The Michael Knowles Show - May 26, 2020


Ep. 551 - Racists, Rapists, and Murderers


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Joe Biden says if you don t know if you re going to vote for Trump or for him, then you ain t black. Is this a racist comment? Is this racist? Is Joe Biden a racist? Does this mean anything after 50 years of being abused by the political left?

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00:00:00.080 Joe Biden informs 40 million black Americans that if they support our president, they ain't black.
00:00:07.540 Is Joe Biden a racist? Is Joe Biden a rapist? 1.00
00:00:10.460 Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar says she believes the woman accusing Biden of sexual assault. 0.96
00:00:16.080 But she's going to vote for Biden anyway.
00:00:18.400 And President Trump accuses MSNBC's Joe Scarborough of murdering a staffer.
00:00:23.440 Some heavy stuff to start the week.
00:00:25.280 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 All right, you all heard the clip.
00:00:37.200 Is Joe Biden a racist?
00:00:39.120 Does the word racist even mean anything after 50 years of being totally abused by the political left?
00:00:45.500 We will play the clip for you and then we will play all of the many, many excuses that the left is making for Joe.
00:00:53.180 Because, you know, of course they are.
00:00:55.560 Joe Biden is on this show with the radio character Charlemagne Tha God.
00:01:00.000 And the interview was actually going fairly well.
00:01:03.200 And then Joe Biden made this now infamous statement that if you do not know if you're going to vote for Trump or for Joe Biden, then you ain't black.
00:01:14.800 But I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.90
00:01:20.820 So listen to what he's saying.
00:01:22.380 What he's saying is actually a little bit more radical, even than what some people are suggesting.
00:01:26.100 He's not saying that if you're a Republican and you're black, then you ain't black.
00:01:30.200 He's not saying that if you're not going to vote for me, then you ain't black.
00:01:34.680 It's actually even further than that.
00:01:36.580 What he's saying is if you even have the slightest question as to whether or not you're going to vote for me, if it even enters into your mind that it would be possible to vote for a Republican, then you ain't black.
00:01:51.300 In order to be authentically black, according to Joe Biden, you have to be unconsciously Democratic, unconsciously left wing. 0.73
00:02:03.640 Obviously, that is absurd. 0.86
00:02:07.580 The craziest image of all, the most absurd image of all is that Joe Biden, one of the whitest people that has ever walked the face of the earth, is now telling someone like Kanye West that he is not black. 0.96
00:02:20.680 Telling someone like Tim Scott that he is not black. 0.92
00:02:24.940 Telling someone like Alan West that he's not black.
00:02:27.120 Right.
00:02:27.280 The list goes on and on.
00:02:29.220 The left immediately started making excuses for him.
00:02:31.720 Close your eyes.
00:02:33.840 Imagine what the headlines would look like if a Republican had made a similar statement.
00:02:39.820 Could you imagine?
00:02:41.500 Right.
00:02:41.780 It would be wall to wall coverage, outrageous.
00:02:44.760 He has to resign.
00:02:46.400 This is like David Duke is running for president.
00:02:49.320 Right.
00:02:49.480 That's that's what you would have heard.
00:02:50.560 But because it was Joe Biden, he was a Democrat.
00:02:52.640 Here are the headlines.
00:02:53.100 CNN.
00:02:55.000 What Biden said was outrageous, but some say so was the reaction.
00:03:01.720 Some say that, eh?
00:03:05.360 Who is some?
00:03:07.080 Is some is some the nickname of John Blake, CNN writer?
00:03:10.740 It's that that seems to me very likely or not even John Blake, the writer, but whoever the editor is that wrote that headline.
00:03:18.000 This is something that the left always does when they get a bad series of headlines and they want to counter that narrative.
00:03:25.360 They say, OK, here's the headline.
00:03:27.360 Yeah, that's really bad.
00:03:28.620 But some say it's not that bad.
00:03:31.260 And then the some who say it are always just the left wing journalists who are writing writing the headlines.
00:03:36.180 So that's CNN.
00:03:37.700 You get from Vox.
00:03:39.400 Do Joe Biden's you ain't black comments ultimately matter?
00:03:44.760 No, of course not.
00:03:47.660 If Joe were a Republican, they would matter a whole lot.
00:03:51.400 But no, do they matter?
00:03:52.820 No.
00:03:53.420 Now, this is the Clinton strategy.
00:03:55.240 The Vox, the Vox headline is what you would always see from the Clintons, which is that the Clintons would have some scandal and then they would just immediately tamp it down.
00:04:04.420 And say, this is old news.
00:04:06.200 We mean it's old news.
00:04:07.040 This scandal happened yesterday.
00:04:08.180 Now it's old news.
00:04:08.920 It happened yesterday.
00:04:09.900 Today's today.
00:04:10.520 It's not a big deal.
00:04:11.700 Move on.
00:04:12.640 The organization move on.org, the very prominent left wing organization, was founded to to get the Clintons through the impeachment.
00:04:20.360 And they said, well, look, we got to move on.
00:04:21.800 This is old news.
00:04:22.840 No big deal.
00:04:24.060 Doesn't matter.
00:04:25.380 Nothing to see here, folks.
00:04:26.480 That's what Vox.com did. 0.93
00:04:28.000 And then my favorite one came from the most ridiculous of all of those newspapers. 0.91
00:04:32.740 Here's the Washington Post. 0.96
00:04:35.580 Democracy dies in darkness.
00:04:37.340 This headline on an article by Jonathan Capehart.
00:04:41.360 Come on.
00:04:42.740 Biden's you ain't black comment was clearly a joke.
00:04:50.320 What was the joke?
00:04:51.840 I saw some people on social media try to say this, that Joe Biden was joking.
00:04:57.680 And so, therefore, it's not an offensive comment.
00:04:59.960 What's the joke?
00:05:02.940 Look, I'm, I'm perfectly willing to give people grace if they're telling jokes.
00:05:07.340 What is the joke that black people have to vote for Democrats?
00:05:12.540 Is that, I guess that's the, that's what he's saying. 0.99
00:05:14.940 The joke is black people can't think for themselves. 1.00
00:05:18.040 The joke is black people need to vote the way that this white man tells them to vote. 1.00
00:05:22.640 That, ha ha, isn't that the joke? 0.98
00:05:24.460 Ha ha, look, it's clearly, yeah, I know.
00:05:26.080 So I, if that's the joke, I get the joke, but that's what is offensive.
00:05:30.500 So it's not a joke.
00:05:33.280 I mean, a joke requires a setup and a punchline.
00:05:36.280 A joke requires some humor.
00:05:37.780 That's not what Joe Biden was saying.
00:05:38.980 Joe Biden's point was, was pretty blunt, which is that if you are black, you must vote for Democrats. 0.62
00:05:44.860 And if you don't vote for a Democrat, you lose your blackness.
00:05:48.620 That, then this is the kind of ideological point that they come to.
00:05:52.060 Somehow there is a difference between being racially black and being politically black.
00:05:59.320 And the one that actually matters more is whether you are politically black, regardless of your skin color. 0.88
00:06:06.240 This is the precise point that was made by a New York Times writer, not just any New York Times writer, a woman who just won the Pulitzer Prize for that 1619 project, that completely anti-historical trash that the New York Times is using to try to rewrite American history. 0.58
00:06:24.100 This woman's name is Hannah Jones. 0.98
00:06:25.560 And she said, basically, just what I just said.
00:06:28.120 She said, quote, there is a difference between being politically black and being racially black.
00:06:34.500 I am not defending anyone, but we all know this and should stop pretending that we don't.
00:06:41.540 So she is defending him, and it is a repulsive comment, what she's saying.
00:06:46.660 This is what ideologies do.
00:06:50.480 This is, you know, I tried, I tried not to be too ideological on this show.
00:06:54.940 I have a point of view, I have a vision of the world, but I try not to be ideological.
00:07:00.320 And the difference is this.
00:07:01.860 What ideologues do is they prioritize their ideas over reality.
00:07:07.020 So when reality comes to contradict their ideas, they don't deny their ideas, they deny the reality.
00:07:15.240 This is something you would hear as a kind of joke about ideologues.
00:07:18.540 They'll say, who cares if it works in practice?
00:07:21.060 Does it work in theory, right?
00:07:23.300 It's all about prioritizing ideas over reality.
00:07:26.340 When the two conflict, they go with their own theories.
00:07:30.320 And this is where we see identity politics really delve into the realm of the absurd.
00:07:37.040 The idea here is that if you are, say, Tim Scott, right, a Republican black senator, you are not really black.
00:07:48.820 If you're Clarence Thomas, right, you're a conservative black jurist, you're not really black. 0.99
00:07:53.920 I mean, sure, your skin is black, but blackness is something deeper than skin color.
00:07:58.640 It is, according to the left, a political ideology.
00:08:03.300 And so Bill Clinton, right, very much a white guy, is the first black president in certain colloquial understandings.
00:08:11.100 Sarah Palin is not a woman. 0.79
00:08:13.340 I once read, kid you not, I read a gender studies paper, a published academic gender studies paper that denied that Sarah Palin is a woman because of her ideology, because her ideology is conservative.
00:08:29.360 Or her, I guess her philosophy is conservative, or her lack of ideology is her ideology, right?
00:08:35.800 Rick Grinnell, he is the acting DNI. 0.58
00:08:39.680 He's a homosexual, but he's not really a homosexual. 0.54
00:08:43.040 You see, according to the left, he can't possibly really be a homosexual because he is more conservative. 0.94
00:08:49.260 He's not a leftist. 0.70
00:08:50.660 For the left, black is not a race.
00:08:56.400 It is an ideology. 0.79
00:08:57.780 Woman is not a sex. 1.00
00:08:59.540 It's an ideology. 0.57
00:09:00.660 Gay is not a sexual preference. 0.88
00:09:02.560 It is an ideology. 0.96
00:09:05.740 So leftist men can attack Phyllis Schlafly, right? 1.00
00:09:09.200 They can attack Ann Coulter.
00:09:10.620 That's fine. 0.91
00:09:11.320 It's actually feminist to physically attack those women because they're not really women. 1.00
00:09:15.340 And if you attack them, then you're actually the real feminist. 1.00
00:09:18.620 And Kanye isn't really black, according to this ridiculous idea. 0.90
00:09:23.680 You know, a lot of people came in and defended Joe Biden even more. 0.63
00:09:27.520 Is it an effective strategy?
00:09:29.060 Is Joe Biden really a racist?
00:09:30.400 We'll get to that in a second.
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00:10:55.720 So, I don't know if you remember Sheila Jackson Lee.
00:11:00.360 She is a Democratic congresswoman.
00:11:03.500 Not one of the most impressive members of the House of Representatives, but certainly one of the most entertaining.
00:11:09.280 And Sheila Jackson Lee is a black woman.
00:11:12.280 And she rushed to Joe Biden's defense.
00:11:15.940 I don't believe anyone who saw that exchange would in any way suggest that anyone is blacker, blackest, or less black.
00:11:26.980 That exchange was in jest, but on second thoughts, it could have been spoken differently.
00:11:35.360 But I think African Americans are truly one of the most astute political groups in this nation.
00:11:42.680 And they know what is best for them.
00:11:44.540 Their children, their families, their elders.
00:11:49.020 And as relates to the generational divide, if you will, or the unity of such, those who are millennials are clearly astute.
00:11:58.440 And what I would say to you is that that was not what the vice president said in terms of those words.
00:12:06.780 What?
00:12:08.260 What I would say to you is that is not what the vice president said using those words.
00:12:13.700 What I would say to you is the words that you heard Joe Biden say, those are not the words that he actually said.
00:12:18.980 I think they are.
00:12:20.480 I'm pretty sure we have the video and you can replay it.
00:12:23.280 And that's what he said.
00:12:25.000 She ends this really rambling, incoherent, non-argument at the very end with the point that she made at the beginning, which is don't believe your lion ears.
00:12:37.420 He didn't really say that.
00:12:38.280 She opens up, she goes, I don't think anybody was talking about how someone is more black or less black or not black.
00:12:45.060 That's exactly what they were, that's exactly what Joe Biden was talking about and what he said.
00:12:49.420 And we have the tape and he used those exact words.
00:12:51.680 But her strategy, probably a smart strategy here, is just deny it, then say a bunch of words that don't have any meaning next to one another, and then move on. 1.00
00:13:03.040 All right, that's the, that's the Vox.com strategy.
00:13:05.920 It's the Clinton strategy.
00:13:07.100 That's what Democrats do all the time. 1.00
00:13:09.900 And it's an effective strategy.
00:13:11.140 This whole thing is an effective strategy.
00:13:12.680 You know, the, the line itself only occurred to Joe Biden because black Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
00:13:20.460 So it's a sort of polite joke among the left, right?
00:13:23.480 If you don't vote for Democrats, you're not really black. 0.98
00:13:26.100 We're going to rescind your black card. 0.99
00:13:28.620 Identity politics has worked very well.
00:13:30.660 It's a very, very strong motivator.
00:13:32.500 It has forged this reliable political voting block.
00:13:37.260 It's not as though black people always voted for Democrats, not as though they always voted for Republicans before that.
00:13:44.080 There was a time at which the black vote was, was a little more divvied up.
00:13:48.120 Now it's pretty solidly Democratic because identity politics is pretty strong.
00:13:53.680 If you're told what Joe Biden is telling them, which is that not only will you lose a policy or two if you don't vote with me, but you will lose your very identity.
00:14:04.160 Then that's a pretty strong motivator to vote a certain way. 0.99
00:14:07.920 And this comes alongside a long history of Joe Biden's stupid and offensive comments on race. 0.99
00:14:16.420 I marched in the civil rights movement. 1.00
00:14:18.260 I marched with tens of thousands of others.
00:14:20.040 He had not actually marched during the civil rights movement.
00:14:22.660 And kept telling the story anyway.
00:14:25.000 I came out of the civil rights movement.
00:14:26.320 I was one of those guys that sat in and marched and all that stuff.
00:14:29.440 Now his aides went back to say, look, he was in office marching for the idea.
00:14:33.940 That's not the word marching.
00:14:35.200 I was not out, Marty.
00:14:37.740 They're going to put you all back in chains. 0.91
00:14:41.080 Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. 1.00
00:14:44.340 Oh, that's one of all of the Biden comments on this. 0.80
00:14:49.520 I think the one that hits you the most is, hey, look, black kids are poor kids are just as talented as white kids. 0.65
00:14:58.120 What?
00:14:58.920 You're you are conflating a few things there.
00:15:01.000 So is Joe Biden a racist?
00:15:04.400 What does that even mean anymore?
00:15:05.680 What does the word racist mean after the left has used it as just a synonym for people who disagree with us?
00:15:13.940 It's just a synonym for bad.
00:15:15.640 It's just a synonym for not a leftist. 0.98
00:15:18.760 Does Joe Biden hate black people? 0.97
00:15:20.420 No, I don't think he hates black people. 0.96
00:15:22.000 Does Joe Biden make offensive comments about black people? 0.67
00:15:24.320 Yes. 0.96
00:15:24.580 He regularly makes offensive comments about black people. 0.78
00:15:27.880 Do you remember when Obama ran the first time?
00:15:30.480 He said, oh, the first articulate, clean, good looking black candidate.
00:15:37.040 That's a that's a fairy tale, man.
00:15:40.800 That's almost verbatim what he said.
00:15:42.700 You know, he makes these offensive comments a lot.
00:15:45.260 Does Joe Biden take the black vote for granted?
00:15:47.300 Yes.
00:15:47.980 Does that make him a racist?
00:15:49.200 I'll leave you to decide because the word has become very ambiguous.
00:15:52.920 Here's what we do know.
00:15:54.220 Well, the left has spent the last eternity smearing everybody to the right of Hillary Clinton as a bigot. 1.00
00:16:04.180 OK, and so I'm less interested in the Joe Biden story per se.
00:16:07.820 I'm more interested in how we react to it, because the minute that the right does anything even close to the same,
00:16:15.100 accuses our opponents of some kind of bigotry with a lot more evidence, by the way.
00:16:19.020 We're told that's out of bounds.
00:16:20.620 Only the left is allowed to do that, not the right.
00:16:23.400 The right has to shut up and take it.
00:16:25.600 Time and time again, the left is allowed to fight with every single available tactic.
00:16:30.540 And the right is supposed to tie one hand behind our back at least.
00:16:34.540 And Trump is rightly sick of this.
00:16:36.440 So now Donald Trump is just coming out swinging. 0.93
00:16:40.640 He's encouraging claims that people are racists, rapists and even murderers.
00:16:46.840 Should the right take the gloves off?
00:16:48.480 I think the right absolutely should.
00:16:49.900 We've got to be careful not to go too far.
00:16:51.260 There was a big attack that Trump leveled over the weekend.
00:16:53.980 I think it's not necessarily in the totally right direction, but it's pretty funny because it's going to make Joe Biden sweat.
00:16:59.840 We'll get to that in one second, though.
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00:18:10.780 So I think the right should take the gloves off here, absolutely.
00:18:13.980 But we've got to be careful not to make unforced errors and hurt ourselves.
00:18:17.720 President Trump leveled this attack at Joe Biden over the weekend.
00:18:23.340 Mass incarceration has put hundreds of thousands behind bars for minor offenses.
00:18:30.460 Joe Biden wrote those laws.
00:18:32.660 Every major crime bill that's come out of this Congress has had the name Joe Biden on that bill.
00:18:40.920 We do everything but hang people for jaywalking in this bill. 0.91
00:18:44.040 Joe Biden's policies destroyed millions of black lives.
00:18:47.400 Joe Biden may not remember, but we do.
00:18:52.760 So conservatives are against putting criminals in jail now?
00:18:56.500 Is that the idea?
00:18:58.120 Ah, I don't like this ad.
00:18:59.780 I mean, it's in a way a devastating ad, right?
00:19:02.000 Even down to the very last part where the ad says Joe Biden may not remember, but we do because Joe Biden doesn't remember what he had for breakfast this morning.
00:19:10.340 But the point of the ad, do we agree with that now?
00:19:13.040 We, it's very conservative now to not throw criminals in prison.
00:19:17.380 I don't think that's conservative.
00:19:18.460 I, I think actually we should put more criminals in prison.
00:19:23.360 I think we have too many criminals on the street and that's what most conservatives thought until it was politically convenient to attack Joe Biden.
00:19:31.760 Not, not a great way to attack him, I don't think.
00:19:34.820 If it works tactically, fine.
00:19:37.200 I understand there are tactical considerations here, but I think it's going to hurt us in the long term.
00:19:41.960 Okay, we, we got to be careful not to, when we're leveling these attacks and taking the gloves off, let them come back and swing around and hit us again.
00:19:49.380 We got to make sure that these attacks are clean and they don't back us into a corner.
00:19:53.420 The left is really good at this.
00:19:54.780 The left is really good at not necessarily taking a stand.
00:19:58.640 What the left does is it just criticizes, right?
00:20:01.280 It deconstructs.
00:20:02.420 You always hear these kind of terms in the left wing academy.
00:20:06.140 Deconstruction, criticism, critical theory.
00:20:08.540 You just attack your opponent without taking a stand yourself.
00:20:11.560 What I don't like about this ad is it backs us into this corner of saying we basically want to spring criminals from the clink.
00:20:17.220 I don't want to spring criminals from the clink.
00:20:19.560 I want to attack Joe Biden, but I don't want to put myself in a corner where I have to defend something that I, I can't defend.
00:20:25.440 A good example of a, of a solid, wild, crazy attack with the gloves off that doesn't back you into a corner is actually another one that Trump lodged over the weekend.
00:20:37.360 Uh, this is one of his wildest attacks ever.
00:20:40.280 And it was against Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC.
00:20:44.280 President Trump tweets out this comment about Joe Scarborough.
00:20:49.280 This was in response to a tweet that said Trump calls for investigation into Joe Scarborough for the murder of a staffer in 2001.
00:20:57.200 More on that in a moment.
00:20:59.320 Trump tweets out, quote, a blow to her head, body found under his desk, left Congress suddenly, big topic of discussion in Florida. 0.98
00:21:10.400 And he's a nut job with bad ratings. 0.96
00:21:13.500 Keep digging. 0.97
00:21:14.580 Use forensic geniuses. 0.99
00:21:16.480 You madman, you are accusing your political opponent of murder, but it's a pretty clean attack. 0.95
00:21:25.700 Actually, I'm not, I'm not saying I'm, I'm defending the attack per se, but I'm defending the tactic here because Joe Scarborough every day goes out on television, even to the three people who watch it and accuses Trump of all sorts of crazy things. 0.96
00:21:41.820 And so now Trump is swinging back and saying, oh yeah, there's a lot of open questions about how you maybe murdered that staffer.
00:21:47.480 I'm not saying that there's evidence that he murdered the staffer.
00:21:50.880 Here's the story.
00:21:52.120 May 2001.
00:21:53.840 This is five months into Joe Scarborough's fourth term in Congress.
00:21:58.020 He announces all of a sudden that he's going to resign and he says that he wants to spend more time with his kids.
00:22:02.760 It's kind of a strange excuse.
00:22:04.160 You hear this a lot from politicians who are in scandals because if he wanted to spend more time with his kids, presumably he would have thought about that five months earlier.
00:22:11.680 And just not run for a fourth term.
00:22:14.660 Then a couple months later, July 20th, 2001, one of Joe Scarborough's aides, Lori Klausutis, was found dead from a head injury in Joe Scarborough's office in Fort Walden Beach, Florida.
00:22:27.980 Then, this is according to Joe Scarborough at the time, allegations spread all over the internet that he was involved, even though it looked as though it was an accident.
00:22:37.480 I do want to be clear.
00:22:38.680 There is no evidence that Joe Scarborough murdered his staffer.
00:22:43.120 There were rumors at the time that they were having an affair, all sorts of stuff.
00:22:48.020 I mean, this is according to Joe Scarborough himself.
00:22:50.300 And Joe Scarborough even joked about this on another MSNBC show hosted by the shock jock, Don Imus.
00:22:56.800 You know, occasionally we're going to try to help you.
00:22:59.160 And you've just, right, Charles?
00:23:00.340 You've got to listen.
00:23:01.920 Well, tell me what I need to do.
00:23:03.500 Well, no, you're doing great.
00:23:04.440 I mean, don't be afraid to be funny because you are funny.
00:23:07.860 That was a, you know, I asked you why you weren't in Congress. 1.00
00:23:10.220 You said you'd have sex with the intern, then you had to kill her. 1.00
00:23:12.980 I mean, that's pretty risky to say. 1.00
00:23:16.360 What are you going to do?
00:23:17.440 So it could be, you can be very good.
00:23:19.580 I mean, I actually like Keith Olbermann and I like Matthews.
00:23:24.100 And it could work out for you.
00:23:26.500 Well, it's going to be a good lineup.
00:23:27.720 And the guys at NBC and women at NBC, it looks like they're going to stick with us.
00:23:33.620 Okay.
00:23:34.140 So he jokes about it.
00:23:36.040 Here's my take.
00:23:38.140 Do I think Joe, Joe Scarborough murdered his staffer?
00:23:42.180 I think, I think the idea that Joe Scarborough murdered his staffer is at least as plausible
00:23:49.560 as the idea that Donald Trump has secretly been a sleeper cell Manchurian candidate for
00:23:57.440 Moscow all along, all these last 40, 50 years that we've known who he is. 0.73
00:24:02.960 Here's my take.
00:24:03.780 I think that the idea that Joe Scarborough is a murderer is at least as plausible as the 0.99
00:24:09.900 idea that Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist. 0.99
00:24:13.940 Here's what I think. 1.00
00:24:15.620 What's good for the goose is good for the gander. 0.96
00:24:18.240 And if the left is going to reshape our politics to now primarily base itself on insane, ridiculous, 0.87
00:24:30.280 preposterous, radical personal accusations against people, then, you know, I guess it
00:24:37.460 sure would be a shame if some of those accusations flew back on the left, wouldn't it?
00:24:42.260 Here's my take.
00:24:43.220 I mean, what Trump is doing here, even though he's talking about a very serious issue, is
00:24:47.980 actually engaging in a little bit of levity in politics, right?
00:24:51.820 Because the left is saying with a straight face, he's a Manchurian candidate for Moscow. 1.00
00:24:55.620 Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist. 1.00
00:24:56.820 And they're saying this very seriously. 1.00
00:24:58.180 And what Donald Trump does is he goes, he goes, oh yeah.
00:25:01.220 Hey, you guys think Joe Scarborough is a murderer?
00:25:03.700 I don't know.
00:25:04.320 I'm not saying anything.
00:25:05.200 It's just a little weird.
00:25:05.920 You think he might be a murderer?
00:25:07.340 He's actually sort of telling a kind of political joke.
00:25:09.940 And then the joke is getting these self-serious leftists to go even more apoplectic.
00:25:16.800 I think that levity is okay in a time where people are way too self-serious in politics
00:25:22.260 and where one side gets to level outrageous accusations, but then the minute the other
00:25:27.380 side does anything even remotely resembling that, it's a national disgrace.
00:25:32.600 And I also think that there is nothing virtuous about one side of the political aisle completely
00:25:40.600 unilaterally disarming.
00:25:42.540 I don't think there's anything virtuous about the left being able to use a whole host of
00:25:47.600 tactics and the right having to tie their hands behind their backs.
00:25:50.900 And I, in particular, don't think that's virtuous because the left is not virtuous.
00:25:55.280 The left is vice.
00:25:56.660 It is vice mobilized in politics and the right, for all its many flaws, is actually attempting
00:26:04.360 a sort of politics of virtue.
00:26:06.640 And so I don't think it's good for the right to be handicapped and for the left to be able 1.00
00:26:11.400 to do whatever they want.
00:26:12.540 There's nothing good about that.
00:26:14.840 And I'm glad that the right is fighting back, but I want the right to fight back smart.
00:26:18.160 I don't want the right to fight back in a way that's going to hurt us in the long run.
00:26:21.380 The, you, you can't expect the left to play nice or fair or even stick to its own rules.
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00:26:31.040 A great example of this sort of tangentially related to Joe Biden comes from Ilhan Omar.
00:26:36.320 Ilhan Omar, part of the squad, you know, radical leftist freshman congresswoman.
00:26:42.280 Ilhan Omar actually acknowledged that she believes the woman accusing Joe Biden of rape.
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00:28:00.860 So, allegations that Joe Biden is a racist. 0.99
00:28:06.100 Allegations that Joe Biden is a rapist. 0.86
00:28:08.780 Some people believe the allegations, including Ilhan Omar, who told the Sunday Times of London, 0.76
00:28:15.320 quote, I do believe Reed.
00:28:19.100 Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.
00:28:24.200 And then, do you know what she said?
00:28:26.180 She said, believing survivors is consistent with my values.
00:28:31.280 Yes, I endorsed against Biden, and I didn't pick him as our nominee.
00:28:36.220 With that said, in this interview I did on May 6th, we talked about that, and quotes aren't
00:28:40.240 always in context.
00:28:42.640 I will vote for him and help him defeat Trump.
00:28:47.220 Two things at the same time.
00:28:48.720 I do believe Reed. 1.00
00:28:51.260 I do think Joe Biden is a rapist. 1.00
00:28:53.540 That's what that means. 1.00
00:28:54.340 I think Joe Biden sexually assaulted that woman, and I will vote for him. 0.89
00:29:00.860 That's the level of partisan commitment we're talking about.
00:29:05.780 That's what Joe Biden's talking about when he says, if you are even slightly questioning
00:29:10.040 whether you're going to vote for me, you're not black. 0.91
00:29:12.020 That's how deep this identity goes. 0.99
00:29:13.720 That Ilhan Omar would vote for someone she believes to be a rapist because of how deep 0.82
00:29:19.020 that identity goes.
00:29:19.900 You are not merely going to crack that kind of insane identity politics with slightly better
00:29:28.740 arguments or slightly better fine-tuned policy prescriptions about entitlement reform.
00:29:35.100 That ain't going to work.
00:29:36.740 Okay?
00:29:36.980 The way that you're going to crack it is by using all of the tools available to you.
00:29:41.440 That includes cultural tools.
00:29:43.100 That includes the mass media.
00:29:45.320 That includes certain policy arguments.
00:29:48.400 That includes shaking things up.
00:29:50.440 Okay?
00:29:51.000 The old strategy of getting that perfectly precise, totally pure, tie one arm behind your
00:29:57.780 back kind of politics, that has failed.
00:30:01.960 And that is going to continue to fail, and it's going to make problems worse.
00:30:04.900 You've got to get creative.
00:30:06.000 A guy like Trump is a change agent.
00:30:09.120 He is an agent of chaos and politics.
00:30:11.500 And so with all that creativity and chaos, we've just got to make sure that we set ourselves
00:30:16.380 up well in the long term.
00:30:17.840 You've got to win short-term victories, too, because if you lose too many short-term victories,
00:30:21.900 there isn't any long-term to think about.
00:30:24.460 Speaking of consent, we will get to a wild story out of a local news channel that brings
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00:31:53.280 So, there was a crazy, crazy story over the weekend, and it tied in with this kind of consent
00:32:04.680 that we're all talking about.
00:32:06.100 I mean, just think about the Tara Reade story.
00:32:08.020 Think about how crazy this is.
00:32:09.060 You've got a woman who is, who is on Joe Biden's staff, who is certainly much more credibly
00:32:15.500 accusing Joe Biden than anybody accused Brett Kavanaugh.
00:32:19.240 And you've got some people like Ilhan Omar saying, yeah, I believe her, but I don't care.
00:32:28.000 That is a keen level of partisanship.
00:32:31.300 You now have the mainstream media.
00:32:32.620 This was a piece in the Associated Press trying to figure out how do we, how do we finesse
00:32:38.580 the Ilhan Omar angle?
00:32:39.620 How do we say, yeah, we believe her because we have to believe all women because that 1.00
00:32:42.800 was the position we backed ourselves into, but also we want to keep voting for Joe Biden.
00:32:46.800 The way they're going to do that, it's actually pretty brilliant, is now being shown on the
00:32:52.620 pages of the Associated Press.
00:32:53.740 What they're going to do now is imply that this woman is a victim, imply that she's a
00:33:03.000 little bit crazy, and then conclude that she's not a victim of Joe Biden, but she's still a
00:33:07.740 victim so we can feel sorry for her and take her seriously. 0.99
00:33:10.700 That's what they're doing now.
00:33:11.860 They say, quote, Biden accusers life marred by abuse and financial hardship.
00:33:17.120 One thing is clear in the complicated, sometimes contradictory and often chaotic story of Tara
00:33:22.680 Reed, her life has not been easy.
00:33:25.620 Wow.
00:33:26.920 See what they sandwiched in there?
00:33:29.040 It's complicated and it's chaotic.
00:33:31.840 And then right in the middle, sometimes contradictory.
00:33:36.340 So they don't believe her.
00:33:37.700 They don't believe her, but they want you to know that they take her really seriously,
00:33:40.920 even though her central claim, they don't believe because it's contradictory.
00:33:44.400 They don't like her, but her life's not been easy.
00:33:46.480 She's a victim. 0.98
00:33:47.340 Her earliest childhood memory was of being abused by her father.
00:33:49.740 Later, she told her former husband, a man she would later leave after saying he abused
00:33:53.520 her too.
00:33:54.880 Okay.
00:33:55.180 So she got this abuse, but now we're seeing a pattern, right?
00:33:58.940 They're starting to question this pattern.
00:34:01.600 She was also a child of big dreams of being an Olympic skier and studying acting at Juilliard
00:34:05.460 before developing an interest in politics.
00:34:07.680 She was hired in 1992 for a low-level staff job for one of the nation's highest profile senators
00:34:11.920 at the time, Joe Biden.
00:34:13.180 Less than a year later, Reed said, she was again the victim of abuse, assaulted by Biden in the
00:34:17.400 hallway of a Senate office building, an allegation he vehemently denies.
00:34:22.440 So is the, is it real or is this fake?
00:34:26.900 Story is not, what the story is suggesting is she's crazy, but she's had a tough life.
00:34:32.340 And then finally at the end, inconsistencies in her accounts have also complicated matters.
00:34:37.820 Defense attorneys are now reviewing whether she may have testified falsely about her education
00:34:41.240 credentials in multiple domestic violence cases, the Monterey County Weekly and the New
00:34:45.820 York Times first reported.
00:34:47.260 Let's be very clear here.
00:34:49.120 There are many fewer inconsistencies in Tara Reade's account than there were in Christine
00:34:54.760 Blasey Ford's account.
00:34:56.160 Christine Blasey Ford couldn't help but contradict herself.
00:34:59.940 She contradicted herself on when the alleged assault by Brett Kavanaugh happened, where it
00:35:05.500 happened, who was at the party where it happened.
00:35:09.240 She contradicted herself about why she installed a door in her home, which she said was related
00:35:14.160 to the alleged assault, though there was no evidence that that ever happened.
00:35:18.640 She contradicted herself about her fear of flying.
00:35:21.660 She contradicted herself about everything.
00:35:23.020 We don't even know if this woman met Brett Kavanaugh.
00:35:25.720 And yet you never saw any articles about the inconsistencies in her story.
00:35:29.660 You're hearing them now about Tara Reade because they, they don't want to deal with this issue.
00:35:35.720 They've backed themselves into a corner here.
00:35:38.780 And this, this does tie into, in a way, an unrelated story, but the underlying sexual
00:35:45.360 politics is still there.
00:35:46.680 This story out of a local news channel, a girl's being interviewed about coronavirus and
00:35:51.800 why she doesn't wear a mask when she's out at the park.
00:35:54.040 And then out of the blue, some guy walks up and kisses her and the guy finishes kissing
00:36:00.900 her and she's got butterflies. 0.99
00:36:02.280 You know, she's, she's like really enjoyed this kiss and it's a funny little news story
00:36:06.860 and the news plays it all well and good.
00:36:09.240 Right?
00:36:09.780 Wrong.
00:36:10.640 I feel as if masks are not a hundred percent important.
00:36:15.660 Um, I feel as if, if you want to.
00:36:17.580 Sorry to interrupt.
00:36:19.680 A spontaneous kiss from someone that she doesn't know.
00:36:26.140 Oh my God.
00:36:27.520 No, I met him for a second with my dog.
00:36:31.340 That's insane.
00:36:32.800 Are you all right?
00:36:34.320 Yeah, he's so hot.
00:36:36.580 Having met just minutes earlier, Jillian McAllen says she's okay with the kiss.
00:36:42.620 Text me.
00:36:44.320 We asked Jack Ring, the man who initiated the kiss, if he's aware of all the risks of kissing
00:36:49.660 a person you don't know during a pandemic.
00:36:52.320 Do you worry about possibly either of you having that, contracting, passing it, anything?
00:36:56.480 Oh, not, not if you just had it right now, but yeah, I probably do right now, but I think
00:37:00.980 the kiss was worth it.
00:37:02.660 What a great story. 0.99
00:37:04.120 What a great, amid all this stupid political news, what a great story, which is, I guess 0.99
00:37:10.160 these two had met when they were walking their dogs, probably flirted a little bit. 0.99
00:37:13.520 Then she's being interviewed on camera and this guy thinks it would be kind of funny and
00:37:17.160 flirtatious to walk up and while she's on camera, give her a kiss. 0.99
00:37:20.520 And then it's this great moment when he pulls away, she looks like she is just floating
00:37:26.840 on a cloud.
00:37:27.680 She's, she's giggling about it, right?
00:37:29.820 A friend of mine tweeted out this video.
00:37:31.620 She said, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a, and then just that clip, right? 1.00
00:37:36.300 That's the, that's the old line from the feminists in Gloria Steinem. 1.00
00:37:39.100 Women don't need, need men. 1.00
00:37:40.420 And then you fast, fast forward to this and this woman's like gaga over this guy kissing 1.00
00:37:44.480 her, right?
00:37:44.960 So whatever, a sweet story.
00:37:46.420 She walks away, she goes, text me.
00:37:47.460 That was, that was fun, right?
00:37:50.140 Do you know that we now live in such a clinical, sterile, humorless culture that the news channel
00:37:57.460 that aired that segment, a segment that was so charming, I thought it was fake and staged.
00:38:02.780 They ended up having to apologize because according to this news channel, what they just aired was
00:38:09.780 basically tantamount to rape.
00:38:12.140 A follow-up on a story that aired last night on CTV News at 1130.
00:38:16.640 In a story on social distancing, we included an interview with a woman in a park.
00:38:20.960 During the interview, a stranger came up to the woman and kissed her directly on the lips.
00:38:25.160 Our story then focused on the dangers of kissing a stranger on the lips during a pandemic.
00:38:30.020 It was wrong to air this video.
00:38:31.860 The video demonstrated non-consensual behavior and downplayed the fact that what occurred was
00:38:36.520 simply unacceptable and offensive.
00:38:38.460 It does not meet CTV News editorial standards, and we apologize.
00:38:42.780 Oh my gosh.
00:38:44.820 This is exactly what we were talking about at the top of the show. 0.91
00:38:48.660 This is, this is exactly what we're talking about on the racist, rapist, all the kind of hysterical claims. 0.58
00:38:56.300 This is what ideologues do.
00:38:58.840 They have their ideas, and then there's reality.
00:39:02.660 And when their ideas contradict reality, the ideas have to win.
00:39:08.840 The ideas have to clobber reality.
00:39:11.720 Would anybody look at that video?
00:39:14.920 Would anybody look at that interview and say, 0.99
00:39:16.900 that guy raped that girl, the guy who kissed the girl on camera, he raped her? 0.99
00:39:23.260 No. 1.00
00:39:24.420 Least of all, the woman. 1.00
00:39:25.920 The woman was the one who said, text me. 0.99
00:39:28.000 Thanks for that kiss.
00:39:28.780 It ties in, you know, there's a statistic that goes around college campuses that one in five,
00:39:34.360 or even one in four, some say, women, are raped on college campus.
00:39:38.360 Meaning that Harvard Yard is more dangerous for women than downtown Fallujah, right? 1.00
00:39:42.660 That obviously isn't true.
00:39:46.320 One of the places that that number comes from is a survey that was sent out.
00:39:51.020 It was conducted by activist feminists to get, ascertain what happened in people's sexual lives 1.00
00:39:57.360 and concluded that one in five or one in four women on college campuses have been raped.
00:40:02.600 Even though the women themselves did not think that they were raped.
00:40:06.300 So the women who this actually happened to disputed the ideologues interpretation of their situation. 0.70
00:40:16.000 But the ideologues always have to win.
00:40:19.440 Likewise, consider the other side of this.
00:40:22.080 If Joe Biden actually did what he's being accused of, I'm not saying he is.
00:40:25.660 I don't know that I believe this woman. 1.00
00:40:27.100 But Ilhan Omar says she does believe this woman.
00:40:29.280 And what this woman said is that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her. 0.95
00:40:32.220 Even according to that description, Joe Biden can't really be a rapist.
00:40:40.640 And therefore, Ilhan Omar could endorse him for president because Joe Biden is a Democrat.
00:40:46.340 And look, Democrats just don't do that sort of thing.
00:40:48.620 Left-wingers, look, that's the sort of thing that milquetoast federal judges like Brett Kavanaugh do.
00:40:52.760 But not good Democrats like Joe Biden.
00:40:56.220 Same thing with the racism.
00:40:57.540 Did Joe Biden do a racism?
00:40:59.100 Did he make a racist comment on that show where he said, if you don't know if you're going to vote for me, then you ain't black?
00:41:06.060 I guess, but, you know, certainly by the left standards, that would be considered racist.
00:41:10.420 But it can't be racist if Joe Biden does it because he's a Democrat.
00:41:16.440 If you're a black person and you vote for Donald Trump, are you still a black person? 0.76
00:41:20.420 Yes, of course. 0.96
00:41:21.220 In reality, that's true.
00:41:22.480 But not according to the ideology and for the left, when the ideology and the reality come into conflict, the ideology's got to win.
00:41:31.440 I mean, consider, consider that famous photograph from World War II, you know, at VJ Day, Victory Over Japan Day, when the sailor comes back and they're in Times Square and he dips that nurse and they're kissing.
00:41:42.600 This is saying, this is one of the classic photographs ever taken.
00:41:47.720 So embodies the spirit of the country.
00:41:51.200 And for at least 60 years after, probably 65 years after that photo was taken, it was considered this wonderful moment of relief, of love, of victory, right?
00:42:06.900 But then, starting about 10 years ago, people started to reinterpret that image and say that was an image of rape, of sexual assault.
00:42:16.620 Seriously, that's how this is discussed among the left.
00:42:20.680 Would anybody look at the image of the sailor kissing the nurse and say that's rape?
00:42:24.480 No, of course not.
00:42:25.840 But according to the ideology, it is.
00:42:27.380 And so they have to deny the physical reality and go with the ideology.
00:42:31.900 You see this not just in the realm of our sex politics.
00:42:35.400 You see this even when it comes to something like coronavirus.
00:42:40.140 New York Times publishes a incredibly demagogic, emotionally manipulative piece over the weekend.
00:42:46.720 But, you know, hey, that's the New York Times.
00:42:48.660 This is an editorial.
00:42:49.760 It's, it's, I mean, I guess it's a technically a news story.
00:42:53.260 Really, it's an editorial, though.
00:42:54.280 It's signed by the New York Times called An Incalculable Loss, talking about the victims of coronavirus.
00:43:00.500 America is fast approaching a grim milestone in the coronavirus outbreak.
00:43:05.660 Each figure here represents one of the nearly 100,000 lives lost so far, but a count only reveals so much.
00:43:10.900 Memories gathered from obituaries across the country help us to reckon with what was lost.
00:43:15.460 So just from the very beginning, the headline is not true, right?
00:43:21.000 Because what the headline is saying is that the loss is incalculable, and then they immediately give you the calculation.
00:43:25.020 They say it's about 100,000 people, and then they list all of these people in the article.
00:43:30.240 So it is calculable.
00:43:31.720 Now, I guess the point they would say is, well, you can't possibly calculate the value of a human life.
00:43:38.260 Yeah, of course, that's, I, I certainly agree with that.
00:43:40.500 But then, then no calculation involving anything in the social sciences is possibly useful, right?
00:43:46.940 Because, I guess the only calculations that you could then really calculate would be purely abstract ones like mathematics.
00:43:52.600 But, the minute you bring a human being into it, then it's incalculable, according to the New York Times.
00:43:57.780 Or, it's calculable, and they're just being demagogues.
00:44:01.020 Sure, you could say, there's no way to quantify a human life.
00:44:03.960 Yeah, I agree.
00:44:04.780 But we still have statistics, right?
00:44:06.100 We still have death statistics, crime statistics, health statistics.
00:44:09.640 So we do calculate them in some way.
00:44:11.620 But they're trying to prime you up for this emotional manipulation.
00:44:16.300 Then they just start listing people, right?
00:44:17.840 So they'll say, auditor in Silicon Valley, Patricia Dowd, 57.
00:44:22.180 I'll say a little bit about her.
00:44:23.700 Great grandmother with an easy laugh.
00:44:26.140 Marion Kruger, 85.
00:44:27.500 Kirkland, Washington.
00:44:28.340 It's really sad, right?
00:44:29.340 You're just talking about people who, who died.
00:44:32.320 And you'll see all the various people there.
00:44:35.260 Then you get to the sixth name on the list.
00:44:38.080 Just number six.
00:44:40.780 Jordan Driver Haynes, 27 of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
00:44:44.640 See, 27.
00:44:45.300 Not a lot of 27-year-olds die from coronavirus.
00:44:47.680 Do a little quick little Google search.
00:44:48.980 Turns out, he didn't die from coronavirus.
00:44:50.480 He was murdered.
00:44:52.540 But now, in our kind of quirky calculations of this virus, where the numbers keep changing.
00:44:59.120 Sometimes they go down.
00:44:59.940 Sometimes they go up.
00:45:01.340 Sometimes the criteria get a little bit different.
00:45:03.160 Sometimes thousands of people who weren't even tested for the virus are just added to
00:45:06.520 the death roll.
00:45:08.120 Number six on the New York Times emotional manipulation list was just murdered.
00:45:12.680 It's just as sad to be murdered.
00:45:17.060 But it's not coronavirus.
00:45:19.260 An autopsy has ruled the death of Jordan Haynes, a homicide.
00:45:21.740 His body was found in a vehicle in a wooded area off of I-380 on March 12.
00:45:27.040 Details regarding the homicide aren't being released.
00:45:30.480 The journalist who, I don't know who put this one together because it's just signed by the New York Times.
00:45:34.680 And they just Googled COVID-19, coronavirus or something like that.
00:45:40.240 And then because in this guy's obituary, it said that his funeral services were delayed because of COVID-19.
00:45:48.480 She just added him to the list.
00:45:50.640 How many people is that being done for?
00:45:53.220 How many?
00:45:53.500 I mean, in one day in New York, they added, I think, 3,700 people to the death count who never tested positive for coronavirus.
00:46:00.400 Did they die from coronavirus?
00:46:01.680 Maybe.
00:46:02.040 I don't know.
00:46:03.200 But the people who added their names to the list don't know either.
00:46:07.620 But this is the trouble.
00:46:08.760 We were told, according to the main model that shut down the entire world, that 2.4 million Americans were going to die from coronavirus.
00:46:14.580 Remember?
00:46:15.080 And that didn't happen.
00:46:16.440 Good.
00:46:16.740 Thank God.
00:46:17.140 So please, that didn't happen.
00:46:18.820 But it wasn't like it was 2.4, then it was 2 million or 1.5 million or 1 million or 500,000.
00:46:26.060 Now, the numbers have been way reduced.
00:46:28.360 I think now we're at about, as the New York Times says, about 100,000 deaths.
00:46:32.440 So even if it's 200,000 deaths, even if it's twice as much as we see now, which seems unlikely,
00:46:40.100 that's still, that's an over an order of magnitude less than they initially told us.
00:46:44.240 So they've got to build and build and build.
00:46:47.320 They've got to craft the narrative, even when it contradicts the facts.
00:46:51.700 And they will do this on any issue, from race to rape to murder to pandemics to anything.
00:47:00.020 We have got to fight against that.
00:47:02.240 That is an irrational way to conduct your politics.
00:47:06.100 Fine.
00:47:07.000 The solution to that is not going to be giving the slightly more honed in arguments.
00:47:12.180 Oh, if we just improve our argument by 2%, then finally we'll, we'll win back the culture.
00:47:18.520 No, we're fighting a much more difficult adversary.
00:47:22.400 We have got to be creative in that as well.
00:47:24.520 We've got to use all the tools at our disposal.
00:47:26.600 Sometimes that's levity.
00:47:28.120 Sometimes that's history.
00:47:30.860 Sometimes that's humor.
00:47:33.600 Sometimes that's a personal attack.
00:47:35.760 Sometimes you got to do that.
00:47:37.400 That is what is at our disposal.
00:47:38.720 We've just got to make sure that we don't back ourselves into a corner, even while we
00:47:43.300 start fighting.
00:47:43.980 A lot, big lesson of the Trump era is to free ourselves up, use the tactics at our disposal.
00:47:48.980 That's going to be chaotic.
00:47:50.260 That's going to be a little bit crazy.
00:47:52.260 But if the only way that we're possibly going to win is if we untether ourselves and start
00:47:58.600 to engage with the reality of the political situation.
00:48:01.880 Because if we don't, if we continue to live in this abstract idea that we have of politics
00:48:06.560 as it really is not, then frankly, we're doing exactly the same thing that the left does.
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