The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Do you remember five months ago when Dr. Fauci testified unequivocally before the Senate

00:00:05.820 that the NIH had not funded gain-of-function research related to the Wuhan Institute of

00:00:12.620 Virology? Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect

00:00:20.260 that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute

00:00:30.880 of Virology. Do they fund Dr. Barrett? We do not fund... Do you fund Dr. Barrett's gain-of-function

00:00:36.660 research? Dr. Barrett does not doing gain-of-function research, and if it is, it's according to the

00:00:43.340 guidelines, and it is being conducted in North Carolina, not in China. Now, Fauci's state

00:00:50.240 was always pretty suspect, and Rand Paul nails him here, because Fauci simultaneously denies

00:00:56.640 that the research took place at all, ever, and also says that it's perfectly fine. We're

00:01:02.300 not doing gain-of-function research, but, you know, even if we are, it's totally cool. It's

00:01:06.420 great. Well, we now know that Fauci's statement was completely 100% false. Just last Wednesday,

00:01:15.480 the NIH principal deputy director, Lawrence Tabak, informed a Republican congressman that the NIH

00:01:22.980 actually did fund gain-of-function research. And it wasn't just in North Carolina, as Fauci

00:01:29.400 insisted, but in China, in Wuhan, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on bat coronaviruses.

00:01:38.380 I'm Michael Knowles. It's The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:47.280 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from Friday is from Paul Helton,

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00:02:19.700 back off the politics, that's when we lose the whole culture and the country suffers. So we actually

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00:03:57.520 Acre Gold, for supporting the show. Do you remember, this is going to be a nice trip down

00:04:01.860 memory lane this episode. Do you remember when Dr. Fauci unequivocally 100%, no, we have nothing to

00:04:08.540 do with the gain of function research. Oh, actually we do. And we funded it and we funded it in Wuhan.

00:04:12.580 Do you remember when Joe Biden said that he opposed vaccine mandates? Well, now he's,

00:04:19.680 he's completely changed his point of view. So for quite a long time, he said, I oppose it,

00:04:24.480 I oppose it, I oppose it. Now he of course is attempting to issue vaccine mandates. And here's

00:04:29.760 how he explains this change in his perspective. Should police officers, emergency responders be

00:04:36.520 mandated to get vaccines. And if not, should they be stay at home or let go? Yes. And yes.

00:04:45.040 By the way,

00:04:46.100 I waited until July to talk about mandating because I tried everything else possible.

00:04:58.340 The mandates are working. All the stuff about people leaving and people, you have, you have

00:05:06.000 everyone from United Airlines to spirit, all these airlines are, we're not going to get all 96,

00:05:12.000 97% of the people have gotten the vaccine. All the talk about all these folks who are going to leave

00:05:17.380 the military if they're mandated, not true. You got about a 90 some percent vaccination rate.

00:05:23.300 So Joe Biden is fudging the numbers a little bit here because it's true that a lot of organizations

00:05:30.440 are getting up to pretty high levels of vaccination, but a lot of organizations are also laying a ton

00:05:35.160 of people off. United Airlines, what was it last week or two weeks ago, fired something like 600

00:05:40.840 employees because they didn't want to take the Fauci ouchie. So sure. Other organizations are doing

00:05:46.900 this too. People are quitting. People are letting their contracts expire. People are being fired

00:05:50.380 outright. So sure. That's when you fire all the unvaccinated people, then your numbers for

00:05:54.680 vaccination are going to go up. But, but in a lot of cases, companies, including airlines are pushing

00:05:59.640 back against the mandates. Delta Airlines, one of the biggest kind of a liberal airlines, one of the

00:06:06.940 biggest airlines in the United States though, just came out last week and backtracked and said, no,

00:06:11.160 we're not going to force our guys to get the vaccine. They don't want to get it. It's wrong.

00:06:14.520 We're going to lose a lot of our, of our fleet. And so we're just not going to do it. We're going to

00:06:18.420 back off that mandate. Southwest, the same thing. There was a sick out a couple of weeks ago on

00:06:22.800 Southwest airlines. The pilots and the other workers didn't want to get the vaccine. And so

00:06:27.420 Southwest is backing off the mandate. Now they've come out and said, we oppose the vaccine mandate.

00:06:33.080 Police departments are dealing with this. Chicago PD, they're expecting 40 to 50% to walk off the

00:06:38.060 force. TSA, TSA has reportedly had a number of sick outs. This is also one of the reasons why the

00:06:45.080 airlines were all screwed up a couple of weeks ago. All right. Also Joe Biden, he's making these

00:06:49.920 really strong claims. The mandates work, the mandates work. Well, yeah, it works if you fire

00:06:54.660 all of the people who aren't going to go along with it, but you're going to have serious economic and

00:06:59.180 political repercussions from that. What does this boil down to? It boils down to people's right to

00:07:04.440 make, in this case, their own medical decisions when they don't face a grave risk from the virus,

00:07:09.680 for most people. When the vaccine is brand new, it uses, in some cases, brand new vaccine technology.

00:07:16.520 There have been proven side effects, some of which have been deadly. That's why they paused

00:07:20.140 one of the vaccines. What does Joe Biden say? He laughs. He scoffs at your silly idea of freedom.

00:07:27.920 The two things that concern me, one are those who just try to make this a political issue,

00:07:33.620 freedom. I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID. No, I mean, come on. Freedom.

00:07:40.920 Free, come on. Freedom. Ugh, disgust. You, you peepy peasants. Freedom. What, you have the freedom

00:07:48.840 to kill people with your, if you are unvaccinated, this is what Joe Biden's saying. If you're unvaccinated,

00:07:53.620 you are putting the vaccinated people at risk because if you have the vaccine, you can't spread

00:07:58.480 the virus and you can't, you can't contract the virus, presumably, but you certainly, as Joe Biden is

00:08:03.120 implying here, can't spread it to others, except that isn't true. Even if you're vaccinated, you can

00:08:07.380 still spread it to others. This is what the CDC said at the end of July. This is why the vaccinated

00:08:12.260 are still being required to wear masks, according to CDC guidance. This is why people are being told

00:08:17.620 to socially distance and still take all of these precautions. This is why people are being told,

00:08:24.460 maybe don't go to Christmas this year. Maybe don't go to Thanksgiving this year. This is,

00:08:27.480 this is why all of these things are happening. So it's, it's both in the particular, the idea that

00:08:34.460 once you're vaccinated, everything's totally fine. That's being contradicted by the CDC.

00:08:38.540 The idea that you're going, the vaccinated are at great risk because of the unvaccinated is being

00:08:43.660 contradicted by the CDC because we're still being told if you're vaccinated, you have a very low risk

00:08:47.520 of hospitalization or death. And in the broad principle here, the idea that Americans are,

00:08:54.580 are just too wedded to their freedom. And you got to give up your freedom and take the Fauci

00:08:58.360 ouchie, whether it's the, the president telling you to do so, whether it's the occupational safety

00:09:03.340 and health administration telling you to do so, whether it's all these kinds of bureaucrats and

00:09:07.380 technocrats whose power I can't exactly locate in the American political tradition. It's a contempt

00:09:14.480 for your freedom. It's a contempt for your way of life. It's a contempt for you. And it's never going

00:09:20.600 to end by the way, because I was just citing the CDC and how the goalposts keep moving. Well,

00:09:25.340 they're, they have moved the goalposts very, very far. The director of the CDC has just come out and

00:09:29.860 said, they're going to change the definition of fully vaccinated.

00:09:34.980 Right now, we don't have booster eligibility for all people currently. So we are going to,

00:09:40.420 we have not yet changed the definition of fully vaccinated. We will continue to look at this.

00:09:45.780 We may need to update our definition of fully vaccinated in the future. But right now,

00:09:50.280 what I would say is if you're eligible for a booster, go ahead and get your booster and we

00:09:54.320 will continue to follow. So right now, the CDC, the FDA, the administrative health bodies refuse to

00:10:01.460 say that the boosters are safe for everybody. So unfortunately we can't mandate that they all

00:10:06.700 take a third shot or a fourth shot or a fifth shot, or it's going to go on forever. But when we can,

00:10:11.760 says the CDC director, we're very likely going to change the definition of fully vaccinated.

00:10:15.320 Do you see how this goes? Do you get it yet? Since those 15 days to slow the spread,

00:10:21.960 since Easter, at least of 2020, we have pointed out that the, the, the argument that if you just

00:10:30.840 comply with one more requirement, then they're going to let us all be free again, that that was

00:10:36.300 bogus. Actually, the opposite was true. A lot of people, a lot of well-meaning, naive, gullible

00:10:42.080 people thought, Oh, if I just wear the mask, then we can get back to society. If I just take the

00:10:47.600 shot, then we can get back. If I just take the second shot, if I just take now the third shot,

00:10:52.080 if I just take, if they can change the definition of fully vaccinated, and if they can take all of

00:10:57.740 your political rights and, and have them all depend upon whether or not you're fully vaccinated,

00:11:03.500 then it's never going away. And I think people are beginning to wake up and get that. And by the

00:11:09.260 way, what the CDC director is saying is if you refuse, and if you can somehow avoid the dubious

00:11:14.340 mandates, the mandates of dubious legality that the white house is putting out, well, okay,

00:11:19.840 we've got a plan for you. We're going to put you into counseling. There is a plan. Should these people

00:11:25.400 not want to be vaccinated towards education and counseling to get people the information they

00:11:31.560 need so that they are feeling comfortable in getting vaccinated? That's fine. Oh,

00:11:36.020 you don't want to get that's okay. We're just going to put you in a reeducation camp. We're just

00:11:39.980 going to put you for your own good into some counseling. Because if you object to taking an

00:11:47.660 experimental drug for a virus that for most people doesn't pose a grave threat that was developed and

00:11:52.180 in some cases produced using the stem cells from aborted babies, if you object to that in any way,

00:11:56.820 it's because you're crazy, you're a lunatic. There's no and or because there are side effects

00:12:01.840 that have been pretty serious and included death in some people and their academic studies to back

00:12:06.880 this up. If you're just crazy and you need to be corrected and you need to be reeducated and that's

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00:13:43.740 So the ruling class is saying, give up your freedom, give up your rights, give up your way

00:13:48.920 of life. Freedom. Come on, man, says Joe Biden. That's what they're telling you.

00:13:54.660 And what are they offering you in return? Usually when demagogues try to take away your freedom,

00:14:02.440 they do so in this clever way. They offer you a bunch of goodies in return. They'll offer you money.

00:14:06.740 They'll offer you bread. They'll offer you circuses. They'll offer you employment.

00:14:09.580 They'll entice you with goodies to get you to give up these greater political goods.

00:14:16.100 But this ruling class is so stupid and incompetent, they can't even offer you that.

00:14:20.640 What is the ruling class giving you in exchange for your freedom? High unemployment. They're offering

00:14:26.980 you terrible work conditions. So, you know, a labor shortage that somehow still can't be filled.

00:14:35.040 They're offering you crazy mandates from your employer. They're taking away Christmas. They're

00:14:40.600 taking away your holidays. They're taking away your travel. What are they giving you? They're not

00:14:46.120 giving you anything at all. And what is the answer that they have? You say, hold on, Joe Biden, I gave

00:14:52.240 you my freedom. I gave you my way of life. I gave you this. How come even the cost of consumer goods is

00:14:58.460 going up? How come I'm paying more for gas? I'm paying more for my food. I can't go live my normal

00:15:03.480 life. They have no answer for it. So there's there. But I don't I must tell you, I don't have

00:15:11.280 a near term answer. There's two things I could do. I could go on the petroleum reserve and take out

00:15:19.340 and probably reduce reduce the price of gas, maybe 18 cents or so a gallon. It's still going to be above

00:15:28.220 three bucks. But it's going to be hard. It's going to be hard. There's a possibility to be able to bring

00:15:33.720 it down. Depends on a little bit on Saudi Arabia and a few other things that are in the office.

00:15:41.020 But I don't have an answer, man. Look, I could. Come on. What am I going to? I got to go. If I do the

00:15:47.340 one thing, it won't work that well. And then I don't know, man. Come on, man. I don't know.

00:15:51.980 I don't know. Right. They don't know. They don't know anything when when the president or one of his

00:16:00.540 advisors or one of the experts tells you this is what's going to happen. You should doubt it. I at

00:16:06.340 least have a little bit of respect for Biden here in that he's admitting they have no idea what they're

00:16:10.280 doing. I don't know the gas thing, man. Come on, man. I don't know. Because usually what happens with

00:16:15.040 these people is they tell you emphatically this will happen. This did happen. We did. I sent it a poll.

00:16:21.980 We did not. We. How dare you, Senator Paul, suggest that the NIH funded gain of function

00:16:29.300 research in that is completely 100 percent incorrect. Except it. Except we did. Except

00:16:36.220 we did. And the NIH is actually admitting that now. This happens again and again and again.

00:16:41.360 Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, said back in July that the rising prices would only last for several

00:16:49.020 months and then it would be fine. No big deal. Janet Yellen was just asked, why why do the prices keep

00:16:53.980 going up? How long is this going to go on for? She says, oh, buckle up. It's going to go on for a long

00:16:58.560 time. This rising inflation is hitting Americans while it's hard, impacting everything from gas prices to

00:17:04.340 groceries. When do you expect the inflation to get back to the two percent range, which is considered

00:17:10.340 normal 2022, 2023? When? Well, I expect that to happen next year. Monthly rates of inflation have

00:17:20.360 already fallen substantially from the very high rates that we saw in the spring and early summer.

00:17:27.360 On a 12 month basis, the inflation rate will remain high into next year because of what's already

00:17:36.740 happened. But I expect improvement by the end of by the middle to end of next year. Second,

00:17:45.080 second half of next year. Hold on. We went from in July 2021. Don't worry,

00:17:51.820 the inflation is only going to go on a few more months to. Yeah, I expect some improvement,

00:17:57.180 by the end of 2022. That happened pretty quick. Kind of like how 15 days to slow the spread became

00:18:06.060 sure we're going to be done by early summer or late, I guess, late spring of 2020. We're going

00:18:13.420 to be done with this becomes actually spring of 2022. There's no reason to believe Janet Yellen's

00:18:18.560 right about it ending at the end of next year. They're wrong about everything. Janet Yellen was wrong

00:18:24.220 just a few months ago. So why do we believe that she's right now? The public health bureaucrats

00:18:28.840 were wrong, have been consistently wrong since early 2020. Why do we believe that they're right

00:18:33.400 now? Joe Biden, got to give the guy credit. He's completely incompetent, not a whole lot going on

00:18:37.580 between the ears. He's disingenuous. He's a liar. He's all of those terrible things. But at least he's

00:18:42.560 admitting here, yeah, we have no clue what we are doing. Right now, members of our Congress are being

00:18:55.500 silenced for saying that men are not women. Okay, that's the level of lies and delusion and fantasy

00:19:03.440 that we are living in. Representative Jim Banks tweeted out this bizarre observation that the

00:19:12.120 first female four-star general or first female four-star admiral, according to the mainstream

00:19:17.380 media and the public health establishment, is this guy, Dr. Richard Levine, who now goes by Rachel,

00:19:24.040 who is the assistant secretary for health. Quite an indictment of the country. Well, he was suspended

00:19:31.600 from Twitter for saying that because our ruling class doesn't know anything about COVID, doesn't

00:19:37.380 know anything about inflation, doesn't know anything about how to run the country or the

00:19:43.260 economy, doesn't even know that men are not women. These are the experts. These are the geniuses.

00:19:49.540 So Jim Banks, Republican congressman, kicked off Twitter for this. People are saying, the ones who are

00:19:56.360 defending his suspension from Twitter are saying that what he said was rude, that it's rude to,

00:20:01.600 tell this, or not even to tell this, it's not like he was directing this at Richard Levine, to tell

00:20:08.380 this society that Mr. Levine is not actually a woman, even though he pretends to be a woman. That this

00:20:16.100 is rude, this is cruel. A compassionate society would just indulge this delusion and pretend that Levine

00:20:22.460 is a woman. A compassionate society would let boys into the girls' bathroom. And, you know, if, like in

00:20:30.420 Loudoun County, some of these sexually confused boys rape little girls, that's, you know, that's

00:20:36.440 either we're going to cover it up, like Loudoun County tried to do, or finally, when, when the

00:20:41.380 secret comes out, we're just going to downplay it and it's not a big deal. And actually, that's the

00:20:45.160 cost of progress. Sometimes little girls get raped when men get to go into the girls' room, but that's

00:20:50.000 the cost of the compassion of pretending that men are women and indulging their delusions, right?

00:20:55.660 That's the cost. So people say, Jim Banks should not have the right to say that. It's mean, it's

00:21:00.840 hate speech, it's wrong. And some conservatives have, have been so radicalized by this, they've

00:21:07.180 gone completely in the opposite direction. And they, I think, are also making claims that are

00:21:11.360 unfounded. They're saying, you have the right to say whatever you want. This is the free speech

00:21:15.080 absolutist position. This is kind of the point I argue in my book, speechless. They say, you have the

00:21:19.800 right to say whatever you want, with very, very narrow exceptions. You should, you have

00:21:24.260 the God-given natural right to say whatever you want. Even if it's totally nonsensical,

00:21:29.400 even if it's a lie, even if it's not true, you have the right to say it. That isn't true

00:21:33.120 either. You don't have the right to just say whatever you want willy-nilly, okay? Even from

00:21:39.900 a First Amendment perspective, there are plenty of areas of speech that are not permitted. Threats,

00:21:45.960 fighting words, obscenity, the list goes on and on. You don't have the right to those

00:21:51.820 things. And on a, on a platform, the kind of libertarian-y types, the, the squishes who

00:21:56.820 defend big tech, they have a little bit of a point as well. Platforms do have a right

00:22:00.040 to enforce standards. All human societies have the right to enforce standards. Jim Banks, all

00:22:05.700 of us, we do not have the right to say whatever we want. We do, however, have the right to tell

00:22:11.620 the truth. We have the right to say true things. But in this society, under this ruling class,

00:22:18.640 increasingly, we do not at all, we especially don't have the right to say true things. And

00:22:23.480 we are obligated to say false things. That's the perversity here, okay? It's not just that

00:22:28.700 we don't have free speech. Absolutely. And it's not just that there is censorship. All societies

00:22:34.400 have censorship. All societies have standards, okay? The problem here is we're not allowed to

00:22:39.860 tell the truth. And you actually do have a right to tell the truth. And you actually have an

00:22:43.460 obligation to tell the truth. But according to our ruling class, that is cruel. Actually,

00:22:51.660 on this specific issue of transgenderism and what's going on in Loudoun County, Virginia,

00:22:57.980 this Virginia governor's race may hinge on this question. The biggest issue that is afflicting

00:23:02.900 the Democrat candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe, former governor of Virginia, he wants to be

00:23:07.080 governor again, is this issue of the schools and specifically this issue in Loudoun County.

00:23:11.840 Do parents have a right to have a say in their kids' education? Do boys have a right to go into

00:23:18.220 the girls' room, even if it's going to lead, in some cases, to violent rape? Do they have a right

00:23:23.660 because of these kooky ideological ideas about gender and progress? This debate, which seems like

00:23:30.120 it's a local debate in Virginia, is actually bringing in the big guns. Barack Obama himself flew down to

00:23:35.900 Virginia to campaign for Terry McAuliffe to say that all this stuff you're hearing from the

00:23:41.520 Republicans, all this stuff, you know, this whole story about the girl getting raped in a school

00:23:46.480 bathroom in Virginia by a guy who wears a dress. That is just a culture war distraction. Close your

00:23:55.660 eyes, close your ears, and tune it out. By the way, speaking of the culture war, you may have heard

00:24:00.460 last week, the entertainment Goliath ESPN lost Alison Williams, who's a seasoned sports reporter.

00:24:07.140 Disney, which is ESPN's parent company, is forcing its employees to receive the Fauci ouchie or get

00:24:12.720 fired. Alison chose to wait until she tries to have a child. I think a very reasonable, prudent

00:24:19.120 decision, especially for a young, healthy woman to make. Okay. But ESPN decided that they were going to

00:24:26.100 force Americans to choose between their livelihoods and their freedom to make personal

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00:25:09.400 you have the New York Times show. They have the New York Times Daily Show, and they come on with that

00:25:15.020 really smooth, quiet way. They say, well, welcome. Welcome to The New York Times Morning Show. My name is

00:25:19.300 Michael, blah, blah, blah, blah. And we are, and the Republicans are really bad. And the Democrats are

00:25:24.260 really good. And Fauci is great. And, but they do it in this way that's really kind of quiet and

00:25:29.840 subtle. So you think you're getting the news, but you're not. You're just getting a bunch of

00:25:32.700 left-wing opinion. Well, we decided people deserve to get the facts, just the facts. So we're giving it

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00:25:42.600 review if you like what you hear. We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:25:49.300 If you think that men are not actually women, and if you think that women have the right to be women,

00:26:02.660 and you think that men don't have the right to redefine what it is to be a woman, and you have,

00:26:07.340 and you believe that young girls have the right not to be threatened and victimized by men in their

00:26:12.980 own bathrooms, Barack Obama says, you're just, you're just another cynical cultural warrior

00:26:21.160 distracting us from the real issues. We don't have time to be wasting on these phony trumped up culture

00:26:31.460 wars. This fake outrage that right-wing media's pedals to juice their ratings. And the fact that

00:26:39.340 he's willing to go along with it, instead of talking about serious problems that actually

00:26:43.040 affect serious people, that's a shame. That's not what this election's about. That's not what you

00:26:50.260 need, Virginia. This fake outrage that a ninth grade girl was raped by a dude in a women's bathroom.

00:26:56.640 This fake outrage. No one's really outraged by that, right? So, I want to be as charitable as I can

00:27:02.020 to Obama. He's saying one of two things here. He's either saying that the story is completely fake,

00:27:07.500 which it's not. I mean, at this point, Daily Wire broke the story. So, the mainstream media,

00:27:12.020 the left-wing media didn't want to cover it. We broke the story, but now everyone is reporting

00:27:16.200 on it. We forced the Washington Post to report on this thing, right? This is everywhere now.

00:27:19.440 So, either Obama is saying implausibly that the story's false, or this is even more shocking,

00:27:26.220 he's saying that you just shouldn't be outraged about it. Look, listen, sometimes little girls are

00:27:31.160 going to get raped, okay? That's progress. That's the cost of progress, okay? You didn't think that,

00:27:35.820 it's like when Barack Obama was defending Obamacare. After he had lied and lied and lied

00:27:40.060 about the cost of Obamacare, he said, you're not going to pay for it. You're not going to pay for

00:27:43.920 it. This is going to be cheaper. It's going to be better. And then what happened? We found out

00:27:47.320 Obamacare, everyone's prices went up. They said, well, what? You didn't think you were going to get

00:27:50.380 all that stuff for free, did you? You didn't. Well, he's saying the same thing here.

00:27:57.020 He's saying the same thing here. What? You didn't think you were going to get all that social

00:28:00.800 progress for free, did you? I don't know what's going on with my impressions this week, but even

00:28:05.320 my Obama's becoming a Bill Clinton. You didn't think that you were going to get all, I don't know.

00:28:09.620 I don't know. I got to go back. My British accent's no good anymore. My Obama's, it's fine. It's a

00:28:14.220 separate point. That's what he's saying. How callous is that? How crazy is that? There's an irony here

00:28:18.520 because you'll hear dismissal of the culture wars from the left, but you'll hear it from some

00:28:25.860 squishes on the right as well. And the irony here is that the people who dismiss the culture war

00:28:33.120 are always the most radical cultural warriors, right? Because when we talk about the culture war

00:28:40.100 issues, we're talking about letting dudes into the girls' room. We're talking about radically

00:28:43.800 redefining marriage. We're talking about killing babies to the tune of a million a year. We're talking

00:28:48.360 about all of these very important issues. And Obama's position on them is, yeah, we should kill

00:28:57.960 the babies and we should be permitted to kill the babies up until the point of birth. Yeah, we should

00:29:01.860 radically redefine marriage away from what it's been for all of human history everywhere in the world.

00:29:06.300 And yeah, we should let boys go into the girls' room, even if, yeah, unfortunately every so often a

00:29:10.640 girl's going to get raped. And even if just as a matter of justice, the men have no place in the

00:29:16.680 girls' room. Now, come on, stop focusing on that culture war. You're the culture warrior, Barack

00:29:21.700 Obama. This is when the left says, oh, you Republicans, you conservatives, you're so obsessed

00:29:26.520 with sex. What are you talking about? We didn't start this. We're not the ones who said redefine

00:29:32.240 marriage. We're not the ones who said push abortion everywhere. We're not the ones who said that you

00:29:38.540 need to have throuples and quadruples and redefine all sorts of social and sexual relations. You're the

00:29:45.580 ones doing that. And so what we're being so gaslit here because the left is the aggressor in all of

00:29:53.380 these cultural war battles. And then the minute that we object to their insane, harmful plans, they say

00:30:00.600 that we're the ones who are obsessed with the culture war. No, we're not. We're just saying no. We're

00:30:05.280 saying, hey, actually, maybe don't do that. Actually, maybe that's wrong. Maybe that's going to have

00:30:09.780 harmful effects. Come on, what's wrong with you guys? We need to get to the important issues like

00:30:12.640 cutting taxes a little. And the squishes go along with it. The squishes on the conservative side,

00:30:17.440 they say, actually, guys, you know, look, we, marriage, it's over. Okay. It's a completely,

00:30:22.120 we, we just totally, who cares? Actually, abortion, who cares? Look, we lost abortion back in,

00:30:28.180 in Roe versus Wade. Actually, pretending that men are women, we lost that. It's over. Come on,

00:30:34.620 let the girls go into the, let the boys go into the girls' bathroom. It's fine. Let's just focus on

00:30:40.000 taxes or whatever. Let's just focus on occupational licensing reform.

00:30:45.980 This is what the squishes are saying. So, yes, you want to talk about the culture war? Yes.

00:30:50.680 We here at the Daily Wire in particular are leaning into the cultural fight. Okay. That was always the

00:30:55.340 point of this company. And we're doing it right now, not just commenting on culture, but actually

00:30:59.020 creating culture because that's what matters. Okay. And nobody freaking cares about some bean counting,

00:31:06.780 technocratic, work around the margins reform of some economic aspect of this country.

00:31:16.740 When you compare that to killing, killing a million babies a year, upending the bedrock social

00:31:21.220 institution and sending men into the girls' room. You want to talk about a culture war? Right now

00:31:26.320 in Oakland, there is a bust, a little, you know, shoulder up statue of, of a figure that was just

00:31:36.540 unveiled. The bust was of Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton. The Black Panther Party

00:31:46.540 was a violent terrorist organization. It's actually been sort of refounded now to intimidate

00:31:51.060 voters who don't go along with them. But this guy alone, just this guy, Huey P. Newton was infamous

00:31:58.820 for regularly abusing women. In 1974, he was charged with murdering a teenage prostitute because she had

00:32:05.460 disrespected him. The Black Panther Party, more broadly, was known for kidnapping people, torturing

00:32:11.740 people, murdering people, including young, helpless people. There's one incident in New Haven. The New

00:32:16.820 Haven Black Panther Party was particularly notorious where they took an 18-year-old boy because they

00:32:21.620 felt that he had betrayed them. And they beat him. They poured scalding water on him. They tortured

00:32:28.120 him. Then they took him to a dock and they lynched him with, I think, a coat hanger and then shot him

00:32:37.000 in the head. And these people are being honored here. These people are getting statues put up. We're taking

00:32:42.340 down statues of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and we are putting up statues of

00:32:47.980 terrorists, of left-wing terrorists. The Black Panther Party is as bad as it gets, okay? But because

00:32:56.060 these are bad black guys who worked for left-wing causes, they are being exalted as heroes. They are

00:33:05.660 being whitewashed, to use a sort of ironic term that's used a lot today. We take down Christopher

00:33:12.000 Columbus. We accuse Columbus of a bunch of things he didn't do. And then we tear down his statues,

00:33:16.860 even though he founded this country and none of us would be here without him. We tear down

00:33:20.180 Washington's statue. We tear down Jefferson's and Lincoln's, the man who freed the slaves. We tear

00:33:24.640 down his statue. And we put up statues of psycho murderers, woman abusers, radicals, because they

00:33:35.980 serve the political narrative. Do you get it yet? Do you see it yet? I think there's a lot of waking up

00:33:40.680 right now. All right. This is in part why this word woke is so popular on the left and why the

00:33:46.660 term red pill is so popular on the right. They both describe the same phenomenon, which is waking up

00:33:51.660 from a dream. I think people are waking up from the dream of 15 days to slow the spread. That was

00:33:57.220 never about public health. It was always about a power grab. Tearing down the statues. It was never

00:34:02.260 about the alleged sins of Christopher Columbus or Thomas Jefferson. It was always about a power grab,

00:34:07.620 a power grab by the left in this country that hates the way things were, that hates what the

00:34:13.600 country was, and maybe to some degree still is, and it wants to radically change it.

00:34:20.500 Speaking of these bad guys, I think the tide is beginning to turn a little bit. I think people

00:34:25.520 are getting a little bit woke and they're getting a little bit red pilled and they're whatever term you

00:34:28.940 want to use, specifically on Fauci. But what is turning the tide on Fauci is a little unfortunate to me.

00:34:36.900 So you may have seen this story over the weekend. Some documents were obtained

00:34:41.320 by the White Coat Waste Project via a Freedom of Information Act request that showed that from

00:34:49.960 October 2018 until February 2019, NIAID, that is the aspect of the National Institutes of Health that

00:34:56.740 Dr. Fauci runs and has run for decades, spent $1.68 million in taxpayer funds on drug tests involving

00:35:04.540 44 beagle puppies. And the tests were pretty sick. A lot of them involved, well, involved

00:35:12.400 torturing the puppies. I guess that's how you'd put it. You know, putting parts of the puppies' bodies

00:35:17.360 in little sealed containers with hungry little flies that would eat the puppies alive or, you know,

00:35:24.240 poisoning the puppies and then, you know, dissecting them and looking at what the effect of that on their

00:35:28.800 organs. Or in one report said they ripped out the vocal cords of puppies so they wouldn't need to hear

00:35:33.460 the puppies scream while they were conducting these medical experiments on them and, in effect,

00:35:38.920 torturing them. This is all very sad. This has people outraged. Bipartisan calls now for Fauci to

00:35:44.500 resign or at least to be investigated, give an answer for this. I guess it's because I'm not a dog

00:35:51.060 person. I don't know. I'm not a dog person. I'm not a cat person. I'm more a people person.

00:35:55.660 And I think it is an indictment of our culture that we are outraged that Dr. Fauci performed medical

00:36:02.920 experiments on beagles. But we don't care that our government experiments on babies, on fetal stem

00:36:11.780 cells. We create vaccines out of the cells of killed babies. We kill almost a million babies a

00:36:18.740 year in this country through abortion. That's fine. That's to be celebrated or to be discussed in these

00:36:23.840 very clinical terms. But if you conduct a medical experiment on a puppy, that's a bridge too far.

00:36:29.380 Because, according to these people, the beagles are much more precious than the babies. That's what

00:36:37.780 they think. It's frustrating because I don't have any problem with medical experimentation on animals.

00:36:45.560 I think it's actually a good thing because you try out these new treatments on animals and you see if

00:36:51.700 they work and if they don't work. And sometimes the treatments are going to kill the animals and

00:36:55.280 sometimes it's going to improve the animals. And then this is a way of figuring out whether or not

00:36:59.860 it's going to work on people without having to experiment on people, whether it's little babies

00:37:03.160 or aborted fetal cells or actual adults, you know, fully grown adults in the general population.

00:37:10.740 Right? We don't, I would much rather experiment on a beagle than on a human being at any stage of

00:37:18.840 development. Whether we're talking about a little baby or a kid or a teenager or an adult. I don't

00:37:28.060 think animals have any rights. I don't think we should torture animals. But C.S. Lewis makes this point.

00:37:32.160 The problem with animal cruelty is not that animals have some rights that we are violating when we

00:37:37.320 torture them. It's that torturing animals will deaden our humanity. The problem is actually still

00:37:44.540 for us. So we shouldn't do it. We should be good stewards of creation. But there's nothing wrong

00:37:49.480 with medical experiments on animals. There is something wrong with medical experiments on

00:37:54.440 little babies. Okay? And on adult humans and everyone in between. Speaking of life and death,

00:38:02.140 I have to get to this story. It's probably the biggest story of the weekend. Alec Baldwin killed a woman

00:38:06.480 on the set of his film Rust. So Alec Baldwin, who's a legendary actor and he's very left wing. So a lot

00:38:13.900 of conservatives hate him. But you got to give the guy credit. He's a very good actor. And he's a good

00:38:17.580 dramatic actor. And he's a very good comedic actor. And I, I'm, I mean, I, whenever the guy opens his

00:38:22.680 mouth about politics, I want to pull my hair out. But I've never let that completely turn me off the

00:38:28.180 guy's performances. I think he's a good artist. So he was on set of this movie. Someone handed him a prop gun

00:38:33.740 and he discharged the weapon and the cinematographer ended up dead and the director ended up injured.

00:38:40.580 And that's pretty much all we know. So there's a lot of confusion here. We're being told that the

00:38:47.780 weapons master on the set told Baldwin that the gun was not loaded. It was a cold gun. And, but,

00:38:54.520 but still it's up to the actor not to point the gun at somebody. It's up to the actor not to be

00:39:00.340 negligent in his use of the gun. So a lot of conservatives are really going after him.

00:39:06.100 I've actually been on sets with guns in my wayward youth when I was occasionally in,

00:39:11.420 in a movie or two. I've been on them with guns and people tend to take this very seriously,

00:39:15.500 even in really low budget movies, even in really, we're being told this movie Rust was relatively

00:39:21.040 pretty low budget, even though it had a big star like Baldwin in it. But I was once on a movie set

00:39:25.640 and a weapon was discharged and it wasn't like some actor was just running willy nilly shooting in

00:39:30.660 the air. But, you know, there were, there were people around him and they were kind of working

00:39:34.080 through a scene, but because they had not totally locked down the set and had everyone there

00:39:39.640 notified and ready for the gun to go off. When it went off, this was a huge deal. They had to shut

00:39:44.580 down the set. I mean, it was a really big prop. People take this stuff seriously. So there were

00:39:48.680 reports that, that people had been negligent on set, that people said the weapons were not safe.

00:39:53.440 Obviously this weapons master, if, if the, she told, and reportedly it was very young,

00:39:58.720 like 24 year old weapons master. She was obviously wrong. Alec Baldwin very likely was negligent

00:40:04.280 here. But my, my take on it is, look, there'll be some investigation. If, if Alec Baldwin were

00:40:09.440 criminally liable, then obviously he should be prosecuted for it. But I think conservatives

00:40:14.340 are a little too quick here to, to just jump in and say, you know, lock him up and throw away the

00:40:21.100 key because we don't like his politics. I do think there is something worth remembering here,

00:40:26.200 which is that sometimes bad things just happen. Sometimes accidents just happen. I'm not saying,

00:40:31.920 maybe this was just absolute criminal negligence, but sometimes accidents just happen too. And it's

00:40:36.840 a very left-wing perspective to pretend that if we only follow all the rules and if we only,

00:40:41.420 you know, get everything perfectly right in this rationalist scientific way, then nothing bad is

00:40:47.080 ever going to happen again. And that's not true. Sometimes there are just accidents. Okay. And that's,

00:40:51.460 that is a very conservative insight. And I think we need to recognize this because that's,

00:40:54.840 that's true, not just on movie sets, but that's true in our politics. It's true in all of our

00:40:59.520 lives. So we might just want to wait before we inadvertently jump in and grant a lot of left-wing

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00:41:47.660 Speaking of eternal things, Joe Biden just came in. This story didn't get a lot of play,

00:41:55.180 but it really should because it tells you a lot about our ruling class. Joe Biden was just giving

00:42:00.800 some speech about politics and about how extremely unpopular he is and how people still kind of like

00:42:05.940 Trump. And he was trying to downplay this. And Joe Biden made a claim that related to his Catholic

00:42:15.100 identity. See if you can catch the problem with this claim.

00:42:18.860 Something like 20% of the, half the Republicans are registered Republicans. I am not your president.

00:42:27.420 Donald Trump is still your president. As we Catholics say, oh my God.

00:42:33.820 Oh, ha, ha, yuckety, yuck, yuck, yuck. As we Catholics say. Do you notice, do you notice the problem here?

00:42:40.460 No. He says, as we Catholics say. And then he immediately broke the second commandment not to

00:42:47.660 take the Lord's name in vain. Isn't that a little strange? Catholics don't say this. Catholics are

00:42:54.900 obliged to avoid taking the Lord's name in vain. And you might say, oh, Michael, what? You've never

00:43:00.500 taken the Lord's name in vain? I have. I have sinned. I've committed almost, not every sin that there is

00:43:06.640 to commit, I guess, but a great deal of sins. And I am sorry for that, but it's not something that we

00:43:11.560 should encourage. And as is so often the case with Joe Biden, the problem here is not just that he is

00:43:17.980 committing these sins, but he's also committing the sin of scandal because he is presenting himself

00:43:23.900 as a Catholic, but he is violating so much of Catholic moral teaching, notably on abortion, right?

00:43:31.660 He's saying, I'm a Catholic, but we should definitely kill a million babies a year. And that's

00:43:35.320 confusing and that leads people astray. And that's a really big problem. And here you see the same

00:43:40.100 thing. For Joe Biden, Catholicism is a costume rather than a faith. He does not adhere to very

00:43:50.820 important teachings of the church. He publicly flouts them with the same contempt that you heard

00:43:56.140 from him at the very top of the show when Joe Biden said freedom. Come on, man, freedom. Come on,

00:44:02.400 man. He has the same dismissal, the same scorn for very important aspects of his faith. He wears

00:44:08.940 Catholicism like a drag queen wears a dress. It's just for show. Ha ha. He's making the sign of the

00:44:15.760 cross, very important symbol, as a kind of punchline, as a joke. Maybe other Catholics have done. I suspect

00:44:26.840 many people have done this before. I have been guilty of this kind of flippancy, but you got to

00:44:32.120 be sorry for it. You got to regret that. You got to try not to do it. You certainly shouldn't engage

00:44:36.800 in the sin of scandal by publicly flouting this sort of stuff. But Joe Biden's real faith is

00:44:43.060 liberalism. That's what it comes down to. And Nancy Pelosi's real faith, her real religion

00:44:48.540 is liberalism. And this is true for all of these guys. So they talk a good talk and they think it's

00:44:53.800 kind of folksy and cute, kind of like an ethnicity almost. You know, we Catholics,

00:45:00.060 kind of like, you know, Judaism is an ethnicity and a religion. So they'll say, we Jews, you know,

00:45:04.660 even someone who hasn't practiced the Jewish faith in decades, they'll say, we Jews, you know,

00:45:09.580 it's a Jewish thing. It's just us because there's a conflation here. The same is sometimes true for

00:45:13.500 Catholics because, you know, especially Irish Catholics or people who have a more ethnic connection

00:45:17.880 to it say, oh, we Catholics, we do, but they don't actually believe in these things.

00:45:21.020 Whenever there is a conflict between Catholicism and liberalism, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi,

00:45:28.780 Andrew Cuomo, they will choose liberalism because that's their true faith. Speaking of religions,

00:45:36.020 one of the expressions of liberalism and progressivism today in the religious sphere is

00:45:41.820 the religion of the sun monster, the religion of the, I guess you could call it the religion of

00:45:47.340 the unconquered sun. That was an old pagan religion in ancient Rome. And I guess it's the same one today

00:45:51.480 with global warming. So we've been told by the scientists, by the experts, by the geniuses for

00:45:57.220 years that global warming is going to melt the polar ice caps. It's going to kill all the polar bears.

00:46:02.400 And then one of the, it's going to melt the snows of Kilimanjaro. And one of the big

00:46:06.520 signals of global warming, according to these experts, is it's going to destroy the Great Barrier Reef.

00:46:12.320 The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is being destroyed by global warming. Al Gore and all

00:46:18.260 the rest of them have talked about this for years. This is a big marker of, of the real threat of

00:46:22.040 global warming. Well, the Australian government just released an official report on reef recovery

00:46:28.000 showing that the Northern Great Barrier Reef, quote, has continued to increase

00:46:33.160 27 percent from the most recent low point in 2016. The Central Barrier Reef saw a 26 percent increase

00:46:43.560 in hard coral cover. The study states that over 35 years of monitoring, the Great Barrier Reef has

00:46:49.040 consistently, quote, shown an ability to recover after disturbances. You're not hearing any of this.

00:46:55.040 Just like Al Gore told us the snows of Kilimanjaro would be gone by, oh, by now, actually by years ago.

00:47:00.380 And it wasn't true. Just like we were told all the polar bears are going to drown and the snow was

00:47:04.580 going to go away on the caps. That didn't happen. Well, the same thing we were told here and it just

00:47:08.880 isn't true. And it just reminds me of everything we've been talking about today. Dr. Fauci, we were

00:47:15.900 told emphatically, no gain of function research, none of it in Wuhan. It turns out that wasn't true

00:47:19.680 at all. Janet Yellen tells us we will recover. We're going to recover within a few months. Oh no,

00:47:24.960 actually the prices are going to keep increasing until the end of next year. We're going to this for 15

00:47:29.020 days to slow the spread. The polarized caps are melting, the Great Barrier Reef, and it's all just

00:47:32.560 bunk. It's just not true. Okay. How many more major claims do the ruling class need to be proven

00:47:41.780 wrong on before we recognize they have no credibility? You know, the scientists, the

00:47:53.240 scientific people are so often wrong, right? This is the one thing we know about science is

00:47:59.260 science is always wrong. Statistically, because there's some prevailing scientific consensus and

00:48:05.280 then it gets completely blown up by the next generation. And you wonder, how is this possible?

00:48:09.400 How is it that the smartest people who have the best degrees and they know all the details about

00:48:14.500 something, they can be so much dumber than your average Joe Schmo on the street who knows that the

00:48:20.220 sun monster isn't going to destroy the world in five minutes? It reminds me of a saying, I forget

00:48:24.260 exactly who pointed it out. It's the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is knowing

00:48:29.180 that a tomato is a fruit and wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. And I think that's what you're

00:48:34.400 seeing here. Ronald Reagan made a similar point. He said the problem with the Democrats, now we might

00:48:41.800 say the problem with our ruling class, is not that they're ignorant, it's that they know so many

00:48:45.440 things that aren't so. And I think it's time that we just ignore them. That when the Fauci's of the

00:48:52.740 world or the Bidens or the Yellens or somebody say something, we can almost be confident that the

00:48:57.040 opposite is going to be true. And we do still have political power to push back against them. And

00:49:01.740 they're seeing that now and they're feeling that pressure. Have that confidence. We're right,

00:49:06.220 they're wrong, stick by it and push ahead. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

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00:50:00.700 copyright Daily Wire 2021. The media is shocked to discover children may need male role models in their

00:50:06.720 life. Maybe the nuclear family isn't a patriarchal conspiracy after all. Also, the latest on the bizarre and

00:50:11.240 tragic Alec Baldwin story. And the Treasury Secretary now wants to levy taxes on unrealized

00:50:16.020 capital gains. If you don't know why that's an insane and tyrannical idea, I'll explain. Plus,

00:50:20.600 the White House unveils its national gender strategy, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. And

00:50:24.280 finally, once again, I find myself at the center of controversy and outrage, this time because I

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Ep. 871 - The Experiments On Puppies And Children

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