The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 497 - The Bully Pulpit

00:00:00.000 The left has long blamed President Trump for just about every political problem under the sun.

00:00:05.720 They've blamed him for the sun itself and how much it's heating our planet.

00:00:09.040 That's par for the course.

00:00:10.560 But Trump derangement syndrome has now progressed to so advanced a stage

00:00:14.260 that the American left is blaming President Trump for schoolyard bullying.

00:00:18.660 We will examine who the real bullies are and how they get away with it.

00:00:22.440 Then postmodern Pete Buttigieg declares that words have no meaning.

00:00:26.740 Everyone comes out as queer and President Trump pardons a couple of jailbirds. 0.96

00:00:31.280 All that and more.

00:00:31.920 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:40.860 They can't get him on the economy.

00:00:42.660 They can't get him on foreign affairs.

00:00:44.320 They can't get him on trade.

00:00:45.520 So they got to get him on schoolyard bullying.

00:00:48.340 That's right.

00:00:48.940 That's what our terrible, rotten president is doing.

00:00:52.800 Washington Post.

00:00:53.700 Washington Post just runs a huge article, news article.

00:00:58.080 Trump's words, bullied kids, scarred schools.

00:01:03.880 Quote, the president's rhetoric has changed the way hundreds of children are harassed in

00:01:10.060 American classrooms.

00:01:11.640 The Post found.

00:01:13.220 Hundreds of children.

00:01:14.700 First of all, whenever I hear the Post found, I start to discount it.

00:01:18.440 Then we're talking about a survey of hundreds of children when 50 million children in America

00:01:24.180 go to public school and many more children go to private school and homeschool.

00:01:27.240 Okay.

00:01:27.880 Hundreds of children they talk to.

00:01:29.360 Here's how the article begins.

00:01:30.960 Two kindergartners in Utah told a Latino boy that President Trump would send him back to

00:01:36.520 Mexico.

00:01:37.560 And teenagers in Maine sneered ban Muslims at a classmate wearing a hijab.

00:01:41.980 In Tennessee, a group of middle schoolers linked arms, imitating the president's proposed border

00:01:47.860 wall as they refused to let non-white students pass.

00:01:52.060 In Ohio, another group of middle schoolers surrounded a mixed race sixth grader.

00:01:56.620 And as she confided to her mother, told the girl, this is Trump country.

00:02:01.100 Was that Jussie Smollett?

00:02:02.020 Was that girl?

00:02:02.760 Is that a Smollett girl? 0.68

00:02:04.360 The piece goes on.

00:02:05.300 Since Trump's rise to the nation's highest office, his inflammatory language, often condemned

00:02:11.340 as racist and xenophobic, condemned by whom?

00:02:14.000 By the Post, of course, goes on, has seeped into schools across America.

00:02:19.060 Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as six

00:02:24.820 mimicking the president's insults and the cruel way he delivers them.

00:02:30.860 I don't believe that.

00:02:32.580 I don't believe the reporting.

00:02:33.720 I don't believe the Post.

00:02:35.300 I think they act in bad faith.

00:02:36.740 I think they lie all the time.

00:02:38.480 I think that this article was just as likely written out of the constantly revolving fiction

00:02:46.180 in its writers' minds as it did from speaking to any school children.

00:02:52.500 Now, perhaps it's true.

00:02:54.260 Maybe some children are being bullied in America.

00:02:57.560 There has always been bullying for the entire history of schools.

00:03:01.440 So I guess that wouldn't be any different in Trump's America as it would be.

00:03:05.300 At any other time.

00:03:06.180 The left is so deranged by Donald Trump that they are now blaming him for schoolyard bullying.

00:03:15.180 An eternal fact of life.

00:03:17.400 By the way, before we get into why this is such BS, by the way, just as a statistical matter,

00:03:23.980 schoolyard bullying is actually down and it's actually down significantly.

00:03:28.020 Now, how do you measure schoolyard bullying?

00:03:29.440 That's obviously a pretty difficult measurement to take.

00:03:32.380 However, in so much as we can take those measurements and much more scientifically than the Post calling some people around the country,

00:03:39.320 there is a study that came out of the U.S. Department of Education.

00:03:42.820 A recent study just showed the percentage of students reporting that they have been bullied has dropped by more than a third over the last 10 years.

00:03:52.140 So bullying has not increased because of Trump.

00:03:55.780 It's not a new epidemic invented under Donald Trump.

00:04:01.080 Schoolyard bullying is actually down by about 33 percent.

00:04:07.160 Look, the left is going to attack Donald Trump for anything and if they can't find anything, they'll make something up.

00:04:11.900 But this question of bullying is pretty important because I think bullying defines a lot of our politics today, just not in the way that The Washington Post says it does.

00:04:22.500 Some of Bernie Sanders' supporters have been accused of bullying.

00:04:26.320 Bernie Sanders says this is ridiculous.

00:04:28.240 Absolutely not.

00:04:29.080 His is not a campaign based on bullying.

00:04:31.020 It's a campaign based on love.

00:04:33.060 Here's Bernie.

00:04:33.420 What our people are involved in, we are a campaign which believes in compassion, which believes in justice.

00:04:41.800 So I don't tolerate ugly attacks against anybody.

00:04:44.820 But let me just say this.

00:04:46.940 Talk to the people in my campaign, often the African-American women in this campaign.

00:04:53.020 Talk to my wife about the kind of ugly attacks that have come in to us.

00:04:58.100 So right now, which is a very serious national problem, we have an Internet, which is essentially the Wild West.

00:05:07.100 Somebody could say, hey, I'm Anderson Cooper and Zippo say some ugly things.

00:05:11.620 And right now that cannot be stopped.

00:05:13.560 Did you catch that at the end?

00:05:15.060 At the very end, Bernie Sanders is implicitly denying that his campaign is engaging in any bullying.

00:05:20.600 He's saying, look, the Internet's a crazy place.

00:05:22.520 A lot of people can pretend to be a lot of people.

00:05:24.300 The implication being people are pretending to be my supporters.

00:05:28.600 They're pretending to be me.

00:05:29.820 Never mind, by the way, that James O'Keefe at Project Veritas caught Bernie Sanders campaign workers on video saying that once the revolution happens,

00:05:38.920 they're going to send all the conservatives to the gulag, that they're going to line them up on a wall and shoot them.

00:05:45.260 We've played the videos on this show before.

00:05:47.220 Never mind that we can see examples of Bernie Sanders supporters saying they're going to burn Milwaukee to the ground if he doesn't get the nomination.

00:05:55.960 Never mind the left's bullying tactics as a matter of course.

00:06:00.640 He denies it.

00:06:01.800 But when you get past the rhetoric, when you get past the Washington Post newspaper, when you get past the CNN debate stage,

00:06:08.380 you see that bullying is the defining tactic of the left.

00:06:12.240 We'll get to that in a second with one particularly disturbing scene that came out of Ohio University over the last couple of days.

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00:07:26.380 Bernie says, no way.

00:07:27.780 Our campaign's based on love.

00:07:29.120 Nobody would bully.

00:07:29.840 Okay, the left always bullies.

00:07:32.960 That is right now probably the defining feature of the left.

00:07:36.320 Look no further than a video that just came out of Ohio University yesterday from the conservative

00:07:43.040 activist Caitlin Bennett.

00:07:44.660 Caitlin Bennett walks into Ohio University, mobs and mobs of people throwing things at 1.00

00:07:50.160 her, screaming at her, pouring coffee on her. 0.97

00:07:53.060 And my favorite moment of it is when some SJW gets in her face, crazed, hysterical, steam

00:07:59.660 coming out of her ears, and screams, you don't understand oppression. 1.00

00:08:04.660 Someone just poured hot coffee on me.

00:08:28.660 I just think, and look, I don't really know anybody very well who's in that video, but

00:08:47.300 I think the woman screaming, you don't understand oppression, I suspect she does not understand 0.93

00:08:53.220 oppression.

00:08:53.780 We had to bleep out a lot of that video just because of all this crazy expletives and people

00:08:58.980 screaming and screaming all the time.

00:09:00.780 That conservative activist is Caitlin Bennett.

00:09:03.080 From a quick Google search, it would appear that people on the internet have very strong

00:09:07.440 opinions about this girl.

00:09:08.840 Regardless of what your opinion is, if you're on the right, left, or center, just actually

00:09:15.520 take her out of it for a second or just replace her with a kind of like totally neutral figure

00:09:20.100 and look at all the people around her.

00:09:22.420 Look at all the leftists screaming, degrading themselves, whipping themselves up into a frenzy.

00:09:29.620 Why?

00:09:30.920 I googled this girl, Caitlin Bennett.

00:09:32.920 Do you know what her great crime is?

00:09:34.240 She took a photo in high school holding an AR-15 and somehow this became publicized and

00:09:41.800 people lost their minds over it.

00:09:44.980 That's it.

00:09:46.860 Took a picture holding a gun and now she makes videos as a conservative activist.

00:09:51.980 People go crazy.

00:09:53.680 That obviously is bullying.

00:09:55.260 She's a fairly petite young lady and you've got these mobs of people, men, women, giant 1.00

00:10:01.660 people kind of swarming around her, vandalizing her friend's car.

00:10:07.200 That is bullying.

00:10:09.000 It doesn't just happen at that college campus.

00:10:11.900 It doesn't just happen to her.

00:10:13.240 It happens to conservatives all over the country.

00:10:15.620 It happens socially.

00:10:16.980 There's a ton of social bullying.

00:10:18.560 There's obviously a lot of professional bullying.

00:10:20.300 That's why people in big tech, why people in academia, why people in corporate America

00:10:24.720 hide their political views because they know that if they voice their political views,

00:10:28.300 they're liable to be fired.

00:10:29.740 They're liable to be discriminated against.

00:10:31.300 There's a story across the pond out of the United Kingdom saying that the National Health

00:10:36.680 Service is able to deny non-emergency care to people who make transphobic comments, whatever

00:10:43.260 that means.

00:10:44.320 You don't go along with the latest leftist ideological fad.

00:10:48.860 You can be denied health care.

00:10:50.560 Now, that's bullying.

00:10:52.120 And of course, there's the political bullying, which we see all the time.

00:10:55.340 And we see it from left-wingers who now want to make certain forms of thought effectively

00:11:02.720 illegal.

00:11:04.840 That's where the bullying comes in.

00:11:07.000 Now, I want to make sure that we get to some of these candidates on the Democratic side

00:11:11.820 because Bernie Sanders says our campaign's about love.

00:11:14.000 His whole campaign is about bullying.

00:11:15.960 His whole campaign is saying you can't do this.

00:11:17.360 You can't do that.

00:11:18.160 We're going to take away your money.

00:11:19.240 We're going to take away your choice.

00:11:20.220 We're going to vilify a whole class of people. 0.99

00:11:22.780 The class of people he used to vilify was the millionaires and the billionaires.

00:11:26.100 Now, it's just the billionaires because Bernie Sanders became a millionaire.

00:11:29.380 How convenient.

00:11:31.240 But all of these guys, the whole ideology is based on bullying.

00:11:34.660 It's based on do what I say or else.

00:11:37.440 Law be damned.

00:11:38.740 Votes be damned.

00:11:39.880 Now, the Democrats are trying to tell us that there is a radical lane and a moderate

00:11:44.340 lane.

00:11:45.040 Well, moderate's a relative term.

00:11:47.180 The moderate lane is actually pretty radical itself.

00:11:49.340 And Pete Buttigieg showed that last night.

00:11:51.160 So there was a CNN town hall.

00:11:52.840 I know that nobody watched it.

00:11:54.600 I did not watch the whole thing.

00:11:56.120 It was unwatchable.

00:11:58.000 Pete Buttigieg showed up and he told us once and for all there is no moderate lane in this

00:12:03.220 race because Pete Buttigieg came out and said that DACA, dreamers, illegal aliens, whatever

00:12:11.160 you want to call them, are just as American as Americans.

00:12:15.300 Do you believe that DACA deserves a protective plan to maintain DACA permanently?

00:12:24.320 I do.

00:12:25.180 Thank you.

00:12:25.560 And I want you to know that I see you as an American, that you belong to this country

00:12:34.320 as much as anybody.

00:12:36.020 And I think everybody here supports you too.

00:12:39.200 You're not only contributing to your community, you're a taxpayer too.

00:12:43.100 And it is one of the reasons it is so important to secure the benefits of citizenship for you.

00:12:50.440 So yes, in the meantime, we must reinstate and establish DACA protections.

00:12:55.320 But this is also why we must no longer have this hanging over your head and actually solve

00:13:00.280 with a pathway to citizenship in which you are among the first to ensure that that uncertainty

00:13:06.720 is cleared up because, you know, and again, the American people overwhelmingly agree that

00:13:12.760 this is the right thing to do.

00:13:14.380 So that last part is not true.

00:13:16.480 The American people strongly oppose amnesty.

00:13:18.740 Even Democrats oppose amnesty.

00:13:20.140 And it's a low priority for the ones who want to do it.

00:13:22.280 But that's not even my problem here.

00:13:25.100 He says he wants amnesty.

00:13:26.580 He wants illegal aliens to be able to become citizens. 0.71

00:13:30.460 I mean, he might as well have said more importantly, I want you to know that I see you as a future

00:13:34.140 democratic voter just as much as he could say, I see you as an American.

00:13:37.140 The radicalism here, though, is not even on the amnesty.

00:13:39.740 The radicalism is on that statement.

00:13:41.880 I see you as an American.

00:13:43.400 You know, you're, you're as American as anybody else.

00:13:46.500 If foreign nationals are as American as anybody, then the word American has no meaning. 0.99

00:13:54.060 If the word American can refer to Americans and not Americans, then there's no meaning to

00:14:02.760 the word American.

00:14:03.400 It's, it's sort of like how we talk about the redefinition of man and woman.

00:14:08.140 So man now means a person who is not a woman and also sometimes a person who is a woman,

00:14:13.740 according to transgender ideology.

00:14:15.580 So the word man has no meaning and the word woman has no meaning.

00:14:18.080 Now it's the same thing with American.

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00:15:43.140 That kind of radicalism that the word American can mean not American too.

00:15:47.800 On the one hand, it means there is no chance that the Democrats are going to nominate a

00:15:53.400 moderate.

00:15:53.800 The media keep playing up.

00:15:55.160 Mike Bloomberg, we'll get to that in a second.

00:15:57.180 We'll get to why Bloomberg is not really a moderate either.

00:16:00.860 As of now, Buttigieg is the leading moderate and he is nothing of the sort.

00:16:05.420 Buttigieg is not just your average hike your taxes kind of radical or soak the rich kind

00:16:10.640 of radical.

00:16:11.040 Pete Buttigieg is a words no longer have meaning kind of radical.

00:16:17.920 Very different thing.

00:16:19.260 And the left is increasingly embracing this kind of radicalism.

00:16:22.760 So they're not just saying, hey, we're going to take our policies in a more extreme direction.

00:16:26.260 They're actually saying words don't mean anything.

00:16:28.840 What does American mean?

00:16:29.780 American means whatever I say it wants to mean.

00:16:33.620 The one place you see this most clearly, I think, the one word they've defined into nothing,

00:16:38.140 is actually one of their terms that they like to promote.

00:16:42.640 And that is the term queer.

00:16:45.840 What does queer mean?

00:16:48.700 Rosario Dawson, the actress who was allegedly dating Cory Booker, but only while he was running

00:16:55.160 for president.

00:16:55.780 And now it's very unclear what they're, if they're dating or not.

00:16:58.920 Rosario Dawson just came out as queer. 1.00

00:17:03.620 But nobody has any idea what that means.

00:17:05.580 She gave an interview to Bustle.

00:17:06.680 She said, quote, people keep saying that I came out.

00:17:10.660 I didn't do that.

00:17:12.540 This was a while ago.

00:17:14.200 I mean, it's not accurate, but I never did come out, come out.

00:17:17.800 I mean, I guess I am now.

00:17:20.880 I've never had a relationship in that space.

00:17:23.780 So it's never felt like an authentic calling to me.

00:17:26.800 I know that's a very mealy-mouthed, vague and confusing statement.

00:17:31.640 But when you break down what she's actually saying, it's pretty shocking.

00:17:34.520 She says, people say a long time ago, I declared myself a lesbian or gay or transgender or bisexual

00:17:41.940 or some part of the gender and sexual alphabet.

00:17:47.240 I didn't do that.

00:17:48.440 I didn't do that in the past.

00:17:49.800 It's not accurate.

00:17:50.660 I never came out.

00:17:51.260 But I am coming out now.

00:17:54.720 But also, I've never had an LGBTQ, LMNOP relationship.

00:18:01.580 So it's never felt like an authentic calling to me.

00:18:03.640 So she's saying, I've never had a queer relationship.

00:18:10.060 Nevertheless, I am queer.

00:18:13.300 But how is that possible?

00:18:15.000 Replace the term queer with the older euphemism, gay.

00:18:17.940 If I came out and said, hey, I've never had an intimate sexual relationship with a man.

00:18:24.340 I'm not physically attracted to men.

00:18:26.640 I'm not gay.

00:18:28.500 But I'm gay.

00:18:29.920 That wouldn't make any sense.

00:18:31.300 Those are contradictory statements.

00:18:33.600 But with the term queer, it's so mealy.

00:18:36.260 I could come out as queer if I wanted to.

00:18:38.600 No one would have any idea what that means.

00:18:40.460 Another actress, Jamila Jamil.

00:18:41.880 This actress came out as queer recently because she was cast in an LGBT show. 0.79

00:18:50.700 And she got a lot of flack for this because they said, you're not LGBT.

00:18:54.000 You're not queer.

00:18:54.860 So you can't be in this queer show. 1.00

00:18:57.060 And then she just came out and said, no, I am queer.

00:18:59.040 And how dare you force me to come out of the closet as queer. 0.96

00:19:03.560 But Jamila Jamil is not queer by any meaningful sexual definition of queer.

00:19:08.620 Jamila Jamil is dating James Blake.

00:19:11.200 James Blake, who is very much a man.

00:19:13.980 James Blake is, he's like a hot guy.

00:19:17.800 I don't, as a straight man, I don't know if I'm permitted to use the term hot guy.

00:19:21.400 Maybe that makes me queer.

00:19:22.540 I don't know.

00:19:23.120 I don't know because it's very confusing.

00:19:25.040 But what I do know is that this actress, who's now conveniently coming out as queer, 1.00

00:19:29.740 is dating a very, very much a man.

00:19:33.640 Okay.

00:19:35.040 How is that possible?

00:19:36.080 How is it possible that Cory Booker's girlfriend and Jamila and James Blake's girlfriend can

00:19:43.800 both come out as queer, even though they're dating men?

00:19:47.580 The word queer doesn't have any specific sexual meaning.

00:19:52.740 The word queer is just a means of claiming power. 1.00

00:19:56.340 It does not refer, I know it's considered a sexual term.

00:20:01.620 It's the Q in LGBTQ, but it is not a sexual term.

00:20:05.380 If straight people can be queer, it's not a sexual term.

00:20:08.640 If non-Americans can be Americans, right, then we're not referring to what we think we're 0.99

00:20:13.140 referring to.

00:20:14.120 The left simply uses these terms to claim power.

00:20:17.180 It's the same thing with American.

00:20:18.220 For the left, American does not have any national meaning, does not imply citizenship in a country.

00:20:25.640 It's just a means of claiming power.

00:20:29.680 So for the left, they think people that I like, people that I think will benefit me,

00:20:34.840 I will call them American, whether or not they are American citizens or not.

00:20:39.100 Other people, I will not call American.

00:20:41.440 When it is convenient to me to call myself queer, I will call myself queer. 0.91

00:20:48.380 That doesn't necessarily have to imply any sexual meaning.

00:20:53.320 It's a radical subjectivism.

00:20:55.720 It is a radical relative.

00:20:57.000 It's just all about me.

00:20:58.440 It's all about my desires and I can change it at any given time.

00:21:02.720 Mayor Pete, postmodern Pete Buttigieg applies the same principle to the word Christian.

00:21:08.220 So that was the other highlight of last night's CNN debate, is that we got a return of good

00:21:12.540 old Pastor Pete, going to, he takes all the moralizing, Bible-thumping, judgmental aspects

00:21:18.440 of Christianity and just distills them down into this kind of leftist pseudo-religion.

00:21:24.400 Pastor Pete goes around and tells people how, what terrible Christians they are.

00:21:30.300 Specifically, he criticized unsubtly the Christians who support President Trump.

00:21:35.380 I won't be afraid to talk about how my positions are informed by my faith.

00:21:40.700 So, you know, to the point you talk about, about God not belonging to any kind of a political

00:21:46.120 party, at the last CNN town hall, you said, if your faith calls upon you to help the marginalized,

00:21:51.800 those who are afflicted, to comfort, to comfort people, to strive for humility and decency,

00:21:57.480 as the Christian faith does.

00:21:58.940 And then, I quote you, then, I just can't imagine that that requires of you that you

00:22:04.540 be anywhere near this president.

00:22:07.200 Do you think it is impossible to be a Christian and support President Trump?

00:22:11.600 Well, I'm not going to tell other Christians how to be Christians.

00:22:15.040 But I will say, I cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself

00:22:22.520 and anything that I find in scripture.

00:22:24.280 Now, I guess that's my interpretation, but I think that's a lot of people's interpretation,

00:22:28.580 and that interpretation deserves a voice.

00:22:31.540 Yeah, I just can't find any compatibility.

00:22:33.920 It's just so weird that the most pro-life president in American history, who constantly is defending

00:22:41.140 people's freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, unlike his predecessor, and who

00:22:45.760 has been uncommonly honest in office, meaning that he does more of what he says he will do

00:22:50.960 than any of his predecessors, at least in my lifetime, it's so weird that Christians might 1.00

00:22:54.860 like that guy, especially when he's running against the party that is running on the sacramental

00:23:00.480 view of abortion, killing babies up until the moment they're born, and in some cases, even

00:23:04.920 after they're born.

00:23:06.000 The party that is running on redefining marriage beyond any sort of coherence.

00:23:11.620 The party that says America is a rotten, no good, terrible place.

00:23:16.540 The party that is embracing a radical secularism.

00:23:20.420 The party that is now, in many ways, worshiping the sun.

00:23:25.100 Yeah, it's so weird.

00:23:26.060 I can't, oh man, I can't believe Christians would support that guy. 1.00

00:23:28.960 You know, the other, the other great advantage that President Trump has, by the way, is not

00:23:32.700 constantly preening and prattling on and spouting heresy and criticizing Christians.

00:23:40.160 Christians wrongly about what terrible people they are and belittling them for their faith. 1.00

00:23:46.180 That might be why.

00:23:47.200 I think that might be why some Christians prefer President Trump to Pete Buttigieg.

00:23:53.440 And, and you, by the way, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting because most Christians 1.00

00:23:58.020 in America do support President Trump.

00:24:01.340 Pete Buttigieg is not a moderate.

00:24:04.340 This is his worst feature, is, is Pastor Pete.

00:24:07.280 His worst feature is when Buttigieg goes out and egregiously misinterprets the Bible.

00:24:15.520 One would have to conclude he's sort of intentionally doing it.

00:24:19.400 Just to use one example, Pete Buttigieg was on radio when he was interpreting the Bible

00:24:25.340 and, and said that he found in the Bible somewhere, I'm not sure where, a, a great defense of abortion.

00:24:31.760 He said, the way he, he tried to defend this, he said, in the Bible, there's such an emphasis

00:24:36.320 on breath.

00:24:37.180 And so it just, when I think about babies, I think that before they take their first breath,

00:24:41.260 it's totally fine to, uh, mash them up and vacuum them out and chop them up with scissors.

00:24:46.840 It's pretty much what he said.

00:24:49.000 I'm not, I'm, I'm making more clear what he said, but the conclusion is exactly the same.

00:24:54.460 Obviously not biblical, egregious, heretical, blasphemous, terrible thing to say.

00:25:01.520 And yet you don't see the right regularly going out there and haranguing Pete for his personal

00:25:08.680 behavior, saying you're a terrible, awful, no good, rotten, fake Christian, whatever he's,

00:25:14.880 he accuses people of doing.

00:25:16.520 You don't see the right bullying Pete Buttigieg very much.

00:25:20.780 You do see him, uh, wrongly, uncredibly, incredibly bullying Christians on the right.

00:25:30.800 He is not the moderate in the race.

00:25:33.080 There is no moderate in the race.

00:25:34.720 Mike Bloomberg isn't the moderate either.

00:25:36.340 And, you know, people have been going after Mike Bloomberg for these videos that have been

00:25:40.420 cropping up, videos from his past when, when he was mayor of New York.

00:25:44.380 And they're saying it's evidence that Mike Bloomberg is a racial bigot.

00:25:47.560 I don't think there's evidence Mike Bloomberg is a racial bigot.

00:25:50.780 But I do think some of these old videos are damning for his campaign.

00:25:55.040 One in particular, it proves just about everything the right has been predicting about the left

00:26:00.980 over the past 10 or so years.

00:26:03.040 And Mike Bloomberg just comes out and admits it.

00:26:04.900 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:27:32.900 Another video of Mike Bloomberg.

00:27:34.580 This one's pretty bad.

00:27:35.900 This one, not, not great.

00:27:38.000 Mike Bloomberg said in this video that just cropped up that government healthcare, which

00:27:44.980 all of the Democrats are calling for, means that we need to deprive the elderly of care,

00:27:51.920 that we need to push granny off a cliff. 1.00

00:27:55.040 Here he is.

00:27:56.140 If you're bleeding, they'll stop the bleeding.

00:27:58.440 If you need an x-ray, you're going to have to wait.

00:28:00.480 That's just, and all of these costs keep going up.

00:28:04.060 Nobody wants to pay any more money.

00:28:05.520 And at the rate we're going, healthcare is going to bankrupt us.

00:28:09.280 So not only do we have a problem, it's going to bankrupt us.

00:28:12.480 And we've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do and which things we're not.

00:28:16.540 Nobody wants to do that.

00:28:18.400 You know, if you show up with prostate cancer and you're 95 years old, we should say, go and

00:28:25.140 enjoy, have a nice meal, lead a long life.

00:28:27.780 There's no cure.

00:28:29.000 And you can't do anything.

00:28:30.120 If you're a young person, we should do something about it. 1.00

00:28:33.020 Society's not willing to do that yet.

00:28:34.780 If you show up with cancer and you're in your nineties, you should die and we'll let young 1.00

00:28:41.540 people get the treatment because I'm Mike Bloomberg and I know better than every single

00:28:46.700 person on earth, how to live their lives.

00:28:50.160 Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, everybody.

00:28:52.060 I'm Mike Bloomberg.

00:28:53.820 Whoa, man, that's pretty radical.

00:28:56.880 Bad news for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:28:58.940 I thought the left is trying to do everything they can to get a few more months out of Ruth

00:29:02.160 Bader Ginsburg.

00:29:02.680 No, Mike Bloomberg, one of their now surging presidential candidates says, oh, somebody

00:29:07.860 like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, if she's got health problems and she's elderly, yeah, she's going 1.00

00:29:11.700 to, we're going to tell her, that's fine.

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00:29:17.320 Bad news.

00:29:18.300 Mike Bloomberg in this way is, is vindicating so much of what Republicans and conservatives

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00:30:06.860 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:30:18.000 If you're elderly, you're not going to get health care under the Bloomberg administration

00:30:22.820 because only young people are going to get health care.

00:30:26.540 This is the height of technocratic liberalism.

00:30:31.020 This is the height of some self-appointed genius, some self-appointed expert telling people

00:30:38.760 how their lives should be run, cradle to grave, birth to death.

00:30:42.340 It's based on this bizarre statistic that keeps coming up in health care debates, which is

00:30:49.260 that people spend half of their lifetime health care expenses in the last five years of their

00:30:57.160 lives.

00:30:59.540 Duh.

00:31:00.900 Of course they do.

00:31:03.340 When you're young, you're healthy.

00:31:05.020 You don't need to spend a lot of money on health care.

00:31:08.400 Before you die, you get sick.

00:31:10.540 When you are sick, you spend money on health care.

00:31:14.780 Of course we spend most of our health care resources during the last few years of life.

00:31:20.320 That's when you're going to spend them.

00:31:22.200 But this is, this line that the left always uses is taken as evidence that, oh gosh, if

00:31:26.940 we could only kill people five years before they would otherwise die, think of all the

00:31:31.780 money we could save.

00:31:35.500 That's your campaign pitch?

00:31:37.400 That's your, is that going to be your slogan?

00:31:39.340 Again, Mike Bloomberg throwing granny off a cliff. 1.00

00:31:41.860 You know, it's so frustrating as a conservative because 10 years ago when guys like Paul Ryan

00:31:47.200 and the kind of reformacon fiscal hawk guys, when they were proposing entitlement reform,

00:31:53.660 the left was merciless.

00:31:56.640 They said, they, they ran ads on television, which said that Paul Ryan was trying to throw

00:32:00.940 granny off a cliff because he wanted to slightly tweak social security.

00:32:05.940 He wanted to make a few adjustments to Medicare entitlements for people who are 50 years old

00:32:12.020 now, but you know, for when they get to be 65 and this was considered killing grandma.

00:32:19.700 Now you have the surging moderate candidate in the race come out and say, yeah, we're going

00:32:25.100 to, we're going to kill elderly people so that we can keep more money for ourselves. 1.00

00:32:30.000 It also proves something that the left or that the right was mocked for, for a decade,

00:32:37.360 which is the death panel.

00:32:39.300 So you remember when Obamacare came out, conservatives said Obamacare is, includes a provision of death

00:32:44.860 panels.

00:32:45.280 And what was meant by death panels was a government board that was appointed to determine whether

00:32:50.240 or not you would receive healthcare.

00:32:52.760 And if you did get healthcare, then I guess you got to live or you had a good chance of

00:32:55.760 it.

00:32:55.880 And if you didn't get healthcare, then you were going to die.

00:32:59.200 Conservatives dubbed these death panels and the left mocked us for it roundly.

00:33:03.820 Were you crazy?

00:33:04.540 You think Obamacare has death panels?

00:33:07.100 What do you think Mike Bloomberg is describing?

00:33:09.520 He couldn't put it more clearly.

00:33:12.140 He said, elderly people are going to come in and then experts like me are going to decide

00:33:16.560 based on how old they are or whether we like the cut of their jib, whether or not they

00:33:21.900 will live or die.

00:33:25.880 There's no other way to describe it.

00:33:27.640 This is inhuman.

00:33:28.980 You know, I don't think that when Mike Bloomberg talks about crime rates, that he's exhibiting

00:33:33.420 some awful, terrible bigotry.

00:33:35.020 I don't think he's a racist or a sexist or anything like that.

00:33:39.160 But I don't think he respects people very much.

00:33:42.920 I don't think he respects voters very much.

00:33:45.200 And I don't think he respects the people that he governs.

00:33:47.960 I think he's a nanny state liberal scold technocrat who has a very, very poor understanding of

00:33:55.240 life and the philosophical issues that undergird our politics.

00:33:59.600 And I think he's just a kind of technical expert who wants to make markets more efficient.

00:34:04.220 And so one of those markets is health care.

00:34:06.300 And if you want to make it really efficient, you got to kill people five years before they

00:34:09.000 would otherwise die.

00:34:09.700 And okay, makes sense that that totally computes, right?

00:34:14.000 If you're not a human.

00:34:15.980 This is why Bloomberg would be a very bad president.

00:34:18.980 It's also why Bloomberg is a pretty bad candidate.

00:34:21.500 It's also why there's no moderate in this race.

00:34:23.680 There is nothing moderate about killing granny. 1.00

00:34:25.840 So Joe Biden falling apart, and he was running to the left even before he did fall apart,

00:34:33.460 reverses his position on the Hyde Amendment, says that now people who are pro-lifers need

00:34:37.500 to use their money to fund abortions and not just any kind of abortion, late term abortions

00:34:42.240 too.

00:34:43.420 Joe Biden then comes out and says, illegal aliens are just as American as anybody.

00:34:47.560 The same line that Pete Buttigieg said last night, a line which means that words don't have

00:34:51.840 any meaning anymore.

00:34:52.560 And then you have Mike Bloomberg, the last moderate left, who says that we've got to

00:34:57.860 kill people before they cost us too much money.

00:35:01.780 That's the party.

00:35:03.560 You know, we started the show on the Washington Post accusing Trump of being responsible for

00:35:09.680 schoolyard bullying.

00:35:10.720 The left always accuses the right of what the left itself does.

00:35:15.060 And here's a pretty clear example of that.

00:35:19.300 Sort of inhuman politics.

00:35:21.160 It's bullying.

00:35:23.180 I mean, there's no greater bullying than telling someone they got to die and you've got all

00:35:27.020 the power over them.

00:35:27.840 I mean, that's a pretty extreme form of political bullying.

00:35:30.440 And that's what they're embracing.

00:35:32.220 It's a politics of bullying.

00:35:34.200 And what's funny is you get this very hard line politics on the left.

00:35:39.540 And increasingly, you're seeing a little bit of a softer politics on the right, because

00:35:43.780 yesterday, President Trump sprung a couple jailbirds from the clink.

00:35:49.000 There were two major pardons that President Trump announced yesterday.

00:35:53.220 He pardoned Bernie Carrick, who was a New York police commissioner under Giuliani.

00:35:59.500 He was serving during 9-11, kind of a hero in New York.

00:36:04.120 And Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, who tried to sell Barack

00:36:10.680 Obama's Senate seat after Obama was elected president.

00:36:13.740 This guy's thoroughly corrupt.

00:36:15.160 And Trump decided to pardon Bernie Carrick and to commute the sentence of Rod Blagojevich.

00:36:21.200 So he didn't pardon Blagojevich, but he said that he can get out of jail.

00:36:24.540 He's already been in jail for eight years.

00:36:26.800 And I think he was supposed to serve another six years in prison.

00:36:30.740 The left is furious.

00:36:32.120 Some people on the right are furious too.

00:36:33.960 But it's funny that the left is furious.

00:36:35.980 It's ironic because all the left ever seems to want is decriminalization.

00:36:41.760 They talk about it all the time.

00:36:43.140 The people who want decriminalization of everything are now furious that Trump pardoned a hero

00:36:51.880 cop who cheated on his taxes, who's like relatively a pretty good guy.

00:36:57.280 They're furious.

00:36:58.700 They're furious that President Trump used his constitutional pardon power to do this.

00:37:05.300 And they're furious that Trump pardoned one of their own guys, the former Democratic governor

00:37:10.560 of Illinois.

00:37:11.260 So how should conservatives feel about this, beyond the irony of left-wing contradictions

00:37:16.740 on this issue?

00:37:17.600 How should conservatives feel?

00:37:19.120 My view, here's my extreme hot take.

00:37:21.580 It's fine.

00:37:23.180 It's whatever.

00:37:24.820 Calm down.

00:37:25.600 It's okay.

00:37:26.500 On the one hand, people should pay their debt to society and people should stay in prison.

00:37:32.060 On the other hand, the Constitution gives the president the pardon power for a reason.

00:37:39.020 The presidential pardon power is entirely legitimate.

00:37:42.580 It's right there, clear as day in the Constitution.

00:37:47.140 And part of this is because, I was just listening to a homily from my priest, the great father

00:37:53.120 Ruttler, about this.

00:37:54.780 And it's an old idea.

00:37:56.120 He put it very well, though.

00:37:57.080 Justice without love leads to tyranny.

00:38:02.220 But so does love without justice.

00:38:04.240 So does sentimentality, right?

00:38:05.540 There's obviously a balance that must be had here.

00:38:08.280 And so President Trump is using that balancing power that the Constitution gives him.

00:38:15.660 And so now Blagojevich's family gets to be happy.

00:38:19.140 His kid is a little older.

00:38:20.280 It's nice that his kids and his wife get to see Blagojevich.

00:38:24.340 Bernie Carrick doesn't need to rot in a cell anymore.

00:38:26.580 Bernie Carrick is a hero cop.

00:38:28.040 He won a ton of medals.

00:38:29.360 He's a local hero for 9-11.

00:38:31.680 Okay, that's fine.

00:38:33.780 The real question here is, why did President Trump do it?

00:38:37.500 And here's, I think, why conservatives should be particularly okay with the pardons.

00:38:44.060 What was in the news before these pardons?

00:38:46.760 What was the legal news that was dominating the headlines?

00:38:49.320 The legal news dominating the headlines was that former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone

00:38:53.980 is going to be sentenced maybe to nine years in prison for the unforgivable crime of working

00:39:00.100 for Trump.

00:39:00.660 And they caught him on lying to Congress, a few things like that.

00:39:03.640 Then there was word that the DOJ was going to try to reduce that sentence.

00:39:11.160 Then Bill Barr came in and said, President Trump stopped tweeting about this.

00:39:16.100 You're making my job much harder.

00:39:17.400 Then there were calls for investigations of corruption that Trump is interfering in a criminal case.

00:39:21.700 That was the news headline.

00:39:23.080 And Trump completely knocked that out of the news.

00:39:28.340 Just listen to the press conference that Trump gave.

00:39:30.520 It was a prosecution by the same people, Comey, Fitzpatrick, the same group, very far from

00:39:39.680 his children.

00:39:41.100 They're growing older.

00:39:42.640 They're going to high school now.

00:39:43.960 They rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform.

00:39:47.500 I saw that and I did commute his sentence.

00:39:52.160 So he'll be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail.

00:39:56.380 That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence, in my opinion.

00:40:01.220 And in the opinion of many others, yes.

00:40:03.760 Now listen to that.

00:40:04.760 He's specifically talking about Blagojevich here.

00:40:07.060 Because Trump pardoning Bernie Carrick, who served under a Republican and served under a

00:40:12.020 Republican who's close to him, Rudy Giuliani, that's not huge news.

00:40:14.860 It's him commuting the sentence of Rob Blagojevich.

00:40:18.860 Big deal.

00:40:19.840 Big news story.

00:40:21.140 And notice he gets in there.

00:40:22.720 Yeah, this was done by James Comey.

00:40:24.940 This was done by the guys who came after me.

00:40:27.840 As a defense, he's reminding people that there were these kind of illegitimate investigations

00:40:31.880 into Trump.

00:40:32.920 There were these illegitimate prosecutions.

00:40:35.020 There was an illegitimate impeachment.

00:40:36.960 Really, really shrewd stuff.

00:40:39.500 He just used it to kick the bar and stone stuff out of the news and to remind people,

00:40:45.260 that the Democratic Party and the left perverted the wheels of justice to go after President

00:40:51.640 Trump.

00:40:52.080 And he wants to be able to flip that narrative.

00:40:54.300 It's pretty clear.

00:40:55.100 I don't see any other explanation for his doing what he was doing.

00:40:57.840 And so I'm perfectly fine with it.

00:40:59.520 I don't particularly care about Rob Blagojevich.

00:41:01.620 But the president has the legitimate power to do that.

00:41:04.660 And if it helps, okay, that's fine.

00:41:05.960 Now, in other news on great justice around the world, Jeff Bezos, richest man in the

00:41:12.740 world, head of Amazon and the Washington Post, is giving $10 million to fight climate change.

00:41:21.100 He posted it on Instagram, big picture of the earth.

00:41:23.640 And now he's going to donate this $10 million.

00:41:26.840 That's a lot of money.

00:41:27.660 I think Jeff Bezos makes that about every 30 seconds.

00:41:29.760 But still, it's a lot of money for most of us mere mortals.

00:41:32.360 Now, of course, Jeff Bezos also owns a Gulfstream G650ER private jet.

00:41:38.760 Jeff Bezos flies that jet reportedly 12 times per month.

00:41:43.080 His company, Amazon's carbon footprint, contributed more to greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 than

00:41:49.000 many of its competitors in retail.

00:41:52.740 Well, so it doesn't seem like he's exactly practicing what he's talking about, other

00:41:58.640 than he gives, he writes a check, but then he keeps up all these practices that allegedly

00:42:02.180 contradict what he's supposed to be doing.

00:42:05.300 LaRouche-Foucault said that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

00:42:09.160 But I wonder if right here it's just a little bit of PR or if it's a little bit of empty

00:42:15.440 religion.

00:42:16.980 If it's, you know, the parallels between global warming and religion have been pretty clear.

00:42:23.620 You've got sin in pollution.

00:42:26.340 You've got atonement in recycling.

00:42:29.660 You've got the sale of indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits even.

00:42:33.860 NBC News last year created a confessional for the climate.

00:42:38.380 You could go onto its website and anonymously give your climate confessions like you were

00:42:42.940 going into the box in the Catholic Church.

00:42:45.460 There are all of these.

00:42:46.500 There are secular saints on religion.

00:42:49.080 The list goes on and on.

00:42:51.200 That's the role that this has taken.

00:42:53.520 And so in the olden days, if Jeff Bezos wanted some good PR, he would have donated to the

00:42:58.320 church.

00:42:59.320 But now the modern secular religion is global warming.

00:43:04.020 So he's going to donate to that instead.

00:43:05.800 And it just brought home to me a tweet that started to go viral the other night from a

00:43:10.860 Twitter account called the Atheist Forum.

00:43:12.400 And the tweet said this, it said, Christianity, belief that one God created a universe 13.79

00:43:17.660 billion years old, 93 billion light years in diameter, consisting of over 200 billion

00:43:22.740 galaxies, each containing an average of 200 billion stars, only to have a personal relationship

00:43:27.860 with you.

00:43:29.920 Which, yeah, more or less a pretty good description of Christianity.

00:43:33.180 Isn't that amazing?

00:43:33.840 Isn't that a wonderful thing?

00:43:35.140 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believeth in him might

00:43:38.860 not perish, but might have eternal life.

00:43:40.300 That's pretty good.

00:43:41.400 It's the gospel in a nutshell, right?

00:43:45.340 But I responded to this tweet and I pointed out that atheism is this belief that everything

00:43:53.020 is meaningless.

00:43:53.900 Everything is senseless.

00:43:55.740 Like we were talking about earlier, words don't have any meaning.

00:43:58.200 It's just words, words, words.

00:44:01.100 And we can't rely on any sort of objective reality.

00:44:04.140 Our arguments are unreliable.

00:44:06.880 They don't make sense.

00:44:07.520 Except conveniently the argument for atheism.

00:44:09.700 That we can know for certain.

00:44:11.940 Atheism, the theory that everything is physical and everything that is not physical doesn't

00:44:15.420 mean anything.

00:44:15.980 Except of course for the non-physical argument for atheism.

00:44:20.200 Atheism is a belief that is unsupportable.

00:44:24.320 It's contradictory.

00:44:25.580 And so I pointed this out.

00:44:27.140 And someone said to me, you know, Michael, look, there are hundreds of gods.

00:44:31.420 I just happen to believe in one fewer god than you do.

00:44:34.900 And this misses the point.

00:44:37.040 The difference between monotheism and polytheism is a difference in kind.

00:44:42.600 It's not just that monotheists have one god, you know, some fewer gods than the polytheists.

00:44:48.240 It's that polytheism or paganism or pantheism or whatever you want to describe is fundamentally

00:44:54.980 different than monotheism, which posits a god outside of time and space who created all

00:44:59.340 of the created things.

00:45:02.320 But on another level, what this guy is saying is, I believe in one fewer god than you.

00:45:07.780 That's not my experience.

00:45:08.760 My experience of atheists, having been an atheist for a while myself, is that it's not that

00:45:15.260 atheists believe in one fewer god than monotheists.

00:45:18.700 It's that they believe in many more gods than monotheists because they don't root their 1.00

00:45:23.580 belief in a god who is outside of time and space.

00:45:25.980 And so they are given to all of the tempting gods of this world.

00:45:31.540 Money, power, fame, sex, especially sex these days.

00:45:37.260 Ego, pride, the idea that you can redefine words to mean whatever you want them to mean.

00:45:42.280 Like Humpty Dumpty and in Through the Looking Glass in Alice in Wonderland.

00:45:49.020 And it goes to this fundamental worship of the creation, which we see in global warming.

00:45:59.720 Obviously, Jeff Bezos is buying into that false religion and the creation meaning ourselves.

00:46:04.420 We are creatures.

00:46:05.080 We're part of the creation.

00:46:06.480 And that I think you're seeing broadly throughout the secular left.

00:46:10.240 The idea that I can define reality for myself.

00:46:13.200 Justice Kennedy wrote that in the Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision in the early 1990s.

00:46:17.020 He said that we have a right to define reality for ourselves.

00:46:22.260 And of course, the Democratic candidates running for president right now say we can define what

00:46:26.540 the word American means.

00:46:27.500 We can define what the word queer means.

00:46:29.460 We can define man or woman.

00:46:31.020 We can just, it's all about us.

00:46:32.640 But of course, that isn't true.

00:46:33.980 Reality reasserts itself in the end.

00:46:36.520 That is the great conservative consolation as we were talking about yesterday.

00:46:40.240 And we might be bullied and bullied and bullied and people might scream and shout in our faces.

00:46:45.460 But that just doesn't change reality.

00:46:48.340 All right.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 19, 2020

Ep. 497 - The Bully Pulpit

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