The Michael Knowles Show - July 01, 2021


Ep. 797 - Unknown Knowns


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Trump gives the strongest signal yet that he will run for president in 2024. Plus, a look at why some Republicans think it would be the worst thing in the world if Donald Trump ran for president again. And a new report about the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson.

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00:00:00.080 Will he or won't he?
00:00:02.560 President Trump has given his strongest signal yet that he will be running for president in 2024.
00:00:08.220 For legal reasons, President Trump cannot yet announce that he's running.
00:00:12.840 But during an interview with Sean Hannity, the former president did not exactly play coy.
00:00:19.200 Where are you in the process of, or have, let me ask you this, without giving the answer what the answer is,
00:00:24.940 have you made up your mind?
00:00:27.020 Yes.
00:00:30.000 I think you got it right.
00:00:34.400 Yeah.
00:00:35.780 Have you made up your mind?
00:00:37.500 Yes.
00:00:38.060 Not, well, I'm considering, well, I'm looking.
00:00:40.040 That's what politicians do when they want to keep the idea going that they'll run, but they don't really want to run.
00:00:45.420 Trump says, yes, I've made up my mind.
00:00:47.380 Can't give an answer.
00:00:48.180 Yes.
00:00:48.380 You're going to be really happy with my answer.
00:00:50.160 Yes, yes, yes.
00:00:50.940 Some Republicans think that it would be the absolute worst thing in the world if Trump runs again.
00:00:55.820 I, for one, am not so sure about that.
00:00:57.820 I think Republicans have a lot to learn from the Donald and from other past leaders, actually from
00:01:03.660 other past Donalds, including the legendary defense secretary, Don Rumsfeld, who died yesterday.
00:01:09.120 It's getting harder to learn these days because we're losing all of our standards in our schools,
00:01:13.980 on Capitol Hill, in our own private lives.
00:01:16.760 But on this show, today and every day, we will insist on standards.
00:01:21.380 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:01:22.080 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:22.900 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:31.240 My favorite comment yesterday from Lilia Rosales, who says,
00:01:35.240 Michael is reading the NSA statement and paying attention to every word like a spouse that was cheated on.
00:01:41.280 Truly, that's where we all are now.
00:01:43.220 Yes, that's true.
00:01:43.920 You're parsing every little, you know, you find your, your cat of a husband's cell phone and you're parsing every word,
00:01:50.560 this, that, and the other thing, because the trust has been broken.
00:01:54.520 In a marriage that's gone awry, the trust has been broken.
00:01:57.740 In our relationship to the federal government, these agencies that are spying on us
00:02:01.840 and they're deceiving us about spying on us, that the trust is broken.
00:02:04.660 So we've got to parse every word.
00:02:05.720 And by the way, when you parse every word on that ridiculous NSA non-denial denial about spying on Tucker Carlson,
00:02:13.080 when you parse every word, you realize, wait a second, they didn't, they did not deny what Tucker Carlson is alleging.
00:02:19.440 The NSA, just looking in on all of your electronic communications.
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00:02:45.500 I think we've heard about this recently with a very famous conservative commentator
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00:03:52.760 I know that Trump has flaws.
00:03:55.560 I know that he created some problems for himself that he probably didn't need to.
00:03:59.800 I know that he made some wrong turns on policy.
00:04:03.040 I'm thinking of the first, the jailbreak bill, the First Step Act and some other problems.
00:04:07.760 But compared to the Republican establishment, I think that guy's got the right impulses.
00:04:14.060 And I think a lot of the Republican establishment politicians really do not.
00:04:17.900 An example of this, I hate to criticize our own side, but I suppose I have to.
00:04:23.780 Representative Kevin McCarthy, he's the House GOP leader.
00:04:28.420 He was speaking about a bill that would take down Confederate statues in the Capitol.
00:04:34.740 And, you know, this is a problem throughout the United States.
00:04:37.140 Do we tear down the Confederate statues?
00:04:39.960 And Kevin McCarthy is supporting this bill.
00:04:41.880 This is a bill that is being pushed by Democrats, but McCarthy is supporting it.
00:04:45.680 And the reason behind why he's supporting it, I just, it's just a little weak.
00:04:52.460 But let me state a simple fact.
00:04:55.280 All the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.
00:05:01.280 Madam Speaker, as I heard the Speaker talk earlier about removing of the four portraits of speakers in the hall,
00:05:08.480 the same answer goes for that as well.
00:05:11.300 They were all Democrats.
00:05:12.900 What's interesting, the statues that need to be removed were sent to the Capitol by states that were majority controlled by Democrats,
00:05:23.100 sent to a house that had a majority controlled by Democrats, accepting of these statues.
00:05:29.060 So, the question is, do we tear down our history?
00:05:33.340 Do we tear down our monuments?
00:05:34.940 Do we tear down the art pieces that were put up to support a reconciliation between the North and the South after this bloody, horrific Civil War?
00:05:47.640 Do we tear those things down?
00:05:49.520 And the left is the one pushing for tearing down the statues because the left hates our history and they don't just hate Robert E. Lee and they don't just hate whoever, Stonewall Jackson.
00:06:01.040 They hate Lincoln and they hate Washington and they hate Jefferson and they want to tear down those statues too.
00:06:07.600 And they've been tearing down those statues for at least a year and a half now.
00:06:11.060 But Kevin McCarthy here is taking this tact of saying, oh yeah, please tear down the Confederate statues.
00:06:18.060 Why, they're Democrats.
00:06:20.120 Yes, the Democrats are the real racists.
00:06:22.600 Yeah, that's right.
00:06:23.840 That'll show you Democrats.
00:06:25.860 I'm going to give in to that policy that you guys are pushing.
00:06:29.580 I'm going to give in to that policy that you are making a big national political issue.
00:06:33.720 And you don't even realize how owned you just got.
00:06:37.300 No, I don't think they got owned.
00:06:38.720 I don't think they care.
00:06:39.740 I don't think the Democrats today feel any care about the fact that Andrew Jackson or any of the Confederates or any of the bad people in history were Democrats.
00:06:52.780 Okay, I don't.
00:06:53.960 I think they just want to tear down our nation's history.
00:06:56.140 And I think it's so, so short-sighted to say, well, yeah, Robert E. Lee, he was a terrible, rotten traitor.
00:07:03.360 We should tear down anything that in any way represents the South.
00:07:07.060 The whole point of putting up the statues in the first place was that we need to bring our country together with malice toward none and charity for all.
00:07:13.840 So much, well, you know, we're not going to hear that line from Abraham Lincoln much longer because we're going to tear down his statues too.
00:07:18.440 It's just so, it is just such weak sauce.
00:07:23.040 The Democrats are the real racists.
00:07:24.680 The left takes this way too far and they say the parties switched, which just didn't happen.
00:07:29.700 It's not as though one day all the Republicans and Democrats sat down together and said, okay, the year is 1964.
00:07:35.540 From now on, you guys are going to be the Democrats and we're going to be.
00:07:38.620 That's not what happened.
00:07:39.540 That's preposterous.
00:07:40.660 But parties do shift over time and parties change.
00:07:43.920 And not even that they come to resemble one another, but they just change in and of themselves.
00:07:48.060 Tearing down our history, especially history that was put up to reconcile the country, is just a bad idea.
00:07:55.480 And it's part of the broader, ruthless, withering criticism of the country.
00:07:58.920 And it's part of the attempt to reframe our history and make America look like the bad guys, which is the entire point of the 1619 Project. 0.87
00:08:07.320 Now, I don't want to be too hard on Kevin McCarthy.
00:08:11.580 I think a lot of boomer Republicans are pulling these same lines.
00:08:15.500 I think it's just ridiculous.
00:08:16.500 I don't think they should do it.
00:08:17.440 I think they need to realize that these little cheap rhetorical flourishes are not going to work very well.
00:08:23.260 But McCarthy's doing some other good stuff too.
00:08:26.120 McCarthy demanded yesterday that an investigation be launched into explosive allegations that Joe Biden's administration spied on Tucker.
00:08:35.380 So Tucker goes out, makes this claim, says, the NSA is spying on me.
00:08:40.780 I got the receipts.
00:08:42.280 The NSA fake denies it.
00:08:44.380 They non-deny deny it.
00:08:46.500 And we're going to leave it at that, right?
00:08:48.340 But no, at least Kevin McCarthy is looking into that.
00:08:51.200 This is a much more important issue than whatever the next tax cut is.
00:08:55.800 I love tax cuts as much as the next guy.
00:08:57.720 But this is a much, much more important issue than whatever the usual Republican fare is.
00:09:04.280 I just wish that Republican leaders would recognize that these cultural issues are, it's, they're all kind of connected, right?
00:09:13.880 The idea that the blob is going to spy on Americans and eat away at our political tradition.
00:09:18.880 The idea that we're going to tear down statues, by the way, not just of Confederates, but of all of our other forebears as well.
00:09:27.140 The idea that we're going to reframe American history.
00:09:28.900 It's all part of the same revolutionary project, okay?
00:09:34.920 The establishment, by which I mean, I mean the blob.
00:09:38.460 I mean the administrative state and big tech and the media.
00:09:42.420 They're all kind of, and the universities and the schools, they're all working in concert.
00:09:46.040 They are not going to give up power.
00:09:48.100 They're taking power from the American people, from the constitutional system, and they are changing it. 0.61
00:09:52.680 And this has been a process that's gone on for a hundred years.
00:09:55.260 It's gone on since at least Woodrow Wilson, they are not giving up power.
00:09:59.680 L.A. County right now, L.A. County officials are calling to lock down again.
00:10:05.420 They're calling for the masks again because of the Indian variant, which we're not even allowed to call it the Indian variant, by the way.
00:10:13.600 The WHO told us we have to, we have to use the Greek alphabet now.
00:10:16.860 So it's not the Indian variant, it's the Delta variant.
00:10:19.000 It was fine when it was the U.K. variant because white guys are terrible. 1.00
00:10:23.520 So you get, forget about, you know, they're awful people.
00:10:26.120 Spanish flu, they're fine by me too.
00:10:27.820 But the minute that you're talking about a non-Western country, you're talking about India or something, that's very racist.
00:10:34.440 You're talking about the China virus where they actually invented the virus. 0.89
00:10:37.940 Know that you can't say it's COVID-19, it's SARS-CoV-2, it's the Delta variant.
00:10:44.000 And because there is this new variant, we've all got to lock down again.
00:10:48.860 Do you, do you see where this ends?
00:10:52.800 It doesn't.
00:10:54.020 That's where it ends.
00:10:55.220 From the very beginning of this epidemic, I have basically been licking doorknobs, okay?
00:11:00.400 I've been greeting people on the street with a French kiss almost, okay?
00:11:04.020 Don't, I'm joking, by the way, we're going to get to Bill Cosby later.
00:11:07.020 I don't want anybody to accuse me of anything.
00:11:08.460 But I have been very inclined to ignore all of the advice from the Dr. Fauci's of the world because those people are liars and they've squandered all their credibility.
00:11:18.760 And now they're just doing it again.
00:11:20.560 It's 18 months.
00:11:21.880 We're 18 months into this thing.
00:11:23.540 We were supposed to be 15 days.
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00:12:42.940 A very legendary politician has just died.
00:12:46.980 That man would be Donald Rumsfeld.
00:12:50.320 Don Rumsfeld, twice defense secretary.
00:12:53.260 Defense secretary for Bush, one, I think he was the youngest secretary ever at that point.
00:12:57.380 Then defense secretary for Bush, two, I think he was the second oldest secretary at that point.
00:13:01.800 He was a congressman.
00:13:04.280 He was chief staff to Jerry Ford.
00:13:07.940 He had a pretty legendary career.
00:13:11.600 So all over the place.
00:13:13.280 And he had these kind of pithy lines.
00:13:15.960 He had Rumsfeld's rules that would circulate around Washington.
00:13:18.880 He went out on a sour note because he was presiding over the Iraq war,
00:13:23.380 and everyone just blamed him for why the Iraq war didn't go very well.
00:13:26.220 And he bears some blame, but he really doesn't bear all the blame that people heaped on him.
00:13:31.240 Don Rumsfeld had one of the most famous lines in politics over the past 20, 30 years.
00:13:38.820 And people made fun of him for this line, but I think we need to learn.
00:13:42.040 I think it actually contains a lot of wisdom.
00:13:44.180 I will let him put it in his own words.
00:13:45.940 Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me
00:13:53.500 because, as we know, there are known knowns.
00:13:57.600 There are things we know we know.
00:13:59.780 We also know there are known unknowns.
00:14:01.940 That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know.
00:14:05.580 But there are also unknown unknowns.
00:14:08.120 The ones we don't know we don't know.
00:14:10.020 People made fun of him for this for weeks and weeks.
00:14:14.940 No knowns, no knowns.
00:14:16.280 What are you talking about, Don Rumsfeld?
00:14:18.440 This is one of the most sophisticated observations that has come out of our political system in a very long time.
00:14:26.200 Saying there are some things that we know that we know.
00:14:28.740 There are other things that we know that we don't know.
00:14:31.240 It's a gap in our knowledge, but we're at least aware of the gap.
00:14:33.940 And then there are other things that we don't know that we don't know.
00:14:36.520 And those are very, very dangerous.
00:14:38.980 Now, the philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, actually took this a step further.
00:14:44.400 And he said, known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns.
00:14:48.680 And then there's a fourth category.
00:14:50.940 The unknown knowns.
00:14:54.060 Stick with me here.
00:14:55.280 I know it's a little confusing.
00:14:57.280 The unknown knowns are the ones that I think we've really got to focus on today.
00:15:02.160 Because that is what has subtly changed our entire culture.
00:15:07.200 Slavoj Žižek says there are some things that we don't know that we know.
00:15:13.060 We know things, but we're not aware that we know them.
00:15:16.980 That is ideology.
00:15:19.600 Ideology is very often the thing that we just don't even know it.
00:15:25.200 We're just, it's like fish swimming in water.
00:15:27.220 It's the air that we breathe.
00:15:29.260 And so we're just not aware of it, but it shapes so much of what we do.
00:15:33.180 This is the topic of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is
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00:15:47.640 The way that the left twists language in particular, but institutions as well, is so subtle that
00:15:55.920 it just smuggles in premises.
00:15:57.600 It smuggles in whole views of the world.
00:15:59.520 And we are not even aware that that has taken place.
00:16:03.060 But we just use these kinds of lines.
00:16:06.180 Okay, they're doing it right now in a very clumsy way with the pronouns.
00:16:09.900 That's why there's a fight.
00:16:11.100 Ordinarily, they just smuggle in this language and it's no big deal.
00:16:14.040 They did it with same-sex marriage very easily. 0.94
00:16:17.100 And subtly, they said, you know, marriage for all of human history had been about the
00:16:21.140 sexual difference.
00:16:22.360 At the most basic level, it involved sexual difference.
00:16:25.100 Then they just smuggled in this idea.
00:16:26.440 They said, you know, it's like a Jedi mind trick.
00:16:28.300 Marriage does not involve sexual difference.
00:16:30.420 There is same-sex marriage.
00:16:31.780 And then we just used that word and we said, oh, of course, yeah.
00:16:34.800 Marriage doesn't involve sexual difference.
00:16:36.320 These are not the droids I'm looking for.
00:16:37.920 Sure.
00:16:39.040 So yeah, so then the question is, who deserves the right to get married? 1.00
00:16:41.980 Well, everybody deserves the right to get married. 1.00
00:16:43.320 Okay, that's it.
00:16:44.040 Beep, boop, beep, beep, boop, right?
00:16:45.040 And it just subtly does that.
00:16:49.660 The way that we went from a bum to a tramp, to a homeless person, to now an unhoused person,
00:16:58.680 to the housing insecure people.
00:17:01.260 And so you're just subtly shifting blame away.
00:17:04.540 The bum is responsible for his condition. 0.99
00:17:06.880 The unhoused person, why he's just a victim of circumstance. 0.67
00:17:10.060 Ideology defines which one those are going to be.
00:17:14.960 Do we have an ideology of personal responsibility?
00:17:18.920 Do we have an ideology of oppression at the hands of, in the case of our society,
00:17:23.640 the straight white men who know that they're men and the patriarchy and all of that?
00:17:26.620 We need to be very aware of that.
00:17:29.480 We're seeing this with this Olympic gal, you know, the Olympian who, she got third place
00:17:33.980 in the Olympic trials for throwing a hammer and then she used the opportunity to disrespect 1.00
00:17:38.040 the American flag and in so doing our entire country and all of her countrymen.
00:17:42.000 Remember that?
00:17:42.400 And then she wants to go represent the country at the Olympics.
00:17:44.140 So this lady, I'm not even going to say her name. 1.00
00:17:47.180 I don't think we need to reward this individual's temper tantrum and anti-American activism by
00:17:56.220 saying her name and giving her publicity, which is exactly what she wants.
00:17:59.320 But she went on some television show that I haven't heard of and she explained herself.
00:18:05.200 She said she wasn't, not disrespecting America, she just hates the Star Spangled Banner.
00:18:11.680 You know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem.
00:18:17.260 The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America, our blood being slain and piltered all over
00:18:24.200 the floor.
00:18:25.220 It's disrespectful and it does not speak for black Americans.
00:18:28.700 It's obvious.
00:18:29.980 There's no, there's no question.
00:18:32.220 The third stanza of the Star Spangled Banner does not refer to slaves' blood being slain,
00:18:40.480 slang and piltered all over the ground because those aren't words.
00:18:45.080 I mean, I suppose they're, slang is a word, but it doesn't mean what she thinks it means
00:18:49.420 and I've never heard of piltered.
00:18:51.340 I don't, so it's not English.
00:18:52.440 That's why that's not, that's why that's not what's happening in the third stanza.
00:18:56.120 Second of all, the meaning of that verse, which is, refers to the hireling and slave and
00:19:05.440 about how, how no refuge will save the hireling and slave, the meaning of that verse is really
00:19:10.220 not clear in, in some place.
00:19:12.860 It may refer to American slaves, but it also very likely refers to the German troops, for
00:19:19.340 instance, that the British were hiring and who, who were purchased from German princes.
00:19:23.560 It may refer to the British process of impressment.
00:19:27.100 The author of the Star Spangled Banner never made clear what he meant by that expression.
00:19:32.220 Regardless though, let's just say it's even right.
00:19:34.120 Let's say it's referring to slaves who went and fought for the British and, and the Star
00:19:37.440 Spangled Banner talks about how terrible they are.
00:19:39.700 Nobody sings the third verse.
00:19:41.420 Who's, whoever sings the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner?
00:19:44.460 Nobody.
00:19:45.140 It's a completely contrived problem because you're using the excuse of a line about a slave that
00:19:51.940 may or may not refer to American slaves as a justification for getting rid of the whole
00:19:57.400 Star Spangled Banner as part of the project of reframing American history.
00:20:01.340 There is, there is a national anthem.
00:20:03.420 Well, now there's a black national anthem, which is sometimes played at public events.
00:20:06.620 There's an independence day.
00:20:07.720 Well, now there's the Juneteenth national independence day, the new national independence
00:20:11.980 day.
00:20:12.580 There is the traditional understanding of America centered around the goodness of the
00:20:15.920 country and the founding fathers.
00:20:17.400 Now there's the new reframing of America put forward by the 1619 project. 0.73
00:20:21.500 It's just a new shift.
00:20:23.580 This woman says, if you know your history, you know this.
00:20:26.320 She doesn't know her history.
00:20:27.240 She doesn't, barely knows the English language, but what she does know is ideology and she
00:20:31.680 doesn't even know that she knows it.
00:20:33.300 This is the unknown known.
00:20:37.320 This sick ideology that is totally contrary to our country and contrary to her flourishing
00:20:44.260 and the flourishing of all of our countrymen has just seeped in and she's not, she's just
00:20:48.580 swimming in it.
00:20:49.360 She's not, not even aware of it.
00:20:51.000 She goes on though.
00:20:51.680 She says, yeah, I hate the national anthem.
00:20:53.640 I totally disrespected it, but I still want to play in the Olympics.
00:20:57.980 I never said that I didn't want to go to the Olympic games.
00:21:03.240 That's why I competed and got third and made the team.
00:21:05.680 I never said that I hated the country.
00:21:08.940 Never said that.
00:21:09.900 All I said was I respect my people enough to not stand or acknowledge something that
00:21:15.520 disrespects them.
00:21:16.720 I love my people point blank period.
00:21:19.060 I mean, I learned that family matters, um, despite the economic oppression that we faced
00:21:23.920 growing up, you know, I still have my family and my grandmother.
00:21:27.380 She did everything she could to make sure that we survived and had a roof over our head.
00:21:31.960 And that's special.
00:21:33.980 Very interesting language she's using here.
00:21:37.420 So first it's so silly.
00:21:38.600 She goes, I'm not disrespecting the country.
00:21:40.420 Uh, well, if you disrespect the star spangled banner, which is the symbol of the country,
00:21:45.620 you are disrespecting the country.
00:21:47.420 If you disrespect the symbol, you're disrespecting the symbolized.
00:21:49.980 That's why symbols symbolize things.
00:21:52.320 Well, I still want to play in the Olympics.
00:21:53.560 Yeah, I know you do, but it's not about you, lady.
00:21:56.140 It's about the team which represents the country.
00:21:59.100 Then she uses this subtle line.
00:22:00.620 She says, yeah, we faced economic oppression growing up.
00:22:03.960 Oppression.
00:22:04.280 Oppression, not we had economic troubles, not we had economic suffering, which a lot of us
00:22:11.500 have, probably all of us have at some point in our lives, or the vast majority of us do.
00:22:16.120 Oppression.
00:22:16.740 It was somebody else's fault.
00:22:18.680 It wasn't because a family member ran away.
00:22:20.860 It wasn't because a family member didn't, didn't go work hard.
00:22:24.540 It wasn't because someone made bad choices.
00:22:26.240 It wasn't because someone wasn't able to overcome.
00:22:28.440 It wasn't, it was oppression.
00:22:30.700 Somebody did this to us through no fault of our own.
00:22:35.160 Is that really how life works?
00:22:36.340 Is life really that simple?
00:22:37.360 I don't think so.
00:22:38.920 Then she says, I'm not saying I hate the country.
00:22:41.640 I just love my people.
00:22:44.040 What do you mean your people?
00:22:45.740 To use a popular rejoinder.
00:22:47.880 What do you mean your people?
00:22:49.680 Who are your people?
00:22:51.800 Here, she's obviously implying black people.
00:22:54.600 And she's saying that the national anthem is against black people.
00:22:58.860 The star-spangled banner, a symbol of the whole country, is opposed to black people. 1.00
00:23:03.160 And so when push comes to shove, she's going to side with the black people over America 0.98
00:23:05.960 because she sees them as being at odds.
00:23:09.180 I don't see them as being at odds.
00:23:11.460 Actually, the only way we can have a country is if we believe that our people are the American people.
00:23:16.100 There are gradations of identity.
00:23:18.480 There's a national identity, state identity, local identity, religious identity,
00:23:23.820 racial identity, family identity, the basic political union.
00:23:27.840 She says, I love my family.
00:23:29.660 Right.
00:23:30.400 In order to have a flourishing society, all of those things need to be in order, of accord,
00:23:37.820 in subsidiarity, to use a technical term, okay?
00:23:42.100 They can't be opposed to one another.
00:23:43.960 But increasingly, what we're seeing is division between, well, actually, even within the family,
00:23:49.120 especially the left is trying to sow that,
00:23:50.600 and then between the family and the state and the state and the country and the races.
00:23:58.620 Obviously, they're trying to gin up racial division and sexual division. 1.00
00:24:01.900 They're trying to put that all against one another.
00:24:03.660 In order for the country to flourish, your people has to include all of those things.
00:24:07.940 Down the family, up to the race and the community and everything, all the way up to the nation.
00:24:14.180 Ideology has warped that.
00:24:16.040 It's taught her a lot of things she knows that she doesn't even know that she knows.
00:24:18.580 Ben today is going to be talking about some of the sexual perversion going on,
00:24:23.400 including kink for the kitties.
00:24:25.380 We'll get into that a little bit, too.
00:24:26.340 We'll be talking about Bill Cosby.
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00:25:31.260 We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:25:32.220 Racial grievance is probably the most significant form of currency today.
00:25:52.560 It can get you out of anything.
00:25:55.380 That lady at the Olympics who disrespected the American flag and the whole country at the Olympic trials, 1.00
00:26:00.140 she says, well, you know, but it's my people and the oppression and the grievance.
00:26:03.600 And okay, she's probably going to get off the hook.
00:26:06.400 This is true even at fairly high levels of politics.
00:26:10.140 Lori Lightfoot, mayor of Chicago.
00:26:13.380 The one thing I kind of respect about Lori Lightfoot is her just absolute brazen cynicism. 1.00
00:26:20.160 She doesn't try.
00:26:21.700 She doesn't really try to glad hand.
00:26:23.420 She just, she's just a pure power, corrupt machine politician. 1.00
00:26:29.240 And there's something, you've got to give a grudging respect to that.
00:26:32.460 So Lori Lightfoot is in big trouble because crime is spiking throughout Chicago. 1.00
00:26:37.400 That place is like Fallujah right now.
00:26:39.440 Crime is way, way up.
00:26:40.720 She's, she's lying and pretending that it's down year over year.
00:26:43.260 But you've seen huge spikes, you know, up, up in crime, in shootings and in murders.
00:26:48.700 And Lori Lightfoot says the only reason people are complaining about this is because she's a black woman. 1.00
00:26:54.720 There have been questions raised about your, your temperament and your reaction to criticism.
00:27:01.240 Tribune editorial used the term irascible.
00:27:04.700 How much of this do you think might have to do with the fact that you're a woman and particularly, specifically, a black woman?
00:27:10.380 About 99% of it.
00:27:13.280 Look at my predecessors.
00:27:15.260 Did, did people say that Rich Daly held, you know, tea sessions with people that he didn't disagree on?
00:27:24.400 Rahm Emanuel was a polite guy who was a uniter?
00:27:29.720 No.
00:27:30.720 Women and people of color are always held to a different standard. 0.71
00:27:34.260 I understand that.
00:27:35.420 I've known that my whole life.
00:27:36.920 That's it.
00:27:37.920 She's such a victim, the mayor of Chicago. 1.00
00:27:40.320 She's such a victim, you know?
00:27:42.580 So, she can't succeed.
00:27:44.800 She can't become the mayor of a major American city. 0.83
00:27:47.980 No, because of the racism.
00:27:50.960 Amazing.
00:27:51.600 Amazing how that, the racism didn't prevent her from rising to a very high political position. 0.99
00:27:58.180 But it is causing her to be criticized.
00:28:00.060 Has nothing to do with the bullets and the deaths and the, the riots that took place and the looting and the arson and the murders.
00:28:10.520 And no, no, it's just because she's a black woman, right? 0.90
00:28:14.580 By the way, if you dare, if you dare criticize that kind of line of argument, oh man, the establishment is going to come after you.
00:28:22.860 Especially if you are a white person, especially if you're a white dude.
00:28:28.260 Oh, that's really bad.
00:28:29.420 There was a host on MSNBC, Tiffany Cross, who just recently attacked Bill Maher. 1.00
00:28:35.760 Bill Maher is a liberal, but he's a white guy.
00:28:39.320 And he's a liberal who is not totally politically correct.
00:28:44.080 And so, he sometimes goes after the excesses of the woke people.
00:28:47.540 And, you know, he reserves most of his criticism for the right, but a little bit for the left.
00:28:51.280 That was too much for MSNBC.
00:28:54.860 Delves right into the identity politics of identity politics.
00:29:00.200 This is a black woman saying that that white man needs to shut his mouth. 0.99
00:29:06.240 Okay, Bill Maher has been whack for a long time.
00:29:09.660 From his make-out session with the blackface expert, Megyn Kelly, 0.58
00:29:13.620 to his infamous use of the N-word on his show, for which he later apologized,
00:29:17.820 and his continual mostly white weekly panels where he sings sob songs to them
00:29:23.420 about the perils of the shrinking demographic
00:29:25.920 and chides anyone who falls even slightly outside of his myopic, privileged view.
00:29:31.560 Anybody find it interesting that this quote-unquote liberal ally
00:29:35.020 is sounding a lot like a moderate Fox News contributor?
00:29:38.560 Bill Maher, you do not get to tell people of color 1.00
00:29:41.680 what they should or should not be offended by.
00:29:44.580 Stay in your lane, Slim.
00:29:46.760 Try that instead of standing on your alabaster perch every week
00:29:50.160 to crap on other people's lived experience
00:29:52.420 while providing a safe haven for well-established white supremacists.
00:29:56.720 Because I gotta tell you, this old angry white man act is so played.
00:30:00.860 The truth is, what's happening now is an evolution.
00:30:04.360 And you are fighting for your power and privilege to not become fossilized
00:30:08.380 while basking in the rays of your own non-existent cleverness
00:30:11.960 and comedy bits circa three decades ago.
00:30:14.140 And quite frankly, it's just offensive at this point.
00:30:17.380 The country, like it or not, is changing in real time.
00:30:21.440 And sadly, fake time with Bill Maher is not.
00:30:25.160 Whoa, man, this woman is a vile, vile racist, right? 1.00
00:30:30.520 Do you, I mean, I know the word racist doesn't mean anything anymore
00:30:33.480 because the left has watered it down to mean nothing.
00:30:36.240 But if racist means anything, it means that woman, right?
00:30:40.220 This entire attack is on Bill Maher because he's white.
00:30:43.360 His alabaster perch, stay in your lane, white man. 0.97
00:30:47.480 How dare you question the lived experiences of black people?
00:30:50.760 How dare you question the lived experience of that white guy named Bill Maher?
00:30:53.420 By your own logic, you're saying one cannot ever criticize the opinions and actions of someone of another race, right? 0.90
00:31:01.880 That's exactly what you're doing.
00:31:03.220 You're doing it on the basis of race.
00:31:05.020 Even crazier, you'll very often hear the left say that there is this crazy conspiracy theory
00:31:13.680 that the left wants to replace white people as a demographic in the United States
00:31:20.420 and that they're cheering it on as the process of immigration and things like that lead to a declining demographic.
00:31:26.000 And that's a sick white supremacist conspiracy theory.
00:31:29.680 She's the one articulating it.
00:31:31.920 She's the one saying the demographics are changing.
00:31:34.340 It's inevitable.
00:31:35.120 You're losing your power and that's good.
00:31:36.940 This is evolution.
00:31:38.240 You're, you're ossifying, you're turning into a fossil on the basis of your race 0.99
00:31:42.660 and other races are gaining in power and we're going to have a racial politics
00:31:46.320 and you just need to shut up and take it. 0.88
00:31:49.740 That is, I don't know of any, well, first of all, how many white supremacists are there in America?
00:31:54.240 I don't know, like three and they all work for the FBI, but, but I've never heard of,
00:31:58.340 of a white supremacist articulating that alleged conspiracy theory
00:32:02.560 nearly as clearly as that woman on MSNBC.
00:32:06.480 Vile, vile politics.
00:32:09.340 That's what she's saying to him.
00:32:11.060 This is it.
00:32:12.460 I, I don't think that she knows what she's saying.
00:32:16.220 I don't, I think she, much like the, the broad, the, the left broadly,
00:32:22.500 and this leftist broad, by the way, I, I think that she is living in the unknown known,
00:32:30.100 that there's just this ideology is blinding her to the, the glaring contradictions in what
00:32:35.420 she's saying.
00:32:35.860 Or if it's not a contradiction or if it's not hypocrisy, then it's just this double standard.
00:32:40.540 And it's double standard along the lines of race and to a lesser degree sex in this case.
00:32:47.140 Because Bill Maher's big transgression is not just that he's white, but he's, he's a white man.
00:32:51.520 And that's very terrible.
00:32:52.540 And you're not, not allowed to criticize anybody.
00:32:56.180 That is ideology.
00:32:58.120 The ideology is not just in the racial realm.
00:33:00.420 And by the way, this, this woman's vile racist attack, not, not even the creepiest, craziest, 0.87
00:33:07.680 most radical thing we've seen in the past few days.
00:33:10.500 Washington Post, piece by Lauren Roello.
00:33:15.920 Yes, kink belongs at pride and I want my kids to see it. 0.62
00:33:22.280 Kink. 0.81
00:33:22.860 What is kink?
00:33:24.920 You know, there is sexual orientation.
00:33:27.140 There was the homosexual rights movement, men who were attracted to men.
00:33:30.420 Then some women who were attracted to women. 1.00
00:33:33.040 Then there was the transgender rights movement.
00:33:36.980 Men who think that they're women, women who think that they're men.
00:33:39.900 And then there's this idea of kink, which is what Drew, Drew will sometimes use the,
00:33:44.720 the British expression, the old slap and tickle.
00:33:48.700 That's, you know, that's kink is just when you have some kind of unusual sexual fetish or sexual fantasy. 0.99
00:33:54.840 And that is now considered not just some kind of quirk because mankind has fallen
00:33:58.820 and we've all got kind of weird things going on in our head.
00:34:01.580 That is now considered a full-on sexual identity.
00:34:05.300 And not just a sexual identity, but because sex is now so central,
00:34:08.980 sexual desire is so central to everyone's sense of self,
00:34:12.020 that is a very basic identity.
00:34:14.820 So this woman, I won't go through this entire disgusting, disgusting article, 1.00
00:34:20.180 but she's talking about, she takes her little kids to go see this pride march.
00:34:29.080 And she says that her wife is trans, but wasn't out at the time.
00:34:34.400 So I guess that means her wife is, does that mean her, I don't know what that means.
00:34:39.960 I don't know.
00:34:40.580 It's hard.
00:34:41.120 Is it a man to a woman or a woman to a man? 0.92
00:34:42.480 Whatever.
00:34:44.520 So she typically only expressed her authenticity and the privacy of our home,
00:34:48.900 but she wore a green skirt and light makeup, brushing her hair to one side.
00:34:54.000 That was her.
00:34:54.620 Okay.
00:34:54.820 So I guess it's a man who thinks he's a woman or something.
00:34:57.320 Anyway, they bring the kids to this pride parade.
00:35:01.220 And then as we got settled, our elementary schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats,
00:35:06.980 raising an eyebrow at a bare chested man in dark sunglasses,
00:35:09.920 whose black suspenders clipped into a leather thong.
00:35:13.460 The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog. 0.97
00:35:17.360 What are they doing?
00:35:18.140 My curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on.
00:35:21.180 The pair was the first of a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, 1.00
00:35:25.480 laughing together as they twirled their whips and batons,
00:35:28.560 some leading companions by leashes.
00:35:30.960 At the time, my children were too young to understand the nuance of the situation,
00:35:34.720 but I told them the truth.
00:35:36.200 These folks were members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do.
00:35:41.740 And then she goes on to explain how happy she is that her kids are watching perverts spank one another 0.87
00:35:48.700 in thongs and leather suspenders.
00:35:50.980 Obviously, these children should be taken away from this mother. 1.00
00:35:58.320 This mother is sexually abusing her children. 1.00
00:36:02.340 We told you this would happen.
00:36:04.720 In this case, I genuinely do hate to say I told you so.
00:36:07.600 Often I jokingly say I hate to say I told you so.
00:36:09.660 In this case, I actually am sorry to say that I told you so.
00:36:12.780 Whenever the sexual revolution has progressed from the 1960s to the present,
00:36:19.200 conservatives have always said,
00:36:20.500 this is going to lead to this, and this is going to lead to this,
00:36:23.420 and this is going to lead to this, and this is going to lead to the sexually abusive children.
00:36:26.360 And every step of the way, the left and the sexual revolutionaries have said, 0.59
00:36:31.020 oh, give me a break. 0.60
00:36:32.400 That's just the slippery slope argument.
00:36:34.740 Oh, come on, give me a break. 1.00
00:36:36.160 In every single instance, the slippery slope has been corrected.
00:36:43.640 And now I think we're basically down at the bottom of the slippery slope.
00:36:46.500 I do actually explain in my book, Speechless, available now to order,
00:36:50.780 how it was kind of always baked in.
00:36:52.980 If second wave feminism is true, and men and women are basically the same,
00:36:58.140 they're interchangeable, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. 0.95
00:37:01.000 If that is true, the only differences between men and women are superficial,
00:37:04.460 then obviously you've got to redefine marriage because men and women are the same.
00:37:10.280 So if marriage is the union of one man and one woman, but men and women are the same,
00:37:13.940 then obviously marriage must include the union of two men and two women.
00:37:17.040 But if that's true, then obviously you have to have transgenderism 1.00
00:37:21.660 because if men and women are exactly the same and the only differences are superficial,
00:37:25.660 why then men can be women and women can be men? 1.00
00:37:27.780 Maybe they have to get a little cosmetic surgery, but that's it.
00:37:30.700 Then it's all the same.
00:37:32.760 And by the way, if this is true, if that's a fact of human nature,
00:37:36.980 that men can be women and women can be men and there's really no difference,
00:37:40.620 why then?
00:37:41.260 Of course you've got to do it to children.
00:37:43.020 You've got to permit children to transition.
00:37:46.340 That's not even a question of consent.
00:37:49.080 That's just a fact of nature, right?
00:37:53.360 There are plenty of things children don't consent to because children can't consent to anything
00:37:57.020 because they haven't reached the age of reason or the age of maturity.
00:38:02.200 So, you know, parents decide what their children are going to eat.
00:38:06.240 Parents decide where their children are going to go to school.
00:38:07.980 And parents now will decide whether their children will express themselves as a boy or a girl
00:38:12.260 because that's just a fact of nature.
00:38:13.440 That was always going to happen.
00:38:14.920 The problem is it's just wrong.
00:38:16.700 And the right-wing arguments from consent or free choice or individual liberty
00:38:22.400 and total misunderstanding of liberty or individual autonomy or whatever,
00:38:26.320 they ain't going to cut it.
00:38:27.220 You've actually got to be able to draw a line and say,
00:38:29.700 exposing children to perverts spanking one another in thongs is wrong. 0.97
00:38:34.660 It's abuse.
00:38:35.420 There needs to be a consequence.
00:38:36.600 We need to enforce a consequence.
00:38:38.340 We need laws against this.
00:38:39.340 And we need punishments for the people who transgress those laws.
00:38:44.500 Speaking of sexual perverts,
00:38:47.760 they are not just taking place at the kink section in the kiddie area of the pride parades.
00:38:53.380 They also exist in our jails.
00:38:56.560 And now some of them exist outside on the way out of our jails, namely Bill Cosby.
00:39:02.960 Bill Cosby.
00:39:04.040 Hey, hey, hey.
00:39:06.100 Getting off the hook.
00:39:06.840 Bill Cosby was exposed for lots and lots of creepy sexual acts over his career.
00:39:15.020 And the story was always a bit convoluted because these stories came out only decades and decades later.
00:39:23.760 Women at the time did not seem to think that they were exactly rape or maybe they were, 1.00
00:39:28.980 but they maintained relationships with Cosby for professional reasons or even personal reasons.
00:39:34.540 And then later on, they say, no, I really was abused.
00:39:36.940 And then, so finally, one of these cases that was not outside of the statute of limitations,
00:39:41.780 that finally got Cosby thrown in the clink.
00:39:44.080 Well, Cosby now is getting out on a bit of a technicality, but the technicality was this.
00:39:50.600 Cosby was brought to a civil trial.
00:39:52.520 So there's a difference, right?
00:39:53.240 Civil is money.
00:39:54.560 Criminal is jail time.
00:39:56.600 Cosby's brought up on these civil charges.
00:39:58.660 And the prosecutor says, if you admit to doing certain things, we will not prosecute you for them.
00:40:05.900 So for the purposes of the civil trial, just admit it, just say you'll do it,
00:40:09.120 and then we'll carry on with the civil issue and you'll get immunity on the criminal charges.
00:40:15.620 So he does that.
00:40:16.660 And then they basically pull the rug out from under him and say, actually, nope, sorry.
00:40:20.640 We're going to prosecute you.
00:40:21.620 So he goes to jail and now Cosby is getting out.
00:40:25.540 The issue with the Cosby story is everyone is really trying to oversimplify it.
00:40:31.420 So on the one hand, you've got the Me Too movement, which is saying this guy is just the worst rapist in the history of America.
00:40:38.480 And it's just clear cut and he's like a guy in an alleyway.
00:40:42.260 That's not quite true.
00:40:43.780 Bill Cosby was not a guy in a dark alleyway.
00:40:45.600 Bill Cosby was a very, very powerful guy in Hollywood who used young women for sex and some women used him for professional advantage.
00:40:55.820 And that doesn't excuse Bill Cosby's behavior in any way, but it complicates the story a little bit.
00:41:01.360 It's kind of like the Weinstein story.
00:41:02.980 The Weinstein story was complicated because many of his victims, many of the people who claimed that he raped them,
00:41:09.420 continued seeing him, continued a sexual relationship with him for a long time because he was one of the most powerful people in Hollywood.
00:41:18.060 And they felt either intimidated that they would be in danger if they spoke out or they felt that they would lose their career.
00:41:25.240 And many people did lose their careers when they did speak out against him, which furthered the issue.
00:41:28.960 It's a much more complicated sexual issue.
00:41:31.780 Now, some people have taken the complete opposite position.
00:41:33.920 They said, look, in a lot of, maybe not every case with Cosby and with Harvey Weinstein, in many cases, though, that,
00:41:41.700 and actually, I suppose Cosby, it's harder because he would actually drug these women.
00:41:45.000 But in some cases, the women took drugs voluntarily and repeated times. 0.61
00:41:49.500 But it's a little easier with Weinstein because Weinstein, it was so transactional so much of the time.
00:41:55.240 But they'll take the complete opposite.
00:41:57.160 They'll say, this isn't rape. 1.00
00:41:58.600 This isn't, it doesn't meet, in at least some of the cases, it doesn't meet the criminal definition of rape.
00:42:02.800 And so, these guys are off the hook.
00:42:04.620 There is a third option here, though.
00:42:06.900 The third option is standards.
00:42:10.060 The third option is, even if Cosby and Weinstein, in most of these cases, were not predators lurking in a dark alleyway late at night,
00:42:18.980 even if there was complexity and nuance, and even if there were relationships here, and even if the relationships went on afterward,
00:42:24.160 and even if the women at the time, in some cases, didn't think it was rape, but later did, 0.75
00:42:27.280 even then, what they did was intrinsically wrong.
00:42:33.020 It is intrinsically wrong to pressure women into effectively becoming prostitutes to advance in their career.
00:42:40.520 It is intrinsically wrong to indulge in what was obviously Bill Cosby's weird sexual fetish,
00:42:47.560 kink, I guess you'd call it, of sleeping with drugged up women. 1.00
00:42:51.680 That is in itself wrong, but we're not allowed to say that anymore.
00:42:56.680 The reason that no one, very few people, only even just a handful of conservatives,
00:43:01.460 not even a lot of conservatives go squish on this,
00:43:03.440 but the reason that it's so hard to take that position is because you have to say that there is a purpose for sex,
00:43:11.360 that sexual acts, that the rightness or wrongness of sexual acts does not merely rely on consent.
00:43:17.640 Consent is obviously an important factor, but it does not merely rely on it.
00:43:20.900 That some sexual acts, even if the parties are both willing participants, some of them are still wrong.
00:43:26.360 I'm reminded of the Marilyn Manson story.
00:43:28.180 Marilyn Manson, he's that very popular singer who is also probably the most famous Satanist in America.
00:43:35.540 Gosh, who would have imagined that the world's most famous Satanist is not necessarily the greatest guy in the world?
00:43:41.060 He had a long-term relationship with Evan Rachel Wood, and Evan Rachel Wood now comes out later and says,
00:43:49.800 he pressured me, he abused me, whatever.
00:43:52.020 Marilyn Manson says it was consensual.
00:43:53.820 They both might be right.
00:43:55.260 They both might be right, but the degrading sexual acts that they engaged in were intrinsically wrong.
00:43:59.700 It was wrong of the guy to do it.
00:44:00.780 Speaking of weird sex stuff, a biological male who identifies as female, Cataluna Enriquez, is now Miss Nevada USA.
00:44:10.020 It was crowned that way on Sunday, the first male contestant to become Miss Nevada.
00:44:15.740 Okay.
00:44:17.460 Nobody did this because this guy is the most beautiful of all the women, right?
00:44:22.420 And they all did it because of ideology.
00:44:24.020 I remember when I was at Yale, there was a, it was like a Mr. Yale competition.
00:44:27.700 And when I was there, they gave it to a woman and this was, this was a great win, right?
00:44:32.940 But no one did it because they really thought that the woman was the coolest guy on campus or whatever.
00:44:38.760 They did it because of ideology.
00:44:40.600 They did it to prove a point.
00:44:42.020 It was, it was just that thing that we're all kind of floating in.
00:44:45.100 Well, of course, why can't, why can't a man be Miss Nevada?
00:44:48.460 Because he's a man.
00:44:49.560 Well, but, but no, but it's just, it's all about just our free choice and our self-expression and our identity.
00:44:54.680 No, I don't think so.
00:44:55.620 Now, Tarantino made this point.
00:44:58.260 Quentin Tarantino, movie star, speaking of some weird sexual desires.
00:45:02.760 Tarantino was on Bill Maher's show of all things.
00:45:05.120 And he said that art has become so ideological now.
00:45:09.240 There has become a thing that's gone on.
00:45:12.080 It seems like in this, especially this last year where, um, uh, um, what's the word I'm looking at?
00:45:20.960 Uh, uh, ideology is more important than art.
00:45:24.600 Way more.
00:45:25.320 Certainly to the awards.
00:45:26.580 Yeah.
00:45:27.020 And it's just, you know, it's like, you know, ideology trumps art.
00:45:30.980 Ideology trumps individual effort.
00:45:33.180 Ideology trumps good.
00:45:35.320 Ideology trumps entertaining.
00:45:37.400 Right.
00:45:37.860 He's hitting on something.
00:45:38.900 We're all much more aware of this, but the reason we're more aware of that is because
00:45:42.020 the radicals have upended what was the general consensus.
00:45:45.480 There used to be a standards and a tradition in America that we all kind of agreed on and
00:45:49.640 we were not aware of it because, and it gave us the ability to have a broad private realm.
00:45:54.380 The personal was not so political because it was all just settled and we all agreed.
00:45:57.900 And then the radicals came in, upended all of that, unsettled all of that, and then everything
00:46:03.120 became up for ideological debate.
00:46:05.700 That is a process I talk about at length in Speechless, exactly how that happened.
00:46:09.980 Because of that, we must fight the political battle.
00:46:14.580 We can't, we will not be able to go back to depoliticized, de-ideologized art before we
00:46:19.620 win that political battle.
00:46:21.100 It was settled.
00:46:22.560 It's been upended and it's up for, for contest right now.
00:46:25.020 And we will either win or lose that before it settles down again.
00:46:29.460 And then it will float back into the background as it, as it unfortunately is beginning to do
00:46:32.900 on the left's terms.
00:46:34.540 And we will all just exist again in that, in that unknown known.
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