Ep. 504 dissects how President Margaret Disgraceful’s 2018 WHCA speech exposed media hypocrisy—comparing their "tuxedo dinners" to jailed journalists while ignoring algorithmic suppression, as Andrew Clavin argues. Meanwhile, Michael Knowles and PragerU link the 2018 migrant caravan to Pueblo Sin Fronteras’ orchestrated push, exposing Democratic electoral manipulation via asylum policies, with only 60% of migrants reaching the border. The episode ties these critiques to intersectionality’s erosion of accountability—from Bill Cosby’s legacy to Tom Brokaw’s dismissed harassment claims—and frames leftist narratives as undermining rule-of-law, revealing a broader conservative backlash against perceived media and cultural decline. [Automatically generated summary]
Journalists at the White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday night celebrated the First Amendment by rolling around in excrement, burying their backsides, and insulting women in honor of the First Amendment.
President of the White House Correspondents Association, Margaret Disgraceful, told her fellow reporters, quote, when the founders wrote the First Amendment, they intended for us to swing from branches while plucking excrement out of our rear ends and throwing it at each other to celebrate our freedoms, unquote.
Journalists at the dinner also gave speeches in which they compared themselves being criticized for distorting the facts with journalists in other countries who are jailed and executed for telling the truth.
As one reporter put it, quote, we're kind of heroic like those journalists in foreign countries, except they're telling the truth and we're lying and they're getting imprisoned and we're having dinner in tuxedos.
Otherwise, we're just the same, unquote.
Some reporters came under attack after the dinner for acting like rabid animals wallowing in their own filth.
But as one White House reporter put it, quote, look at me.
I'm Jim Acosta.
I can take my pants off and stand on my hands because I'm Jim Acosta.
Look at me, unquote.
That reporter made the comments on condition of anonymity because he said he didn't want everything to be about him, Jim Acosta.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin, and this is the Andrew Clavin Show.
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So one of the things I have now learned is the left lives in a fantasy of oppression and heroism, right?
Two clowns get thrown out of a Starbucks and black people are oppressed.
Black people are not oppressed in America.
Black people are not oppressed in America just because two guys get thrown out of Starbucks or for any other reason.
Some woman gets chased around the desk at work and that's sad and I'm sorry that happens.
Women are not oppressed in America.
Women are not oppressed in America.
And the press gets criticized for distorting the facts and for having an open animus toward Republicans and toward Donald Trump and they think that they are oppressed.
Now the problem is when you, this is all fantasy.
The press is as free as it can possibly be in America.
There's no threat to the First Amendment except maybe from the people who riot when right-wing speakers come to campuses.
Maybe that's a threat to the First Amendment.
Maybe Google and Twitter and YouTube and Facebook creating algorithms that destroy conservative businesses and bury conservative speech.
Maybe those people are being oppressed.
Maybe that's an attack on the First Amendment.
But it is not a criticism.
It is not an attack on the First Amendment for reporters to be attacked and criticized for what they are in fact doing, which is delivering biased fake news.
So the problem is, the problem is if you think you're oppressed, genuinely oppressed people have a right to do certain things that the rest of us don't have a right to do.
Oppressed people can fight back.
Oppressed people can treat their enemies like oppressors and like enemies.
But if you're just here living in America where you're not oppressed, to do that makes you a lowlife.
And so the press got caught in the Trump effect over the weekend and it made me laugh.
I chuckled like an evil villain in an evil chuckling movie.
I did because they got caught in the Trump effect.
The Trump effect is where people try to imitate Trump's kind of bullying brass style, but instead they find themselves under attack for being bullies and being lowlifes.
And the reason that happens is because Trump is actually reacting to something that happens.
He's bullying bullies.
But when the press acts like bullies, they're just acting the way they always do.
These are the people who told us that Mitt Romney was a murderer, who told us that George W. Bush was a liar.
These are the people who attack Donald Trump for moving a Martin Luther King statue in the Oval Office when he didn't, and then say, oh, it was just a mistake.
It was an innocent mistake.
So when they do it, it becomes ridiculous.
So you have to, you know, you have to take a look at this White House correspondence dinner.
And I don't want to overblow this because it has been, it was a funny week last week where a lot of social, a lot of cultural stuff was coming up with Kanye West.
And, you know, sometimes right-wingers are silly about the culture.
They do not understand the culture.
So they don't understand why it's important when Kanye West stands up and stands with the president.
It's important because it shows that it can be done.
You don't have to back down.
You can be black and a Republican.
You can be black and like Donald Trump.
All those things are possible.
It shows that.
It doesn't make Kanye West a great artist.
It doesn't make him a great philosopher.
It doesn't even mean you have to like his music.
I've never even heard a time I've heard a Kanye West lyric is when Knowles is telling me what's in a lyric to his songs.
For a long time, I thought Knowles and Kanye West were the same people.
You never see them together, and they both recite his lyrics.
So I figured Kanye West and Michael Knowles were, in fact, the same person.
But in fact, I know it's important, and there's nothing wrong with celebrating the fact that Kanye West is showing people that you can be courageous and stand up for yourself, and you don't have to be Hankazari and back down.
You don't have to be Shania Twain and back down.
That's important.
So this dinner was important because it showed, again, a press living in a fantasy of oppression and heroism that gives them the right to do things they shouldn't do.
But because it's a fantasy, when they get caught in the reality of it, it just makes them look as awful as they are.
Let's start.
First of all, Donald Trump, he's so much smarter than they are.
I mean, just in terms, I don't even know if IQ is a fair measurement of intelligence.
All I know is if Donald Trump is not smarter than our reporters, then it's even worse because he just keeps outsmarting them.
So they're being outsmarted by somebody who's not as smart as they are.
He went to Washington, Michigan, right?
He said, would you rather be in Washington, D.C. or Washington, Michigan, and made a speech about them and made them look utterly absurd.
So here is just a quick cut of Trump, cut number 13, talking about this dinner that's going on Saturday night in Washington, D.C., of the press celebrating themselves and creating their little fantasy of how oppressed and heroic they are.
And here's Donald Trump just making fun of them.
Remember the exit polls?
The exit polls.
They come out.
Who did you vote for?
None of your business.
100%, those people are for Trump.
We love those people.
We love them.
We love those people.
You know, there was a mayor of a certain city.
By the way, by the way, by the way, is this better than that phony Washington White House correspondence?
Is this more fun?
I could be up there tonight smiling like I love where they're hitting you shot after shot.
These people, they ate your guts.
Shot.
And then I'm supposed to.
And you know, you gotta smile.
And if you don't smile, they'll say, he was terrible.
He couldn't take it.
And if you do smile, they'll say, what was he smiling about?
You know, there's no way.
Do they look like they're having fun?
Of course they look like they're having fun.
Meanwhile, they're showing up in the dinner and CNN is covering the red carpet as if anybody gave a rat's caboose about what is happening at the White House Correspondence Center.
The CNN is covering this like it's a red carpet.
And who's their biggest star?
The guy, the lawyer who represents the porn star, Stormy Daniels.
Listen to this.
This is a red carpet interview on CNN as if they're going to the Oscars.
At least people watch the movies.
People don't even watch CNN, but they're covering this.
And their big star is the guy who represents Stormy Daniels.
Listen to this.
And obviously we see you there with Michael Avenatti, the attorney for Stormy Daniels.
Yes, Puppy, that's right.
Probably one of the biggest stars we have at this dinner tonight.
Certainly one of the most controversial, of course.
This is Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the woman who is suing President Trump, of course.
Welcome to the dinner.
This is your first correspondence center?
Yes, it is.
So you are here, but President Trump is not, of course, for the second year in a row.
The first president to not attend the dinner since Ronald Reagan, who, of course, skipped the dinner because he was suffering from a gunshot wound.
What do you think about the president not attending this freedom, this toast to the press freedom two years in a row?
Well, as you know, I just call it like I see it, and I think it's entirely disrespectful.
I think it's disrespectful to the First Amendment.
I think it's disrespectful to the Constitution.
I think it's disrespectful to one of the founding principles that this nation was founded on.
If you can't laugh at yourself, you have no business being in the position, quite honestly.
And I don't know why he's hiding tonight.
The only excuse that is good enough for me is if he's getting ready for his next Fox and Friends appearance.
If you don't have an excuse good enough for Stormy Daniels' lawyer, then you're really in a sad state of, I mean, it's an offense against the First Amendment, says this clown, because he didn't go to watch them celebrate themselves and attack him viciously.
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So this is an insult to the First Amendment.
And this is what's going on.
Let me just stop for a minute before we get to this Michelle Wolf comedian and the stuff she said.
There was a briefing at the State Department the other day, right?
This is last week.
And they put out this report on countries' human rights practices, right?
So we're talking about places where people are being raped and tortured.
Children are being killed and murdered.
You know, people are being thrown in prison.
You're a journalist in those countries.
It's like you raise your hand to ask a question.
They just cut your hand off and throw you away, right?
And the Associated Press's Mike Lee says to the State Department's Michael Kozak, he says, how can you represent freedom of the press when you are attacking us, us wonderful, heroic reporters?
Just listen to this quick exchange.
This is 16.
How is this not, how do you do not open yourself up to charges of hypocrisy and how effective do you think you can be at leading by example?
Thank you.
Okay, let's see if I can remember each one of those.
But I think as you go through the reports, you'll see the countries that we criticize for limiting press freedom, it's for things like having criminal libel laws where you can be put in jail for what you say.
It's for things like yanking the licenses of media outlets you don't like or in many cases, killing the journalists.
So I think we make quite a distinction between political leaders being able to speak out and say that story was not accurate or using even stronger words sometimes and using state power to prevent the journalists from continuing to do their work.
This guy has to explain to the Associated Press the difference between being criticized because your coverage is unfair and being murdered for telling the truth.
He's got to explain this to people.
I mean, it really is like these guys who got tossed out of Starbucks.
It's the same fantasy.
They're all living in this fantasy of oppression and heroism that gives them the right to do awful things to other people who are not doing anything.
It's like, you know, really, really, I mean, people were, they were slaves in this country.
Once this guy gets thrown out of Starbucks and it's like, you know, swing low, sweet chariot.
I mean, come on.
You know, you got it good.
This is good here, you know?
And the press is dealing with a president who fights back.
Too bad.
So this goes on into the dinner, right?
They go into the dinner and the president of the Correspondents Dinner Association makes a speech in which she compares what they're doing there to the people who are actually in the room who were thrown into prison.
This is cut number three.
But we reject efforts by anyone, especially our elected leaders, to paint journalism as un-American, to undermine trust between reporter and reader, or to cast doubt on the relevance of facts and truth in the modern age.
An attack on any journalist is an attack on us all.
This really isn't about the business of protecting journalism as a business.
In fact, our business has all done pretty well in the last couple years.
It is about protecting a pillar of American democracy.
The best leaders and public servants champion the First Amendment, even when the scrutiny is turned on them, and defend it at home and proclaim it overseas because they know that that helps democracy and freedom take root in places where violence, repression, and fear give cover to terrorism and corruption.
I'd like to ask for a moment of silence to remember journalists around the world killed for doing their jobs or who are alive but imprisoned.
So we go right from them being, she says we don't have the, it's a terrible thing when they sow distrust between a reporter and his readers, right?
I mean, this is basically what we should have.
I love my country.
I distrust my government.
I love the First Amendment.
I distrust the press because the press lies.
They distort things.
They're all on one side.
We see how much they hate Donald Trump.
We saw before they hated Donald Trump, they hated George W. Bush just as much, just as much.
And they were just as nasty to Mitt Romney.
So now they're going to tell us, oh, yeah, but this time the wolf is at the door.
We can see what he's doing.
I mean, we see he's an obstreperous big character with a lot of personal flaws.
We see he has personal failings, but he's doing a pretty good job, actually.
He's just about to end the Korean War, possibly get Kim Jong-un to give up some of those nuclear weapons.
Maybe, you know, maybe that'll happen.
But it's like, you know, all they do is assault him in this unfair way.
And then they say, oh, we're the victims here.
And then she goes right into, after talking about being criticized, she goes right into a moment of silence for people who are actually suffering because she is creating, living in that fantasy, that fantasy that they're oppressed and they're heroes.
So that gives them the right to have this comedian come on and do what she did.
And they're trying to distance themselves from her, but they are her.
She knew that room.
She knew what they wanted to hear and she gave it to them and they got caught.
And for a while, before people started to react, they were saying, wow, she really destroyed Donald Trump.
Wow, she really got, I mean, people, CNN in real time, was changing its opinion as the results came out.
Maybe she went, you know, she destroyed Donald.
Well, maybe she went too far.
Well, it was a disgusting performance.
Let's listen a little bit to some of the stuff she did, the personal attacks on Sarah Sanders.
She's not the first person to do this, attacking her for her looks, attacking her as a liar.
You know, it's an absolute personal attack.
And Sarah Sanders is sitting there, who's a really classy lady.
I mean, she is, you know, I would not have handled this with as much class.
She handled this with absolute class, absolutely, you know, raised her stock with, I think, anybody who's paying attention.
But listen to the nastiness of this.
And of course, we have Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
We are graced with Sarah's presence tonight.
I have to say, I'm a little starstruck.
I love you as Aunt Lydia and the Handmaid's Tale.
Mike Pence, if you haven't seen it, you would love it.
Every time Sarah steps up to the podium, I get excited because I'm not really sure what we're going to get.
You know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies, or divided into softball teams.
It's shirts and skins, and this time, don't be such a little Jim Acosta.
I actually really like Sarah.
I think she's very resourceful.
Like she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye.
Like maybe she's born with it.
Maybe it's lies.
It's probably lies.
And I'm never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
You know, is it Sarah Sanders?
Is it Sarah Huckabee Sanders?
Is it Cousin Huckabee?
Is it Auntie Huckabee Sanders?
Like, what's Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women?
Oh, I know, Aunt Coulter.
Wow.
I mean, really, really nasty, personal stuff.
And make no mistake, they were laughing.
You could hear them laughing.
Anything they said afterward came afterward.
She is them.
They are her.
And I know that's not grammatically correct, but it is true.
They are the same person.
She knew exactly the room she was playing.
And here's the thing.
What the left hates is they hate being caught out being who they are.
Why doesn't it touch Trump when he does this?
It doesn't touch Trump because he is who he is.
He has always been the same person.
He is a product of the culture the left created.
It's the left in the 60s that introduced vulgarity.
It's the left in the 60s that made it okay to say the things that people say now on TV and in public.
Trump is a product of that.
He was created.
He is like Godzilla.
You know, they set off the atom bomb that destroyed our culture.
He's the monster that came out.
And now when they stoop to that, they're the ones who have pretended all this time.
You know, they're guys, Joe Biden goes and says Republicans want to put black people back in chains.
Nobody even takes a pause.
Nobody says a word.
That's fine.
That's fine.
But if Donald Trump says the crowd at his inaugural was bigger, that's a lie.
You know, that it was.
That's a lie.
You know, and so she goes on.
And this was to me the most telling joke she made.
She went after Mike Pence.
And I don't know what it is about Pence that drives these people crazy, that he's too decent, that he's polite, that he's a Christian, that he believes in God, that he follows his creed.
You know, what is it about Mike Pence that just sets them off?
It's that he's better than they are.
It's that he's a better human being than they are, and they can't stand it.
He oppresses them by being better than them.
So she starts to go after him, but listen to what she starts joking about here.
A lot of people want Trump to be impeached.
I do not.
Because just when you think Trump is awful, you remember Mike Pence.
Mike Pence is what happens when Anderson Cooper isn't gay.
Mike Pence is the kind of guy that brushes his teeth and then drinks orange juice and thinks, mmm.
Mike Pence is also very anti-choice.
He thinks abortion is murder, which first of all, don't knock it till you try it.
And when you do try it, really knock it.
You know, you got to get that baby out of there.
God.
So she's making jokes about killing babies.
That's who they are.
And that's who they are.
And by the way, I just want to point out that during that cut, if you couldn't see that, Roger Zelany, the New York Times, former New York Times, now CNN reporter, who asked Barack Obama whether he was charmed and delighted to be president.
That was his big question.
How enchanted are you to be president?
Zelany comes out later on.
Jeff Zelany comes out.
I call him Roger.
Jeff Zelaney, right?
He comes out and then he says, oh, she went too far.
He was cut 15.
I thought the jokes were one-sided, not necessarily funny, but she was invited by the White House Correspondents Association.
So, you know, I think that this dinner has had a lot of bad moments.
I was thinking back last evening as I was watching this cringeworthy performance in some respects going after the appearance of Sarah Sanders, which I thought was inappropriate and not funny.
You know, the weapons of mass destruction video from the Bush administration where people were climbing around the floor of the Oval Office looking for the WMD.
Also, not funny.
So it's not the first time there have been awkward moments.
But look, I think the president wins.
He goes out to Washington, a township of Michigan, far away from this.
The press has done a lot of incredible work this year here at CNN.
Of course, the Washington Post, New York Times, other places.
A lot of that was, I think, overtaken by a skit that wasn't very funny.
And we sometimes celebrate ourselves too much, I think.
The reality is it's an important job.
And last night, I don't think we lived up to it.
So just remember, the cut before, he's out there.
He's making, he's laughing at those jokes about Pence.
He's all this stuff.
You know, this thing with Joy Reed, I'm going to end with this.
This thing with Joy Reed kind of sums up what's happening with these people because they live in this fantasy.
They live in this fantasy that they're heroes, they're oppressed.
They're not oppressed.
They're not heroes.
They're just biased Democrats.
These are just Democrats with press cards.
That's all they are.
They're Democrat spokesmen with press cards.
They've been doing the same thing for 20 years.
Trump has finally had the temerity to talk to them openly about it, to call them openly what they are, and they are scattering and they're now suffering from the Trump effect, where the only thing they could do to fight back against Trump is to become Trump, and it doesn't look good on them.
This is the way Trump destroys people.
He turns them into the image of themselves, but that just reveals what hypocrites they are because Trump hasn't been a hypocrite.
But Joy Reed was found to have put out on an old blog gay jokes.
The stuff about people being gay and attacking politicians for being gay.
They caught her out on it.
Some guy on Twitter caught her out on it.
She says, oh, that's not me.
I was hacked.
I was hacked.
And then I think the FBI actually investigated this, but they found out she wasn't hacked.
It was her.
She was making these jokes.
And Joy Reed is shocked, shocked to discover that she's Joy Reed.
Joy Reid is just shocked that she is herself.
She comes on TV and she says, I can't, somebody has to pay.
I can't believe that I'm me, that I wrote these things.
Listen to it.
Listen to it.
A community that I support and that I deeply care about is hurting because of some despicable and truly offensive posts being attributed to me.
And many of you have seen these blog posts circulating online and in social media.
Many of them are homophobic, discriminatory, and outright weird and hateful.
When a friend found them in December and sent them to me, I was stunned.
Frankly, I couldn't imagine where they'd come from or whose voice that was.
In the months since, I've spent a lot of time trying to make sense of these posts.
I hired cybersecurity experts to see if somebody had manipulated my words or my former blog.
And the reality is they have not been able to prove it.
But here's what I know: I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me.
But I can definitely understand based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past why some people don't believe me.
It was evil, Joy Reed.
It's like, what kind of an excuse is that?
I wrote these things, but I can't believe it, and I'm shocked, and I will take this up with myself immediately.
My only point about this is that only Joy Reed is shocked to discover that she's Joy Reed.
Only the press was shocked to wake up the next morning and find we didn't think they were funny.
We thought they were low.
We thought they were mean.
We think that they're dishonest.
The polls continually show that people don't trust them.
Only the press is shocked by this because they are living in a fantasy.
It's the left-wing's fantasy of oppression and heroism, and it's simply not real.
And when they get caught, and when we see them, we know it's not real, and they're shocked, shocked to find out that they're themselves.
Speaking of people who are shocked to find out that they're themselves, Michael Knowles is going to be with us to talk about the caravan at our southern border.
That will be in just a moment.
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I know.
And it fills up automatically whenever Knowles speaks, which he will momentarily.
All right.
Knowles, nice jacket.
Oh, this whole thing?
Thank you very much.
Don't mind if I do.
So, so I just have to ask, did you see this Avengers movie that everybody keeps telling me was so great?
In deference to the Andrew Clavin show and the Michael Knowles show viewers, I did not see this movie because I just know, you know, there's a 98% chance I'll have nothing nice to say about it.
And they get so people get so angry when you criticize Marvel.
I know, they get so ticked off at us.
What I did, though, instead was I just danced around the room for two and a half hours thinking, I'm not watching this movie anymore.
You know what I did instead?
I saw any other movie.
I saw any, because, you know, I have movie pass, so they're all free.
You know, and yeah, I saw the Walkie and Phoenix movie.
Quite good, actually.
Was that good?
Yeah, it was quite good.
It's like every Wauke and Phoenix movie.
It's just him kind of shaking and muttering to himself for two hours.
He doesn't care if he makes contact with the audience at all.
I watched The Hitman's Bodyguard, which I have to be honest, like kind of second-rate action films are my bliss.
You know, they just put me in this kind of haze.
Like, you know, my eyes kind of get all white and milky, and I just sit there with this kind of stupid smile on my face.
It was great.
Anyway, what is happening with this thing on the southern border?
Are we being invaded?
I mean, if I read Drudge, it makes me feel like the armies of the night are coming for us.
That's what's happening.
Speaking of following your bliss, there are a thousand Central Americans who have left Honduras and are marching all the way up, and they've just arrived at the border at Tijuana.
And a lot is, there's a lot of fake news about this.
Drudge is giving some of the best headlines because the mainstream media obviously are covering this up so much.
So you've got to watch the words here.
I have a PragerU video out today about how the left manipulates words to manipulate our emotions.
And nowhere is that more evident than in this migrant caravan.
So what they've done is say that these people are not just foreign nationals who decided to invade our country.
They are refugees or they're asylum seekers.
And that language is very important because after the Holocaust, the United States agreed, along with many other countries in the world, that whenever someone shows up at your door and asks for political asylum and makes the claim, no matter how absurd, that they'll be killed if they return to their country, you have to process them.
So you have to give them some entry and give them a due process and consider their claim.
So this is very important.
The organization that is running this whole thing is called Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which is roughly people without borders or towns without borders.
And it's an ironic name because, of course, there isn't such a thing as a town without a border.
The border makes the town and the border makes the country.
Nevertheless, I think what they want to suggest, what they want the optics to look like, is that this is a grassroots uprising of refugees in warn-torn Honduras who have just one day decided that they're all going to march, heroically march 2,000 miles to the border.
That's not really what happened.
There are a lot of buses and trains that take part in this, and it's all organized by an American organization.
Fueblos Infronteras, despite the Spanish name, is actually based in Los Angeles County.
The organization's based right here.
Yeah.
They use the name in Spanish, well, one, because that's, I think, the official language of Los Angeles County, but also to make it seem like this transnational movement, which is what they're trying to show.
So there were a thousand people that left Honduras.
Some of them fell off along the way.
They stuck around in Mexico or somewhere else.
And 600 are at the door.
Now, it's amazing.
The guy who's organizing this, Rodrigo Abeja, he said, these are people that have been stranded in Mexico, awaiting refuge.
Most of them have to wait a year or more.
And the majority of them get rejected eventually in America.
But what they say is that the people who go, once they get to Mexico and ask for asylum, quote, when Mexico rejects them, the next step is to go to the U.S.
The safest and most organized way is through the caravan.
So he's admitting that any sane country up to and including Mexico is going to reject these people because you don't get to just invade someone else's country.
Only the United States feels that it is our humanitarian mission that we have to accept anybody who shows up at our door.
But surely, I mean, there's got to be a limit, right?
That we can't accept everybody.
So if there's a limit, somebody's got to set the limit.
Should be us, right?
It shouldn't be them.
How dare you?
Am I on an alt-right podcast?
What bigotry?
Everybody is, if you support the Constitution, now you're alt-right.
You're on the alt-right.
I think the left has to get rid of that alt button on their computer because they don't know how to use it.
So wait, so this is organized in America to bring up these guys so there's going to be towns with no borders, but it's only our border that's going.
Because of course, if you go down to Mexico, they'll arrest you like two seconds after you start.
They get to have their borders.
It really, it should be America Sinfronteris.
That's really what the organization should be called.
Exactly, exactly.
It's America without borders.
And of course, you know, you would say, does a country have a right to determine who comes in, who accesses taxpayer-funded services, who gets to use the education systems and the healthcare systems, who gets to vote in elections?
And really, that's what this is all about.
Immigrants, both legal and illegal from Central America and South America, identify with Democrats between three times as frequently and 8.75 times as frequently as they identify with Republicans.
So it's an electoral strategy.
Democrats have admitted this, but I think this is all excellent for Trump, actually.
I think this caravan is great news for Democrats.
It's good for Trump.
Why?
Well, we have 600 people crossing the border.
And everyone, everyone who is sane, everyone who doesn't work for the New York Times, thinks this is a pretty tough situation.
Meanwhile, the New York Times headline reads, migrant caravan after grueling trip reaches border.
Now the really hard part.
CNN, huddling on the concrete, they wait through the turnstiles is America.
I'm Jim Acosta.
I added that part, but presumably that's what they were thinking.
Now I have the sads.
Now you have to have the sads.
But presumably everyone else in the country thinks this is absurd that we have 600 to 1,000 people flooding across our border, except that happens every single day.
Really?
More than 1,000.
Every single day in the United States, we arrest 1,000 illegal aliens crossing the border every day.
But our policy is absurd here.
This got the title during the Bush era.
We have a policy called catch and release.
Catch and release, that's a real policy.
That isn't fake news.
What we do, because we're required to give these people due process and asylum and go through the asylum process, we arrest them.
But it takes a long time.
It's not like you arrest them and then two hours later you say, okay, you're deported or you get to stay.
So what we do is we arrest them and we say, okay, now you better show up for your court date.
Your court date's in about three months.
You better show up for that.
And if you don't, nothing will happen and you'll just get to live in America.
That's what happens.
And so they keep flooding through.
If this can call attention to that problem, if we can say this was actually a good day for illegal immigration, it's much lower than normally happens.
Perhaps Trump can actually get something accomplished.
We know that illegal immigration has plummeted 40% since he became president.
And hopefully we can codify some of that into law so that we can prevent the real blue wave from coming across the border.
I do not understand with any of this why this isn't purely a rule of law issue.
I've never understood this.
Obviously the left always wants to throw race at you to make you feel bad so you back down.
But I do not understand why the laws are passed, as I recall, I seem to remember that the laws are passed in Washington in Congress.
So when you have congressmen and senators saying, oh, we don't have to obey those laws, what kind of country are they envisioning?
A country where we obey the laws until our hearts are moved by CNN writing about the concrete.
I mean, is that really the country that they want to have?
Because after all, people's emotions aren't always going to go their way.
People are sometimes going to emote and say, you know what, we'd like to come to Washington and drag you out in the street and dump you in tar and feathers and throw you in the Potomac.
And then we would say, well, yeah, but that's against the law.
But so what?
So I don't understand why we don't debate this wholly on a rule of law basis.
And as you say, if this law is not serving our country, which it doesn't sound like it is, let's change the law.
There's no debating on the left anymore.
I don't mean that in a glib sort of way.
They admit to it themselves.
They shout their abortion.
They say, we have to shout our abortion.
They yell and they scream.
Reasoned discourse is over for them.
And there are two really awful, vicious angles on this.
There's the philosophical one.
They've embraced this leftist philosophy of intersectionality, whereby, regardless of reason or logic, everybody has to gang up against the straight white man who thinks he's a man.
And that might mean that gay activists and radical Muslims have to gang up on the straight white man who thinks he's a man in America.
Their interests don't seem to align, but they can at least destroy what they view as the oppressive top of the hierarchical structure.
There's that.
That's a very anti-logical philosophy.
And then there's the political angle, which is even in the early 2000s, even in the late 2000s, Democrats ran and said, we oppose illegal immigration, which makes sense because the people voting for you are the people here legally.
That has changed since they've seen that they are so close.
If they just give amnesty to a few more people, if they just give amnesty to some more felons and some more foreigners and some more children, if they give them all the right to vote, then they'll win more elections.
I think the rule of law is no longer in their favor, and so they're going to undermine it.
You know, there's a line in the famous play, A Man for All Seasons, about St. Thomas Moore, and I can't quote it exactly, but what he says basically is if you knock down the laws to get away, to chase the devil, what will you do when the devil turns around on you?
What will protect you, all the laws having been laid flat?
And I think that that is going to come back and haunt them.
What are you talking about on your show today?
Today I'm going to be talking all about Michelle Wolfe.
I'll be knocking down every criticism, but I'll be going joke by joke.
I watched this whole thing.
I didn't watch Avengers, but I did watch her.
And I'll explain why Michelle Wolf is not a comedian.
The difference between comedy and important comedy, the difference between laughs and claps.
Great.
It sounds terrific.
I will be there.
Michael Knowles show coming up.
Thanks, Knowles.
All right.
Our crappy culture.
So I can't let the show go by without talking about Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby, when I was a kid, was my hero.
And when I say he was my hero, his picture was on my wall.
I imitated him.
I could do stand-up.
I would frequently, like when I was 10 years old, would do stand-up comedy routines in his style.
It is really hard to, I mean, so now we're talking about when I was a little boy, so this is like 1842, right?
This is a long time ago.
You know, it's really hard to talk about the impact that the guy had.
ISPY, I never missed a single, ISPY was on for three years.
I never missed a single episode of ISPY.
That is who I wanted to be.
I wanted to be Bill Cosby, that carry.
I wanted to be that character on iSpy.
You know, the funny thing about this is looking back on it, and I experience, you know, the left is always talking about lived experience.
My lived experience was this had virtually nothing to do with him being black.
It never actually really occurred to me in those terms.
His blackness, it was really his poverty, the fact that he grew up in relative poverty and I grew up in relative privilege that gave him an authenticity that I envied and that I wanted to imitate.
And it gave him a kind of street smart and street cool that I didn't associate with being black.
I just associated it with his economic class.
But the fact that a white boy in a suburb wanted to emulate this guy and that emulating him didn't drag him down as if he had been some rap star spewing obscenities and hatred for women, but in fact kind of elevated me to want to be more authentic, to want to be more real, to find the humor in my life, to find what was interesting in my life.
That isn't an actual accomplishment.
And the people who are picking on him today, many of them wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for Cosby.
Because when you're the first guy out there, all kinds of problems present themselves that don't present themselves later on.
Chris Rock will never face the things that Cosby faced.
And Cosby did a good job.
There's no excuse for what he did.
What he did was a horrible, horrible crime.
He's been convicted on three counts of sexual assault.
And it seems like this was a history he had of feeding women drugs and then attacking them while they were incapacitated, which is obviously some kind of deep sickness.
I mean, it's not even a sexy thing to think about doing to someone.
It's not, you know, I mean, to just knock people out like that.
So there's no excuse for him.
And it stains this achievement that he had, which was a really massive achievement because most of you know him as like America's dad and all this stuff, which I was out of the country when that happened.
That was way, way beyond my childhood.
But as a child, it's just impossible to overstate the way he swept into our culture like just a meteor just hitting the culture and just changed a lot of the ways we talked and a lot of the ways we thought about our own childhoods and how he taught us to dramatize our childhoods and find the humor in them.
So again, no excuses for what he did, but we have to think about the questions of generalization because what Cosby did, what was his great achievement, was that he individualized himself.
He was an individual.
I didn't think of him as a black man.
I didn't think of him as blacks coming along.
I thought of him as Kaz.
He was the Kaz and he was somebody that you admired.
That is what we lose with intersectionality.
And that is what we lose with the racism of woke.
I mean, woke is racism.
So not only does it, if a black person does something now, does it represent black people?
I mean, does it?
Does what Cosby did represent black people?
Of course it doesn't.
Of course it doesn't.
And guess what it also doesn't represent?
It doesn't represent men.
And that is the sin of the Me Too movement is that it tars men for the behavior of louts.
And that is the same kind of sin as either tarring people for being black or tarring people for being white or attacking people in these groups.
It is insane.
It is an insane way for us to relate to one another.
Tom Brokaw has been accused of attacking someone, and he had the temerity to defend himself by saying this didn't happen.
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This woman said he attacked her many, many years ago, and she has a typical excuse of saying it now, 30 years later, whatever it is.
And I was watching Allison Camarotta and Brian Stelter talking about it on CNN.
And basically, we're supposed to assume that Brokaw is guilty.
And all the women who worked with Brokaw, over 100 women, said no.
The guy's always treated women with respect.
He's always been a decent person.
The woman who accused him, Linda Vester Brokaw, says that she has a grudge and that she's coming after him.
I don't know which one is true, but why should we believe one over the other?
But listen to this conversation between Stelter and Camerota and how they convict him basically on air.
Why, in this Me Too moment, where so many women have come out and told the stories of what they've experienced in Hollywood or the media or any other industry, why the backlash against Linda Vester?
This angry denial from Tom Brokaw is a big part of it.
He issued this letter first to his colleagues, but then it quickly leaked out to the media where he called her a character assassin, absolutely denied the allegations, said she was seeking fame and fortune.
This was a shocking response by Tom Brokaw.
Clearly, he believes he's the victim and not Linda Vester.
I think that's one of the reasons why his colleagues are standing by him.
NBC is standing by him.
Apparently, NBC doesn't feel there's enough evidence to investigate to warrant any action right now.
Remember, even though he's retired from the nightly news, he's a special correspondent on the network all the time.
I think the unanswered question here is whether there are other women who may come forward.
I've been asking Vestor's attorney if he's heard from other women.
He will not answer that question.
But that statement you just read, alluding to Vester having more to say soon, that's curious because last week she said she's speaking out now because she wants to make sure NBC is taking this issue seriously.
She believes there was a systemic culture of sexual harassment at that company that was not taken seriously.
She wants a thorough investigation.
She doesn't feel that's happening.
Yeah, you know, each of us is born with his own soul with which to start the world afresh.
Each of us is responsible for his own sins and each of us is to be credited for his own achievements.
The way that the press has become a vehicle for intersectionality, a vehicle for blaming people in groups, praising people in groups, looking at people in groups, is part of why nobody trusts them, part of why people criticize them.
They're not oppressed.
They're just doing a bad job.
I'm Andrew Clavin.
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