The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 749 - Your Lying Eyes

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00:00:37.720 I think for a lot of people, the most jarring aspect of this Columbus shooting story

00:00:42.720 where the girl tries to stab the other girl and then the cop shoots the girl with the knife, 0.99

00:00:46.520 the most jarring aspect of it is how this is in any way controversial.

00:00:51.740 We are seeing this with our own eyes.

00:00:53.980 You see the girl with the knife inches from the other girl.

00:00:57.380 The cop waits until the very last minute, but then he blows away the threat.

00:01:01.600 How on earth could anybody deny this?

00:01:05.160 How could anybody not trust what they're seeing with their own eyes?

00:01:08.500 And the answer is very simple.

00:01:11.740 The establishment media, the left-wing media, the mainstream media will not let you see that

00:01:18.640 reality with your own eyes.

00:01:20.560 NBC News just got caught doing this.

00:01:22.380 Lester Holt at NBC introduced the story, said, here's what happened.

00:01:28.020 You've got to check out this footage, plays the footage, and then NBC edits the footage

00:01:33.640 so you never see the knife.

00:01:35.780 Just before yesterday's verdict, a police officer shot and killed a 16-year-old black girl in

00:01:41.440 Columbus, Ohio, saying she was threatening others with a knife.

00:01:45.220 Police body cam video was quickly released.

00:01:47.680 Our Kevin Tibbles has that story, and I need to caution you.

00:01:50.960 The images are difficult to watch.

00:01:53.720 Police body cam video shows Micaiah Bryant's final moments when a Columbus, Ohio police officer

00:02:00.380 responding to a call gets out of his car and seconds later fatally shoots the 16-year-old

00:02:07.220 girl.

00:02:07.520 Authorities say Bryant was threatening two other girls with a knife.

00:02:13.600 It's a tragedy.

00:02:16.800 There's no other way to say it.

00:02:19.420 It's a 16-year-old girl.

00:02:20.920 Reardon fires his weapon four times, striking Bryant.

00:02:24.980 Officers are seen and heard performing CPR.

00:02:28.100 Body camera footage shows a knife on the ground.

00:02:31.040 No, body camera footage shows the knife in the girl's hand inches away from the other girl's

00:02:36.580 throat, and then you edited it out.

00:02:38.760 You can see the way they paused the frame so that the knife is out of frame, so you can't

00:02:44.560 see it, but they kept the audio going so you just hear the gunfire.

00:02:48.740 Officials say the girl was holding...

00:02:49.960 No, not officials say.

00:02:50.960 The video shows that the girl had the knife at the other girl's throat, but they edit it

00:02:56.560 out because they won't let you see it.

00:02:58.380 Is it any wonder that there's controversy?

00:03:00.920 Anyone who would see the footage, anyone who would acknowledge the footage would know

00:03:05.860 the cop was completely justified.

00:03:08.160 So what's the left got to do to push their narrative?

00:03:10.060 They can't let you see that.

00:03:11.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:11.940 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:21.160 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:22.100 My favorite comment yesterday is from Fred, who points out, everyone's ignoring the fact

00:03:26.320 that a guy almost removed the head from that woman's shoulders with that kick.

00:03:30.120 Yeah, and people aren't paying very close attention because everyone's focusing on the

00:03:33.720 girl stabbing the other girl, but there's also a grown man kicking a woman in the head

00:03:38.560 who's on the ground here.

00:03:39.900 So this is not a great situation.

00:03:42.080 You've got a man kicking a woman in the head. 1.00

00:03:44.620 You've got a girl stabbing another girl, and you've got a cop trying to keep the peace and

00:03:49.540 neutralize the threat.

00:03:50.980 And who's the bad guy in the situation?

00:03:52.780 The cop, of course.

00:03:53.540 Why?

00:03:53.840 Because he's a white guy. 0.88

00:03:55.060 He's a white. 0.84

00:03:55.780 He's a man, and he's a police officer. 0.94

00:03:58.940 So he's, he's the bad guy here.

00:04:01.680 He's the, he's the only person in this situation in any way trying to bring about justice.

00:04:07.940 And so he is the bad guy, according to the left.

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00:05:34.200 So the footage shows the girl with the knife inches away from the other girl that she's 0.93

00:05:38.980 about to stab.

00:05:40.500 NBC News edits that out.

00:05:42.180 No, that's not part of it.

00:05:43.660 Their excuse probably is we didn't want to show footage of the girl actually being shot.

00:05:48.840 Well, then why did you edit it so perfectly where the knife is just out of frame?

00:05:54.560 Body cam footage is not the only footage we have, by the way.

00:05:56.900 There is more footage from across the street where someone was not intervening,

00:06:01.400 not trying to help, just filming the thing.

00:06:03.200 But at least now we have this footage of the knife-wielding girl screaming just before she 1.00

00:06:09.600 is shot, screaming, I'm going to stab the F out of you, blank. 0.99

00:06:14.900 And there it is. 0.99

00:06:28.180 It's a little bit hard to hear, obviously, in the melee and the audios further away. 0.99

00:06:32.140 But she does say, I'm going to stab the F out of you, blank. 0.91

00:06:35.800 It's, but you couldn't, you couldn't script it any more clearly. 0.97

00:06:40.500 If you were, if you were making a TV show about this, you said, how do we script a totally

00:06:47.540 justified police intervention?

00:06:50.280 You would say in the moments before, I'm going to, I'm going to commit this crime.

00:06:54.400 I'm going to do, I'm going to use deadly force on you, innocent person. 1.00

00:06:59.180 Bang, bang, bang. 0.99

00:07:00.800 Not just that.

00:07:01.740 We have more footage from the cops of, of girl who was attacked saying, yes, the girl

00:07:08.920 with the knife was coming after me.

00:07:10.960 She came out with, she with a knife earlier? 1.00

00:07:13.540 No, she just, that's what the police did. 0.99

00:07:15.840 That lady on the floor? 1.00

00:07:16.720 She came after me.

00:07:17.720 With a knife?

00:07:18.560 Yeah, so she, so he got her.

00:07:20.320 Yeah, she came after me with a knife. 1.00

00:07:22.240 And it's the woman who's wearing the really bright pink outfit that you can all see in 0.79

00:07:25.340 the video.

00:07:26.080 And you see the cop is walking up.

00:07:29.400 Doesn't, doesn't sound like a white guy cop, by the way, either.

00:07:31.700 And the woman says, yes, she was coming after me.

00:07:34.460 She was coming after me. 0.85

00:07:35.360 According to the Columbus Dispatch, a neighbor said that the, this cop saved lives.

00:07:41.660 Donovan Brinson, who's a neighbor to Makia Bryant's foster home, says, quote, and this

00:07:47.540 is being reported now by the Columbus Dispatch.

00:07:49.760 While what happened is tragic, Brinson said, it all happened so fast that he didn't see how

00:07:54.240 the officer could have had time to have done anything else.

00:07:56.640 He referenced the girl scene in both police body camera footage and on his own camera footage,

00:08:01.000 who was wearing pink, who was the second female engaged with Brian in the scuffle. 1.00

00:08:04.180 Well, Brinson said he really thinks more people might have died had police not taken action.

00:08:11.440 Okay.

00:08:12.380 Clear as can be.

00:08:14.080 The one thing I want to say before we move on to the media, which is actually what I'm

00:08:17.620 interested in talking about here, is the circumstances of this are deeply, deeply sad.

00:08:28.000 The cop did absolutely the right thing.

00:08:29.680 He's a hero.

00:08:30.220 He should win awards for what he did.

00:08:31.500 He saved lives, very likely, as this neighbor says, as the Columbus Dispatch is reporting,

00:08:37.740 as the woman who was about to be stabbed is saying, right?

00:08:40.540 He did that.

00:08:41.380 However, it is a very sad thing that this girl, Makia Bryant, did not have good parents.

00:08:49.600 It's a very sad thing that this girl, Makia Bryant, was put into the foster care system.

00:08:54.480 I was thinking about this last night.

00:08:55.740 I was thinking about this story a lot, obviously.

00:08:57.100 So I'm looking at my cute little baby boy, my newborn baby, and I'm thinking, this kid,

00:09:03.040 you know, at least now, I think we're all healthy, we're all here, has these two loving

00:09:06.280 parents who are giving him every single advantage they possibly can.

00:09:12.760 I think about myself when I was a little kid, how important it was that I had loving parents

00:09:18.720 around me all the time, devoted parents who would give anything for me.

00:09:23.980 And this girl, Makia Bryant, did not.

00:09:27.840 She had bad parents and she was raised in a bad culture around bad people in a bad system.

00:09:35.260 And that's not the fault of the patriarchy or the white supremacy. 0.61

00:09:40.000 It's the fault of her bad parents and her bad family around her. 0.99

00:09:43.860 That's whose fault it is.

00:09:44.760 And that's really sad.

00:09:45.380 And they failed her and they, they deserve, she does not deserve all the blame for her

00:09:51.140 situation.

00:09:52.040 She chose to do what she did with the knife and she faced the consequences for that.

00:09:56.780 Her family bears quite a lot of blame too, though, for putting her in this, this awful

00:10:02.480 upbringing, for not educating her correctly, for not taking care of her, for not loving her.

00:10:06.200 They, they deserve blame too.

00:10:07.520 And I think you're going to see a lot of people who you're going to see like the second cousin

00:10:12.660 twice removed of Makia Bryant now coming in and trying to milk this situation for some 1.00

00:10:17.580 money from the state, which is even, even more degrading and pathetic. 0.90

00:10:22.280 But really they should all be looking inward at themselves and what, what they have done 0.88

00:10:26.380 here.

00:10:26.600 Even, even, I can't believe I'm saying this, even CNN, even Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo, Tweedledee

00:10:37.520 and Tweedledum are admitting that this cop was totally justified in his actions.

00:10:45.380 People are very emotional right now, but we've got to be fair about what happens when police

00:10:50.200 arrive at scenes.

00:10:51.300 And it is tragic that it's a 16 year old girl, just as it is tragic that it's a 13 year

00:10:56.240 old in Chicago.

00:10:58.620 When police are chasing people, they don't know how old they are and they don't run and

00:11:02.980 say, Hey, how old are you?

00:11:04.100 Oh, I'm 13.

00:11:05.340 You know, my mom let me, you don't know that.

00:11:07.420 Or I'm 16.

00:11:08.500 When they roll up on a scene, they see people tussling around.

00:11:11.380 Someone has a knife and their job is to protect and serve every life on that scene.

00:11:18.580 And if they see someone who is in the process of taking a life, what is that decision?

00:11:24.860 What decision do they have to make?

00:11:26.220 And I know that people say, well, you know, you can do this, you can do that.

00:11:29.460 Tasers don't work the way guns work. 0.99

00:11:31.380 Not at that, not at that distance.

00:11:32.720 Not at that distance.

00:11:33.620 And not with that amount of time.

00:11:34.880 That, yeah, right.

00:11:35.860 Tasers, then they don't always connect.

00:11:38.920 So you've got to get, you know, two prongs or what have you, and it's got to connect or

00:11:42.380 whatever.

00:11:43.480 Absolutely.

00:11:43.980 They go on, actually, this, they describe it even more.

00:11:46.020 I'm impressed, though, that they even, it's not just like they're saying, yes, the use

00:11:50.440 of force was justified here.

00:11:51.980 They're acknowledging for all these armchair quarterbacks who know nothing about firearms

00:11:55.700 who say, well, he should have used a taser.

00:11:58.260 First of all, tasers don't work.

00:12:00.380 They work sometimes, but they're not particularly reliable.

00:12:03.720 At that distance, they would not be really reliable.

00:12:06.480 With the knife that close to the other girl's body, it would not be that reliable.

00:12:10.260 And you would be staking the likely victim's life on something that is just not that trustworthy.

00:12:19.140 Why didn't he shoot the knife out of her hand or something?

00:12:22.380 Because life is not the good, the bad, and the ugly.

00:12:25.020 Because life is not a spaghetti Western, and that's not how firearms work, and that's not

00:12:28.020 how moving targets work.

00:12:29.740 And they acknowledge that because there's really no argument here.

00:12:33.420 But some people don't want to acknowledge that. 0.66

00:12:37.500 Ilhan Omar, absolutely crass politician, shameless, at an event with a career extortionist

00:12:46.480 and race hustler, Al Sharpton, says this was an absolutely tragic killing. 0.93

00:12:53.680 As-salamu alaykum, everyone.

00:12:54.880 Thank you, Reverend Al Sharpton, for being here and for that beautiful eulogy.

00:13:06.480 Most of us in this room, including myself, look at you as a guardian

00:13:11.560 and are blessed to be in your presence.

00:13:17.120 And may Dante Wright serve as a guardian for all of us.

00:13:21.580 Joyce Beatty was going to be here and speak on our behalf as the chairwoman of our caucus.

00:13:28.880 But just like we've been visited by tragedy here in Minnesota often,

00:13:34.580 she, in Columbus, Ohio, was visited by a tragedy of a young woman whose life was taken by Columbus police.

00:13:45.020 Ilhan Omar says that Al Sharpton, he's a guardian, he's a hero.

00:13:48.720 Al Sharpton is a shakedown artist who launched his career on the Tawana Brawley hoax,

00:13:53.980 who has done nothing but try to grab power and money by exploiting divisions and tragic events,

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00:14:04.800 And that's what Ilhan Omar is doing as well.

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00:15:22.300 A lot of politicians, notably on the left, politicians generally,

00:15:28.540 but notably in this case on the left,

00:15:30.680 are going to have no shame in exploiting genuinely sad events

00:15:36.560 and contriving crises to steal more power.

00:15:40.300 And the left is much better at this than conservatives,

00:15:43.980 and they are wielding power right now

00:15:46.660 in a way that the right has not done maybe ever.

00:15:50.220 And in a way that the left has not done in many decades.

00:15:55.680 The Democrats in Washington are trying to turn Washington, D.C. into a state.

00:16:01.680 D.C. statehood passed the House of Representatives yesterday

00:16:05.200 in a party-line vote.

00:16:07.140 This would make D.C. the 51st state.

00:16:09.480 Now it will be sent to the Senate.

00:16:10.660 It's called the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.

00:16:12.820 This is anti-constitutional.

00:16:14.920 I don't even say unconstitutional.

00:16:16.780 It's more than that.

00:16:17.660 It's anti-constitutional.

00:16:18.860 The entire purpose of the federal district is that the federal government

00:16:23.600 not be held in any one state.

00:16:27.080 That's why you take a little land from Virginia,

00:16:28.880 take a little land from Maryland,

00:16:29.940 you create the federal district.

00:16:31.360 That's where the federal government will be.

00:16:33.720 It is entirely for the purpose of not keeping the federal seat of power in one state.

00:16:42.900 Democrats know that.

00:16:43.920 However, they realize that because D.C. is a Democrat area, if you make D.C. a state,

00:16:51.300 then Democrats get two new senators.

00:16:53.720 They get one new representative in the House.

00:16:57.000 They will get an advantage in the Electoral College.

00:16:59.620 They will hold the Senate possibly forever,

00:17:01.660 and they'll very likely hold the presidency.

00:17:05.140 They have a very good shot of holding the presidency forever, or just nearly so.

00:17:09.060 So they're pushing for this.

00:17:11.400 A lot of it will come down to whether or not the filibuster is broken,

00:17:14.540 whether Joe Manchin goes squishy, how the Democrats hold Manchin,

00:17:17.320 now the most powerful man in Washington, D.C.

00:17:21.040 You hear Republicans now saying, you know, this is outrageous, Democrats.

00:17:24.400 We've never made a power.

00:17:25.320 We've never tried to pack the court and steal a permanent majority in the Senate,

00:17:30.800 upending constitutional norms.

00:17:32.260 We've never done that.

00:17:34.340 Right.

00:17:35.440 The Democrats know that.

00:17:37.020 They know that Republicans don't wield political power even when they have it

00:17:41.220 because the Republicans are not a serious governing party.

00:17:45.880 And they know that they will wield political power when they have it.

00:17:50.420 And so they're going to do it, and they're going to get even more power.

00:17:54.080 Right.

00:17:55.040 But it's unconstitutional to make D.C. a state this way.

00:17:58.500 Yeah, they know that.

00:17:59.720 They know that.

00:18:00.480 You don't need to tell them.

00:18:01.320 They know.

00:18:02.260 They just don't care because Democrats are playing to win

00:18:05.960 because Democrats have a purpose as a party

00:18:09.820 that is more than just changing the marginal tax rate.

00:18:12.780 They know where they want to go.

00:18:14.900 They have a progressive vision of politics.

00:18:19.260 Republicans don't.

00:18:21.140 Republicans are this weird hodgepodge of traditional conservatives,

00:18:25.900 libertarians, who very often disagree with one another,

00:18:28.900 neocons, who are basically just war hawk liberals.

00:18:34.520 You know, on domestic policy, they're kind of indistinguishable from center Democrats,

00:18:40.240 but they also want to take over countries in the Middle East.

00:18:43.640 You've got the populists.

00:18:45.140 You've got the paleo conservatives.

00:18:46.980 You've got the this.

00:18:47.860 You've got the that.

00:18:48.420 You've got the this.

00:18:48.920 You've got the that.

00:18:49.280 No one can agree on anything other than cut taxes a little bit.

00:18:52.560 So that's what they do when they have political power. 0.56

00:18:54.700 And then Democrats get power and they make big, big wins.

00:19:02.600 Conservatives don't even know how we feel about something like masks, right?

00:19:06.460 So you've got a Republican president, Republicans holding the Senate.

00:19:12.480 And the left, the Democrats, are still able to upend the whole culture,

00:19:17.540 lock down the whole country over the woo flu, 0.99

00:19:20.040 force everybody to wear those filthy masks.

00:19:22.160 And Republicans barely say boo about it.

00:19:24.520 With few exceptions, they kind of just go along with it.

00:19:27.980 There's a great woman. 0.99

00:19:29.000 She's gone viral now.

00:19:29.880 She was speaking at a government proceeding about the mask itself.

00:19:35.960 Because there are two views on the masks.

00:19:38.380 There's the left-wing argument on the masks,

00:19:41.460 which some squish Republicans went along with. 0.90

00:19:44.100 And then there is the proper understanding of the masks.

00:19:47.460 What the left said was the masks, they're, look, just common sense.

00:19:50.780 We're all going to muzzle ourselves.

00:19:51.840 We're all going to, for the first time ever, 0.99

00:19:53.300 wear this ridiculous face covering. 0.95

00:19:55.300 And that's going to ease us all back into society. 0.95

00:19:57.840 It's going to make us all feel better.

00:19:58.940 When you walk around and you see everyone covering up their face 0.89

00:20:01.620 like a bunch of banditos, like secular burkas, 1.00

00:20:05.380 does that make you feel better?

00:20:06.440 Does that let your anxiety go down?

00:20:07.600 No, of course not.

00:20:08.560 The proper view of the masks was this was always a symbol

00:20:12.060 to keep everybody agitated,

00:20:14.200 to keep everybody even more ready to give away their power

00:20:18.560 to the government and to the experts in particular,

00:20:21.320 because they just had this visual cue.

00:20:24.220 Oh gosh, we've never been in this situation before.

00:20:26.660 I've never seen this before.

00:20:27.600 This pandemic must be super duper serious.

00:20:31.060 Wear the mask, sheep.

00:20:32.600 God, give the power away to Dr. Fauci, everybody.

00:20:36.000 Right?

00:20:36.320 And so the psychological effect of that is really insane.

00:20:41.440 A woman has gone viral for pointing this out and demanding, 1.00

00:20:45.080 take off the masks.

00:20:46.420 This is not March 2020 anymore.

00:20:49.400 We have three vaccines.

00:20:50.940 Every adult in the state of Georgia that wants that vaccine is eligible to get it right now.

00:20:54.400 And every one of us knows that young children are not affected by this virus.

00:20:58.760 They're not.

00:20:59.740 And that's a blessing.

00:21:01.060 But as the adults, what have we done with that blessing?

00:21:04.100 We've shoved it to the side and we've said, we don't care.

00:21:06.260 You're still going to wear a mask on your face every day.

00:21:08.160 Five and six year olds.

00:21:09.500 You still can't play together on the playground like normal children, seven and eight year olds.

00:21:13.960 We don't care.

00:21:15.040 We're still going to force you to carry a burden that was never yours to carry shame on us.

00:21:21.280 It's April 15th, 2021 and it's time.

00:21:25.760 Take these masks off of my child.

00:21:29.140 We chose you to make decisions that would be in our children's best interest

00:21:32.520 and forcing five, six, seven, eight and nine year old little children

00:21:36.740 to cover their noses and their mouths where they breathe for seven hours a day,

00:21:41.780 every day for the last nine months for a virus that you know doesn't affect them.

00:21:46.800 That is not in their best interest.

00:21:49.260 And this has to stop.

00:21:52.540 Preach sister, preach. 0.81

00:21:54.500 Love it.

00:21:55.880 What can I vote for that woman for? 1.00

00:21:58.020 What, what can she run for where I can vote for it? 1.00

00:22:00.300 Cause she gets it.

00:22:01.300 She gets it more than certainly the experts and the experts know how to use the masks

00:22:06.120 to wield political power, but she gets it much better than any of the conservatives who went along 1.00

00:22:11.640 with this.

00:22:12.660 The masks have always been a terrible idea.

00:22:16.760 I'm speaking as a political matter right now.

00:22:19.520 Because you know, you know what happens.

00:22:21.680 If I were to come onto this show and say that as a scientific matter, the masks are really a bad idea.

00:22:29.700 They're terrible.

00:22:31.640 Big tech.

00:22:31.960 Now I'm just speaking hypothetically here, right?

00:22:33.540 Big tech would take down this show because big tech follows the science and the experts.

00:22:40.220 And how dare you, Michael, use your political judgment to, to describe a scientific matter?

00:22:45.980 No, we can't do that.

00:22:46.820 You're going to come down from YouTube.

00:22:47.780 You're going to come off of Apple podcasts.

00:22:49.680 You're going to leave Spotify.

00:22:50.820 You can't say that.

00:22:52.640 You can't question the masks.

00:22:54.060 Okay.

00:22:54.840 I'll tell you what then.

00:22:55.860 Let's have a little experiment on the show today.

00:22:58.320 I have here from the National Institutes of Health, a peer reviewed scientific study

00:23:05.000 from medical hypotheses.

00:23:06.880 This was published online, November 22nd of 2020.

00:23:12.440 This was published in the journal itself, January, 2021.

00:23:16.060 This is, uh, from Baruch Vine Shelboim, who had been, uh, affiliated.

00:23:26.580 He was a fellow, I believe at Stanford university.

00:23:30.260 He has published the headline face masks in the COVID-19 era, a health hypothesis.

00:23:36.260 I'm just, I'm just reading from the peer reviewed scientific study on NIH.

00:23:39.900 If you take me down for this big tech, I think the, I think the mask has fallen off.

00:23:47.800 Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical face masks as non-pharmaceutical

00:23:51.460 intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease 2019.

00:23:57.300 Although scientific evidence supporting face masks efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological,

00:24:02.500 psychological, and health effects are established.

00:24:06.220 That's from the abstract of the paper.

00:24:09.900 The current article reviews the scientific evidences with respect to safety and efficacy

00:24:14.280 of wearing face masks, describing the physiological and psychological effects and the potential

00:24:18.100 long-term consequences on health.

00:24:21.180 It is not clear, however, what the scientific and clinical basis for wearing face masks as

00:24:28.220 protective strategy, given the fact that face masks restrict breathing, causing hypoxemia

00:24:34.260 hypoxemia and hypercapnia and increase the risk for respiratory complications, self-contamination

00:24:39.900 and exacerbation of existing chronic conditions.

00:24:45.260 Data from hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and general public indicate that the majority

00:24:49.880 of deaths were among older and chronically ill individuals, supporting the possibility that

00:24:54.220 the virus may exacerbate existing conditions, but rarely causes death by itself.

00:24:58.820 Here we go, here we go, say goodbye because they're about to take me off.

00:25:03.080 I'm just quoting from the peer-reviewed scientific study.

00:25:05.880 Wearing face masks has adverse physiological and psychological effects.

00:25:11.200 Long-term consequences of wearing face masks on health are detrimental.

00:25:17.200 That from the hypothesis of the paper.

00:25:21.280 Love following the science.

00:25:22.400 Now, you know, I don't think our politics should be based primarily on the science.

00:25:29.120 I think it should be based primarily on the politics and the philosophy and the eternal

00:25:33.560 questions and our right of self-government.

00:25:35.540 And I don't think that we should outsource our government to egghead experts. 1.00

00:25:39.440 However, even by that premise of the left, that every time we get, we find one scientific

00:25:46.040 paper in the journal, especially the NIH putting it out there, then we need to do whatever

00:25:51.860 that says.

00:25:52.360 Okay, well, there we go. 1.00

00:25:53.160 Follow the science and take off the stupid face masks. 1.00

00:25:57.520 One issue with the face masks is that it makes people, it makes them really itchy if they've 1.00

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00:27:02.140 If I'm still permitted to broadcast after simply reading a peer-reviewed scientific study questioning,

00:27:11.700 actually contradicting the efficacy and safety of face masks, if big tech will still allow

00:27:18.440 me to speak after I've simply read a peer-reviewed study that is posted on the NIH, I still probably

00:27:27.760 will not be able to promote my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available

00:27:31.400 now for pre-order.

00:27:32.260 But for how long, I'm not so sure.

00:27:33.900 I've said this from the beginning.

00:27:35.620 I said that this book is pretty spicy.

00:27:39.060 This book raises a lot of questions for the left that I haven't really seen raised in popular

00:27:47.500 books recently.

00:27:49.560 They're not going to like it.

00:27:50.560 You know, the left only takes down certain books.

00:27:52.060 They don't take down all the books.

00:27:53.020 They specifically take down books that question the gender ideology, like my friend Ryan Anderson's

00:27:57.300 book, When Harry Became Sally, but other books as well.

00:28:00.620 And I thought this book might fall into that category.

00:28:03.480 So I've said pre-order while you still can.

00:28:05.500 Well, just heard from my publisher that YouTube, Google Ads, is not permitting the publisher to

00:28:14.160 promote this book right now.

00:28:15.520 The ad was rejected for, quote, election advertising in the United States, which is very strange because

00:28:21.960 the election, I guess in question, took place six months ago, right?

00:28:25.860 More than six months ago.

00:28:27.300 So what are we talking?

00:28:28.560 Because it talks about certain political issues, Google Ads will not allow the publisher to

00:28:34.120 promote this book.

00:28:35.320 We're still getting more information.

00:28:37.000 We're going back and forth with Google.

00:28:38.980 The book is not even due to be published for two months.

00:28:42.100 We're almost exactly two months out from publication and they are already pushing the

00:28:47.320 shenanigans.

00:28:47.920 This is why, by the way, we're selling the book through basically every channel we possibly

00:28:53.460 can.

00:28:53.720 And, you know, most books in the United States, most books in the world are sold on Amazon.

00:28:57.540 But we know that if Amazon just clicks a button, then it goes away.

00:29:01.340 So yes, you can pre-order on Amazon.

00:29:03.100 It's also on Premier Collectibles for an autographed first edition copy.

00:29:06.540 It's also on all sorts of other places because I do fear that you're going to see a big push

00:29:14.420 to take it down and the thing about it is if the book were to get banned, you'd see a very

00:29:20.060 brief spike in sales on other places.

00:29:22.580 That happens generally when things get canceled.

00:29:24.900 But the reason the left cancels is because in the long run it works.

00:29:28.960 The reason that they go for this sort of thing is, yeah, you see a short spike in popularity

00:29:32.740 for a few days, but in the long run, because they have the positions of influence and because

00:29:40.320 they have the willingness to wield political power, they will get their way in the long

00:29:45.020 run.

00:29:45.960 And this is coincidentally, actually the thesis of the book, which tells me that they're going

00:29:50.880 to focus on that quite a bit.

00:29:54.560 All of that, not just a plug, but actually a news story.

00:29:57.520 And I suspect that you're going to, you're going to see more of this as we get, as we

00:30:00.940 get closer.

00:30:02.080 Does that count as a plug if it's part of the news?

00:30:03.760 I guess it does.

00:30:04.360 Okay.

00:30:04.800 Bing, bing, bing.

00:30:08.020 Democrats want to tightly control this narrative.

00:30:10.880 That's what they want to do.

00:30:12.200 That's all, that's all that this is about.

00:30:14.680 And so Jen Psaki the other day at the White House was asked a question, you know, Joe Biden

00:30:19.500 throws out accusations of racism left and right.

00:30:22.400 He called the sitting president, Donald Trump, a racist on the debate stage.

00:30:27.320 If you could even call that a debate during the 2020 election, he regularly, he started

00:30:32.960 his campaign on the false premise that Donald Trump called white supremacists, very fine

00:30:36.780 people at Charlottesville, never happened.

00:30:38.860 He, he loves throwing, he like all leftists loves throwing around the term racism.

00:30:43.960 So a reporter threw it back at Jen Psaki and said, you know, a lot of the policies that 0.77

00:30:49.500 are now being called racist, mass incarceration, that sort of thing were created by Joe Biden.

00:30:54.680 So does Joe Biden want to apologize for his own racism, according to his own premises?

00:31:01.220 President Biden yesterday, uh, responding to George, the George Floyd, Floyd case verdict,

00:31:06.520 uh, said, uh, that George Floyd's death, quote, ripped the blinders off for the whole

00:31:10.680 world to see the systemic racism in the United States.

00:31:13.120 Um, but he's an architect of multiple federal laws in the 1980s and 90s, uh, that disproportionately

00:31:19.780 jailed black people and contributed to what many people see as systemic racism.

00:31:24.280 Uh, the activist, Colonel West said that Biden was, quote, one of the core architects of mass

00:31:29.260 incarceration and that, quote, I think Biden is going to have to take responsibility and

00:31:33.820 acknowledge the contribution he made to mass incarceration.

00:31:36.620 Uh, to what extent does President Biden, uh, acknowledge his own role in, uh, systemic

00:31:41.920 racism and how does that inform his current policy positions?

00:31:45.260 Well, I would say that, um, the president's, one of the president's core objectives is addressing

00:31:50.000 racial injustice in this country, not just through his rhetoric, but through his actions.

00:31:54.140 Does he believe it's important to accept his own culpability?

00:31:56.700 I think I've answered your question.

00:31:57.960 I think I've answered your question.

00:31:59.580 No more.

00:32:00.240 So you certainly didn't answer the question.

00:32:02.400 The question was, Joe Biden says that, and the left broadly says that all these sorts

00:32:08.560 of policies are racist.

00:32:10.040 Joe Biden hurls the term racism around left and right.

00:32:13.660 Joe Biden created many of the policies that are now called racist.

00:32:16.880 So does, is he sorry?

00:32:18.880 Does he regret that?

00:32:20.180 She says he, now he's doing good things.

00:32:24.080 Yeah, that's not the question.

00:32:25.380 The question is if all these things really were racist and Joe Biden created them, does he

00:32:31.100 regret, does he take responsibility for his own past racism?

00:32:34.700 According to your own definition, she says, I've answered your question.

00:32:38.260 She's not going to answer the question.

00:32:39.200 They don't need to answer the question.

00:32:40.820 They don't need to.

00:32:42.440 NBC doesn't need to apologize for editing that video.

00:32:46.240 The left doesn't need to apologize for any of this.

00:32:48.540 Google doesn't, doesn't, they don't need to explain why they're not going to let the

00:32:52.080 publisher post an ad for my book.

00:32:55.380 They don't need to explain.

00:32:56.440 Amazon doesn't need to explain why it took down Ryan Anderson's book.

00:33:00.220 Scholarly book about the transgender movement.

00:33:03.520 They just don't need to because they've got the power and they're willing to wield the

00:33:06.700 power.

00:33:07.680 Very few politicians are willing to speak up against these sorts of things.

00:33:10.820 One of them is my friend, Senator Ted Cruz.

00:33:13.240 Ted Cruz, uh, yesterday held up an anti-Asian hate crime bill.

00:33:19.220 Oh my gosh.

00:33:20.000 No.

00:33:20.680 Huh?

00:33:21.180 What?

00:33:21.500 What?

00:33:21.720 Cruz is for anti-Asian hate crimes?

00:33:24.160 No.

00:33:24.500 Senator Cruz held up the Democrat Asian hate crime bill that was making its way through

00:33:31.700 the legislature because he wanted to expand it.

00:33:34.880 He said, okay, you're passing this bill, which is, doesn't have a lot of teeth to it.

00:33:38.900 It's just kind of a PR thing for you Democrats.

00:33:41.400 Okay.

00:33:41.640 Well, if you really want to stop anti-Asian policies, then you need to expand the bill

00:33:47.100 to prohibit colleges from discriminating against Asians in their application process.

00:33:54.300 Right now in this country, by the law, this has been approved by the Supreme Court even,

00:33:59.980 colleges can discriminate against Asians and whites in favor of blacks and Hispanics in

00:34:06.100 the admissions process.

00:34:07.060 And that's considered totally fine.

00:34:08.880 So he says, okay, you, you, you want a bill that's brings justice to Asians, stop the discrimination

00:34:14.820 at the college level.

00:34:15.980 And what are the Democrats saying?

00:34:16.880 Oh, absolutely not.

00:34:18.320 We like that discrimination.

00:34:19.560 Frankly, I, I just wish Republicans would go even further and say, by the way, you want

00:34:22.820 to stop the, stop the discrimination against the white kids too.

00:34:26.460 Do that.

00:34:27.520 If we're, if we're really going to talk about racial justice, stop discriminating against

00:34:31.720 Asians and whites in favor of blacks and Hispanics because we're all for racial justice

00:34:38.740 here.

00:34:39.000 So good, let's have that racial justice. 1.00

00:34:40.620 But at the very least, if you're in doing the Asian discrimination bill, at least get 0.93

00:34:46.560 rid of the most conspicuous anti-Asian discrimination in the country.

00:34:49.960 Democrats won't do that.

00:34:50.980 They won't let you see that.

00:34:52.580 They don't want to talk about it and they don't need to answer for it because they've

00:34:56.780 got the political power and they're willing to wield that political power.

00:35:01.060 And Republicans don't have the political power.

00:35:03.300 And even when we do, we're not willing to use it. 0.93

00:35:05.200 Ben, today on his show, we'll be talking about how trashing the cops gets black Americans 1.00

00:35:10.660 killed. 0.99

00:35:11.320 He's going to be talking about it.

00:35:12.120 So make sure you tune in.

00:35:13.000 And also don't forget, we have a wonderful new episode of Candace tonight at 9 p.m.

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00:35:52.640 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:36:04.000 Welcome back.

00:36:08.000 First question from John.

00:36:10.120 Hey, Michael.

00:36:11.120 What is your view on limiting legal immigration?

00:36:13.580 There are multiple cities in the United States where there are more immigrants than natural 0.99

00:36:17.200 born citizens.

00:36:18.060 In these cases, assimilation does not seem possible.

00:36:20.480 What's your take on this?

00:36:21.200 I strongly favor drastically limiting legal immigration. 1.00

00:36:26.020 I have long favored this view.

00:36:27.840 This is not some brand new view that's on the fringes of the right.

00:36:31.720 Bill Buckley was debating this sort of thing on his firing line program in the 1990s.

00:36:37.040 Okay.

00:36:37.220 This is not some shocking new idea.

00:36:40.540 Conservatives have long, real conservatives have long favored dramatically reducing not

00:36:45.280 just illegal, but also legal immigration.

00:36:47.220 And it's not because we hate the Mexicans or we, I mean, first of all, it is a little 0.99

00:36:50.340 strange that we have this current immigration policy that gives total deference toward Latin

00:36:55.200 America to the exclusion of people elsewhere in the world.

00:36:58.460 But even beyond that, to your point, it is very unlikely, if not impossible, to assimilate

00:37:07.300 these kinds of people in these numbers right now with the current political atmosphere

00:37:12.900 that discourages assimilation.

00:37:14.240 It's just not possible.

00:37:15.340 We're taking in two to three million people a year in this country.

00:37:18.700 It's hard because you don't know exactly how many illegal aliens are coming in, but millions

00:37:23.460 and millions of people, far more than any other country in the world, next highest, it would

00:37:26.900 be Germany.

00:37:27.720 And then in terms of immigration numbers, the rest of the countries aren't even close.

00:37:33.440 Over the last 60 years, the movement of people into the United States has been the largest

00:37:38.960 mass movement of people in the history of the world.

00:37:41.580 Too many people, guys.

00:37:44.200 I think we, what, we have something like 51 million immigrants in the United States right

00:37:47.680 now?

00:37:48.560 Record highs in terms of a percentage of immigrants to the native-born population.

00:37:53.100 You just can't do that.

00:37:54.200 I'm not, I am not saying we should always forever stop immigration totally. 0.95

00:37:57.980 That's, I think, not a prudent policy.

00:38:04.400 I don't think that acknowledges the changing circumstances of politics.

00:38:07.900 Likewise, I don't think that, oh, the more the merrier.

00:38:10.120 Yeah, come on in.

00:38:10.920 We want, we want the highest levels of immigration ever.

00:38:13.580 Just as long as it's illegal immigration. 0.91

00:38:15.280 No, that's not a real policy either.

00:38:18.240 A nation also is its people.

00:38:20.240 You know, it's not just the idea and it's not just the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah

00:38:25.300 River or whatever.

00:38:26.120 You know, it's also the people.

00:38:30.160 And we got a lot of people in this country and they all look different.

00:38:33.940 They've come here different ways and they've got different family stories.

00:38:36.340 But there is a real distinction between people who are born in this country and people who

00:38:41.320 choose to come in.

00:38:41.960 And if you want to preserve anything like your traditional culture, then you've got to be 0.98

00:38:46.220 cautious about immigration.

00:38:47.380 So yes, dramatically lower legal immigration, totally.

00:38:52.440 And eliminate illegal immigration.

00:38:54.140 From Brad, dear Michael, in regard to the recent UFO confirmation by the Pentagon, what

00:38:58.320 would the discovery of intelligent life on other planets mean for the Christian faith?

00:39:01.720 As Christians, how should we react or think about this possibility?

00:39:05.340 Thanks and love the show.

00:39:07.600 People ask this question a lot.

00:39:10.540 C.S. Lewis wrote about this and said, you know, basically it doesn't change anything.

00:39:14.360 So he's totally open to the prospect of life on other planets and what it would mean for

00:39:19.800 Christianity.

00:39:21.480 To me, it just, it doesn't interest me at all.

00:39:24.680 I don't know.

00:39:25.160 I don't, I don't think it would change anything.

00:39:27.360 I don't know what, what would it change if there was, there was some other kind of life

00:39:32.280 found on some other planet.

00:39:33.280 I also will tell you, I know that we're talking about the UFOs and everything.

00:39:36.760 I suspect that these UFOs, like previous UFOs, are just military technology, maybe from a

00:39:43.940 hostile power or something.

00:39:45.020 But I don't, I don't see any reason to believe that it's ET or some really hyper-intelligent

00:39:51.020 form of alien life.

00:39:52.120 I don't, I just don't see the evidence for it.

00:39:54.700 I'm not convinced that there are aliens in the universe.

00:39:57.700 I don't, I know people get, they say, but it's the universe is so big.

00:40:02.120 Okay.

00:40:02.700 What does that have to do with anything?

00:40:04.020 That doesn't, we don't, we don't know anything about the scientific origins of life.

00:40:09.320 Here's what we know about life.

00:40:10.720 Man is made in the image of God.

00:40:12.180 That's basically all we know.

00:40:13.660 Okay.

00:40:14.180 Well, but we know about the micro evolution on the islands in the Pacific.

00:40:17.940 Okay, fine, but no one has any materialist scientific theory of how you go from not life

00:40:26.860 to life that, that is in any way persuasive or credible.

00:40:30.340 So I just, you know, it doesn't particularly interest me and I don't think it would have

00:40:36.620 much to say or much effect on my theology or my understanding of religion, but it'd be

00:40:43.780 great if we could, you know, wouldn't that be cool if we could, if we could have even

00:40:47.060 more saved souls throughout the universe, even if they look kind of creepy and wrinkly

00:40:50.340 and weird and great.

00:40:51.580 From Chris, my question is about religion and friends.

00:40:55.000 Everyone at the Daily Wire is a different denomination, Catholic or Jewish.

00:40:58.260 Have you all had a serious debate on these religious differences or does the Daily Wire

00:41:02.000 team keep religion separate from the workplace? 0.54

00:41:05.380 Thanks.

00:41:05.780 No, we've talked about this all the time.

00:41:09.180 It's basically all we talk about, you know, we'll occasionally talk about politics, but

00:41:13.220 you know, ultimately all human conflict is theological, as Cardinal Manning said.

00:41:18.280 And if you are a devotee of the Breitbart doctrine, you know, politics is downstream of

00:41:23.000 culture.

00:41:23.420 Certainly we could acknowledge that culture is downstream of religion.

00:41:26.460 Cult and culture come from the same root word and that's why what a culture worships

00:41:29.640 will define that culture.

00:41:30.460 So that's ultimately all we really do want to talk about.

00:41:32.940 And I mean, we're respectful about it relative.

00:41:36.840 I mean, I'll still, you know, I'll call Jeremy a heretic and he'll call me a papist Pelagian 0.96

00:41:40.820 heretic and, you know, we'll do that, that sort of thing a bit.

00:41:43.260 But yeah, that, that is, that is mostly, I would say when we're having a real serious

00:41:47.860 conversation, that's mostly what we're talking about is ethnic, ethics and morality and of

00:41:51.380 course, ultimately religion.

00:41:52.740 From Jacob, my question is, should we bring the gladi, bring back the gladiator games?

00:41:58.560 Why can't two consulting and consenting adults fight to the death?

00:42:02.420 Thanks.

00:42:03.320 Great question.

00:42:04.820 I assume your question is tongue in cheek, but maybe not.

00:42:08.020 Maybe it's not.

00:42:10.360 So, but either way, it's a brilliant question.

00:42:14.540 We live in a culture now where we are told that the highest, maybe the only moral question

00:42:22.800 regards consent.

00:42:24.880 If two people consent to do something, then it's good.

00:42:31.060 Do it.

00:42:31.560 There's no reason why we would ever impede that.

00:42:35.240 If a, if an adult wants to mutilate his body, he's consenting.

00:42:39.980 So do it.

00:42:41.520 If an adult wants to do a bunch of heroin, he's consenting to that.

00:42:46.320 It's his free choice.

00:42:47.200 How dare you tell him he can't do that?

00:42:49.080 Now, of course, in order to believe this very shallow view, you have to conflate liberty

00:42:54.140 and licentiousness. 0.86

00:42:55.100 You have to believe that freedom is really just pursuing your basest appetites, your lusts,

00:42:59.720 wherever they lead you.

00:43:00.580 Instead of actually tamping down those appetites and developing and cultivating your higher will

00:43:06.260 and disciplining that will and your intellect, which is what the founding fathers and every

00:43:11.040 wise person in thrall of human history has, has understood liberty to be.

00:43:14.840 But we have that degraded view of liberty, which leads to a degraded view of consent,

00:43:18.660 which leads to a degraded view of morality.

00:43:21.200 But no, we should not watch people kill, actually kill each other in a ring.

00:43:28.940 That would be wrong to do.

00:43:31.540 Because we respect human dignity.

00:43:36.840 We frown on cockfights because we say, oh, it's wrong to let the chickens, little chickens 0.99

00:43:42.400 stab each other, you know.

00:43:43.500 We frown on pit bull fights.

00:43:46.640 So it's wrong to put the dogs in that situation where a poor little dog is going to die.

00:43:50.840 But I bet there are a great many people in this country, in our society, who would say,

00:43:54.300 well, the problem with the cockfight and the pit bull fight is they can't really consent,

00:43:59.060 you know, because they're animals.

00:43:59.840 But adults can consent.

00:44:01.560 So if they want to go out and kill each other or do any other degrading act to one another,

00:44:04.460 it's totally fine.

00:44:05.720 But it's not totally fine, even if people pretend that they have consented.

00:44:09.940 From Ben.

00:44:10.660 Howdy, Michael.

00:44:11.300 Given the premise that big tech is a private company, yeah, or private companies, and they

00:44:16.320 can do what they want, should public entities like municipalities and schools and universities

00:44:20.220 be allowed to use, say, Facebook as their only source for announcements?

00:44:23.960 It seems to be a legal point that public entities cannot use a private media medium to provide

00:44:29.260 info for the general public, especially if some of that public can be banned and not have

00:44:33.280 access to the information.

00:44:34.660 Does that leave some of us speechless?

00:44:36.580 Controlling words, controlling minds?

00:44:37.820 Wow, man.

00:44:39.220 You've got a smoother plug-in for my book than even I have done.

00:44:42.360 I didn't even see that one coming.

00:44:43.680 That was very impressive.

00:44:44.740 Does he get, he, like, I don't think that bell should count for my count.

00:44:48.320 You've got to make it for his count.

00:44:49.560 Anyway, yes.

00:44:50.480 Excellent question and excellent plug as well.

00:44:52.740 What you're hitting on and what you're implying here is that these private companies, gosh,

00:44:59.640 they just don't seem that private.

00:45:01.840 And they're not, of course.

00:45:03.560 This was actually why the Trump administration was not permitted to block people on Twitter

00:45:10.060 is because the president would be using his platform to cut certain people off from

00:45:16.900 this information, even though it's a private company, even though it's a private account,

00:45:20.820 not allowed to do that.

00:45:22.740 The distinction that was very fashionable in the 1980s and 90s in sort of shallow conservatism

00:45:30.160 was there's the public sector and the private sector and public sector bad, private sector

00:45:36.240 good, government bad, companies good.

00:45:40.600 Even if the companies are big, woke, multinational corporations that are destroying your country

00:45:45.340 and exert more control over your life than the government does, that good, we love that

00:45:50.520 good, shill for big corporations, government, even when the government is citizens using

00:45:57.260 their legitimate political power and wielding it in a way to craft their own society, bad.

00:46:03.140 No, doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:46:05.140 You hear the term a lot among sort of neoliberals, which is public-private partnership.

00:46:10.040 Oh, aren't public-private partnerships great?

00:46:12.780 The government outsources a lot of their work to private companies, semi-private companies,

00:46:17.320 and then the companies make a bunch of money from the government and, you know, things are

00:46:21.220 more efficient that way.

00:46:22.180 Isn't that great?

00:46:22.580 I don't know.

00:46:24.760 I'm a little skeptical of that because also the public is more than the government.

00:46:32.420 Our public square, which is the way that we communicate and in a republic, that is politics,

00:46:41.200 right?

00:46:41.360 Because in a republic, speech is politics and politics is speech.

00:46:44.700 We just persuade each other and try to govern ourselves.

00:46:46.480 So if you control the public sphere, you control the politics.

00:46:52.320 And who controls the public square right now?

00:46:55.440 Google, especially Google, Facebook, and to a lesser degree, Twitter, but Twitter has

00:47:01.000 so many people of influence in the media that it exerts a disproportionate influence with

00:47:07.400 respect to its size.

00:47:09.340 Those seem like public entities to me.

00:47:11.300 And any conservatism, capital C with a trademark over the M, that suggests that we have no right

00:47:20.060 to regulate the people who are dominating our politics, doesn't seem very conservative

00:47:26.300 to me.

00:47:27.120 From Matthew, Michael, speaking of standards, what is your take on the metric system?

00:47:31.860 I'm a proponent of our English system in general, but as an engineering professor, I find the metric

00:47:35.880 system has merit, especially when it comes to calculations.

00:47:39.260 I hate the metric system.

00:47:42.940 I hate it. 0.96

00:47:43.560 Do you know why I hate it?

00:47:44.460 I hate it for the same reason that you as a scientist probably would like it, which is

00:47:48.680 that it's very standardized.

00:47:50.980 It's very clinical.

00:47:52.620 It's very rationalist.

00:47:55.140 So it just makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

00:48:00.100 Except it seems a little too contrived for me.

00:48:02.620 I, first of all, do not, if the argument is that it's really good for certain scientific

00:48:10.620 measurements, fine.

00:48:11.600 I don't mind if certain scientific disciplines defer to the metric system.

00:48:14.560 That's fine.

00:48:15.260 I don't like the idea that because it's useful for certain scientific material measurements,

00:48:20.680 that therefore all the rest of society must adopt it.

00:48:23.820 To me, that seems to be a symptom of the problem of all of society exporting all of our political

00:48:30.540 power to scientists, so I don't like that idea either.

00:48:33.400 But I like traditions.

00:48:35.600 I like quirky things.

00:48:38.020 You might say, in a way, I sort of like diversity, meaning I like that cultures have their own unique

00:48:43.400 traditions and rituals.

00:48:45.160 I like that the English system is different than the metric system.

00:48:49.360 And it's funny because the English don't even use the English system anymore, but we do

00:48:51.920 here in America.

00:48:52.980 I like that.

00:48:54.840 I don't want the whole world to look exactly the same.

00:48:59.040 I want us to recognize that there are eternal truths.

00:49:02.760 I want us to have some kind of unity, right?

00:49:05.480 I'm a Catholic.

00:49:07.020 It means universal.

00:49:08.080 I like that kind of universality.

00:49:11.180 But that doesn't mean that I want the whole world to be governed in exactly the same way and

00:49:15.180 behave in exactly the same way and look exactly the same way.

00:49:17.560 I don't think so.

00:49:18.240 I might be the last guy in the world calling for diversity, but it's a very specific kind

00:49:23.060 of diversity that is not contrary to unity.

00:49:26.180 It's simply not rationalist and contrived.

00:49:28.780 From Sarah, seeing LeBron James dox and basically call for violence against the Columbus police

00:49:32.560 officer got me thinking.

00:49:34.100 Does the officer have a similar legal argument to sue LeBron James as CNN's new boss, Nick

00:49:38.340 Sandman, did against CNN?

00:49:39.600 He was that kid who was smirking at the Indian who was bashing a drum in his face. 0.92

00:49:43.320 LeBron is a public figure and told his 20 million followers that this guy was a horrible

00:49:46.680 person and ruined his reputation.

00:49:48.600 Do you think the police officers have a shot?

00:49:50.320 Thanks.

00:49:50.620 No, I don't because the cops are also public figures.

00:49:53.500 Obviously, they're not as famous or wealthy as LeBron James is, but they are in very public

00:50:00.560 roles and they serve the public and they're part of the government.

00:50:03.020 So no, I don't think he has a case.

00:50:04.840 But I am hopeful that now that the real footage got out, in part thanks to the body camera

00:50:10.120 stuff, because that's permeated even that force field of the mainstream media, even CNN's

00:50:15.840 admitting it.

00:50:16.440 I am hopeful that this cop is not going to have his life ruined, but it is a warning

00:50:20.480 sign for lots of other people in that public position.

00:50:24.760 And I think it's going to discourage a lot of cops.

00:50:27.540 And I think you're going to see more crime and a lot of bad things going on in the cities.

00:50:32.640 I think you're going to see people moving out of the cities because this kind of bad

00:50:38.280 behavior has consequences.

00:50:39.760 And if you don't have justice, you're not going to have peace.

00:50:41.420 That's just a fact.

00:50:42.720 And so people are going to flee that, I think, for safer, safer grounds.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 23, 2021

Ep. 749 - Your Lying Eyes

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