The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 808 - The Misinformers

00:00:00.000 The Biden White House is calling on big tech companies to censor conservatives for spreading

00:00:06.440 misinformation online, specifically when that information has to do with the Wu flu and its

00:00:13.360 attendant vaccines. Here is Jen Psaki explaining the policy. First, it shouldn't come as any 0.66

00:00:19.020 surprise that we're in regular touch with social media platforms, just like we're in regular touch

00:00:23.240 with all of you and your media outlets about areas where we have concern, information that

00:00:29.300 might be useful, information that may or may not be interesting to your viewers. You all make

00:00:33.240 decisions, just like the social media platforms make decisions, even though they're a private

00:00:37.500 sector company and different, but just as an example. So we are regularly making sure social

00:00:42.820 media platforms are aware of the latest narratives dangerous to public health that we and many other

00:00:48.620 Americans are seeing across all of social and traditional media. And we work to engage with them

00:00:54.500 to better understand the enforcement of social media platform policies. As you all know,

00:00:59.440 information travels quite quickly. If it's up there for days and days and days, when people

00:01:03.700 see it, you know, it's hard to put that back in a box.

00:01:07.820 Okay, it's hard to put it back in the box. That's why the big tech companies need to censor

00:01:11.920 these conservatives spreading the misinformation, except that new evidence surrounding the virus

00:01:17.780 and the vaccines show that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the rest of the liberal establishment

00:01:22.480 have been spreading far more misinformation than the right has whatsoever. So we will

00:01:27.940 inform you. We will give you the true information so long as the real misinformers don't stop us.

00:01:33.980 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:42.320 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday from Michael Larson, who says,

00:01:46.960 does anyone else see the irony behind the statement that Biden wants to slow the spread

00:01:52.740 of misinformation? How long will that take? 15 days? Well, if it takes 15 days, it'll probably

00:01:57.400 take 15 months or maybe even 15 years. A very good point. It's so exhausting those 15 days

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00:03:11.760 You will thank me later. I want to get to the misinformation that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

00:03:16.900 and the rest of them have been spreading for over a year now. But before we get into that, before we

00:03:21.680 get into Biden making the case that he himself should be censored on social media, I have to point

00:03:28.980 out that Biden is also making the case for President Trump's lawsuit against the big tech company. So we

00:03:35.440 covered this a few weeks ago. Donald Trump is suing big tech companies along with a few other social

00:03:40.820 media influencers, including my friend Fleckis from Fleckis Talks, who I saw last night actually here

00:03:46.620 in Tampa, Florida, a story we'll get to also in just a moment. But Trump, along with some social media

00:03:52.100 influencers, suing big tech for the violation of their First Amendment rights. And a lot of geniuses

00:03:58.480 have said that Trump's lawsuit has absolutely no merit because Facebook is a private business,

00:04:04.220 as Jen Psaki just tried to say. He said, look, Facebook is a private business, so Facebook can

00:04:09.760 do what it wants, but we are pressuring them to silence our political opponents. And this gets to

00:04:17.260 a legal framework under which Trump's lawsuit could be successful that coincidentally we laid out on

00:04:25.020 my podcast with Senator Cruz verdict some weeks ago. So Senator Cruz made this point. He's the legal

00:04:32.100 expert, not me. But we put it out there on verdict. And the point is this. Yes, a private business can

00:04:38.280 censor you, generally speaking, if it wants to. And that's not a First Amendment issue unless the

00:04:44.000 government is using that private business as a proxy to silence you. So if it is the case that the

00:04:52.860 liberal establishment, the Democratic Party, the government is using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,

00:04:58.180 Google as a proxy to silence their political opponents, then it actually is a First Amendment

00:05:03.340 issue. There are other problems, by the way, with private companies censoring you online that do not

00:05:08.860 have to do with the First Amendment. But that's the way that would work. And Trump decided to take the

00:05:12.060 First Amendment route. Well, Joe Biden and Jen Psaki are admitting that he's got a point because they

00:05:17.020 are now, I don't know what they're thinking, other than they're just letting it slip because it's

00:05:21.960 convenient to their other political narratives because it's assuaging a leftist base that wants

00:05:26.860 the government to pressure Facebook more to censor conservatives. But they are admitting that they

00:05:31.980 are using Facebook as a proxy here. So giving a lot of merit, I think, to Donald Trump's lawsuit

00:05:37.900 against big tech. Now, even more ironic, while they're complaining about misinformation online

00:05:45.280 about the virus and about the vaccine, they seem to forget that they themselves have been

00:05:51.940 spreading the anti-vaccine hysteria alarmism that they're accusing their opponents of pushing.

00:05:59.920 Please roll the tape.

00:06:02.340 Let's just say there's a vaccine that is approved and even distributed before the election.

00:06:07.500 Would you get it?

00:06:09.040 Well, I think that's going to be an issue for all of us.

00:06:12.380 If and when the vaccine comes, it's not likely to go through all the tests and trials that are

00:06:17.520 needed to be done. When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, who's going to take

00:06:22.440 the shot? Who's going to take the shot? You're going to be the first one to say, put me, sign

00:06:27.300 me up. They now say it's OK.

00:06:29.840 And the question of whether it's real when it's there, that requires enormous transparency.

00:06:35.020 You've got to make all of it available to other experts across the nation so they can look and

00:06:39.700 see. So there's consensus. This is a safe vaccine.

00:06:43.240 If the president announced tomorrow we have a vaccine, would you take it? Only if it was

00:06:47.780 completely transparent that other experts in the country could look at it. Only if we knew all of

00:06:54.260 what went into it. If Donald Trump can't give answers and the administration can't give answers

00:06:58.340 to these three questions, the American people should not have confidence.

00:07:02.100 But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it.

00:07:05.060 Wow. I had no idea that there was such broad agreement between me and Joe Biden and Kamala

00:07:12.720 Harris. Not on the Trump digs, but on the vaccine. Vaccine comes out tomorrow. Who's going to take

00:07:19.800 it? Are you going to take it? You're going to be the first one? No, probably I wouldn't want to be

00:07:23.200 the first one. I get why a lot of people don't want to take the vaccine, because it was rushed

00:07:28.800 through because it received an emergency use authorization, but it didn't go through the

00:07:33.600 normal channels to clear the vaccine. And because of many other factors, too, namely the prudential

00:07:39.800 judgment. Am I really at a huge risk from the coronavirus? If you're in certain demographics,

00:07:46.320 if you're a young person, if you're otherwise healthy, then you're not at very great risk.

00:07:50.140 So maybe you wouldn't want to take the experimental drug that both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden

00:07:54.740 pointed out, we have plenty of reason to think might not be safe. But they get to remain on social

00:08:03.260 media. And a lot of conservatives who raise questions about the vaccine do not. Because,

00:08:08.780 of course, it's not about the vaccine. It's not about the quality of the information. It is about

00:08:13.000 who's giving the information. It's about who's sending the message, like political correctness,

00:08:18.620 like so much of the left's control over speech. The issue is not the substance of the speech.

00:08:25.160 It's the imposition itself. Who gets to say it? By their, look, I don't, what Joe Biden and Kamala

00:08:34.080 Harris just said, I don't think that's misinformation. They're, they're just explaining

00:08:38.380 the natural plain fact that when an experimental drug comes out, a lot of people are going to be

00:08:42.460 reticent to take it, especially if the virus that it's supposed to stop is not all that great a

00:08:48.340 danger to them. So I don't think that's misinformation, but by their own standards,

00:08:53.140 that is misinformation and they should be kicked off the internet. And they won't

00:08:57.080 because this entire campaign for fact checking and the sense and the, and the content filters and

00:09:05.620 the, do you want to read this article before you tweet it? And the not even being able to privately

00:09:10.220 message certain articles critical of the liberal regime. That whole thing is just a political tool

00:09:16.660 for the suppression of their political opponents. Also, by the way, at this very moment right now,

00:09:25.400 we are being told by public health officials that the vaccine is basically useless. Now they're not

00:09:32.680 using those exact words, but when you look at my old, old state of California run by Mr. Mussolini,

00:09:40.400 if you look at my old city of Los Angeles, also known as Gomorrah by the sea, they are reinstituting

00:09:46.780 a mask mandate. Well, okay. I guess we've been hearing now from liberal scaremongers that we still

00:09:52.780 have a raging epidemic, especially among the unvaccinated. So, okay. I guess it makes sense that 1.00

00:09:57.160 the unvaccinated need to wear the masks even. Oh, wait a minute. No, everybody needs to wear the masks. 0.77

00:10:02.500 As of Saturday night, everybody in Los Angeles, including vaccinated people, needs to wear masks 0.72

00:10:10.660 indoors because I guess the vaccines aren't working. If the vaccines were working, vaccinated people 0.96

00:10:16.900 would not need to wear the masks. But I guess the vaccines are not working, but it's still very urgent

00:10:21.580 that you take the vaccine to fight against the virus, which is the worst epidemic that we've ever

00:10:27.480 faced. But it's not so terrible that you've got to shutter, I don't know, marijuana dispensaries.

00:10:33.160 It's not so terrible that you've got to shutter casinos. It's not so, but you do have to shutter

00:10:38.120 churches and you do have to shutter businesses. And the whole thing just seems a little bit like an

00:10:43.040 arbitrary use of power. Whole thing. It seems like a lot of misinformation going around here.

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00:11:18.180 is still in your name. You know, I'm very glad to be in Florida right now. I'm very glad

00:11:23.980 not to be in Los Angeles. I'm very glad not to be in California, these places that are really

00:11:31.320 locked down. I'm in Florida for TPUSA. I'm going to be giving a speech this afternoon, 4.20 or so

00:11:38.480 Eastern time. Very excited about it. There have been some real rock stars here. Rhonda Santa spoke

00:11:44.200 yesterday. Ted Cruz spoke yesterday. We've got a bunch of great people coming out today.

00:11:49.880 And of course, TPUSA was trending. It always is trending because the left finds something to make

00:11:55.660 a big deal about. And this time, the issue was, here's the headline. Let me tell you the headline.

00:12:01.960 Pornstar featured as VIP at TPUSA student conference. I saw that. That was the trend yesterday

00:12:09.360 on Twitter. I said, oh my gosh, they got a porn star speaking at TPUSA. So I looked. That was not 0.89

00:12:15.600 the case. As always, I don't believe the headline. Whenever you see the headline, Charlie Kirk is doing

00:12:21.700 this terrible thing. I said, no, I don't think that's true. So I looked. And what happened was

00:12:26.520 a porn star decided to attend the conference and she bought her own VIP ticket and she was just showing 0.74

00:12:33.900 up to listen to the speakers. And this created two reactions on the right, both of which I think were

00:12:42.240 wrong. So there was the very wrong reaction, which was, hey, porn is great. That's true freedom. We need

00:12:50.700 to be the cool party. We need to endorse porn and drugs and stuff. And that's awesome. And that's going 0.60

00:12:56.320 to be the party of the future. Yeah. And porn's nothing more American than apple pie. Okay. So that's

00:13:01.980 obviously a ridiculous libertine point of view. Then there was the more conservative point of view, 0.97

00:13:09.100 which is, this is, you know, terrible. This is awful. There was a lot of invective sent against

00:13:14.520 this porn lady, people calling her all sorts of terrible names and saying she needs to be shunned 1.00

00:13:19.100 from society and shouldn't show her face anywhere. And I think that reaction was a little, a little off 0.96

00:13:25.220 as well. I think there actually was a third way here that the conservatives should have pursued.

00:13:31.100 And it's this. Had this porn lady been a speaker, had this porn lady had a booth to do what? We don't 1.00

00:13:39.960 know at the conference. Had this porn lady been making a big nuisance of herself and making a big show 1.00

00:13:44.840 of herself and trying to become a leader or a speaker or a focus of a conservative summit, that would be a 0.96

00:13:51.620 very bad thing. And obviously she should have been kicked off of the premises. But as far as I can tell,

00:13:57.960 that's not what happened. As far as I can tell, this porn lady showed up. She was, she used her 1.00

00:14:03.540 Christian name. She didn't use her porn names and no one even who would have heard of her had, had

00:14:08.040 seen anything. And she was just kind of minding her own business and watching the conservative

00:14:12.000 speakers. Isn't that good? If she's, if she's just totally minding her own business, she's not trying 1.00

00:14:19.040 to recruit anybody for her pornography business. Isn't that good? Don't we want that to happen? I

00:14:25.980 just, I felt that the invective sent against this woman was really misplaced because I got to tell 0.98

00:14:32.040 you, something tells me that if you work in pornography, if you're a prostitute or a, or a porn 0.86

00:14:39.320 actress, you probably don't have the strongest sense of self-dignity. You probably don't have the 0.99

00:14:44.940 strongest feelings of self-worth and to be called all sorts of names and to be told that you're the

00:14:50.760 root of all evil in society. I don't think that's very nice. I don't think it's nice to speak in a

00:14:57.260 harsh, vulgar way to women ever, whether it's a prostitute or a princess. I don't think that's right. 0.63

00:15:02.720 And I also just think if this woman, she's still working in pornography, but she's clearly interested 1.00

00:15:10.760 by some conservative arguments. And maybe she's only right now gone through like the shallow

00:15:15.440 conservative arguments, but she's obviously interested. If I can get her into a room where

00:15:21.180 she hears conservative speakers, where she hears me give a speech about how porn is bad and you 0.92

00:15:25.460 shouldn't be in the industry. And if you're in it, you should get out. And if you're supporting it,

00:15:28.840 you should stop supporting it. And if you are a legislator, you should restrict it or even ban it

00:15:34.540 outright. If she can hear those arguments and maybe be persuaded, I think that would be a good

00:15:39.120 thing. I know that when conservatives call for a big tent party, 99 times out of 100, what that

00:15:46.700 means is they want to just get rid of all of our standards and they want to just become Democrats

00:15:52.040 light, if light, or just identical to the Democratic Party and not have any boundaries at all. I know

00:15:57.360 that's how that works a lot of the time. But the good version of a big tent party is we have these

00:16:04.420 standards. We hate porn, among other things. You can't do that. There's no spot for that in the

00:16:08.740 conservative movement. But there is a spot for you if you want to get out of it. This is, look,

00:16:14.940 obviously, I've been talking about speech lists for a very long time, which is available now for

00:16:19.880 order. I don't think there is anybody in the conservative movement who has been more vocal

00:16:24.320 about the need for standards, about the need to suppress vice, about the need to stop saying that

00:16:29.740 you can just say and do whatever you want all the time. Okay, we certainly need standards. But the

00:16:34.040 point of standards is not to kick everybody out. The point of standards is not to be insular and

00:16:39.120 small and exclusive or exclusionary. The point of standards is to bring as many people as possible

00:16:46.480 along to hold themselves to a higher standard of speech and conduct. And so I just, I'm obviously much

00:16:54.260 more sympathetic to the point of view that, you know, these porn stars need to be cast into outer

00:16:59.040 darkness where there's wailing and gnashing of teeth. But that actually isn't my view. My view

00:17:03.020 is that porn needs to be cast into the outer darkness. And the people who are caught up in

00:17:07.300 the industry, especially the women who generally don't come from great backgrounds and haven't had

00:17:11.040 a great life, they need to be welcomed in and they need to be given the arguments as to why this is

00:17:17.560 terrible. And they need, I think it would be good to elevate their political views. And so I just

00:17:23.560 think the invective, the meanness, we got to ditch that sort of thing and really use standards for

00:17:31.340 their true purpose, which is elevating individuals and elevating society. Speaking of bringing lots of

00:17:38.940 people in, you know, speaking of the big tent, the big tent of our country has really gone quite wrong.

00:17:45.560 I think that the way this applies at the national level has, speaks to the idea that there are no

00:17:51.640 boundaries and there are no borders. And there's really not even much of a country because we've

00:17:56.240 got lots and lots of people pouring into this country from other nations. And they have been

00:18:02.220 told by people at the highest levels of government that they can stay and it's no big deal and don't

00:18:07.360 worry about it. For instance, DACA, this was Barack Obama's, one of his signature achievements where he

00:18:14.900 just gave executive amnesty to lots and lots of what we were told were very young, illegal alien

00:18:21.160 children. Turns out they're like 40 years old. It's people who are in the middle age and younger 0.68

00:18:27.740 who came here when they were minors. They were given executive amnesty. Well, there's some good

00:18:32.720 news here, which is a judge has come in, a federal judge, Andrew S. Haynan of the U.S. District Court in

00:18:39.920 Houston, who is a George W. Bush appointee. He came in and said that the executive order for DACA

00:18:45.900 was unlawful, that Obama exceeded his authority when he issued it. He's saying that the executive

00:18:51.980 order violated the Administrative Procedure Act because it failed to allow public comment. So

00:18:56.340 great. Oh, this is good. I'm glad. DACA, it's illegal. Big victory for conservatives, right?

00:19:02.920 No, it's not. No, it's, I mean, I'm glad that the judge is admitting that it was wrong for Obama to

00:19:09.900 do what he did. But the simple fact is Obama succeeded at doing it. He gave the illegal aliens 0.99

00:19:16.720 the protection to stay here. And we can't just take that back because some judge ordered it. It just

00:19:22.200 won't happen. We already knew that DACA was illegal. Barack Obama already admitted that DACA was not just

00:19:28.700 illegal but unconstitutional. Obama said in October 2010, quote, I am not a king. I can't do these

00:19:36.620 things just by myself. In March of 2011, Barack Obama said that, quote, with respect to the notion

00:19:43.200 that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case. And

00:19:48.800 then in May of that year, he said that he couldn't, quote, just bypass Congress and change the immigration

00:19:54.820 law myself. That's not how a democracy works. And then what did Obama do?

00:19:58.700 He did that. He just did it. And we all rent our garments and gnashed our teeth. But he won.

00:20:05.080 He got it. No judge is going to undo that. And this is a problem with illegal immigration generally.

00:20:13.800 You're not going to get mass deportations. It's just not going to happen because it's politically

00:20:20.180 untenable. If anyone was going to do it, it was going to be Donald Trump. And he didn't.

00:20:24.500 He didn't do it. And now, you actually did see at the beginning of the Trump presidency,

00:20:30.220 you saw a big dip in illegal immigration when they thought that he could enforce the law and he wanted

00:20:34.200 to enforce the law. But he was stymied by the bureaucracy. And then illegal immigration jumped up

00:20:40.300 again. Now we have reached record, truly record levels of illegal immigration, much higher than

00:20:46.260 anybody seems to know about. And nothing's going to happen, which is why there's no substitute for

00:20:52.840 victory, folks. I think a lot of people believe, okay, we'll let the illegal aliens in now. Okay, 0.96

00:20:57.900 we'll deal with executive amnesty now and we'll fix it later. Some things really can't be fixed later

00:21:02.240 because you've already messed it up. Once an illegal alien comes into this country, it is virtually 1.00

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00:23:49.000 right back with a lot more. 188,000 illegal aliens entered our country in June last month. 188,000.

00:24:12.040 Not entered our country this year. I think a lot of people think the number would probably be,

00:24:17.160 you know, this year, six months in, maybe we've had 188,000. No, no, no. We have officially surpassed

00:24:24.180 1 million migrant encounters this year. We are on track for 2 million by the end of the year.

00:24:32.340 This is record-shattering numbers, way higher than anybody thinks. Poll after poll shows that the

00:24:37.420 American people want to drastically reduce not just illegal, but legal immigration. If we've got 0.99

00:24:41.620 2 million illegal aliens pouring into the country this year, we've got another 1 to 2 million legal

00:24:46.720 aliens. That is an untenable number, folks. Over the last 60 years, the migration into the United 1.00

00:24:53.720 States is the largest movement of human beings ever in recorded history. All while we are being told that

00:25:01.620 we cannot encourage assimilation, all while we are being told that our country is evil and terrible 0.94

00:25:05.780 and rotten. If it's so evil and terrible and rotten, why are 3 to 4 million people coming here

00:25:09.600 every year? That's, you can't, even under the best of circumstances, you can't assimilate that many

00:25:15.020 people. But certainly not under these circumstances. This is, this is what you might call a hostile

00:25:22.280 takeover. I'm not even saying by the illegal aliens themselves. I'm saying by the leftist radicals and

00:25:28.760 liberal elites who are using the immigration issue as a way to radically transform our country. And

00:25:35.620 make no mistake, that's what they're doing. They've given us a new American flag, no longer the stars

00:25:40.360 and stripes, it's the rainbow. Actually, it's the new one with the rainbow and the racial stuff in a 0.96

00:25:45.400 triangle. It's called the progress flag. It's very strange. We've got a new National Independence Day,

00:25:50.660 used to be the 4th of July. Now it's Juneteenth, the Juneteenth National Independence Day holiday.

00:25:54.800 We used to have the 1776 founding of our country. Now it's the 1619 founding. It's a new country that

00:26:02.760 they're trying to push on us. And some of the radical leaders are not really hiding it. The head of one

00:26:10.580 of the NAACP chapters was just caught on camera saying that if you are a parent who protests critical race

00:26:18.360 theory in the schools, who protests the sort of anti-American ideologies that are tearing down

00:26:24.440 our country. But you should just die. So let's meet and remain steadfast in speaking truth, 1.00

00:26:32.820 tearing down double standards, and refuting double talk. Let's not allow any double downing on lies.

00:26:39.860 Let's prepare our children for a world they deserve. Let's deny this off-key band of people that are

00:26:46.040 anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities,

00:26:53.560 anti-health people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social

00:26:59.600 justice, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-healthcare, anti-worker,

00:27:07.320 anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-inclusion, anti-live-and-let-live people. 1.00

00:27:13.480 Let them die. Don't let these uncomfortable people deter us from our whole march forward.

00:27:20.420 Let them die. So on the one hand, I think this is a threat because we have heard, especially from 0.97

00:27:29.340 BLM and Antifa, and we have seen, especially from BLM and Antifa and other leftist radical groups,

00:27:35.500 the use of political violence, the use of terrorism, the use of violence against civilians to achieve

00:27:40.040 a political end. We've seen that a lot over the past year. So I do think this is a threat.

00:27:44.420 But it's not just a threat. It's actually even more insidious than a threat. It is the explanation

00:27:51.660 of what the left means by progress. It is an avowal of belief in progress with a capital P.

00:27:58.160 What this woman is saying is, we radicals are going to win. We are going to transform this country.

00:28:06.180 We are going to fundamentally invert this country. And it's just going to happen. That's the arc of

00:28:12.100 the moral universe. It's long, but it bends toward justice. That's what progress is. And so,

00:28:17.900 if we just wait them out, they will die, and that'll be a good thing, and then we can move on.

00:28:24.960 Now, it's worth noting what she's saying here because sometimes you'll hear people on the right

00:28:30.140 talking about replacement migration or this idea that the traditional American demographic makeup

00:28:39.660 is going to be radically transformed, and this is part of a political agenda. And that belief is called

00:28:44.960 white supremacist and Nazi and fascist and, you know, all the things that they call every other thing

00:28:50.420 that anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton believes. But what this woman is saying is that, 0.95

00:28:55.860 right, she is giving credence to that theory. She's saying, yeah, let them die. Whether it's 1.00

00:29:01.680 the evil straight white men, whether it's the terrible conservatives more broadly, yeah, let 1.00

00:29:05.500 them die. They're going to die out, and they're going to be replaced by good radicals of this 1.00

00:29:10.080 wonderful new coalition that we're putting together. There have been other prominent leftists

00:29:15.800 who have said this. And then even in the Washington Post and in other major outlets of the legacy

00:29:21.440 media, you will see them come out very often and say, ha ha, this terrible straight white men are

00:29:26.340 about to be supplanted as a big portion of the population. So they give credence to this theory

00:29:31.120 too. And I don't think that they would refer to themselves as Nazis and white supremacists and

00:29:35.080 so forth. But they believe that that is part and parcel of progress. And they're obviously willing

00:29:42.460 to engage in acts of violence to do so. They not only say it in speeches like this, but they actually

00:29:47.960 have committed it during, for instance, the BLM riots. And speaking of acts of violence,

00:29:53.000 one thing the left has done very well is they've redefined perfectly innocuous speech acts as acts

00:29:58.820 of violence, and they've redefined violence as speech. And it's been largely successful. Well,

00:30:04.620 the American Booksellers Association has joined the bandwagon. The American Booksellers Association

00:30:09.800 is a 121-year-old trade organization for booksellers. They mentioned in one of their mailers a very

00:30:19.380 popular book by my friend Abigail Schreier, a book that I actually blurbed. It's called Irreversible

00:30:24.040 Damage. And it's about how young girls are being seduced into the transgender nonsense and are having 1.00

00:30:31.720 great regrets because of this and are mutilating their bodies for no reason. Very important book. 0.79

00:30:37.680 It was banned from Target, I think, and from some other bookstores, but it's still sold very,

00:30:42.560 very well. The ABA mentions this very popular book, and they've received huge backlash. So they

00:30:48.640 sent out a statement saying, quote, an anti-trans book was included in our July mailing to members.

00:30:55.380 This is a serious, violent incident that goes against ABA's ends, policies, values,

00:31:01.760 and everything we believe and support. It is inexcusable. Pause right there.

00:31:05.960 It goes against everything you believe in. So you're telling me, American Booksellers Association,

00:31:13.040 that everything you believe is that we should mutilate little girls to make them look more 0.96

00:31:18.640 like little boys. That is everything. You don't believe that two plus two equals four. You don't 0.86

00:31:23.320 believe that the sun shines during the daytime. You believe that the sum total of your belief

00:31:28.900 is that we should mutilate little girls. I don't know if I buy that. This is a violent incident.

00:31:34.800 No, a violent incident is when you mutilate little girls because of your sick heresy that your body 0.96

00:31:41.520 has nothing to do with who you really are. That's a violent incident. Mentioning a book 0.90

00:31:47.060 that reports on that is not violence. That's journalism, and it's journalism actually that aims

00:31:54.620 reducing violence. They go on. We apologize to our trans members and to the trans community for this 1.00

00:32:01.240 terrible incident and the pain we caused them. We apologize to the LGBTQIA plus every day. There's 1.00

00:32:08.620 one more letter. Community at large and to our bookselling community. Apologies are not enough.

00:32:13.260 We've begun addressing this today and are committed to engaging in the critical dialogue

00:32:16.380 needed to inform concrete steps to address the harm that we caused. Those steps will be shared in the

00:32:21.800 next three weeks. So just notice this language, harm, violence. This is all part of the same thing

00:32:26.480 that Biden and Jen Psaki are talking about. They are redefining innocuous speech acts as violence, 0.89

00:32:33.080 and they are then going to try to ban that sort of speech, and they're going to try to ban it

00:32:38.280 on social media, say. And what we are going to be told is these are private entities, but they're not

00:32:42.740 private entities. They are, first of all, by definition, public if they're controlling the flow of

00:32:47.440 information around the public square in a republic. But moreover, they're working very often at the

00:32:54.000 behest of the government, as Biden and Jen Psaki are proving. And conservatives, we need to be very

00:32:59.180 careful in our language here because there are some narrow types of speech that do constitute

00:33:08.040 an act of violence. If you engage in a direct threat, that is not protected speech. That is

00:33:14.920 assault, actually, right? That is already defined as an act of violence. If you engage in certain

00:33:22.200 fraud, these sorts of things, you could make an argument that that is in itself causing harm,

00:33:27.360 and that is an act of violence. And so I think we need to be very specific here. What Abigail Schreier

00:33:32.920 is doing is engaging in not only innocuous speech, but actually speech that is good and speech that is

00:33:39.620 aimed at reducing violence. And in this upside-down world that we're all living in now, that is being

00:33:44.220 redefined as violence, and violence is being defined as peaceable and innocuous. We need to get even more

00:33:49.580 specific than the traditional, and I think very useful idea that speech is not violence and violence

00:33:54.080 is not speech. We need to get even more specific now. Because the left is not only clearly interested

00:33:59.600 in redefining these things, but they have the political power to do it, and they're being pretty

00:34:03.000 successful. Now, speaking of acts of violence, right now in Cuba, there is a mass protest movement

00:34:11.560 going on. People are going out and protesting the Cuban communist dictatorship, and the government

00:34:17.380 is clamping down. The president, or the dictator, rather, of Cuba has come out and said they will do

00:34:21.640 anything they can to preserve the regime, up to and including using violence on the citizens, which

00:34:25.900 they're currently doing right now. They're maiming people, beating people, and actually killing people 0.75

00:34:30.040 in the streets. And those crickets that you hear right now are from Bernie Sanders. Because Bernie Sanders,

00:34:37.840 who very nearly was the Democrat nominee for president twice in 2016 and 2020, long-time

00:34:43.660 Democratic senator, very long-time gadfly, he's been in politics for 50 years, Bernie Sanders

00:34:50.980 has spoken in very positive ways about the Cuban dictatorship.

00:34:55.660 What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba, that Cuba made progress on education. Yes,

00:35:04.980 I think, really? Really? Do I support their economic policies or their political policies?

00:35:12.520 Of course I don't. But you know what else? Cuba produces a lot of physicians in this country.

00:35:18.360 And you know where they go? They go to poor countries around the world doing a lot of good.

00:35:23.400 By and large, Cuba's educational system for a poor country is pretty good. When Castro came to power,

00:35:30.120 they did a lot to eliminate illiteracy in that country. But I remember, for some reason or other,

00:35:35.720 being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba. I was a kid, and I remember

00:35:39.880 reading that. And it just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up

00:35:44.060 against rather ugly, rich people. I was watching the debates. You remember the famous Nixon-Kennedy

00:35:49.120 debates? That was the first time the presidential candidates actually debated. Kennedy was saying

00:35:53.680 that Nixon was too soft on communism. Usually I'm sufficiently unemotional not to be sick,

00:35:59.200 but I actually got up in the room and almost left to puke. He almost left to puke. He was so upset

00:36:04.400 because Bernie Sanders has supported communism in those terms, right? The guy honeymooned in the

00:36:10.260 Soviet Union. It doesn't get more supportive than that. And now what we're seeing is the people of

00:36:17.180 Cuba, long oppressed by an evil, evil system of government, rising up against that. And Bernie

00:36:24.820 has nothing to say. He has nothing to say because he obviously does not speak for the Cuban people.

00:36:31.600 He obviously does not speak for the oppressed masses. I mean, this is the problem that the Marxist

00:36:36.480 revolutionaries had going back to the days of Karl Marx. Namely, that they had all these wonderful

00:36:41.920 theories for the liberation of the oppressed masses, but the allegedly oppressed masses didn't like

00:36:46.820 the theories very much. Turned out that the oppressed masses actually liked their own traditions and

00:36:51.720 their own countries and their own families and rituals. They didn't like the crazy radicalism.

00:36:59.040 This is what you're seeing right now with Marxists, avowed Marxists in our schools and in other

00:37:08.060 institutions. And you're seeing the actual oppressed masses in America coming out and protesting and saying,

00:37:14.040 I don't want my kids being taught this stuff. You're seeing black mothers, white mothers, 0.99

00:37:18.400 Hispanic mothers showing up to the school board saying, look, we don't have a ton of money to 1.00

00:37:22.900 send our kids to private school. We don't have a ton of time to homeschool. We've got to send our 0.83

00:37:26.520 kids to these public schools. And you nutbags are coming in and saying that we've got to 0.99

00:37:32.660 teach our kids critical race theory or teach our kids critical gender or radical gender theory.

00:37:38.180 And the elites are saying, well, no, these, these are actually wonderful ideologies for you. They're

00:37:43.460 going to liberate you. They're going to help you. Calm down, you oppressed masses. You just don't get

00:37:48.340 how wonderful this is. That's what Bernie's done on Cuba now for 50 years. And it turns out

00:37:54.200 doesn't work out very well. So he can't, he's not going to continue to defend it right now. He's just

00:37:58.900 got to remain totally silent as the Biden White House, by the way, has done until just recently.

00:38:04.720 Jen Psaki. Jen Psaki has a very difficult job and she's been under fire a lot lately because while 0.73

00:38:12.420 Cubans in the streets are protesting the dictatorship, she refuses to call out communism.

00:38:18.200 She has been asked, well, can you acknowledge this is about the communist dictatorship? And she says,

00:38:23.020 well, it's about, you know, economic mismanagement and COVID vaccines. Can't you hear them? I know it

00:38:28.460 sounds like they're chanting libertad, but they actually are saying, no, COVID vaccinos,

00:38:33.260 can't you hear that? No, that's not, I don't think that's what they're saying. So finally,

00:38:37.440 she's faced so much pressure from this. She had to acknowledge that this comes down to the failed

00:38:41.920 ideology of communism. Does this White House still think the protests in Cuba are happening

00:38:48.740 because people are upset about a rise in COVID cases there? Or is there some thought maybe given

00:38:53.580 to the possibility that they're protesting because they are sick of communism? Well, Peter,

00:38:59.520 first, I would say communism is a failed ideology and we certainly believe that. It has failed the

00:39:05.420 people of Cuba. They deserve freedom. They deserve a government that supports them, whether that is

00:39:10.900 making sure they have health and medical supplies, access to vaccines, or whether they have economic

00:39:17.860 opportunity and prosperity. And instead, this has been a government, an authoritarian communist regime

00:39:25.080 that has repressed its people and has failed the people of Cuba. Hence, we're seeing them in the 0.90

00:39:31.300 streets. But I would note that the ideology of the government, which has failed, has led to a lack

00:39:40.100 of access to economic opportunity, to medical supplies, to COVID vaccines. So all of those pieces are true.

00:39:46.560 Good, good. It only took her two weeks to say communism is bad. Not because I think Jen Psaki or

00:39:54.080 Joe Biden are communists, but because a lot of the base is. A lot of the real interest groups on the

00:40:01.960 left that have a lot of influence are avowedly Marxist. I mean, BLM, for instance, says that itself.

00:40:09.740 BLM's founders say they are trained Marxists and they've spoken very highly of Marxist leaders.

00:40:14.100 But the problem is not just Marxism. The influence of communism on the American left is a problem.

00:40:20.480 It's been a problem going back over 100 years now. But there's a further problem within this regime

00:40:25.840 of what you might call managerialism, the liberal establishment. That's a problem too. That is a

00:40:34.280 problem of an overwhelmingly managed economy where the government exerts a lot of influence on

00:40:40.560 allegedly private corporations. And the private corporations do the bidding of the dominant

00:40:44.940 liberal regime and they suppress political dissent and they won't allow you to raise any concerns

00:40:49.820 about, for instance, Jen Psaki, vaccines and coronavirus and the misinformation that's been 0.83

00:40:55.340 coming out of the regime itself. There are some similarities here. While communism is a big

00:41:00.900 problem, it's not the only failed ideology in the world. And I think we've got to recognize that

00:41:05.780 there are some other problems going on here. And it's not exclusively the commies hiding under

00:41:10.040 the beds, but there are also issues with neoliberalism. There are also issues with

00:41:15.420 managerialism. There are also issues with the misinformation in our own regime. Speaking of

00:41:20.280 failed communist regimes or rather repressive communist regimes that are maintaining themselves

00:41:25.660 in power very well, the Chinese communists, it turns out, lied about the coronavirus. And even the 0.93

00:41:30.680 Biden officials are willing to admit this now. Senior Biden officials, according to CNN even,

00:41:34.920 according to Pravda for the regime, quote, senior Biden administration officials overseeing an

00:41:39.780 intelligence review into the origins of the coronavirus now believe the theory that the

00:41:43.320 virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it 0.88

00:41:48.220 emerged naturally in the wild. A dramatic shift from a year ago when Democrats publicly downplayed the

00:41:52.840 so-called lab leak theory. Gee, you don't say. The bat coronavirus that we've never seen before

00:41:58.800 happened, that happened to be discovered right near that lab that works on bat coronaviruses.

00:42:03.480 They might have had something to do with each other. Oh, wow. Gosh. Amazing. Experts,

00:42:09.160 thanks for admitting that. Last year, when some of us on this show, for instance, said that it

00:42:16.320 seemed very likely that it escaped from the lab, the Washington Post put out headlines like this,

00:42:21.260 quote, Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.

00:42:27.460 That was the headline in WAPO. And then in early June, they had to change it. They said,

00:42:31.040 quote, Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.

00:42:36.180 Now I think the headline should read, Tom Cotton says a thing that is obviously true and is just

00:42:40.540 common sense to anybody with two eyes in their heads that is not being suppressed by the liberal

00:42:47.080 establishment. Yes, of course, the lab had something to do with this. And yet, when we said this last

00:42:54.780 year, we were called fringe nut misinformer conspiracy theorists who, by the rules of the

00:43:00.380 Biden administration and Facebook, very easily could have been censored and taken offline, and in some

00:43:05.460 cases were. The Biden administration, people who now make up the Biden administration, were the

00:43:12.140 misinformers. The Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times, they were the misinformers here. And they

00:43:17.680 continue to be the misinformers even as their lives fall apart. By the way, the WHO now is admitting

00:43:23.200 that the virus didn't come from the Wuhan wet markets. The WHO, which has worked to help China

00:43:29.560 cover up what's going on, and in many ways works at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party,

00:43:34.060 is now demanding audits be conducted at Chinese labs that were in the vicinity of the first COVID cases,

00:43:39.320 because they're admitting that the first cluster of cases did not come from the wet market in Wuhan.

00:43:45.100 Obviously. Obviously. But they control the language, and they control the means of communication. So

00:43:53.240 they'll drip this out when they want, and they'll redefine information as misinformation, and

00:43:57.180 misinformation as credible information, and we can't do anything about it. We're still going to be kicked

00:44:01.540 off of the internet if we transgress what the regime has set out for us. You're seeing this, this is a

00:44:07.300 little bit of a tangent, but you're seeing a similar principle right now. There was a headline in the

00:44:11.680 New York Post that shark advocates, I guess that's a category of people, picturing lawyers, you know,

00:44:18.460 just lawyers for sharks. You know, all right, all right, shark, we've got, we're going to make a really

00:44:24.540 strong case for you. Here's the case that they're going to make. They want to change the term shark

00:44:29.440 attack to the less incendiary shark interaction. It's an interaction when you get your leg bit off by

00:44:36.880 I myself prefer underseas contingency operation. That's what, I think that would be the more

00:44:42.180 technical term. But they want it to be a shark interaction, and it seems ridiculous, and it 0.71

00:44:46.780 seems so crazy, and what, no one's going to use this language, and people are going to use this 0.84

00:44:51.340 language. I bet they are. If not on this issue, then on many others. If we are now calling Bruce

00:44:56.460 Jenner she, they can change the language to mean whatever they want. And so, is it any surprise,

00:45:01.760 is it any surprise that only 6% of Republicans, according to a new Gallup poll,

00:45:06.020 trust the TV news? Only 16% of all U.S. citizens say they believe what they see

00:45:11.500 on television. No surprise at all, because the real information is coming from the top.

00:45:18.120 And they have the gall and audacity to accuse the rest of us of pushing misinformation when

00:45:24.360 we question them. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

00:45:27.280 We'll see you tomorrow.

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00:46:26.880 Morning Wire. On today's episode, a U.S. district judge alters the immigration landscape.

00:46:32.660 The Biden administration calls on big tech to crack down on misinformation. And the Tokyo Olympics

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 19, 2021

Ep. 808 - The Misinformers

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