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00:00:37.740 Oscar winners quote Karl Marx.

00:00:40.320 President Trump torches his critics and the Democratic presidential candidates beclown themselves in Friday night's debate.

00:00:47.220 We will examine the politics of show business and the showbiz of politics.

00:00:51.100 Also, why the left can't meme.

00:00:53.120 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:56.980 The Oscars were last night. You didn't watch them? Me neither.

00:01:06.360 But we have the highlights. We'll get to them.

00:01:08.740 And in the spirit of the Oscars, I wanted to take a moment before we get too far down the road into 2020

00:01:15.560 just to acknowledge and commemorate all those political campaigns that we have already lost this year.

00:01:24.480 This is going to be a positive campaign that seeks to bring out the very best from every single one of us.

00:01:35.440 I don't know. Like, members of the press, what the f**k?

00:01:38.660 She was, looking back, perhaps the worst candidate ever to run from any party in the history of this country.

00:01:45.920 Gay right! 0.82

00:01:46.660 The president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help them cheat an election. 1.00

00:01:51.540 My pronouns are she, her, and hers.

00:01:53.660 She, her, and hers.

00:01:55.100 Mine, too.

00:01:56.080 You've got to get up and stand up and don't give up the fight.

00:02:02.140 I believe in reproductive justice.

00:02:04.280 Let's also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female.

00:02:08.240 How did you feel you did tonight?

00:02:10.840 Well, I didn't feel I did very good, but then I got off stage and I was told I did okay.

00:02:15.320 Girlfriend, you were so on. 0.90

00:02:16.560 Now, I appreciate the comments of my colleagues.

00:02:18.500 This is about the closest I'll probably ever have in my life to an I am Spartacus moment.

00:02:22.640 Sorry to see them go.

00:02:34.620 I'm frankly surprised that Joe Biden hasn't made the cut yet.

00:02:38.640 We will get into all of the Democratic presidential race.

00:02:42.580 First, I want to cover the actual Oscars, which were last night, which no one watched, myself included.

00:02:48.560 I simply watched the highlights.

00:02:49.700 Nobody actually watched the whole telecast.

00:02:53.700 And that actually gets to Hollywood's big problem.

00:02:58.440 The most radical political moment of the night.

00:03:01.680 There are really only three or four big moments from this Oscars.

00:03:05.800 The most radical political moment of the night came from Julia Reichert, who won the best documentary for American worker.

00:03:15.520 She decided during her speech to quote Karl Marx to the applause of the audience.

00:03:23.300 Working people have it harder and harder these days.

00:03:26.980 And we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite.

00:03:36.740 Workers of the world unite.

00:03:38.900 First of all, that's not true.

00:03:41.040 Right now, we have record low unemployment across all sectors.

00:03:45.260 We have a record high economy and we have wages rising for the first time in 10 years.

00:03:49.040 So workers are not suffering relatively in this country right now.

00:03:52.440 They're actually doing well for the first time in a long time.

00:03:55.840 Workers of the world unite is Karl Marx's call to arms from the Communist Manifesto.

00:04:01.960 That is a direct quote of the inventor of communism.

00:04:05.420 And the point I guess she's making is that all workers will do better under communism.

00:04:11.560 But we know that that isn't the case.

00:04:13.560 Every communist government on earth has been absolute hell for workers.

00:04:18.600 It's been absolute hell, especially for workers.

00:04:21.040 Whether it's in the Soviet Union, whether it's in Cuba, whether it's in China, whether it's anywhere in the world,

00:04:25.760 the workers have not only been oppressed, they've very often been slaughtered en masse.

00:04:30.160 But then the cherry on top is my favorite part of this whole moment.

00:04:34.940 American Factory was the first film produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's new production company.

00:04:44.060 The production company is Higher Ground Productions.

00:04:46.880 So obviously, they just give this a word because Obama's attached to it, I think, as part of it,

00:04:51.640 and because it has this kind of underlying communist message.

00:04:54.320 But I just want to point out when conservatives would decry the radicalism and extremism of Barack Obama,

00:05:02.480 the left and the mainstream media would tell us, oh, you're crazy, you're hysterical, you're nuts, Obama's a moderate, it's no big deal.

00:05:09.320 Well, his first movie to win an Oscar, in the acceptance speech, they quote Karl Marx.

00:05:17.100 They quote probably the most famous line from Karl Marx.

00:05:20.300 So don't tell me that the guy is a moderate, his projects are moderate, just ain't the case.

00:05:25.800 So that was the most radical political moment of the night.

00:05:28.540 The most bizarre political moment of the night came from Joaquin Phoenix, who also wanted to get in on the politics.

00:05:35.820 And he wanted to use it to go after a very specific political issue.

00:05:41.180 He wanted to protest milk.

00:05:44.740 We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow.

00:05:49.560 And when she gives birth, we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable.

00:05:56.040 And then we take her milk that's intended for her calf, and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.

00:06:03.540 I did not see that one coming.

00:06:07.960 I did not know that milk was going to be the big new leftist hobby horse.

00:06:14.600 I will point out, Joaquin Phoenix is an environmentalist.

00:06:18.460 He does not simply want to protect the environment because it's good for human beings and we want to be good stewards of the environment.

00:06:24.400 He seems to have a much more radical view of environmentalism, the idea that the natural environment sort of has rights, that animals have rights, that we are here to serve the natural environment.

00:06:35.580 And so the idea that we would take a cow's little baby or kill a cow's little baby is so repugnant to him.

00:06:44.640 He takes it even further.

00:06:45.560 The fact that we would drink a cow's milk is morally repugnant to him.

00:06:53.480 This is a guy who is on stage at the Oscars where people are endorsing abortion.

00:07:02.080 It just, I don't want to beat a dead horse here or beat a dead cow or drink the dead cow's milk.

00:07:07.680 I just want to point out the absolute incoherence of being an environmentalist who cares about animal rights, of worrying about the little baby calf, of not eating veal, of being so afraid of causing harm to an animal that you won't drink a glass of milk, but then endorsing killing a million babies a year in the United States alone doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

00:07:28.040 It comes from a place of sentimentality because we think of the little cow's face and we try not to think of the baby's face, but maybe we should think of the baby's face and probably that would cause those Hollywood people to shut up for a little bit.

00:07:40.200 We will get to the lamest political moment of the night, which I think actually probably was my favorite.

00:07:47.360 And then we will get to Brad Pitt.

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00:09:02.820 So, we've got communist proclamations from the Oscar stage.

00:09:10.160 Then we've got an impassioned plea not to drink milk.

00:09:13.200 And then we have the lamest political moment of the night, which came from, I am told, Sigourney Weaver, Brie Larson, and Gal Gadot.

00:09:20.280 I did not recognize any of these people.

00:09:22.280 Apparently, they play superheroes in some movie.

00:09:25.560 But that was the point.

00:09:27.480 They wanted to make sure that their audience knew when they got on stage that really, they're not the only superheroes.

00:09:34.540 That really, all women are superheroes. 1.00

00:09:38.740 We also wanted to stand here together and say that all women are superheroes.

00:09:44.860 True.

00:09:45.800 Yep.

00:09:45.980 Wow, okay, all right, all women are superheroes. 1.00

00:09:49.040 How about Betsy DeVos? 1.00

00:09:51.160 Betsy DeVos is a woman. 1.00

00:09:52.520 Is Betsy DeVos the Secretary of Education?

00:09:55.920 Is she a superhero? 0.82

00:09:57.040 Because I think she's just terrific.

00:09:59.400 But the left is always telling me that Betsy DeVos is Hitler.

00:10:03.900 So, is she a superhero?

00:10:06.180 Actually, speaking of Hitler, what about Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress? 0.68

00:10:10.840 Is Eva Braun a superhero? 0.94

00:10:12.120 Because Eva Braun is a woman, and I am told that all women are superheroes.

00:10:17.600 So, I guess by that definition, Eva Braun is a superhero.

00:10:23.200 What kind of psycho gets on an Oscar stage and calls Eva Braun a superhero?

00:10:27.420 The reality, of course, is that women are not superheroes. 1.00

00:10:30.480 Women are women. 1.00

00:10:32.900 And men are men.

00:10:35.200 And this kind of saccharine nonsense is, how do people applaud for this stuff?

00:10:41.460 I mean, it's the same kind of saccharine nonsense that has them applauding for workers of the world unite.

00:10:47.100 These are just completely empty platitudes that, if taken to their logical conclusions, have pretty bad implications for society.

00:10:55.020 But you just hear, women are superheroes. 1.00

00:10:56.600 What if a guy got up there and said, you know, men are superheroes. 0.51

00:10:58.540 Men do some cool stuff.

00:11:00.280 Of course, there would be no applause for that.

00:11:02.700 But for some reason, we indulge it.

00:11:04.240 And it's so condescending.

00:11:05.400 It's so condescending to say to women, oh, yes, you're a superhero. 0.96

00:11:09.400 It's the sort of thing you say to a three-year-old, right?

00:11:11.740 The three-year-old comes out and says, I'm Superman.

00:11:13.740 You're like, yes, you are, Johnny.

00:11:15.420 You are Superman.

00:11:17.800 We're indulging these overgrown actresses, adult, ostensibly adult actresses. 1.00

00:11:23.360 We're indulging them like they're three-year-old children.

00:11:25.600 There's nothing particularly feminist about that or particularly respectful.

00:11:31.760 Then you get to the dumbest political moment of the night.

00:11:34.240 That came from Brad Pitt.

00:11:38.200 Thank you to the Academy for this honor of honors.

00:11:41.680 They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave

00:11:46.820 John Bolton this week.

00:11:52.180 I'm thinking maybe Quentin does a movie about it.

00:11:54.520 In the end, the adults do the right thing.

00:11:56.660 What are the odds that Brad Pitt knows who John Bolton is?

00:12:08.820 He might know that John Bolton is that guy with the mustache.

00:12:11.820 What are the odds that Brad Pitt knows that John Bolton was the national security advisor?

00:12:18.560 Forget knows what he worked on while he was national security advisor.

00:12:21.500 What are the odds that he knows that John Bolton was the UN ambassador?

00:12:24.400 What are the odds that he knows anything about what he's talking about?

00:12:29.220 Very low.

00:12:29.980 He says he was 45 seconds more than John Bolton got in the Senate.

00:12:34.520 Huh?

00:12:35.520 What are the odds that Brad Pitt knows that it was the Democratic House, not the Republican

00:12:39.920 Senate, that decided not to call John Bolton to testify?

00:12:44.540 The Democratic House, when they were calling 17, 18 witnesses, all to help the Democrats' case,

00:12:50.100 not a single one to help the Republicans' case.

00:12:51.700 They wanted to call John Bolton.

00:12:55.000 The White House said no.

00:12:56.400 So they followed normal procedure, took it to the courts.

00:13:00.120 And then the Democrats withdrew their request because they just wanted to go along and impeach

00:13:05.420 the president, get the vote over with, move on to the Senate because they knew it was all

00:13:08.520 kabuki theater because they knew that John Bolton didn't have nothing because they know

00:13:11.780 they didn't have nothing on Trump.

00:13:13.240 And they just wanted to get it over with so that they could tell their rude base that they

00:13:18.020 had actually impeached the president.

00:13:19.340 What are the odds that Brad Pitt knows that?

00:13:21.440 Brad Pitt doesn't know that because he's part of the rude base.

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00:15:03.660 The trouble with Brad Pitt's speech, trouble with all these speeches.

00:15:06.440 I like Brad Pitt.

00:15:10.000 I thought he did a great job in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

00:15:13.020 I was hoping he would win the Oscar for it.

00:15:15.180 He did a really good job.

00:15:16.160 I like watching him perform.

00:15:18.140 That speech made me like him less because it made me respect him less.

00:15:24.880 It's not even that I disagreed with what he was saying.

00:15:26.600 He didn't say anything in particular.

00:15:28.760 It was what children do when children want to have a political conversation with adults

00:15:33.520 is they just sort of insinuate things.

00:15:35.620 John Bolton didn't speak.

00:15:39.120 Okay.

00:15:39.780 Do you know why he didn't speak?

00:15:41.800 It's bad that he didn't speak.

00:15:43.680 Yeah.

00:15:44.080 Okay.

00:15:44.620 Why would that be bad?

00:15:46.260 The adults should do something about it.

00:15:49.040 Brad, do you know, do you even know what you think you're talking about?

00:15:53.740 No, not really.

00:15:55.220 Because, right, because you're a movie star.

00:15:56.400 We want you to be a movie star.

00:15:57.360 We don't want you to insinuate that you sort of understand kind of what the political issue is about.

00:16:03.800 But the speech makes us like him less, not even because of the content or the political content,

00:16:10.420 but because it just degrades him.

00:16:14.160 My conclusion from all of this is they need to stop televising the Oscars.

00:16:18.400 They have to.

00:16:19.240 For the Oscars' own sake, for Hollywood's own sake, they have to stop televising it.

00:16:24.620 The whole point of the Oscars is to get us to like the movies more.

00:16:29.220 But in reality, the Oscars make people hate the movies.

00:16:33.220 The movies sometimes make us like the movies.

00:16:36.700 The Oscars always make us like the movies less these days.

00:16:40.640 Without the Oscars, if the Oscars were not televised,

00:16:44.900 the movies and the movie stars would be much, much more popular.

00:16:47.960 So I think they should keep having the Oscars.

00:16:49.720 I think it should be like any other trade awards show, any other industry awards show.

00:16:53.320 They go to some convention center and there are no cameras whatsoever

00:16:57.220 and they give out awards to each other for who had the best direction,

00:17:00.220 who had the best performance.

00:17:02.680 And then there aren't really quite as many popular political considerations

00:17:05.980 because they're not going to get blowback for hashtag Oscars to mail,

00:17:09.380 hashtag Oscars to this, hashtag Oscars to that.

00:17:11.760 It's an actual industry awards show where all the artists vote on each other's work

00:17:15.960 and there's no cameras and there's no showboating.

00:17:20.020 If they do that for enough years,

00:17:22.080 they will remember what the point of this awards show is,

00:17:24.580 which is to celebrate movies and to bring the best work up

00:17:28.060 and to not run your mouth about John Bolton.

00:17:30.860 Performers used to know this.

00:17:32.320 Take a look at, this is a clip of Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll,

00:17:36.460 in the 1970s, right, very heated political moment.

00:17:40.160 You got all the craziness of the late 1960s, the early 70s heating up Vietnam 1.00

00:17:44.760 and Elvis is asked a political question.

00:17:47.680 Here's his answer.

00:17:48.900 Mr. Presley, on the subject of this service,

00:17:51.120 what is your opinion of war protesters and would you today refuse to be drafted?

00:17:56.380 Honey, I just, I just seem to keep my own personal views about that to myself

00:18:00.340 because I'm, I'm, I'm just an entertainer and I, I'd rather not say.

00:18:04.060 Do you think other entertainers should keep their views to themselves too?

00:18:07.040 No.

00:18:07.960 See, even, right, they say, hey, Mr. Presley, what are your political views?

00:18:12.100 He was like, I'm just an entertainer.

00:18:13.400 I don't want to lose half my audience.

00:18:15.120 And I'm obviously not qualified to talk about politics.

00:18:18.720 I'm a guy who wears a jumpsuit who does karate chops and sings beautiful, beautiful songs.

00:18:22.800 So I, I just don't spend my time thinking about Vietnam.

00:18:26.080 I'd keep my views to myself.

00:18:27.220 She goes, oh yeah?

00:18:28.160 Do you think other people should keep their views to themselves?

00:18:30.160 He goes, I don't even want to answer that.

00:18:31.620 Nope.

00:18:32.000 I, whatever.

00:18:32.860 Move on.

00:18:33.660 Ask me about Jailhouse Rock or something.

00:18:38.220 Performers used to know this.

00:18:40.200 Dolly Parton still doesn't give her views on politics, right? 1.00

00:18:42.500 She's of that old school.

00:18:43.720 That all kind of changed in the seventies.

00:18:45.740 And it really was led in many ways by the Oscars.

00:18:48.280 They got to go back to it.

00:18:49.300 It's killing the Oscars.

00:18:50.180 It's killing the movies.

00:18:51.440 And it's killing me because I have to watch even part of this awards show.

00:18:54.820 And that's unfortunate.

00:18:55.840 Now there was a great show that took place over the past few days.

00:18:58.740 That would be the press, the Trump press conference celebrating his exoneration.

00:19:04.200 So President Trump holds a press conference at the White House right after his official

00:19:08.060 acquittal in the impeachment trial.

00:19:11.820 Trump said this was not a press conference.

00:19:13.760 This was a celebration.

00:19:15.620 Now conservatives are completely split on this.

00:19:18.180 All right.

00:19:18.460 Some loved that he spiked the football.

00:19:21.760 Some hated that he did take it too far.

00:19:25.060 They said it was an unnecessary presser.

00:19:26.840 It was an unnecessary escalation of things.

00:19:29.940 I think both sides are completely missing the point here.

00:19:36.260 To begin, the press conference started out great.

00:19:41.080 This is really not a news conference.

00:19:43.340 It's not a speech.

00:19:44.880 It's not anything.

00:19:46.220 It's just we're sort of, it's a celebration.

00:19:49.560 Because we have something that just worked out.

00:19:54.740 I mean, it worked out.

00:19:55.620 We went through hell unfairly.

00:19:58.200 Did nothing wrong.

00:20:00.180 Did nothing wrong.

00:20:02.360 I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit.

00:20:05.260 Not purposely, but I've done things wrong.

00:20:07.500 But this is what the end result is.

00:20:13.460 You can take that home, honey.

00:20:14.900 Maybe we'll frame it.

00:20:16.860 It's the only good headline I've ever had in the Washington Post.

00:20:20.680 So it starts out very funny, even sort of self-effacing, right?

00:20:24.420 He says, look, I've done a few things wrong, okay?

00:20:26.200 I'm willing to admit it.

00:20:27.820 A full-on narcissist can't admit that he's ever done anything wrong.

00:20:31.160 He says, look, I've done a few things wrong, okay?

00:20:32.920 All right?

00:20:33.360 Maybe, look, I've never gotten a good headline in the Washington Post.

00:20:35.480 It's funny, it's victorious, it's triumphant, does great.

00:20:39.100 Then it got even better when President Trump started going after his adversaries like Mitt Romney.

00:20:45.060 And then you have some that used religion as a crutch.

00:20:49.700 They never used it before.

00:20:51.940 An article written today, never heard him use it before.

00:20:56.760 But today, you know, it's one of those things.

00:20:58.980 But, you know, it's a failed presidential candidate,

00:21:01.400 so things can happen when you fail so badly running for president.

00:21:06.520 But, Josh Hawley, I want to thank you.

00:21:08.120 You were right from the beginning.

00:21:10.380 Man, did I make a good choice.

00:21:14.800 It's just great.

00:21:16.160 He won't even say Romney's name, right?

00:21:18.280 He just goes, yeah, there's some people were a little tough on us, but they failed.

00:21:23.240 They failed so badly.

00:21:25.780 So badly.

00:21:27.040 Hey, all right, I made a great choice.

00:21:28.420 And he just moves on.

00:21:29.760 Again, it's great.

00:21:30.640 It's got this balance.

00:21:31.540 It's got this sense of humor.

00:21:32.980 He is spiking the football.

00:21:34.100 He's giving you what you want.

00:21:35.120 He's pummeling that principalist hack, Mitt Romney.

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00:23:21.760 So it starts out well at this Trump press conference, gets even better when he starts

00:23:26.940 to hammer Romney.

00:23:27.940 Then he takes it slightly too far.

00:23:31.180 We've been going through this now for over three years.

00:23:35.760 It was evil.

00:23:37.360 It was corrupt.

00:23:38.660 It was dirty cops.

00:23:39.760 It was leakers and liars.

00:23:43.480 We first went through Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:23:48.120 It was all...

00:23:49.760 Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person.

00:23:54.720 Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person. 1.00

00:23:56.900 But now we have that gorgeous word.

00:23:58.880 I never thought a word would sound so good.

00:24:01.640 It's called total acquittal.

00:24:04.200 Okay, first of all, total acquittal is two words.

00:24:10.200 All right, you see that's Joy Behar playing it on The View, and then she gets that dig 1.00

00:24:14.200 in at the end.

00:24:14.940 There are two conservative reactions to this, two distinct ones.

00:24:17.640 The first one says that it's great.

00:24:19.740 It's hilarious.

00:24:20.380 They love it.

00:24:20.920 They like that he says that naughty word.

00:24:23.180 They like that he's getting really personal.

00:24:25.200 Then the other conservative reaction is, I hate it.

00:24:27.900 It's terrible.

00:24:28.720 He shouldn't do this.

00:24:29.620 Why is he doing this?

00:24:30.300 Shut your mouth.

00:24:31.160 Don't tweet.

00:24:31.800 Don't talk.

00:24:32.500 You're ruining it.

00:24:33.460 You're ruining everything.

00:24:34.480 Both are wrong.

00:24:36.240 Both reactions are wrong.

00:24:39.280 I hate it when the president swears in public.

00:24:42.920 I hate it.

00:24:43.300 It's the only thing he does that I don't like in his official capacity as president.

00:24:47.720 You know, a little bill or a little law here and there.

00:24:49.900 But otherwise, I think he's doing an excellent job, and I hate it.

00:24:52.460 Makes my skin crawl when he swears in public.

00:24:54.240 I think it is degrading, okay?

00:24:56.020 I hate that he had to give this press conference.

00:24:58.680 I wish he didn't have to give this press conference.

00:25:00.540 I wish that we were living in a time where the president could have given

00:25:04.180 that amazing State of the Union address and then walked off glorious into the sunset back

00:25:09.680 to the White House and just gotten down to business and not had to give this press conference

00:25:14.380 that was a little meaner and a little more reality TV and a little tougher.

00:25:17.240 We don't live in that time.

00:25:22.180 We live in a very, very corrupt time and a degraded time.

00:25:25.700 And President Trump had to give this press conference.

00:25:29.300 And what's even worse, he had to take it too far.

00:25:31.980 He had to, because he had to get all these liberals like Joy Behar on The View to tell

00:25:38.600 their audience that he was acquitted.

00:25:40.120 If Trump just went out there, if, first of all, if he had just left it at the State of

00:25:43.040 the Union, we wouldn't have heard a thing about it.

00:25:45.500 And a lot of the country, which isn't paying very close attention to politics, would probably

00:25:49.460 not even know that he got acquitted.

00:25:51.060 They would just hear he was impeached.

00:25:52.260 He was impeached, right?

00:25:53.060 That's all the Democrats are saying.

00:25:55.540 So if he just left it at the State of the Union, wouldn't do him any good.

00:25:59.040 There'd be a lot of misinformation out there.

00:26:00.520 Now, if he had given this press conference, but it just said, look, I won, I was acquitted,

00:26:04.500 no big deal, Romney's a jerk, we're moving on.

00:26:07.000 Even if he had just done that, wouldn't have worked.

00:26:09.780 There would have been nothing about that clip that the left would have had to play.

00:26:14.180 It's because he took it too far and did things that I hate, like swear in public and get

00:26:19.100 really, really nasty and personal.

00:26:21.160 And did you hear what he said?

00:26:22.040 He goes, that one word that I love, that one word, total acquittal.

00:26:27.160 Now, that's not one word.

00:26:28.360 Did President Trump know that that's not one word?

00:26:31.500 I suspect he did.

00:26:32.760 I suspect the billionaire who's been a real estate developer genius, who is married to

00:26:36.880 the supermodel, who became president on its first try, and who was the king of reality 0.72

00:26:40.120 TV.

00:26:40.480 I suspect he knows that total acquittal is more than one word, that it's two words.

00:26:45.900 Okay.

00:26:46.120 But by saying that and giving his opponents an opening to attack him, the clip gets played.

00:26:53.460 When you say, this is BS, the clip gets played.

00:26:56.640 And when the clip gets played on the view, what happens?

00:27:00.440 Joy Behar says, total acquittal.

00:27:02.020 It's not total acquittal.

00:27:03.340 What do you, if it were total acquittal is two words, they play his words.

00:27:06.680 And that reaches a whole lot of people, a lot more people than those of us who are paying

00:27:10.360 a lot of attention.

00:27:10.940 It's frustrating, but this is a tactic.

00:27:14.360 And by the way, this is not some conspiracy, like I'm reading 4D chess into Trump.

00:27:19.160 He has done this since the early eighties.

00:27:22.280 He has done this.

00:27:23.260 He has ginned up a sort of negative headline that he then rides to get his message out.

00:27:29.620 He did it in the New York tabloids.

00:27:31.060 He did it on network television, and he's doing it now in the political press as president.

00:27:35.880 All right.

00:27:36.080 This is the most consistent tactic he's used in his whole career.

00:27:39.060 And I wish we didn't have to use it, but we do.

00:27:42.020 And so you got to defend these kind of press conferences.

00:27:45.080 You have to.

00:27:45.640 It's the only coherent way to say, well, you could say, I love what Trump does, but I

00:27:50.220 hate how he does it.

00:27:51.080 Okay.

00:27:51.380 Well, how else are you going to do it?

00:27:52.720 Get Mitt Romney, Pierre Delecto over there.

00:27:55.420 Guess what?

00:27:55.720 He doesn't win.

00:27:57.040 And even if he did win, he'd probably be spineless about it.

00:28:00.680 Comes with the territory.

00:28:01.880 It's an unfortunate reality, but politics is about reality.

00:28:05.540 Okay.

00:28:06.060 We've got a lot to get to.

00:28:07.060 We got to get to that democratic debate.

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00:29:16.780 The Democratic debate.

00:29:18.600 Did you even know there was a Democratic debate?

00:29:20.560 You probably didn't know the Oscars were last night.

00:29:23.200 You probably did see that Trump press conference.

00:29:25.960 And I'm certain you didn't watch the Democratic debate on Friday night.

00:29:29.680 But I did because I'm a masochist.

00:29:33.380 So, this debate goes on.

00:29:35.380 This is right after the debacle in Iowa.

00:29:37.360 They're heading into New Hampshire.

00:29:39.400 We still don't know who the winner is, by the way.

00:29:42.140 They're saying now it's Buttigieg.

00:29:43.800 It's pretty dodgy.

00:29:44.980 We don't know for sure who the winner is.

00:29:46.560 This was a devastating debate for Democrats.

00:29:50.020 And the Democrats knew it would be a devastating debate.

00:29:51.860 And that's why they buried it on a Friday night when even fewer people than usual would be watching it.

00:29:57.500 It was devastating for a few reasons.

00:29:59.340 The most important one is it exposed how radical all of the Democrats are.

00:30:06.140 Bernie Sanders remains the Democratic frontrunner.

00:30:08.900 He very likely won Iowa, even though officially they're probably going to give it to Buttigieg.

00:30:13.340 But it looks probably like he got more votes.

00:30:15.680 He's at the top of all the polls in New Hampshire.

00:30:17.860 He's doing well everywhere.

00:30:19.140 The Democratic frontrunner denounced the entire country from top to bottom, quote, as hopelessly racist.

00:30:29.140 Here's Bernie.

00:30:30.160 Have a racist society from top to bottom impacting health care, housing, criminal justice, education, you name it.

00:30:40.320 And clearly this is an issue that must be dealt with.

00:30:43.200 But in terms of criminal justice, what we have got to do is understand the system is broken, is racist.

00:30:50.740 We invest in our young people in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration.

00:30:57.820 We end the war on drugs, which has disproportionately impacted African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.

00:31:07.400 We end private prisons and detention centers in America.

00:31:12.260 So what's interesting about Bernie and all of the Democrats when they talk about racial issues is they always immediately go to drugs and crime.

00:31:19.280 It's as though when you ask them about any kind of racial issue, you say, what are you going to do for the black community?

00:31:23.480 What are you going to do for the Latino community?

00:31:25.020 They say, yeah, we're going to give them lighter sentences for all their crimes and we're going to give them more drugs to take.

00:31:31.240 That actually is racist from top to bottom.

00:31:33.960 If the first thing you think of when you think of black people is drugs and crime, like Bernie Sanders, that's not a great look.

00:31:42.220 He still said, even though he exhibited this kind of bigotry himself, he said that the whole country is racist, top to bottom.

00:31:51.240 You can't chalk that kind of thing up just to one crazy socialist, okay?

00:31:54.880 Because you could say, this is what a lot of people are trying to say, Bernie's at the top of the heap, sure.

00:31:59.160 He might be the front runner, but he doesn't represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party, except he does.

00:32:05.860 What this debate showed us in particular was that Bernie Sanders has remade the Democratic Party in his own image.

00:32:12.320 One of the moderators asked all of the candidates, they said, do any of you feel uncomfortable with nominating an open socialist for president?

00:32:24.160 Not a single one raised their hand.

00:32:28.080 Is anyone else on the stage concerned about having a Democratic socialist at the top of the Democratic ticket?

00:32:35.800 I'm not.

00:32:37.160 Senator Klobuchar?

00:32:37.880 Okay, and then, so you see at the very end, so no one raises their hand.

00:32:42.720 Then at the end, Amy kind of puts her hand up and puts it back down.

00:32:45.740 So it's a little unclear.

00:32:46.680 Is she uncomfortable with being a socialist, or is she just trying to answer the question?

00:32:51.500 Then Bernie raises his hand and goes, I'm not uncomfortable with that at all, because Bernie is the open socialist.

00:32:58.420 All of them, every single one of them, just gave their assent to socialism.

00:33:03.000 And Joe Biden was saying a little while ago, he said, look, if we nominate Bernie,

00:33:06.780 or this was at least attributed to Biden and people around him.

00:33:09.620 If we nominate Bernie, then the Republicans are going to hang this socialist label around our necks,

00:33:15.360 and we don't want that socialist label.

00:33:17.180 Well, then you probably should have objected when you were asked that question,

00:33:20.220 because as of now, every single major Democratic candidate for president has just said

00:33:24.580 that they're fine with a socialist being their nominee.

00:33:27.300 They're fine being represented by a socialist.

00:33:31.320 Then you see how this trickles down the whole campaign.

00:33:35.060 We knew that Bernie was a socialist.

00:33:38.280 We knew Elizabeth Warren was going to become a radical. 0.99

00:33:40.960 She became a radical a few months ago.

00:33:42.440 Then she released that crazy health care plan, $52 trillion health care plan, 1.00

00:33:47.020 wealth tax, just confiscating wealth from people, and her campaign started to sink. 0.64

00:33:52.280 But even Joe Biden, old sleepy Joe, been around for a hundred years.

00:33:56.500 Joe Biden himself has become a radical.

00:34:00.000 Used to be relatively moderate, especially on the issue of abortion.

00:34:03.920 Now, Joe Biden is all the way in, even on an issue as personal and controversial as abortion.

00:34:11.740 Mr. Vice President, I am aware of what you said, which is why I'm asking,

00:34:14.780 would you do it differently now?

00:34:16.000 Would there be a litmus test on abortion?

00:34:18.420 Yes, look, here's the deal.

00:34:20.280 Litmus test on abortion relates to the fundamental value in the Constitution.

00:34:25.720 A woman does have a right to choose. 1.00

00:34:27.180 I would, in fact, if they rule it to be unconstitutional, I will send to the United States Congress,

00:34:33.140 and it will pass, I believe, a bill that legislates Roe v. Wade adjusted by Casey.

00:34:41.380 Oh, man, he just went the whole way.

00:34:44.520 I mean, he used to say people can have difference of opinion on abortion.

00:34:47.800 I don't support taxpayer funding of abortion.

00:34:50.140 Then a few months ago, he started to support taxpayer funding of abortion.

00:34:53.200 Now he's saying it would be a litmus test for a judge.

00:34:57.660 If you don't support abortion, you're out.

00:34:59.700 You're out of the running.

00:35:01.540 We're not allowed to have litmus tests, but apparently the left is allowed to have litmus tests.

00:35:05.000 And then the worst.

00:35:07.640 So Bernie, we always knew, was a wacko. 0.99

00:35:10.040 Warren is collapsing.

00:35:12.280 Biden is now a radical and can barely form an English sentence.

00:35:15.820 Then you get to the worst candidate.

00:35:17.980 My least favorite in the entire race.

00:35:21.400 Pete Buttigieg.

00:35:23.460 Pete Buttigieg, he is the worst of all.

00:35:26.020 I know he seems like kind of a nice guy.

00:35:28.620 I know you think, oh, that guy, he couldn't have cheated and stolen Iowa.

00:35:31.680 Oh, that guy, he couldn't be a radical.

00:35:33.080 Oh, that guy, he is the single worst candidate.

00:35:35.680 And he didn't do very well in this debate, especially when he was asked about racial issues.

00:35:40.800 He was asked why black people in the town that he's the mayor of, South Bend, Indiana,

00:35:46.540 why they were getting incarcerated and arrested at a higher rate than white people.

00:35:50.880 And he totally flubbed the answer.

00:35:53.800 How do you explain the increase in black arrests in South Bend under your leadership for marijuana possession?

00:35:59.260 And again, the overall rate was lower.

00:36:03.240 No, there was an increase the year before you were in office.

00:36:06.820 It was lower.

00:36:07.940 Once you became in office in 2012, that number went up.

00:36:11.460 In 2018, the last number year that we have a record for, that number was still up.

00:36:16.320 Yeah.

00:36:16.720 Drag him. 0.86

00:36:17.560 That's right.

00:36:18.220 Go get him.

00:36:19.040 You know it.

00:36:19.640 I don't even know who that moderator is.

00:36:20.820 But good job, good job nailing him on it.

00:36:22.800 Because Pete Buttigieg, more than any other candidate, is duplicitous, two-faced, insincere,

00:36:28.380 will lie directly to your face.

00:36:30.240 He's better at it than Joe Biden, even.

00:36:31.840 Probably Joe Biden's lost a little bit with age.

00:36:34.080 Bernie Sanders doesn't really lie to your face.

00:36:35.820 He's actually pretty honest with you.

00:36:37.840 And Elizabeth Warren is incompetent at it. 1.00

00:36:39.760 But Pete Buttigieg will lie to your face.

00:36:42.240 He will relieve himself on your leg and tell you that it is raining.

00:36:46.160 And she was having none of it.

00:36:47.720 He said, look, the arrest rate went down while I was mayor.

00:36:50.820 She's like, no, it didn't.

00:36:51.700 We have the numbers.

00:36:52.520 The numbers don't lie.

00:36:53.460 You lie, Pete Buttigieg, but the numbers don't.

00:36:55.700 So she pushes him on it.

00:36:57.120 Let's hear her push him on it again.

00:36:58.660 And then his answer could not have been worse.

00:37:01.980 His answer was worse than Bernie, who just comes out and asks him about racial issues

00:37:06.120 and he just starts talking about crime.

00:37:08.440 Pete Buttigieg's answer was even more to the point.

00:37:11.960 Once you became in office in 2012, that number went up.

00:37:16.420 In 2018, the last number a year that we have a record for, that number was still up.

00:37:21.280 Yeah.

00:37:21.800 And one of the strategies that our community adopted was to target when there were cases

00:37:27.100 where there was gun violence and gang violence, which was slaughtering so many in our community,

00:37:33.920 burying teenagers, disproportionately black teenagers. 0.66

00:37:37.080 We adopted a strategy that said that drug enforcement would be targeted in cases where

00:37:43.200 there was a connection to the most violent group or gang connected to a murder.

00:37:48.560 These things are all connected, but that's the point.

00:37:51.440 These things are all connected.

00:37:53.480 That's the, this was a bad, this was one of those moments where Pete Buttigieg tells you

00:37:57.340 what he really feels because he does feel that these things were all connected.

00:38:01.460 Did you listen to the logical line in his answer?

00:38:04.220 They say, okay, why were black people arrested at a higher rate for drugs in your, under your 0.94

00:38:12.180 mayorship?

00:38:13.320 And he said, no, they weren't.

00:38:14.880 And she said, no, actually they were.

00:38:16.500 We have the numbers.

00:38:17.260 They were arrested in higher numbers at a higher rate when you were mayor.

00:38:20.220 Why is that?

00:38:21.740 And he said, well, we prioritized arresting violent people.

00:38:26.060 So Pete Buttigieg's answer as to why more black people were arrested for the same crime

00:38:36.160 when he was mayor is because the black people are just more violent. 1.00

00:38:41.660 And that's his answer.

00:38:44.260 This is a sort of answer where if you, if you put him behind a veil, right?

00:38:49.120 If you were just listening to this on the radio and you kind of mixed up the voices a little

00:38:52.380 bit, that could have been an answer given by one of these white racialist guys.

00:38:57.440 Now I'm not accusing Pete Buttigieg of being a white racialist.

00:39:01.420 I'm accusing the Democrats of hypocrisy on racial issues because these answers, if these

00:39:07.160 answers were given by a Republican or a conservative, this would be top of the news for weeks and

00:39:13.620 weeks and weeks.

00:39:14.200 But the Democrats have no answer on racial issues.

00:39:18.640 They have no account for their own history on racial issues and they don't want the public

00:39:23.440 to see these candidates.

00:39:24.460 It's just like the Oscars.

00:39:25.780 The more you see the movie stars, the more the movie stars come into your own living room,

00:39:30.360 the less you like them.

00:39:32.920 And it's the more these candidates talk, the less you like them.

00:39:36.520 That's why they're burying this debate on Friday nights.

00:39:40.260 Buttigieg did not do terribly well at this debate.

00:39:42.900 But the worst thing, look, Buttigieg is rising to the top now because he's trying to get

00:39:46.920 the moderate lane from Joe Biden.

00:39:49.500 So there's a world in which this thing comes down to Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.

00:39:54.380 Pete Buttigieg is nothing.

00:39:57.040 He only speaks in platitudes when he's not accidentally making these racial comments.

00:40:02.300 Here's just an example.

00:40:03.480 This is the typical Buttigieg answer on virtually any topic from the same debate.

00:40:08.700 We cannot solve the problems before us by looking back.

00:40:12.340 We have to be ready to turn the page and change our politics before it's too late.

00:40:17.720 And I'm seeing everywhere I go, not just fellow Democrats, but a striking number of independents

00:40:22.960 and what I like to call future former Republicans ready to join in that historic American majority

00:40:29.240 to turn the page.

00:40:31.040 What did he just say?

00:40:32.380 Can you try now, just get a pen and paper, write down in one sentence what he actually

00:40:40.480 said that means anything?

00:40:42.200 He said, we can't go forward if we're going back.

00:40:46.120 We have to come together.

00:40:48.400 And we need people who disagreed with us to agree with us.

00:40:51.840 And we need to do those things together, you know, and, you know, it's like the universe,

00:40:58.800 man.

00:40:59.040 It's sort of like we're all, like we're all one, you know, it doesn't, he said nothing.

00:41:03.620 He just uses words and he says enough of them together that it makes it seem like he's saying

00:41:08.020 something.

00:41:08.640 And that's the democratic field in a nutshell.

00:41:11.660 They're just saying nothing, nothing that people want to hear at least.

00:41:14.920 One candidate who's jumping up the polls was not there.

00:41:17.380 That candidate is Mike Bloomberg.

00:41:19.620 He bought his way into the next debate, but he wasn't able to buy his way into this debate.

00:41:23.280 And so he sent the whole debate sending out terrible memes.

00:41:25.960 And I want to show you, it's a tale of two memes to show you why we often hear that the

00:41:31.420 left can't meme.

00:41:32.600 The left doesn't know how to use newfangled internet speak to convey the ideas that they

00:41:39.140 want to convey.

00:41:39.940 The right happens to be very good at memes.

00:41:42.480 Most of the memes on the internet come from the right.

00:41:45.760 Why is that?

00:41:46.640 Mike Bloomberg shows us.

00:41:48.420 So during this debate, he's not invited.

00:41:49.960 He decides, he sends out this meme.

00:41:51.720 I will, I will narrate it.

00:41:53.920 It's a meme of, of Donald Trump.

00:41:56.440 And he says, he said, this is Donald Trump's recent speech.

00:42:00.320 And in the, in the meme, he says, lie, lie, lie, unfair, lie, lie.

00:42:05.220 And in the meme is a little gingerbread cookie, gingerbread man, who's catching on fire and

00:42:12.700 smoking.

00:42:13.400 And he's just kind of jumping around the screen and it's a little gingerbread man.

00:42:16.060 And it doesn't make any sense.

00:42:18.860 It's completely random.

00:42:22.620 And it's getting a lot of scorn and mockery on the internet by people who can meme.

00:42:26.080 Okay.

00:42:26.280 That's the Bloomberg meme.

00:42:27.220 Compare that to the Trump meme that he just put out.

00:42:29.880 Trump meme.

00:42:31.040 This was put out by the White House social media director.

00:42:33.300 And then Trump retweeted it.

00:42:34.240 It said, select all the squares with the president.

00:42:36.700 Like those little security measures that you get when you go on different websites, right?

00:42:40.660 And you have to pick all the squares with the crosswalk or with the traffic light.

00:42:43.500 And it's a photo of Donald Trump standing next to Mitt Romney.

00:42:48.280 And so you select all the squares with Trump in it.

00:42:50.960 And then obviously you don't select the squares with Romney in it.

00:42:53.980 That's a funny meme.

00:42:55.400 Got, got decent play.

00:42:56.620 It's funny.

00:42:56.840 Why is it funny?

00:42:57.480 Because it means something.

00:42:59.740 It, it's clever.

00:43:01.420 It's a little mean.

00:43:02.720 It's not direct.

00:43:03.880 It's not just right out there telling you exactly what it means.

00:43:06.480 It's, it's depicting what it means.

00:43:09.240 You, it has some art to it.

00:43:10.600 You have to use your mind a little bit.

00:43:12.300 But the message is clear once you appreciate what, what the work is telling you.

00:43:19.260 Why, why can't the left meme?

00:43:21.780 It's because of what Mike Bloomberg thinks.

00:43:24.060 Bloomberg's team thinks that memes are just random things.

00:43:27.600 You just throw a bunch of random stuff together.

00:43:29.620 And then at the end of all that random stuff, that's funny.

00:43:32.160 And that's going to make you look cool and hip or something.

00:43:34.220 That's not what a meme does.

00:43:37.500 The, the definition of a meme is not its lack of meaning.

00:43:41.420 It's that it is full of meaning.

00:43:45.260 Right?

00:43:46.880 The reason that the left thinks it's all this random nonsense is because the left doesn't

00:43:51.420 get what we're saying.

00:43:52.960 Well, there are studies to back this up.

00:43:54.220 John Haidt did a study a number of years ago.

00:43:56.540 Showed that the right understands the left pretty well, but the left doesn't understand

00:44:00.940 the right.

00:44:01.600 They don't know what we think.

00:44:02.600 They don't know how we view the world.

00:44:03.600 And so to them, when we convey our worldview in these kind of silly images online, it just

00:44:09.340 looks like random nonsense to them.

00:44:11.180 But it's not random nonsense.

00:44:12.520 It's actually conveying something that they simply can't understand.

00:44:16.200 So then they try to recreate that by creating random nonsense and we mock them because that's

00:44:20.920 not memeing.

00:44:21.500 That is, there's much more to say on this topic, but in a nutshell, that's why the left

00:44:25.840 cannot meme.

00:44:26.880 There is much, much more to get to.

00:44:29.320 But we are simply out of time.

00:44:32.020 So we can chew on that.

00:44:33.100 We can ponder that.

00:44:33.900 We can think of all these memes tonight.

00:44:36.340 Maybe send them out.

00:44:37.060 Tweet them at me.

00:44:37.740 I'm very bored all day.

00:44:38.600 So please send me memes.

00:44:39.880 Then we will get to so much more tomorrow.

00:44:42.220 There is, AOC is out with something that explains another big flaw of the left, but you'll just

00:44:46.740 have to wait until then.

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