The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 493 - How’d Our Elites Get So Dumb？

00:00:00.380 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who studied economics in college and writes economic policy in Congress,

00:00:06.820 can't name the most prominent economist of the 20th century.

00:00:10.220 MSNBC's Katie Turr doesn't know how senators get elected. 1.00

00:00:15.060 And Joe Biden wants to ban guns that don't exist.

00:00:19.080 The problem isn't that our alleged elites are ignorant.

00:00:22.440 It's that they know so much that isn't so.

00:00:25.180 We examine the root of their confusion.

00:00:27.780 Then, Joe Biden collapses in the polls, Bloomberg surges, and Snoop Doggy Dogg gets the media to expose themselves.

00:00:35.440 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:45.280 Oh, we've got so much to get to.

00:00:48.940 AOC is out here educating all of us about economists that don't exist.

00:00:54.920 First, we have to wonder how our elites got so profoundly ignorant.

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00:02:38.240 Sometimes when I'm watching our elites on air, I start to be lulled into sleep because of how mind-numbing it is.

00:02:46.800 Nowhere is this clearer than with AOC.

00:02:49.580 So you know AOC is always posting these videos on various social media platforms,

00:02:55.140 just rambling about whatever thought popped into her head and comes out her mouth without very little filter in the middle.

00:03:01.700 She did this the other day to talk about one of her favorite economists.

00:03:07.360 And she was, I think, attempting to cite one of the most famous economists of the 20th century.

00:03:13.380 Unfortunately, she named an economist who doesn't exist.

00:03:16.680 It's funny you ask this because I was just reading today about how Milton Keynes, a famous economist back in the day,

00:03:23.420 predicted that by 2030, U.S. GDP would grow six to eight times what it is,

00:03:28.340 which would allow for everyday people to work 15 hours a week.

00:03:32.680 Milton Keynes.

00:03:33.780 Milton Keynes is not an economist.

00:03:38.420 Milton Keynes, as far as I know, is not a person who has ever existed.

00:03:42.700 What I think she's trying to refer to is the economist John Maynard Keynes.

00:03:49.060 And she's confusing John Maynard Keynes, who, she says, he was a very big economist back in the day.

00:03:54.360 She doesn't even know when he lived and worked.

00:03:56.560 He was an economist who was born at the end of the 19th century and lived until the mid-20th century.

00:04:00.900 Very famous liberal left-wing economist.

00:04:04.440 She's confusing John Maynard Keynes with Milton Friedman, who's the very famous right-wing economist.

00:04:10.940 You know, there are all these videos of Milton Friedman from the 1970s and 1960s, giving lectures on economics.

00:04:17.500 He was very influential during the Reagan administration, very influential for the conservative movement.

00:04:22.020 She's confusing two economists who are pretty much on the opposite end of economics in the 20th century.

00:04:29.240 And even more so, she's not even pronouncing the one guy's name correctly.

00:04:36.160 John Maynard Keynes, she's calling him Keynes, like the steakhouse in New York.

00:04:41.220 I don't really blame her for not knowing who John Maynard Keynes was.

00:04:46.080 I mean, she was an economics major in college, and now she's writing economics policy in Congress.

00:04:51.340 So it would be nice if she had even a passing familiarity with who the guy was.

00:04:57.020 But my problem is not that she hasn't read the total work of Keynes, or that she hasn't read all the work of Milton Friedman, or that she's ignorant.

00:05:07.240 The ignorance isn't even my problem.

00:05:09.460 My problem is the lack of curiosity.

00:05:11.600 My problem is the pomposity of just pontificating, of just running her mouth about things that she doesn't know anything about.

00:05:22.420 It's this lack of awareness that she is profoundly ignorant.

00:05:27.200 I think if you look at her affect, if you look at the way she speaks, she presents herself as very well-educated, very intelligent.

00:05:34.160 She knows so much more than everybody else, and yet she doesn't.

00:05:37.420 She doesn't know what she's talking about.

00:05:38.780 And this is true of so many of our so-called elites in politics, in the media, all around us.

00:05:46.000 You know, people just throw around terms that they think make them sound smart, one of them being Keynesian.

00:05:52.340 Keynesian refers to economic policies that follow the work of John Maynard Keynes,

00:05:56.820 which is the guy that she's erroneously referring to as Milton or, yeah, Milton Keynes.

00:06:04.160 You hear this term Keynesian.

00:06:05.820 You hear this term Rousseauian, right?

00:06:07.640 People always refer to Rousseauian, if they want to sound very highfalutin and fancy, to refer to the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

00:06:13.760 Nobody's ever read Rousseau.

00:06:15.180 None of the people who use that term.

00:06:16.540 Even Marxist, when people refer to Marxist this or Marxian that, the vast majority of those people have never read Karl Marx.

00:06:25.160 They just throw these terms around as though they can fake it till they make it, as though if they state these things with enough confidence,

00:06:34.540 suddenly that will force knowledge to just spring up in their heads out of nothing.

00:06:40.260 It's not just AOC.

00:06:41.360 We pick on AOC a fair bit because she says a lot of ignorant things. 1.00

00:06:44.200 It's in the media, too.

00:06:45.440 Katie Turr on MSNBC and NBC News.

00:06:51.320 I think Donald Trump now refers to that as MSDNC.

00:06:54.660 She was conducting an interview and got the big NBC News backdrop behind her.

00:07:00.420 And she's asking about these problems of our electoral system.

00:07:03.440 And she wants to know if gerrymandering, the rewriting of different congressional districts, is to blame for certain Senate elections.

00:07:12.180 In case you missed it, majority doesn't always rule in this country.

00:07:15.780 48 senators voted to remove the president from office.

00:07:18.980 52 voted to acquit.

00:07:21.080 But the 48 actually represent 12 million more voters than the senators who decided to keep Donald Trump in the White House.

00:07:28.160 So what's the resolution to that?

00:07:30.740 Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation?

00:07:36.360 How does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate or even in the House?

00:07:41.700 Well, I mean, they're the only resolution.

00:07:43.520 Gerrymanders not can do anything because in the Senate we're talking about states, right?

00:07:46.060 You can't gerrymander states.

00:07:47.440 The only solution is for Democrats to appeal to voters in those states, right?

00:07:51.700 Oh, that's so awkward.

00:07:53.140 You know, they were speaking fast enough.

00:07:55.140 And the guy who was being interviewed by her was courteous enough to try to just move right past her blatant error.

00:08:02.260 But Katie Tur on MSNBC was asking if the rewriting of congressional districts, right? 0.55

00:08:08.580 Congressional districts refer to the House of Representatives.

00:08:12.100 If the congressional districts would affect the Senate race.

00:08:16.920 But the Senate has nothing to do with the House of Representatives.

00:08:19.340 The Senate, you had a zillion congressmen, right?

00:08:22.660 You got a zillion people in the House of Representatives.

00:08:25.160 You only have two senators per state.

00:08:27.740 So unless you're going to redraw the lines of different states, you're going to make Montana a little bit wider.

00:08:32.520 You're going to shrink New York in some way.

00:08:34.840 Then gerrymandering isn't going to affect that at all.

00:08:37.380 But Katie Tur is just throwing words out, buzzwords that you hear in politics. 1.00

00:08:43.480 Yeah, you know, 48 senators voted to, to convict the president in his impeachment trial.

00:08:50.880 And sounds like gerrymandering.

00:08:54.540 Yeah, it sounds like Rousseauian, probably Keynesian as well.

00:08:58.740 And so that's why the president was not thrown out.

00:09:02.020 And the, the analyst was saying, what are you talking about?

00:09:04.680 That has, gerrymandering has nothing to do with a Senate trial.

00:09:08.320 And so then Katie Tur asks, well, how can we address this problem?

00:09:11.720 Why aren't there more people in the Senate who hate Trump?

00:09:13.920 And he says, well, if they want more people in the Senate who hate Trump,

00:09:17.540 the Democrats will have to appeal to the voters.

00:09:20.520 Pretty simple solution, right?

00:09:22.160 That's a, that's a guy who knows what gerrymandering is.

00:09:25.060 This lack of curiosity, this ignorance, this, this confidence in saying things that simply aren't true.

00:09:32.160 So it has affected the presidential race.

00:09:35.120 It really affects the left broadly.

00:09:36.620 And it, it doesn't come down even to ignorance or to lack of curiosity.

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00:10:58.900 Not just AOC, not just Katie Turr.

00:11:02.000 You see this in the presidential race with poor Joe Biden.

00:11:07.480 Joe Biden is now making a bold new proposal on the campaign trail

00:11:11.840 to ban guns that don't exist.

00:11:16.320 Because we're unwilling to have a rational policy.

00:11:19.580 It says you cannot have 20, 30, 40, 50 clips in a weapon.

00:11:26.000 A rational policy that says that you can't have 20, 40, 50 clips in a weapon.

00:11:32.700 I guess in Joe's defense, it is a rational policy

00:11:35.840 to ban guns that are completely imaginary.

00:11:41.180 Right, it would be irrational to allow guns that are completely imaginary

00:11:45.440 and only exist in Joe Biden's mind.

00:11:47.220 So I guess technically it's rational.

00:11:49.520 Although I don't know how rational it is just as a campaign matter to go out

00:11:52.780 talking about policies that don't have any bearing to reality.

00:11:56.400 Banning guns that have 20, 40, 50 clips per weapon.

00:12:02.720 Joe Biden doesn't know what a clip is.

00:12:05.540 He doesn't know what a magazine is.

00:12:07.920 Very likely he doesn't know what a gun is.

00:12:10.640 A clip is not a magazine.

00:12:13.120 People confuse this, especially the people who want to take your guns.

00:12:19.860 They think that a clip is a magazine.

00:12:21.460 Clip feeds ammunition into a magazine.

00:12:23.680 Magazine feeds ammunition into the chamber of a gun.

00:12:28.520 Guns do not have 40 or 50 clips.

00:12:31.620 It's not how guns work.

00:12:34.640 Joe Biden could be forgiven, perhaps, this ignorance.

00:12:38.400 He's obviously not a gun guy, doesn't know anything about guns,

00:12:40.980 probably doesn't like guns very much.

00:12:42.100 He likes having his armed security have a lot of guns.

00:12:44.820 I notice he loves that, but he clearly doesn't like guns very much.

00:12:48.460 That's true for virtually all of the Democratic candidates,

00:12:51.740 with perhaps the exception of Bernie Sanders.

00:12:54.880 But he's the one writing the laws.

00:12:58.880 There's this strange irony on the left and in politics

00:13:01.420 where the people writing the laws about guns

00:13:04.380 don't know anything about guns.

00:13:07.780 And they're unwilling to listen to the people who do know.

00:13:09.920 If you go to your average, perfectly common Walmart shopper,

00:13:18.240 they will know more about guns than any of these Democratic candidates for president.

00:13:22.920 These days, I don't know, now it's harder to buy a gun at Walmart.

00:13:25.200 But for a long time, you get the point.

00:13:27.660 If you go to the average Joe on the street outside of New York, L.A., San Francisco,

00:13:34.100 and depends on what neighborhood you're in in New York, L.A., or San Francisco,

00:13:36.900 the person you meet on the street will know much, much more.

00:13:40.260 Technically, they will just have more knowledge of guns than Joe Biden,

00:13:45.120 Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, any of these guys.

00:13:48.340 Elizabeth Warren.

00:13:49.120 That's pretty weird.

00:13:52.300 That's a weird thing that our so-called elites, guys,

00:13:55.220 I mean, that's certainly true of the media, too.

00:13:56.820 The people who run their mouths about guns on MSNBC or CNN

00:14:01.280 don't know anything about guns.

00:14:03.260 The people who would have themselves be our elites

00:14:05.280 and tell us what to do and write our laws and tell us what to think

00:14:07.680 know significantly less just as a matter of pure information

00:14:12.560 than your regular run-of-the-mill American.

00:14:16.200 That's a strange situation to be in because your regular run-of-the-mill American 1.00

00:14:19.800 has a lot more humility than those so-called elites.

00:14:22.620 Joe Biden took it, made it even a little bit weirder on the campaign trail.

00:14:26.040 Joe Biden was asked a question that he didn't want to answer,

00:14:29.120 and he referred to the young girl who asked the question

00:14:32.120 as a dog-faced lion pony soldier.

00:14:36.900 So you're arguably the candidate with the greatest advantage in this race.

00:14:41.180 You've been the vice president.

00:14:42.740 You weren't burdened down by the impeachment trials.

00:14:45.020 So how do you explain the performance in Iowa,

00:14:53.340 and why should the voters believe that you can win the national election?

00:14:58.620 It's a good question.

00:15:00.540 Number one, Iowa's a Democratic caucus.

00:15:05.320 You ever been to a caucus?

00:15:07.420 No, you haven't.

00:15:08.440 You're a lying dog-faced pony soldier. 0.94

00:15:10.240 You said you were, but now you've got to be honest.

00:15:12.780 I'm going to be honest with you.

00:15:14.860 So this comment from Uncle Joe made people wonder if he's doing okay,

00:15:22.020 if he's all there in the head.

00:15:23.180 People are saying that he's losing it, that he's becoming senile.

00:15:26.860 Now, I don't think that's exactly what's happening.

00:15:28.800 I don't, because his defense, Joe Biden's defense,

00:15:32.740 is that he's referring to an old movie.

00:15:34.940 So what the people are saying is Joe Biden is losing his mind,

00:15:38.980 and Joe Biden's campaign defense is, no, no, no, he's just really, really old,

00:15:43.380 and he's referring to an old movie.

00:15:44.940 So what he's saying is it refers to an old John Wayne movie.

00:15:47.780 Trouble is, there's no evidence that that line comes from a John Wayne movie at all.

00:15:52.680 He's used the line before, but there's no,

00:15:54.840 even the liberal outlet Vox.com did some research into this,

00:15:59.140 said we don't see any evidence that that line came from a John Wayne movie.

00:16:02.000 It may have come from the 1952 movie by Tyrone Power called Pony Soldier,

00:16:07.940 in which a character says,

00:16:09.680 the pony soldier speaks with a tongue of the snake that rattles.

00:16:13.860 So I guess it does kind of allude to liars and people being dishonest.

00:16:19.520 Even here, even in this weird clip that's going viral

00:16:23.340 because people are saying Biden's lost his mind or he's senile,

00:16:26.620 this is evidence, maybe of a little bit of those two things,

00:16:29.720 but really evidence that Joe Biden is just saying things that he doesn't know anything about.

00:16:34.260 When his campaign comes out there and says,

00:16:35.620 oh yeah, it's from an old John Wayne movie, don't worry.

00:16:37.340 Even that's not true.

00:16:38.940 Even that is not true and they don't particularly care if it's true.

00:16:45.300 Big problem, big problem for our republic

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00:18:01.420 An ignorant electorate is not capable of self-government.

00:18:06.940 That's the problem with these guys in our elite institutions, mostly on the left,

00:18:12.640 just running their mouths ignorantly without knowing anything.

00:18:16.220 Madison wrote, he wrote, quote,

00:18:17.900 a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it

00:18:21.740 is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy.

00:18:24.720 That's how you could describe the election of AOC.

00:18:27.240 The election of AOC, a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both, he goes on.

00:18:31.360 Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

00:18:34.060 And a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

00:18:39.940 Now, what's interesting is you might think that this problem of ignorance spreading throughout a republic

00:18:46.340 would be exacerbated by expanding the vote.

00:18:49.620 Because all those dumb people, you know, in that flyover country, they don't know anything.

00:18:54.520 So if you expand the vote, you expand participation in the government,

00:18:57.860 that's going to make the ignorance problem so much worse.

00:19:00.320 Except the ignorance problem isn't among those, our fellow countrymen,

00:19:05.760 who come from the less celebrated walks of life.

00:19:09.540 The ignorance problem is from the people on TV and the people who are sitting in Congress.

00:19:13.520 That's where it's most visible.

00:19:15.160 There was a study that came out in 2007 from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

00:19:20.440 It was a study of all the big fancy brand name colleges and universities in the country.

00:19:24.520 And they studied civic knowledge, politics, history, government.

00:19:30.760 They studied it among incoming freshmen and graduating seniors.

00:19:34.760 What they found is the graduating seniors knew less about their own country than the incoming freshmen.

00:19:43.180 They actually became more ignorant over their time in college.

00:19:48.760 They actually unlearned whatever little they already knew.

00:19:54.020 And they were so much more confident about it because they walked out of there with a degree from Harvard or Princeton.

00:19:58.960 So they knew, man, I must know everything.

00:20:01.280 What I say is the gospel truth just because I say it.

00:20:04.760 That's a problem of ignorance.

00:20:07.980 It's a problem of a lack of curiosity.

00:20:11.020 Really, though, at its root, it's a problem of pride.

00:20:14.120 Because these elite institutions, whether it's a top school or a media organization or Congress, right,

00:20:20.100 or the Senate, most elite club in the world,

00:20:24.060 those institutions flatter you relentlessly.

00:20:28.000 That's what they do.

00:20:28.940 Every dinner, every lunch, every convocation, you go in and they tell you, you're the leaders of the world.

00:20:34.060 You're the best.

00:20:35.060 Oh, you media people.

00:20:36.900 Democracy dies in darkness without you.

00:20:39.640 Oh, you're the future leaders.

00:20:41.900 You're the current leaders of America.

00:20:43.540 And what happens is you start to believe your own press releases.

00:20:47.360 So you start to believe, yeah, wow, I really am.

00:20:49.500 I'm so smart.

00:20:50.580 I'm so good.

00:20:51.980 Wow.

00:20:52.300 Oh, I know so much more than everybody.

00:20:54.020 And so every dumb thought, every vague sentiment, feeling that pops into your head,

00:21:00.260 you believe that that is true.

00:21:01.520 You believe that that is knowledge.

00:21:03.140 You are less aware of what you don't know.

00:21:06.680 These elites are kind of like teenagers, like young teenagers,

00:21:10.580 who haven't yet realized that their parents know something.

00:21:14.780 You know, you know, teenagers, before they mature, they're convinced that they know everything so

00:21:21.260 much better than their parents.

00:21:22.380 Their parents have never thought or felt any of the really complicated stuff that these teenagers

00:21:26.640 have felt, right?

00:21:27.700 And then there's a moment when you mature and you realize, oh my gosh, my parents actually

00:21:34.120 know something.

00:21:35.380 My parents actually have had the feelings that I have had.

00:21:38.420 My parents have had thoughts and questions that I have had.

00:21:41.160 Hmm, maybe I'm not the most special little thing that's ever walked the earth.

00:21:45.340 Maybe I'm part of a grand tradition of people who've come before me and who will come after me.

00:21:49.840 That's kind of how the elites are to the rest of the people, is the elites are always shocked

00:21:53.780 to find out that the rest of their countrymen aren't complete idiots.

00:21:58.220 That actually, believe it or not, the rest of their countrymen might know something that

00:22:02.680 they don't know.

00:22:03.320 They might know a little bit more about gerrymandering than they do on, on television.

00:22:07.600 They, frankly, they might know about, more about economics than an economics major from

00:22:11.660 a good private college or university.

00:22:15.300 That, that is the problem that we're seeing among our elites.

00:22:18.840 It's this pride.

00:22:19.620 If you just got rid of the pride and you added a little humility, I think it would go a

00:22:23.060 long way to solving it.

00:22:24.100 I've, I've, I've, I travel throughout the country almost all the time because I do these

00:22:29.120 college tours and so I'll go to really small towns.

00:22:31.640 And I'm, I remember the first time, it was right after the, the Republican tax bill was

00:22:37.480 passed, but it's still sort of being debated.

00:22:40.160 I got into an Uber somewhere in a small town in the middle of the country and it's, what

00:22:44.980 do you do?

00:22:45.460 Oh, work in media.

00:22:46.560 Okay.

00:22:46.920 We're kind of talking about politics.

00:22:48.920 And this very nice, unassuming woman who was driving my Uber proceeded to explain to 0.96

00:22:54.160 me how very specific and technical provisions of the tax bill would affect her and her family.

00:23:01.780 And I thought, I don't know anything about the technical provisions of the tax.

00:23:04.600 I know the overview of the tax bill.

00:23:05.960 I've read part of the tax bill.

00:23:07.220 I know the top line, but she actually possessed more technical knowledge of the tax bill than

00:23:11.700 I do.

00:23:12.060 And it's not her job to read the tax bill.

00:23:13.460 It's my job to read the tax bill.

00:23:15.880 I thought, oh, wow, that's pretty interesting.

00:23:17.360 But she had such humility and made her so much wiser than certainly anybody you see on

00:23:22.260 MSNBC or preaching to you from the halls of Congress.

00:23:27.440 It's not necessarily an ignorance problem.

00:23:29.400 I don't mind how ignorant our friends on the left are, or even some people on the right.

00:23:34.500 It's that they know so much that isn't so.

00:23:36.480 And a little, a little humility would solve that.

00:23:39.000 Now, humility is different than humiliation.

00:23:41.840 And Joe Biden is facing the latter on the campaign trail.

00:23:44.520 This is a big day today.

00:23:45.940 Today is the first in the nation primary.

00:23:48.620 You had the first in the nation caucuses at the Iowa caucus two weeks ago, a week or two

00:23:53.380 ago.

00:23:54.120 I think we're still counting the votes.

00:23:55.560 I don't know that we're ever going to get those numbers.

00:23:57.080 Not before the DNC completely fries the books.

00:23:59.940 So far, they're saying Pete Buttigieg has won.

00:24:02.320 Who knows if that's true?

00:24:04.020 Right now, Joe Biden has to make a good showing in New Hampshire.

00:24:08.900 He's completely collapsing.

00:24:10.800 We will get to the first in the nation because actually people have already voted.

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00:26:07.660 Joe Biden, absolutely collapsing.

00:26:11.960 He's in free fall.

00:26:13.340 He was the Democratic front runner.

00:26:15.040 He was the inevitable nominee.

00:26:16.860 He was going to do great in Iowa.

00:26:18.280 He was going to do great in New Hampshire.

00:26:19.540 The whole argument for his candidacy is that he's electable, except nobody's electing him.

00:26:27.480 Yeah, maybe he's a little out of touch on the issues.

00:26:30.500 Yeah, maybe he can't finish an English sentence because he's lost some of his spark.

00:26:36.000 Yeah, maybe he's a white male, which is very unpopular in the Democratic Party today,

00:26:40.960 especially straight white males, especially old straight white males.

00:26:43.640 But look, he's electable, right?

00:26:46.960 He'll do well against Trump, except he can't win any elections.

00:26:50.520 Right now, there's a poll out from WBZ, Boston Globe, Suffolk University.

00:26:55.160 It puts Joe in New Hampshire, not in first place, not in second place, not in third place,

00:27:02.980 fourth place.

00:27:04.980 Oof, that's bad.

00:27:06.200 So he finished, I mean, who knows what happened in Iowa, but he finished toward the bottom

00:27:12.260 of the pack there.

00:27:13.420 He's very likely to finish toward the bottom of the pack in New Hampshire.

00:27:16.640 Who knows how he's going to do in Nevada?

00:27:19.000 Nevada also is a caucus state and nobody knows if they're even going to be able to count the

00:27:22.400 votes.

00:27:22.720 There are now Democrats in Nevada saying they are unclear how they are, it is unclear how

00:27:27.200 they're going to report the votes back.

00:27:28.620 You could have an Iowa part two.

00:27:30.300 Then they moved to South Carolina.

00:27:31.700 South Carolina is Joe Biden's firewall.

00:27:33.840 That's where he's going to win the election.

00:27:36.400 Other candidates have tried this before.

00:27:39.220 Rudy Giuliani famously in 2008, he was going to skip the early states and go straight to

00:27:42.980 Florida.

00:27:43.540 But by the time he got to Florida, it was too late.

00:27:45.260 He was already losing the race.

00:27:47.000 There is a study or a survey out from Emerson College in Suffolk University putting Joe Biden

00:27:54.400 in fifth place in the Democratic race.

00:27:59.480 The fifth place guy doesn't win.

00:28:02.980 He doesn't, he barely wins a state.

00:28:04.620 So the question now we have to ask is, is, is Joe Biden Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush?

00:28:12.780 That's the question of this race. 0.86

00:28:14.220 Is he the weak front runner that nobody wants, that nobody really wants to vote for except

00:28:19.740 somehow he's just going to outlast everyone else and get the nomination and then probably

00:28:23.920 lose the general?

00:28:25.240 Or is he Jeb Bush, the guy that the whole establishment thought was going to be the big

00:28:29.060 one, all the big money donors were behind going in and then he barely wins a single vote.

00:28:35.100 Which one is it, Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush?

00:28:37.040 You know, to Mitt Romney's credit, at least he won early states in, or got close to early

00:28:43.580 states in 2012.

00:28:44.860 You know, Iowa, people thought Mitt Romney won Iowa in 2012.

00:28:48.740 He actually slightly lost it when they finished counting the votes.

00:28:51.140 So Rick Santorum ended up winning it, but Mitt Romney got all the advantage of having won

00:28:55.740 Iowa and at least he came in very close.

00:28:57.280 It was pretty much a tie.

00:28:59.460 Joe Biden didn't get anywhere near that.

00:29:01.720 Mitt Romney was competing in all of these states.

00:29:03.680 Joe Biden not there.

00:29:04.980 And now there's a report that some polls are showing Joe Biden losing as much as half of

00:29:10.380 his black support.

00:29:11.300 The argument from electability for Joe Biden, in particular, focuses on his ability to win

00:29:18.380 black voters.

00:29:19.400 The Democratic candidate needs to win black voters, not just a simple majority of them,

00:29:25.260 a vast majority of them needs to win 85, 90% of black voters to be competitive in a general.

00:29:30.700 Joe Biden is thus far the only candidate who's shown that he can do that, except he might not

00:29:34.520 be able to do that, which is pretty, pretty sad.

00:29:37.900 So Iowa took a full week.

00:29:41.640 The Iowa Democratic Party is officially awarding the most delegates to Buttigieg.

00:29:48.820 Pete Buttigieg, Mayor, Mayor Cheat from South Bend, Indiana.

00:29:51.840 The whole thing stinks to high heaven.

00:29:53.980 If I were Bernie Sanders right now, I would send a team of lawyers to re-canvas Iowa because I think,

00:30:00.700 I don't want to deal in conspiracy theories, but it looks like there are some hijinks here.

00:30:04.540 What, what some people are trying to say is that the Iowa counting problem, that was just

00:30:09.200 a random accident that happened to be caused by a shady app produced by Shadow Incorporated,

00:30:14.900 which just happened to take some money from Pete Buttigieg, which just happens to be connected

00:30:19.500 to the Buttigieg campaign, which just happens to have, have a connection to the old Hillary 0.90

00:30:24.120 Clinton campaign and the Democratic establishment.

00:30:26.480 But look, it's all just a bunch of crazy coincidences and it was pure incompetence, just a coding error.

00:30:31.560 Do you believe that?

00:30:34.760 That's a lot of coincidences.

00:30:37.200 Adding on top of that, that the Democratic Party stole the election from Bernie Sanders

00:30:41.360 in 2016, very hard for me to believe it.

00:30:44.280 I think Bernie Sanders would be a true disaster for the country and possibly constitute a fundamental

00:30:49.820 break with our political tradition if he ever got anywhere near the ultimate levers of power.

00:30:54.980 However, fair is fair.

00:30:58.360 And it looks like the guy is being robbed.

00:31:00.840 It looks absolutely crooked to me.

00:31:03.500 So what does all that mean?

00:31:05.300 Biden collapsing.

00:31:07.480 Pete being named the winner in Iowa.

00:31:09.440 Pete Buttigieg, who named himself the winner in Iowa when 0% of the votes were in, also looks

00:31:13.900 a little shady.

00:31:15.020 Bernie Sanders looks like he's being cheated.

00:31:17.220 Right now, Bernie Sanders is crushing it in New Hampshire.

00:31:19.400 He's winning in every poll.

00:31:20.560 Buttigieg, if he wins New Hampshire, you're going to see a bloody knockdown drag out where the

00:31:24.840 Bernie supporters are even more convinced that the whole thing is rigged.

00:31:29.380 What does it mean?

00:31:30.220 You've got an ugly, ugly fight coming up.

00:31:33.880 You could have a brokered convention.

00:31:35.280 This is always what the pundits are talking about if you have a convention where there's

00:31:38.540 no clear winner going into the convention.

00:31:41.940 So instead of just counting up all the votes from the primaries and the caucuses, you go in

00:31:46.220 and you go to smoke-filled back rooms and you wheel and deal and you try to figure

00:31:50.640 out who the party's nominee is going to be.

00:31:52.140 But we're in a position where that possibly could happen because Bernie Sanders has a lot

00:31:57.320 of momentum and the party elites really hate him and they've stolen it from him before.

00:32:02.300 He doesn't want to be fooled again.

00:32:03.400 They're not going to let him have it.

00:32:04.500 You could get to a place where the DNC is going to be brokered and bitter and absolutely

00:32:09.520 hilarious and fun to watch.

00:32:11.080 In terms of official votes, we have an official vote in from New Hampshire.

00:32:16.360 We don't have the whole state in.

00:32:17.620 That's going to happen throughout the rest of the day.

00:32:19.440 But there is one town in New Hampshire called Dixville Notch that votes at midnight on primary

00:32:25.820 day.

00:32:27.340 And Dixville Notch only has about 12 registered voters, very small, small number of voters.

00:32:33.280 And so all the camera crews show up to ask every voter when they leave the polls, who did

00:32:37.820 you vote for to try to get a sense of who's going to win the state?

00:32:40.920 Doesn't always work.

00:32:42.000 Doesn't predict it necessarily.

00:32:44.080 But there was a real surprise winner here because do you know who won the Democratic primary

00:32:52.460 vote in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire?

00:32:55.860 Mike Bloomberg, a candidate that we have not quite talked about yet, but who is surging in

00:33:00.780 the polls.

00:33:02.040 Do you know who won the Republican primary vote in New Hampshire?

00:33:06.960 Because Trump is going to be the Republican nominee, but they still have these primaries

00:33:09.800 and caucuses.

00:33:10.520 Do you know who won the Republican primary vote?

00:33:14.300 Mike Bloomberg.

00:33:16.600 Now, it means he got a couple of votes.

00:33:19.960 It doesn't mean he won this huge number, but if you get a couple of votes in Dixville Notch,

00:33:23.820 you win the election.

00:33:26.520 Mike Bloomberg, who has variously been a Democrat and a Republican, he was elected as the Republican

00:33:31.440 mayor of New York because it was easier to win the Republican mayorship after Rudy Giuliani

00:33:35.460 that way.

00:33:35.880 Then he became an independent.

00:33:37.020 Now he's a Democrat.

00:33:38.320 He won both primaries.

00:33:40.520 It's pretty interesting because New Hampshire is live free or die.

00:33:43.620 New Hampshire is pretty into keeping their constitutional rights, especially their gun

00:33:46.960 rights, and yet the gun-grabbing candidate won.

00:33:52.460 What it shows you is Mike Bloomberg is in it to win it.

00:33:55.820 He has already spent, I think, like over $300 million on this campaign.

00:34:00.580 He's just buying votes.

00:34:01.880 He bought off the DNC.

00:34:03.100 He made the maximum donation to the Democratic Party that he could right before he got in

00:34:07.280 so that they would change the rules of the debate, which means he's going to qualify for

00:34:10.280 the next debates.

00:34:11.740 Mike Bloomberg is in it to win it.

00:34:13.400 Now, he would have been a laughable candidate when Joe Biden was a viable candidate.

00:34:17.120 But if Joe Biden is really out of this thing and it increasingly looks like it is, all of a

00:34:21.820 sudden a Bloomberg campaign looks less crazy.

00:34:25.340 After that last debate that nobody watched other than me, I watched it for you because

00:34:29.060 I care about you, Pete Buttigieg, who was trying to get into that moderate lane again, he was

00:34:35.240 down six points.

00:34:37.800 Then we have a new poll, New Hampshire at Suffolk University in Boston.

00:34:41.580 Globe showed that post-debate Sanders was up three points.

00:34:46.400 Buttigieg down six points.

00:34:48.360 Amy Klobuchar up eight points.

00:34:50.180 She had a very good performance.

00:34:51.840 Biden up one point.

00:34:53.000 Warren down again two points.

00:34:55.100 So it means that Bernie Sanders is still the front runner in this race.

00:35:00.520 Joe Biden is still floating, right?

00:35:02.200 He's still there.

00:35:03.100 But Bloomberg is surging.

00:35:04.420 There's a new national poll from Quinnipiac.

00:35:07.280 It's a pretty good polling number.

00:35:09.920 Bernie Sanders is 25 nationally.

00:35:12.460 Joe Biden is 17 nationally.

00:35:14.560 Third place is Mike Bloomberg.

00:35:16.840 Mike Bloomberg, the guy got into the race very late, former Republican, billionaire from

00:35:20.880 New York.

00:35:21.500 You think you're going to beat a billionaire from New York with another billionaire from New

00:35:24.460 York?

00:35:25.580 Increasingly, the Democrats are saying yes.

00:35:29.240 Makes the whole situation even more bizarre.

00:35:31.960 Now, before Democrats get too excited about having their savior in Michael Bloomberg, never

00:35:37.640 thought they would think that, the campaign to attack Bloomberg is just getting started.

00:35:42.900 One of the big issues he's going to have is on racial issues because Mike Bloomberg pushed

00:35:47.700 a policy which was very effective in New York called stop and frisk, where you would

00:35:51.880 send cops into minority neighborhoods, you know, mostly minority neighborhoods to reduce 1.00

00:35:56.880 crime.

00:35:57.580 But the left hated this because the left hates reducing crime and they hated what they perceived

00:36:01.600 as racial disparities.

00:36:03.240 Mike Bloomberg owned it.

00:36:04.580 Look, this is a billionaire from New York.

00:36:06.340 He doesn't care.

00:36:07.300 He's got a lot of audio and video out there of him saying things that is not exactly politically

00:36:11.780 correct.

00:36:12.920 Here's Bloomberg on the issue of racial disparities in policing.

00:36:16.320 95% of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit in one in a month.

00:36:23.980 You can just take the description and Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops.

00:36:28.280 They are male, minorities, 15, 25.

00:36:30.660 That's true in New York.

00:36:32.120 It's true in virtually every city.

00:36:34.560 And that's where the real crime is.

00:36:36.440 You've got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that get killed.

00:36:40.120 So you've got to spend the money, put a lot of cops in the street, put those cops where

00:36:44.840 the crime is, which means in a minority neighborhood.

00:36:47.620 So this is one of the unintended consequences is people say, oh my God, you are arresting kids

00:36:56.140 for marijuana.

00:36:57.360 They're all minorities. 1.00

00:36:58.540 Yes, that's true.

00:36:59.880 Why?

00:37:00.520 Because we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods. 1.00

00:37:03.120 Yes, that's true.

00:37:03.960 Why do we do it?

00:37:04.680 Because that's where all the crime is.

00:37:06.360 And the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them against the wall and

00:37:11.800 frisk them.

00:37:13.060 And then they start, they say, oh, I don't want to get caught.

00:37:16.180 So they don't bring the gun.

00:37:17.740 They still have a gun, but they leave it at home.

00:37:20.260 Now, the left, when they find out about this, when they really start paying attention, they

00:37:26.500 are going to lose their minds over it.

00:37:27.980 And some opportunistic conservatives are going after Mike Bloomberg for this clip.

00:37:31.760 Certainly, it was inartfully said if you're trying to run for the Democratic nomination.

00:37:35.900 But the actual policy that he's defending, stop and frisk, was a perfectly defensible

00:37:40.700 policy.

00:37:41.180 Mike Bloomberg was actually an okay mayor of New York.

00:37:43.580 He wasn't great.

00:37:44.440 He was, he did a decent job of, of maintaining the prosperity that Rudy Giuliani actually

00:37:50.380 gave to New York.

00:37:51.140 So he's fine.

00:37:51.980 He gets some credit.

00:37:52.700 He did some dumb policies like banning big mountain dues and not letting me smoke in the

00:37:57.300 park, which was very frustrating.

00:37:58.740 But all in all, he was fine.

00:38:00.260 And he was pretty good on crime.

00:38:01.620 This policy was called stop and frisk.

00:38:03.720 You'd send the cops in to neighborhoods that were mostly minority.

00:38:07.060 Now, what Bloomberg doesn't say in the audio, what the critics of stop and frisk don't say,

00:38:11.920 even what some of the defenders don't tell you, is yes, the cops were sent into minority

00:38:17.660 neighborhoods.

00:38:18.940 But the people who were calling in these crimes were also racial minorities.

00:38:23.840 And the cops who were going to the neighborhoods were also more likely than not racial minorities.

00:38:30.700 Most New York cops are racial minorities.

00:38:32.320 So this was not some example of, of the evil white supremacy going into these poor downtrodden

00:38:39.200 black neighborhoods and, and oppressing them.

00:38:42.460 It was actually a case of the people calling in the crimes, mostly minorities, the victims 0.74

00:38:48.040 of the crimes, mostly minorities, the cops going in to solve the crimes, mostly minorities, 0.98

00:38:53.080 and also the people perpetrating the crimes, mostly racial minorities.

00:38:58.140 That's not going to matter in the democratic primary.

00:39:01.060 You're already seeing Buttigieg getting attacked for alleged police brutality or racial disparity

00:39:05.900 in law enforcement.

00:39:07.220 And he's running in that moderate lane.

00:39:09.040 Bloomberg is going to get that times a million.

00:39:11.740 But I will say just in Bloomberg's defense, not that a whole lot of, of far left-wing democratic

00:39:17.740 primary voters are listening to this show, but for the few that are, Bloomberg was much

00:39:22.260 better on this issue for everybody, racial minorities included, than the current mayor of

00:39:26.040 New York.

00:39:26.380 You know, the current mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, the Bolshevik in, in the mayor's 0.55

00:39:31.220 office, has recently admitted that his stupid prison reform bills are damaging the safety

00:39:39.520 of New York.

00:39:40.180 So de Blasio passed something, I guess it was actually the New York state government passed

00:39:44.660 something, but, but with the support of Democrats in the city, passed something called bail reform.

00:39:49.880 Right, de Blasio, big proponent of bail reform.

00:39:54.320 And what bail reform does, more or less, is lets criminals off the hook.

00:39:59.740 You get arrested and then you just basically get left off, let off the hook and they go

00:40:04.700 out and commit more crimes almost immediately.

00:40:07.220 And Bill de Blasio even admitted this.

00:40:09.720 He said, quote,

00:40:10.160 We had for six years steady decreases in crime across the board.

00:40:14.200 There's not a whole lot of other environmental things that have changed recently.

00:40:17.260 It sort of stands out like a sore thumb that this, bail reform, is the single biggest new

00:40:22.220 thing in question and we saw an extraordinary jump.

00:40:25.160 The weak, weak crime policies of Bill de Blasio are making everybody less safe.

00:40:29.660 And this is especially true in particularly crime-ridden neighborhoods and the particularly

00:40:32.600 crime-ridden neighborhoods in New York, at least, happen to be mostly constituted of

00:40:37.820 racial minorities.

00:40:39.240 Mike Bloomberg uniquely could run on this and defend it if he wants to.

00:40:43.340 I mean, it would be a pretty bold campaign, but that's going to be a major issue for him.

00:40:46.540 It might be disqualifying even though now it looks like he's surging.

00:40:49.680 Speaking of racial issues, before we go, I got to get to Snoop Doggy Dog and an interviewer

00:40:57.640 on CBS.

00:40:58.120 So, this interviewer on CBS, Gayle King, was recently conducting an interview in the wake of

00:41:06.580 Kobe Bryant's death, and she brought up the question of Kobe Bryant's rape allegations

00:41:12.500 in the early 2000s.

00:41:15.680 Here is Gayle's question.

00:41:17.940 It's been said that his legacy is complicated because of the sexual assault charge, which

00:41:23.400 was dismissed in 2003, 2004.

00:41:26.400 Is it complicated for you as a woman, as a WNBA player? 0.99

00:41:31.440 It's not complicated for me at all.

00:41:33.560 Okay, so Gayle asks this question.

00:41:36.580 By the way, she points out, you know, the charge was dropped in 2003, 2004, so it's not like

00:41:41.400 he was convicted for it.

00:41:42.920 The accuser didn't want to testify.

00:41:45.420 So, he is exonerated.

00:41:49.320 Kobe is exonerated, but there were these questions at the time.

00:41:52.540 For some reason, Snoop Doggy Dog was just really, really offended that Gayle King would ask this

00:41:57.640 question, and he went after her in a vicious and actually threatening way. 0.97

00:42:03.160 Gayle King, out of pocket for that.

00:42:08.840 Way out of pocket.

00:42:10.280 What do you gain from that?

00:42:14.420 I swear to God, we're the worst.

00:42:17.200 We're the worst.

00:42:19.000 We expect more from you, Gayle.

00:42:20.960 Don't you hang out with Oprah?

00:42:22.980 Why are y'all attacking us?

00:42:25.320 We your people.

00:42:26.560 You ain't coming after Harvey Weinstein asking them dumb questions.

00:42:30.820 I get sick of y'all.

00:42:33.300 I want to call you one.

00:42:36.000 Is it okay if I call him one?

00:42:38.940 Funky doghead.

00:42:41.100 How dare you try to torness my mother homeboy's reputation.

00:42:44.460 Punk mother.

00:42:46.280 Respect the family and back off.

00:42:48.640 Before we come get you.

00:42:50.160 Before we come get you.

00:42:53.000 Yeah.

00:42:53.540 How dare you tarnish the good reputation of my friends as I threaten you, threaten to come

00:43:01.300 kill you. 0.99

00:43:02.440 Or at least, I don't know what he's threatening.

00:43:03.920 He's certainly threatening something.

00:43:05.560 There was a left-wing journalist on Twitter, Yashar Ali.

00:43:09.260 He's got a very big Twitter account.

00:43:10.780 He was incensed by this video, as most people were.

00:43:15.200 But he blamed the problem on racism.

00:43:19.680 And not Snoop Dogg's racism.

00:43:21.200 Actually, white racism.

00:43:22.760 He tweeted out, quote, seeing very few people defending Gail, I know that if she were a white 0.99

00:43:27.900 anchor, she would have much more support.

00:43:32.280 Would she?

00:43:33.360 Really?

00:43:33.940 I don't know about that.

00:43:36.840 Yashar Ali and Snoop Doggy Dogg both made this racial.

00:43:40.300 Yashar in his comment, Snoop in his video, right?

00:43:42.940 He says, come on, why are you coming after our people?

00:43:45.240 Why are you coming after us like that?

00:43:47.360 Us making it racial. 0.85

00:43:48.880 The irony to this race hustling is twofold. 0.74

00:43:52.500 One, plenty of people are defending Gail.

00:43:54.820 Susan Rice, Obama's former foreign affairs propagandist, was defending Gail King explicitly.

00:44:04.300 So plenty of people are defending Gail.

00:44:05.500 But two, very few people are going after Snoop Dogg.

00:44:09.600 But really, the issue here is what Snoop Dogg said.

00:44:12.320 The issue is not Gail King.

00:44:13.440 It's what Snoop Dogg said, right?

00:44:15.620 But nobody's really going after him, including Yashar Ali.

00:44:19.320 At least Yashar is not going after him.

00:44:21.040 Yashar had this nine-tweet thread about how awful it is that no one's defending Gail King.

00:44:25.060 The way to defend Gail King is to go after Snoop Dogg. 1.00

00:44:28.180 He didn't do it.

00:44:28.920 But something tells me, if it were Harry Connick Jr. who said this instead of Snoop Dogg-y-Dawg,

00:44:34.960 there would be a different reaction to it.

00:44:37.540 Or Michael Buble or any of these other sort of singers, right?

00:44:41.540 I mean, Yashar is racializing this.

00:44:44.600 Snoop Dogg is racializing this.

00:44:46.460 It's not a racial question.

00:44:47.620 The question is, is it okay to ask a question about Kobe Bryant's past?

00:44:52.400 Innocent until proven guilty in this country, but surely journalists are allowed to ask questions,

00:44:56.280 but they both racialize it where there's no racial basis for it.

00:45:01.020 And in Yashar's case, he's raising the prospect of white racism, anti-black racism,

00:45:06.280 when there's no evidence of that either.

00:45:09.160 I don't think Snoop Dogg is a white supremacist.

00:45:11.340 This is another unfortunate example of ignorance among our elites, not just Yashar Ali.

00:45:18.240 The whole left does it.

00:45:19.360 David Webb, conservative radio host.

00:45:22.880 He was doing a show one day and he had CNN's Areva Martin come on.

00:45:26.780 And CNN's Areva Martin accused him of having an invalid opinion because of his white privilege.

00:45:33.300 And David laughed at this.

00:45:34.760 Those of you who know David Webb will also laugh at this because David Webb is very much a black man.

00:45:40.500 He certainly doesn't have white privilege.

00:45:42.420 Now, Areva Martin, in this case, didn't accuse David Webb of this kind of racism, of this white privilege,

00:45:50.860 because it was a good argument and she even sincerely thought it.

00:45:56.260 She just did it because she didn't care. 0.96

00:45:58.580 She was ignorant of the question of white privilege and of who David Webb is.

00:46:03.480 Just ignorant.

00:46:04.280 And worse than that, confidently ignorant.

00:46:07.200 She knew so many things that aren't so.

00:46:08.740 There's nothing lazier than crying racism where none exists because it requires no thought.

00:46:14.000 It requires no insight.

00:46:15.040 It requires absolutely no communication.

00:46:18.000 And increasingly, that's what you see from the left.

00:46:20.660 They use it all the time.

00:46:22.160 So confident.

00:46:23.700 They're so insistent upon it.

00:46:25.540 So proud and so completely untrue.

00:46:30.100 How did our elites get so dumb?

00:46:33.860 Now, the answer begins with pride and you don't see that going away anytime soon.

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00:46:38.560 We'll have to do it tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 11, 2020

Ep. 493 - How’d Our Elites Get So Dumb？

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