The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 609 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

00:00:00.000 The left is very, very upset about privilege these days. Specifically, they say white privilege. And

00:00:07.600 when you look into the specific examples they give of white privilege, it doesn't seem to be

00:00:12.620 very convincing. But there is a privilege going around, and it's a privilege that the left does

00:00:17.080 not want to destroy. They're doing everything they can to maintain it. I think a perfect example of

00:00:23.240 this came from Hillary Clinton the other day. Or no, I'm not sorry, not Hillary Clinton. Hillary

00:00:28.120 Clinton's daughter, who for some reason is in public life. She has famous parents, and so now

00:00:33.300 for some reason she's in public life. Chelsea Clinton was on a Women for Biden panel with the

00:00:39.940 radical Democratic representative Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo of the squad. And she described and

00:00:47.800 lamented her terrible white privilege. 40% of Americans with disabilities report that they

00:00:54.840 have real challenges voting in person. And so in states where there haven't been kind of no-excuse

00:01:01.640 absentee voting or where there hasn't been the introduction of early voting yet, it still isn't

00:01:08.760 kind of easy, fair, or equal for many Americans to vote. I think it's really important that my

00:01:15.300 children understand that. And I think it's particularly important that they understand that

00:01:18.520 as white children are privileged because I want them to erode that privilege throughout their 0.99

00:01:23.860 lives to ensure more people are enfranchised and that equality isn't just an ideal.

00:01:29.320 So none of that is true, and no parent has ever said, I want my child not to have any privileges.

00:01:35.020 Yes, I want my child to be disadvantaged. And Chelsea Clinton's not saying that either.

00:01:39.320 What she's doing is tying this idea of universal mail-in ballots, which is a way the Democrats are trying 0.97

00:01:44.980 to steal the election with this idea of privilege. You know, we've basically got to destroy all of

00:01:51.240 our election security in the name of fairness and equality. And of course, it's all lies. It's lies

00:01:56.760 about mail-in ballots. It's lies about race. It's lies about her family. This is not about ending a

00:02:04.600 system of white privilege. This is about preserving a system of liberal elite privilege. And on this show,

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00:04:10.480 save 50% while supplies last. Lots of talk about privilege. Everyone, especially racial privilege. 0.56

00:04:21.920 That's especially white privilege. That's what the left is getting everyone to focus on right now so that

00:04:26.860 you ignore the actual privilege that is being hung over you. A professor at the University of North

00:04:33.700 Carolina Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science just tweeted out the other day.

00:04:39.360 This is a blue checkmark on Twitter and she's a professor. She said that all white people have

00:04:45.860 been deputized to kill us, us being black people. That professor's name is Tressie McMillan-Kottam. 0.99

00:04:53.620 She's in the, she's a professor at this university and she was tweeting this in response to some

00:05:00.360 Republicans supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, who was that kid who was attacked by Antifa and who fired

00:05:05.100 back and stopped the felon and the pedophile and the armed guy from killing him. All white people 0.99

00:05:12.180 have been deputized to kill us. I think if you've been watching the BLM riots for the past four or five 0.99

00:05:19.120 months now, you would believe that. You would believe that there is this scourge in America,

00:05:23.740 this epidemic, not of a virus, but of white people, racist whites, just slaughtering innocent black 1.00

00:05:30.980 people, right? You've probably heard that. Demi Lovato, who I'm told is a singer, says that she 1.00

00:05:36.140 hates her skin color because she shares her skin color with all these killers. She said, quote, 1.00

00:05:41.080 all I knew was that I hated that I shared the same skin color as the people accused of committing

00:05:47.040 heinous crimes against Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many, many other black

00:05:53.340 lives. Capital B. Now we're capitalizing these colors. So is this true? Should one feel this 0.71

00:06:02.340 intense white guilt, this guilt that white people are slaughtering black people all over the place? 0.99

00:06:08.660 The statistics don't bear that out. And we're going to get to statistics a little bit later in the 0.97

00:06:12.540 show because I made a provocative point yesterday on statistics and some people were upset about it,

00:06:18.260 but we will get to that. But I will name these statistics now. In 2019, do you know how many

00:06:23.040 black people were murdered in the United States? 2,925. Total number of black people in the United

00:06:31.820 States murdered. Do you know how many of those were murdered by white people? 234. 0.93

00:06:41.420 234 out of 2,925. Do you know how many of those black people who were murdered were murdered by other

00:06:47.960 black people? 2,600. 2,600 out of 2,925. That means that 8% of black people murdered last year 0.83

00:06:59.740 were murdered by white people. 89% of black people murdered last year were murdered by black people. 0.99

00:07:07.320 But you would not know that statistic. You would not know that fact if you were watching the 0.98

00:07:12.680 mainstream media or listening to our political leaders or listening to the activists. Because

00:07:19.780 for some reason, those statistics don't seem to matter. They're so interested in science.

00:07:25.480 They're so interested in looking into the precise scientific analysis of white supremacy and all

00:07:32.380 this sort of thing. But those statistics don't seem to matter. You're given a very different

00:07:37.040 picture. We'll get to why, as I said a little bit later. This doesn't just even stop at the

00:07:41.360 political level. This goes all the way up to the religious level. Even the most traditional

00:07:45.840 institution in the Christian West, the Catholic Church. The cult of white guilt has infiltrated 0.72

00:07:51.080 the Catholic Church. A parishioner, I suppose, recorded this homily. I don't know if you could

00:07:57.600 call it a homily, from a priest at St. Xavier Catholic Church in New York City, who is now

00:08:03.980 engaging in the liturgy of wokeness.

00:08:06.900 Do you support racial justice, equity, and compassion in human relations? Yes. Do you affirm

00:08:14.700 that white privilege is unfair and harmful to those who have it and to those who do not? Yes.

00:08:19.280 Do you affirm that white privilege and the culture of white supremacy must be dismantled

00:08:24.040 wherever it is present? Yes. Do you support racial equity, justice, and liberation for

00:08:30.000 every person? Yes. Do you affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person? Yes.

00:08:38.020 Therefore, from this day forward, will you strive to understand more deeply the injustice and

00:08:43.800 suffering white privilege and white supremacy cause? Yes.

00:08:47.500 Will you commit to help transform our church culture to one that is actively engaged in seeking

00:08:54.220 racial justice and equity for all, for everyone? Yes.

00:08:58.760 Will you renew and honor this pledge daily, knowing that our church and our community,

00:09:03.120 our nation, and our world will be better places because of our efforts? Yes.

00:09:09.480 I can't say I've ever heard that system of vows in a Catholic Church. What this is, of course,

00:09:14.960 I mean, for individual aspects of that, nobody would disagree. Yeah. Be nice to people. Don't

00:09:19.320 be mean to people. Be, be a good person. Don't be a bad person. Right. But what this is really

00:09:25.820 describing is a, a new and separate and replacement theology for Christianity. This is now the theology

00:09:34.300 of wokeness. You're replacing what may appear to be one's baptismal vows with the, with now being

00:09:40.600 baptized into the, the waters of wokeness saying that there are these things, white supremacy,

00:09:46.560 white privilege. Haven't, haven't seen those anywhere. I don't know exactly what, what the

00:09:51.340 priest means by this. I know that we have one matter of legal racial discrimination in our

00:09:58.100 country. There's only one matter where it is legal to discriminate by race. That is called affirmative 0.76

00:10:02.960 action. It benefits black and Hispanic applicants for jobs. It disadvantages white and Asian applicants 0.55

00:10:08.380 for jobs. That's it. Show me the other legal white supremacy or any legal white supremacy for that

00:10:15.500 matter. Show me the, the legal racial discrimination other than affirmative action. Where is it? Nowhere.

00:10:21.460 It doesn't exist. So what is this priest talking about? He has fallen prey to, uh, the same thing

00:10:31.040 that I think a lot of our country has, which is a distraction. It's not even that all this talk

00:10:37.780 about white supremacy or white privilege or whatever, all the racial division that seems to be

00:10:43.420 conveniently ginned up every four years is, it's not even that it's in good faith. It's not even that,

00:10:51.000 you know, maybe some people who have good intentions are mistaken. It is a distraction to distract you from

00:10:57.580 a genuine system of privilege and inequity in this country, which is liberal elite privilege,

00:11:05.720 liberal elite privilege, which manifests itself in the media, in politics, in the universities,

00:11:12.940 in, in education for that matter, in Hollywood, in big tech. There is a liberal established apparatus

00:11:20.980 that plays by a completely different set of rules than you and I play to. And it doesn't matter what

00:11:27.720 color our skin is. It doesn't matter what, what matters is this political distinction here,

00:11:32.700 which we can get to a little bit later in the show. I'll give you a real example of privilege here.

00:11:39.460 Think about how crazy it is that BLM, a mark, an avowedly Marxist organization that seeks to destroy 0.93

00:11:47.900 the nuclear family has now taken a foothold in a Catholic church in New York. Think about how sick 0.98

00:11:54.720 the society must have become that a Catholic parish in New York is spouting the Marxist idiocy 1.00

00:12:01.940 of Black Lives Matter. But the people who are ginning up this kind of tension are very good at it. 0.99

00:12:10.880 Only occasionally do they get caught. Like Nancy Pelosi. We talked about this yesterday. Nancy Pelosi, 0.73

00:12:16.120 big supporter of the lockdown, saying Donald Trump is killing people because he didn't totally lock down

00:12:20.800 the country. Nancy Pelosi gets caught on a camera, on a security camera, walking into a hair salon that 0.97

00:12:27.340 she wants closed without a mask that she wants everybody to wear because she's Nancy Pelosi and 1.00

00:12:32.540 she can do whatever she wants. You can't because you're not a member of the elite liberal establishment,

00:12:37.660 but she certainly can't. So she gets called out for it. What does she do? Does she take responsibility? 0.98

00:12:41.820 No. She blames the salon owner. We'll get to that in one second. First, though,

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00:14:04.800 breaking all the rules that she says she believes in because she wants her haircut. Makes sense. A lot of

00:14:11.480 other Democratic politicians have done this. Bill de Blasio did this in New York. Lori Lightfoot did

00:14:15.220 this in Chicago. So Nancy Pelosi finally holds a press conference to address this problem. What 1.00

00:14:25.120 does she do? She goes on the attack. I take responsibility for trusting the word of the

00:14:31.540 neighborhood salon that I've been to over the years many times. And that when they said, well,

00:14:38.340 we're able to accommodate people one person at a time and that we can set up that time. I trusted

00:14:46.140 that. As it turns out, it was a setup. So I take responsibility for falling for a setup. And that's

00:14:53.460 all I'm going to say on that. I take responsibility that the salon owner was such a jerk. This is this 1.00

00:15:00.220 typical example, which I've noticed my liberal friends tend to do more than the conservatives where

00:15:04.940 they say, look, I'm really sorry if you got really offended by something. Say, no, you can't be sorry

00:15:12.000 if I feel something. You've got to be sorry for something that you did. And what Nancy Pelosi did is

00:15:16.040 she violated the rules that she set for everybody else because it was convenient to her. Now she's a 0.71

00:15:21.200 brilliant politician. You have to hand it to her. And she probably gave the most politic response to 1.00

00:15:26.760 this. You could imagine, which is she feigned ignorance of the law. Now that's no excuse of 0.51

00:15:32.160 course, but particularly now it's, it's implausible. You're telling me that the single most important

00:15:37.580 political issue that you, Nancy Pelosi have been a part of constructing. You didn't know about,

00:15:44.040 you didn't know that the hair salons are closed. How did you, how could you not know that?

00:15:50.480 No, of course she knew that. But then she said, no, it was a little gray area because I didn't know

00:15:54.700 if one person comes in, if then it could be open. And that's almost a plausible excuse until you

00:16:00.700 realize, wait a second, hair salons are by definition one-on-one, right? It's a hair, one 0.77

00:16:06.240 hairstylist per one customer. So if, if the hair salons were not, you know, were open for one customer

00:16:15.300 at a time, then the hair salons would just be open, but they're not. So the owner of this hair salon,

00:16:21.560 Erica Kios, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, went on Tucker Carlson. Of course,

00:16:26.680 Tucker got her on that night and explained that she did not set up Nancy Pelosi.

00:16:33.560 She had called the stylist and, or her assistant did and made the appointment. So the appointment

00:16:39.180 was already booked. So there's no way I could have set that up. And I've had a camera system in

00:16:44.460 there for five years. I mean, I didn't go in there and turn cameras on as soon as she walked in to set

00:16:50.060 her up. So that's absolutely false. But Erica, what about Pelosi's excuses? Are you telling me

00:16:56.700 that Pelosi's excuses don't make any sense? As a hairstylist, I see clients one-on-one. So

00:17:03.920 that would mean I would be open, right? Yes, of course it would. Of course, that's what that means.

00:17:12.220 The left always has to be the victim. The left always has to play the victim card here. So

00:17:18.020 Nancy Pelosi institutes these draconian, stupid rules. Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party 1.00

00:17:25.100 broadly institutes these stupid lockdown rules that haven't done any good and have done a lot of harm, 1.00

00:17:29.280 to put it bluntly. And then she breaks them because it's not convenient for her. And then when she gets 0.99

00:17:36.900 caught, what does she do? She pretends that she is the victim, the victim of a setup, even if it were a

00:17:42.120 setup, by the way. And what do we mean by setup? We mean, let's say the salon owner doesn't like Nancy

00:17:46.700 Pelosi and wants to show that she's been violating her own rules. That's still Pelosi's fault. What's

00:17:54.640 the setup? The setup is, the setup is basically, hey, Nancy Pelosi, do you want to violate all your

00:18:00.800 own stupid rules? She goes, yeah, absolutely. Say, okay, well, I caught you on tape saying, yeah, 1.00

00:18:05.320 absolutely. She goes, that's a setup. No, it's just exposing what you're doing, what you've been

00:18:09.200 doing. It's exposing your own character, what you think about these things. But, but you see this,

00:18:14.340 if Nancy Pelosi can pretend to be the victim over breaking her own lockdown rules, 1.00

00:18:19.820 then the left can feign victimhood over anything. And they do. They feign victimhood over affirmative

00:18:27.420 action. The left, which instituted affirmative action, now also claims that affirmative action

00:18:33.720 is racist and leads to a racist country. Because now some people think that if you,

00:18:39.640 you know, if, if a black person is in a job that perhaps affirmative action helped. And that isn't, 0.83

00:18:45.120 that's an ugly assumption to have. Clarence Thomas wrote a whole, not a whole book about this,

00:18:49.280 but he wrote about this extensively in one of his books, which is that he hated the stigma of

00:18:53.120 affirmative action because he knew that he was intelligent enough and more intelligent than,

00:18:58.120 than most of his classmates. But because of the stigma of affirmative action,

00:19:01.120 that took away from his accomplishment. Of course, but you can't have it both ways.

00:19:05.780 For the promoters of affirmative action, they want to have the advantages of affirmative action,

00:19:11.460 but not the stigma associated with it. Clarence Thomas points out that's not possible.

00:19:17.140 The left, they don't even buy rather what they are selling. They don't even believe what they are

00:19:23.980 saying. Obviously Nancy Pelosi with her haircut. Also, also members of the mainstream media who know

00:19:29.100 that the mainstream media is vicious and dishonest. There was a hidden tape just came out

00:19:34.820 of Chris Cuomo speaking to Donald Trump's now imprisoned former attorney, Michael Cohen,

00:19:40.660 that turncoat. Chris Cuomo apparently is friends with Trump's old attorney. He describes how the

00:19:46.420 media are just a bunch of animals. You know, I'm always careful when I talk to media, you know,

00:19:53.200 right. Do you know how many phone calls I've gotten from people at ABC who say that reporters

00:19:59.280 are calling and lying about things they heard about me to try to get stories about me when I was at

00:20:04.600 ABC? Guys calling and saying, I heard he was the Charlie Rose of ABC used to invite women to the

00:20:11.300 hotel and open his bathroom. Do I look like the kind of guy who's got to do that?

00:20:17.400 Sure. Why not?

00:20:20.060 But you're saying so.

00:20:21.440 I already have a good source that says that he forced one woman to have sex. I just want to know

00:20:26.000 if you've ever heard anything like that. There is no woman, right? There is none of that. 1.00

00:20:29.620 So here's the problem. Women who do work there saying, oh, yeah, you know, some of these men and 0.99

00:20:33.860 naming me with other guys, you know, we bumped into each other once in the elevator and he put his

00:20:38.840 hand on my shoulder and he made me really uncomfortable. I mean, what the? It's it's a

00:20:44.700 problem. And now you saw I'm careful with the media always. I've always told you the media is

00:20:48.580 not your friend. No, the media is not your friend. Now, what is significant about that

00:20:53.860 conversation? One, it's kind of funny that Chris Cuomo is getting advice from Trump's former

00:20:58.040 attorney that they're all they all have attacked for many years. But Chris Cuomo here is pointing

00:21:04.780 out one, there's no journalistic integrity out there and the media are just trying to push an

00:21:11.320 agenda and not even he trusts them. But he's a member of the mainstream media. There's a big

00:21:16.280 difference between the mainstream media and alternative media sources. We do need some kind

00:21:20.640 of journalism, right? We do need some kind of political commentary. But what we know is there's

00:21:27.080 a big difference between say this podcast or other concern or conservative alternative media

00:21:31.920 and CNN. One difference is we usually we get better ratings in alternative conservative media,

00:21:39.080 but CNN is part of the established media, right? Most of CNN's ratings come from airports. It's just

00:21:45.640 on at airport TVs because that is considered to be authoritative and very serious news. And Chris

00:21:52.000 Cuomo goes out there every night and says, yes, we're very serious news. And yet in his heart,

00:21:56.460 he knows that the media are full of it. They're not objective in any way. They're not even interested

00:22:02.160 in the truth. They're liars and they're rats. His brother, Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, 1.00

00:22:09.420 is now threatening Donald Trump. Andrew Cuomo in New York says this about the president, quote,

00:22:15.540 he better have an army if he thinks he's going to walk down the street in New York. New Yorkers

00:22:18.960 don't want to have anything to do with him. He can't have enough bodyguards to walk through New

00:22:23.420 York city. People don't want to have anything to do with him. So this is a direct threat from

00:22:27.240 a democratic governor and the democratic governor who handled coronavirus worse than any governor in

00:22:32.720 the country against the president of the United States. Can you imagine if a Republican governor

00:22:37.200 said this about Barack Obama? He would be put on trial. He'd be sent to the Hague. He would be

00:22:42.520 called a racist and a vicious monster and a terrible person. He, they, there'd be calls for 0.99

00:22:48.820 him to be kicked out of office with Andrew Cuomo saying this directly threatening the life of the

00:22:52.740 president saying he better not come here. He's going to need an army because otherwise he's going

00:22:56.240 to get killed. What happens to him? Nothing. Now, is that a racial privilege? No, I don't think it's a

00:23:03.360 racial, I don't think the Italians get any particular privilege. Do I think that the fact that if the

00:23:08.320 situation were flipped and it was Barack Obama's president, any Republican governor, do I think

00:23:12.000 that's a black privilege? No, I don't think it's that. I don't think it's, I think we're looking

00:23:16.220 at privilege all the wrong way. I don't think it's a matter of racial privilege at all. I think it is

00:23:22.440 a matter of political privilege, liberal establishment, elite privilege, which totally exists. And it's why

00:23:29.540 this story is going to get totally buried. It's going to get totally buried as the Democrats,

00:23:35.580 as the liberal establishment tries to steal this election and make no mistake, they are actively

00:23:40.600 attempting to steal this election. Now you, you might not know that if you watch the mainstream

00:23:44.640 media because the, the primary method right now that they're using to steal this election through

00:23:50.960 fraud is this universal mail-in ballot issue. And the mail-in ballots are being, are, are highly

00:23:58.420 unreliable. They can be harvested. They, first of all, just often don't get there in the mail,

00:24:03.180 right? There've been experiments done where 3% of, of mail-in ballots don't even end up

00:24:08.760 in, in the hands of the recipients. Forget about where they came from first. So they're

00:24:14.260 trying to steal that, but they're trying to tell you there's no such thing as mail-in ballot

00:24:18.780 fraud. There's no such thing as trying to steal elections when the Democrats are doing it.

00:24:22.580 When Republicans are looking like they're in a good position, all of a sudden, all we hear

00:24:26.980 about is election fraud. We're told that if you have to present an ID to prove you are who

00:24:31.060 you are, that you're committing election fraud and stealing an election. But now that the

00:24:35.400 Democrats are trying to harvest ballots from senior citizen homes, all of a sudden, no such 0.98

00:24:39.340 thing. Wolf Blitzer at CNN took this liberal position, tried to smack down Attorney General

00:24:46.800 Bill Barr, the honey badger, who was bringing up all of these issues. Bill Barr wouldn't let

00:24:52.460 him have it. He explained in excellent detail, the nature of voter fraud in the United States.

00:24:59.940 The bipartisan commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker said back in 2009 that

00:25:07.780 mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion.

00:25:13.280 But since then, there have been a lot of investigations that have improved it.

00:25:16.960 Let me talk. Yeah, please.

00:25:18.780 And since this, since that time, there have been in the newspapers, in networks, academic studies

00:25:26.540 saying it is open to fraud and coercion. The only time the narrative changed is after this

00:25:33.220 administration came in. But elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud

00:25:39.240 and coercion. For example, we indicted someone in Texas, 1,700 ballots collected from people who

00:25:46.340 could vote. He made them out and voted for the person he wanted to. Okay? Because that kind of

00:25:52.980 thing happens with mail-in ballots. And everyone knows that. Of course, everyone knows it. And

00:25:58.220 look at how the narrative changes. That's the key there. He says, what about this commission

00:26:01.800 chaired by Jimmy Carter and, and Jim Baker that's, that found that there is substantial fraud in mail-in

00:26:10.540 You were all talking about that until the day before yesterday. The minute he gets into that,

00:26:15.420 all of a sudden, Wolf Blitzer tries to cut him off. Bill Barr won't let him do it. He says, no,

00:26:18.440 I'm not going to let you do this today. I'm going to explain to you how it works. So then Wolf Blitzer

00:26:23.040 moves on to the next democratic talking point. First is there's no fraud whatsoever in the mail.

00:26:26.980 The next talking point is okay. And they always say this whenever you cite any case of actual

00:26:31.940 voter fraud, they'll say, okay, that's one or individual case, but there's no widespread problem.

00:26:38.160 Bill Barr shuts that down too. There are individuals, uh, cases, but as far as widespread fraud,

00:26:44.580 we haven't seen that since, uh, we have, we haven't had the kind of widespread use of mail-in

00:26:49.360 ballots as being proposed. We've had absentee ballots from people who request them from a

00:26:54.140 specific address. Now what we're talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list when

00:26:59.640 everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate. People who should get them don't get them,

00:27:04.180 which was what has been one of the major complaints in states that have tried this in,

00:27:08.560 in municipal elections. And, uh, people who get them are not the right people.

00:27:14.260 They're people who have replaced the occupant, the previous occupant, and they can make them out.

00:27:18.460 And sometimes multiple ballots come to the same address with a whole generate,

00:27:22.320 several generations of occupants. Do you think that's a way to run a vote?

00:27:26.300 Well, the only thing I'm saying is that so far we haven't seen widespread fraud, but so far we

00:27:31.300 haven't tried it. It's like Wolf Blitzer has nothing left. It's like he's that non-player

00:27:36.660 character meme. He's like, he's a robot, just beep boop. He's got the pre-programmed line, which is,

00:27:41.460 well, we've seen it on an individual level, but we haven't seen it on a widespread level.

00:27:45.040 Bill Barr gives a great answer. He says, right, we've never tried it on a widespread level.

00:27:48.660 We've, we've never tried this universal mail-in thing. We've done absentee, which is not only

00:27:53.340 different in degree, but it's different in kind from what's being proposed because with absentee,

00:27:58.620 you have to specifically request it to a specific address. Here, we're just going to mail them out to

00:28:02.600 wherever. You remember how that cat that's been dead for 20 years got an absentee ballot a couple of

00:28:08.140 months ago? There was a, I forget which state it was in. A couple came on. They said, yeah, our

00:28:12.020 cat who's been dead for 20 years got an absentee ballot. And I just think, I don't think that dead

00:28:17.340 cats should vote. That's, that sort of thing is happening. People who have moved out of homes,

00:28:21.540 they'll get the ballot to the old address. So Bill Barr completely strikes that down. Wolf Blitzer's

00:28:25.760 got nothing left. He says, yeah, but it just seems individual, not widespread. Bill Barr says,

00:28:29.460 right. I just explained to you why that is. We've never tried widespread. What's going to happen

00:28:33.980 then? Wolf Blitzer keeps pushing. So Bill Barr makes the biggest point of all, which is we're

00:28:41.760 an uncharted territory and we're playing with fire. The point is that a lot of us, there are

00:28:47.540 several states that only have mail-in voting, including a Republican. Well, this is playing

00:28:51.960 with fire. This is playing with fire. We're a very closely divided country here. And if people have to

00:28:57.700 have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government and people trying

00:29:02.160 to change the rules to this, to this methodology, which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud

00:29:09.060 and coercion is reckless and dangerous. And the people are playing with fire. Of course, he's

00:29:15.060 absolutely right. And of course he strikes this down and the liberal elite privilege is not having

00:29:21.220 to answer that for now, the several years they've been trying to push this sort of thing. But

00:29:25.660 unfortunately they made the mistake of inviting the honey badger on CNN and he wouldn't let them get away

00:29:29.560 with it. Some good news in the presidential front. Trump right now is leading Joe Biden by two points

00:29:35.160 in North Carolina, 49 to 47. This is according to a poll released on Tuesday by East Carolina

00:29:41.020 University. Polls in other places are tightening up. And you know, I don't pay a ton of attention to

00:29:45.140 polls. Public opinion polls are a relatively recent invention of the social sciences, which I'm highly

00:29:51.020 skeptical of anyway. Polls famously were pretty wrong in 2016. Some people still try to defend the polls

00:29:57.140 in 2016. But the fact is all of the meta analysis of all these polls showed Hillary had a 99% chance

00:30:03.300 of, of winning. And then when she lost, they said, no, they weren't wrong. It's just that

00:30:08.380 the 1% turned out to be true. And that, this is the problem with not just polls. Let's go back to

00:30:13.900 something else that's a little bit older, but it's still a very recent invention. Statistics, lies,

00:30:19.940 damned lies, and statistics. I got in trouble yesterday on the show because I made a point 0.99

00:30:24.220 that conservatives, generally speaking, should shun statistics because statistics were created

00:30:30.780 very recently by and for the liberal progressive establishment. What has evolved into the liberal

00:30:38.260 progressive establishment? Even using the word evolved kind of plays into that, that narrative.

00:30:43.240 Now, people were shocked. They said, Michael, what are you talking about? We need statistics.

00:30:46.740 No, we don't. And we don't, I mean, we can use statistics when they help us, but we've got to be

00:30:51.040 very, very careful about statistics because I think some people, when they heard me say

00:30:55.540 that conflated statistics with facts. That's, that's how deeply embedded this problem has

00:31:02.340 become. But statistics are not facts. Statistics in many ways are the opposite of facts. What does

00:31:09.120 statistics mean? It's a new concept, relatively new concept. It refers to the state, data for the

00:31:17.280 state. And as statism has come into its current form, statistics have taken on a very important

00:31:24.440 role. The word statistics comes from the late 18th century German word statistik. I don't know how to

00:31:30.500 pronounce, I don't have a great German accent. Ja, ja, statistik. Late 18th century. This is derived

00:31:36.340 from the new Latin statisticum collegium, council of state, and the Italian word statista, right?

00:31:42.860 Statist. Statist. This word statistic in German, first introduced by Gottfried Achenwald in 1749,

00:31:52.820 designated the analysis of data about the state, specifically the science of the state. And around

00:32:00.000 this time, you see the advent of what you would call political science, the social sciences, economics,

00:32:06.960 sociology, uh, political science, which was a new concept as opposed to political philosophy.

00:32:12.360 The idea here being that there is a science not only to biology, well, even biology is a relatively

00:32:19.960 new one, a science to physics, for instance, or a science to precise things that we can measure under

00:32:26.500 a microscope. That's, there's not just that kind of science, but there's also a science to society.

00:32:31.160 There's also a science to history. There's a science to human affairs and politics, and that

00:32:37.520 you can measure, once you understand the science, you can know with scientific certainty how society

00:32:43.640 should be governed. You can know how history will progress. You can know the end of history. You can

00:32:48.560 know the right side of history. You can know all of these sorts of things by applying the methods of

00:32:54.120 physical science to society and the questions that were previously explored by philosophy and by,

00:33:02.680 by the, uh, philosophy of politics rather than a science of politics. So what, what social science

00:33:09.840 does is it comes in and says, okay, we've got to separate the administration of society from

00:33:15.920 politics. Politics is usually just all people arguing and trying to persuade one another and

00:33:21.280 deciding how we want to live. Yeah, that's too messy. So what we've got to do is separate the way

00:33:25.780 that society is actually governed by the administrative bureaucracies from politics.

00:33:30.480 So ironically, what happens is that everything gets politicized. My cup of coffee gets politicized.

00:33:35.400 My choice in clothing, my choice in sneakers gets politicized. Everything is politicized except for

00:33:40.880 politics. The political questions are actually taken away and decided by these headless bureaucracies.

00:33:46.960 And how do the bureaucracies create these policies? They use data given to them by another aspect of

00:33:52.880 the liberal establishment, which is the university. And what does the university give you? Statistics.

00:33:58.060 So they just write, they say, we, you've heard this, the whole coronavirus pandemic,

00:34:01.640 this is actually the best time to think about this point. We've been told, look, I don't want to hear

00:34:07.460 from politicians. Meaning I don't want to hear from our duly elected representatives. Meaning I don't want

00:34:13.780 to hear from how citizens want to govern themselves. I just want to be governed by science and data.

00:34:21.460 The trouble is the idea that there is a science of society is complete BS. It is a lie used by

00:34:30.820 liberals or progressives or leftists or use whatever word you want to take political power away from you,

00:34:37.700 grab it for themselves and never have it threatened because they say, well, we're just,

00:34:41.380 we're just deferring to science. We need the green new deal. We need to redistribute trillions of 0.88

00:34:46.460 dollars to our favored groups away from the groups that we don't like. Why do we have to do that?

00:34:51.660 Oh, science. Yeah. We need to lock you all in your homes forever. And we need to have the federal

00:34:57.120 reserve print up lots and lots of money and we need to borrow trillions of dollars and we need to give

00:35:01.940 it out to favored groups. Why? Oh, because of science. Show me the science. I don't see the work

00:35:09.940 there. And the, the raw material that goes in and is used to justify these kinds of policies

00:35:16.420 is statistics. Okay. But statistics can be abused. I'm not saying that you can't count certain things

00:35:23.220 and have data. Of course you can do that, but statistics can be abused. I'll give you an example.

00:35:27.620 Let's say a 60% of America likes chocolate ice cream. 40% likes vanilla ice cream.

00:35:34.480 You can come in and say, look, 60% of America likes chocolate ice cream. That's the majority of

00:35:39.420 America. We just need to mandate chocolate ice cream for everybody. That's statistics. That's

00:35:44.180 just science. But you can make the exact same argument and say, wow, 40% of America likes vanilla

00:35:49.960 ice cream. Oh my gosh, 40% of America. Gosh, that, that means we need to have an abundance of vanilla 0.99

00:35:55.240 ice cream available. Now this is kind of a silly example. Who knows what the applicability of that 0.92

00:36:01.520 would be. It is only to say that the statistics, the numbers can be used to make any number of

00:36:10.940 arguments. And we know that. I mean, we've seen this threat, not just the coronavirus, but even in

00:36:14.560 just recent decades, we've seen how statistics are always used sometimes to make opposing arguments.

00:36:19.880 And I'm just giving an example where we can actually rely on 60% like this, 40% like this,

00:36:26.120 60% do this, 40% do this. Sometimes it's not even that clear. And by the way, where do these

00:36:31.400 statistics come from? Usually it's, they come from some scientific paper, social scientific paper. So

00:36:36.900 not actually a scientific paper. And the statistics have been compiled. They've been put into models

00:36:43.060 that are obviously very fraught. That's why you might've noticed the models did not work out during

00:36:48.480 this coronavirus pandemic. They often don't. The models about global warming have not turned out

00:36:52.380 to be true. The models about any number of these things don't turn out to be true because as Dr.

00:36:55.860 Fauci said, the models are only good as the statistics that you put into them. But who puts

00:37:00.120 in the statistics? It's some grad student who never has their work checked, who, I don't know,

00:37:04.720 maybe they have some weird methodologies. Maybe they don't even. It's a, it's a way of manipulating

00:37:09.300 you. And Edmund Burke, the great conservative philosopher said, the age of chivalry has gone. That of

00:37:14.280 sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded it. And the glory of Europe is extinguished

00:37:18.860 forever. We cannot be those economists, sophisters, and calculators. We shouldn't be these egghead

00:37:25.680 statisticians manipulating data and pretending that political, authentically political questions

00:37:30.520 really should just be decided by a couple of eggheads in lab coats who pretend that they know 0.83

00:37:36.380 the entire science of, of history and of politics and of society. That is not only profoundly

00:37:43.040 anti-conservative, not only does that feed this kind of liberal established elite privilege,

00:37:50.620 it totally undercuts the concept of self-government and the political traditions that we so cherish.

00:37:57.700 It's my last defense of throwing statistics out the window. Head on over to the Michael

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00:38:13.040 All right. First question from Gabby. Just heard your story about Michelle Obama and the ice cream

00:38:28.260 shop. So this story, in case you missed it a couple of days ago, was that Michelle Obama went

00:38:32.340 into an ice cream shop when she was first lady and someone cut her in line. And that's how she showed 0.99

00:38:37.620 that there was such a thing as white supremacy. And she's so oppressed and everyone should feel bad 0.80

00:38:41.980 for Michelle Obama. That's the story. When as first lady did Michelle Obama ever just go out to an

00:38:48.280 ice cream shop without the Secret Service in tow? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah, the story is

00:38:51.740 obviously preposterous. Even if she had, even if she told the Secret Service to wait around the corner,

00:38:55.700 which probably they would not have done anyway. She's Michelle Obama. She's one of the most famous

00:39:00.500 women in the world. So the situation that she is presenting as she's waiting in a shop and then someone

00:39:07.980 cuts her in line and then she says, hey, stop cutting me in line. And then the person goes away

00:39:11.840 and doesn't look at her and doesn't pay proper obeisance to the wonderful one, Michelle Obama.

00:39:18.040 May have been the case that this other person walked into the shop.

00:39:22.100 You're not quite sure where the line is, who's waiting, who's already put in their order, who's

00:39:25.500 who's just now off to the side waiting to get their ice cream. And then Michelle Obama was very rude to 1.00

00:39:30.200 him. And then this person was, was intimidated because you're talking to the first lady of the United

00:39:35.160 States and was quiet. Two different ways to read that situation. Which one do you think is more

00:39:41.000 likely? Do we think that Michelle Obama, one of the most popular women in America is really just

00:39:47.500 the victim of horrible oppression? Do we think America, America, which elected her husband president

00:39:51.980 twice, for some reason elected her president, utterly unqualified to be president, but they, they 0.99

00:39:57.500 elected him twice. It's just because of how horrible and racist and bigoted it is. I don't think so. 0.93

00:40:03.100 From Mitch. Hey, Michael. I remember learning about how Louisiana and the great state of Texas were the

00:40:08.180 last two states in the union to change the legal drinking age to 21. This was only after the federal

00:40:13.000 government threatened to cut federal funding of some programs, highways, I believe. Since these

00:40:17.920 liberal states and cities are shirking any and all sense of responsibility in an effort to signify their

00:40:23.340 wokeness, could the federal government employ a similar tactic? We've already seen the mayor of

00:40:28.880 Minneapolis ask president Trump for a federal bailout from the riots, which the president quickly shot

00:40:33.860 down. But couldn't he take it a step further? I do not wish to signify intent to cause harm or

00:40:39.860 demolish the way of life in those areas, but wouldn't a simple ultimatum of clean your mess up or prepare

00:40:43.960 to lose whatever benefit the city is receiving? Thanks for your time. Hail to the exalted Dr. Fauci,

00:40:49.840 peace be upon him. I suppose they could, they are actually attempting this in certain places.

00:40:54.320 They're saying we're going to cut federal funding to cities for various programs if you don't clean

00:40:59.500 up your cities. The question is, is it going to have any teeth? When you look at something like

00:41:03.880 trying to change the drinking age or other programs that the federal government has tried to push on

00:41:08.540 the states, they often succeeded during periods of some bipartisan consensus, and that does not exist

00:41:15.880 at all now. I mean, anything that Trump says or does, the Democrats will oppose. Trump could support

00:41:23.180 giving lollipops to orphans and the Democrats would say, that's a terrible thing and no candy for the 1.00

00:41:28.080 kids. So it would seem difficult now because, you know, the federal government could threaten it,

00:41:33.640 but the, the, at least the elected power of the federal government could change at any given time.

00:41:40.340 And actually what this does, even this kind of partisan division is empowers the topic we've been

00:41:45.020 talking about all day, which is this, the, the liberal elite establishment, which governs through the

00:41:50.840 bureaucracy, which shapes public opinion, which then permits these changes, shapes public opinion

00:41:56.180 through the mainstream media and through Hollywood and through the universities. That establishment is

00:42:01.480 just going to keep on governing and doing whatever it wants. And maybe sometimes Republicans get elected,

00:42:06.540 but it's not a fair fight. It's not an elected Democrat against an elected Republican. It's an elected

00:42:11.920 Republican against the entire apparatus of the state. From Cameron. Hi, Michael. I've recently been

00:42:18.140 struggling with solipsism. I've suffered from OCD since I was 12. And because of this, I'm now hyper

00:42:24.400 focused on this concept. Life seems less colorful and I'm starting to withdraw from friends and

00:42:29.000 family. I was wondering if you had any ideas on how to cope, disprove this idea from an agnostic 0.92

00:42:33.240 standpoint, as everything I've read on the matter says it's impossible to argue against. Thank you in

00:42:37.820 advance for taking the time to answer my question. My pleasure. So solipsism for those who don't know

00:42:42.000 is the belief that it is not possible to know that the external world exists. Meaning it's that I

00:42:53.140 cannot know for certain that anything other than my own consciousness exists. And sometimes this is

00:43:01.620 just used as a synonym for egotism or narcissism or, you know, self obsession. And I, in some ways,

00:43:11.980 it is, right? You're, you're just so enthralled of yourself. I, I once bandied this solipsistic

00:43:18.980 idea around when, when first, when the concept was introduced to me, when I was a teenager,

00:43:22.940 I started thinking about it. I said, oh gosh, you're right. I guess I can't prove that the outside

00:43:28.060 world exists. But so what then? This reminds me of these questions of does free will exist? Well,

00:43:37.300 the only way that I could prove that free will exists is by freely using my rational faculties

00:43:43.600 that I can rely upon objectively or to, to at least perceive objective reality and then come to a

00:43:51.440 conclusion. But that would beg the question because I would, and by beg the question, that doesn't mean

00:43:56.040 to ask a question. That means to assume my own conclusion. Because by doing that, I'm implicitly

00:44:02.580 asserting that free will does exist because I'm freely choosing to use my rational faculties to

00:44:06.980 grapple with the question of free will to come to a conclusion. So I'm already doing that. So I can't

00:44:11.040 answer that. My answer to people who ask, who say to me that free will does not exist is to punch them 0.93

00:44:17.420 in the face. Now, look, I'm a, I'm a fiery, but mostly peaceful podcaster, but I would punch them in 1.00

00:44:22.620 the face and say, ow, Michael, stop punching me in the face. I'd say, well, I'm not punching you in the 0.97

00:44:27.280 face. I have absolutely no control. There is no moral culpability at all. I'm a, you know,

00:44:33.800 we're just predetermined bags of atoms. And, uh, and as the blood starts pouring down on their face

00:44:39.100 and my knuckles, I'll take a towel. Maybe I'd say, look, it's not, I wish, I wish that I could stop,

00:44:43.560 but I don't even exist in any proper sense of that term because I have no free will. And then when my

00:44:49.640 friend is a bloodied, mangled mess, he will have gotten the point. He will have gotten the point.

00:44:54.580 So it's also interesting that you ask me, you say, I want you to prove this to me from an agnostic

00:44:59.300 point of view. So not only are you denying that I in the external world exist, but you're tying my

00:45:04.960 hands behind my back. You're saying I have to prove something from the standpoint of not knowing

00:45:08.880 something agnostic means not to know. So that's obviously impossible. That's a game that's set up 0.87

00:45:14.640 to fail. I would, uh, take another angle here rather than trying to prove with certainty that the

00:45:21.860 external world exists. Uh, I would look, look at the history of the concept of solipsism,

00:45:32.420 where it comes from. Uh, I would look at the history of self-described solipsists.

00:45:38.340 And then I would look more broadly at our philosophical tradition. It seems to me much

00:45:44.060 clearer or a much, much harder to argue that the external world does not exist than that the

00:45:50.240 external world does exist. It seems to me that the burden of proof is on the one who denies

00:46:00.760 all that we can perceive and then form concepts of through our rational faculties. Now, of course you

00:46:07.060 can't, I mean, the way the question is set up, you, you couldn't prove it, but what, where does that

00:46:12.780 leave you? I suppose that could leave you in a place where you can't rely on anything and every,

00:46:19.420 every single thing is an illusion. And then what, then we might as well sit quietly in the corner.

00:46:25.820 But assuming you're not going to do that, assuming that that seems irrational in as much as you can

00:46:30.740 trust your own rational faculties, I would do it. I would move on and see for just from the practical

00:46:36.500 effects of it, uh, what gives you a view and an, and an action of life that is, uh,

00:46:44.940 that, that conduces to human flourishing. Just try that out. Leave the philosophical theorizing

00:46:51.580 aside for a second and look to the practical aspects of life. See what that does from Kevin

00:46:56.260 morning, Mr. Knowles from the great welfare state of Minnesota. I have been told by a retired

00:47:00.520 government worker that the reason the governments like abortions is because it is a smaller investment

00:47:05.460 than having another person added to welfare and keeps the lower class population in check,

00:47:09.640 which to me is disgusting. But at the same time also gives me a reason why none of the

00:47:13.480 conservatives in office ever actually do anything is it would cascade down a route that would guarantee

00:47:18.000 that they would, wouldn't get voted back in, which if that's the case is also disgusting that this

00:47:23.360 decision would put their career before the life of the defenseless. Please let me know your thoughts

00:47:27.220 on this as I respect your knowledge and opinion. Well, the first part's true. And the second part,

00:47:30.720 I think is not true. The first part we, we know for a fact, the founder of Planned Parenthood,

00:47:34.700 Margaret Sanger said she wanted to get rid of poor people and deficient people and people who can't

00:47:39.440 take care of themselves because that would be a drain on, well, it would be a drain on the

00:47:43.460 state in part. And Margaret Sanger is writing at a time when the state had a really central role

00:47:50.820 in basically every ideology. And, and was, you know, this was at a time when you saw the rise of

00:47:56.620 not only liberalism, which existed, but, but fascism and communism, all of which are totally concerned

00:48:01.980 with the state. So that part's obviously true. I don't think that conservatives are afraid of

00:48:07.520 fixing abortion, for instance, because they think they're not going to get voted back in. You know,

00:48:14.740 it's, it's not that the rich people vote for Republicans and the poor people vote for Democrats.

00:48:18.000 Actually, it's kind of the opposite, right? Wall Street tends to go for the Democrats.

00:48:22.160 These billion, most billionaires in America vote Democrat. The liberal established elite votes

00:48:27.260 Democrat. And actually it's deplorable, irredeemable people who tend to vote Republican.

00:48:31.560 Republican party at various times, but especially right now is much more of a working class party

00:48:35.680 than the democratic party. So I don't think that's the case. I think the reason Republicans

00:48:40.020 are hesitant to do anything on abortion is because they raise a lot of money on it. That's,

00:48:44.460 that's actually why I think that a lot of elected Republicans don't really care. One is probably

00:48:49.420 because they don't care about it much themselves. And then they realize there's a great fundraising

00:48:54.480 benefit to the pro-life issue, which is disgusting too, but that's, that's a different reason

00:48:59.540 than they worry about not getting reelected. All right. Last question from Tim. What is this?

00:49:04.900 This involves a note they gave me, a note on white privilege. Okay. This was posted on Facebook by

00:49:10.320 a former homeschooler whose child was just, just started at St. Paul's Catholic High School in

00:49:14.340 Bristol, Connecticut. Overall, it's a decent school. However, this handout was given out in a

00:49:18.700 schoolwide assembly yesterday. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on woke politics, infiltrating even

00:49:22.720 private Catholic schools. This is on white privilege. Oh, there's a, a number of bullet points,

00:49:27.960 26 bullet points. I'll just go through a few. So I guess it's, it's explaining what white privilege

00:49:33.040 is. I can, if I wish, arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

00:49:38.460 I think, I think a lot of people can do that. You can see, you see self-segregation in neighborhoods

00:49:42.380 and social circles. So everybody can do that if they wish. I can be sure that my neighbors in a

00:49:49.120 location that I moved to will be neutral or pleasant to me. I can't assure that. I'd, and not just

00:49:54.940 because I'm a little swarthy or something. I, I think that, I mean, there are BLM signs in every yard,

00:50:00.840 in every city or suburb in all of America. So I think it's not a racial issue, but I can't assure

00:50:06.540 that when I move into a neighborhood, people will be pleasant to me. The minute they find out my

00:50:09.560 politics, they hate my guts because if you're a conservative in America today, you are counter

00:50:15.000 cultural. You're, you're, you have a politics of dissent from what we've been talking about all

00:50:19.340 show, this liberal establishment. So, so that actually, that backs up my thesis, right? That backs

00:50:25.540 that the real privilege is kind of liberal elite privilege, not a racial question. I can turn on

00:50:31.480 the television or open the front page of a newspaper and see people of my race widely

00:50:34.460 represented. There's a ton of entertainment for black people and Hispanic people in this, right?

00:50:40.800 You've got TV stations, you've got magazines, you've got outlets, you've got websites. That's

00:50:44.700 crazy. If I want to, I can be pretty sure finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.

00:50:48.660 Well, you can because it's a liberal, but it's not because of your race. First of all, getting books

00:50:53.440 published is hard, but you could get this dribble published anywhere, couldn't you? It is. It's

00:50:59.100 published in every liberal outlet on the internet. Okay. Blah, blah, blah. Posters, cards. Oh, here we

00:51:07.040 go. Oh, here's one. This actually ties right in to the top of the show. Number 22, I can take a job

00:51:12.300 with an affirmative action employer without having coworkers on the job suspect that I got it because

00:51:17.240 of my race. That's the privilege. So even, affirmative action is actually a way to disadvantage

00:51:23.400 white and Asian people by law. And they make all these arguments for it. So, but that, that is it, 0.96

00:51:29.000 right? It's to racially discriminate against white and Asian people. And even that now is taken as a

00:51:33.640 symptom of white privilege because if you do get a job and you're white or Asian, you can at least

00:51:39.400 be said to think that you got what you deserve, except the whole ideology of white privilege says

00:51:43.840 that nothing you have is something that you deserve. A total incoherent drivel. It's very sad that 0.96

00:51:49.720 a Catholic school would do that. Catholic schools are supposed to be more conservative than the

00:51:53.400 insanity at the public schools, but the rot runs very deep, runs very, very deep. It's not just Nancy

00:51:58.480 Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. It's not just a couple of elected politicians. It runs all the way down

00:52:03.320 through the media, through Hollywood, through technology, through the schools, through the

00:52:07.900 Catholic schools, through the Catholic church, through, and when I say the Catholic church, I just

00:52:11.640 mean that as an example of the most conservative institution. It goes throughout all of the

00:52:15.380 Protestant denominations all over the West. That is a deeply embedded privilege. How do we reform that

00:52:23.180 system of oppression? We will leave that to next week. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 03, 2020

Ep. 609 - Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

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