The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 648 - The Permanent State

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00:00:30.500 Something rare, shocking,

00:00:32.520 happened on CNN this week.

00:00:35.340 They told the truth.

00:00:37.340 Specifically, Chris Cuomo admitted

00:00:39.520 that his network are just a bunch of left-wing hacks

00:00:42.940 who cover Republicans very differently than Democrats.

00:00:46.980 The news continues right now.

00:00:47.960 I want to hand over Chris for Cuomo Primetime.

00:00:49.780 Chris?

00:00:50.140 State TV's got some new competition, Anderson.

00:00:52.520 It's going to be very interesting

00:00:54.080 to see how the narrative unfolds.

00:00:57.020 You know, for people like us,

00:00:57.980 we do the job based on who's in power.

00:01:00.900 But this is going to be very interesting.

00:01:02.760 You notice what Langford said there.

00:01:04.560 How the media, not this network,

00:01:07.440 is playing his words,

00:01:09.780 which were,

00:01:10.580 he would get involved.

00:01:12.040 And now he isn't,

00:01:12.940 and we know why.

00:01:13.820 He has no good reason.

00:01:15.260 They do the job based on who is in power.

00:01:18.480 That was a Freudian slip

00:01:19.460 where you say one thing but mean your mother.

00:01:21.360 I think he meant to say,

00:01:22.480 regardless of who's in power,

00:01:23.900 but that's not what came out,

00:01:24.940 and that's not what would be true.

00:01:26.200 He refers to Fox News as state TV,

00:01:29.360 meaning it supports the Trump administration.

00:01:31.680 Fox News was the first news outlet

00:01:33.560 to start calling this election

00:01:35.180 against Donald Trump for Joe Biden.

00:01:38.180 None of what Chris was saying is true,

00:01:40.640 other than his admission

00:01:42.220 that he covers people differently.

00:01:43.720 But it's not just CNN.

00:01:44.780 It's the entire establishment media.

00:01:48.140 They themselves are the state TV.

00:01:50.340 They themselves are the permanent state.

00:01:52.460 And breaking up those norms

00:01:53.980 is not necessarily the worst thing in the world.

00:01:56.940 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:57.540 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:06.480 That is the dirty little secret

00:02:08.580 that for the past several generations,

00:02:11.500 the left has always been in power.

00:02:14.500 Not just for four years or eight years,

00:02:18.260 and then you win and then you lose.

00:02:19.240 No, the left has been in power

00:02:21.820 regardless of who wins elections

00:02:23.880 for the past several generations.

00:02:26.520 And one of the ways they take power

00:02:27.820 is pretending that the right is in power.

00:02:31.460 Chris Cuomo comes out and he says,

00:02:33.080 oh yeah, state TV,

00:02:35.040 you know, those are the conservative outlets.

00:02:37.660 They support the state, the power.

00:02:39.520 You're the power, Chris.

00:02:40.880 CNN is the power.

00:02:42.460 Donald Trump has no power

00:02:43.940 compared to that liberal establishment

00:02:45.760 that's been trying to snuff him out

00:02:47.620 since day one.

00:02:48.660 My favorite comment from yesterday,

00:02:50.680 from Tasmanian Devil.

00:02:51.920 They're not attacking femininity

00:02:53.500 as much, or they are attacking femininity rather,

00:02:57.880 as much if not more as masculinity.

00:03:01.100 It's so easy to be a woman,

00:03:02.440 just put on a dress.

00:03:03.420 That's what the left is saying.

00:03:05.120 You know, Candace Owens

00:03:06.660 got in a lot of trouble yesterday.

00:03:08.560 We covered it on the show

00:03:09.420 because Candace said 0.99

00:03:10.700 that men shouldn't wear dresses.

00:03:12.560 I know it's a very controversial thing

00:03:13.780 to say these days.

00:03:14.760 But it's not just that the left

00:03:16.260 is attacking masculinity in that way. 0.52

00:03:17.880 You're absolutely right.

00:03:19.540 The left is also attacking femininity.

00:03:21.300 When you attack sexual difference

00:03:22.980 or gender difference,

00:03:24.140 whatever term you want,

00:03:25.820 you're not just attacking one of the sexes, 0.61

00:03:27.680 you're attacking both of them.

00:03:29.540 And you're creating a caricature.

00:03:31.200 You create a caricature of men,

00:03:32.660 which the left has already been doing

00:03:34.160 for decades and decades.

00:03:35.620 Call it Homer Simpson syndrome

00:03:37.320 or Ray Romano syndrome,

00:03:38.540 the idea that men are just doofuses,

00:03:40.720 idiots, they can't do anything.

00:03:42.100 You know, they need to be led around

00:03:43.520 by the hand,

00:03:44.180 by their brilliant, flawless wives.

00:03:46.160 So you attack the men,

00:03:47.140 but you're also attacking the women

00:03:48.400 because you're saying,

00:03:49.120 yeah, if you put on a dress,

00:03:50.120 then you've become a slap on some lipstick

00:03:51.600 and then you've become a woman. 0.95

00:03:54.220 It's a caricature.

00:03:55.100 That's why we said yesterday,

00:03:56.040 the reason that drag is funny

00:03:58.560 or can be funny

00:03:59.580 is because it's so wrong.

00:04:02.180 It's so off.

00:04:03.080 We know that it's in Congress.

00:04:04.520 We know that someone isn't really a woman 1.00

00:04:06.560 if he's a man who puts on a dress.

00:04:08.420 The minute that you start to take that seriously,

00:04:10.660 all of a sudden,

00:04:11.360 it isn't funny at all.

00:04:13.600 But the left,

00:04:15.520 which is the ruling established apparatus,

00:04:18.320 they are the ones

00:04:19.460 who are determining these things.

00:04:22.080 They are the ones

00:04:22.660 who are setting the standards and the norms.

00:04:25.300 And the left accuses

00:04:26.380 the right of breaking norms.

00:04:28.200 They accuse Trump of breaking norms.

00:04:30.380 But those norms,

00:04:31.300 those liberal norms

00:04:32.080 that we've had for decade

00:04:33.180 after decade after decade

00:04:34.180 aren't serving us very well.

00:04:36.640 And they are the ruling power.

00:04:39.060 I'll give you an example.

00:04:39.900 So, the Daily Beast,

00:04:42.560 this guy from the Daily Beast, MSNBC,

00:04:45.000 he just pointed out

00:04:46.160 that the suppression

00:04:49.000 of the Hunter Biden story

00:04:50.320 on the New York Post

00:04:51.200 was critical to Joe Biden's success.

00:04:55.960 They think he won the election.

00:04:57.040 We'll see if he actually won the election.

00:04:58.360 But if he did,

00:04:59.360 crucial to his success.

00:05:01.080 According to Biden campaign metrics,

00:05:03.300 online chatter

00:05:04.180 about the Hunter Biden story

00:05:05.420 during the elections last week

00:05:06.820 was greater than it was

00:05:08.920 around Hillary Clinton's emails

00:05:10.280 during the last month of 2016.

00:05:12.400 But what's the difference?

00:05:13.640 If that was so much bigger,

00:05:14.700 then why did the media think

00:05:16.140 that Biden won the election?

00:05:18.820 Quote,

00:05:19.380 it never spilled over

00:05:20.640 into mainstream outlets.

00:05:22.800 He's bragging about this.

00:05:23.840 A journalist is bragging about this.

00:05:25.720 That the media,

00:05:26.780 who are supposed to report,

00:05:28.600 speak truth to power,

00:05:30.160 regardless of who's in power,

00:05:31.560 even though Chris Cuomo admitted

00:05:32.820 that's not what they do,

00:05:34.720 they ignored the story.

00:05:36.220 They suppressed the story

00:05:37.480 so that more people wouldn't see it.

00:05:39.160 I think if you ask people

00:05:40.400 who are very online,

00:05:41.560 like you and me,

00:05:42.180 if you ask people

00:05:42.780 who listen to a lot

00:05:43.360 of political podcasts,

00:05:44.700 read a lot of political writing,

00:05:46.360 then sure,

00:05:47.120 they all knew about

00:05:47.700 the Hunter Biden story.

00:05:50.120 Beyond that, though,

00:05:50.940 there are a lot of people

00:05:51.760 who don't spend a lot of time

00:05:53.240 on Twitter,

00:05:53.660 who don't listen to a lot

00:05:54.380 of political podcasts.

00:05:55.400 They probably never heard of it.

00:05:57.240 And the Biden campaign

00:05:58.440 apparently believes

00:05:59.660 that that was a huge issue.

00:06:03.480 Is Donald Trump really in power?

00:06:05.160 I mean, I guess,

00:06:06.000 you know,

00:06:06.200 he has the presidency.

00:06:07.860 He had the Congress

00:06:08.920 for a couple of years.

00:06:10.140 They still have the Senate.

00:06:11.840 Okay, that's good.

00:06:12.640 That's something

00:06:13.160 you can get some judges through.

00:06:15.100 But who's really

00:06:16.080 ruling the country?

00:06:18.820 The bureaucracy,

00:06:20.360 tech,

00:06:21.100 the media.

00:06:21.500 There was a tech hearing yesterday.

00:06:23.500 Gets my blood boiling.

00:06:25.540 The Hollywood,

00:06:26.600 the mainstream media,

00:06:27.900 the higher education system,

00:06:29.500 the lower education system,

00:06:30.400 all these different systems

00:06:31.680 totally dominated

00:06:33.040 by the left.

00:06:35.700 And so they can manipulate

00:06:37.080 whatever you,

00:06:37.700 they manipulate the election.

00:06:38.900 The Biden campaign

00:06:39.420 even is now apparently admitting

00:06:40.860 that they manipulated

00:06:41.820 the election to their benefit.

00:06:44.320 And then there's

00:06:44.980 no consequence from it.

00:06:46.620 Sure, they can pretend

00:06:47.600 they pay lip service to it.

00:06:48.780 Just yesterday,

00:06:49.440 Jack Dorsey goes to Capitol Hill.

00:06:51.240 He's testifying

00:06:51.920 on big tech suppression.

00:06:53.120 And he owns it.

00:06:54.040 He says,

00:06:54.380 I'm sorry,

00:06:55.140 I made a mistake.

00:06:56.860 Absolutely,

00:06:57.620 my bad.

00:06:58.300 We shouldn't have suppressed

00:06:59.740 the story.

00:07:01.020 Thank you to the members

00:07:02.100 of the Judiciary Committee

00:07:03.240 for the opportunity

00:07:04.220 to speak with the American people

00:07:05.660 about Twitter

00:07:06.740 and your concerns

00:07:07.640 around censorship

00:07:08.380 and suppression

00:07:09.360 of a specific news article

00:07:11.300 and generally what we saw

00:07:13.220 in the 2020 U.S. elections

00:07:14.720 conversation.

00:07:16.560 We were called here today

00:07:17.960 because of an enforcement decision

00:07:19.400 we made against

00:07:20.600 the New York Post

00:07:21.300 based on a policy

00:07:22.800 we created in 2018

00:07:24.140 to prevent Twitter

00:07:25.540 from being used

00:07:26.260 to spread hacked materials.

00:07:28.520 This resulted in us

00:07:29.960 blocking people

00:07:30.720 from sharing a New York Post article

00:07:32.380 publicly or privately.

00:07:35.280 We made a quick interpretation

00:07:36.980 using no other evidence

00:07:38.500 that the materials

00:07:39.520 in the article

00:07:40.080 were obtained through hacking

00:07:41.200 and according to our policy

00:07:43.080 we blocked them

00:07:44.240 from being spread.

00:07:45.900 Upon further consideration

00:07:47.120 we admitted this action

00:07:48.480 was wrong

00:07:48.960 and corrected it

00:07:50.180 within 24 hours.

00:07:52.000 We informed the New York Post

00:07:53.620 of our error

00:07:54.120 and policy update

00:07:55.240 and how to unlock

00:07:56.500 their account

00:07:57.060 by deleting

00:07:57.840 the original

00:07:58.580 violating tweet

00:07:59.580 which freed them

00:08:00.860 to tweet

00:08:01.220 the exact same content

00:08:02.440 and news article again.

00:08:04.760 They chose not to

00:08:05.540 instead insisting

00:08:07.000 we reverse

00:08:07.680 our enforcement action.

00:08:09.960 This sociopath.

00:08:12.720 I love it.

00:08:13.860 I'm noticing these guys

00:08:15.040 are really

00:08:15.400 they're letting

00:08:16.100 their guard down.

00:08:17.260 All these liberal elites

00:08:19.300 on their blatant sociopathy

00:08:21.420 recently.

00:08:22.400 Jack Dorsey comes

00:08:24.100 and he goes

00:08:24.280 I'm really sorry.

00:08:25.180 Yeah, that thing we did

00:08:26.580 where we suppressed

00:08:27.260 that really important news story.

00:08:28.400 Yes, sorry.

00:08:29.120 It swung the election.

00:08:30.160 Yeah.

00:08:30.460 Hey, guys.

00:08:32.140 My bad.

00:08:33.580 We good?

00:08:34.200 Are we good?

00:08:35.120 I know.

00:08:35.700 Yeah.

00:08:36.120 You think

00:08:36.620 we're saying now

00:08:37.760 that Joe Biden won

00:08:38.800 and yeah

00:08:40.240 we're probably responsible

00:08:41.620 for that

00:08:42.000 because we threw the election.

00:08:42.880 You know,

00:08:43.100 we shouldn't have done that.

00:08:43.940 We won't do it again.

00:08:46.960 Wink.

00:08:48.520 Where's the punishment?

00:08:49.700 Where's the consequence

00:08:51.480 for his actions?

00:08:52.840 And then he has the gall

00:08:54.180 the unmitigated gall

00:08:55.600 to blame the New York Post.

00:08:57.660 He says,

00:08:57.900 look,

00:08:58.640 you know that story

00:08:59.240 that was blowing up

00:08:59.920 that everyone was trying to retweet

00:09:00.920 and you couldn't do it

00:09:01.440 you couldn't send it anywhere

00:09:02.220 and then we took

00:09:03.400 the New York Post's account down

00:09:04.660 the oldest continually published

00:09:06.160 daily newspaper

00:09:06.820 in the country

00:09:07.800 founded by Alexander Hamilton.

00:09:09.060 You know,

00:09:09.160 we took the account down

00:09:10.080 and we admitted it was all wrong

00:09:12.120 so we just told them

00:09:12.940 just delete the tweet.

00:09:13.680 I know we said

00:09:14.460 the tweet's not wrong

00:09:15.220 but just delete it.

00:09:15.960 Just delete that tweet

00:09:17.060 and they didn't want to do it

00:09:18.600 so it's kind of their fault

00:09:20.080 but yeah,

00:09:20.600 we're sorry.

00:09:22.200 See you next time.

00:09:23.500 See you in four years.

00:09:24.600 Can't wait to suppress

00:09:25.260 all your stories again.

00:09:26.500 No consequences whatsoever.

00:09:28.240 That's an apology

00:09:28.980 and believe it or not

00:09:30.440 Jack Dorsey's apology

00:09:32.380 was positively sincere

00:09:36.100 compared to the apology

00:09:37.840 of Mussolini

00:09:39.500 of Gavin Newsom

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00:11:40.480 You thought Dorsey was bad.

00:11:42.000 Wait until you hear

00:11:43.180 Gavin Newsom's apology.

00:11:46.140 So you remember Gavin Newsom.

00:11:47.460 We covered this on the show.

00:11:48.720 Maybe yesterday,

00:11:50.400 Gavin Newsom

00:11:51.340 broke his own mandates.

00:11:54.660 He broke his own lockdown rules.

00:11:56.220 He told everyone,

00:11:57.400 you can't go out,

00:11:58.240 you can't go to restaurants,

00:11:59.500 wear the mask all the time.

00:12:00.220 He shows up to his buddy's birthday party

00:12:02.660 at French Laundry,

00:12:04.060 which is an extraordinarily expensive

00:12:05.940 Michelin-rated restaurant.

00:12:07.360 Something like $350 or $400 a plate.

00:12:10.520 I looked,

00:12:10.900 if you want to add the ricotta gnocchi,

00:12:13.300 a little dish of ricotta gnocchi,

00:12:14.960 it's like $150 upcharge.

00:12:17.320 Okay?

00:12:18.040 It is,

00:12:19.020 it's a nice restaurant.

00:12:21.320 And Gavin Newsom

00:12:22.020 didn't want to miss out on this party,

00:12:23.220 so he goes,

00:12:23.840 and he thought the cameras were off,

00:12:24.940 and he got caught.

00:12:25.960 Just like so many leftists have,

00:12:27.640 Nancy Pelosi goes and gets her hair cut.

00:12:29.220 And all these other guys,

00:12:30.760 Chris Cuomo goes on a run

00:12:32.040 in the Hamptons

00:12:32.920 when he pretends that he's

00:12:33.840 holding up in his basement.

00:12:35.640 And he's going on a run,

00:12:36.520 he's going on a bike ride,

00:12:37.320 he gets into a fight with a guy.

00:12:38.320 They're all just lying to you,

00:12:39.840 all of these people.

00:12:40.520 And then he gets caught,

00:12:41.600 and he makes an apology

00:12:42.600 that I was listening very carefully.

00:12:46.480 And for the first,

00:12:47.580 almost minute of it,

00:12:48.760 I couldn't discern

00:12:50.160 any actual apology.

00:12:52.860 A few weeks ago,

00:12:54.240 I was asked to go

00:12:55.780 to a friend's 50th birthday.

00:12:57.400 My wife and I,

00:12:59.080 a friend that I've known

00:12:59.820 for almost 20 years,

00:13:01.960 and a friend that had,

00:13:04.060 well, put a lot of time

00:13:05.740 and energy into his 50th birthday.

00:13:07.900 It was in Napa,

00:13:08.860 which was in the orange status,

00:13:10.660 relatively loose

00:13:11.880 compared to some other counties.

00:13:14.040 It was to be an outdoor restaurant,

00:13:17.840 and we started the,

00:13:19.140 well, the program started at 4 o'clock.

00:13:21.320 It was one of those early reservations.

00:13:23.140 I got there a little bit late at 4.30,

00:13:25.660 and as soon as I sat down

00:13:27.220 at the larger table,

00:13:28.840 I realized it was a little larger group

00:13:30.640 than I had anticipated.

00:13:33.320 And I made a bad mistake.

00:13:35.800 Okay, hold on.

00:13:36.640 There it is.

00:13:36.980 What was the time?

00:13:37.700 What time did you have?

00:13:39.280 I had 44 seconds of excuses

00:13:43.360 before he even started to intimate

00:13:46.980 that he had done anything wrong.

00:13:49.720 Which, by the way,

00:13:50.460 he didn't ultimately say it.

00:13:51.820 He said, I made a mistake.

00:13:53.680 But he didn't make a mistake.

00:13:55.060 He chose to violate his own orders.

00:13:57.420 He chose to be a giant hypocrite.

00:13:59.100 He chose to go to his buddy's birthday party

00:14:01.520 at the really nice restaurant.

00:14:02.580 So it's not a mistake.

00:14:03.200 It's not an accident.

00:14:03.900 Like, whoopsie-daisy.

00:14:05.260 Oh, no.

00:14:05.880 The French laundry fell down in front of me.

00:14:07.580 I guess I'll eat the ricotta gnocchi.

00:14:09.560 Whoops.

00:14:10.040 Oh, no.

00:14:10.620 Oh, my mouth is open,

00:14:11.640 and the delicious ricotta gnocchi are falling in.

00:14:13.200 No, you chose to go.

00:14:15.120 And you then give 44 seconds.

00:14:16.420 Look, my friend,

00:14:17.300 we've been friends for a long time,

00:14:18.680 so that makes it okay.

00:14:20.480 And, look,

00:14:21.320 he put a lot of time and effort into his birthday.

00:14:23.200 Not like your idiot friends.

00:14:24.440 I mean, those,

00:14:25.040 your lazy, stupid friends. 0.79

00:14:26.420 They wouldn't,

00:14:26.680 and by the way,

00:14:27.080 your friends couldn't even afford the French laundry. 0.59

00:14:28.560 So you don't really,

00:14:29.340 it's just different.

00:14:30.120 You don't really get it.

00:14:30.960 So I got there.

00:14:31.480 I got there a little bit late.

00:14:32.360 You know, I'm pretty busy.

00:14:33.020 I'm the governor and everything.

00:14:34.040 And I saw, look,

00:14:35.020 there are a few more people,

00:14:36.100 but it's like,

00:14:36.860 come on.

00:14:37.260 It's my buddy's birthday,

00:14:38.180 and I want to do it,

00:14:39.280 and I'm,

00:14:40.080 I'm the ruler of California,

00:14:42.380 and I don't have to play by the same rules

00:14:43.720 that I make everybody else follow.

00:14:45.820 You know,

00:14:46.360 I made a mistake.

00:14:48.840 So then he explains his mistake.

00:14:51.940 Instead of sitting down,

00:14:54.240 I should have stood up

00:14:57.040 and walked back,

00:14:58.700 got in my car,

00:14:59.400 and drove back to my house.

00:15:02.140 Instead,

00:15:02.780 I chose to sit there with my wife

00:15:04.820 and a number of other couples

00:15:06.400 that were outside the household.

00:15:08.480 You can quibble about the guidelines,

00:15:10.780 et cetera, et cetera,

00:15:11.300 but the spirit

00:15:12.100 of what I'm preaching all the time

00:15:14.200 was contradicted,

00:15:15.800 and I got to own that,

00:15:16.800 and so I want to apologize to you.

00:15:18.640 Hold it.

00:15:18.940 Stop it.

00:15:19.400 No,

00:15:19.660 you're not apologizing at all

00:15:21.680 because even when you say,

00:15:23.220 I made a mistake,

00:15:23.880 which is not true.

00:15:24.400 It wasn't a mistake.

00:15:24.860 It was very intentional.

00:15:26.440 You say,

00:15:26.880 look,

00:15:27.120 and we get there,

00:15:27.820 and I was sitting there

00:15:28.260 with some people,

00:15:28.860 and look,

00:15:29.600 really,

00:15:29.980 I mean,

00:15:30.160 you could quibble about the guidelines

00:15:31.760 because, like,

00:15:32.660 see,

00:15:32.940 actually,

00:15:33.400 I didn't really violate them,

00:15:34.920 I think.

00:15:35.300 I mean,

00:15:35.660 but look,

00:15:36.000 we can quibble.

00:15:37.600 Okay,

00:15:38.140 you can have your view.

00:15:39.360 I can have my view.

00:15:39.880 You will agree to disagree.

00:15:40.800 No,

00:15:41.000 you can't quibble,

00:15:41.820 buddy.

00:15:42.060 You broke the rules.

00:15:43.280 You had the rules

00:15:44.240 that said you couldn't go

00:15:45.360 to that restaurant

00:15:45.860 with all those many people

00:15:46.740 all together

00:15:47.200 from different households.

00:15:48.280 You made those rules,

00:15:49.680 and then you broke them,

00:15:50.760 so I'm not going to quibble

00:15:51.520 about anything.

00:15:53.040 You just want to hold

00:15:54.620 your constituents

00:15:55.220 to a completely different standard

00:15:56.840 than you will hold yourself to

00:15:58.320 because you wanted

00:15:59.940 those delicious gnocchi

00:16:01.180 at French Laundry.

00:16:03.140 No quibbling whatsoever.

00:16:05.520 This is,

00:16:05.960 yeah,

00:16:06.320 I shouldn't look.

00:16:07.220 Okay,

00:16:07.400 and so I apologize.

00:16:08.740 Good,

00:16:08.980 apologize.

00:16:09.340 Please,

00:16:09.860 give me the apology.

00:16:10.500 Are we going to get an apology?

00:16:11.760 I need to preach

00:16:12.760 and practice,

00:16:14.120 not just preach

00:16:15.400 and not practice,

00:16:16.520 and I've done my best

00:16:17.640 to do that.

00:16:18.500 We're all human.

00:16:19.600 We all fall short sometimes.

00:16:22.080 We've been out,

00:16:22.980 and I think,

00:16:23.420 for three times since,

00:16:24.940 in fact,

00:16:25.260 I know it's been three times

00:16:26.760 because I remember

00:16:27.320 all of those dinners

00:16:28.920 very,

00:16:29.440 very vividly

00:16:30.060 since February,

00:16:31.300 just three times,

00:16:32.740 twice with my wife,

00:16:34.280 by myself,

00:16:35.060 outdoors,

00:16:35.740 and then this one occasion

00:16:37.020 with a larger group,

00:16:38.480 and there were just

00:16:39.120 a few extra people there

00:16:40.780 than the spirit

00:16:42.680 of what I am promoting.

00:16:45.040 Oh,

00:16:45.460 it's not even an apology.

00:16:47.320 You're just trying

00:16:48.200 to get ahead of the story

00:16:49.360 that's inevitably

00:16:49.920 going to come out

00:16:50.580 that you've broken

00:16:51.280 your own guidelines

00:16:52.120 other times as well.

00:16:54.040 That's what this is about.

00:16:54.900 He goes,

00:16:55.080 yeah,

00:16:55.340 and look,

00:16:55.700 okay,

00:16:56.000 I did it.

00:16:56.340 I made a mistake.

00:16:57.100 I have to,

00:16:57.460 I know,

00:16:57.700 probably,

00:16:57.940 I've done it

00:16:58.220 a couple other times too.

00:16:59.660 What was that,

00:17:00.360 Governor Newsom?

00:17:01.000 No,

00:17:01.220 yeah,

00:17:01.520 no,

00:17:01.720 it's really,

00:17:02.340 I'm going to keep smiling

00:17:03.480 and it's all,

00:17:04.160 look,

00:17:04.460 it's kind of a big

00:17:05.000 misunderstanding,

00:17:06.060 but yeah,

00:17:06.780 for a while now

00:17:07.880 I've been disregarding

00:17:09.200 the rules

00:17:09.660 that I'm making

00:17:10.220 you all follow

00:17:10.860 and I know

00:17:11.780 that maybe

00:17:12.480 there's a chance

00:17:13.300 some journalist

00:17:13.940 is going to cover this

00:17:14.920 because the Sacramento Bee

00:17:16.100 is really angry at me,

00:17:16.940 so yeah,

00:17:17.520 I've done it a few times,

00:17:18.680 but look,

00:17:19.060 hey,

00:17:19.240 you know,

00:17:19.500 everyone makes mistakes.

00:17:20.360 Okay,

00:17:20.540 can we move on?

00:17:21.140 Can we move past this,

00:17:21.860 please?

00:17:22.400 Ha ha ha.

00:17:23.520 And I think

00:17:24.080 I still am waiting

00:17:25.040 for the real apology

00:17:26.480 to come in

00:17:27.100 and he just closes

00:17:28.780 his message

00:17:29.400 to the people

00:17:30.040 smiling.

00:17:31.000 And so if we're

00:17:32.220 going to minimize mixing,

00:17:33.220 you got to own up to that,

00:17:35.180 so I just want folks

00:17:36.560 to know that,

00:17:37.360 paid for our dinner

00:17:38.060 and we,

00:17:39.680 you know,

00:17:40.660 we had an early dinner

00:17:41.800 but it didn't matter.

00:17:43.040 I shouldn't have been there.

00:17:44.120 I should have turned

00:17:44.760 back around

00:17:45.460 and so when that happens,

00:17:47.840 you got to,

00:17:48.560 you pay the price

00:17:49.520 but you also own the mistake

00:17:51.160 and you don't ever

00:17:51.640 make it again

00:17:52.420 and you have my word

00:17:53.680 on that.

00:17:54.500 And you have my word,

00:17:55.520 okay,

00:17:55.800 you got to pay the price.

00:17:57.080 Obviously,

00:17:57.560 I don't,

00:17:57.960 I'm not going to pay

00:17:58.420 any price

00:17:58.900 and I'm not even

00:17:59.500 really admitting

00:17:59.960 I did anything wrong.

00:18:00.720 It was an early dinner,

00:18:01.620 you know,

00:18:01.820 it wasn't a late dinner

00:18:02.580 and I paid my way

00:18:03.340 by the way.

00:18:03.980 Hey,

00:18:04.420 if any of you ethics

00:18:05.800 researchers

00:18:06.920 are looking into this,

00:18:07.740 I paid for my dinner

00:18:08.480 even though there were,

00:18:09.360 there were definitely

00:18:09.880 lobbyists there

00:18:10.620 but anyway,

00:18:11.760 it's all a big misunderstanding.

00:18:13.400 You got to take ownership

00:18:14.440 which I will never ever do.

00:18:16.320 I'm Governor Newsom.

00:18:18.200 Goodbye.

00:18:19.060 Does he look sorry?

00:18:19.780 Does he sound sorry to you?

00:18:21.020 No,

00:18:21.420 not at all.

00:18:21.940 Did Chris Cuomo sound sorry?

00:18:23.560 No,

00:18:23.820 he didn't sound sorry at all

00:18:24.820 when he lied

00:18:25.840 about quarantining

00:18:26.840 with coronavirus

00:18:27.580 and he didn't actually quarantine.

00:18:28.940 He went outside

00:18:29.980 and then he lied about it

00:18:30.900 and then he filmed

00:18:31.460 this whole ridiculous charade

00:18:33.320 of him coming out

00:18:34.260 of his basement

00:18:34.840 for the first time.

00:18:35.760 He wasn't coming out

00:18:36.400 for the first time

00:18:37.040 in weeks

00:18:37.680 and seeing his family.

00:18:38.880 He had been

00:18:39.520 out and about

00:18:40.940 on Long Island

00:18:41.660 so much so

00:18:42.240 that he got into a fight

00:18:43.420 with a guy on the street.

00:18:45.160 Nancy Pelosi.

00:18:46.120 Did Nancy Pelosi apologize

00:18:47.220 when she got caught

00:18:48.360 going to that hairdresser

00:18:49.280 without a mask

00:18:50.020 in violation

00:18:51.000 of the lockdown orders?

00:18:52.920 No.

00:18:53.640 She actually blamed

00:18:54.340 the hairdresser.

00:18:55.000 Do you remember that?

00:18:56.560 He said,

00:18:56.840 oh,

00:18:57.000 this was a setup.

00:18:57.860 I shouldn't have,

00:18:58.400 I can't believe

00:18:58.940 she did that to me. 1.00

00:19:00.020 No,

00:19:00.280 lady,

00:19:00.600 you broke your own rules.

00:19:01.840 What do you mean her fault?

00:19:03.040 Own up to your mistake.

00:19:04.420 Dr. Fauci,

00:19:05.160 same thing,

00:19:05.440 even Dr. Fauci,

00:19:06.140 a little less so.

00:19:07.180 It was a little less publicized.

00:19:08.480 How many times

00:19:09.100 did that guy get caught

00:19:09.760 without a mask on?

00:19:11.200 After he told all of us

00:19:12.120 that we have to have

00:19:12.720 our masks on.

00:19:13.600 After he told all of us

00:19:14.600 that none of us

00:19:15.060 can have our masks on.

00:19:16.460 None of these guys

00:19:17.600 pay a price

00:19:18.600 for any of it.

00:19:20.420 Why?

00:19:20.740 Because conservatives

00:19:22.260 are not ruling the country.

00:19:25.540 Even when it's Trump,

00:19:26.960 even when the Republicans

00:19:28.140 have both houses of Congress

00:19:30.160 and the presidency,

00:19:32.200 conservatives are not

00:19:32.940 ruling this country.

00:19:34.740 Ever.

00:19:35.900 The left rules this country.

00:19:38.140 You know,

00:19:38.760 just,

00:19:39.740 just the social media example alone.

00:19:41.880 I don't even want to talk

00:19:43.200 too much about this

00:19:43.940 social media issue

00:19:45.060 because I feel nothing

00:19:46.220 comes of these,

00:19:47.040 of these hearings.

00:19:48.940 But during this hearing,

00:19:50.740 the left Democrats,

00:19:52.660 Maisie Hirono in particular,

00:19:54.160 Democratic senator from Hawaii,

00:19:55.520 had the audacity to say,

00:19:57.000 social media,

00:19:58.360 they're not,

00:19:58.680 they're not biased

00:19:59.420 against conservatives.

00:20:01.340 Actually,

00:20:02.840 actually,

00:20:03.380 in many ways,

00:20:04.420 they're biased

00:20:04.980 in favor of conservatives.

00:20:07.580 Zuckerberg,

00:20:08.220 for the second time

00:20:09.020 in three weeks,

00:20:10.140 you've been called

00:20:11.160 before the Senate committee,

00:20:12.740 some of my Republican colleagues

00:20:14.060 take it and beat you up 0.59

00:20:15.820 over claims

00:20:16.440 that your platforms

00:20:17.280 are supposedly biased

00:20:19.160 against conservatives.

00:20:19.960 The fact of the matter

00:20:21.400 is that these allegations

00:20:22.480 are completely baseless.

00:20:25.060 Everyone who has

00:20:25.820 systematically looked

00:20:26.940 at the content

00:20:28.000 of social media,

00:20:30.020 from Media Matters

00:20:31.620 to the Cato Institute

00:20:32.700 to former Republican

00:20:33.880 Senator John Kyle,

00:20:35.760 has found absolutely

00:20:36.900 no evidence

00:20:37.760 of anti-conservative bias.

00:20:39.560 No evidence whatsoever

00:20:41.160 of anti-conservative bias.

00:20:42.740 And what's my source?

00:20:43.820 Oh,

00:20:45.000 Media Matters,

00:20:46.160 a far-left

00:20:48.200 radical activist organization

00:20:50.120 that is watching my show

00:20:52.120 right now.

00:20:53.960 There's a guy,

00:20:55.380 he's,

00:20:55.600 I actually,

00:20:56.460 I have great affection

00:20:57.100 for this guy.

00:20:58.220 He watches,

00:20:58.760 he's like the number one

00:20:59.600 fan of the show.

00:21:00.540 He watches my show

00:21:02.300 every single day,

00:21:03.700 my friend Jason Campbell,

00:21:04.840 and then whenever

00:21:06.140 he can get like

00:21:06.900 a good clip

00:21:07.520 and try to sort of

00:21:09.020 make it seem like

00:21:10.020 I said something wrong,

00:21:11.540 he will break it out,

00:21:12.320 they'll do it,

00:21:12.620 and they'll try to get

00:21:13.200 conservatives fired.

00:21:14.160 That's what the organization

00:21:15.240 exists to do.

00:21:16.180 It is a radical

00:21:16.920 left organization.

00:21:18.520 And Maisie Hirono

00:21:19.560 is citing this organization

00:21:22.280 as though they're

00:21:23.420 unbiased fact checkers.

00:21:24.500 That's what they all do.

00:21:26.080 You know,

00:21:26.300 some are a little subtler

00:21:27.200 about it than Media Matters.

00:21:28.940 You know,

00:21:29.360 Media Matters,

00:21:29.840 to their credit,

00:21:31.160 at least they generally

00:21:32.440 acknowledge that

00:21:33.300 they're very far left wing.

00:21:34.560 But other fact checking

00:21:36.320 websites that always,

00:21:37.700 almost all the time

00:21:38.840 seem to cut

00:21:39.420 against conservatives

00:21:40.580 and twist what 0.54

00:21:42.060 conservatives are saying

00:21:42.800 and defend what

00:21:43.600 liberals are saying

00:21:44.820 and bend over backwards

00:21:46.340 to try to rewrite

00:21:47.280 what the liberals

00:21:47.780 are saying to defend it.

00:21:49.700 PolitiFact,

00:21:50.360 I'm thinking of,

00:21:51.300 Snopes,

00:21:51.760 even other organizations

00:21:54.360 that fact check

00:21:55.180 for big tech.

00:21:58.580 Those groups

00:21:59.700 will suppress a story.

00:22:01.600 Those groups,

00:22:02.540 according,

00:22:03.700 reported later,

00:22:04.280 of the Biden campaign

00:22:05.060 can throw a presidential election.

00:22:07.340 That's real power.

00:22:09.280 That's real power.

00:22:10.600 And the truth

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00:22:12.200 And then they have the gall

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00:22:14.760 and say that conservatives

00:22:15.900 don't care about the truth.

00:22:17.820 Barack Obama

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00:22:19.640 the other day.

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00:22:23.620 slander conservatives

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00:23:44.320 Barack Obama

00:23:45.180 says that

00:23:47.180 there is a truth decay

00:23:49.460 in this country

00:23:50.620 that,

00:23:51.280 that Republicans

00:23:52.020 and conservatives

00:23:52.860 and Trump in particular

00:23:53.880 are overthrowing

00:23:55.400 all these wonderful norms

00:23:56.880 in our republic.

00:23:58.700 We have gone through

00:24:00.120 a presidency

00:24:00.840 that disregarded

00:24:03.340 a whole host

00:24:04.360 of basic

00:24:05.940 institutional norms,

00:24:08.440 expectations we have

00:24:11.540 for a president

00:24:12.580 that have been observed

00:24:15.900 by Republicans

00:24:16.700 and Democrats

00:24:17.960 previously.

00:24:20.740 And maybe most importantly

00:24:22.680 and most disconcertingly

00:24:25.520 what we've seen

00:24:26.420 is what some people

00:24:28.300 call truth decay.

00:24:29.900 Something that's been

00:24:31.020 accelerated by

00:24:32.120 outgoing President Trump.

00:24:34.060 The sense that

00:24:35.080 not only

00:24:36.800 do we not have to

00:24:39.160 tell the truth

00:24:39.940 but the truth

00:24:41.980 doesn't even matter.

00:24:43.540 Pause right there.

00:24:45.940 Obviously,

00:24:47.060 the hypocrisy

00:24:48.360 is manifest.

00:24:51.240 Talk about

00:24:51.880 overturning norms

00:24:53.320 and things like that.

00:24:54.180 Talk about truth

00:24:54.640 doesn't matter.

00:24:55.320 Barack Obama,

00:24:55.940 actually one time

00:24:56.500 when PolitiFact

00:24:57.100 did attack the left,

00:24:59.000 PolitiFact pointed out

00:24:59.720 that the lie of the year

00:25:00.540 was Barack Obama

00:25:01.220 who said if you like your doctor

00:25:02.100 you can keep your doctor.

00:25:02.900 And then when he got caught

00:25:04.020 in that lie,

00:25:04.540 he said what?

00:25:04.920 You didn't think

00:25:05.260 you were going to get

00:25:05.600 all that insurance for free,

00:25:06.540 did you?

00:25:07.300 Totally cynical view

00:25:08.380 as though the truth

00:25:09.000 didn't matter,

00:25:09.580 just like he says.

00:25:10.960 When he said

00:25:11.680 that if I pushed

00:25:12.540 executive amnesty

00:25:13.420 that would be

00:25:15.020 unconstitutional

00:25:15.760 and then what's he do?

00:25:16.420 He pushes executive amnesty,

00:25:17.580 shrugs his shoulders,

00:25:18.160 yep,

00:25:18.680 truth doesn't really matter.

00:25:20.280 Totally cynical.

00:25:21.060 So obviously there's

00:25:21.520 hypocrisy there.

00:25:22.440 And if we think of the norms

00:25:23.720 being constitutional government,

00:25:25.560 Barack Obama broke

00:25:26.260 a lot of those norms,

00:25:27.180 didn't he?

00:25:28.140 He was legislating

00:25:29.640 with a pen and a phone

00:25:30.600 as they say.

00:25:31.540 He was flagrantly

00:25:33.480 violating the law.

00:25:34.880 He was subverting

00:25:36.460 the executive agencies

00:25:37.560 for his political purposes,

00:25:39.120 attacking his political enemies

00:25:40.140 through the IRS

00:25:40.780 and the DOJ.

00:25:41.760 Okay.

00:25:42.400 Spying on the Trump campaign.

00:25:44.880 However,

00:25:45.380 I actually want to defend

00:25:47.240 what Barack Obama

00:25:48.020 is saying here.

00:25:48.760 I think he actually

00:25:49.340 is making a good point.

00:25:50.840 It's a scary point,

00:25:51.600 but it's a good point.

00:25:52.880 Donald Trump

00:25:53.360 has overturned norms,

00:25:54.760 not the constitutional norms.

00:25:56.180 Those were overturned

00:25:57.120 long ago.

00:25:59.220 Donald Trump

00:25:59.680 is overturning

00:26:00.280 the norms

00:26:00.740 of the liberal order,

00:26:01.960 the progressive

00:26:02.460 administrative state,

00:26:03.720 which grows exponentially,

00:26:07.720 which makes the laws

00:26:09.500 without any accountability

00:26:10.440 to the people,

00:26:11.800 which continues

00:26:12.480 to move leftward

00:26:13.360 without any real resistance

00:26:14.580 whatsoever.

00:26:15.920 Yeah,

00:26:16.240 but politicians

00:26:17.040 in both parties

00:26:17.800 allowed this to happen.

00:26:18.860 Democrats and Republicans.

00:26:20.500 Bushes and Clintons

00:26:21.420 and Obamas

00:26:22.040 allowed this to happen.

00:26:24.240 Sure,

00:26:24.620 you can tinker

00:26:25.200 around the edges

00:26:25.780 of policy,

00:26:26.740 but you better

00:26:27.180 keep expanding

00:26:28.020 globalized trade

00:26:29.240 and you better

00:26:30.040 keep outsourcing jobs

00:26:31.160 and you better

00:26:31.860 keep the borders open

00:26:32.900 and you better

00:26:33.500 keep flooding the country

00:26:34.400 with mass migration

00:26:35.260 and you better

00:26:35.980 keep lowering wages

00:26:37.060 and you better

00:26:38.140 keep moving to the left

00:26:39.100 and you better

00:26:39.440 not put up

00:26:39.860 any real resistance

00:26:40.720 against the flood

00:26:41.740 of social radicalism

00:26:42.800 that has redefined

00:26:43.860 the fundamental

00:26:44.420 political institutions

00:26:45.320 in the country.

00:26:46.240 Better not do any of that

00:26:47.380 and if you are

00:26:48.740 going to even intimate

00:26:49.480 that you'll do that,

00:26:50.320 you better roll over

00:26:51.080 and lose

00:26:51.520 like a good Republican,

00:26:52.560 like Mitt Romney.

00:26:53.820 You better not answer

00:26:54.840 the media

00:26:55.240 like George W. Bush.

00:26:57.780 Yeah,

00:26:58.260 that's true.

00:26:58.840 There was this norm.

00:27:00.380 There was this consensus

00:27:01.480 and it was a rotten norm

00:27:03.220 and it was a rotten consensus

00:27:04.540 and it was terrible

00:27:05.580 for the country

00:27:06.260 and Trump,

00:27:08.100 whatever flaws

00:27:08.940 you think he has,

00:27:10.460 cracked that a little bit

00:27:11.560 it's very good

00:27:12.280 to break up those norms.

00:27:14.080 If you've got

00:27:14.900 constitutional norms

00:27:15.980 and then progressive norms

00:27:17.380 and those are at odds,

00:27:18.400 it's good to break up

00:27:19.600 the progressive norms.

00:27:22.700 That's some truth

00:27:23.600 but for Barack Obama

00:27:24.520 he talks about

00:27:24.980 the truth decay.

00:27:26.440 Barack Obama's

00:27:26.820 one of the most cynical

00:27:27.520 presidents in American history,

00:27:29.080 one of the least concerned

00:27:30.000 about the truth

00:27:30.480 in American history

00:27:31.220 but when he's even

00:27:32.620 talking about the truth,

00:27:33.480 what is he talking about?

00:27:34.520 He's talking about

00:27:35.140 a progressive view of history

00:27:36.220 where we're hurtling

00:27:37.700 toward utopia,

00:27:38.440 where you're on

00:27:38.760 the right side of history.

00:27:39.860 That's his view of the truth,

00:27:40.780 it's not objective truth

00:27:41.800 the way that you and I

00:27:43.160 would talk about it

00:27:43.900 but ideological truth,

00:27:46.780 truth within the system,

00:27:47.680 political correctness,

00:27:48.740 political correctness

00:27:49.360 which is,

00:27:50.240 it sounds similar to truth

00:27:51.960 but it's not,

00:27:52.500 it's actually opposed

00:27:53.400 to truth.

00:27:55.240 Absolutely,

00:27:55.840 we need to break that.

00:27:57.560 According to

00:27:58.380 those liberal norms,

00:27:59.640 conservatives lose everything

00:28:00.880 in culture

00:28:01.440 and politics.

00:28:03.080 Great example of this,

00:28:04.260 great example of the rottenness

00:28:05.780 of the liberal consensus

00:28:07.040 just came to us.

00:28:07.880 has to do with

00:28:09.380 love,

00:28:10.680 marriage,

00:28:11.460 and divorce. 0.75

00:28:13.400 You know,

00:28:13.620 marriages do not stick around

00:28:15.020 forever necessarily.

00:28:16.140 One thing though

00:28:16.700 that will never

00:28:17.400 completely lose value

00:28:18.280 would be a physical gold.

00:28:19.920 It's a little bit

00:28:20.300 of a rough segue

00:28:20.880 but I think the point

00:28:21.680 is still valid.

00:28:22.620 Physical gold,

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00:28:34.580 gold is expensive.

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00:30:45.140 You want the good news

00:30:58.560 or the bad news?

00:30:59.920 Let's start with the good news.

00:31:01.700 Good news is,

00:31:03.200 the divorce rate in America

00:31:05.160 is at a 50-year low.

00:31:07.640 Gosh,

00:31:08.140 isn't that great?

00:31:09.680 The divorce rate

00:31:10.960 is at a 50-year low.

00:31:11.880 I guess things are going pretty well.

00:31:13.120 I mean,

00:31:13.300 we're always worried

00:31:13.860 about family breakdowns

00:31:15.040 and social breakdown.

00:31:16.340 You know,

00:31:16.520 there were all those riots

00:31:17.200 and things in the streets.

00:31:18.400 It seems like a lot of kids

00:31:19.500 are growing up

00:31:20.020 in these broken homes

00:31:21.620 and a lot of kids

00:31:22.440 born out of wedlock.

00:31:23.420 I mean,

00:31:23.580 I have looked at all those statistics,

00:31:25.140 but I'm being told

00:31:26.640 that the divorce rate

00:31:27.600 is at a 50-year low.

00:31:28.460 That's great.

00:31:29.000 There are even some

00:31:29.760 kind of liberal conservatives,

00:31:31.280 you know,

00:31:31.400 the squishy conservative types

00:31:32.340 who said,

00:31:32.600 oh, this is so good.

00:31:33.900 I'm so glad

00:31:34.400 the divorce rate's low.

00:31:35.160 Okay.

00:31:35.700 You want to know the bad news?

00:31:37.900 Marriage rates

00:31:38.700 are at an all-time low.

00:31:41.960 They are as low

00:31:42.920 as they have ever been

00:31:44.080 since we've been recording

00:31:45.120 those numbers.

00:31:47.260 Oh, that's okay.

00:31:48.100 I'm glad the divorce rate's low,

00:31:50.060 but it's like that,

00:31:50.700 it's like that brilliant,

00:31:52.240 you know,

00:31:52.580 that brilliant guy meme

00:31:53.760 where you say,

00:31:54.300 well,

00:31:54.660 if you,

00:31:55.240 you kind of tap your forehead,

00:31:56.480 you say,

00:31:56.820 if you don't get married,

00:31:58.240 you can't get divorced.

00:31:59.560 I'm a very smart person.

00:32:00.960 There's the trick.

00:32:01.480 I don't care

00:32:03.500 if the divorce rate

00:32:04.500 is at a 50-year low.

00:32:05.540 If no one's getting married,

00:32:06.960 if the marriage rate

00:32:08.160 is lower somehow,

00:32:09.100 if it's falling

00:32:09.640 more precipitously,

00:32:10.940 then that's bad news.

00:32:13.340 You got to get married.

00:32:16.580 There are a lot

00:32:17.360 of these statistics

00:32:18.140 that we're told

00:32:18.760 are evidence

00:32:19.800 that the liberal consensus,

00:32:21.400 you know,

00:32:21.580 the kind of Obama,

00:32:22.740 Clinton,

00:32:23.400 Bush,

00:32:24.640 just neoliberalism,

00:32:26.340 the kind of left liberalism,

00:32:27.460 right liberalism,

00:32:28.220 you know,

00:32:28.340 it's all good.

00:32:29.040 The Uniparty,

00:32:30.540 some people call it,

00:32:31.340 that is so great,

00:32:32.400 you know,

00:32:32.720 and some examples of this

00:32:33.860 are people are living longer,

00:32:35.760 which is somewhat true,

00:32:37.940 though actually

00:32:38.480 the life expectancy

00:32:39.700 declined

00:32:40.700 in the United States

00:32:41.820 during the end

00:32:44.940 of the Obama administration,

00:32:46.340 kind of moving

00:32:46.840 into 2016,

00:32:48.340 that time.

00:32:49.460 It declined.

00:32:50.580 Why?

00:32:50.840 Because people were

00:32:51.400 killing themselves with, 0.81

00:32:52.360 well,

00:32:52.780 with guns

00:32:53.200 and other means of suicide

00:32:55.240 and also with drug overdoses.

00:32:58.040 Okay,

00:32:58.120 but generally,

00:32:58.780 okay,

00:32:58.860 people are living

00:32:59.380 a little bit longer.

00:33:00.080 It's relatively peaceful,

00:33:01.160 I guess.

00:33:01.820 I mean,

00:33:02.000 America's been at war

00:33:02.900 for,

00:33:03.780 oh yeah,

00:33:04.640 like my entire lifetime,

00:33:05.720 but I guess

00:33:06.120 it's relatively peaceful.

00:33:07.100 They're kind of

00:33:07.460 wars of empire

00:33:09.040 over in the Middle East

00:33:09.920 and in a lot of the wars,

00:33:11.700 you don't really know

00:33:12.160 why we're there.

00:33:12.760 Libya,

00:33:13.160 why did we go to Libya?

00:33:13.880 Why did Obama start

00:33:14.520 that war in Libya?

00:33:15.560 That's another norm

00:33:16.340 that Trump broke.

00:33:17.560 For my lifetime,

00:33:18.540 every president started a war

00:33:19.940 except for Trump.

00:33:22.100 Trump pulled us out of wars.

00:33:23.180 That's too bad.

00:33:24.400 It's awful

00:33:24.760 that he's breaking those norms.

00:33:26.780 This liberal consensus

00:33:27.720 that the system

00:33:29.280 sells to you

00:33:30.220 all the time,

00:33:31.480 the permissive state

00:33:32.480 doing whatever you want,

00:33:34.780 the administrative state,

00:33:37.480 the way that we are governed,

00:33:38.780 the empire wars abroad,

00:33:40.940 the outsourcing,

00:33:42.240 the mass migration.

00:33:43.240 We are in the midst

00:33:44.540 of a constant propaganda flood

00:33:46.820 telling us

00:33:47.580 why that's so great

00:33:48.480 and you've got to look past it

00:33:50.000 because all the headlines say

00:33:51.140 something to the effect of,

00:33:52.780 the equivalent of,

00:33:53.840 the divorce rate has fallen,

00:33:54.680 but what you've got to look at

00:33:55.600 and realize,

00:33:56.000 oh, marriage has fallen as well.

00:33:57.720 Even as people,

00:33:58.380 let's say people have

00:33:58.920 a little bit more money,

00:33:59.700 fine,

00:34:00.160 but if they're killing themselves

00:34:01.140 at higher rates,

00:34:01.980 if they're overdosing

00:34:02.900 on drugs at higher rates,

00:34:03.940 something's gone rotten.

00:34:06.120 The West has lost its soul.

00:34:07.420 You know,

00:34:07.520 I'm reading this book now

00:34:08.960 by Whitaker Chambers

00:34:09.920 who was an ex-communist

00:34:11.180 and he became a Christian.

00:34:12.580 This was one of the books

00:34:13.380 that changed Ronald Reagan's life.

00:34:15.060 It's a very important book

00:34:16.400 in American conservative politics

00:34:17.940 and he points out

00:34:19.340 that it did make sense.

00:34:21.100 There is a reason

00:34:21.820 that the intellectuals

00:34:23.080 were all communists

00:34:24.080 and especially

00:34:24.680 in the 30s and 40s.

00:34:27.080 Why were they all communists?

00:34:27.920 Because they recognized

00:34:28.760 that something really was rotten

00:34:30.020 in modernity

00:34:31.520 and they obviously came

00:34:32.800 to a much more rotten answer

00:34:34.180 which was communism,

00:34:34.960 but they were taking seriously

00:34:36.320 these problems of history,

00:34:38.080 these social problems

00:34:39.000 that had come out of modernity

00:34:40.180 and we're still,

00:34:42.960 communism obviously was failed

00:34:44.120 to use their terms.

00:34:44.920 It's now on the dustbin of history,

00:34:47.060 but on the ash heap of history,

00:34:49.100 but the problems remain.

00:34:50.320 Problems remain.

00:34:53.920 According to these norms,

00:34:56.440 this election was great.

00:34:57.760 You got to stay home, right?

00:34:58.800 There's no fraud.

00:34:59.460 There's no fraud whatsoever.

00:35:00.600 That's great.

00:35:00.960 You mail in your ballot.

00:35:02.540 We're getting evidence

00:35:03.540 of voter fraud every single day,

00:35:04.760 not just in Pennsylvania,

00:35:05.840 not just in Georgia,

00:35:06.680 not just in Michigan,

00:35:07.880 California even, California.

00:35:09.380 And this is some voter fraud

00:35:11.100 where I saw something like this.

00:35:15.220 I don't know if this instance

00:35:16.760 in particular was fraud,

00:35:17.920 but the mechanism

00:35:20.180 by which these democratic operatives

00:35:22.560 were working clearly

00:35:23.340 was the same mechanism

00:35:24.860 by which fraud could be committed.

00:35:26.800 Two individuals in California

00:35:28.160 have been charged

00:35:28.660 with multiple counts

00:35:29.400 of voter fraud

00:35:30.000 after submitting fraudulent

00:35:31.300 voter registration applications

00:35:32.760 on behalf of homeless people.

00:35:34.640 This is according

00:35:35.020 to the LA County

00:35:35.980 District Attorney's Office.

00:35:37.940 Carlos Antonio de Bourbon Montenegro,

00:35:40.020 what a name,

00:35:40.940 and Marcos Raul Aravalo

00:35:43.120 were charged

00:35:43.840 in a 41 count criminal complaint

00:35:45.580 filed last week.

00:35:46.340 These are not little kids, by the way.

00:35:47.780 These are not, you know,

00:35:49.220 some 18-year-old activist

00:35:50.460 hired by the Democratic Party.

00:35:52.280 This is a 53-year-old guy

00:35:53.420 and a 34-year-old guy.

00:35:55.640 These are older people, 1.00

00:35:57.000 more established people.

00:35:58.080 And what they would do

00:35:58.720 is they'd go around

00:35:59.340 to the homeless camps

00:36:00.200 that have proliferated

00:36:01.700 all around Los Angeles.

00:36:02.740 Even in the nice neighborhoods,

00:36:03.980 they're all over the place,

00:36:04.980 shanty towns and full parks

00:36:06.440 because of the failed governors

00:36:08.440 and the failed mayors there.

00:36:10.140 And they would go

00:36:10.940 and they would get all these guys

00:36:13.020 to register to vote.

00:36:13.880 Do you think these homeless guys

00:36:16.560 necessarily wanted

00:36:18.000 to go register to vote?

00:36:19.040 Do you think they were looking,

00:36:20.280 where can I exercise my right?

00:36:21.820 No, I think a lot of them

00:36:23.060 were extraordinarily

00:36:24.220 strung out on drugs.

00:36:26.140 A lot of them have

00:36:26.740 a lot of mental problems.

00:36:28.280 A lot of them are,

00:36:29.640 they're living on the street

00:36:30.600 because they're not capable

00:36:31.860 of living on their own.

00:36:33.020 And there's nothing compassionate,

00:36:34.640 therefore,

00:36:34.920 about letting them live on the street.

00:36:36.340 No one's trying to get them help.

00:36:37.860 These left-wing operatives

00:36:38.880 are not going out there

00:36:39.660 and saying,

00:36:40.040 hey, come into my house.

00:36:41.820 Hey, let's get you

00:36:42.700 to a psychiatric hospital.

00:36:44.120 Hey, no,

00:36:44.660 they're not doing any of that.

00:36:45.400 They're saying,

00:36:45.680 hey, you,

00:36:46.560 I can exploit you for a vote.

00:36:47.800 That's what we're going to do.

00:36:48.680 And they did that.

00:36:50.040 Montenegro,

00:36:51.180 what a name.

00:36:51.900 That guy,

00:36:52.560 what's his full name?

00:36:53.140 Carlos Antonio de Bourbon Montenegro.

00:36:54.720 It's like a movie villain.

00:36:57.160 Montenegro.

00:36:57.520 He submitted over 8,000

00:36:59.520 fraudulent voter registration applications

00:37:01.540 between July and October

00:37:02.840 of this year.

00:37:03.600 8,000.

00:37:05.980 When we talk about

00:37:06.800 the scale of election fraud

00:37:08.400 that's possible here

00:37:09.340 in the 2020 election,

00:37:11.140 people say,

00:37:12.080 oh, it's hard to invalidate ballots.

00:37:13.320 Fraud doesn't happen that much.

00:37:14.360 Yeah, we've never had

00:37:15.260 an election like this.

00:37:17.460 Ever.

00:37:18.520 We've never had widespread

00:37:19.320 unsolicited mail-in ballots

00:37:20.580 like this.

00:37:23.000 But those are the norms.

00:37:24.560 Democrats go out.

00:37:25.880 They harvest ballots.

00:37:26.960 We know that they do that.

00:37:28.140 We have motor voter laws.

00:37:29.820 People who are not eligible

00:37:30.960 to vote sneak in.

00:37:31.780 They vote anyway.

00:37:32.400 We know that.

00:37:33.840 They stuff the ballot boxes.

00:37:35.480 I don't know if they did

00:37:36.100 in this election.

00:37:37.320 Maybe they did.

00:37:37.920 We know they have

00:37:38.600 many years past.

00:37:41.180 Those are the norms.

00:37:42.180 And then they win.

00:37:43.920 And now with universal mail-ins,

00:37:45.140 they're going to keep

00:37:45.500 counting the votes

00:37:46.000 until they win

00:37:46.480 in just about every election.

00:37:49.840 Now, when you break

00:37:50.820 those liberal norms,

00:37:51.800 when you go back

00:37:52.300 to more of the constitutional norms,

00:37:53.740 turns out we win.

00:37:55.160 You can see this

00:37:55.900 in the House races from 2020.

00:37:58.360 According to

00:37:59.020 the Cook Political Report,

00:38:00.200 listed 27 House races

00:38:01.500 as toss-ups.

00:38:02.760 27.

00:38:03.900 They didn't know

00:38:04.400 which way it was going to go

00:38:05.120 on election night.

00:38:05.700 How many of those

00:38:07.060 do you think Republicans won?

00:38:09.800 What do you think?

00:38:10.400 10?

00:38:11.200 Maybe.

00:38:11.880 I don't know.

00:38:12.120 We were told it's blue waves.

00:38:13.000 They probably should have won zero, right?

00:38:14.340 No.

00:38:14.660 How many did they win?

00:38:15.240 10, 15, 18, 20?

00:38:17.800 27.

00:38:18.220 That's how many.

00:38:18.720 They won all of them.

00:38:20.800 The polling firms say,

00:38:21.920 oh, it's a toss-up.

00:38:22.720 It's not a toss-up.

00:38:23.720 Republicans won all of them.

00:38:25.400 They went in

00:38:26.040 and they fought.

00:38:27.800 Burgess Owens.

00:38:29.380 You all know Burgess Owens.

00:38:31.100 He just won

00:38:31.760 a hotly contested race

00:38:33.100 in Utah.

00:38:34.520 He was trailing the incumbent

00:38:35.940 by 11% in final polling

00:38:37.680 and the nonpartisan

00:38:39.900 Cook Political Report

00:38:41.140 called it a toss-up

00:38:43.440 and then he won.

00:38:45.760 The system that we were told

00:38:47.200 that's constantly pumping propaganda

00:38:49.020 to support itself

00:38:50.720 is separated from reality.

00:38:54.340 Talk about truth decay.

00:38:56.560 Okay?

00:38:56.880 It's,

00:38:57.320 we were talking yesterday

00:38:58.160 about alternate universes.

00:38:59.380 It is an alternate universe

00:39:00.320 and that is the permanent state.

00:39:02.100 And when a state such as that,

00:39:05.240 when elites such as that

00:39:06.360 become so self-serving,

00:39:08.860 you saw it in Newsom's apology,

00:39:11.060 you see it in Jack Dorsey's apology,

00:39:12.260 when they're just out

00:39:13.300 helping themselves,

00:39:14.240 disrearing the rules,

00:39:15.280 people start to distrust the system.

00:39:16.980 Actually,

00:39:17.400 regardless of your ideological view,

00:39:19.080 left or right or partisan,

00:39:20.400 you start to see that system cracking up.

00:39:22.480 That is what's happening right now.

00:39:23.900 That's not the people's fault.

00:39:24.980 That's the fault of the people

00:39:25.880 running the system.

00:39:27.140 You don't even need to look

00:39:29.740 in America for this.

00:39:30.760 Macron,

00:39:31.220 the leader of France,

00:39:32.580 pointed this out.

00:39:33.820 He said that the left in America

00:39:35.880 is burying American founding principles.

00:39:40.780 That the norms have been,

00:39:42.040 that the constitutional norms

00:39:42.960 have been broken.

00:39:43.520 The left has broken them.

00:39:46.000 Macron said that the US mainstream media

00:39:48.520 are legitimizing violence

00:39:50.980 and that this is a sign

00:39:53.220 that the nation's founding principles

00:39:54.880 have been lost.

00:39:55.980 And that is true.

00:39:57.100 Of course it's true.

00:39:58.660 The left,

00:39:59.420 the media,

00:39:59.940 and New York Times in particular,

00:40:02.480 legitimize the violence,

00:40:03.800 the riots,

00:40:04.560 mostly peaceful protests

00:40:05.680 over the summer,

00:40:06.440 legitimize the arson,

00:40:07.460 legitimize the looting,

00:40:08.400 and they're defending

00:40:09.180 Islamist terror attacks in France.

00:40:11.420 They're saying,

00:40:11.800 well,

00:40:11.900 we need to understand it.

00:40:12.820 Why is this happening?

00:40:13.860 Why?

00:40:14.360 They're not,

00:40:14.880 they're not defending

00:40:16.100 the founding principles

00:40:16.980 because they're not governed

00:40:18.020 under those founding principles.

00:40:19.220 Progressives have told us

00:40:19.920 for a hundred years.

00:40:20.940 They think the founding principles

00:40:21.900 are bunk.

00:40:22.440 They think the founding system

00:40:23.260 of government is bunk.

00:40:24.420 They want a new one

00:40:25.420 and they're going to create it.

00:40:28.220 They're kicking

00:40:28.920 great American books

00:40:30.020 out of schools.

00:40:31.780 I kid you not,

00:40:32.320 we were talking yesterday

00:40:33.020 about the book burning

00:40:33.780 at Target,

00:40:35.360 that you have UC Berkeley professors,

00:40:37.700 English professors,

00:40:38.800 saying that we need

00:40:39.320 to actually burn books

00:40:40.860 that suggest

00:40:41.920 that we shouldn't

00:40:42.460 castrate children

00:40:43.280 and trans the kids.

00:40:44.520 Well,

00:40:45.200 now a California school district

00:40:47.360 in LA County

00:40:48.100 is removing

00:40:49.600 Huckleberry Finn

00:40:51.220 to kill a mockingbird

00:40:53.160 and of mice and men

00:40:55.280 from their curriculum.

00:40:56.540 Why?

00:40:56.920 They're removing it

00:40:57.540 because they say

00:40:58.200 it's racist or something.

00:41:00.660 They say it's oppressive.

00:41:02.300 They say it's part

00:41:02.980 of an oppressive past.

00:41:04.220 These are some of the greatest works

00:41:05.300 of American literature.

00:41:07.400 Certainly the most important works

00:41:08.640 of American literature

00:41:09.340 for young adults to read

00:41:10.420 being removed

00:41:12.480 from the curriculum.

00:41:14.320 We've been predicting

00:41:14.960 this for years.

00:41:15.560 The left told us,

00:41:16.120 oh, you're crazy,

00:41:16.700 you're hysterical. 0.55

00:41:17.640 It's happening.

00:41:19.740 Why is it happening?

00:41:20.740 In part, it's happening

00:41:21.560 because the left,

00:41:22.940 because the right rather,

00:41:24.080 refuses to articulate

00:41:24.920 a standard.

00:41:26.540 When we hear the media

00:41:28.080 talking about the erosion

00:41:28.940 of norms and standards,

00:41:30.840 when we hear about

00:41:31.360 political correctness,

00:41:32.080 which poses a new standard,

00:41:33.900 the right gets backed

00:41:35.200 into a corner

00:41:35.840 where we say,

00:41:36.560 hey, I'm against censorship.

00:41:38.000 I'm for free speech.

00:41:39.060 We use bumper stickers

00:41:40.180 and slogans.

00:41:41.420 But we fail

00:41:42.040 to articulate

00:41:42.600 a standard ourselves.

00:41:44.640 We want to be inclusive.

00:41:46.200 So we say,

00:41:46.520 oh, you can add your books

00:41:47.540 to the curriculum.

00:41:48.140 You can wear

00:41:48.500 whatever you want to wear.

00:41:49.560 The men can wear dresses,

00:41:50.540 whatever.

00:41:52.420 But we just want

00:41:53.520 to have our books too.

00:41:54.380 The problem with this is,

00:41:56.120 it doesn't persuade anybody.

00:41:57.840 And in the case of education,

00:41:59.480 education is by definition

00:42:01.300 coercive and exclusive.

00:42:03.880 There's only so many weeks

00:42:05.020 in the semester.

00:42:05.900 There's only so many books

00:42:07.100 you can read.

00:42:08.960 And if you start adding in

00:42:10.380 some crazy gender theory book 1.00

00:42:12.120 or some crazy

00:42:12.860 Ibram Kendi book

00:42:14.280 about, you know,

00:42:14.920 how awful white people are

00:42:16.040 and we're a white supremacist

00:42:16.860 country or whatever,

00:42:18.300 you have to remove a book.

00:42:20.940 And the process you're seeing

00:42:22.320 playing out in these schools

00:42:23.120 is, okay,

00:42:23.860 we're going to remove

00:42:24.460 Huck Finn.

00:42:24.980 We're going to remove

00:42:25.480 To Kill a Mockingbird.

00:42:26.260 We're going to remove

00:42:26.840 Of Mice and Men.

00:42:28.720 It has nothing to do

00:42:29.460 with the intrinsic quality

00:42:30.400 of these books,

00:42:31.020 all of which are much better

00:42:32.180 than anything

00:42:32.860 Ibram Kendi

00:42:33.820 has ever thought

00:42:34.520 or said in his entire life.

00:42:35.820 But it's because

00:42:38.060 those books

00:42:39.560 uphold a certain standard

00:42:41.040 and a certain culture

00:42:41.920 and they come in a certain

00:42:42.980 Western tradition

00:42:43.800 and the left wants

00:42:45.640 to get rid of that.

00:42:46.220 We need to offer a standard.

00:42:47.240 We need to say,

00:42:47.760 no, you can't add

00:42:48.540 your stupid book. 0.84

00:42:50.140 Your book of lower quality

00:42:52.260 cannot come into the curriculum

00:42:53.500 because it will make

00:42:54.240 our kids dumber

00:42:54.940 and we need to have

00:42:56.080 good books in the curriculum

00:42:57.080 and we should only teach

00:42:58.360 good books

00:42:58.920 and not bad books

00:43:00.000 because there's only

00:43:00.540 so much time

00:43:01.200 and I want my kids

00:43:02.220 to be smart

00:43:02.700 and I want your kids

00:43:03.340 to be smart.

00:43:03.820 And so we got to read

00:43:05.500 the good books

00:43:06.180 that make you smart.

00:43:08.480 Getting back to that point

00:43:09.500 yesterday,

00:43:10.140 Candace's point

00:43:10.720 about men wearing dresses,

00:43:11.880 Harry Styles,

00:43:12.760 we need to be able to say,

00:43:13.700 no, men shouldn't wear dresses. 0.95

00:43:15.500 When men do wear dresses, 0.98

00:43:16.840 you know,

00:43:17.300 people kept posting

00:43:18.160 this image of Rudy Giuliani.

00:43:19.860 He went on Saturday Night Live

00:43:20.720 one time

00:43:21.080 and he wore drag

00:43:21.820 and Donald Trump

00:43:23.000 was actually in the sketch.

00:43:24.360 They say, what?

00:43:24.700 You didn't attack Rudy Giuliani.

00:43:26.160 No, Rudy Giuliani

00:43:27.040 was putting on

00:43:28.420 a comedic performance.

00:43:30.520 Rudy Giuliani was not saying

00:43:31.520 it is perfectly normal

00:43:32.460 for a man to wear a dress.

00:43:33.400 He was saying the opposite.

00:43:34.700 He was saying,

00:43:35.160 it's completely absurd

00:43:35.980 for a man to wear a dress.

00:43:37.120 That's why it's

00:43:37.620 a comedic performance.

00:43:39.660 That's why drag is funny. 0.98

00:43:41.700 It's funny because it's wrong.

00:43:43.680 Some people wrote in yesterday

00:43:44.560 and said,

00:43:44.800 Michael, drag's not funny at all. 1.00

00:43:46.400 It's wrong.

00:43:47.160 It's an abomination.

00:43:48.220 Sure, I guess.

00:43:49.040 Right.

00:43:49.680 But that's why it's funny.

00:43:52.040 There is such a thing

00:43:53.500 as dark humor.

00:43:55.060 There is such a thing.

00:43:56.520 Incongruity is necessarily wrong,

00:43:58.400 right?

00:43:59.220 But it's,

00:44:00.140 that's why it's funny.

00:44:01.180 It's because it doesn't balance.

00:44:02.140 It doesn't make sense.

00:44:03.000 It isn't quite right.

00:44:04.920 Conservatives need to be able to say,

00:44:05.860 no, hey men,

00:44:06.480 don't wear dresses.

00:44:08.140 But come on,

00:44:08.840 it doesn't bother you.

00:44:09.600 It doesn't affect your culture.

00:44:10.440 Yes, it does.

00:44:11.560 Don't wear dresses.

00:44:12.600 Conservatives,

00:44:13.000 frankly,

00:44:13.300 need to be able to say,

00:44:14.100 don't wear the mask.

00:44:16.480 Only in narrow,

00:44:17.740 narrow,

00:44:18.060 narrow circumstances

00:44:18.840 should you wear the mask

00:44:19.760 or maybe not even then.

00:44:21.760 Now,

00:44:22.040 but you could say,

00:44:22.880 well, Michael,

00:44:23.380 no,

00:44:23.680 look,

00:44:24.040 I'm a conservative.

00:44:24.740 I just want people to,

00:44:25.660 if you want to wear the mask,

00:44:26.580 you can.

00:44:26.940 And if you want to wear a dress,

00:44:27.900 you can.

00:44:28.160 And if you want to take

00:44:29.260 To Kill a Mockingbird

00:44:29.980 off your curriculum,

00:44:31.480 you can.

00:44:31.940 And we can all just do

00:44:32.920 whatever we want.

00:44:33.540 No,

00:44:33.840 we can't.

00:44:34.600 People ask me this all the time

00:44:35.820 since I've been on this hobby horse

00:44:37.660 about the virus

00:44:38.280 since the beginning.

00:44:39.600 They say,

00:44:40.040 ah,

00:44:40.280 you know,

00:44:40.560 Michael,

00:44:41.300 why do the masks

00:44:43.200 have to be political?

00:44:45.200 Or they'll say it about

00:44:46.020 the dresses with Candace.

00:44:47.160 Why does a man wearing a dress, 0.90

00:44:49.000 he's an actor or something,

00:44:50.160 he's a singer,

00:44:51.540 he's wearing a dress,

00:44:52.220 who cares?

00:44:52.860 Why does that have to be political?

00:44:54.320 The reason it has to be political

00:44:57.740 is because masks,

00:45:00.260 public masking,

00:45:01.060 everybody in America

00:45:01.900 just wearing masks

00:45:03.040 like banditos across their face,

00:45:05.020 that is a public matter.

00:45:07.580 And public matters

00:45:08.660 are by definition political.

00:45:10.800 That's just what political means.

00:45:12.180 It just means public.

00:45:13.160 What we all do

00:45:13.960 in public together.

00:45:15.820 Men wearing dresses, 0.70

00:45:16.680 why does that have to be political?

00:45:17.680 Because it's happening in public.

00:45:19.540 And that is therefore political.

00:45:21.100 And it affects the culture,

00:45:22.000 it affects the way

00:45:22.400 we view ourselves,

00:45:23.120 it affects the norms of society.

00:45:24.740 Every society

00:45:25.180 is going to have some norms.

00:45:26.480 And the left

00:45:26.960 has clobbered the norms.

00:45:28.320 They've transformed the norms.

00:45:29.640 And conservatives

00:45:30.120 don't have the spine

00:45:31.140 to go out and say,

00:45:32.080 no, actually,

00:45:32.800 we should,

00:45:33.820 I think we should have

00:45:34.480 other standards.

00:45:36.120 I think we should,

00:45:36.620 we should do,

00:45:37.000 I think we should have,

00:45:38.160 we should have a curriculum

00:45:39.080 in schools,

00:45:40.220 but it should have good books,

00:45:41.020 not bad books.

00:45:41.560 I do think men

00:45:42.080 should wear clothing,

00:45:42.840 but they should wear good clothing,

00:45:43.740 not bad clothing.

00:45:44.660 Appropriate clothing,

00:45:45.320 not inappropriate clothing.

00:45:47.020 We should use language.

00:45:48.340 We should use good,

00:45:49.420 respectful,

00:45:50.560 serious,

00:45:51.300 concise,

00:45:51.840 precise language,

00:45:52.480 not euphemistic,

00:45:54.040 dishonest language

00:45:54.720 like political correctness.

00:45:57.860 We should have

00:45:58.860 media platforms,

00:46:00.320 but they should tell the truth.

00:46:01.780 They shouldn't tell lies.

00:46:03.080 We should have

00:46:03.500 technology platforms

00:46:04.560 that allow you to communicate.

00:46:05.920 Don't suppress communication.

00:46:07.700 Have a standard.

00:46:10.020 Before we go,

00:46:10.640 I have to get to this one book.

00:46:11.820 We were talking about books.

00:46:12.680 I can't,

00:46:14.120 I read the book review

00:46:15.100 of Barack Obama's

00:46:16.780 new memoir.

00:46:17.520 This is called

00:46:19.180 A Promised Land.

00:46:21.340 Barack Obama,

00:46:22.260 A Promised Land.

00:46:23.520 This is his third memoir,

00:46:25.580 his third book

00:46:26.480 about his favorite subject.

00:46:28.560 He wrote his first memoir,

00:46:30.340 I think,

00:46:30.640 in his 20s.

00:46:32.000 He wrote his next memoir,

00:46:33.480 what,

00:46:33.600 in his 30s?

00:46:34.700 Now he's got

00:46:35.500 a third memoir,

00:46:37.260 third book

00:46:37.680 about his favorite subject.

00:46:38.580 Here's the book review

00:46:39.880 in the New York Times.

00:46:40.940 A Promised Land

00:46:41.720 by Barack Obama.

00:46:43.360 Barack Obama

00:46:44.180 is as fine a writer

00:46:45.400 as they come.

00:46:47.500 If I were Twitter right now,

00:46:49.060 I would say,

00:46:49.500 this claim is disputed.

00:46:51.260 Fact check.

00:46:52.340 Warning.

00:46:53.380 Do not,

00:46:54.040 Barack Obama's as fine

00:46:55.020 a writer as they come?

00:46:56.240 No.

00:46:57.340 His first book actually

00:46:58.240 was fairly well written.

00:47:00.340 But,

00:47:00.640 who knows,

00:47:01.200 did he write that book?

00:47:02.120 Who knows?

00:47:03.440 There are always rumors.

00:47:04.440 Did he hire a ghost writer?

00:47:05.360 I don't know.

00:47:05.700 Maybe he wrote the book.

00:47:06.400 Okay.

00:47:06.880 Even if he did write that book,

00:47:08.560 there are finer writers.

00:47:10.520 It is not merely

00:47:11.200 that this book avoids

00:47:12.120 being ponderous

00:47:13.040 as might be expected.

00:47:14.260 Even forgiven

00:47:15.840 of a hefty memoir.

00:47:17.600 But that it is nearly

00:47:18.260 always pleasurable to read.

00:47:20.640 Sentence by sentence.

00:47:22.180 The prose gorgeous in places.

00:47:24.200 The detail granular and vivid.

00:47:27.100 The book is like 750 pages.

00:47:30.320 And I imagine

00:47:30.920 the one true thing

00:47:31.640 in this sentence

00:47:32.140 is the book is probably

00:47:32.940 not as ponderous

00:47:33.700 as this pretentious

00:47:34.440 and ridiculous review.

00:47:36.380 From Southeast Asia

00:47:37.340 to a forgotten school

00:47:38.320 in South Carolina,

00:47:39.320 he evokes the sense of place

00:47:40.580 with a light

00:47:41.200 but sure hand.

00:47:42.740 This is the first

00:47:43.400 of two volumes.

00:47:44.580 Okay.

00:47:44.980 Well, that's going to be

00:47:45.340 a long one.

00:47:46.460 Starts early in his life

00:47:47.620 charting his initial

00:47:48.600 political campaigns.

00:47:50.380 Blah, blah, blah.

00:47:51.200 His focus is more political

00:47:52.720 than personal.

00:47:53.960 But when he does write

00:47:54.700 about his family,

00:47:56.120 it is with a beauty

00:47:58.120 close to nostalgia.

00:47:59.400 Okay.

00:47:59.560 I can't even read anymore.

00:48:01.460 This is a New York Times review

00:48:02.320 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

00:48:04.240 who is the author

00:48:05.460 of We Should All Be Feminists 1.00

00:48:06.800 and a Feminist Manifesto

00:48:08.700 and 15 Suggestions.

00:48:12.100 I mean,

00:48:12.800 I haven't read the book yet

00:48:13.900 so I don't want to judge it.

00:48:14.740 Something tells me

00:48:15.260 it's not one of the great books.

00:48:17.580 But this is the standard, right?

00:48:19.260 This is the standard

00:48:20.060 that the media

00:48:21.600 are going to judge by.

00:48:23.300 This is what we are told

00:48:24.300 is good.

00:48:25.320 All cultures

00:48:26.140 have some sense

00:48:27.900 of the good.

00:48:28.620 They have something

00:48:29.020 that they are aiming toward.

00:48:30.460 They have things

00:48:30.900 that they exalt.

00:48:31.900 They have things

00:48:32.360 that they hold sacred.

00:48:33.260 You know,

00:48:34.600 we were told the other day

00:48:35.900 that America

00:48:36.840 worships whiteness

00:48:37.840 by that crazy Senate

00:48:38.800 candidate in Georgia.

00:48:39.980 And that of course

00:48:40.380 is not true.

00:48:42.000 Actually,

00:48:42.300 we only have one taboo word

00:48:43.600 in America

00:48:44.100 and the taboo word

00:48:44.980 is not cracker or honky, right?

00:48:46.360 It's not the C word

00:48:47.500 or the H word.

00:48:48.160 It's the N word.

00:48:49.400 We actually take these racial matters

00:48:50.500 very seriously in America

00:48:51.440 and we have a sort of

00:48:52.100 sacred taboo

00:48:52.960 in favor of,

00:48:55.520 you know,

00:48:56.200 being kind

00:48:56.940 and welcoming

00:48:57.400 and inclusive

00:48:57.900 toward historically oppressed groups

00:49:00.120 and racial minorities.

00:49:01.840 Okay.

00:49:02.080 There is a cultural taboo.

00:49:07.340 What are we pointing toward

00:49:08.480 as good?

00:49:08.960 What we're pointing toward

00:49:09.560 as good here

00:49:10.160 is liberalism,

00:49:12.600 progressivism,

00:49:14.180 leftism.

00:49:15.800 Those are the books

00:49:16.560 we have to read.

00:49:17.220 You got to kick out

00:49:17.720 the traditional books.

00:49:19.480 We're told it's good

00:49:20.420 to dress in a way

00:49:21.620 that is progressive

00:49:22.280 and transgressive,

00:49:23.460 not traditional

00:49:24.440 and conservative.

00:49:25.420 If conservatives

00:49:26.380 do not grow a spine

00:49:29.040 and articulate

00:49:30.080 their own standards,

00:49:31.520 we are going to

00:49:33.500 continue down this path

00:49:35.180 and we will have norms

00:49:36.080 and we will have normalcy

00:49:37.020 and the left

00:49:37.740 might even stop rioting

00:49:38.780 if they get their way

00:49:39.540 in elections,

00:49:40.120 however they get their way

00:49:41.080 and the media

00:49:41.760 will start being nice

00:49:42.680 because they change

00:49:43.420 their coverage

00:49:43.920 based on who they're covering

00:49:45.060 and we will continue

00:49:46.240 to have this permanent state,

00:49:48.660 this uniparty

00:49:49.620 that allows our country

00:49:51.020 to degrade

00:49:51.660 and degrade

00:49:52.260 and degrade

00:49:52.780 and decay

00:49:53.160 until we've lost it completely.

00:49:55.500 So we have to keep fighting.

00:49:56.740 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:49:57.320 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 18, 2020

Ep. 648 - The Permanent State

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