The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 756 - The Big Lie

00:00:00.000 For months, Democrats have parroted the phrase, the big lie, to refer to any questioning of the

00:00:08.660 circumstances surrounding the 2020 election. It's as though they got a sheet of paper,

00:00:14.180 they said, this is the phrase, we've all got to use it consistently for the next six months,

00:00:18.720 the big lie, the big lie, the big lie. So the big lie is unfortunately alive and well in the

00:00:25.360 fever swamps of the far right. Well, on this date, January 10th, 2019,

00:00:31.240 the big lie of the Trump presidency collapsed. But just as the president spent months spreading

00:00:38.480 his big lie of the election. After months of pushing Donald Trump's big lie, the election

00:00:42.760 was rigged against him. No, they're not special. And that's part of the big lie that the president's

00:00:46.780 been telling. The big lie, the big lie, the big lie. The big lie is a phrase associated with Hitler.

00:00:52.420 So this is just an extension of calling Donald Trump a Nazi or calling him Hitler.

00:00:56.660 Ironically, though, because the libs, they know like a very little bit about history,

00:01:00.660 but they don't read past the first two sentences. Ironically, the phrase was actually used by

00:01:05.680 Hitler in Mein Kampf to refer to something that he was accusing the Jews of doing.

00:01:10.700 That is neither here nor there. Now, however, a Republican leader in the House of Representatives

00:01:17.580 is parroting the same phrase in the same sense. With Republicans like that, who needs Democrats?

00:01:24.920 How much longer will we need to tolerate all these big liars? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:01:30.460 Knowles Show.

00:01:30.940 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from HouseNHunter24, who says,

00:01:45.320 Hey, Michael, listening to you and Ben saved me from thinking this country treats me any less

00:01:50.680 because I'm a woman. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome, toots. No, I'm only kidding. That's very,

00:01:56.920 that's very nice of you. I'm pleased to hear that. John Wayne had a line about this many decades ago,

00:02:03.200 which is he was responding to the hysteria of the second wave feminists who said we lived in a

00:02:09.140 patriarchy. And he said, that's insane. America has always been a matriarchy. It always has. We 1.00

00:02:15.020 defer to women. Women run the home. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. We elevate women. 1.00

00:02:20.800 This was always the case in America. This was the case broadly in the West and in the Anglosphere. 0.82

00:02:26.920 In particular. And it has become less and less so each day. Each day that proceeds, particularly

00:02:34.180 since the tumult of the 1960s, since feminism and women's liberation, the country has actually

00:02:40.380 gotten worse and worse and worse for women. You can even see this, not that I put great stock into 1.00

00:02:45.100 social scientific surveys, but you can see this in both absolute terms and in relative terms to the

00:02:50.540 happiness of men. Women have gotten less and less happy every single year because now we don't value 1.00

00:02:55.440 any womanly virtues and we treat women as though they're no different from men in any way.

00:03:00.860 And we disregard many of their finest qualities. So yes, I'm glad that we have helped you to see

00:03:07.060 that we value women. But unfortunately, if the libs have their way, we will not value women for 0.96

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00:04:17.000 So you've heard this stupid phrase, the big lie. It's just another clumsy extension of the libs

00:04:25.200 crying that Donald Trump is literally Hitler. And so they all use it and they all get the exact

00:04:31.180 same sheet of talking points and they don't have an original idea in their head.

00:04:35.440 President Trump, in response to this, appropriated the phrase. He said,

00:04:40.380 the 2020 election is the real big lie. That was the gist of his press statement.

00:04:48.260 President Trump has done this before. You'll remember the phrase fake news,

00:04:51.320 which is now totally associated with Trump, actually started as a left-wing attack on Trump.

00:04:56.100 It actually was an attack on us in 2016. The Daily Wire was listed on a little Google doc that was

00:05:01.420 going around with other news sites that the left was saying constituted fake news. And people shouldn't

00:05:07.900 read us and people shouldn't pay any attention to us. And you heard, oh yes, all the right-wing

00:05:12.360 news outlets, they're totally fake news. So Donald Trump appropriated that phrase and said,

00:05:16.180 actually CNN is fake news. And he was so effective at that. And it rang so true that now when you think

00:05:22.160 of fake news, the first thing that pops into your head is probably going to be CNN. So you get the

00:05:26.800 dumb line, you get Trump appropriating it. And then Liz Cheney comes out. Liz Cheney, who is a leader in 0.99

00:05:33.720 the House of Representatives. She's a sort of minor leader, but she runs the Republican caucus there. 0.97

00:05:37.900 But she's not really a Republican. She's certainly not a conservative. And she seems to spend most of 0.88

00:05:43.380 her time attacking fellow Republicans and agreeing with Democrats. Liz Cheney is parroting this phrase.

00:05:50.720 She's saying that anyone who parrots Trump's big lie by in any way raising any questions about the

00:05:57.300 2020 election, which we all have to admit had a lot of irregularities. Just look at Pennsylvania.

00:06:01.840 The way that the election was conducted in Pennsylvania was in direct violation of the

00:06:05.340 state constitution. No one's allowed to say that anymore. If you in any way bring that up,

00:06:09.720 then you're participating in the big lie. You're basically no different than Adolf Hitler, darn it. 0.67

00:06:15.000 And quote, you're poisoning our democratic system.

00:06:19.960 I tried to be fair to Liz Cheney. I tried to be warm, welcoming, a big tent party supporter that

00:06:30.800 says, look, people might have their disagreements on Trump. We got to come together. This woman's got 0.96

00:06:35.080 to go. This woman has got to go. She is absolute poison to the Republican party. All she does is give 1.00

00:06:42.460 aid and comfort to the Democrats. All she does is attack the Republicans. She, she won't support the 1.00

00:06:49.360 party at all. It is part of the broader problem of the, what you might call the neoconservatives

00:06:55.520 or the war hawk former Dems in the three legs of the post-war, cold war conservative movement.

00:07:03.580 The conservative movement from the end of World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall

00:07:06.980 consisted of what you'd call fusionism. The three-legged stool. You had the traditionalists

00:07:13.480 and the religious right, different, but they kind of blur together a little bit.

00:07:16.800 You had the economic libertarians and you had the neocons. You had the, the war hawk blue dog

00:07:23.420 Democrats who wanted to stop the Soviet Union's imperial ambitions. And that worked all well and 1.00

00:07:30.640 good for the cold war. Obviously we won the cold war, but the economic priorities of the libertarians

00:07:37.760 dominated and the two other groups went along with it. The foreign policy priorities of the

00:07:42.540 neoconservatives especially dominated, particularly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as that coalition

00:07:47.820 hobbled along. The other two groups more or less went along with it, but the traditional conservatives

00:07:53.900 never got anything. We got very, very little out of it. And by the way, when the traditional

00:08:01.420 conservatives started to become a little bit ascendant again, notably during the presidency of

00:08:05.600 Donald Trump, what happened? The neocons ran away. They, they abandoned the three-legged stool. So

00:08:11.800 I'm talking about people like Bill Kristol. I'm talking about people like Liz Cheney. I'm talking

00:08:16.360 about people who, who were more from the George Bush wing, George W. Bush wing of the Republican

00:08:22.140 party. People who were more for the bomb the Middle East wing of the Republican party. They just

00:08:26.300 jumped ship. The squishy types left. And so just as a matter of party politics, you can't go on in that 0.99

00:08:35.220 coalition. It's, it's the same problem that you see when a nation descends into civil war. The only way

00:08:43.440 self-government works is if people agree to continue to participate, even when you lose on one particular

00:08:50.420 issue. If, if this is why the right of secession is incoherent in a, in a republic such as ours,

00:08:56.740 if you can just secede when you don't get your own way, then there is no self-government because

00:09:01.440 self-government is predicated on the idea that we're going to persuade one another. And sometimes

00:09:04.540 I'm going to get my way and sometimes you're going to get your way, but we're still going to remain a

00:09:07.560 country because that's the only way that we can, that we can preserve even, even the sort of debate

00:09:12.560 and free government that we're talking about. So if, if Liz Cheney is, she keeps showing us her cards 0.97

00:09:19.540 and so many other of her fellow travelers keep showing her cards, then they can't be part of

00:09:23.740 the conservative movement because they're, they're not willing to play ball. They're just,

00:09:27.500 they're only willing to either dominate the movement or help the Dems and that's it. So fine,

00:09:33.380 if she wants to leave, let her leave, but she certainly shouldn't be in leadership. And frankly,

00:09:37.380 I'm not convinced she should be in the house of representatives either. Talking about big lies,

00:09:41.460 big, big lies. What is the biggest lie dominating our politics today? Is it that maybe

00:09:49.540 there was something a little weird about the 2020 election? You know, just look at the way the

00:09:52.780 thing was conducted in various States, notably Pennsylvania. No, no. The biggest lie is the

00:10:00.000 racial grievance politics. That's the biggest, it's the one that dominates everything. It's the lie 0.99

00:10:04.360 that burned the country to the ground last year. It's the lie that permits legal racial discrimination

00:10:09.760 in the form of affirmative action against whites and Asians and in favor of blacks and Hispanics.

00:10:13.800 It's the lie that persistently tries to rip America apart. And that is exploited by very cynical

00:10:20.280 people, almost exclusively on the left to rip America apart. It's the lie that, that our,

00:10:26.460 our nation's enemies have always tried to exploit because there is a fault line here,

00:10:29.980 right? I'm not denying that there have been racial issues in the country, but the lie is that 0.96

00:10:35.260 America is fundamentally evil, bigoted. We can never in any way overcome racial issues and that

00:10:41.560 America is a white supremacist country. It's just not true. Al Sharpton said it the other day. Al

00:10:45.220 Sharpton was present at funeral services for a man who was killed in a officer involved killing.

00:10:54.080 These are extraordinarily rare events in the United States. And in cases where the killing was not

00:10:59.060 justified, they, they basically do not exist. They're very, very few events where the shooting is not,

00:11:03.940 not justified. So Al Sharpton's there and he says, America is a racist country.

00:11:10.980 Now, everybody in America is not racist, but are you talking about whether the practice of America's

00:11:20.640 racist or the people? Cause the practice of America was built on racism.

00:11:26.480 It was against the law for us to read and write. It was against the law for us to name our children

00:11:43.700 after us. We were brought here to serve and never get paid. That's how the country was built. What do

00:11:52.120 you mean? America is not racist. America was started off racism.

00:11:58.780 Al Sharpton is such an odious figure in politics. He's such a leech. He's such a parasite.

00:12:05.540 He, he launched his career on a hoax on the Tawana Brawley hoax. He encouraged the riots in Crown 0.88

00:12:11.340 Heights. He's a liar. He's a thug. He's an extortion artist who, who shakes down corporate America and

00:12:18.340 shakes down individuals to fund his ridiculous slush fund. He's just such a horrific character

00:12:25.320 in American politics. And he's not that intelligent. But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how'd you like

00:12:31.720 to play? He is very clever. He's very shrewd. He's, he's very good at politics. Obviously he's,

00:12:38.200 he's managed to make it a long time in politics without it or a long time in his professional life

00:12:43.220 without ever producing anything. He's made it very far in his career and worn very fancy suits and

00:12:49.820 flown around on very fancy private jets without ever really doing anything other than extorting

00:12:54.700 money from people on this premise of racial grievance. But what is he saying? He's saying,

00:12:58.600 you're saying America's not racist. What are you talking about? We had slavery. Yeah. So did every

00:13:04.340 civilization ever in the history of the world. And many still do. We, we probably had slavery in this

00:13:10.360 country for less time than basically any other place on earth. What do you mean? America is not

00:13:15.520 racist. Slaves were brought here, right? Yep. That's true. That was a long time ago. And by the

00:13:20.800 way, the first officially declared owner of a slave in the American slave system was a black guy. He was

00:13:26.660 the first slave owner was a black guy. Isn't that weird? That's a weird thing. I'm not saying that that

00:13:30.360 takes away from the racial element, the racial character that would develop in American slavery,

00:13:35.260 but the guy's name was Anthony Johnson and he was declared the slave owner of John Kaser. And actually

00:13:39.680 neighbors were very concerned about this poor man who was supposed to be an indentured servant and get

00:13:43.680 out. And then this guy, Anthony Johnson, who was a black Angolan, went to the court and had this guy,

00:13:48.240 John Kaser, declared a slave for life. That's just a weird aspect. Okay. That's a strange thing.

00:13:52.720 It's the slavery all over the world. Today, what are we talking about though? What he, what,

00:13:58.200 what Al Sharpton is trying to do is exploit one blip in the course of history to rip the country apart

00:14:08.180 today. And the thing is, as a political matter, he's got a little bit of a point that conservatives

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00:15:23.180 So the big lie, to use a popular phrase, that America is a vicious, awful, racist place and that

00:15:31.080 our justice system is totally rotten. The whole country is rotten and therefore the police who

00:15:36.700 are the physical representation of law and order and our whole sense of justice in this country,

00:15:41.000 therefore they are all evil. This pervades the country such that people now feel that they have

00:15:47.760 the right to scream and yell at the cops and interfere in their jobs. I was just going through

00:15:52.380 the Jacksonville airport the other day. It was just two days ago. I was flying back from Jacksonville

00:15:56.240 and police were arresting some crazy lunatic who was making a big nuisance of himself and certainly

00:16:02.140 should have been arrested. And, but he was a black guy. Now, some of the cops were black too. So it's

00:16:08.020 not like this was a white supremacist racially split. No, it's, there was a black guy being arrested

00:16:14.300 as he should have been because he was making a nuisance of himself in the airport. And what

00:16:17.980 happens? A group of people crowds around and starts filming everything and starts screaming at

00:16:21.880 the cops. Tells the cops, you don't need to hold them like that. What is this, what does this person

00:16:25.200 know about how the cops need to hold people to arrest them? Starts screaming, starts yelling.

00:16:29.860 Well, we got an incident like this on video just the other day. Cop pulls a woman over because she's

00:16:34.620 using her cell phone while she's driving. And the woman launches a vile stream of invective at the cop. 1.00

00:16:41.580 You know why I'm being harassed today? Because I was going under the speed limit. I was going

00:16:46.600 at 38. Yes, you are, ma'am. Good morning. Which is, and the speed limit is 40 and I was going 38. So

00:16:52.360 why are you harassing me? You're correct. I pulled you over because you're a murderer. Yes, I started 0.74

00:16:56.840 to record because you're a murderer. You can't be on your cell phone while you're driving. I wasn't on

00:17:00.440 my phone. I was recording you because you scared me. You can't use your cell phone while you're recording.

00:17:05.160 I can record you. May I have your driver's license? It's, it's at my apartment. What's your

00:17:10.700 apartment? It's at my home. I'm just taking my son to his. Do you have, do you have your

00:17:15.180 driver's license? I, it, I mistakenly left it at home. Do you have a picture of your

00:17:19.820 driver's license? Yes, I do. May I have it? And can you call your supervisor, please? I already

00:17:26.660 did. He's on his way. Good, because you're a murderer. Okay. And so you're giving me a cell

00:17:32.880 phone ticket? Is that why you're harassing me? Not harassment. I am enforcing the law. I have

00:17:38.600 the right to and record the police when they're harassing me. By all means, but you can't do it

00:17:43.500 while you're driving. I was, I can, I wasn't, doesn't texting or none of that. Do you have,

00:17:49.220 you had a picture? And you scared me and made me think you were going to murder me. Okay. Well,

00:17:52.380 I'm sorry you feel that way. Well, you're, that's not just a feeling. You're a murderer.

00:17:57.020 Does this woman sound like she's afraid that she's going to be murdered? No, I don't, I don't think

00:18:03.120 she sounds afraid of anything. I don't think she even sounds afraid that she's going to get a ticket

00:18:06.460 because she's playing the race card and she knows that this is a lie. She knows it's a lie that the

00:18:13.000 cop is a murderer because if she really thought the cop was a murderer, she'd be crying and shaking in

00:18:17.840 her car and she, she wouldn't be screaming at him and, and acting as though everything's going to go

00:18:23.700 just fine for her as long as she keeps playing that race card. She knows it's a lie, but it's a lie to her

00:18:28.180 advantage and it's a lie that's been incentivized all around the country and the culture. So she's going 0.59

00:18:32.880 to keep doing it. This is also a point that I think must be made. You hear a lot, particularly

00:18:40.440 from BLM, that the cops target black people, right? That's, that's one of the main contentions 0.86

00:18:44.960 of BLM. And I can, I think a lot of the people who are pushing that idea are just being dishonest and

00:18:51.180 trying to achieve radical political ends. But the, there are, I bet people who believe that because

00:18:57.380 everyone hates dealing with the cops, everyone, I've been pulled over so many times in my life

00:19:04.220 because on occasion I've driven a little faster than the speed limit. Okay. And sometimes maybe

00:19:09.640 I've rolled through a stop sign and on one occasion I actually didn't do anything wrong. The cop was

00:19:15.340 wrong about the speed limit on a, on a road in New York. This actually happened. I know everyone

00:19:19.400 thinks they're always right, but I'll fully admit I've been wrong many times that I've been pulled

00:19:23.200 over or that I've seen the speed limit or whatever. There was one time I was actually

00:19:28.040 right. And the cop was a big jerk to me. And if I had been steeped in this culture where I was told

00:19:33.320 the cops are out to get you, they're out to murder you because the color of your skin, I could see a

00:19:37.120 world in which I'd say, you did this to me because of the way I look. You, but no, cops are just out

00:19:42.320 there enforcing the law and no one likes getting a ticket. And sometimes the cops get it wrong.

00:19:46.660 Not a lot. Very rarely do the cops get it wrong, but that's what happens.

00:19:49.780 So, so far in this, in this video, you could chalk this up to this woman being incredibly stupid 1.00

00:19:57.640 and irresponsible, right? And she's saying, I can, you know, I'm going to try to get out. I know I was

00:20:03.240 using my phone, but I'm going to try to get out of it by saying I was recording him because I'm afraid

00:20:06.020 he's a murderer. Okay. That's okay. Fine. She's stupid. She's irresponsible. But then in the next 0.98

00:20:11.920 frame, you see that this woman knows exactly what she's doing. And I'm perfectly legal and I'm 0.95

00:20:19.700 a teacher. So there. Congratulations. You're a murderer. What's your last name? I can't see

00:20:25.400 that there. Well, here you go. Stop shaking. Zoom in on that for me. No, because you're scaring me.

00:20:31.500 You're threatening to kill me and my son. Can you give me the... Okay. I'll tell you what,

00:20:36.120 you keep smiling. You're on camera. Yeah, you keep, you're trying to threaten to kill me. I'm not

00:20:40.000 smiling. You're the one who's crazy. Hold that still. I can't see that. Is this your car? Yes,

00:20:44.080 it is. Um, you're trying to say I stole my own car because you're jealous. Yeah, I don't think so.

00:20:50.380 You wait for me right here. Okay. You're jealous. You got the citation. All you need to do is just

00:20:54.700 give your signature. He's only citing you for using your cell phone while you're driving. That's it.

00:20:59.040 Here you go, ma'am. Sign inside the red box right there. For him being a Mexican racist. What is that

00:21:03.240 name? Gasso. Sign the citation, ma'am. Here you go, Mexican racist. You're always going to be a Mexican. 0.85

00:21:09.800 You'll never be white. You know that, right? You'll never be white, which is what you really 0.94

00:21:14.320 want to be. You want to be white. Have a good day. You want to be white. You want to be white. This 0.75

00:21:20.520 woman's so awful. If she's a teacher, certainly she should be fired. Well, Michael, does that mean 1.00

00:21:24.940 you're for cancel culture? Yup. I'm for canceling her. You bet. Because by the way, just when some

00:21:31.020 people throw this at conservatives and they say, well, no, you support cancel culture. I have never said

00:21:35.280 that people should not face consequences for what they do. I've simply said that the standards are wrong.

00:21:39.800 The old standards are better. The traditionals, and by the way, just to even take it out of an

00:21:45.060 historical framework, standards of virtue are good and standards of vice are bad. So yeah,

00:21:49.620 the current cancel culture where you get canceled for saying true and good things, that's bad.

00:21:54.020 The old cancel culture where you got canceled for being a communist, that's great. I love that.

00:21:58.460 We need more of that. So I hope that that happens. I hope that this woman does not ever teach a 1.00

00:22:04.260 student again, if she really is a teacher, but you hear it in her voice. She says,

00:22:09.520 oh no, I'm just doing this because you're, you're trying to murder me and my son.

00:22:14.820 No, you're not. She's giddy. Well, she says it. She clearly doesn't realize that she's,

00:22:19.820 that the cop is wearing a body camera. You know, the libs pushed for the body cameras on cops, 0.98

00:22:23.900 I think because the very ignorant ones among them, the gullible ones among them believed that the

00:22:30.200 cops really are just out there murdering people all the time. The body cameras are going to help

00:22:33.980 the cops because they're going to show cynical women like this for what they are, which is trying 1.00

00:22:39.160 to get out of a ticket by making a horrific accusation. And then ironically, while she's

00:22:43.180 invoking racism and racism and racism, what does she do at the end? She says, you're a Mexican.

00:22:47.180 You're a dirty, rotten Mexican. You're not white. But do you see what's beneath that? 1.00

00:22:54.260 It's not enough to just say, see the left, they're the real racists. See, she's a racist, 0.74

00:22:59.440 but what she's doing here is she is expressing her offense at the idea that this Mexican cop

00:23:09.180 would not embrace primarily racial politics inside with her. I think she's black

00:23:14.280 over the white guy. The dig there is not, I hate Mexicans. The dig there is you're supposed to be 1.00

00:23:21.860 with me. Why are you not with me? We're supposed to team up regardless of the truth, regardless of

00:23:28.820 justice. We're supposed to team up against Whitey. So why are you taking Whitey's side? You'll never 0.99

00:23:35.100 be white. You just want to be white, right? That's what she's saying at the end of that.

00:23:39.480 That view, how vicious, how despicable, how totally cynical where she's saying,

00:23:45.980 forget that obviously she's been lying the whole time and sort of gleefully so.

00:23:51.500 But then to say, all right, you, all right, I'm going to tell you what this is really about.

00:23:56.400 You're a Mexican. You're supposed to be on my side, but you're on the white guy's side. It's wrong. 0.90

00:24:00.060 And of course the cop doesn't see it that way. The cop says, I'm on the side of justice

00:24:02.760 and you are violating the law. She said, I have every right to film you. Yeah, ma'am, 0.96

00:24:07.760 but you don't, you're harassing me. I'm enforcing the law.

00:24:11.540 Now, that is a new hierarchy. That is race politics. And it is, and that woman may as well 1.00

00:24:19.700 admit directly that the notion of white supremacy is a farce. It's a joke. It's a joke to her.

00:24:27.160 She just knows that the lie of white supremacy might help her get out of a speeding ticket or a 1.00

00:24:32.040 cell phone ticket rather. That's where we are. And you're not allowed to talk about that big lie.

00:24:37.660 And conservatives don't totally get off the hook here either. Because while it is true that the

00:24:45.520 notion of white supremacy or systemic anti-black racism or whatever, that is a complete canard.

00:24:51.160 It's completely ridiculous. But the reason it works is because conservatives are a little bit

00:24:56.580 tone deaf on the racial issue. And the reason that they're a little bit tone deaf on the racial issue

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00:25:06.100 this kind of shallow, radical individualism that says, hey, every generation, the world is born

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00:28:29.360 Tim Scott gave an okay State of the Union response. It's the worst job in American politics,

00:28:35.000 and he was a little squishy on some points, and he was, he was fine on others, and okay, it was,

00:28:40.660 it was whatever. He then went on the news shows, the Sunday shows, to develop his thesis, because

00:28:48.220 the, the State of the Union response didn't totally land, and I felt he made better points on the Sunday

00:28:53.600 shows than he did even in that response. Tim Scott was asked about whether or not America really is

00:29:00.240 racist. He had a, an important line in that State of the Union response. He said, America is not a racist

00:29:06.260 country. Well, what does that mean? Al Sharpton disagrees with you, Tim Scott. Defend yourself.

00:29:11.260 The question is, is there a lingering effect after a couple of centuries of racism and discrimination in

00:29:17.920 this nation? The answer is absolutely. The question we should be debating and fighting over is how do we

00:29:24.240 resolve those issues going forward? One side says, I'm going to take from some to give to others.

00:29:31.180 First, fighting bigotry with bigotry is hypocrisy. It just doesn't work. The second, our side, what I

00:29:38.320 suggested is, let's expand opportunity and make sure that we are fully equipped for the challenges

00:29:44.180 of the future. Okay, so a lot of this is just boilerplate. Look, there were problems in the past,

00:29:49.620 and now we've got to do better, and we want to expand opportunity, and the libs want to steal money 0.99

00:29:52.800 from people. But he's making an important point here that a lot of conservatives don't want to hear.

00:29:57.600 Remember, there is a lingering effect of slavery. Just as there is a lingering effect in the world of

00:30:05.060 all sin, when you commit any kind of sin, there is the eternal effect of that on your soul. Where are

00:30:13.920 you going to go someday when you shake off this mortal coil? But there is also the temporal effect

00:30:18.540 of sin. If you steal a candy bar, that is going to imperil your mortal soul, your eternity, right?

00:30:28.780 But that will also harm the shopkeeper that you stole it from. So you can go to confession, and God

00:30:33.780 can forgive you of stealing the candy bar. But you've got to do some penance. You've got to make up for

00:30:39.100 that, because the temporal effects of that sin still remain. The same is true of slavery and of many

00:30:47.480 other problems. Slavery is not the unique problem in American history. There are many other problems

00:30:50.960 as well. Conservatives once understood that. Conservatives once understood that history

00:30:58.740 matters. I think about it when I think of my own family's history in the United States.

00:31:05.560 Half my family came over on the Mayflower. Half the family came over on a sardine boat

00:31:09.900 from Italy, right? So you've got the Irish and the Italian immigrants come over, but you've also got

00:31:14.700 the English settlers who came over early and settled the country. That gives me a certain perspective on

00:31:20.660 the history of this country. One feels a certain stake in the country if one's forebears helped to

00:31:26.360 build it. One feels a certain responsibility, a certain sense of being at home. If my ancestors

00:31:32.020 came over on slave ships, I would have a different view of the country. Now, I might still love the

00:31:37.640 country. I might still go so far as to say what some people have said, that they are glad that their

00:31:42.840 ancestors were brought over on slave ships because it gave them the opportunity to live in America and

00:31:47.180 they didn't have to grow up in some awful country in Africa. You could even say that while still saying 1.00

00:31:53.080 my family's history in this country, my traditional relationship to this country is different than

00:32:01.340 the people whose family came over on the Mayflower. And we have to deal with that. We have to recognize 0.95

00:32:05.800 that the past affects the present and that will affect the future. In a way, I think when

00:32:12.700 conservatives deny this, we're adopting a kind of progressive view of politics, which says that

00:32:19.360 the past doesn't matter at all. Forget about the past. Past is bad. Just ignore it. And we're just

00:32:23.640 going to only look toward the future. Now, what the conservative insight here is, is that we want to take

00:32:28.140 what is best from the past and conserve that. And we want to defer to the tradition, to the wisdom of the

00:32:34.140 ages, to the democracy of the dead. We don't want to just trap ourselves in the past. Nostalgia is

00:32:40.440 history after a few drinks, but we also don't want to discard all of it and start toppling the statues

00:32:44.840 and say America is a terrible place. I think if conservatives can grapple with that, we will have

00:32:49.560 a bit more credibility when we point out that people like Al Sharpton are just liars. They're just

00:32:54.780 total race hustling liars. And that the idea that the cops are out there shooting innocent black

00:32:59.980 people. It's just not true. It's just a complete lie. And I think if you, if you go far enough as

00:33:06.020 to recognize people's legitimate sense of history and tradition, a deeply conservative impulse,

00:33:12.080 then our arguments on where the country is right now and where it's going are going to be much,

00:33:16.640 much more persuasive. Speaking of history, speaking of American history, Rick Santorum is in trouble.

00:33:23.400 Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, former presidential candidate who got pretty far in the

00:33:28.320 race. Now he goes on CNN sometimes. Poor guy, poor Rick, but very important politician has very good

00:33:37.240 things to say. He was speaking at a Young America's Foundation event and he mentioned that the history

00:33:44.240 of the United States derives from the civilization of Europe. It derives from the West. It's in our DNA.

00:33:51.540 You know, if you think of other countries like Italy and Greece and China and Turkey and places like that,

00:33:56.660 they've all sort of changed over time. I mean, they've been, they've been there for cent, for millennia

00:34:04.860 in many cases. And their culture has sort of evolved over time. But not us. We came here and created a

00:34:15.080 blank slate. We, we birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have

00:34:21.020 Native Americans, but, but candidly that, that there isn't much Native American culture in American

00:34:26.380 culture. It, it was born of the people who came here pursuing religious liberty to practice their

00:34:37.280 faith, to live as they ought to live. Of course, of course this is true. Our publicist, Jason Campbell,

00:34:45.680 over at Media Matters, clipped this out as though this were some terrible thing. Everything he said there

00:34:50.220 were totally, totally right. My only quibble with Rick here is he's not going quite to the right

00:34:56.480 enough. He's, I think he's being a little too conciliatory. But of course, the American culture

00:35:00.660 that we have is not the culture of the Iroquois. Okay. It's not the culture of the Algonquin.

00:35:04.940 It's not the culture of the Cherokee. The culture that we have in this country derives from 0.99

00:35:09.360 the English. And then other immigrant groups come in and that, and they're, look, they're, you know,

00:35:14.900 people have dream catchers, right? So there are these little sort of ornamentations of Native American 0.67

00:35:19.060 culture. For a while, there was a movement to pretend that our American system of government

00:35:23.960 derives from the, from the Iroquois or something like that in New York, which is just not true.

00:35:29.360 It means the Iroquois had a kind of confederacy. It is not true. The Iroquois were a bellicose band

00:35:34.280 of cannibal warriors. Okay. These were really tough hombres and I, I have respect for them as I have

00:35:41.560 respect for all sorts of different peoples, but we did not adopt the Iroquois system of government.

00:35:46.320 Our system of government comes primarily from the English, which is what Rick Santorum is saying.

00:35:52.400 And that's true. So what on earth could we disagree with here? Well, Rick's CNN colleagues,

00:36:01.280 they, they couldn't finish watching that video without, without beginning to sputter. How dare you

00:36:06.800 say that Europeans founded this country? No contrition. Didn't talk about, you know,

00:36:13.360 the suffering that Native Americans have had to deal with in this country. It was, I mean,

00:36:18.960 Rick Santorum, really? Who did he think, did he actually think it was a good idea for him to come

00:36:24.680 on television and try to whitewash the whitewash that he whitewashed? I mean, it was, it was horrible.

00:36:31.740 It was horrible and insulting. And I apologize to the viewers who were insulted by it because I was

00:36:36.700 sitting, I was sitting in my office furious because he's done it so many times, so many times. And it's

00:36:43.920 just, I'm sorry. It was just, it was so egregious and insulting and everything that we talk about,

00:36:51.900 about the founding of this country. Europeans did not found, found this country. It was here.

00:36:58.520 The Native Americans had this country before the Europeans came. Yeah. The Europeans conquered the 1.00

00:37:03.200 country. They colonized it, but they didn't, they, it was, it had nothing to do with the founding of

00:37:08.420 this country. What is Don Lemon even saying? I don't even know what he's trying to say because

00:37:13.480 he's saying on the one hand, Europeans didn't found this country. George Washington was Mongolian.

00:37:18.280 Come on. You know, John Adams, man. He was, he was Brazilian. Uh, no, I think they were just 1.00

00:37:23.700 guys of European stock. Governor Bradford, you know, man, he was, where was he from? He was Russian.

00:37:29.260 Uh, no, he wasn't. He was, uh, he was English. Uh, so he's saying on the one hand, Europeans didn't

00:37:37.040 found this country when obviously they did, but then he says they conquered this country,

00:37:42.000 but the Indians were here. Oh yeah, that's true. And by the way, it wasn't just an outright conquest

00:37:48.380 that when, when the pilgrims came on the Mayflower, they actually formed a very mutually beneficial

00:37:54.340 alliance with Massasoit and with his, his Indian tribe. And they actually allied together against

00:38:00.300 other Indian tribes. And they actually grew that alliance for many years until Massasoit's son

00:38:05.400 made a stupid political decision and launched King Philip's war. And by the way, some Indians 1.00

00:38:08.960 allied with the settlers in King Philip's war even, but that destroyed the peace between the

00:38:13.000 Indians and the settlers. And by the way, I'm, I'm not totally denying that the settlers learned

00:38:18.560 something from the Indians around Plymouth colony or from the Iroquois for that matter. I'm not denying

00:38:24.480 that they, that they observed these people and saw some of their customs and that had some effect

00:38:29.160 on American life. But the system of government, the culture of the United States comes from primarily

00:38:35.120 England. How can anyone doubt that? Can you say therefore that Italy, man, Italians didn't found 1.00

00:38:42.900 Italy. What are you talking? No, there were, there were peoples there before who were conquered.

00:38:47.280 What about the Etruscans? Uh, yeah, okay, I guess, but they got, yeah, right. They got conquered. 0.91

00:38:53.580 And then the country as we have it today is not, we're not living in the Cherokee nation. 0.79

00:38:58.720 We're not living in the Massachusetts. We took the name for one of our states, but we're not living

00:39:03.980 in the Massachusetts tribe, the Wampanoag tribe. We're not living in the Iroquois Confederacy.

00:39:07.620 We're living in America, which is an Italian word from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian, right?

00:39:14.180 We are, we have our capital in the district of Columbia, comes from Columbus, another Italian 0.77

00:39:19.400 guy, by the way. We, the district of Columbia is in Washington, Washington of Anglo stock.

00:39:26.800 Yeah, of course it's a European country. He's, he's not, obviously the, the historical points

00:39:32.380 he's making are very stupid, but what he's doing here is not even arguing about historical points

00:39:38.800 because he doesn't know very much about them. He's doing what Hannah, Nicole Jones did or

00:39:43.240 Nicole Hannah Jones, rather the 1619 project girl in the New York times. He is trying to reframe the

00:39:48.940 history. What he, instead of disagreeing with Rick Santorum on the point of who founded America,

00:39:55.000 he's disagreeing on the value of that. Is it good or is it bad? Rick Santorum is saying,

00:40:00.480 yeah, this is a good country. Here's who founded it. And this is a good country. And what Don Lemon

00:40:03.920 is saying is, no, here's how, here's who founded it. Sure. I guess Rick, you're right, but it's a

00:40:08.140 bad country because it was founded on conquest, you know, like every other country in the history

00:40:12.020 of the world. That is a big lie because it is a good country. And the, the peoples that were

00:40:19.700 populating this country before the settlers arrived were by any standard of virtue, not, not living in

00:40:27.280 some Edenic paradise. They weren't living in the avatar world. And then the awful mean Europeans 1.00

00:40:32.360 came in and destroyed it. No, the, the people who came to the United States to America civilized this

00:40:38.820 place, brought the light of God, their religion brought civilization to this place. And because

00:40:45.000 it's a fallen world, there were acts of sin. There were sins committed. There was violence. There was

00:40:50.760 injury. There are bad things go along just like there were bad things going on in the Iroquois

00:40:55.760 Confederacy, just like there were bad things going on down South in the Aztecs who were ripping out 0.75

00:41:00.680 human hearts by 80,000 at a clip in human sacrifices. Yeah, there were bad things going

00:41:05.660 on, but it was a good thing that the country was founded. That's a reframing. You know,

00:41:12.620 Rick Santorum is quite Catholic. This informs his view of the world. He's an actual Catholic.

00:41:18.280 We have a president now who is a fake Catholic. His name is Joe Biden, but the Washington Post 0.82

00:41:24.500 doesn't want to admit that. So Joe Biden is in hot water right now because Joe Biden is in,

00:41:28.360 in outright obstinance against the church's teaching on the issue of abortion. And the issue

00:41:36.540 of abortion is not like other issues. Pope John Paul II pointed this out. It's not just one issue

00:41:42.580 among many. The right to life is a prerequisite for all of the other rights. One may not disagree.

00:41:47.520 Like Pope Benedict, for instance, said that Catholics may have a legitimate disagreement about the death

00:41:51.600 penalty. Pope John Paul II said the same thing. Doctors of the church have explicitly defended the death

00:41:57.920 penalty. Blessed Pope Pius IX carried out many death penalties. And so Catholics can disagree on that

00:42:03.960 as a prudential matter. Catholics cannot disagree on abortion. And Joe Biden does. And he celebrates

00:42:09.420 abortion and he expands the killing of innocent little babies in this country. So the bishops,

00:42:14.340 finally, I'm so pleased to say this, the bishops are standing up and saying,

00:42:18.140 we're going to have to deal with Joe Biden here. And here's how it was presented in the Washington

00:42:23.680 Post. A rising group of right-wing US Catholic bishops is colliding with a very Catholic president

00:42:31.840 who supports abortion rights. Right-wing group of bishops colliding with a very Catholic 0.85

00:42:42.160 president. Everything about this is untrue. Everything about this is a lie, a very big lie,

00:42:49.280 actually. It is not right-wing bishops who are doing this. It is bishops who believe in the

00:42:55.380 Catholic faith, who believe in the teaching of the church. It is just bishops. You just say

00:42:58.920 bishops. And they're not colliding on this issue of morals and faith. It's not, it's not like, well,

00:43:04.720 you got the president on one hand and you got the bishops on the other. That's not how the Catholic 0.99

00:43:08.160 church works. The bishops are bringing the president who is a member of their flock into line.

00:43:14.920 They're not on equal footing here. The bishops are reprimanding or showing that they may reprimand

00:43:23.040 the president. And the very Catholic, he's not particularly Catholic at all. He goes to mass.

00:43:29.420 He apparently receives communion, which is eating his own damnation to use the scriptural line and,

00:43:36.840 and the teaching of the church. And the bishops in an act of compassion are suggesting telling him to

00:43:42.180 not receive the Eucharist until he stops living in the state of scandal and sin and changes his views

00:43:48.200 and goes to confession. An exact flip here, but we are told he's a very Catholic president because

00:43:57.100 it is, on the one hand, we're told it's very bad to be Catholic, right? Dianne Feinstein yells at Amy

00:44:01.880 Coney Barrett, who is the dogma lives loudly within her, the Catholic dogma. We're told it's very bad to

00:44:06.040 be Catholic, but then Joe Biden is very Catholic. But the reason that the left says that Joe Biden's very

00:44:10.580 Catholic in this admiring way is because they know Joe Biden's not very Catholic, that his real

00:44:15.240 religion is progressivism. Joe Biden is not the only professed Catholic in politics who is in trouble

00:44:26.200 for violating basic teachings of the church. Nancy Pelosi, other prominent Democrats in trouble too. 0.50

00:44:34.740 Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is now put out a pastoral letter and not calling out Nancy Pelosi by name,

00:44:44.880 but he is the archbishop in Pelosi's area. And he is saying that politicians who are in violation of the

00:44:50.060 church's teaching here need to stop receiving Holy Communion. He writes, your Catholic, and he's being very

00:44:55.600 complimentary in this, he's being very diplomatic. He says, your Catholic ideals inspire you in your work to help

00:45:00.780 those who experience discrimination, violence, and injustice. And you deserve the gratitude of your

00:45:06.080 fellow Catholics and our nation for this service. But we cannot empower the weak by crushing the

00:45:11.660 weakest. If you find that you are unwilling or unable to abandon your advocacy for abortion,

00:45:17.300 you should not come forward to receive Holy Communion. To publicly affirm the Catholic faith while at the same

00:45:22.780 time publicly rejecting one of its most fundamental teachings is simply dishonest. It makes them all

00:45:30.600 a bunch of big liars. This is what it does. And it is not just, this is not just a pure act of

00:45:38.220 punishment designed to harm Biden or Pelosi. It's quite the opposite actually. It's designed to help

00:45:44.160 them. It is an act of compassion and mercy to tell them to stop receiving Holy Communion and to tell

00:45:50.000 them to get their act in order. Because the more that they persist in the scandal, the greater damage

00:45:56.280 they will do to the society, to the faithful, and to themselves. Pelosi and Biden, while professing

00:46:03.100 their faith from time to time in Catholicism, have a different religion. That is the religion of

00:46:07.680 progressivism. And they might practice both in this kind of weird, syncretic way where Biden goes to mass,

00:46:14.800 right? But he doesn't live the faith. Even basically, we all stumble, but he stumbles obstinately in

00:46:21.320 scandal, refuses to even acknowledge the teachings of the church. The White House has the temerity to

00:46:26.800 say, yes, the president disagrees with the church on abortion, on the definition of marriage, on this,

00:46:33.360 on that. Oh, he disagrees with the church. As though that's some casual thing. If you're a Catholic,

00:46:38.100 if you really believe in the Catholic faith, that's not a casual thing. But they don't.

00:46:42.080 When their syncretic religion, the Catholicism and the progressivism, when they come into conflict,

00:46:46.360 guess which religion wins? It's the progressivism. And that is our state church. That is our dominant

00:46:53.140 church. And the high priest of it, I mentioned this during a speech at the Young Americans

00:46:55.660 Foundation a month or so ago. Their high priest is Anthony Fauci, who instead of the pectoral cross,

00:47:01.080 wears a stethoscope, and instead of the cassock, wears a white lab coat. Well, John Oliver is very

00:47:06.100 upset. You know, John Oliver, that marginal, I couldn't, I couldn't even say he's marginally funny.

00:47:12.580 John Oliver, who is a British guy, who scolds Americans about our system of government.

00:47:18.220 He's very upset because Joe Rogan the other day, using common sense, said that if young people are

00:47:23.840 looking at their risk of the, of contracting or having serious complications from the coronavirus,

00:47:28.640 then they probably don't need to be too worried about it, particularly when they're making decisions

00:47:32.140 on the vaccine. That's all he said. Perfectly ordinary, makes perfect sense. John Oliver,

00:47:37.540 absolutely furious. How dare you listen to Joe Rogan?

00:47:42.580 The reason we still see mask and distancing recommendations is that the CDC is being

00:47:48.020 cautious and wants to be sure that it is not spreading bullsh** around during a global pandemic

00:47:53.360 like a frozen dinner duke with a TV show. Stop listening to what Joe Rogan tells you.

00:47:58.540 He's a f***ing moron. And those are his words, not mine.

00:48:02.720 Yeah, stop, stop listening to, I don't know, I guess he's, he's become like kind of cockney.

00:48:07.420 Stop listening. Yeah, well now listen here, you, uh, don't listen to Joe Rogan because,

00:48:12.580 you need to listen to John Oliver. Does that make sense to you? No, I don't think that makes

00:48:19.440 much sense at all. Why on earth? Joe Rogan is much smarter than John Oliver. I ain't saying that

00:48:25.340 Joe Rogan is, uh, you know, not necessarily a Rhodes scholar or something, or that he's in the

00:48:29.860 academy or that he's a scientist or a scholar. I'm just saying he's definitely smarter than John

00:48:35.000 Oliver. John Oliver has never made an interesting point ever that I have watched. And he's very rarely

00:48:40.800 made even a slightly funny point. His, his entire brand of comedy is just saying otherwise unfunny

00:48:47.660 lines loudly with profanity interlaced. But that is, it's such a crutch in comedy. You'll notice that

00:48:54.260 the best comedians don't need to do that. I'm thinking of, sometimes they do. I'm not saying

00:48:59.660 the best comedians are totally clean. They might use profanity, but they don't rely on the profanity,

00:49:04.520 right? The joke is the joke and maybe the profanity embellishes it or something. But with John

00:49:08.440 Oliver, he doesn't have a joke really. He's got these kind of weak liners. Samantha Bee,

00:49:12.080 who's another Daily Show alumna, she, she does the same thing. She just says things loudly and

00:49:17.680 with profanity as if that makes a joke, but it doesn't. So why are we listening to John Oliver?

00:49:22.360 Well, because John Oliver is parroting what the CDC says. So if you're parroting what the CDC says,

00:49:28.620 that, that makes you really smart. That makes you really trustworthy because Fauci and the CDC,

00:49:34.020 they're infallible. They've contradicted themselves many times over the last year on this very issue

00:49:39.000 of coronavirus. Fauci comes out, he says, do not wear the mask ever. Don't wear it. It's stupid

00:49:45.900 and dumb. I'm paraphrasing, but only slightly. Then a few weeks later, he says, you have to wear

00:49:50.360 the mask. And then when he was asked, well, why did you change your mind? What did he say? He said,

00:49:54.180 well, because I wanted the nurses to have masks and not you idiot peasants. So, but now you can wear 1.00

00:49:59.320 them. Listen to me and you can believe me because I would never lie to you except what I just said.

00:50:04.680 Again, paraphrasing, but only slightly. I, to me, Fauci and all these guys have basically zero

00:50:11.520 credibility left. And anybody who takes them seriously, like John Oliver has very little

00:50:15.940 credibility. And Joe Rogan has much more credibility because at least he thinks for himself

00:50:20.080 on many occasions. But if you're a, if you're an adherent to that progressive faith,

00:50:26.380 then that's the way it goes. You know, you know where this progressive faith really exposes itself

00:50:30.600 in this gender issue. A woman just went viral on TikTok because her six-year-old daughter 0.80

00:50:35.820 said that she thinks she looks like a boy.

00:50:38.100 Are you a boy or are you a girl? I don't know. I don't know who I am. You don't know who

00:50:46.500 you are? Who do you think you are? I feel like I'm a boy, but I feel like you. You feel like

00:50:54.540 you're a boy? What makes you think that? So the caption here is my six-year-old daughter

00:51:10.140 asks me if I think she looks like a boy. I asked her, do you want to look like a boy?

00:51:13.240 Her response left me speechless. Does it count? Okay, it counts. That's fine. It's available

00:51:21.560 now for pre-order, by the way, my upcoming book. The subtitle is Controlling Words, Controlling

00:51:24.980 Minds. This woman has left me somewhat speechless. I'll regain my speech and then give my thoughts 0.99

00:51:31.840 on her. This constitutes child abuse. But this woman might not even know what she's doing. 1.00

00:51:37.940 She might really buy into this idea that little children have the ability to freely consent to 0.97

00:51:45.180 major sexual decisions, which is preposterous. But you might have the idea that little children

00:51:50.180 know more about reality than adults do. Maybe they know more than this adult woman does. 0.99

00:51:54.800 And she might really believe that who we really are has nothing to do with our physical bodies.

00:51:59.220 But that is wrong. That's a different religion. That is a big, fat lie. And as long as we've got 0.99

00:52:04.780 Republicans who have all their guns, there are all their rhetorical guns trained on other Republicans

00:52:09.720 defending these absolutely absurd lies on the left, much bigger lies than anything the right's been

00:52:14.940 telling, then those people are no use to the conservative movement. I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 04, 2021

Ep. 756 - The Big Lie

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