The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 489 - Mayor Cheat Takes Iowa

00:00:00.000 Chaos ensues in the Iowa caucuses as Democrats fail to tally up the votes.

00:00:05.680 Mayor Cheet Buttigieg declares himself the winner, even though no official votes have

00:00:09.800 come in at all, and he's not polling at the top in a single state.

00:00:13.140 Actually, Bernie Sanders is polling at the top, not just in Iowa, but also in New Hampshire,

00:00:17.700 and he's running second in Nevada and South Carolina, where Joe Biden's firewall is collapsing.

00:00:22.620 We will examine how an unaccomplished communist rose to the top of the field,

00:00:26.580 why party elites are trying to steal the nomination from him again,

00:00:30.000 and how the Democratic Party fell apart. Then, the peerless and pioneering Rush Limbaugh

00:00:36.020 announces a diagnosis of advanced stage lung cancer. We will see what the reaction to his

00:00:41.280 announcement means for Rush and his enemies. Finally, a lone Democrat turns against impeachment

00:00:46.720 and rich liberal white women pay bigots to call them racist over dinner. 1.00

00:00:51.040 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.96

00:01:01.000 What a night. What a night. I'm sorry if I look underslept. I was sitting in my studio until one

00:01:08.860 in the morning with Senator Ted Cruz. We were supposed to do our podcast together, and we couldn't

00:01:14.020 because the Iowa caucuses did not give us the final tally. So about one o'clock, I saunter over

00:01:20.700 to the hotel bar in D.C. just to try to find any news. There are no results whatsoever. The Democratic

00:01:26.920 Party completely bungled this. And then, and then, the best part of all, Mayor Pete the cheat

00:01:33.940 Buttigieg comes on stage and without any official votes in, declares himself the winner, vindicating

00:01:39.920 every single thing I've been saying about this guy for several months. We will get to Mayor Pete's

00:01:46.340 fake victory speech. We'll get to what this means for the party in 2020. But first, I've

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00:03:17.420 bet they wish they typed in that URL in Iowa last night because it was an absolute, an absolute

00:03:24.920 disaster. Unprecedented, really. There have been problems in Iowa the last few years. Actually,

00:03:30.660 Iowa may lose its favored position as the first in the nation voting. This was by far the worst.

00:03:38.360 What happened? The caucuses are already very, very complicated. A caucus is not like a primary

00:03:46.240 vote. When you go to vote in a poll, right, you walk in, you give them your ID in some places,

00:03:51.120 in some places you don't even have to do that. Then you go into a polling booth, you click the,

00:03:54.540 you either write in the candidate you want, you pull the lever, you leave, right? That's not what a

00:03:59.180 caucus is. In a caucus, especially the Democratic caucus, which is the most complicated, you show up

00:04:04.680 and you sit at tables and you try to persuade people to vote for the candidates you like.

00:04:09.060 Then you move to your own separate corners of the room. So maybe the Bernie guys go to the

00:04:14.360 northwest corner and the Biden guys go to the northeast corner and so on and so forth. Then

00:04:21.020 if one candidate doesn't meet the threshold of voters, let's say they don't get 15 percent of the

00:04:26.120 voters, then all those guys get freed up and they've got to go to different corners of the room

00:04:30.000 or they can remain independent and unaffiliated. It is at its best working absolutely perfectly.

00:04:36.540 It's almost impossible to understand how a caucus works. Then add on to that, that the software,

00:04:43.420 the app that was being used to report the results at each caucus location mysteriously broke down.

00:04:50.580 Whoopsy-daisy. So we have no idea who voted for whom. We still have no idea. Now, that would be

00:05:01.280 enough to say maybe something crooked is going on here. Maybe it's incompetence. Maybe there's a

00:05:08.040 conspiracy at foot, right? Now, add on to that this little fact. The company that made the app

00:05:15.960 that reports who voted for whom at the Iowa caucuses is called Shadow Incorporated.

00:05:25.180 If you were to write a Hollywood script about stealing the Iowa caucuses and you had to pick

00:05:30.300 a company name for who stole the Iowa caucuses and you chose Shadow Incorporated, Hollywood producers

00:05:35.680 would tell you, nah, that's too on the nose. That's too obvious. You got to be a little more subtle than

00:05:39.840 that. So you've got Shadow Incorporated makes this dodgy app that doesn't work. Shadow Incorporated

00:05:46.460 is staffed by the veterans of Hillary Clinton's campaign. What is Hillary's nickname? Crooked

00:05:52.920 Hillary. One of the most corrupt figures in American politics. It gets better. The company that owns 1.00

00:05:58.640 Shadow Incorporated is an even more mysteriously named acronym. That's the name of it. Acronym. It's the

00:06:06.880 most vague, enigmatic, mysterious name you could think of. And then here's this little juicy tidbit

00:06:14.160 at the end. The campaigns of Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden, the two establishment types trailing in

00:06:22.460 Iowa in recent weeks, both made payments to Shadow Incorporated. They have used Shadow Incorporated,

00:06:31.680 the company that made the app to count the votes, as a vendor for their campaigns. They've paid them

00:06:36.420 according to reports today. Really, really dodgy. And then the piece de resistance, the cherry on top

00:06:47.740 of the crooked Sunday. Mayor Pete Buttigieg just declared himself the winner last night. No votes

00:06:56.380 were in. No evidence that he won at all. No evidence he got a single vote. All the polls in recent days

00:07:03.580 showed he wasn't winning in Iowa. And yet he just goes up there and declares himself the winner. Here's Mayor

00:07:11.320 Pete in his own words. What a night. Because tonight, an improbable hope became an undeniable reality.

00:07:23.380 We have to stop right there. What does that mean? An impossible hope became an undeniable reality.

00:07:38.700 What? Those are just words mashed together that don't mean anything that Mayor Pete says like they

00:07:46.760 have a lot of meaning. An impossible hope. What is the impossible hope? Is to win the Iowa caucuses?

00:07:53.220 It's not an impossible hope. Somebody wins the Iowa caucuses every single year.

00:07:57.900 It's not impossible. Someone's going to win it. Then a bunch of people are going to lose,

00:08:00.980 but someone's going to win it. That's not an impossible hope. What's the undeniable reality?

00:08:05.440 That Pete Buttigieg won? That is the most deniable statement you can make because we don't have any votes

00:08:12.520 in yet. An undeniable reality. I have been saying this about Pete Buttigieg for months since the

00:08:18.100 beginning of his campaign. He is the worst of these candidates. He is slimy. He is unctuous. He is

00:08:23.960 dishonest. He is smarmy. He is sanctimonious. He is my least favorite candidate. I would take Bernie 1.00

00:08:31.560 Sanders over Pete Buttigieg. I would take Elizabeth Warren over Pete Buttigieg. I would take Julian

00:08:37.640 Castro on abortion rights for men over Pete Buttigieg because the guy is just so dishonest. He made a

00:08:44.660 really big miscalculation last night trying to pretend with no evidence that he won Iowa. He goes on

00:08:51.600 to explain how he is about to stroll into New Hampshire victorious. So we don't know all the results,

00:08:59.700 but we know by the time it's all said and done, Iowa, you have shocked the nation.

00:09:09.500 Because, by all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious.

00:09:28.680 By all indications, we are going into New Hampshire victorious. That isn't true. By no

00:09:41.560 indications is he going into New Hampshire victorious. Not one. Not one vote.

00:09:50.000 This was a major miscalculation. Some people are saying it was politically brilliant.

00:09:54.460 They're saying it's politically brilliant because no one's really paying that close attention to the

00:09:57.800 Iowa caucuses. And the only headline they're going to see is Buttigieg is the winner. Buttigieg says

00:10:03.360 he's the winner. And so it's going to give him the illusion of winning, even though very likely he

00:10:07.820 came in, what, third or fourth place? Who knows? I mean, who knows? We don't have the numbers, but

00:10:11.340 there's no evidence that he came in first. So they're saying, look, he's just going to fake it

00:10:16.400 till he makes it. And that's going to send him into New Hampshire looking good. It's a mistake.

00:10:21.240 It's a big mistake because people actually are paying attention to the Democratic Iowa caucuses.

00:10:28.800 Namely, the primary voters. And by the way, primary voters pay a lot more attention to politics than

00:10:33.600 general election voters. Your general election voters are your kind of normal people. It's about

00:10:37.500 half the country who shows up to general elections and they pay a little bit of attention. And so maybe

00:10:42.020 you could pull one over on them. Primary voters actually care. They care a lot more. They're more

00:10:47.700 tuned into to the party politics, especially in this field where there's so many different candidates,

00:10:53.880 especially in Iowa, especially in New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, these early states.

00:10:57.800 That are going to really matter and probably decide who gets the nomination.

00:11:02.480 Pete Buttigieg went into Iowa. According to the imperceptive, right? Not according to me. I've

00:11:09.740 always known that guy's a snake. But according to the people who were not perceiving it, he was

00:11:14.740 hopeful. He was young. He was earnest. He was a guy you could trust. He's just telling it like it is,

00:11:22.380 right? Happy old Mayor Pete. American is apple pie. He's leaving Iowa looking like a loser and a liar and

00:11:32.440 a crook. It's the only way to describe it. If you really won, then you can wait for the votes to be 1.00

00:11:39.280 counted. If you really won, right? If you're most likely Bernie Sanders, judging by all of the polls

00:11:45.160 going into this thing, you can wait for the voice of the voters to be heard. If you are really

00:11:54.440 earnest and honest and up and coming and hopeful, and we're going to turn a new page in America and

00:11:58.660 unite everybody, then you don't need to steal a state. You don't need to pretend. Now, his victory

00:12:06.240 speech is calling attention to the fact that he's apparently got some financial relationship

00:12:12.000 with the app company that mysteriously broke that was supposed to count the votes. It just

00:12:15.920 doesn't look good. And Buttigieg is too undefined a candidate to risk that. One of Trump's big

00:12:23.960 advantages in 2016 is everybody knew who he was. He had basically 100% name recognition. Everyone

00:12:29.300 watched him on network television for 10 years. Everybody watched him on the tabloids and in real

00:12:35.520 estate and in pop culture for 30 years before that. Nobody knows Mayor Pete. He's the mayor of a small

00:12:40.720 town. So every new data point that defines him is going to really, really matter. And he's now

00:12:49.560 allowing himself to be defined as a slippery guy, unctuous, oily, maybe crooked. Maybe he's got a

00:12:55.420 weird financial relationship with the app. Maybe he's trying to cheat the voters out of their nominee.

00:13:00.080 Maybe they're trying to cheat Bernie Sanders, which is what happened in 2016. By all indications,

00:13:06.540 we're going to New Hampshire victorious. There's no indication because we don't know what

00:13:09.560 happened in Iowa. To sum it up, CNN, to their credit, summed up better than any other network,

00:13:16.080 any other outlet, what the Iowa caucuses looked like last night when one of the precinct captains,

00:13:20.780 one of the guys who's got to call a hotline now to report the votes, is on the phone with CNN's

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00:15:13.800 IV energy boost when we're waiting up for the next three weeks to get the results from the Iowa

00:15:17.740 caucuses. So just to give you a sense, if you weren't waiting up all night, CNN has one of the

00:15:24.020 precinct captains on the phone. The precinct captain is also on the phone with the hotline

00:15:29.020 that had to spring up to try to report the vote tally after this weird app went down.

00:15:33.760 Take a listen to the chaos.

00:15:36.400 They tried to, I think, promote an app to report the results. The app, by all accounts, just like

00:15:43.880 doesn't work. So we've been recommended to call into the hotline and the hotline has not been

00:15:51.140 responsive. Have you gotten any explanation, Sean? Sean, have you gotten any explanation

00:15:57.540 at all as to what's going on?

00:16:01.440 No, I have not. No. I'm just waiting on hold and doing my best to report the results from

00:16:08.320 my precinct.

00:16:08.780 What are you hearing? I know you're listening to a conversation from the Iowa Democratic Party.

00:16:13.480 This is a real coincidence, Wolf. I just got off hold just now. So I've got to get off

00:16:25.680 the phone to report the results.

00:16:27.260 All right. Go ahead and report the results. Can we listen in as you report them, Sean?

00:16:31.100 Yep.

00:16:31.640 All right. Let's listen.

00:16:32.300 All right.

00:16:32.580 Okay. Hi. Hello? They hung up on me. They hung up on me. Okay. I've got to get back in

00:16:42.320 line on hold. They just hung up.

00:16:45.180 It's so frustrating indeed. Sean, we're going to stay in close touch.

00:16:49.240 She hung up. They hung up. He was waiting on the phone for an hour to try to report these

00:16:54.780 results. And they hung up and we got to hear it on national television. This was the most

00:17:00.100 honest and news-breaking broadcast I've ever seen on CNN. So kudos to them.

00:17:05.280 This is a big deal for Iowa because Iowa is the first in the nation state to start choosing

00:17:12.500 these presidential candidates. It's hard to imagine that they keep that after this year.

00:17:16.560 This was just such a bungle. And it very well might be incompetence. However, because the Democratic

00:17:23.780 Party has this long record of corruption, the Democratic Party has this long record of ignoring

00:17:30.080 the will of their own voters and having party elites choose the nominee because the Democratic

00:17:34.480 Party has a very recent history of rigging the election in favor of Hillary Clinton instead of

00:17:41.340 Bernie Sanders. This thing looks crooked, whether it is or not. Bernie Sanders was going into Iowa at the

00:17:49.080 top of the heap. In many ways, the Democratic Party has been refashioned in the mold of Bernie Sanders.

00:17:56.000 And the voters have been pulling for him in many of these early states. He's got a huge lead in New

00:18:00.200 Hampshire. And the fact that the tally went down, that nobody knows what's going on, the fact that

00:18:07.680 there are some reports of financial relationships between Biden and Buttigieg and the app company,

00:18:12.540 it just stinks to high heaven. And if you thought that the Bernie bros were incensed before and they

00:18:18.060 sensed corruption before, just wait until they move on to New Hampshire. Joe Biden, meanwhile,

00:18:22.820 is completely falling apart, even if the Iowa vote doesn't end his candidacy. And there's a lot of

00:18:30.500 evidence that the Biden team thought that they were going to do very poorly in Iowa. They're trying to

00:18:35.240 tamp down expectations all day. In New Hampshire, they might fall apart. Joe Biden just did an interview

00:18:40.960 with Savannah Guthrie on NBC. And even NBC, even the mainstream media, even Savannah Guthrie,

00:18:48.720 pushed Joe Biden to answer any questions about his son Hunter and the clearly corrupt relationship

00:18:56.320 between Hunter and the Ukraine and possibly the corrupt relationship between Joe Biden and Ukraine.

00:19:01.260 Joe Biden not only refuses to answer, he snaps at the host.

00:19:05.500 Has it occurred to you that there's a certain irony here that here the president is accused of and is

00:19:10.000 acknowledged wanting to get information about your son Hunter and his dealings with Ukraine.

00:19:15.520 And this process of impeachment has ensured that everyone knows about Hunter's dealings with Ukraine.

00:19:21.040 That's a good thing. And no one's found anything wrong with his dealings with Ukraine,

00:19:24.640 except they say it sets a bad image. Well, do you agree that it sets a bad image?

00:19:28.720 And my son said that. Do you think it was wrong for him

00:19:31.520 to take that position knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to you?

00:19:37.920 Well, that's not true. You're saying things you do not know what you're talking about. No one said

00:19:42.320 that. Who said that? Who said that? Don't you think that it's just one of those things where

00:19:47.600 people think, well, that seems kind of sleazy? Why would he have that job if not for his who his

00:19:53.760 father was? Because he's a very bright guy. I guess the question I'm kind of asking is,

00:19:58.400 was it right? His appearance. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he said he regretted having done it.

00:20:02.880 Yeah. Speak for himself. He's a grown man. You're going to predict a win tomorrow night?

00:20:08.880 I don't predict wins because I'm superstitious, but I predict we'll do very well.

00:20:13.040 You don't know what you're talking about. You don't know. You don't know that there was a

00:20:17.040 crooked relationship between Hunter and Ukraine. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Hunter Biden is a degenerate

00:20:25.280 who got kicked out of the Navy for doing drugs, who has destroyed his personal life, who gets in 0.98

00:20:32.960 bar fights, who drunk drives everywhere, who has basically no professional credential. And he was

00:20:38.060 being paid a million dollars a year to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his daddy

00:20:44.460 was the vice president of the United States and the point man on Ukraine. Hunter Biden was being

00:20:51.700 paid about three times or more than three times what board members of Exxon Mobil get paid to sit

00:20:58.960 on the board of this crooked company. The company is so crooked that just before Hunter Biden was invited

00:21:04.060 to join the board, the government of the United Kingdom froze their assets because they suspected such

00:21:12.240 corruption. There are many reasons to ask this question. Joe Biden needs to give an answer. He would do

00:21:19.760 much better to just admit that it was wrong and move on. You know, back when the media were backing

00:21:23.700 Joe Biden, back when the establishment press was behind his candidacy, then it made sense for Joe

00:21:29.520 Biden to ignore these questions and to obfuscate and to try to distract people. But now the media have

00:21:37.260 turned on him. The media have turned on him because he's an extraordinarily weak candidate whose eyeballs

00:21:42.380 explode on debate stages and whose teeth fall out of his mouth and who starts talking about corn pop and

00:21:47.340 kids rubbing his legs and who can't finish an English sentence. I hate to put it that bluntly, but that's

00:21:54.240 where it is. He's simply passed his sell by date. And so the media have turned on him. The party elites

00:21:58.720 have turned on him. I was speaking with Senator Ted Cruz on our show Verdict the other night, and he said

00:22:03.780 that one of his biggest takeaways from the impeachment trial was how the Democratic Party elites had given

00:22:08.460 up on Joe Biden. That's why the House Democrats threw him under the bus during impeachment is because they

00:22:13.440 just felt Biden didn't have it anymore. So everybody's turned on him. They don't think he's got what it

00:22:18.900 takes to win. Now he's got to get aggressive. Now he's got to confront these problems head on. He's not

00:22:24.220 going to have a media apparatus that's carrying water for him anymore. The current strategy for the Biden

00:22:29.860 campaign is to lose slowly. It's just to lose as slowly as you can and then hope that somehow you

00:22:35.540 haven't lost enough that you lose the nomination. It's kind of the Romney strategy in 2012. It's just

00:22:42.840 weak sauce, and it's not going to last very long, especially when you've got a highly motivated base

00:22:48.320 for Bernie Sanders. They're still doing everything they can to steal this from Bernie.

00:22:55.600 Not just Mayor Cheat, not just old Joe Biden, not just the Democratic establishment, but even the

00:23:03.020 press. There was a poll that came out just before the Iowa caucuses, Des Moines Register poll. This was

00:23:08.580 the Des Moines Register final poll before the Iowa caucuses, and they wouldn't release it. Why wouldn't

00:23:16.380 they release the numbers? We finally got them. The numbers finally leaked. The numbers were Joe Biden

00:23:22.920 down all the way at 13 percent, Mayor Cheat Buttigieg 16 percent, Elizabeth Warren 18 percent, and Bernie

00:23:30.860 Sanders in the lead at 22 percent. They didn't like that. They didn't like that poll going into the Iowa

00:23:37.900 caucuses. This poll was conducted with CNN and Seltzer and Company. Seltzer and Company was the

00:23:43.560 pollster in charge here. According to FiveThirtyEight, according to really top pollsters, they had an A-plus

00:23:49.580 rating, okay? This was no minor polling company. Now, the excuse was that some respondent to the poll

00:23:55.980 didn't see one of the names, and so better to just get rid of the poll. Again, after all these

00:24:03.060 coincidences, it's really hard to believe that, and even if I can believe that because I do think

00:24:08.160 that the Democratic Party leadership is incompetent, it's going to be very hard for the supporters of

00:24:13.300 Bernie Sanders to believe that, whoops, they made a mistake that hurt Bernie. Whoops, they made another

00:24:17.720 mistake that hurt Bernie. Whoopsie-daisy, whoopsie-daisy. Oh, yeah, and all of 2016, that was a big mistake

00:24:23.320 that hurt Bernie. They're just not going to believe it, and if they keep this up, if they don't give Bernie

00:24:29.460 his due, you're going to see a fight at the Democratic National Convention, the likes of

00:24:35.040 which we haven't seen probably since the 1960s. We've got so much more to get to, including the

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00:26:17.140 Moving on from chaos in Iowa to really, really sad news from the golden EIB microphone and the

00:26:25.880 peerless Rush Limbaugh, who has talent on loan from God and does his job with half his brain tied behind

00:26:31.360 his back. Rush Limbaugh announced yesterday on his show that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung

00:26:39.660 cancer. This news was so big that, you know, over the past two weeks that we've been working all kind

00:26:45.160 of crazy hours and I've been up in the middle of the night recording the show with Senator Cruz and

00:26:49.240 working and doing this show during the day. And so I try to get any bit of sleep I can. I was getting

00:26:53.780 an hour of sleep yesterday. I had just laid down and sweet little Elisa wakes me up because this news

00:26:59.780 was so shocking. And the news was the great Rush Limbaugh has this very, very serious illness.

00:27:06.580 Everybody's praying for Rush. Rush is praying for Rush. And we'll get to actually the significance of

00:27:14.820 that in a second. I want to get to the reaction first. CNN tweets out, CNN Breaking News tweets out,

00:27:23.660 quote, Rush Limbaugh, the most prominent political radio host in the U.S., says he's been diagnosed with

00:27:29.080 an advanced stage of lung cancer. Here are just a handful of replies. And these are not the worst

00:27:34.920 replies. These are not a few fringy replies. This is indicative of most of the replies to that tweet

00:27:41.200 from random Twitter accounts. Quote, who knew racism was a carcinogen? Hell has his seat warmed up.

00:27:50.980 Oh, karma is good. Love this. He had it coming. I'd tell him thoughts and prayers, but Rush has been

00:27:57.000 rendered deaf by years of opiate abuse, rotting from the inside, as many have suspected.

00:28:04.200 Wasn't even just random accounts that were spewing this bile at Rush. Reza Aslan, a CNN contributor,

00:28:11.280 sometimes CNN contributor, tweeted out, ask yourself this simple question. Is the world a better place

00:28:16.000 or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it? Tariq Nasheed, who's another blue checkmark leftist on

00:28:20.880 Twitter, tweeted out a gif of a guy dancing in celebration because Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed

00:28:28.100 with cancer. Not one of these people has ever listened to Rush's show. No one. They've listened

00:28:35.360 to one or two minutes that were taken out of context and posted on left-wing hate sites like

00:28:41.600 Media Matters, but they've never listened to the show. Not a single one of them. Even what they're

00:28:46.080 saying is incoherent. Who knew racism was a carcinogen? When has Rush Limbaugh ever said

00:28:52.280 anything racist? Actually, on the Rush Limbaugh program, the only other guy that anybody knows of

00:28:58.120 is Bo Snurdley, his producer, who's black. Not a lot of evidence that he's a racist. Hell has his

00:29:03.840 seat warmed up. This from people who very likely don't believe in heaven or hell. Oh, karma is good.

00:29:08.400 Love this. He had it coming. He had it. Why did he have it coming? Because he said hateful things

00:29:12.560 according to you. Well, did he say anything as hateful as that? He had it coming. I'd tell him

00:29:18.120 thoughts and prayers, but Rush has been rendered deaf by years of opiate abuse. So making fun of a

00:29:22.720 guy for being deaf, he actually does have hearing difficulty as a cochlear implant. And because he

00:29:27.580 did, he did suffer from opiate abuse. He was addicted to opiates. And yet these are people who

00:29:33.000 would accuse you of ableism if you ever made a comment about somebody who had a disability like Rush,

00:29:38.640 who would accuse you of being a monster if you mocked somebody for struggling with drug addiction.

00:29:46.080 And yet they do both. They do both to Rush. Rotting from the inside, as many have suspected.

00:29:51.360 Who's really rotting from the inside? Probably the people who are sending out those tweets.

00:29:57.360 None of them has ever listened to Rush. That's why they can say these things. But why does the left

00:30:01.580 hate Rush? They hate him in particular. We will examine why. And we'll examine a really hopeful

00:30:08.740 note from Rush in his masterful statement on the diagnosis. First, it feels like we're halfway

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00:31:26.100 Why does the left hate Rush Limbaugh so much? There's a game called Cards Against Humanity. It's a very

00:31:35.360 stupid game that millennials pretend is kind of funny, but it's not even really a game. It's just 1.00

00:31:41.560 there are sort of grotesque things written on cards, which are kind of funny or amusing the first one or

00:31:47.320 two times that you read them. But then they're not really funny afterward because we've all heard the

00:31:51.260 jokes and they're kind of just non sequiturs. So anyway, one of the grotesqueries on the cards

00:31:55.880 is Rush Limbaugh's soft profanity body. And it's kind of like Mad Libs, but for millennials who don't

00:32:07.640 know how to play poker. And Rush gets singled out, even in that. Rush gets singled out all the time.

00:32:15.380 They don't really go after the other radio guys or the other podcasters. It's just Rush. And that's

00:32:22.040 because Rush is the king. The left hates Rush because he's effective. He invented the whole

00:32:29.580 genre of talk radio. He's so good at it. He was the first conservative to beat the mainstream media.

00:32:37.780 He did it by inventing a new medium. He did it by being funny. He's just very entertaining.

00:32:44.440 And he did it by telling the truth. He is by far the most insightful political analyst on radio.

00:32:54.160 I'm friends with some of the other ones and they're great too. But Rush is number one. There is no number

00:32:59.100 two. And they hated him for it. They hated him for getting around the mainstream media. They hated

00:33:05.840 him for being effective. If he weren't effective, they wouldn't waste their time on him. Now, lots of

00:33:12.580 people are wishing ill on Rush. On the left, right, and a little bit of these random Twitter people,

00:33:18.560 but even some prominent leftists. Many conservatives are insisting that he'll beat this. They're saying,

00:33:25.100 you'll beat this Rush. Don't you worry. You'll recover. You'll be back in shape in no time.

00:33:29.940 I hope so. I don't know that. I'm not sure that he'll beat it forever. I mean, everybody dies

00:33:38.060 eventually. We're praying for him. We hope that he'll beat it. But no one here gets out alive. I

00:33:43.880 don't think the thing to focus on is even whether Rush can prolong his career two years or five years

00:33:49.940 or 10 years. I think the thing to focus on is that Rush has already accomplished in his life more than

00:33:55.520 virtually anybody, right? Other than a handful of people throughout history, he's accomplished

00:33:59.420 a lot more. And the thing to focus on is what he talked about in his statement announcing this. Rush,

00:34:07.020 fortunately, has a long view of life, not merely confined to the 70 or 80 years that we get while

00:34:12.780 we're here, but the longer view, the eternity view. He said he doesn't talk about it much,

00:34:18.700 but he did mention it in his announcement. He mentioned his relationship with God.

00:34:23.120 I've had so much support from family and friends during this that it's been tremendous. And I told

00:34:34.660 the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship with God that I do not proselytize

00:34:42.860 about. But I do. And I have been working that relationship tremendously, which I do regularly

00:34:55.100 anyway, but I've been focused on it intensely for the past couple of weeks.

00:35:00.440 That's a beautiful statement. Life is a preparation for death. Rush seems to take that seriously.

00:35:09.340 People who are religious, I can speak as a Catholic, we take that seriously. Life is a

00:35:15.720 preparation for death. How long do you get on earth? If you're lucky, 70, 80 years?

00:35:20.500 By the scale of eternity, that's nothing. That's the blink of an eye.

00:35:26.500 Obviously, we should pray for Rush. I hope he's around for another 20 or 30 years. The guy is so

00:35:31.240 great. I just love listening to him.

00:35:32.880 We don't need to be quite as worried about Rush. We should be far more worried about the people

00:35:39.320 wishing ill upon him. I don't mean that in some kind of cliche way or sentimentally or though these

00:35:45.220 people have problems. Imagine how twisted you've got to be inside. How tense your guts have to be.

00:35:54.620 How perverse your soul has to be to say the kind of things that Reza Aslan or Tariq Nishid or any of

00:36:01.840 those Twitter accounts said about another human being wishing death upon somebody, wishing suffering,

00:36:06.960 celebrating somebody's cancer diagnosis. You got to be so messed up inside. Your life has got to be

00:36:11.940 in misery. And if you take the long view of life, then it doesn't look like it's going to get any

00:36:16.540 better once we've shuffled off this mortal coil, does it? Rush could use our prayers. The people

00:36:22.400 cheering on Rush's illness could use our prayers more. Rush actually in the same broadcast talked

00:36:28.700 about the other side of this, not just the sorrow or the grief or the anger or the resentment. He

00:36:35.800 talked about joy. He mentioned it on his show. He mentioned an article that just came out by left

00:36:41.040 wing reporter Ryan Lizza. And the cancer diagnosis, the reaction to his cancer diagnosis on the left

00:36:48.540 really drives this point home. The article by Ryan Lizetz in Politico said the unexpected joy

00:36:55.880 at a Trump rally in Iowa. On the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment, the president's fans

00:37:02.480 were in a celebratory mood. Meanwhile, somewhere there was a democratic race taking place.

00:37:08.500 I had not been to a Trump rally since the 2016 campaign. And the first thing I noticed Thursday

00:37:13.300 night when Donald Trump and Mike Pence spoke at Drake University in Des Moines was how much more

00:37:17.840 joyous the event was for his supporters than what I remember from four years ago. In 2016, perhaps

00:37:23.740 because Republicans were out of power and Trump was running purely against the system, his crowds

00:37:28.000 often had an undertone of anger that bordered on menacing. But with Trump in power presiding over peace

00:37:32.960 and prosperity on the cusp of beating two articles of impeachment and dominating the news when it should

00:37:37.520 be the Democratic candidates moment to shine, his fans seemed in a celebratory mood. He is surprised

00:37:46.180 by the joy at the Trump rally. Now, he says that the Trump rallies are totally different now than they

00:37:51.640 were in 2016. I don't think they are. I think maybe Ryan Lizza and some leftists are looking at it

00:37:59.340 differently now than in 2016. In 2016, they said it was menacing, terrifying, horrifying. Oh, no,

00:38:06.360 a Republican might be elected president, right? It's terrible because we were told in 2016 that if Trump

00:38:10.860 got elected president, the sky would fall. I mean, literally, the sky would fall because global

00:38:15.240 warming would kill us all. We would have an economic collapse. We'd start World War III. We'd be at war

00:38:21.180 with North Korea. We'd have Russia would take over our country. I mean, all this kind of craziness. 0.98

00:38:27.000 And then Trump got elected. And what, three, four years later, everything's great. Everything's great.

00:38:32.800 It's awesome. The economy is good. We've got peace abroad. They told us that Trump had started World

00:38:38.240 War III. Well, I guess we won World War III when we took out the top terrorists in the world,

00:38:42.640 the leader of ISIS, the top Iranian terrorist, another leader of ISIS just this past week. I mean,

00:38:48.020 it's just, things are good. And so Ryan Lizza now can look at the Trump rally without this

00:38:55.900 hysterical fear that the left was ginning up in 2016. And he says, oh, look, those guys are happy.

00:39:02.660 Those guys are joyful, even. Huh. I haven't seen that before because the left doesn't really seem to have

00:39:08.180 a lot of joy. They seem to be pretty bitter, pretty angry, pretty crooked in Iowa.

00:39:18.080 Joy is an important thing in politics. C.S. Lewis defined joy as not a feeling or an emotion like

00:39:24.420 happiness. Happiness is fleeting, right? You're not going to be happy forever. But joy is something

00:39:28.640 greater and deeper and more enduring. It's sort of like an unanswered question. The pursuit of that

00:39:35.340 would be would be similar to joy. And I think conservatives just tend to have that in politics

00:39:40.920 a lot more. Part of that is because we don't expect politics to solve all of our problems. We

00:39:45.400 actually know that politics won't solve all of our problems. We don't think that you can perfect

00:39:49.000 human nature. We recognize humans are all broken and flawed and that's just the way it is. And we're

00:39:54.220 going to we're going to try to fit our politics to reality rather than try to perfect human nature

00:40:00.280 because those utopian schemes to perfect human nature have led to some of the worst atrocities

00:40:04.240 in history. There's a feeling of gratitude. Hey, look, we were on the brink. We almost had

00:40:09.200 President Hillary. Oh, heaven forfend. And now we don't. And we got this kind of funny guy in the

00:40:13.260 Oval Office and he tweets weird stuff sometimes and that's kind of entertaining. And also the economy's

00:40:18.260 great and everything seems to be fine. That's when you approach politics from gratitude. That's when

00:40:24.960 you approach politics from levity. You know, Chesterton said that the angels can fly because they can take

00:40:29.200 themselves lightly. The left can't take itself lightly. The left can't even turn down the

00:40:35.440 partisan rancor for five seconds when a guy that they don't like listening to gets diagnosed with

00:40:42.780 cancer. They have to celebrate that. For what? For what? Does that make you a better person? Does

00:40:49.740 that make you flourish more? Does that make you thrive? Does that make you happy? I don't think so. I don't

00:40:53.960 think so. And that joy that Ryan Lizza and some left-wingers are seeing at Trump rallies, maybe

00:40:59.280 that's an evidence that something has gone wrong in their own worldview. Maybe there's something

00:41:05.140 lacking in their own political ideology. Maybe rather than looking down on those people at Trump

00:41:10.300 rallies, like the CNN anchors the other day who laughed at them, mocked them, those idiots, 1.00

00:41:14.280 those rubes, they can't spell, they can't read maps. Rather than that, maybe they ought to try to learn 1.00

00:41:20.120 a thing or two from the guys at the Trump rallies because the guys at the Trump rallies, on the one

00:41:25.120 hand, seem to know how to win elections a little bit better than the left-wingers. And they seem to

00:41:30.140 know how to live life a little more joyfully, more gratifyingly. Speaking of the left learning from the

00:41:35.500 right, there is a glimmer of hope from Senate Democrats. Just one, actually. Senate Democrat,

00:41:41.660 Joe Manchin. Joe Manchin, West Virginia, obviously comes from a conservative constituency.

00:41:46.380 Joe Manchin is considering voting against the impeachment and removal of President Trump.

00:41:53.840 He would be the lone Democrat to do it. Here's why. He said, quote,

00:41:57.040 Never before in the history of our republic has there been a purely partisan impeachment vote of

00:42:01.380 a president. Totally true. Removing this president at this time would not only further divide our deeply

00:42:07.860 divided nation, but also further poison our already toxic political atmosphere. I see no path to the 67 1.00

00:42:14.220 votes that would be required to remove President Trump. However, I do believe a bipartisan majority

00:42:20.180 of this body would vote to censure President Trump. In other words, pass a resolution saying he's a no

00:42:25.440 good bad boy, but not remove him from office. A censure, he says, would allow this body to unite across

00:42:31.520 party lines. Joe Manchin doesn't want to vote to remove the president because he's afraid it's going

00:42:36.400 to cost him his re-election in West Virginia. He is right, though. This is the first purely partisan

00:42:42.620 impeachment we've ever had. Purely partisan impeachments are a very bad idea. It's not

00:42:49.460 designed to work that way. The president is not supposed to be removed just because another party

00:42:53.700 won another branch of government. It's supposed to be bipartisan. That's why it requires 67 votes in

00:42:58.440 the Senate to do it. That's why we've never had a partisan impeachment before. I agree with Manchin

00:43:04.480 that if Nancy Pelosi, instead of pushing for impeachment, had pushed for censure just to say that

00:43:08.920 Trump is a no good guy, they could have gotten some Republican votes. Definitely in the House,

00:43:13.700 maybe in the Senate, too. They're not going to do that, though. They're going to vote now on whether

00:43:18.560 to acquit the president or whether to remove him from office. And Joe Manchin has to make a choice.

00:43:26.100 If he had the political courage to vote against the removal of the president, and maybe if he convinced

00:43:32.100 one or two of his Senate colleagues from more conservative states, Kyrsten Sinema or maybe Doug

00:43:36.940 Jones, Democrats in conservative states, you might have a chance of kind of bridging that divide and

00:43:43.540 turning down the partisan rancor. It's probably unlikely, but Joe Manchin could do a lot. So he

00:43:50.480 should take his own advice and try to do it. Before we go, I have to get to this. This story is just too

00:43:56.620 good not to get to. There are groups of white women, white liberal women, who are paying $2,500 1.00

00:44:07.120 to confront their own racism and privilege by inviting two activists, Regina Jackson and Syrah

00:44:16.680 Rao. Syrah Rao in particular has expressed absolute contempt for white people on Twitter. They're inviting 1.00

00:44:23.540 these two activists to come over to these dinner parties called Race to Dinner and yell at them for 1.00

00:44:28.880 being racist and bigoted. $2,500. I would do it for $2,000. If these women want to invite me over to 1.00

00:44:37.240 their homes for me to call them bigots, I would gladly do that. And I would charge significantly less

00:44:44.100 than Jackson and Rao. I hope they do that. Obviously, this is insane. This is a silly thing. I mean,

00:44:52.380 talk about the height of privilege, too. If the whole point of this dinner is so that you can

00:44:57.020 confront your privilege, then gathering all your wealthy white women friends and paying a ton of 1.00

00:45:02.080 money to basically be entertained, to have a show put on at dinner is probably not the best way

00:45:07.860 to get rid of your privilege. But beyond just making fun of these women, I want to point out that it 0.94

00:45:13.160 expresses a natural urge, a natural longing. It is a religious longing, actually, because these women

00:45:20.320 are racist in some way. I'm using racist in the way that it's used colloquially today, which is

00:45:26.000 bad. Racist has become a synonym for bad or evil or wicked. That's why people will call Rush Limbaugh

00:45:32.580 a racist. I don't think he's ever made a racially bigoted comment in his life. But what they're really

00:45:36.360 saying is, you're bad. You're immoral. I don't like you. Or they do it all the time to conservatives 1.00

00:45:41.340 who have no evidence whatsoever of any kind of racial hatred. But they'll say, you're racist

00:45:45.280 as a synonym for bad. And these women are bad because no one's good but God, because we all recognize 1.00

00:45:50.240 that we sin and all fall short of the glory of God all the time, right? That's it. What they're

00:45:54.640 acknowledging with these dinners is original sin. And they're trying to gussy it up and make it seem

00:45:59.520 like it's some novel concept that progressives discovered. No, we've always known about original

00:46:03.560 sin. We've always known the human nature is broken. Actually, that's the insight that

00:46:07.360 conservatives have that liberals just can't seem to grasp or not grasp fully. You know,

00:46:14.020 in traditional Catholic practices, what you would do is instead of paying a couple of random

00:46:19.500 huckster activists to come over to your home for almost three grand and yell at you, you would show

00:46:25.020 up to church and strike your breast and say, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. My fault, 0.86

00:46:31.220 my fault, my most grievous fault. You would go to confession. If you were in the Da Vinci Code,

00:46:35.500 you'd smack yourself on the back with the discipline, right? You recognize that you have

00:46:40.760 sinned and you need to do some penance for that sin. This is true across all religions,

00:46:45.480 including the religion of liberalism, including the religion of leftism. Everybody's got to serve

00:46:50.860 somebody, okay? The lie that secularism or liberalism is somehow irreligious or not religious,

00:46:58.140 it's just not true. It's simply a different religion. And so on Rush Limbaugh's point about

00:47:05.320 joy, Ryan Liz's point about joy, right? On how we confront questions of life and death and grief

00:47:10.860 and sadness and questions of how we organize ourselves and questions of running the damned 0.97

00:47:15.820 Iowa caucus, you're going to have a worldview. The question is what worldview are you going to have? 0.95

00:47:23.740 Are you going to have one of transparency, of dealing with reality, of taking the long view,

00:47:30.000 of recognizing your own faults and taking responsibility for them? Or are you going to

00:47:34.700 blame it on somebody else? Are you going to force your problems on somebody else? Are you

00:47:38.320 going to allow yourself to rot from the inside? Those are the questions. That's what's being

00:47:43.400 debated right now. And we're using political language to do it. But really, as Cardinal Manning said,

00:47:47.780 at bottom, all human conflict is theological. They're debating that out. And if those debates go as well

00:47:53.940 as the Iowa caucuses, I don't think that they're going to come to any saving conclusions anytime

00:47:59.240 soon. But we can hope. Let's see. I'll be back tonight on Verdict with Ted Cruz, the number one

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 04, 2020

Ep. 489 - Mayor Cheat Takes Iowa

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