The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 721 - Is The Pope Catholic？

00:00:00.000 Breaking news. The Vatican has just declared that it still holds the same views that it has for 2000

00:00:06.860 years on sex and marriage, which is absolutely shocking to mainstream media journalists who

00:00:13.320 just cannot wrap their minds around the fact that the Pope is Catholic. Secular liberalism

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00:02:38.420 today. People are shocked by this announcement. The Vatican released a statement. It was on the question

00:02:46.320 of same sex marriage. You know, over the past, I guess now, what is it? Eight years or so,

00:02:52.100 there has been a major movement in the West to redefine marriage from its historic definition

00:02:57.900 as the union of husbands and wives. And more specifically for most of the time,

00:03:01.440 the union of one husband and one wife to now a monogamous union. So they, they kept the monogamy

00:03:07.980 part, but got rid of the sexual difference part. And people at the time on the left were arguing

00:03:13.520 that this was a matter of rights and people on the right were failing to argue, but we're trying

00:03:19.600 to argue at least that this was not a matter of rights. This was a question of what marriage is

00:03:24.200 it for all of human history. Everywhere on earth, marriage has had something to do with sexual 0.77

00:03:28.160 difference. Now, if you're radically going to redefine that and you're going to take away the

00:03:31.720 essential quality of marriage for the essential social institution, maybe we should proceed with 0.97

00:03:37.260 caution on that. Conservatives lost that battle in the courts. And now though, we were, we were told

00:03:44.000 at that time that, you know, look, if you have a certain religious view, that's okay. Why does my gay

00:03:48.780 marriage have anything to do with your straight marriage? Now people are really shocked to find

00:03:53.600 out that the Catholic church, the single most enduring institution in our entire civilization,

00:04:01.940 they're shocked to find out that they still hold the same views that they always have

00:04:05.580 on marriage. Don Lemon went on The View and chatted on this issue with Meghan McCain.

00:04:13.320 You got engaged to your fiance, Tim, in 2019. And this morning, and you guys are so cute,

00:04:19.520 we learned that the Vatican has said that the Catholic church won't bless same-sex unions,

00:04:24.280 quote, since God cannot bless sin. They go on to say that this does not imply a judgment on persons.

00:04:30.080 But I want to know, do you think this sends a damaging message? And how do you feel about that,

00:04:33.940 given that obviously, you are now engaged and going to get married?

00:04:38.220 Well, I think there are, listen, I respect people's right to believe in whatever they want

00:04:43.020 to believe in their God. But if you believe in something that hurts another person, that does

00:04:47.420 not give someone the same rights or freedoms, not necessarily under the Constitution, because this

00:04:52.960 is under God, I think that that's wrong. And I think that the Catholic church and many other

00:04:58.160 churches really need to reexamine themselves and their teachings, because that is not what God is

00:05:04.500 about. God is not about hindering people or even judging people.

00:05:08.780 I love this, because this is, I don't even really care about the media shock regarding Catholicism. 0.97

00:05:16.940 The media are ignorant and arrogant, and they vary in between, they vacillate in between those two 0.98

00:05:24.840 poles. But what I care about here is the presumption. Don Lemon says, I respect people's right to believe 0.99

00:05:32.140 in their religions. But, right, and then the but immediately contradicts everything he previously

00:05:39.060 said, because he says, I respect people's right to believe in their religions. But if it contradicts my

00:05:44.300 religion, if it contradicts my view, my interpretation of people's rights and freedoms and what people

00:05:51.340 ought to be able to do, if it in any way, if other people's views contradict my beliefs, then those

00:05:56.120 beliefs ought to cut it out. Then those people need to ditch those old beliefs. He's saying, because

00:06:03.220 if it contradicts my rights, well, where do rights come from? Rights come from the law. Natural rights come

00:06:10.380 from the natural law. Who gives us the natural law? God. All laws, all rights have ultimately come

00:06:18.520 back to morality, who gives us morality, a religious view of the world. So Don Lemon says, sure, you can

00:06:24.940 believe whatever you want. Just, just don't contradict me. And then he says, after this whole look, man,

00:06:29.560 just don't, come on, we can all believe what we want to believe, you know, and just after all this

00:06:33.380 kind of dishonest, hippy dippy rhetoric, he then says, let me tell you what God thinks. He then says

00:06:38.920 the Catholic church, bark of Peter, 2000 years. If you're Catholic, you believe instituted by Christ

00:06:47.040 himself, hands the keys to the kingdom of heaven to St. Peter, the first Pope. Who knows better about

00:06:53.500 what God thinks? The Catholic church or Don freaking Lemon. Catholic church, even if you don't believe,

00:07:02.180 I believe this, but let's say you don't believe this, that the Catholic church is divinely instituted.

00:07:07.840 Surely it is the case that an institution that has been devoted to interpreting scripture and

00:07:14.500 developing theology for 2000 years might have more sophisticated views on the subject of what God

00:07:20.600 thinks than a CNN host named Don Lemon. And, and we know that this is true because Don Lemon last

00:07:26.420 year talking about a different subject, uh, made a little bit of a crucial theological mistake.

00:07:34.280 But here's the thing, Jesus Christ, if you believe in, if you, if that's who you believe in, Jesus Christ,

00:07:40.300 admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth. So why are we deifying the founders of this

00:07:47.080 country? Many of whom own slaves. Jesus Christ was admittedly, he says, not perfect when he was on

00:07:56.380 this earth. So he's not, he's not merely denying the divinity of Christ, which is an ancient, ancient

00:08:02.660 heresy. It's one of the earliest heresies in the church. He's also just making things up about the,

00:08:08.820 the text of the gospels, right? He's saying, yeah, admittedly, you know, Christ admitted this.

00:08:12.700 Uh, I, I would like to see that verse because it's pretty central to the whole thing that Christ

00:08:22.920 is perfect. Christ is blameless. The sacrifice on the cross is perfect because Christ is perfect.

00:08:32.680 So all of that to say, Don Lemon, not the most educated in theology, but he is very presumptuous.

00:08:39.760 He is frequently wrong, but never in doubt. I bring up this story, not, not so much for the

00:08:46.680 sexual aspect, but for the political aspect, because it's coming back to freedom and rights

00:08:53.260 and this very liberal interpretation of freedom and rights, which now constitutes the secular

00:08:58.100 religion. I don't think that people are really ignorant of the, the Catholic church's teaching

00:09:04.260 on marriage. I don't think that while people are clutching their pearls, I don't think it's

00:09:09.040 that of ignorance. I think the shock is because they just assume that eventually we're all going

00:09:15.960 to ditch our own beliefs, our old, you know, sturdy beliefs that have endured for millennia.

00:09:21.460 And we are going to adopt the new faddish beliefs of secular liberal modernity. In a sane culture,

00:09:28.520 the shock would be if the Catholic church, which has held one view for 2000 years about a very

00:09:36.240 crucial fundamental matter, just completely changed it overnight. That would be shocking to a sane

00:09:41.980 culture. But because we're now in an insane culture, the shock to us is that they didn't

00:09:47.760 change their views overnight. Because in, you heard this in, even in the way Don Lemon spoke,

00:09:53.840 it gets back to something that Barack Obama used to use a lot of certain rhetorical trick,

00:09:58.840 which is we've, we've gone from discussing freedom of religion and the practice of religion to

00:10:05.660 freedom of belief is what Don Lemon's talking about, or freedom of worship as Barack Obama says,

00:10:14.120 because those phrases water down religion. Freedom of worship, what does that bring up in your mind?

00:10:21.660 It means you get to go to your church on Sunday and sing some songs and then leave,

00:10:25.160 right? And then go, and then get back to the business of liberal modernity.

00:10:29.980 Okay, good. Then you get back to secularism Monday through Saturday. Then Sunday, you can

00:10:34.160 have freedom to worship. Freedom of belief is just, you can have some ideas swimming in your head.

00:10:38.720 You can't even really articulate them necessarily. It was just freedom of belief.

00:10:43.240 But freedom of religion is different because religion is not just a hobby. Religion is not just

00:10:48.140 something you compartmentalize, like we compartmentalize so much in modernity. Religion

00:10:53.780 religion is everything. And we all knew this as a civilization until like five minutes ago.

00:11:01.640 Our founding fathers understood this. They understood the religious basis of government.

00:11:05.760 That's why they invoke the creator. That's why they invoke God and the natural rights given to us by God

00:11:11.420 in the Declaration of Independence. Cardinal Manning famously observed that all human conflict

00:11:16.760 ultimately is theological. But because liberalism is such a jealous God, many liberals today,

00:11:24.740 they can't even wrap their minds around that. That you wouldn't just ditch the enduring views that

00:11:30.380 built our civilization and that edify the human soul and turn our eyes up toward the heavens.

00:11:36.220 That we wouldn't just ditch that for a bunch of technocrats in lab coats,

00:11:40.680 for a bunch of modern libs taking power and telling us what to do because they know the

00:11:46.980 most efficient way to run society. Joe Biden, prime example of this, right? Joe Biden,

00:11:50.960 devout Catholic Joe Biden was asked his view on the Vatican's perfectly anodyne statement that

00:11:59.680 should have surprised nobody. He, he's upset about it.

00:12:03.760 On a different subject, the Vatican today said it would not bless same-sex unions. The president's

00:12:10.560 devout Catholic. Does he have a personal response to that?

00:12:14.140 I don't think he has a personal response to the Vatican, no. He continues to believe

00:12:18.980 and support same-sex unions, as you know, and he's long had that position.

00:12:23.140 He's long had that position. He's only had that position since, what was it, 2012?

00:12:27.700 He's had that position for nine years. He's been in politics for something like 50 years.

00:12:32.860 So even Joe Biden, who is the most radical president we've ever had, not because I think he

00:12:37.480 has particular ideological commitments. He's just a sort of weather vane. He's an empty vessel

00:12:41.720 for the Democratic Party establishment, which is moving further and further to the left.

00:12:46.160 But even, even just by his own standard, for the vast majority of his political career,

00:12:52.200 to say nothing of the vast majority of his life, he has held the Catholic view or at least espoused

00:12:58.080 the Catholic view. But now, because of the acceleration of this cultural radicalism,

00:13:04.940 even that absolutely anathema. Joe Biden has, back before I was shaving, Joe Biden held these views.

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00:14:33.040 I strongly recommend you go check out Harry's razors. So Joe Biden, devout Catholic, at odds with

00:14:42.880 the Catholic Church on this sort of fundamental issue of marriage. But he continues to call himself

00:14:51.260 a devout Catholic because one of the tools of political correctness, which is, you know,

00:14:56.840 we use the term political correctness or wokeness or whatever, but these are, these are just the

00:15:00.540 instruments of political leftism. Joe Biden believes that by changing words, you can in some way

00:15:11.560 change reality. That is one of the central conceit of political correctness. And so forget about

00:15:19.620 marriage, right? The idea that you can just by changing the words, you can change the reality

00:15:24.300 of that thing. Down at the Southern border, Joe Biden is facing an historic crisis. People flooding

00:15:32.600 over the border. We're seeing huge, huge spikes, kids in cages, the likes of which we never saw under

00:15:38.580 President Trump, despite media coverage to the contrary, despite the negative press covfefe.

00:15:43.800 So Joe and his team believe that by, by redefining what's going on at the border, they can redefine

00:15:49.020 the, the reality of it. Jen Psaki was asked about this crisis down there. Ah, she, she doesn't want 0.57

00:15:56.520 to call it that. Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the people coming into the U.S.

00:16:01.740 right now see Biden, President Biden, as the migrant president. Does the Lighthouse take that as a

00:16:07.440 compliment? Migrant. Give me a little more context. Well, he said, they see him as the migrant

00:16:12.820 president and so many feel, so many feel they're going to reach the United States. We need to work

00:16:18.900 together to regulate the flow because this business can't be tackled from one day to the next.

00:16:24.280 Well, first it's Mexico will have to be, is an important partner in ensuring we're addressing

00:16:29.600 the flow of migrants from Central America through Mexico and many to the border of the United States.

00:16:36.700 uh, we have conveyed, uh, privately and publicly as well, that the majority of people who come to

00:16:42.360 our border will be turned away. Okay. So still downplaying this. I mean, the reporters have

00:16:49.000 asking, have been asking for weeks now, will you call it a crisis? Is it a crisis? She, she won't do

00:16:54.520 it. Now you've even got the president of Mexico saying this, this is Biden's fault. Biden is creating

00:17:01.980 incentives for people to be flowing to the border. And even that just downplaying it. No, no, you

00:17:07.140 understand. There are migrants. They're calm. This is all perfectly normal. They're, they're fleeing

00:17:12.320 their countries. They're going through Mexico, but they're not staying in Mexico because Mexico's not 0.97

00:17:16.440 that nice. And America's really nice. And you know, they're just seeking safety from political

00:17:22.020 persecution, but they want to seek the safety, maybe more up here where we have a strong economy

00:17:26.780 and a, a stable government at a stable government, at least for now.

00:17:33.360 The, and so, so is he the migrant president? Well, what do you mean by migrant president? Do you

00:17:38.560 mean, well, I don't know, does the word mean this? What's actually happening? Joe Biden is creating

00:17:43.300 incentives, massive incentives, including a mass amnesty plan, uh, for illegal aliens. And so you're

00:17:49.920 getting more illegal aliens. This is a central tactic to distract us in these kinds of semantic 0.98

00:17:58.180 debates. But the problem is the words really, really do matter because they really do color

00:18:01.860 how we view these things. Imagine, imagine if this had been president Trump, the kind of coverage

00:18:06.900 this would be getting, but by using that kind of anodyne language, oh, well, it depends, you know,

00:18:11.960 they just move right on. Another PC tactic is playing to people's basest sexual passions. 1.00

00:18:19.920 This is where the, the sex issue does kind of matter. I mentioned earlier, my, my interest in

00:18:25.940 the, the story, my political interest in the Catholic story is, has more to do with our

00:18:32.100 understanding of freedom and rights and liberal modernity. But my interest in WAP, my interest in

00:18:40.320 the Grammys, my interest in Cardi B's performance a couple nights ago, that actually does have to do

00:18:45.780 with the sexual aspect. Because the left, certainly since the 1960s and the sexual revolution, but even

00:18:51.620 before that, the, the left recognized that by arousing certain sexual passions, you can deprive

00:18:59.900 people of their, their control over their higher faculties and you can make them easier to control.

00:19:04.940 I will, uh, spare you the full WAP performance between Cardi B and some other musician.

00:19:13.680 Okay. Is she a musician? I guess, uh, uh, during, during the event, but just,

00:19:18.060 just take a listen to, uh, to one brief passage.

00:19:21.720 This is so, you can't even be mad. You can't even be angry.

00:19:51.560 if you just look at this, because I think you know, I've mentioned this before, I'm not

00:19:58.500 the most hip guy when it comes to popular music. I haven't listened to many Cardi B arias in my

00:20:07.200 life. I haven't tuned into them. So this really is pretty foreign to me whenever I see this sort

00:20:14.360 of thing. And watching it, I, I, I'm, I'm not the sort of person who is immune to desires of the

00:20:23.180 flesh. Okay. I'm not, I'm not saying that there's no way to interest me to, you know, however,

00:20:30.220 that does not interest me. That performance does not arouse me in the slightest because it is

00:20:36.280 grotesque. It's not like, do you ever wonder when you, when you watch old movies or you, I don't

00:20:45.760 know, pick up a history book or something about a hundred years ago, we joke about it now. If a

00:20:51.480 woman showed, I don't know, a little, a little leg, you know, a little, just lift me, you know, 1.00

00:20:55.300 there's a joke here. She lifts up her skirt to show her ankle. Men would go crazy because the culture 0.89

00:21:00.820 was so repressed. The culture was so focused on maintaining certain sexual boundaries that anytime

00:21:09.300 you would transgress it even a little bit, it was, it was pretty sexy. And then over time, as, as

00:21:15.240 sexual mores began to be eroded, you would require more and more to stimulate you sexually. So, you know,

00:21:24.060 then it became women would wear even looser clothing or then it became women would wear bikinis and 0.90

00:21:29.760 then it would be, it became, you know, even I was watching some movies from the nineties over the

00:21:33.900 past few weeks and even the way that sex was hinted at there. And this was not that long ago.

00:21:40.400 It was not nearly as grotesque as it is now, but because now we've lost all boundaries because now

00:21:45.640 we're in a culture that is saturated by high speed internet pornography for, for one. And then even

00:21:51.180 in the pop culture, you get stuff like WAP because of that, we're just kind of desensitized to it.

00:21:56.080 And so you need more and more and more to stimulate you. I suspect this is why you see pornography

00:22:04.540 proliferating as it has. You're seeing now porn getting so violent that you had under the Bush

00:22:11.240 administration, the federal government prosecuting pornographers because it was so, it was, it became

00:22:16.720 so violent. Sure. If you have a culture where young boys are exposed to this at a very young age,

00:22:21.760 you're just going to be desensitized. But don't you think like if, if you're finding WAP

00:22:30.080 really arousing to you, hasn't something gone wrong with you? If that's what you need to stay

00:22:36.900 stimulated, don't you think there might be a problem with that? What we are told is that, uh, being able

00:22:43.160 to WAP, WAP ourselves all day long is, uh, somehow the height of freedom, right? This, what we are told

00:22:49.920 by liberal modernity is that Cardi B, you know, bumping and grinding on a stage with that other

00:22:55.060 chick and yelling about her WAP, that is the height of liberation and, and empowerment. And, you know,

00:23:02.340 I'm woman, hear me roar. But of course that's not true. It, you just look like prostitutes, right? 1.00

00:23:08.320 There's no, there would be no difference. But if, if you were to show that video maybe 10 years ago, 0.97

00:23:14.440 people would think it was porn, right? But now it's actually mainstream entertainment that kids

00:23:19.480 can watch. They can't watch Dumbo the elephant on Disney plus, but they can watch WAP on, on TV.

00:23:26.440 Is that empowerment? No. Is that liberty? No. That is the opposite actually, because the

00:23:33.360 conservative view of liberty, the classical view of liberty, the Christian view of liberty,

00:23:37.420 all of them recognize that liberty and licentiousness are not only not the same thing,

00:23:41.480 they're opposites. The more you give into your base appetites and desires, the less free you will

00:23:47.880 be. The man who sins is a slave to sin. Our free government is built for a moral and religious

00:23:53.880 people. It's unfit to any other kind of people, according to John Adams. The left though has made

00:23:59.500 this excellent little trick, this very clever little trick where they've conflated those two terms.

00:24:04.620 And now we, we get very confused by, by all this sort, sort of stuff. Shockingly though,

00:24:10.200 WAP was not the most, uh, wild thing at the Grammys. This was not the most controversial

00:24:18.520 thing whatsoever. That honor would have to go to Bill Burr, the comedian Bill Burr, who did not

00:24:25.980 jiggle around his WAP, thankfully, uh, because that, that wouldn't have shocked and offended anybody.

00:24:30.900 He contradicted political correctness. He made jokes about the overarching liberal framework that

00:24:38.600 we're all living under and that they are not going to so easily forgive. Ben, who, you know,

00:24:43.380 is one of the most famous, uh, rappers ever to cover WAP. Uh, he will be, he's a Wapper, I guess.

00:24:49.120 He will be talking about Cardi B. So definitely go check that out. Um, also the wait is over.

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00:25:15.220 for 25% off. We'll be right back with a lot more. Bill Burr, the comedian Bill Burr made the biggest

00:25:33.860 splash at the Grammys. Bill Burr contradicted political correctness. Take a listen to his

00:25:41.700 introduction to one of the awards. How are you? Was I the only one who wanted to kill himself

00:25:47.120 during that piano solo? Um, I bought a suit for this. I thought I was going to be on TV. I'm such

00:25:54.820 a moron. I am losing so much money right now. All right. Shout out to all the rock stars that I 1.00

00:26:00.360 wanted to meet tonight who are watching at home. Instead, I'm talking to you, Don Dockin. All right.

00:26:05.220 What? I'm old. That was my first concert. All right. Here are the next categories. All right.

00:26:12.060 Hey, how many feminists are like going nuts? So how, why is this, this white male doing all this 0.99

00:26:16.700 Latino stuff? It was by far the highlight of, of the night. I didn't watch the whole thing. I'm

00:26:23.920 just assuming it was the only clip I've seen that, that made me chuckle. So Bill Burr walks out there.

00:26:30.640 He says, wait a second, this isn't even the Grammys. You're not, no one's here. You're all

00:26:35.140 just zooming in. You idiots. What are you doing? Okay. Well, this is a waste. And okay, now I've got 1.00

00:26:39.800 to read all these Spanish guy names. I bet they're going to get really angry at me. Right. And so 1.00

00:26:43.760 people, people are trying to cancel Bill Burr and call him a racist and a, you know, white supremacist

00:26:49.440 and all that kind of stuff. Now, if you're not a fan of Bill Burr, you, you might be persuaded by

00:26:56.440 these kinds of attacks. However, if you do follow Bill Burr, you will know that he's married to a

00:27:03.140 black woman. He's obviously not a racist. If a guy married to a black woman can be a racist,

00:27:09.120 then racism doesn't mean anything anymore. This reminds me of one time, David Webb, 0.96

00:27:14.940 a conservative commentator was, he was hosting radio and a woman called in a black liberal woman

00:27:21.260 called in and they were disagreeing. And she said, well, you, you only think that David,

00:27:24.760 because of your white privilege. And, and David said, are you sure about that? Yeah,

00:27:29.600 I know it's your white privilege. He goes, you know, I, I think if we were in studio or on TV

00:27:34.220 right now, you might change your opinion because David Webb is a black man. You, you hear this

00:27:41.120 phrase, racism, white supremacy. It's just thrown out. It just means bad. It's just like throwing

00:27:46.000 spaghetti at the wall. And then occasionally people get embarrassed by this sort of thing.

00:27:50.120 I think Bill Burr though has exactly the right approach. Just laugh at this kind of nonsense.

00:27:57.260 Laugh at the PC stuff. They get so angry when you laugh at it. So first you have to laugh. Then you 0.72

00:28:03.300 have to be bold though. You have to go out and follow that up with action. I have a great,

00:28:07.960 great example of what we could do to, to show what we mean. University of Wisconsin, Madison.

00:28:12.880 The student government, University of Wisconsin, Madison, famously left-wing school has just taken

00:28:20.060 a vote to double the ethnic studies requirement for graduates. The student government vote is not

00:28:28.740 really going to matter, but it really caught my attention because if you can double the ethnic

00:28:33.080 studies requirement, that means that there is an ethnic studies requirement. And that is a very bad

00:28:39.100 idea. That's really bad. Ethnic studies, we also call this grievance studies, is an outgrowth of 0.96

00:28:48.100 critical theory. It is a strictly ideological type of education based on very narrow leftist

00:28:57.320 ideologies of the 20th century. It has destroyed in many ways classical liberal education in this

00:29:07.040 country. It has no purpose in the university. Even the people who developed it acknowledged this was

00:29:12.800 a different sort of thing. This was activism disguised as education. I detail this in my book,

00:29:18.860 Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available for pre-order now, but it won't be

00:29:22.540 available once Amazon realizes what the book's about and kicks it off. So if you want to pre-order

00:29:26.960 it, you can pre-order it now. This should not be permitted in the universities. Now, the trap that

00:29:33.580 the left left for conservatives and that conservatives have fallen into is that some

00:29:40.500 conservatives give into this and say, yeah, it's great. Ethnic studies, love that. You know,

00:29:44.040 the kind of squishy types. But then even the other conservatives, a lot of them will say, well,

00:29:49.500 you know, academic freedom, we support, we're the true liberals. We support all this kind of crap in 0.99

00:29:56.860 the university. We, we want total inclusion and you expand the curriculum, but just don't make me 0.98

00:30:02.140 take the class. Just don't make me take ethnic studies. But absolutely, you can have this

00:30:06.580 poisonous ideological indoctrination in the universities. Totally. Academic freedom,

00:30:11.100 free speech, right? No, no. William F. Buckley Jr., when, when he founded the conservative movement

00:30:16.740 with his book, God and Man at Yale, subtitled that book, The Superstitions of Academic Freedom.

00:30:23.240 Academic freedom, he noted in the book, is a hoax. It's not, it's not real. It is a fraud that the

00:30:29.560 left is perpetrating on us to destroy our institutions of education. It is not enough

00:30:35.480 to say, hey, you have your ethnic studies courses, but just don't require us to take it. No, it should

00:30:40.760 be banned from the university. It's poison. It's not enough to say, hey, you know, you've got that

00:30:48.120 punch bowl over there. Yeah. And you, and you want to put some cyanide in it. Okay. Well, but just

00:30:54.640 make sure the cyanide is only in your part of the punch bowl. Okay. So you, you're free to put it in,

00:30:59.920 but I just don't, just don't make me drink from that portion of the punch bowl. First of all,

00:31:04.600 it's a punch bowl. We're all in it. The university is a university. There is, theoretically, it's got

00:31:09.700 a coherence to it. So if you poison part of it, you poison the whole thing. Our society is not just

00:31:16.720 atomized individuals who can all just live completely on their own and not have any effect on

00:31:20.940 one another. If we, we go back to this example, cause it's the clearest. If our society is confused

00:31:27.620 about who a man is and what, who a woman is, then that is a social problem. We can't live in a 1.00

00:31:35.100 society where we all get to define our own words, where some of us call Caitlyn Jenner, he, and some

00:31:40.300 of us call Caitlyn Jenner, she. That just means we can't communicate with one another. That means

00:31:44.320 we're speaking different languages. That means that we don't have a society or certainly not a

00:31:48.780 functioning one. We have to come to terms with certain things and agree on certain things. And

00:31:57.020 in this finite world of ours, we're going to include certain ideas. We're going to exclude

00:32:01.220 certain ideas. And that's just the way it is. Nowhere is that truer than at the universities.

00:32:07.880 The right, I think, has been very accommodating in, in the last century, certainly on the cultural

00:32:12.800 matters. We've just rolled over. Okay. But I think even generally speaking, we try to play fair. You

00:32:17.540 know, you have that conservative who's like, well, I respect your point of view and we can all have

00:32:21.320 these different points of views and fair marketplace of ideas. And some students want to take this

00:32:25.480 poisonous course in universities. That's, I respect that. Right. And you know, but I, if, if you want

00:32:29.840 to go to drag queen story hour, that's wonderful. And you know, have, uh, transvestites twerking for 1.00

00:32:35.200 toddlers at public, public libraries. That's, I respect that, but just please let us go to church on

00:32:39.680 Sunday. Oh, you're not going to let us go to church on Sunday because Dr. Fauci said no. Okay. Well,

00:32:43.460 whoopsie daisy. We'll try again next time. Conservatives try to be really accommodating. 1.00

00:32:47.440 You can, you can tell my views on this sort of accommodation. The left does not, the left does

00:32:53.880 not play fair. Nowhere is this clearer than in, uh, Washington Post correction that they just made.

00:33:01.900 Washington Post, you'll recall, reported during the heat of the election and the election recounts,

00:33:07.920 they had a headline quote, Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call,

00:33:13.060 legal experts say could amount to obstruction. This was to some people, the basis of the,

00:33:20.260 the case for impeaching Trump. He's, it's a power grab. He's a tyrant. He's a dictator. He's trying

00:33:26.420 to pressure this Georgia secretary of state. This is illegal. It's unconstitutional.

00:33:31.380 This was based on a scoop that Trump quote, urged Georgia's lead elections investigator to find the

00:33:38.000 fraud in a lengthy December phone call saying the official would be a national hero.

00:33:41.540 The Washington Post cited a single anonymous source who it then said confirmed the details

00:33:49.240 of the private conversation. Now you'll, you'll note if you have followed anything about journalism,

00:33:55.540 anonymous sources cannot confirm. There's no confirming. Anonymous sources give you something,

00:34:04.880 but then you have to confirm it with a real source. They didn't do that. They just said,

00:34:08.740 yeah, I see Trump. He's terrible guy. So here's the correction. Two months after publication of this 0.98

00:34:14.280 story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of president Donald Trump's

00:34:18.980 December phone call with the state's top elections investigator. The recording revealed that the post

00:34:24.500 misquoted Trump's comments on the call based on information provided by a source. Trump did not

00:34:29.960 tell the investigator to find the fraud or say she would be a national hero if she did so.

00:34:34.780 Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Georgia,

00:34:38.700 asserting she would find dishonesty there. He also told her that she had the most important job in

00:34:43.560 the country right now. A story about the recording can be found at this link. The headline and text

00:34:48.100 of this story had been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.

00:34:54.540 Thanks. Thanks Washington Post. That's good. First of all, no one, very, very few people are going to

00:35:01.500 read that correction. Conservatives are people who listen to this show, maybe some others.

00:35:07.640 Most people are not. Even if they were, even if this were national news all over all the networks

00:35:13.520 being covered wall to wall, wouldn't matter because the reporting, which was really a democratic

00:35:21.500 hit job, already accomplished its goal of putting the political pressure on Trump,

00:35:26.800 swaying the narrative surrounding the election and giving Georgia cover not to conduct an exhaustive

00:35:32.980 recount. Hmm. Oops. Do you think the Washington Post is going to change anything about the way that

00:35:40.480 it operates after this? No, it doesn't matter. They got away with it. Oh, oops. Yeah. We had to issue

00:35:46.420 a correction. The whole story was bogus. Haha, we won. What, what incentive does the Washington Post have

00:35:53.780 to ever change the way that they do anything? They won't face no consequences. I do not think

00:36:01.520 that conservatives should act in any immoral or unjust way, but it would be nice if we grew a spine.

00:36:07.740 It would be nice if we played as tough as the left does. Would be nice if instead of conservatives

00:36:14.460 constantly finding themselves in a circular firing squad where all we ever try to do is just police what

00:36:19.600 all the other right wingers are saying and thinking and doing would be nice if we focused any of our

00:36:25.180 attention on the left and maybe had any kind of unity. The left is pretty unified for a group of

00:36:33.460 sort of squabbling radicals. They're pretty unified when it comes to political action. The right,

00:36:38.440 not so much. Speaking of presidents, by the way, just in case you were sleeping too soundly at night,

00:36:44.040 I would like to give you some nightmares. Meghan Markle, the erstwhile Duchess of Sussex

00:36:49.780 is reportedly networking with top Democratic Party leaders and mulling a bid for the U.S. presidency

00:36:57.600 in 2024. This, according to the Daily Mail, which cites an unnamed British Labour Party official.

00:37:06.080 Is this true? Do I believe this? I don't believe generally the things I read in the papers,

00:37:12.640 but given the sort of, given the fact that Meghan Markle got her husband to leave his family,

00:37:19.460 his royal family, move back to America, and she's constantly courting fame and public favor.

00:37:26.700 Yeah, wouldn't be shocked. I don't know. Stranger things have happened.

00:37:30.420 She believes that Biden, who will be 82 in 2024, might not run for a second term. Fair enough.

00:37:37.000 Meghan's biographer and longtime friend, Omid Scobie, has claimed that the actress,

00:37:42.380 quote, has her eyes set on the U.S. presidency.

00:37:47.500 First of all, why does Meghan Markle have a biographer? This is news to me. I guess the fact

00:37:53.420 that the guy's a friend of hers would make sense because she's like, hey, get me a biography. I'm

00:37:58.040 trying to run for office. On the one hand, this seems far-fetched. On another, Meghan Markle is the 0.80

00:38:04.260 voice of a generation. She is. She is the classic millennial woman, millennial person who would

00:38:14.960 rather pretend to be a princess on Disney than be an actual princess. She would rather have the 0.97

00:38:23.400 appearance of the thing, right? That she would rather have the perks and the privileges of the thing 0.71

00:38:27.800 rather than the substance of the thing. Big divide between left and right and I think

00:38:34.920 a big marker of the millennial generation. Meghan Markle is no less qualified to be president than 1.00

00:38:41.760 AOC, right? AOC is a clever politician. Meghan Markle is a clever politician. AOC doesn't know 1.00

00:38:48.720 nothing about nothing with regard to, say, history, philosophy, geopolitics, but neither does the

00:38:58.260 other one. Neither Markle nor AOC really know anything about that sort of stuff. Hasn't hampered

00:39:03.080 either of their political careers. And Meghan Markle is a politician. Meghan Markle is an extraordinarily 0.85

00:39:08.780 gifted politician. Meghan Markle nabbed herself a prince. And Meghan Markle not only nabbed herself a

00:39:15.640 prince. She convinced him to leave the palaces, the castles, the country that his family symbolizes

00:39:25.780 and move with her to LA, right? I think they're living in LA. It's a city that I fled. LA, not a,

00:39:34.600 not a great place right now. Convinced Prince Harry to move with her to California to do what? So that

00:39:43.780 she could like do voiceovers for Disney. There was a great clip of Harry begging some entertainment

00:39:48.840 CEOs, but you know, you might hire my wife to do some voiceover work, yes? So that she can be an 1.00

00:39:54.960 actress. That's pretty powerful political skill. Is Meghan coming up in 2024? Maybe. It'd be hard to 0.98

00:40:03.200 imagine that Kamala Harris, who is a really skillful politician, which I've said from the very 0.99

00:40:08.240 beginning. I said early on in 2016, or 2020 rather, I said, watch out for Kamala Harris. She's a shark. 1.00

00:40:14.460 And then it seemed like my prediction was totally wrong because she was the first to drop out. But I

00:40:18.240 think I was actually vindicated because she, more than anyone else on that stage, other than Joe Biden,

00:40:23.820 has been able to amass political power. And frankly, maybe more so than Joe Biden, because

00:40:27.740 I think very few people believe Joe's actually running anything over there at the White House.

00:40:31.520 Speaking of people who want to be president, but who are also long shots at being president,

00:40:41.220 poor Andrew Cuomo, poor Andrew Cuomo, poor deadly Andrew Cuomo, whose policies directly led to the

00:40:50.180 deaths of thousands of elderly New Yorkers. He's really under fire. Jen Psaki was asked whether or

00:40:56.660 not he should resign. What's the White House's opinion? Here's her answer.

00:40:59.600 Does the president believe the governor should resign?

00:41:02.460 The president believes that every woman who's come forward, there have now been six, I believe,

00:41:08.100 who have come forward, deserves to have her voice heard, should be treated with respect,

00:41:12.680 and should be able to tell her story. There also is an independent investigation that is ongoing,

00:41:17.920 of course, in the state with subpoena power overseen by the attorney general. And he certainly

00:41:22.500 supports that moving forward. We, of course, have watched the news of a number of lawmakers call for

00:41:28.500 that. But I don't have any additional announcements from here.

00:41:31.720 So still playing it safe. Classic Biden move. Well, yeah, you've seen a lot of lawmakers calling

00:41:38.480 for his resignation. You know, we're monitoring closely. We work. So they're still holding on for

00:41:44.480 now. I have told you, look, it looks like it's difficult for Cuomo to survive this. So he might,

00:41:50.640 he might have to finally go. But if anybody is going to survive this scandal, it's going to be Andy

00:41:56.060 Cuomo. That guy is a political animal. He has been in the game since he ran his father's governor

00:42:01.340 campaign in New York at age 23. A lot of people owe him a lot of favors. It's a very corrupt state.

00:42:07.780 And Andrew Cuomo knows how to exercise the levers of power. But a lot of lawmakers are calling for

00:42:13.560 his resignation. It started out, it was just a few here and there. Then AOC calls for an investigation.

00:42:17.780 Then the leader, the leaders of the Senate and the Assembly in New York, both Democrats, call for his

00:42:25.200 resignation or impeachment, says he can't be governor anymore. Then Schumer and Gillibrand.

00:42:32.740 These are the two senators from New York. They've been there a long time, especially Chuck Schumer.

00:42:37.060 I remember the night Schumer got elected. And what was it, 98, something like that?

00:42:41.360 You know, this guy's been in office for a long time. He's a big power broker. He's the Senate

00:42:47.280 majority leader. Schumer and Gillibrand say, quote, confronting and overcoming the COVID crisis

00:42:53.240 requires sure and steady leadership. We commend the brave actions of the individuals who have come

00:42:57.620 forward with serious allegations of abuse and misconduct. Due to the multiple credible sexual

00:43:03.940 harassment and misconduct allegations, it's clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of his

00:43:07.620 governing partners and the people of New York. Governor Cuomo should resign. Brilliant piece

00:43:13.740 of political messaging, classic Schumer statement. Andrew Cuomo should resign because his policies

00:43:22.060 killed thousands of New Yorkers needlessly during COVID because he handled COVID worse than any

00:43:27.680 other governor in the entire country. That's why he should be booted from office. He should not be

00:43:35.060 booted from office because he gave a reporter a hot dog at a political event or looked at some

00:43:39.660 staffer funny or who knows. Now the allegations are getting a little bit more serious, but the

00:43:44.540 methodical way in which they have been trotted out makes me a little skeptical that the sex allegations

00:43:50.680 are really what's doing it. I just, I just don't buy it. It's all too politically convenient

00:43:57.360 and it redounds to the benefit of Democrats for, for Cuomo to be booted out for sex, sex

00:44:03.660 inappropriate behavior. I don't, what is it even? What are, what are the allegations? Now they're

00:44:07.880 saying he groped someone. That's only the very most recent one. Most of them are, yeah, he looked at me

00:44:11.780 weird. Yeah, he said something weird. Yeah, he gave me a hot dog. And then the reporter that he gave the

00:44:14.920 hot dog to says, it didn't bother me at all. I thought it was fine. Confronting and overcoming the

00:44:21.460 COVID crisis requires sure and steady leadership. So they're, they get to the COVID thing. They're

00:44:26.940 like, yeah, COVID is the point, but we're not booting him because Democrats mishandled COVID.

00:44:31.640 No, no, what? Huh? No, it's because of the serious allegations of giving an Italian sausage to a

00:44:39.000 reporter. It's a sandwich, you know, peppers and onions. That's why very serious that he's got to be

00:44:46.020 kicked out. No, it's obviously because of COVID. If he's going to go down, let him go down because of

00:44:49.900 COVID. If he goes down for the, the vague sex allegations, only Cuomo goes down. If he goes

00:44:56.100 down for COVID, other people go down too. Other Democrats who were involved in this go down too.

00:45:02.700 Maybe it reaches up a little bit higher than, than people think. Maybe, maybe the state democratic

00:45:10.980 machine in New York has a lot of culpability. Maybe we should prod into that. The, the real threat

00:45:17.020 Cuomo faces right now, I don't think is from these howling politicians. He doesn't care less.

00:45:21.760 He couldn't possibly care less what they think. It's from his ability to actually run the government.

00:45:26.900 There are reports now, who knows how true they are, but it's according to the New York Post,

00:45:31.220 that members of Cuomo's staff have stopped showing up for work.

00:45:36.160 They're, they're not showing up for work because they're afraid that if they continue to fight to the

00:45:41.040 very last with Cuomo, that will harm their political careers. So I'm going to take this story at

00:45:45.580 face value. People are saying that the state capitol building is virtually empty. Okay, fair enough.

00:45:52.480 Now, how busy has it been even before this? I don't know. People have been working from home

00:45:57.400 and telecommuting, particularly in New York because coronavirus was bad there because of Cuomo's policies.

00:46:02.400 So how bad is it really? Some, you know, if, can Cuomo still command his team? Doesn't really matter

00:46:13.480 if he can command some howling politicians in the Assembly or the Senate or Schumer or Gillibrand even,

00:46:18.620 can he command his team? If he can, he might be able to survive and he's a pretty ruthless

00:46:25.300 administrator. Before, before we go, I have to mention daylight savings time because we're talking

00:46:34.720 about evolution or revolution. You know, we're talking about how to conserve things. We're talking

00:46:39.240 about the Catholic Church, right, as a good model for this actually because they, the views have

00:46:44.460 developed over time. The church has not contradicted itself. The church can't contradict itself because

00:46:49.980 on matters of dogma, that is the truth and the truth doesn't just magically transform overnight.

00:46:56.380 But doctrine has developed, fair enough. Daylight savings time. Speaking of people not showing up to

00:47:01.540 work, daylight savings time. I have long defended daylight savings time. I think it's kind of a fun,

00:47:06.700 weird, quirky tradition that we have. However, I always say that in the fall when we get an extra

00:47:13.800 hour. Then in the spring, I don't like it so much. This might be a tradition that we might try

00:47:18.100 phasing out. This is actually how we're doing it in the country. Different states are kind of getting

00:47:22.500 rid of it or modifying it or slowly phasing it out. That might be good and I might look more rested this

00:47:28.240 week if, if we had done that. But this is actually a pretty good model, I think, for all sorts of

00:47:32.560 policy. Doing things gradually, trying things out in different areas, laboratories of democracy,

00:47:40.180 evolution, not revolution. This is a conservative way to look at things. That's not what the left

00:47:44.500 wants. The left wants a radical cultural revolution and they're shocked. The only shock they can feel

00:47:49.520 is when we don't get on board immediately. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you

00:47:53.040 tomorrow.

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Ep. 721 - Is The Pope Catholic？

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