The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 524 - Alyssa Milano Kills #MeToo

00:00:00.220 Alyssa Milano believes all women except for the women accusing her friends of sexual assault.

00:00:05.520 We will examine how the Me Too movement died yesterday and what lessons we can learn from

00:00:09.660 its demise on everything from politics to the coronavirus. Then more good news out of New York,

00:00:14.900 more bad news out of the fake news media, and a Bernie bro endorsement for President Trump.

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00:02:39.620 All right. Mark it on your calendars. Mark it for the history books. April 6th, 2020 at 1057 AM

00:02:47.280 was the precise moment the Me Too movement died. That was the time. And the death of the Me Too 0.59

00:02:54.960 movement has important lessons for everything from politics to coronavirus. How did it die? It died

00:03:01.980 because Alyssa Milano took the Me Too movement out back like old yeller and shot it in the head. 1.00

00:03:09.960 She ended it without any question. She did that because of Joe Biden. You might remember a few

00:03:18.680 weeks ago, we talked about this on the show. There's a woman who's come out to accuse Joe Biden

00:03:22.820 of sexually assaulting her. Her name is Tara Reid, not the actress, different Tara Reid. Here is her story.

00:03:29.800 So I remember that kind of stuff. I remember like I was wearing a blouse and he just had me up against

00:03:35.320 the wall and the wall was cold. And I remember he, it happened all at once. The gym bag, I don't know

00:03:42.680 where it went. I handed it to him. It was gone. And then his hands were on me and underneath my clothes.

00:03:46.800 And, um, yeah. And then he went, oh, he went down my skirt, but then up inside it and he, uh, penetrated 0.72

00:03:59.520 me with his fingers, whatever. And, um, I, uh, he was kissing me at the same time and he was saying

00:04:06.060 something to me. He said several things and I can't remember everything he said. I remember a couple of

00:04:11.380 things. I remember him saying first before, like, as he was doing it, do you want to go somewhere else?

00:04:17.120 And then him saying to me, when I pulled away, he, um, got finished doing what he was doing. And I

00:04:23.840 kind of was pulled back and he said, he said, come on, man, I heard you liked me.

00:04:29.040 This is a pretty serious allegation. This is a lot more than just hair sniffing. Now for the record,

00:04:35.140 I don't believe this story. I don't think the story checks out. I think a lot of time has passed.

00:04:41.200 I think her story has changed over the years. I don't think it's credible. Uh, that's fine

00:04:48.480 to weigh the evidence and think it's either false or true. Uh, that's not hypocritical. If your

00:04:56.040 standard of justice is the evidence and weighing the evidence and trying to come to the truth,

00:05:01.460 that's not hypocritical to hold that standard of justice. It is however, hypocritical for the

00:05:08.580 Me Too movement leader, uh, Alyssa Milano, Alyssa Milano in particular, Alyssa Milano standard of

00:05:15.860 justice is believe all women, but Alyssa Milano, it would seem doesn't believe that woman, but that 1.00

00:05:24.220 woman is still a woman. So by Alyssa Milano standard of justice, she's got to believe her. And yet she 0.80

00:05:29.360 doesn't, it's pretty awkward. Why doesn't Alyssa Milano believe her? Cause she's just endorsed Joe

00:05:34.640 Biden. So what does she think of this until now? She hasn't said anything. She's been completely

00:05:39.600 silent on the allegation as has the entire mainstream media because they don't want to deal

00:05:43.740 with it. Now Alyssa Milano is in this impossible situation because the believe all women premise

00:05:49.540 is absurd, right? It, the believe all women premise is that women cannot lie, that men can lie, 0.95

00:05:55.880 but women cannot lie, but men and women are exactly the same and there's no difference in gender,

00:06:00.240 but still women are protected by the supernatural force field that forces them to tell the truth at 0.98

00:06:05.420 all times. Nobody believes that. However, it was politically useful to advance that line when

00:06:13.480 Alyssa Milano tried to torpedo Brett Kavanaugh's career and Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme 1.00

00:06:19.720 Court without any evidence. So now Alyssa Milano is finally going to speak out on this issue and she's

00:06:27.400 defending Joe Biden. She does not believe Biden's accuser. Here's her reasoning.

00:06:33.220 I endorsed Joe Biden. Okay, good. And there have been accusations against Joe, um, about sexual,

00:06:42.880 about sexual assault. Right. And people were saying, how can you do that? Because I was, um,

00:06:50.780 I have not publicly said anything about this. Um, if you remember, it kind of took me a long time to

00:06:56.380 publicly say anything about, about Harvey as well, because I believe that, um, even though we should

00:07:03.320 believe women and that is an important thing and what that statement really means is like, you know,

00:07:10.320 for so long, the, the go-to has been not to believe them. So really we have to sort of societally

00:07:19.200 change that mindset to believing women. Now, why do I think there's a, but that's about to follow 1.00

00:07:27.520 her statement? She goes, look, we, yeah, we have to believe all women. And I think we should totally

00:07:31.460 believe all women like women, all of them totally got to believe them. But, but that does not mean at

00:07:39.680 the expense of not, um, you know, giving men their due process and, and investigating situations.

00:07:47.820 I like that. And, and giving, you know, it's gotta be, it's gotta be, it's gotta be fair and in both

00:07:55.580 directions. Oh, okay. That's what that means because silly me before I thought believe all women meant 1.00

00:08:04.660 that we had to believe all women and deny men their due process rights, just like Alyssa Milano did to 0.97

00:08:11.420 Brett Kavanaugh very famously. But actually now what I'm learning from Alyssa Milano is that believe

00:08:16.860 all women means in reality, believe some women when it's politically advantageous and then disbelieve 1.00

00:08:24.420 other women when it's politically advantageous. That's what that really means. It means we need to 1.00

00:08:30.800 get rid of due process rights when Republicans are being accused of crimes, no matter how frivolous,

00:08:36.520 but we need to defend due process when Democrats are being accused of crimes, which by the way,

00:08:42.820 we already knew because these feminist harpies never said a peep when Juanita Broderick rather 1.00

00:08:47.980 credibly accused Bill Clinton of rape decades ago. That's how we know. That's how we know that that's

00:08:55.780 what this always meant. Alyssa Milano actually tweeted out about it. She goes, quote,

00:08:59.800 there is something to the idea that people are going to weaponize me too for political gain.

00:09:05.120 Gee, you don't say you think people would weaponize me too? Like Alyssa Milano, who sat scowling at

00:09:12.440 Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing, holding a sign that said, I believe survivors. You mean like

00:09:17.180 that? She goes on, just look at the replies here and look to see whose accounts, who those accounts

00:09:22.360 are supporting in the primary. There always needs to be a thorough vetting of accusations.

00:09:27.960 The fact that she can say this with a straight face is what's so shocking about it. Alyssa Milano

00:09:36.240 sitting there holding the sign, I believe survivors, except she doesn't believe survivors. She

00:09:40.720 self-identified survivors, I suppose I should say. She believes the women that it's convenient to 1.00

00:09:46.460 believe and she doesn't believe the women that it's not convenient to believe. And this is the worst

00:09:50.540 standard of justice imaginable. Because for instance, I don't like Joe Biden. Okay. I don't think Joe

00:09:57.280 Biden should be president. I don't think he's a particularly admirable guy. It would be politically

00:10:03.260 advantageous for me and for other conservatives and Republicans to believe that this accusation

00:10:09.580 against him is true. But I don't, I don't believe it's true. I think her story has changed. I think

00:10:16.980 it's very convenient now that she's attacking him all these years later. I, we don't see any other

00:10:22.300 evidence of this in Joe Biden's life. I just don't buy it. Okay. The problem with Me Too is that it was

00:10:30.160 always fake news. That's not, not to say that there weren't real things that happened. Not to say that

00:10:37.100 women weren't actually harassed and mostly by left wing Democrats in Hollywood, but by other people 1.00

00:10:44.320 too. It's not to say that the individual episodes were not true. It's to say that the Me Too movement

00:10:49.500 itself never cared about the truth. How do we know they never cared about the truth? Because the slogan

00:10:54.100 was believe all women, not believe the truth. Believe people based on their sex rather than the 1.00

00:11:02.720 evidence. There is a much more general lesson here to come from the demise of Me Too. And the lesson is

00:11:11.080 when you allow your political preferences to become your standard of truth, you become much dumber.

00:11:18.500 You look much more foolish. You end up with egg on your face. If you just follow the evidence,

00:11:26.100 if you just try to discern the truth, you might not always be popular. You might not always get all

00:11:31.900 the press attention that the Me Too movement and Alyssa Milano have, but in the long run, you will look

00:11:38.840 a whole lot better than if you are just throwing out hack accusations at you and serious accusations

00:11:46.260 at your political opponents without any evidence because that's just how you want things to turn

00:11:53.860 out politically. It's not just Alyssa Milano. It's not even just the Me Too movement. There has been a lot

00:11:59.620 of fake news going around and major mainstream institutions have been promoting it, not because

00:12:05.580 there's evidence that it's true, but because it suits their narrative. We will get to that in just one

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00:13:29.180 ago of a nurse in tears quitting her job because she didn't get the kind of equipment that she

00:13:37.180 needed to fight the coronavirus. The tweet from CBS News said, quote, in tears, a nurse says she quit

00:13:44.560 her job after she was asked to work in a coronavirus ICU without a face mask. America is not prepared

00:13:50.460 and nurses are not being protected. CBS News put that out. One of the big networks. Bernie Sanders

00:13:57.180 tweets out this video. Major politicians. Turns out it's a total fraud. Here's the woman. 0.50

00:14:06.200 America is not prepared and nurses are not being protected.

00:14:10.420 I quit my job today. I went into work and I was assigned to a COVID patient on an ICU unit that

00:14:26.460 has been converted to a designated COVID unit. None of the nurses are wearing masks, not even

00:14:34.400 surgical masks in the hallways when they're giving report to each other. I had my own N95 mask. I told

00:14:42.780 my manager, I understand we're short on supplies, but let me protect myself. Let me feel safe. I have

00:14:50.360 family that I have to come home to and the way things are looking, this isn't going to get any

00:14:56.960 better. America is not prepared and nurses are not being protected. So the moment that I saw this

00:15:05.900 video go around from CBS News, mind you, my first thought was, nope, no, don't think so. I don't know.

00:15:13.980 Maybe I've watched too much reality TV, but I know a good performance from a bad performance. That was a

00:15:18.500 very bad performance. Why else did I not believe it? Because it didn't correspond to the other reports

00:15:24.580 that we were seeing around the country, that hospitals were being stocked with these things,

00:15:29.200 that the state and local governments were doing a good job and the federal government was doing a

00:15:32.360 good job getting these masks. The idea that hospitals would allow their nurses and doctors to just run

00:15:37.960 around, not wearing any masks at all. Nobody in their right mind would believe that unless you,

00:15:44.840 your standard of justice is to just follow your own political preferences to their wildest,

00:15:50.100 most hysterical ends. So I knew that was a bunch of BS from the beginning, but you know,

00:15:54.460 if you don't have evidence, you don't want to call BS on it. Just a few days later,

00:15:58.500 the evidence comes out. To give you a little bit of context, here is some of that crying nurse's

00:16:03.060 other work on social media. Coronavirus. Shit is real. Shit is getting real. Don't worry.

00:16:12.440 Every single person that you'll come into contact with this evening has no coronavirus. And don't worry,

00:16:19.940 the coronavirus only lasts for up to three days on unclenched surfaces. You'll be fine. Don't worry.

00:16:31.540 Coronavirus. Shit is real. Shit is getting real.

00:16:35.820 Okay. So my main takeaway from that is nothing in particular about the content. It is just that

00:16:41.900 perhaps this lady does not have everything put together. And then we find out she posted on social 0.99

00:16:46.880 media just a few days before she sent out her crying video that CBS picked up that she, she wrote

00:16:53.140 that she had anxiety and bipolar depression, that she hadn't been working in the hospital for over a

00:16:58.160 year and didn't know if she was ready to return. So now we have the new Jussie Smollett and it might 0.98

00:17:04.120 not even be her fault. She might have some serious problems and CBS news and the fake news media are 0.97

00:17:09.560 just exploiting her and sending her video around because it suits their narrative, even though their

00:17:13.560 narrative is completely fictitious. Just like in the case of Jussie Smollett, the people who pushed

00:17:20.400 this will never pay a price. CBS news is not going to pay a price here, right? Many people are not going

00:17:27.800 to see the correction. This is how the fake news media thrive. They put out a completely fictitious

00:17:33.780 story. It gets seen by millions of people. Then a few days later, when the truth finally catches up

00:17:40.440 with the lie, they put out a little correction on Twitter. Whoops, sorry. I guess we were wrong.

00:17:45.600 Okay. Nevermind. We'll clarify. It's not, maybe there's some questions here. You've already had

00:17:50.540 the millions of people see the video. You've already got the fake story implanted in their brains. And

00:17:55.660 then, you know, to a few, the tens of thousands of people maybe see the correction. Some don't even

00:18:01.660 read it that carefully. And the fake news thrives, even for the people who do see the correction.

00:18:06.980 That's fine. That's fine. Cause CBS news is going to wait for the next one

00:18:11.140 and pull another hoax. And hopefully they'll get away with it next time. It's not just

00:18:15.400 CBS, not just Alyssa Milano. Check out the New York times. New York times runs an incredible story 0.99

00:18:24.400 now on the question of coronavirus medicine. You know, there's this medicine out, hydroxychloroquine,

00:18:31.760 and it's this malaria drug that has been shown extraordinarily effective at treating

00:18:36.220 coronavirus. So they're trying to ramp up production now and, you know, treat the patients

00:18:43.260 who have this, this pandemic because there's no cure for it, right? It's a new coronavirus. So

00:18:47.660 we don't have a vaccine. We don't have a cure specifically for that. This is great news.

00:18:52.780 We were told we can't reopen the economy until we have some medicine to treat coronavirus. Well,

00:18:58.340 then we found this medicine. How great. Remember the fake news media were telling us 2 million

00:19:02.340 Americans or more. We're going to die from this thing. Well, I'm sure glad we found this treatment

00:19:06.820 that's working incredibly well. What could possibly be wrong with that? Well, the New York times figured

00:19:12.100 out what's wrong with that. New York times publishes this piece by Olga Lucia Torres, who teaches

00:19:20.980 narrative medicine. That's her bio narrative medicine. Not even going to ask headline. Trump keeps

00:19:28.280 putting the lives of lupus patients at risk. The next line. We now have to deal with a shortage of

00:19:37.900 hydroxychloroquine, the drug that's been keeping me alive for more than two decades. The guy just can't

00:19:43.760 do anything right, can he? They knock him because millions of Americans are going to die from this new

00:19:50.100 pandemic that nobody could have predicted. Trump identifies a drug that works to treat that virus,

00:19:57.260 and then they knock him for using the drug because now other people are not going to have the drug or

00:20:01.960 something. Maybe. Is that it? The New York times has decided that Trump saving lives is actually

00:20:07.680 killing people. Okay. Here's just the first couple of paragraphs. On March 19th, I woke up, made coffee,

00:20:14.620 took my usual 10 pills and turned on CNN, hoping to see governor Andrew Cuomo. I got president Trump

00:20:20.920 instead. He was talking about the drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19.

00:20:26.580 The drug, he said, without providing any evidence, showed tremendous promise. My cheeks flushed with

00:20:33.320 fear and rage. She says she's really upset that there's a medicine for the coronavirus. I'm furious

00:20:39.480 that people will get better now. She goes on, quoting Trump. I think it's going to be great, he went on.

00:20:46.980 My life and that of millions of other people who depend on hydroxychloroquine to treat lupus

00:20:53.100 changed in that brief moment. Our lives were suddenly more at risk. Wow. Now, I want to hone in on a line here

00:21:02.220 right in the first sentence. She said she was hoping to see Governor Andrew Cuomo, not Donald Trump,

00:21:08.180 because Donald Trump was promoting hydroxychloroquine and that was killing people like her. 1.00

00:21:12.020 What she leaves out of this, this essay is that Andrew Cuomo promoted the same drug. He said the

00:21:21.020 exact same thing that Trump said, but it's okay when Andrew Cuomo, when Andrew Cuomo says it,

00:21:26.900 it doesn't kill lupus patients. But when Donald Trump says the exact same thing, for some reason

00:21:32.040 that kills lupus patients. By the way, hydroxychloroquine, we have a lot of it. There are

00:21:37.620 no shortages of it being reported. It's apparently fairly inexpensive to produce. There is zero

00:21:42.920 evidence that anybody who relies on hydroxychloroquine will die because of some shortage

00:21:47.980 because of the coronavirus. This is completely made up because they've run out of the ability

00:21:54.120 to attack Donald Trump because Donald Trump is now, has identified and is promoting a medicine

00:21:59.000 to treat the pandemic that they said was going to kill 2 million people.

00:22:01.720 So then it goes on again, never mentioning Andrew Cuomo, never mentioned, never mentioning any of

00:22:09.280 the relevant facts to this. For now, I will wake up, make coffee, take my 10 morning pills, turn on

00:22:15.580 CNN, hoping to see governor Cuomo, not president Trump. She doubles down on it. Like somebody said,

00:22:22.900 somebody, some editor at the New York times maybe should have sent her the clip of Cuomo saying the

00:22:26.800 exact same thing. And pray to God, I don't get COVID-19 and that I can get my hydroxychloroquine

00:22:31.940 filled. My daughter's smile is so beautiful. I want to continue seeing it. She teaches narrative

00:22:39.120 medicine. She does not very good at writing narratives herself. I take it. I mean, good.

00:22:43.320 If this was turned in as a 10th grade essay, you'd, you'd have to give it low marks. You'd have to return

00:22:49.540 and say, God, it's a little weak guys. Uh, the argument is weak. The writing is weak, but it's saccharine

00:22:55.260 and sentimental. The point of the argument here is not to make an argument based on evidence.

00:22:59.200 The point of it is to emotionally manipulate people based on lies being run in the pages

00:23:04.560 of the New York times. The New York times, by the way, a lot of good news coming out of New York

00:23:08.960 recently. Not that you would know that if you read the gray lady in the paper of record, according to

00:23:14.520 all of the evidence available, the curve is flattening in New York. That is to say,

00:23:21.340 it looks like New York has light at the end of the tunnel. New York, the epicenter of

00:23:25.000 coronavirus in the United States is getting better. In a National Bureau of Economic Research

00:23:30.940 working paper that was posted on Friday, the MIT economist Jeffrey Harris shows that, quote,

00:23:38.540 the coronavirus epidemic curve is already flattening in the city, which is surprising a lot of experts

00:23:45.040 who expected to see the numbers get much, much worse for the next two weeks before we came out on

00:23:50.820 the other side of it. This is what we had been told. We had been told now for a couple of weeks,

00:23:57.980 New York's not even close to the end here. It's not even close to the peak.

00:24:01.480 The numbers are not even close to flattening. We're about to see hell for the next two weeks.

00:24:05.600 And then maybe after that, it'll get a little bit better.

00:24:09.880 Except right now, it looks like the numbers are already flattening. You don't need to just believe

00:24:14.280 this researcher in the NBER. The governor himself, Andrew Cuomo, is reporting the good news.

00:24:21.060 Number of deaths are up once again. Number of people we lost, number of New Yorkers,

00:24:29.180 4,758, which is up from 159, but which is effectively flat for two days. While none of this

00:24:40.220 is good news, the flattening, possible flattening of the curve is better than the increases that we

00:24:52.440 have seen. Total number of hospitalizations are down. The ICU admissions are down and the daily

00:25:01.820 intubations are down. Those are all good signs. And again, would suggest a possible flattening of the

00:25:10.160 curve. So this is, is all good news. I mean, obviously it'd be better if nobody were dying

00:25:15.300 at all, but relatively, this is very good news. Remember how, what was it, two weeks ago now,

00:25:22.920 President Trump said he was hoping that America would begin to reopen, that things would begin to

00:25:27.820 start looking good around Easter. Well, Easter's happening this coming Sunday. And it would appear

00:25:34.820 that even at the place that has been most terribly struck by coronavirus in the US,

00:25:40.160 things are getting better. Things are moving in that direction. You'll remember when Trump

00:25:44.120 suggested that Easter date, all the experts told him it was crazy. We'd have to be locked down for

00:25:50.120 another, at least another three, four weeks, maybe another two months. Who knows? All the politicians,

00:25:57.460 we're going to be locked down, not just through the end of April. We're going to be locked down into

00:26:00.520 May. We might be locked down into June. And so now we have this good news. We should be very happy

00:26:05.880 for that good news, but we should raise our eyebrows at the people and politicians who were

00:26:11.080 telling us that all the models showed that we had to keep the global economy shut down for another

00:26:15.300 several weeks. Because what they're going to get away with, this is how they're going to get away

00:26:18.920 with it. They're going to say, right, we had these models showing terrible things, but then we all came

00:26:25.300 together and we social distanced and we wore those masks. And so we were able to greatly reduce the

00:26:31.860 spread of the virus and reduce the spread of deaths. Okay, fine. The trouble is all your

00:26:36.520 predictions were based on people already doing those things. It's not as though the predictions

00:26:40.660 of we need to wait another three or four weeks or two months or whatever was based on people going

00:26:45.260 out and working and going to bars and restaurants and going to concerts. The whole world was already

00:26:49.480 shut down. All of the models were basing their predictions on people staying at home and social

00:26:55.240 distancing and washing their hands and wearing the masks. So the models were just wrong. 0.62

00:26:58.700 It would seem. I'm hoping the models were wrong. Everybody should be hoping the models were wrong.

00:27:04.200 Then we've got to ask, how did they get it so wrong? What are the political incentives here? Because

00:27:09.780 while we can all celebrate that we're coming out the end of this, I think a certain group of people

00:27:14.080 are maybe not so happy to let all of this government power go. And that would be the government officials,

00:27:20.600 the bureaucrats, and the politicians who are abusing that power during this pandemic. And if you want

00:27:26.120 some examples of that, look no further than New York. We'll get to that in a second. First,

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00:28:37.000 So after this research came out of MIT that New York might be coming around, that the hospitalizations

00:28:44.820 and everything are remaining basically flat. After Governor Cuomo mentioned this, the stock

00:28:50.260 market surged. So people are very excited on this good news. 12 stocks rose at the New York Stock

00:28:55.780 Exchange yesterday for every decliner, for every stock that fell. The market rallied on the hopes

00:29:04.400 that the new coronavirus is going away. Overall, 2,700 New York Stock Exchange listed stocks traded

00:29:13.280 higher after the news came out, while only 231 fell. So great stuff, especially now that we've got,

00:29:21.640 it was 10 million people thrown out of their jobs within two weeks. We're going to get more numbers

00:29:26.180 at the end of this week. I imagine those numbers are going to be absolutely brutal because the numbers

00:29:30.340 lag by a week. So even if things are turning around now, the numbers we're going to hear this week

00:29:34.660 are going to be the ones that are reflecting last week's situation.

00:29:38.600 So we need to try to pull out of this global shutdown as soon as humanly possible. And yet,

00:29:46.460 for some reason, something tells me that politicians are not going to give up all the

00:29:51.260 power that they just took. They just took a lot of power. They've just habituated us to a new normal

00:29:57.420 that's pretty eerie. You want to see how eerie it is? Yesterday in New York City, walking right along

00:30:03.280 the East River. You see, you see some pedestrians just going out, getting some air, walking their

00:30:08.640 dogs. And you can hear a sound in the background and it's to stay in your homes, go back, social

00:30:14.680 distance. It sounds like a police loudspeaker. It's not coming from a cop on a bullhorn. It's not

00:30:19.820 coming from a car. It's just coming from a little drone that's floating overhead, monitoring all the

00:30:25.800 people, safe distance, hovering over the water and yelling at them to go back home.

00:30:32.560 The anti-COVID-19 volunteer drone task force. Please maintain a social distance of at least six feet.

00:30:40.200 Again, please maintain social distancing. Help stop the spread of this virus. Reduce the death toll and

00:30:47.220 save lives. For your own safety and your family's safety, please maintain social distancing. Thank you

00:30:53.380 for your cooperation. We are all in this together. The volunteer drone task force. It makes me feel

00:30:59.700 a little bit better to see that it's at least probably not a government drone. I hope it's not.

00:31:05.700 Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. They say it's a volunteer drone. If it is, and if New York were a civilized

00:31:11.120 city, someone would have pulled out a 12-gauge shotgun and blown that thing out of the sky.

00:31:15.800 That is just a little too Orwellian for my tastes, okay? A little too totalitarian for my liking.

00:31:22.660 To have a drone flying overhead telling me what to do. And that is the future that some people in

00:31:29.620 this country want us to have. We got to start scaling back now. The government and the experts

00:31:38.020 and the self-appointed benevolent betters who fly their drones over our heads are drunk with power.

00:31:45.280 And the good intentions that some of them might have in preventing the spread of the virus

00:31:52.420 are no excuse for them to take that power. The road to hell is paved with good intentions

00:31:57.240 and their models have shown to be bunk. We have to take back this power. That is not a situation

00:32:07.220 that any of us should be willing to tolerate. Now, there is some good news on the pop culture

00:32:13.240 front because I just keep asking myself, if people become so habituated to this kind of thing that now

00:32:18.840 they don't even care, they're just willing to let all this power go away, that's fine. Yep.

00:32:22.820 Yell at me from a drone. Tell me to stay in my apartment. I'll just, I'll just work all day long

00:32:27.600 in my apartment, not be able to go outside, not be able to do anything. That, that is a fear

00:32:33.500 because I think people have become much more accustomed to giving up their independence. But

00:32:37.000 on the pop culture front, Joe Rogan is giving me hope. Joe Rogan, kind of interesting political

00:32:42.020 views. You don't know, is he on the right? Is he on the left? He's kind of an independent thinker.

00:32:45.600 He was a Bernie bro. So you assume Bernie's not going to win the nomination now, unless Joe Biden,

00:32:51.720 for whatever reason, just physically can't make it over the finish line. So you expect Joe Rogan to

00:32:57.640 endorse Joe Biden, but that's not what's happening. Joe Rogan was sitting down on his show

00:33:02.520 and he was talking about who he might endorse. He said he would, now that Bernie's out,

00:33:09.180 he would rather vote for Donald Trump than Joe Biden.

00:33:13.400 This is the real issue with the Democratic Party. They've essentially made us all morons.

00:33:18.120 Yeah.

00:33:18.300 With this Joe Biden thing. They really have. They've made us all morons.

00:33:23.120 Who do we need? I mean, I can't vote for that guy.

00:33:27.040 I can't vote for him.

00:33:28.040 I can't vote for him.

00:33:29.140 I can't vote for Trump.

00:33:30.120 I'd rather vote for Trump than him. I don't think he could handle anything. I mean,

00:33:35.000 you're relying entirely on his cabinet. Like if you want to talk about an individual leader that

00:33:39.200 can communicate, he can't do that. And we don't even know what the f*** he's going to be like

00:33:43.300 after a year in office. The pressure of being the president of the United States is something that

00:33:48.480 no one has ever prepared for.

00:33:50.560 Right.

00:33:50.840 The only one who seems to be fine with it is Trump, oddly enough. I mean, he doesn't seem to

00:33:56.120 be aging at all or any sort of decline.

00:33:59.840 Pretty astute observation. We see that in Trump's press conferences. We'll get to the updates from

00:34:04.360 yesterday's press conference in just a moment. But it's true. You know, Joe Biden,

00:34:09.920 we've seen him for 50 years in public life. He was the vice president of the United States in the

00:34:13.600 last administration. And even in just the past few years since he left government, Joe Biden's

00:34:18.940 decline has been pretty precipitous. And frankly, even while he was serving in the Obama

00:34:23.240 administration, he was declining from what he had been 10 or 20 years prior to that.

00:34:28.660 He doesn't seem to be doing very well. And he's never had the big job. He's never had

00:34:33.720 the actual pressure of the presidency on him. Vice presidency in many ways is sort of a cushy job.

00:34:40.080 And being a senator in many ways is kind of a cushy job. Could you imagine Joe Biden in the

00:34:44.360 pressure cooker of the Oval Office sitting behind the resolute desk? He can't even sit behind

00:34:48.700 his own desk in his living room right now without fumbling his words and forgetting where he is.

00:34:53.620 So Joe Rogan is recognizing this. And he said, you know, I'd vote for Trump

00:34:56.680 over him. Not even because I agree with Trump on policy matters, but just because Trump at least

00:35:03.620 seems to be with it. He at least seems to have energy. He can handle himself in a crisis. I think

00:35:08.420 a lot of people feel this way. And the conventional wisdom is that this pandemic is, has all but destroyed

00:35:15.880 Donald Trump's chances of being elected president. If the economy remains in the gutter, that might be true.

00:35:21.680 But if there can be any sort of modest economic recovery from a far worse economic collapse than

00:35:27.760 we saw in the 2007 financial crisis, from an economic collapse that we haven't seen since

00:35:32.640 the Great Depression, there's any kind of recovery. I think he'll get credit for it. I think that's why 0.97

00:35:38.460 he's going and doing these, these daily press briefings every day. I think that's why CNN is

00:35:42.900 now often refusing to cover him in his press briefings is because they realize he looks good.

00:35:48.960 He looks like a leader. He's communicating directly to the American people in a way that

00:35:52.760 we have not seen from our president since Ronald Reagan. And people recognize this is a tough

00:35:57.540 situation and he's doing a pretty good job. I don't think Joe Rogan is going to be the last

00:36:01.560 Bernie bro to get behind Donald Trump rather than behind Joe Biden. And let's just take a quick little

00:36:07.620 look at the update from the press briefing, because interestingly, the theme of yesterday's

00:36:14.400 press briefing was the theme of our show today. These false narratives getting absolutely smacked

00:36:19.780 down. I mean, we've seen separate from the coronavirus, we've seen the Alyssa Milano Me Too

00:36:25.760 narrative get struck down. We've seen the New York Times get struck down. We've seen CBS get struck

00:36:31.700 down. And Donald Trump doesn't want to just let us have all the fun. So he's getting in on it too.

00:36:37.120 He did it yesterday. Nobody dismantles the fake news better than Trump. So Trump was asked a

00:36:41.440 question about the inspector general from health and human services. This is a government bureaucrat

00:36:47.600 who was criticizing president Trump. And, uh, this reporter wanted to know about his reaction

00:36:53.960 to the IG report. Listen to how president Trump takes it apart. He goes for the reporter's credibility

00:37:01.300 first and exposes the reporter doesn't have very much. The inspector general for the department of

00:37:07.660 health and human services released, uh, report today, a survey of more than 300 hospitals across

00:37:13.820 the country. And the number one complaint from those hospitals were severe shortages of testing

00:37:20.940 supplies and a really long wait time. I mean, it's just longer longer. Did I hear the word inspector

00:37:26.040 general? Really? Uh, it's wrong. And they'll talk to you about it. It's wrong. But this is your own government.

00:37:31.820 Uh, it's well, where did he come from? The inspector general, what's his name? It came from the inspector

00:37:37.280 general. What's his name? I don't know his name. Well, find me his name. Let me know. Okay. If you find

00:37:42.280 me his name, I'd appreciate it. But sir, these are hot. All I can tell you is this. We put up on the board.

00:37:48.240 You're going to ask, you're going to ask the admiral, but we are doing. These are hospitals who say that

00:37:52.300 they're waiting a week or longer to get their test results. But we've done more testing and had more

00:37:59.260 results than any country anywhere in the world. They're doing an incredible job. Now they're all

00:38:04.720 calling us. They want our testing. What are we doing? How do you do the five minute test? How do

00:38:09.260 you do the 15 minute test? So give me the name of the inspector general. Could politics be entered into

00:38:15.460 that? Go ahead. Go ahead. There's the money line. The money line is could politics be entering into

00:38:21.700 it? President Trump is calling out this reporter for two reasons. One to show that the reporters

00:38:26.440 don't know what they're talking about. The reporters with a very straight face, they say,

00:38:29.380 ah, the inspector general came out and was criticizing you. And so what do you say about

00:38:33.400 the inspector general? He goes, tell me more about this inspector general. Oh, no, it's the inspector

00:38:38.680 general. Yeah. Do you even know the inspector general's name? Uh, no, I, well, all we know is that

00:38:44.920 the inspector general's criticizing you. Okay. He's like, okay, so you don't know anything about this

00:38:48.980 story. You're just forming a narrative that is against me. And so I'm not going to entertain that.

00:38:56.640 And so he exposes that the reporters don't even know what they're talking about. Then it shows that

00:39:02.820 the reporters are hiding the game and the left does this a lot. Okay. I, I remembered the first time I

00:39:10.220 saw the mainstream media do this was actually, it wasn't about coronavirus. It wasn't even about

00:39:14.900 contemporary politics. It was about Christopher Columbus. They were hiding the game. They were

00:39:20.300 trying to hide their real intentions here behind a title. They weren't coming forth with information

00:39:28.560 that would shed some light on it. With Christopher Columbus, there was a, in 2006, there was a big

00:39:33.280 hubbub because there was an uncovered document that showed that Christopher Columbus was a terrible,

00:39:37.880 no good, dirty, rotten scoundrel. And all the headlines, I'm not exaggerating. They would say

00:39:42.500 Columbus actually was a murderer, a tyrant, a terrible man. New document proves it. And the

00:39:48.680 new document was this one account of, of Columbus being a mean guy and a bad governor. And it was the

00:39:57.580 document that was used to kick him out of the governorship of the Indies. But I kept looking,

00:40:01.420 I said, who wrote the document? I mean, there were so many biographers of Columbus who wrote it.

00:40:06.160 I couldn't find it anywhere in the news reports. And then I looked, I finally was able to uncover

00:40:11.120 the document. The document was written by Francisco de Bobadilla, Columbus's chief political rival in

00:40:16.780 the Indies. That is to say, it would be like, it would be like a reporter pointing out that Donald

00:40:23.560 Trump is the worst man that ever lived on the face of the earth based on a brand new report that came

00:40:29.040 out from Hillary Clinton. Okay. The fact that Hillary Clinton is Trump's political rival is very

00:40:36.080 relevant information to any kind of report on his character that she writes, right? Because it shows

00:40:44.620 some of her biases. Maybe it shows where she's coming from. The same thing is going on here,

00:40:49.240 but they don't want to admit that. So reporters were asking about the AG. ABC's John Carl initially

00:40:54.120 says that the AG was appointed this past January to which, uh, president Trump responded that he would

00:41:00.480 look into it. Then Trump, uh, was later asked, uh, uh, later asked a question about this. He asked,

00:41:06.780 when did she start serving in government? How long has that person been in government? 0.77

00:41:12.020 Did serve in the previous administration. Oh, you didn't tell me that. Oh, I see. You didn't tell

00:41:17.580 me that John. You didn't tell me that did serve in the previous administration. You mean the Obama

00:41:22.280 administration. Thank you for telling me that. See, there's a typical fake news deal.

00:41:27.640 You asked me when she was appointed. I told you when she was appointed. You're a third rate reporter.

00:41:32.820 And what you just said is a disgrace. Okay. You asked me, you said, sir, just got appointed.

00:41:38.280 Take a look at what you said. Now I said, when did they, when did this person, how long in government?

00:41:43.160 Well, it was appointed in the Obama administration. Thank you very much, John. Thank you very much.

00:41:49.160 You will never make it. Go ahead.

00:41:50.440 Just absolutely devastating. Cause there it is. Actually this guy, John Carl had previously said

00:41:58.140 that, oh yes, this person was appointed just by your administration, which I guess is technically

00:42:03.760 true. Person was, was reappointed by the Trump administration, but initially she started working 0.78

00:42:09.140 for the Obama administration. And Trump's whole question here was, could there possibly be any

00:42:13.580 political bias? Maybe. I just, maybe I'm just throwing things out there. Spaghetti at the wall.

00:42:18.000 And initially they say, no, then it finally comes out that it was true. That wasn't the only issue

00:42:23.000 of fake news. It was the only narrative that fell apart yesterday. Another one had to do

00:42:26.780 with the paycheck protection program. This is part of this relief package to help small businesses and

00:42:31.400 people who are struggling. A reporter asks Trump the question with the premise that the paycheck

00:42:37.560 protection program, which has been by all accounts quite successful, is a complete, complete flop.

00:42:42.940 The paycheck protection program has gotten off to a confusing start for small businesses.

00:42:47.600 I think so. I think it's done very well. Well, Wells Fargo has stopped taking applications. Bank

00:42:52.320 of America. Not anymore they haven't. Prioritized taking applications from clients that were already

00:42:58.560 borrowers. Bank of America has been the leader, taking tremendous numbers of applications. And

00:43:03.460 of course there may have been, they wanted to have a slightly different application. They

00:43:07.100 wanted to have a little different information. But Bank of America has been a leader. They're number

00:43:11.580 one in terms of applications. I wish you'd ask the question differently. Why don't you

00:43:17.380 say it's gotten off to a tremendous start, but there were some little glitches, which by

00:43:22.200 the way, have been worked out. It would be so much nicer if you do that. But you're just

00:43:26.340 incapable of asking a question in a positive way.

00:43:29.300 It's already done. It's taken the measures. It's taken the measures. See, Trump's got to

00:43:37.080 do two things in every one of these answers. He's got to answer the question and give out

00:43:41.120 the relevant facts. And then he's got to show people the tactics that the media are using

00:43:46.540 to spin their fake narratives. Okay. That's maybe more important than even answering the

00:43:51.740 question because we, even people on the right, have been enthralled to the mainstream media

00:43:57.480 for so long. We've just been brainwashed by it. We've been hypnotized by the mainstream

00:44:02.040 media, even though we can point time and again, I could go on for another two hours today of

00:44:06.000 examples that just occurred yesterday in the mainstream press to push dishonest narratives.

00:44:12.660 Think of the nurse who says she doesn't have any masks, CBS news, very scary music, very sad

00:44:18.300 music. Think about all of these narratives that we just, we don't even pay attention to. If

00:44:22.480 you had to pay attention to every single one, you wouldn't be able to get anything else

00:44:25.060 done during the day. So president Trump has these two difficult tasks to do.

00:44:29.400 He's got to lead the country, give out the relevant information, calm everybody's fears,

00:44:33.140 and simultaneously expose the hackery, the dishonesty, the cynicism, the falsehood that

00:44:40.960 comes from our mainstream press. He's doing both of those pretty well right now. I mean,

00:44:46.040 I think that's why we have the daily press briefings. It's up to us when we see this stuff

00:44:50.060 to call it out as well. Don't give them an inch. Don't give them any leeway. There are very

00:44:54.800 high stakes here. These people are trying to take a lot of power away from you. In many ways,

00:44:58.980 they've succeeded. And the next few weeks are going to be crucial to make sure that they don't keep

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 07, 2020

Ep. 524 - Alyssa Milano Kills #MeToo

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