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00:00:30.000 Back in October, Rush Limbaugh opened up about his faith.

00:00:34.960 I mentioned at the outset of this, the first day I told you,

00:00:38.540 that I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

00:00:44.260 It is of immense value, strength, confidence.

00:00:52.580 And that's why I'm able to remain fully committed

00:00:56.720 to the idea that what is supposed to happen will happen when it's meant to.

00:01:03.760 Rush was convinced that what is supposed to happen

00:01:07.180 would happen when it was meant to.

00:01:09.780 And as always, with impeccable timing, ever the showman, probably with an assist from the big guy

00:01:17.280 upstairs, you would say, Rush Limbaugh died on Ash Wednesday, the very day that we are told to remember,

00:01:25.380 remember man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.

00:01:31.500 Rush Limbaugh, a special providence in a death on Ash Wednesday.

00:01:36.880 Now we can all pray that Rush is enjoying the greatest show imaginable before the very face of God.

00:01:45.500 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:47.580 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:39.080 Rush Limbaugh.

00:03:41.020 It is not possible to overstate Rush's influence.

00:03:46.260 And what you're going to hear over the next few days,

00:03:48.800 as everyone is processing their grief, let me rephrase that.

00:03:52.140 As conservatives are processing their grief over the death of Rush

00:03:56.300 and as left-wingers are doing quite the opposite.

00:04:01.660 And we'll get to that in just a bit.

00:04:03.740 You're going to hear that Rush Limbaugh was so important.

00:04:06.420 He was the central figure to talk radio.

00:04:08.620 That's true.

00:04:09.240 That Rush Limbaugh saved AM radio.

00:04:11.220 That's true.

00:04:11.980 That Rush Limbaugh gave conservatives a voice when they were losing their voice.

00:04:15.320 That's true.

00:04:15.720 That Rush Limbaugh is responsible, really, for all of the alternative conservative media

00:04:20.880 that I'm engaging in right now, not just on radio, but in podcast, Daily Wire,

00:04:26.700 you know, so on and so forth.

00:04:28.260 That's all true as well.

00:04:31.220 What Rush does not get enough credit for, he gets some credit for it,

00:04:34.620 but he doesn't get enough credit for it,

00:04:36.300 is that Rush Limbaugh was a prime representative,

00:04:41.780 the, probably, representative, of the conservative movement,

00:04:46.840 of the real conservative movement.

00:04:48.440 You know, we spend a lot of time on this show

00:04:50.960 talking about what it means to be a conservative,

00:04:54.140 what it means to be a right-winger,

00:04:56.040 what it means to be a left-winger in American politics,

00:04:59.620 you know, with respect to the other side of politics.

00:05:02.700 Obviously, I'm coming at this thing from the right of Attila the Hun,

00:05:06.100 but we're trying to figure out what exactly does this mean?

00:05:10.500 And now you're going to see a lot of praise for Rush.

00:05:14.600 But for much of his career, the establishment right

00:05:19.360 did not want to associate with him.

00:05:22.500 Now, you always had the people that I consider to be the real conservative leaders,

00:05:27.240 up to and including people like William F. Buckley Jr.,

00:05:30.100 many other people, loved Rush, would, you know, bring Rush into their circles,

00:05:35.860 loved to associate with Rush.

00:05:36.860 But a lot of the very fancy conservatives at the very fancy think tanks

00:05:40.920 and the very fancy sort of sinecure positions,

00:05:44.020 they felt Rush was a little beneath them, I sometimes think.

00:05:47.500 They treated him as a bit of a sideshow.

00:05:52.000 You know, I'm not going to go into naming names,

00:05:53.980 but you had people who were a little more establishment,

00:05:56.860 really did not want to associate with Rush very much.

00:05:59.360 And yet, wise people of all different stripes, all colors, all sorts,

00:06:06.420 all occupations, all socioeconomic levels,

00:06:09.180 wise people of all those sorts, in my experience,

00:06:12.960 have really, truly appreciated and admired Rush Limbaugh.

00:06:18.140 I'm talking about your average Joe on the street.

00:06:22.020 I'm talking about truck drivers.

00:06:23.460 I'm talking about professors and priests.

00:06:26.440 I'm talking about the whole gamut of human experience.

00:06:31.080 I've truly, I've talked to people who have really no better than like a 9th or 10th grade education

00:06:36.700 who say Rush Limbaugh was a genius.

00:06:38.660 I've talked to people who have multiple advanced degrees, PhDs, that sort of thing,

00:06:44.340 who use the exact same words.

00:06:45.940 Rush Limbaugh was a genius.

00:06:47.800 There was no better, forget just broadcaster, that's true too,

00:06:51.220 but there was no better political analyst and commentator in his entire era than Rush Limbaugh.

00:07:01.020 You know, when we moved to Nashville, whatever it was, a few months ago,

00:07:06.140 and I was supposed to move a week early,

00:07:08.980 but then I got a phone call from the EIB network asking if I would like to fill in for the Rush Limbaugh show.

00:07:15.140 Nothing could have possibly gotten me to delay my moving to Nashville

00:07:20.100 At the time, I've got a pregnant wife.

00:07:22.520 The whole Daily Wire company is moving to Nashville.

00:07:24.760 They're setting up my studio there.

00:07:26.220 I no longer had a studio back in Los Angeles.

00:07:29.020 They were actually tearing it down.

00:07:30.920 There was one thing that could have gotten me to stay in LA

00:07:34.420 so that I could go to the Rush Limbaugh studio and fill in.

00:07:38.440 That, of course, was sitting behind the golden EIB microphone.

00:07:42.620 I've publicly thanked Rush and the whole EIB team many times for that honor.

00:07:49.080 And I considered it such an honor, not just because Rush Limbaugh was the biggest deal in all of broadcasting,

00:07:54.900 but because I so respected the man and his understanding of politics and his role in American politics.

00:08:05.800 I think there are going to be a lot of establishment types who are going to try to sideline what Rush stood for, 0.73

00:08:12.760 the people who admired Rush right now.

00:08:14.320 We cannot let them do it.

00:08:15.780 The New York Times understood that Rush Limbaugh, for all intents and purposes, was the conservative movement.

00:08:21.560 With all the jokes and all the sort of vision, all of the sort of grander vision,

00:08:31.300 all the way up to his faith that we were discussing, all the way down.

00:08:34.320 The New York Times understood this.

00:08:35.480 That's why they attacked him so much.

00:08:37.800 I'm so sorry that he's gone, but I'm so pleased that if he had to go, he would go on Ash Wednesday.

00:08:45.420 I had a priest once in Los Angeles who was ill and we knew he wasn't going to be around forever.

00:08:52.880 And he prayed that he would die on Ash Wednesday, that there was this sort of poetic, real beauty to dying on Ash Wednesday,

00:09:01.920 this day when we are to contemplate our mortality.

00:09:04.540 And Rush clearly did that, not just because he got sick, but he was thinking about his faith for a long time.

00:09:10.020 And he faced it with such courage because I think he had a vision of the life beyond.

00:09:16.020 New York Times, not quite as effusive in their praise of Rush Limbaugh.

00:09:21.020 I was hesitating even to read the negative comments about Rush.

00:09:26.300 But I just, you know, from a distance, I just have this sort of suspicion that he might have gotten a kick out of it.

00:09:33.060 You can tell a man by his enemies and Rush had all the right enemies.

00:09:36.460 New York Times headline, Rush Limbaugh dies at 70.

00:09:39.160 Turned talk radio into a right-wing attack machine.

00:09:43.120 Is that what he did?

00:09:43.980 Just a few choice quotes from the New York Times obit.

00:09:48.960 With a following of 15 million and a divisive style of mockery, grievance, and denigrating language,

00:09:54.580 he was a force in reshaping American conservatism.

00:09:57.800 That's true.

00:09:59.200 How divisive.

00:10:00.400 The most popular radio host in America, New York Times, runs a hit piece as their obit.

00:10:05.700 And they accuse him of being divisive.

00:10:07.180 They accuse him of mocking people.

00:10:09.160 They accuse him of grievance and denigration.

00:10:12.180 Denigrating language.

00:10:13.120 Okay.

00:10:14.120 New York Times, he became a singular figure in the American media, fomenting mistrust, grievances,

00:10:19.700 and even hatred on the right for Americans who did not share his or his followers' views.

00:10:24.840 Pause for a moment.

00:10:25.520 Nobody in this country has done more to foment distrust and disdain for the American left than the New York Times.

00:10:38.140 Nobody.

00:10:38.560 Maybe they want to blame Rush Limbaugh.

00:10:42.100 No.

00:10:42.560 The lies, the distortions, the libel, that was all the times.

00:10:46.860 Rush Limbaugh called attention to it.

00:10:49.320 But that was all the times that did it.

00:10:51.060 He just didn't let them get away with it.

00:10:53.880 He pushed baseless claims and toxic rumors long before Twitter and Reddit became havens for such disinformation.

00:11:00.960 Pay attention to this.

00:11:01.660 Because what they're saying is, look, you all now were talking about how terrible Reddit is and all social media,

00:11:08.280 and we've got to regulate it and kick all the conservatives off of it. 0.99

00:11:12.220 Right?

00:11:12.420 And that's, they're pretending in a way that this is a unique evil.

00:11:15.980 We've got to come in and censor these apps. 0.97

00:11:18.780 Actually, New York Times is after a new app right now.

00:11:21.040 They're trying to censor it.

00:11:21.740 They're shocked that free speech is going on.

00:11:23.160 But they're kind of showing their hand a little bit here because they're saying, no, it's not just new.

00:11:29.320 It's not just Trump. 0.90

00:11:30.340 It's not just the neo-Nazis and the whatever silly terms they want to call conservatives today. 0.65

00:11:36.180 They say, Rush did this decades ago. 0.85

00:11:39.100 Oh.

00:11:40.200 Oh.

00:11:41.220 It's the same old story.

00:11:42.760 Same story, different day.

00:11:44.840 The same people who were trying to shut up conservatives 40 years ago trying to do the same thing now,

00:11:51.100 and they're trying to pretend that it's new.

00:11:52.160 And then this paragraph was really something else. 0.79

00:11:57.080 To detractors, he was a sanctimonious charlatan, the most dangerous man in America, a label he co-opted.

00:12:03.560 And some critics insisted that he had no real political power,

00:12:06.960 only an intimidating, self-aggrandizing presence that swayed an aging ultra-right fringe

00:12:11.860 whose numbers, while impressive, were not considered great enough to affect the outcome of national elections.

00:12:18.560 But then they don't say anything about his admirers.

00:12:21.360 So they say, you know, to his detractors, he was this.

00:12:24.420 Ordinarily, if you were to use that phrase, you would say, and to his admirers, no, New York Times won't even do that.

00:12:28.240 I mean, they go on, they attack his appearance, they attack all sorts of things.

00:12:32.040 I say, well done, Rush, well done.

00:12:36.380 Oh, my goodness. 0.69

00:12:37.320 If I could ever earn the scorn from these derelicts and degenerates of the New York Times that Rush Limbaugh earned, 0.75

00:12:46.800 oh, my goodness gracious, I would feel that I had really accomplished something.

00:12:50.380 I would be, that is something really to be proud of.

00:12:54.000 I know pride, deadly sin, queen of all sins, don't want to think about that sort of thing.

00:13:00.880 But I would take great comfort if I were Rush Limbaugh and if I were Rush's family

00:13:06.400 in the unmitigated disdain, not even with a pretense of trying to be polite or civilized about it,

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00:14:45.440 The New York Times is not the only outlet celebrating the death of Rush Limbaugh.

00:14:49.180 We're hearing this from all sorts of blue check marks all over Twitter in all various fields.

00:14:54.740 And it is proven true again and again, the more and more of these that you read,

00:15:01.620 that a man can be judged by his enemies.

00:15:04.660 My absolute favorite one is from somebody named Charlotte Clymer.

00:15:09.500 Charlotte Clymer is an individual who has a lot of followers on social media and makes a big show on these platforms. 0.99

00:15:16.680 I'll tell you more about Charlotte at the end.

00:15:19.200 Just take a listen. 1.00

00:15:20.820 Rush Limbaugh was a coward and white supremacist. 1.00

00:15:24.260 He aggressively and cynically exploited divisions in our country by weaponizing hatred and bigotry for his own personal gain. 1.00

00:15:32.540 Charlotte sounds really loving, huh?

00:15:34.620 Not at all full of hatred or bigotry.

00:15:36.700 No, really loving.

00:15:38.100 Then, here's the money line.

00:15:39.580 If Rush Limbaugh deserves credit for anything, it is his pioneering work in spreading disinformation

00:15:45.460 and directly enabling our nation's current state of vast distrust of experts

00:15:50.280 and spurning of good faith in the public discourse.

00:15:53.840 He will not be missed by rational adults.

00:15:55.720 Now, what you need to know to really appreciate this attack on Rush Limbaugh,

00:16:02.160 this attack that Rush was known for spreading disinformation,

00:16:07.300 for taking away people's trust in experts, for spurning good faith discourse,

00:16:14.480 Charlotte Clymer is a man who pretends to be a woman.

00:16:19.180 And, moreover, he is the communications director for the pro-abortion group Catholics for Choice,

00:16:27.240 which is a contradiction in terms.

00:16:29.260 It is not possible to be a Catholic.

00:16:33.720 It is not permissible to be a Catholic and support abortion.

00:16:37.620 The Church does not permit that.

00:16:40.480 Catholics for abortion is not, it is a contradiction. 0.61

00:16:46.620 You can't have it. 0.95

00:16:47.460 But, he, a man whose entire public persona is deception, is a lie,

00:16:58.140 attacks Rush for spreading disinformation.

00:17:03.300 And, you know, there are many experts out there who say that men can be women and women can be men.

00:17:07.640 There are many experts out there who say that Catholics can support abortion,

00:17:12.280 can disregard the Church's 2,000-year teaching on this issue.

00:17:17.460 The experts would be wrong.

00:17:20.040 Probably good to distrust those.

00:17:21.320 If those are the experts, then I'm glad we are not trusting those experts.

00:17:25.720 Spurning of good faith in public discourse, says someone, pushing lies and deception.

00:17:30.380 We will not be missed by rational adults.

00:17:32.460 Show me the rational adult.

00:17:33.960 I'm looking around.

00:17:35.020 I don't see very many.

00:17:35.900 Beyond Mr. Clymer, we have Cameron Caskey, who is sort of the lesser known of the David Hogg people, you know, of the young pro-gun control people.

00:17:49.160 Cameron Caskey tweeted out, quote,

00:17:52.340 Rush Limbaugh has passed on, but worry not, his memory lives on through bigots everywhere.

00:17:59.520 That's right.

00:18:00.400 Now, I mentioned Cameron.

00:18:02.140 It's not because he's particularly well-known, but because I think he's actually revealing something about these people who are attacking Rush.

00:18:10.200 Namely, it's not about Rush.

00:18:13.680 Just like the attacks on Trump were not really about Trump, the stomping, you know, dancing on Rush's grave is not really about Rush.

00:18:22.420 It's about the people that Rush spoke to, and what that means is it's about the conservative movement.

00:18:30.880 Rush Limbaugh had an audience of, I think, 25 million, something like that.

00:18:35.580 It's a lot of people.

00:18:38.120 This fellow, Cam Caskey, says that all those people are bigots.

00:18:42.760 You know, people who admired Rush are bigots.

00:18:46.080 This gets to what we've been hearing since the election.

00:18:49.600 75 million Americans, they don't just disagree with you.

00:18:52.620 They don't just happen to be conservative. 1.00

00:18:53.900 They are Nazi, white supremacists. 1.00

00:18:57.380 They need to be censored, silenced, and ostracized from society. 0.99

00:19:01.380 There are going to be some squishes who call themselves conservatives, but not that kind of conservative.

00:19:07.340 You know, I'm a really serious, intellectual, elite, reasonable conservative.

00:19:13.300 I'm not like those Rush Limbaugh conservatives.

00:19:15.800 I don't think that all their sucking up and bootlicking to the left is going to keep them out of the gulags, 0.92

00:19:23.340 but neither here nor there, I'm not really concerned about how those people live their lives.

00:19:28.520 It's really for the rest of the conservatives out there to remember, this is all about you.

00:19:34.680 Rush took a lot of the brunt of it.

00:19:36.040 He's taking some of the brunt of it now, but this is about you. 0.99

00:19:38.440 Beyond these sort of silly people mouthing off on Twitter, you get another silly person mouthing off on Twitter, 0.98

00:19:44.300 but he's got a big credential, Scott Shapiro. 0.97

00:19:47.200 No relation, I hope, I don't think so, to my colleague, Ben.

00:19:53.040 He's a professor at Yale Law School.

00:19:55.300 This is the top law school in the country.

00:19:57.900 Do you know what he writes on Twitter?

00:19:59.500 He says, I wouldn't say I was happy that Rush Limbaugh died.

00:20:02.760 It's more like euphoria.

00:20:06.040 That's not just some edgy tweeter, you know, some guy with a TV show or a podcast or a radio show or something.

00:20:13.880 No, that's a law professor at what is considered to be the most prestigious law school in the entire country,

00:20:22.760 saying I was euphoric.

00:20:25.800 First of all, that I was euphoric that a man died.

00:20:28.000 Second of all, that I was euphoric that a countryman, a fellow countryman died.

00:20:32.320 And third of all, he was euphoric because of what?

00:20:35.220 Because of Rush's political views.

00:20:37.080 It's not because of the cut of Rush's jib, not because of his beard, not because of the polo shirts he wore.

00:20:44.140 It's because he's a conservative.

00:20:46.220 What does Scott Shapiro think about his students?

00:20:49.500 What does Scott Shapiro, what do so many of these guys think about all the rest of us?

00:20:55.700 Trump and Rush, you know, in many ways very different.

00:21:02.460 They approached politics from a different angle.

00:21:04.840 You know, Rush's approach to politics was probably more systematic.

00:21:10.080 It was more rooted in political philosophy, more rooted in political history.

00:21:17.020 Trump, it was all gut, right?

00:21:18.660 He comes from the world of business.

00:21:20.440 He didn't come from the world of politics.

00:21:22.220 But in many ways, these guys were kindred spirits.

00:21:27.000 And Trump recognized this.

00:21:28.920 And he made his first appearance on a network show since he left the White House to call in to a TV network and pay tribute to Rush.

00:21:40.120 Three or four days ago, I'd call him just to find out, you know, his his fight was very, very courageous.

00:21:46.320 And he was very, very sick.

00:21:48.440 And, you know, from diagnosis on, it was just something that was not going to be beaten.

00:21:53.000 But you wouldn't know it.

00:21:54.860 And he is married to an incredible woman, Catherine, who really every time I spoke to him, he he would tell me how great she was.

00:22:03.020 She took such great care.

00:22:04.860 He was very brave.

00:22:05.700 I mean, he, in theory, could have been gone four months ago, really.

00:22:10.260 He just he was fighting till the very end.

00:22:13.140 He was a fighter.

00:22:14.600 A really touching tribute from President Trump.

00:22:17.660 You know, President Trump is sort of known for his off the cuff remarks.

00:22:20.800 And sometimes he says things that are not totally politic.

00:22:23.620 I remember when he was posthumously awarding, I guess it was the Medal of Freedom to Antonin Scalia.

00:22:28.680 You know, he clearly didn't know terribly much about Scalia.

00:22:31.280 So he's kind of reading it in the moment, he says, and Scalia is survived by his wife and his 10 kids.

00:22:37.120 10 kids.

00:22:37.740 Wow.

00:22:38.080 Oh, man, I knew I liked that guy.

00:22:39.560 You guys were busy, huh?

00:22:41.360 It's one of my favorite Trump lines.

00:22:44.360 But probably not appropriate if you're eulogizing somebody or something like that.

00:22:48.900 And here, what does Trump say?

00:22:50.160 He goes, I called the guy.

00:22:51.080 He was such a fighter.

00:22:51.980 He so loved his country.

00:22:53.020 I'm really pleased that the former president did that, called in to pay tribute to him.

00:23:00.960 He gave him such a wonderful honor at the State of the Union when he awarded Rush the Medal of Freedom in that room.

00:23:06.920 And I'm so glad he did because it drove the Democrats crazy.

00:23:11.480 I bet it drove some Republicans crazy.

00:23:13.700 And most of all, because Rush deserved it.

00:23:16.000 That's a great use of the term or of the Medal of Freedom.

00:23:19.620 Guys like Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are much, much, much more representative of true conservatism, whatever you want to call that. 0.71

00:23:31.100 It's a term that's often invoked by liberal rats like the Lincoln Project. 0.79

00:23:35.980 You know, they say, we're the true conservatives.

00:23:37.680 Now, give us money so we can elect Democrats.

00:23:39.840 But it's invoked by those guys.

00:23:42.920 But there is a sort of truer or deeper, more substantive conservatism in America.

00:23:47.780 And Trump and Rush are much more representative of that than basically all of the think tankers and the talkers and the politicians who call themselves right-wing put together.

00:23:59.420 With some exception.

00:24:00.720 But basically put together.

00:24:02.860 And the way you can tell is if you look at the way that the left goes after them.

00:24:09.460 Not even in just one isolated moment because one or two things, but year after year as their influence grows and grows, they attack them and they attack them and they attack them.

00:24:22.280 When the golden EIB microphone goes silent, as it has, it's, you know, I suspect it's not so sad for Rush.

00:24:31.760 I suspect he's at his eternal reward and we can pray that that's the case.

00:24:34.600 Very sad for those of us who will miss him because it's not just his voice that is disappearing from the country.

00:24:42.180 But he was a spokesman for so many of us.

00:24:46.040 And the left could never crack him.

00:24:47.940 You know, they really never managed or they tried so many times.

00:24:50.980 But they are going to try to do that now.

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00:27:06.720 Welcome back to the show.

00:27:09.240 The silencing of the golden EIB microphone, the Rush Limbaugh show,

00:27:14.700 is going to cause an increase in the censorship regime that was already going on.

00:27:21.180 Because Rush spoke for a lot of people who did not have the ability to speak on a large platform for themselves.

00:27:28.540 The New York Times is already expressing this desire of the left-wing establishment to shut up ordinary people.

00:27:35.580 New York Times has a headline about this new app, Clubhouse.

00:27:42.940 Clubhouse hasn't been around that long.

00:27:44.620 I'm on the app.

00:27:45.500 I haven't used it very much.

00:27:46.600 It's kind of nice, though.

00:27:47.500 You basically join into these different groups, and it's audio-based.

00:27:51.140 It's not text-based.

00:27:52.620 So on Twitter, you know, everyone says really mean things because they're all behind a computer screen.

00:27:56.080 You know, it's sort of an alienating process when you're communicating only through words.

00:28:03.200 You don't have to hear the inflection in someone's voice.

00:28:06.660 You don't need to see the look on their face.

00:28:08.020 So people tend to be pretty mean on Twitter.

00:28:10.100 I find people aren't that mean on Clubhouse because it's audio-based.

00:28:15.360 However, it would appear that this free-flowing conversation that's going on on Clubhouse is too much for the left to handle.

00:28:23.420 New York Times tweets out, quote, unfettered conversations are taking place on Clubhouse,

00:28:28.240 an invitation-only app that lets people gather in audio chat rooms.

00:28:32.780 The app has exploded in popularity despite grappling with concerns over harassment, misinformation, and privacy.

00:28:39.880 Concerns?

00:28:40.480 Whose concerns?

00:28:41.300 Sounds like the concerns of the New York Times.

00:28:43.900 They're worried about unfettered conversations.

00:28:47.940 Think about the state of American journalism, specifically of American liberal journalism.

00:28:54.340 That conversations might be unfettered.

00:28:59.780 You know, I'm a conservative.

00:29:01.500 I actually do think some things are out of bounds.

00:29:05.740 I'm with the founding fathers on this topic.

00:29:08.560 I think things like fraud, obscenity, maybe we should have some regulations on those.

00:29:15.800 I am not, as has become a sort of very popular phrase in the last, I don't know, three or four years, a free speech absolutist.

00:29:23.060 I'm not.

00:29:24.080 I'm an absolutist for free speech in the American tradition, and those are different things.

00:29:29.140 I support the American tradition of free speech, which I think is fabulous.

00:29:35.560 But I don't believe there's any such thing as totally absolute free speech.

00:29:38.960 This is a finite world, and we're not going to permit things like fraud, like threats, like, you know, so on and so forth.

00:29:46.600 But the liberals have always said, we're for free speech.

00:29:49.100 They had the free speech movement at Berkeley to destroy all the old social norms in this country.

00:29:53.780 They insist that burning the American flag is absolutely 100% protected free speech, no matter what the American legal tradition said before.

00:30:01.800 They brought this to the Supreme Court.

00:30:03.360 But now the liberals are showing their hands.

00:30:05.780 They're saying, no, we don't.

00:30:08.220 Unfettered conversations?

00:30:10.380 No way, buddy.

00:30:11.720 We're the speech police.

00:30:13.520 We're the ones who are supposed to tell you what you're allowed to say.

00:30:17.960 They tried to shut down Rush Limbaugh.

00:30:20.080 They obviously tried to shut down Donald Trump.

00:30:22.560 They said, this is too much.

00:30:24.780 You're not allowed to say those sorts of things.

00:30:26.460 You're only allowed to say what we want you to say and do what we want you to do.

00:30:29.520 Another person, another liberal elite that typifies this point of view, Bill Gates.

00:30:37.740 Now, I'm not one for Bill Gates' conspiracy theories.

00:30:40.360 You know, there have been a lot of Bill Gates' conspiracy theories. 0.98

00:30:43.180 For instance, some people say that Bill Gates wants to kill babies in Africa.

00:30:47.760 I'm not one for conspiracy theories.

00:30:50.240 I'm one for listening to what Bill Gates says, and then when I hear his own words, I believe him when he describes his own views. 0.98

00:30:57.040 One goal that he describes, of course, is that he wants to kill babies in Africa. 0.97

00:31:02.580 He wants to increase abortion in Africa. 0.99

00:31:04.580 He wants to increase the use of contraception.

00:31:07.040 He wants to curb the growth, specifically, of Africa and the third world. 0.99

00:31:11.460 But he's very concerned about overpopulation, which is a discredited and preposterous and anti-human and wicked sort of concept to be worried about.

00:31:19.540 He says that.

00:31:20.600 That's not a conspiracy theory.

00:31:22.300 He talks about that openly, as do many liberal elites.

00:31:24.780 So I don't like this guy, generally.

00:31:27.580 I don't like him because I think his moral vision is wrong and perverse.

00:31:32.740 And maybe, you know, he came to it honestly.

00:31:35.060 Maybe it's, you know, it's an honest mistake.

00:31:36.660 We all, we're all seeing him imperfectly.

00:31:40.860 So I hope that he turns it around.

00:31:43.200 I hope that he changes his mind, repents, that sort of thing.

00:31:45.700 But as of now, this guy is a perfect encapsulation of the elite liberal view.

00:31:54.060 And as such, he says very terrible things.

00:31:56.480 And one of those very terrible things, you might think it's trivial, but I actually don't think it is.

00:32:02.680 He wants to take away your beef.

00:32:05.960 He does.

00:32:06.700 I know this sounds like a Bill Gates conspiracy theory.

00:32:09.660 Bill Gates wants to take away your hamburger.

00:32:11.320 He does.

00:32:11.720 He just said that.

00:32:12.520 He said that he wants to take away your beef.

00:32:15.360 He said, quote,

00:32:16.640 I don't think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic beef.

00:32:21.280 I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.

00:32:26.880 So he's saying, yeah, poor countries, they're not going to be able to afford synthetic beef.

00:32:31.880 But rich countries can, meaning fake meat that's grown in a lab somewhere.

00:32:36.840 And not only can they do that, but they should do that.

00:32:39.600 Why should they do that?

00:32:40.700 I don't know. 1.00

00:32:41.140 Because Bill Gates, while he's a sales genius and was able to sell a lot of computers in the 90s, is a moral idiot. 0.99

00:32:48.600 I mean, there's no reason to believe that Bill Gates has any sort of sophisticated understanding of philosophy, ethics, morality, theology. 0.99

00:32:59.160 He's just sort of saying stuff.

00:33:00.780 But because he's really rich and full of himself, he believes that he is capable of pontificating on these sorts of subjects that he knows nothing about.

00:33:11.900 Why should they move to synthetic beef?

00:33:14.200 Well, because, I'm just guessing here, because, you know, it's bad to kill the animals.

00:33:20.040 Why is it bad to kill the animals?

00:33:21.160 I don't know.

00:33:21.340 They never seem to explain that.

00:33:22.280 And because, you know, the methane from the cows, it's going to cause global warming.

00:33:28.340 What's global warming?

00:33:29.160 Is that really going to kill us all?

00:33:30.480 When's it going to kill us?

00:33:31.240 12 years?

00:33:31.780 18 months?

00:33:32.880 Is it going to kill us before global cooling kills us in the 1970s?

00:33:35.980 Is it going to kill us before the essentially moderate weather that's happened since the late 1990s?

00:33:41.840 Is that going to?

00:33:42.360 I don't know.

00:33:43.140 They never explain it.

00:33:44.100 But it is going to kill us.

00:33:45.020 That's why we've got to switch to synthetic beef. 0.84

00:33:46.840 And Bill Gates adds, quote, you can get used to the taste difference.

00:33:52.280 And the claim is, they're going to make it taste even better over time.

00:33:56.180 Oh, good.

00:33:56.640 The fake meat's going to taste better over time.

00:33:58.540 And you can get used to it.

00:34:00.660 You can get used to it.

00:34:02.560 So do it.

00:34:04.920 You have to.

00:34:05.760 Now, you'll notice, he's using these terms here, you know, they should do this, they should do that.

00:34:10.300 But more than he uses those kinds of terms, he uses the terms of inevitability.

00:34:17.200 He'll say, this will happen.

00:34:19.300 This won't happen.

00:34:21.800 Because for Bill Gates, like all progressives, he believes that he understands the science of history, the science of politics, and it's going to move in his direction.

00:34:31.840 And if you don't like that, well, that's too bad.

00:34:34.540 Oh, you've got your little constitution, your little self-government?

00:34:36.960 Well, too bad, buddy, because I know the way the future is going to move, and it's going to take your hamburger away.

00:34:42.860 And there's nothing you can do about it.

00:34:44.800 Bill Gates expresses the same view on jobs and energy.

00:34:48.740 You know, the left-wingers, like Bill Gates and other liberal elites, have decided that they're going to take away jobs in the energy sector.

00:34:58.940 Joe Biden promised he wouldn't do it, but at other times he promised he would do it.

00:35:02.200 We all knew he was going to do it, and now he's done it.

00:35:04.760 He's taken away jobs in the fossil fuel industry, for instance.

00:35:08.960 So Bill Gates was on a TV show, and he was asked, hey, what do you say to the millions of people who are losing their jobs in the energy industry?

00:35:16.320 Bill Gates has soft consolation for them.

00:35:19.420 What happens to the 2.8 million Americans that are working in the oil and gas industry?

00:35:25.040 This is a 30-year transition, and there's lots of clean jobs that can be created in those same locations.

00:35:33.820 A total number of jobs will actually go up.

00:35:36.920 There may be some places there's dislocation, and so as we budget, we have to think about those affected communities,

00:35:43.500 as well as funding the innovation and deployment.

00:35:46.960 Who the hell is we?

00:35:48.380 Who is we as we decide how we're going to take away millions of jobs, and we decide how?

00:35:53.740 Who is the we, Bill?

00:35:55.460 Does Bill think he's speaking for the American people?

00:35:57.560 Of course not.

00:35:58.520 The American people don't want to take away millions of energy jobs. 0.61

00:36:01.800 That's why Joe Biden had to lie to them before the election and say, I'm not going to go after fracking.

00:36:06.060 I'm not going to go after fossil fuels.

00:36:08.240 And then what does he do?

00:36:08.920 He immediately goes after them.

00:36:09.980 Which, those of us who had been listening for a while, we all knew that.

00:36:14.140 But the fact that he lied shows that's not popular.

00:36:16.280 So who is we, Bill?

00:36:17.340 We, I think, are these self-appointed benevolent bettors, the liberal elites, who are going to usher in the new age,

00:36:23.580 and there's just nothing you can do about it.

00:36:26.420 Yes, well, there's going to be some displacement.

00:36:29.460 But, well, you know, but it's a 30-year transition.

00:36:33.180 What 30-year transition?

00:36:34.380 I didn't sign up for any 30-year transition, and I didn't appoint Bill freaking Gates to utterly transform the American energy sector over 30 years.

00:36:45.020 When did I vote for that?

00:36:46.300 When did anybody vote for that?

00:36:49.120 None of us did.

00:36:50.880 But this is the way the blob works.

00:36:53.100 And when I talk about the blob or the liberal elite, I'm talking about the dominant regime that, I guess, right now expresses itself through the elected politicians,

00:37:02.400 because Democrats have unified government.

00:37:04.160 It expresses itself through the administrative state, the bureaucracy.

00:37:07.280 It expresses itself through the universities, through technology, and, generally speaking, with some exceptions, through the richest Americans.

00:37:17.080 Isn't that weird?

00:37:17.700 Do you remember how the Republicans are supposed to be the fat cat party of the billionaires?

00:37:21.280 Well, how come most of the richest people in America are Democrats?

00:37:24.740 Isn't that weird?

00:37:25.760 Doesn't that seem a little weird?

00:37:26.760 No, not really, because the liberal regime is the dominant regime.

00:37:30.540 It is the power in America.

00:37:32.580 It's where the power goes.

00:37:35.840 This should not be normal.

00:37:37.700 By the standard of the Constitution, not normal.

00:37:41.700 By the standard of at least much of American history, not normal.

00:37:44.860 By the standard of what we tell ourselves about the way our society works and our government works, not normal.

00:37:50.720 But this is the new normal, according to many left-wingers.

00:37:55.060 Actually, Jen Psaki, our favorite current White House press secretary, Jen Psaki admitted this.

00:38:00.640 She was asked a question.

00:38:01.440 She said, you know, 15 days to slow the spread.

00:38:03.700 We're getting on a year now, and there's no end in sight to these lockdowns and the masks and all this crazy nonsense.

00:38:08.960 When is life going to get back to normal?

00:38:10.660 Jen Psaki shrugs her shoulders. 1.00

00:38:12.180 This is the question, as I'm sure is the case for all of you, that every neighbor, every friend, every family member asks, at least me in the street when I'm walking my dog in the morning.

00:38:22.880 We want to be straight with the American public, though.

00:38:25.460 It is, we are not in a place where we can predict exactly when everybody will feel normal again.

00:38:30.240 And it has, there are a number of reasons.

00:38:32.180 One is, even though we will have enough doses for every person in this country, as you all know, because we've talked about it in here, vaccine hesitancy remains a challenge.

00:38:42.280 We need to ensure that everybody who can get a dose is getting a dose.

00:38:47.740 We will also need to be masking for some time.

00:38:50.500 We will also need to be still taking social distancing measures.

00:38:53.140 So, you know, there is, of course, is an understandable question.

00:38:57.620 And I think the president wants things to return to normal, as we all do.

00:39:02.220 But we don't know at this point what that timeline is going to look like.

00:39:06.960 The president does not want us to return to normal, because if he did, he would just do it, because he has political power, because we theoretically have self-government and we theoretically elected this guy president.

00:39:17.380 So, if he wanted to, he would, but he isn't, because he doesn't.

00:39:22.300 We do not need to mask.

00:39:24.520 We do not need to social distance, an Orwellian term, if ever there was one, a contradiction in terms. 0.90

00:39:29.540 We do not need to do any of this silly nonsense.

00:39:33.460 We've had epidemics before, many harsher epidemics than the coronavirus. 0.94

00:39:38.780 We haven't reordered society in the way that these psychos are reordering.

00:39:43.940 Do you know how we can return to normal?

00:39:45.320 No, we can just stop listening to the exalted Dr. Fauci, peace be upon him, the world leader, you know.

00:39:54.040 We can just stop listening to all of these self-appointed elites in all the dominant regime.

00:40:02.060 Unfortunately, they have a lot of power right now.

00:40:03.940 They have a lot of way of lording that over us.

00:40:06.780 Jen Psaki did this thing that is so frustrating.

00:40:09.260 You've probably experienced this if you want someone to apologize to you, and the person, they know they should apologize, but they can't quite bring themselves to do it.

00:40:21.280 So, for instance, they'll come to you and they'll say, hey, I'm sorry if you feel offended.

00:40:26.600 I'm sorry if you feel hurt.

00:40:28.640 You say, you don't apologize for my feelings.

00:40:32.200 You can't control my feelings.

00:40:33.800 You can control what you did.

00:40:36.400 So, apologize for what you did or don't apologize for what you did.

00:40:40.320 But don't give me this mishimao.

00:40:42.800 That's what Jen Psaki is doing. 1.00

00:40:45.880 The question is, when can Americans expect to get back to normal?

00:40:50.240 We were told 15 days to slow the spread.

00:40:52.480 That seems like that was back in the, I don't know, in the Roosevelt administration at this point.

00:40:58.240 It seems so long ago.

00:40:59.420 15 days to slow the spread.

00:41:01.000 When can we expect to get back to normal?

00:41:02.900 And she says, well, you know, we just don't know when people can feel normal again.

00:41:07.100 Don't tell me how I'm going to feel.

00:41:08.420 I don't need you to worry about how I'm going to feel.

00:41:12.640 Normal is not a feeling.

00:41:14.460 Normal is an objective reality.

00:41:18.900 Muzzling yourself with filthy cloth all the time and not being able to see people's smiling faces

00:41:25.160 and having to, and not be able to understand what people are saying.

00:41:29.980 That's not normal.

00:41:31.380 It's increasingly becoming normal, I'm sorry to say.

00:41:33.900 But it's not normal.

00:41:36.000 Not being able to see your loved ones.

00:41:37.440 Not being able to bury your dead.

00:41:38.880 Not being able to go have weddings.

00:41:41.040 Not being able to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas.

00:41:43.320 That's not normal.

00:41:44.340 It's increasingly becoming normal because that's what the liberal regime wants.

00:41:49.440 But that's what we're asking.

00:41:50.840 When can we get back to that?

00:41:52.020 And the answer, Jen Psaki, she's getting better at evading questions. 1.00

00:41:55.320 She sort of gave the answer here.

00:41:59.160 When are we going to get back to that normal, the normal that we all consider to be normal?

00:42:04.460 We don't.

00:42:05.920 We don't get to do that.

00:42:07.320 We will never get back to that if the dominant liberal regime is liberal elites in all various industries, up to and including Joe Biden.

00:42:18.640 If they get their way, this is the new normal.

00:42:22.760 Seems pretty abnormal to me.

00:42:27.640 I don't want you to think that I am hyperbolic here when I say that the current rules that we're living under, the masks and the social distancing, whatever that means, that this is a grave threat to our way of life.

00:42:44.760 Maybe, Michael, come on.

00:42:48.640 This will just be a temporary measure.

00:42:50.660 Come on.

00:42:51.040 We're all in this together.

00:42:52.120 We're together apart.

00:42:53.180 Or whatever other creepy contradictions they want to make us all spout.

00:42:56.480 This is what the liberal regime prefers.

00:43:02.960 There was a video that just came out.

00:43:04.700 Unfortunately, there was a hidden camera in some restaurant, some bar, of an L.A. health inspector.

00:43:11.220 L.A., one of the worst-run cities for coronavirus, and also, they're not just the worst run in terms of the spread of the virus, but they're also the worst run in terms of the psychos who are enforcing rules there.

00:43:20.980 So, this L.A. health inspector shows up, shuts down this bar, and then, as she's doing it, she does a little dance. 0.99

00:43:31.760 You can see through the security footage, she's dancing around, you know, moving her hips, shaking around. 1.00

00:43:43.920 Now, I don't want to read too much into just this one video clip.

00:43:50.880 It's pretty damning stuff, but maybe, I don't know, I don't know what was going on in her head.

00:43:55.240 Maybe she was just, maybe she's just a nut, and she just has to spontaneously start dancing in public. 1.00

00:44:00.600 If so, you know, not the best bedside manner for a regulator who's throwing people out of work.

00:44:05.880 But, I do know that normal is a choice.

00:44:13.180 Norms are a choice. 0.91

00:44:14.400 In many ways, what political correctness is, what wokeness, or, you know, whatever term you want, is, is a new set of norms.

00:44:22.800 Actually, I explore this topic in my upcoming book, which you can pre-order right now, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:44:28.460 What political correctness does is replaces the old moral norms with new norms of speech.

00:44:33.760 So, you're replacing the standards, and it's also, you're taking the focus from actions to words.

00:44:40.480 What, what this woman did to go shut down this business, that was wrong of her to do, whether she danced or not. 1.00

00:44:46.800 It's an arbitrary exercise of power.

00:44:50.000 It should not be done right now.

00:44:52.220 And, I don't think any of us need to be reminded, that woman gets her paycheck, regardless.

00:44:58.780 This woman goes in, shuts down a place of business, puts workers out of their job, probably puts the owner, you know, if this goes on long enough, out of his job. 1.00

00:45:12.920 And, she gets her paycheck.

00:45:14.660 And, she gets to dance on back down the street, back to her office.

00:45:18.360 What is Joe Biden doing for businesses?

00:45:21.960 And, I'm not talking big business, which is, in many ways, not so different from big government.

00:45:27.340 Conservatives are finally beginning to wake up to that reality.

00:45:30.640 What is Joe Biden doing for these small businesses?

00:45:33.720 Poor Jen Psaki, Biden's spokesman, doesn't have much of an answer. 1.00

00:45:38.280 What is President Biden doing for my small business?

00:45:40.800 First and foremost, he nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration.

00:45:44.560 Stop. Stop right there, please.

00:45:49.480 This is sad, but it's also very funny.

00:45:52.600 It's sort of like you laugh or you cry with this sort of thing.

00:45:56.720 Because, they don't have, what is he doing for my small business?

00:45:58.540 The answer is nothing.

00:45:59.920 But, the way that Jen Psaki expresses nothing is, what is Joe Biden doing for my small business?

00:46:05.500 He nominated a woman to some post or whatever.

00:46:09.200 Oh, cool.

00:46:12.160 Can you answer my question, please?

00:46:13.780 Please, I truly could not possibly care less that the sex of the person that Joe Biden 0.97

00:46:23.220 nominated to some stupid bureaucratic role, that's probably not going to do very much for 0.99

00:46:27.300 American business. 1.00

00:46:28.460 I don't care that he nominated a woman. 1.00

00:46:30.400 I don't care if a woman is ever, ever nominated to whatever stupid bureaucratic post they're talking 1.00

00:46:38.040 about. 1.00

00:46:39.100 I do care about the state of American business.

00:46:42.560 I do care that people are allowed to run their businesses, they're allowed to keep at

00:46:49.200 least a little bit of what is theirs, that people are allowed to work, that people are

00:46:53.120 allowed to go to these restaurants and bars and go to these businesses, that they can go

00:46:58.140 out and have a functioning society.

00:47:01.120 How are you doing that, Joe Biden?

00:47:03.260 We don't really have an answer.

00:47:04.420 I'm afraid we don't really have an answer on that.

00:47:07.860 And Frank, you know, I'm knocking Jen Psaki because she, you know, is not very good at 1.00

00:47:14.680 her job at being a spokesman.

00:47:15.980 But she's really not much worse than Joe Biden.

00:47:18.960 In many ways, she's better than Joe Biden.

00:47:20.280 Joe Biden just recently did a town hall and he managed to put his foot in his mouth again.

00:47:26.920 And this quote, I think, sums it all up.

00:47:30.020 Joe Biden said that everyone knows he prefers kids to people.

00:47:38.060 Good to be back, man.

00:47:39.240 Yes, nice to see you, sir.

00:47:41.880 And you know you enjoy being home with a baby more.

00:47:44.700 And I don't want to hear that.

00:47:45.620 I do, yes.

00:47:46.720 He's nine and a half months, so I'm very happy.

00:47:48.380 I get it.

00:47:48.640 No, no.

00:47:49.320 Everybody knows I like kids better than people.

00:47:51.260 I saw a picture of you with your grandson recently.

00:47:52.940 That's right.

00:47:53.400 So, this is actually a very telling comment.

00:47:58.700 Telling in many ways.

00:47:59.620 One, Joe is obviously senile and not capable of doing the job.

00:48:03.240 And increasingly, the Biden administration is empowering Kamala Harris, which is a story

00:48:10.300 unto itself.

00:48:11.960 Is Joe not all there?

00:48:13.540 Really what they're, they're really just empowering the bureaucrats. 0.97

00:48:17.820 Also, that Joe Biden doesn't consider kids people, right?

00:48:21.520 If he's making a distinction between kids and people, which would explain his outrageous

00:48:25.720 support for abortion, blasphemous support for abortion, given his protestations that

00:48:30.300 he's a, in his profession, that he's a devout Catholic.

00:48:33.680 But, but, of course, if you don't consider kids people, then it makes a lot more sense.

00:48:38.860 But even on what he's saying here, he says, you know, I always like kids better than people.

00:48:42.860 Let's say he meant to say adults or something.

00:48:44.880 And Anderson says, oh, I saw a picture of you with your grandkid.

00:48:47.160 I saw you.

00:48:47.740 I read a story about you playing video games with your grandkid.

00:48:49.800 We covered that on the show.

00:48:50.560 So, Joe Biden doesn't like kids better than adults.

00:48:53.120 I think, you know who I think might disagree with the claim that Joe Biden really, really

00:48:56.080 likes kids?

00:48:57.060 His grandchild that he refuses to acknowledge.

00:49:00.480 This story, I can't believe that people haven't given this more airtime.

00:49:04.340 I can believe it with the mainstream media, but not with conservatives.

00:49:07.200 Joe Biden has a grandchild that was conceived and born out of wedlock, and he refuses to acknowledge

00:49:12.900 the grandchild.

00:49:13.580 That's very callous.

00:49:14.440 That's very cruel.

00:49:16.320 That, not such a great guy.

00:49:18.720 Not such a great guy.

00:49:20.560 You know who was a great guy?

00:49:22.500 Rush Limbaugh.

00:49:23.200 That's who.

00:49:23.900 And I'm very sad that he's gone, but it seems, we see a little glimmer of the providence in

00:49:31.220 the way that Rush went, in all that we get to have taken from his life and career.

00:49:36.760 We'll be praying for him.

00:49:38.900 We'll be praying for the country.

00:49:40.380 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:50:37.040 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, Rush Limbaugh passes away and the online left celebrates.

00:50:41.020 The Biden administration has literally no idea what the hell they are talking about when

00:50:44.800 it comes to reopening schools.

00:50:46.080 And we learn from the Washington Post that spraying gorilla glue in your hair is yet another

00:50:50.500 legacy of systemic racism.

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 18, 2021

Ep. 703 - Talent On Loan From God

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