The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 713 - Cuomo’s Close-Up Magic

00:00:00.000 Embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has broken his silence on sexual misconduct allegations.

00:00:07.200 He's still quiet about the thousands of senior citizens that he killed and the subsequent

00:00:12.000 cover up and the federal investigation into it. But he wants you to know that he is really,

00:00:16.860 really sorry about maybe hugging staffers. I certainly never, ever meant to offend anyone

00:00:26.740 or hurt anyone or cause anyone any pain. That is the last thing I would ever want to do.

00:00:38.620 I never wanted to cause anyone pain unless you're a senior citizen, in which case I want you dead. 1.00

00:00:45.180 I want your family dead. I want your house burned to the ground. I want to go there in the middle 1.00

00:00:49.900 of the night. I want to piss in the ashes. I'm Andrew Cuomo. This is The Michael Knowles Show. 0.99

00:00:56.740 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Heaton James,

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00:03:10.760 That is ring.com slash Knowles. Cuomo finally addressing these allegations. They have been

00:03:18.580 bubbling up for a couple of weeks now. They actually first came to light even longer ago. This idea that

00:03:26.840 maybe Cuomo was inappropriate. He said an inappropriate thing to a woman, right? It's all kind of very vague

00:03:32.380 stuff. But now it's really coming to a head just conveniently, just coincidentally, as we were

00:03:39.640 focusing in on the COVID scandal. The fact that Cuomo's policies directly led to the deaths of

00:03:44.820 thousands of elderly New Yorkers. And he knew about it. Crucially, he knew about it. He covered it up

00:03:50.640 and the feds were, and I suppose are looking into it. So Cuomo, he don't want to talk about any of that

00:03:57.080 stuff. So instead he talks about his behavior. And while he says, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause

00:04:03.440 anybody pain. He also provides some excuses, namely that it's perfectly ordinary to kiss everybody that

00:04:09.440 you see on the street. Uh, you can go find hundreds of pictures of me, uh, kissing people, uh, men,

00:04:18.520 women. It is my usual and customary way of greeting. So this is obviously an excuse. I've met Andrew

00:04:28.440 Cuomo twice in my life, and I can thankfully say he did not greet me in that way. The thing is,

00:04:35.040 there actually is some truth to this. I say this as a New Yorker. I say this as an Italian American.

00:04:40.180 I come from a very similar culture. I think actually the same town as Andrew Cuomo.

00:04:43.800 Uh, we're a little bit more, uh, physical. We're a little bit more, you know, we'll, uh,

00:04:49.960 hug people. It's obviously Italians in Italy do like the kiss, kiss, cheek, cheek. Uh, but it's, 0.90

00:04:56.620 we're, we're not as quite as standoffish as some other cultures. So sure. Now, does this mean that,

00:05:03.320 uh, Andrew Cuomo did not try to pick up his staffers, that he did not try to do anything

00:05:07.880 inappropriate? I don't know. I'm, I'm not sure. Frankly, I don't care that Andrew Cuomo kissed

00:05:14.880 hundreds of people. I care that his policies killed thousands of people and he covered it up.

00:05:21.460 That's what I care about. I've said this from the beginning, that this is a distraction. Now,

00:05:26.320 do I think this is a distraction contrived by the Cuomo team themselves? Do I think that there was

00:05:32.120 mastermind Cuomo sitting around saying, okay, I, I'm really in hot water on the COVID thing.

00:05:36.620 Let's distract. Let's have them start talking about some vague sex scandal. No, I don't think

00:05:42.820 so. I mean, it's possible. The guy is an absolute killer politician, so it's possible, but more likely

00:05:49.340 what it is, is that the Democrats pumped this guy up. They exalted this guy and they, they made him

00:05:56.480 the greatest COVID hero in the country. Absolutely implausibly. But if all you consume is the mainstream

00:06:00.980 media, then, then you would believe that. And then turns out that his COVID policies,

00:06:06.180 and by association, their COVID policies were a complete failure and Republican COVID policies,

00:06:15.100 like namely Florida governor Ron DeSantis, big success. And so now that this guy is really making

00:06:23.300 them all look bad, they take him out with some contrived sex scandal. That seems more likely to

00:06:27.720 me, but in any case, it is a distraction. There's no question about that. I knew it from the minute

00:06:31.940 that this scandal or pseudo scandal bubbled up. It also creates a problem for Democrats because

00:06:37.280 Democrats have been saying for years now that we need to support women and believe all women.

00:06:41.560 And the minute that any woman makes any accusation whatsoever because of her genetic quality that

00:06:48.380 prevents her from even being able to lie ever, uh, we, we have to believe her. But what happens when

00:06:54.080 the ladies accuse the Democrat men, they have to twist themselves into pretzels to explain their stance 0.97

00:07:00.560 on it? First, I fully support a woman's right to come forward. And I think it should be encouraged in

00:07:12.400 every way. Wow. That's really big of you, Andrew Cuomo. You support the right of women to, uh,

00:07:23.760 make accusations and try to get justice. Wow. Oh my gosh. Feminist of the year over here. 1.00

00:07:30.100 This guy thinks that women are entitled to the same rights as every American citizen. Wow. Incredible. 1.00

00:07:36.460 But he understands he might, he might not understand how he's coming across right now,

00:07:40.620 but he understands that he made some people feel uncomfortable. I now understand that I acted in a

00:07:50.160 way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional and I truly and deeply apologize for it.

00:08:03.560 I feel awful about it. And frankly, I am embarrassed by it. And that's not easy to say, but that's the

00:08:19.240 truth. But this is what I want you to know. And I want you to know this from me directly. I never touched

00:08:30.460 anyone inappropriately. I never touched anyone inappropriately. I want you to say it after me.

00:08:41.420 I never touched anyone inappropriately. Luca Brasi, get over here. Make sure that they repeat after me.

00:08:49.960 I never touched anyone inappropriately. Okay. The, the waterworks routine was not very persuasive

00:08:57.220 because Andrew Cuomo from the beginning of his political career has been a bulldog. He has been

00:09:02.840 a tough, tough dude ever since he was helping out his father, Mario Cuomo, another governor of New York

00:09:09.980 with presidential ambitions who ended up not running. Cuomo now carrying on the dynasty. So

00:09:16.780 it, it, it's not very persuasive when he says, I'm very embarrassed by it. I'm very humiliated.

00:09:23.480 He's trying to work up the waterworks. It doesn't really work. But then he gets to his point. He says,

00:09:26.780 this allegation is BS. You know, after this whole, I think we should listen to the women. They should 0.99

00:09:32.260 come forward. I'm this and that. This is a BS is what he's saying. And maybe it is, I don't know.

00:09:38.120 Maybe it is just a contrived attack that he's only suffering now because of the COVID scandal.

00:09:45.040 I strongly suspect it is because these vague allegations have been kind of floating in the ether

00:09:49.760 for quite a while. Democrats never cared about it until now. And then Andy Cuomo used the classic

00:09:56.720 democratic move. He made himself the victim. I have learned from what has been an incredibly

00:10:06.740 difficult situation for me as well as other people. And I've learned an important lesson.

00:10:17.740 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for whatever pain I caused anyone. I never intended it.

00:10:29.300 And I will be the better for this experience.

00:10:34.820 Will you be the better, Andrew Cuomo? I think you may be unemployed because of this experience,

00:10:40.080 because this isn't Republicans pushing this kind of thing. Republicans are pushing the COVID scandal,

00:10:48.080 which is the actual scandal. This is Democrats who have, who have obviously lost faith in you.

00:10:51.640 And what he's trying to show with this presser is that he is still in control here. He is not going

00:10:57.380 to be pushed out by the forces in his party that think that he really let them down, that he's going

00:11:02.240 to continue on his path because the guy has wanted to be president since he was two years old.

00:11:05.980 There's a biography of Andy Cuomo that came out about six years ago. It's called The Contender.

00:11:10.720 It's generally a quite, quite positive biography of him. But the point that it keeps coming back to

00:11:15.980 again and again is how tightly controlled Andrew Cuomo's press operation is, his images, and how

00:11:23.480 obviously this is all about him trying to run for president. Now that's seeming a little bit less

00:11:29.000 likely. Speaking of press conferences and presidents, you got to at least give Andrew Cuomo credit for being

00:11:34.080 able to go out there and face the cameras and try to set his own narrative. Joe Biden, not doing that.

00:11:41.380 Joe Biden now setting the record in modern history for the longest time a president has waited before

00:11:50.060 giving his first press conference. It's not only conservatives attacking him for this, even Jake

00:11:54.900 Tapper, who I think is, sometimes Jake Tapper I think tries to portray himself as the only honest guy in

00:12:01.720 the room and he just talks about the facts. Jake Tapper was a partisan Democrat. I really hate that

00:12:07.660 whole shtick and routine that he does. He is as left as they come in the mainstream, but he, he credit

00:12:15.420 where credit's due. He does go after Biden here. He says an analysis of the past hundred years shows

00:12:18.820 president Biden's 15 most recent predecessors all held a formal solo press conference within 33 days

00:12:26.080 of taking office. Biden has not. And it's a day 42. And I, I don't think Biden has any desire to do

00:12:34.400 that. Why? Because Joe Biden is not particularly persuasive when he was just giving a talk, a virtual

00:12:44.480 sort of zoom talk with members of Congress. And he had no idea basically what he was doing,

00:12:50.700 where he was. They ended up having to cut the feed from him. And I'm happy to take questions. If that's

00:12:55.540 you, I'm supposed to do, Nance, whatever you want me to do.

00:13:05.920 And there it goes. There it is. No, what we want you to do, Joe, is go away, sit, go watch TV in

00:13:11.560 your apartment. Meanwhile, the liberal establishment is going to be pushing radical, radical policies that 0.88

00:13:16.420 have not only transformed the country over the last year, but seem to be attempting to transform the

00:13:21.540 country in this radical, locked down way indefinitely. Biden was asked, not during a press conference

00:13:29.740 because he doesn't really do that sort of thing. He was asked though, well, he was just kind of

00:13:32.980 walking. He was in transit. What he thinks of the new normal, you know, we're now, we're now coming up

00:13:40.980 on the one year anniversary of 15 days to slow the spread. And we joke about that, but that is really

00:13:47.200 crazy and horrible for the country that these sociopaths have been able to wrest the power

00:13:55.920 from us and our political rights and traditions. And we've basically done nothing to stop it. And

00:14:00.800 we've known from some of us from the very beginning, but some of us from three weeks in,

00:14:06.520 four weeks in, that they were not going to give up power. This wasn't going to be two weeks or two

00:14:10.020 months. Now it's looking like it's going to be two years. Joe Biden asked, when are we getting back

00:14:13.820 to normal? He said, ah, hopefully, I don't know, maybe, maybe in about a year.

00:14:19.540 Caution not to give an answer to that because we don't know for sure.

00:14:23.340 But my hope is by this time next year, we're going to be back to normal. And before that,

00:14:28.080 my hope, but again, it depends upon if people continue, continue to be smart and understand that

00:14:37.300 we still can have significant losses. There's a lot we have to do yet. So thank you.

00:14:42.400 Two weeks to slow the spread has actually now become, according to the president of the United

00:14:49.820 States, two years to slow the spread. When some of us mentioned that they weren't going to give up

00:14:58.980 power about a year ago, we were told, oh, stop being a crazy conspiracy theorist. Oh, stop being

00:15:05.580 hyperbolic. Oh, stop being a catastrophist. When we were told that, look, if people just

00:15:12.360 wear the masks, we'll get back to normal. That's, that's the cost for getting back to normal. People

00:15:15.800 wear the masks. We have mask mandates all over this country, various places all over this country

00:15:20.720 with a few notable and admirable exceptions. Have the masks helped us get back to normal?

00:15:27.760 No. As some of us pointed out a while ago, the masks were always going to prolong this thing

00:15:33.120 because the masks don't make people feel safer. They make people feel more anxious.

00:15:37.040 You look around, you see all these people wearing masks, like a bunch of banditos and you don't say,

00:15:42.420 okay, we're all good. Now you say, oh my gosh, we're in an unprecedented event. Oh my gosh, we need

00:15:46.780 to give the government extraordinary powers. We need to give these psycho politicians more and more 0.98

00:15:51.320 of our rights and our liberties. And that's just how it's going to be. Biden says, I hope this time

00:15:57.540 next year, I hope it's only going to be two years to slow the spread, but that's going to depend on if

00:16:03.700 you're a good little boy and you're a good little girl. It's going to depend on if you do everything

00:16:08.320 I say. If you don't, if you don't wear the mask and get the shot and social distance and cancel

00:16:16.400 Thanksgiving and cancel Christmas, do all the other nonsense I tell you to do. If you don't do it,

00:16:21.380 maybe it's going to be three years to slow the spread. Oh gosh, maybe it's going to be four years.

00:16:26.800 Maybe this is the new normal, like these people have been telling us from the very beginning.

00:16:31.200 And some of us who were listening will remember that, but other people don't want to remember

00:16:37.940 it because it is so outrageous. Meanwhile, look at the various states. The states have been handling

00:16:45.120 this. You've got a state like California, which has been locked down. It's just New Salini's 0.99

00:16:50.720 tyranny over there, locked down more than virtually any other state. They're not doing any better on

00:16:57.800 COVID than Florida, which has been open basically from the beginning, like quite open. New York has

00:17:05.500 been extremely locked down. New York has done worse than any other state on COVID. That's why Andy

00:17:11.080 Cuomo has to answer questions about some ridiculous sex scandal right now. Not because of the sex scandal, 0.98

00:17:15.960 it's because of COVID. So at least one reporter asks Joe Biden, this is again, it's not a press

00:17:22.400 conference. It's just sort of at the very end. They try to shout a few questions to Biden. They ask

00:17:26.480 Biden, Hey, Mr. President, Florida is looking pretty good. It seems to disprove all your stupid 1.00

00:17:35.600 COVID theories. What do you have to say about that? Joe Biden does not mince words. 1.00

00:17:40.120 I hope everybody's realized by now these masks make a difference. We are on the cusp of being able to

00:17:47.460 fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way in which we're able to get

00:17:53.120 vaccines in people's arms. We've been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have

00:17:58.420 enough for every American to get every adult American to get a shot. And the last thing,

00:18:04.440 the last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything's fine. Take off 0.98

00:18:09.220 your mask, forget it. It's still matters. Now, Joe Biden using this phrase, Neanderthal thinking

00:18:17.920 actually carries quite a bit of weight because Joe Biden remembers the Neanderthals. You know,

00:18:22.220 when Joe Biden was growing up in Delaware, uh, I forget during which, uh, era of the earth's history,

00:18:28.480 uh, he knew a lot of Neanderthals. They were wandering around, uh, then, you know, very sadly,

00:18:33.960 they went extinct and, uh, now we, we live in this world without them, but he remembers what it was

00:18:38.780 like. And he, he doesn't want to go back to that Neanderthal thinking. So I, just in my mind,

00:18:45.220 I've got to compare two guys, Ron DeSantis in Florida, kept the state open. Everybody's happy.

00:18:51.660 Everybody's free virus, very well contained. Andrew Cuomo in New York, uh, not doing great. Locked down

00:19:02.420 the state and killed a bunch of senior citizens and took away his constituents, liberties and rights.

00:19:08.780 If I'm, and I'm just saying, I don't even want you to think ideologically here. I just want you to

00:19:13.220 think as a purely physical matter. Which of those guys looks and sounds more like a Neanderthal?

00:19:19.840 Is it Ron DeSantis? Very articulate guy. You know, he's relatively handsome. Or is it

00:19:25.300 Andrew Cuomo? Andrew Cuomo with the, you know, he looks just like a bulldog. I think it's probably, 0.98

00:19:32.380 probably going to be the latter. So the really, the only reason the Cuomo sex scandal matters is

00:19:40.300 because it reveals something about the way that the coronavirus has played out. I think now a year

00:19:46.340 into slowing the spread, a year before Joe Biden says, maybe he hopes we're going to stop having

00:19:51.460 to slow the spread. It's pretty clear the Republican policies worked. And by the way, a lot of Republicans

00:19:56.580 went squishy on this. So I'm excluding them from my analysis, but the people who wanted to stay open,

00:20:01.200 lose those stupid masks, let kids go to school, let everybody go to church. The people who wanted 0.95

00:20:07.480 to do that were 100% right. And people like Dr. Fauci and all the other technocrat tyrants in lab

00:20:14.420 coats and all of the other sociopath democratic politicians were completely 100% wrong. Dr. Fauci

00:20:21.280 was asked about this. It's hard to say that Dr. Fauci was wrong because he's held every side of every

00:20:26.680 single position, depending on the political convenience to him. But he actually got to

00:20:31.260 give a little bit of credit to CNN. I can't believe how much of that I'm doing in recent days.

00:20:36.100 Dr. Fauci was asked, Hey, uh, Florida, you know, the same question that Biden was asked,

00:20:43.600 Florida. Look, we want to defend Newsom. We want to defend Cuomo. We want to defend you.

00:20:48.520 Oh, exalted Dr. Fauci. But Florida and some of the other Republican states, it's like, it's fine.

00:20:56.220 So does that mean that the Republicans got something right? Some states that shut down,

00:21:01.880 obviously, and had all those mandates, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, all have higher death 0.80

00:21:07.240 rates. Do you think it's possible when you look up back on this, that it may be that DeSantis did

00:21:12.340 some things right? Well, I'm sure he did. I mean, I don't think it would be fair to say that,

00:21:19.160 that the governor of Florida did everything wrong. Not at all. There were certain things

00:21:23.160 that would, that were done that, that I disagreed with and that it wasn't just me personally. It's

00:21:28.700 the public, any public health person who looked at it. But I think it would be unfair to say that

00:21:33.260 he did everything wrong. This guy is such a twerp. I can't get over it. He's asked, Hey, 0.99

00:21:41.220 Fauci or not Fauci, Ron DeSantis. Hey, Mr. Fauci, Ron DeSantis did way better than Andy Cuomo and

00:21:47.360 Governor Newsom and all these other people. So Cuomo and Newsom follow your advice. And Ron

00:21:53.380 DeSantis told you to go pound sand and he's doing better than all those other guys. So maybe did he

00:21:57.520 get something right? Well, I think maybe he did certain things right in his life. He studied for

00:22:05.040 his exams. He brushed his teeth in the morning. And so I'm not, it's not fair to say that he did

00:22:11.820 every single thing in his entire life wrong, but I disagree with his approach to the virus. So he

00:22:19.380 won't, he won't grant it. It's a, it's a direct question and he just evades it because if you

00:22:24.840 contradict the exalted Dr. Fauci, you must be wrong. Even if the revolt results say otherwise,

00:22:30.240 what exactly did he get right? Fauci goes on. Are there, are there some things when you look

00:22:36.260 at Florida that you, that you think that he did get right? Well, you know, we, Aaron, we had often

00:22:44.920 talks on a weekly basis during the last administration with the mayors of Miami and

00:22:51.980 of Dade County. And, you know, some of the things that were done down there by the, by people at the

00:22:57.460 local level really actually did work. I mean, they were very careful. They tried really very hard.

00:23:02.480 This guy is just unbelievable. Shameless. What did Ron DeSantis, who did a great job,

00:23:08.940 what did he get right? He had Democrat mayors. That's what he's saying. What did Ron DeSantis

00:23:14.240 get right? His Democrat mayors talked to me. I'm right. I'm right. Please, please believe me. Except,

00:23:22.880 except he's not. And the longer this madness goes on, the clearer it is, but they are still not going

00:23:29.000 to let up. Ben is going to be talking about this very fact today on his show, why the left is so

00:23:34.900 enraged about reopening. So make sure to stick around, check that out. Also, you know, there's

00:23:39.720 a ton of crazy left-wing theories out there, in some cases, some outright lies, and they need to be

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00:24:38.480 We'll be right back with a lot more. Dr. Fauci was wrong. A lot of people from the mainstream

00:24:57.500 on the right and the left are acknowledging this now. Mostly people from the mainstream right,

00:25:04.480 but a handful of people from the mainstream left, but it goes beyond the mainstream. Even people on

00:25:09.620 the fringes of the right and on the fringes of the left are finally going after Dr. Fauci and this

00:25:17.440 public health dictatorship, including one of the more odious people who is in public life,

00:25:23.900 who has made a career out of saying revolting things, Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation

00:25:31.400 of Islam, a radical, a racialist. He took a break from his usual sort of race hustling to 0.94

00:25:38.380 go after Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci, well, he may be a good man for some things and for some people. Dr.

00:25:47.380 Alim didn't want to say anything negative about him. I understand. Don't choose him over me.

00:25:52.880 That's right. It's the nanoparticles that men like Dr. Fauci have proprietary knowledge of that allows

00:26:10.460 them to get a patent for their vial of death. We don't need none of that.

00:26:22.460 You know, I saw this clip talking about the vaccine as a vial of death and how Fauci is this awful

00:26:30.220 evil guy from Louis Farrakhan. And I thought, you know, even a stopped clock twice a day. No,

00:26:35.780 I'm kidding. I'm kidding. For all the fact checkers, I'm kidding. Don't you dare. I,

00:26:41.580 when somebody sent me this clip, I said, don't make me agree with Louis Farrakhan, but I'm not.

00:26:45.480 I'm only, I'm only joking. I'm joking much less about Dr. Fauci, of course. Dr. Fauci is just

00:26:53.140 awful. He is an absolute pox on our public life. He should be removed from his position where he has 0.98

00:26:59.840 been for 40, 50 years. Goodness gracious. If the entire mainstream right, some of the mainstream

00:27:07.340 left, the far right, and even the kind of radical far left, the guys like Louis Farrakhan, everybody

00:27:14.060 seems to have woken up to this for one reason or another, for legitimate reasons or for perhaps

00:27:19.680 illegitimate reasons, as we've seen. But we, we're all getting something. Namely, this guy,

00:27:26.140 Fauci is just no good for our public life. Now, I hate, I hate that in any way I have to

00:27:35.820 even agree with like half of a percent of a thing that Louis Farrakhan has intimated while still

00:27:41.400 disagreeing with 99% of the things he says in that very same breath. Such is the case in our public

00:27:47.000 life right now. Speaking of militant radicals like Louis Farrakhan, maybe you've heard, if you watch the

00:27:52.540 mainstream media, certainly you've heard, we're, we're getting ready for an insurrection. Another

00:28:00.120 coup d'etat from the right, the Trumpist forces, Bloomberg reporting, quote, a militant group may

00:28:09.640 be plotting to attack the US Capitol on Thursday, a day tied to conspiracy theories about March 4th,

00:28:16.460 police warn. March 4th. I've seen this in other mainstream media publications. They say March 4th,

00:28:23.840 that's the day there's going to be a coup. There's going to be an insurrection. I asked last time I was

00:28:29.020 in DC, I said, why is the national guard still in DC a month after the riot at the Capitol? Why, why,

00:28:36.100 why does DC still look like some occupied city? We were told that they were here to prevent a coup

00:28:44.360 d'etat. Why does it look like a coup d'etat here with all the, all these guardsmen? And I was told

00:28:50.020 the answer I heard was March 4th. They're, they've heard that there's going to be an insurrection on

00:28:55.300 March 4th. I said, I, you know, I spend an inordinate amount of my day delving the depths of

00:29:02.460 right-wing commentary online. And I haven't seen anything about an insurrection on March 4th.

00:29:10.800 Have you? Do you, if you're listening right now, probably you pay attention to some conservative

00:29:18.380 commentary. Have you seen anything about that? No. Seems to me that the only people hyping this

00:29:24.380 alleged insurrection on March 4th are left-wing journalists. Isn't that weird? Isn't that a

00:29:31.260 strange circumstance? You would think that if this were a right-wing insurrection, that the left would

00:29:36.700 be downplaying it or, but instead they seem to be promoting it. They seem to be hyping it.

00:29:41.920 Maybe they want something to happen. Maybe they want an excuse to continue to erode our liberties

00:29:50.820 and our traditions and our rights in this country, just as they have been doing for at least a year

00:29:56.520 now. Maybe they want an excuse to ramp it up, ramp up the censorship, ramp up the lockdowns,

00:30:02.700 ramp up the security all around DC. Seems pretty weird to me. Speaking of insurrectionist subversive

00:30:14.140 forces, you may have heard that at CPAC last week, the conservative political action conference,

00:30:19.400 the stage at CPAC was built in the shape of a Nazi symbol. You say, what? Hold on. Actually,

00:30:28.660 I wasn't able to make it to CPAC this year. They made a swastika shaped stage. That seems like a 0.71

00:30:35.680 big oversight. Man, we got to call Matt Schlapp. Clearly, they missed something here.

00:30:41.320 But I looked at the stage and I said, oh, no, that's not a swastika. If anything, it looks kind

00:30:46.660 of like that random symbol that Prince changed his name into. Remember when he lost his name and he

00:30:51.680 became the artist formerly known as Prince? And it looks kind of like that, but when I look at that,

00:30:55.200 I don't see a Nazi symbol. The left, they saw Nazi symbols. This was being reported everywhere.

00:31:00.320 So it turns out, turns out that the allegedly Nazi stage was designed by a company called Design

00:31:08.180 Foundry that has not just worked for, well, has not worked for the Nazis and they've not just worked 0.80

00:31:14.180 for the right wing. They've worked for Joe Biden and they've worked for MSNBC. And 98% of the company's

00:31:23.220 political donations have gone to Democratic candidates. Pretty strange stuff. The left

00:31:32.600 refers to these sorts of symbols and sort of statements that if you looked at that stage,

00:31:39.760 you'd say it's completely innocuous. If you heard many things that right wingers say,

00:31:43.560 you'd say it's completely anodyne stuff. And they refer to this as dog whistles. So for instance,

00:31:48.540 if I, if I come out and I say, you know, they got rid of a lot of election integrity protections in

00:31:54.920 2020 and we need to protect our elections. The left will say that's a dog whistle for you don't want

00:32:03.480 black people to vote. If, if I come out and I say, you know, I love my country and I want law and order 0.82

00:32:09.640 in this country. They'll say that's a dog whistle for racism and fascism and Nazism. And you say,

00:32:15.280 it's all these dog whistles. And I say, I don't see that. I don't hear any of that.

00:32:20.380 And we are reminded that if you're hearing dog whistles all the time,

00:32:25.940 it means you're the dog, right? You are. And I think that's what the Democrats are saying about

00:32:32.760 themselves here. They are attuned to these things because it has a resonance for them.

00:32:40.720 They, they are obsessed with race. So they see racism everywhere. They're obsessed with

00:32:48.540 Nazism or fascism. So they see Nazis and fascists everywhere, lots and lots of dog whistles. And

00:32:55.080 they are determined to root that out. We know that this country, the defining feature of it is

00:33:02.140 pervasive racism. That's what the left tells us. And we need to root that out from the very,

00:33:07.240 very beginning, which is why now in New Jersey, five-year-olds in kindergarten are receiving

00:33:13.320 training in diversity, equity, and inclusion. They are receiving so-called anti-racism training.

00:33:22.480 The Democratic governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, signed this bill into law

00:33:27.300 forcing teachers to instruct students as young as five in diversity and inclusion and equity

00:33:37.240 and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation, race and ethnicity,

00:33:44.200 disabilities, and religious tolerance. Now forget, you know, whenever you hear this term,

00:33:49.820 diversity, inclusion, and equity, or any permutation of that, what that means is leftist orthodoxy.

00:33:57.820 That's what they're going to be trained in from a young age. And I've seen some people protest this

00:34:02.900 and they've said, you know, babies aren't racist is another one, or, you know, little children

00:34:07.300 aren't bigoted and we don't, we don't need to teach them this. If you want to have this kind

00:34:12.280 of program of education, wait until later. I think those conservative critics are totally missing the

00:34:16.860 point. This makes perfect sense. If you want to get your country to be more left-wing, it's not going to

00:34:26.080 be nearly as useful to teach 18-year-olds as it will be to teach eight-year-olds, as it will be to

00:34:30.580 teach five-year-olds. The younger kids are, the more malleable their minds are. The less they know,

00:34:36.520 the easier it is to shape the way that they view themselves, the way they view the world, the way

00:34:39.880 that they view the country. And so, absolutely, if I were a left-winger, I'd want to get into the

00:34:44.760 kindergartens. Frankly, I think we should get into the kindergartens as conservatives and teach

00:34:49.240 students not this radical gender theory or whatever. We should get into the kindergartens and

00:34:53.980 teach them what they were once taught in kindergarten. Namely, George Washington was a good guy.

00:34:59.000 Our country is a good country, a country that you ought to have loyalty and respect for, that God

00:35:05.900 exists, that we believe certain things and we don't believe other things. We ought to teach them

00:35:12.840 those. Children will be taught values. It is not possible to have education without values.

00:35:20.100 I know there's this kind of liberal dream among left-wing liberals, but even some right-wing liberals,

00:35:25.040 you know, people who say, I just, I want to get the indoctrination out of the classroom. I just want

00:35:29.640 them to learn their arithmetic and, you know, the three R's or no, it doesn't work that way.

00:35:37.200 Education is about the whole person. It's about developing virtues, suppressing vices,

00:35:43.100 understanding how to view the world. And the left is very successful at this and the right is very

00:35:47.860 unsuccessful at this because this is actually the topic of my book, my upcoming book that Amazon is

00:35:52.820 almost certainly going to cancel, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.

00:35:58.600 We conservatives like to believe that we understand education so much better than the left

00:36:04.220 does. We understand free speech so much better than the left does. I don't think we do. I think

00:36:10.720 that the left and I think the intellectual leftists who developed this system that we now call wokeism

00:36:17.160 or political correctness or, or whatever word you want to use for it. I think they understood those

00:36:24.540 things much better than conservatives do. And it's, it's why they were able to transform it. And only by

00:36:28.680 understanding what they really think are we going to be able to change course because our current

00:36:32.620 strategy on this is failing. Speaking of young people, speaking of failing strategies,

00:36:37.400 a large number of migrants are headed to the United States right now, this is often the case,

00:36:45.520 but they're headed there in higher numbers than usual. They're approaching California and they're

00:36:51.340 wearing Joe Biden t-shirts. Not joking. There's a photograph of a group of migrants heading toward

00:36:59.300 America wearing t-shirts that say, Biden, please let us in. Biden, please let us in. Raises a few

00:37:06.760 questions. One, if these migrants are able to get these nice brand spanking new t-shirts, they say, 1.00

00:37:14.680 you know, really good. One, it means this is not just some randomly, you know, grassroots springing

00:37:23.460 effort of people who are destitute, just seeking survival even, you know, as we're always told,

00:37:29.380 the refugees who are going to be killed in their home countries and that's why we need to let them 1.00

00:37:32.840 into the United States. No, this is pretty well organized. They have access to a decent number

00:37:37.940 of resources. Somebody is obviously organizing them, someone with a political agenda. And I don't,

00:37:47.300 something tells me they're not here fleeing the marauders or the political persecutors in their

00:37:51.960 home countries, right? They seem, they're just kind of calmly walking through Mexico, walking up to the

00:37:57.520 United States. They're obviously economic migrants who are seeking, they actually are seeking a better 0.78

00:38:03.800 life for, for their children and their families. There's no question about that. I'd rather live

00:38:08.300 in America than I would in Mexico or Guatemala or something like that. But the situation is not what

00:38:13.960 the Democrats are telling us. Democrats are telling us this is about just life and death. And no,

00:38:18.020 it's not. It's about people making more money and having more opportunity for their kids. Okay,

00:38:22.820 I understand that. So that's why we have a nice immigration policy in part because we

00:38:26.920 are very compassionate. But if you fling the doors open, you know, you no longer have a country

00:38:32.000 anymore. We already have the most open immigration policy in the world. If you look at the number of

00:38:39.000 migrants who have entered the United States in the last 60 years or so, it's the largest movement

00:38:42.480 of peoples ever in the history of the world. So as compassionate as we want to be, you might have to,

00:38:50.280 you might have to dial that back a little bit. Because if all your focus is on people from other

00:38:56.000 countries, foreign nationals coming into yours, then you are disadvantaging people in your own

00:39:00.020 country. And the responsibility of a government is to protect its own citizens. And this government

00:39:07.620 is failing to do that. Why are the migrant caravans coming now? Is it because of some political

00:39:13.620 event that happened in their own countries? No, it's because Joe Biden has lenient immigration

00:39:19.180 policies. So when you have tough immigration policies, you disincentivize immigration.

00:39:25.160 During the first few months of, of the Trump administration, illegal crossings plummeted.

00:39:29.460 They started to tick back up after that when they saw that actually the policies didn't really have

00:39:33.200 much teeth. Trump talked a good game, but he was largely prevented from implementing his tougher

00:39:38.720 policies. Joe Biden is saying, yeah, the doors are wide open. Come on in. And the, the migrants, 1.00

00:39:45.420 and more importantly, the people organizing the migrants know that Joe Biden is going to be pushing

00:39:50.620 for a mass amnesty. And the Democrats know that that mass amnesty is likely to give them many,

00:39:55.360 many, many, many, many new voters. So that migrant caravan, it's just going to keep on coming. And

00:40:01.780 it's bad for the migrants. There's a lot of crime that happens. There's a lot of injury that happens

00:40:06.340 while people are crossing that border illegally. It's bad for them. It's certainly bad for the country, 0.61

00:40:10.740 but the Democrats don't care because they see a political advantage in it. So as we have this

00:40:17.000 horde of migrants coming up to the California border, you have the governor of California in

00:40:22.240 really hot water. He just went too far. Governor Pretty Boy, Governor Patrick Bateman

00:40:25.820 is not looking good. It looks as though he is going to be recalled. I mentioned this story a couple of

00:40:33.860 months ago when the recall effort for Newsom had hundreds of thousands of signatures. And I said,

00:40:41.140 it's looking like he'll be recalled, but it's not certain because to recall Newsom and then have a

00:40:46.300 new election, you need to have 1.5 million signatures. And at the time, this was now a few

00:40:52.720 weeks ago, you had 1.2 million or something. So people said, oh, he's definitely going to get it,

00:40:56.440 but it's not just enough to have 1.2 or 1.5 million because what Democrats are going to do is

00:41:01.420 invalidate a large number of those signatures. If someone has moved out of state, if someone's

00:41:05.280 not living at the address that they say they are, they're going to get rid of those signatures.

00:41:09.120 This is what Republicans should have done to the illegal voters in 2020. People who put down 0.88

00:41:13.680 addresses where they didn't live. Steven Crowder just did a good video exposing how certain voters

00:41:18.580 in 2020, if you go up to the houses that they say they lived at, the buildings don't even exist there.

00:41:23.700 So we should have done a better job of kicking ineligible voters off the rolls and fraudulent 0.99

00:41:28.400 voters off the rolls. Democrats are going to do that, but I think now they're not going to be

00:41:32.260 able to overcome it because it's not just 1.5 million trying to recall Newsom. Now we're up

00:41:36.520 to 1.9 million. There's still two weeks left. This thing's going to blow past 2 million.

00:41:42.020 So who's going to step into the breach? There is rumor that Rick Grinnell is going to

00:41:50.380 run for governor. I don't know. I haven't spoken to former Ambassador Grinnell about this sort of

00:41:56.820 thing, but he is kind of making the rounds. It looks as though he could. He would be a strong

00:42:00.840 candidate. He would be a strong Republican candidate in California. Is he the most right

00:42:05.200 wing guy in the Republican party? No, he isn't. Absolutely not. Trump likes him a lot and he

00:42:12.480 seems to have done a good job when he was acting director of national intelligence. He's got some

00:42:17.300 more socially liberal positions, more socially liberal than my positions, that's for sure. But we

00:42:22.940 are talking about California. We're dealing with political realities here. William F. Buckley

00:42:27.240 Jr. had what was called the Buckley rule. He said that, that conservatives should vote for the most,

00:42:32.540 they should vote for the most right viable candidate. So this involves a lot of prudence and political

00:42:39.860 calculation. If we could get, I don't know, who would be, who would be right wing enough for me in

00:42:45.360 California? Attila the Hun. Let's say Attila the Hun decided that he was going to challenge

00:42:48.780 Gavin Newsom. And you know, you had Hun 2020 or 2021. Okay, that would be one thing. But Attila

00:42:56.560 the Hun is not going to win in California. A far right candidate is not going to win.

00:43:01.440 Grinnell seems to be positioned in a pretty decent way to do it. And anybody, as far as I'm concerned,

00:43:08.200 would be better than Gavin Newsom. Newsom is really awful. He's both vacuous and willing to go over to 0.95

00:43:16.420 the far radicals here. So we'll, we'll see what happens. We did get a Republican governor once

00:43:21.640 through a recall effort. When California recalled Gray Davis, we ended up getting Arnold Schwarzenegger,

00:43:27.380 also kind of a liberal Republican. I guess he was better than some of the alternatives,

00:43:30.360 but he was a little more, a little more centrist. We'll have to see. Luck does play a role in a lot

00:43:35.640 of these sorts of things. There's a new book out called Lucky How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency.

00:43:41.500 This book is by Jonathan Allen, who's a senior analyst for NBC News, and Amy Parnes,

00:43:47.080 who's a senior correspondent with The Hill. And this book savages the Joe Biden campaign.

00:43:54.900 Not the Biden administration, but the Biden campaign. It's got all these little juicy tidbits,

00:44:02.660 you know, these all kinds of political gossip books have. One is that Barack Obama famously refused

00:44:07.840 to support Joe Biden for most of the campaign because he feared that Biden was, quote,

00:44:12.680 a tragicomic caricature of an aging politician having his last hurrah.

00:44:20.720 Hard to see the lie there. That's true. Did Obama say that? I don't know. We'll get to those

00:44:24.940 kinds of questions in a second. One Biden aide apparently told the authors of this book that

00:44:29.060 the strategy that they were pursuing was tantamount to, quote, you put your dumb uncle in the basement. 0.98

00:44:35.320 So they just hid Joe Biden in the basement of his house. He barely campaigned. And the excuse was 0.99

00:44:41.740 because of COVID, it was, it would be irresponsible to campaign. And so Joe Biden's not going to do that.

00:44:47.420 And then what they avoid is the biggest liability of the campaign, which is Joe Biden. One Trump

00:44:53.900 advisor apparently told the authors that the Biden team, quote, used coronavirus as an excuse to keep

00:44:58.480 him in the basement. And it was smart. Biden was able to hide his biggest weakness, which is himself.

00:45:03.720 And he did it with an excuse that sounded responsible. Do I believe the claims made in

00:45:11.160 this book or not? I want to avoid the charge of hypocrisy here. And I think that sometimes what

00:45:20.620 happens is when there are books that are out that are flattering to your side, you believe them. And

00:45:26.280 then when books are critical of your side, you don't believe them. And this seems hypocritical. 0.94

00:45:30.600 In this case, I've mentioned this before, but not in a while. In this case, it is not hypocritical.

00:45:37.460 It is not hypocritical to give more credence to mainstream books written by mainstream journalists

00:45:44.580 that are critical of Democrats when you wouldn't do the same thing for Republicans because

00:45:51.080 the people who wrote the book are on the same team as Joe Biden. NBC News, The Hill, the mainstream media

00:46:00.440 are on the same team as the Democratic politicians. So when the media leak juicy information about the

00:46:09.540 Democrats, it carries more credibility than when the mainstream media leak juicy information about

00:46:15.620 Republicans. Because we know that the mainstream media lie about Republicans all the time. First of all,

00:46:20.720 they're adversaries. So there's an incentive for them to post the worst stuff and just make stuff

00:46:25.320 up whole cloth. But also they just don't have decent access in the way that because the media

00:46:30.540 and the Democrats are exactly the same thing. They have great access. Very often they are literally

00:46:36.560 sleeping with one another. So do I believe this book? I give it way more credibility. I don't know.

00:46:42.360 I don't really pay a lot of attention to any of these sort of gossipy books, but I do give it a lot

00:46:47.760 more credibility than I would to some Republican book. You're going to have to be watching the same

00:46:55.120 thing play out here with Andrew Cuomo. Andy Cuomo is under attack right now by the media. So you're

00:47:04.040 going to have to ask questions. Why are they attacking this? Why are they leaking this? And

00:47:07.360 what does it matter to me? I don't give a damn about the juicy gossip from a political book like

00:47:12.040 Lucky. And I frankly don't give a damn about the juicy gossip about how Andy Cuomo watched a reporter

00:47:17.580 eat a hot dog one time at the state fair. I don't care. I want to know how does this affect our

00:47:23.360 politics and why are these stories being leaked now? What is the political strategy? Because when it

00:47:29.980 comes to these sorts of scandals, nothing is what it seems. All of this very often is a distraction

00:47:37.280 to lull us into accepting more of the left's agenda. The new normal now past two weeks,

00:47:43.980 now up to two years, now probably going to be even longer. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

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Ep. 713 - Cuomo’s Close-Up Magic

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