The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 66 - Watch Trump’s Fingers

00:00:00.000 Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor both fired for weird sex stuff, Joe Scarborough accused of murder, Muslim videos, showdown at the CFPB, there is so much news to talk about.

00:00:10.800 But isn't it strange that nobody is talking about the tax reform bill passing the Budget Committee yesterday?

00:00:16.240 I wonder why that is. We will analyze Donald Trump's slick fingers.

00:00:20.620 Then, Philip Wegman of The Washington Examiner and Paul Bois of The Daily Wire joined the panel of deplorables to discuss how we're finally winning the war on Christmas.

00:00:30.220 A descendant of Pocahontas smacks down Elizabeth Warren and today's spate of Democrat sex scandals. 1.00

00:00:36.640 Just a reminder, every single day now, there have been entirely new Democrat sex scandals.

00:00:41.860 I am Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:50.620 There is so much to talk about. We will get to all of the weird sex stuff and the schadenfreude, I promise.

00:00:57.620 But I want to talk a little bit first about Donald Trump, the prestidigitator. 0.90

00:01:02.760 The prestidigitator. He's got slick fingers.

00:01:04.860 The actual story, the one that matters for public policy right now, is tax reform.

00:01:09.440 We have been hearing for months, by the way, from never-Trump Republicans that tax reform is dead on arrival.

00:01:14.920 It's impossible. We're not going to get it.

00:01:16.380 The left, predictably, has been harping on how awful the proposal is, how it's only going to benefit rich people.

00:01:22.340 It's only going to cut their taxes because, obviously, rich people are the only ones who pay taxes. 0.64

00:01:26.800 But, actually, the bill is quite different than all that.

00:01:29.560 Trump has been relatively mum on tax reform.

00:01:32.540 He talks about it here and there. Why is that?

00:01:34.540 Of his 31 latest tweets, three of them mentioned tax cuts.

00:01:39.740 And, by the way, only to acknowledge that it passed the committee or to start tying the tax cuts to the good economic news.

00:01:45.080 Seven tweets talked about how great the economy is doing.

00:01:48.360 One tweet mentioned the NFL.

00:01:49.920 Three mentioned Melania, Christmas, or Melania and Christmas.

00:01:53.260 Two of them mentioned Matt Lauer.

00:01:55.120 Almost as many tweets mentioned Matt Lauer as his legislative agenda. 0.78

00:01:58.660 Three showed videos of Muslims doing terrible things.

00:02:01.860 That's the same number who's talking about tax cuts.

00:02:03.700 Three talked about fake news.

00:02:05.280 One suggested that Joe Scarborough murdered a staffer.

00:02:08.200 One of them told his followers to look into NBC chairman Andy Lack's past.

00:02:12.680 Why is Trump tweeting about these things?

00:02:14.320 It's because he's a prestidigitator.

00:02:16.600 If you don't know that word, that's not like Amanda's name.

00:02:19.160 Prestigiacomo.

00:02:19.640 It's prestidigitator.

00:02:20.760 It's a word for people who have quick fingers, like a magician.

00:02:23.720 Magic, where it's a slate of hand, that is prestidigitation.

00:02:27.180 Look over here.

00:02:27.740 Look over there.

00:02:28.320 What's that?

00:02:28.720 And then, when we're looking at that thing, something else is happening over here.

00:02:32.100 So, of all these tweets, why is he talking about each of these?

00:02:34.480 The economy is obvious.

00:02:36.340 He's trying to tie the strong economy to his tax plan.

00:02:40.160 He talks about how great the economy is doing.

00:02:41.640 How great the economy is doing.

00:02:42.520 He's building up his credibility on the economy.

00:02:44.360 Then he's saying, we need this new economic agenda, this new economic legislation.

00:02:49.220 Why Matt Lauer?

00:02:50.140 Matt Lauer is the biggest news of the day.

00:02:52.580 He has been fired for apparent sexual assault in Rio de Janeiro, but apparently rampant womanizing 0.94

00:02:58.800 sexual harassment at NBC.

00:03:00.860 But he doesn't just leave it at Matt Lauer.

00:03:03.320 He doesn't just – look, it would be great to revel in Matt Lauer going down. 1.00

00:03:06.760 That guy is a jerk. 1.00

00:03:08.060 He's a left-wing hack. 1.00

00:03:09.320 He was a jerk to President Bush when he would interview him. 0.99

00:03:12.280 But he's not doing that. 1.00

00:03:13.720 Trump isn't just leaving it in schadenfreude.

00:03:16.460 He's tying it to Joe Scarborough.

00:03:18.660 Why?

00:03:19.000 Because he's trying to discredit the left-wing attack dog media.

00:03:21.880 He's trying to paint with a much broader brush.

00:03:23.820 That's why he's going after NBC chairman Andy Lack.

00:03:26.540 Now, why is he tweeting about the NFL?

00:03:28.220 The NFL is a culture point that is extremely popular for Donald Trump.

00:03:34.000 He has broad agreement across the country on this.

00:03:36.220 His approval rating is doing a lot better than the NFL's approval rating.

00:03:39.420 People are cutting cable because of the shenanigans and left-wing activism they see every night

00:03:44.680 at the NFL.

00:03:45.900 And why the Christmas tweets?

00:03:47.460 Well, they preview the war on Christmas theme, which we're already beginning to see, but I

00:03:51.920 promise you we're going to see more of it this month.

00:03:54.180 Why the Muslim videos? 1.00

00:03:55.460 The Muslim videos, I think, tell a lot of the story. 0.99

00:03:58.220 He was retweeting videos of Muslims doing awful things, attacking people and beheading a 0.99

00:04:04.180 statue of the Virgin Mary. 0.96

00:04:05.540 And they were all posted by Jada Franzen.

00:04:08.020 She's the deputy leader of Britain First, which is a right-wing group.

00:04:11.680 And this woman, who is she?

00:04:13.420 He doesn't follow her on Twitter, right?

00:04:14.820 He only follows 45 people on Twitter.

00:04:17.240 Why tweet her?

00:04:19.340 This is a woman who was found guilty of a hate crime. 1.00

00:04:22.080 So the left is freaking out about this.

00:04:23.660 They say he's retweeting far-right criminals, hate criminals, bigots, whatever.

00:04:27.460 What was her hate crime? 0.97

00:04:29.280 A simple Google search will tell you her hate crime was saying that Islam oppresses women. 0.97

00:04:35.980 That was the crime.

00:04:36.780 Because they don't have the First Amendment over there in the UK.

00:04:39.460 They don't have freedom of speech.

00:04:41.140 You can be convicted of a hate crime for just saying something which is obviously true. 1.00

00:04:45.700 Obviously, Sharia law isn't good for women. 1.00

00:04:48.060 A rule that says that women need to wear burlap sacks over them in Middle Eastern heat.

00:04:53.900 That can't possibly be good for women. 1.00

00:04:55.760 Any concept we have on the West of women's rights does not apply. 0.78

00:04:59.600 Now, free speech, though, and PC, these aren't just random issues.

00:05:02.880 They're central issues to Donald Trump's popularity.

00:05:06.280 And this is where the claim breaks down. 0.93

00:05:08.760 Why the never-Trump right and his opponents on the left, they say he's just crazy.

00:05:14.180 He's just tweeting whatever.

00:05:15.300 There's no rhyme or reason to it. 0.97

00:05:16.960 He's a madman with his finger on the nuclear codes and the other finger on Twitter. 1.00

00:05:21.400 There's no evidence that Donald Trump hates Muslim people. 1.00

00:05:24.100 There's no evidence in the four decades that we've known about Donald Trump.

00:05:29.040 We've never seen these allegations of bigotry before.

00:05:32.740 Clearly, it has to serve a strategic purpose.

00:05:35.320 Or we're suggesting that he just became a bigot overnight, that he just became an Islamophobe overnight or something,

00:05:40.660 and he just so happened to pick a woman that ties in directly with his anti-PC, pro-free speech agenda.

00:05:47.840 It doesn't work.

00:05:49.500 At a certain point, either the guy just gets lucky and lucky and lucky,

00:05:54.340 and he's absurdly lucky at multiple things at one time for 40 years,

00:05:58.660 or he doesn't just have air blowing between his ears.

00:06:03.100 He doesn't just have nothing going on in his head.

00:06:04.960 He has some strategic thought and a good gut that tells him how to enact it tactically.

00:06:11.180 So what is he not tweeting about?

00:06:12.800 This is the actual story.

00:06:14.380 I'm perfectly willing to talk about it because it's a great wing for the Republicans and for conservatives,

00:06:19.120 and because the left-wing media doesn't watch my show,

00:06:21.400 so I don't think I'm telling any tales out of school or pulling the veil up on this.

00:06:26.220 He isn't talking about tax reform.

00:06:29.240 But what was he doing yesterday?

00:06:30.520 Trump spent most of yesterday on Capitol Hill bullying Republican senators into voting for the GOP tax reform in the Budget Committee.

00:06:38.380 According to a Senate source for The Hill, Trump went after Ron Johnson by name.

00:06:42.320 Quote, this is in The Hill.

00:06:43.820 He told him to stop blocking it and to work out his concerns with the rest of the conference.

00:06:47.940 He told him he would have a chance to offer amendments, and he should stop being an impediment.

00:06:52.840 Trump also leaned on Bob Corker and James Langford,

00:06:55.680 both of whom are Republicans that threatened to vote against the bill in committee.

00:06:59.140 Senate GOP Whip John Corrin said it was Trump's strong-arming that gave the bill, quote,

00:07:03.960 a shot of adrenaline.

00:07:05.320 It gave this bill that everyone has been predicting on both sides of the aisle.

00:07:08.280 It's going nowhere.

00:07:09.220 It's going to die in committee.

00:07:10.600 Not so.

00:07:11.140 Gave it some momentum.

00:07:12.300 Last month, Trump also met with the entire Senate GOP caucus to get them on the same page on tax reform.

00:07:18.180 Now, to analyze all of this prestidigitation and the tax reform bill and the likelihood that it passes,

00:07:24.160 we bring on our panel of deplorables.

00:07:25.980 We have Paul Cardinal Bois from The Daily Wire,

00:07:29.240 and we're lucky to be joined by Philip Wegman from The Washington Examiner.

00:07:32.960 Look how much realer, by the way, how much more serious Philip's background looks than Paul's,

00:07:38.500 who it appears is coming from St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

00:07:41.640 So, gentlemen, thank you for being here.

00:07:43.300 I really appreciate it.

00:07:44.480 I want to get to this tax reform.

00:07:46.180 Philip, are we going to get it?

00:07:48.500 You're a serious journalist.

00:07:50.320 You have sources.

00:07:51.860 You're paying attention in D.C.

00:07:53.400 Are we going to get tax reform, and if so, when?

00:07:57.400 Certainly the president hopes that it's going to happen ahead of Christmas.

00:08:00.820 I don't know if that's actually going to get done.

00:08:03.720 Sometimes it sounds a little bit like wishful thinking.

00:08:05.800 He had that productive meeting with Republicans earlier on.

00:08:08.700 But if you start taking a look at some of the objections, I mean, the whip count is getting pretty ugly.

00:08:14.840 You've got Collins, who objects to the individual mandate.

00:08:18.080 You've got Ron Johnson that you just mentioned, and then also Lankford and some others.

00:08:23.440 And then, you know, I have no idea what John McCain thinks about, you know, regular order.

00:08:27.580 He's voted against tax cuts twice before.

00:08:30.800 And Republicans just, they can only lose two votes.

00:08:34.380 So the whip count is really ugly.

00:08:36.260 This one's going to come down to the wire.

00:08:37.520 It's certainly going to come down to the wire.

00:08:39.860 I don't know what John McCain thinks about regular order.

00:08:42.640 I don't quite know what he thinks about these tax cuts.

00:08:44.440 But I do know what he thinks about Donald Trump and what he thinks about his legacy.

00:08:48.600 And that does not look good for us.

00:08:51.140 Mr. Bois, make me happier.

00:08:52.960 Lighten me up.

00:08:53.440 Are we going to get tax cuts?

00:08:54.700 And then I want to talk about the Trumpiness of it all.

00:08:57.540 But first, do you think we're going to get it?

00:09:00.000 I mean, it really is all up in the air right now.

00:09:02.260 I mean, the biggest problem that we have going on right now is mainly just the GOP just getting it all together.

00:09:10.720 I sincerely hope that we were going to get health care reform and the GOP didn't deliver that.

00:09:14.640 So it's really just, I mean, can they all come together right now?

00:09:17.040 And as of right now, I'm not seeing that.

00:09:19.140 And this is the coming together is a question because the I think the most cogent argument from the never Trump right, the persistently never Trump right is, well, Donald Trump engages in these crazy excesses, you know, like accusing Joe Scarborough of murder on Twitter or something or implying that Joe Scarborough had some hand in the staffer's death.

00:09:40.040 And therefore, if we Republicans, if we conservatives enjoy the successes, and there have been many successes of this administration, both culturally and politically as real matters of government, if we enjoy those or if we encourage those or if we vote for him, then we own Trump.

00:09:56.140 We own his excesses.

00:09:57.460 We'll have to answer for them and we'll look really bad or something.

00:10:00.700 We won't be able to preen as much as we would like to preen.

00:10:04.600 Philip, do you think that's true?

00:10:05.780 Do you think that if we encourage Trump to end his presidency, that we're going to have to face some awful reckoning in the future?

00:10:14.660 I think the reckoning already took place.

00:10:17.080 I mean, the president is the president because he won the election.

00:10:21.160 But guys like Lindsey Graham, who were adamantly opposed to the president earlier on, they're coming around.

00:10:26.800 I mean, Lindsey Graham's as establishment as you can get, but he's even willing to work with the president.

00:10:32.040 Because I think a lot of these guys know that the White House isn't the only thing up for grabs.

00:10:37.760 They're also going to lose their majorities if they don't deliver something.

00:10:41.880 So, yeah, there's that long game.

00:10:43.760 There's that fear of what are we going to do with Donald Trump?

00:10:47.800 What's he going to do to our party and our identity?

00:10:50.260 But I think in the moment, at least on tax reform, I think these guys are willing to put away some of that bickering and focus on the bill itself.

00:10:59.000 And I do think there is an aspect of Trump which is just that he is a character.

00:11:04.440 He's a one-of-a-kind.

00:11:05.740 He's an American original.

00:11:06.820 We talked yesterday about how there's no need to have the Jersey Shore or reality television when Donald Trump, the king of reality TV, has made reality into reality TV.

00:11:16.820 He's the best show in town.

00:11:18.380 It is the best show in town.

00:11:20.200 And I think Camille Paglia said that she would vote for him because he's a carnival barker and she likes that.

00:11:25.440 And there is something, it seems to me, that he doesn't pretend to be a regular Republican.

00:11:31.200 He doesn't even really pretend to represent the mainstream of conservative movement or of the Republican Party.

00:11:37.900 He's his own self.

00:11:39.300 Mr. Bois, do you think that his caricature and the caricature that he plays up for the cameras and for Twitter, do you think that that will inoculate conservatives?

00:11:48.340 Or should we be terribly worried about our own image and constantly looking in the mirror and saying, well, who cares if we get all these great things accomplished for the country?

00:11:58.980 How will I look when it's all over?

00:12:01.020 I think that kind of pearl clutching regarding President Trump really is going to do nobody any favors.

00:12:09.560 And that was part of, I think, every voter's just worry throughout the election.

00:12:15.760 And the issue that they had to struggle with internally was, by going in with President Trump, am I going to be destroying myself in the future?

00:12:23.660 But I think we all got to man up and just be like, all right, we're in this.

00:12:27.600 I mean, we are in an existential threat, you know, culturally.

00:12:32.020 So I say, you know, get rid of that fear, dive in.

00:12:34.900 And, you know, on terms of, like, what Trump has been successful at and his excesses and should we be more worried about his excesses,

00:12:42.560 I think we got to really define, like, what we want Trump really to be successful in.

00:12:47.840 I really do not believe that we elected Trump for anything legislatively. 0.99

00:12:52.320 I think we strictly elected him so he can be the guy when Colin Kaepernick is being a complete jerk to all of us and spitting on the flag. 0.99

00:12:59.780 He just says, throw that, you know, SOB out. 0.99

00:13:02.860 And next thing you know, we're all cheering and we feel like we got ourselves a culture of cheerleader.

00:13:06.840 And then, you know, we're emboldened.

00:13:08.120 We feel like we can go out there and we can stick it to the people who are telling us what to do and what to say.

00:13:13.820 And that's why we elected him.

00:13:15.180 And that he has been 100 percent successful and we should not be worried.

00:13:18.860 I half agree with you, but I must say I am compelled by Ann Coulter's argument that we elected this guy for issues.

00:13:25.660 He was talking about issues that other people weren't talking about.

00:13:28.560 He was talking to a group of voters that both parties ignored.

00:13:32.000 And he, sure, I like when he calls out Colin Kaepernick as much as the next guy.

00:13:37.020 That's very important.

00:13:38.040 Politics follows culture.

00:13:39.840 The culture is key here.

00:13:42.060 It's related.

00:13:42.740 Cult is related to culture.

00:13:44.180 It's related to what we worship.

00:13:46.120 And certainly that's the case.

00:13:47.620 Everything else is just accounting, you might say.

00:13:49.680 That said, there have been great policy victories.

00:13:52.280 We've seen them, obviously, on the courts up to Neil Gorsuch.

00:13:55.460 We've seen them in massive deregulation, in trying to rein in these awful, godless, headless, unaccountable executive agencies.

00:14:03.300 We've seen it in foreign policy.

00:14:04.840 We've seen it in social policy, like the Mexico City rule, like abortion.

00:14:09.620 Pro-life he's been excellent on.

00:14:11.320 And so, yeah, certainly the culture is maybe the key aspect of Trump.

00:14:16.600 But he's given us a lot of policy victories.

00:14:18.840 And it just, I really wouldn't want to see all of that go away.

00:14:22.420 I wouldn't want to turn my back on that just because I'm uncomfortable with him making hilarious and probably a little excessive claims about Joe Scarborough or whatever.

00:14:32.260 I love that show.

00:14:33.340 I love the press to digitation.

00:14:34.520 And we have much more to talk about, by the way, speaking of the culture.

00:14:38.160 We have much more to talk about on the war on Christmas. 0.64

00:14:40.200 We have to talk about all of the weird Democrat sex stuff.

00:14:43.300 And we have to dance on Matt Lauer's professional grave because what would this show be without a little schadenfreude?

00:14:48.360 It is fun.

00:14:49.320 We should do it. 0.99

00:14:49.920 He's been a jerk to the right for a long time. 0.99

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00:15:47.420 Let's get to the war on Christmas. 0.88

00:15:59.280 I love the war on Christmas almost as much as I love Christmas.

00:16:02.040 I especially love winning the war on Christmas.

00:16:03.780 President Trump promised repeatedly throughout the campaign that we would turn the yuletide

00:16:08.360 in the war on Christmas.

00:16:09.660 See what I did?

00:16:10.220 He's doing just that.

00:16:11.580 Melania has hung mistletoe all around the White House. 1.00

00:16:14.140 Hubba hubba.

00:16:14.560 President Trump, unlike his predecessor, has sent out a Christmas card.

00:16:18.860 Things are looking up.

00:16:20.720 You know, leftists mock the war on Christmas.

00:16:23.060 They say it's imaginary.

00:16:24.700 Barack Obama's 2016 White House Christmas card did not mention the word Christmas.

00:16:29.500 Not once.

00:16:30.200 It says, happy holidays.

00:16:32.000 The White House Social Secretary, Desiree Rogers, even says that Obama wanted to ban the

00:16:36.080 creche, the nativity scene, from the East Room of the White House, although tradition

00:16:40.120 eventually won out because that would be egregious.

00:16:42.420 President Trump's card says Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, which makes sense because

00:16:46.640 those are the only two major holidays this season.

00:16:49.460 I say major.

00:16:50.180 There is Hanukkah, of course, which is an ancient Jewish holiday, but it has always been relatively

00:16:55.240 minor and remains relatively minor outside of the United States.

00:16:58.720 It's taken on greater currency in the U.S. because two reform rabbis in Cincinnati decided

00:17:03.400 to reinvent the Festival of Lights as a Jewish answer to Christmas during the late 19th century.

00:17:08.560 That's all nice.

00:17:09.120 I'm from Westchester.

00:17:10.040 Everybody celebrates a basically a more Jewish version of Christmas there.

00:17:14.180 More power to them.

00:17:14.840 There's also Kwanzaa, a completely contrived socialist pseudo-holiday invented in the late

00:17:19.920 1960s by a criminal and L.A. City College professor of Africana Studies named Milana Karenga,

00:17:26.260 who was convicted in 1971 of imprisoning women while sexually assaulting them, while he whipped

00:17:31.780 them with electrical cords, branded their faces, poured detergent down their throats, and hit 0.73

00:17:35.720 them on the head with toasters. Approximately 0.2% of the world celebrated Kwanzaa as of 2012. 0.79

00:17:43.540 Now, to top it all off, here is a clip from the last journalist in America, comedian Stephen

00:17:48.380 Colbert. Stephen Colbert. Stephen Crowder.

00:17:51.360 Okay, Alexa, who is the Lord Jesus Christ?

00:17:56.320 Jesus Christ is a fictional character.

00:17:58.380 Alexa, who is the prophet Muhammad?

00:18:06.460 The prophet Muhammad is a very wise prophet. He taught many people how to live. He had

00:18:10.520 a wife called Aisha. He lived in Saudi Arabia. The message that he gave to the people is pray

00:18:14.940 to Allah. He is the only God, and he gave the holy corn.

00:18:17.520 I think, you know, I think that clip got cut off. The first question was, who is Jesus Christ?

00:18:23.100 And Alexa says, he's a fictional character. He's a fictional character created, I don't

00:18:29.060 know when, I guess, in the first century. Paul Cardinal Blois, let's start this with you.

00:18:35.300 Is there a war on Christmas, and should we be fighting it?

00:18:38.160 Of course there's a war on Christmas, Michael.

00:18:39.900 I knew you'd say that.

00:18:40.220 Yes, yes.

00:18:40.700 I knew it.

00:18:41.180 There's been a war on Christmas going on in this country all the way going back to the

00:18:44.740 1960s, believe it or not. Yeah, I know we all love the Charlie Brown Christmas, and that

00:18:51.620 famous scene where Linus reads from Luke's Gospel. CBS and the producers on that show

00:18:57.600 did not want that in there. I mean, they fought tooth and nail to try and get it out. Eventually,

00:19:01.520 of course, Charles Schultz, being a religious man, he won out in the end, and thank you for

00:19:06.520 that.

00:19:07.380 Plus, you've got to see what Charlie Rose did to Lucy.

00:19:09.220 This is, people haven't been talking about this. Investigate it, folks. That's not nice.

00:19:12.980 That's not a nice joke. Go on.

00:19:15.800 And in 1992, you know, Frosty, we all remember Frosty the Snowman. Frosty Returns completely

00:19:22.260 and totally eliminated all references to Christmas. It was basically just this Soviet commissar-approved

00:19:29.460 version of Frosty the Snowman. There was no reference of Christmas, no reference of Santa.

00:19:34.440 It was all this environmentalist message about the importance of snow. It was bizarre, and that

00:19:38.980 was in 1992, and ever since then, I mean, we just had storefronts saying happy holidays.

00:19:42.860 As you've noted, I mean, throughout all eight years of Barack Obama's presidency, I don't

00:19:47.220 think his Christmas cards said Merry Christmas. They always said happy holidays or season's

00:19:51.940 greetings. So, you know, we're in it, and President Trump is delivering on that. He's making Christmas

00:19:58.400 great again, and I loved Melania. I love Melania's designs for the Christmas decorations in the White

00:20:06.280 House this year. I know leftists on Twitter are giving her hell for it, and they're just saying 0.99

00:20:11.000 all kinds of wicked things about it, but I think it's great. I think we have a lot to be celebrating

00:20:15.900 about this year.

00:20:17.020 You could just say that sentence full stop. I love Melania. I love Melania. That woman is all grace

00:20:22.080 and class. She has been fabulous. She is a great first lady. So, Philip, are the lefties

00:20:28.520 being disingenuous when they claim that there's no war on Christmas or that the war on Christmas

00:20:33.100 doesn't matter? Because the war on Christmas sure seems to matter to them. They're the aggressors

00:20:37.480 in this. They're the ones trying to change the tradition. Is it disingenuous? Do they really

00:20:41.680 know the stakes? What are the stakes?

00:20:44.440 Well, I think conservatives definitely fall for it when they go with the war on Christmas

00:20:49.140 narrative. We've seen all the ridiculous arguments over Starbucks cups and, you know, some teenager 0.69

00:20:55.160 who's bagging our groceries being told that he has to say happy holidays or Merry Christmas.

00:20:59.900 Look, I think that the solution here is that, you know, for conservatives, freedom is the solution

00:21:07.380 here. If you want to say Merry Christmas, go ahead and do that. But don't throw a fit because,

00:21:13.800 you know, your barista said happy holidays instead. I get that there are some people who are

00:21:18.860 trying to change the culture and, you know, erase the, you know, the nativity. But I don't think

00:21:26.180 that works. I think they just look really silly. And so, yeah, absolutely. The White House looks 0.99

00:21:31.600 beautiful. I'm glad there's a nativity scene back in there. But the only present that's really going

00:21:38.220 to matter when Trump moves out of the White House, you know, either in three years or seven years,

00:21:43.760 when he moves out, the only thing that's going to matter is whether or not he got tax reform done,

00:21:47.560 whether or not he got health care through. So, yeah, I mean, I never stopped saying Merry Christmas.

00:21:54.880 Neither did my family. And back home in Indiana, I mean, everybody said it at basically every store.

00:22:01.340 So I think it's overblown. And we all do ourselves a disservice when we get into, I think, what is kind

00:22:07.000 of a petty fight. But Indiana is a great state. It's one of the finest states in this union. They

00:22:12.180 elected Mitch Daniels, for goodness sakes. Indiana might not be representative of the whole country.

00:22:17.400 And I will say, it isn't just baristas who don't say Merry Christmas. In my experience,

00:22:21.860 baristas do say Merry Christmas. It's the guys at the top. It's Howard Schultz. It's the guys who are

00:22:28.840 running Starbucks. It's the guys who are running these corporations who say happy holidays, who say

00:22:33.520 season's greetings. But why are they saying it? I get it. There are a lot of people on the right who say

00:22:37.660 it doesn't matter. Who cares? It's just a word. But culture matters. Politics is downstream.

00:22:44.180 Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Culture matters. But I don't think the culture that we want to impose

00:22:48.540 is one where we go to, you know, the CEO of Starbucks and say, you better say Merry Christmas,

00:22:55.140 buddy, or we're going to go get our legal addictive stimulants somewhere else. I think you just,

00:23:00.900 you'd go to Dunkin' Donuts or you'd go to Starbucks because you like their coffee, not because you like

00:23:05.980 their social conservatism. I mean, I like, for instance, I love, I love Chick-fil-A, but I love

00:23:12.100 Chick-fil-A not, you know, because of the social conservative positions they take. I love Chick-fil-A

00:23:17.940 because it's good chicken at an affordable price. I mean, isn't that what we should be trying to do

00:23:21.780 as consumers? I don't know, though. I mean, I certainly agree in I don't go to Starbucks because

00:23:26.480 of their politics. Obviously, I would never go there, and yet I still do all the time. But I do like,

00:23:31.340 I do like Chick-fil-A because it's a nice, wholesome company that closes on Sunday. In-N-Out

00:23:35.940 Burger is fine. I know this is going to be heresy to people watching in California. It's fine. It makes

00:23:40.720 an okay burger. But one thing I like about them is they treat their employees well. Their employees

00:23:45.720 always smile. They even have Bible verses, I think, on the bottom of the cups. There is more to it.

00:23:51.260 This has been the critique all through the election on the left and the right. There's a critique going on

00:23:56.060 right now of neoliberalism, of materialism, of saying that all that really matters is how big

00:24:01.920 GDP gets. And there is a value to liberty per se. There is a value to culture per se. And there is a

00:24:10.300 value to calling it like it is. There are not other major holidays this season, major holidays,

00:24:16.280 other than Christmas and New Year's.

00:24:18.080 Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, it's a cliche, but it's a true one. Politics is downstream from

00:24:24.620 culture. But the way that you get a winning culture that is going to affect positive politics

00:24:30.960 is not by beating someone over the head. I think what happens is you say, yeah, they're not saying

00:24:36.780 Merry Christmas. So what? And then you go have a better, more attractive culture and win people over

00:24:42.440 that way instead of trying to get some godless, you know, Fortune 500 CEO to say words he doesn't

00:24:49.400 really want to say because he's going to get made fun of at some cocktail hour later on.

00:24:53.200 But I think he ought to do it. I think you're absolutely right. This is a more attractive

00:24:57.020 culture. The culture that sees the world correctly and calls it like we sees it and doesn't just deal

00:25:02.920 in silly, politically correct euphemisms. That's more attractive and it should be more attractive to

00:25:07.540 the dollars. And Howard Schultz better come around on that, pal. I actually think that's mostly

00:25:12.100 contrived controversy because they do put little Christmas lights on their cups. But certainly in

00:25:16.580 other places, it's not. Barack Obama made the choice to not put the word Christmas on his

00:25:21.300 Christmas card. And by the way, I think the reason it's, I agree with most of your premises,

00:25:26.500 but I don't exactly agree with the conclusion because I think the war on Christmas is a winning

00:25:30.280 issue for us. It's a winning cultural issue. Most people in the United States understand that

00:25:34.900 Christmas is the holiday this season, at least here. And that's what we ought to call it like.

00:25:41.380 And we ought to celebrate it in precise words. On this point, we have to get to the value of

00:25:50.820 language and the value of culture because where do words really matter? Yesterday, Elizabeth Warren

00:25:56.780 claimed that Pocahontas, the word Pocahontas is a racial slur because President Trump called that 0.99

00:26:04.000 ridiculous fraud and that lying, cynical shell of a woman, the humorless woman, scolding woman. He 1.00

00:26:11.500 called her Pocahontas. Now an actual descendant of Pocahontas, Debbie White of Pareko, is firing 1.00

00:26:17.240 back saying, quote, I know that he uses Pocahontas sometimes with Elizabeth Warren. He said, well,

00:26:23.260 does that offend you when I use that? And I told him, no, it doesn't offend me. If Pocahontas were 0.99

00:26:27.100 alive today, she would be very proud of President Trump. Does it get any better than this?

00:26:33.820 Mr. Bois, we are seeing a lot of old Democrat playbooks go up in flames. Their once tried and

00:26:40.160 true strategies of weaponizing ever more specific minority categories just isn't working that well.

00:26:46.720 Are we seeing even that strategy fall apart? Will that not, will that be a tenable strategy in the

00:26:51.560 future? Yeah, this is great, Michael. It really is great to just see the fact that they cannot do

00:26:57.060 the whole, well, you're a racist playbook anymore. And the reason why they're not able to do it,

00:27:03.300 and this is another reason why I think we elected President Trump, is because when he says Pocahontas,

00:27:08.780 he doesn't apologize. He doesn't go, oh, I'm sorry. I know that's offensive to some people. He just

00:27:14.400 says it. Let it out there. Everybody debates amongst themselves. And Elizabeth Warren looks like a 1.00

00:27:18.800 complete idiot. And it's great. And it's over. And it just goes to show you that the second you 1.00

00:27:25.220 you stop showing that fear that they try to put in you by saying we're going to slander you as a

00:27:29.740 racist, the second you stop showing that they lose. And I think it's wonderful to see that it's going

00:27:34.660 up in flames. Philip, are they going to double down on all of the hyphenated grievance? Or are they

00:27:40.920 going to learn that? I agree that I think it's a good thing that this politics of this politically

00:27:47.760 correct politics is going by the wayside. I think that's one of the benefits that we're

00:27:51.580 getting with Donald Trump. But for goodness sake, we didn't elect him just so that we could say

00:27:55.900 Merry Christmas and Pocahontas. Like he promised big things. That's why I did. Why did you elect him? 0.99

00:28:00.220 Wait, that wasn't it? I like the Pocahontas thing. That's pretty much my vote. 0.57

00:28:04.940 So I think that this is ridiculous that anyone is outraged that the president is comparing a senator

00:28:12.660 from Massachusetts to a beloved award-winning Disney princess. Like the idea that we're so upset

00:28:19.800 about that just blows my mind. Yeah. But so, I mean, so here's what's interesting though about this

00:28:25.140 though, is, is, you know, Elizabeth Warren isn't answering for the fact that she made up Native 0.97

00:28:31.240 American heritage. She's not having to apologize for the fact that she campaigned on that in 2012,

00:28:35.720 that she talked to her fellow faculty at Harvard about that when she was there. Instead,

00:28:40.600 the only thing that Elizabeth Warren is doing right now, she's counting her money on her way 1.00

00:28:44.500 to the bank. I mean, what president Trump did by calling her Pocahontas is he outraged a lot of

00:28:51.280 liberals, a lot of progressives. And that outrage is probably going to, you know, move them to donate

00:28:57.620 for, for Warren. And we saw this, she was out fundraising off of the Pocahontas jab less than 12

00:29:04.820 hours after it happened. So really, if we're being honest, I think that Elizabeth Warren should thank the

00:29:09.340 president because he just, uh, he helped her fill her coffers for her campaign war chest.

00:29:13.480 I wonder though, I wonder because now she is irrevocably tied to this deception. She,

00:29:18.540 why are we talking, this is an old story. The story has been around for years and years.

00:29:22.340 Somehow it's the top trend on Twitter now that Liz Warren pretended to be Native American, 1.00

00:29:26.840 submitted recipes to a Native American cookbook, pow, wow, chow. We're still talking about it. And I

00:29:32.620 don't know. She raised money off of it, but you know who else raised money off of insults? Marco Rubio,

00:29:37.460 Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush. And if you ask low energy Jeb and lion Ted and little Marco and

00:29:44.460 yada, yada, yada, those, when, when Trump brands you with a, with a proper title, with a title that's

00:29:52.180 somewhat plausible, it tends to stick. He tried a few with Hillary. He tried a low stamina or no 0.75

00:29:57.780 stamina Hillary. That one didn't really work because the woman clearly does have stamina, 1.00

00:30:01.740 but crooked Hillary. It's just, it just sticky. It sticks to her like glue. I don't know. I'm happy

00:30:07.620 for Liz Warren if she made a few bucks off of it, if she, if she was able to garner a little bit of

00:30:11.260 wampum from Trump's insult. But I think that that is a sticky insult that talks about her deception. 1.00

00:30:18.420 And speaking of deceptive Democrats, I think we have to close on the weird sex stuff. We've, 0.93

00:30:25.300 we've beaten around the bush too long. We have to get into the today's version of the Democrat sex 0.91

00:30:29.940 scandals. Matt Lauer is out at today at the today show, which he's been at for, I think 17 years,

00:30:35.300 maybe 20 years after accusations that he sexually assaulted a staffer during the Rio Olympics.

00:30:40.580 Here is a now highly ironic clip of Lauer interrogating Bill O'Reilly over his own harassment

00:30:45.620 allegations. You were probably the last guy in the world that they wanted to fire because you were the

00:30:51.660 guy that the ratings and the revenues were built on. You carried that network on your shoulders for a

00:30:58.940 lot of years. So doesn't it seem safe to assume that the people at Fox News were given a piece

00:31:04.300 of information or given some evidence that simply made it impossible for you to stay on at Fox News?

00:31:11.420 That's a false assumption. There are a lot of other business things in play at that time and still

00:31:16.280 today that 21st century was involved with. And it was a business decision that they made.

00:31:22.180 But there isn't any. But you don't let your number one guy go unless you have information that you think

00:31:29.380 makes him. That's not true. That's that's not true, huh? Well, where there's smoke, there's fire.

00:31:35.160 I don't know. We don't know that much about Matt Lauer. These are brand new accusations. How could we?

00:31:40.260 Oh, wait a minute. Here's Katie Couric. You co-hosted the Today Show with Matt Lauer for 15 years. 0.85

00:31:45.080 What is Matt's most annoying habit? Hmm. He pinches me on the ass a lot. Wow. I wouldn't have a problem

00:31:54.140 with that. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. Katie Couric did not leave a bit. I should mention.

00:32:00.500 Yikes. That can't be good. She worked with him for a very long time. Also, Garrison Keillor,

00:32:05.340 who is the longtime former host of Prairie Home Companion, which pseudo-sophisticates insist is

00:32:10.760 clever, but I just don't see it. He also is out because of improper sexual behavior. With regard

00:32:16.080 to Matt Lauer, just couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. I tell you, it's really it's it's hard

00:32:21.380 not to indulge the schadenfreude here because all of these guys who are preening over women's rights

00:32:27.560 and the Republican War on women and assaulting, assailing not just women, but also Republican

00:32:32.780 politicians for these issues are now going down. I'm a little worried about the moral hazards in this

00:32:38.780 environment. Philip, you're in the news biz. You're in the news biz down in Swampland.

00:32:43.740 Is there is it going to take down the whole industry? Is is this pendulum going to swing too

00:32:49.320 far or are we just going to take down the rapists? And that's a good thing. I mean, I'm starting to

00:32:54.320 think that if I keep my hands to myself and I just go to work every day, that somehow I'll magically

00:32:59.540 make it to the top because there won't be anybody left. I mean, for crying out loud, we've seen so many

00:33:04.480 we've seen so many sex scandals and it's really dispiriting at this point. I mean,

00:33:09.480 it's a new person every single day, it seems like even every hour. And, you know, maybe maybe I'm

00:33:17.100 unusual or something. But, you know, some of these things that these guys are accused of,

00:33:21.540 you know, none of my friends that I hang out with, like we don't have a locker room talk. And we

00:33:28.720 certainly I don't know of anyone, any decent fellow who, you know, would engage in this sort

00:33:34.440 of stuff. It's not that hard to keep your hands to yourself. It really, really isn't that. All

00:33:39.560 right. Well, I hope that there's not a clip of you coming up, you know, like Matt Lauer yelling at

00:33:43.060 Bill O'Reilly. No, I don't think so. I've heard no allegations about Philip, but Paul Bois, this

00:33:47.460 brings up the question of the schadenfreude. Should Republicans bask in this? This is great. I mean,

00:33:53.840 jerks like Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein. There isn't enough time left in the 0.99

00:33:59.260 show to go through all of these giant Democrat mouthpieces, these big gas bags who have hypocritically 0.98

00:34:05.000 talked about women's issues for a long time. But should Republicans jump on this? Or are they just 0.93

00:34:11.200 opening themselves up to getting caught? Not in some cases, obviously, these guys raped women or 0.99

00:34:16.960 sexually assaulted them. But how far will that spectrum, that blurring between winking at your 0.98

00:34:23.420 secretary and raping somebody? How blurry will that get? And tactically speaking, do Republicans 0.98

00:34:29.620 open themselves up to a lot of unwanted spotlight if they harp on this too much?

00:34:36.900 Well, Michael, I don't like creeps wherever they come from. I don't care if they're Democrats. I happen

00:34:45.380 to think that the Democrat way of life allows for the flourishing of creeps and creates a culture in

00:34:54.680 which the lines get so blurred and men are just so lost and they're just completely and totally

00:35:04.720 feeding their appetites. But there are a lot of feet under the bathroom stalls and Denny Haster.

00:35:10.620 And there are a lot of weird sex stuff on the Republican side too, right? Sure, sure, sure. 0.97

00:35:13.920 Yeah. The point that I'm saying is I think that that culture breeds that a little bit more.

00:35:19.660 But if you're a creep and you're a Republican, I want you gone. I mean, anybody that's in a position

00:35:26.380 of power and is preying on women and can't keep their hands on themselves, can't keep their eyes 0.59

00:35:33.440 on their own wives and can't keep and just are harassing women or making their lives miserable,

00:35:39.200 then yeah, I want you gone. So I say just let the fire burn. We absolutely, absolutely need to make 0.97

00:35:46.540 sure that we are not engaging in a witch hunt. And that is when someone brings forth an allegation,

00:35:52.560 we take it seriously and we investigate and we find the evidence to support it,

00:35:58.800 but we don't just automatically believe them. And for the most part, I think we've done a pretty

00:36:05.080 decent job at doing that right now. Some cases I do think have just have been just sort of witch

00:36:11.980 hunt scenarios, just bringing forth things from like 20 years ago. And I, and you find out and it's

00:36:17.740 like, okay, I mean, is this really a pattern in this person's life? But other things I think

00:36:22.160 it's, it's been appropriate. And I think we're having an important watershed moment in our

00:36:26.080 culture right now. But there's a distinction between the media figures that are going down,

00:36:29.080 Matt Lauer, Keillor, all these guys, and the political figures. Al Franken has been accused

00:36:34.840 of being a sexual creep and John Conyers. Virtually every politician I've ever met is a sexual creep, 0.98

00:36:40.600 so I'm not surprised by any of these. I'm actually surprised by the hubbub around all of it. But it 0.97

00:36:46.080 doesn't look like those guys are going to be forced to step down. Why is that? Perfectly

00:36:49.820 understandable. Politics is about more than just the personal activities of the people who hold it.

00:36:56.200 And as Federalist 51 points out, the Congress exists to put all of the wacko sociopaths into 1.00

00:37:01.220 one room so they can fight each other and not destroy our country. Now, Philip, in the case of

00:37:06.660 Roy Moore, for instance, he's accused of some pretty weird stuff at least 40 years ago, and, you know,

00:37:11.800 going after young teenagers and the like. That said, his opponent in that Alabama Senate race

00:37:18.520 believes in abortion up until, I believe, the fourth trimester. I believe he is post-birth

00:37:23.520 abortion. I'm not sure about the specifics of it. Should we really write off Roy Moore,

00:37:29.040 as Mr. Bois suggests, because maybe he's a sexual creep? I don't mean to put words in your mouth. 0.97

00:37:34.040 Generally speaking, if you're from Alabama, I mean, and you're an evangelical voter,

00:37:39.240 your choices are pretty stark. You either vote for someone who you think is a baby killer. You either 0.98

00:37:44.540 vote for Doug Jones because you find Roy Moore so unpalatable, or you vote for someone who's been

00:37:51.380 accused of being a pedophile, right? So there aren't good options.

00:37:54.920 Not quite a pedophile. I actually mean to draw this distinction, because they're saying he's a

00:37:59.100 child molester, and I'm not defending his going after, like, 14-year-old girls, allegedly,

00:38:04.960 but that is the difference, right? These girls are saying they were very developed. There is a

00:38:09.920 categorical difference between a guy going after a teenager in the 1970s and a guy going after a

00:38:16.360 six-year-old. I'm not saying either of them are superior. I think both are bad.

00:38:19.900 Yeah, I'm not saying they're not bad, but they are different. Democrats are harping on it like

00:38:24.160 Roy Moore was going after and molesting toddlers. That isn't the accusation. The accusation, he was

00:38:29.140 extremely creepy with young teenagers when he shouldn't have, and in some cases in criminal ways,

00:38:36.020 but that is a distinction. That said, the opponent wants to kill a lot of babies. 0.99

00:38:42.460 Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. If Doug Jones was not so radical, if we had a sort of, 0.97

00:38:50.420 you know, if we had Joe Manchin down in Alabama, I think that he would absolutely destroy Doug Jones

00:38:56.960 if he was just kind of moderate, middle of the road. But he has become such a radical,

00:39:01.860 specifically on the issue of abortion, that I don't think you're going to have a lot of,

00:39:06.360 you know, sort of marginally Republican voters down there be able to stomach that position and

00:39:13.680 vote for him. So I think, yeah, I think Roy Moore, my thought is that he just might pull this out.

00:39:21.100 Yeah, it certainly looks that way. I'm beginning to think that because you can't really trust the

00:39:27.000 polls with something this charged. It's kind of like Trump. It's so socially unacceptable. It's so

00:39:32.920 socially taboo to suggest that you would vote for Roy Moore because you think protecting a lot of

00:39:39.180 babies is more important than possibly credible accusations from four decades ago. Mr. Bois.

00:39:45.660 Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead, Philip.

00:39:47.360 Well, to just jump off that point a second ago, you know, I think that we were talking a second ago

00:39:53.780 about how important it is to really weigh these allegations. And with the Washington Post, I mean,

00:39:58.440 look, I've harped on them before for these tiny little micro scoops about Russia that don't really

00:40:02.880 end up being things. I think in the past, they've definitely overblown some stories. But on this one,

00:40:08.180 they crossed to their T's, they dotted their I's. And then, you know, we saw with the James O'Keefe

00:40:13.120 video that they're not just willing to listen to anyone who says that 20 years ago, Roy Moore,

00:40:19.500 you know, was trying to go after them. Instead, I think that they really did good journalism. And

00:40:25.240 I'm, you know, I'm with Mr. Qua here. I mean, human nature is universal and their creepiness is

00:40:33.200 bipartisan. So I don't care whether they're on the left or the right. I don't think they have any

00:40:37.140 place leading our country. Mr. Bois, are you going to put your money where your mouth is and say we

00:40:41.400 shouldn't support Roy Moore? Well, I did not say that in my statement. What we are,

00:40:51.560 when the allegations first broke on Moore, and I was emphatic at the time, and I said that I do

00:40:57.360 think he should step down. I think we should replace him with somebody who is more palatable.

00:41:03.140 That has not happened. And so we are in a very, very difficult position. And I think the right

00:41:09.660 position has been what Trump and Sean Hannity has said, look, the people of Alabama are going to

00:41:14.740 have to decide this for themselves. I certainly, if I were an, I wouldn't vote for Doug Jones,

00:41:21.820 or nor I may probably just not vote at all. I know that some people may just look at that as a

00:41:28.460 cowardly position. Yes, they might, Mr. Bois. They might think just that. I do think that there are

00:41:33.540 just certain, certain moral lines that I'm just unwilling to cross. And yeah, I really just cannot

00:41:40.520 bring myself to just to vote for someone who could be incredibly accused of molesting a 14-year-old

00:41:46.380 girl. It's just... Even if it opens the way for a guy who supports 75th trimester abortions to become

00:41:51.520 a senator? I think the answer is why, I mean, if Moore is being credibly accused, and if he is guilty of these

00:41:57.000 things, and if he really does care about the country, then why didn't you step down when we could have

00:42:01.620 replaced somebody instead of being a narcissist and, you know, trying to stay in? That's what I

00:42:05.880 would say to that. But now we're just stuck in this very, very difficult position. So it's kind of

00:42:10.560 like, yeah, it really sucks. I have a very hard time saying like, yeah, I want Roy Moore to win, 0.94

00:42:16.960 but at the same time, I really do not want a pro-abortionist zealot in the Senate. It's a tough

00:42:23.820 situation. It's one of those things that it's going to come down to the wire. You know, if ifs and buts

00:42:28.280 candy and nuts, we would all have a Merry Christmas. Philip, last word. I think, you know,

00:42:33.320 for being pragmatic here, even if Doug Jones wins, I don't see how he, you know, tips the needle in

00:42:39.320 favor of the pro-choice position. They've already won a lot of those battles, but they're not going

00:42:44.080 to win anymore when you have Trump in the White House. Pragmatically, though, we're talking about

00:42:48.620 Roy Moore as if he's some sort of Republican stalwart. He's not going to march, you know, lockstep with

00:42:55.160 guys like Ted Cruz or Mike Lee. We don't know what he's going to do. The only thing that we can say

00:43:00.640 for certain is that Democrats are going to hang him around the neck of Republicans like a big old

00:43:04.920 millstone. And every time Republicans try to push forward some social issue, they're going to be

00:43:10.320 like, not so fast. Roy Moore still caucuses with you guys. Yeah, certainly that that's the big fear.

00:43:17.280 And they'll they'll use it to fundraise and they'll use it to harangue Republicans.

00:43:20.820 And it's a it is a difficult calculation. It's a real it's not an easy one. But we don't live in

00:43:26.600 solely ethereal worlds. We live in time and space. And that's the trouble with politics is it isn't

00:43:32.220 just a rationalist intellectual exercise. We have to make usually we have to pick one of two crappy 0.89

00:43:38.040 options. And that's that's what makes politics so frustrating and so fun. And I've had a lot of fun

00:43:44.340 talking to you. So, Philip, thank you for being here. Philip Wegman from the Washington Examiner.

00:43:48.540 Paul Cardinal Bois from The Daily Wire and from St. Peter's, I believe, if I can see that background

00:43:54.880 well. That's our whole show today. Get your mailbag questions in. I think we have 750 million because

00:44:00.720 we didn't do them last week on Thanksgiving. So get them in. I will change your life, hopefully,

00:44:04.720 for the better tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Tune in tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 29, 2017

Ep. 66 - Watch Trump’s Fingers

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