The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 712 - Biden Stumbles

00:00:00.000 A brief glimmer of hope in an otherwise terrible news cycle, Republicans have successfully

00:00:05.480 torpedoed one of Joe Biden's most radical nominees. That would be Neera Tanden, former head 0.99

00:00:12.600 of Center for American Progress, who was up to be the director of the Office of Management and

00:00:18.400 Budget. Senator Rob Portman, Republican, decided to read her her own record in an explanation of

00:00:26.340 why the senators probably were not going to vote to confirm her.

00:00:30.020 You wrote that Susan Collins is, quote, the worst, that Tom Cotton is a fraud, that vampires

00:00:38.540 have more heart than Ted Cruz. You called Leader McConnell Moscow Mitch and Voldemort, and on

00:00:47.380 and on. I wonder specifically, how do you plan to mend fences and build relationships with

00:00:52.540 members of Congress you have attacked through your public statements?

00:00:57.620 Senator, I very much appreciate that question. I recognize the concern. I deeply regret and

00:01:05.660 apologize for my language and some of my past language. I recognize that this role is a bipartisan

00:01:13.160 role, and I know I have to earn the trust of senators across the board. I deleted tweets

00:01:19.900 because I regretted my tone, and I've deleted tweets over many months. I, so, but for those

00:01:26.820 concerned about my, my rhetoric and my language, you know, I, I'm, I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for any hurt

00:01:35.100 that they've caused. I bet she's regretting them now because Neera Tanden has withdrawn her nomination 0.87

00:01:41.020 for OMB. Finally, we get a little bit, just a little bit to halt the radicalism of the Biden administration.

00:01:49.280 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:58.740 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Idaho Man 54, who says,

00:02:03.940 Dr. Seuss's new book is, Oh, the Places You Won't Go Because You're Canceled. That one's, you know,

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00:03:28.080 to get 10% off. Neera Tanden is gone. This is a big win. In the broader scope of the Biden

00:03:37.920 administration, we're still going to get a ton of radical policy, but this was a big win.

00:03:44.620 This was a Republican saying, this is a line we will not cross. Notice here that Neera Tanden says,

00:03:51.960 look, I regret it, I regret this, and I deleted a lot of these tweets. Right. She deleted those

00:03:58.080 tweets when she was seeking a nomination in the Biden administration. There are two reasons to

00:04:06.480 delete tweets. One, because you actually regret what you said, and two, because you fear some

00:04:13.280 consequence from what you said, even though you still believe it. I rarely delete tweets. I can count

00:04:19.080 on one hand, I think the number of times I've deleted tweets. And when I've deleted tweets,

00:04:24.780 it's because I've actually regretted something. There's one tweet that I actually still feel bad

00:04:29.560 about. It was back during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing and Tommy Lauren, the conservative commentator

00:04:34.720 was saying things that I thought were quite wrong and I disagreed with vehemently. And I sent out a

00:04:39.160 really mean tweet about Tommy Lauren and I felt bad about it because I don't think that's the way

00:04:44.320 people ought to behave in public. And so I deleted that tweet. I didn't delete the tweet because I

00:04:48.820 thought Tommy Lauren was going to nominate me to the office of management and budget or something

00:04:52.360 like that. And I, I, it wasn't because I feared that sort of a consequence. It's because I felt bad

00:04:57.240 about it. Which way do you think Neera Tanden was going when she deleted those tweets? Do you think

00:05:03.220 it's because she actually regretted saying all those terrible things about Cruz and Susan Collins

00:05:08.320 and all these people, or do you think it's because she knew that that was going to be very difficult

00:05:13.480 if she was insulting the people she was relying on to confirm her to this office? And so she was

00:05:19.120 trying to get ahead of the story. Notice also, notice also that Republicans torpedoed her here, 0.97

00:05:26.960 not over her radicalism. This woman was leading an extremely radical organization in this country. 1.00

00:05:33.220 She has espoused very radical points of view, but it wasn't about that. It was because she

00:05:40.000 attacked them personally. Had Neera Tanden not gone personally after these senators, I, I suspect she

00:05:47.460 would be in the position already. I suspect they would vote to confirm her. So I am glad that we can

00:05:54.620 play on the vanity of elected politicians to kick out one of the worst nominees, but it's not going to

00:06:01.800 matter much for the more politically astute nominees in the Biden administration. They're

00:06:06.240 not going to have that long tweet record. They're not going to have personally insulted all the people

00:06:10.660 that they're trying to convince to, to vote for them. So they're going to get through. Notice too,

00:06:15.660 what, what Tanden said about OMB. She said, the office of management budget is a bipartisan role.

00:06:23.840 If I could strike that word from the English language, I would like to do that. There is no such

00:06:28.960 thing as bipartisan. Partisan means that you are exclusive. You are with this party. You are not

00:06:37.000 with the other party. Bipartisan doesn't make any sense. I think what she means to say is nonpartisan.

00:06:45.920 So she, what she wants to say is the office of management budget. Look, I might be a partisan

00:06:49.580 Democrat, but, but the OMB is a nonpartisan role. There, there is such a thing as nonpartisan,

00:06:57.860 but the whole idea of nonpartisan depends on where the culture stands, right? Because what

00:07:04.000 nonpartisan means is it's the sort of thing we can all agree on the sort of thing that serves the

00:07:07.880 common good. And we all sort of agree on that common good. And would Neera Tanden have done that?

00:07:14.320 Would Biden have done that? Probably not. But even in theory, there are plenty of things that were

00:07:20.640 nonpartisan in the past that now are partisan. A clearest example of this probably is the American flag.

00:07:25.820 The American flag was something that both parties would wave. Even though Democrats were soft on

00:07:31.660 communism and they're pretty radical starting in the sixties and seventies, we would all still

00:07:36.400 wave the American flag, right? Recently, the American flag has become a partisan symbol.

00:07:41.620 Democrats now regularly protest the American flag. They protested on football fields. They protested in

00:07:48.340 political situations. If you see an American flag, if someone's got an American flag in the back of their

00:07:53.800 car, can you draw a conclusion about that person's political party? Absolutely. Of course you can.

00:08:01.200 99 times out of a hundred, that's going to be a Republican driving that car.

00:08:04.820 So that's a symbol. It used to be nonpartisan. Now it is partisan. While nonpartisan symbols are

00:08:10.680 becoming partisan, partisan symbols are becoming nonpartisan according to the way that the culture

00:08:15.660 is moving further and further to the left. Most egregious example of this just happened the other day

00:08:20.300 in the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy has released a new mandatory training on eradicating extremism.

00:08:28.480 In this training, the U.S. Navy claims that Black Lives Matter is a nonpartisan organization.

00:08:37.260 The way this came out is because they give examples of sort of questions you might ask

00:08:41.480 about propriety in the military. One question, one example question is,

00:08:46.240 my boss is always talking about Black Lives Matter in the workspace. Isn't that political stuff that

00:08:51.700 they're not supposed to be talking about at work? I'm going to stop there for a second. The obvious

00:08:55.780 answer is yes, it is. It not only is it political stuff, it's subversive, explicitly Marxist stuff

00:09:03.680 that seeks to undo the American nation. So yeah, probably they shouldn't be talking about that in

00:09:09.800 the U.S. military. Here's the answer the Navy gives. Advocating for or against a public policy

00:09:15.520 issue as here is authorized as long as the behavior is otherwise lawful and the advocacy is not

00:09:21.700 politically partisan in nature. Implication being that BLM is not politically partisan. First of all,

00:09:27.680 organizations that seek to dismantle our entire American system should not be permitted in the

00:09:35.060 workplace, should not be permitted in the government, and certainly should not be permitted

00:09:40.000 in the U.S. military. So that's a problem in general. But even on this narrower point,

00:09:49.060 BLM is nonpartisan. I guess that's the case. This is what the Democrats have done very successfully.

00:09:54.580 They've taken contested, controversial political points of view, and they've mandated them. I mean,

00:10:00.840 now if you say that, this is the example we always go back to because it's the most ridiculous one.

00:10:05.060 If you say that a man is not a woman, you are deemed not just, not just a common sense person,

00:10:12.000 which is what you actually are. You're not even just deemed a partisan. You're deemed a hateful

00:10:15.640 bigot who ought to be ostracized from society because that kind of bigoted language has no place

00:10:21.100 in America, mister, if you think that men shouldn't be allowed to go use the little girl's room.

00:10:26.240 We, we got rid of near a tandem. That's, that's great. But the radicalism is still here. This training

00:10:34.860 in the Navy goes on, it, quote, prohibits any member of the Naval services from participating

00:10:40.300 in any organization advocating supremacist causes. What is a supremacist cause? I don't,

00:10:46.440 I don't know what, I think that the U.S. Navy is an American supremacist organization, right?

00:10:50.400 It exists to kill our enemies. That's it. That seems like a supremacist cause. I think you got to

00:10:54.880 get a little more specific here when you're talking about these words. It prohibits any member from

00:11:00.680 participating in an organization advocating illegal discrimination. Notice the qualifier here. Not

00:11:06.500 any organization advocating discrimination. Illegal discrimination. Illegal discrimination

00:11:14.300 would be, for instance, if a college or university disadvantaged black and Hispanic applicants. That

00:11:21.920 would be illegal discrimination. It would be very legal discrimination if it, if that same college

00:11:28.220 university disadvantaged white and Asian applicants. Because some racial discrimination is not only

00:11:35.420 protected by law, but mandated by law. So the Navy says, no, the legal racial or otherwise

00:11:42.240 discrimination, totally fine. Probably mandatory. The illegal discrimination, no thanks. Or advocating

00:11:49.020 the use of force or violence against the U.S. government or a state government. Has to say that

00:11:53.420 because that is still the law. That's been the law for many, many decades in this country.

00:11:58.220 The radicalism though, still here. Jen Psaki, our favorite White House press secretary who is

00:12:06.420 currently the White House press secretary. People are attacking her for doing a very bad job. And she's 1.00

00:12:11.420 not as talented as her predecessors, Kayleigh McEnany, Sarah Sanders. I mean, these were really

00:12:16.040 tough ladies who got up there, knew their stuff. Kayleigh famously brought binders with lots and lots of 1.00

00:12:21.160 answers. And they would give usually direct answers to questions. Jen Psaki hasn't been doing that in 0.99

00:12:29.940 part because maybe she's just not as good at her job as her predecessors were, but also in part because 0.74

00:12:35.460 the Biden administration's policies are so radical. They are so unlike anything that we've seen in this

00:12:41.860 country before that if she were to give a direct and honest answer to it, that would really put her boss

00:12:48.400 in a lot of hot water. The most recent example of this just came yesterday. It was a simple question.

00:12:54.900 We know Joe Biden is very pro-abortion. Would he go so far as to force doctors who have a

00:13:01.340 conscience objection to abortion to perform an abortion? Jen Psaki can't answer that question. 0.98

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00:13:44.740 delivered. I love these White House press briefings because you learn so much more from the non-answers 0.78

00:13:55.420 than you learn from the answers. She's not going to answer the question directly. Okay,

00:13:59.780 try to read between the lines. Listen to what she's not saying here in this answer.

00:14:03.760 There's pro-life groups right now very concerned about the phrase pregnancy discrimination in the

00:14:09.580 Equality Act. You're familiar with that, I'm sure. That it would force doctors to perform abortions

00:14:14.220 even if it violates their conscience. There are also concerns the bill would force doctors to perform

00:14:20.420 gender transition surgeries and sterilizations again even if it violates their conscience. What

00:14:26.080 does the president, President Biden, say about those concerns? The president's been a long supporter

00:14:32.220 of Roe v. Wade. It has been his consistent belief that should be law and he will fight to continue

00:14:38.800 to protect that as being law. Conscience concerns is not a concern of his? I think, again, I'm just

00:14:45.120 going to state what the president's policies are. Did you have another question? Will President Biden

00:14:49.300 keep the conscience and religious freedom division at HHS, the office that was put in place under

00:14:54.260 President Trump, will he keep it in place to receive conscience complaints from those doctors?

00:14:58.560 You'll have to talk to a future Secretary Becerra once he is confirmed.

00:15:04.140 The smugness here, the condescension makes the already egregious answer even worse,

00:15:09.840 where he says, hey, is Joe Biden seriously going to make Catholic doctors perform abortions? Or not

00:15:16.320 just Catholic, any doctor who opposes killing babies in the womb? She goes, well, you know, 0.82

00:15:21.500 it's the policy and the gobbledygook and the doop-a-dee-pa-dee. She could have just been up there

00:15:25.840 reading Dr. Seuss. She can't be reading Dr. Seuss now, of course, because he's canceled. But she

00:15:29.500 could have been reading the phone book. She's just sort of stonewalling the answer. And she goes,

00:15:33.240 okay, so that's it. That's the policy. Do you have any other questions? He goes, yeah. All right,

00:15:38.740 here's a specific law that will prevent you from doing that. Is he just not going to care about

00:15:43.500 that whatsoever? He goes, well, you're going to have to save that question for the secretary.

00:15:48.320 Sorry. But yes, Joe Biden is going to force doctors to butcher babies against their own

00:15:56.360 conscience. He's going to do that because, and we can be confident that he's going to do that

00:16:02.060 because he's the same guy who sued nuns over the nuns' refusal to provide contraception and

00:16:11.540 abortion-inducing drugs. Mr. Moderate Joe Biden, any nominees that we can take away from this guy,

00:16:20.780 any appointees that we can shoot down, works for me. That we cannot have any confidence as some

00:16:28.680 very misguided Republicans, very small minority of Republicans, but some misguided Republicans said

00:16:33.760 before the election, oh, Biden, he'll be kind of moderate. Don't worry about him. He's not. He probably

00:16:39.280 has no idea what's going on. We'll get to that a little bit later, but his administration is the

00:16:44.580 most radical administration we've ever seen because we're living in the most radical culture we've ever

00:16:49.360 seen where even Dr. Seuss is not safe from being canceled. Six books by Dr. Seuss will no longer be

00:17:00.860 published. Those books are, and to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, actually, these are books

00:17:07.220 that I haven't really read of Dr. Seuss's. They're kind of smaller books, though I love Mulberry Street.

00:17:11.920 I kind of wish I had that book. If I Ran the Zoo, Nick Elegott's Pool, On Beyond Zebra, Scrambled Eggs

00:17:20.020 Super, and The Cat's Quizzer. These Dr. Seuss books, probably the most beloved children's author ever in the

00:17:27.680 history of the United States. They're banned because they have insensitive and politically correct

00:17:34.320 depictions of cats or something. I don't know. I haven't read them. Universal Islands of Adventure

00:17:41.360 theme park, which is located in Florida, is now getting rid of the Dr. Seuss-themed area of the

00:17:48.380 park in light of the new cancellation of certain Dr. Seuss books. I tried to buy these Dr. Seuss books

00:17:57.900 for my cute little baby, sweet little newborn June. Wanted to make sure that he had access to Dr. Seuss.

00:18:03.680 When he was a kid. You can't find them. If you go on Amazon and other places, these books,

00:18:09.600 the remaining supply are selling for like $2,000 right now because they know they're not going to

00:18:14.720 be produced anymore. The left is thrilled about this. Washington Post defending the cancellation

00:18:21.680 of Dr. Seuss. This is Philip Bump writing for the Washington Post. I don't know who Philip Bump is.

00:18:27.140 Now they don't include a biography of him. The headline, if curtailing racist imagery

00:18:32.420 in Dr. Seuss is cancel culture, what exactly is your culture? It's a bunch of nonsense, but

00:18:40.600 the lines that matter. No one is canceling Dr. Seuss, a phrase by now so detached from reality that it

00:18:46.300 doesn't even make any sense. The author himself is dead for one thing, which is about as canceled

00:18:50.660 as a person can get. Uh, not true. If you believe in heaven, you damned heretic, but nevertheless, 1.00

00:18:57.020 I digress. The vast, vast majority of his books, the ones without racist images or references will

00:19:03.720 still be sold. The ones without racist images. You sure about that? Isn't I'll pause there

00:19:09.480 by the way that the term racist has been expanded in recent years, expanded to mean absolutely nothing

00:19:17.980 at all. The charge that he makes about the phrase cancel culture. Do you really think

00:19:23.020 that any of our past is safe from cancellation? I don't. I think everything is going to be called

00:19:29.760 racist or if they finally deprive the word racist of all meaning, which I think effectively they

00:19:34.720 already have, they'll just come up with a new term. You already see they posted supremacist

00:19:39.680 nationalists now is a bad term. They're just going to cancel every, you really, if you can cancel Dr.

00:19:45.780 Seuss. Do you really think they're going to stop with a few books of Dr. Seuss? But this fellow at

00:19:51.140 the Washington Post goes on. If Dr. Seuss's profile wanes a bit as a result of the attention being paid

00:19:58.080 to his drawings, the only form of canceling at play here, to whom is harm being done? Can't be to Dr.

00:20:04.140 Seuss because he's already dead. The harm is being done, of course, to our culture. But this guy goes on.

00:20:11.320 Seuss's caricatures are hurtful anachronisms. Anachronisms, right? So he's, what he's saying

00:20:17.020 is it's not that they're wrong and evil. He's saying they're just outdated. He's, this guy is

00:20:20.740 taking a progressive view of history. So he's actually kind of already giving up the game.

00:20:25.280 He's saying they're anachronisms, meaning things from the past are bad and you got to get rid of

00:20:29.320 them. So he's undercutting his own argument that other things from the past will be fine. And no,

00:20:33.600 they're, they're anachronistic. They're from the past. The past is bad.

00:20:36.920 It's a progressive view of history whereby we have to kill our forebears, kill the culture that

00:20:43.160 we've inherited, kill this great gift that we've been given down through the ages to move into the

00:20:47.680 future, which will liberate us. What's more, until a few weeks ago, my son didn't know this book

00:20:52.040 existed. So where's the harm in his not seeing its images? Why would anyone think it is less

00:20:56.500 problematic for a kid to be exposed to racist caricatures of African or at a different point

00:21:01.460 in this book, Asian people than for him not to be? This isn't some toxic cancel culture.

00:21:09.160 If it were, what would you say? What would that say about the culture that you're defending?

00:21:14.280 So he's saying, look, it's not cancel culture. He's, he's undercutting his argument immediately.

00:21:18.820 Says this isn't cancel culture, but we're going to cancel all that bad old culture. And what,

00:21:24.080 are you going to defend it? What are you, a racist or something? Right? This,

00:21:28.040 this isn't cancel culture, but if it were, are you a racist? You're sure not going to defend it,

00:21:33.480 are you? There is no limiting principle here. This is another aspect of our culture and political

00:21:39.340 correctness specifically that Trump got 100% right. And everybody made fun of him at the time. You

00:21:44.560 remember when, when he was defending Robert E. Lee statues, there's a big left-wing hubbub to take

00:21:49.520 down Robert E. Lee, who is one of the noblest men to ever fight for a bad cause, right? Robert E. Lee,

00:21:56.740 the idea that Robert E. Lee was some kind of vicious man is preposterous. It's anti-historical.

00:22:04.320 And the idea that we need to erase half of our country or more than half of our country,

00:22:08.600 probably wasn't. I don't think the left just wants to erase the South. I think they want to

00:22:11.900 erase the entire traditional American nation. It's crazy. So he said, okay, you're, you're going

00:22:18.740 after Robert E. Lee now. And some people aren't going to defend him because he fought for the mean old 0.95

00:22:22.260 Southerners. You really think they're going to stop with Robert E. Lee? No, I think they're going

00:22:27.160 to go after Lincoln. They're going to go after Jefferson. They're going to go after Washington.

00:22:32.580 And people laughed at him and they mocked him at the time. And then what happened within a year or two,

00:22:38.000 left-wing agitators started pulling down statues of Jefferson and Washington and Lincoln,

00:22:44.600 renaming schools, erasing our culture. I don't even care that much about Dr. Seuss. I mean,

00:22:53.420 I liked the cat in the hat and a few of the Dr. Seuss books. I enjoyed them when I was a kid. I

00:22:56.620 intend to read them to my kids. He, he was a very talented children's book author, even though he

00:23:02.720 was a liberal Democrat, by the way, that's fine. It's okay. I can have my disagreements with the

00:23:06.440 children's book author. The person who suffers when you cancel these guys, it's not Dr. Seuss.

00:23:15.180 He's enjoying his eternal reward, either up above or down below, not for me to know.

00:23:20.160 The people who suffer are us because the books are good and they're, they are nice for children

00:23:26.420 and they show us something. They're artistic. They are, they delight little children as they have for

00:23:33.540 decades. And what people like this humorless nut in the Washington post and the left-wingers who

00:23:41.740 want to get rid of Seuss because of racism, whatever that means these days, what they are

00:23:47.720 doing is taking away that delight specifically from children. They're actually, it's like the next,

00:23:52.640 they're going to be taking candy away from children and they're defending it based on their preposterous

00:23:57.740 theories, but there is no limiting principle. We're all going to lose it. All that lovely art,

00:24:01.560 all those wonderful things about our culture that we cherish, it's gone by the principles that they

00:24:06.200 are advocating. Ben is going to be speaking about this Dr. Seuss issue in, on his show today,

00:24:11.520 talking about the modern day book burning, which is digital. And I guess the publisher is actually

00:24:15.540 just not putting out Dr. Seuss. Also, you have to check out Ben in the Daily Wire's newest series,

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00:24:43.360 on over to Daily Wire. We'll be right back with a lot more. Dr. Seuss is being canceled. This is an

00:24:59.680 example of a bad cancellation, but you know, I have said many times on this show, I think cancel culture

00:25:07.020 is not the most helpful phrase because in the words of William F. Buckley Jr., I'm an epistemological

00:25:13.660 optimist. It's a very tedious phrase, which means that I don't think the culture should be totally

00:25:18.680 open. I think it should be closed to certain ideas. I think it should be ordered toward good things and

00:25:23.660 it should discourage bad things. So there are bad cancellations like Dr. Seuss, but there are good

00:25:29.020 cancellations like the one that's going on right now to Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo, I think is being

00:25:34.620 canceled for politically convenient and largely contrived reasons. He's, they, they conveniently

00:25:40.800 have discovered sex scandals that all seem very vague. And in some cases, the people who are being

00:25:45.880 implicated in them are explicitly saying, I did not feel that this was sexual harassment, but really

00:25:50.680 that's just an excuse to cancel him because he threw thousands of elderly New Yorkers into dangerous

00:25:57.180 places with the coronavirus. Then he knew about it. Then he covered it up. Now he's under a federal

00:26:01.520 probe. Bill de Blasio, a radical Democrat in New York is taking the opportunity to pile on to Andrew

00:26:09.660 Cuomo and hopefully end his political career. First of all, it's sickened me. It's sickened me.

00:26:16.780 The thought of a powerful man trying to take advantage of his power, intimidate a young woman,

00:26:24.260 you know, and just the sense of like, he was treating her like, you know, again, these are

00:26:31.920 allegations and we need a full investigation. But if that was what truly happened, it was like he

00:26:37.740 was treating her like she was his property. I just disgusting, creepy. And, you know, I had seen so

00:26:48.080 many situations where he was abusive to people in a profound way, not just raising your voice,

00:26:54.000 profoundly abusive. A lot of folks use the word torture with him. You've seen this personally,

00:27:00.840 Mayor? I've seen him not in the sense of sexual harassment. I've seen him be abusive in a way that

00:27:08.840 would not be accepted by anyone else in leadership. So more vague allegations. He goes, yeah,

00:27:15.840 yeah, yeah. He's been abusive. And the radio host says to the Bolshevik mayor of New York City,

00:27:22.740 he says, hold on, you've seen the specific behavior that we're talking about. He goes,

00:27:26.040 well, you know, yeah, it's just abusive. It's bad. It's bad behavior. And so he's got to go.

00:27:33.160 I don't, I don't particularly have a dog in this fight. To me, Cuomo versus de Blasio is like the

00:27:38.140 Mensheviks versus the Bolsheviks. New York is so far gone at this point that I'm not interested. 0.83

00:27:45.500 I will say Cuomo, if you've got to pick between arsenic and cyanide, Cuomo is a far more preferable

00:27:52.200 choice to de Blasio. Cuomo is a kind of old school machine Democrat, whereas de Blasio is an actual

00:28:01.180 true believing radical, really radical, far, far leftist. So they're all going after Cuomo now.

00:28:08.680 Fine by me. I don't mind if Andrew Cuomo's political career goes down. I do though think that we should be

00:28:13.940 a little more honest about it with ourselves and not give into this idea that because somebody makes

00:28:21.920 an allegation that Cuomo handed a reporter an Italian sausage at a fair several years ago that

00:28:29.440 that constitutes rape or something. I just think, I think those kind of, the me too arguments against

00:28:34.180 Andrew Cuomo seem to me a little vague right now. I haven't seen a lot of evidence for it.

00:28:38.240 The real crime is what he did on coronavirus and we should not let him forget it. I'm a little worried

00:28:43.660 that the more we talk about the so-called sex scandal, the less we're talking about the actual

00:28:48.520 scandal, which is his abuse of power in the coverup of his COVID policies and the policies themselves,

00:28:55.440 which were extraordinarily deadly. Another guy getting canceled right now, another politician,

00:29:01.300 Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France. Nicolas Sarkozy was a more conservative president

00:29:08.980 after years and centuries, I guess, of left-wing governance there. Sarkozy was found guilty of

00:29:15.720 corruption and influence peddling on Monday. He was sentenced to three years in prison. He probably

00:29:20.300 isn't going to serve that. He'll probably, you know, some will be taken off and then he'll probably

00:29:25.860 get house arrest, but still he'll be, he'll be sentenced to that. He was found guilty of trying to

00:29:31.000 bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated,

00:29:35.840 according to the Associated Press. This is kind of typical political stuff. It doesn't seem like

00:29:41.420 anything Sarkozy did was, was particularly extraordinary. I'm going to take an unpopular

00:29:47.660 position in these populist days and say, I think it's bad when politicians are sent to prison after

00:29:55.600 their time in office, at least at the national level. I mean, there are some local,

00:29:59.780 more local guys who are crooks and they, they need to pay for it. But I think it's bad for the

00:30:04.520 country when leaders of the country go to prison. I recognize that conservatives had a good time

00:30:10.400 chanting, lock her up, lock her up. But I don't think anyone seriously thought that Hillary Clinton 1.00

00:30:13.840 was going to go to prison. When Trump made that line in the debate, he says, yeah, you don't want

00:30:18.200 me to be president because you'd be in jail. You know, it was a good line, but everyone's laughing

00:30:22.060 about it because no one's, no one's really taking it seriously. I think the left now probably does want to

00:30:26.760 throw Trump in an orange jumpsuit, but we'll see if that actually happens. Biden has backed off of

00:30:30.860 that as well. It's just ugly. It's, it's banana Republic stuff. And I'm not saying that politicians 1.00

00:30:38.500 at the highest level sometimes don't deserve criminal punishment or to go to prison or

00:30:43.780 something. They do. I'm just saying that it is worth it for the people to give them a little more

00:30:49.800 leniency because it reflects so badly on us. It reflects so badly on the people themselves. It

00:30:56.100 really degrades the government. I think Biden is awful. I think he is one of the most notorious

00:31:01.940 liars in American politics. I think he is pushing radical policies that threaten to undo the entire

00:31:08.300 country. I don't think we should throw him in the clink. One, because he wouldn't know where he was. I

00:31:13.480 guess that would maybe make his prison sentence a little easier. He'd just wake up in the morning and

00:31:16.680 say, Oh, wow. Read, redecorated here. Huh? Okay. Well, I just go back to eating his porridge or

00:31:22.080 whatever. Uh, but, uh, I, I do think it would be bad if we were to throw these guys in prison. It

00:31:29.060 would just, it would so destabilize our political system more so perhaps than it already is,

00:31:33.040 but it would be elder abuse too. Joe Biden, Joe Biden is doing worse and worse each day. It's not

00:31:41.960 like the campaign was a big stress on him. Now he's president and he's evening out. He's,

00:31:45.920 he's forgetting what he's saying. He, he, he's not holding a lot of public appearances.

00:31:50.540 And a recent one explains why he, he can't even remember the names of people that he's reading

00:31:57.580 off a list. You're all being very polite. You're with me all day and it's dinnertime.

00:32:04.320 Good afternoon or almost actually it's evening. And, uh, I want to thank you, uh, governor,

00:32:10.880 miss Abbott for, uh, your hospitality and your friendship and, uh, representing Senator Cornyn.

00:32:18.760 I think he had to go back. Uh, I think he was getting on a plane. He told me a little last,

00:32:23.380 he came in to see me last event and representatives, uh, show Shirley Jackson, Lee, Al Green, Sylvia

00:32:32.220 Garcia, Lizzie Pennelly, uh, uh, excuse me, Pennell. And, uh, what am I doing here? I'm going to lose

00:32:41.240 track here. What am I doing here? We're losing track here. Maybe he should have given the press

00:32:47.440 conference at breakfast rather than in the evening. He's saying here it's dinnertime and

00:32:52.540 sometimes people do a little better in the morning as they get older than they do at night. That's

00:32:57.760 clearly what's happening here. Not even just that he forgets the names, not even just that he's so

00:33:02.180 slow and halting, but he's slurring his words. And I'm sure the Democrats are going to blame this on

00:33:06.800 the, the childhood stutter that disappeared magically for 65 years of Joe Biden's political

00:33:12.560 career, but then magically came back again when the 78 year old ran for president. Uh, but it's not a,

00:33:18.780 not a stutter. It's not ordinary politics. He's slurring his word. He sounds like a guy at a bar

00:33:24.860 after several drinks. That sort of thing happens when you get a little bit up there in age, but

00:33:30.760 this is not good stuff for the commander in chief. And what it means is we're in a position

00:33:38.900 that the, the younger, more able people in the administration are probably running things.

00:33:43.680 Joe Biden paid a visit to the Southern border, which he can't wait to reopen. He can't wait to

00:33:47.660 pull those, the little bit of wall that did go up. He's going to pull it down probably himself.

00:33:52.820 He and Kornpop are going to team up and rip the wall down. Joe Biden was asked by reporters,

00:33:57.760 Hey, Mr. Biden, what, what did you learn when you went down to the wall? His answer?

00:34:03.620 Pretty vague.

00:34:04.980 Did you receive a briefing about the border today?

00:34:08.060 Uh, yes, I did.

00:34:09.720 What did you learn?

00:34:11.040 A lot.

00:34:11.780 Is there a crisis at the border?

00:34:13.720 Oh gosh, it's even worse. That's right. It's not, it's not even that he went down to the

00:34:20.820 border. It's, he just received the briefing, right? So he should have the bullet points.

00:34:24.600 He should know, okay, I learned this, this, this, this. You got a briefing on the border.

00:34:28.660 Yeah. Uh-huh. What, huh? What time is it? Can I get out of here? Yeah. You got, what did you

00:34:33.320 learn about the briefing? Uh, a lot. See ya. Goodbye. I mean, that's a joke. If you were to

00:34:38.660 have a sitcom about the white house, that would be an answer. That is not a fair answer. If you were

00:34:44.260 the actual president. And I say all of this, not to make fun of Joe Biden, because I actually do

00:34:49.580 think it's sort of elder abuse. He's fair game because he chose to run for office and he's

00:34:54.140 inflicting a lot of damage on our country. And if you're going to be in politics, you have to be

00:34:58.500 able to take the punches of politics. But I, I point all of this out because no matter how much

00:35:04.800 he slurs his words, the guy is going to be effective. He's, he's going to be more effective

00:35:10.040 than Trump. Pains me to say that. And I, it's not even a personal attack on Donald Trump.

00:35:16.540 I think Trump did the best he could, but Donald Trump was fighting against the entire bureaucracy,

00:35:24.820 the entire media, many elected politicians and many people in his own party and many much

00:35:33.740 more experienced career politicians. So he was at a great disadvantage. Joe Biden has all

00:35:39.520 of those institutions working for him and Joe Biden has spent his entire life wielding power

00:35:45.940 in Washington. One thing that he's going to do, it's very simple. He is trying to root out all 1.00

00:35:53.400 the bureaucrats that were installed by Trump. And there actually weren't too many of them,

00:35:57.980 but he was, this, this was a, the way this is being reported in the news. Joe Biden has reportedly

00:36:02.740 attempting to sniff out federal bureaucrats installed by and loyal to his predecessor to purge the federal

00:36:07.460 government of Trump supporters. As well, he should, as well, he should. If I were a president,

00:36:13.700 first thing I would do would be to try to root out all of the partisans who pretend to be non-partisans,

00:36:20.440 but they're partisans working in the bureaucracy who could undermine my agenda. This was one of the

00:36:24.420 biggest challenges Trump faced and he never quite figured out how to overcome it. Maybe just because

00:36:28.800 the problem can't be overcome, which is that Trump gets elected. He's theoretically running the

00:36:34.060 government, but he's not really running the government because the government is run by

00:36:37.480 the executive agencies and the bureaucracy, which is going to be there long after Trump is gone.

00:36:42.440 And it's very hard to get rid of those employees. He got rid of a lot of them,

00:36:46.700 but so many more remain. I think of this example of just the Department of Homeland Security.

00:36:53.220 The Department of Homeland Security, which is a very new agency and it's just one agency among many in

00:36:57.760 Washington, has over 200,000 employees. I think it's closer to a quarter million employees.

00:37:04.060 It's just one agency. Think about how big that is. So what Biden is going to do is go in there and

00:37:10.480 try to pick out all of the Trump people because people are power in an administrative bureaucracy

00:37:18.960 and that's going to have long, long lasting effects. Speaking of administrative agencies,

00:37:24.700 I don't want this story to go down the memory hole. The left is going to try to do that and

00:37:30.720 they're already trying to do that. When Democrats impeached Donald Trump, what did they impeach the

00:37:37.560 second time? I'm sorry that I have to clarify. What did they impeach him for? They impeached him

00:37:42.560 for inciting a riot, an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. That charge was always bogus.

00:37:51.140 They didn't have evidence for it, but what was the key piece of evidence they presented?

00:37:55.060 Not to make a logical argument, but to tug on the emotional heartstrings. The key piece of evidence

00:38:01.660 was that an officer died because of the violent mob insurrection. Officer Brian Sicknick was killed

00:38:10.880 and they threw a fire extinguisher at his head. Then it turned out that wasn't true, even though it was

00:38:15.400 reported in the New York Times. It turned out it wasn't true at all. Then there were questions about

00:38:19.120 Officer Sicknick's death. Then his family said stop politicizing his death. Then it came out that

00:38:23.160 Officer Sicknick seemed to have been a Trump supporter. And then the story just kind of went

00:38:27.980 away. Well, FBI director Christopher Wray has investigated Officer Sicknick's very tragic death.

00:38:37.360 He says that they can't confirm a cause of death. There have been some reports that he died

00:38:43.760 of a stroke or some preexisting health condition.

00:38:46.380 This was the basis of the impeachment trial. We've now had an investigation, what, over two

00:38:54.600 months now, almost, and they can't confirm the cause of death. Other people who died that day

00:39:03.060 were not killed, it seems, by the violent mob, maybe in one case, but it's still sort of uncertain.

00:39:08.880 The only death that's very clear is the death of the Trump supporter, Ashley Babbitt.

00:39:18.440 What about the pipe bombs? Remember there were pipe bombs planted outside the RNC and the DNC,

00:39:24.540 I think maybe outside the Capitol too. We still don't know who planted the pipe bombs. DC is the

00:39:29.260 most surveilled state, city rather, in the entire country. What about that? When are we going to get

00:39:35.060 answers on these sorts of things? It seems like we're never going to get answers on these sorts

00:39:40.040 of things that we should, we should be able to get clear answers on. And more specifically, answers

00:39:44.320 on things that are being used as the primary propaganda for the left to push their agenda,

00:39:51.100 to continue to keep Washington DC practically under martial rule. It looks like it's a city

00:39:56.500 in under occupation in the Middle East or something like that, more than it does like an American city.

00:40:00.820 We're not getting answers to that. Is that incompetence or is that a power grab?

00:40:07.500 Seems, seems to me, I mean, I, I don't doubt the incompetence of the administrative agencies,

00:40:12.120 but this seems to me rotten and the mainstream media just don't want to cover it. Time to get past

00:40:19.880 this insanity, time to open back up our country.

00:40:23.660 Cynical politicians are using fears over the coronavirus lockdowns, fears over insurrection,

00:40:34.880 fears over this, fears over that, to take away our rights, to take away our traditions,

00:40:40.360 to take away the American way of life.

00:40:45.140 And it's just going on and on and on and on. Two weeks to slow the spread, 15 days to slow the spread.

00:40:51.340 We are now coming up at this month. We will be coming up on one year. There is no excuse anymore.

00:40:58.720 As far as I'm concerned, anybody who still supports locking down the country

00:41:03.300 ought to be removed from office, possibly tarred and feathered, and certainly run out of the country

00:41:10.800 on a rail. I'm sick of it. I don't want to hear it anymore. Any Republican, any Republican who says,

00:41:17.620 maybe we should still sort of lock down. I want them expelled from the Republican party.

00:41:23.040 Obviously, we have no say over Democrats. Democrats are using these methods,

00:41:26.580 but certainly Republicans don't need to help them. Well, finally, finally, finally,

00:41:30.500 some states are opening back up. Now, some states like Florida already doing an excellent job.

00:41:37.060 Ron DeSantis absolutely killing it down there. Finally, Texas, which I think should have opened up

00:41:42.200 a long time ago, is reopening to 100% capacity. The governor there finally decided to do it.

00:41:49.700 We turn now to Senator Cruz for reaction. Freedom!

00:41:54.960 My man, absolutely right. Freedom. I love it. That clip was from CPAC. And it's funny,

00:42:00.200 some on the left were kind of making fun of the clip of Senator Cruz. He was giving this sort of

00:42:05.960 broader articulate speech. And then he said, freedom. I love it. Yeah, good. I want all of our politicians

00:42:10.620 to be, freedom. I want them to be screaming at morning, noon, and night until these cynical

00:42:14.820 and sociopathic politicians reopen our country. Good news. Finally, better late than never.

00:42:20.500 Governor Abbott wished that this had happened sooner, but better late than never. I'm not even

00:42:24.900 going to criticize Abbott for not doing this sooner because I don't see any reason to have any sort of

00:42:31.820 infighting on this kind of an essential matter for a country. Just reopen the damn country. 0.98

00:42:40.620 Mississippi doing this too. Mississippi going even further. Mississippi was always kind of dealing

00:42:47.340 with the virus in a sort of more reasonable way than some of the crazier states. But the Mississippi

00:42:52.300 governor is saying no more mask mandates. Quote, starting tomorrow, we are lifting all of our

00:42:58.460 county mask mandates and businesses will be able to operate at full capacity without any state imposed

00:43:02.320 rules. Our hospitalizations and case numbers have plummeted and the vaccine is being rapidly

00:43:06.480 distributed. It is time. My man, Governor Tate Reeves. Terrific. So glad to hear that.

00:43:13.360 I also don't want to hear from Republicans anymore who tell us to wear the masks. I,

00:43:18.240 I, I have to wear the mask in very limited circumstances because we live in a extremely

00:43:25.260 corrupt regime, but that's the way it is. And the, the limited circumstance, I guess,

00:43:30.860 would be the airplanes. That's the one where you, you really can't do it. And so there might

00:43:34.700 be cases where I think, okay, do I need to go on this trip? If I don't need to, then I'm not going

00:43:38.640 to go on the flight because I don't want to wear the stupid mask. But if there's some cases where I

00:43:42.280 think, okay, I should go on this trip. I can use this trip to fight against this corrupt system.

00:43:49.640 I'll make a political calculation to wear the mask. Otherwise I am not going to wear a mask

00:43:55.500 any more than I have to. And the way that we can reduce the number of situations in which we have

00:44:02.520 to do is for Republicans to grow a spine. I know that will be very difficult for many Republicans

00:44:06.680 and to stop defending the masks, which are the symbol and an enforcement instrument of this

00:44:14.620 outrageous power grab that some of us knew a year ago was not going to only last two weeks.

00:44:21.580 But now I think we should all know as we come up on the one year anniversary,

00:44:24.600 get rid of it. This stuff is creepy and it is insane. Clearest, clearest portrayal of this

00:44:32.940 from the LA Unified Schools. LA Unified Schools has a video out to promote their new policies for

00:44:38.740 how they're going to reopen after COVID. Now we know from the science, capital S trademark over the

00:44:45.280 we know from the science that there is no medical reason for the schools to remain closed. The kids

00:44:51.060 don't really transmit it very much. The teachers and faculty are not at any particularly higher risk

00:44:56.600 of getting the virus. The reason that the schools are remaining closed is because corrupt left-wing

00:45:01.100 teacher unions are too lazy and they want to get a paycheck for doing nothing. So LA schools now are

00:45:07.700 pushing, how are we going to reopen? And so tell me this isn't the creepiest thing you've ever heard.

00:45:12.520 There's never been anything like this virus in our lifetime. Often it's hard to see the effects

00:45:18.240 it's having on our children. Has this conversation taken place in your home?

00:45:23.620 Mom, I'm scared about going back to school. I don't want to get sick and I don't want to get you

00:45:28.980 and dad sick. Our scientists tell us there are three things we must do to stay safe. Wear masks,

00:45:36.720 make sure we social distance, and wash our hands. And now your school, with the help of Microsoft

00:45:42.780 Corporation has created another. Introducing Daily Pass, your exclusive ticket for safely going back

00:45:49.940 to school. Each week, you can schedule your free on-campus COVID test. The results are displayed

00:45:55.700 in your Daily Pass. And if you choose to take your test off campus, you can post the results in your

00:46:00.940 Daily Pass. And the moment vaccinations are available, you'll simply be able to schedule yours through your

00:46:06.720 Daily Pass. But the real magic is your daily health check. Just answer a few simple health questions

00:46:12.860 every day, and like magic, your entrance ticket appears. It's so wonderful. Just give us access

00:46:20.600 to all of your medical data. And I don't know, send us some of your blood too. And then do-do-do-do-do.

00:46:27.000 Then we can all go back to school and give us all your rights and don't have any privacy anymore.

00:46:32.320 Does this ever happen in your home? Hey, mom, I'm really afraid of coronavirus. And I,

00:46:37.480 I'm so afraid of going to school. No, that doesn't happen because kids don't feel that way because

00:46:41.000 kids are at practically zero risk of this virus. And they all want to go back to school. And their

00:46:46.640 rates of depression, anxiety, suicide among kids has been going up because of these psycho politicians

00:46:53.060 and the technocrat in tyrants in lab coats, like Dr. Fauci, who are screwing up their lives over

00:46:59.300 nothing but a power grab. That's what's going on. Not that creepy video. It gets somehow,

00:47:04.240 somehow it's even creepier by the end. So how did it go? Dad, I have to admit I was scared at first,

00:47:12.360 but then I felt so safe. It was so good to be back. Thanks for keeping me safe. I love you so much.

00:47:19.780 What? If you're going to push this kind of creepy propaganda, can't you, I don't know,

00:47:29.880 get better dialogue, dialogue that doesn't send a chill up our spine? Thank you, Bill Gates. I mean,

00:47:34.500 daddy. Thank you, Dr. Fauci. Oh, daddy, daddy. I keep meaning to say daddy. Can I call him daddy

00:47:39.240 Fauci? Daddy, daddy, Dr. Fauci. No, this does not represent the situation that we find ourselves in,

00:47:46.680 and it doesn't represent the situation we want. That's the kind of radicalism that is being pushed

00:47:50.400 not by the fringes. It's being pushed by the liberal establishment. We need to head them off

00:47:54.760 and stop them every chance we get. If it's by shooting down a nominee to some office in the

00:47:59.140 government, if it's through elections, if it's through civil disobedience on our own in prudent

00:48:06.140 cases, such as going back, living our lives, seeing our families, taking off that dumb mask,

00:48:12.540 makes sense to me. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

00:48:15.260 FREEDOM!

00:48:45.260 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production, copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:49:10.860 The cancel mom's outrage has now extended to dead children's book authors. The director of the FBI

00:49:15.900 suspiciously refuses to provide any information about the death of Officer Sicknick. Texas lifts

00:49:20.500 all COVID restrictions. Meanwhile, Joe Biden says that maybe if we're lucky, we can get back to

00:49:25.060 normal next year. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - March 03, 2021

Ep. 712 - Biden Stumbles

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