Michael Knowles and the host dissect leftist violence, from Ophelia journal’s acceptance of a rewritten Mein Kampf to antifa’s pepper-spray attacks at Patriot Prayer rallies, while blaming Democrats like Bernie Sanders for enabling it. They mock CNN’s RBG hagiography as partisan propaganda, exposing her pro-abortion activism and questioning why only she gets such treatment—not Scalia or O’Connor—while framing Harvard’s admissions trial as proof of anti-Asian discrimination. The episode ties leftist coercion to systemic hypocrisy, from selective outrage over Yazidi genocide to #MeToo’s Clinton-era parallels, arguing capitalism’s voluntary exchange contrasts with socialism’s inherent force. [Automatically generated summary]
These, you may remember, are the impish liberal academics who decided to submit articles filled with absurd leftist nonsense to academic journals to see if the journals could tell the difference between fake articles filled with absurd leftist nonsense and the real articles filled with absurd leftist nonsense they usually publish.
And no, they couldn't.
The academic journals accepted articles on subjects like dog rape culture, fat bodybuilding, and whether it's okay to put white male students in chains to help them overcome their sense of comfort.
I am not making this up.
But in what is perhaps their masterpiece, prankster academics James Lindsay, Peter Bogozian, and Helen Pluckrose submitted a rewritten section of Adolf Hitler's psychopathic screed Mein Kampf to one of the top feminist journals in the country, Ophelia, and Ophelia accepted it.
Ophelia editor Shrieky Virago defended her decision to run Hitler's piece, saying, quote, you know, it seems we got this Hitler fellow all wrong.
When conservatives demanded liberty for all and limits on government power, we used to call them Hitler because we thought that's what Hitler believed.
But it turns out Hitler wasn't such a bad fellow after all, and he wanted to use victim ideology to oppress people just like we do.
In fact, we would invite Mr. Hitler to speak at our next feminist conference if it weren't for the fact he's a dead white male, which could prejudice some feminists against his otherwise palatable views.
So, I guess some other feminists will have to stand in for Hitler, pounding the podium and screaming hate-filled inanities, which will at least prove that a woman can do that just as well as any man.
Unquote.
And okay, I did make that quote up, but the rest of the story is totally true.
And while you might think accepting an article by Hitler would give the girls at Ophelia second thoughts about their own philosophy, not at all.
To do that would be to accept anti-feminist values like reason and decency.
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Well, before we start talking about the news, we have to talk about the non-news, which is Elizabeth Warren has announced she is actually less Indian than everybody else in America.
I mean, I went to 23andMe and had my DNA done, and I think I have more.
You know, I have, I think it was Chayim the Chappaqua, the Trippiqua, whatever it was that I'm related to.
But Elizabeth Warren is, you know, Trump challenged her to test her DNA, said he'd give a million dollars to charity if she tested her DNA and proved that she was actually an Indian as she has pretended to be.
And she has this thing.
I don't know, what was it?
Debate's Simplistic Violence00:14:58
It was like one, it was 0%.
The test says she was 0% to 1.6% American Indian, which I think most Americans are 1.8% or something like that, American Indian.
So she is proved.
I now want her to go by her native name, Walks Like a Duck, because if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck, and she's white.
It's like, hey, nothing wrong with being white.
I like white people.
Some of my best friends are white people.
You know, Elizabeth, take it easy.
You know, it's fine.
The other thing is, of course, is the violence.
The violence over the weekend from the left, mostly from the left, has been just, it just continues and it's getting worse and it's getting uglier and they're threatening to do worse.
On Friday, the Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan was attacked.
It houses the Manhattan Republican Party and the New York City Regional Office of the New York Republican Party.
It was vandalized, including broken windows, spray-painted anarchist symbols.
And the criminal group that did the damage left a note.
They were angry that Gavin McGinnis was going to talk.
If Gavin McGinnis is your worst nightmare, you know, you know, like you're, you're not, you have nothing to be afraid of.
They left a note: our attack is merely a beginning.
We are not passive, we are not civil, and we will not apologize.
Those of good conscience and clear mind know this state of oppression cannot remain.
I know you're all feeling very oppressed out there.
The U.S. fascist political system is one of the most savage institutions in history, and we will combat it relentlessly until all are free of American barbarism.
They say, Do these guys have windows in their apartment?
Can they look outside and see that like everything's going great?
Is that a problem for them?
Here's the Democrat, a montage of all the Democrat politicians denouncing the attack.
Yeah, that was it.
That was the whole montage.
So, yeah, you're not hearing it, you know, because this is the problem.
But then in Portland, there was more violence.
You know, the antifa people, you know, I want to go back and get one of our great, maybe Cynthia, one of our great artists back there, to do a cartoon for me of a guy in a black mask with a label Antifa on his shirt, and then a guy in a white hood with anti-claw on his shirt.
Because, you know, just because you say you're anti-something doesn't mean you're not the thing.
So there's fascists who call themselves anti-fascists are out in the streets of Portland, you know, terrorizing people, yelling at people, yelling racist things at white people.
So the Patriot Prayer Rally was holding a prayer, patriotic prayer rally.
Now, let's be fair here.
They had clubs too.
Normally when I pray, I leave my club at home.
I mean, just saying, you know, I don't bring my club to my prayer.
You know, it's like, say, don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
I don't usually bring my club to a prayer meeting.
So they were looking for trouble too.
But it really does look from the videos.
You can just play the videos in the background so people can see.
It really does look from the videos that the anti-faze people started it by pepper spraying some of the prayer patriot people.
They set a flag on fire.
They set a flag on fire, which was rescued.
But then it just became, after the pepper spray was sprayed, it just became a genuine, genuine Donnybrook with people punching each other's lights out.
This is what's happening.
And of course, the problem is the problem is not the thugs on the street.
There aren't enough of them to really cause problems.
The problem is the leadership of the Democratic Party not denouncing the thugs because they're afraid of losing their support.
Everybody makes fun of Donald Trump when he was asked to denounce the Klan and he didn't denounce the Klan because he was afraid of losing votes.
That was wrong.
Trump was wrong to do that.
Now the Democrats have fallen in line and they are not denouncing these people and it is just disgusting.
And the problem they have, the problem that they have is the Democrat Party has drifted left.
The Democrat Party has drifted left and leftism is inherently violent.
Remember, the debate between left and right is not an equal debate.
It is not one person saying we want this, this, and this in a free America, and the other people saying we want this, this, and that in a free America.
One side is saying we want a free America with different opinions.
People can speak.
People can talk about it, debate things, compromise, go forward.
That's the right.
On the left, they want to force you to do what they want you to do.
And so that's the first reason the left is inherently violent.
The left is inherently violent because it wants the power to force you to do and think and say what it wants you to do, think, and say.
And if you have government, if you're in the government, if you're in the government, you don't have to take to the streets with clubs if you're in the government because you have the police force, you have the force of government.
Nobody talks about the fact, I talk about it, but not that many people talk about the fact that when you pay taxes, you are paying on threat of violence.
You are paying so that the police do not show up with their guns and take you away because you cannot fight the violence of the state.
The state has a monopoly on true violence and can take you away if you don't pay your taxes.
When they're out of government, they have to do it through terror and they do it by taking to the streets.
And if you don't think, if you don't think the establishment left is in on this, listen to Bernie Sanders when he is talking to Jake Tapper and Jake Tapper asks him about whether or not he's going to denounce this violence.
This is cut number eight.
Now, Jake, I don't think it's a question of going high or going low.
I think it's a question of telling the truth.
And the truth is that you have a president who lies all of the time, a pathological liar.
I don't think that's what the American people want.
You have a Republican leadership in the House and the Senate that tried, came within one vote of throwing 32 million people off of the health insurance they currently have.
You have leadership there in the House and the Senate that wants to do away with the pre-existing protections that people have in this country so they can get health insurance when you have cancer or heart disease.
You have leadership in the House and Senate led by the president that provided massive tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country over a 10-year period.
83% of the benefits go to the top 1%.
You have a president and Republican leadership who supported a budget, supported a budget which would have cut Medicaid by a trillion dollars, devastating for the elderly people.
Now, take out the emotions, take out all the emotional language about devastating for the American people and cancer and take it, all of that.
What he's talking about is taking your money.
He's not talking, remember, they don't have any money.
The government doesn't have any money.
They just take your money that you earn.
You go out and you earn money to support your health care, to pay for your health care.
You go out and earn money to pay for the things that you want.
Bernie Sanders thinks he should be allowed to spend that money.
They always talk about it, and you can hear Casey O Google Eyes Cortez doing the same thing, talking about it'll save America money.
It won't save you money.
It's not America's money.
It's your money.
You earned it.
You worked for it.
That's not greed.
It is not greed to want the things you work for.
It is greed to take them away, to spend them on other things, hoping that it will buy your votes.
And by the way, they're always talking about the middle class.
Remember, under socialism, the middle class disappears, and all you have are the poor and the rich.
Why?
Because you can't tax the rich because they are the ones who create all the wealth.
So you cannot tax them, so they get away scot-free.
You can't tax the poor because they don't have any money.
You wind up taxing the people.
You wind up calling people rich if they make more money than most people, but that's really the middle class.
You destroy the middle class.
So that's why there is no middle class.
Under socialism, only the very poor and the very rich.
Go up to San Francisco, take a look, and you'll see what it's like up there.
So that's number one.
The reason they need violence is because they want to force you to do things, and violence is how you force people to do them, things that they don't want to do.
Number two, they have been hiding in safe spaces.
They own every means of communication in America, except the ones that we have taken back as this kind of like little revolutionary force popping up from behind rocks.
We have a voice now on the internet we didn't have.
We have a voice on podcasts.
We have Fox News.
But mostly they own all of the means of communication, including the Academy, Hollywood, and the news business.
And so they never have to debate.
They never have to debate.
In the New York Post, Carol Markowitz writes, she says, what's behind the recent spread of outraged mobs on U.S. streets, wild-eyed and throwing violent fits because their favored political outcome didn't happen?
How did so many Americans give up on resolving disagreements through discussion and turn the fact that a disagreement exists into an excuse for a tantrum?
Campuses started setting up safe spaces well before 2015 when the news hit our media.
College students were literally taking shelter from the possibility of hearing opinions they might disagree with.
And this comes from a news media, an academy, Hollywood defining the left as the antidote to hatred, not as the left is one side and the right is another, two people having a negotiation, because they lose that argument.
They lose the argument.
The argument is, do you want us to force everyone to believe what we believe or do you want them to be free?
Everybody would say, we want you to be free.
Ah, but if they say yes, but on that freedom, ah, that freedom is just a dog whistle for racism.
It's a dog whistle for sexism, for anti-homosexual, sexual hate, for anti-Islamic hate.
That's the way they debate.
So if there's just them and hatred, you are justified in being violent.
And the biggest safe space, the biggest safe space the left has is the media.
And it is the media that contributes to this violence by taking one side.
I have got a play, this cut of Stephanie Rule.
And obviously she's a biased reporter, biased commentator.
That's fine.
There's nothing wrong with it.
But listen to her absolute wonder and dismay at the fact that this Kavanaugh confirmation, a confirmation in which the left demanded that due process be put aside, that the presumption of innocence be put aside, that violence against senators screaming at them, tormenting them, chasing them out of restaurants, cornering them in elevators, that that was okay, that that didn't play well with the American people.
She's shocked.
She's absolutely stunned.
Listen to her.
There was so much talk, or there is so much talk about the blue wave.
When we all went through the Kavanaugh experience in the last few weeks, many people said this is going to drive more Democrats to go out and vote.
But if you actually look at the polls, they've tightened.
They've tightened.
This Kavanaugh situation has hurt Democrats in the way that they handled it.
We knew that Democrats were excited to vote before.
We know through the Kavanaugh confirmation, now a lot more Republicans are excited to vote.
One of the things Democrats have been pushing is they're sort of the moral leaders, and they have been pointing the finger at Republicans.
And something sort of got muzzled in the last few weeks that when you sit down with even a centrist and you talk about the Kavanaugh confirmation, whether it's my feelings or not, they're quickly saying it's not just dirty politics on one side and Merrick Garland on one side, the way Mitch McConnell handled it.
More and more people are saying they don't like the way Democrats handled it.
She's shocked even when you say this is centrist.
They don't like riots and violence and intimidation and getting rid of due process.
I love the fact that she says we keep telling them that we're the moral voice and yet they turn away.
What could possibly be wrong?
If she were not in her safe space, if she ever got out of her offices, which I'm sure are in New York, if she ever went out and talked to people, just spent some time with them, she would find that Americans, so help me, have a much, much more nuanced, intelligent, insightful view of what's going on than anybody on television.
Anybody, anybody on cable news.
They are much more black and white than most of the people you meet out in the country.
They'll tell you that Trump does things they don't like.
They'll tell you all of that stuff.
But of course rioting doesn't play, but she doesn't know it.
There was a wonderful exchange on 60 Minutes Trump was on with Leslie Stahl, where he starts to talk about the media.
Listen to Leslie Stahl.
She does not want to hear it, and he finally just shuts her down.
It's really funny.
Cut number four.
The other thing I've really learned is I never knew how dishonest the media was.
And I really mean it.
I'm not saying that as a soundbite.
I never knew how dishonest.
Well, no, but even the way you asked me a question, like about separation.
When I say Obama did it, you don't want to talk about it.
When I say I did it, let's make a bigger question.
I'm going to run your answer, but you did it four times.
I'm just telling you that you treated me much differently on the subject.
I disagree, but I don't want to have that fight with you.
Hey, I'm going to go to the next one.
Leslie, it's okay.
In the meantime, I'm president and you're not.
I'm president and you're not.
And that, of course, is what is driving them insane that nobody is paying attention to them.
This Kavanaugh thing, how hard did they sell this Kavanaugh thing that this was an injustice to all women, to 50% of the country, it was an injustice.
It had nothing to do with all women.
It had to do with one man being accused of one thing by one person with no corroborating evidence.
That's what the story was about.
But they didn't report that story.
They reported the story about women, W-O-M-Y-N.
You know, it's everybody.
Everybody represents everybody because it's groupthink and they can't believe people didn't buy it.
And meanwhile, Trump's popularity has taken an uptick.
All right, so that's two reasons that violent is inherent to the left.
One is leftism is by philosophy, by it is essentially force.
Leftism is force.
And if you don't have the force of the government, which disguises the force by diffusing it into all the power that government has, if you don't have that force, then you got to use it with a stick and a mask on the streets and vandalism and attacking people and pepper stray.
It's the same force, but it's just concentrated because you do not have it diffused into the government.
And the second thing is that they are not used to debating because they've taken over the means of communication so they don't have to debate.
So they've convinced themselves that this is a moral holy war and they're on one side and we're on the other, which simply isn't true.
And the third thing, and maybe the worst of it, is they are racist.
Leftism is racist.
That does not mean that there are no racists on the right.
I've said this repeatedly.
Of course, there are racists everywhere.
There are people who look at the world in this simplistic way.
If they get mugged by a black guy, all black guys are criminals.
If they don't like what a white woman does, all white women are bad.
But leftism is racism because it is based on setting interest groups against each other.
It is not based on the melting pot.
It is not based on bringing us together.
That was the other thing that Leslie Stahl talked about.
I just have to play this cut because it actually exemplifies what Trump was saying.
It's cut number one.
She says, she talks about a divided country as if it weren't Obama, and he tells her it was.
She will not listen.
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Listen to this.
I think that what's going to happen.
I think the economy is bringing people together.
It was very polarized under President Obama, unbelievably polarized under President Obama.
I can see the country uniting.
I can't see it.
We have people, Democrats, who behaved horribly during the Judge Cavanaugh.
You know what I'm saying?
But when you won't be here.
During the hearings for the Supreme Court, we had senators that behaved horribly.
But when you won, you won.
No one is going to argue with that.
And then after you won, instead of saying, oh, let's all come together, this is wonderful.
Let's heal all of this.
You come out and bash the Democrats.
Well, I bashed their attitude.
I bashed this.
But why not try to bring us to the point?
They were so unfair to Judge Kavanaugh.
I've never seen anything like it.
Why not try to, we need to be healed.
We need to be.
I don't think they want to heal yet, I'll be honest.
Well, you don't want to heal yet.
I saw Hillary Clinton made a really nasty statement.
I don't think they want to be healed.
I do want to heal.
I'm not talking about Democrats.
I'm talking about the country.
The thing is, when Obama was in office, nobody ever talked about the fact that he was dividing the country.
Nobody in the mainstream media ever talked about it, and he ripped the country in half.
Obama did that.
I talked to liberals.
I try to explain to them what he looked like to us, what he sounded like to us.
They cannot hear it because they look at everything according to race, because they look at everything according to race, because that is the way to divide the country.
Listen to some more of the note that was left on the vandalized Republican headquarters in New York.
The U.S. government has established concentration camps around the country for Latino people.
In what world?
In what world?
You know, people breaking law are being punished and detained for breaking the law.
They have shamelessly murdered black people.
On what planet?
Where is this happening?
It's happening all in their imagination.
It continues.
The U.S. government continues its war machine that has slaughtered Muslim people with impunity for decades.
That's what every president does.
That's what every soldier in America does.
They wake up and say, let me kill some Muslim people.
It's like there's a war going on.
A terrorist faction of the Muslim world, a huge terrorist faction of the Muslim world, has been trying to establish a caliphate in the Middle East.
We have been fighting them.
The so-called land of the free leads the world in incarceration rates per capita because of the high crime.
Anyway, they look at everything in terms of race, so they're angry.
Racism leads to violence.
Racism is hatred.
The latest one they have is white women.
Here's Michelle Bernard at MSNBC on why white women just won't vote the way she wants them to.
Rebecca Traister, I believe, has a new book out.
One of the things that she talks about as a white woman is that the belief that white women have always gained power through the proximal proximity that they have to white males, to their husbands, and they vote in the same way that their husbands do because it always and somehow favors them and helps that political action.
I'll just tell you what's happening in the country.
I just want to finish my statement.
I want to kill myself, Jeff.
I'd like to finish my statement.
And the statement that I am making.
I would like to finish my statement, and the statement that I am making is, I do not see any reason for Democrats to believe that after the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, we are going to see a flood of white women, particularly Republican, red state feminists, come out and vote for Democrats.
God, a flood of white women.
I had a dream like that once.
It was like, it's embarrassing.
I don't want to talk about it.
But Kyle Smith, writing at National Review, talks about how white women has become a disparaging term.
And he quotes, the New York Times, white women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain.
From the New Yorker, despite the enduring legacy of testimony by black women, white women have often played the protagonists in the history of sexual violence, and black women have been relegated to the supporting caste.
And at NBC News, white women who voted for Trump clearly have no issue with the president's openly misogynistic behavior, is demeaning of female reporters and his mocking of Christine Blasey Ford.
So white women, you are the latest.
You know, let me end this.
Let me put it to you this way.
A woman won the Nobel Prize for, she was a Yazidi woman.
Let me make sure I, Nadia Murad, Nadia Murad won the Nobel Prize along with Dennis Mukwegi for fighting against sexual violence during wartime.
This has been sexual violence in wartime is a very hard thing to deal with because it may be inherent to war for men to then rape and rape may be inherent to war.
They don't know how to deal with it.
It's just when people are reduced to the level that war reduces people to, when you're in the midst of this violence, rape occurs.
You know, rape happens.
And it's a terrible, terrible thing.
But the thing is, the Yazidis were purposely targeted for extinction by ISIS.
And one of the ways they targeted them was by taking the women, selling them into slavery, making sure they got pregnant with ISIS men, with ISIS children.
And Nadia Murad is a victim of this, but also has won the Nobel Prize.
How many people knew that?
How many people listening to this knew that?
How many people who listened to the mainstream media knew that Nadia Murad, because they're racist, the left is racist.
They don't want to say it's the only time when violence against women matters is when they can use it to get power.
That's the only time it matters.
Listen, I want to play George Clooney's wife, Amal Clooney, who was talking at the UN about Nadia Murad.
And the reason I'm playing her is not because she's a celebrity, it's because she speaks English and Nadia Murad doesn't.
And so I know a lot of people are just listening to this, so you can understand what she's saying.
Listen to what happened, what ISIS did to Nadia Murad and thousands of Yazidi women.
Nadia was one of 6,700 Yazidis taken by ISIS two summers ago to be sold in markets and on Facebook, sometimes for as little as $20.
Nadia's mother was one of 80 older women who were executed and buried in an unmarked grave.
Her brothers, part of a group of 600 who were murdered in a single day.
Make no mistake, what Nadia has told us about is genocide.
And genocide doesn't happen by accident.
You have to plan it.
Before the genocide began two years ago, the ISIS Research and Fatwa department studied the Yazidis and concluded that, as a Kurdish-speaking group that did not have a holy book, they were non-believers whose enslavement was a quote, firmly established aspect of the Sharia.
Firmly established aspect of the Sharia.
Know who got rid of ISIS?
Yeah, Donald Trump.
How about giving him a Nobel Prize?
That would be interesting.
But of course, none of this stuff, as I've said before, none of this is about what it's about.
It's always about the power.
It goes back to the power.
It goes back to the force.
And that's why the left is violent.
When I say that, you know, I wouldn't pick on the left if there was just a riot in Portland, some bad guys in Portland.
That's happened before.
What is new, what is new, is the silence of the Democrats, the silence of the Democrats as this stuff is going on, because it's who they are.
It's who they have drifted to the left, and that left-wing philosophy is inherently violent.
It is inherently an act of force.
Socialism is an act of force.
Everything except freedom is an act of force, right?
Under capitalism, you make something.
I want to buy it.
I freely give you my money.
You freely give me what you made.
That is freedom.
That's not force.
It is force when you have to take money away from people that they earned and give it to others.
That is the core, essential philosophy of leftism.
It is inherently violent.
And now, because they haven't got the handles of power, thank God that violence is taking to the streets.
And let's play that montage of left-wing Democrat politicians denouncing it once again.
Let's play the whole thing this time.
Yeah, there it is.
That was it.
So, you know, it is inherent in their philosophy.
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I almost said that with a straight face.
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Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
I think I lost my voice after shouting at my television last night for what you made me do.
But even I felt slightly guilty about this.
And especially, you've done such a good job on Another Kingdom that I like, I have to actually, my, my, you know, somebody wrote me over the weekend, this is true, they threatened to stop listening to Ben because he's so mean to you.
And I said, and I said, Ben, you, you know, behind the scenes and in secret, we don't like to riggless too often.
But Ben has been incredibly generous and nice to you.
Oh, yeah, the other day he was eating a sandwich and a pickle felt like a little slice of pickle fell off of it and it hit the floor and then he picked it up and offered it because I didn't eat it at lunch.
I think the fact that when you went and grabbed it, he didn't kick you.
I think that's, you know, that's right.
But anyway, she was threatening to stop listening to Ben, and I told her that you were just boys roughhouse.
We're just boys.
We're just playing.
It's okay, mom.
But now, now with your tremendous performance on Another Kingdom, we have all lifted our respect to you to a little bit of respect.
I really appreciate it.
I really liked you.
Sent out a tweet over the weekend.
You said, you have to tweet out this episode of Another Kingdom to prove that Michael Knowles is possibly good at one thing.
No, it's been so much fun to do.
The story has been a lot of fun.
I was, you know, I hadn't seen it.
I had only, we just shot it, and then I, you know, I leave.
And so I finally got to see it.
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The artwork is unbelievable.
It really is nice.
And even my wife said nice things about you.
Wow, I know.
And you were over the house over the weekend.
So she was not in a good mood.
I know.
She just forced it.
I was very nice.
I did appreciate you getting me hammered before my early morning Fox and friends hit.
I wanted you to go directly from my house to the studio.
You actually went home and got an hour of sleep.
I was mostly speaking in cursive on Fox.
So to get you back, I sent you to watch the documentary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
And it was great, right?
Would you call it a documentary?
I would say that Triumph of the Will offers a more critical analysis of the Reich Party Congress than RBG does of Justice Ginsburg.
That's not entirely fair, you're saying.
Hate geography, I mean, I really mean this.
It does not begin to describe what this was.
I am not exaggerating.
I am not making a joke.
I've never seen a hag geography like this.
It begins.
So it's produced by CNN, which is the best part of it all because it's CNN films, real news, real bananas.
And it opens up, bizarrely, it opens up on the red scare.
So it's Ruth Ginsburg.
She's talking about how awful things used to be in the 50s.
You think she would talk about racial segregation or women not being able to work in certain industries.
No, she talks about the red scare, which tells you a lot about the point of view of this movie and the point of view of Ruth Ginsburg, who, you know, the movie's produced by radical leftists.
And Ruth Ginsburg is a radical leftist.
She is, isn't she?
She really is that far over.
Her whole career, you know, they try to present her as a moderate who finds her left-wing voice later on.
That's not what happened.
She was a moderate because the court was very left-wing.
And then as George Bush appointed two originalists to the court, not even one and a half originalists to the court, the court moved to the right.
But, you know, her whole career was left-wing.
I mean, she began her career as an activist during her Senate confirmation hearings.
She said, not just that I support the Roe v. Wade decision.
She said, I support abortion rights.
She calls for abortion.
She obviously imagines.
She said this before her confirmation.
During her confirmation.
During her confirmation hearings.
Okay.
She said, I support abortion.
In order for women to be equal, abortion needs to be legal.
It needs to be everywhere.
So she's being confirmed to the court as an activist.
And did Republicans vote for her?
Of course they did.
Republicans voted to confirm her.
I think it was 96 to 3.
And the movie makes a point about this.
The movie says, they actually have Bill Clinton, of all people who nominated her say this, say, well, you know, look, it was a less partisan time, but it was still pretty partisan.
Yes, it was partisan when it was conservative justices who were being nominated.
So they make, their point is that she was so wonderful that even the right had to vote for her, which is really, what the real point is, is the right plays fair and the left doesn't.
Yeah.
That's right.
You know, you'd have people like John McCain.
I actually sort of admire this about McCain.
He would vote for any judge.
Any judge who goes up, he says the president has the right to appoint the judges, might not like them.
But the left doesn't abide by that rule.
So, you know, Ginsburg comes out in 1993.
This is two years after Clarence Thomas, two years after a high-tech lynching.
They also try to imply in the movie that Ruth Ginsburg was the pioneer in women on the Supreme Court.
She wasn't the first woman on the Supreme Court.
The first woman was appointed by Ronald Reagan.
I know they make a big fuss over the fact she's a woman.
Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor at the end of the day.
That's right.
That's insane.
Yeah, go ahead.
They virtually ignore Sandra Day O'Connor.
I like to virtually ignore Sandra Day O'Connor, too, because she moved to the left.
But, you know, they virtually ignore her.
They try to make Ginsburg the trailblazer.
And there's such fiction.
It's such a stretch.
They're trying to say she is a cultural icon.
They call her the notorious RBG.
That's from one blog that some people who read everyday feminism seriously use the term.
These are direct quotes.
Every time RBG wrote a dissent, the internet would explode.
I remember that.
I remember I had to pick up the pieces, had to call the sweeping the internet pieces, charge off the floor.
I mean, just as a very basic matter, the woman doesn't trend on Twitter.
The internet does not explode over her.
They're just crafting this narrative.
They say she's become a rock star.
The only time that she really went viral on the internet is when she fell asleep during the State of the Union.
Do they even know what the word notorious means?
It's not a good thing.
I think they're owning it these days.
They have this video of her working out.
I saw that.
So she's working out, and they have this young fit instructor, and he says, oh, she's like a cyborg.
She's like a machine.
See, she does 20 push-ups a day.
But then they film the push-up.
She lowers her body, you know, half an inch.
I'm not saying, look, she's an older woman.
She's 112 years old.
She's 112 years old.
And then they say, oh, and they're real push-ups.
She's not doing, she's barely moving her body, holding these weights that are two pounds.
I like when they put her, they have a picture of her doing a plank, and my first thought is, how long has she been in that position?
Because if it's over six months, you might run a barrier.
Where does core strength end and rigor mortis begin?
You know, and the other thing is during these court hearings, they say that Kavanaugh exposed himself as too partisan.
He's too partisan.
This woman has been openly partisan for her entire career, pre-confirmation, post-confirmation.
Bush v. Gore, she was one of just two justices who voted not to stop the recount.
Wow.
You know, everybody thinks Bush v. Gore was a 5-4 decision.
Ultimately, the decision that ended the question of the presidential election was 5-4, the decision to stop the recount was 7-2.
It wasn't even close.
And she was in that two minority.
She's been on the radical side of countless cases.
But then in the 2016 election, she called Donald Trump a faker.
She said she would move to New Zealand if he were.
That's right.
That's right.
I remember that.
Sure.
She was out and out campaigning for Hillary Clinton, campaigning against Donald Trump.
And she's not going to recuse herself from any decisions that have to do with him.
Of course not.
But you never hear that she's too partisan, do you?
They want to have it both ways.
They can't pick Elaine.
So they say she's too partisan, but we love her because she's not too partisan.
We love her because she's too partisan.
But Brett Kavanaugh has to withdraw himself.
So now this raises the question, though.
All of this stuff is suddenly coming up.
Obviously, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is coming to the end of her term here on Earth.
So they say.
Yes, no one lives forever.
And so I wish her well.
I'm not wishing ill on her, but I'm just saying at some point the curtain comes down.
Why is all of this stuff coming up now?
What is the argument?
What is the secret?
Everything that the left does always has this secret argument about why they should have power.
What is the secret argument behind a hagiography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Well, they're creating this fiction that a justice should be replaced by someone who is exactly like them.
And some Republicans have even bought into this.
Now, I don't remember this when Merrick Garland was put up for the win.
Really?
What right-winger in his right mind would buy into that?
Of course.
It's absurd.
But they're passing it off as true.
They're making their movies.
And so, and we have to forget history as recent as two years ago.
We have to forget about Garland going up to replace Scalia.
But they're trying to set this up so that if you thought this Kavanaugh fight was bad, just wait until Amy Coney Barrett is up to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
They're trying to set that up.
They're also trying to use the possible vacancy for the Democrats the way that Republicans used it in 2016.
President Trump may have won because Antonin Scalia died when he did and because Cocaine Mitch behaved the way he did postponing filling that seat.
I wonder if this new thing about white women is aimed at Amy Barrett, too.
I mean, I mean, I only support Amy Barrett because she's just so high.
I'm Catholic.
I'm Catholic too.
I know.
I know, those gamblers.
My goodness.
But the question you've got to ask is, look, I don't like Sandra Day O'Connor, but where's the Sandra Day O'Connor movie?
Right.
Or where's the Anton and Scalia movie?
Or where's the Clarence Thomas movie?
They make movies about Clarence Thomas, but they're about Anita Hill.
Why is that?
That's on us, right?
I mean, we're not making those movies.
Yes and no.
Look, this movie is very stupid.
I mean, several minutes of it are just Ginsburg watching clips of Saturday Night Live praising her and her giggling at them.
Then you have clips of her granddaughter talking about Booby, you know, cooking in the kitchen for like a significant portion of this movie.
So part of it is I think the right is not as easily emotionally manipulated.
We're not as, you know, this is sentimental propaganda tripe.
And I think we're not really moved by that.
We don't really require that to motivate us.
But still, people remember the movies.
These movies have really lasting effects.
JFK has lasting effects, right?
So I think it would behoove us to do it also because conservative, as you've been saying now for decades, conservatives will not spend money on the arts.
No, they just don't get it.
There's always an emergency.
Always a fire they're rushing to put out.
What are you talking about on your show?
Today, we're going to talk about the breaking news today.
Elizabeth Warren finally admitting that she's 99.9% right.
We will be analyzing.
We'll obviously be guzzling a lot of these tears because she might be trying to raise heap big wampum on this, but she's not a heap big percentage Native American.
You know, you have tormented her people long enough, Knowles.
It's like the arrows will fly.
Oh, no.
She got me.
I can't wait.
Thanks a lot, Michael.
I appreciate it.
All right, see you.
You know, before we get to our crappy culture, I have to just point out this whole thing about Me Too is actually like a backup of stuff that has been stuffed down because of the need to defend Bill Clinton and his errant wife and their silencing of women, their silencing of women who accused him of rape.
And there was a cut of Hillary Clinton being asked about whether Bill should have resigned.
It's cut number 11.
Just play this for a minute.
In retrospect, do you think Bill should have resigned in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal?
Absolutely not.
It wasn't an abuse of power?
No.
No.
There are people who look at the incidents of the 90s and they say a president of the United States cannot have a consensual relationship with an intern.
The power imbalance is too much.
She was an adult.
But let me ask you this.
Where's the investigation of the current incumbent against whom numerous allegations have been made and which he dismisses, denies, and ridicules?
So there was an investigation, and it, as I believe, came out in the right place.
See, this is incredible ignorance that is being sold to you.
Your ignorance is being sold to you by that.
That is not what the Monica Lewinsky scandal was about.
The Monica Lewinsky scandal was about Paula Jones, who was selected by Governor Bill Clinton's state trooper who would protect him.
And he would come and follow Paula Jones and bring her up to his hotel room, whereupon Bill would chase her around with his pants off, with his pants open, exposing himself to her.
And she sued him for it because she didn't want to be used by Bill Clinton.
She sued him for it, and he lied about it.
If he hadn't lied about it, if he hadn't lied about what he did to Paula Jones, none of this would have happened.
During the testimony, he was forced to testify about Monica Lewinsky.
And not only did he lie about it under oath, he suborned perjury by causing her to lie about it, to submit a statement about it that was untrue, and causing all his people around him, lying to them, abusing his power by lying to them so that they went and lied for him.
That was what the scandal was about.
The scandal was about perjury.
It was not about whether he could be a slime ball for using his immense power to have an affair with a 20-something-year-old girl.
But that's not what the scandal was.
The scandal was the perjury, and they just are pushing that ignorance on you so you forget what it's all about.
our crappy culture.
You know, there's a trial starting that we really want to pay a little bit of attention to.
Harvard University is on trial.
Oral arguments begin on Monday for students for fair admissions versus Harvard University.
Harvard is accused of systematically discriminating against Asian American applicants and college admissions.
They don't want the Asian Americans to study so hard, work so hard, do so well academically that Harvard doesn't want their, you know, the yellow peril to take over their schools.
So they've been basically slanting their admissions process to keep them out.
And that is what's happening.
They're being sued for it.
And the question that is going to end up being decided, I think, eventually is whether or not we can have this racist system that the left has imposed on it.
It is affirmative action.
It is.
You can't cure racism with racism.
You cannot cure racism with racism.
So by using affirmative action, which is racism, this is the first thing, by the way, the first thing was the Bacchi case that alerted me to the fact that my liberal left-wing leanings were wrong.
This is the first, very first thing that when I saw the Bacchi case come in and affirmative action starting, I thought, nope, they are just adopting the racism that has been in place for so long.
You cannot cure it.
Why do they want to do this?
I think one of the reasons is once you start getting rid of the racism excuse, oh, you can't say that, you can't criticize Obama because it's racist.
You can't criticize a black man kneeling for the flag because it's racist.
You can't criticize.
Once they do that, they have to deal with behaviors.
Because the fact is the behaviors of black people and white people who are in poverty are virtually the same.
And those behaviors, if you fix those behaviors, or at least educate people out of those behaviors, you start to educate people out of poverty and they don't become dependent on the government and they don't really vote for the left quite as much.
And that's what they don't want to do.
The racism has got to go.
And we on the right should stand against it at every single level.
There is no excuse for it.
It is un-American.
It is un-Christian.
It is un-Jewish.
It is wrong.
It is wrong to judge people according to the...
That's it.
That's the whole question.
Is it right or wrong to judge people according to the color of their skin?
Wrong.
Anytime they do it, anytime they do it, it's going to be harmful to the country in the long run and possibly in the short run.
I hope Harvard gets nailed for this.
I hope they get nailed.
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