The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 631 - Caught With Their Pants Down

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00:00:37.660 The Russians are at it again. 1.00

00:00:39.920 They're at it again, those darn pesky Russians. 1.00

00:00:43.240 You see, there was a minor story in the news. 1.00

00:00:45.880 It was this little thing.

00:00:46.740 It's not even worth rehashing.

00:00:48.380 But it turns out that Hunter Biden was getting payments from the Ukrainians to sell the influence of his father.

00:00:54.000 And then he apparently introduced the Ukrainians to his father.

00:00:57.380 And he also got lucrative deals in China.

00:00:59.620 And he might have actually been kicking back that money to his father per Hunter Biden's text messages.

00:01:04.380 But that, look, okay, that's sort of beside the point.

00:01:07.480 This is a malicious scheme of Russian disinformation.

00:01:11.460 And it's, I mean, it's, you know, they've got pictures of Biden and they've got his text messages.

00:01:16.580 But it's probably, it's, it's probably just really good Photoshop, you know, because it's obviously dis, disinformation.

00:01:23.860 None of it is true.

00:01:24.800 It's the Russians. 0.99

00:01:25.800 It's the, so it's Khrushchev.

00:01:27.520 It's Stalin. 0.53

00:01:28.360 And nothing to see here, folks.

00:01:30.140 Right.

00:01:31.020 Except that the director of national intelligence says, actually, none of that is the case.

00:01:37.580 It's, it's not Russian disinformation.

00:01:40.340 Actually, it looks like all the emails are legit.

00:01:43.620 It's funny that some of the people that complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing intelligence.

00:01:52.160 And unfortunately, in this case, it is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who, as you pointed out on Friday, said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign.

00:02:09.260 Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that.

00:02:15.580 And we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.

00:02:23.800 It's simply not true.

00:02:25.160 And this is exactly what I said I would stop when I became the director of national intelligence.

00:02:30.800 And that's people using the intelligence community to leverage some political narrative.

00:02:36.160 And in this case, apparently, Chairman Schiff wants anything against his preferred political candidate to be deemed as not real and is using the intelligence community or attempting to use the intelligence community to say there's nothing to see here.

00:02:49.460 It's not the Russians. It's not the Russians. It's not the Macedonians. It's not Click Farms. It's not any of that.

00:02:55.660 The Democrats are corrupt. The Biden family is corrupt. 0.99

00:03:00.580 And Joe is literally running away when he gets asked questions about it. 0.77

00:03:05.200 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:15.300 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:16.700 Hello, my favorite comment from yesterday from Kordati, who said,

00:03:20.740 Kids at eight years old are transgendering? Huh. 0.85

00:03:24.040 When I was eight, I still was curious what sand tasted like.

00:03:27.580 Yes, that is true.

00:03:28.960 This is this bizarre situation here where the left says that children are capable of making life-changing decisions,

00:03:39.660 decisions that they can never come back from, permanently changing their body chemistry.

00:03:44.340 Uh, while at the same time saying, for instance, I don't know, uh, 18 year old on a college campus can't make their own personal decisions.

00:03:52.280 Why do we have an age of consent?

00:03:54.340 We have an age of consent because we say young people are not capable of making decisions. 1.00

00:03:58.780 You know, certain decisions that could have effects later on.

00:04:01.140 So we're saying that a 17 year old can't choose to have a one night stand, but an eight year old can choose to fundamentally change their body chemistry and their sexual appearance.

00:04:10.920 Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

00:04:12.300 But that is the way the, the woke revolution has unfolded.

00:04:17.960 The only way to have tolerance and openness and inclusion is to trans the kids. 0.95

00:04:23.340 And that is pretty gross stuff.

00:04:24.520 And that is child abuse.

00:04:25.660 And the left unbelievably embraces it all the way up to their presidential candidate, Joe Biden, who, by the way, has gotten caught with his pants down.

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00:05:59.140 Democrats got caught in a pretty bad scheme.

00:06:04.160 Actually, even before we get to Joe Biden running away from this and the cover up from the media and the cover up from big tech, there's more news on the Hunter Biden scandal.

00:06:15.320 So, you know, these messages came out that showed that Hunter Biden introduced a Russian energy executive or a Ukrainian energy executive rather to his father while his dad was the point man on Ukraine and while his dad was vice president.

00:06:29.520 And it just looked like a pay for play kind of corrupt scheme.

00:06:33.800 So for a while, you'll remember on this show, I said, now the emails appear to be real, but we don't know.

00:06:39.100 We're not saying anything.

00:06:40.320 Now it looks pretty certain.

00:06:42.320 Now it looks pretty clear.

00:06:43.400 The Biden campaign is not denying the veracity of the emails on the hard drives.

00:06:47.180 They have photos of Hunter Biden, so it's pretty, pretty clear that it was his.

00:06:50.460 Otherwise, it was the greatest Photoshop job in the world.

00:06:52.560 And beyond Ukraine, there is a another threat in here that shows Hunter Biden pursuing a very lucrative energy deal in China and possibly cutting his dad in on the action at possibly giving his dad a significant portion of his salary.

00:07:10.760 And Fox is reporting that this has been verified.

00:07:13.200 Again, it's it's anonymous, so you can't say for sure.

00:07:16.440 But you've got Hunter Biden using this phrase.

00:07:20.360 Don't he's texting his kids.

00:07:22.560 He goes, don't worry.

00:07:23.880 Unlike pops, I won't make you give me half your salary.

00:07:27.140 Well, who's pops?

00:07:28.220 Presumably, if it's Hunter Biden writing it, pops is his dad, particularly in the context of writing to his son.

00:07:34.500 So now there's a possibility that Hunter Biden is getting these crooked deals by selling his dad's influence overseas.

00:07:40.080 We're talking millions and millions of dollars.

00:07:42.300 And then he's cutting his dad in on on half of that money.

00:07:46.160 Joe Biden, don't forget, Joe Biden's never had a job outside of government, not since the early 70s.

00:07:51.120 And yet he's got really nice houses, really nice suits, raises a lot of questions.

00:07:56.280 Biden campaign, not denying any of this.

00:07:59.760 Now, you probably haven't heard all of those details.

00:08:02.720 Why not?

00:08:03.620 Because the mainstream media are completely ignoring this story.

00:08:06.900 Shows you it shows you why the fake news is the fake news.

00:08:09.600 It's not because they get one story wrong or they fabricate one story even.

00:08:15.100 It's that they are not the news.

00:08:17.840 They aren't news.

00:08:18.920 They are Democrat operatives.

00:08:20.300 And so any reporter, I don't care your political, your political preferences, any actual journalist, if they got this story, they would be hounding Biden day in and day out.

00:08:31.720 They would be crowing about this.

00:08:33.580 They would be on the news 24-7.

00:08:35.720 But because the news are actually just Democratic operatives, they're perfectly willing to let the story be suppressed.

00:08:42.360 And President Trump called them out for it using very specific language.

00:08:48.260 The campaign strategy seems to be to call Biden a criminal.

00:08:52.240 Why is that? 0.98

00:08:52.880 He is a criminal. 1.00

00:08:53.820 He's a criminal. 1.00

00:08:54.840 He got caught. 0.99

00:08:56.140 Read his laptop.

00:08:57.440 And you know who's a criminal? 0.90

00:08:58.360 You're a criminal for not reporting it. 0.99

00:09:00.520 You are a criminal for not reporting it. 1.00

00:09:03.140 Let me tell you something. 1.00

00:09:05.020 Joe Biden is a criminal and he's been a criminal for a long time. 0.99

00:09:08.280 And you're a criminal in the media for not reporting it. 0.99

00:09:11.500 Good luck, everybody. 0.71

00:09:12.360 Have a good time.

00:09:13.560 Have a good time.

00:09:15.260 Good luck, everybody.

00:09:16.580 On that note, Trump is really a master of this kind of scene.

00:09:21.700 It's because he's a TV star.

00:09:23.080 He knows that a boring press conference in the White House press room is not going to do very well.

00:09:29.300 So you'll notice he gives these press conferences and they don't always get the most play.

00:09:33.380 He usually gets better play when he's talking to reporters outside of an airplane, outside of a helicopter, on the White House lawn, because it's just more dramatic.

00:09:40.700 You're more in the scene.

00:09:41.640 There's more going on around him.

00:09:42.960 And so he uses this to pitch the message.

00:09:45.580 Biden's a criminal and so are you.

00:09:47.160 Think about the question that the reporter asks him.

00:09:49.140 The reporter doesn't ask him anything about an issue, right?

00:09:53.840 He's not asking him about the Hunter Biden emails, not asking him about an issue that Trump is involved in.

00:09:58.740 He's saying, why are you calling Joe Biden a criminal?

00:10:03.980 And now Trump has to inform the reporter about this major news story that the New York Post broke a week ago that Hunter Biden's emails show his crooked business dealings in Ukraine and China.

00:10:17.000 How backwards a society are we living in that the president of the United States needs to fill in the reporter on the news?

00:10:25.920 He says, oh, well, I guess you probably you don't read the news or you do read the news, but you don't read the news in the news. 0.94

00:10:31.560 The Biden family is crooked.

00:10:34.500 Joe Biden was is not nearly as forthright with the press as President Trump is.

00:10:39.440 So he stopped by an ice cream stand on the campaign trail and there was some press around.

00:10:44.720 And so good old Scranton Joe, he decided to make a few fun, nice little comments about ice cream.

00:10:50.000 And he likes the chocolate ice cream.

00:10:51.520 You know, he doesn't he prefers that to the vanilla ice cream.

00:10:54.120 And then they ask him an actual question, like some reporter, I guess, snuck in to this this grouping and said, hey, what's going on with that whole Ukraine thing and China and all that?

00:11:03.480 Biden bolts.

00:11:04.800 And then he goes, and you can't, by the way, you can't just say this is an example of gotcha journalism where someone runs up while the while Joe Biden's just minding his own business and Joe Biden keeps walking.

00:11:26.660 Joe Biden stopped, decided to talk to the reporters about how he likes his ice cream cones.

00:11:31.900 Really important issues, probably the most complex issue that Joe Biden can handle at this point.

00:11:37.440 And then a reporter, again, just kind of snuck in secretly and he goes, hey, what's going on with that FBI thing with and Biden just the minute he gets to be he doesn't even get the FBI out.

00:11:48.420 They give you F. Hey, what's with that F. B.

00:11:50.940 Bye. See ya.

00:11:51.740 That kind of a situation, it just shows you how comfortable the Democrats have gotten.

00:12:22.260 With the press carrying water for them.

00:12:24.680 How disrespectful is that?

00:12:25.960 No, I'm not answering that tough question.

00:12:28.400 Call me when you want me to talk about ice cream.

00:12:30.580 OK, the the Biden campaign just does not want to communicate with the press.

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00:13:52.120 So now Joe Biden is running away from the questions, the few times that the Hunter questions even come up.

00:14:00.300 But don't forget, this Hunter issue has been going on for a very long time.

00:14:04.560 I mean, we've known about this Hunter issue for years at this point,

00:14:07.760 and it's even kind of cropped up into the press for about a year, year and a half.

00:14:12.220 Early on, reporters were bringing this up, if for no other reason than so that Joe could swat it down.

00:14:18.140 The trouble was Joe Biden wasn't able to swat it down because the scandal is obviously legitimate.

00:14:22.120 And it's obviously stinks to high heaven.

00:14:26.240 The anger that Joe Biden would express when he was asked this question shows you everything you need to know about whether or not it is legit.

00:14:37.320 Take a listen to a quick little montage of Joe occasionally answering a question on Hunter.

00:14:43.500 In your son's job in Ukraine, how is that not a conflict of interest?

00:14:47.400 It's not a conflict of interest.

00:14:48.520 There's been no indication of any conflict of interest from Ukraine or anywhere else, period.

00:14:54.040 I'm not going to I'm not going to respond to that.

00:14:55.920 Let's focus on the problem.

00:14:57.700 Focus on this man, what he's doing that no president has ever done.

00:15:02.640 Do you think it was wrong for him to take that position, knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to you?

00:15:21.160 Well, that's not true.

00:15:22.080 You're saying things you do not know what you're talking about.

00:15:24.860 No one said that.

00:15:25.780 Who said that?

00:15:26.420 So that's a Trump ad.

00:15:38.200 And there at the very end is that email from the Ukrainian executive saying to Hunter saying, thank you for inviting me to D.C. to meet your dad.

00:15:45.600 So that's who's saying it is that the Ukrainian executive.

00:15:48.200 Even Savannah Guthrie, right, who is as far left as they come, she's asking Biden, you know, look, this doesn't look great for you.

00:15:57.680 You know, isn't it maybe just say it's like sort of like a little improper maybe.

00:16:01.420 And then we can just kind of scoot this under the rug.

00:16:03.920 But obviously, Hunter Biden got the job because he was selling your name.

00:16:07.760 And Joe couldn't even admit that.

00:16:09.680 He says, you don't know that.

00:16:11.620 Maybe, I don't know, maybe, maybe he got the job because he goes to the same strip club as the oil executive.

00:16:18.720 Maybe, I don't know, maybe they like the same recreational, who knows, who knows, maybe.

00:16:24.120 Hunter Biden is not qualified to do anything, okay?

00:16:26.580 He has no qualifications in anything.

00:16:29.920 He has one thing going for him in the professional world, which is that his last name is Biden.

00:16:35.300 And that really only worked for him when his dad was VP or now that his dad could possibly become the president.

00:16:40.180 And so he sold that influence and who knows, may still be selling that influence.

00:16:45.800 That is a major scandal.

00:16:48.060 We've heard so much from the left about how Trump is enriching himself in the presidency.

00:16:53.120 But he's not, right?

00:16:54.440 Because then we also heard about a month ago that Trump is losing a lot of money and some of his businesses are in debt.

00:16:59.360 And he's lost a billion dollars while he's been in the White House.

00:17:02.520 And he doesn't take any money for the job.

00:17:04.760 He donates a salary.

00:17:07.320 So he's not enriching himself in the presidency.

00:17:09.320 You can always, you can always check this when the left attacks Trump for opposite reasons.

00:17:14.020 He's enriching himself in the presidency and he's going broke.

00:17:16.840 And they say that at the same time.

00:17:18.940 But nobody thinks Joe Biden's gone broke.

00:17:21.460 Nobody thinks Joe Biden's losing money.

00:17:24.320 Everyone realizes that Joe Biden's worked in the government service for 50 years and somehow he's gotten real rich doing it.

00:17:32.340 All right, he's caught with his pants down, much like, much like a certain CNN analyst yesterday and writer for the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin, who was put on to an indefinite leave because he was on a conference call, on a Zoom call.

00:17:50.000 And he was caught getting a little frisky with himself on the Zoom call.

00:17:58.840 Now, for expert analysis of this, this particular action in this story, we turn now to Woody Allen. 0.99

00:18:06.380 Hey, don't knock masturbation. 0.99

00:18:07.920 It's sex with someone I love. 0.99

00:18:09.780 Fair enough. 0.94

00:18:10.380 That's a good point.

00:18:11.120 You can't argue with that.

00:18:12.860 And I guess that's what Jeffrey Toobin was thinking, too.

00:18:16.300 Jeffrey Toobin is pretty left wing.

00:18:19.300 Jeffrey Toobin was pretty vicious during the whole Kavanaugh scandal, you know, and accusing Kavanaugh of all sorts of madness and particularly of a sexual nature.

00:18:29.980 And yet now Jeffrey Toobin gets caught doing some weird, creepy stuff.

00:18:34.000 Vice Magazine reported this yesterday, that Jeffrey Toobin exposed himself to members of the New Yorker and WNYC radio during a Zoom call.

00:18:42.920 And this, this, according to the story, the call was described as an election simulation.

00:18:49.760 So now when I read that, I realized this may have just been a huge misunderstanding because, see, it was supposed to be an election simulation.

00:18:59.340 And, I don't know, maybe Jeffrey didn't have his glasses on when he was reading the instructions.

00:19:04.100 All I know is the man was two letters away from being the most meticulous person on that phone call.

00:19:09.480 But unfortunately, got a couple letters wrong in there, and now he is, he is indefinitely suspended.

00:19:16.280 This was on a call with Jane Meyer, Masha Gessen, Andrew Morantz, Jelani Cobb, Evan Osnos, Sue Halpern, and Dexter Filkins.

00:19:24.980 All these kind of liberal, prominent journalist types.

00:19:29.340 So, the reason I bring up this story is actually two reasons.

00:19:33.000 One, Trump's critics are worse than Trump.

00:19:38.480 This is, I always, you always hear this from the left. 1.00

00:19:41.400 They say, Trump is awful, he's terrible, he's vulgar, he says mean things, he dated porn stars, he whatever, you know. 0.99

00:19:46.780 And I think, okay, well, I guess all of that's fair enough, but his critics are worse. 1.00

00:19:52.600 Trump is vulgar, and he's made a lot of money, and whatever. 0.99

00:19:56.020 Remember, Joe Biden is a crook who sold influence, as was Hillary, by the way. 0.99

00:20:01.840 Hillary was the same thing. 0.95

00:20:03.040 Hillary was also selling influence through the Clinton Global Initiative. 1.00

00:20:06.220 Well, you know, Trump has, says vulgar things.

00:20:10.760 Joe Biden says a lot of vulgar things.

00:20:13.260 Well, Trump has made some mistakes in his career.

00:20:15.740 Joe Biden's only made mistakes in his career.

00:20:17.540 Well, these, I don't know, these Republicans are blah, blah, blah.

00:20:22.280 Anything you can accuse these guys of, it's doubly true of his critics.

00:20:26.300 This is, Drew Clavin has this great point on bigots, which is, he makes the observation that it's not that bigots are necessarily wrong about the people they're criticizing.

00:20:35.260 It's just that they have no self-awareness.

00:20:37.220 They don't, they're wrong about themselves. 0.95

00:20:39.140 You might say, oh, that guy's awful, he's terrible.

00:20:41.040 Sure, maybe, but what about you, buddy?

00:20:43.140 And so the, the left does this here too.

00:20:45.520 You know, they can castigate Brett Kavanaugh, a milquetoast lawyer, because, I don't know, he kissed a girl in 1982, maybe.

00:20:51.840 Meanwhile, these guys are doing weird, creepy stuff on Zoom calls.

00:20:55.060 But the second point I want to make on the Zoom call is, we need to go back to work.

00:21:00.860 We need to. 0.98

00:21:01.540 We need to take off the dumb masks, and we need to leave our stupid apartments, and we need to stop Purelling ourselves, walking through showers of Purell every time we go everywhere. 1.00

00:21:11.320 And we need to be social again. 0.99

00:21:13.540 I'm not making any kind of scientific point.

00:21:15.460 I'm making a political point.

00:21:16.700 I'm making a human point.

00:21:18.660 We are not meant to be locked in pods alone for the rest of our lives.

00:21:23.840 We are, human beings are social animals.

00:21:26.540 Our defining characteristic is how social we are, and the fact that we have speech, so we can communicate with each other.

00:21:31.640 And if you put a mask on your face all the time, and you block your smile, and you block your mouth, and you block your voice, you are fundamentally crippling your humanity.

00:21:42.820 And I don't care if it increases the chances that you get the flu.

00:21:46.640 By the way, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.

00:21:48.580 I'm not delving into the scientific question.

00:21:51.200 I'm only making the political point here.

00:21:53.740 Remember, people get weird and creepy when you lock them alone for a long time.

00:21:59.560 Jeffrey Toobin wouldn't have gotten caught in this problem if he were in a business meeting in the boardroom of the New Yorker rather than on Zoom.

00:22:06.080 I hope so.

00:22:06.860 Or if he did, it would make an even funnier story.

00:22:09.780 Okay, we have to do it.

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00:23:01.800 I really like these guys.

00:23:03.700 They also, by the way, sponsor my book club show over at PragerU.

00:23:07.820 So they are so involved in getting people to read, to challenge their preconceptions, to expand their horizons,

00:23:14.680 and most importantly, to sound smart at cocktail parties.

00:23:17.920 Go to thinker, T-H-I-N-K-R.org.

00:23:21.720 No E. There's no time for that. 0.98

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00:23:27.340 That is thinker.org.

00:23:29.400 So Toobin, caught with his pants down.

00:23:34.480 I don't want to knock him too much here.

00:23:36.320 I don't want to, you know, I don't want to attack him.

00:23:39.180 It's very embarrassing.

00:23:40.280 I'm sure he's having a very, very bad day.

00:23:43.200 And that's only like the 10th creepiest thing that's going on at CNN in the past few months.

00:23:47.760 However, we need to reopen society. 1.00

00:23:51.320 And I don't want to hear any stupid egghead doctors telling me anything otherwise. 0.99

00:23:55.020 I don't care what their opinion is because I'm not making this a scientific point. 0.99

00:23:59.500 I'm sure from an epidemiological standpoint, it's better to lock ourselves and wrap ourselves in saran wrap and sit in our apartment all the time.

00:24:07.400 Because then you're really going to reduce your exposure to germs.

00:24:09.920 But we're not going to beat germs, folks.

00:24:11.920 We're not going to end germs on Earth.

00:24:13.540 I know the left is utopian, but that's taking it far even for them.

00:24:18.800 There will be germs.

00:24:19.700 You will get sick.

00:24:20.740 10% of the world's population, according to the WHO, has already gotten COVID.

00:24:24.160 20% of Chicagoans, according to one study, have gotten COVID.

00:24:27.420 Or the disease has only been around for nine months.

00:24:29.480 We're going to get it, okay?

00:24:30.500 It's going to be around.

00:24:31.580 It's spreading extremely fast.

00:24:33.600 According to the CDC, by the way, according to one survey of people that the CDC was looking at,

00:24:39.080 85% of the infected people were reported wearing their masks always or often.

00:24:45.960 Just 3.9% reported wearing their masks never, okay?

00:24:50.640 And this, by the way, this study, the left is so furious about this study that they keep trying to say that it's not true.

00:24:56.700 Never mind.

00:24:57.440 Let's get it off the CDC website.

00:24:59.280 And they're misrepresenting it.

00:25:00.880 So they're saying, it is not true that 85% of people who have had COVID wore their masks all the time.

00:25:06.860 Or they'll say, the way they really try to twist it is they'll say, it is not true that 85% of people who have worn masks got COVID.

00:25:15.160 No, no one's saying that.

00:25:16.720 I'm not saying that.

00:25:17.780 What I'm saying is the survey is very clear.

00:25:19.300 Of the people that the CDC looked at, 85% of the infected people wore their masks always or often,

00:25:26.000 compared to just 3.9% of people who never wore them.

00:25:28.720 That is indisputable.

00:25:29.300 Indisputable.

00:25:30.100 That is right there on the CDC website, which suggests to me, we're not going to defeat germs by putting cloth over our face forever, okay?

00:25:40.080 It's just, I don't know.

00:25:40.740 I'm just reading.

00:25:41.700 I defer to the science.

00:25:42.820 The left is not deferring to the science, though, by the way.

00:25:45.840 You know, they've been telling us, listen to the scientists, listen to the experts.

00:25:48.480 Well, only if the experts back up their preconceived political notions.

00:25:52.260 Because you've got an expert on this at the White House, Dr. Scott Atlas.

00:25:55.860 Dr. Scott Atlas came out, he tweeted, that the masks maybe don't work that well.

00:26:02.820 He tweets out an article from the American Institute for Economic Research that showed that, or that argued, rather, that face masks should be restricted to narrow circumstances,

00:26:12.660 such as you're visiting an elderly, sick person in a controlled healthcare setting, you know, like a hospital or a nursing home or something like that.

00:26:20.740 But it also raised the question as to whether or not widespread mask use may lead to an increased spread of the virus rather than less of a spread of the virus.

00:26:31.320 The reason it raised this is the same reason that an epidemiologist at Columbia raised the prospect to NPR.

00:26:36.980 It's the same reason that Dr. Fauci actually recommended not wearing masks early on, which is that people don't use them correctly.

00:26:42.860 So, there's a world in which, if you're not using your mask correctly, you end up touching your face even more.

00:26:48.640 You lower it, or the masks are dirty, people don't wash them all the time.

00:26:51.400 All perfectly obvious, common sense, legitimate questions.

00:26:56.080 Twitter censored that.

00:26:57.620 Didn't just censor the article.

00:26:59.260 Censored the White House medical expert.

00:27:03.100 What happened to listening to the expert?

00:27:04.820 Oh, only listen to the experts if their recommendations help Democrats win an election.

00:27:11.460 That's what it really means.

00:27:13.860 Andrew Cuomo tweeted out.

00:27:15.360 Andrew Cuomo's the worst. 0.99

00:27:16.440 That guy is the worst. 0.87

00:27:17.520 He tweeted out a month or two ago.

00:27:19.000 He said, believe science.

00:27:22.200 Trust the science.

00:27:24.120 He believes science, right?

00:27:25.080 Okay, well, what does that mean?

00:27:26.260 I don't know.

00:27:26.580 That's some creepy, creepy, Gnostic, religious kind of stuff. 0.99

00:27:31.960 But Andrew Cuomo doesn't believe the science.

00:27:33.640 Well, first of all, because he handled coronavirus worse than any other governor in the country.

00:27:37.240 Something like 30% of deaths from coronavirus happened in New York on his watch.

00:27:40.360 And his policies sent sick people into nursing homes and killed a lot of elderly New Yorkers.

00:27:45.560 So he handled it worse than anybody.

00:27:48.040 If you're going to listen to science, definitely don't listen to Andrew Cuomo telling you to listen to science.

00:27:52.920 Because Andrew Cuomo doesn't know nothing about science.

00:27:55.020 But on the one hand, he says, listen to science.

00:27:58.200 And then next, he was asked if he would take the vaccine after the experts at the FDA approved the vaccine.

00:28:05.620 You know, he said that he was not going to test, trust the scientists.

00:28:11.080 Well, first, how confident am I?

00:28:15.160 I'm not that confident.

00:28:16.640 But my opinion doesn't matter.

00:28:18.220 I don't believe the American people are that confident.

00:28:20.900 You're going to say to the American people now, here's a vaccine.

00:28:24.420 It was new.

00:28:25.340 It was done quickly.

00:28:26.280 But trust this federal administration and their health administration that it's safe.

00:28:33.720 And we're not 100% sure of the consequences.

00:28:36.920 I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine.

00:28:41.400 And they should be.

00:28:42.860 Finally, Cuomo gets it.

00:28:44.320 Thank you.

00:28:44.980 Good.

00:28:45.260 I'm glad.

00:28:45.800 I know that he's just saying this because he's a hack and he doesn't want people to trust the Trump administration.

00:28:50.360 But I'm glad he's saying, wait, hold on, you're telling me that all these eggheads and lab coats who have gotten everything about this virus wrong from the very beginning.

00:28:59.120 Now they're going to, like, inject me with something.

00:29:01.360 Nah, I'm not doing that, man.

00:29:02.520 I don't know.

00:29:02.820 Like, maybe I'll do it eventually.

00:29:03.940 But I'm, look, I'm going to be a little bit skeptical.

00:29:06.040 It's totally right to be skeptical.

00:29:07.580 Yeah, you're right.

00:29:08.200 You're right, buddy.

00:29:09.640 You're right.

00:29:10.420 I sure wish that you would apply that standard evenly.

00:29:14.380 Because, yeah, I don't trust the science.

00:29:16.700 You know, the one thing I know about scientific discoveries, like, like, in statistically 100% of cases, is they change over time.

00:29:26.180 Like, every made, every scientific consensus that we've had at various times in history gets changed later as scientific progress develops, as more scientific discoveries are made.

00:29:38.880 And trust the science, as they're, as they, I think, intend to be using it, is a method of material inquiry that obviously changes with circumstances and is obviously prone to error.

00:29:54.380 So the idea that I'm now going to export every decision that I would make about my life to some egghead at some particular time in history is absolute madness.

00:30:04.240 But beyond that, the, if these guys don't even understand their own field of expertise, why would I have them answer questions well outside their field of expertise?

00:30:15.980 Why would I have Dr. Fauci tell me when I ought to prioritize seeing my family beyond avoiding germs and a certain statistical risk from germs?

00:30:27.720 Why would, Fauci doesn't know anything about that.

00:30:29.340 He's not a philosopher.

00:30:30.140 He's not an ethicist.

00:30:31.500 He's not a theologian.

00:30:32.920 He's not a humanist.

00:30:35.160 He's not any of those things.

00:30:37.080 He's an epidemiologist, which is like sort of a scientific discipline.

00:30:42.220 It's like, uh, ish.

00:30:43.340 It's iffy.

00:30:44.100 It's a little bit, it's a, it's a social scientific discipline.

00:30:47.200 I'm glad that Cuomo is coming around.

00:30:49.160 He's coming around in the worst way possible, but I never want to hear again that the Republicans are undermining faith in science, that we're prolonging the virus or anything like that.

00:30:58.240 Andy Cuomo just came out and said, don't take the vaccine.

00:31:00.740 So don't tell me anymore that Trump is endangering lives, ignoring the science.

00:31:05.680 I don't want to hear it.

00:31:06.980 I don't want to hear it.

00:31:08.380 And by the way, it's not, it's not just on COVID.

00:31:10.440 It's on the ballots too.

00:31:11.620 It's on the vote as well.

00:31:13.120 We're told there's no worries about the vote.

00:31:15.460 Oh yeah.

00:31:16.640 Yeah.

00:31:16.860 We've had a mail-in voting now for, uh, I don't know, like a month and we're, we're moving voting way past election day.

00:31:23.160 We're going to have like weeks and weeks of elections, but don't worry.

00:31:25.860 Nothing could go wrong.

00:31:26.740 Things are going wrong.

00:31:28.040 Things are going wrong in Kentucky.

00:31:30.780 Postal worker in Kentucky was just arrested actually for election interference.

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00:33:28.760 Trust the experts, they told us.

00:33:43.700 Trust the system.

00:33:44.720 Trust the process.

00:33:45.760 Well, we can't, can we?

00:33:48.080 Because the experts got COVID completely wrong from the beginning.

00:33:50.900 Don't forget, they told us, they told us we had to lock down.

00:33:54.480 They told us we shouldn't have locked down.

00:33:55.720 They told us don't wear the masks.

00:33:56.840 They told us wear the masks all the time.

00:33:58.480 Then they didn't wear the masks themselves.

00:34:00.200 Then we were told that anytime anybody contradicts that scientific consensus,

00:34:04.760 they're going to be kicked off of the internet.

00:34:05.980 So, so much for open inquiry and debate.

00:34:08.380 Same thing with the voting.

00:34:09.700 Same thing with the voting.

00:34:10.420 We're seeing that now in Kentucky.

00:34:12.620 A U.S. Postal Service worker threw away over 100 absentee ballots

00:34:17.900 meant for the Jefferson Town area of Jefferson County, Kentucky.

00:34:22.200 Federal agents from the Postal Service Office of Inspector General

00:34:25.200 found the ballots on Thursday morning after they received a tip.

00:34:30.160 100 ballots.

00:34:32.740 We've seen ballots on the side of the road in New York.

00:34:35.160 We've caught election irregularities in New Jersey.

00:34:38.580 We've seen some curious things in Texas even.

00:34:43.220 Lots of issues here.

00:34:45.160 The experts are going to tell you that there has never been any problem with mail-in voting.

00:34:50.800 If you even suggest that there is going to be fraud in this election,

00:34:56.420 social media will probably take your post down.

00:34:59.420 They'll say there's no evidence that there has ever been fraud.

00:35:04.540 There's no evidence.

00:35:06.040 Well, first of all, there is evidence in other types of fraud.

00:35:08.540 But there's no evidence that there's fraud in widespread unsolicited mail-in ballots

00:35:12.620 because we've never had them before.

00:35:15.860 Ever.

00:35:16.480 In the history of the country, we have never, we've had absentee ballots

00:35:19.220 where you, where an individual requests the ballot and it comes to them.

00:35:24.200 So there's a far less likely chance that you're going to get ballots to people who have been dead

00:35:29.960 or to old pets or to people who have moved.

00:35:32.200 People move all the time.

00:35:33.420 Don't change their registration.

00:35:34.740 But in this case, because we know that the voter registrations are out of date,

00:35:40.760 you're just getting ballots.

00:35:42.220 They're just being mailed out.

00:35:44.260 We know that there have been ballot harvesting schemes coast to coast.

00:35:47.800 We know that there have been irregularities.

00:35:50.220 We know that ballots have gone missing.

00:35:53.500 How many of these incidents, like we're seeing in Kentucky,

00:35:56.580 have to happen in Pennsylvania or Ohio or Florida to throw an election?

00:36:01.620 How many people are going to vote twice?

00:36:03.340 Maybe not even intentionally, just because they get a ballot, they show up at the polls.

00:36:07.560 How many people are going to vote given a ballot that was for another relative?

00:36:12.760 The other day I was walking past a mailbox.

00:36:15.180 Ballot was just lying there, right?

00:36:16.860 It was like a kind of in an apartment building and there was, there were ballots on the, on the bench.

00:36:21.620 Anybody could take those ballots.

00:36:24.840 We know that there's harvesting going on at nursing homes.

00:36:27.680 Think about how razor thin the margins have been on certain elections.

00:36:33.380 And now you've got this obvious vulnerability introduced into the system.

00:36:39.780 What this would suggest to me is no matter what happens,

00:36:43.520 I think this thing is going to be litigated up, you know, maybe,

00:36:47.320 maybe all the way up to the Supreme Court, but certainly going to be litigated.

00:36:49.740 I don't care if Trump wins 57 states.

00:36:53.640 I mean, Trump's getting some pretty big endorsements these days.

00:36:55.760 Fiddy Cent came out for him yesterday.

00:36:57.920 Great, a great endorsement from Fiddy. 0.97

00:36:59.760 He said, I don't even care if Trump doesn't like black people.

00:37:01.980 I'm not paying 62% tax rates. 0.70

00:37:04.460 Something to that effect.

00:37:06.480 We'll get into the full, the full Fiddy endorsement later on, maybe tomorrow in the show.

00:37:11.480 But he's getting a huge number of endorsements.

00:37:15.260 I see a lot of Trump signs out there.

00:37:16.780 I don't see a lot of Biden signs, but it doesn't matter because the,

00:37:20.660 the vulnerabilities here are, are pretty great.

00:37:23.780 And we know that Democrats are pretty good at stealing elections.

00:37:27.100 They're just very talented at it.

00:37:29.040 So this is a very dangerous sort of situation and it's not going to be resolved on election night.

00:37:36.420 You know, actually we know it's not going to be resolved on election night because John Roberts,

00:37:40.580 the putative conservative, who's not really a conservative, he's on the court.

00:37:44.680 He just ruled with the three liberal justices to put a hold on a lower court's order that would

00:37:50.960 permit Pennsylvania ballots to be counted, even if they arrive three days after the election.

00:37:54.280 Now, what does that mean?

00:37:55.780 Right now there's an even number of people on the court.

00:37:59.620 There were nine, then Justice Ginsburg died.

00:38:02.760 Now it's down to eight.

00:38:03.540 So this question came up, can ballots be counted three days after the election in Pennsylvania,

00:38:11.580 which is going to be hotly contested.

00:38:13.680 That's a battleground state.

00:38:16.060 Well, the three conservative judges say, no, you can't.

00:38:19.600 You have to get your ballot in by the deadline.

00:38:21.320 If you're going to mail it, the three liberals say, nah, you can get it, man, get mail it in

00:38:25.560 wherever you want.

00:38:26.440 And John Roberts sides with the liberals.

00:38:28.060 Why don't we just impeach him already on every consequential case?

00:38:32.200 John Roberts has, has failed us, has sided with the liberals, has failed the constitution.

00:38:38.680 Why don't we, we should impeach him because this is going to be some consequential stuff.

00:38:46.120 Shows you this issue.

00:38:47.440 You know, if there were another liberal on the court, maybe Roberts,

00:38:52.320 if there were two liberals on the, extra liberals on the court,

00:38:54.800 maybe Roberts would side with the conservatives.

00:38:56.560 Who knows, but you, you notice this about the conservative legal movement.

00:39:00.020 They always seem to lose gracefully.

00:39:02.100 They always say, oh, they write some great dissents, you know,

00:39:04.860 but they often don't win these important cases.

00:39:09.520 And John Roberts just looking for an excuse to preserve the institutional integrity of the court,

00:39:14.000 the credibility of the court.

00:39:15.100 How come he's not worried about losing credibility among conservatives?

00:39:17.660 Because I don't have a lot of faith in the Supreme Court.

00:39:20.140 I don't have a lot of trust in the court anymore.

00:39:21.420 John Roberts, once again, betraying conservatives in a way that could cost a presidential election.

00:39:29.220 A lot of false promises we've gotten.

00:39:31.480 A lot of false promises from conservative judges, from conservative, quote unquote, conservative politicians.

00:39:37.480 Actually, UFC fighter, Jorge Mazvidal.

00:39:41.020 I don't know how to pronounce his name.

00:39:42.120 I've never heard of him.

00:39:42.840 I've never even watched UFC.

00:39:43.920 But this guy, I like him, okay, because this guy, he clearly sees a political situation very well.

00:39:51.760 And he just came out very strongly and endorsed Trump because he doesn't want to be suckered anymore by false promises.

00:39:58.120 I'm going to let you in on something.

00:40:00.160 The Democrats just think that they're entitled to the Latino vote.

00:40:02.980 They think that we just have to hand it over to them.

00:40:05.540 That's right.

00:40:06.760 We sure as hell don't.

00:40:08.820 Así mismo.

00:40:10.400 Así mismo.

00:40:11.140 They got to show us what they can do for us, what they can do for our communities.

00:40:16.580 We're not going to buy the same wolf tickets and false promises that destroyed great countries like Venezuela and Cuba.

00:40:22.680 It's not going to happen.

00:40:25.060 You know what else is not going to work for them?

00:40:27.640 Playing despacito on your cell phone to pander to us.

00:40:32.540 Hell no.

00:40:35.500 You got to give us some credit for having heads on our shoulders.

00:40:38.580 I'm going to wrap this up with some words of Barack Obama.

00:40:44.800 He said elections have consequences.

00:40:47.600 That is true.

00:40:49.120 And those words have never been more true than they are today.

00:40:52.580 We either re-elect President Trump and keep America great.

00:40:58.520 Amen.

00:40:58.920 Amen.

00:40:59.100 Or we let Joe Biden destroy the greatest country the world has ever seen.

00:41:10.360 Very strong endorsement.

00:41:11.960 His delivery is terrific.

00:41:14.580 It's just, look, this is obviously like a pretty macho, normal guy.

00:41:19.200 You know, he's not very woke, I would suspect, in his comportment. 0.99

00:41:24.360 He goes, it's like, yeah, man, look, they've been lying to us, they pander to us, they think we're a bunch of idiots, they take us for granted on the basis of our race, usually. 0.99

00:41:33.880 And we're just not going to take that anymore. 0.99

00:41:35.720 And it's very matter of fact.

00:41:36.940 And I like the matter of fact approach to Trump.

00:41:40.180 Because the left becomes very hysterical, like those gals that we were playing on the show yesterday.

00:41:44.020 But the right, very matter of fact, yeah, okay, maybe you don't like this about Trump or that about Trump, but he's doing a good job.

00:41:50.520 Actually, the reasoning that Jorge gives for why you should support Trump, beyond, you know, how offensive it is that Biden and the Dems pander to people and lie to people and have empty promises.

00:42:02.540 He gives a great sports analogy that I think is good reasoning we should all keep in mind.

00:42:06.840 Now, I'm a professional athlete and I've been one for most of my life, so I've always seen things through a sports lens.

00:42:12.540 That makes Donald Trump our head coach.

00:42:15.420 And before the global pandemic, we were winning Super Bowls.

00:42:18.840 And when you're winning Super Bowls, you don't fire the coach.

00:42:23.500 You don't, it doesn't matter if you don't like the plays he runs, the players he puts on the field, or what he says on Twitter. 0.65

00:42:28.700 You sure as hell don't replace him for another coach that's been in the business for 47 years at every level and never won a f***ing game.

00:42:43.100 This is a great analogy, and it gets to a big difference between the left and the right, because notice he didn't say here, look, Trump's our quarterback.

00:42:51.520 Look, Trump, Trump is like Tom Brady, okay, and he's a winner and he's a winner, because that would suggest that Trump is doing all of these things himself.

00:42:58.700 But we know Trump isn't doing all of these things himself.

00:43:01.540 We know that the president actually has relatively little direct power.

00:43:05.240 Much of his power is from the bully pulpit.

00:43:07.800 Much of his power is putting some people in place that then carry out these operations.

00:43:11.940 But the president himself, it's not like he's sitting on his computer all day, like typing away emails and, you know, filing like spreadsheets and things like that.

00:43:19.680 He's not doing that.

00:43:20.400 His job is one of inspiration to the people and then of appointment to get good people in place that can actually run this massive government.

00:43:30.600 He's not the quarterback.

00:43:31.860 He's the head coach.

00:43:33.280 He's that and we're the players.

00:43:35.480 And he's done a good job getting us all to, like, play very well.

00:43:40.200 And his appointees are the players.

00:43:42.920 And he's done a good job there.

00:43:44.980 And this analogy to the head coach doesn't reflect very well on Joe Biden.

00:43:50.800 Because Joe Biden's been in the game for 47 years and he hasn't won a single game.

00:43:57.040 He hasn't.

00:43:57.400 I really like that.

00:43:58.560 And it's very simple.

00:44:00.720 Unemotional.

00:44:01.160 No, you don't need to get all worked up about it and try to invent all these crazy theories about Russia or whatever nonsense it is.

00:44:11.380 He's doing a good job.

00:44:13.300 By the way, the question is, I think that the Democrats were cheering on, in many ways, the lockdowns.

00:44:18.740 And they kept the lockdowns longer than they should have kept them because they wanted to depress the economy.

00:44:25.940 Bill Maher told us this and other leftists, too.

00:44:28.040 But Bill Maher, in particular, he said, yeah, we should get a recession because a recession will kick Trump out.

00:44:32.320 And it's better to destroy people's financial lives and get Trump out than to have another four years of Trump.

00:44:39.440 Remember, he said that.

00:44:39.960 It was pretty awful stuff.

00:44:41.220 But he admitted it, at least.

00:44:42.720 And I think a lot of leftists believe it.

00:44:44.780 But I don't think people blame Trump for the pandemic.

00:44:47.440 They know the thing came from China.

00:44:49.120 They know that it was the leftists and the eggheads and the technocrats who were insisting on keeping this thing shut down.

00:44:56.460 Over a virus that has a 99 percent plus survival rate.

00:45:03.280 They know that the big errors that occurred in the treatment of the virus occurred in democratic states like New York.

00:45:10.540 Don't forget, federal government made a lot of masks, made a lot of ventilators, did shut down travel from China, shut down travel from Europe.

00:45:17.940 What did Andy Cuomo do?

00:45:18.880 He sent all the sick people to go live in nursing homes.

00:45:20.900 So just as a matter of policy handling the virus, obviously the Republicans did much better than the Democrats.

00:45:27.400 But I don't think they blame Trump for this kind of thing.

00:45:30.180 I think they look at Trump and they say, gosh, you know, this pandemic was pretty bad.

00:45:35.780 But things were going well before these lockdowns.

00:45:38.840 And maybe they can go well again.

00:45:40.160 That's at least what this UFC champ seems to think.

00:45:43.400 That's what I think a lot of other people are thinking, too, even if they won't say it to the pollsters.

00:45:51.140 The question is, will all of these forces, the Presidential Debate Commission, the media, big tech, the bureaucrats, the people counting the ballots, will they be able to collude together, to use a popular word?

00:46:07.380 Will they be able to collude and overwhelm Trump?

00:46:10.340 And that's support for Trump.

00:46:11.540 Or will Trump beat the establishment again?

00:46:15.360 A few weeks to find out.

00:46:16.740 We will get into it.

00:46:17.680 The debate might have a big effect on it.

00:46:19.040 So we'll see that on Thursday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 20, 2020

Ep. 631 - Caught With Their Pants Down

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