.00

00:18:53.640 It's not that.

00:18:54.380 It's because the Republican senators are seen to be hypocrites.

00:18:58.400 A Republican senator votes against gay marriage, redefining marriage.

00:19:03.120 And then he's caught with a guy in an airport bathroom.

00:19:05.480 That's the worst thing you can be because you're a hypocrite.

00:19:08.580 The chief sin, according to the left, is hypocrisy.

00:19:11.360 For the right, it's very different.

00:19:12.900 The right values something much more than consistency.

00:19:16.380 The right values actually being right.

00:19:19.220 Even if you used to be wrong, now you're right.

00:19:22.380 That's a good thing.

00:19:23.680 We would much rather have a moral standard that we fail to live up to than have no standards at all.

00:19:29.840 We know as conservatives we're all flawed and broken.

00:19:33.140 We all fall short of the glory of God.

00:19:34.880 We don't care so much about consistency if you get it right now.

00:19:39.920 We just elected Donald Trump.

00:19:41.900 The party of family values, social conservatives, Christians, has elected a thrice married lapsed Presbyterian who used to donate to Democrats, who once called himself very pro-choice.

00:19:54.300 On the left, they say, what hypocrisy, what inconsistency.

00:19:59.620 But you know what we see on the right?

00:20:01.440 A guy who has matured over time and is now an excellent president and very conservative and the most pro-life president we've ever had and extremely successful.

00:20:09.940 I'm pretty glad that we took a chance on that inconsistent guy.

00:20:13.640 I'm pretty glad that Trump was inconsistent.

00:20:15.240 If he had been consistent, he would have remained a very pro-choice liberal Democrat.

00:20:18.740 But he didn't.

00:20:19.320 He became a conservative and a very good conservative president.

00:20:24.300 We were right to choose being right over being consistent.

00:20:29.240 We're seeing this play out in impeachment, too.

00:20:31.520 There are reports right now, and I'm getting them every single night when Senator Cruz comes here from the Capitol.

00:20:36.680 He tells us what's happening behind closed doors.

00:20:39.920 There are reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not have the votes to block more witnesses in the impeachment trial.

00:20:47.240 We've already had 17, 18 witnesses.

00:20:48.900 He's saying, we want to stop it, no more witnesses, end this thing, it's a total farce anyway.

00:20:56.580 But he doesn't have the votes because of those squishy Republican senators. 0.94

00:21:00.300 Guys like Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, those moderates.

00:21:05.180 So right now, the president's team says it's going to be a nail-biter.

00:21:07.980 It's going to come down to the wire on Friday or Saturday.

00:21:10.780 There are a handful of Republican senators who don't even know if they're going to ask for witnesses or not.

00:21:19.000 And Mitt Romney, too.

00:21:19.740 He has not said, I am going to ask for more witnesses.

00:21:23.020 But he's likewise not agreed to end this whole thing.

00:21:26.320 So in this case, it's extremely annoying because I just really wish that Romney and the other ones would get on board,

00:21:31.280 realize this is a total hack impeachment, end this thing, and move on, and then I can fly back to Los Angeles.

00:21:36.040 But actually, in Romney's defense, never thought I would say that, this speaks pretty well of Republicans.

00:21:45.300 Okay, Republicans are not all just in lockstep.

00:21:47.700 We're not all just falling in line behind the president blindly.

00:21:51.500 We're open to new information.

00:21:53.620 You can't predict exactly what a Republican or a conservative or a right-winger is going to say.

00:21:59.060 If you got 100 conservatives into the room together, not two of them would agree on every single thing.

00:22:06.040 That's not true of the left.

00:22:08.300 You rarely, if ever, see this kind of break among the left.

00:22:12.120 You never see some left-winger defending Trump.

00:22:14.700 You never saw some left-winger really seriously opposing Obama.

00:22:18.780 But you do see right-wingers criticizing Trump.

00:22:21.840 It's because we've got different ideas.

00:22:25.340 There's a little more intellectual diversity.

00:22:27.200 We're more open to changing circumstances.

00:22:29.880 So what does this mean for impeachment?

00:22:31.060 It means John Bolton might testify, and the Democrats will be happy about that.

00:22:36.960 Then it means Hunter Biden might testify.

00:22:38.460 The Democrats will not be happy about that.

00:22:41.160 Then more people may testify.

00:22:42.480 Then this thing could get dragged out all the way until March.

00:22:46.260 Now, conventional wisdom is saying that the senators who are running for president, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Klobuchar,

00:22:54.500 that they want to end this impeachment race so that they can get back on the campaign trail.

00:22:59.940 But actually, for one of them, impeachment has been really, really good.

00:23:04.100 And coincidentally, it's the one presidential candidate who's been insanely consistent.

00:23:09.360 It's the one presidential candidate who just got Joe Rogan's endorsement.

00:23:12.460 That would be Bernie Sanders.

00:23:14.120 Bernie Sanders is totally killing it.

00:23:16.500 He's at the top of the polls.

00:23:18.580 Why?

00:23:19.960 We will find out in a second.

00:23:21.160 Then we will get to the mailbag.

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00:24:48.700 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:24:49.820 We are five days away, I think, from the Iowa caucuses, the first big test of the 2020 presidential primary race.

00:25:10.140 And Bernie Sanders, the consistent candidate, the man who never said he's sorry, he's at the top of the pack.

00:25:18.720 And Joe Biden's campaign, trying to run in the moderate lane, that campaign is falling apart.

00:25:24.060 You can see it falling apart in real time.

00:25:26.120 The other day, Joe Biden was doing an event in Iowa, and he couldn't remember what year he and Barack Obama got reelected.

00:25:34.640 I can think of at least eight women, at least four or five people of color, that I think are totally qualified to be vice president of the United States. 1.00

00:25:46.740 But for me, it has to be demonstrated that whoever I pick, there's two things.

00:25:51.700 One, he's capable of needing to be a president, because I'm an old guy.

00:25:57.960 No, I'm serious.

00:25:59.220 Look, I'm going to thank God.

00:26:00.420 I'm in great health.

00:26:01.240 I work out.

00:26:02.280 No, I'm serious.

00:26:03.200 I work out every morning.

00:26:05.260 I'm in good shape.

00:26:06.380 Knock on wood, as my mother would say.

00:26:08.840 So that's actually the first part, right?

00:26:10.860 That's where Joe Biden is now having to admit his age as a factor in this campaign.

00:26:15.540 He's saying, look, I'm going to need a young VP because I'm an old guy.

00:26:19.920 Campaigns that are strong do not need to rely on their vice presidents.

00:26:23.860 Campaigns that are strong don't admit that there is a likelihood that they will not finish out their term, which is what Joe Biden is admitting.

00:26:32.360 And you see it in all of these memory lapses.

00:26:34.340 I mean, you saw it on the debate stage when his eyeball exploded and his teeth fell out of his mouth.

00:26:38.580 You see it when he loses his trains of thought, which happened a lot.

00:26:41.220 And you see it in Iowa, again, just the other day, when he couldn't remember when he got elected.

00:26:46.740 If you are running to be president and your biggest accomplishment is that you were the vice president,

00:27:16.680 and you can't remember when you got elected vice president, that's not a great resume.

00:27:22.440 That's not a strong campaign.

00:27:24.440 I mean, even just running as the vice president, that's not even that strong.

00:27:28.080 But if you can't remember where you are, probably voters are not going to have a lot of faith in you.

00:27:33.900 And as a result of this campaign falling apart, a new candidate has emerged to take this moderate spot.

00:27:41.440 That candidate is New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg.

00:27:45.440 There is a morning consult poll out of national voters showing that Mike Bloomberg is exploding up the charts.

00:27:52.000 Now, he's still way behind.

00:27:53.400 You got to remember, he started from nothing and he got into the race late.

00:27:55.700 And he's only half a Democrat.

00:27:57.380 He actually was the Republican mayor of New York for part of his term.

00:28:01.020 Then he switched parties.

00:28:02.840 But Bloomberg right now is at about 12 percent, according to morning consult, closing in on Warren, who's at 14 percent, still behind Joe Biden, who's at 29, and Bernie Sanders, who's at 23.

00:28:15.080 That's a national poll.

00:28:16.020 So it's not in Iowa.

00:28:16.800 It's not in New Hampshire, but it's national overall.

00:28:19.260 But Mike Bloomberg is rising up those charts.

00:28:21.620 He's got the most momentum of any candidate.

00:28:23.600 Whether he can catch up in time is another story.

00:28:25.880 So Mike Bloomberg is the great hope to take Joe Biden's spot because Joe Biden's too old.

00:28:30.940 The only problem is Mike Bloomberg is older than Joe Biden.

00:28:34.560 Mike Bloomberg is nine months older than Joe Biden.

00:28:37.300 So it's very difficult to imagine the Democrats making a 77-year-old male New York billionaire their nominee for president.

00:28:45.520 Also hard to imagine Mike Bloomberg beating Donald Trump.

00:28:48.620 But he may try to land the moderate lane to stop Bernie because the Democrats are very concerned that whatever the moderate is,

00:28:54.120 whether it's Joe Biden or Mike Bloomberg or even Pete Buttigieg, they're not going to be able to stop Bernie.

00:28:59.660 Don't forget those Democrat elites had to steal the election from Bernie in 2016.

00:29:05.560 Why?

00:29:06.020 Why is Bernie Sanders, this old communist codger who was around St. Petersburg when he felt it was time for a change,

00:29:12.620 who knew Karl Marx personally, probably, I wouldn't be surprised.

00:29:16.620 Why is he surging?

00:29:18.880 In part, it's a process of elimination.

00:29:21.320 It's a weak field and they all have so many flaws that Bernie Sanders shines.

00:29:26.640 In part, I think it's because he's not on the campaign trail right now.

00:29:32.040 I think actually impeachment is helping him because Bernie Sanders, missing all those gaffes, missing all those radical quotes,

00:29:38.620 missing all those radical new plans.

00:29:40.260 Bernie Sanders, just like leftism in general, is better in theory than in reality.

00:29:48.100 Bernie Sanders, though, is consistent.

00:29:52.240 He has been consistently wrong.

00:29:54.680 He has consistently failed to bring about any legislation that he's proposed.

00:30:00.220 He is consistently lost and lost.

00:30:04.460 Democrats might learn that lesson before it's too late.

00:30:07.020 I suppose we can only hope.

00:30:08.260 All right, let's get to the mailbag.

00:30:10.320 I'm always so late on the mailbag.

00:30:11.740 I want to take a little bit of time today.

00:30:12.980 First question from Joshua.

00:30:16.760 Even though we know Democrats won't admit on camera that Alan Dershowitz's constitutional arguments swayed them against impeachment,

00:30:24.840 do you think it should have, especially on abuse of power and the myriad other presidents who have been accused of such?

00:30:32.080 Thanks again.

00:30:33.860 Yes.

00:30:34.300 Alan Dershowitz, one of the president's lawyers, gave very clear arguments for why this impeachment is wrong and unconstitutional and the president should be acquitted.

00:30:45.800 Alan Dershowitz is not a Republican.

00:30:47.580 He's a lifelong Democrat.

00:30:48.840 Alan Dershowitz is not a conservative.

00:30:50.320 He's a lifelong liberal.

00:30:51.980 Alan Dershowitz is not a supporter of the president.

00:30:53.880 He didn't vote for Trump in 2016.

00:30:55.300 He says he's not going to vote for Trump in 2020, but he shows up to the impeachment to defend the Constitution.

00:31:00.940 What he says is the Democrats have not accused the president of a crime.

00:31:05.060 The president can only be impeached for a crime.

00:31:07.260 And if you apply the very loose standard that the Congress is applying to Donald Trump, if you apply that to other presidents, you'd have impeached George Washington,

00:31:19.020 John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, all the way up to Abraham Lincoln, all the way up to Wilson and FDR, all the way up to Ronald Reagan and even beyond.

00:31:27.620 It's just not a tenable idea.

00:31:30.240 It's not constitutional.

00:31:31.120 Those arguments are unlikely to switch any votes on the Democratic side.

00:31:38.120 Maybe.

00:31:38.640 I think Dianne Feinstein, the Democrat from California, she sort of signaled that maybe she would consider acquitting,

00:31:44.440 and then she got so much pushback from the left that she said she was misunderstood by the reporter who wrote that,

00:31:49.940 so even she's probably not going to do it.

00:31:52.060 The reason that you're not going to switch any votes on the Democratic Party or really on the Republican side in almost all certainty

00:31:59.200 is because this is a partisan impeachment.

00:32:03.400 It was only Democrats who impeached the president in the House.

00:32:06.440 Not one single Republican voted to impeach the president.

00:32:11.260 So this is the first time that's ever happened.

00:32:12.880 We've had three presidents be impeached in American history.

00:32:17.240 This third one, President Trump, is the first time that it has been strictly partisan.

00:32:22.200 And so if you get a partisan impeachment in the House, you're going to get a partisan trial in the Senate,

00:32:26.680 and you're going to get the Democrats all in lockstep, and you're going to get the Republicans all in lockstep.

00:32:30.320 And it's not even a constitutional issue, really, because the Republicans have the Senate.

00:32:34.800 They have the majority.

00:32:35.900 And so in all likelihood, President Trump will be acquitted.

00:32:38.860 It's an important constitutional lesson, and hopefully, as this history is written, future legislators will learn from this.

00:32:46.840 Partisan impeachments do not work.

00:32:48.520 A lot of the people impeaching the president right now in the House made those arguments in the 1990s,

00:32:54.140 and that was not a strictly partisan impeachment.

00:32:56.140 Hopefully, we will learn it now, because if it's a purely partisan impeachment,

00:33:00.400 then argumentation, debate, facts, evidence, the Constitution, none of that matters.

00:33:06.440 It's just a bloodsport between two teams, and we might as well tune the whole thing out.

00:33:11.340 From Tyler.

00:33:12.340 Dear Michael, I live in Connecticut, and I know you spent some time here.

00:33:15.540 I also know you hail from New York.

00:33:17.600 So tell me, which pizza is better, New York pizza or New Haven pizza?

00:33:22.260 New Haven pizza is better.

00:33:24.280 It is, objectively.

00:33:25.120 New York pizza is wonderful.

00:33:26.120 New Haven pizza is better.

00:33:27.420 Sally's is the best in New Haven.

00:33:29.140 Pepe is very good, too.

00:33:30.540 And Barr is also pretty good.

00:33:33.000 That's just a fact.

00:33:34.280 Pains me, because I'm a New Yorker, but facts don't care about people's feelings,

00:33:37.720 and we have to go with the evidence.

00:33:39.500 New Haven.

00:33:40.260 From David.

00:33:41.480 Hey, Michael.

00:33:42.360 I got into an argument with a friend about the founding fathers.

00:33:45.440 They claimed the founders were dirtbags.

00:33:47.100 I strongly disagree with this.

00:33:49.440 After all, they started this great nation.

00:33:51.780 However, they did have issues, such as slavery, and the fact that Jefferson apparently had an affair with a black woman,

00:33:57.500 who was a slave, by the way.

00:34:00.000 What do you think about the founding fathers?

00:34:02.740 Do we judge them too harshly, or were they really terrible people?

00:34:05.460 Also, any books you suggest to read on them?

00:34:07.540 Thanks.

00:34:09.360 The founding fathers were better men than your friends.

00:34:14.100 Every single one of the founding fathers was a much better man than any of your friends who call them dirtbags.

00:34:19.880 The founding fathers were better men than you, in almost all certainty, and the founding fathers were better men than me.

00:34:25.280 Yes, they were human beings, and so they had flaws and foibles.

00:34:32.620 Yes, they lived in history, so there were social evils that existed around them, like slavery, as you mentioned.

00:34:40.500 But those men were much, much better than we are.

00:34:45.660 We inherited this great nation from them, and we've been messing it up in many ways, especially in our constitutional order.

00:34:53.200 Much better men.

00:34:54.460 The way that you can show this to your friends is to just push history down a little bit.

00:35:00.880 So now we're over 200 years removed from the founding generation.

00:35:05.960 Now, what, 250?

00:35:08.760 What will people say about us in 250 years?

00:35:13.120 Will they call us dirtbags?

00:35:15.220 Maybe.

00:35:16.120 We're all much less educated than those founding fathers.

00:35:20.080 We've all accomplished much, much less than the founding fathers, and will accomplish much, much less than them.

00:35:26.140 We're all much less religious, virtually in all cases.

00:35:30.880 Few exceptions, I suppose.

00:35:33.120 And we live at a time that also is marked by immense social evil.

00:35:39.460 So the founding generation had slavery.

00:35:42.040 Evil.

00:35:43.280 Our generation kills a million babies a year through abortion. 1.00

00:35:46.560 A million babies a year, just in America.

00:35:49.860 We are killing off a quarter of the population.

00:35:52.800 And by the way, since you bring up the question of African slavery, we're killing off black babies at a much higher rate than we're killing off white babies. 0.90

00:36:00.240 We're killing off black babies at three times the rate we're killing off white babies. 1.00

00:36:04.040 More black babies are killed in New York than are born.

00:36:07.880 So how are they going to look on us?

00:36:09.940 Are we dirtbags?

00:36:11.100 Maybe we are dirtbags.

00:36:12.120 But the founding fathers were not.

00:36:13.740 From Chase.

00:36:15.280 Hello, Michael.

00:36:16.160 My name is Chase.

00:36:17.300 I know that because you sent in the question from Chase.

00:36:19.800 I'm curious to learn who's your favorite actor.

00:36:23.660 My favorite actor that I can see, you know, there are stories about the great actors in the past like Garrick or Eleonora Duzza or these actors that really only other actors ever read about.

00:36:36.980 But in terms of the actors that we could all see and appreciate, Brando.

00:36:40.600 Brando is my favorite actor.

00:36:42.320 It's an obvious answer, but it's obvious for a reason.

00:36:46.100 In terms of living actors or recently dead, Philip Seymour Hoffman, I think, is a magnificent actor, was a magnificent actor.

00:36:53.340 Robert Duvall, Denzel Washington.

00:36:56.280 I think John Voight is a tremendous actor.

00:36:59.780 Kevin Spacey.

00:37:00.540 I know he's got political problems now, but Kevin Spacey is an excellent actor.

00:37:05.540 Hugh Jackman, Ed Harris, Sam Rockwell, Bradley Cooper is very good.

00:37:12.100 In terms of my favorite movie star, which is different than actor, Tom Cruise.

00:37:16.900 There's only one, and his name is Tom Cruise.

00:37:19.740 From Thomas.

00:37:21.320 Hey, Michael.

00:37:22.220 I teach middle school students, and I get asked all the time what the difference is between modern Protestants and Catholics.

00:37:28.440 As a history teacher, my answer is usually long-winded.

00:37:32.100 What is a simple explanation for this question?

00:37:35.140 Thank you.

00:37:37.800 Obviously, you could go into any number of things.

00:37:40.220 You could go into our understanding of Mary, the mother of God.

00:37:44.980 You could go into our understanding of the role of priests, and therefore bishops, and the bishop of Rome, who's also known as the pope.

00:37:51.440 You could go into all those things.

00:37:53.060 But I think the simplest way to understand it, especially given the fact that there are tens of thousands of Protestant denominations, so you've got to figure out which one you're talking about.

00:38:03.560 The simplest way to understand it is that the difference is about our understanding of symbolism, specifically the sacraments, and specifically the Eucharist, which is the sacrament.

00:38:15.180 It's the communion wafer.

00:38:16.540 It's the Lord's Supper.

00:38:17.820 It's the body and blood of Christ.

00:38:20.920 In the Protestant view, broadly, the sacraments are just symbols, so they're totally, you know, it could be anything.

00:38:29.640 There's no intrinsic worth to it.

00:38:32.100 It's just, you know, a little cracker, basically.

00:38:34.620 To the Catholic, the communion, the Eucharist, is the literal body and blood of Christ.

00:38:41.820 And this is true in so many of the other sacraments.

00:38:45.140 What the Catholic Church believes is that the body and blood of Christ, the bread, is truly Christ's body.

00:38:53.000 And the church is truly Christ's church.

00:38:56.140 And Christ is truly the divine logic of the universe.

00:38:59.040 So this metaphysical thing that we call the second person of the Trinity or the logos, the divine logic of the universe, or the word of God, is literally this person named Jesus Christ.

00:39:13.980 And they're the same thing, and they come together.

00:39:15.700 So for the Catholic, the symbol and the symbolized, the thing that the symbol talks about, have to come together regularly.

00:39:22.560 And they do that in the sacraments.

00:39:24.360 They do that in the church.

00:39:25.740 They do that in the priests all the way up to the pope.

00:39:27.900 And to varying degrees, the Protestant churches separate the symbol from the symbolized.

00:39:34.980 And that's been happening for 500 years or so now.

00:39:38.360 I know that seems like maybe a more complicated answer, but I think that actually gets to the heart of the question.

00:39:43.120 And that way you don't need to get into, you know, Mary and the popes and the this and the that and the smells and the bells.

00:39:48.320 Hope that helps.

00:39:48.940 From Madaris, good day, king of trolls and master of the unwritten word.

00:39:54.720 I'm writing today to regretfully inform you that you are incorrect when you stated that we get our right to bear arms from the Constitution.

00:40:02.740 We do not.

00:40:04.080 Our right to defend ourselves and our families is an inalienable right, meaning it cannot be taken from us, granted by God, not the Constitution.

00:40:11.640 In the Constitution's Bill of Rights, these are rights that are acknowledged.

00:40:14.920 You may even call them chains placed upon our federal government that may not ever be broken.

00:40:20.780 When they put regulations upon those rights, they're in violation of the Constitution, in violation of our God-given rights.

00:40:28.400 I half agree with you.

00:40:30.600 You're right.

00:40:31.880 The Constitution acknowledges natural rights.

00:40:34.840 You're right.

00:40:35.180 The Constitution puts a chain on the federal government.

00:40:37.760 There are certain things you cannot do.

00:40:39.240 You're right that those rights are inalienable, unalienable in the language of the Constitution.

00:40:47.260 But they can be taken from you.

00:40:49.220 Of course they can be taken from you.

00:40:51.620 They're being taken from us right now.

00:40:53.780 And in most countries in the world, for most of history, they have been taken from people.

00:40:59.280 The government can do that.

00:41:00.860 We do have a right, abstractly, to keep and bear arms, but good luck enforcing that right if you don't have as good a Constitution as ours, and if you don't have institutions that respect the Constitution, and if you don't have political stability, and if you don't have people to protect those rights.

00:41:21.460 Sure, yeah, they're our natural rights, acknowledged by the Constitution, but those rights are not acknowledged in a great many places around the world.

00:41:31.400 And so it's incumbent upon us not to just rest easy and say, oh, don't worry.

00:41:34.780 I got my rights from God, so that's all I got to worry about.

00:41:37.820 Everything else is fine.

00:41:39.480 No, we need to protect those rights.

00:41:40.980 We have to fight for those rights.

00:41:42.120 We need to build institutions that defend those rights, or those rights certainly will be taken from us.

00:41:48.560 From Jacob.

00:41:50.100 Greetings, Michael.

00:41:50.860 What, in your opinion, is the greatest television drama of all time?

00:41:56.180 The correct answer to this is Breaking Bad.

00:41:59.100 My favorite television drama of all time is The Sopranos, but the greatest of all time is Breaking Bad.

00:42:07.180 From Grant.

00:42:08.920 Hi, Michael.

00:42:09.540 I must apologize if my question is perhaps a little edgy, and I understand if you can't answer it on your show.

00:42:15.020 Uh-oh, here we go.

00:42:16.340 Something I believe many Christian men contemplate and struggle with, albeit secretly.

00:42:20.580 And I would appreciate your perspective.

00:42:23.200 We know porn is sinful, so for argument's sake, let's remove that from the equation.

00:42:27.720 Is masturbation in and of itself a sin?

00:42:30.160 If so, how can Christians overcome it? 1.00

00:42:32.220 Thank you for all you do and for your constant inspiration.

00:42:35.280 Great job on the two new projects.

00:42:37.260 Sincerely, Grant.

00:42:38.480 Thank you.

00:42:38.860 I assume you're talking about Verdict with Ted Cruz, the podcast, and the book club at PragerU.

00:42:43.420 Yes.

00:42:44.780 Not only is porn sinful, but masturbation is a sin.

00:42:48.540 It is gravely disordered.

00:42:50.040 It's weird.

00:42:51.240 It's creepy.

00:42:52.620 And I know that virtually every guy has done it at some point in his life, and probably the vast majority of guys continue to do it.

00:43:00.120 But nevertheless, it is a sin.

00:43:03.160 It's not something that you open the blinds on and, you know, open up the window and say, hey, everybody, guess what I'm about to do?

00:43:10.200 You know, people close their eyes if you ever did that.

00:43:12.980 No, it's something that we feel great shame about, and we feel shame for a reason because it is sinful.

00:43:17.340 So how can you avoid doing it, especially if you're a young man?

00:43:20.520 Young men have certain urges that are completely natural.

00:43:24.020 The way to avoid it is to get married and find a good woman, get married, and then have lots of sex. 0.72

00:43:30.340 That's the way to do it.

00:43:31.820 And this is why people prolonging getting married until very late.

00:43:36.540 Look, everybody does it now, but it's why it's probably not such a great idea.

00:43:41.460 You're not going to get rid of your sexual urge unless you have the special gift for celibacy, which few of us do.

00:43:47.800 So find a lady, get married, and have a good time. 0.97

00:43:51.200 From Travis.

00:43:52.580 Hello, Michael.

00:43:53.400 I am currently a college student majoring in political science and minoring in history.

00:43:58.220 As a conservative in California, which jobs would you suggest I look for after graduation a couple years?

00:44:03.860 I would prefer to eventually make six figures, though my passions don't seem to match with such a job.

00:44:09.160 Many thanks.

00:44:10.440 You want me to tell you what you should do for a living?

00:44:13.040 I don't know.

00:44:13.680 I don't know you from Adam.

00:44:15.600 How am I supposed to know what you should do?

00:44:17.880 Now, you say you want to make six figures.

00:44:19.460 All right, yeah, making six figures is a very nice thing.

00:44:23.480 I think a lot of people want to make six figures.

00:44:26.840 However, the advice I can give you is that you're getting your priorities backwards.

00:44:31.940 You say that what you want to do is not conducive to making six figures.

00:44:36.540 I'm not totally sure about that.

00:44:39.120 One thing I really like doing is not writing books, and I figured out how to make six figures out of that.

00:44:43.940 And actually, in terms of a long-term career, I've never put the money first.

00:44:48.860 I have never cared about it.

00:44:49.860 Look, I chose acting and politics, right?

00:44:51.560 Those are the two career paths that pretty much ensure poverty.

00:44:54.900 But I've never put the money first.

00:44:57.180 I don't care.

00:44:57.660 I've worked for basically free for long, long hours, and it's paid off.

00:45:02.540 I don't care.

00:45:03.080 I would never put the money first.

00:45:04.960 Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all the other blessings follow.

00:45:08.140 Do not seek ye first a ton of money because you'll have a miserable life.

00:45:13.360 I have friends who have done that, who chose to just make money even though they wanted to do something else.

00:45:18.540 And they've either switched course or they've become miserable.

00:45:23.540 Don't do that.

00:45:24.300 Don't wind up like that.

00:45:25.120 You only have one life.

00:45:26.460 Do what you want to do and then work very hard and figure out a way to make money out of it.

00:45:31.460 But do not sell out your own only life so that you can make a little bit more money and buy more stuff.

00:45:37.860 The two don't have to be mutually exclusive.

00:45:39.640 But if you've got to pick one, don't pick the mammon. 0.77

00:45:42.540 All right, that's our show.

00:45:43.960 We have got a lot more to get to.

00:45:45.420 We'll just have to wait on that.

00:45:47.740 I am very excited.

00:45:48.920 I'm going to be flying to St. Louis tomorrow to give a speech very quickly.

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00:45:55.800 We'll be taking that through impeachment this weekend.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 30, 2020

Ep. 487 - Why The Left Never Says Sorry

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