The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 715 - Our Loathsome Elites

00:00:00.000 Breaking news from the Washington Post, Biden's stimulus showers money on Americans,

00:00:07.260 sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses. I think that North Korean state

00:00:14.340 TV would probably blush at that headline. And maybe, maybe my memory is going, maybe I'm

00:00:20.100 becoming a little slow like Joe Biden. But as I recall, when Donald Trump did exactly the same

00:00:25.620 thing, the coverage was just a little bit different. Democracy dies in darkness. I'm

00:00:31.040 Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite

00:00:42.780 comment from Friday is from Eric Gomez, who says that the P in Psaki is silent. It's the same with

00:00:49.500 the P in President Biden. This is very true. You have White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki,

00:00:55.200 and you have White House resident Joe Biden, who is just sort of being scooted along in the

00:01:00.480 hallways from the TV room to the dining room, back to bed for about, I don't know, six o'clock at night

00:01:07.260 or so while our elite establishment runs the country. Not a very safe time for our traditions

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00:02:21.660 K-N-W-L-E-S for 25% off. Same newspaper, same laws, same policy, just stimulus for Americans from

00:02:33.780 the coronavirus, but different political party and power. So when it's Joe Biden, the headline from

00:02:40.180 the Washington Post is Biden stimulus showers money on Americans sharply cutting poverty and favoring

00:02:44.620 individuals over businesses. When that president is Donald Trump, the headline in the Washington

00:02:51.360 Post is, in unprecedented move, treasury orders Trump's name printed on stimulus checks.

00:03:01.240 Hmm. One of those seems more favorable than the other. That's not it though. Washington Post also,

00:03:05.760 when Trump was signing COVID relief, quote, Trump signs $2 trillion coronavirus bill into law

00:03:12.340 as companies and households brace for more economic pain. Brace for pain. Money will be showered over you,

00:03:25.080 cutting poverty and favoring individuals. Brace for pain. Same law, same newspaper. Is it any wonder

00:03:35.880 that people do not trust that people do not trust our established elites? When people question the

00:03:42.860 coronavirus policies, for instance, when people question certain mandates on the vaccine, talk

00:03:49.900 perhaps of mandates on the, on the vaccine, certainly existing mandates on the masks, on social

00:03:57.580 distancing. Are people really so crazy to question the wisdom of our benevolent betters? When people

00:04:05.260 say, hmm, maybe there were some irregularities in the election and then our elites just come down and

00:04:12.140 they say, there was absolutely nothing wrong. We would never lie to you. Everything is totally

00:04:16.520 hunky dory, even though we changed a very important election integrity measures right before the 2020

00:04:21.880 election. Is it any wonder that people might not believe those elites? You know, the, the governor

00:04:27.400 of Mississippi, Tate Reeves has been really, really impressive, uh, of late. And Tate Reeves goes on Jake

00:04:35.200 Tapper's show and wants to talk about reopening Mississippi, where their focus is. But Jake Tapper

00:04:41.840 wants to get one thing clear first. Are you willing to say, are you willing to go on record and say that

00:04:47.420 there was absolutely nothing suspect whatsoever, not even a jot or tittle with the 2020 presidential

00:04:53.740 election? Former president Trump and his allies have now for months and months continued to spread

00:04:59.260 the false and dangerous lie that the election was stolen. You were not part of that campaign,

00:05:04.900 but I want to ask you a simple yes or no question because your answer a few weeks ago to a colleague

00:05:10.660 kind of raised my eyebrows. Do you accept that Joe Biden is the legitimate lawfully accepted lawfully

00:05:16.600 elected president of the United States? President Biden is the president of the United States.

00:05:24.100 But was he legitimately? In our state, we don't allow mail-in voting. Was he, was this the most

00:05:28.900 legitimate election ever with the most integrity? And there's absolutely no questions whatsoever.

00:05:34.160 Will you say it? Will you say it? Goodness gracious. It is so difficult to put up with watching

00:05:41.080 Jake Tapper. It's so hard to do it. I only do it for you because I know that I have to relate

00:05:46.240 these things to you, dear listener, which is why I will do it. But otherwise, I would never watch

00:05:50.740 this man who is raising this question, I think, in the minds of some other people who are skeptical

00:05:57.300 of our elites, which is, if this is the most totally hunky-dory election of all time and there were no

00:06:03.080 questions whatsoever anywhere, even on the smallest scale of fraud or irregularities or illegal election

00:06:09.660 procedures, all of which we've detailed pretty regularly on this show. If that's the case,

00:06:16.620 why is it so important to you, Jake Tapper, that this governor says exactly what you want him to say?

00:06:23.900 If it's so clear, if it's so obvious that there were no questions whatsoever, why does every

00:06:29.620 Republican politician have to repeat this kind of mantra? The 2020 election was totally perfect and

00:06:36.280 there were no questions. Why do we have to keep repeating that ad nauseum? Why do you need to

00:06:41.340 deplatform anybody that in any way suggests that, huh, maybe it was a little weird that the

00:06:46.700 Pennsylvania election officials violated their state constitution with the mail-in votes?

00:06:52.760 Why, why are we not allowed to say that? Why is the governor of Mississippi not allowed to raise

00:06:57.520 these sorts of questions on the air? Is it maybe because you're a little insecure about the 2020

00:07:02.400 election? Not saying that the result in the end was different than it would have been. I'm just

00:07:07.600 saying it is undeniable that the election was highly irregular, that the processes for the election

00:07:16.480 were upended in the days and weeks before, that election integrity measures were stripped away,

00:07:21.600 that it was the strangest election in our lifetimes. Why aren't we allowed to say that? Governor

00:07:27.440 Reeves continues. In our state, we do not allow mail-in voting. And the reason we don't allow

00:07:32.920 mail-in voting is because we don't think that it, we think that it allows for lots of opportunities

00:07:39.020 for fraud and other things. And I don't think mail-in voting should be allowed in other states

00:07:42.720 around the nation, but president Biden is the duly elected president and we're going to do everything

00:07:47.480 we can to work with him to help the citizens of Mississippi. Even that is not enough for Jake

00:07:52.960 Tapper. He keeps going back. He's like, yeah, but say that Biden's great. Say he's awesome. Say the

00:07:57.060 election was totally perfect. But what the governor is saying here is absolutely right.

00:08:02.520 Mail-in voting is a direct threat to our democracy, which dies in darkness. I am reliably informed by

00:08:07.620 the Washington Post and we should not have widespread mail-in voting. Barack Obama was saying that not so

00:08:14.200 long ago. Everybody agreed with that. It's just obvious. But now we're not allowed to say obvious

00:08:19.560 things because this power grab has become so transparent. Turning from good governors like the governor of

00:08:25.660 Mississippi to bad governors like Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is really, really in hot water right now.

00:08:32.680 Two more women have come forward. I think the number now is up to five. Some of these claims

00:08:37.440 are fairly dubious. I actually want to be fair to Cuomo. Some seem a little vague. Okay. But really what

00:08:45.560 this is about is booting out the guy after he got exposed for his failures and cover up on COVID.

00:08:50.140 And there is a little schadenfreude. Even if conservatives think that this me-tooing of 0.62

00:08:56.280 Andrew Cuomo is at least formally just as distasteful as the me-tooing of other people,

00:09:01.980 the schadenfreude is really great. For instance, when the Dems use these kind of tactics on Brett Kavanaugh

00:09:08.160 with far less credibility to them, Andrew Cuomo was all for it.

00:09:12.840 There is a disrespect for women that this administration chronically 1.00

00:09:21.660 exemplifies. After the me-too movement, they did absolutely nothing when it came to sexual harassment.

00:09:32.680 They have always diminished the charges of women. Always. Consistent. And they're doing it again. 0.99

00:09:44.220 This administration is so terrible to women, they never even compliment the high heels worn by women 1.00

00:09:55.140 around the office. They never would even greet their secretary with a nice little kiss, just to be

00:10:01.640 polite. They never offer reporters in the room a nice delicious hot dog and then tell them they got

00:10:09.700 to finish it. Well, well, they're watching. They're terrible, terrible to women. And so it's wonderful 1.00

00:10:18.900 to watch Andrew Cuomo kind of squirm, even though I think it's preposterous the way that they're going

00:10:24.840 after him. This is all about the nursing homes. The real scandal is that Andrew Cuomo, with the applause

00:10:35.500 of the entire Democratic establishment, not just the elected officials, not even just the bureaucrats and the

00:10:42.700 activists, but the media as well. Andrew Cuomo's policies were the absolute deadliest COVID policies in the

00:10:52.460 entire country. They needlessly killed thousands and thousands of elderly New Yorkers. Then he knew

00:10:59.040 about it. We now know he knew about it because we know that he tried to cover it up while he was

00:11:05.760 publishing a book on leadership lessons from COVID-19. During all of this, Democrats had him speak at their

00:11:13.980 national convention. The mainstream media sexually harassed Andrew Cuomo, for goodness sakes. They should

00:11:22.000 have had some Me Too allegations against them. They were so hot for this guy. And now to distract from

00:11:29.360 all of that and to go after him for a more palatable reason, now we're told it's because he complimented his

00:11:37.020 secretary or tried to kiss some girl or something, which inappropriate though it may be, not even in the

00:11:44.720 same stratosphere, not even, not even in the same galaxy from the COVID-19 scandal. But because they're

00:11:53.060 masterful machine politicians in New York, Andrew Cuomo included, but certainly the state representatives

00:11:59.400 up in Albany, the Democratic leaders in New York are calling for Andrew Cuomo to resign. AOC kicked this

00:12:06.780 off a little while ago. And you heard some Democrats at the national office start to float this. They say,

00:12:11.000 we need an investigation, right? They stopped totally defending Cuomo. Their crush ended.

00:12:17.360 But now that the powers that actually matter, the political pressure in New York

00:12:21.040 is coming after Cuomo and saying, hey buddy, you're causing us a whole lot of headaches.

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00:13:42.540 you. The Senate majority leader in the state of New York, Andrea Stewart-Cousins is saying,

00:13:49.040 quote, every day there is another account that is drawing away from the business of government.

00:13:53.980 We have allegations about sexual harassment, a toxic work environment, the loss of credibility

00:13:58.380 surrounding the COVID-19 nursing home data, and questions about the construction of a major

00:14:02.420 infrastructure product. For the good of the state, Andrew Cuomo must resign.

00:14:07.840 Pretty, there were actually some misspellings in here because some of these Democrat state

00:14:13.240 politicians, not the brightest bulbs in the pack. But if you take that aside, this is an absolutely

00:14:18.160 brilliant political statement here. Because notice what she did. It's the sandwich. It's the 0.98

00:14:24.720 classic sandwich strategy of scandals. This woman says, you know, Andrew Cuomo, he, he didn't call

00:14:33.580 his grandma when he was supposed to call his grandma. And he was very rude to Mrs. Bethany across

00:14:41.060 the street. And he also killed thousands of people and covered it up. And he also didn't show up to

00:14:47.500 church on Sunday at the time that he said he would. And so that's why we need to kick him out of

00:14:52.980 the office. And you say, wait, what was that? Oh yeah. I said he didn't show up to church to the,

00:14:58.260 to the mass he said he was going to show up to. So no, before that. Oh yes. He gave a really mean

00:15:04.980 look to his neighbor. No, after that. Oh yeah. He killed thousands of elderly New Yorkers and then

00:15:11.620 covered it up and now there's an FBI or a federal probe into it. Oh, that's the scandal. Right. All

00:15:18.580 the rest of this was just sort of a sandwich because you guys don't want to deal with the

00:15:23.680 failure of your policies, not just Andrew Cuomo's, but yours broadly. You guys were in on this sort of

00:15:30.900 stuff. State assembly leader in New York, Democrat Carl Heastie says, we have many challenges to

00:15:37.600 address. And I think it is time for the governor to seriously consider whether he can effectively

00:15:42.320 meet the needs of the people of New York. So Trump has now, or Cuomo rather, they're both kind of

00:15:48.760 tough talking New Yorkers. So it's an interesting sort of Freudian slip. Cuomo has lost his base of

00:15:54.940 support. Who is his support now? All the people propping this guy up so implausibly have fled him.

00:16:02.180 So is Cuomo going to resign? No way. Cuomo comes out and he says, I think this is actually a pretty

00:16:09.800 good defense. He says, I was elected by the people of the state. I wasn't elected by politicians.

00:16:16.560 I'm not going to resign because of allegations. The premise of resigning because of allegations

00:16:21.560 is actually anti-democratic. Anybody has the ability to make an allegation in a democracy and

00:16:27.800 that's great. But it's in the credibility of the allegation. Wow. Where was this guy during the

00:16:32.560 Kavanaugh scandal? Huh? Where was that? Wow. This Andrew Cuomo is pretty level headed. I actually give

00:16:38.700 him credit for not stepping down. To be clear, Andrew Cuomo should not be in office. Not because

00:16:46.480 he winked at his secretary, but because he killed all the elderly New Yorkers. For the coverup, the guy 0.77

00:16:53.420 possibly should be wearing an orange jumpsuit. There should at least be a serious investigation

00:16:57.920 into it. But just as a bare knuckle political matter, I have to give the guy credit for refusing

00:17:06.180 to resign because the point he's making is legitimate. I was not elected by politicians

00:17:12.700 who are vying and jockeying for power. Politicians are also the people who are making many of these

00:17:19.320 allegations, right? I was elected by the people and resigning over allegations is anti-democratic.

00:17:24.200 I actually sort of agree with that in a way. We have accountability measures in this country.

00:17:30.100 They happen at the ballot box. Now we're losing election integrity protections, which is not good.

00:17:37.880 But I think that's very important. When the left in this country hated Richard Nixon,

00:17:44.000 they got rid of it. They tried to get rid of him at the ballot box. They probably stole the 1960 election,

00:17:50.220 but that's a topic for another day. Then they tried to get rid of him at the ballot box in 68. Didn't

00:17:55.900 work. Then they tried to get rid of him at the ballot box in 72. Doesn't work. So what do they do?

00:18:04.160 They get some deep stater to toss him out of office because some crook couldn't tape a door correctly.

00:18:10.580 Sort of minor political scandal that both sides have been doing for a very long time.

00:18:16.540 That is anti-democratic. You saw similar things with Trump. They try to beat Trump in 2016. It doesn't work.

00:18:23.060 So they just try to throw him out of office. They gin up a bunch of scandals. They try to impeach him.

00:18:26.920 They do all this. That is actually anti-democratic. And as we all know from the Washington Post,

00:18:31.380 democracy dies in darkness. Cuomo has a lot of people furious at him, even on the left,

00:18:38.060 because people don't understand this if they haven't spent some time in New York and they

00:18:43.240 haven't looked at New York politics. Cuomo is in some ways one of the more conservative figures in

00:18:48.860 New York. He's still an absolute horrible leftist who lit the New York City buildings up in pink when

00:18:56.060 he could celebrate the expansion of abortion in that state, right? Cuomo is a horrible, horrible guy, 1.00

00:19:01.340 but by New York standards, he's actually somewhat conservative. And so a lot of the leftists in the 0.98

00:19:06.120 state don't really like him very much. Teachers don't really like, teachers unions don't really

00:19:11.800 like him very much. There are a whole lot of forces there. So we'll see how this plays out. It's hard to

00:19:15.560 imagine he survives much longer like this, but you are noticing the narrative changing here. You're

00:19:21.000 noticing the narrative about Cuomo beginning to change. You're noticing the narrative more broadly

00:19:25.080 about COVID changing. The head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten,

00:19:30.280 this organization that is doing its damnedest to keep schools closed in America is now trying to

00:19:36.600 change the narrative. Speaking with another Cuomo, Fredo Cuomo on CNN saying, what, who, us? No,

00:19:42.800 we don't want to keep the schools closed. No, all you got is a big misunderstanding. We're actually

00:19:48.040 trying to open the schools. My union has been trying to reopen schools since last April. We know how

00:19:55.720 important in-school learning is. But we had a president who refused to collect data, give us

00:20:03.160 the guidance that the CDC has just given us, and given us the resources. These are the three things.

00:20:09.000 And I was on your show. I begged for it for months and months and months. And ultimately,

00:20:14.760 what's happening is that between some of the resources we already got in December, which is

00:20:20.600 starting to be starting to be out there, the resources in the Rescue Act, this vaccine announcement,

00:20:27.160 and the CDC guidance, you've already seen in the last few weeks, a turnaround that all the school

00:20:34.600 districts that had closed in November or December because of the surge are now reopened.

00:20:40.280 So this defense from the American Federation of Teachers is one of the most outrageous examples

00:20:49.240 of gaslighting I've seen in recent years. And we've gotten a whole lot of it in around the inauguration,

00:20:57.160 around the election, around the entire year of 2020, practically. She says, look, we want to go back.

00:21:03.720 We've been trying to go back since April. We've just been waiting for guidance from the CDC. CDC has

00:21:10.040 been issuing guidance, I think, the whole time. Well, we've just, because of the bungled COVID policies

00:21:15.000 of Trump. Trump led the development of a vaccine in world record time and got you a vaccine

00:21:28.760 really before the election, but at the very least we can say within days after the election.

00:21:33.640 The election was in early November. It's now March. What is the holdup? And they say, no,

00:21:43.320 we just need more protections, more, but we're trying to reopen. We're following the science.

00:21:51.080 All the studies show that the transmission of the virus is not any higher in schools than it is

00:21:56.520 anywhere else. All the science shows the kids are not particularly vulnerable to the thing. Well,

00:22:02.600 no, we're just, we're just trying so hard. We're just, yeah. Okay. Is it any wonder,

00:22:08.120 is it any wonder that people have no faith in their elites when we just get lied to, when we get gaslit

00:22:16.440 by these sorts of people, not just the electeds that we get gaslit by them, but by the media and by

00:22:24.680 union bosses, such as this woman, there was just a vote. The LA teacher union just had a vote. Should 1.00

00:22:30.680 we go back to work? Simple enough question. 91% of LA teacher union members voted not to go back to

00:22:40.040 work. And the way they're pitching it, they say, this vote signals that in these trying times,

00:22:46.120 our members will not accept a rushed return that would endanger the safety of educators,

00:22:51.560 students and families. That's according to the LA teacher union president, Cecily Maillard Cruz.

00:22:58.360 A rushed return. This has been going on for a year. Oh, we can't, it was supposed to be two weeks.

00:23:07.000 Oh, we can't rush it though. It's been an extra 50 weeks, but we can't, we don't want to rush it.

00:23:11.720 It could endanger the safety of students. Students are at statistically zero risk from this virus.

00:23:21.320 The same is basically true of educators and families as well, but certainly of the students

00:23:26.680 statistically like nothing. It raises this question. Are there any elites less likable

00:23:36.300 than these teacher union bosses? And they're actually, the answer to that is yes.

00:23:44.060 Princesses and billionaire talk show hosts. Meghan Markle sitting down for a wild interview with Oprah,

00:23:52.940 which actually does affect US politics. It seems like it doesn't, but it does. Ben's going to be

00:23:57.820 talking about this, but first I'm going to be talking about this because I'm a little more sympathetic

00:24:01.740 to the crown than some of my more libertarian pals over here at the Daily Wire and broadly in the

00:24:09.660 United States. I'm, I'm more sympathetic to them. And this Meghan Markle thing is just so

00:24:14.760 hideous. It exposes not just what's wrong with British politics, really exposes what's wrong with

00:24:19.820 American politics. What if the police could go on strike at a moment's notice? What if firefighters

00:24:26.680 could go on strike at a moment's notice? The military, imagine the kind of disruption and chaos that would

00:24:30.380 create. These are the dangerous scenarios associated with public sector unions. In the latest episode

00:24:36.040 of the new series debunked, Ben Shapiro will break down all of the known lies and platitudes

00:24:40.500 that most people are fed with regard to unions. This latest episode, which dropped this past weekend,

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00:25:17.000 There is, by my calculation, not a single thing less appealing than listening to a Hollywood actress

00:25:26.100 complain to a billionaire talk show host about how hard it was to be a princess. That is the actual 0.98

00:25:37.320 mathematical, perfectly least likable thing that I think anyone could possibly do. Meghan Markle

00:25:46.060 sits down with her poor, poor husband and talks to Oprah about all the dirty laundry from the royal

00:25:58.480 family. There was no guidance as well, right? There were certain things that you couldn't do, but you

00:26:05.580 know, unlike what you see in the movies, there's no class on how to, how to speak, how to cross your

00:26:11.280 legs, how to be royal. There's none of that train. That might exist for other members of the family. 0.93

00:26:16.440 That was not something that was offered to me. So nobody tells you anything? No. Nobody prepares

00:26:20.800 you. No, I mean, no, but even down, sorry, but even down to like the national anthem. No one thought

00:26:25.840 to say, oh, you're American. You're not going to know that. That's me late at night Googling how,

00:26:31.280 what's the national, I've got to learn this. I don't want to embarrass them. I need to learn these

00:26:35.100 30 hymns for church. All of this is televised. We were doing the training behind the scenes because

00:26:40.840 I just wanted to make them proud. I just, I just wanted to make them proud. And that is why

00:26:45.540 I'm sitting down with you, Oprah, to say that these are the worst people on earth because I'm just,

00:26:50.220 I just care and I want to make them proud. It's just, you know, it's crazy. All I wanted to do,

00:26:55.040 all I wanted to do as a divorced American actress was become a princess in another country and they 0.96

00:27:05.020 expect me to learn the national anthem? Uh, what? Is that crazy? What, what do they think I have?

00:27:11.040 Google? What do they, what do they think that I can like look it up? That's crazy. That's, I need,

00:27:17.120 well, actually, you know, shut up, shut up, Harry. Stop it. It's just ridiculous. You know, I, 1.00

00:27:23.720 you see, I'm a victim, says the princess. So President Trump, as always, summed this up a

00:27:34.460 couple of years ago. He was asked about some criticism that Meghan Markle had made of him.

00:27:38.800 She was not at that time, uh, attacking the, the government and the royalty of her adopted country.

00:27:46.000 She was attacking her own government. And President Trump, I thought, uh, had the most compassionate

00:27:52.040 and precise take on Meghan Markle that one can muster.

00:27:55.740 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, uh, chimed in on the U.S. election and essentially encouraged people

00:28:00.560 to vote for Joe Biden. What did you get your reaction to that?

00:28:04.880 I'm not a fan of hers. And, uh, I would say this, and she probably has heard that, but, uh,

00:28:14.480 I wish a lot of luck to Harry because he's going to need it.

00:28:22.640 He's going to need it. That poor guy does need it. This woman comes in. The reason I mentioned, 1.00

00:28:30.300 by the way, that she's divorced is she is entering into the royal family of a country with a state

00:28:37.240 church. So that's actually a big problem. And rather than say, oh my gosh, thank you for making

00:28:43.620 this exception. I know this is bad. I know it's, we shouldn't, we shouldn't be doing this here in

00:28:48.140 the royal family. Instead, she complains about having to learn hymns. What, they expect me to

00:28:52.840 learn the hymns because I'm entering into the family that runs the state church? Come on, give me a break.

00:29:00.500 Poor, poor Harry. So because she doesn't like it, because it turns out that being a royal

00:29:05.580 is not just about glitz and glamour and putting a tiara on because she found out it actually involves 0.94

00:29:10.940 duty and work, you know, very difficult sort of chores like learning the national anthem of your

00:29:17.060 country, of your new country. Because of that, she made her husband leave his family 0.83

00:29:23.880 and abdicate all of his duty, all of his responsibility to the country that had been

00:29:29.840 so good to him and that he was born for. Like, no, we got to go because I want to do voiceovers in

00:29:35.960 Disney cartoons or something. So they leave. Now they're in LA. They get to keep a lot of money

00:29:42.440 and poor Harry is just struggling through. Now they're attacking his family on television.

00:29:48.900 And the minute he tries to interject, she tells him to keep quiet. But then she talks about real

00:29:53.800 struggles. And this, I actually, I don't want to make light of this. I just want to show how perverse

00:29:58.780 are thinking of this is. As Meghan Markle says, this was so tough to be a princess that I contemplated

00:30:06.920 suicide. And she very well may have. People in Hollywood are unstable people, generally speaking.

00:30:12.660 And maybe she just couldn't take it. Maybe she did not. She had a completely different vision of what

00:30:18.340 it meant to be a royal. Maybe she thought it was all about privilege and not at all about duty and

00:30:23.220 responsibility. So she was genuinely shocked and she just couldn't handle it.

00:30:27.620 We had to go to this event and I remember him saying, I don't think you can go. And I said,

00:30:31.800 I can't be left alone. Because you were afraid of what you might do to yourself.

00:30:40.220 And we went and that. I'm so sorry to hear that. And that picture, if you zoom in, what I see

00:30:48.220 is how tightly his knuckles are gripped around mine. You can see the whites of our knuckles because

00:30:54.920 we are smiling and doing our job, but we're both just trying to hold on. And every time that those

00:31:01.480 lights went down in that royal box, I was just weeping and he was gripping my hand and then it

00:31:08.720 was, okay, intermission's coming. It takes so much courage to admit that you need help.

00:31:14.100 So before I criticize what she has to say here, there is truth to this. It does take courage to

00:31:25.680 admit when you need help. This is part of the process of recognizing our own brokenness in

00:31:33.400 our human nature, right? This is a central fact of a Christian life is having the courage to recognize

00:31:42.240 you are not perfect, that you need help, that you are a miserable sinner and that you cannot fix your 0.98

00:31:48.960 brokenness on your own, right? It's actually a keen insight. And unfortunately, in our now secularized 0.98

00:31:55.180 culture, a lot of people don't understand that. And so they're not willing to get help. And that's,

00:31:58.400 that's why there actually is some legitimately legitimacy to this idea that we need to reach out.

00:32:04.980 We need to, you know, muster the courage to recognize our own inner problems. Sure. All true.

00:32:11.080 Whether or not going on Oprah Winfrey's show to whine about your husband's family that you made him

00:32:19.420 essentially divorce, whether that is helpful to your inner struggle seems a little dubious to me,

00:32:25.960 but the principle, fair enough. There's a flip side though, to all this talk about the courage

00:32:31.180 to muster the strength, to just think about yourself all the time. The flip side of that is

00:32:36.720 it also takes courage to do your duty. It also takes courage to fulfill your responsibilities

00:32:46.840 to other people and not just yourself. When you marry into the royal family, it's not as though,

00:32:55.400 you know, on the fifth date or something, Harry sits Megan down and says, you know, you know,

00:33:01.700 I love, you know, the problem. I love, I have something to admit to you. I'm a prince of England.

00:33:09.180 What, Harry? Yes. Deary, I know you thought I was a motorcycle mechanic, but actually I'm a prince.

00:33:16.860 Oh my gosh. Well, we'll make it through, Harry. Well, I hope that we can survive this because I love

00:33:21.560 you and I had no idea that you were a prince. Now, I think she knew from the beginning. She just was,

00:33:27.900 it would seem only focused on the glitz and the glamour and the privilege of it all. But it is

00:33:32.580 a weighty, weighty responsibility. I think too many of our elites, forget Meghan Markle for a second,

00:33:39.260 too many of our elites don't understand this. They think when you become prominent in, I don't know,

00:33:45.400 politics or the media or this, that, or the other thing, it's just all about privilege. It's just all

00:33:51.920 about glitz and glamour. They don't want to recognize the duty and the responsibility and

00:33:58.480 the gravity and the weight of that. If you forget about being a royal where your entire life is

00:34:05.180 duty, it's why I can't get on board with the, the kind of conservative American hatred for the royals,

00:34:12.440 you know, or all the jokes about the royals. Well, they live in palaces. They have fancy clothing.

00:34:16.100 And the, the royals' lives are very difficult. From the moment they are born, their entire life

00:34:22.120 is just about serving the country and doing whatever the country needs them to do. And it

00:34:28.280 might seem kind of frivolous because it's photo ops and it's opening up different markets and

00:34:32.760 things like that and welcoming foreign dignitaries. But you are born into a very specific job with a ton

00:34:39.940 of media scrutiny and you can never change it unless you abdicate like Harry because he met this

00:34:48.460 American wife. Unless you abdicate and bring shame on yourself, you just have to do that job. Most of 0.99

00:34:55.680 us don't even want to do the job that we chose for our entire lives. A lot of people, they start doing

00:35:01.460 a job and they're like, I kind of want to do something else. Maybe they start doing something else

00:35:04.260 within the broader industry. Maybe they switch careers, right? You don't get to switch careers

00:35:08.360 if you're a royal. You don't get to just do whatever you want all the time. You have to

00:35:13.640 focus on that responsibility. But none of our elites in this country seem willing to do that.

00:35:21.840 Takes courage to confront inner challenges. Also takes courage to confront outer challenges.

00:35:27.780 There are a lot of outer challenges that require real courage, not just looking in on ourselves,

00:35:32.520 though that's important sometimes, but looking out. In this country, a huge one is that our elites

00:35:38.020 who have taken all that power feel no responsibility to our American traditions or the American people

00:35:43.460 broadly. They consider the American people to be deplorable, irredeemable, bitter clinging rubes 0.71

00:35:48.260 and idiots and neo-Nazis who should not be able to speak in public, up to and including the former 1.00

00:35:55.720 president of the United States. Donald Trump gave a speech at CPAC, the conservative political action 1.00

00:36:01.120 conference where he talked about many of the problems facing the country, questions about the election,

00:36:08.560 what he might do in 2024. YouTube will not permit this video on the internet. So there was a channel,

00:36:18.080 just one channel among many, posted the video. They had it taken down. They were not allowed to

00:36:26.100 broadcast it. Then there was a question, was it just this channel or is YouTube more broadly?

00:36:29.820 YouTube has now clarified. They've said that unless users add countervailing viewpoints

00:36:36.680 about Trump's speech, they won't allow Trump's speech up there. So for instance,

00:36:40.780 I could play Trump's speech right now on this channel as long as after he talks, I say,

00:36:47.080 he's wrong. He's bad. Orange man bad. If I do that, then I'm allowed to have Trump's speech on YouTube.

00:36:52.800 But if I don't, or if I say, yeah, well, I made some pretty good points, that video will be taken

00:36:58.800 down. YouTube says, we enforce our community guidelines consistently, regardless of speaker

00:37:04.820 or political leaning. They're just as consistent, I think, as the Washington Post. Joe Biden showers

00:37:11.060 money on Americans. Trump braces us all for economic pain. In accordance with our established

00:37:18.360 presidential election integrity policy, established as of what, like five minutes ago, which prohibits

00:37:24.280 content uploaded after the St. Harvard deadline, claiming widespread fraud changed the outcome of

00:37:28.880 the 2020 U.S. presidential election, we removed this video from RSBN.

00:37:37.360 They're barely even mustering a justification for this. They never took down any videos of Stacey

00:37:45.240 Abrams and other people claiming that that election was stolen because Stacey Abrams is a 0.98

00:37:49.400 Democrat. They never took down any videos of Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats claiming that

00:37:54.980 that that election was stolen after the safe harbor deadline because those people are Democrats. But

00:38:00.240 they will take down any, any speech that they find threatening to their political agenda from Donald Trump

00:38:07.280 or other Republicans because they enjoy the privileges of being elites and controlling the flow of

00:38:15.360 information around the internet. But they have no sense of responsibility to the American way of

00:38:21.040 life. They actually don't like those American traditions. They want to get rid of those and 0.99

00:38:25.620 institute their own new guidelines. This is the thesis of my book, which I explain in painstaking

00:38:33.100 detail. It's called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. I, I actually do sort of suspect

00:38:38.280 that this book is going to face censorship from the left. Not because it's some outrageous,

00:38:44.260 raucous, shock jock kind of book. It's not at all. But I think that's actually the point.

00:38:49.420 The book very consistently shows you what the left has done, how the development of this political

00:38:57.880 correctness and the censorship is different than conservatives have traditionally understood it.

00:39:03.080 And, and the book, I think explains how, if we, if we want to fight it effectively, which we haven't

00:39:07.440 done for now a hundred years, we need to radically change course. I think they're probably going to go

00:39:12.620 after that sort of thing. So I recommend you pre-order it by the way, before, before they take it down.

00:39:16.900 Dr. Seuss. Now we're all joking about Dr. Seuss. Oh my, the left is so crazy. The tolerant left is so

00:39:33.900 crazy that now they're, they're taking down Dr. Seuss books. Gosh, isn't this hilarious? Yeah, I mean,

00:39:40.400 it's funny, I guess. It's also very, very dangerous and it makes absolute sense in the

00:39:47.500 left-wing system. Now what some people are going to tell you is, well, look, after they took down

00:39:51.440 those Dr. Seuss books, Dr. Seuss skyrocketed to the charts, top of the charts. See, the free market

00:39:57.100 wins. No, not really. Sure. I guess we're going to put some more money in the pockets of the Dr.

00:40:03.680 Seuss publishers who were censoring him in the first place, which seems kind of crazy to me,

00:40:06.960 but also they're, they're not going to start publishing the book again. They're just going

00:40:10.960 to squeeze a little bit of more, more money out of it at the very end. And then they're going to

00:40:15.260 continue to censor those old beloved books. Kevin McCarthy, leader in the, uh, the Republican

00:40:27.360 house, right? The minority leader among Republicans in the house of representatives. He decided to go after

00:40:34.020 this kind of craziness. He was going to read some Dr. Seuss books on camera. Green eggs and ham by Dr.

00:40:42.920 Seuss. I am Sam. I am Sam. Sam I am. That's Sam I am. That's Sam I am. I do not like that Sam I am.

00:40:57.560 Do you like green eggs and ham? Do you like green eggs and ham?

00:41:03.020 I do not like them Sam I am. I do not like green eggs and ham.

00:41:07.840 Okay. You, you get the point. What's funny of course, is that Senator Cruz did this exact thing

00:41:13.040 years ago. I think he, I think it was like eight years ago during some of his absolute wonderful,

00:41:20.340 uh, performances on the floor of the Senate, you know, trying to hold up Obamacare,

00:41:24.660 trying to hold up really bad legislation. He, uh, Ted Cruz famously read green eggs and ham. So

00:41:29.920 that, that's great. And Kevin McCarthy clearly has a good taste in literature, I guess. But

00:41:34.880 I, I felt this fell flat. I'm giving this as constructive criticism because I like Kevin

00:41:40.420 McCarthy, but I felt this fell flat because the left is not censoring green eggs and ham.

00:41:46.920 They're not. Green eggs and ham is now at the top of the charts on Amazon. But what the left is

00:41:51.140 censoring is a handful of books, the Mulberry street books, a few other Dr. Seuss books that

00:41:57.020 they feel are racially insensitive, politically incorrect. So I looked at some of the books and

00:42:02.380 I don't think they are. There's, there's a drawing. It's allegedly racist of a Chinese man.

00:42:10.180 And this is very offensive because he's got a traditional Chinese hat on or something.

00:42:14.540 It's not, there's, there's not, compared to other Dr. Seuss cartoons, there's nothing offensive

00:42:18.920 about this cartoon. So it seems to me, if we want to fight back against this sort of thing,

00:42:23.860 it's not that we should read green eggs and ham. We should read that book, right? If, if our argument

00:42:29.400 really is that these books, these handful of books that the left is saying are racially offensive,

00:42:33.800 if we're saying, no, they're not, they're not, everybody needs to get over themselves and just

00:42:39.200 not cancel everybody for the slightest, silliest reason, then we should be reading those books.

00:42:45.900 That, that would be much more provocative. And I think it would, it would make a far greater

00:42:50.860 defense, but people don't want to do that because so many conservatives, I'm not accusing Kevin

00:42:55.160 McCarthy of this, might've just been, he was reading one of the most popular Dr. Seuss books,

00:42:59.040 but a lot of conservatives will talk a good game on political correctness,

00:43:03.780 but they're not willing to actually get in there and determine what things we should say and what

00:43:10.680 things we shouldn't say. This is another topic I go into in great detail in my book.

00:43:17.240 I don't think that the conservative response to political correctness should be to say all sorts

00:43:23.120 of terribly offensive things. I don't think the conservative response to political correctness

00:43:27.440 is to start using the N word, you know, all the time in polite conversation. That's, to me,

00:43:33.180 that's not, maybe it's politically incorrect. To me, it's just quite rude to do. I don't think the

00:43:39.340 answer to political correctness is rudeness. I think the answer to political correctness

00:43:42.500 is stating things that are perfectly just, true, acceptable without fear of the left-wing mob.

00:43:53.400 It's going out there and saying things like men are not women or saying things like, I don't know,

00:43:58.460 if you're reading the Dr. Seuss book, saying things like different cultures wear different

00:44:01.180 sort of clothing. That, that sort of thing is very important. Go in there and actually make these

00:44:07.820 statements, but people don't want to do it. They want to shy away from that sort of thing.

00:44:12.620 Meanwhile, Dr. Seuss is not the only, only cartoonist under fire. The cat in the hat is not

00:44:18.340 the only victim of cancel culture. Pepe Le Pew, you know, Pepe Le Pew, he's that sort of girl crazy 1.00

00:44:25.560 snake or skunk rather from, from the old cartoons. Pepe Le Pew is being accused of perpetuating

00:44:33.060 rape culture, according to Charles Blow at the New York Times, which is on the same tier of

00:44:38.740 journalism as the Washington Post. Charles Blow writes, some of the first cartoons I can remember

00:44:42.680 included Pepe Le Pew, who normalized rape culture. Blow then followed this up. He said, right-wing

00:44:47.980 blogs are mad because I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture. Let's see. One, he grabs,

00:44:52.780 kisses a girl stranger repeatedly without consent and against her will. She struggles mightily to 0.98

00:44:58.900 get away from him, but he won't release her. Three, he locks a door to prevent her from escaping.

00:45:05.280 Boom. There it is. Lock him up. Lock up that skunk. Pepe Le Pew, he did it. 1.00

00:45:12.440 Seems to me no one has ever committed rape because a cartoon skunk told them that it was okay. 0.94

00:45:20.100 I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that. But I actually don't think that that is why they want

00:45:27.900 to cancel Pepe Le Pew or any sort of old cartoons that in any way contradict the ever-changing dictates

00:45:36.320 of political correctness. I think it's something deeper than that. I think it's because, one,

00:45:43.560 the left has a point when they talk about anti-racist babies. They actually do have a point.

00:45:47.240 Our brains are forming when we're very little. That's why we educate children more than we

00:45:53.080 educate adults. It's because you can shape those brains. So, sure, that matters. Also, because

00:45:59.700 these cartoons subtly are questioning the premises of political correctness. 0.78

00:46:06.080 It's exaggerated and sort of ridiculous with Pepe Le Pew. But what is being exaggerated? What's being

00:46:12.740 exaggerated is that men find women attractive? That men and women are different. They are

00:46:18.200 complementary. Men pursue women in a way that women do not pursue men because men and women relate to

00:46:26.320 sex and romance differently. That's the problem. That's what the left doesn't like. 1.00

00:46:34.020 That's what is a threat to the left-wing agenda. Not because anyone thinks a skunk is getting people

00:46:38.360 to commit rape. What's offensive in those Dr. Seuss books? Well, the Dr. Seuss books are saying

00:46:42.940 different cultures are different. They have different customs, different traditions. It's not 1.00

00:46:47.640 all just the same bland secular liberalism. That's the threat. That's the big threat here.

00:46:53.740 And these are, you don't need to defend Pepe Le Pew's rape culture to say, wait a second here, guys.

00:47:01.280 We need to keep these old cartoons, these old jokes, this old fun. Because one, these jokes,

00:47:11.000 this levity, this artwork embellishes life, makes it much more interesting. But also because there are

00:47:19.220 some premises in here. And they're deeper and they're basic and they're absolutely just and

00:47:23.320 they're absolutely defensible. But our elites, they do not want to do that. I don't even know if they

00:47:29.800 can muster the argument for that. Is there any question why people are losing faith in their

00:47:37.080 institutions, in their rituals, in their system of government? I don't think it's the people's

00:47:41.740 fault. I think it's the fault of this desiccated, shallow elite that refuses to take on any sort of 1.00

00:47:49.040 responsibility to the people. And when the elite are not responsive to the people, we hear about this

00:47:52.960 in the Federalist Papers, then society starts to break down. Let's see if we can build it back up.

00:47:58.160 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

00:48:28.160 Produced by Ben Davies. Executive producer, Jeremy Boring. Our technical director is Austin Stevens.

00:48:34.480 Supervising producers, Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling. Production manager, Pavel Vidovsky.

00:48:40.200 Editor and associate producer, Danny D'Amico. Audio mixer, Mike Coromina. Hair and makeup by

00:48:46.240 Nika Geneva. And production coordinator, McKenna Waters. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire

00:48:51.460 production. Copyright Daily Wire 2021.

00:48:54.200 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, Meghan Markle accuses the royal family of racism. Joe Biden

00:48:59.720 blows out the spending with a $1.9 trillion bill. And the media insists that censorship isn't

00:49:03.800 censorship, so long as the stuff being censored is the stuff they don't like. That's today on

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 08, 2021

Ep. 715 - Our Loathsome Elites

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