The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 62 - WINNING： ISIS Is Over

00:00:00.000 A mere 11 months to the day since President Trump took office, ISIS has been defeated in Iraq and Syria.

00:00:07.200 Not bad.

00:00:08.120 Also, grandstanding empty head Charlie Rose has been fired for sexually harassing women after months of haranguing Trump

00:00:14.520 for saying naughty words about women to Billy Bush.

00:00:17.400 We will catch you up on the latest Democrat sexual assailants to be exposed, pun very much intended.

00:00:23.120 Bradley Devlin and Alicia Krauss and Anne Barathe join the panel of deplorables

00:00:26.920 to talk the DOJ's investigating Harvard for race discrimination over its affirmative action policies, 0.99

00:00:32.660 how the era of sex bots is upon us, finally, and BLM activist Sean King's idiocy, how redundant. 0.98

00:00:40.480 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.91

00:00:50.060 We have a lot to talk about today.

00:00:52.720 One thing I do want to mention, though, I mentioned this at the end of the show yesterday,

00:00:56.440 that Another Kingdom, my narrative podcast with Andrew Klavan that he wrote and I perform,

00:01:02.440 and it's the last acting role I'll ever have in Hollywood,

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00:01:26.280 sharing it and whatever, because I think we might actually be able to ram this down Hollywood's

00:01:31.480 throat, and that would give me immense, immense pleasure as Hollywood is lying in rubble to force

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00:01:39.580 So please do go over to Andrew Klavan's Another Kingdom, wherever fine fantasy right-wing

00:01:45.740 conspiracy podcasts are downloaded.

00:01:48.500 Okay, into the news.

00:01:50.480 ISIS is over.

00:01:51.440 That's some news.

00:01:52.080 I guess that, and it was pretty quick, wasn't it?

00:01:53.960 Mattis, General Mattis, told us back in April that Trump had given him a mandate to annihilate

00:01:58.400 ISIS, and now, guess what?

00:02:00.200 ISIS is annihilated.

00:02:01.640 Iraq Prime Minister, rather, Hadir al-Abadi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced

00:02:08.080 victory today.

00:02:08.900 For those with short memories, ISIS developed in 2013 during the Barack Obama administration 0.99

00:02:15.260 in the power vacuum created by Barack Obama's very stupid decision to pull American forces 0.99

00:02:20.740 out of Iraq. 0.99

00:02:21.760 But, in fairness to Barack Obama, how could he have known?

00:02:25.140 How could Obama have known that pulling troops out of Iraq would lead to the rise of an even 0.99

00:02:30.500 more dangerous threat than we were already fighting?

00:02:32.400 Our nation deserves a serious debate about Iraq, because the outcome of this conflict will 0.69

00:02:37.160 have enormous consequences for our country.

00:02:41.140 Failure in Iraq would allow terrorists to operate from a safe haven with access to the 0.93

00:02:45.360 world's third largest oil reserves.

00:02:49.420 Failure in Iraq would increase the probability that, at some later date, American troops would

00:02:54.140 have to return to Iraq to confront an enemy more dangerous and more entrenched.

00:03:01.180 Failure in Iraq would send an unmistakable signal to America's enemies.

00:03:05.080 Failure in Iraq, that our country can be bullied into retreat. 0.88

00:03:12.560 America's involvement in Iraq does not have to end this way. 0.67

00:03:15.220 What a dummy, huh? 0.80

00:03:16.400 What a—I can't believe anyone ever believed that guy.

00:03:18.400 You know, that guy that just perfectly predicted every single thing that would happen after

00:03:21.500 he left office?

00:03:22.360 Yeah, you know, that guy.

00:03:23.300 Even predicting what his opponent, Barack Obama, what his political opponent, Barack Obama,

00:03:28.480 would end up doing and all of the terrible things that followed from that.

00:03:31.720 What did we get just a few years later?

00:03:33.700 Let's take a look.

00:03:34.720 This is James Wright Foley, an American citizen of your country.

00:03:40.280 As a government, you have been at the forefront of the aggression towards the Islamic state. 1.00

00:03:45.020 You have plotted against us and gone far out of your way to find reasons to interfere in our affairs.

00:03:49.940 That was Jihad John, and we tolerated him beheading a lot of Americans. 0.99

00:03:53.560 Americans James Foley, Stephen Sotloff, Peter Kasig, among many others, were gruesomely beheaded

00:03:59.940 by ISIS on Barack Obama's watch.

00:04:02.280 Though the most chilling actually may have been ISIS's simultaneous beheading of 21 Coptic

00:04:08.080 Christians who were crying out their belief in Yeshua on a beach in Tripoli while Barack

00:04:12.500 Obama was apologizing for the Crusades or whatever other nonsense he was doing in office.

00:04:17.140 ISIS also shot up a Tunisian tourist resort, killing 38 Europeans.

00:04:20.740 ISIS bombed Turkey and killed 33, crashed a Russian airplane, killing 224, bombed Turkey

00:04:28.620 again.

00:04:29.100 They kept bombing Turkey.

00:04:30.720 They bombed Beirut, attacked Paris, killing 130 civilians, bombed Istanbul, Brussels, killing

00:04:35.980 32, Nice, killing 86, attacked Kabul, killing 80, Berlin, killing 12, St. Petersburg, killing

00:04:42.440 15, Manchester, killing 22, and many, many other attacks.

00:04:46.140 After all, with all that weight of evidence, how would Barack Obama describe the group?

00:04:51.300 President Obama speaking out about America's deadliest enemies, his choice of words getting

00:04:55.320 a lot of attention.

00:04:56.660 In an interview with the New Yorker magazine, he compares groups linked to Al Qaeda to an

00:05:00.540 amateur basketball team.

00:05:02.880 Quote, the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team, meaning

00:05:09.180 junior varsity team, puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant, end quote.

00:05:14.340 Doesn't make them Kobe Bryant, they're just the JV team, isn't that?

00:05:17.840 Barack Obama did this from the beginning of his campaign onward.

00:05:21.240 He was operating under the belief that if he would say things, that would make them true.

00:05:26.520 He clearly suffered from some version of narcissism, and very frequently he would just say things

00:05:34.280 that obviously didn't comport with reality, but nevertheless, he said a lie often enough

00:05:40.460 told will become a truth.

00:05:41.880 What exactly did he mean by the JV team?

00:05:45.980 We think we have an idea, but he goes on and explains it in another interview.

00:05:50.200 What I do insist on is that we maintain a proper perspective and that we do not provide a victory

00:05:59.880 to these terrorist networks by over-inflating their importance and suggesting in some fashion

00:06:10.440 that they are an existential threat to the United States or the world order.

00:06:16.860 Yeah, you know, they're not, how would they be an existential threat?

00:06:20.920 They're the JV team.

00:06:22.140 They're not wreaking havoc all over the entire globe and destroying a region, destroying two

00:06:27.460 nations in a region and challenging American credibility there.

00:06:31.140 The existential threat is crucial here because we're talking about an ideology that has been

00:06:39.100 encroaching and fighting the West for 1,400 years.

00:06:41.580 We're talking about political Islamism.

00:06:43.940 And Barack Obama, for whatever reason, refused to see that as an existential threat to the West.

00:06:49.120 He also famously made fun of Mitt Romney for saying that Russia was the greatest geopolitical threat,

00:06:54.960 probably because Barack Obama thinks the greatest threats are from within or something.

00:06:58.700 He couldn't seem to identify an actual geopolitical threat to the United States.

00:07:03.720 Now, because he didn't consider them an existential threat, he didn't pursue them.

00:07:08.260 Here's Barack Obama explaining that strategy.

00:07:10.600 He says that what you have on the ground now is not going to be enough.

00:07:13.780 Every couple of months, you're going to be faced with the same choice, back down or double down.

00:07:17.900 I think what is true is that this has always been a multi-year project.

00:07:26.260 Unbelievable mealy meth.

00:07:27.920 This is what happens, by the way, when I'm late writing a piece or writing up a show or

00:07:32.400 God King Jeremy Boring or Ben Shapiro, they come to me and say, where's the piece?

00:07:35.300 I'll say, look, look, look, this has always been a multi-year project.

00:07:38.780 Look, this has always been, we just need strategic patience.

00:07:41.800 We just need to lead from behind.

00:07:43.300 But clearly, he had no interest in fighting ISIS whatsoever.

00:07:46.480 We don't know, we know that he wanted to be a domestic policy president.

00:07:50.880 We also know that he failed at every level when it came to foreign policy.

00:07:54.960 Let's bring on our panel to discuss the failures of Barack Obama, one of my favorite topics to discuss.

00:08:00.260 We have Amber Athey, we have Bradley Devlin, and we have the Daily Wire's own Alicia Krauss.

00:08:05.820 Thank you all for joining.

00:08:07.440 Amber, why would Barack Obama not destroy ISIS?

00:08:10.640 Apparently, it wasn't that hard.

00:08:12.100 Apparently, it only took 11 months when we decided we actually want to do it.

00:08:15.580 Why didn't he care?

00:08:16.980 I think there's this weird kind of political correctness from the left where they're actually

00:08:23.840 afraid to speak strongly to our enemies.

00:08:26.900 And that's become even more apparent since Donald Trump has taken office because people

00:08:31.840 get really upset at him when he uses strong language towards ISIS or regimes like North Korea.

00:08:37.740 You'll remember when he got in that Twitter spat with Kim Jong-un, the left was freaking

00:08:43.700 out, worrying about a nuclear war.

00:08:45.680 So in some senses, they're more worried about the language that they're using rather than

00:08:50.300 actually defeating our enemies.

00:08:51.940 They are concerned with language because they think that they can speak reality into existence.

00:08:56.320 The appearance is the reality.

00:08:58.260 But of course, that isn't the case.

00:08:59.380 The reality is the reality.

00:09:00.900 And when you use a language that doesn't comport with that, eventually people are going to stop

00:09:04.820 believing you, you can't do that forever, Bradley.

00:09:08.660 Bush predicted it.

00:09:09.880 Obama completely lost control over it.

00:09:11.700 And Trump defeated these guys.

00:09:13.820 Why are Democrats so bad at foreign policy in the last 20 years?

00:09:17.820 I can't answer that question.

00:09:19.640 It's really hard.

00:09:20.380 It's a tough one.

00:09:20.980 It's a head scratcher.

00:09:22.160 Exactly.

00:09:23.520 And the interesting thing is Republican presidents have been fairly consistent with their foreign

00:09:28.600 policy since the Reagan era.

00:09:30.020 But the greatness of the Republican presidents is that they understand that their generals

00:09:34.680 and the individuals on the ground will always be better at assessing the situations.

00:09:39.420 And so what Trump has done is delegated that power back to his generals.

00:09:42.980 And what have we seen?

00:09:43.840 In 11 months, ISIS is taken down.

00:09:45.760 In six months, we declared victory in Mosul.

00:09:49.580 And we took back one-third of the territory that they gained in 2015 under the Obama administration.

00:09:55.700 So I believe there was a lot of disingenuous attempts to spread democracy and Wilsonian 1.00

00:10:01.720 democratic peace theory through the Obama administration.

00:10:04.600 We're no longer going out and building nations.

00:10:06.740 We're going out and defeating terrorists.

00:10:08.660 We can't build nations if the preconditions to build a nation don't exist.

00:10:14.180 So the way we do that is fighting terrorists.

00:10:16.140 Surely, if we're talking about Wilsonian democracy and making the world safe for democracy or whatever,

00:10:20.480 we do have to bring up Mr. Bush Jr.

00:10:23.400 That was the rousing second inaugural of George W. Bush was like a religious sermon on freedom

00:10:28.480 and freedom around the world.

00:10:29.900 How much blame should we put at George W. Bush's feet?

00:10:32.900 And how does he compare to Barack Obama?

00:10:36.420 Well, I think you saw Hillary Clinton try to do that a lot and put the blame on Bush for

00:10:40.500 Barack Obama pulling out of Iraq.

00:10:43.860 Barack Obama was supposed to renegotiate with the Iraqi government on how many boots we were

00:10:48.980 going to keep on the ground and how we were going to maintain peace in that region by limiting

00:10:54.260 the terrorists' impact.

00:10:56.460 And Bush does share some of this blame, but not to the extent that Barack Obama did, because

00:11:02.100 Bush, as you showed in your monologue, predicted all of these events if we were to abandon Iraq.

00:11:08.820 And Wilsonian foreign policy aside, trying to spread democracy abroad aside, there is a big

00:11:15.480 difference between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and that's one demonstrated political

00:11:19.360 courage and one demonstrated political cowardice.

00:11:22.520 When George W. Bush rather ordered the surge in Iraq in 2007, it was as unpopular as one

00:11:30.460 could imagine, but he chose to do it because it was the right thing to do.

00:11:34.600 And Barack Obama pulled out of Iraq, a war that we had already won, because he had campaigned

00:11:39.240 on it.

00:11:39.540 He knew it was an easy political decision for him and for his base.

00:11:43.600 He then chose to go into a war in Afghanistan.

00:11:46.040 The vast majority of deaths in Afghanistan were under his watch because he had campaigned

00:11:50.020 on that being the good war.

00:11:51.160 It was always questions of expediency when it came to Barack Obama, and there was courage

00:11:55.200 when it came to George W. Bush.

00:11:56.600 But moving away from both of those guys, Alicia, Mitt Romney famously was pilloried for saying

00:12:02.500 in 2012 that the United States' greatest geopolitical threat is Russia.

00:12:06.520 Barack Obama said that the Muslim terrorists should not pose an existential threat to the 0.92

00:12:12.220 United States. 0.95

00:12:13.240 Where does Muslim terrorism rank on all of the global threats that we face? 0.92

00:12:18.340 I think radical Muslim terrorism, and ISIS specifically, still ranks as number one, even 0.97

00:12:23.640 though we have the prime minister of Iraq and leaders in Iran saying, oh, we've eradicated

00:12:28.380 ISIS, they're out of here.

00:12:29.880 Not true.

00:12:30.700 Just four hours ago, German authorities released details that they have made an arrest that they

00:12:35.500 think was the leader of a terror cell that came directly from Syria.

00:12:39.660 And had we, in George W. Bush's defense, by the way, had he been in power during the Arab 0.96

00:12:44.720 Spring, I know he would have handled it better and differently.

00:12:47.340 Had he been in power during the fall of, you know, the Egyptian leader and the rise of the

00:12:52.720 Muslim Brotherhood there, it would have been handled different there.

00:12:56.200 Also, now we're dealing with Bashir al-Assad, who is meeting with Putin and super chummy.

00:13:00.420 So Mitt Romney was right.

00:13:02.260 Not only is he a decent human being, he was absolutely right on the geopolitical field of

00:13:06.780 what was going to happen and how dangerous Russia is. 0.85

00:13:10.000 You know, they're assisting China, who's assisting North Korea.

00:13:12.820 They're assisting, you know, Assad in Syria, who's very dangerous for the region, committing 0.52

00:13:18.360 genocide against his own people.

00:13:19.800 And all those countries are assisting Iran.

00:13:22.120 This is a problem.

00:13:23.360 And I really hope that, you know, our Secretary of State, General Mattis, who I'm a big fan of,

00:13:27.420 and President Trump, get down to business and do something about it very quickly.

00:13:30.840 But one has to rank priorities, because sometimes these foreign policy threats conflict.

00:13:35.780 So you would rank radical Islam as the greatest threat, as a greater threat than Russia, you

00:13:40.660 say?

00:13:41.560 Well, tied, because Russia is feeding into radical Islam, so it is a threat, for sure. 0.99

00:13:46.700 I think that ISIS attacks on Western civilization all over the world is a massive threat, but they

00:13:53.240 are being fed by the likes of Russia.

00:13:55.460 And there is an existential threat here.

00:13:57.700 I mean, it depends.

00:13:59.220 Russia appears to have a relationship with Bashar Assad, but Bashar Assad has no fondness

00:14:04.220 for ISIS or other Islamist groups that threaten his power in Syria.

00:14:08.980 The thing that Putin and Bashar Assad have in common is that they are fond of themselves,

00:14:13.380 and that's about it.

00:14:14.520 Aren't we all?

00:14:15.360 We're all a little fond of ourselves.

00:14:16.880 I'm definitely of the Nikki Haley mindset here, that if, you know, if we're using the excuse

00:14:22.040 that Assad is going to help us defeat ISIS, he ain't the kind of guy to invite to be on 0.97

00:14:26.160 our team.

00:14:27.160 Well, it's hard.

00:14:28.320 There are always challenges between more idealistic foreign policies and more realpolitik foreign

00:14:34.420 policies.

00:14:35.040 And there's a strain of this in conservatism.

00:14:37.280 We've been grappling with what to do between these for all of the history of conservatism

00:14:42.080 and moves one way during George W. Bush.

00:14:44.480 It's a different way under Nixon.

00:14:45.480 It's a different way under Reagan.

00:14:46.880 Maybe Reagan fuses the two together. 1.00

00:14:49.180 But a difficult situation.

00:14:51.640 And the one thing I think we can all agree on is that Barack Obama was dead wrong about

00:14:55.040 it because there are existential threats to our civilization and our way of life.

00:14:59.880 And it's not just about who controls some piece of the Middle East.

00:15:03.880 It's about ideas.

00:15:05.100 And it's about attacking the foundations of civilizations that sometimes come into conflict.

00:15:09.640 All right.

00:15:09.840 We need to get onto the news.

00:15:10.900 We have a lot of news.

00:15:11.720 We haven't talked about sex once today, I don't think.

00:15:13.600 This has been the longest we've gone without talking about sex.

00:15:16.340 And we always talk about that when I'm on the panel.

00:15:19.460 There we go.

00:15:20.140 I'm about to get Weinstein'd. 0.94

00:15:21.300 Get my throat. 0.99

00:15:22.160 Marshall, throw it at the bathtub. 1.00

00:15:23.220 Rub.

00:15:23.760 Beth.

00:15:24.200 I blew it.

00:15:25.200 The bathrobe, rather.

00:15:26.700 Not the bathtub.

00:15:27.680 Keep that in there.

00:15:29.200 We have to talk about all of this sex.

00:15:32.380 We have to talk about many other wonderful stories.

00:15:36.480 We're going to attack Harvard a little bit.

00:15:38.040 We're going to talk about sex bots. 0.99

00:15:39.920 We're going to talk about Sean King being a dum-dum. 0.61

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00:16:11.720 There it is.

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00:16:30.100 We'll be right back. 0.67

00:16:30.840 All right, back to sex. 0.99

00:16:42.240 Finally, finally, this whole week, the whole last two weeks is just sex, sex, sex. 0.99

00:16:47.320 I guess that's fine by me. 0.97

00:16:48.400 It's scintillating enough to read the news.

00:16:50.480 Al Franken, as you know, is under fire. 0.95

00:16:52.080 There was another allegation against him that he groped a woman's derriere during the state 0.92

00:16:56.680 fair. 0.98

00:16:57.040 He, I know, I know, I really like it when these guys, who are so sanctimonious about 0.94

00:17:02.820 sex, then it turns out that they are kind of creepy themselves.

00:17:06.480 So in typical fashion, Saturday Night Live, liberal women, empowered feminists, what did 1.00

00:17:12.880 they do when they found out their former colleague has been groping women?

00:17:16.020 They issued a statement of support for Al Franken.

00:17:19.120 They supported Franken.

00:17:20.660 They don't believe his accusers, or they don't care about his accusers.

00:17:23.840 They are just supporting their buddy because they're totally full of it.

00:17:27.460 Speaking of people who are totally full of it on the issue of sexual deviancy, we have

00:17:31.820 to talk about Charlie Rose.

00:17:33.380 Charlie Rose has been fired. 0.73

00:17:35.240 He's that droning, slothy zombie who's at CBS and gives terrible interviews because he

00:17:42.000 doesn't know anything about the people that he's interviewing and might not have ever read 0.91

00:17:45.260 a whole book in his life.

00:17:46.640 Charlie Rose has been fired for multiple sexual harassment scandals.

00:17:51.740 Apparently, people have known about this.

00:17:53.360 His producers have known about this forever.

00:17:55.900 And just to refresh your memory, here is Steve Rose, or Steve Rose, Charlie Rose, grandstanding

00:18:01.560 on the issue of sexual assault and naughty language to Steve Bannon just a few months ago.

00:18:06.780 They do care about values and they do care about respect for women.

00:18:10.560 They do.

00:18:11.140 And you know that.

00:18:11.880 They do.

00:18:11.920 And it's not just locker room talk.

00:18:13.860 That's locker room talk.

00:18:14.960 The Billy Bush thing is locker room talk.

00:18:16.640 By the way, we have empirical evidence to prove this.

00:18:20.880 Democrat rep, let's just point this out.

00:18:24.480 John Conyers is also denying sexual harassment claims as we speak.

00:18:28.520 I assume since we started the show, another 12 or 15 Democrat congressmen have been accused

00:18:33.680 of sexual harassment.

00:18:34.900 We'll try to update you as I check Twitter during the question section.

00:18:38.720 Alicia, what is going on?

00:18:39.960 This is really, really weird.

00:18:41.260 I obviously, we've been talking about this a lot over the last two weeks.

00:18:46.400 What has spurred this crazy era?

00:18:49.960 We've seen it trickling a little bit with Cosby.

00:18:52.340 We know the individual incidents.

00:18:54.620 But culturally, from a bigger level, why are we all grappling with sexual assault right

00:18:59.000 now?

00:18:59.420 I think that really, to her credit, Gretchen Carlson, when she came forward against Roger

00:19:03.760 Ailes, it was something that the mainstream media was like, oh my God, this is amazing.

00:19:07.100 We can try to take down Fox News.

00:19:08.520 They obviously failed there, and credit to Gretchen for coming forward publicly. 0.57

00:19:12.300 Megyn Kelly and other women at Fox were brave and came forward as well.

00:19:15.880 And I think that once the mainstream media saw that this, like, used the word titillating

00:19:20.460 and interesting, and it increased their clicks, it increased their ratings, they were, the blood

00:19:26.020 was in the water and they were pouncing and ready for more.

00:19:28.420 I do think that there is an aspect of women, you know, as they hear other women come forward,

00:19:32.320 they become more comfortable with coming forward and sharing their stories.

00:19:35.520 Credit to Leanne Tweed and these other people for doing this.

00:19:37.820 The Conyers thing, by the way, is just atrocious.

00:19:40.540 I think our very own Amanda Prestigiacomo wrote a really great piece that outlines how our

00:19:45.480 taxpayer dollars have been settling HR and ethics and sexual assault complaints in Congress

00:19:52.680 for years. 0.99

00:19:53.980 Our tax dollars have been covering these guys' butts for their crappy behavior. 0.99

00:19:58.640 And I don't know. 0.98

00:19:59.440 I mean, even my liberal girlfriends, I think, would be able to get on board with saying our

00:20:02.740 tax dollars should not be covering that. 0.58

00:20:04.600 You and I have been paying out hush money to cover up Democrat sexual deviants. 1.00

00:20:09.340 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:20:09.800 In fairness, there are sexual deviants on both sides of the aisle. 0.99

00:20:12.420 But recently we're seeing this spate of Democrats.

00:20:15.180 But Bradley, is there something in the air?

00:20:17.560 I was talking to Andrew Klavan about this last night.

00:20:20.240 He thinks what we're seeing is the end of the Clinton era, that if Bill Clinton were,

00:20:26.440 if Hillary Clinton had been elected and Bill Clinton were in the White House right now,

00:20:29.680 none of this would be happening because then there would be uncomfortable questions about

00:20:33.820 the first gentleman, an ironic title if ever there were one.

00:20:37.740 Is that what we're seeing?

00:20:39.520 Are we seeing the end of Clintonism, this Clinton break for women's progress?

00:20:45.040 Or is it something else?

00:20:46.480 I think that hopefully I could be wrong about this, that the mainstream media is figuring

00:20:53.160 out that if they actually want to be pro-women's rights, they can't be for anyone who has committed 0.90

00:20:59.200 sexual assault regardless of their political affiliation.

00:21:02.940 And it's funny because now the mainstream media is adopting conservative standards that

00:21:07.200 if you are acting sexually immoral, you should be removed from whatever position of power

00:21:13.360 you have.

00:21:14.540 And it's refreshing to me to know that all of these individuals are older individuals

00:21:19.940 within these political and media spheres.

00:21:23.380 And hopefully my generation and our generation will be able to come forward and push candidates

00:21:30.020 and push individuals and politicians that are moral and act with respect for women in

00:21:35.980 every aspect.

00:21:36.720 You give them more credit than I do.

00:21:38.440 I don't think there's anything high-minded about their realizations.

00:21:41.480 I don't think they suddenly woke up one day and said, ah, I know, the way to advance women's 0.99

00:21:45.500 rights is to attack those scumbags that we've been covering for for two decades. 0.98

00:21:50.360 I think, maybe I'm a little jaded or a little cynical, but I think it's because they've been 0.99

00:21:55.200 attacking Roy Moore.

00:21:56.600 Bill Clinton, the big albatross on sexual issues for Democrats, is finished.

00:22:01.080 He's totally done.

00:22:01.960 And I think they realize the only way we can continue to attack guys like Roy Moore is if

00:22:06.280 we clean a little bit of house ourselves.

00:22:08.500 Amber, tell me that I'm too jaded and too cynical.

00:22:12.060 Or are we heading into a new Victorian era?

00:22:14.700 I 100 percent agree with you, actually.

00:22:18.420 I think as soon as this stuff about Roy Moore came out, a lot of conservatives, myself included,

00:22:24.720 were critiquing the media, asking, why didn't you do this for people like Bill Clinton?

00:22:29.080 Why didn't you do this for all the people that you've been covering for for all of these

00:22:33.480 years?

00:22:33.800 And they started to realize if their claims against Roy Moore were going to be credible,

00:22:38.580 then they had to go out and clean out, basically clean house of all of these abusers that have been

00:22:45.660 sitting at news desks with them for years.

00:22:47.940 And I know that this is true, because just last week, or excuse me, last year, during the

00:22:54.220 presidential election, the media ran defense for Bill Clinton.

00:22:57.460 Whenever it was brought up in relation to Donald Trump, they always shut down whatever pundit

00:23:02.680 was on TV with them.

00:23:04.460 They called the allegations against him discredited.

00:23:08.380 And those are the same exact language that people use to defend Donald Trump.

00:23:12.820 So the media started to wise up and realize, well, look, if conservatives are going to be

00:23:18.080 on board with us attacking people like Donald Trump and Roy Moore, then we're going to have

00:23:22.240 to finally come out against Bill Clinton.

00:23:25.040 And by the way, it doesn't actually matter anymore anyway, because he's not in power.

00:23:29.380 Yeah, it's over.

00:23:30.500 I think they, for a while, it was more important to them to keep Bill Clinton than to hit Republican 0.98

00:23:35.860 sexual deviants. 0.94

00:23:37.040 But now that Clinton's over, it's much more fun for them to attack Trump or Roy Moore. 0.80

00:23:41.360 I also think that you've seen the tides turn, specifically, and we talked about this the

00:23:45.260 other day, millennial women voters, even the liberal ones, didn't get out and vote for 1.00

00:23:48.700 Hillary Clinton because they did care about the Bill Clinton aspect.

00:23:51.680 And you have, Ben pointed it out on his podcast a couple days ago, and I think he is accurate

00:23:55.700 in saying it's interesting that all of these reports that we're seeing typically tend to 0.92

00:23:59.620 be these dirty old men. 1.00

00:24:01.040 There has been, thank God, a generational change where men don't do this anymore, or they realize 0.99

00:24:06.620 that it's not appropriate in the workplace anymore.

00:24:08.620 And so you don't really have that many Generation Xers or millennials that are going out there

00:24:13.700 and doing this kind of stuff in the workplace.

00:24:15.980 Alicia, give them time. 0.99

00:24:17.280 Give those dirty dogs some time. 1.00

00:24:19.600 Wait till they turn 60. 1.00

00:24:21.180 Right.

00:24:22.280 Yeah, they're young and good looking now.

00:24:24.300 Just wait until they get old and creepy.

00:24:26.660 I'm less hopeful than you are, I think. 0.77

00:24:29.400 All right, enough about sex for now.

00:24:30.680 Don't worry, we'll get back to sex. 0.66

00:24:31.980 We'll go back to all the sex bots later on. 0.97

00:24:33.680 But first, let's make fun of Harvard a little bit.

00:24:35.960 The DOJ is currently investigating Harvard University, first university in the country,

00:24:41.880 for racial discrimination in its admissions practices because of affirmative action.

00:24:47.420 Specifically, they're talking about discrimination against Asian American students who are applying

00:24:52.220 and being disadvantaged because Asian American students, on average, do very well on tests,

00:24:58.420 and there have been de facto quotas at universities for decades.

00:25:02.220 Now, so often we hear about the side of affirmative action that gives people an unfair advantage.

00:25:08.600 So students who come from either poor places or because of the color of their skin or where

00:25:12.640 they come from or whatever, they get a little boost when it comes to college applications.

00:25:17.700 Very rarely are we willing to consider the logically necessary flip side of that coin,

00:25:22.820 which is that students who are more qualified, who have just on paper better applications,

00:25:29.000 will be disadvantaged if you give someone else an advantage for another reason.

00:25:33.720 Alicia, is there any reason in 2017 to continue the practice of affirmative action in college admissions?

00:25:40.340 I really think that it is damaging.

00:25:42.880 And now we're typically seeing that I think the next generation,

00:25:45.820 I'm sorry, I'm all about generations today.

00:25:47.600 I've just been reading lots of studies about them.

00:25:49.980 But you had talked a couple weeks ago to Kristen Sultis-Anderson about the Generation Z, right?

00:25:54.780 They're the best.

00:25:55.480 They are the best.

00:25:56.040 And they're potentially going to be really the best.

00:25:58.180 And I think that conservatives have an opportunity to win them over politically.

00:26:01.680 But in addition to that, they're the most racially diverse,

00:26:05.020 and they're now going to be majority-minority.

00:26:08.060 Most of them come from mixed families.

00:26:09.840 Most of them come from what typically was minority families for every other generation in the United States.

00:26:16.500 And so, really, when you look at the beauty of America and the melting pot that we have become,

00:26:21.800 just hold everybody to the same standards.

00:26:23.840 And we've seen that Harvard isn't the only one that's done this.

00:26:26.160 There are some professors that came out a couple years ago at UCLA that had said during the admissions process,

00:26:31.580 they knew that people in the admissions department would see an Asian last name,

00:26:34.680 and they'd automatically deduct SAT points or not pay as much attention to that student's essay

00:26:39.920 because they suspected that the Asian student's IQ was going to be better than that of a Hispanic

00:26:44.900 or an African-American or even a white Caucasian student. 1.00

00:26:48.060 That's just ridiculous. 0.97

00:26:49.300 Let's, like, stop looking at people's names. 0.90

00:26:51.180 Let's stop assuming their ethnicities.

00:26:53.160 And let's get down to the brass tacks of are they qualified and able to go to that school or not.

00:26:58.240 But then, of course, the lefties won't be able to hang on to their favorite aspect of politics.

00:27:03.700 That's right.

00:27:04.080 Yeah, that's right.

00:27:04.680 That's right.

00:27:05.480 Amber, is there, you know, 25 years ago when Sandra Day O'Connor upheld,

00:27:10.940 maybe a little bit less, when the Supreme Court upheld affirmative action,

00:27:15.300 Sandra Day O'Connor wrote and said that over time it would become less important to have affirmative action 0.79

00:27:22.500 and eventually it would be ruled unconstitutional or done away with.

00:27:26.620 It was almost admitting that it's unconstitutional,

00:27:29.040 but it simply was being upheld to correct some historic wrong.

00:27:32.800 Has that time now come?

00:27:33.980 Is it important in the upcoming Supreme Court sessions that we overturn or deem unconstitutional affirmative action policies?

00:27:42.160 I think it has come.

00:27:43.340 And as Alicia said, the upcoming generation is one of the most racially diverse and the generation that has some of the most opportunities available to them.

00:27:52.560 And I think affirmative action is especially damaging in the sense that it admits people who aren't qualified for universities and ultimately is just setting them up to fail. 0.90

00:28:02.760 So the liberals sort of push this policy as some kind of kind gesture in order to give disadvantaged groups opportunities.

00:28:11.200 But it's actually very cruel in the sense that you're admitting these people who are probably going to fail out their freshman year or they're not going to make it through the four years.

00:28:18.640 They're wasting money on the education system only to leave without a degree.

00:28:23.480 I actually read a piece in the Georgetown student newspaper yesterday.

00:28:27.760 That's where I went to school.

00:28:29.060 And there was a student they had admitted who finished his junior year of high school with a 1.5 GPA.

00:28:35.460 And Georgetown is supposed to be a prestigious university.

00:28:38.420 And you can guess what happened.

00:28:39.880 The student failed two classes his freshman year and then ended up having to take a year off for health issues.

00:28:45.200 And he's not even sure if he's going to graduate.

00:28:47.620 So I think it's really disappointing to see liberals claiming kindness when really they're just harming these people and damaging them financially too.

00:28:57.640 The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

00:28:59.980 And there is what you're talking about is mismatch theory.

00:29:03.020 Scalia was called a racist for bringing this up.

00:29:05.280 But it's a well-substantiated theory, which is that if a university admits somebody who isn't qualified, then they're not going to excel there.

00:29:14.040 Maybe they'll graduate, but they won't do very well.

00:29:16.380 And that will follow them throughout their lives.

00:29:18.240 Yeah, this is happening, actually.

00:29:21.200 Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

00:29:21.720 Sorry, go ahead.

00:29:22.280 No.

00:29:23.000 Well, it's happening in law schools as well.

00:29:24.760 And there's actually studies that have come out that have shown that minority students are passing the bar at much lower rates.

00:29:31.360 And it's mainly because less qualified applicants are being admitted through affirmative action programs.

00:29:37.880 It's really no good because if you go to a school that you're qualified for,

00:29:42.760 then you have a chance of doing well there and succeeding and moving up an academic ladder or a professional ladder.

00:29:48.300 But if you're constantly failing, it's very difficult to pull yourself back up.

00:29:51.880 I think there's also a realization that sometimes, and this is coming from the college dropout here that ended up working in talk radio and now is still in media,

00:29:59.040 so maybe I haven't done everything right in my life.

00:30:00.820 A lot of college dropouts have done in talk radio and have done very well in that field.

00:30:04.380 I'm not as successful as Rush and Sean, but thanks for that.

00:30:06.800 But I think that we need to come to the realization, too, is that kids cannot be whatever they want to be.

00:30:12.860 I think Mike Rowe did a video about this over at Prager University.

00:30:16.640 Maybe kids shouldn't follow their passion.

00:30:18.460 You might want to feel like you should be an attorney and argue before the Supreme Court one day,

00:30:23.340 but you also might not be able to cut it, so you should figure out a profession that you're actually decent at that's going to pay you for the rest of your life.

00:30:30.220 You know, it might be this thing that we've been told since we were kids,

00:30:33.920 you can be whatever you want to be, you can do whatever you want,

00:30:36.500 that has maybe led to this moment where a little boy thinks that he can become a big, grown woman or vice versa.

00:30:41.600 But again, we are limited by, in part, our biology, by our circumstances, by time and space,

00:30:47.500 and unfortunately, I will never be a ballerina no matter how much I try.

00:30:52.240 Let's get to sex bots. 0.72

00:30:53.680 Are you ready to talk about sex bots?

00:30:54.920 It's been almost 35 seconds since we last talked about sex.

00:30:57.660 Yes, the sex bot demand has been skyrocketing around the world.

00:31:02.400 There are brothels across Europe that are now firing women and just hiring plastic dolls. 1.00

00:31:07.660 The men would prefer the dolls. 0.96

00:31:09.320 According to porn star Harriet Sugar Cookie, I think that's her Christian name, 0.86

00:31:13.300 she said, you can get almost anything you want. 0.98

00:31:16.220 It's a fantasy. 0.93

00:31:17.280 A doll with three boobs? 0.98

00:31:18.720 No problem. 0.99

00:31:19.820 Elf ears?

00:31:20.740 Sure.

00:31:21.400 A cattail?

00:31:22.160 Why not?

00:31:22.940 And they make them look super realistic.

00:31:24.800 I'm just going to take a moment and think about that.

00:31:27.660 Yeah, that's very, very strange, very hard to process.

00:31:30.620 Don't know that I can. 0.98

00:31:31.740 Three boobs, a cattail, and elf ears. 0.97

00:31:35.260 Alicia, what is the... 0.98

00:31:37.280 Why are you going to me on this?

00:31:39.520 What is...

00:31:40.320 You're our expert here.

00:31:41.540 What?

00:31:42.280 You're our... 0.97

00:31:43.280 You know, on this question of artificial sex versus real sex, virtual sex versus real people,

00:31:50.740 is the culture moving toward a fake reality, toward an illusion? 0.97

00:31:57.040 Is that the essence of the sex bots, or is it just that perverts can't find women to fulfill their fantasies?

00:32:02.040 It's like a mix of Hunger Games meets Brave New World meets a book that hasn't even been written yet and probably shouldn't be.

00:32:08.480 Um, I never thought I would defend the profession, the oldest profession in the world, but I mean, these poor women getting, like, talk about the fight for 15 and minimum wage. 1.00

00:32:17.700 I knew McDonald's was replacing cashiers with robots, but now apparently hookers are being replaced by them, too. 1.00

00:32:23.240 Things are real tough in that business.

00:32:25.000 It's really hard with industrialization like this. 0.98

00:32:27.420 But I just, I kind of am like, if you're going to be the creeper, the creepy, creepy creeper that doesn't just want a hooker but wants a robot hooker, you go do your thing, and us conservatives will be fruitful and multiply, and then we're going to eventually take over the world. 0.97

00:32:41.380 This is my only hope for the future, and I will keep repeating it and beating that drum forever. 0.98

00:32:46.200 Bradley, I think you're the youngest guy on this panel.

00:32:48.700 You're one of those Gen Zers, maybe.

00:32:50.720 Maybe you're at the end of the millennials.

00:32:52.440 What is it about the removal from real people?

00:32:56.220 You know, I know now all of dating happens on a phone.

00:32:59.140 You just swipe.

00:33:00.000 There's a lot of texting.

00:33:01.240 In the old days, in my day, that wasn't the case.

00:33:04.620 Obviously, porn is on the rise globally among younger and younger people. 0.77

00:33:09.860 There was a study that came out that 1 in 10 teenagers under 18 have tried anal sex with a partner of the opposite sex. 0.85

00:33:16.460 I think it's 3 in 10 by 25. 0.89

00:33:18.460 These kids are getting kind of weird and kinky, but it's also less real.

00:33:23.600 It's also more digital.

00:33:24.720 It's also more virtual.

00:33:27.000 What does that say about the dating scene?

00:33:28.980 Why are people substituting illusion for the real thing?

00:33:33.180 I think it's superficial, and it's based on instant gratification.

00:33:38.360 Women won't necessarily give you exactly what you want when you want it, and so you need a robot to do it. 1.00

00:33:43.820 Sadly, apparently.

00:33:45.400 And I think that this trend is very clear in Japan, where if you look at Japan's population in the 1990s, it would look like a Christmas tree.

00:33:52.720 But now it's starting to look like a spinning top, and it's because Japanese women are actually turning towards erotic apps because Japanese men can't connect with them on a personal level. 0.99

00:34:06.080 And so Japanese men are turning towards video games and sex robots. 0.92

00:34:10.120 And coincidentally, those sex robots look like Christmas trees on spinning tops, which is really weird.

00:34:15.180 You would never expect that.

00:34:16.200 Exactly.

00:34:16.800 A Christmas tree with three spinning tops and a cattail.

00:34:19.260 Don't forget the elf ears.

00:34:22.120 Don't forget the elf ears.

00:34:24.020 Yeah, you know, I almost wore my Spock ears on the show, but I thought it was going to be a little too nerdy.

00:34:30.280 I just pray that America doesn't fall into this trap.

00:34:33.520 I think that we saw the movie called Her, where he falls in love with a Ciri character played by Scarlett Johansson or something like that.

00:34:43.080 And I just pray that we keep in mind that instant gravification isn't the way to build a proper society.

00:34:50.120 I mean, if you look at the polarization of politics and sensationalization of media, it's had effects in the political realm.

00:34:58.120 And I hope that we don't take that to our bedrooms.

00:35:00.340 Well, I don't know.

00:35:01.140 I always think about politics in the bedroom.

00:35:03.160 Amber, to be devil's advocate, people who are saying that these sex dolls aren't just the end of human existence, 0.97

00:35:08.700 they're saying that it's a good outlet for perverts to indulge their sexual fantasies without hurting people. 0.96

00:35:16.720 Pedophiles, for instance. 0.99

00:35:17.820 If you have sexual fantasies about children, then you can use one of these little dolls, and then you don't have to hurt a child. 0.97

00:35:23.080 Does that argument hold water or no? 0.93

00:35:26.280 God, no. 0.98

00:35:27.780 I mean, who is the person that's making a child sex doll? 0.98

00:35:32.380 Pretty rich in certain parts of the world, apparently, but I don't know.

00:35:35.060 Maybe we'll pass laws against it.

00:35:36.240 Yeah, I mean, I think this whole thing is rather disturbing, and I'm going to be really original here and blame liberals for this,

00:35:43.700 because I think a lot of this comes out of—

00:35:45.200 So brave.

00:35:46.200 So brave.

00:35:47.020 I know, right?

00:35:47.720 Thank you.

00:35:49.180 I think a lot of this comes out of the sort of, like, free love, anything goes movement,

00:35:53.280 where liberals have told people for years and years that you can indulge whatever your weird sexual desires are,

00:35:58.820 and nobody can judge you for it.

00:36:00.580 And now—and we've always said that there were some things that people should be judged for, like pedophilia.

00:36:05.200 And now, apparently, we're at the point where, well, we're going to judge you,

00:36:08.980 but we're also going to provide an outlet for your weird desires.

00:36:12.200 So everything is spiraling downhill into this sexual degeneracy,

00:36:15.980 and I think it also just causes people not to value human relationships and human sexual relationships as much,

00:36:22.980 which leads to this sexual harassment culture. 0.99

00:36:25.480 So everything goes full circle.

00:36:26.640 It just feeds the lust. 0.98

00:36:27.960 It just feeds the sin.

00:36:29.720 Yeah.

00:36:30.700 Alicia, you brought up these poor, now impoverished prostitutes who are seeing their wages go down. 1.00

00:36:38.300 Isn't there something to be said, though, that prostitution is a vicious and terrible industry? 0.63

00:36:43.640 That's why we have laws against it, is we don't want women who are desperate to fall into this abusive industry. 1.00

00:36:49.880 If there are sex dolls for men to go and have their fun with, 0.64

00:36:55.340 won't that create an incentive to get rid of prostitution, and won't that be good for women? 1.00

00:36:59.540 Is it possible that, like, both are bad and both are demoralizing and awful for society,

00:37:04.720 and we should maybe say, hey, the buck stops here?

00:37:07.540 Like, we don't want this done at all?

00:37:10.100 But if you had to make a choice, if you had to say we have a world in which—

00:37:13.480 because that's really what's being posed by the sex bots, if they're really spreading,

00:37:16.660 if they're really shutting down brothels, are the sex bots better than the prostitutes,

00:37:23.000 than prostitution for women? 1.00

00:37:24.360 You know, if wishes were fishes, we'd all be swimming in riches, but it is a fallen world.

00:37:28.840 If you had to choose one sort of decadence and debauchery,

00:37:32.300 would you take the robots or the real-life hookers? 0.99

00:37:34.500 Why are you doing this to me?

00:37:36.160 I don't like this question at all.

00:37:37.740 I say neither, neither, neither.

00:37:39.920 Can I—I mean, yeah.

00:37:41.280 Amber, Bradley, any thoughts?

00:37:42.500 I completely agree with Alicia.

00:37:44.700 Let's keep with—these aren't binary choices that we're working with.

00:37:48.440 It's like 2016, Michael.

00:37:50.080 Don't do the binary choice again.

00:37:52.500 That was also a good decision then.

00:37:55.140 It's been a pretty good year, as we just talked about ISIS being defeated.

00:38:00.620 Amber, are you going to take a stand?

00:38:02.900 Against sex robots? 0.55

00:38:04.200 No, are you going to—I am really curious about this question,

00:38:07.100 because I think there's an unwillingness to deal with it.

00:38:09.120 We can say, well, we should outlaw the sex robots, and we should keep prostitution illegal.

00:38:13.820 Well, you know, they're both bad things.

00:38:15.440 But it poses a real question for society. 0.51

00:38:18.080 It's very easy for conservatives to say that pornography is bad, and virtual sex is bad, and yada, yada, yada.

00:38:25.280 But is it possible that there is something good that might come out of it,

00:38:29.760 which would be the protection of women in desperate circumstances?

00:38:32.800 Uh, maybe—I think the problem, though, is that if you rely on the sex robots, like I said,

00:38:40.080 you take away human interaction from people.

00:38:43.100 They start to value human relationships less.

00:38:45.660 And when they do get into human relationships, I think they're more likely to act improperly or abuse those people,

00:38:50.980 because they haven't been taught what the rules are.

00:38:53.420 So I don't like this would-you-rather game either.

00:38:56.120 That's a great point.

00:38:56.980 And C.S. Lewis brings this up when he talks about animal cruelty.

00:38:59.420 He says the reason not to abuse animals is not because the animals have some rights or something,

00:39:04.820 but because it makes you crueler.

00:39:07.200 It deafens your humanity.

00:39:09.020 It dulls your humanity.

00:39:10.480 And certainly that's the moral hazard with, you know, weird sex robots or something,

00:39:14.980 is it, to the greatest extreme, makes you view people as objects.

00:39:21.020 You are literally objectifying people, and that can't be good for your own humanity.

00:39:26.280 We're going to end on an excellent tweet, just a tweet that personifies, that totally embodies left-wing activism in 2017.

00:39:37.320 Sean King, the BLM activist who recently blocked me on Twitter because I quoted his own words at him,

00:39:43.440 Sean King sent out a tweet, and he said,

00:39:45.800 The word ungrateful, because Donald Trump called LeVar Ball ungrateful after his child was released from that Chinese jail

00:39:57.820 because of Donald Trump's machinations with the Chinese government.

00:40:03.320 And so Sean King said this was a racist statement, and ungrateful is the new N-word.

00:40:06.900 Now, it's worth pointing out that Donald Trump is also called Chelsea Manning ungrateful 0.89

00:40:11.800 and called rapper Mac Miller not only ungrateful but an ungrateful dog, both of whom are white people.

00:40:18.640 Amber, is ungrateful the new N-word? 0.98

00:40:21.540 Are these racist dog whistles coming out of the White House?

00:40:24.820 No, obviously not.

00:40:27.640 As with a lot of Donald Trump tweets, I think it was maybe a little bit tone-deaf,

00:40:32.200 not in the sense that it was racist at all, but just that it was kind of not very presidential.

00:40:37.620 But, I mean, what else is new?

00:40:39.240 But on the other side of the coin, you have this weird thing where Donald Trump did a really great thing

00:40:45.840 and got three UCLA basketball players out of a Chinese prison,

00:40:50.040 and the father of one of them has been incredibly unkind to the person who basically saved his son.

00:40:59.380 So, no, I don't think it's a racial thing.

00:41:01.120 And I actually saw a hot take on CNN yesterday where one of their guests said that

00:41:06.380 Donald Trump is unwilling to attack white men on Twitter,

00:41:09.580 and I'm sure all of us could probably name, like, ten white men each.

00:41:13.800 Rosie O'Donnell.

00:41:14.760 No, that's not nice.

00:41:15.620 That's not nice at all.

00:41:17.720 No, that's horrible.

00:41:18.760 No, not nice.

00:41:20.480 They do accuse this.

00:41:21.920 They often say that the word thug is now a euphemism for the N-word.

00:41:26.200 You probably saw this during the Ferguson riots and the Black Lives Matter summers.

00:41:31.780 Bradley, are these euphemisms, or is it okay to call a thug a thug and an ingrate an ingrate?

00:41:37.340 Well, actually, I'm taking a class that's political justice, and it's basically Reagan bashing 101,

00:41:43.660 and they kind of lay out the narrative on why the Nixon and Reagan administrations actually were using the N-word

00:41:51.580 when they were using all these euphemisms, like, we're going to be tough on crime,

00:41:54.700 we're going to be tough on thugs, and things like that.

00:41:58.120 And it's not convincing, but the problem is we're seeing a growing divide in Republicans and Democrats on this.

00:42:05.660 A Pew Research study came out that says there's a 50-point difference between Republicans and Democrats

00:42:12.400 when they ask the question that racial discrimination is the main reason why many Black people can't get ahead these days.

00:42:19.320 And we're in 2017.

00:42:20.280 We're 60 years out of Jim Crow, but then you see Netflix documentaries like the 13th saying that no matter what we do,

00:42:29.560 our criminal justice system will always be conflating criminality with the N-word.

00:42:35.240 So I think that it's smart labeling by the left to get their narrative out there

00:42:41.060 and to attract a large block of voters in American society.

00:42:44.760 But no, it's not conflating people who commit crimes with African Americans.

00:42:48.940 And if you insist that African Americans and people who commit crimes are the same,

00:42:54.240 then you and yourself, you are making a racist argument in terms of freedom.

00:42:58.420 Alicia, you are an insightful commentator, but Sean King is not.

00:43:01.820 Why does anybody care what this guy thinks?

00:43:04.560 Oh, gosh, who knows?

00:43:06.120 Because, you know, he was ahead of Black Lives Matter.

00:43:08.700 And isn't he over at the Young Turks or some progressive?

00:43:11.600 I don't know, Young Turks, CNN, New York Times, all the same to me.

00:43:14.280 Who knows? They're all the same.

00:43:15.540 But it's just like, it's the do as I say, not as I do.

00:43:18.740 And I'm sorry.

00:43:19.580 I tend to agree with my Black friends who say I don't use that word.

00:43:24.840 I'm a woman.

00:43:25.700 The B-word could be used to describe to me sometimes,

00:43:28.180 especially when I'm cutting lanes on the 101.

00:43:30.540 But who, you know, I still don't use that word toward myself or my girlfriends.

00:43:34.960 And I would expect Black people to do the same.

00:43:36.900 Just this everything about Trump being racist, it's like, come on, guys. 0.56

00:43:40.480 I didn't even vote for the guy.

00:43:41.860 He's not my favorite person in the world.

00:43:43.320 But you're really reaching here.

00:43:45.300 I mean, the latest yesterday was that apparently he's racist now

00:43:49.440 because the two turkeys that he's going to be pardoning on Thanksgiving Day are white.

00:43:53.960 So, yeah.

00:43:56.960 That is, it's like Poe's law in action.

00:44:01.340 It's so absurd that you can't tell if it's parody or if it's true.

00:44:05.460 And with this administration, though, and the mainstream media has then left its reaction to it,

00:44:09.940 it's like, wait, is this Babylon Bee?

00:44:12.560 Like, is this a joke?

00:44:13.960 But no, it is not.

00:44:15.280 Unbelievable.

00:44:15.900 True.

00:44:16.180 And, you know, speaking of those euphemisms, as someone of Sicilian descent,

00:44:19.360 anyone could use the T-word about me,

00:44:21.640 and I'll leave it to those well-read Italian scholars to know what the T-word is.

00:44:26.780 But, you know, it's okay, man.

00:44:27.900 I don't complain about it because I'm grateful.

00:44:29.920 I'm especially grateful for you, panel of deplorables. 0.98

00:44:32.560 Have a very happy Thanksgiving, if I don't talk to you tomorrow.

00:44:35.500 Bradley Devlin, Amber Athey, and Alicia Krauss, The Daily Wire's own.

00:44:39.280 Thank you for being here.

00:44:40.420 Grateful.

00:44:40.900 That guy, LeVar Ball, was ungrateful.

00:44:43.420 And there's so much to be grateful for right now.

00:44:45.440 We've defeated ISIS.

00:44:46.620 The economy is booming.

00:44:47.960 Foreign policy is back on track.

00:44:50.060 Deregulation at huge government agencies, massive deregulation.

00:44:53.420 New York Times is complaining about it almost every day.

00:44:55.780 We've got tax reform on the table.

00:44:57.520 Great originalist justices all the way up at the Supreme Court

00:45:00.700 and being nominated to the lower courts.

00:45:02.240 This is pretty good.

00:45:03.320 There's a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, and I'm thankful for you.

00:45:07.020 Okay, come back tomorrow.

00:45:08.300 We have got a really fun Thanksgiving Day special that we're going to be running,

00:45:13.340 the real history of Thanksgiving and why it's evidence of God's providence for the pilgrims.

00:45:18.080 I'll be talking about my four Mayflower ancestors,

00:45:20.900 some of whom were great, really virtuous, pious guys,

00:45:23.460 and one of whom was the first criminal executed in the New World, in that colony.

00:45:28.580 So tune in tomorrow.

00:45:29.500 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:30.060 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:30.800 Come back tomorrow.

00:45:31.700 We'll do it all again.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 21, 2017

Ep. 62 - WINNING： ISIS Is Over

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