The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 55 - Last Night’s Big Winner： The MSM Narrative!

00:00:00.000 Democrats last night won two gubernatorial races in states that voted overwhelmingly for Hillary

00:00:06.040 Clinton last year, although the mainstream media reporting would have you believe that

00:00:10.720 Scipio Hillary Clintonas just sacked Carthage and sowed the fields with salt. We will analyze

00:00:16.160 the analysis. Then Liz Wheeler, Alicia Krauss, and roaming millennial will join the panel of 0.99

00:00:21.860 deplorables to discuss the first publicly transgender state delegate, Danica Roam,

00:00:27.400 Stephen Hawking's suggestion that robots might kill us all, a bodyguards complaining that Mariah

00:00:33.400 Carey sexually assaulted him, seriously, and how the California NAACP wants to ban the national anthem.

00:00:40.780 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:50.120 All right, we have got a lot of election analysis. It's actually not election analysis that I'm going

00:00:55.240 to do. Everyone's going to do that. I'm going to do election analysis analysis. So it's going to be

00:00:58.960 a meta-analysis. We can't get to that until we're still reeling from the 100th anniversary of communism

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00:03:25.880 enough about capitalism. Now we have to get to this major loss for capitalism because Democrats won

00:03:32.280 last night. Now, look, I'm probably a little older than you folks. I am old enough to remember a few

00:03:38.120 months ago when John Ossoff was the great Democrat hope. He was running in Georgia's sixth. Democrats

00:03:44.560 put $24 million into this race. This was going to be the Trump referendum. They couldn't wait. That's

00:03:51.080 how every mainstream news article was billing it up in the weeks leading up to this. And then he lost.

00:03:55.180 And then the Republican won and he lost, sad. This was the mainstream media coverage. The next day,

00:04:00.900 Democrats were so excited about this, $24 million. And here's our stake. Here's our anti-Trump

00:04:05.320 stake. Here were the headlines. Quote, lessons for Democrats from the Georgia election.

00:04:11.380 Okay. Did Georgia congressional candidate John Ossoff really get roasted by his opponent? Depends

00:04:17.820 how you cut the video. Quote, John Ossoff lost, but so what? It's all about the long game, Democrats.

00:04:24.720 Okay, that's nice. Republicans avoid big loss by forcing runoff in Georgia House race. They avoided a

00:04:31.000 big loss by winning. That's how you avoid a big loss. All of those headlines, by the way, were just

00:04:35.760 the Washington Post. Those are all just from one. Democracy dies in darkness, everybody. That's just

00:04:41.900 the Washington Post. Everyone else was equally downplaying this major loss for Democrats. And

00:04:48.220 then last night, Ed Gillespie, a Republican candidate, lost in Virginia. It's a blue state.

00:04:54.440 We all thought he was going to lose. The polls showed that he was going to lose. Guess what happened?

00:04:57.560 He lost. These are the headlines. Washington Post. Anti-Trump backlash fuels a Democratic sweep

00:05:04.620 in Virginia and elections across the country. NPR. In backlash to Trump, Democrat Ralph Northam

00:05:11.360 wins Virginia governor's race. That's a backlash. That's how an anti-Trump candidate won a state that

00:05:18.080 voted for Hillary Clinton that is a blue state. CNN. Donald Trump was the big loser in Virginia.

00:05:23.260 MSNBC. After election backlash, Trump's GOP is lost without a map. Only Newsweek, 0.98

00:05:30.500 actually. Surprising. Only Newsweek offered a different view, running the headline.

00:05:34.540 Quote, did Trump really win the election? So I thought, oh, that's kind of interesting.

00:05:39.160 Newsweek is the only one that's giving a nuance. No, they were talking about the election last year.

00:05:43.600 They weren't sure if Trump won the election last year. They were so blinded by their shock and misery

00:05:49.540 that Donald Trump lost exactly one year ago today. That was their headline today. Now,

00:05:55.860 obviously, these guys are really good at getting talking points. They must, you know, I don't think

00:06:00.860 it's only the Russians who hacked the DNC server. Obviously, it is going out to every mainstream outlet

00:06:05.140 in the country that this is supposed to be evidence of the great backlash. There's no evidence of that.

00:06:11.880 Virginia's a blue state. It's been getting bluer for a long time. It obviously voted for Hillary Clinton.

00:06:17.860 If you're corrupt and Democratic and blue enough to vote for Hillary Clinton, probably a lost cause.

00:06:23.140 And, you know, Gillespie's a fine candidate. He's run before. He's lost before. I feel bad for the

00:06:26.940 guy. He was a good chairman of the RNC. But, you know, it's a loss. There's a loss. No getting

00:06:31.820 around it. As Chris Donovan from ABC News points out, though, Trump is the fifth president in a row

00:06:38.560 to have his party lose both the New Jersey and Virginia governor houses in his first year in office.

00:06:44.800 Five in a row in both states. That's what we saw last night. Obviously, there was never a chance

00:06:48.900 the Republican was going to win in New Jersey. That was that was a fait accompli. It's also worth

00:06:54.040 noting that in Virginia, Gillespie's Democrat opponent, Northam, had a vote advantage of about

00:07:00.120 260,000 votes. So a lot of people have been like, you know, when you read about natural evolution,

00:07:07.740 Darwinian evolution and all the little swamp creatures crawling out of the water onto land,

00:07:11.940 that's basically what's been happening in Washington, D.C. to northern Virginia.

00:07:15.860 So alas, alas, too bad for Ed. Amazing to look at the difference in coverage, though,

00:07:22.340 because that that was the big winner last night. The big winner last night wasn't Northam,

00:07:26.140 wasn't the Democrat in New Jersey, wasn't even the statehouse delegates in Virginia. The big winner

00:07:30.500 was the mainstream media narrative. What a night for them for the first time in now over a year.

00:07:35.980 They've had their narrative justified for an evening. Congratulations. Good for you.

00:07:40.460 Uh, Virginia, by the way, also elected one of the first publicly transgender candidates in the 0.95

00:07:45.900 country, Democrat Danica Roam. Danica Roam is a man who has transitioned to look like a woman

00:07:51.840 over Republican Bob Marshall, very socially conservative candidate who had put forward a

00:07:57.880 bathroom bill. The bathroom bill, you know, those awful, terrible, bigoted laws that say that men should

00:08:02.740 use the men's room and women should use the women's room. Uh, here, here is a clip of that 1.00

00:08:06.320 candidate, Danica Roam.

00:08:14.760 We made history tonight. We people in Prince William County and Masses Park made history tonight.

00:08:20.140 Because we'll now have a trans woman who can finally fix Route 28. I spent nine years, two months,

00:08:25.120 in two weeks, as the lead reporter of the Gainesville Times covering my home community. It is a time

00:08:29.560 that the administration in particular and other people start trash talking reporters and start

00:08:33.760 respecting the craft. Because local journalism is community service. It is public service. And the

00:08:41.440 people of the 13th district just voted to elect and send a reporter down to Richmond. I'll always be a reporter

00:08:46.780 before I'm a politician. On the trans part there. Yeah. Yeah. I am a transgender woman. We won because

00:08:51.820 I am a transgender woman, because I am a reporter, because I am a lifelong president of Manassas,

00:08:57.180 because of my inherent identifiers, not despite them. I never ran away from them. I championed them.

00:09:02.300 And because of that, yeah, Prince William County is no, is now more inclusive than it was before this

00:09:07.980 election. There it is. I'm actually really shocked. It's really a sad loss in the culture war,

00:09:14.540 obviously, that the voters of Virginia would consider electing a journalist to any office.

00:09:19.660 Really upsetting. That's not good. Anybody who's worked in news like that is just by definition

00:09:26.820 disqualified from holding any office in government. It is a little strange, obviously, that for those

00:09:33.680 who can't see the clip there, obviously, this person is a man who dresses like a woman and has long hair.

00:09:39.660 We had Blair White, friend of the show, came on a few weeks ago and said gender dysphoria, 0.98

00:09:44.280 is clearly a mental illness. It's a psychological affliction. Although mental illness is probably 0.67

00:09:50.280 a prerequisite for holding political office anyway, so that doesn't bother me too much.

00:09:55.080 But all of this to say, it doesn't seem to me a shock that a state that elected a man who looks

00:10:01.480 like a woman, basically on the platform of looking like a woman, would not vote for George W. Bush's 1.00

00:10:08.760 Republican National Committee chairman, Ed Gillespie. This is not earth-shattering stuff here.

00:10:15.040 There is also another point to consider, which is that Democrats are less popular,

00:10:19.560 according to a recent poll, than they have been in 25 years, than they've been in a quarter of a

00:10:23.640 century. I'm a little torn on this. CNN just did this poll, and they found out the Democrat approval

00:10:30.020 rating is down to about 30 percent, the lowest in a quarter of a century. But if CNN is reporting it,

00:10:34.980 then doesn't it mean that that is fake news and Democrats are very popular? I don't know. I'm

00:10:39.160 caught in a real paradox here. According to this poll, 37 percent of Americans hold a favorable view

00:10:47.060 of Democrats. This is down from 45 percent in March, a precipitous drop. It's down from 62 percent the day

00:10:54.640 that Barack Obama was elected the first time. It doesn't seem to me a random chance or a random

00:11:00.380 coincidence that the high point of Democratic popularity was the day Barack Obama was elected.

00:11:05.760 It's been sliding down steadily ever since. Republicans are also unpopular now. They're

00:11:09.840 about 30 or 31 percent. But the thing to point out here is over that same period, Republicans have

00:11:15.360 never been higher than 48 percent approval, and yet they've won massive victories in elections across

00:11:20.280 the country. So one has to wonder what that says about public approval ratings, according to these

00:11:26.800 opinion bowls for Democrats versus what they say about Republicans. Republicans have been able to

00:11:31.560 win major victories during this point. Democrats, not so much. We'll see if this election in Virginia

00:11:37.080 and New Jersey has anything to say about the upcoming elections. For that, we'll have to bring on

00:11:42.500 our panel for analysis. We have for the first time, very lucky to have from OAN, Liz Wheeler. We have

00:11:48.780 from the YouTubes, our favorite, our, you know, she's been with us since the beginning, roaming millennial,

00:11:53.620 and the Daily Wire's very own Alicia Krauss. Ladies, thank you for being here. Liz,

00:11:59.560 was last night a referendum on Donald Trump? No, I don't think so. I don't think by any stretch it

00:12:05.580 was a good thing for Donald Trump. It wasn't a win for him, but it wasn't a win for the American

00:12:10.120 people either. We elected these radical leftist candidates. They're left on abortion. They're left

00:12:15.760 on taxes. They're left on foreign policy. They're left on immigration. It's not a win, but I think we make 0.96

00:12:21.380 a mistake with all these hot takes, and anybody on Twitter certainly saw a bunch of those last

00:12:25.500 night. We make a mistake generalizing the results of these elections and assuming that they mean

00:12:30.840 something for what's going to come next year. They don't necessarily. You talked about that fact that

00:12:35.220 five, the five last presidents of the United States have lost both the New Jersey governorship

00:12:40.120 and the Virginia governorship. This is not as unprecedented as Democrats would have you believe.

00:12:44.740 And they also always lose seats. They lose seats in their midterms, right? This is just a matter of

00:12:52.300 course. The question is, how bad will it be, I guess? Roaming, who was happier about the loss last

00:12:58.440 night? President Trump's critics on the left or President Trump's critics on the right?

00:13:02.780 Oh, I think President Trump's critics on the left, for sure. I mean, I think they're both happy,

00:13:07.440 but what I've noticed is that the mainstream media and leftist pundits, they're trying to compare this to

00:13:12.160 the, quote, shellacking that Obama received with the whole Tea Party elections during the

00:13:16.040 midterms. And it's just not comparable. This was an off-year election. And, you know, like you said,

00:13:21.220 people are toting it as this, like, this turnaround. We're going to see, like, you know,

00:13:25.020 the resistance is coming. No, this isn't, I don't think, representative of, you know, huge changes

00:13:31.560 in voter attitudes. I mean, Trump's only been in office for, what is it, 10, 11 months now,

00:13:36.740 even though it feels like so, so much longer. I think if we actually want to get an accurate pulse of the

00:13:41.520 way the public is, you know, receiving the Trump presidency, we're going to have to wait until

00:13:45.280 next year. I mean, this wasn't great for the Republican Party, but it wasn't this huge loss

00:13:49.180 either. I just feel bad for Ed Gillespie. I really like the guy. I met him a couple times at events,

00:13:53.440 and he's just this old school Republican. He's very nice. He's not intimidating. He's not

00:13:58.580 loud or yelling. Maybe that's why he lost. Maybe he should have been a little angry.

00:14:02.480 Not enough edge.

00:14:03.280 Not enough edge. You need more covfefe. You got to turn that covfefe up to 11.

00:14:07.020 Now, President Trump, speaking of the father of our country, who appears to have been president

00:14:11.680 for centuries now, he tweeted out last night, he said, quote, Ed Gillespie worked hard, but did

00:14:17.720 not embrace me or what I stand for. Don't forget, Republicans won four out of four House seats,

00:14:22.900 and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win even bigger than before.

00:14:28.700 Alicia, is Trump throwing his own guys under the bus here? What happened to loyalty, huh?

00:14:33.840 Yes, he is. And if he was so right, then how come his candidate didn't win in that special election

00:14:39.180 down south? I mean, hate to break it to him, but just because he endorses somebody doesn't mean that

00:14:43.880 they're going to win, or just because someone hugs close to him doesn't mean that they're going to

00:14:46.960 win either. I think that New York and New Jersey races do not surprise me at all. It looks like in

00:14:53.100 Virginia, I'm kind of a geek when it comes to the numbers, when it comes to campaigns and the

00:14:57.180 turnout and the type of people that turned out to vote and how often those people vote. And you're

00:15:02.520 seeing that the GOP did not do a good job. I think that they were counting on people,

00:15:06.980 rural Republicans specifically, to get out and vote for Gillespie, and it just did not happen.

00:15:11.400 Well, in light of that race in Alabama, when it was Trump endorsed the more establishment guy,

00:15:16.040 Luther Strange, and Bannon and some of the Trump base were supporting Roy Moore, who stood firm on

00:15:22.980 the Ten Commandments statute at the Alabama courthouse and all of that. Is this evidence that the,

00:15:29.340 you know, the Trumpier candidate there won, even though Trump hadn't endorsed him? Is there a

00:15:34.040 Trumpism without Donald Trump? Is there a base movement that he really ought to get behind that

00:15:40.540 doesn't only follow him? I don't know that there's a Trumpism without Hillary Clinton. And I think that

00:15:46.220 Virginia is a really good example of this. I think that, and I've been saying this for over a year,

00:15:51.180 you have to look at the nitty gritty of the numbers. You have to look at the individuality of

00:15:55.400 every candidate, every precinct, and every campaign. And in Virginia, I'm a fan of Ed Gillespie too. I

00:16:01.260 think one-on-one he's a great guy, but he really isn't a good charismatic statewide candidate. And

00:16:06.480 in addition to that, you had some really tough attack ads, some horrific attack ads that we've

00:16:12.080 seen that the Democrats are apparently going to continue to double down on. And those worked in

00:16:17.140 the northern areas of Virginia, where it's really all DC beltway workers that live across the river and

00:16:23.260 then vote Democrat. I know. And I think love Trump's hate. I actually never understood how

00:16:27.620 they, the left, uses that slogan as an anti-Trump thing. It would seem to me that's a pro-Trump

00:16:32.680 statement, where I love Trump's hate. But unfortunately, didn't Trump hate last night with

00:16:37.300 those ridiculous ads, conservatives mowing down little brown children in trucks? Not what we saw 0.99

00:16:43.580 in New York City a couple weeks ago. How about this transgender candidate? Liz, is it a little 1.00

00:16:49.100 strange here? Gender dysphoria is obviously a psychological affliction. Is mental illness just 0.93

00:16:56.580 an occupational hazard of politics? What should be our takeaway from this election?

00:17:01.520 Well, I think the takeaway with this transgender candidate is, first of all, I don't care how 1.00

00:17:05.240 someone identifies at all. You can identify as a multi-gender unicorn cat if you want. If you want

00:17:10.960 to scale back the role of government in our country, then I will support you. But that right there is

00:17:16.280 the difference between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. Republicans want to elect

00:17:21.120 people based off of the principles and the policies that they stand for. Democrats want us to vote for

00:17:25.920 people. Right, exactly. Democrats want us to vote for people on their identity. Furthermore, this is

00:17:30.920 funny to me, actually, that women's groups, especially on Twitter, I think Planned Parenthood and NARAL, 0.99

00:17:35.180 some of the other liberal feminist groups are actually celebrating this as a victory for women. 0.66

00:17:41.100 And they can't even, it's not even a real woman here. This is a man who feels like a woman, who is 0.98

00:17:46.100 dressing like a woman, and somehow that is supposed to be a victory for women. 1.00

00:17:49.200 How dare you? I can't believe we would allow such bigotry on the show.

00:17:50.800 Now I have this Anaya Twain song in my head, which is never a bad thing.

00:17:53.980 Right.

00:17:54.880 Roaming, what is the takeaway here in terms of the culture? Right now, people seem to suggest,

00:18:03.740 the left is suggesting that transgenderism is the new civil rights frontier. Black people were 0.96

00:18:10.000 excluded from many political institutions, then they were allowed in, and that was a great victory. 0.93

00:18:14.300 Women were excluded, that's a great victory. But it is mainstreaming this sort of delusion, 0.98

00:18:20.600 mainstreaming illusory feelings about what one is physically or metaphysically. Is that the next

00:18:27.680 civil rights frontier?

00:18:28.540 I mean, this is a hard issue to talk about, because on the one hand, I'm very sympathetic

00:18:33.780 to people who suffer from gender dysphoria. I can't imagine what that must be like. That's,

00:18:38.160 you know, it's a terrible, terrible mental issue. And I really, really think that, you know,

00:18:42.940 people who are afflicted with that, they deserve our compassion.

00:18:45.860 Plus we're all pals with Blair White.

00:18:47.960 Right. And, but at the same time, I feel like people, especially on the left, the progressive group,

00:18:52.480 they're trying to normalize this, you know, paint this as just perhaps even like as,

00:18:57.240 you know, something like, oh, another sexual orientation, no big deal, very common.

00:19:02.640 And it's not. And what I'm, what I'm really worried about this is how, you know, the, I think her,

00:19:08.600 is it pronounced Rome? I'm not really even sure. You know, I don't have any problem.

00:19:12.500 Roaming, roaming millennial. I don't know, you would know better than I would.

00:19:15.080 But yeah, so, you know, with her, I don't have an issue with her being transgender. I mean, if, 0.99

00:19:21.000 you know, she has good policy suggestions and, you know, she's committed to serving her constituency.

00:19:26.780 But when you, I mean, that clip right there, I mean, she made it all about identity politics.

00:19:32.320 She said that, yeah, you know, I'm, I'm a trans woman and a journalist and I won because of that

00:19:36.660 and all of that. And I think that's really the wrong message to be sending to people that,

00:19:41.460 you know, not only is transgenderism something that we should be tolerant of and accepting toward

00:19:46.540 in society, but we should actually be actively voting for people because they are trans. I mean,

00:19:51.800 that, that doesn't seem like a healthy stance to take toward any mental issue, not just transgenders. 1.00

00:19:57.400 I mean, I mean, like I won because I have clinical depression. That, that doesn't sound right. And

00:20:02.400 it's the same thing for transgenderism. I'm not sure why we're glamorizing it. 0.75

00:20:05.980 Plus, whatever you think about transgenderism, obviously we should never 1.00

00:20:08.940 support sending journalists to our elected institutions.

00:20:11.980 Right. And I'm actually upset with you because you stole my journalism joke about,

00:20:15.520 I was, I was going to be the edge queen.

00:20:18.000 No, sad. To quote a great man, sad. Okay. We, listen, guys, I know this, this might be the

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00:22:11.140 Stephen Hawking, he is, you remember Stephen Hawking. He is predicting, quote, AI, artificial

00:22:18.180 intelligence, could be the worst event in the history of our civilization. You know, some say the

00:22:24.480 world will end in wired. Some say in vice. From all the gadgets I've acquired, I hold with those

00:22:29.720 who favor wired. But if the droids are fair and nice, I think I've seen enough decay to know that

00:22:34.800 for debasement, vice is a-okay and will suffice. Roaming, should we fear our robot overlords?

00:22:41.280 Are we just Luddites afraid of change and progress? I mean, I think we should absolutely fear our robot

00:22:48.460 overlords. If you look at any attempts at AI on the Google team, and they've had something

00:22:54.320 that in the works for a while, they've actually released transcripts of the conversations they've

00:22:59.420 had with this AI. And it's absolutely terrifying. What it presents is like a nihilist view, and

00:23:04.780 I guess very, very condescending view of humanity. Different AIs have also referred to putting people

00:23:11.720 into people zoos. I mean, if we're creating something that's logical, fact-based, I don't see

00:23:18.060 why it would have any reason to not go completely Skynet on all of us. And I mean, if you talk to people

00:23:23.480 like Eon Musk, he kind of seems to share the same views. So I'm not really sure why he's

00:23:28.960 at the forefront of it all. But yeah, I mean, I think it's completely reasonable to be skeptical

00:23:33.040 of AI. And frankly, I'm not sure why so many people are launching such a big push for it.

00:23:39.580 And it is true. When you read those conversations, they're terrifyingly nihilistic,

00:23:43.080 which makes perfect sense, right? Because you've created a contraption that has a version of

00:23:48.240 intelligence, but not consciousness, not a soul, not a relationship to God. So, you know, I'd probably

00:23:54.040 have a pretty bleak view of we sophisticated apes running around also. But I mean, it's kind of

00:24:00.360 interesting if you, whenever I talk to atheists, they often bring up, why would God create something 1.00

00:24:05.580 that he knew was so awful that wouldn't obey him, that would kind of just go against his desires?

00:24:11.420 And I mean, aren't we doing the exact same thing with AI at this point?

00:24:15.760 Plus, also, freedom is a good per se, you know? So whereas a conscious being can have will,

00:24:21.760 and a loving God might give us freedom per se, we're just all making sex robots, you know?

00:24:26.680 Because that's really what civilization... It's going to be over anyway once we get the sex 1.00

00:24:29.740 robots. So I guess if they're going to shoot us too, so bad. Liz, the tech guys are all afraid 0.99

00:24:35.500 of AI. As Roaming points out, Elon Musk and all the rest of them, is it because they have an exalted

00:24:43.180 view of technology or a debased view of humanity? Or both?

00:24:46.720 Both. I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence or robots. I'm afraid of the people who are in

00:24:51.580 charge of them, the people who are programming them. I mean, taking this Stephen Hawking thing,

00:24:56.000 for example, this is the man who wants to give us citizenship. He wants to make these things 0.88

00:25:02.420 people. At the same time, he can't even define an unborn baby as a human being here. He's telling 0.58

00:25:08.660 us that we're on the brink of losing the earth to climate change and global warming, but he comes

00:25:13.840 at that without a scientific fact. These are the people to fear here, not the actual machines,

00:25:18.780 the robots themselves, because that's what they are. They're machines, they're robots. We don't want

00:25:22.660 them, we turn them off. It's evidence too that smart people are so often just the dumbest people in 0.99

00:25:27.000 the world, you know? They're extremely intelligent, but they miss essential facts about the world. 0.98

00:25:33.040 Alicia, would it be possible to stop the advancement of artificial intelligence,

00:25:38.020 even if we wanted to? Not without the Avengers. I mean, I saw Age of Ultron. I don't know about

00:25:43.460 everybody else, but I don't know. I'm definitely team Elon here, and I'm not team Elon on too much

00:25:50.640 because I don't like Teslas or how they took my taxpayer-funded money to stay in the black.

00:25:56.280 But he and Mark Zuckerberg got into this a little bit ago, and I am team Elon that be careful of the

00:26:02.720 robot overlords, and I agree with Liz. I don't really trust the robots themselves or the people

00:26:07.800 that made them and their ability to shut them down, but I mean, let's be honest. Google and Apple and

00:26:13.540 everybody already knows what's happening anyway because of our watches that we wear and our iPhones

00:26:17.360 that we keep with us at all times. That's true. Even Roombas, they discovered even Roombas are 0.97

00:26:22.280 keeping track of your housing plans, so just can't trust anything, not even the beloved Roomba.

00:26:28.480 Oh, that's no good. And when the sex robot becomes the Roomba, then we're really lost. They have a lot

00:26:34.260 of information. I cut you off, Liz. No, I just said that's heartbreaking, and I thought Roombas were

00:26:39.020 just toys for cats. Nothing is sacred anymore. I am glad to hear, Alicia, too, that you're not on

00:26:47.000 team Elon mostly because I don't care how much they try to make environmentally friendly cars seem

00:26:52.360 cool. They aren't cool. The only cool hybrid is a Lamborghini that burns gasoline and motor oil.

00:26:57.700 That is a cool hybrid. Nothing else is cool. Stop pretending. Okay, let's move on to sexual

00:27:02.840 harassment. Finally, we get a little sex. So there's all this stuff about Kevin Spacey. He 0.98

00:27:07.220 sexually harassed some 18-year-old in Nantucket or Fire Island or who knows, like places that are made 0.91

00:27:12.580 for sexual harassment, crazy summer parties and all of this. But those are the serious allegations.

00:27:17.900 Here's a much more important one. Mariah Carey's former bodyguard is accusing her of sexual harassment.

00:27:24.780 According to page six, Carey, quote, beckoned him to her hotel room where she was dressed in sheer 1.00

00:27:31.080 lingerie, and then she performed sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by the bodyguard. 1.00

00:27:37.980 I'm almost getting choked up reading this harrowing account of this awful assault and harassment. I

00:27:44.060 can't believe. In 2017 America, people, though, never believe male victims. Why do we treat male

00:27:50.520 sexual harassment differently than female sexual harassment? Well, I think it's part of our societal

00:27:57.080 instinct to regard men as always being the predators, as always being the aggressors,

00:28:02.720 you know, the ones who are out there looking for sex. And then, you know, as gentle woman folk,

00:28:06.780 or just the, you know, the delicate flowers who can either choose to accept or reject the advances.

00:28:11.440 I think it's very modern of Mariah to, you know, try and bridge that gap in the sexual harassment cases. 1.00

00:28:16.520 You know, it's very, very progressive. But I think this is kind of representative of the larger

00:28:23.360 problem we're seeing, Hollywood, of just abuse of power. You know, people who are in these positions

00:28:27.840 where they're, you know, they're someone's boss, they're in charge of them financially, whatever,

00:28:31.840 kind of breaking that trust that exists between a boss and employer, subordinate and their superior.

00:28:37.900 And I mean, if it's true that this happened, this is this is really too bad. It's unfortunate. And

00:28:42.260 hope it wasn't too scarring for the bodyguard, because I'm not I'm not sure when exactly this

00:28:46.640 was alleged to happen. But Mariah now and see through lingerie. I don't know.

00:28:51.260 Fair enough. I get you know, I guess I'll take the radical position here that I don't think it is

00:28:56.080 possible for a big strong bodyguard to be sexually harassed by Mariah Carey. I know this is radical in

00:29:00.980 2017. But there is this double standard, you know, and you always see that image not harassing to the

00:29:07.080 eyes. It could be I haven't seen Mariah in a while. You're I'm thinking of like 2002 2003. But

00:29:12.220 you're right. I mean, 2017, that could be a lot. Alicia, there is this double standard. You know,

00:29:18.980 the teacher, the cute blonde teacher has sex with a 15 or 16 year old male student. And all of the 0.99

00:29:26.280 guys say, Oh, where were those teachers when I was in school? But should there be a double standard?

00:29:32.880 Are male and female views of sexuality different? Male and female views and instincts and just the way 0.85

00:29:38.240 that we were sorry, made by God are definitely different. I think we're triggered by different

00:29:42.240 things. We're turned on by different things. We're trying to turn off by different things.

00:29:45.920 And I think that the study of this, the New York Times actually, believe it or not, had an interesting

00:29:50.960 piece about this that unlike other crimes, sexual predators or men that are accused of rape is very

00:29:57.200 different and cannot be broken down by race, ethnicity, financial background, upbringing, etc.

00:30:03.260 But they're the two things that are typically known is that when they come to power, they feel more

00:30:09.220 empowered to do things and get away with it. And when they're surrounded by other people that are

00:30:13.520 guilty of the same thing. And I think that that's what we've seen in this Hollywood culture, that it

00:30:16.820 wasn't just Harvey Weinstein. It was other people around him. And if they look at Harvey and said, Oh,

00:30:20.480 well, he can get away with it. Why can't I? Then that kind of creates a really bad snowball effect of one guy

00:30:27.280 doing it and then another guy doing it and thinking that they can get away with it. And that's what creates

00:30:31.240 more victims and and more predators. And Mariah Carey. I've never thought of lumping Mariah Carey,

00:30:36.740 Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein into any bucket, you know, together. But I mean, can we claim

00:30:41.800 harassment for her New York, you know, New York Times Square? Yeah, I was certainly triggered,

00:30:48.300 possibly harassed. All right. Well, poor Mariah, poor bodyguard. You know, I hope I hope he recovers

00:30:53.700 from the trauma. Our hearts go out to him. The California NAACP, the California NAACP is now

00:31:01.060 claiming that the national anthem is racist. According to CA NAACP, XYZ, LMNOP, President

00:31:08.460 Alice Huffman, quote, This song is wrong. It shouldn't have been there. We didn't have it

00:31:13.920 until 1931, so it won't kill us if it goes away. All right. It won't kill us if it stays

00:31:18.620 there, too, right? By that by that logic. Huffman also claims that Colin Kaepernick's NFL

00:31:24.500 take a knee protest that the message was distorted and it became about the flag. Initially, it wasn't

00:31:29.640 about the flag. And then it was distorted beyond recognition to become about the flag.

00:31:33.920 So now, in order to find something to, quote, bring us back together, she is protesting the flag. She's 0.56

00:31:39.860 protesting the Star-Spangled Banner. The line in question that they're talking about is from the

00:31:44.280 third stanza that nobody has ever actually sung, but good, fair enough stanza, no refuge could save

00:31:50.360 the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. Now, Alicia, you know that

00:31:57.960 Americans don't study history ever anymore. Before we get to what that means, did this NAACP 1.00

00:32:05.240 state president just completely validate Trump's characterization of take a knee, right? He said it

00:32:11.040 was about the flag. Everyone said it's not about the flag. And then she comes back and says it's

00:32:14.740 about the flag. Is the Kaepernick protest a protest of the American flag and therefore the country that

00:32:20.180 symbolizes? Absolutely. And I think it always has been. And I think that Kaepernick and lots of people

00:32:24.420 that jumped to defend him were trying to be like, oh, no, no, no, no. It's not an insult to the

00:32:28.060 military. It's about Trump. Or no, no, no, no, no. It's not about the flag. It's about Trump. But it

00:32:32.800 just goes to show, like you said, they don't study American history and they don't understand the

00:32:36.200 basics or the fundamentals of the flag or what it stands for and that it doesn't matter who's in the

00:32:41.000 White House. The eight years of Obama, I didn't like that guy either. But I still, you know, pledged

00:32:45.300 allegiance to the flag and sang the national anthem at every public event or ball game I went to.

00:32:49.560 That's true. Roaming, you're a well-known multi-ethnic racist. Is the national anthem 0.99

00:32:54.560 racist? No, I don't think so. And, you know, it's kind of great because Trump will come out and he'll

00:33:01.060 say these like ridiculous things like, you know, first is the Confederate monuments. Then, you know, 0.95

00:33:04.780 what's it going to be the White House next? And like as crazy as those are, they prove him right.

00:33:09.280 It's the, you know, the most uncanny thing. And I think with this, it's really, it really just is

00:33:14.800 hysteria. I mean, if you look at how the anthem is sung right now, there's absolutely nothing racist in it.

00:33:19.260 I mean, a stanza that's not included that most, like 99% of people I would rate wager don't know

00:33:25.420 about versus, you know, what the, what the anthem has come to mean to so many people across the

00:33:30.760 country. I think it is just ridiculous that there, that they would even think that this would be a

00:33:35.740 good idea. I mean, like you can say that if we didn't have it before 1930, well, like what's,

00:33:39.380 what's the big deal? I mean, we didn't have women's suffrage, you know, we didn't have like,

00:33:44.160 just because it hasn't existed for the entirety of the nation's history. That doesn't mean that

00:33:49.040 it's not important to it anymore. I'm not sure what even argument they're trying to make with

00:33:52.700 that. Of course. And the poem, by the way, the defense of Fort McHenry was written in 1814

00:33:57.540 about the war of 1812. And this point, you know, on this point of the third stanza, people don't

00:34:07.100 don't know what it means. And I don't mean that like I know what it means. Nobody knows what it

00:34:10.820 means because Francis Scott Key, who wrote it, never told anyone what it means. What we do know

00:34:16.340 is that the British policy of impressment was a major issue in the war of 1812. So the, what Brits

00:34:23.380 were doing was capturing sailors and then forcing them to fight for them. So plenty of credible 0.61

00:34:28.140 historians think that that's what the slaves there are referring to. If they are referring to American

00:34:33.260 slaves, they're not referring to any old regular American slave. They're referring to American

00:34:37.200 slaves who fought for the British. The reason I'm impressed by the impressment argument is that 0.85

00:34:42.960 the first word is hirelings, right? So they're referring to the typical British practice of using

00:34:48.020 mercenary troops, Hessians in the, in the revolutionary war, hiring out troops from Germany and, and

00:34:54.000 elsewhere. So, uh, of course, no one, uh, certainly not this woman, Alice Huffman, but very few people

00:35:00.860 who take issue with that stanza have any idea about any of the history of the, of the song, the poem,

00:35:06.860 the war of 1812, the British army, none of it, right? Because why read a history book when you

00:35:12.000 can just tweet out a hot take? Liz, where does it end? Does it end as roaming suggests with taking

00:35:18.700 down statues of Washington? You know, if we're going to ban every person, place, and thing that

00:35:24.380 falls short of the glory of God, then we're not, we're only going to be left with Jesus. And look what

00:35:29.460 they did to Jesus. The only guy we'll be left with is Jesus. Look, they didn't treat him very well.

00:35:33.140 Does this, I don't know. I was just gonna say, I don't think that we are, uh, that the glory of

00:35:39.020 God is not under attack too. Just look at what happened after the Sutherland Springs shooting

00:35:42.920 liberals all over Twitter. Even our elected representatives were attacking prayer. They

00:35:48.500 were attacking Christians who said that we were going to pray for these people. The only thing 0.98

00:35:53.180 that our nation can do after a tragedy like this. Yeah, this is not, this is not about patriotism.

00:35:57.740 I'm going to go back to the point that you made about distinguishing what, uh, what Colin

00:36:01.900 Kaepernick's original take a knee protest was about. If you ask any one of those players,

00:36:07.720 not one in 10 would actually know what they're protesting because it morphs. It morphs from

00:36:12.520 Colin Kaepernick's original protest of police brutality, which we know is a false narrative 0.96

00:36:16.960 to being about the flag because America is inherently racist and white supremacist and 0.95

00:36:22.000 the patriarchy. And then it morphs again into just hatred of Trump. They're going to latch onto 0.98

00:36:26.500 anything they can to take Trump down because that's what they want to do. And if they have to

00:36:30.120 instill anti-Americanism to do it, they're going to create it wherever they can.

00:36:33.940 You know, we've, we talked a lot yesterday on the hundredth anniversary of the Russian 1.00

00:36:37.000 revolution of the October revolution about useful idiots. And we see them galore here. Useful 1.00

00:36:42.200 idiots and idiots in part, not because they're unintelligent, but because they're absolutely 1.00

00:36:46.940 ignorant and uncurious about the things that they're shrieking and hysterical over. Ladies, 1.00

00:36:52.020 I wish I could keep you on the panel all day and for all the rest of the panels because

00:36:55.640 instead I'm going to have to talk to Jacob Berry or somebody. Thank you for being here. We have,

00:36:59.860 for the first time, OAN's Liz Wheeler. We have from the YouTube's Rummy Millennial, 0.52

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 08, 2017

Ep. 55 - Last Night’s Big Winner： The MSM Narrative!

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