The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 6 - Google's Church of PC Excommunicates A Heretic

00:00:00.000 A Google software engineer this week circulated a memo criticizing company policy with regard to tolerance and diversity,

00:00:07.920 for which diverse opinion Google tolerantly fired him.

00:00:11.140 We'll analyze, plus, we'll analyze, pardon, the church of political correctness and its heretics. 0.91

00:00:16.460 Plus, Amanda Prestigiacomo, Paul Bois, and Jacob Airy joined the panel of deplorables to discuss bureaucrats' climate change coup,

00:00:23.940 the MSM's declaration of Trump's demise, and coddled guide dogs.

00:00:28.060 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:36.880 All right, so you may be noticing if you're watching this on video, I have glasses now.

00:00:42.760 I made it 27 years without glasses. Unfortunately, the old eyes, I know, I'm not happy about it.

00:00:48.920 But, you know, actually, I think this could be a good thing for two reasons.

00:00:51.800 One, we're going to be talking about those nerds at Google today, so if I'm going to be a four-eyes, this is as good a time as any.

00:00:57.960 Also, this will help me complete my full transformation into Rachel Maddow.

00:01:02.680 So I've got the show now. I've got the hair and the physical stature.

00:01:07.460 Now I also have the glasses. I'm very happy to say that.

00:01:10.340 Okay, we have got to get to this.

00:01:13.120 The other thing about these glasses, I only need them for distance, so I have to keep taking them on and off.

00:01:16.940 To quote a great man, sad.

00:01:18.200 We need to talk about this engineer. His name is James D'Amore, or D'Amore.

00:01:24.140 I'll pronounce it the Italian way, because I want to believe that it was an Italian-American who published this beautiful memo that is upsetting everybody at Google.

00:01:32.420 The memo is titled, Google's Ideological Echo Chamber, and it went viral.

00:01:37.400 It was criticizing the culture that they have instilled at Google of political correctness and diversity and tolerance and this, that, and the other thing.

00:01:45.420 He's, of course, been fired for bringing up a diverse idea.

00:01:49.520 So he's, he's lost his job after this memo went viral, both in the company and on the internet outside of the company.

00:01:55.700 Now, before we unfairly lambast Google, I think it would only be fair to go to Google CEO Sundar Pichai for comment.

00:02:03.480 Do we have him?

00:02:04.540 Welcome to Tolerance Camp.

00:02:07.440 You are here because you would not accept people's differences, because you refuse to accept the life choices of your fellow man.

00:02:15.180 Well, those days are now over.

00:02:17.060 Here you will work every hour of every day until you submit to being tolerant of everybody.

00:02:23.680 Here, intolerance will not be tolerated.

00:02:27.760 Wow, very profound words.

00:02:30.500 Not the accent that I expected from a name like Sundar Pichai, but he went on and explained a little bit more.

00:02:36.300 He said, after they canned this poor guy, he said, quote,

00:02:39.720 Much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it.

00:02:45.200 However, however is that key word here, because however is negate sentences.

00:02:49.820 It negates what came before it.

00:02:51.460 Portions of the memo violate our code of conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.

00:02:58.540 Much of it is up for debate.

00:03:00.300 But if you violate the, if you commit a thought crime at Google, you can be fired because it violates the code of conduct.

00:03:06.660 What a code of conduct that must be.

00:03:08.120 He went on to say, quote, The memo has clearly impacted our coworkers, some of whom are feeling, are hurting and feel judged based on their gender.

00:03:16.880 Now, this is great.

00:03:17.800 NPR is reporting this morning that there are a number of women who work at Google who, to contradict this patriarchal and sexist memo that was going around, 0.98

00:03:28.460 have stayed home from work because they're so upset about what was in the memo.

00:03:32.620 So, way to fight the patriarchy, ladies. 1.00

00:03:35.020 The memo said that you were overly emotional and you really showed them, didn't you?

00:03:39.360 Now, speaking of women at Google, the VP of Diversity and Inclusion weighed in on that as well. 0.80

00:03:44.480 Google's vice president for diversity and inclusion sent a letter to employees on Saturday saying,

00:03:49.720 the employee's memo, quote, advanced incorrect assumptions about gender and is not a viewpoint the company endorses, promotes, or encourages.

00:03:58.500 There's one word missing.

00:04:00.540 It endorsed politically incorrect assumptions about all of those things.

00:04:04.700 Also, what a job title.

00:04:06.540 The vice president of diversity and inclusion.

00:04:09.360 I don't know what graduate degrees or credentials you need for that.

00:04:12.440 Probably just a bachelor's from a liberal arts university, Swarthmore maybe, Wesleyan, I'm not sure.

00:04:18.160 But great, good for her that she got that gig. 0.57

00:04:21.000 I can't imagine what they're doing.

00:04:23.120 That is what this is about.

00:04:24.420 This is about PC.

00:04:25.720 It's about political correctness, and that issue pervades the entire memo.

00:04:30.940 So what is in this memo?

00:04:32.240 I think it's being reported in certain areas of the Internet that the guy who wrote this, James DeMore, is a conservative.

00:04:39.140 He is not a conservative.

00:04:40.600 I read the memo this morning.

00:04:42.560 He, in many places, criticizes conservatives for various points of view that the right tends to hold in the country.

00:04:49.020 But what he's really criticizing is an oppressive environment that stifles free speech, stifles free expression of ideas, and also literally discriminates against certain employees and hiring practices and benefits that are available to employees.

00:05:05.580 So here are just a few quotes from the memo.

00:05:07.860 You should go over and read the whole thing.

00:05:09.320 It's eye-opening that this would get a guy fired.

00:05:12.260 Quote, I value diversity and inclusion.

00:05:14.780 I am not denying that sexism exists, and I don't endorse using stereotypes.

00:05:19.000 The stereotypes is the key here.

00:05:20.280 There's more on that later.

00:05:22.040 Psychological safety is built on mutual respect and acceptance.

00:05:25.660 But unfortunately, our culture of shaming and misrepresentation is disrespectful and unaccepting of anyone outside its echo chamber.

00:05:33.040 The title of the piece is about the echo chamber, and of course, even a memo that was circulated at first anonymously was enough to get a guy discovered, rooted out, and fired from Google.

00:05:46.080 Quote, the lack of discussion fosters the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.

00:05:51.960 And that's what he's talking about, this utter emphasis on diversity of skin color, on diversity of gender, on diversity of all sorts except for diversity of thought.

00:06:02.040 The one diversity that a company probably could benefit from, and the authoritarian elements of this as well.

00:06:08.880 You see here this vice president of diversity inclusion, all of these managers whose entire job it is to program their employees, to host seminars, to host training practices, to host all of these events to change the way in which these employees think.

00:06:27.280 And you see this everywhere.

00:06:28.560 This is happening on college campuses.

00:06:30.460 The diversity deans are multiplying by the hour.

00:06:33.600 Yale has probably hired three more since we started this show today.

00:06:37.100 It's in workplaces, and it's across Google's platforms.

00:06:40.520 There is a well-documented war on conservatives at YouTube.

00:06:44.020 You know, they flew a lot of us out there about a month ago.

00:06:46.740 I was us.

00:06:47.620 I went out there.

00:06:48.540 Stephen Cratter went out there.

00:06:49.780 Nakeh Jared, our panelist, our sometime panelist.

00:06:53.180 A lot of people from across the spectrum went out.

00:06:56.040 Google said, listen, we're going to try harder.

00:06:58.160 They've already cut off a lot of the revenue to conservative channels.

00:07:01.560 A lot of conservatives have been banned from YouTube altogether.

00:07:05.140 So hopefully there will be some remedy in the future.

00:07:07.540 But Google has made its ideological positions quite clear.

00:07:11.360 Now, the big claim beyond criticizing what Google is doing, the big claim that probably got this guy fired is he committed the thought crime.

00:07:20.900 He committed the one unthinkable thought crime.

00:07:22.720 He said, men and women categorically are not exactly the same.

00:07:28.340 Did you hear that, Marshall?

00:07:29.360 Marshall ran out of the room.

00:07:30.380 I can't believe it.

00:07:30.660 He's running out of the room crying.

00:07:31.980 Can you imagine that claim?

00:07:34.460 He said that there are heritable differences between men and women.

00:07:37.720 They've been observed across all of cultures for all of time.

00:07:40.660 These differences can't be explained solely by social environments or social conditioning, but they're biological as well.

00:07:47.460 And he made a few generalizations here, which all of the women at Google proceeded to prove correct one after another this morning. 0.94

00:07:54.880 But he made a few claims.

00:07:55.920 He said women speaking categorically, not speaking individually, not saying there aren't women who don't have these characteristics.

00:08:02.780 There aren't men who do have these characteristics.

00:08:04.980 But he's speaking categorically.

00:08:06.320 He says that women show more openness directed toward feelings.

00:08:10.440 They tend to invest more in personal relationships rather than in relationships to things.

00:08:17.420 That women express extroversion more through gregariousness or more agreeable. 0.98

00:08:23.680 Certainly this is true.

00:08:24.860 There are other social science studies to back this up.

00:08:28.760 That women are more prone to anxiety.

00:08:30.680 This is obviously true.

00:08:32.320 It's been backed up by myriad psychological studies.

00:08:35.140 It's been backed up by pharmaceutical sales, but that in particular riled the feathers of many in the upper echelons of Google.

00:08:44.060 And that research suggests that greater nation-level gender equality leads to psychological dissimilarity in men's and women's personality traits.

00:08:53.860 So as there is a national ideological push for equality and indiscernible of the sexes, that those inherent biological and categorical differences between men and women become a little clearer.

00:09:06.080 They express themselves a little bit more.

00:09:09.180 Crucially, he says, many of these differences are small.

00:09:12.740 There is significant overlap between men and women.

00:09:15.240 So you can't say anything about an individual given these population-level distributions.

00:09:19.840 This is the key because when Google or rather when people on the left who present this ideological point of view present it, it seems that there are these binary categories that we're talking about.

00:09:31.600 But we're not.

00:09:32.200 We're saying that there are bell curves.

00:09:34.460 There's significant, if not major, overlap between those two categories.

00:09:40.280 And most importantly, while the left wants to put us all into little boxes and engage in the intersectionality pyramid of an hierarchy of oppression, the right, generally speaking, wants to judge people individually.

00:09:54.560 Stereotypes come from somewhere, perhaps, but you can't judge an individual based on categorical assumptions and definitions.

00:10:02.460 A firm belief of the conservative movement among individualists, libertarians, people on the right.

00:10:07.820 This is what got Larry Summers fired.

00:10:09.640 This isn't the first time it's rearing its ugly head.

00:10:12.820 Larry Summers was president of Harvard.

00:10:14.820 He presented a study that suggested that there were several reasons why women do not appear at the high-end faculty of STEM, of science, technology, math, engineering. 0.99

00:10:26.720 And one of the possible reasons is that, categorically speaking, the bell curve might be different.

00:10:31.460 So the bell curve for women might be a little smaller than the bell curve for men, meaning the 10 dumbest people on earth and the 10 smartest people on earth would be men.

00:10:40.220 And then otherwise, there would be perfect overlap between men and women. 0.99

00:10:44.400 This was enough to get him canned from that position.

00:10:47.080 Larry Summers, no conservative Republican, lifelong Democrat.

00:10:49.920 There was also a woman who hadn't won the Fields Medal, the mathematical prize, until 2014.

00:11:00.100 There is obviously a lack of women in these particular areas. 1.00

00:11:05.900 And there's also a lack of women at Google itself. 1.00

00:11:08.500 Something like 75% of the leadership of Google is male.

00:11:14.160 69% of the staff is male.

00:11:16.000 So certainly this is a male-dominated field.

00:11:18.800 And for this guy, James DeMory, to ask why, to say it's perhaps not just oppression and keeping women down because of a glass ceiling in the patriarchy.

00:11:29.160 Perhaps there are some other reasons, is enough to lose him his job.

00:11:33.080 Now, he goes on to talk about discriminatory practices.

00:11:35.440 Apparently, at Google, there are programs, mentorings, classes only for people of a certain gender or race, special treatment for diversity candidates, which might effectively lower the bar for certain people who are being hired.

00:11:47.660 There appear to be some illegal quotas from what he wrote in his memo.

00:11:52.100 And this shows, I think, a discrepancy between the left's understanding of conservatives and conservatives' understanding of the left.

00:12:00.620 The guy who put it better, I think, is Jonathan Haidt, who's a social scientist.

00:12:06.380 He put it in a TED Talk, probably the only TED Talk I've ever sat through.

00:12:10.440 The difference between how we view each other on both sides of the aisle.

00:12:14.000 Do we have it?

00:12:14.360 So, if you think that half of America votes Republican because they are blinded in this way, then my message to you is that you're trapped in a moral matrix, in a particular moral matrix.

00:12:26.360 And by the matrix, I mean literally the matrix like the movie The Matrix.

00:12:30.000 But I'm here today to give you a choice.

00:12:32.500 You can either take the blue pill and stick to your comforting delusions, or you can take the red pill, learn some moral psychology, and step outside the moral matrix.

00:12:40.820 We could say that liberals have a kind of a two-channel or two-foundation morality.

00:12:45.060 Conservatives have more of a five-foundation or five-channel morality.

00:12:48.440 We find this in every country we look at.

00:12:49.840 Here's the data for 1,100 Canadians.

00:12:51.320 I'll just flip through a few other slides.

00:12:52.700 The UK, Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, the East Asia, and South Asia.

00:13:00.380 Now, what he's saying is that there are more moral categories by which conservatives view the world, in which they see the world, different ways to value our place in the world and others around us and the things around us.

00:13:14.660 For the left, it's narrower.

00:13:16.880 It's more myopic. 1.00

00:13:18.260 And so when someone on the right or a conservative sees someone on the left doing something stupid, they might say, well, that's pretty stupid. 1.00

00:13:25.860 You clearly don't see the world in its full picture or in a full enough picture. 1.00

00:13:30.740 But c'est la vie.

00:13:32.180 That's how these things go.

00:13:33.560 Whereas when someone on the left sees a conservative doing something, because they don't understand these other moral categories, they don't have as broad a moral vision of the world, they assume malice.

00:13:46.460 They assume ill intent or some nefarious plotting on the part of the conservatives.

00:13:53.340 Now, this kind of language is really disconcerting.

00:13:57.020 We see it throughout the culture.

00:13:58.120 Listen to the doublespeak that we hear from other Googlers, other managers at Google.

00:14:03.560 I think a culture of silence can be insidious.

00:14:07.060 And I think a culture of vulnerability can be beautiful.

00:14:13.520 A mantra that we've really tried to embrace here at Google is bring your full self to work.

00:14:19.620 Yeah, a culture of silence can be insidious.

00:14:22.740 And let's talk about the culture of vulnerability, the people who are most likely to lose their jobs if they open their mouths.

00:14:28.520 He is stating precisely the opposite of what he means to state, which is that if you hold certain views, you will be rooted out in the name of tolerance and diversity and fairness.

00:14:42.640 Despite the very act of doing that, undermining all of those things entirely.

00:14:47.080 Let's go on.

00:14:47.900 We have various groups that are called ERGs, employee resource groups, that focus on a variety of things from serving the black Googler community to the Hispanic Googler community to we have another group called Gaglers.

00:15:03.120 And we're not often aware of how our biases are actually already living inside of us.

00:15:08.680 Inclusion continues to be something that we really need to innovate around and work on.

00:15:14.740 I'm going to start calling Marshall a Gagler. 0.97

00:15:17.700 That's at a totally separate point.

00:15:19.060 Do not do that.

00:15:20.000 That is a great little word.

00:15:22.200 Of course, ever since Google realized they had this problem where men are dominating the company, they addressed it by creating safe spaces.

00:15:31.160 That's language that they'll use to describe it.

00:15:33.460 And those spaces are called employee resource groups.

00:15:37.280 It's part of the program diversity core.

00:15:40.020 And you can go and you can share your feelings.

00:15:41.920 Certain employees are allowed to spend one-fifth of their time coming up with initiatives to attract women and racial minorities to the company.

00:15:52.220 Fifth of their time.

00:15:53.280 It's a lot of money.

00:15:54.120 It's a lot of resources.

00:15:55.640 But, of course, that won't attract diversity of thought.

00:15:59.020 So, DeMora has decided to file a complaint with the NLRB, National Labor Relations Board.

00:16:03.480 We'll see what comes of that.

00:16:04.940 But I imagine we can't take down the behemoth, either the tech company Google or the culture that they are taking part of.

00:16:12.100 With that, we have to bring in our panel.

00:16:14.300 Finally, we have to bring in our panel.

00:16:15.820 This is an all Daily Wire panel today.

00:16:17.960 We have the beautiful and brainy, Amanda Presta Giacomo. 0.98

00:16:20.640 We have the less beautiful and less brainy, Jacob Berry and Paul Blois, his eminence himself.

00:16:26.820 Guys, thanks for coming here.

00:16:27.900 Paul, you are a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

00:16:32.040 How did the Church of P.C., the cult of diversity and tolerance, arise?

00:16:36.980 Well, for that, we'd have to go all the way back to the time of Karl Marx,

00:16:41.580 who was, of course, the first social engineer to identify people according to their economic grievances.

00:16:48.220 And this, of course, translated into the social spheres in the early 20th century

00:16:52.320 with philosophers like Michel Foucault and Charles Fourier.

00:16:55.660 But that's a more esoteric diagnosis.

00:16:59.740 And I don't think the people at Google are necessarily marching under that banner.

00:17:03.780 Where I think that virtue signaling gained such a mass appeal stems from the fact

00:17:09.500 that America in the 60s and 70s lost its Christian identity.

00:17:15.900 How did I know you were going to say that?

00:17:17.520 I knew you were going to say that.

00:17:18.700 Yes, you called me Vox Day for a reason.

00:17:21.560 So they lost its Christian identity and lost its ability to forgive itself of past sins. 0.77

00:17:29.260 And with that, that translated into a mass attitude of intense censorship and hatred of any idea

00:17:35.380 that opposed the specific coddling and targeting of various minority groups.

00:17:42.240 So I think that speaks to its mass appeal beyond that of the hard left,

00:17:45.720 who I think are more ideologically motivated.

00:17:47.540 Sure.

00:17:47.960 And there is a notion that when you lose the sense of your connection to I am that I am,

00:17:52.860 when you lose the connection of the creature to the creator,

00:17:55.680 you have this question, which is, who am I?

00:17:58.160 Which victimhood category do I fit into?

00:18:01.120 And how do I exploit it for professional gain at Google?

00:18:03.900 A very good question.

00:18:05.040 Jacob, is Google more than a private company?

00:18:07.980 You know, there are these, we kind of wonder, it's a private company.

00:18:11.540 Why shouldn't they be able to do whatever they want to do?

00:18:14.120 But are they more than that?

00:18:15.560 They collude with the government.

00:18:17.160 They have all of our data for every single thing that we will certainly deny,

00:18:20.760 having looked up on the internet.

00:18:22.100 Are they more?

00:18:23.060 Are they super, super business?

00:18:27.120 You know, are they in part government as well?

00:18:29.580 I don't think they're in part government.

00:18:32.260 But I do see the argument that says, hey, they're doing all these collusions.

00:18:36.280 Like, Google literally has a system set up where they read everything you search in the Google search bar.

00:18:44.040 And if something suspicious comes up, they report you to the government.

00:18:48.000 And I think that while I'm hesitant to start an investigation into Google,

00:18:54.700 they are a private company, and quite frankly, they have the right to work with the government.

00:19:00.600 I think that us as consumers need to put pressure on them to say, hey, we don't like this.

00:19:06.100 We want to see more conservative voices at Google and on YouTube.

00:19:10.200 Is there a fear, though?

00:19:11.680 I mean, I agree with that, absolutely.

00:19:14.060 Is there a fear, Amanda, that this will trickle down to other companies? 0.98

00:19:20.120 Google is obviously, they're lunatics. 0.93

00:19:21.780 They're out there in Silicon Valley. 0.98

00:19:23.640 They partake of that, the Kool-Aid out there with all of the other tech liberals.

00:19:27.380 Is there a fear that this will permeate other companies in the United States?

00:19:32.980 I mean, I think it already has.

00:19:34.840 I mean, we see it with Facebook.

00:19:36.360 We see it on YouTube.

00:19:37.400 I mean, this is all over the place where conservatives are being rooted out.

00:19:40.500 You know, you have some wrong thing, and you're booted.

00:19:42.960 You can't.

00:19:43.440 This guy was just talking about diversity policies, and it wasn't, apparently,

00:19:47.600 they didn't fall under their diversity guidelines, and he was outed.

00:19:51.120 So, I mean, we're already seeing it.

00:19:53.140 I guess the answer would be to try to get conservatives in this tech world.

00:19:58.220 You know, I don't know exactly how we do that.

00:20:00.740 If Google is to coordinate more with the government, maybe you would have some sort of case where,

00:20:06.480 you know, there could be some overreach.

00:20:09.220 But, again, I'm not one to push any sort of government action to, you know, restrain something.

00:20:15.580 Me neither.

00:20:16.140 I think you could have ended that sentence after government action.

00:20:19.020 I am not one.

00:20:19.720 No, just stay out of here.

00:20:21.160 Yeah.

00:20:21.440 Yeah.

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00:20:59.640 Now we have to get to the important news like the sun monster.

00:21:13.480 Federal agencies have leaked a report on the dangers of global warming while President Trump is away on vacation.

00:21:19.380 It warns that temperatures could increase two degrees Celsius over the next hundred years if we don't do anything.

00:21:27.980 And if we stop emitting these greenhouse gases, then they'll still increase half a degree Celsius over 100 years.

00:21:34.400 Now, luckily, we have a feed to the federal climate officials.

00:21:38.360 Environmentalist bureaucrats, what is your reaction?

00:21:49.380 Measured, thoughtful, typical, typically thoughtful response from the federal bureaucrats.

00:21:56.460 Paul, aside from the global warming, we've talked about global warming.

00:21:59.220 Let's talk about the leak.

00:22:00.720 Is this another example of the deep state trying to undermine President Trump?

00:22:05.040 An example of the deep state, no.

00:22:07.820 An example of fake news from New York Times, yes.

00:22:12.220 Because according to an article on Fox News right now, there actually was no leak.

00:22:17.540 Several scientists who authored the report are now publicly claiming on Twitter that the New York Times published fake news

00:22:24.420 and that the report was available on the Internet archives going all the way back to January.

00:22:29.040 So, no deep state here, but Trump's other enemy, fake news, absolutely.

00:22:33.880 Fake news, New York Times, that is a much more dangerous enemy than those bureaucrats. 1.00

00:22:38.440 Amanda, President Trump is likely going to ignore this report, I assume.

00:22:42.320 His USDA has stopped using the term climate change, apparently.

00:22:45.600 They're now instructed to use the term extreme weather.

00:22:49.440 Can we say safely that we're living in the best timeline?

00:22:52.240 Is this just the best thing ever?

00:22:56.120 I'm just waiting for President Trump to retweet his old tweet about China creating climate change to basically hurt U.S.

00:23:04.280 As a hoax.

00:23:04.840 Like, once that happens, then it's the best time ever.

00:23:09.040 But good on Trump.

00:23:10.260 This is one of the reasons why people, conservatives, and people on the right voted for Trump,

00:23:15.860 because he's not going to put up with the propaganda, with the PC language.

00:23:20.200 You know, it was global cooling, global warming, then climate change.

00:23:23.360 Climate change is a PC propaganda term in and of itself.

00:23:26.980 Good for him to rid it.

00:23:27.900 We're playing by his rules, and this is in part why he won.

00:23:30.940 That's right.

00:23:31.740 This is boldness we have not seen before.

00:23:34.860 With many of the other men on that stage who are running for president in 2016,

00:23:38.680 I don't think that we would see turning away from the language of climate change or climate crisis or whatever Al Gore thinks up this morning.

00:23:45.880 Is this some evidence that President Trump is a conservative in maybe a different way and maybe a more meaningful way than some of the other people that were running for that seat?

00:23:56.140 Well, I actually kind of think it shows the opposite.

00:23:58.740 He thinks like a leftist.

00:23:59.980 He goes after them.

00:24:00.860 He uses their tactics.

00:24:01.920 President Obama stripped words away that he didn't want, like, you know, with his intelligence reports or whatever.

00:24:08.840 Or President Trump has that same, you know, focus that he's going to play just as dirty as they are.

00:24:15.080 And so it kind of shows the opposite, in my opinion.

00:24:17.780 Takes a thief to catch a thief.

00:24:19.760 Very, very true.

00:24:21.500 Jacob, regardless of the fake news from the New York Times, but I repeat myself, are leaks in general, are they good for the republic?

00:24:29.080 We've seen so many leaks coming out of the Trump administration.

00:24:32.020 Are they good for the republic or do they do more harm than good?

00:24:34.560 Are they damaging to the presidency and to the country?

00:24:36.760 I honestly think they do more harm than good.

00:24:40.680 You see, everyone talks about, oh, what about Watergate?

00:24:43.940 Watergate was done through leaks.

00:24:45.620 And, well, there's one problem.

00:24:47.940 Watergate actually showed that there was illegal activity going on.

00:24:52.560 None of the leaks that have been released show any kind of illegality.

00:24:57.320 None whatsoever.

00:24:58.560 So I honestly think the ones that are being released is just an attempt to disrupt President Trump from governing.

00:25:04.500 Speaking of Watergate, the Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness, as they tell me.

00:25:10.640 The Washington Post ran a headline this morning, quote, Trump's base is officially crumbling.

00:25:15.880 This is based on new polling data that shows his approval ratings are falling.

00:25:19.900 Jacob, when did the Washington Post lose all of its credibility?

00:25:23.340 Was it immediately after Watergate?

00:25:25.000 Did they have some leeway in between there?

00:25:28.160 How has it fallen so far?

00:25:29.580 When did it happen?

00:25:30.200 I honestly think it happened in the 90s.

00:25:33.600 We definitely saw the mainstream media come together for the first time openly.

00:25:38.800 You know, before it was kind of done in subtle ways.

00:25:41.360 But definitely in the 90s with President Bill Clinton, it was done more in the open.

00:25:44.940 Oh, we're going to cover up all the massive spending.

00:25:48.160 And then all of a sudden in 2003, there are fiscal conservatives under George W. Bush for all the spending bills he wrote.

00:25:55.820 So, you know, I think that, honestly, it came more out in the open in the early 90s, I would say.

00:26:02.060 Certainly with that motto, that pathetic motto they started this year, democracy dies in darkness.

00:26:07.040 You get headlines like that. 0.77

00:26:08.340 I'm surprised they didn't use three or four exclamation marks at the end. 0.97

00:26:12.260 Ridiculous.

00:26:13.020 Amanda, the approval numbers are down. 0.87

00:26:14.780 According to the polling, Trump's numbers are down, especially among his base.

00:26:18.160 But these are the same people who told us that Hillary had a 99.999% chance of being elected president.

00:26:25.040 Should we believe them?

00:26:26.040 Are the numbers worth believing?

00:26:27.780 Or is it just more fake news?

00:26:32.580 So, I mean, you got to be careful.

00:26:34.680 Again, just coming from this election, I'm not one to just, you know, take these polls and believe them wholesale.

00:26:40.100 You know, again, this was the same media, the same analysts who were telling us that we were going to see a referendum on Trump with the special elections.

00:26:46.800 That didn't turn out.

00:26:48.940 But if we look at Rasmussen, for instance, which tends to be the most accurate of these polls, Trump's at 41%.

00:26:55.200 And the most right-wing, too.

00:26:56.780 That was a diplomatic way of putting it.

00:26:58.660 Love Rasmussen polling.

00:26:59.720 It's great polling.

00:27:01.280 It's almost synonymous, you know, correct, right-wing.

00:27:03.700 That's right.

00:27:04.340 So, basically, that showed him at, like, 41%.

00:27:09.400 So, it looks like his numbers kind of dropped off a little bit.

00:27:13.380 And that could be, you know, if these are legit at all.

00:27:16.400 That could have been, you know, we saw Trump attack Sessions.

00:27:19.220 I don't think it's based particularly like that.

00:27:21.880 You know, just recently, the mooch wasn't the best time for our presidency. 1.00

00:27:25.840 I will not hear that.

00:27:27.220 I don't believe them.

00:27:28.180 We disagree.

00:27:29.400 I disavow, Amanda.

00:27:30.900 I disavow.

00:27:31.660 I love you, mooch. 1.00

00:27:32.960 But if this polling is right at all, we should see an uptick pretty soon.

00:27:38.580 I mean, President Trump has a lot of good wins in the foreign policy front.

00:27:41.860 So, we'll probably see his numbers go up.

00:27:44.920 And, again, with General Kelly, too, a lot has calmed down.

00:27:47.840 So, I would expect these numbers, if they're accurate at all, to get a boost anyhow.

00:27:51.440 If they're accurate at all is a big qualifier.

00:27:53.660 Paul, if the numbers are legit, what can President Trump do to hold the Congress in the midterms, to be reelected?

00:28:01.360 What can he do to bounce back?

00:28:03.100 Well, I absolutely think he can bounce back, Michael.

00:28:06.640 I think Trump's rhetoric, Trump's agenda, Trump's spirit, I still think readily appeals to his base.

00:28:13.420 I think most of them are just experiencing fatigue over the past couple months.

00:28:16.440 There's an attacking of Jess Sessions, the Scaramucci ordeal.

00:28:20.160 So, I think if he just gets over those and he gets a well-oiled machine going and he brings them the MAGA that he promised them, he'll bounce back.

00:28:29.000 And I think he'll win in a landslide.

00:28:30.260 He just really needs to get that going.

00:28:32.440 And it's really a question of can he oil his machine?

00:28:36.360 Bring me the MAGA.

00:28:37.400 Bring me the covfefe.

00:28:38.480 That's all I want.

00:28:39.420 That's all I'm asking for.

00:28:40.800 We have to get off of these.

00:28:42.260 Yeah, go ahead, Amanda. 1.00

00:28:43.720 I was just going to say, if he can get the Raze Act to pass, because, you know, Republicans are terrible.

00:28:48.600 And some of them are already against it.

00:28:50.380 If he can get that to pass, I think his base will be really excited about that.

00:28:54.320 He'll have to herd all those cats in the Republican conference in Congress, which is not the easiest thing to do.

00:29:00.160 But if he can, you're right, maybe he can bounce back.

00:29:02.200 He can get a legislative win under his belt.

00:29:04.640 But all of that, none of that matters.

00:29:06.320 None of that matters coming out of Congress or the economy or the White House.

00:29:09.860 Because a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that coddled puppies make poor guide dogs.

00:29:18.760 This is important.

00:29:19.560 They make poor guide dogs.

00:29:21.420 Amanda, does this explain our terrible generation?

00:29:26.160 It does.

00:29:27.460 It's almost like parenting matters.

00:29:29.300 It's so funny to see all these leftist headlines, like, so shocked that this would, like, have an effect.

00:29:33.260 But, yeah, I mean, you coddle children or puppies.

00:29:38.440 They're not going to be the most capable or self-sufficient or, you know, the best guide dogs or the best people to hold a job and not be in their mom's basement playing video games.

00:29:48.460 I mean, it's all kind of connected here.

00:29:50.400 So, you know, hopefully this will click on the leftist dog.

00:29:52.920 Those puppies, they get BAs in gender studies. 1.00

00:29:55.200 They get MFAs in art.

00:29:56.300 Yeah, a lot of terrible effects from those parents coddling those poor puppies.

00:30:01.380 Paul, it has become cliche to call millennials snowflakes.

00:30:05.400 They have been helicopter parented.

00:30:07.500 There are participation trophies.

00:30:09.640 There is grade inflation, sure.

00:30:11.180 But they're also stuck with a ton of student debt, unprecedented student debt.

00:30:15.560 They are stuck with a lot of federal debt, the national debt, because of unfunded liabilities that their parents have left them and not paid for.

00:30:23.880 Are we being too harsh on the millennials? 0.97

00:30:25.620 Is it fair to call them coddled?

00:30:27.920 Well, you brought me on here, so I'm going to say this.

00:30:29.980 I think it's fair to call millennials spiritually malnourished. 1.00

00:30:34.280 And I think that largely stems from the breakdown of family, the breakdown of important social structures, the breakdown of religion and morality.

00:30:43.400 And so, I mean, the way I put it is the baby boomers had the party, the Gen Xers got the leftovers, and the millennials got stuck cleaning it up. 0.92

00:30:52.800 You know, we're the generation, you know, brainwashed into massive college debt.

00:30:56.340 We're the generation of broken homes.

00:30:58.220 We're the generation of technological gluttony.

00:31:00.360 So, I think they deserve a little bit more of our pity than our scorn.

00:31:04.100 Sure, absolutely.

00:31:04.920 Is there a way out, though?

00:31:06.300 Is there a way to satiate their spiritual malnourishment?

00:31:10.420 Or is there any hope of a great awakening on the horizon?

00:31:13.140 Or are we all just headed for a nihilist despair?

00:31:15.240 Nothing short of a spiritual revolution is going to do it.

00:31:18.260 But, I mean, if there's one thing that does, we should all definitely take hope in is the fact that where millennials are conservative and where they are religious, they are very conservative and they are very religious.

00:31:30.160 There is very much a hunger among millennial conservatives to seek the orthodox, to seek sort of what was deprived of them by the baby boomer generation.

00:31:40.240 And I think that's something that may translate into a powerful social revolution.

00:31:45.420 There's also clearly an exuberance among young people.

00:31:48.440 I'm speaking politically here.

00:31:50.680 You know, of these kind of mischievous, fun people, both at the millennial generation and a little bit younger, they don't seem to be totally brainwashed, politically correct people.

00:32:01.900 They seem to be rebelling against that a little bit.

00:32:03.880 So, maybe there's some hope.

00:32:05.160 Who knows?

00:32:05.740 I'm an eternal optimist.

00:32:06.960 Jacob, back to the issue at hand.

00:32:10.240 If we are spending money studying puppy parenting, shouldn't we have already cured cancer or something?

00:32:16.140 You know, we've heard all of these stories about federal science funding going to run shrimp on treadmills and study lesbian obesity. 0.85

00:32:24.860 Are our resources being a little misguided here?

00:32:28.840 Oh, yes.

00:32:29.680 One hundred and one percent.

00:32:31.920 How they allocate these studies, I have no idea. 0.91

00:32:36.740 I remember Glenn Beck did this performance where he was saying unelectable, and he said that anyone who suggested that we would study what happens when fire hits ice, they should just be taken out and executed.

00:32:48.100 Now, I'm not advocating violence against these people, but, you know, sometimes I definitely get the sentiment.

00:32:53.500 You know, it's like, come on now.

00:32:55.220 You know, buts negate sentences, Jacob.

00:32:57.040 ISIS terrorism.

00:33:01.220 We've got terrorism.

00:33:03.100 We've got actual problems that funding for these studies can go to, and instead we're worrying about lesbian dance therapy. 0.91

00:33:10.980 I know that's a favorite attack of Ben Shapiro's.

00:33:14.260 He loves to attack lesbian dance theory, and I'm all for it. 1.00

00:33:18.040 We should cut it.

00:33:19.520 We should cut the fat and focus on what's important. 0.90

00:33:22.040 I keep inviting him to my lesbian dance therapy class.

00:33:24.660 I think it would be really good for him.

00:33:26.100 It would help him relax.

00:33:27.020 He's a busy guy.

00:33:28.020 He still hasn't taken me up on it.

00:33:29.480 Okay.

00:33:29.900 Well, on that call to violence, I have to say goodbye to all of you, because now it is time for the final thought.

00:33:40.780 Google.

00:33:41.440 I'm going to put my smart glasses on for this final thought.

00:33:43.880 Google keeps using those words, diversity, inclusion, and tolerance.

00:33:48.040 I do not think they mean what Google thinks they mean.

00:33:50.980 The company has sent a crystal clear message today that they will not tolerate any hint of the only diversity that matters, diversity of thought.

00:33:59.040 In the name of free thought, they suppress speech.

00:34:01.740 In the name of diversity, they exclude those with diverse points of view.

00:34:05.160 In the name of tolerance, the high clerics of Google will not tolerate heretics. 1.00

00:34:10.880 G.K. Chesterton and Orthodoxy identified Google's illiberal central premise, the thought that stops thought.

00:34:17.360 There is a thought that stops thought, he wrote.

00:34:20.260 That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.

00:34:23.240 Wise words.

00:34:24.180 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:34:24.920 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:34:27.580 Love you guys.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 08, 2017

Ep. 6 - Google's Church of PC Excommunicates A Heretic

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