The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 87 - Racism And Our Sh＊＊hole Culture

00:00:00.000 During a private bipartisan meeting, Democrats allege President Trump called Haiti a

00:00:05.080 not very nice place to live. Now everybody is calling him a racist. We'll analyze the claim,

00:00:11.060 the facts, and racism in our not very nice culture. Then Christopher Helley and Alicia

00:00:16.840 Krauss join the panel of deplorables to discuss creepy male feminist, Aziz Ansari, 0.65

00:00:21.860 Senator Romney, and the new most popular name in the Netherlands,

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00:04:13.700 ready for that. So much to get to on our not very nice culture, so let's dive right in. Democrat Dick

00:04:19.220 Durbin claims Trump called Haiti a not very nice place to live during a private bipartisan meeting

00:04:25.180 on immigration. Now, Republicans David Perdue and Tom Cotton say no, that never happened. Moderate

00:04:30.660 Lindsey Graham says maybe it happened or it sort of happened. Quite interesting. The participants'

00:04:35.420 recollection of the wording breaks down precisely along ideological lines, all the way along that

00:04:40.680 spectrum. So did President Trump say that Haiti is not a very nice place to live during a private

00:04:45.160 meeting? My first reaction is that this does not in any way expand or abridge my liberty. Not in any way.

00:04:51.920 It doesn't affect American interests. It doesn't have anything to do with American governance. So I don't

00:04:57.120 really care what the president thinks about whether Haiti is a not very nice place to live. I certainly 1.00

00:05:02.080 would not imperil what has been a highly effective pro-freedom agenda over whatever comments he did

00:05:07.700 or did not make in a private meeting. But we're interested in intellectual curiosity here. So let's

00:05:13.720 examine the question. Is Haiti a not very nice place to live? Here are some statistics. 80% of Haitians

00:05:19.840 live on less than $2 a day. One in four Haitians lives on less than $1.25 per day. Global remittances to

00:05:26.480 Haiti. That's $2.3 billion, of which the United States sends more than half. That constitutes

00:05:31.380 over a quarter of Haiti's total GDP. A quarter of their GDP is just people sending them charity

00:05:36.500 money. The Haitian unemployment rate is 50%. Despite widespread agriculture, Haiti has to import

00:05:42.340 half of its nation's food and 80% of its staple food, rice. That's because just 10% of Haiti's crops

00:05:48.300 are actually irrigated. Half of Haitian children do not attend school. Haiti's literacy rate is only

00:05:53.860 64%, which is lower even than the Caribbean average. 30% of Haiti's population regularly

00:05:59.120 starves. Infant mortality is a staggering 55 per thousand live births. Less than half of Haitian

00:06:05.700 households have access to potable water. Just a quarter of households have adequate sanitation.

00:06:10.820 Crime is rampant. Reliable statistics obviously are hard to come by there. One study showed an annual

00:06:16.000 murder rate of 120 people per 100,000 residents. And then another study showed an annual murder rate in

00:06:22.560 just Port-au-Prince of 730 people per 100,000 residents. Rape is rampant. 14% of Haitian households

00:06:31.380 have reported having at least one member suffer sexual violence. Haitian children are regularly

00:06:36.260 traded throughout the country for sexual slavery. Desperate mothers regularly feed their children 0.99

00:06:41.400 mud. Cookies made from dirt, water, and salt just to fill their bellies when the food runs out.

00:06:47.440 Life in Haiti is a living hell. Obviously, that's why Americans send so many Christian missionaries 1.00

00:06:52.700 to that country. That's why the Clintons were able to siphon off and misuse millions of dollars 1.00

00:06:56.880 of Haitian relief donations for God knows what purpose. Americans pour charitable funds and efforts

00:07:02.200 into Haiti because the country is not a very nice place to live. No one until Democrats found it 0.98

00:07:08.340 convenient has ever questioned that idea. How about the charge that America needs more immigrants 1.00

00:07:13.500 from prosperous countries than not very nice countries? The left and anti-Trump Republicans

00:07:18.920 are calling the comments racist. Are they? Let's look at the data. So on the one hand,

00:07:23.600 high school graduation rates for Haitian immigrants are actually slightly higher than the foreign-born

00:07:28.880 population average in the United States. Same with labor participation. Haitian immigrant household 1.00

00:07:33.580 income is lower than the average for the overall foreign-born population. 91% of Haitians who have

00:07:39.720 obtained lawful permanent resident status did so through chain migration. That's where you come

00:07:44.660 and then you get your family and then they get somebody and then you get other people. Virtually

00:07:48.420 none of the Haitians in America got status through employee green cards or visa lotteries.

00:07:54.260 Remittances to Haiti have increased fourfold since 2000. They now reach $1.3 billion a year.

00:08:00.420 So in relation to other immigrant groups, that's a mixed bag. But we're forgetting an important

00:08:05.940 thing. Donald Trump won the presidency in no small part on curbing the influx of immigrants,

00:08:12.260 legal and illegal, on prioritizing Americans who are already here over open borders policies favored

00:08:18.640 by the GOP establishment and Democrats. Compared to native-born populations in America, Haitian immigrants

00:08:24.660 are well over twice as likely not to graduate from high school. They're almost twice as likely to live in

00:08:29.680 poverty. They're two and a half times as likely to lack health insurance for their children.

00:08:33.700 And they're two and a quarter times as likely to be on a major welfare program.

00:08:39.580 Now even putting aside that these comments are alleged that Haiti is a not very nice place to

00:08:44.800 live, that they're alleged by a top-ranking Democrat and that they're disputed by Republicans in the room,

00:08:49.840 even putting aside that they were said during a private meeting, let's just indulge the hypothetical

00:08:54.400 that he did say them. Would it be nicer? Would it be more elegant? Would it be more couth to phrase

00:08:59.500 the comment another way rather than use such blunt and insulting language to an ally of the United

00:09:04.480 States, albeit an impoverished one? Of course. Of course it would. Would Ronald Reagan have phrased

00:09:10.340 it differently? Of course he would have. But we live in a not very nice culture, to use a phrase. I'm

00:09:16.600 sure there are other words you could use. That isn't Donald Trump's fault. Trump may be a product of the

00:09:21.420 culture. His language may be a symptom of that culture. But he didn't cause it. Ronald Reagan was the product of the

00:09:27.320 golden age of Hollywood. Donald Trump is a product of 90s tabloids and reality television. Do you behave

00:09:33.100 within the same bounds that dictated personal morality in the early 20th century? Do you? Do you dress

00:09:38.520 appropriately and formally? Do you speak politely? Do you attend church and act chivalrously, etc., etc.?

00:09:43.400 Of course you don't. A lot of people are blaming Trump for our not very nice culture because it's too painful to

00:09:49.240 look at the real culprit staring back at us in the mirror. As for racism, for the decline in race

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00:12:27.880 Okay, let's get back to this. On racism, on the decline of race relations, let's compare Donald

00:12:34.040 Trump and his predecessor. So according to a New York Times CBS News poll, by the end of the Obama

00:12:40.040 presidency, race relations fell to the lowest point they had been since the 1992 LA riots,

00:12:46.420 quarter century before, with 69% of Americans perceiving race relations as generally bad.

00:12:51.640 According to a CNN ORC poll, 54% of Americans think race relations worsened specifically under

00:12:57.480 Barack Obama, including 57% of whites and 40% of blacks. In 2009, this was the first instance of

00:13:04.620 this. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates tried to force his way into his own front door. I guess

00:13:09.620 he'd forgotten his keys. Confused neighbors called the police. Two officers showed up, one of whom was

00:13:14.700 black, and asked for ID. Gates descended into hysterics, screaming, quote, this is what it means to be black in 0.76

00:13:20.200 America. Do you even know how many graduate degrees I have? Do you know who you're dealing

00:13:23.620 with here? I'm a professor at Harvard. Can you even spell Harvard? That's what I'm assuming. That's

00:13:27.140 what he said, you know. The officers arrested Gates on charges of disorderly conduct. How did

00:13:32.880 Obama respond? Well, I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased

00:13:41.360 here. I don't know all the facts. What's been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys,

00:13:59.840 jimmied his way to get into the house. There was a report called into the police station that there might be a

00:14:10.360 burglary taking place. So far, so good. Right? I mean, if I was trying to jigger in a — well,

00:14:16.180 I guess this is my house now, so it probably wouldn't happen. But let's say my old house in Chicago — here

00:14:24.460 I'd get shot. Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race 0.74

00:14:35.740 gets played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Number

00:14:43.560 two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof 0.98

00:14:53.560 that they were in their own home. And number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this

00:14:59.740 incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being

00:15:09.400 stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. There it is. There's the Obama doctrine. Listen,

00:15:16.300 I may not know a single thing about the case here, but let me weigh in because it offers me a political

00:15:20.620 advantage. The Obama MO, frequently wrong but never in doubt. Then fast forward a few years. In 2012,

00:15:26.440 the Hispanic man that the New York Times desperately tried to call a white guy named George Zimmerman

00:15:31.900 called the police, reporting that a young man who appeared to be on drugs was wandering around his

00:15:36.000 neighborhood. The cops instructed him to stand down, but Zimmerman pursued him anyway. The initial

00:15:41.340 confrontation remains a mystery, but all of the available evidence supports Zimmerman's claim that

00:15:46.100 at some point, Martin knocked him to the ground, jumped on top of him, and pounded his head into the

00:15:50.800 pavement. Zimmerman grabbed his gun and shot Martin. Obama, of course, could not help but

00:15:56.280 weigh in on the local crime issue, and here's how he responded. But my main message is to the parents

00:16:02.880 of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. If I had a son, he'd look like

00:16:11.340 Trayvon. Totally needless, senseless fuel on the flames of racial division, but that's Barack Obama.

00:16:17.920 That's our not very nice culture, and it isn't totally Barack Obama's fault either. He spent eight

00:16:23.060 years degrading the culture, sure, but by the time Obama had come around, the left had spent decades

00:16:28.560 sowing the seeds of division, decay, and victimhood. Enter Barack Obama, then enter Donald Trump. Our

00:16:34.000 culture is a not very nice place, and we can't look to politicians to fix it. That's not what politicians

00:16:39.180 do. Put not your trust in princes. To quote a true cultural figure, and coincidentally a guy who was

00:16:45.160 both black and white at various times in his life, no message could have been any clearer. If you want to

00:16:50.080 make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and then make a change. Good advice

00:16:54.840 from an actual cultural figure. Okay, let's bring on our panel. We've got Daily Wire's own

00:17:00.560 Alicia Krauss. So the question is, should we care about this Haiti thing? You know, did he say it?

00:17:05.620 Did he not? Some people say he said it. Some say he didn't say it. If he did say it, is it a big deal?

00:17:10.000 Should we be hand-wringing and pulling out our hair? Or he's cutting the government. Let him do it. 0.59

00:17:14.920 It doesn't affect my freedom. Adios. I think if he wants to win a re-election,

00:17:19.480 he needs to definitely be cutting back on the idiotic comments, especially when he's in mixed 1.00

00:17:23.780 company. I mean, let's be honest. How dumb do you have to be to say something like this? One. 1.00

00:17:28.240 And then two, say it in front of Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and a Washington Post reporter. 0.99

00:17:34.680 It was so dumb to say. I think if you get to the crux of the issue, it is a tacky thing to say. I think 0.93

00:17:39.380 it's something that should have been clarified or needs to be clarified. But I'm one of those people

00:17:43.300 that even if he's saying dumb things, actions speak louder than words. And if you want to go

00:17:47.020 and talk about immigration policy and who was more heartfelt on it or not, I mean,

00:17:51.780 there's lots of things that Obama did during his administration that could be viewed as anti-immigrant.

00:17:56.120 That's absolutely right. That is a real comparison here because, you know, Trump got so much flack

00:18:01.640 for the travel ban, for instance. The travel ban was an expansion of an Obama-era policy. You didn't

00:18:07.120 hear people saying this was the end of the constitutional republic during Barack Obama. And there is,

00:18:12.980 even if the statement is true, I don't know. I don't trust Dick Durbin. But that said,

00:18:17.060 both sides are flacking for their own party. So who knows if he said it. But I just don't care if

00:18:22.160 he said it. I don't care if a Queens real estate developer made an uncouth remark in a private

00:18:27.340 meeting. It doesn't. Except that Queens real estate developer is the president of the United States

00:18:33.340 now. And he has to understand. And I'm thinking re-election here. I'm thinking 2018 midterm

00:18:38.000 elections for Republicans could be tough. And he's not making it any easier. And I know he likes to

00:18:43.020 punch at the Republicans and some people that he has establishment, which some of them are that he

00:18:47.240 attacks and some of them are not. But if he wants his side to win, and if he actually wants to promote

00:18:51.400 those things that you're talking about, that's going to make America great again, then he needs to be

00:18:55.660 very careful what he says and how he says it. But I don't know. I certainly would have agreed with

00:19:00.280 you a year and a half ago. But I'm not sure. The one thing this guy hasn't been is careful with his

00:19:05.200 language. He's been exactly the opposite of careful with his language. Yeah, and he hasn't had to face

00:19:09.240 an election. And there is an election that he lost in Alabama, which wasn't good for him. But the other

00:19:15.880 guy that had been to decide for that year, out of a year and a half, ended up losing too. So good

00:19:21.600 job, Stephen and Donald. Both of their candidates lost. And that's not a good sign in addition to the

00:19:26.560 polling that you're seeing. I mean, you and I both worked on campaigns. We're the political

00:19:29.620 nerds and the news junkies that have actually worked on and run political campaigns before.

00:19:33.780 And you know that voter turnout in off years can really negatively affect Republican voters. It

00:19:39.280 can affect both parties, and Republicans tend to get out more. But if Trump keeps saying things like

00:19:43.780 this, and if there's more Trump-like candidates kind of saying things like this, I think you're

00:19:47.640 jeopardizing potential Republican voters that aren't just going to go out and vote during the

00:19:52.240 midterms. You might. The question is, do they care about these private comments? In the past,

00:19:57.040 I would have said yes. Now I'm a little more skeptical. So we'll move on to some of the news

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00:20:30.840 Michael, get to the point. Get to the point. Look at this, guys. Look at this leftist tears

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00:21:05.040 gone. Go to dailywire.com right now. We'll be right back. Alicia, it's me and you, girl.

00:21:19.600 It's just you and me today. We've lost Christopher. We'll bring him back some other time. That's

00:21:22.960 always, uh, always good to talk to him. So this topic is important. We've got a lot of women's 0.98

00:21:28.900 issues today. Aziz Ansari is being accused of sexual impropriety. For reference, here is the

00:21:35.100 comedian Aziz Ansari. Talk about the relationship. My girlfriend has influence on me. She, uh, she's a

00:21:40.880 big feminist. And, uh, you know, that made me think about those kind of issues. I'm a feminist as well. 0.91

00:21:45.100 Any feminists here clapping? Any people? Now, here's the thing, okay? Now, there's a lot of 1.00

00:21:52.180 people that didn't clap. But I don't believe you. Because if you look up feminists in the

00:21:57.620 dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights. And I feel like

00:22:02.140 everyone here believes men and women have equal rights. Yeah? But, yeah. But I think the reason 0.88

00:22:11.480 people don't clap is that word so weirdly used in our culture. Now people think feminist

00:22:15.360 means, like, some woman's gonna start yelling at them. Like, Precious's mom is gonna start 1.00

00:22:20.320 throwing stuff at you. I feel like if you do believe that, if you believe that men and

00:22:23.900 women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes. 1.00

00:22:28.200 You have to say yes. Doesn't matter what you do. Now, his accuser, his sexual, uh,

00:22:32.560 harassment accuser, writes, quote, the move he kept doing was taking his two fingers in 0.84

00:22:38.000 a V-shape and putting them in my mouth, in my throat to wet his fingers, because the moment

00:22:42.560 he'd stick his fingers in my throat, he'd go straight for my redacted and try to redacted

00:22:47.980 me. That, that is, uh, from a woman who says she went on a date with him, he took her back

00:22:51.640 to her place and started getting real weird and handsy and chasing her around the room. 0.93

00:22:55.340 Alicia, why are feminist men such creeps?

00:22:58.600 I'm just, sorry, Mom. Every time I'm, I'm on Michael's show, he makes me talk about

00:23:03.120 these things. I know. Maybe I'm the Me Too guy.

00:23:05.720 I know. Uh, I read the report. I'm actually a fan of Aziz, you know, going back to Parks

00:23:10.600 and Rec. I think Master of None, even though it's an obviously liberal show, it's very

00:23:14.400 entertaining and well-made. I mean, he even did episodes on this where he talked about

00:23:18.160 sexual harassment and, like, you know, I don't want to give it away to people that haven't

00:23:21.640 watched season two, but there's a whole theme there about how he misses out on a job

00:23:25.220 opportunity because somebody, you know, was Me Too-ing some women. And, and so it's so

00:23:29.340 interesting. This actually, I think, and Carol Markowitz at the New York Post had a great

00:23:33.100 tweet storm about this yesterday, and it's so true. This is actually what happens when

00:23:36.780 you tell women, hey, you're as sexually active and as, you know, turned on and you should 0.98

00:23:42.180 be like this because if we're equal to men, we should be able to have one night stands

00:23:45.960 with nothing attached to. And I think that that's what this was. I mean, there was an act

00:23:50.220 that occurred that she said she was okay with. Then she decided to stay the night. I

00:23:54.220 actually think it was at his hotel room after the Emmys last year. And then throughout the

00:23:58.960 night, he kept trying to get with her once again, and she was uncomfortable with it. And

00:24:03.520 when he texted her and said, hey, it was fun, which is totally like a guy that had been hooked

00:24:07.740 up with the night before would say, she said, well, I'm glad it was fun for you, but it wasn't

00:24:11.460 for me. He apologized for it. And then now a year later, she's coming out with this, you

00:24:16.660 know, story. This is not a Me Too story. This is not Harvey Weinstein blacklisting her. This

00:24:21.220 is not Harvey Weinstein raping her. This is, this is a bad, a hookup gone wrong that I think 0.94

00:24:25.900 now a year later, she's like, hmm, maybe it's a Me Too thing, but, but it's not.

00:24:30.520 Well, yeah, there is this climate of a witch hunt right now where anytime men act a little

00:24:36.060 weird or awkward or aggressive or bizarre around women, which is statistically 100% of 1.00

00:24:41.240 the time, then it's considered on par with Harvey Weinstein raping people. But he does, 0.91

00:24:45.760 he sums it up so well because you're right. There is this feminism thing of like, yeah, I'm going 1.00

00:24:49.860 to go out and get a man tonight as if that's ever been a hard thing ever once in history.

00:24:55.020 And so men go into this and they say, okay, we're exactly the same. Men and women approach

00:24:59.400 sex exactly the same way. So I'm going to. Because that's what they've been told by feminists 1.00

00:25:03.240 for so long. That's what they've been told for their whole lives. And so now, you know,

00:25:07.720 Aziz Ansari behaves as though this woman is a man and surprise, surprise, it turns out she's 0.98

00:25:13.000 actually a woman and doesn't react to sex the same way that men do. So what is the appropriate

00:25:19.040 conservative response to feminism? You know, feminism, he said, feminism just means that

00:25:24.740 you think men and women should have equal political rights. Of course, that isn't true. If that were

00:25:29.420 the case, it would be called egalitarianism. It wouldn't be called feminism, right? If feminism 1.00

00:25:33.800 clearly pertains specifically to, to womanhood and femininity, what should conservatives consider

00:25:39.920 as the, our version of feminism? I'm, I think it's there in the declaration of independence,

00:25:45.300 right? That, and then, then in my Christianity, that's something I was actually talking to my

00:25:49.780 four-year-old about yesterday. She was wondering why she had today off of school. And I was explaining

00:25:53.100 to her as much as I could in a four-year-old way who Martin Luther King Jr. was and what he taught

00:25:57.200 about and taught us. A conservative Christian. Yeah. Yeah. That, that, you know, the all men are created 1.00

00:26:02.860 equal sign with where our rights come from. And I think that that's the problem, whether it's first wave

00:26:07.960 or third wave feminism, is that they renege on that first part and they don't want to acknowledge 1.00

00:26:12.060 the first part of where their rights come from. And if you don't understand where rights come from,

00:26:15.700 then how are you supposed to teach your sons and daughters what is right and what is wrong? I don't

00:26:19.740 know if that's up for simplifying it, but. Oh, of course, that's good. There has to be a foundation

00:26:24.500 if we're going to have a serious way of dealing with the sexes. But there also is this little old 0.98

00:26:31.700 fashioned thing called chivalry that takes the opposite premise of feminism. The premise of feminism 1.00

00:26:37.020 feminism is that men and women are exactly the same. We're indiscernible. We're identical creatures 0.99

00:26:41.720 and there are no real meaningful differences between men and women. And then there's chivalry,

00:26:46.180 which says that men and women are complementary. We see this in the Christian story. We see this in

00:26:50.760 Genesis in the way Christ talks about male and female as complementing one another. And in the beginning,

00:26:57.720 God created man, both male and female. He created them. And chivalrousness, holding a door,

00:27:03.340 picking up a check or something, was for a long time in the 90s and 2000s considered

00:27:08.180 politically incorrect. It was paternalistic. It was condescending. Do you think that chivalry

00:27:13.700 is making a comeback or is that wishful thinking? I actually think that I would stand with a former

00:27:17.840 secretary of state, Condi Rice on this. She did an interview with David Axelrod at CNN recently,

00:27:22.540 and she talked about how she is afraid of women kind of becoming infantilized and unable to defend

00:27:28.220 ourselves. And I think she actually used the phrase snowflakes. She was like, let's not do that

00:27:32.460 to women. You know, women are strong. We are unique. And we don't want to create an atmosphere 1.00

00:27:37.000 where it's such a gotcha towards men that men end up not wanting women around because it turns out

00:27:42.000 that we do complement each other. There are things that women, sorry guys, can do better. And God created 0.99

00:27:46.980 all of us for a reason to make the world go round, quite literally. So, I mean, if we don't,

00:27:52.520 women don't have men, there will end up being no more mankind. That's just one of the basic 1.00

00:27:56.500 things that would occur. And I think that I, I think that there is a place for a mix of modern

00:28:01.340 day feminism with old fashioned chivalry, because I know in my work, I want to be judged, not just on

00:28:07.160 how I look, but what I bring to the table and my talents, not that I have a hoo-ha. And I think

00:28:11.560 that there is also an element of, I do like it when Michael Knowles apologizes for being rude and not

00:28:16.120 holding the door open for me. And so there is a balance and an understanding that, that the world has

00:28:22.140 to have of how men and women are similar and how men and women are different. But in those

00:28:27.000 differences, women can still be strong and powerful and beautiful. There's nothing wrong 1.00

00:28:30.600 with that. Right. Absolutely right. Okay. We have to move on because it's all but certain in political

00:28:34.880 news, Mitt Romney is running for Senate from Utah. Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts,

00:28:40.940 who then took up residence in New Hampshire before the 2012 primaries, has now changed his home residence

00:28:45.960 on Twitter to holiday Utah. Romney, you will recall, has been an outspoken critic of President Trump

00:28:51.940 since the 2016 primary campaign, saying his promises are worthless, though he later attempted

00:28:57.440 to reconcile when he was being considered for secretary of state. Alicia, this is a strange

00:29:02.760 situation. Republicans voted for Romney in 2012. He was our nominee. He was our guy. But even then we

00:29:08.720 knew he comes from the moderate wing of the party. His father is the former standard bearer of the

00:29:13.380 moderate wing of the Republican Party. How should conservatives feel about his candidacy?

00:29:17.800 I think that really it only matters to the conservatives of Utah. And I think if you're

00:29:21.460 the conservatives on a federal level like me, I mean, I'm stuck with two idiots here in California 1.00

00:29:25.420 serving as my senator. Right. So our senators. And so I would be happy with another stalwart like 1.00

00:29:31.220 Romney, Republican stalwart in the Senate. I know that he's going to really 95 percent of what the Trump

00:29:37.460 administration puts forward. I guarantee you Mitt Romney is going to vote the way that Trump would want him

00:29:42.060 to vote. I mean, he is. Yes, Romneycare was awful. Why we decided to go with the guy that actually had

00:29:47.940 Obamacare named after him before Obamacare came along was such a bad idea. But I think that Mitt

00:29:53.580 overall, he's just a gem of a human being. He is obviously connected with the people of Utah. I mean,

00:29:58.820 he's had a home there forever. The core, the home, I guess the HQ for his faith is there. And I really think

00:30:05.560 that he in the Senate is a bonus for the Senate. I think that they're really, it's a win-win here.

00:30:11.440 And I think even for those Trump supporters that view him as establishment, they're going to wait

00:30:15.600 and see that he is really, I think, going to be beneficial to President Trump. And he is good at

00:30:20.360 sussing out where the political winds are. And he's not a total rigid ideologue. He said when he ran

00:30:25.340 against Kennedy in Massachusetts, he said, I wasn't a conservative during Reagan Bush. I was an

00:30:30.560 independent during Reagan Bush. Fast forward to 2012, he was a pretty conservative guy. So I think

00:30:35.180 he can probably suss that out. But to your point, if he runs, is there any way he doesn't win this

00:30:39.560 seat? I don't think so. I think we might actually see 100% like on a ballot, you know, as the results

00:30:45.740 come in. That's right. I mean, who knows? Maybe it'll be 90%. I think that he definitely could win.

00:30:51.840 He should win. I think that Bannon might be running somewhere with the tail between his legs. But had

00:30:56.540 Bannon still been, if Bannon were still in the picture, I guarantee you this would be a race where

00:31:00.480 he'd come up with a crazy candidate to run against Mitt. Oh, it absolutely would be if he hadn't

00:31:04.700 just been crushed under the heel of Donald Trump two weeks ago. I don't really see Bannon staging

00:31:10.160 a comeback for this election. But who knows? Politics is weird. I don't know. It brings me

00:31:13.720 such joy to hear that phrase from you, though. The final story we have to talk about. The mainstream

00:31:20.200 media reported last week that Noah is the most popular baby name in the Netherlands. But after one

00:31:25.620 takes into account variations in spelling, turns out it's not Noah. That's the most common name.

00:31:30.100 The actual most common name for newborns in the European country is Mohammed. Alicia,

00:31:35.820 is it racist for the Dutch or the Swedes or the Polish or the English to want to keep their

00:31:40.740 countries primarily Dutch or Swedish or Polish or English?

00:31:45.000 I think yes. I mean, the way that you raise that question, I think that there is definitely,

00:31:51.300 if you are looking at race, if you're looking at ethnicity and determining this is how we're

00:31:55.260 going to let people in, this is how we're not going to let people in, then yes, I do think

00:31:58.580 that that is a problem, that that is racist. But I mean, if you look at Sweden and Norway versus

00:32:04.380 places like Finland that have a much stronger immigration policy, they said, we're not going

00:32:09.980 to be taking in people from just anywhere. We are going to strongly vet people. And then once

00:32:13.860 they're here, we're going to do this, this, and this to make sure that they are integrated

00:32:17.000 into our society. That I don't think is racist at all.

00:32:19.680 But what is, what are these countries? You know, for the United States, it is a country

00:32:24.340 in so many ways founded on an idea, a country founded on an idea in Plymouth, a country founded

00:32:30.280 on an idea in Philadelphia. And obviously it's founded by people, but they're people of various

00:32:35.760 ethnic groups and who bred with one another and intermarried. And so clearly America, to say America

00:32:43.180 as a country founded on an idea is certainly justifiable and is a long stream throughout

00:32:49.440 American history. Not so with England and not so with Italy or France. Those are countries

00:32:55.200 founded on people, founded on the angles, founded on groups of people that over the centuries

00:33:01.960 have either invaded or conquered or whatever. So it might be racist, but I don't know. Isn't

00:33:06.780 that the essence of their state? It's a state founded on a people. Should we really oppose

00:33:11.060 that? And it's a very good point. And I think it's a point that Democrats should be asked

00:33:14.040 about because Democrats and progressives in the United States typically look to Europe,

00:33:18.160 specifically, you know, more socialist Europe of, oh, this is what we should look like. You

00:33:23.360 know, we should have their healthcare. We should have their open borders immigration. We should 0.99

00:33:26.360 have all of these things. But I actually think the whole Meghan Merkel being engaged to Prince

00:33:30.380 Harry thing, it's going to start exposing that the United Kingdom and a lot of Europe is more

00:33:37.120 racist and actually implies and executes racism on a daily basis more than the whole of the United

00:33:43.380 States. I mean, Larry Elder, a friend of the Daily Wire, you know, has a great PragerU video on this

00:33:49.040 about is America still racist? And definitely in comparison to these other countries that,

00:33:54.040 like you said, were not founded on the ideas of freedom and liberty and individual principles

00:33:57.800 like the United States were. I think you're going to, in this day and age, in 2018, in the new year,

00:34:02.600 we're going to start seeing that stuff kind of trickle more out of those countries.

00:34:05.500 Of course, America is the only non-racist country ever founded in the history of the world.

00:34:09.780 And I'm perfectly fine with that. I am more than happy for the English to remain English and for 0.77

00:34:15.060 the Italians to remain Italian and for the Sicilians to remain Sicilian and for the Dutch to not have 0.98

00:34:21.060 Mohammed be the most common baby name. I'm more than happy for countries that are based on peoples

00:34:26.780 to have their own countries, for Middle Eastern countries to have their own peoples.

00:34:33.240 But I do like that America is a shining city on a hill and it's a country founded on an idea.

00:34:38.840 And this actually gets back to the essential Christianity of the West. Christianity is the

00:34:43.280 motivating force of the West. How should Protestants and Catholics alike, any Christian variety,

00:34:50.800 view this issue? You know, there is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free.

00:34:54.980 There is no male and female for you are all one in Christ Jesus. On the other hand, Muslims have tried 1.00

00:35:00.400 to invade the West for 1,400 years. Charles Martel turned them away in Tours in 732. In Tours, by the

00:35:07.340 way. That's not outside Medina. That's outside Paris. And Pope St. Pius V turned Muslim invaders 1.00

00:35:13.200 away at Lepanto in 1571. How should the Christian West regard our Muslim visitors in 2018?

00:35:20.940 Man, I'm sorry. I was just thinking of President Obama then talking about how the Crusades were so

00:35:26.520 awful and Christians still need to apologize for them. I know. I should send Obama a book about the 1.00

00:35:31.060 Crusades so he can learn anything about that work. You're giving that, you know, Islamic history lesson

00:35:36.580 there to me and your audience. I think that, I think, you know, the beautiful thing about Christianity

00:35:44.040 is that we know that anyone can be welcome into the fold and that that is their choice and their

00:35:48.720 right to make that decision because of the free will that God gave them. And I think that,

00:35:53.520 specifically, I think that overall, they're unfortunately now, if you watch CNN, if you

00:35:59.840 watch MSNBC, even sometimes if you watch Fox News, if you're the average viewer in another country

00:36:04.540 looking, what you see as what you view as Christian is sometimes spewing what some people would dub as

00:36:11.300 craziness or hate speech. But when you meet the individual Christians of the United States and you

00:36:15.720 talk to them about what they want and what they want to adhere to and what they want to protect here,

00:36:19.620 it isn't saying, oh no, we don't want Muslims here. It's just saying we want to protect, you know,

00:36:24.940 our rule of life, Western civilization, the Judeo-Christian values that the United States

00:36:28.820 was founded upon. And whether you're Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic, Protestant, whatever,

00:36:34.500 if you want to adhere to those values too, you can. And I think that that's something that the

00:36:38.460 church needs to consider on a whole. Just, just stick to the gospel, keep the politics out of it,

00:36:42.600 please. That's right. You don't, you don't necessarily need to go to daily mass and wear a mantilla

00:36:46.700 and chant Gregorian chants, but you do have to accept certain premises. And if your culture

00:36:52.940 doesn't accept those essential premises of the West, you can't live here, buddy. Sorry. You just,

00:36:58.520 you have to, I know people don't want to be free, but you have to be free. You have to accept those

00:37:03.540 premises. Okay. Alicia, a wonderful panel to a surprisingly wonderful panel of all you. Yeah.

00:37:10.240 Great stuff. Thank you for being here. Now we must turn because it is Martin Luther King day. So I want

00:37:15.560 to close on some MLK. You'll notice the left always refers to the man as Dr. Martin Luther King,

00:37:20.700 even though he never carried a stethoscope. They never call him Reverend Martin Luther King,

00:37:25.500 even though he was a Baptist minister. So as always, the left's choice of wording is no accident.

00:37:31.620 Let's close the show today with Reverend King's most magnificent speech. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:37:36.940 is the Michael Knowles Show. Come back tomorrow. We'll do it all again.

00:37:39.400 We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to

00:37:48.800 the mountaintop. I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity

00:38:02.660 has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

00:38:13.660 And he has allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over and I've seen the promised land.

00:38:24.060 I may not get there with you, but I want you to know the night that we as a people will get to the promised land.

00:38:40.760 So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

00:38:46.840 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 15, 2018

Ep. 87 - Racism And Our Sh＊＊hole Culture

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