The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 612 - Shaming the Wise

00:00:00.000 A couple of weeks ago, President Trump announced that one Middle Eastern nation would be making

00:00:06.160 peace with Israel. We always hear this term peace in the Middle East as though it's something

00:00:10.540 completely unthinkable, something that's never gonna happen. And President Trump brings us that

00:00:14.500 one country, right? So what do people say? Oh, it's not a big deal. It's just the United Arab 0.61

00:00:18.520 Emirates. It's not, who cares? You know, they're pretty pro-Western. Then he announces that there

00:00:23.920 will be a peace deal between Israel and a second Middle Eastern nation, Bahrain. That happened

00:00:28.820 yesterday across the street at the White House. Oh, well, that's, come on, it's not that big a deal.

00:00:32.900 And then in a typical Trumpian 11th hour surprise, he says, oh, by the way, we're looking at peace

00:00:38.120 deals with, oh, just about nine different nations, possibly including Saudi Arabia. Here's the

00:00:44.640 president announcing the big news. I do things differently. If you, if you listen to the three

00:00:50.940 world leaders today, and these are highly respected leaders and countries, UAE is a,

00:00:58.280 is a tremendously respected warrior. I mean, they're warriors. They're a very strong,

00:01:05.460 respected country. If you listen to what they said, nobody thought of the plan that I thought

00:01:11.380 of. And it's going around the back door. I call it going around the smart door and coming in a

00:01:16.520 different way. And we have many other countries going to be joining us and they're going to be

00:01:20.460 joining us soon. We'll have, I can, I mean, I think seven or eight or nine, we're going to have

00:01:26.320 a lot of other countries joining us, including the big ones. We already have the big one, but

00:01:31.200 including the big ones. And this is not something that the people that you mentioned would be able

00:01:37.420 to be doing. And it's not something that my critics thought was possible. And now they say,

00:01:43.720 wow, that was a good idea. I will say it's gotten rave reviews, even from the New York Times and Tom

00:01:50.660 Friedman and a lot of people that don't like Donald Trump too much. Why do we care about peace in the

00:01:57.260 Middle East? Because we thought it was impossible. And yet this guy, this billionaire reality TV show

00:02:04.420 host seems to be on the roads and already making steps toward that goal. What does he say? He says

00:02:10.620 going in around the smart door, all the smart people, all the geniuses, they couldn't work it

00:02:16.680 out. The region just got worse and worse and worse. And then this guy, Donald Trump, they all said was

00:02:20.700 a buffoon. Turns out he's the one to actually do it. How is this possible? Because God uses the foolish

00:02:26.200 things of this world to shame the wise. He uses the weak things to shame the strong, the despised and low

00:02:33.440 things. The things that are not to shame the things that are. Big, big lesson in here for politics.

00:02:41.180 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.700 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday, actually it's right, right on this topic.

00:02:57.080 This is from G Daddy who said, yeah, we'll have peace in the Middle East has been a description of the

00:03:03.280 impossible or pipe dream task. Looks like we'll have to change that now to, yeah, we'll have a

00:03:08.800 peaceful protest in a Democrat city. Yeah, because the peace in the Middle East is probably going to

00:03:14.720 happen. Peaceful protest in a Democrat city. That, my friends, is a true, true pipe dream.

00:03:22.600 Why is this all happening in the Middle East? Well, you know, as we're talking about God using the 0.95

00:03:27.740 foolish things to shame the strong, I have noticed God has had an interest in the Middle East since,

00:03:32.140 you know, the dawn of time. So you're looking at a place that has been so rife with, with political

00:03:38.020 chaos just about forever and certainly in recent years. And yet that's a topic that the president

00:03:44.220 goes after. I guess every president has tried to establish some kind of peace in the Middle East.

00:03:47.880 Didn't work out particularly well for the last few guys who tried it. Barack Obama, George Bush,

00:03:52.740 Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton probably did better than the other two. Trump doing better than all of them.

00:03:56.460 How is this possible? Because we're told that Trump is an idiot and all the smart people don't like

00:04:01.640 him because all the smart people know so much better. This is true, not just, we'll move past

00:04:06.700 the Middle East. This is true most clearly in the realm of science. You know, Trump and all the

00:04:12.540 Republicans, they're science deniers. Do you know Scientific American, that vaunted journal,

00:04:18.600 Scientific American, is endorsing a political candidate now. Scientific American is endorsing

00:04:24.520 Joe Biden because Trump is so anti-scientist. The scientists with a trademark over the S,

00:04:30.140 the experts, they hate Trump. So Scientific American, for the first time in its 175 year

00:04:34.860 history, endorses a presidential candidate. They said they were compelled to do so. They said that

00:04:41.180 President Trump, quote, has badly damaged the U.S. and his people because he rejects evidence and

00:04:47.400 science. He's attacked environmental protections, medical care, researchers, and public science agencies

00:04:54.500 that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges. He and his vice president have

00:04:58.760 flouted the local mask rules. Oh no, he hasn't muzzled himself all the time. We told him to shut

00:05:04.100 up, but he won't, he won't shut up. He just keeps doing things and succeeding. He's repeatedly lied to

00:05:09.140 the public about the deadly threat of the disease. He's denying reality and hobbling all sorts of U.S.

00:05:16.760 science agencies. Obviously, this has nothing to do with science. As we talked about earlier on this

00:05:23.360 show, we're actually at the beginning of this virus, when everyone said, we need to listen to the

00:05:26.700 public health experts. You got to look at that phrase. What is a public health expert?

00:05:31.860 A political scientist. Public refers to politics, and then health expert, I guess, could refer to a

00:05:38.700 scientist. So you got science and you got politics. And this clearly, this endorsement is politics.

00:05:44.660 And it's divorced from reality, isn't it? You talk about Donald Trump being divorced from reality.

00:05:49.720 Let's not forget that the so-called public health experts have gotten every single prediction

00:05:54.660 about this virus wrong from the beginning. All the public health experts and the Democratic Party,

00:06:01.360 right, they're basically part of the same institution, were the ones saying that we

00:06:06.100 shouldn't have a travel ban from China, who went along with the World Health Organization,

00:06:10.300 which had been infiltrated by China. It was a puppet of the Chinese regime.

00:06:14.820 They were, they just got everything about the virus wrong. And you know who got a lot of it right

00:06:19.740 as, as best you can during a pandemic? Donald Trump, that fool, that idiot, that unscientific,

00:06:27.140 inexpert guy who just happens to be more correct than all of the experts. Greatest example of this,

00:06:33.260 this kind of politicized science comes from Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo, the very unfortunate governor

00:06:41.700 of New York, the guy who handled the virus worse than anybody. He just tweeted out yesterday, quote,

00:06:46.680 science knows. That's the tweet. Because we've now entered the stoner freshman hears part of a

00:06:56.860 philosophy lecture phase of Andrew Cuomo's governorship. Science knows, you know. Trouble with that tweet

00:07:05.660 though. Well, there are a lot of problems with that tweet. One is science cannot know. I mean,

00:07:12.580 the phrase itself semantically doesn't make any sense. Because what is science? Science properly

00:07:17.200 understood is knowledge from shire in, in Latin. Science now we use it to refer to this method of

00:07:25.360 empirical study. Either way, knowledge cannot know. People can know things. Andrew Cuomo can't know very

00:07:33.140 much at all, but people can know things. But knowledge cannot know. Knowledge cannot do the

00:07:39.240 process of having knowledge because knowledge is itself knowledge. You know, you dig, man.

00:07:46.320 Consider the kind of people who are talking about science in this way, in this, in this deified way.

00:07:52.740 They're talking about it like science is God, like science is, is everything. The, the pro science guy,

00:07:59.500 Andrew Cuomo, had the worst response to the virus. The anti-science guy, Donald Trump,

00:08:05.140 had a much better response to the virus. Even at the state level, people were always attacking Ron

00:08:10.540 DeSantis in Florida, but a much more elderly population than in New York. He's the anti-science

00:08:15.620 Republican. He handled the virus much, much better than the pro science guy. How does that happen?

00:08:24.360 What, what about, what about good old science? You know, some other things that science knows. Science

00:08:28.600 knows that if a man wants to become a woman and then injects himself with a lot of hormones,

00:08:33.840 that will make him happier. That's what we've been told by science, right? Study just came out.

00:08:38.320 Just not true. Just not true. The American Journal of Psychiatry issued a major correction the other

00:08:44.940 day. Big retraction. Reanalysis demonstrates that neither quote gender affirming hormone treatment

00:08:52.840 nor gender affirming surgery. This is when you, a man basically is mutilated to look more like a woman 0.97

00:08:59.440 has reduced the need for mental health services. And then, uh, this was put out by public discourse

00:09:05.920 is a gender anxious people deserve better. I kind of like that term people who have anxiety about

00:09:11.340 their sex. It sounds kind of PC, but it's a little more accurate than, than some of the PC terms for

00:09:17.420 transgenderism or whatever it is. We were told by science, remember settled science that, uh, people

00:09:23.720 who are confused about their, their sex need to mutilate themselves. And we need to do this to 0.99

00:09:27.400 children too. We need to inject them full of hormones and castrate them and permanently change 1.00

00:09:31.840 their bodies because it'll make them feel better. Turns out no evidence of that whatsoever. As we

00:09:38.080 have been saying from the very beginning, I actually did a lecture tour that was in part about this issue

00:09:42.100 called men are not women and other uncomfortable truths. We were attacked. We were called anti-science.

00:09:46.720 Well, what does the science really say? How come all those egghead experts in lab coats are totally

00:09:52.480 wrong? And how come the mean old orange man who is a vulgarian and a reality TV star, how come he keeps

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00:11:29.820 That's how the anti-science candidate is comparing against all of those vaunted experts. So how's the

00:11:36.260 pro-science candidate doing? You know, science knows, science, knowledge. That would be Joe Biden,

00:11:43.620 right? Well, that scientific candidate doesn't even seem to know who's at the top of the presidential

00:11:48.420 ticket. Here is Mr. Biden introducing the ticket of Biden-Harris. Nope. He couldn't quite remember

00:11:56.660 that. Harris-Biden administration is going to relaunch that effort and keep pushing further to

00:12:01.480 make it easier for military spouses and veterans to find meaningful careers, to ensure teachers know

00:12:07.100 how to support military children in their classrooms, and to improve support for caregivers and survivors

00:12:12.060 so much more than we do now. People are attacking Joe Biden here because they're saying, gosh,

00:12:19.140 this guy forgot who's at the top of the ticket and who's at the bottom of the ticket. He forgot that

00:12:23.240 he is the one who's supposed to be running for president, not Kamala Harris. And now this is

00:12:27.700 plausible because he also often forgets his name. He referred to the O'Biden administration back under

00:12:33.400 Barack Obama. He has forgotten all sorts of things. I actually think this is a moment of candor from

00:12:40.620 Joe Biden, which is that it's pretty clear from his behavior that if heaven forfend he is elected

00:12:46.620 president, he won't be running the show. He obviously won't be running the show. He doesn't know

00:12:51.380 where he is. He's been locked away in a basement. Last night we had essentially a presidential debate

00:12:56.880 with only one candidate. That was on ABC with George Stephanopoulos. We'll get to that in a

00:13:01.620 second because President Trump did very well there. Suffice it to say he did very well. But the format

00:13:06.280 of it was basically a presidential debate, except they wouldn't send Joe Biden because obviously

00:13:10.340 Joe Biden is going to be devoured for lunch if he goes and does anything like that. So yes,

00:13:15.340 I don't know that it'll be Harris running the country. Probably what it will be is the liberal

00:13:18.880 establishment, which is why these so-called scientists, these fake scientists, like people at

00:13:23.680 Scientific American and all the egghead experts interested in public health are not interested

00:13:28.340 in health in particular. They're not interested in medicine in particular. They're interested in

00:13:32.420 politics and they're interested in power. And if Joe Biden wins, he will be the empty suit

00:13:37.280 vessel of this liberal establishment power in which all of these egghead experts think that they can

00:13:43.820 control our lives. That has been the explicit goal of the progressive project going back at least 100

00:13:49.620 years, at least to Woodrow Wilson. And really before that, that you have a science of administration,

00:13:55.740 a science of history, a science of politics that takes choice away from we, the people takes choice

00:14:01.400 away from our constitutional system, gives it to these unaccountable technocrats who are going to 0.87

00:14:06.880 make all of our decisions for us. And who is the vessel of that? This empty suit, Joe Biden,

00:14:11.020 Joe Biden getting off an airplane, ostensibly to do a campaign event, gets off the plane and he does

00:14:16.740 that kind of typical politician thing. He waves at all the people. Trouble was, he was waving at no

00:14:20.960 one because nobody was around his plane. He's stepping off the jet. There's maybe two bodyguards

00:14:30.420 and then he's, he's waving at pretend crowds of people.

00:14:35.480 He then turns, so he's got these to his right. He's got two presumably secret service agents and

00:14:47.100 he starts waving, not at them, but at imaginary crowds of people behind them.

00:14:52.700 And then on the other side of Joe Biden, he hears a reporter say, Mr. Vice President, by the way,

00:14:57.340 Joe Biden's not the vice president. He should not be referred to as Mr. Vice President. But then he

00:15:00.500 turns around and, and, you know, obviously doesn't answer their questions because he doesn't answer any

00:15:04.580 of the press's questions now. They still love him for it. But this was, this was not just some

00:15:09.460 mistake that he thought the secret service agent was somewhere else. He was pretending just like

00:15:15.820 he's pretending to be at the top of his ticket, except when he forgets and he puts Kamala Harris

00:15:20.720 up there. Then the greatest moment for this pro science genius candidate, this brilliant candidate

00:15:26.620 who in 50 years in government never accomplished to, never accomplished very much of anything,

00:15:32.100 maybe one or two halfway decent bills that he's now disavowing. 50 years in government,

00:15:37.020 all this expert doesn't give us very much. It actually brings us to the situation that President

00:15:40.940 Trump had to come in and correct. But there was one wonderful moment when he pandered to Hispanics 0.95

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00:17:17.560 free shipping. Biden then shows up to a campaign event. This is for Hispanic Heritage Month.

00:17:25.180 Hispanic, by the way, is only a racial designation that's about 40 or so years old. It was invented

00:17:31.300 by a bunch of these political science types and a quarter of Hispanics in the United States today

00:17:37.100 don't even identify with the label. But whatever. He shows up to Hispanic Heritage Month. That's,

00:17:43.460 you know, this kind of racial division is part and parcel of the left-wing project. And he decides

00:17:49.140 that Joe, typically, is going to pander to the audience. How is he going to do it? By playing a song

00:17:55.140 from his phone popularized by Justin Bieber. I just have one thing to say. Hang on here.

00:18:04.380 All right. There he is. There you go. Swaying side to side. Laughing.

00:18:20.260 I'll tell you what, if I had the talent of any one of these people, I'd be,

00:18:23.660 I'd be elected president by acclamation. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

00:18:31.340 you. And, uh, hello and happy Hispanic, Hispanic Heritage Month. Hello. Thank you. If I had the

00:18:38.100 talent of that noted Hispanic, Justino Bibero, oh man, that'd be, I'd be great because I'm old

00:18:46.920 pandering Joe and he, you like him right now. Yes, it's true. The song has been done by actual

00:18:52.800 Hispanic artists, but can you imagine this level of pandering? It's, it's why I said this about Biden 0.83

00:18:58.760 from the very beginning. It's not that Biden is some, you know, radical leftist. It's not,

00:19:04.520 it's not that he's conservative or moderate either. It's not that Joe Biden is a vicious liar.

00:19:09.240 It's not that Joe Biden tells the truth. Joe Biden is a cynical pandering politician. All Joe Biden is,

00:19:16.880 is a wink and a smile. That's all he is. It's all he's ever been in politics. There's a, there's

00:19:22.160 actually a website that's been up for over 10 years now, I think called joebidenseeeth.com.

00:19:26.440 And it's illustrative because Joe Biden is just a sort of caricature of a politician.

00:19:31.940 He wants to slap you on the back and say, oh, hey, you're great, buddy. So he just goes there,

00:19:35.940 he goes, okay, all right, what, what can I use to pander to people? I'll just play this stupid song

00:19:39.320 and I'll pretend to dance around to it. Okay. And then I'll say that, yeah, these guys are so much

00:19:42.780 more talented than me. Ha ha. Give me your votes. It's Joe Biden. That is silly pandering,

00:19:49.820 not very knowledgeable, not very expert, not very scientific, but this is the establishment

00:19:56.680 that is controlling us. And it's controlling our institutions of highest learning, particularly

00:20:00.680 on this issue of racial pandering. You want to talk about experts, not knowing their own field,

00:20:06.800 university of Chicago, a once great university. This was once a top tier university in the United

00:20:11.700 States. The English department at the university of Chicago for this coming year is not going to be

00:20:18.400 accepting graduate students unless these graduate students want to focus on black studies. Black 0.65

00:20:26.120 studies is a fake academic discipline. It is a merely part of an ideological campaign called

00:20:32.180 critical theory. It, it, you don't learn anything really doing it, but it's a, it's a way to train for

00:20:37.300 political activism and to destroy the very culture that you're supposed to be studying in English.

00:20:41.540 But there's a broader point. We won't, we don't need to get into critical theory. President Trump has

00:20:45.200 made some comments on this and maybe we'll get into it a little bit later in the

00:20:48.320 week or next week. I just want to focus on the English department. If you don't do black studies,

00:20:56.280 you can't study English as a graduate student at Chicago. I don't know if you know very much

00:21:03.140 about the English language or the English peoples. For the long history of the English language,

00:21:11.100 the vast majority of them, statistically, I guess a hundred percent, you know, obviously there are some

00:21:17.740 exceptions in the more modern era, but generally for the history of English, it's been white people

00:21:23.260 writing in English because the English are white because the English language has typically been

00:21:29.440 used by the English people and the English people are very, very white. So if you don't focus on black 0.94

00:21:37.060 studies, say for instance, you want to study Shakespeare or Chaucer or Milton or Dunn or Wordsworth or Shelley

00:21:44.580 or Keats or Beowulf, or if you want to study any, Beowulf is going really, really far back. We don't,

00:21:52.580 you don't even need to. Let's just look even more recently up until this very modern era and up until

00:21:59.260 black studies became an academic discipline a few decades ago.

00:22:04.720 You can't read that, that English language anymore. This, this was a, something that began actually

00:22:11.080 at Yale a few years ago when Yale decolonized the English department. You no longer had to

00:22:16.440 study Shakespeare or Chaucer to graduate from Yale summa cum laude in English. Preposterous. I bet you

00:22:23.240 Donald Trump, who they always say is inarticulate, doesn't have a good handling of the English language.

00:22:27.460 I bet you Donald Trump could have told you more about the English language than the University of

00:22:31.120 Chicago, English department professors because they've become absolutely mad through their

00:22:38.860 abstract theories. English as a discipline, they write, has a long history of providing

00:22:43.540 aesthetic rationalizations for colonization, exploitation, extraction, and anti-blackness.

00:22:51.080 What does any of that jargon mean? Not very much, but these are the genius people. These are the people

00:22:55.460 with PhDs. These are the experts and the scientists, but God uses the foolish things to confound the wise.

00:23:01.720 I mentioned yesterday on the show that there's this funny thing in America where all the very fancy

00:23:09.180 experts with the very fancy jackets and, you know, very fancy degrees, they're always shocked to learn

00:23:14.200 that your average run-of-the-mill American knows as much and usually more than they do. Bill Buckley

00:23:19.100 famously said he'd rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the phone book than the faculty of

00:23:22.940 Harvard College. Me too. Add Chicago and Yale to that list as well. Why is that? Because when people

00:23:30.940 get a bunch of fancy degrees and PhD and all the letters after their name, they seem very wise, but

00:23:37.580 very often they're very, very foolish. And people who seem as though they're foolish often are much

00:23:42.560 wiser. How is it? Well, this, this came to total fruition. This theory came to fruition last night

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00:25:13.480 the bud, catch these sorts of things early. Following in the vein of the Chicago English 0.96

00:25:18.380 department, uh, the Markles, you know, Meghan Markle and Mr. Markle, formerly known as Prince

00:25:23.320 Harry back when he was a Royal and back when he was a man, uh, have, have inked this multimillion

00:25:28.660 dollar deal with Netflix. Well, now Meghan Markle wants to do a movie about the life of the founder of

00:25:35.060 the BLM organization, Patrice Colores. She's that woman who, who described herself on camera

00:25:40.840 as a trained Marxist who kind of outed the organization as a Marxist front organization.

00:25:46.040 She's been an activist who's taken money from George Soros. I know you're not allowed to say

00:25:49.600 that anymore, but you can trace the money. It's pretty simple. That's what they want to make the

00:25:54.320 movie of. These people who are in the ruling class, I mean, you know, she's a Royal, right? Or sort of a

00:26:00.060 Royal actually in the ruling class, but BLM and the people funding BLM and the scientific establishment

00:26:06.480 and the media and all the liberal established ruling class is pushing this kind of radicalism

00:26:13.540 on you that your average common fella on the street would look at and say, nah, I, I don't agree with

00:26:19.080 the BLM organization. I don't think we should undermine the nuclear family. I don't think that

00:26:24.480 we need to foster an anti-cisgender network, whatever kind of crazy language they use. 1.00

00:26:32.120 Practically much wiser than this ruling class. This ruling class, by the way, which has now

00:26:37.560 tied itself to Netflix, Barack Obama tied himself to Netflix. He's getting zillions of dollars from

00:26:42.560 this, like Meghan Markle. And Netflix is pushing pedophile, happy movies, pedophile, pleasing movies

00:26:50.020 like cuties. We talked about cuties earlier in the week. They're pushing this. This is their number

00:26:54.880 one product right now. They're standing by it. It's a degenerate, filthy movie that obviously should

00:27:00.400 not be there. They never have to answer for this sort of thing. Your average person on the street

00:27:04.780 has a natural revulsion to something like cuties. What, what the great philosopher Leon Kass described

00:27:11.040 as the wisdom of repugnance. You just know on your gut level, you think, ah, this movie,

00:27:16.140 there's just something wrong with it. Even beyond cuties, this BLM organization that calls itself 0.96

00:27:21.960 Marxist, there's just something wrong with it. Wisdom of repugnance. The old common people seem to have 1.00

00:27:27.500 that. The experts and the wise do not. Speaking of cuties, by the way, the director of cuties,

00:27:31.840 Maimouna Ducouré is defending cuties at the Toronto Film Festival. And it shows you, it actually shows you

00:27:40.700 something on this point that we're talking about, the wise and the foolish. She says, she's defending the

00:27:45.840 movie. She says, it's bold, it's feminist, but it's so important and necessary to create debate 0.96

00:27:49.760 and try to find solutions. For me as an artist, it's a real issue. It's important to see someone

00:27:54.940 like you on the screen and to grow up with a lot of possibilities. So of course, diversity inclusion

00:28:00.100 have to be the keys to progress in our cinema. Now all of that's just gobbledygook, stupid words,

00:28:04.800 but she is getting to one of the real defenses here of the movie. I think it's a preposterous defense,

00:28:11.060 but it sounds plausible, which is there is a problem in fundamentalist Islam of treating young

00:28:19.080 girls poorly and in a sense, sort of sexualizing them or at least focusing, you know, you've got 1.00

00:28:26.300 general mutilation, other disturbing aspects of the sexualization of young girls. You have that there.

00:28:32.580 And then in decadent Western France, you have another type of disturbing sexualization of young

00:28:38.180 girls, namely this WAP culture of everything is licentious and pornographic and disgusting. 1.00

00:28:43.560 And both have these pitfalls. That's, that's the defensible possible message of cuties, right?

00:28:48.680 Problem with cuties is in talking about these things, it actually sexualizes the young girls, 1.00

00:28:55.200 right? These are 11 year old actresses and they're putting them on screen and having them do all these

00:28:58.860 sexual things. That's why the movie is indefensible. Well, what this woman's saying is it's very 0.96

00:29:04.340 important to see someone just like you on screen. And it reminds me of a conversation I had with John

00:29:07.840 Voight, you know, the great actor, John Voight, a man starred in many very important films,

00:29:14.240 Midnight Cowboy, Anaconda, that sort of thing. I was sitting with John Voight and Senator Cruz.

00:29:19.040 We were doing a show, part of the verdict show. And John Voight pointed out that the acting has,

00:29:27.640 has gotten better over time. And this is true as you had the kind of more left-wing acting theorists

00:29:33.680 and actors come up. You had guys like Brando, right? Who just gave a more naturalistic kind of acting

00:29:39.140 than the people who came before him. Some of those movie stars that came before him, Cary Grant, those

00:29:42.800 types, they were really in these wonderful movies, but the acting became much more naturalistic. And

00:29:47.840 the acting today is very naturalistic. And you have these method actors who, who are, you know,

00:29:52.420 totally changing their body chemistry, all these sorts of things for the role. And then it occurred to

00:29:57.620 me. I was talking to another, another guy, not an actor. I was talking to John Marini, a great political

00:30:03.680 philosopher and writer. And John Marini pointed out, the acting has gotten so much better, but the

00:30:09.660 stories have become so much less real. In the old days, the stories were so real and relatable to so

00:30:16.180 many people. And the acting was maybe a little bit worse. But now all we care about is the acting. We

00:30:20.400 don't really care about the stories. So all the old Oscar movies, people used to relate to them. Now

00:30:25.240 nobody, who relates to these Oscar movies? Was it Moonlight was one of the stories a few years ago?

00:30:30.360 All these kind of weird Oscar movies that nobody actually goes and sees, but the acting is so good.

00:30:36.820 It's because we don't, we don't understand even what reality means anymore, right? We'll take the

00:30:42.580 emotional reality of these kind of individual people and moments in the acting, but we've lost

00:30:48.340 sight of the bigger story. We've lost sight of like what this actually means. And so on any little

00:30:54.200 tiny, say it's a statistic for COVID, we can zoom in really close, but we don't see the bigger picture.

00:30:59.940 We don't see what it means for society. We've, we've had, we've had pandemics before. We've had

00:31:03.980 plagues before in the world. This is the first time we've shut down the entire country, the entire

00:31:08.880 world over something like this. Why? Because we've lost sight of this bigger picture. And often it's the

00:31:13.620 common people and the foolish people and the rubes and the idiots and the deplorables and the 0.99

00:31:17.360 irredeemables who can see that kind of thing while the experts cannot see that kind of thing.

00:31:21.660 And that's what president Trump did yesterday in this town hall. We will get to that right now.

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00:32:19.160 Trumpy town hall. Welcome back to the wonderful Trumpy town hall. He killed it. That's the big

00:32:39.280 takeaway. The big takeaway is President Trump goes in to what was certain to be a hostile town hall

00:32:44.340 with George Stephanopoulos, who is now a pretend reporter and anchor and journalist for ABC. But in

00:32:50.840 reality, he's Clinton's ex-hatchet man. He was Bill Clinton's communications director in the White

00:32:56.380 House. He's a Democrat operative who now, because he has Democratic privilege and he's a member of this

00:33:02.520 ruling class, we tolerate as a journalist. So Trump goes in. He doesn't care. He knows that the audience

00:33:07.800 is going to be handpicked and it's going to be hostile. He knows it's on a hostile network. He

00:33:12.240 knows it's with a hostile interviewer or moderator, quote unquote. And he knows that his opponent,

00:33:18.900 his ostensible opponent, Joe Biden, isn't even going to show up because he's not capable of doing

00:33:22.500 something like this. So he goes into the lion's den. Maybe some people thought he shouldn't do this

00:33:28.380 because it's so stacked against him. And what does he do? He kills it. He knocks it out of the park.

00:33:33.500 There are a few moments in particular, though, that highlight what happened here. Because sometimes

00:33:38.540 people think Trump is too rash. He's too emotional. He's too this. He's too that. He went into this

00:33:44.120 thing prepared. He went in measured. He went in strong and he went in likable. The key is he tailored

00:33:52.220 his responses to the medium. He didn't talk like he was on Twitter. He didn't talk like he was on cable

00:33:59.600 news. He didn't talk. He talked like he was on network news, which is a little, a little bit of

00:34:04.600 a more mature audience. They like it to be a little more calm and respectful. And he did that. This guy

00:34:10.380 understands the medium. And he was asked a question about this, actually, about all the tweets and

00:34:15.820 everything. He was asked a question from a guy about why he's not presidential, why he's not always

00:34:22.080 nice, why he doesn't have the kind of pandering, soft, back-slapping air of someone like, I don't know,

00:34:28.700 Joe Biden. Trump's answer typified his presidency. So I'm fighting a battle. It's a big battlefield

00:34:39.440 and I have a lot of forces against me. I have the media, which I call the fake news because a lot of

00:34:44.220 it is fake. And I mean a big, as you understand, a lot of it is fake. I'm fighting a lot of forces.

00:34:50.800 Sometimes you don't have time to be totally, as you would say, presidential. You have to get things

00:34:56.540 done. I think I've done more than any other president in the first three and a half years.

00:35:01.760 When you look at what we've done for tax cuts and regulation cuts and the vets, all of the things

00:35:07.320 that we've done for the West, we have a 91% approval factor now for the vets. So we rebuilt our

00:35:12.660 military. We created Space Force. I mean, we did so many things. Right to try, which is so incredible

00:35:18.440 and so successful. You know what right to try is. We did more. I really believe it more than any other

00:35:24.220 president in the first three and a half years. That's a great answer. It vindicates a thesis

00:35:29.400 that I have been pushing and actually the Ann Coulter put forward first now for years. The

00:35:34.460 typical argument about Trump is that people voted for him because of his personality in spite of his

00:35:41.920 policies. They just got a kick out of how brash he was and he's not politically correct. And so

00:35:46.320 they'll vote for him even though his policies are all kooky. That was the consensus conservative view,

00:35:50.320 but it was BS. I knew it was BS and wrote this book called, it had a funny title. It was called

00:35:54.700 In Trump We Trust, E Pluribus Awesome. Slightly silly title, but the book itself was very good. And

00:36:00.560 she said, it's the opposite. And I've been saying it's the opposite from the beginning too, which is

00:36:04.180 people voted for Trump in spite of his personality for his policies because he was offering genuinely

00:36:11.460 different policies, not just from Hillary Clinton, though that was important too, but even from his

00:36:16.200 fellow Republicans, he was seeing something that even his fellow Republicans, the vast majority of

00:36:21.120 them couldn't see. And that was his answer here. They said, why aren't you presidential? He says,

00:36:25.980 look, I'm me. Okay. Maybe you like me. Maybe you get a kick out of me, especially if you're a New 1.00

00:36:31.200 Yorker, like Drew and I, I think like Trump a little bit more than some conservatives because we're

00:36:35.880 New Yorkers. So we, we understand the way he talks. We have a lot of family members who talk that way.

00:36:40.260 But even if you don't, let's say you don't like the way he talks, look at what he's doing. Look at

00:36:46.560 what I'm doing. Look at the reality. Yeah. All these expert, wise, brilliant people, they spin a good

00:36:52.880 yarn, man. They talk so good. Oh, their theories are so great. Except they don't work in reality to, to help

00:37:00.040 people, to make our politics better, to bring peace to the Middle East, to fix some of our manufacturing

00:37:05.840 problems, to fix our trade problems, to fix our economy, to fix our country. They don't actually

00:37:11.460 do those things. And my policies do. And all my dumb, deplorable, stupid, irredeemable policies,

00:37:17.960 turns out they actually accomplish the things that apparently we're all supposed to be accomplishing.

00:37:23.260 That's a great answer. Then getting back to racial grievance, you see the difference between the real

00:37:30.580 and the imagined and the wise and the foolish. Why the reality here was central to this town hall

00:37:35.760 on several questions. There was a guy who gets up, I think he referred to himself as a pastor. I don't

00:37:40.660 know if he was, if he was a pastor or not, but he gets up and he was immediately hostile to the

00:37:45.380 president. And he asked this question about the ghettos. He said, you know, you're talking about

00:37:50.460 how America was, is going to become great again. Well, America was never great for black people 1.00

00:37:56.960 living in the ghettos. Trump's response tells you a lot. How you doing, Mr. President? Good. 0.56

00:38:02.000 You've coined the phrase, make America great again. When has America been great for African 1.00

00:38:07.620 Americans in the ghetto of America? Are you aware of how tone deaf that comes off to African American 1.00

00:38:12.780 community? Well, I can say this. We have tremendous African American support. You've probably seen it

00:38:18.620 in the polls. We're doing extremely well with African American, Hispanic American at levels that

00:38:24.060 you've rarely seen a Republican have.

00:38:26.340 So he just totally shuts down the premise, right? And he had, he had two false premises here. This,

00:38:32.180 this questioner. The first one was that Trump coined the phrase, make America great again. He

00:38:35.460 didn't. He took it from Ronald Reagan and Ronald Reagan may have taken it from Richard Nixon. And of

00:38:39.300 course, this phrase, make America great again has a long history in America because in this country,

00:38:43.360 we used to like our country until not so long ago. So he shuts that down. And then he gets to,

00:38:50.500 I mean, he sort of, he sort of goes along and he goes, okay, I see where you're going, but don't

00:38:54.380 forget people used to love this country. Then he shuts down the premise that it's tone deaf to

00:38:59.340 black Americans. Why? Because Trump is doing better among black Americans, according to the polls,

00:39:03.120 than other Republican candidates have. He goes, I don't, maybe it's, maybe you're the one who's

00:39:08.100 tone deaf questioner. Then this questioner pushes further. He pushes on this issue of the ghettos and

00:39:15.500 why, you know, the, the idea that make America great again is this new phrase that's just been coined

00:39:21.200 is the opposite of reality. We used to like this country. And now because of things like critical

00:39:27.320 theory and all this left-wing claptrap in academia that all the wise people are pushing. Now we hate

00:39:34.300 our country, but that's the new thing. America was never great is the new idea. That's the new phrase.

00:39:40.280 And it's the one that this guy's pushing. He pushes it further. I mean, your statement is though,

00:39:45.060 make it great again. So historically, uh, the African-American experience, especially in these,

00:39:50.180 out of these ghettos that have been out of red line, uh, historically, these ghettos that have

00:39:54.540 systemically been set up and treated the way that they have been, the conditions of the drugs,

00:39:59.220 the guns and everything else that actually created the symptoms for what we see, uh, that you profess to

00:40:06.140 be just the democratic cities in themselves. Uh, these things have historically been happening for

00:40:11.120 African-Americans in these ghettos, and we have not been seeing a change, uh, quite frankly, 1.00

00:40:16.780 under your administration. Everything here is so backwards and wrong. So let's try to parse it very

00:40:22.620 quickly. First of all, what Trump points at is you're talking about all these cities. All these

00:40:26.640 cities are run by Democrats, all of them, every single one. So don't take it up with me, man. I don't

00:40:32.940 run the cities. I may, I'm the president. I run the federal government. If you've got an issue with

00:40:37.380 some slums in the cities, talk to the Democrats who've been there. So he goes, okay, fine.

00:40:40.220 Democrats run them, but these problems have been on for a long time. Like, right. The Democrats have

00:40:44.100 been running them for a long time, believe it or not. So yeah, it's a longstanding problem for that.

00:40:47.980 But then it gets worse because there's this philosophical base where he says, look,

00:40:52.280 there's drugs, there's crime in these neighborhoods. These are, these are tough neighborhoods and,

00:40:57.740 and those are creating the symptoms that we're seeing. What, what symptoms are you talking about?

00:41:01.480 The symptoms you're seeing of these bad neighborhoods are the drugs and the crime. The drugs and the

00:41:08.560 crime can't create the, the symptoms of the drugs and the crime. Kind of like Andrew Cuomo's mistake

00:41:14.240 here that science can't know because knowledge is knowledge, knowledge, knowledge itself cannot know.

00:41:19.080 So what is causing these problems? Notice here, this guy never has any sense of personal

00:41:26.600 responsibility. This guy never has sense of even local responsibility. It's all orange man's fault 1.00

00:41:33.240 that the cities, the inner cities have been bad for a long time in this country. Well, the cities have been

00:41:39.480 bad. They've gotten worse. They've gotten better because of some policies, because of some cultures 0.57

00:41:43.360 falling apart. Yeah, those are problems, but no sense. And this guy talking as though America's so awful.

00:41:50.420 This is a new idea among all demographics, including black people, including people who live in cities.

00:41:55.420 Go read Booker Washington's Up From Slavery. He was the leading civil rights advocate of his time.

00:41:59.980 That was a man who was deeply grateful to America, loved this country, wanted to make things better,

00:42:06.060 but had a, had a base gratitude for his country and didn't, didn't whine and complain about all sorts

00:42:12.060 of problems to people who didn't create those problems at all and actually trying to help fix

00:42:16.220 those problems. This guy saying, oh, the black experience in America has always been terrible.

00:42:21.140 This is a guy who is speaking on national television to the president of the United States.

00:42:25.700 This is a guy who is embodying privilege. And he says, oh, it's all a terrible, awful,

00:42:32.960 no good, rotten country. There, there's no fixing that disease. I mean, that, that requires proper

00:42:39.160 education, meaning you've got to be raised correctly. You've got to know how to behave yourself. And that

00:42:44.020 is not how you behave yourself to the president of the United States. That's not how you should think.

00:42:49.020 He clearly was not well educated, albeit I'm sure he's being vaunted as this brilliant man speaking truth

00:42:54.780 to power. Then you had another woman. You had a woman embodying the same sort of thing. She was 0.95

00:43:00.920 even more rude to the president. She was even more expert. She had a PhD after all. And she said things

00:43:06.280 that were even stupider. Hi, Mr. President, I was born with a disease called sarcoidosis.

00:43:14.680 And from the day I was born, I was considered uninsurable. That disease started in my skin,

00:43:21.560 moved to my eyes, into my optic nerves. And when I went to graduate school, into my brain.

00:43:27.700 When it hit my brain, I was automatically eligible for disability for the rest of my life.

00:43:33.460 I chose instead to get a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, a PhD, and become a professor.

00:43:40.120 It's great.

00:43:41.080 It is great, except I still have similar healthcare problems. It costs me with copays,

00:43:46.620 I'm still paying almost $7,000 a year in addition to the copay. And should pre-existing conditions,

00:43:55.420 which Obamacare brought into, brought to fruition, be removed?

00:44:01.760 No.

00:44:02.360 Without, please stop and let me finish my question, sir.

00:44:05.600 No, he shouldn't have let this woman. I mean, he was being very polite because this was network TV. 1.00

00:44:10.060 And I don't know. I mean, he was being more polite than I probably would have.

00:44:12.720 This woman is being extraordinarily rude. She's saying very dumb things, 1.00

00:44:16.380 shows you the state of the American university, that this woman could have a PhD. 0.99

00:44:20.980 Yes. And the pre-existing conditions that Barack Obama brought to fruition,

00:44:25.300 what does that mean? She's just saying words, just saying gobbledygook.

00:44:28.840 And worse than that is her attitude, this attitude of pride. Yes. It's very impressive

00:44:33.540 that I have a PhD. If these are the wise people, if, if all these eggheads who hate America

00:44:40.820 at, at every university now, every, even the most elite universities, they're probably the worst,

00:44:46.840 then a PhD doesn't seem to be worth very much, does it? All of these degrees, all these alphabet

00:44:51.800 letters, so wise they are, doesn't, doesn't seem to understand very much. She's so rude to this guy.

00:44:58.280 Clearly wasn't well-educated because like, for instance, in the Italian language, when you,

00:45:02.460 the word rude, ill-behaved is maleducato, badly educated. The idea used to be at least that education

00:45:09.060 was not just stuffing your head full of facts, but actually it was how you behave, how you are

00:45:12.780 raised, how you comport yourself, how you exercise the virtues. Clearly a lot of people in this country

00:45:18.620 not very well-educated. And it's funny because Trump, who has brash behavior on occasion,

00:45:23.540 seems to be exhibiting very good behavior, very good education. Then she finishes up her silly point.

00:45:30.140 Should that be removed within a 36 to 72 hour period without my medication, I will be dead.

00:45:39.540 And I want to know what it is that you're going to do to assure that people like me who work hard,

00:45:45.540 we do everything we're supposed to do, can stay insured. It's not my fault that I was born with

00:45:50.560 this disease. It's not my fault that I'm a black woman and in the medical community,

00:45:55.060 I'm minimized and not taken seriously. Black women are minimized in the medical community 1.00

00:46:01.900 and in public. Like, give me a break. My goodness gracious. The only, the only three words you're

00:46:07.160 allowed to say today in, in the university and corporate American public life is black lives

00:46:11.260 matter. All the big tech companies changing their biographies, black lives matter. You're

00:46:15.620 marginalized. What are you talking about? And did you see the problem in her logic?

00:46:18.800 Like she said, she was born with this disease. And you know, if, if she goes three days without

00:46:24.120 Obamacare, she'll die. How did she live before Obamacare? Presumably the woman isn't a 10 years 1.00

00:46:30.540 old. How did she live before Obamacare? Fine. She said, I accomplished all these things. I'm so

00:46:35.560 great and wonderful and important. I got a PhD. Okay. You did fine before Obamacare. And wasn't

00:46:40.180 Obamacare supposed to fix all of these problems once and for all? How come we still have so many

00:46:44.000 healthcare problems? Oh, cause Obamacare didn't do that. And all these wise, wonderful people now

00:46:48.420 blaming Trump and through Trump is not really even talking about Trump. They're blaming America.

00:46:55.160 The best hit of the night was a woman who was, who was crying. She came out and she talked about

00:47:03.540 how her mother just died from coronavirus. Trump handled this question very, very well. Take a

00:47:08.680 listen. Hi, Mr. President, Mr. George. Hi everyone. My name is Flor Cruzeta. Sorry if I can't hold my

00:47:17.540 hold my tears. I love what you just did. I came on 2006 with my mom from Nomenica Republic. Sorry.

00:47:34.400 She's just there. She's trying to gather her thoughts, obviously emotional.

00:47:36.820 Just take your time. That's fine. George has plenty of time, I hope, right?

00:47:41.060 Absolutely. Thank you. You see a real human empathy here. This woman's mother just died

00:47:45.060 from coronavirus. She's obviously very upset by it. And Trump is very comforting, actually,

00:47:49.060 Terry. Just take your time. Comforting in all the senses of the word. He's very nice to her,

00:47:52.260 but he's also saying, hey, don't worry. You'll be strong. Don't worry. To give strength is to

00:47:55.780 comfort, right? Yeah, George has plenty of time. It's okay. So she gathers herself and she's a

00:48:00.580 supporter of Trump. She says her mother was a supporter and she's a supporter. Then she asks a

00:48:03.700 question about how he's going to fix immigration. What would you do for our immigration system? What

00:48:10.100 would you change to make more people like me and like her to become citizen involved?

00:48:18.740 Okay. And there's the question, right? And I was wondering, why did they let this woman through 0.78

00:48:22.020 who's so emotional, so, so sympathetic, so pro-Trump? Why, why would ABC and Stephanopoulos

00:48:28.980 allow this nice question in? And I realized then it's because her question involves this

00:48:34.420 tough issue, which is she says, how are we, I'm so sympathetic, how are we going to

00:48:38.580 get more and more immigrants into the country? And the trouble is that actually across party lines,

00:48:42.900 the majority of Americans want to dramatically reduce immigration, not because anybody hates

00:48:47.540 anybody, not because anyone's bigoted or prejudiced or whatever word you want to use,

00:48:51.860 but simply because we've taken in, we've taken way, way more people than anywhere else in the world.

00:48:56.580 Over the last 60 years, it's been the largest mass movement of humans in the history of the world.

00:49:00.900 And we're discouraging assimilation and we're telling people to hate this awful, 1.00

00:49:03.940 terrible country like these, uh, these academics and these experts have been saying now for a long

00:49:08.980 time. And so we just can't do it. We can't take all of those people in. So it puts Trump in a tough

00:49:12.900 corner because he's either got to go along and reverse his immigration plan and harm himself

00:49:17.860 with the public broadly and with his base, or he's got to seem like he's being mean to this

00:49:23.060 very sympathetic woman who likes him. What does he do? He says, we're gonna have a good immigration

00:49:26.980 plan. And then he starts talking about the specifics, her, her mother giving this personal

00:49:30.660 comfort. He did extraordinarily well here. It was one of the best performances I've seen from him.

00:49:36.340 I'm perfectly willing to call out things when I think he does something that's not really smart

00:49:40.420 or does not really help him. Last night, he really helped himself. One last thought to leave you

00:49:45.300 one. Kanye West, Kanye West tweets out yesterday that he's the new Moses. Kanye West said, I need

00:49:53.460 to see everybody's contracts at Universal and Sony. I'm not going to watch my people be enslaved. I'm

00:49:57.780 putting my life on the line for my people. The music industry and the NBA are modern day slave ships.

00:50:01.940 I'm the new Moses. He's catching a lot of flack for saying this, that Kanye West is Moses.

00:50:06.900 Love that. He's right. He's right. I said this earlier when Kanye was saying he was going to run

00:50:12.020 for president. I read his platform and I said, look, it's obviously eccentric and he's a performer

00:50:16.500 and an entertainer. I said, but at a base philosophical level, this guy gets politics

00:50:23.780 better than 70% of even elected Republicans and certainly than the entire left. Kanye West,

00:50:29.140 he's an idiot. He's a fool. He's a rube. He's a deplorable and an irredeemable. He didn't know

00:50:32.980 anything. That guy knows more than a lot of people. What he's talking about here in this media

00:50:37.220 establishment and more broadly, the liberal establishment is a modern day slavery of the mind.

00:50:41.700 It is a slavery of the mind that seeks, but to destroy our culture.

00:50:47.860 Vox.com, the liberal outlet is now going after Beethoven, trying to destroy Beethoven. Maybe

00:50:52.100 we'll try to get to that tomorrow. It trying to destroy the whole culture. That is a mental slavery

00:50:56.740 that is going to tear people apart, tear our culture apart. And it's being pushed at the highest

00:51:01.300 levels with the wise and the experts. And the one consolation we have, I know I say often on the show

00:51:06.100 that a conservative consolation is that reality reasserts itself in the end. Another one is providence.

00:51:11.700 Providence. The way that even bad things get turned for good in this world. And they do it not because

00:51:18.260 of any cockamamie academic theory. They do it because God says so, darn it. And all those bitter

00:51:25.460 clinging, deplorable, irredeemable rube idiots who believe in crazy concepts like God, you know, 0.98

00:51:31.300 against the will of all of the white lab coats. Those people, those common foolish people often 1.00

00:51:38.180 turn out to be right. Even when it's Kanye West, even when it's Donald Trump. Peace in the Middle

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 16, 2020

Ep. 612 - Shaming the Wise

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