The Michael Knowles Show - April 01, 2023


Michael REACTS to Mean TikToks


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Length

13 minutes

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188.77612

Word count

2,598

Sentence count

219

Harmful content

Misogyny

10

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Hate speech

11

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Right-wing extremist Michael Knowles poses for a photo with a transvestite at CPAC and calls for the eradication of transgender people. The internet is full of treasures, including a photo of him posing with Lady Gaga.

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00:00:00.000 You're not going to believe this, but it turns out that there are people out there who don't like me.
00:00:06.720 Me. Lovable me. I know. I know. It perplexed me too.
00:00:11.960 So there are a lot of TikToks, apparently, criticizing and insulting and attacking me. 0.95
00:00:19.220 The producers have assembled them, and I will now see them.
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00:00:27.300 First, let's get into it.
00:00:28.560 The internet is full of treasures, including this photo of right-wing extremist Michael Knowles,
00:00:35.220 who just got on stage at CPAC and said that transgender people should be eradicated.
00:00:40.580 Let me hear it from my lawyer.
00:00:41.780 Posing with a drag queen on his own Twitter account. 0.91
00:00:44.320 Put a pause there. I love this.
00:00:45.880 I love when the libs bring up this picture that I took with a drag queen by the name of Lady Maga. 1.00
00:00:51.760 Get it? Like Lady Maga, Lady Gaga.
00:00:53.300 On the one hand, the libs are saying that I am a genocidal maniac who wants to kill every single transvestite that I ever see.
00:01:02.860 And then on the other hand, they think that they're Sherlock Holmes, that they've discovered that on my own Twitter account,
00:01:08.800 I once posted a photo smiling with this prominent transvestite named Lady Maga at Politicon a few years ago at this political conference where all sorts of people on the left and the right come out.
00:01:20.720 There's that one, that Lady Maga who escaped my genocidal grasp. 0.98
00:01:24.040 Wouldn't you say, if that photo is out there, wouldn't you say, oh, huh, maybe Michael's not a genocidal maniac.
00:01:30.280 Maybe he doesn't hate people.
00:01:32.520 Maybe he doesn't want to be really cruel and mean to people.
00:01:35.120 Maybe he can be perfectly nice and pose for a photo with a nice fella, even if the fella is dressed up a little weird.
00:01:40.380 But he doesn't believe in the absurd anthropology of transgenderism and thinks that as it spreads and is normalized, that that would be a good thing for the country. 0.97
00:01:50.140 Wouldn't you conclude that?
00:01:51.520 No, probably you wouldn't.
00:01:52.700 You just, you just move right on past that cognitive dissonance.
00:01:56.360 Okay.
00:01:56.780 Another gift of the internet is real-time reporting and video footage because once Michael Knowles started to feel the rightful backlash that comes from calling for mass hate crimes against an entire group of people, he tried to say he never said those things.
00:02:11.420 But my guy, we have you on tape.
00:02:13.600 We have your words right here.
00:02:15.680 Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. 1.00
00:02:18.820 Correct.
00:02:18.960 You said that.
00:02:19.920 I did.
00:02:20.180 Not only did you say that, you didn't go back and delete the receipts on your own Twitter account showing how manufactured your outrage is.
00:02:28.120 Put a pause there.
00:02:28.880 Right.
00:02:29.260 I didn't delete the receipts because I don't want to kill all the transgender people. 1.00
00:02:33.280 One, because it's not a real ontological category.
00:02:37.000 And two, because I don't want to go slaughter and murder anybody.
00:02:40.460 I said exactly what you said I said, which is I called to eradicate transgenderism, which is an ideology that posits that men can secretly be women, which is obviously not the case. 0.97
00:02:48.480 It's not the right on my screen.
00:02:49.440 I didn't know that.
00:02:50.400 Sorry, sir.
00:02:51.200 Ma'am, I mean.
00:02:51.900 Get the f*** out of here! 0.99
00:02:53.460 And so all of the evidence that you are finding is proving my point and disproving the libelous headlines of the media, which changed their headlines.
00:03:03.700 Because they knew that they would be sued into oblivion for the defamation that you're pretending is truthful.
00:03:09.080 Keep going.
00:03:09.340 So the truth, Michael, is that you're targeting a population that's vulnerable for political clout.
00:03:14.640 This is not an issue you actually care about.
00:03:17.020 And you just got caught in 4K.
00:03:19.080 Do better.
00:03:21.920 This woman's saying, I don't really care about transgenderism. 0.93
00:03:24.480 I'm totally supportive of transgenderism.
00:03:26.260 The proof of this is I once posed for a photograph at a political conference with a right-wing drag queen.
00:03:33.820 F***.
00:03:35.520 So I'm just doing this to get clicks or something like that.
00:03:38.560 And sometimes the other version of this is Michael is secretly a transvestite or a drag queen or gay or any other number of weird identities.
00:03:49.520 And he's really repressed.
00:03:51.880 But he's, I don't know, he's just pretending it's CPAC or something like that.
00:03:54.740 But the one conclusion they can never come to is, huh, maybe Michael doesn't hate anybody and he just thinks that it is a fact of nature that men and women are different.
00:04:06.580 That's true.
00:04:07.040 And even if we tolerate certain degrees of eccentricity and diversity at the fringes of society, we shouldn't enshrine as a matter of our law and philosophy and culture, the insane idea that a confused boy should chop off his genitals to pretend to be a girl.
00:04:22.940 How dare you?
00:04:23.900 That's the only conclusion that these people can never reach.
00:04:26.840 We have more TikToks coming up.
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00:05:42.540 How dare you say that I called for the eradication of transgender people.
00:05:47.220 This is libel.
00:05:48.600 But you literally said this on camera.
00:05:51.860 I did not.
00:05:53.260 Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. 1.00
00:05:58.200 See, I didn't say we need to eradicate transgender people, just the concept of transgenderism.
00:06:05.200 If I said we need to eradicate poverty or cancer, you wouldn't claim that I'm saying we need to kill all the poor people or the cancer patients.
00:06:12.540 Yes, because poverty and cancer are things that happen to someone.
00:06:16.700 They are an unchangeable part of who someone is.
00:06:20.400 Trans people can't just choose to not be trans, just like gay people can't just choose to not be gay.
00:06:26.400 And the logical conclusion of eliminating transgenderism is that we must eliminate trans people. 1.00
00:06:32.360 Wow, you know, he was pretty good until that very last bit where he said transgender people can't choose not to be transgender, but of course they can.
00:06:39.960 Most of them have for much of their lives.
00:06:42.600 You can live in accord with reality, and you can deny delusions and temptations.
00:06:48.640 How?
00:06:49.360 Jesus.
00:06:49.740 We all do that to some degree.
00:06:53.000 A man who is married, but, you know, he's out at a bar and he sees a cute girl down the bar and he thinks, oh, you know, she's pretty good looking.
00:07:01.360 He says, no, I'm not going to do that.
00:07:02.940 I'm going to say no to that lower desire.
00:07:06.380 Because my rational will tells me that I love my wife and this would ruin my life and I've made a vow and I have higher priorities.
00:07:14.160 I'm going to use my rational will, which is conscious and can reason, to suppress my lower will, which is very frequently unreasonable and appetitive.
00:07:21.940 We do that constantly.
00:07:23.540 When you're going to reach for the third cookie after lunch and you say, no, I know my lower will wants that, but my higher rational will says, that's going to make me get fat and have a tummy ache.
00:07:33.020 My stomach hurts.
00:07:35.120 So we do that all the time.
00:07:36.120 The other one that kept cropping up with the speech was they said, what if Michael Knowles had said he was going to eradicate Judaism?
00:07:41.760 What on earth has gotten into you?
00:07:43.260 And there's not a comparison between Judaism and transgenderism because Judaism refers both to a tribe of people and to a religious tradition.
00:07:53.760 An atheist, secularist, leftist, crazy person who doesn't believe a word of the Bible can still claim to be a Jew. 0.89
00:08:00.360 But when it comes to concepts, yeah, you can eradicate communism.
00:08:06.120 As we did, and that was the official policy of the United States for a long time, you're not saying I'm going to slaughter all the communists.
00:08:13.480 I'm going to eradicate capitalism.
00:08:14.740 It doesn't mean you're going to slaughter all the capitalists.
00:08:16.680 Finally, those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? 0.85
00:08:19.940 Hey, comrades, eh?
00:08:21.660 The libs probably would like to do that, but that's not what that means.
00:08:24.500 Keep going.
00:08:25.560 This is Michael Knowles' Wikipedia page.
00:08:28.000 It says, Michael John Knowles is an American conservative political commentator, actor, author, and media host.
00:08:35.180 Imagine going to Yale, not being able to leverage any of your connections to further your acting career, end up like a D-list actor and having to resort to becoming a conservative political commentator.
00:08:48.860 Hold on, I want to put a pause there.
00:08:50.340 Is she saying I was on the D-list?
00:08:51.740 Hmm.
00:08:52.000 It's not bad.
00:08:53.020 You've got a friend in me.
00:08:55.520 It's funny.
00:08:56.040 People all do sorts of things in their youth.
00:08:57.880 They did a lot of drugs or something.
00:09:00.740 Whoa, mama, there's a kick like a mule. 1.00
00:09:03.620 Or they, I don't know, they became a communist.
00:09:05.860 I am once again asking for your financial support.
00:09:09.900 All sorts of weird stuff.
00:09:11.380 For me, my wayward youth was that I was a professional actor for like two years.
00:09:16.080 I worked in New York.
00:09:17.260 I worked in Los Angeles.
00:09:18.860 I was in plays and films and TV.
00:09:20.540 You're an actor.
00:09:23.020 You're acting, huh?
00:09:24.600 Now, what the libs will say is...
00:09:27.000 Michael, he couldn't get an acting job, so he decided to take up politics.
00:09:32.440 But that isn't the order that things happened in.
00:09:36.440 I was in politics first as a professional on congressional campaigns that rose to some prominence, presidential campaigns.
00:09:44.300 Very often the libs will say, well, why is it that people who are in political media often have some kind of background in performance or acting or show business or something?
00:09:52.700 Why is it that people that are on camera that speak and perform for a living, why would they have some background in performance?
00:10:00.920 Which is, you know, a very silly question when you think about it that way.
00:10:03.740 But they used to make this joke about Reagan.
00:10:05.960 They said, oh, Reagan, he's a failed actor.
00:10:07.620 Ronald Reagan, the actor?
00:10:09.360 That's why he had to turn to politics.
00:10:10.980 They made the exact same argument.
00:10:14.240 And Reagan flipped it on its head and he said, how could the president not be an actor?
00:10:18.200 How could a politician not be an actor?
00:10:19.940 The two professions are really similar.
00:10:21.780 And the cynical way of doing that is that actors and politicians are both liars and self-obsessed and vain.
00:10:29.140 My opponent is a liar and he cannot be trusted.
00:10:31.600 But I don't think that's true.
00:10:33.080 Good actors are not liars.
00:10:36.420 Good actors tell the truth in imaginary circumstances.
00:10:38.760 That's what good acting is.
00:10:40.640 Good politicians care about the truth and the way to pursue the good and avoid evil.
00:10:46.040 They love characters.
00:10:47.020 They like what makes people tick.
00:10:48.500 Good politicians love other people.
00:10:50.120 They love the spaghetti dinner at the VFW hall.
00:10:52.080 They love seeing what makes people tick.
00:10:54.020 They love hearing what people care about and they like helping people.
00:10:56.960 So, of course, the two go together.
00:10:58.220 And it's no surprise that a great many politicians have had backgrounds as actors and in show business, of course.
00:11:04.420 Very similar fields.
00:11:05.720 I fully had not heard of this man prior to his speech at CPAC for context.
00:11:09.900 And I'm sure most of you haven't either.
00:11:12.200 And then this was his reaction.
00:11:13.720 And then I read the headline.
00:11:15.300 And the headline said, it is from Rolling Stone.
00:11:18.740 CPAC's speaker calls for transgender people to be eradicated.
00:11:25.780 Did I say that?
00:11:26.940 I don't remember saying that.
00:11:28.440 Did I?
00:11:28.800 Hold on.
00:11:29.160 Let me look through my speech.
00:11:30.180 Oh, of course.
00:11:30.800 Poor thing tried so hard.
00:11:32.160 It's okay, baby.
00:11:32.860 You'll get that SAG card one day.
00:11:34.400 Just keep trying.
00:11:35.180 Keep pushing.
00:11:36.280 Okay.
00:11:36.680 Excuse me.
00:11:37.260 First of all, I was SAG eligible very early on in my acting career.
00:11:42.300 But the union is also just a terrible union.
00:11:44.940 The Screen Actors Guild, which is why a lot of people left the union.
00:11:47.060 It's so funny that the libs still extol the virtues of something like the Screen Actors Guild or these unions.
00:11:54.600 It just shows you how antiquated or dated the leftist thinking is.
00:12:00.820 It's so stuck in a rut.
00:12:02.480 The unions haven't really helped the film industry or the education industry or any of these things in a very, very long time.
00:12:10.800 And American labor has kind of moved past that.
00:12:13.300 Yet the libs are still stuck in that same kind of talk.
00:12:17.060 Obviously, this sexual revolution has not helped anybody. 0.53
00:12:20.240 I don't think it's really helped anybody ever.
00:12:21.420 But it hasn't helped people in a very, very long time.
00:12:23.820 And now you've got teachers whining because the government won't allow them to teach gay porn in schools.
00:12:29.220 And the liberals are still making the same kinds of arguments.
00:12:33.960 Oh, no, this is terrible.
00:12:36.360 We need the right to freedom.
00:12:37.820 We need the—men can really become women. 0.94
00:12:39.600 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
00:12:42.440 But it's just not true.
00:12:44.200 And unlike this poor woman, people can hear the plain meaning of words. 0.91
00:12:48.040 They know what man means, and they know what woman means, and they know what genocide means.
00:12:51.900 And they don't get really confused.
00:12:53.680 It seems to be the libs who are confused.
00:12:55.920 And then they screech and they wail when you're right over the target.
00:12:59.220 What?
00:13:00.500 Bombs away! Bombs away!
00:13:06.440 Okay, what was my favorite one?
00:13:08.000 I go between the two-hat guy, the guy who was imitating me, and the Lady Maga one is my favorite.
00:13:14.080 Let's give it to Lady Maga. 0.99
00:13:15.360 Because at least there's another, if not conservative, at least, anti-democrat person in that tweet.
00:13:24.520 Which I think actually proves my argument.
00:13:26.340 But the libs just don't understand it.
00:13:28.420 Okay, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:13:29.280 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:13:30.000 We'll see you next time.
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