The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 811 - Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself)

00:00:00.000 The insurrection that took place at the Capitol on January 6th was one of the worst, most violent attacks in the history of our country,

00:00:11.420 according to the ruling elite that comprises not just Democrats, but also court jester conservatives such as Liz Cheney.

00:00:20.000 The attack on this building on January 6th was the worst attack on this Capitol since 1814.

00:00:29.060 It was an attack on our Constitution.

00:00:32.080 We supported what would have been the very best option, which was a bipartisan, independent commission.

00:00:39.560 The minority leader opposed that.

00:00:42.020 He lobbied against it in the Senate, and the Senate blocked it.

00:00:44.920 The American people deserve to know what happened.

00:00:48.720 The people who did this must be held accountable.

00:00:51.700 There must be an investigation that is nonpartisan, that is sober, that is serious, that gets to the facts wherever they may lead.

00:01:00.780 And at every opportunity, the minority leader has attempted to prevent the American people from understanding what happened, to block this investigation.

00:01:10.720 Uh-huh.

00:01:11.200 The first part wasn't true, and the second part is never going to happen.

00:01:15.020 Here's what really happened.

00:01:16.040 The horn guy made a mess of Nancy Pelosi's desk, and the smiley guy stole her lectern, and the only person to die by political violence was the Trump supporter that the cops shot and killed.

00:01:27.660 The good news here is that even sometimes squishy Republicans are waking up to how the liberal establishment actually orchestrates so many national episodes,

00:01:38.400 be they acts of terror, global lockdowns, or the brainwashing of whole generations.

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00:03:32.660 The January 6th Commission is falling apart.

00:03:37.060 But the January 6th Commission is a partisan hack tactic to continue to do what the Democrats and Liz Cheney, but I repeat myself, have been trying to do for months now, which is to equate the horn guy dancing at the Capitol with September 11th.

00:03:54.460 There was a 9-11 Commission, so we need a January 6th Commission.

00:03:57.560 Now, it was a terrible idea to create the commission in the first place.

00:04:02.320 Republicans rightly fought against it because if there's going to be a commission to figure out why some eccentric people danced around the Capitol,

00:04:13.820 probably there should be a commission to figure out why radical leftists burned down multiple cities around the country for eight months with the implicit and actually sometimes explicit support of elected Democrats,

00:04:25.180 up to and including the sitting vice president of the United States.

00:04:27.960 Don't you think there should maybe be a commission for that if we're going to have a commission about the smiley guy who took Nancy Pelosi's lectern?

00:04:34.460 I think probably there would be.

00:04:35.980 So anyway, the Republicans try to shut it down.

00:04:38.860 Doesn't totally work, so they go and they appoint people to the commission.

00:04:42.040 And then, as Politico reported yesterday, Nancy Pelosi rejected the conservative Republicans who would even sit on the allegedly bipartisan commission.

00:04:51.260 Nancy Pelosi rejected Representative Jim Banks from Indiana.

00:04:55.600 And Representative Jim Jordan from Ohio, who were both put on the commission by the GOP leader, Kevin McCarthy.

00:05:05.780 As a result of this, and you've got to give McCarthy credit where credit's due.

00:05:09.740 Because McCarthy, everyone goes after McCarthy in part because he's a little bit more of an establishment figure,

00:05:14.740 and in part just because he's the leader of the House GOP, and so he's always going to be irritating some people.

00:05:19.360 But you've got to give him credit where credit's due.

00:05:21.720 As a result of Pelosi's preposterous action to kick off a couple of conservatives on the commission, Kevin McCarthy pulled all of the GOP members.

00:05:29.620 He said, quote,

00:05:30.120 This represents an egregious abuse of power and will irreparably damage this institution.

00:05:36.900 Denying the voices of members who have served in the military and law enforcement, as well as leaders of standing committees,

00:05:41.280 has made it undeniable that this panel has lost all legitimacy and credibility.

00:05:46.100 Spoiler alert, it never had any of those things.

00:05:48.140 And it shows the Speaker is more interested in playing politics than seeking the truth, of course.

00:05:52.640 Unless Speaker Pelosi reverses course and seats all five Republican nominees,

00:05:56.420 Republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts.

00:06:02.120 Good, this is the right approach.

00:06:04.060 Democrats are going to do whatever they want to do, but instead of it being a bipartisan, bicameral commission

00:06:09.180 into the greatest tragedy in human history, the insurrection,

00:06:13.180 Now it's going to be a partisan House of Representatives propaganda campaign to pretend that the horn guy is Osama bin Laden.

00:06:23.480 There has been some evidence that's come out that federal law enforcement knew about planned demonstrations at and in the Capitol on January 6th.

00:06:36.020 Furthermore, there's been some evidence that's come out from Revolver News, notably,

00:06:39.640 that law enforcement officials were involved, actually, in orchestrating some of the events of January 6th.

00:06:48.440 Now, this sounds like a wild, crazy conspiracy theory.

00:06:52.400 What you're telling me, Michael, that the FBI may be, and I'm not claiming this was certainly the case,

00:06:57.820 but there is evidence and there are reports of it.

00:06:59.980 You're telling me, Michael, that the FBI had some hand in what was going on on January 6th?

00:07:06.780 I am.

00:07:07.640 Yeah, I am telling you that.

00:07:09.760 First of all, I know that everything gets memory hold these days when it doesn't fit the narrative.

00:07:15.720 Who planted the bombs?

00:07:17.860 Remember, we were told they discovered bombs outside of the RNC and the DNC.

00:07:22.400 Who planted them?

00:07:23.460 We live in the age of surveillance capitalism, to use a popular phrase.

00:07:26.720 We live in the age where there's a camera on every block.

00:07:29.800 There's cameras outside of the RNC and the DNC and every other building.

00:07:33.800 The FBI was able to trace down every single eccentric Republican who entered the Capitol on January 6th.

00:07:40.880 But we can't trace down who planted bombs, allegedly, outside of the RNC and the DNC.

00:07:46.000 See, that's kind of weird.

00:07:46.740 And even beyond what happened on January 6th, as BuzzFeed News, a left-wing outlet, is pointing out,

00:07:56.260 the FBI very often has a role in some of these alleged terror attacks.

00:08:03.020 So, notably, and this is from BuzzFeed, the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

00:08:10.980 Do you remember that?

00:08:11.840 That was a few months ago.

00:08:13.080 We were told that the radical, far-right, Nazi, fascist Republicans were going to go kidnap Gretchen Whitmer.

00:08:21.280 Well, it turns out that the FBI had a pretty big role, not just in executing this action, but in planning it as well.

00:08:33.100 At least a dozen confidential FBI informants reportedly assisted the, quote-unquote, investigation

00:08:40.440 into this alleged extremist group.

00:08:44.720 And this is the weirdest part.

00:08:47.160 Some of the informants reportedly took leading roles in the scheme.

00:08:54.080 They didn't just tell the feds what was going on with the extremist group.

00:08:58.380 They didn't even just egg other people along.

00:09:01.620 They took leading roles in the alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

00:09:07.060 To date, this is according to BuzzFeed, one defendant has formally accused the government of entrapment,

00:09:14.260 arguing that the FBI assembled the key plotters, encouraged the group's anti-government feelings,

00:09:21.120 and gave its members military-style training.

00:09:25.780 And additional defendants have said that they plan to make similar claims when the cases,

00:09:29.560 which are divided now between federal and state courts, go to trial within the next few months.

00:09:34.140 If you want to see the long history of this sort of thing,

00:09:39.800 I'd recommend you go head over to Revolver News right now.

00:09:42.100 They have a great article on five instances of the FBI in American history

00:09:47.140 putting forward operations to encourage acts of terrorism.

00:09:53.960 Because I get the FBI's legitimate role in getting informants to thwart acts of terrorism,

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00:10:11.160 Whenever the Ku Klux Klan is brought up in the mainstream media, which is frequently,

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00:10:20.960 I strongly suspect that roughly 99.3% of self-described Klansmen in America

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00:11:57.580 So the criminals who are plotting all of these terrible terrorist attacks

00:12:02.240 and the far right fringe,

00:12:03.920 turns out a lot of those criminals are working for the government.

00:12:08.660 Well, if everyone's an informant, then isn't the government just the instigator here?

00:12:13.620 Speaking of criminals in government, Rand Paul.

00:12:18.780 Rand Paul has just, look, he came here to pass out pocket constitutions and smack down Dr. Fauci.

00:12:28.140 And I'm all out of pocket constitutions.

00:12:30.700 So he's just smacking Fauci left and right in the Senate hearings on television news hits.

00:12:37.160 And now in a letter to the DOJ, because Rand Paul is referring Dr. Fauci to the DOJ for a criminal investigation.

00:12:46.900 You kicked off your questioning of Dr. Fauci emphasizing federal law makes lying to Congress a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

00:12:56.220 Is it your belief based on the evidence, Senator, that he lied before Congress and broke the law?

00:13:03.280 Yes.

00:13:03.860 And I will be sending a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral because he has lied to Congress.

00:13:10.220 We have scientists that will line up by the dozens to say that the research he was funding was gain of function.

00:13:16.160 He's doing this because he has a self-interest to cover his tracks and to cover his connection to Wuhan lab.

00:13:22.380 Absolutely right.

00:13:24.240 Absolutely right.

00:13:25.240 We called it on the show when Dr. Fauci made that claim.

00:13:29.000 You'll remember this was some months ago because it was one of the funniest claims that Dr. Fauci's made.

00:13:34.340 He says, well, first he just denies the gain of function research.

00:13:38.020 You are wrong, Senator.

00:13:39.920 That type of research is not happening.

00:13:42.500 Then Rand Paul pushes him further around.

00:13:45.320 He goes, the gain of function research was not being funded.

00:13:48.880 And also, it's totally cool.

00:13:50.360 And I'm glad we funded it.

00:13:52.000 It's almost verbatim.

00:13:53.660 Not quite.

00:13:54.400 I took a little artistic liberty, but that was the point he made.

00:13:56.960 We're not doing this, but also it's totally cool that we did this.

00:14:01.160 So Rand Paul is saying, you know, Dr. Fauci, this is not just some TV news hit where you can lie to the American people with impunity.

00:14:09.000 You are speaking under oath, and if you're lying, then you're going to perjure yourself.

00:14:13.760 And that is what Rand Paul contends Dr. Fauci did.

00:14:17.960 And so there will be a criminal investigation if the DOJ takes it up, which it probably won't because it's being led by Merrick Garland.

00:14:24.340 Now, I do not want to live in a country where, for instance, we always send the former president to prison.

00:14:33.280 I mean, it's fun to do the lock her up chants. 1.00

00:14:35.300 And I don't want to live in Trump's America.

00:14:37.100 Yeah, because you'd be in jail, Hillary. 0.97

00:14:38.700 You know, these are good lines, and I like that.

00:14:41.380 But I don't want to live in a country where we just lock up our former presidents.

00:14:45.400 However, right now, Dr. Fauci, first of all, is more powerful than just about any president that we've had in quite a long time.

00:14:54.240 And also, we need to be able to exercise political power.

00:14:59.480 If the left is going to constantly abuse its power and make really audacious threats and actually wield the government in that way, then Republicans need to be able to wield political power as well.

00:15:09.780 I'd prefer to live in a world in which we didn't have to jail powerful politicians.

00:15:14.820 However, this is the world we live in.

00:15:18.060 And so I think these threats, I'm not saying even carrying it out, but I'm saying the threat at least, the criminal investigation at least, just the fact that the DOJ could look into him would be a good way to diminish the power of Dr. Fauci, the high pontiff of progressivism.

00:15:33.740 And because it's never going to end, the COVID stuff is never going to end.

00:15:39.360 15 days to slow the spread is more than 15 months now to slow the spread.

00:15:45.580 And now we've got the delta and the lambda and the sigma and the phi beta kappa variants.

00:15:50.240 And we're going to put a mask up again in the fall, and we're going to lock up again and probably can't go to church.

00:15:56.040 Not all the time, not those numbers, don't shake hands.

00:15:59.340 Maybe we still have to negotiate with the school unions.

00:16:02.560 It's just going to drag on forever if we give them that power.

00:16:07.260 Here's an article.

00:16:07.900 This is one of the most preposterous articles I've seen in quite a while.

00:16:11.720 I was going viral yesterday.

00:16:13.620 Headline, I'm sorry, but it's too late.

00:16:18.380 Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients.

00:16:23.720 COVID deaths very, very low right now.

00:16:25.520 This is why everyone is talking about the case numbers.

00:16:28.840 Even some Republicans are falling into this trap of grabbing their pearls about the case numbers, the diagnoses of COVID.

00:16:36.300 The deaths are very, very, very low at this point.

00:16:40.060 And yet the public health establishment is trying to get young people who face very, very, very little risk from COVID of any serious complications or death.

00:16:50.720 They're trying to get them to take the experimental drug.

00:16:53.120 And there are a lot that I've mentioned before, right?

00:16:55.520 My view on the vaccine is not that it's absolutely pure poison filled with microchips that's going to put 5G signals in your body.

00:17:03.520 Frankly, that would be an improvement to my cell service.

00:17:05.940 And it's also not that the vaccine is totally safe and there's no worry whatsoever.

00:17:09.960 Obviously, that's not the case.

00:17:11.200 There's been plenty of evidence of myocarditis, periocarditis, blood clots in women.

00:17:16.000 The FDA and the CDC have admitted all of this stuff.

00:17:18.160 So I'm not saying either of those things.

00:17:20.980 I'm suggesting using prudence.

00:17:24.560 Prudence.

00:17:26.240 Prudence on your medical risk.

00:17:28.740 Prudence on your political power.

00:17:30.400 If your school is going to mandate that you get the vaccine, maybe that's going to be cause for you not to show up to the school anymore.

00:17:36.920 Maybe you're going to say, you know what?

00:17:38.360 Look, I'm going to take the risk of the vaccine or at your work or wherever.

00:17:41.400 These are very thorny, difficult political questions that require some prudence.

00:17:47.320 But that's not good enough for the public health establishment.

00:17:50.320 No, no.

00:17:50.760 They need you to believe that an otherwise perfectly healthy young person is at grave risk of dying from the Wu flu. 0.87

00:17:58.660 None of the data backed this up, but here's the article.

00:18:02.520 Dr. Brittany Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine.

00:18:09.580 The unvaccinated patient, she said, just needs a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover.

00:18:14.820 Some of the others are dying.

00:18:16.440 Quote, I'm admitting young, healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections, wrote Cobia, hospitalistic, Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post on Sunday.

00:18:29.100 Facebook posts now are, that's the sourcing and the evidence for serious journalistic articles.

00:18:33.660 Yes, the Facebook post says, one of the last things they do before they're intubated is beg me for the vaccine.

00:18:44.120 I hold their hand and tell them that I'm sorry, but it's too late.

00:18:50.380 I will take things that never happened for 500, Alex.

00:18:55.100 Could I, okay, oh good, I found it.

00:18:56.540 Here's the thing that never happened.

00:18:58.060 And I, and I tell them, writes, by the way, she doesn't look so upset about this.

00:19:02.400 You look at what's Brittany Cobia, she looks smiling in the picture. 0.99

00:19:05.700 Not great stuff from the photo editor, but it kind of highlights how preposterous this is.

00:19:10.200 That reporters are quoting random unverified Facebook posts as though that's going to give you information about what's actually going on in public health.

00:19:20.640 I'm going to, you know, I want them to start reporting on how I sent this article to my, to my son.

00:19:27.180 And my son said, daddy, daddy, why won't people assume the risk of myocarditis before the sigma and the lambda and the delta variants become the dominant strains?

00:19:36.560 And my son is six months old.

00:19:38.020 And when he said that, everyone in line at TSA applauded.

00:19:41.280 It's true.

00:19:42.480 Report it.

00:19:43.060 It's on Facebook.

00:19:43.820 You have to believe it.

00:19:46.020 Preposterous.

00:19:46.900 Preposterous.

00:19:47.340 If this were a serious epidemic level threat for otherwise healthy young people, you would see that reflected in the data.

00:19:57.840 But you're not.

00:19:59.240 There are no data to back that up.

00:20:01.000 So you're seeing it reflected in fabulous Facebook posts and being reported by the hack corporate media as though it were the gospel truth.

00:20:13.040 There is a big push right now to downplay the risks of the experimental drug and to get everyone to take the jab.

00:20:22.640 For some people, it's worth the risk, be it for medical, political, whatever reasons.

00:20:27.960 For other people, it's not worth the risk if you're otherwise totally healthy and you have no reason impelling you to take it.

00:20:36.900 Eric Clapton.

00:20:37.640 Gosh, I love Eric Clapton.

00:20:40.320 I always liked Eric Clapton and now I love Eric Clapton.

00:20:42.900 He's been pretty strong against the lockdowns.

00:20:44.760 He and Van Morrison, another terrific guy, put out songs about how awful the COVID lockdowns are and how technocratic globalist elites are taking all of our rights.

00:20:54.540 So Eric Clapton took the vaccine.

00:20:56.720 He was impelled to do it.

00:20:59.100 And he had had a pre-existing condition, some issue with his nerves, I believe it was.

00:21:03.540 And he got the vaccine and he had a very adverse reaction.

00:21:07.500 He couldn't play guitar for a few weeks.

00:21:09.540 He just, his hand was almost paralyzed.

00:21:11.960 And so he's very, very anti-vaccine mandate right now.

00:21:16.280 And Clapton just came out and he said that he would cancel any shows if the venue requires that attendees prove that they are vaccinated against COVID-19.

00:21:27.060 I love that.

00:21:28.540 This is what's going to do it.

00:21:30.180 More than making any arguments about the data and the statistics and the threat from the virus and more than making any abstract arguments about constitutional rights and how this is unjust and how Dr. Fauci has never appeared on a ballot.

00:21:43.580 No one's ever voted for him.

00:21:44.800 He shouldn't be running our country.

00:21:46.080 More than that, what is going to end this madness, if this madness is to be ended, is going to be the exercise of the political power you have.

00:21:56.240 Eric Clapton has some political power.

00:21:58.020 He's a very famous musician and people want to see his shows.

00:22:00.680 A lot of venues at the behest of the public health establishment and the government and even other corporations are going to try to require proof of vaccination, especially in the United Kingdom.

00:22:13.380 And Eric Clapton is saying, okay, well, if you want to do that, you just won't get Eric Clapton shows.

00:22:18.120 That's fine.

00:22:18.840 You do that.

00:22:19.420 And then I'm just going to stay home and play my beautiful music by myself and count my money and have a perfectly fine life.

00:22:25.680 Your choice.

00:22:26.060 And then the venue is going to lose out on a lot of money and the advertisers are going to lose out on a lot of money and the corporations that sell our products are going to lose out on a lot of money.

00:22:36.340 But that's fine.

00:22:36.800 Do what you want to do.

00:22:38.060 That's a good use of political power.

00:22:40.420 Rand Paul making the DOJ referral.

00:22:43.260 That's a good use of political power.

00:22:46.540 Kevin McCarthy pulling the Republicans off of this committee.

00:22:50.440 That's a good use of political power.

00:22:52.120 Because if we do not exercise that political power, the countries are going to shut down again over very, very few cases and very, very few deaths as is going on right now in Australia.

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00:24:50.300 Australia is shutting down again.

00:24:52.620 Australia is totally locking down.

00:24:54.220 Like it's going to be hard to leave your home locking down.

00:24:57.560 Why?

00:24:58.900 Australia is a pretty rough and tumble place.

00:25:01.880 It was a landmass settled by British criminals. 0.96

00:25:06.480 It has flying foxes and gigantic spiders and all sorts of things that are going to try to kill you.

00:25:12.520 And they survive because there are tough people out there, right?

00:25:16.640 Until the Wu flu killed one more person.

00:25:23.020 One more death and the country shuts down.

00:25:26.680 Good evening.

00:25:28.060 Within hours, Sydney will be in the grip of much tougher restrictions.

00:25:32.340 The Premier clamping down on the stubborn Delta outbreak with what she's calling a no regrets policy. 0.98

00:25:38.700 And this is why.

00:25:40.320 From a record 82,000 tests, the state today recorded 111 cases.

00:25:45.580 And tragically, the third COVID death in this outbreak.

00:25:48.660 A man aged in his 80s from the city's southeast.

00:25:51.460 Across Greater Sydney, retail shops will now close.

00:25:55.700 A small list of essential stores can remain open.

00:25:59.220 Construction sites across the city shut down.

00:26:02.620 And from midnight tonight, 110 suburbs across Liverpool, Fairfield and Canterbury Bankstown will be sealed shut.

00:26:10.340 That's 900,000 residents who can't leave their area, even for work.

00:26:17.560 So you've got hundreds of thousands of tests.

00:26:22.220 Well over 100,000 tests.

00:26:24.500 You've got a relatively small number of cases, some hundreds of cases.

00:26:29.580 And you've got one more death.

00:26:33.420 The third of this outbreak, but now just this one more, one death from this round of testing.

00:26:39.460 So they're going to shut down everywhere.

00:26:44.680 They're going to shut down whole suburbs.

00:26:46.880 You can't go to work.

00:26:47.860 You are locked basically in your home.

00:26:50.560 Shut down retail shops because the lady running Australia wants to have no regrets.

00:26:58.760 Something tells me that the people who can't pay their bills are going to have some regrets.

00:27:02.760 Something tells me the people who can't go to church are probably going to have some regrets.

00:27:05.960 The people who can't be with their loved ones while they die, some regrets.

00:27:09.620 The people who can't get married, some regrets.

00:27:12.060 The people who can't bury their dead, some regrets.

00:27:15.340 You get the point.

00:27:16.520 The people who can't live their lives, I think, are going to have some regrets. 1.00

00:27:20.880 In the amount of time that it took to watch just that clip from that segment on Australia's Channel 9 News,

00:27:29.400 90 people died, not from COVID.

00:27:33.900 They just died because people die.

00:27:35.860 People die all the time.

00:27:37.380 They die from a whole host of causes.

00:27:39.800 They die from heart attacks.

00:27:41.960 They die from cancers.

00:27:44.400 They die from car accidents.

00:27:46.580 They die from pianos falling on their head while they walk across the street.

00:27:49.680 They just, people die.

00:27:51.280 That's a fact.

00:27:51.900 Mortality is a fact of life that in modernity we try to deny as best we can.

00:27:58.160 But it's true.

00:27:59.320 All of life is a preparation for dying.

00:28:01.880 Get used to it.

00:28:03.020 You will have a much better life if you accept this fact.

00:28:06.180 And because hanging concentrates the mind, you will also, one hopes,

00:28:11.280 look beyond just this mortal coil to the metaphysical underpinnings of our world.

00:28:16.880 But we can't do that in our age.

00:28:18.640 So while the Wu flu kills relatively very few people,

00:28:25.180 very, very few people as a proportion of those who are dying,

00:28:29.540 Australia is shutting down again.

00:28:30.820 That will happen here if we do not exercise our political power and push back.

00:28:35.840 There are much more troubling issues of the government making decisions of life and death.

00:28:40.460 Let's go from Australia all the way back to the motherland where right now a hospital in the United Kingdom

00:28:49.500 and a judge in the United Kingdom is trying to, they are both trying to kill a little girl.

00:28:56.700 So parents are fighting to keep their two-year-old daughter alive.

00:29:00.360 The two-year-old daughter has very difficult health problems, has some brain issues.

00:29:07.820 And so the hospital and the judge are saying that they're going to withdraw life support.

00:29:14.620 Family, I think they're Orthodox Jews.

00:29:18.320 They do not want their baby to be killed by the health establishment.

00:29:22.000 But because the government runs the health care system in the UK,

00:29:25.800 the government can decide whether or not to kill your baby.

00:29:29.140 And this has happened multiple times.

00:29:30.820 Remember, was it little baby Alfie?

00:29:33.340 There was another little baby just over the last four or five years.

00:29:37.580 The UK will kill them.

00:29:39.440 And you'll have people in the United States.

00:29:41.420 Remember, Donald Trump said, bring the babies here.

00:29:43.320 We'll take care of the babies.

00:29:45.020 The UK said, no, we're not going to do that.

00:29:46.600 Pope Francis said, bring the baby to a hospital outside of the Vatican.

00:29:51.020 We will take care of the baby there.

00:29:52.980 No, sorry.

00:29:56.040 Because the government bureaucrats in the UK have much, much more power.

00:30:02.760 And so you can make all the arguments all day long that you want.

00:30:05.160 This is unjust.

00:30:06.020 This is wrong.

00:30:06.700 This is terrible.

00:30:07.520 Please, the rights of the...

00:30:08.800 It doesn't matter.

00:30:10.000 It doesn't matter.

00:30:10.740 If you don't have political power, then you can't exercise those rights.

00:30:14.240 I'm not saying that might makes right.

00:30:16.180 Quite the opposite, actually.

00:30:17.260 I'm not saying that just because you have the power,

00:30:19.460 that means you have the right to do something.

00:30:20.580 There are rights that you have, but those rights cannot be exercised

00:30:24.340 if you don't also have a bit of might, if you don't also have some political power.

00:30:29.340 Meanwhile, speaking of killing babies needlessly,

00:30:32.600 because it's always needless to kill a little...

00:30:34.120 There's no...

00:30:34.520 I don't...

00:30:34.940 I've never heard a good argument for killing a little baby.

00:30:38.740 But I've heard a lot of arguments for it, notably in the abortion debate.

00:30:41.700 Right now, a pro-abortion state senator by the name of Senator Joe Cervantes

00:30:46.460 is very upset because he's nominally Catholic,

00:30:51.180 even though he scandalously flouts church teaching on very important matters,

00:30:55.960 not just one issue among many, but on the right to life,

00:30:58.940 the prerequisite for all of the other rights.

00:31:01.620 And he's whining because his priests and his bishop will not give him the Eucharist.

00:31:07.860 He's not permitted to receive Holy Communion.

00:31:11.000 He writes, quote,

00:31:13.240 I was denied communion last night by the Catholic bishop here in La Cruces,

00:31:16.600 and based on my political office,

00:31:18.540 my new parish priest has indicated he will do the same after the last was run off.

00:31:21.920 Please pray for church authorities as Catholicism transitions under Pope Francis.

00:31:28.440 This creates a problem.

00:31:29.980 First of all, let's get to the first part of that first.

00:31:32.380 First, priests and bishops have repeatedly warned this guy and said,

00:31:37.280 hey, you are scandalously flatting church teaching.

00:31:41.040 This is not even just a private sin of yours.

00:31:43.180 It's not a private sin that you've repented.

00:31:45.040 First of all, it's not a private sin, even that you're obstinately persistent in.

00:31:49.120 It is a public sin that is creating the sin of scandal and misleading the flock.

00:31:54.000 And it is our job.

00:31:55.000 If bishops and priests have any job whatsoever,

00:31:58.140 it is to guide the flock, feed the sheep, and care for their souls.

00:32:02.980 So when the priests say, you are not permitted to receive Holy Communion,

00:32:09.220 that is an act of mercy and compassion, not just for the flock,

00:32:13.400 not just for the other parishioners, but also for this state senator

00:32:17.600 who is imperiling his mortal soul.

00:32:19.820 And in the words of St. Paul, eating his own damnation

00:32:22.780 when he receives the Eucharist outside of a state of grace.

00:32:27.560 It is an act of mercy that they are performing on him right now.

00:32:32.380 And by the way, if this state senator doesn't believe in church teaching,

00:32:36.720 doesn't care about it, is willing to flout very important church teaching up to and including

00:32:41.180 supporting a bill right now, because this is happening right now,

00:32:43.720 he's supporting a bill that would make it easier to kill babies in the womb.

00:32:48.720 If you don't care about church teaching, then why do you care about the Holy Communion?

00:32:51.840 Because you recognize, deep down, somewhere you recognize that there is a moral order.

00:32:56.240 Deep down, you recognize that there is some objective truth,

00:33:00.720 that you can't just do whatever you want all the time and be perfectly fine.

00:33:04.160 You just don't want to have that truth in any way impinge on your life.

00:33:11.280 Well, sorry, Buster.

00:33:12.680 That's the way the world works.

00:33:14.580 Now, the second part here is even more troubling,

00:33:16.920 because this guy seems to believe that Pope Francis would support his side.

00:33:21.640 Pope Francis has been very confusing.

00:33:26.360 He's been very unclear about a lot of things.

00:33:29.300 Now, what he usually does, the Holy Father, is he will give an interview

00:33:33.380 to an atheist, leftist, Italian journalist,

00:33:38.480 specifically one named Eugenio Sclafari, who runs La Repubblica,

00:33:43.900 a very popular center-left newspaper in Italy.

00:33:45.920 And then it'll have all sorts of crazy claims about how the Pope thinks no one's in hell,

00:33:50.460 or how the Pope is totally fine with homosexuality, or how the Pope is whatever, you know.

00:33:54.020 And then, but then the Vatican will come out and be,

00:33:56.020 no, the Papa, the Holy Father was misinterpreted.

00:33:59.780 No, I don't know why these journalists are continuing to publish these misinterpretations.

00:34:06.780 Well, sure, I have no doubt that these journalists don't get things right,

00:34:11.580 in part just out of ignorance, because they don't know a lot about the Catholic faith,

00:34:15.040 and then sometimes out of malice as well.

00:34:18.400 But then why does the Holy Father keep giving them interviews?

00:34:22.000 See, that's the problem.

00:34:23.380 That's why the confusion of this pontificate, I think, goes all the way up to the top.

00:34:29.740 I think it might even seem to be a bit of a strategy.

00:34:34.020 I don't think that the Holy Father supports killing babies in the womb.

00:34:38.260 I don't think that at all.

00:34:39.200 But I see why this very ignorant, nominally Catholic state senator might think that,

00:34:45.680 because there's been a lot of confusion.

00:34:47.240 And this gets to another point a lot of people have written in to me to ask about this,

00:34:50.740 especially a lot of my Protestant listeners have written in here,

00:34:53.780 because they heard this news article last week that the Pope has banned the Latin Mass,

00:34:59.200 and they want to know, what does that mean?

00:35:00.260 Why does that matter?

00:35:00.960 What's going on here?

00:35:02.140 The long and short of it is, you had the traditional Latin Mass,

00:35:05.940 which is about a lot more than just language, okay?

00:35:08.080 I know we call it the Latin Mass or the English Mass,

00:35:10.240 but the Latin Mass is the traditional Mass,

00:35:12.320 which includes a lot of different reverent practices,

00:35:14.620 a lot of more reverent liturgy, the order of public worship.

00:35:17.980 It involves, it's an entire form of prayer that is physicalized in the Mass.

00:35:26.620 Then in the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council upended everything

00:35:31.020 and changed a lot of aspects of the Mass,

00:35:33.320 not just the language, but so much of the reverence let in all sorts of abuses

00:35:37.100 and the church is emptied.

00:35:39.600 And so I was raised in the new hippy-dippy Mass

00:35:42.800 with the sappy 70s hymns that weren't even cool 50 years ago.

00:35:46.060 And it is not very beautiful.

00:35:48.680 And then a lot of people fell away from the church

00:35:50.660 during the sex scandals of the early 2000s,

00:35:53.080 during the weak liturgy,

00:35:55.180 during the rise of new atheism,

00:35:56.640 that ridiculous publishing movement with Christopher Hitchens

00:35:58.840 and all the rest of them.

00:36:00.380 And then, in the meantime, while I was away from the church,

00:36:04.840 I came back to the church around 2013 or so,

00:36:08.140 Pope Benedict reauthorized the use of the Latin Mass.

00:36:11.700 And the background on this is it led to a lot of young people

00:36:14.180 coming back to the church,

00:36:15.260 led to a lot of converts,

00:36:16.460 because it's beautiful,

00:36:17.860 because it's grand.

00:36:19.320 It's like the difference between

00:36:20.720 classical architecture and ugly modern architecture.

00:36:24.180 Okay, classical architecture,

00:36:25.240 think of the Supreme Court building.

00:36:26.340 And wow, it's grand, it's big, it's beautiful,

00:36:28.800 it fills you with awe, it's inspiring.

00:36:30.560 It lifts you up beyond the mundane.

00:36:32.940 And then you think of ugly, hideous modern architecture,

00:36:35.460 like the night stuff in the 70s and stuff.

00:36:37.240 And that's ugly, and it brings you down,

00:36:39.380 and it doesn't cause you to look up at the heavens

00:36:41.620 and consider grand things.

00:36:42.840 It's just kind of small.

00:36:44.540 It makes the world's...

00:36:45.140 That, I think, is a fair analog

00:36:47.160 for these types of liturgy.

00:36:50.280 So young people come back 1.00

00:36:51.220 to be inspired by this gorgeous chanting

00:36:53.440 and this reverence and this music

00:36:54.560 and the smells and the bells

00:36:55.680 and all the rest of it.

00:36:57.840 And the irony here

00:36:59.900 is that all of these 85-year-old reformers,

00:37:06.800 a lot of them ex-hippie types

00:37:08.840 from the 1960s and 70s,

00:37:10.860 they constantly tell you,

00:37:12.460 if you want to reach the youths,

00:37:14.200 you've got to have tie-dye shirts

00:37:16.580 and acoustic guitars.

00:37:18.100 That's what's going to make you reach the youths.

00:37:19.880 Well, I'm telling you,

00:37:20.500 I've been to masses all around this country,

00:37:22.020 some of the new English masses,

00:37:23.600 some of the old Latin masses.

00:37:25.020 I prefer the old Latin masses. 0.99

00:37:27.300 The median age at the Latin mass

00:37:29.020 is like 25,

00:37:30.160 and they've all got a dozen kids.

00:37:31.320 How is that biologically possible?

00:37:32.840 I have no idea, but they do.

00:37:34.520 It's young.

00:37:35.340 It's crying.

00:37:36.420 It's got babies.

00:37:37.660 It's great.

00:37:38.740 And then if you go to the new mass,

00:37:41.460 quote-unquote, from the 60s,

00:37:42.420 in English with the acoustic guitars

00:37:43.540 and the felt banners

00:37:44.180 and all the rest of it,

00:37:45.660 the median age is like 82,

00:37:47.440 and there's no babies whatsoever,

00:37:48.600 and no one's really taking it all that seriously.

00:37:53.100 And yet, the boomers still are dominating. 0.96

00:37:56.420 This matters, I think,

00:37:57.520 to people who are not Catholic as well.

00:38:00.320 It reflects, like the architecture issue,

00:38:02.640 it reflects this broader division in our society

00:38:06.320 between the age of Aquarius types,

00:38:09.440 the people in the 60s and 70s who said,

00:38:11.540 we're going to knock down every institution,

00:38:13.020 we're going to rebuild society

00:38:14.140 from the very beginning,

00:38:15.340 we're going to get rid of every vestige of the past.

00:38:17.520 The only way that America can ever be great

00:38:19.400 is if we get rid of our whole past.

00:38:20.960 We can't learn anything from tradition.

00:38:22.260 It's just a bunch of white, racist, rich,

00:38:24.760 evil, patriarchal men.

00:38:27.440 And then there's the tradition.

00:38:29.420 And a lot of people,

00:38:30.400 especially a lot of young people,

00:38:31.500 especially a lot of people

00:38:32.140 who listen to this show,

00:38:33.460 realize, oh,

00:38:35.580 the tradition's a pretty beautiful thing.

00:38:37.920 This ugly, modern, desiccated world. 0.97

00:38:39.800 This is not quite so beautiful,

00:38:41.440 but Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas,

00:38:44.580 Bach, Brahms,

00:38:45.720 wow, there's some really good stuff here, guys.

00:38:47.960 Wow, the glories of our civilization, huh?

00:38:50.900 Maybe we can learn something from that spirit of humility

00:38:53.700 compared to the pride of modernity,

00:38:55.440 that humility before the tradition.

00:38:57.700 That is something that people long for.

00:39:02.560 There's an African member of the Catholic Episcopacy, 0.73

00:39:06.640 Cardinal Sarah.

00:39:08.700 Cardinal Sarah is a really wonderful,

00:39:11.040 very traditional guy.

00:39:12.620 He's butted heads with Pope Francis at times.

00:39:14.860 A lot of people, myself included,

00:39:16.940 have thought he would be a great candidate for the Pope.

00:39:19.760 And it would be kind of funny

00:39:20.800 because he's black, obviously.

00:39:22.120 So we'd say, you know,

00:39:24.000 how dare you liberals

00:39:25.080 not want to support the first black Pope, 1.00

00:39:26.620 but he's more conservative than virtually anybody,

00:39:28.680 anybody in the College of Cardinals.

00:39:31.140 But Cardinal Sarah made this point

00:39:32.620 about tradition versus ugly modernity.

00:39:35.840 And Cardinal Sarah said, quote,

00:39:37.340 I am an African.

00:39:38.660 Let me say clearly,

00:39:39.720 the liturgy is not the place to promote my culture.

00:39:42.340 Rather, it is the place where my culture is baptized,

00:39:46.120 where my culture is taken up into the divine.

00:39:49.420 The power of silence against the dictatorship of noise.

00:39:53.400 Beautiful, beautiful stuff.

00:39:55.900 So you see this in liturgy, you know,

00:39:57.420 the reformers want to have, like, I don't know,

00:39:59.480 sombreros and maracas or something, you know,

00:40:02.720 in the Mexican liturgies.

00:40:04.600 And then, I don't know,

00:40:05.420 all sorts of stuff all around the world.

00:40:06.620 They want the church to become more worldly.

00:40:08.960 And what Cardinal Sarah is saying is,

00:40:10.180 no, no, no, make my culture more divine.

00:40:13.580 Make my culture more heavenly.

00:40:14.700 Lift my culture up.

00:40:16.020 This is true in the issue of immigration.

00:40:19.440 There are some people who believe

00:40:21.060 that we need to bring immigrants into this country 1.00

00:40:23.040 and that we all need to assimilate to them.

00:40:24.980 And we need to have not a mixing, 1.00

00:40:26.500 a melting pot, but a salad bowl,

00:40:28.000 where it's just, you know,

00:40:28.660 in this neighborhood, it's going to be all Mexican. 0.97

00:40:30.440 And in this neighborhood, it's going to be all Irish. 1.00

00:40:32.960 And in this neighborhood, it's going to be all black. 1.00

00:40:34.260 And in this neighborhood,

00:40:34.940 and then it's,

00:40:35.620 we're all just going to preserve our culture.

00:40:37.800 No, it's not how it works.

00:40:40.600 It's got to mix a little bit.

00:40:42.920 We've got to assimilate. 0.93

00:40:43.980 We're either going to have a nation

00:40:46.160 or we're not going to have a nation.

00:40:48.380 People are coming to America for a reason. 0.99

00:40:50.140 They're not coming to America from Guatemala 1.00

00:40:51.620 because Guatemala is so great.

00:40:53.300 They're coming to America 1.00

00:40:54.180 because they think America is better than Guatemala.

00:40:56.060 So don't turn America into Guatemala.

00:40:57.540 It doesn't make sense.

00:40:58.640 Why are people coming to the church?

00:40:59.840 To lift their eyes up to heaven.

00:41:01.900 To escape worldliness.

00:41:03.520 And yet, so many of the reformers

00:41:04.940 want to turn the church

00:41:05.840 into just another non-governmental organization

00:41:08.480 or something.

00:41:09.380 This is the importance of education.

00:41:12.740 Right now.

00:41:15.600 You've heard this whole debate

00:41:16.560 over critical race theory.

00:41:17.680 A lot of the reformers will say,

00:41:19.760 no, critical race theory.

00:41:20.920 It's not real.

00:41:21.740 It's not.

00:41:22.280 It's just a academic movement

00:41:25.480 that's taught in a handful of law schools.

00:41:27.820 It's not affecting your kids.

00:41:29.800 Ignore it.

00:41:30.380 Ignore it.

00:41:30.740 Ignore it.

00:41:31.060 Well, there's a report out now.

00:41:32.160 A Virginia public school district

00:41:34.160 sent a PowerPoint to teachers

00:41:36.340 explaining how to explicitly implement

00:41:38.820 critical race theory in the classroom.

00:41:41.500 This is the Fairfax County Public School

00:41:43.260 sent out the resource

00:41:45.040 as a teacher-facing item.

00:41:46.580 So it's not meant to be seen by the kids

00:41:47.740 and not meant to be seen by the parents

00:41:48.940 and certainly not meant to be seen by you or me

00:41:51.560 as we're reporting it on this show.

00:41:53.340 But it's talking about critical race theory.

00:41:56.180 How to include, quote,

00:41:57.620 culturally relevant pedagogy,

00:42:00.000 institutional systemic racism,

00:42:01.760 anti-racism education,

00:42:03.140 anti-hate education,

00:42:04.420 blah, blah, blah.

00:42:04.980 And the district rightly defines

00:42:06.640 critical race theory as a, quote,

00:42:08.540 interpretive framework

00:42:09.860 that examines the appearance of race

00:42:12.860 and racism across dominant cultural modes

00:42:15.380 of expression.

00:42:17.520 And in adopting this approach,

00:42:19.240 critical race theory scholars

00:42:20.340 attempt to understand

00:42:21.220 how victims of systemic racism

00:42:23.140 are affected by cultural perceptions

00:42:24.600 of prejudice and all the rest of it.

00:42:26.400 So Don Lemon recently on CNN

00:42:28.220 was trying to peddle this silly idea

00:42:30.640 the critical race theory.

00:42:31.620 It's not being taught in schools.

00:42:33.120 No, it's just some,

00:42:34.120 a couple of people at Harvard Law School,

00:42:35.600 but that's it.

00:42:36.020 It's not being taught to your kids or anything.

00:42:38.100 And Ross Douthat from the New York Times,

00:42:39.820 the more conservative writer

00:42:41.640 at the New York Times,

00:42:43.240 he smacked that down.

00:42:44.100 You're encouraging white kids 1.00

00:42:46.700 to have sort of,

00:42:48.520 to in effect cultivate

00:42:49.980 a kind of sense of their own whiteness

00:42:52.040 with the idea being that

00:42:52.960 if you encourage that,

00:42:54.900 these kids will then be able

00:42:56.960 to sort of recognize

00:42:58.320 their own white privilege

00:42:59.500 and transcend it.

00:43:01.380 But that's a lot of where

00:43:02.540 the controversy is, right?

00:43:03.740 It's about these programs

00:43:05.260 that aren't teaching

00:43:06.220 about the history of racism,

00:43:07.380 aren't even teaching about

00:43:08.160 sort of contemporary effects of racism.

00:43:10.380 I mean, we have to,

00:43:11.100 they're specifically saying,

00:43:13.000 you know,

00:43:14.540 white kids especially

00:43:15.480 need to think of themselves

00:43:16.480 in these categories

00:43:17.700 and in these ways.

00:43:18.980 And that's, I think,

00:43:20.260 a big part of what people

00:43:21.280 are reacting against.

00:43:22.420 Yeah, listen,

00:43:22.920 I don't know if that,

00:43:23.960 in fact, is happening,

00:43:24.640 but I mean, Ross,

00:43:25.240 we should say that critical race theory

00:43:26.580 is not being taught.

00:43:27.940 It's not part of the curriculum

00:43:29.180 for elementary

00:43:30.740 or grade school students.

00:43:32.020 It's something that's taught

00:43:32.900 in law schools,

00:43:34.040 just so we know.

00:43:35.140 But that's not exactly right.

00:43:36.760 Critical race theory

00:43:37.540 is an incredibly influential

00:43:39.380 set of ideas

00:43:40.360 that has solid influence

00:43:43.100 in education,

00:43:44.760 schools, and elsewhere.

00:43:46.000 No, but Ross,

00:43:47.400 I'm going to just

00:43:48.120 completely ignore

00:43:48.800 everything you've said

00:43:49.600 for the past 40 seconds

00:43:50.740 and just beep-boop.

00:43:52.440 Critical race theory,

00:43:53.440 not in schools.

00:43:54.180 Beep-beep-boop. 1.00

00:43:55.180 And then Ross Dethet,

00:43:56.780 who's a very thoughtful person,

00:43:57.800 says,

00:43:58.380 did you not just listen to it?

00:44:00.300 No, that's not right, Don.

00:44:02.720 It obviously is.

00:44:04.140 Ideas have consequences.

00:44:05.420 And even ideas

00:44:07.320 that begin in a law school

00:44:09.200 will have an effect.

00:44:11.120 Well, certainly an idea

00:44:11.820 that begins in a law school

00:44:12.620 is going to have an effect

00:44:13.480 on the broader legal community

00:44:15.500 and on the law

00:44:16.480 and the way that we govern ourselves

00:44:18.340 in our country.

00:44:19.160 And it's going to have an effect

00:44:20.600 on pedagogy down the line,

00:44:21.860 as it has,

00:44:22.880 including in elementary schools.

00:44:25.420 Here's one of the ideas.

00:44:26.340 So Ibram Kendi,

00:44:27.540 who is,

00:44:28.020 I think he's the second or third

00:44:29.220 leading civil rights leader

00:44:30.780 in this country.

00:44:31.380 As you all know,

00:44:31.920 I'm the number one.

00:44:33.140 I'm the preeminent civil rights leader

00:44:34.780 in this country,

00:44:35.420 according to the book charts

00:44:36.980 on Amazon.

00:44:38.040 So Ibram Kendi,

00:44:39.300 he's one of the lesser

00:44:40.060 civil rights leaders,

00:44:41.000 I suppose.

00:44:41.780 And he says,

00:44:42.820 I'm not a critical race theorist.

00:44:45.120 And then other people say,

00:44:46.060 no, he is a critical race theorist.

00:44:47.680 And the reality is,

00:44:49.860 he is pushing ideas

00:44:52.060 that have been popularized

00:44:54.260 and developed

00:44:54.780 by the critical race theorists.

00:44:57.200 Namely,

00:44:57.880 whiteness bad,

00:44:58.700 whiteness pervasive,

00:45:00.240 blackness always equals victimhood. 1.00

00:45:03.160 And Kendi has gone so far,

00:45:05.060 he even now says that

00:45:06.020 what is criminal

00:45:07.260 is defined by race.

00:45:09.840 I don't know if I'd necessarily agree

00:45:11.700 with scholars

00:45:12.800 who make the case

00:45:15.140 that black communities

00:45:17.320 have criminogenic conditions.

00:45:21.280 And the reason I'm saying this

00:45:23.000 is because

00:45:23.640 what is criminalized

00:45:26.420 has historically been based on

00:45:30.100 race and power

00:45:31.200 and even how

00:45:33.260 certain

00:45:34.140 criminalized

00:45:35.780 or decriminalized

00:45:37.200 sort of acts

00:45:38.160 have also been

00:45:39.640 sort of racialized.

00:45:40.960 So when people

00:45:41.800 hear about that person

00:45:43.460 who was drinking and driving

00:45:44.600 or that person

00:45:45.700 who killed somebody

00:45:46.780 because they were drinking and driving,

00:45:48.800 it doesn't cause them to think.

00:45:51.320 They don't perceive that

00:45:52.620 as them thereby living

00:45:54.060 in a dangerous neighborhood.

00:45:55.420 So I'm just emphasizing this,

00:45:57.240 Ezra,

00:45:57.340 because even what we consider

00:45:59.640 to be violence,

00:46:01.460 even what we consider

00:46:02.360 to be crime

00:46:03.360 is highly racialized.

00:46:05.460 And therefore,

00:46:06.180 what neighborhoods

00:46:07.100 we consider to be criminal-like

00:46:08.640 and dangerous

00:46:09.540 becomes highly racialized.

00:46:12.240 You know what?

00:46:12.880 You know what?

00:46:13.260 I'm going to say this

00:46:14.000 in the spirit of charity.

00:46:16.100 Ibram Kendi

00:46:16.920 has a point here.

00:46:18.300 What we consider criminal

00:46:21.520 has become

00:46:22.840 very racialized.

00:46:23.980 For instance,

00:46:25.420 burning down the country

00:46:26.680 in the name of

00:46:27.280 Black Lives Matter

00:46:28.020 and killing lots of people 0.51

00:46:29.100 and stealing lots of property,

00:46:31.400 that's not considered

00:46:32.400 criminal anymore

00:46:33.160 because the people doing it

00:46:34.460 are at least

00:46:35.320 in large part black

00:46:36.580 and because they're doing it

00:46:37.540 in the name of

00:46:37.980 Black Lives Matter.

00:46:38.760 So that's good.

00:46:39.260 That's mostly peaceful.

00:46:40.600 And dancing around the Capitol

00:46:41.980 and taking Pelosi's lectern,

00:46:43.440 that's considered

00:46:43.920 the worst act of terrorism

00:46:44.960 in American history

00:46:45.820 because a lot of those people

00:46:47.480 were white

00:46:47.980 and it was done

00:46:48.500 on behalf of a white president.

00:46:49.860 Yeah, Kendi,

00:46:50.260 you're making a good point.

00:46:51.540 Not sure if it's the point

00:46:52.280 you think you're making,

00:46:53.120 but you're making a good point.

00:46:54.340 We'll have to leave it there.

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Ep. 811 - Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself)

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