The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 95 - The GRAMMYs Prove Aristotle Right

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00:00:37.760 According to early numbers, ratings for the Grammys plummeted a stunning 33% over last year's viewership.

00:00:44.680 The awful awards show lost a third of its audience, and rightly so.

00:00:48.560 We will analyze why Americans are tuning out and how Aristotle warned us about Kesha and Kendrick Lamar.

00:00:54.260 Then, Ali Stuckey and Elisa Crouch joined the panel of deplorables to discuss FBI Director, Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe,

00:01:02.460 stepping down after embarrassing texts emerged suggesting that the bureaucrat may have used the federal government

00:01:08.360 to undermine the Trump campaign, the Netherlands approving the assisted suicide of a 29-year-old mentally ill woman,

00:01:15.380 and a new study published by Cambridge University Press showing that conservative men and women

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00:01:27.360 Finally, King George III dies on this day in history.

00:01:30.360 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:06:16.700 So the Grammys got destroyed in the ratings.

00:06:19.080 33% down on last year, which already was performing pretty dismally among the key 18 to 49 demographic.

00:06:26.340 It was awful.

00:06:27.600 I watched it.

00:06:28.580 I am the guy who watched it, or at least some of it, which is saying something.

00:06:32.440 I believe I constituted a full 50% of the Grammys audience from last night, and I only

00:06:37.980 watched parts of it because both Drew, for his show, and Fox and Friends first made me

00:06:42.340 covered it.

00:06:43.080 If one of them had asked, I would have refused because life is too short.

00:06:46.420 But both of them asked, so I watched it.

00:06:48.100 It was horrific.

00:06:49.180 But it did bring to mind some curious thoughts on the culture.

00:06:52.040 First, last night's Grammys prove Aristotle right.

00:06:55.480 We will explain more on that later.

00:06:56.900 And Patti LuPone's performance showed that our musical culture really has decayed.

00:07:01.700 It's not just nostalgia.

00:07:03.100 It's not just sentimentalism.

00:07:04.600 Our popular music really is worse now.

00:07:08.400 So to begin, let's really get started.

00:07:10.040 I'll put my keeps down here.

00:07:11.600 To begin, whatever it is that Kendrick Lamar does should be illegal.

00:07:16.320 I'm kidding, maybe.

00:07:18.040 I'm sort of kidding.

00:07:19.300 It is not just awful music and not great culture.

00:07:21.780 And it's ironic, actually, that I'm talking about Kendrick Lamar because I actually kind

00:07:27.060 of like the idea of Kendrick Lamar.

00:07:29.540 For the culture, he's probably a positive force.

00:07:32.320 He's apparently a devoted Christian.

00:07:33.940 He doesn't do drugs.

00:07:34.760 He's monogamous.

00:07:35.460 He's engaged to his longtime girlfriend.

00:07:38.260 He credits all of his success to God.

00:07:40.280 He said, quote,

00:07:41.240 I got a greater purpose.

00:07:42.420 God put something in my heart to get across.

00:07:44.620 And that's what I'm going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what

00:07:49.000 needs to be done.

00:07:49.760 He made his way out of Compton.

00:07:51.620 No easy task.

00:07:52.780 He doesn't shoot or stab people, which puts him leagues ahead of other famous hip-hop

00:07:56.840 people like Snoop Diggity-Doo Dad and Jay-Z.

00:07:59.540 He did vote for Barack Obama in 2012 because he said Mitt Romney doesn't have a good heart.

00:08:05.460 I don't like that very much.

00:08:06.520 That's neither charitable nor true.

00:08:08.640 But all in all, the idea of this guy is pretty good.

00:08:11.340 And he is among the best that the music industry in 2018 has to offer.

00:08:15.740 But his music is terrible.

00:08:17.160 It's just awful.

00:08:18.280 That for some people, this is their primary exposure to art.

00:08:22.420 This is what they think art is.

00:08:23.840 That is a tragedy for our culture.

00:08:25.880 Here are some lyrics from Kendrick's bizarre, apparently, I guess, political opening at the

00:08:31.080 Grammys.

00:08:31.600 Quote, run for your life.

00:08:34.120 You couldn't understand any of this, by the way.

00:08:35.700 I had to Google this and look them up.

00:08:37.300 Run your life.

00:08:38.080 I live a better life.

00:08:39.520 I'm rolling several dice on your life.

00:08:41.860 I live a better life.

00:08:43.180 I'm rolling several dice on your life.

00:08:45.020 I live a better life.

00:08:46.240 I'm rolling, so you get the point here.

00:08:47.940 Run for your life.

00:08:49.060 I live a run your life.

00:08:50.900 Ah, this is my heritage.

00:08:52.920 All I'm inheriting money and power.

00:08:55.260 The mecca of marriages.

00:08:56.960 Tell me something.

00:08:58.100 Ah, you can't tell me nothing.

00:09:00.180 I'd rather die than to listen to you.

00:09:02.220 My DNA, not for imitation.

00:09:04.340 Your DNA is an abomination.

00:09:06.500 This how it is when you're in The Matrix, dodging bullets, reaping what you sow, and

00:09:11.580 stacking up the footage.

00:09:12.880 Living on the go and sleeping in a villa, sipping from a Grammy, walking in the building, diamond

00:09:16.660 on the ceiling, marble on the floor, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:09:19.020 Sentence on the way.

00:09:20.220 Killings on the way.

00:09:21.280 Won't you tell them I got millions on the way.

00:09:24.720 So the lyrics are just completely incoherent.

00:09:28.000 The music isn't really even music.

00:09:30.300 I would play a clip, but I think I'll probably get flagged for intellectual property, so take

00:09:35.160 my word for it, and then I also won't subject you to this thing.

00:09:39.320 Trump's tweet to Jay-Z is more musically compelling rap, but we will get to that later.

00:09:43.920 So Lamar talks through whatever that was.

00:09:46.080 Then Dave Chappelle, whom I generally like, he's generally sort of funny, Chappelle comes

00:09:49.680 on stage and says, quote, I just wanted to remind the audience that the only thing more

00:09:53.600 frightening than watching a black man be honest in America is being an honest black 1.00

00:09:57.660 man in America.

00:09:58.360 And this is Chappelle's shtick.

00:10:01.380 His comedy is largely just about how awful it is to be a black man in America.

00:10:05.540 Chappelle, by the way, is worth an estimated $42 million, but he seems to be doing okay.

00:10:10.040 The shtick, however, is usually funny.

00:10:12.420 Usually.

00:10:13.240 Last night, eh, no.

00:10:15.080 You know, it seemed like an easy joke.

00:10:16.560 It wasn't terribly motivated.

00:10:18.140 Whatever.

00:10:18.860 Then they kept singing, or whatever they do.

00:10:21.060 Then Bono came in for some reason, and then it was over, thankfully.

00:10:24.600 In Aristotle's politics, Aristotle observes, quote,

00:10:27.440 music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul.

00:10:32.200 When one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the

00:10:37.040 same passion.

00:10:37.920 If over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole

00:10:43.560 character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

00:10:47.300 And that's what we're seeing here.

00:10:48.720 Alan Bloom wrote about this, too, in The Closing of the American Mind.

00:10:51.800 And this is typically caricatured as old fogies yelling, get off my lawn, and talking about

00:10:57.180 how rock and roll makes the kids immoral.

00:10:59.240 But he has a point.

00:11:01.200 Hearing is the most soul-shaping sense.

00:11:04.460 Faith comes through hearing.

00:11:06.340 It's the most important sense.

00:11:07.720 St. Paul writes about this in Romans and Galatians.

00:11:10.560 Faith comes through hearing.

00:11:12.660 Why is that?

00:11:13.240 The first act of Abraham, as portrayed in Genesis 12, is to hear the voice of God.

00:11:19.200 He hears the voice of God.

00:11:20.660 No burning bush, no fire, no clouds.

00:11:22.760 It's the voice of God.

00:11:24.480 Because hearing implies a relationship.

00:11:26.920 Seeing, reading, they're more solitary.

00:11:28.920 They're more voyeuristic.

00:11:29.760 They're more open to distortion.

00:11:31.280 The angel doesn't send the Virgin Mary a letter.

00:11:33.160 As Pope Benedict XVI explains, then, at the time, Cardinal Ratzinger, Mary hears the Holy

00:11:38.720 Spirit, the Word, so fully that it becomes flesh in her.

00:11:43.820 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

00:11:49.220 The creation itself is an act of speech.

00:11:51.700 God says, he speaks, let there be light.

00:11:55.700 Hearing is the most important sense.

00:11:58.000 And so bad music is worse than bad paintings, or bad recipes, or bad movies.

00:12:02.320 There's something seriously insidious about bad and bass music.

00:12:07.440 So with that in mind, enter Kesha. 0.75

00:12:10.080 Kesha came out and did some ditty, apparently, about the Me Too slacktivism.

00:12:15.100 This is ironic, in part because Kesha was like the first Me Too person.

00:12:19.920 Kesha had these awful experiences, awful abuse at the hands of men, and she was kind of ignored

00:12:23.940 for it.

00:12:24.780 But now she gets to do her Me Too thing. 0.95

00:12:27.700 But only one woman won a major Grammy Award last night.

00:12:31.460 So, so much for Me Too, I guess.

00:12:33.300 So much for the seriousness of Me Too in the music industry.

00:12:36.320 The main gag of the night featured Hillary Clinton, who just last week was exposed for 1.00

00:12:40.580 having covered up a sexual harassment incident on her presidential campaign.

00:12:44.800 Not believing the woman, not punishing the alleged culprit.

00:12:47.380 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:12:48.320 Hillary Clinton has made a career out of enabling sexual predators and smearing his victims. 1.00

00:12:52.700 But apparently, this was a separate incident.

00:12:54.820 So the Me Too, Time's Up, Virtue signaling slacktivist Grammys not only feature Hillary for some 0.99

00:13:00.940 reason, but they featured her reading excerpts from a book, the Michael Wolff Fire and Fury

00:13:06.280 tabloid thing, that falsely portrays one of the most powerful women in the country, UN 1.00

00:13:11.300 Ambassador Nikki Haley, as a bimbo who is sleeping with Donald Trump, a charge for which there

00:13:16.620 is absolutely no evidence.

00:13:18.300 Evidence, there's none for this.

00:13:20.780 So a terribly offensive charge, an actual example of some of the disrespect toward women that 1.00

00:13:25.720 these Me Too clowns pretend to care about.

00:13:28.340 Then Camilla Cabello, Cabello, whatever, whichever, whoever that is, I've never heard of her before 0.90

00:13:33.420 this experience, gave a speech about why we should give amnesty to illegal aliens at the

00:13:38.300 music awards, how we need a national policy to abolish national borders.

00:13:43.640 I don't look to pop celebrities for my political philosophy, but that is a logical error that

00:13:49.920 is hard to miss, trying to have a national policy to abolish the legitimacy of national

00:13:54.400 policy.

00:13:55.540 So she said, quote, today in this room full of music's dreamers, we remember that this

00:14:00.460 country was built by dreamers for dreamers chasing the American dream.

00:14:06.580 And this is one of the problems with all of these euphemisms, the lefty euphemisms, because

00:14:10.560 her statement on its own is true.

00:14:12.220 America was built by dreamers, I suppose.

00:14:15.620 Christopher Columbus was a dreamer.

00:14:17.440 The pilgrims were dreamers. 0.99

00:14:19.020 Founding fathers were dreamers.

00:14:20.520 But America was not built by illegal aliens who were born after June 15th, 1981, and have

00:14:26.280 continuously lived in the United States since July 2007, half of whom don't speak English

00:14:30.980 and a quarter of whom are illiterate, which is what the so-called dreamers are referring

00:14:34.480 to, a very specific group of illegal aliens in the country that was arbitrarily chosen to

00:14:40.800 be the sympathetic group for amnesty.

00:14:43.260 But America, it wasn't built for those people either. 0.52

00:14:45.940 People from bad circumstances have long come to the United States to prosper and improve

00:14:51.340 their lot.

00:14:51.860 And that's wonderful.

00:14:52.640 It's a good aspect of the country.

00:14:54.420 The United States wasn't built on the premise that we shouldn't have any national borders

00:14:58.200 or have the right to enforce democratically enacted law deciding who gets to come in and

00:15:06.420 when.

00:15:06.920 The United States wasn't built so that we couldn't have the ability to govern our own

00:15:10.320 country and our own immigration systems.

00:15:13.060 Okay.

00:15:13.280 Then U2 comes out and says, blessed are the hellhole countries.

00:15:19.820 I'll say hellhole, but you know the word.

00:15:21.460 They're referring to, you know, not a very nice place to live that Donald Trump said.

00:15:24.720 Blessed are the hellhole countries.

00:15:28.460 I suppose Bono here is trying to make a theological point.

00:15:32.360 But of course, because he's Bono, he made the opposite point that he was trying to make.

00:15:36.500 Our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount says, blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the

00:15:40.900 kingdom of heaven.

00:15:42.380 Those who live under wretched conditions on earth because their souls are better prepared

00:15:47.100 for the kingdom, they are blessed.

00:15:49.720 They're blissful.

00:15:50.960 A camel more hardly passes through the eye of a needle than a rich man enters the kingdom

00:15:55.060 of heaven.

00:15:55.840 This is a consolation for those living in wretched conditions on earth.

00:15:59.600 What it explicitly is not is a call for the poor to become rich people.

00:16:04.560 Our Lord doesn't say, blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

00:16:08.000 So do everything you can possibly do to make more money.

00:16:10.900 If the hellhole countries are blessed, it certainly doesn't follow that people in those

00:16:15.440 countries should then try to come to the United States.

00:16:17.920 That would be the exact opposite of the advice on the Sermon on the Mount.

00:16:21.100 And actually, that is the point that Donald Trump was making.

00:16:23.760 He said he doesn't want them to come here.

00:16:25.360 So apparently Donald Trump and Bono agree because these musicians have no idea what they're

00:16:30.200 talking about on the politics that they spent the whole night spouting off about.

00:16:33.940 Then there was a bunch more terrible music and then Hillary Clinton showed up. 0.99

00:16:37.060 Here she is.

00:16:37.520 Fire and fury, spoken word auditions.

00:16:41.100 Take one.

00:16:42.740 Trump won't read anything.

00:16:44.900 He had a long time fear of being poisoned.

00:16:47.960 One reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's.

00:16:50.140 Cousin, cousin of mine, my fourth cousin once removed.

00:16:55.980 Oof, yikes.

00:16:57.060 On the one hand, I do almost feel bad for her because this is truly humiliating to keep harping

00:17:02.900 on this, keep up all of the snide comments, the self-obsession, the media appearances.

00:17:07.840 People say that Donald Trump isn't dignified.

00:17:09.960 Donald Trump is George Washington compared to this woman. 0.80

00:17:12.440 On the other hand, I almost feel bad for the musicians.

00:17:16.340 They hysterically and ignorantly harp on politics because their art is bad.

00:17:20.500 That's why they're doing it.

00:17:21.820 If they had good art, they would just do the art.

00:17:23.740 That would suffice.

00:17:24.820 But their art is awful.

00:17:26.120 It's not just that it's not my taste.

00:17:27.480 It's not just different strokes for different folks.

00:17:29.340 It's objectively bad, lyrically and musically.

00:17:32.440 The saddest moment of the night came when Broadway veteran Patti LuPone showed up and sang 0.79

00:17:36.820 Don't Cry For Me, Argentina.

00:17:38.660 This is a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the musical Evita in the 70s.

00:17:43.280 This isn't the height of culture.

00:17:45.160 It was just your run-of-the-mill pop music from 1976.

00:17:48.880 By today's standards, it's the Brandenburg Concerto.

00:17:51.780 Unlike most, if not all, of the performers at the Grammys, Patti LuPone is a talented musician.

00:17:56.580 Unlike most, if not all, of the performers at the Grammys,

00:17:58.860 she carries herself with grace and dignity on the stage.

00:18:01.900 The other performers, the other so-called musicians, possess none of those things.

00:18:05.600 And so they complain that they don't get paid enough millions of dollars.

00:18:08.820 Or that they're unhappy because their preferred politician lost an election two years ago.

00:18:13.860 Or some people didn't get a gold trophy and they really wanted one,

00:18:16.780 and others got the gold trophy instead.

00:18:18.840 It is really pathetic.

00:18:20.320 Because conservatives are always bemoaning cultural decline.

00:18:23.300 That's the stereotype.

00:18:24.400 It's the old guy saying,

00:18:25.300 In my day, things were nice.

00:18:26.740 And what are you kids listening to?

00:18:28.240 Wah, wah, wah.

00:18:28.860 And usually I think that's just sentimental, that's just saccharine nonsense.

00:18:32.440 Things change, whatever.

00:18:33.720 Not everything new is worse.

00:18:36.040 But this is worse.

00:18:37.160 The popular music that Grammy artists are churning out is worse.

00:18:40.340 It's worse lyrically.

00:18:41.620 It's worse musically. 0.98

00:18:42.920 It's worse technically.

00:18:44.240 It's worse choreographically.

00:18:45.660 The performances are worse.

00:18:46.660 The performances are worse.

00:18:47.200 We know that because we could compare Kendrick Lamar's incoherent babbling and Dave Chappelle's lame jokes like a hack hoofer in a dying vaudeville show with a performance that even just a few decades ago would have been pretty good.

00:19:00.460 Considered pretty good.

00:19:01.340 Nice, you know, but by the standards of today's Grammys, it is the height of art.

00:19:05.780 This is one of the reasons I'm so pleased that President Trump is eager and able to fight cultural battles.

00:19:10.540 On the one hand, it makes it easier to pass some decent public policy.

00:19:14.780 But also, we just need to clear this out, this degraded popular culture, make way for something better.

00:19:20.660 We need to clean house and government, too, in our bloated, corrupt, insolvent bureaucracy and make way for something better.

00:19:27.240 So, Jay-Z calls Donald Trump a racist.

00:19:30.740 In an interview on CNN, Trump fires back at Jay-Z in a tweet.

00:19:33.800 Here's Jay-Z.

00:19:34.300 Because once you do that, all of the other closet racists just run back in the hole. 0.96

00:19:40.120 You haven't been fixed anything.

00:19:41.860 What you've done was spray perfume on a trash can.

00:19:45.000 And what you do when you do that is, you know, the bugs come and you spray something and then they come and then you create a super bug.

00:19:53.000 Right?

00:19:53.480 Because you don't take care of the problem.

00:19:55.480 You don't take the trash out.

00:19:56.800 You just keep spraying whatever over it to make it acceptable.

00:20:01.400 And then, you know, as those things grow, then you create a super bug.

00:20:05.980 And then now we have Donald Trump.

00:20:07.400 The super bug.

00:20:09.420 Super bug.

00:20:10.720 It's like the new super fly.

00:20:12.180 Super bug.

00:20:13.280 And so Donald Trump fires back.

00:20:15.120 He writes,

00:20:15.960 Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, black unemployment has just been reported to be at the lowest rate ever recorded.

00:20:23.520 Which is hilarious.

00:20:24.840 And not many people have picked up on this.

00:20:26.500 Scott Adams, as usual, saw it right away.

00:20:28.720 And he should.

00:20:29.400 This is so obvious from the tweet.

00:20:31.400 Donald Trump responded, responded rather, in the form of a rap.

00:20:36.300 Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, black unemployment has just been reported to be at the lowest rate ever recorded.

00:20:44.520 Mic drop.

00:20:45.080 MC Donald.

00:20:45.920 I am Wonder Mike and I have come to say hello.

00:20:47.640 That is Jay-Z, a billionaire.

00:20:51.920 Jay-Z, a billionaire, claiming in the interview that money doesn't really matter.

00:20:55.920 And then, Jay-Z, a convicted criminal who has dealt drugs, shot his brother, and stabbed a guy at a nightclub.

00:21:00.980 He pled guilty to that.

00:21:02.320 Jay-Z goes on television lip-quivering because Donald Trump allegedly said a crass word at a closed-door meeting.

00:21:08.080 Here is Jay-Z talking about how hurtful that is.

00:21:11.200 Every African country is a whole country.

00:21:15.920 How does that land with you as a dad?

00:21:17.960 Yeah, it's disappointing and it's hurtful.

00:21:21.300 It really is hurtful.

00:21:22.520 More so.

00:21:23.160 Everyone feels anger.

00:21:24.280 But after the anger, it's really hurtful because it's like looking down on a whole population of people.

00:21:30.320 And you're so misinformed because these places have beautiful people and have beautiful everything.

00:21:35.940 And it's just like this is the leader of the free world speaking like this.

00:21:41.180 They have beautiful people because all people are children of God.

00:21:45.260 They don't have beautiful everything.

00:21:47.580 These places don't have beautiful everything.

00:21:48.900 In Haiti, the country is so poor and crime-ridden, there's such scant access to resources that mothers feed their starving children pancakes made of mud. 0.65

00:21:57.000 That isn't beautiful everything.

00:21:58.620 It would be nice, I suppose, if we could say everything is beautiful there.

00:22:02.740 The way we know that everything isn't beautiful there is they all want to come here and we give a lot of charity and we send missionaries to these places to help them out.

00:22:09.280 And Jay-Z, Jay-Z, a guy who pled guilty to getting so angry at a club one night that he starts stabbing a guy multiple times.

00:22:15.440 He is saying, oh, I'm so hurt, I'm so hurt, I'm so delicate.

00:22:19.640 Me, Jay-Z, so delicate.

00:22:21.380 And they do it because they don't like Trump.

00:22:23.200 But unlike any other Republican in my lifetime, Trump fights back.

00:22:26.980 And things cannot decay forever.

00:22:28.820 The ratings can't fall forever.

00:22:30.280 The performers can't degrade themselves into nothing forever.

00:22:33.560 At some point we will reach the bottom and then something new will come along and the culture will improve.

00:22:38.820 The one hopeful aspect of all this, as I just lost my night watching this awful award show,

00:22:43.920 In 2016 we did not expect the political renaissance that we're seeing now.

00:22:49.040 Perhaps a cultural rejuvenation will take us by surprise too.

00:22:52.860 And if these Grammy ratings are any indication, it cannot be long now.

00:22:56.340 Okay, enough about the awful fake musicians.

00:22:59.620 Let's bring on our panel. 0.92

00:23:01.120 But before we bring on the panel, Marshall, you monster.

00:23:04.200 All they want to do is see this.

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00:23:18.820 So giving your guy a box of chocolates for Valentine's Day.

00:23:24.320 I'll speak to you as a guy.

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00:26:01.300 Okay, we have Allie Stuckey with us, star of CRTV's new show, Allie, and the Daily Wire's own, Alicia Krause.

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00:26:40.740 Okay, we have to get right into the news.

00:26:42.300 I'm really looking forward, though, to seeing the show later on.

00:26:45.120 So news broke this morning that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe will step down,

00:26:50.400 although he will remain on the FBI payroll until he's able to resign with full benefits in mid-March, of course.

00:26:57.100 McCabe has been under fire after recent texts and documents suggest he may have been involved in plans to use the government to undermine President Trump's campaign in 2016.

00:27:07.400 Allie, what does this mean for the administration?

00:27:10.980 Well, I think there's been a lot of problems with Andrew McCabe being at this post for a long time.

00:27:15.880 Judicial Watch reported on this a long time ago with all the conflicts of interest, of course, with his wife being funded by McAuliffe and all of that.

00:27:24.080 So I think it's good for the administration.

00:27:26.000 Now, there are some conflicting reports whether he was actually removed or whether he is just kind of taking his retirement early.

00:27:32.660 Either way, I think it's one step closer to hopefully draining the swamp.

00:27:37.540 This is one of, you know, we've heard about draining the swamp for so long, and then you think, well, there are a lot of these bureaucrats still there.

00:27:43.420 This is one example, like, okay, we've got a little swamp rat going down the faucet.

00:27:47.820 Alicia, why are we allowing him to retire with full benefits?

00:27:52.000 Is this a win for Trump, or does the bureaucracy win again?

00:27:55.200 Is he just getting to take his vacation a little early?

00:27:57.240 So he actually, what a lot of people don't understand is he was set to retire in March,

00:28:01.120 but apparently there had been some hubbub and some, one of the theories out there that a friend of the Daily Wire had proposed,

00:28:08.340 Guy Benson, said that one of the theories is potentially that because the House Intelligence Committee is voting today

00:28:13.100 on whether or not to release that memo with all of these text messages and things that were happening with the Hillary Clinton investigation

00:28:19.460 and the Russia investigation during the 2016 election and whether or not McCabe and others use their power within the FBI

00:28:26.100 to use, illegally surveil Trump and members of his team, that maybe that's why he's being forced out right now.

00:28:33.280 We'll see how that vote goes and what that memo actually does show, and if that House Intelligence Committee decides to vote on that.

00:28:40.100 So what it means for the White House is there's going to be scrutiny here.

00:28:42.740 It means that people are going to say, okay, is this another Mueller-type thing where Trump forced him out?

00:28:47.980 Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her press conference earlier with White House pool reporters said, absolutely not.

00:28:53.000 The White House was not a part of this decision, that it came within, you know, the leaders of the FBI.

00:28:57.980 So it's kind of weird, though.

00:28:59.200 He's taking a, quote-unquote, terminal vacation, and it's, that's just, that name sounds creepy to me, but that's right.

00:29:06.040 It means that he will be on the payroll.

00:29:07.580 He'll be taking unused vacation time between now and when his official retirement date was up in March.

00:29:12.480 You know, it's funny because Ben keeps offering me a terminal vacation, and I've never really known what he's meant by that.

00:29:17.340 I'll have to investigate the case of McCabe, that I wonder, especially if the White House really did have nothing to do with this, is this just bureaucrats protecting their own?

00:29:27.360 He could get in hot water if this memo comes out, and so he struck a deal to retire early, and this way he doesn't lose his pension.

00:29:34.400 I hope it's not that, but it certainly could be, and it's in the nature of government to do those sort of things.

00:29:39.600 The Netherlands, speaking of terminal vacations, this is a little, a bit of a downer, but it gets to a really important bioethical issue.

00:29:46.920 The Netherlands has approved the assisted suicide of a 29-year-old mentally ill woman on Saturday.

00:29:53.220 This is in keeping with long trends in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, especially in Belgium.

00:29:58.020 The euphemism lefties use for this practice is euthanasia, meaning the good death.

00:30:04.080 Ali, the victim, says she suffered from terrible demons.

00:30:06.960 She begged to die. 0.97

00:30:08.100 She wanted to die.

00:30:09.600 Is there any justification for government-sanctioned assisted suicide?

00:30:14.140 Well, there's kind of a conundrum here as well.

00:30:16.780 If she is mentally ill, why are we taking her word for it?

00:30:20.780 She shouldn't be the one to determine whether or not she should die or should undergo assisted suicide.

00:30:28.320 If she is truly mentally ill, she needs help.

00:30:31.600 So you see kind of the conundrum and the quandary that someone is in once you put yourself in the place of God.

00:30:38.000 And that's going to continue to be the case.

00:30:40.940 People are determining whether or not their life or someone else's life is worth living based on a subjective standard of what the world deems worthy or not.

00:30:50.520 And you have to carry that to the nth degree.

00:30:52.780 You have to ask yourself, okay, if someone is very poor, should they be killed or should they be assisted to commit suicide if someone doesn't have a high IQ, if someone can't read very well, if he's not very athletic?

00:31:02.700 And then, of course, you see the very obvious parallel to Nazi Germany.

00:31:08.540 And I'm not trying to make that leap to say, okay, you know, it's just a slippery slope.

00:31:13.040 Everyone I don't agree with is Hitler. 0.86

00:31:14.440 But that quite literally is what was happening in Nazi Germany.

00:31:18.460 So the fact that we are trying to justify it or cover it up with euphemisms, as you said, I think really shows us exactly the direction that we're going and the value that we have on the safety of life, which is extremely low, unfortunately.

00:31:32.760 Not everything is comparable to the Nazi regime, but this is.

00:31:36.040 This is one of the examples when you're killing off people that you deem enfeebled or weak or less than perfect.

00:31:42.940 I think the comparison is absolutely fair.

00:31:45.140 And, of course, when you follow it to its logical conclusion, this means that anybody whose life is less than perfect has just cause to say, I want to end it all.

00:31:54.520 And the trouble is all of our lives are less than perfect.

00:31:57.560 I'm sorry, go on.

00:31:58.340 How ironic that, you know, at last night's Grammys or we hear from the mouths of people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer that it is their Christian duty to do, to think of the least of these when it comes to the 800,000 DACA recipients.

00:32:09.580 But they don't think of the least of these when it comes to sex, you know, decision abortions or abortions that the decisions that people make if they discover that they're going to have mentally handicapped, a disabled child.

00:32:21.840 You know, Democrats scare mum on that, and that's totally okay with them.

00:32:25.340 It just goes to show that the left and specifically these socialized nations don't really care about the least of these, even though they claim to.

00:32:31.580 40-year-old illegal aliens, those are dreamers.

00:32:34.380 Those are the least of these that we have to take care of.

00:32:36.400 But babies in the womb and the mentally ill who are chronically depressed, those, no, that's okay. 0.93

00:32:41.660 We can get rid of those people.

00:32:43.300 Alicia, do you think this could ever take hold in the United States, a movement toward greater assisted suicide?

00:32:48.740 Unfortunately, yes.

00:32:50.360 I wrote a piece a couple weeks ago about an assisted suicide person that was against it, J.J., a guy from upstate New York.

00:32:58.860 Incredible story.

00:32:59.840 Lived three years past when doctors told him that he should have used assisted suicide.

00:33:04.000 Ended up having another son, creating more life even after he'd gotten his death sentence.

00:33:09.160 He had the same type of brain cancer that Vice President Biden's son, Beau, died of.

00:33:14.020 And we've seen, we've seen the media reports.

00:33:15.740 People like him didn't get coverage, but Brittany Maynard, who was a Californian who moved to Oregon and ended up ending her life via assisted suicide, who had the same type of glaucoma and cancer, was lauded by the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, even People Magazine, and I think Marie Claire.

00:33:32.480 And so you are seeing this kind of death with dignity, or like you said, they use the phrase euthanasia.

00:33:38.060 They don't even want to use the wording of what it is.

00:33:40.140 It's suicide, and I think that unfortunately this culture of death, we see it with babies in the womb when it comes to the left, and now they're looking into, and they have this love affair for some reason with assisted suicide and people choosing to die with dignity.

00:33:53.940 And it's quite frankly really scary and really disturbing, and it's legal now here in the state of California.

00:33:58.920 Whenever you hear, that's exactly right, whenever you hear these euphemisms, death with dignity, the more ridiculous, the more you should pay attention, dreamers, euthanasia, the good death.

00:34:09.740 Exactly in direct proportion to how absurd the euphemism is, you can be sure that the thing that it's trying to get around and it's trying to describe around is awful, and you should run away from it.

00:34:22.580 The one bit of hope I have here is obviously for terminally ill people, people who are on their last legs, doctors throughout the United States for ever and ever have increased the medicine a little bit, turned up the drugs, have in a more subtle way let people die.

00:34:40.280 This does not mean there's a federal regime of assisted suicide, this does not mean there's a right to assisted suicide, this does not mean there are councils determining whose life is worth saving and whose life is worth ending because they're a drain on the system or something like that.

00:34:55.000 It is really awful at all times.

00:34:58.160 The one bit of hope is that the pro-life movement has been so successful in the United States, even as the entire rest of the Western world has lost its mind on abortion, the United States has become much more pro-life.

00:35:08.920 According to a 2016 Marist survey, national survey, on the actual questions of abortion, not on do you call yourself pro-life or do you call yourself pro-choice, on the actual question, 52% of women, the majority of women, think that abortion should be illegal in 99% of cases.

00:35:27.640 So with those numbers, I am somewhat hopeful that that culture of death won't catch on as it has in Europe, but I always try to see the leftist-tears tumbler half full of covfefe.

00:35:38.600 Rather than completely empty.

00:35:40.420 Well, and it shows that the Democratic Party is really out of touch.

00:35:43.140 They work so hard to really adhere to and focus on those women that marched and that are really passionate.

00:35:49.100 This very small group of women that are very passionate because studies also show the majority of millennials, I think over 70% of them, think that abortion should be restricted to just the first trimester.

00:35:58.900 And, you know, this week you have the 20-week abortion ban coming up in the Senate and you have Democratic senators like Kirsten Gillibrand from New York and Kamala Harris from right here in California that are just, you know, verklempt and so upset.

00:36:11.780 And it is the worst thing in the world that how dare Mitch McConnell bring up this legislation to end abortion federally at 20 weeks.

00:36:17.900 But they won't acknowledge that the polling is against them.

00:36:20.860 So I kind of wonder and would ask those women, which women are they really representing when the majority of women do not agree with them?

00:36:26.280 I think they're on the wrong side of history, to borrow one of their empty slogans.

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00:38:00.440 We'll be right back.

00:38:11.660 Scientists in a new study published by Cambridge University Press have discovered that hot people tend to be right-wing.

00:38:18.960 The researchers write, quote,

00:38:20.560 controlling for socioeconomic status, we find that more attractive individuals are more likely to report higher levels of political efficacy, identify as conservative, and identify as Republican.

00:38:33.180 Ali Stuckey, Alicia Krause.

00:38:35.620 I rest my case.

00:38:37.280 Ladies, ladies, are you surprised by this, Ali?

00:38:40.200 No, we actually hear about this all the time, I think, especially since Trump took office, because he's had such, he surrounds himself, it seems like, with attractive women.

00:38:50.700 Not necessarily on purpose.

00:38:52.000 Not necessarily on purpose.

00:38:53.620 Maybe not.

00:38:54.140 But a lot of attractive women surround him, I guess. 0.76

00:38:57.700 And there was actually an article not too long ago that dissected the women's faces to support Trump.

00:39:02.340 I was, in this article, it compared us, Ivanka Trump, even Kellyanne Conway, all these people, and apparently we have the same facial symmetry or something like that.

00:39:14.140 And then I was going to make the argument it's because conservatives are just so much happier than man-hating feminists, and it's our hearts that are actually making us more beautiful because we're just happier and nicer, but then Tommy Lahren. 0.99

00:39:26.380 So, I don't know if I can make that argument.

00:39:29.080 That is the wrench in that theory.

00:39:31.740 Alicia, I actually do want to talk about Ali's point.

00:39:35.680 Lefties are, they're so angry about everything.

00:39:38.020 I had the same thought.

00:39:38.800 I would like to think that it's because, you know, we're good on the inside.

00:39:41.720 That's what I tell my four-and-a-half-year-old daughter, who is really beautiful, but I tell her she has to be sweet and beautiful on the inside as well.

00:39:47.560 And that that's what people are attracted to in us.

00:39:50.560 And then they listen to our ideas, and then they're like, wow, those ideas make way more sense than what MSNBC is spewing.

00:39:57.400 But who knows?

00:39:58.220 I mean, I think maybe when we are appealing to women, fellow women, that those two things are a factor.

00:40:04.240 But let's be honest, when we're dealing with dudes, it's all about the outward appearance.

00:40:08.200 But, well, absolutely, of course.

00:40:09.860 That goes without saying.

00:40:10.820 But that's what I want to know.

00:40:13.020 Which way does it go?

00:40:14.540 You know, lefties could be sipping a Mai Tai on a float in Turks and Caicos, and they would find something to complain about.

00:40:21.300 Is it, which way does it go?

00:40:23.060 Do more contented people just tend to be conservative, or are conservatives more likely to be contented?

00:40:29.340 Is this a chicken or an egg kind of thing?

00:40:31.400 Maybe the latter.

00:40:32.420 I think it's definitely the latter.

00:40:33.820 But, you know, an interesting observation is someone here in L.A., you know that episode of The Office where Ryan talks about how Pam is like a Scranton 7 but a New York 5?

00:40:42.760 Yeah, sure.

00:40:43.140 In L.A., everyone's like a 12 compared to the rest of the country.

00:40:46.560 I myself think I'm like an Oklahoma 7.

00:40:49.160 Who knows?

00:40:49.540 But there's this element of like, if you look at the mainstream media, if you look at last night's Grammys, if you look at the Oscars that are coming up in a couple of weeks, everyone in middle America will think, oh my God, all the coolest, hottest people must be leftists because that's what they're seeing all the time.

00:41:05.200 I think we need to like blast this study, you know, far and wide so they understand that it's okay to come to the dark side.

00:41:11.340 People on the right are pretty, too.

00:41:12.620 It's okay.

00:41:13.360 It's fine.

00:41:14.320 We've got all the hotties. 1.00

00:41:15.440 You just don't see them on your TVs.

00:41:17.060 Exactly.

00:41:17.180 Okay, ladies. 1.00

00:41:18.180 Well, thank you for being here.

00:41:19.520 This was very nice to see you.

00:41:21.240 Finally, in our last few minutes, we're going to get to This Day in History.

00:41:23.600 Allie, best of luck on the show today.

00:41:25.120 I look forward to watching.

00:41:25.740 Thank you.

00:41:26.100 Alicia, I'll see you like outside my studio in like 10 minutes.

00:41:28.980 Okay.

00:41:29.380 Okay, see you guys.

00:41:31.180 Now it's time for This Day in History.

00:41:33.480 This Day in History.

00:41:37.800 On This Day in History in 1820, King George III died.

00:41:42.640 You will remember King George III from when we whooped his greatest military force in the world during the Revolutionary War and won a country for ourselves.

00:41:50.240 Because of this unhappy connection, Americans sometimes take a glib and dismissive view of George III.

00:41:56.100 His 4,000-pound statue in downtown Manhattan became the first casualty in America's increasing obsession with toppling monuments.

00:42:04.620 The mob did have a good reason in that case, though.

00:42:06.780 After the Declaration of Independence was read for the first time publicly in New York on July 9, 1776,

00:42:13.100 a group of future soldiers stormed downtown to melt the statue for bullets.

00:42:18.160 That's fair enough.

00:42:18.820 That's a decent use.

00:42:20.660 By the outbreak of the war, George III had not even received the Declaration of Independence.

00:42:24.660 On the question of various burdens to pay for the French and Indian War, like the stamp tax,

00:42:29.920 George III was generally more sympathetic than his government to the colonists' concerns.

00:42:35.180 The tax burdens on the colonists were far lower than those imposed on George's subjects in Britain.

00:42:41.380 Indeed, they were the lowest in the Western world, the taxes imposed on the American colonists.

00:42:47.060 George was generally fairly universalist in his charity.

00:42:50.140 One of the complaints, actually, that our founding fathers listed in the Declaration of Independence

00:42:55.000 is that the king had defended the rights of, quote, merciless Indian savages.

00:43:00.600 He was too nice to the Indians.

00:43:02.560 After the Revolutionary War, King George III was very frank about this.

00:43:07.620 You know, this is a guy who had a great character and reputation in Britain.

00:43:12.100 I believe he was shockingly loyal and faithful to his wife.

00:43:17.000 He may have been the only royal ever in history to be faithful to his wife.

00:43:21.120 This was a guy of good classical education, good morality.

00:43:24.160 And after the war, he said, quote,

00:43:25.620 He didn't want to lose the Americas and the United States, but having lost them,

00:43:46.160 he met them as gentlemen and as separate independent powers,

00:43:49.540 when Benjamin West, George's royal court painter and a good old Pennsylvania boy,

00:43:53.860 told King George III that George Washington would step down as leader of the United States after two terms,

00:44:00.420 George responded,

00:44:01.760 If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

00:44:05.780 So, while we find ourselves battling the statue toplers who want to tear down and erase our history,

00:44:11.220 all of the great men who built our country, perhaps we should be an example

00:44:15.800 and take an even broader and more charitable view

00:44:18.040 and give even former foes like George III their due.

00:44:22.460 So, R.I.P. George III, a good king.

00:44:25.280 We had our differences, we fought a war over it, and now he's a good guy.

00:44:28.720 We should look back on him with some dignity.

00:44:31.000 Okay, that's our show.

00:44:32.000 I am Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 29, 2018

Ep. 95 - The GRAMMYs Prove Aristotle Right

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