The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 508 - Sick But Not Tired Of Winning

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00:00:37.700 Democrats in six states head to the primaries today,

00:00:40.980 and polling shows Joe Biden might blow Bernie Sanders out of the water within a matter of hours.

00:00:46.660 We will examine the latest data on Joe's chances in November.

00:00:50.060 Then, pundits on all sides attack the president for his response to the flu-manchu outbreak.

00:00:55.720 But a very important group, much more important than the chattering class, 0.95

00:01:00.240 thinks President Trump is doing just fine.

00:01:02.540 Finally, a woman asks Slate if she should tell her husband to stop sleeping with his girlfriend

00:01:07.280 to stop coronavirus from spreading to her mother. 0.69

00:01:10.560 We will break down this woman's problems and our culture's problems, both biological and social. 1.00

00:01:16.660 All that and more.

00:01:17.380 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:19.000 Big primaries coming up today.

00:01:29.580 We're going to find out maybe who the Democrat nominee is.

00:01:32.720 We've got Michigan, Washington, Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota, and Democrats Abroad.

00:01:42.120 Democrats Abroad is a state.

00:01:44.040 You know, the left complains about the right wing in this country colluding with foreign entities.

00:01:51.020 They actually have a completely separate primary among the Democrats for Democrats who happen to be living overseas.

00:01:58.160 We will get to the breakdowns in those states, what it's looking like, and how Bernie Sanders just totally collapsed.

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00:03:15.820 So, Michigan, Washington, Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota, and all those various Democrats living abroad.

00:03:25.640 Right now, the only states that Sanders is projected to win are Washington, also known as Little Wuhan these days, and Democrats abroad, which is not a state.

00:03:36.080 And even there, Bernie is only up by a very small margin.

00:03:40.740 For Democrats abroad, it's about 1.4%, and in Washington, it's about 0.5%.

00:03:47.360 So, that could go any way.

00:03:50.500 How do the other polls break down?

00:03:52.620 So, the key states to look at here are Missouri, Mississippi, and Michigan.

00:03:59.980 According to data for progress, Missouri, Missouri, right now, in 2016, Hillary won Missouri by 2,000 votes out of 623,000 votes total cast. 0.99

00:04:11.000 So, Bernie Sanders can make a huge play here in Missouri, except he's getting blown out of the water.

00:04:15.840 Right now, Joe Biden has 62 points.

00:04:19.120 He's up 30 points on Bernie Sanders, who's down at 32.

00:04:22.600 Then, Liz Warren has four, even though she's not in the race anymore. 0.81

00:04:25.560 And Gabbard, who is in the race, but the mainstream media don't want to admit that she is, she's down at two. 0.66

00:04:30.960 So, Biden absolutely crushing it in Missouri right now.

00:04:35.200 How about Mississippi?

00:04:36.580 In Mississippi, Hillary did very, very well. 1.00

00:04:38.840 Bernie didn't do well, and it looks like the same is going to hold true.

00:04:41.080 Joe Biden up 55 points now in Mississippi.

00:04:45.840 77 to 22, and Gabbard gets one point.

00:04:50.720 And then, Michigan.

00:04:51.820 All-important Michigan.

00:04:53.940 Michigan, which may decide the general election in November.

00:04:58.460 In 2016, Bernie beat Hillary in Michigan.

00:05:02.520 So, Bernie's certainly going to win in 2020, right?

00:05:06.200 Not according to the Detroit Free Press.

00:05:08.060 Detroit Free Press currently has Joe Biden at 51%.

00:05:12.440 Bernie is all the way down at 27.

00:05:17.260 Then, other gets nine, and declined to answer the question gets 13.

00:05:22.280 Way up.

00:05:23.420 I mean, Biden is almost double Bernie right now, according to Detroit Free Press.

00:05:29.720 That's not just one poll.

00:05:31.460 Mitchell Research also shows in Michigan, Biden is at 54%.

00:05:35.180 Bernie is at 33%.

00:05:37.840 So, Biden could have a great night.

00:05:40.920 I mean, we were talking about two weeks ago how Bernie was running away with the nomination.

00:05:45.460 They were going to nominate a socialist in 2020.

00:05:48.840 And then, we, the conservatives, were just absolutely going to trounce him and win 57 states, plus American Samoa, plus the people abroad, and plus Greenland.

00:05:58.700 And that doesn't look like it's going to happen now.

00:06:00.360 I mean, Joe Biden really seems to have consolidated.

00:06:02.380 That was the deciding factor.

00:06:04.140 Biden was always at the top of the polls.

00:06:06.040 Then, there was a question about his electability.

00:06:07.920 So, he dropped very quickly.

00:06:09.220 Then, the question about his electability went in his favor in South Carolina, and he shot back up very quickly.

00:06:16.420 The electability question is a huge factor.

00:06:19.320 And, in Biden's case, it's the only factor.

00:06:21.140 And, it's why you could see huge swings like that in the analysis.

00:06:25.140 So, what does this mean for Trump?

00:06:27.540 According to a Firehouse Optimist poll, Trump does better against Bernie than he does against Biden.

00:06:34.680 Duh, I've been telling you that the whole time.

00:06:36.580 If you're running against a guy who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and who says nice things about Fidel Castro, you're probably going to do pretty well in America.

00:06:44.560 You're definitely going to do very well in Florida.

00:06:47.480 What's important to note here, though, because what the Democrats keep telling us is, actually, what some Republicans keep telling us, too, is, look, when you go up against Biden in November, Trump is going to have a really hard time.

00:06:59.620 Uh, Biden's going to win if the coronavirus tanks the economy, Biden's going to saunter over to the White House.

00:07:06.540 No problem.

00:07:08.160 The polling shows Biden is definitely tougher.

00:07:11.840 However, in a head-to-head matchup, Trump still beats Biden in all the most important states.

00:07:18.760 So, the way that the mainstream media, the way that the Democrats are trying to convince you that Biden is going to win and Trump is going to lose, is they only show you national elections.

00:07:28.580 National elections don't matter.

00:07:31.320 Popular vote doesn't matter. 0.98

00:07:33.460 That's not how we choose the president.

00:07:36.160 What matters are people in those states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, right, the states that are actually going to deter, Florida, they're going to determine the election.

00:07:46.920 That's where Trump has to be winning.

00:07:48.580 And head-to-head right now, Trump is winning, even against Joe Biden.

00:07:51.980 And, by the way, Joe, it's not like Joe Biden's going to get better throughout this campaign.

00:07:55.940 If anything, day by day, we're seeing Joe Biden fall apart.

00:07:59.720 The guy is absolutely collapsing before our eyes.

00:08:02.080 That might just be because there's a lot of pressure on these campaigns.

00:08:05.600 It might be because they're physically just daunting.

00:08:08.260 They're exhausting. 0.74

00:08:09.820 We could now, I think, have a regular segment on this show, which is what jumbled nonsense came out of Joe Biden's mouth today.

00:08:18.160 And we've done it every single day.

00:08:20.760 We have to do it every day because every day there's more to look at.

00:08:23.600 So, we've got two new entries for today.

00:08:25.980 Yesterday, we saw Joe forget his boss's name twice and then his own name once.

00:08:32.520 Today, we see that he forgets who controls the House of Representatives.

00:08:35.960 Here he is.

00:08:36.780 And I hope, I hope you'll all join us.

00:08:39.700 Together, I think we can win back the House.

00:08:41.980 We're going to keep the House, increase it, and flip it to Senate. 1.00

00:08:44.840 Are you talking about that?

00:08:45.540 We're going to win back the House, except we won back the House already two years ago.

00:08:54.280 But I wasn't paying attention then, and I don't, anyway, I'm getting confused.

00:08:58.260 Look, taken in isolation, any of these little gaffes are easy enough to make.

00:09:05.120 Look, I do it on this show.

00:09:06.000 I confuse Bernie and Biden sometimes, let's say.

00:09:08.200 Bernie, I meant to say Biden.

00:09:09.660 Sorry, Biden, I meant to say Bernie, right?

00:09:11.060 These things happen.

00:09:12.860 Hopefully, I'm not just becoming like, you know, Joe Biden myself.

00:09:17.160 That would not be good at all.

00:09:19.420 But when they happen multiple times a day, every single day, to degrees from, you know,

00:09:27.240 you kind of forgot who controls the House of Representatives to, you forgot your own name.

00:09:31.240 That is not a good look.

00:09:32.540 And the next gaffe Joe made yesterday really should have Democrats worried.

00:09:36.780 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:10:43.720 So, okay, he forgot who controls the ads of representatives.

00:10:46.560 Okay, he forgot his boss's name.

00:10:48.040 Okay, he forgot his own name.

00:10:49.200 In one clip from the same speech yesterday, Joe Biden was campaigning with Cory Booker.

00:10:56.860 He seemed to have words just fail him.

00:11:00.440 Like, he was making sounds, but they were not coherent words.

00:11:04.600 And he went on.

00:11:05.920 This was what was most kind of scary about it.

00:11:08.020 He went on as though he was making sense, but the words didn't mean anything.

00:11:11.600 Here he is.

00:11:11.980 They always say Biden dismisses China.

00:11:15.100 I don't think he dismisses China.

00:11:17.580 But if we invest in ourselves, China will not be, as they say in Little Steel Town, I come from Claremont, Delaware, not a patch on our team.

00:11:25.760 What?

00:11:27.140 Could anybody, look, I know people are in the chat box right now and live.

00:11:31.440 Could anybody try to tell me what he just said there?

00:11:35.060 If you look, Cory Booker's standing behind him because Cory Booker endorsed Joe Biden yesterday.

00:11:39.880 Cory, when, when Biden starts to ramble like that, you see his eyes kind of widen up.

00:11:45.640 He goes, what?

00:11:46.080 And then he looks away.

00:11:47.160 He's like looking, he looks down a little bit.

00:11:49.660 It's like, gosh, what the heck did I do?

00:11:53.240 Why?

00:11:54.100 Why?

00:11:54.840 I'm Spartacus.

00:11:55.960 I'm supposed to be the president.

00:11:57.120 So now to add more evidence to the heaping pile that Joe Biden is not fit to become president.

00:12:07.100 Joe Biden is now reportedly asking that he not even stand for the next debate.

00:12:12.960 We'll get into what that means in a second.

00:12:14.360 First, let's take a question from a listener from J.H.

00:12:16.820 Hi, Michael.

00:12:18.200 Do you think Biden might ask Hillary to be his VP?

00:12:21.760 I don't know.

00:12:22.300 You think Biden's got a death wish?

00:12:23.760 You think that guy's trying to get suicided? 1.00

00:12:25.200 All right, Sleepy Joe might be slipping, but he's not that dumb. 0.99

00:12:29.220 What a maniac would do that? 0.98

00:12:31.320 No, I don't think he will.

00:12:32.700 But Hillary's passed her prime. 1.00

00:12:34.640 I don't think she has interest in being VP.

00:12:36.880 She was the secretary of state.

00:12:39.160 The, the only, the only way that she would want to be VP is if she thought there were

00:12:43.420 a good chance of becoming president, which I guess in this presidential field is pretty

00:12:47.000 high.

00:12:47.500 But I think the only man who would ask Hillary to be VP would have a, have a real death wish. 0.85

00:12:53.120 The seated debate.

00:12:55.200 Look, I'm just reporting rumors here, folks.

00:12:58.300 I don't know.

00:12:58.920 I wasn't on the phone call, but there was a phone call with CNN hosting the next, next

00:13:02.940 debate.

00:13:03.680 It's with the Biden camp and the Bernie camp.

00:13:07.700 The CNN moderators, the CNN executives said that for this debate, instead of standing at

00:13:14.480 a podium like normal people at a presidential debate, let's just have these two men sit

00:13:18.620 in chairs, not even on stools, in chairs.

00:13:22.220 So they're more comfortable.

00:13:23.260 Why?

00:13:23.560 Because they're super duper old.

00:13:25.560 You know, they're for, for political standards.

00:13:28.600 They are certainly past their prime.

00:13:30.340 And Bernie Sanders pushed back on this reportedly.

00:13:33.300 So Bernie doesn't want to sit.

00:13:35.060 He wants to stand.

00:13:35.800 He wants to show that he's vigorous, especially after he just had a heart attack.

00:13:39.900 The Biden camp is denying that they asked for a seated debate, but they're also not pushing

00:13:45.520 back on it very much.

00:13:47.640 So it could be a couple of things.

00:13:49.520 It could be that the CNN executives just said, look, these two guys cannot possibly stand up

00:13:57.120 this long.

00:13:57.840 One is 77.

00:13:58.800 One is 78.

00:14:00.160 They've been on the campaign trail now forever.

00:14:02.180 One of them just had a heart attack.

00:14:03.320 One of them can't form an English sentence.

00:14:05.380 And so let's just, God, just give them chairs.

00:14:07.560 It's like elder abuse over here.

00:14:09.480 That's one option.

00:14:10.440 Or the other possibility is just that the Biden campaign requested it because they know that

00:14:15.860 the guy is slipping more and more each day.

00:14:19.980 They're also, by the way, they're both in the most at-risk category for the coronavirus.

00:14:25.240 Maybe you think people are overreacting to coronavirus.

00:14:31.640 Maybe you think people, the media are blowing it out of proportion.

00:14:34.680 Okay.

00:14:35.400 But it is the case that people are self-quarantining right now.

00:14:39.200 My podcast co-host, Senator Ted Cruz, is self-quarantining.

00:14:42.740 Number of congressmen are, right?

00:14:44.040 So people are taking it seriously.

00:14:45.360 People are canceling conferences.

00:14:47.080 People are, are doing a whole lot of stuff.

00:14:48.980 So I wouldn't be surprised if the Biden and Bernie campaign start to change their reaction.

00:14:55.940 They are very much at risk here.

00:14:58.580 This is a big miscalculation on the Democrats' part, though.

00:15:01.340 First, we'll get to a listener response from TB.

00:15:04.720 Pretty sure Biden said covfefe.

00:15:06.540 You know, that's what it was.

00:15:08.200 It's hard to tell.

00:15:09.320 I, I, it's one of those words when you read it, it's so obvious.

00:15:11.720 But when you hear a presidential candidate articulating it with his words, that, that's why I didn't

00:15:18.040 get it.

00:15:18.380 You're right.

00:15:18.800 Covfefe.

00:15:20.080 Despite all the negative press, he said covfefe.

00:15:23.640 So big miscalculation.

00:15:26.380 The Democrats, if they want to show that they're really ready for Trump in November, they should

00:15:31.580 not have these two candidates sitting down.

00:15:34.220 It will look horrible.

00:15:36.040 If they can, they should have these two candidates run a marathon.

00:15:38.720 They should have been running down San Vicente in Los Angeles over the weekend.

00:15:42.560 Okay.

00:15:42.860 In times of uncertainty, people want a vigorous president.

00:15:48.040 Think about the uncertainty or you've got the market tanking.

00:15:51.400 You've got this virus that seems like not the end of the world, but who knows?

00:15:57.320 We don't really know a whole lot about the virus.

00:15:58.880 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:16:00.140 We'll get to Trump's response to it.

00:16:01.540 But in that time of uncertainty, you know who you don't want to be president?

00:16:05.260 A guy who, who can't speak or a guy who can't stand or a guy who is frail and elderly. 0.88

00:16:13.380 You just don't want it.

00:16:14.860 I mean, you want wise elder statesmanship, sir, but you, you, you want a guy who can actually

00:16:19.700 do the job, but those are the choices.

00:16:22.460 So we saw yesterday Hillary Clinton is not yet ready to endorse.

00:16:26.960 She's getting ready to go Epstein, Joe Biden.

00:16:29.100 I'm joking.

00:16:30.100 I'm kidding.

00:16:30.960 But she's still not, she's not going to endorse him.

00:16:32.940 Even though she doesn't like Bernie Sanders, she's not willing to put her support behind

00:16:36.220 Joe.

00:16:36.540 Now, the only other holdout here would seem to be Nancy Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi raises 0.99

00:16:44.120 some serious questions about who's going to get this nomination.

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00:17:54.580 Okay, so one person here, other than Hillary, one person who's not willing to endorse Joe just

00:17:59.320 yet, that would be the Speaker of the House, one of the leaders of the Democratic Party,

00:18:03.840 Nancy Pelosi, who said she isn't ready to endorse Joe because she usually just wants

00:18:07.960 to vote for a woman. 0.97

00:18:09.200 Return the Affordable Care Act, and that's just, you know, we just, so we're going to fight

00:18:14.000 them in the Congress, in the country, and in the court of law to preserve all that that

00:18:20.260 means, the lives saved, the progress made, and then working together to take the best that

00:18:27.360 any of us has to offer to go down that path.

00:18:30.220 But it's no reflection on who I would support for President of the United States.

00:18:35.820 I'll just say, just generally, I usually always kiss my vote for a woman. 1.00

00:18:43.720 I just do.

00:18:45.340 I hope I have that opportunity.

00:18:47.060 Okay.

00:18:49.760 Just generally.

00:18:50.920 By the way, I love, I love how the left gets away with these kind of categorical statements,

00:18:56.280 but the right cannot.

00:18:58.720 I love how women can get away with these categorical statements, but men cannot. 0.96

00:19:04.800 I like, it's always, I guess that's leftism, right?

00:19:06.940 If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

00:19:09.360 Imagine if I came out there and said, Michael, who are you going to support for President?

00:19:11.920 Say, you know, I don't know.

00:19:13.360 I haven't decided yet, but a man, definitely a man.

00:19:18.160 I vote for men.

00:19:19.280 I don't, I don't vote for women. 1.00

00:19:20.600 I just think men are better at it and women, they're just not. 1.00

00:19:25.060 So I vote for men. 0.98

00:19:25.960 And then you deploy, say, wow, Michael, that's so brave.

00:19:28.480 That's so brave of you.

00:19:30.480 But of course she gets away with it.

00:19:31.780 Of course, it's a double standard. 0.73

00:19:32.960 It's kind of silly even to, to complain about it.

00:19:35.380 That's just the way politics goes.

00:19:37.200 The reason that I think Pelosi's line here is interesting is because there are some people

00:19:42.560 in this country who have not given out hope that Hillary Clinton could somehow still

00:19:47.880 win this thing.

00:19:48.440 Now that might become much more difficult after tonight.

00:19:53.500 All right, we've got these six states coming up.

00:19:55.740 If Joe Biden really blows it out of the water and looks like he's going to do well in the

00:19:59.920 future states too, then the odds of a brokered convention decrease significantly.

00:20:05.660 If there were a brokered convention, we don't see these very often, you could walk in there

00:20:10.440 and Hillary Clinton could be the nominee. 0.99

00:20:12.360 Is that likely?

00:20:13.100 No.

00:20:14.060 Could it happen?

00:20:14.880 Yes.

00:20:16.180 Mike Bloomberg could be the nominee for goodness sake.

00:20:18.140 Like that'd be hilarious.

00:20:20.780 Instead, probably Joe Biden's going to walk away with this, but they're not ready just

00:20:24.660 yet.

00:20:24.900 The whole democratic establishment is coalescing here.

00:20:28.160 Few holdouts.

00:20:29.020 We'll see if Joe Biden can put that to rest tonight.

00:20:31.920 The, the big question in the election probably will not be the brokered convention and Hillary 1.00

00:20:36.960 coming in and Epstein-ing everybody and, and stealing the nomination.

00:20:39.900 Probably a big question, at least for the next couple months is going to be this Wu flu, this

00:20:45.940 coronavirus.

00:20:48.420 What do we know about it?

00:20:49.780 People are getting a lot of different information about it.

00:20:53.460 I've spoken to friends who are expert in this field who say, really, we need to take this

00:20:58.660 seriously.

00:20:59.020 Honestly, it's not being blown out of proportion.

00:21:00.880 Pay attention.

00:21:02.840 Take care of yourself.

00:21:03.920 Wash your hands. 0.95

00:21:05.280 I've also heard from people who say, yeah, it's not a big deal.

00:21:09.680 Don't worry about it.

00:21:10.380 Calm down.

00:21:11.120 There are some weird features of the Wu flu.

00:21:13.000 So, do you know what the average age of, uh, Wuhan virus death is?

00:21:19.400 The average age.

00:21:22.160 80 years old.

00:21:24.260 80.

00:21:24.840 That's pretty, I mean, that's like, how old do people live?

00:21:27.280 The average life expectancy is, what, 78, I believe.

00:21:31.340 It's a little higher for women, a little bit lower for men.

00:21:33.980 So, this seems to be really affecting people who are already in a weakened condition.

00:21:38.780 The other weird thing about it, and it's related to that fact, is kids don't get it.

00:21:44.600 As far as I can tell, there have been no serious cases of the Wuhan virus among children.

00:21:51.380 The kids who have gotten it have shown very, very mild systems.

00:21:55.220 Like, this could be a generational disease.

00:21:57.420 This is like revenge of the Zoomers, or whatever the generation after the Zoomers is, against 0.94

00:22:01.920 the boomers.

00:22:03.300 We don't know very much about it, so I'm not going to pretend that we've got all the answers

00:22:07.100 here.

00:22:07.320 However, everything we're seeing shows that other public health crises have been deadlier

00:22:12.000 and deadlier to more people.

00:22:13.900 So, I think about the swine flu, which I actually had in college.

00:22:17.320 I was quarantined for it.

00:22:18.700 I wasn't able to go out for two weeks.

00:22:20.300 It was a nasty flu, and a lot of people died from it.

00:22:24.380 I think it was, at the low end, 12,500, might have been as high as 15,000 people in the United

00:22:29.760 States died from swine flu.

00:22:32.160 Around the world, it was 200,000 people died from it.

00:22:35.280 But, did we hear a whole lot about that?

00:22:38.860 Not really.

00:22:40.020 I mean, that happened under Barack Obama.

00:22:41.820 Did we hear that, you know, this was going to destroy the economy?

00:22:44.320 I guess in those days, during the early Obama days, the economy was already destroyed.

00:22:47.880 But it just didn't seem to be such a big sensation in the mainstream media.

00:22:51.760 If it had been a Republican president, probably it would have been.

00:22:54.000 What about Ebola?

00:22:55.580 You know, Ebola, much, much more deadly.

00:22:58.580 SARS, you remember SARS?

00:23:00.180 Death rate on SARS was 10%.

00:23:02.180 For people over 60, it was 50 plus percent.

00:23:06.120 Okay, so those were much, much deadlier than this.

00:23:08.820 That's encouraging.

00:23:09.800 Still, we need to be careful.

00:23:11.780 That's, that's all I can give you on the biological or medical front, the public health front,

00:23:16.840 because we just don't know.

00:23:18.260 We're gonna have to wait and see.

00:23:18.960 We get new information every day.

00:23:20.040 Anyway, the political aspect is a little easier to take a look at here.

00:23:23.540 And that, I think, is where a lot of people in the mainstream media are focusing their efforts.

00:23:27.660 So the question is, how's Trump doing?

00:23:30.860 How has the Trump response been?

00:23:32.680 This guy is catching flack from all sides.

00:23:36.960 Everybody is dissatisfied with his response.

00:23:41.260 Except for one group, and that one group really matters.

00:23:43.700 So what's he done?

00:23:44.920 He appointed his number two to lead the task force to take care of it, right?

00:23:48.040 He put the vice president of the United States in charge of it.

00:23:51.100 That shows he's taking it seriously.

00:23:53.220 He very early on banned travel from at-risk countries for coronavirus.

00:23:58.260 Good thing, proactive measure.

00:24:00.000 He was called a racist at the time, as he always is, but it was a smart thing to do.

00:24:04.320 So far in the United States, how many cases do we have?

00:24:07.400 12,500, like with swine flu?

00:24:10.140 No, it's actually 700 cases so far.

00:24:12.600 How many deaths?

00:24:13.380 26 deaths.

00:24:14.200 All right, that comparison shows we're doing relatively okay.

00:24:21.060 Now, there is a criticism of Trump that he's even mentioning statistics like that.

00:24:26.080 It's the tweets, right?

00:24:26.880 It's always the complaint about the tweets.

00:24:29.840 It's true.

00:24:30.560 President Trump yesterday tweeted out, he said, look, we've only had 22 deaths.

00:24:33.760 Think about that compared to other public health crises.

00:24:36.380 There is a criticism here that the president shouldn't be mentioning those sort of statistics.

00:24:41.920 You know, it is, I think, probably unseemly of the president to downplay it like that.

00:24:46.920 You don't want your president to say, whew, we made it out fine, only 26 people dead, right?

00:24:51.840 You want from your president a guy to seem to be somber and sort of mourning every single death.

00:24:58.280 I get that.

00:24:59.640 I get that.

00:25:01.020 However, the criticism of the chattering class on the administration's response here

00:25:06.560 is not representative of the rest of the country.

00:25:09.520 That's not merely my uninformed opinion.

00:25:14.600 That's not just my intuition.

00:25:16.060 You don't have to take my word for it.

00:25:17.380 We have polling to gauge exactly what people think.

00:25:21.020 And despite what the pundits say on the left and on the right, despite everybody criticizing

00:25:28.260 Trump's response, the voters are not.

00:25:32.300 There is a poll out from Firehouse Optimist.

00:25:35.220 It polls people in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

00:25:38.280 So you're talking about three of the most important states in 2020, representative of

00:25:43.360 who's going to decide this election.

00:25:45.420 A majority of likely voters in all three states are, are very or somewhat concerned about a

00:25:52.380 large coronavirus outbreak.

00:25:54.480 You have 56% in Michigan, 56% in Wisconsin, 62 and a half percent in Pennsylvania.

00:25:59.240 So people are very concerned about this here.

00:26:01.040 However, they're not changing their plans.

00:26:06.060 So 79% of people in Michigan, 72.4% of people in Pennsylvania, 81% of people in Wisconsin say

00:26:12.740 that they're not planning to, you know, dramatically change their lives for the Wuhan virus.

00:26:17.800 And then most importantly of all for our political examination, they think Trump is doing a good job.

00:26:25.640 Trump has a net positive approval rating on his handling of coronavirus so far.

00:26:31.380 And it's a, it's a pretty good buffer here.

00:26:34.460 In Michigan, he's got a net 15.6% positive approval rating.

00:26:40.540 In Pennsylvania, it's 11.7%.

00:26:42.460 In Wisconsin, it's 7.5 percentage points.

00:26:46.900 All that's, that's the net.

00:26:48.520 That's how much he's up.

00:26:49.480 That's how much people like the way he's responding to this.

00:26:52.420 Now, if you tuned in to virtually any cable news program, right or left,

00:26:56.420 if you tuned in to the pundits, it would say, oh, he's messing this up.

00:27:00.120 It's terrible.

00:27:00.880 What's he doing?

00:27:01.580 Stop doing it.

00:27:02.240 He's pulling your hair out.

00:27:03.320 Well, guess what?

00:27:03.940 The voters in those key states think he's doing a good job,

00:27:07.780 which is all the more impressive because he actually doesn't have a great overall net approval rating.

00:27:13.600 His overall net approval rating in Michigan is 2.9 points.

00:27:17.380 In Pennsylvania, it's down 4.5 points.

00:27:20.400 And in Wisconsin, it's down 4.5 points.

00:27:22.360 And yet on coronavirus, people think he's doing a good job.

00:27:25.260 So, I understand the in-depth analysis, historical precedent, the esoteric reading of the tweets.

00:27:32.800 I get it.

00:27:33.400 People don't like it.

00:27:34.280 They think it's unseemly.

00:27:36.480 When you've got a column in the New York Times or when you've got a cable news show or when you've got a podcast.

00:27:41.580 But for voters on the ground, at least according to the one poll that we've got on it,

00:27:46.200 they think he's doing a good job.

00:27:47.960 We will get into more fake news going around about President Trump because the press are really attacking him now.

00:27:54.420 They've created a new hoax.

00:27:56.500 They've got a new hoax about Trump using the word hoax.

00:27:59.460 It's pretty much like Charlottesville 2.0 when Trump allegedly called Nazis very fine people,

00:28:05.400 even though that never happened.

00:28:06.340 We'll get to that and we'll get to the woman at Slate who's concerned that maybe her husband should stop sleeping with his girlfriend 0.99

00:28:12.600 so that her mother doesn't get coronavirus. 0.96

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00:29:00.600 We'll be right back.

00:29:12.560 There is so much fake news going on about Trump right now.

00:29:17.200 It's actually distressing.

00:29:18.820 Whatever legitimate criticisms one could make of his response in the last couple weeks

00:29:22.940 are just getting totally drowned out by all the unfair attacks from the press.

00:29:27.820 How about this one from Daily Mail US?

00:29:30.960 This is the headline.

00:29:31.840 You see it on Twitter.

00:29:33.380 Trump refuses to say if he has been tested for coronavirus

00:29:36.940 and storms out of White House briefing on crisis.

00:29:42.180 Here's what actually happened.

00:29:43.440 Thank you very much.

00:29:44.140 Have you been tested?

00:29:45.920 Mr. President, have you been tested?

00:29:49.040 Have you been tested, sir?

00:29:50.940 Mr. President, have you been tested?

00:29:53.380 That is the slowest storming out I've ever seen in my life.

00:29:57.840 He is talking to the reporters.

00:30:00.680 He's talking about coronavirus.

00:30:02.180 He then says, okay, thank you very much.

00:30:03.780 And then he very slowly walks out, which is the only way that you could end any sort of

00:30:09.460 press conference.

00:30:11.160 And to the Daily Mail, that's he refuses to say if he's been tested for coronavirus.

00:30:15.500 What?

00:30:16.380 And he storms out of the White House briefing on the crisis.

00:30:19.260 They can even include that first part because you hear at the very end as he's walking out

00:30:22.720 the door, you hear, have you been tested?

00:30:24.520 He's not at the podium anymore, man.

00:30:26.220 He's not.

00:30:26.560 He's already given it.

00:30:27.500 It's not like he sprinted out.

00:30:30.460 Typical, right?

00:30:31.100 You see him as, oh, well, one, Mississippi, two, Mississippi, three, Mississippi, I mean,

00:30:35.380 hell, hell, what a storm.

00:30:37.320 Now, if Joe Biden were storming out somewhere, it might look like that.

00:30:40.200 But, you know, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump, rather, is a young and vibrant man.

00:30:43.340 So if he wanted to storm, I'm sure he could.

00:30:45.280 That's not even the biggest hoax.

00:30:46.620 The biggest hoax right now being perpetrated by the mainstream media is the hoax about the

00:30:50.820 hoax.

00:30:52.680 Democrats are now accusing President Trump of calling the coronavirus a hoax.

00:30:58.240 You see it, it's all over media, it's all over cable news.

00:31:04.060 He called it a hoax.

00:31:06.040 It never happened.

00:31:07.620 It never, this is the new Nazis are very fine people at Charlottesville hoax.

00:31:13.040 It's the hoax hoax.

00:31:15.320 It should be obvious that President Trump does not think it's a hoax because President Trump

00:31:20.160 appointed his number two guy to run the prevention and recovery.

00:31:23.900 If it were a hoax, he wouldn't have done that.

00:31:27.040 But here is what President Trump said.

00:31:29.820 Listen for yourself.

00:31:31.220 Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus.

00:31:37.440 You know that, right?

00:31:38.360 Coronavirus.

00:31:40.740 They're politicizing it.

00:31:42.680 We did one of the great jobs.

00:31:44.400 You say, how's President Trump doing?

00:31:47.320 They go, oh, not good, not good.

00:31:49.600 They have no clue.

00:31:50.820 They don't have any clue.

00:31:51.600 They can't even count their votes in Iowa.

00:31:53.920 They can't even count.

00:31:56.460 No, they can't.

00:31:58.080 And this is their new hoax.

00:32:00.300 But, you know, we did something that's been pretty amazing.

00:32:03.220 We're 15 people in this massive country.

00:32:05.760 And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more

00:32:11.200 than that.

00:32:11.820 We will do everything in our power to keep the infection and those carrying the infection

00:32:16.840 from entering our country.

00:32:18.780 We have no choice.

00:32:19.620 So what's the hoax?

00:32:23.540 You have two options here.

00:32:25.000 Either the hoax that he's referring to is the Democrats' attacks on him for not handling

00:32:31.380 coronavirus well, for botching the whole public health crisis, or the hoax is coronavirus.

00:32:38.140 But it's obviously the former.

00:32:41.000 How could the hoax be coronavirus when Trump goes on to brag about what a great job he did

00:32:45.440 stopping coronavirus and how, had he not acted as quickly as he had, coronavirus would have

00:32:49.980 spread much more quickly and there would be more deaths.

00:32:52.240 That was the substance of his speech was, man, coronavirus really could have been bad.

00:32:57.200 But luckily, I did a very good job at stopping it.

00:32:59.860 And now the Democrats are pushing this hoax.

00:33:03.380 Obviously, the hoax is the criticism of his response.

00:33:06.900 You don't need an advanced degree to, to be able to understand that.

00:33:10.820 But the left doesn't care.

00:33:12.380 I mean, they're going to push it.

00:33:13.300 Look, they pushed in Charlottesville.

00:33:14.760 The guy said, on the issue of taking statues down and to take away our history, there are

00:33:21.800 very fine people on both sides.

00:33:23.240 Some people want to take, take away history.

00:33:25.020 Some people want to keep history.

00:33:26.820 I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists who should be condemned totally.

00:33:31.820 Right? 0.50

00:33:32.360 That, that was in the next paragraph.

00:33:33.980 I guess it was in the same paragraph just a few moments later.

00:33:37.020 And what did the left say?

00:33:38.340 They said that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people.

00:33:41.940 Never happened.

00:33:42.720 Put that away with the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny.

00:33:45.200 All right?

00:33:45.580 Not real.

00:33:47.320 And so they're doing it here again.

00:33:50.360 Not surprising.

00:33:52.560 Could President Trump speak differently?

00:33:55.620 Yeah.

00:33:56.960 Yeah, sure.

00:33:58.800 Sure.

00:33:59.400 I guess he could.

00:33:59.980 That's the, that is the criticism of Trump baked into the equation from the beginning.

00:34:04.700 He could talk differently.

00:34:05.940 He doesn't talk nice.

00:34:07.220 He tweets mean.

00:34:08.400 He uses vulgar language.

00:34:09.480 He is very entertaining and that's sort of unseemly in a president.

00:34:13.680 Yeah.

00:34:13.900 Okay.

00:34:14.400 He could talk different.

00:34:16.740 Is President Trump's talking costing people's lives in coronavirus?

00:34:22.240 No.

00:34:23.180 Are the tweets costing people's lives in coronavirus?

00:34:26.900 No.

00:34:28.760 Did Barack Obama get anywhere near this kind of scrutiny for the public health crises that

00:34:33.320 happened under his administration?

00:34:35.380 No.

00:34:35.900 So how's he doing?

00:34:38.620 He's doing fine.

00:34:40.120 Media don't want to admit it, but he's doing, he's doing fine.

00:34:42.820 Speaking of talking crazy.

00:34:45.140 Speaking of crazy talk.

00:34:47.820 Slate.

00:34:48.920 Slate Magazine.

00:34:50.040 Now, they should have a recurring segment on this show too.

00:34:52.140 Because they, in their Dear Abby letters, they always have the strangest people write

00:34:56.700 in.

00:34:57.180 And that's not the big story here.

00:34:59.680 Okay.

00:35:00.800 The, the letter that they just published was, should I pause my open marriage because of

00:35:05.020 the coronavirus?

00:35:06.320 So it's not that they publish crazy letters.

00:35:08.220 You can always find crazy letters.

00:35:09.420 And by the way, a lot of editors just write the letters themselves.

00:35:12.460 What makes this Slate article so crazy is the terrible advice that Slate gives.

00:35:18.460 So, should I pause my open marriage because of the coronavirus?

00:35:22.960 My mother is immunocompromised.

00:35:25.120 You probably could put the question mark up a few lines here and just say, should I pause

00:35:31.420 my open marriage?

00:35:32.220 Question mark.

00:35:33.160 Yes.

00:35:34.820 Don't have an open marriage.

00:35:36.620 Close your marriage.

00:35:38.020 Marriage should be closed.

00:35:39.740 There you go.

00:35:40.180 I solved it.

00:35:40.680 That was like one sentence.

00:35:41.800 You don't even need the whole article.

00:35:43.140 But they make it much more complicated here.

00:35:46.320 The, uh, lady writing in.

00:35:49.340 Dear Had to Do It, my husband and I have an open marriage.

00:35:52.840 My mother is immunocompromised.

00:35:54.180 Is it unreasonable to ask my husband not to swap fluids with his girlfriend until the 0.72

00:35:57.780 coronavirus blows over?

00:35:59.440 Risky business.

00:36:01.640 Yuck.

00:36:03.420 The response is worse.

00:36:05.460 Dear risky business.

00:36:07.520 Blah, blah, blah.

00:36:08.800 So far, I've yet to see a public health official weigh in on limiting one's exposure to his

00:36:13.700 girlfriend.

00:36:14.740 To be safe, you could ask your husband to do so.

00:36:17.720 Also to be safe, make sure none of you leave the house for any reason whatsoever.

00:36:21.420 Wear gas masks constantly, even in the shower, even to bed, and apply hand sanitizer so often

00:36:27.100 that your skin is never not gleaming with an alcoholic dew.

00:36:31.300 Or you could just live your life and follow basic public health advisories.

00:36:35.540 I suppose mathematically, your husband being in close contact with another person does increase

00:36:39.900 his risk of contraction.

00:36:41.260 But unless he and his girlfriend are into public sex, like in the middle of Times Square public,

00:36:46.140 or are handrail licking fetishists, the elevated risk is probably negligible.

00:36:51.480 Swapping fluids seems like a surefire way to pass or contract the virus.

00:36:55.660 But if your mother lives with you, but if you don't need to get to the point of, I can't

00:37:00.600 even say that on my show.

00:37:01.740 Oh, yuck. 0.92

00:37:02.400 Gross. 0.83

00:37:02.600 Then here's the money line.

00:37:05.920 I am assuming that you're operating on good faith and not using this public health crisis

00:37:10.740 as a way to drive a wedge between your husband and his girlfriend. 1.00

00:37:14.140 If that is what you're doing, please don't.

00:37:17.420 Everyone's got enough drama to deal with as it is. 0.99

00:37:21.140 What a pervert. 1.00

00:37:23.020 What a jerk. 1.00

00:37:25.480 What a creep writes this column. 1.00

00:37:27.820 Because you notice in the column, the advice is never, hey, be more traditional.

00:37:37.060 Hey, be more virtuous.

00:37:39.400 Hey, acknowledge and follow the moral order.

00:37:43.400 That's not what you get out of it. 0.95

00:37:44.820 The columns are always like, yeah, hell yeah, you should be sleeping with his girlfriend.

00:37:48.740 And whatever.

00:37:49.400 I mean, people read these things to be titillated.

00:37:51.360 So like, that's fine.

00:37:52.540 I understand the purpose of that column.

00:37:54.240 But let's just assume that this is a real person writing in with a real letter.

00:37:59.840 What a horrible thing to say to someone.

00:38:01.840 This woman basically saying, hey, I've got some, I'm a little uncomfortable with my husband 1.00

00:38:07.560 sleeping around and cheating on me.

00:38:10.980 So should we maybe tell him to stop that?

00:38:13.820 And the person writing in says, no. 0.99

00:38:15.080 What are you, crazy? 1.00

00:38:16.420 What are you, neurotic? 1.00

00:38:17.600 What are you, possessive? 0.99

00:38:19.900 Oh, no.

00:38:21.080 Excuse me.

00:38:21.660 We've all got enough to worry about.

00:38:22.960 How dare you tell your husband to stop cheating on his wife?

00:38:26.700 Oh, what's wrong with you?

00:38:28.640 It's a terrible thing to say to somebody.

00:38:30.120 Horrible advice from Slate.

00:38:32.700 And it just shows you how depraved it all gets.

00:38:35.400 I mean, this question at least is not even posed in a kind of, I'm jealous that my husband

00:38:42.060 is cheating on me, which any reasonable person would feel.

00:38:44.680 It's posed as, hey, there's a pandemic going on and I don't want my mother who's got a frailty

00:38:53.560 to die because my husband wants to sleep around. 0.89

00:38:57.700 So can I tell him not to?

00:39:00.120 And to be told, no, absolutely not.

00:39:02.060 I also love, it gives you away the whole game on the left here, right?

00:39:06.660 The left on one hand is saying coronavirus is going to be the end of the world.

00:39:11.520 It's all Trump's fault.

00:39:12.860 The economy is going to tank. 0.62

00:39:14.460 Everybody's going to die.

00:39:15.960 You've got to take it super duper uber seriously.

00:39:19.060 On the other hand, don't think for even one moment of not slutting it up for a couple days 0.76

00:39:25.180 because of the infection. 0.68

00:39:29.400 On the one hand, oh, no, nothing could be worse. 0.99

00:39:32.920 You know, it's Trump is killing us all. 0.88

00:39:35.200 On the other hand, yeah, go ahead and swap fluids with anybody you meet on the street.

00:39:40.540 It's no big deal.

00:39:41.380 Stop worrying about it.

00:39:43.080 Gives away the whole game.

00:39:44.260 I mean, they've obviously politicized this beyond all measure, but terrible advice.

00:39:49.380 And I wish that woman would write into my show so that I could give her good advice on this.

00:39:53.960 And shockingly, I know this is going to come as a big surprise. 0.76

00:39:57.840 The slate advice column is not the dumbest article on the internet today. 0.84

00:40:02.920 It's not the dumbest article on the internet of our times. 0.96

00:40:06.900 The dumbest article on the internet, the dumbest series, and I haven't talked about it much, 0.97

00:40:11.960 but I think the time has come, is the 1619 Project from the New York Times. 0.99

00:40:17.640 The New York Times is now launching an initiative to convince people that slavery is the essential

00:40:25.580 feature of America.

00:40:26.540 So America begins in 1619 when the first slave comes to the colonies.

00:40:32.920 Not 1620 when the Mayflower lands.

00:40:36.180 Not 1776 when you sign the Declaration of Independence.

00:40:39.660 No.

00:40:41.220 Slavery.

00:40:42.660 Now, you couldn't call this project journalism for reasons we'll see in a second.

00:40:47.640 You couldn't call it history.

00:40:49.920 The only thing you could call it, and this is actually the fairest term I can come up with,

00:40:54.340 is propaganda.

00:40:55.180 It is leftist propaganda to decide to push a narrative, and people put out propaganda all

00:41:02.700 the time, especially the New York Times.

00:41:04.460 The reason that they're catching a little bit of flack right now is because actual historians,

00:41:09.660 not just conservatives, leftist historians too, are criticizing the New York Times, and the

00:41:14.520 Times will not hear that criticism.

00:41:16.240 So Leslie Harris is a history professor at Northwestern University.

00:41:20.680 She's an author.

00:41:21.660 She just wrote a piece in Politico about how she was approached by the 1619 Project.

00:41:27.540 She gave her advice.

00:41:29.500 She gave her notes on what the 1619 Project got wrong, and the New York Times completely

00:41:35.100 ignored her.

00:41:36.580 So here's the New York Times claim. 1.00

00:41:39.180 Here's one of their stupid claims. 0.99

00:41:41.160 Quote, one critical reason that the colonists declared their independence from Britain was 1.00

00:41:46.260 because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery in the colonies, which had produced

00:41:50.680 tremendous wealth.

00:41:52.800 At the time, there were growing calls to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire, which

00:41:57.260 would have badly damaged the economies of colonies in both North and South.

00:42:01.780 So that's like one of the far claims they can make is the whole American Revolution, the

00:42:08.860 point of it was to protect slavery. 0.53

00:42:12.180 Now, is that true?

00:42:14.340 No.

00:42:15.040 This historian, Leslie Harris, writes in Politico, quote, I vigorously disputed the claim.

00:42:20.340 Although slavery was certainly an issue in the American Revolution, the protection of

00:42:23.820 slavery was not one of the main reasons the 13 colonies went to war.

00:42:27.640 The editor followed up with several questions probing the nature of slavery in the colonial

00:42:31.700 era, such as whether enslaved people were allowed to read, could legally marry, could

00:42:35.420 congregate in groups of more than four, and could own, will, or inherit property.

00:42:38.860 The answers to which vary widely depending on the era and the colony.

00:42:42.840 I explained these histories as best I could with references to specific examples, but

00:42:47.480 never heard back from her about how the information would be used.

00:42:51.540 Despite my advice, the Times published the incorrect statement about the American Revolution

00:42:56.540 anyway, in Hannah Jones's introductory essay.

00:42:59.920 So we're talking about the first essay of 1619.

00:43:02.980 In addition, the paper's characterizations of slavery in early America reflected laws and

00:43:07.280 practices more common in the antebellum era than in colonial times.

00:43:11.200 That is, the description the New York Times is giving of these laws governing slavery were

00:43:16.780 much closer to what you saw right before the Civil War than what you saw during the founding

00:43:20.860 era.

00:43:21.360 They just got the timeline completely wrong.

00:43:24.620 She goes on, they did not accurately illustrate the varied experiences of the first generation

00:43:29.460 of enslaved people that arrived in Virginia in 1619.

00:43:34.240 Right.

00:43:35.760 Right.

00:43:37.480 She never heard back.

00:43:38.720 How does the New York Times do this?

00:43:40.460 How do you start a project where you say, we're going to reveal the truth about American

00:43:44.240 history?

00:43:44.880 And then historians from across the political landscape, it's not just Harris, five other

00:43:49.540 academic historians signed a letter claiming, quote, that the 1619 project got some significant

00:43:54.460 elements of the history wrong, and the Times refuses to correct the errors.

00:43:59.400 How do they get that so dead wrong?

00:44:02.880 Because they don't care.

00:44:05.560 They don't care. 0.86

00:44:06.760 The people who staff the New York Times are all a bunch of over-credentialed, uneducated 0.92

00:44:12.260 egotists. 0.93

00:44:13.260 Okay.

00:44:13.980 They're people who graduated from very fancy schools, and they're convinced of their own

00:44:19.480 brilliance, but they don't actually know much of anything.

00:44:22.360 And think about it with regard to the gender issue, right?

00:44:27.140 Let's say I were going to write a devastating critique of gender roles in the history of

00:44:33.800 Western civilization.

00:44:35.020 So I decide out of my own brain, I'm not reading anything, I'm not learning anything, I just

00:44:40.580 say, you know, one of the big issues with gender roles is there's actually 56 genders. 0.74

00:44:47.440 And, you know, for our history, we've pretended there are only two genders, but really there are

00:44:50.980 56.

00:44:52.720 Well, what would happen then?

00:44:54.300 A biologist could come up to me and say, oh, no, actually, Michael, there aren't 56 genders,

00:44:59.100 there are two.

00:45:01.520 Right?

00:45:01.860 Because he would have some knowledge of this topic, and then he would tell that to me.

00:45:05.940 And what would I say if I were a leftist?

00:45:07.500 I would say what the leftists are actually saying right now about that very issue.

00:45:10.940 They would say, nope, sorry, 56, because I said so.

00:45:13.960 It's the same thing here.

00:45:14.680 They know nothing about the history at the New York Times.

00:45:17.600 They know absolutely nothing about the founding era in the 1619 Project. 0.99

00:45:21.600 Those writers are abjectly wrong and profoundly ignorant. 0.95

00:45:29.100 And yet, they are convinced of their own narrative. 1.00

00:45:34.640 They're convinced of the utility of their own narrative, where they just don't give a damn.

00:45:39.360 It's important to remember this.

00:45:42.560 This series is now being taught in school districts in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Buffalo, and New York.

00:45:48.540 What does that mean?

00:45:49.520 It means there's no objective press in this country.

00:45:51.980 There isn't.

00:45:52.440 The Grey Lady, all the news that's fit to print, is publishing historical fiction in its pages.

00:45:58.900 It means there's no objective educational apparatus in this country.

00:46:02.580 In some of our biggest cities, we're teaching this fiction as though it were history.

00:46:10.460 There is no objectivity in those institutions for the transmission of information.

00:46:15.060 The left has known this for a long time.

00:46:17.260 Conservatives have been kidding ourselves.

00:46:19.400 We always say, when will the press report on this? 0.98

00:46:22.080 Well, that shows you how ignorant we are, how we don't learn the lesson.

00:46:25.820 We say, when's the media going to report on this thing that's damaging to leftists? 0.61

00:46:29.380 They're not going to, ever, ever, not once, okay?

00:46:33.800 Get that through your head.

00:46:36.420 Once we accept that, once conservatives realize this is not a level playing field, this is not neutral,

00:46:43.020 there is not an even marketplace of ideas that we can bandy about in on the pages of the New York Times or in our schools,

00:46:49.940 then, and only then, will we begin to win the fight.

00:46:53.440 All right, that's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 10, 2020

Ep. 508 - Sick But Not Tired Of Winning

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