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Sept. 12, 2017 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 25 - All Politics Is Local. Or National. ft. Mayor Jesse Dwyer

Is all politics local? Small-town mayor Jesse Dwyer explains. Then, the Daily Caller’s Amber Athey and the Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo join the Panel of Deplorables to talk Ted Cruz’s porn preferences, uncontacted Amazon jungle tribes, and Michael's cousin Hillary Clinton’s latest tinfoil hat rantings at the launch of her terrible book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Is all politics local, or has the entertainment news industry made all politics national?
We discuss with the mayor of the village of Greenwood Lake, New York, population 3,301, Jesse Dwyer.
Then, the Daily Callers, Amber Athie, and the Daily Wire's Amanda Prestigiacomo join the panel of deplorables to talk Ted Cruz's porn preferences, uncontacted Amazon jungle tribes, and my cousin Hillary Clinton's latest tinfoil hat rantings at the launch of her terrible book, I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
I couldn't even get it out of my mouth.
My second cousin once removed Hillary's book.
It's such an upsetting event that she's going to be going on this tour and showing her face, but probably it's good for Republicans.
So anyway, today we always talk about national politics.
We talk about President Trump.
We talk about big trends.
We talk about the sky high view.
We never talk about local politics.
We never talk about politics on the ground.
What it's really like for people who are going out there, pressing palms, going to spaghetti dinners, and what regular Americans in that little sliver of the country between L.A. and New York are thinking and what their lives are like and what they're talking about.
I would like to talk about local politics today.
I want to talk about the real nitty gritty because I think...
Basically, the problem with all political shows right now is that the reason that they, like sports predictors, very often get their predictions wrong is because they don't actually go out there and talk to voters, and so they miss that huge swath, that silent majority.
Not us.
But not us, Michael.
But not us, because we press the palms, and we've got these great experts who are coming in.
So, you know...
I think former House Speaker Tip O'Neill really made the blanket statement on this when he said, all politics is local.
Now, he's a Democrat, so he's probably wrong, and here is Newt Gingrich explaining why he's wrong.
First of all, O'Neill was wrong.
All politics is not local.
It wasn't even local when he was Speaker.
When in the Vietnam War, the draft was extended to college students, Every college student in every congressional district in the country noticed it the same weekend.
So it wasn't local.
Its impact may be local.
Second, we live in a national media.
In the last month of the campaign, Rush Limbaugh will talk to a national audience.
Sean Hannity will talk to a national audience.
A national audience will read the Wall Street Journal editorial page or the New York Times editorial page.
People will wake up and turn on the Today Show and Good Morning America and Fox and Friends and CBS Morning News, and they're going to get a national conversation.
So if one party has a huge advantage in that national conversation, that party has big advantages in turnout and in winning.
Now it is my distinct pleasure to bring on my friend of many years, the mayor of Greenwood Lake, New York, and also partner of Red Pillar Political Consulting, Mr.
Jesse Dwyer.
Jesse, thanks for coming on.
Michael, thanks a lot for having me, man.
It's funny you mention those spaghetti dinners because I'm pretty sure you and I have at least attended about a thousand of them together, right?
I should, for the people who are listening and watching, I should say Jesse and I have worked on about 100 million campaigns together.
In suburban New York and rural New York, we have been to a million spaghetti dinners.
We have been to train stations.
We have talked to a lot of voters on a lot of campaigns.
Some of those campaigns unexpectedly won.
A lot of those campaigns did not win because New York is left of Lenin.
But Jesse, that's why I wanted to bring you on.
I feel like you can bring a great perspective that is completely missing from political news shows.
Which is it?
Is all politics local or is all politics national?
I think you hit the nail on the head.
You know, the national media, they're going to focus on national issues and unfortunately it's turned into the WWF and increased ratings and trying to get everybody's attention and everything is really erratic and everybody's, you know, it's high stress levels and they're getting ratings and they're getting viewers because of this high stress.
So that's getting into local people's television, but that doesn't mean that local people in rural areas and middle class areas It's not affecting the roads that are in front of their house, it's not affecting property disputes, and it's not affecting what I believe to be things that will drive middle class people to the polls on both local as well as national issues.
You've got two different things here.
You've got the It's a democratic machine in the inner cities where it doesn't matter about national politics.
They do exactly what they're told.
They're going to vote Democrat.
Then you've got everywhere else in America, which I would say is predominantly the Republican Party, right?
That's where everybody else who voted for Trump outside of the major cities.
They're more focused about school taxes, school issues, getting jobs and the things that matter most to them.
And I would argue are more local issues than national issues.
And the national news media and the big political shows, they never talk about it because you're right.
It's like the WWF. And it's probably for, I think, a lot of people in a lot of small towns, it's like the WWF also in that you can talk about it.
You talk about it just like you watched a ball game or you watched a reality TV show or you watched some event.
It's fun.
It's gossip.
It's entertaining.
But it isn't your property taxes.
It isn't your school taxes.
It just does not affect your life.
Right.
It's become all about entertainment.
And you watch Fox News or CNN, and they're both all about entertainment and hype.
And, you know, look at the storm.
The storm was literally a 10-day extravaganza trying to hype it up and get as much people, you know, as many people scared as possible.
And it does serve a valuable purpose, you know, alluring people to potential danger.
But they literally will drag out any piece of energetic or stressful information out as long as they possibly can.
And it does get attention.
It does bring people together.
And I think Speaker Gingrich was correct and people are following this information, but I certainly don't think it is what genuinely drives people to the polls and will determine On that point, I think we should point out Rush Limbaugh was absolutely right and vindicated here.
He predicted a week ago that Hurricane Irma was being hyped for ratings when he was forced to evacuate.
They raked him over the coals.
They called him a hypocrite.
They said it was awful.
And then it turns out he was absolutely 100% right.
So another chalk for Rush Limbaugh.
Now, Jesse, as a mayor...
What are your priorities?
You're a mayor of a local government, small town.
What are your priorities?
I assume it's Melania Trump's shoes, right?
Absolutely.
Those are the issues that my constituents care most about.
Which shoes are they?
Which are wearing the sneakers?
Right.
It's ridiculous.
It is absolutely ridiculous.
And I know you're going to talk about Ted Cruz's little porn incident.
Like, who cares about that?
It was an accident.
Well, there goes the next half of our show.
Bob Menendez.
You know, why aren't they focusing about Bob Menendez's trial?
They're looking at, you know, Ted Cruz.
Some staffer tweeted this out because it's interesting.
People are going to see the link.
They're going to click on it.
It's going to drive viewers.
It's going to get support.
People in my community, they don't care about that stuff.
You mentioned Ted Cruz.
They probably—half of them don't even know who he is, and he ran for president.
They just don't care.
You know, they care about the lake.
They care about the infrastructure in our community.
They care about our schools, our roads.
You know, those are the issues they care about.
When you hear someone like Donald Trump talking about those issues, talking about infrastructure and jobs, you know, that's—those are local issues that affect people locally.
They're not talking about which bathroom you can use or which gender you think you are.
They're talking about things that matter—jobs, the infrastructure.
Right.
Those are inner city issues where the Democrats, I would argue, are, you know, focused on those things and they're following the Democratic agenda for the most part.
And us out here in rural America and the middle class and the Republican Party, we care about the real things, you know, the jobs, what kind of a future our kids are going to have in the school districts and things like that.
Thank you for validating a perspective I've had now for, I guess, six months or nine months, which is whenever Donald Trump tweets something, People lose their minds.
Their heads explode.
They say, oh my gosh, it's going to get us into war.
It's going to undermine this bill.
It's going to stop this legislation.
Yada, yada, yada, yada.
And my reaction, almost across the board, is that I don't care.
Other than the Covfefe tweet, which I really loved.
But I just don't...
Who cares?
I mean, I enjoy it.
I find it entertaining.
In so much as he affects conservative policy, I'm happy.
In so much as he does nothing, I'm also happy as a conservative myself.
But I think the point that half of your constituents might not have even heard of Ted Cruz, I think that is true around the country.
And it's so easy for us in political media to lose sight of the fact that I guarantee you, nobody in your community and very few people in any other community have ever heard of Jim Gilmore.
He ran for president, too.
The only reason they heard of George Pataki is because he was the governor of their state.
Those priorities, do you think that plays into why political pundits on the national level are so often wrong?
I think you might have a point on that.
I think they're probably wrong is because they constantly have to find the next thing.
They constantly have to have the 10-day news cycle showing the storm and they have to predict it because they have to be on TV. They have to be talking about it and they're doing that for everything.
They're making predictions.
They're always making some sort of a guess and they're sticking by it.
They're following through with it and I think it's because they feel compelled to just constantly have some sort of a stressful There's literally nothing you can do about it.
I mean, it's going to happen.
That there are senior citizens literally sitting in front of Fox News, scared to death that something is going to happen.
And they feel that their success rating is going to go up if they can make that senior citizen constantly watch them.
Or, you know, the taxpaying citizen who can't pay their bills.
And they're just going to watch these things.
I'm a 27-year-old who just constantly watches these things, too.
That's because you're in the business.
You know, I don't really watch it.
I don't watch news all the time.
And most of the time, I don't watch Fox News or CNN because it's constantly this...
Aggravating, loud music, stressful.
You know, they're trying to get your attention.
They're trying to make you believe that the problems are far worse than they really are.
And I don't want to do that.
I have enough problems that we're dealing with in my community for me to not give a crap about what's going on in Florida, quite frankly.
You know, it doesn't matter to me.
It's an interesting thing that I'd like to see every once in a while, but my priorities as a local mayor is ensuring that our lake is clean, that our roads are swept, that our roads are properly paved and the neighbor disputes are handled properly.
You know, I don't really care.
I have sympathy for the residents of Florida, but I don't need to hear about it for 10 days.
That's what their local media should be focusing on.
But I don't need to see that up here in New York State.
I really couldn't care less.
I understand that there are a lot of people who have houses in Florida, but, you know, that's what it is.
In my opinion, they feel compelled to drag out whatever news they get and elaborate on it as much as they possibly can because that's what gets people interested.
And Jesse, you'll forgive me, but I'm just writing down some...
And you're probably going to do the same thing, aren't you?
Well, I'm just writing down some of the advice you're giving me for my own show.
I need louder music.
I need to scare senior citizens.
Higher producer salary.
We're definitely going to scratch that one.
So everything you've said makes perfect sense.
I've always assumed this to be the case, having been on the campaign trail with a number of politicians and with you as well.
Now, going back to the national politics that we constantly have to talk about to scare senior citizens, what is your impression?
If I watch Fox News or CNN or MSNBC, especially if I read the New York Times or Washington Post, I get the feeling that not a single person in this country supports President Trump.
That they all are outraged.
He's going to lose in a landslide in 2020.
What is your reaction on the ground talking to your constituents?
Do you think that they support the president?
Do you think it's mixed?
Or everyone's against him?
Well, it seems apparent that his personality is horrendous for the position.
But what do you really feel, Jesse?
What do you really think?
It is.
I mean, he's got this WWF personality that fits perfectly into hyping everything up.
If you look at his accomplishments, what he did before he became president, what he's doing as president, you can certainly see that he's very well qualified for the position.
He has the smarts, he has the know-how, he has the negotiating skills.
He was put into a very complicated situation coming in with a Congress who, I think, almost unanimously opposed Donald Trump.
So he wasn't really able to accomplish much with their support, but we'll obviously take that up with our local congressman When it comes to that election.
But, you know, listen, I think Donald Trump's doing a great job as president.
He's handled these hurricanes very well.
He's been down there.
And even though he's getting criticized left and right about shoes and hats and all these other ridiculous things, he did a very good job.
You can hear that from all of the elected officials in Texas and Florida.
And he's got a long way to go.
He's got a long road ahead of him, and I think he's going to do a great job considering the circumstances that he's in.
And I'm certainly looking forward to seeing some of the progress that he makes with our country.
You know, what you have just said is something, it is exactly the opposite of what every smart, elite political pundit is saying, with the exception of Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter made the same point, which is I think the common view right now is that President Trump is effective and was elected because of his personality, because he's mean, he's a bully, he takes the fight to the Democrats, and he wasn't elected because of his issues.
People don't really care about the issues, people don't really care about what he'll affect, all they care about is that fun, mean, angry personality.
And what you've said, and what a lot of people that I've talked to in local politics have said, and also Ann Coulter, is it's exactly the opposite.
He was elected despite his personality because his issues were so popular, putting America first on manufacturing, as he says, or renegotiating certain trade deals, or just turning the whole focus onto jobs and deregulation and...
And constitutional originalism.
And all of the other stuff is just a circus to surround what people really care about.
Well, the Democrats and other sore losers who didn't vote for him and didn't support him and who are bitter, they're never going to like him.
They didn't like him to begin with.
They're not going to like him now.
They're not going to give him a chance.
But if you look at middle class America and people like me, people like you, you had Dr.
Hayworth on yesterday, we're giving him a chance because he is our president.
And the future of our country depends on his success.
We have to help him.
We have to encourage him.
We have to support him.
Whether you agree or disagree, you have to support our president.
And, you know, he's not getting much help with Congress.
He's not getting much help with certain state leaders.
But at the end of the day, we need to support him.
And I'm certainly optimistic because, you know, I did vote for him.
I do think that he's doing a great job so far.
You bring up he's had trouble with Congress.
He has had trouble with Congress.
He's sort of new to politics.
He's never held elected office before.
You're not new to politics.
You're a veteran of it compared to the president.
Do you have any advice for the guy on how to make better deals with Congress and get some legislation passed?
So I had a professor in college who became a friend of mine and a mentor, and he gave me this advice when I first got into politics.
He said, local politics, contrary to congressional politics and national politics, is hand-to-hand combat.
So it is vastly different what I have to do than what, say, the president or a congressperson or an assemblyman has to do, in that I work and live and represent among my constituents.
You know, I'm here every day working with them.
You're going to see the military.
I will pass someone on the street and they'll either give me a high five or want to, you know, slap me in the face.
I don't know.
They'll give you a one-fingered high five.
Yeah.
Right.
But, you know, advice that I could give to the president is very difficult because this, his position that he's in now is vastly different than business.
It's vastly different than his experience that he had.
He's uniquely qualified in that no one could essentially assume the office of the presidency and have all of the tools necessary to be prepared, except for possibly a governor of a very large state.
But I would say that, you know, he is prepared with all the business skills far more than I was to become mayor, although I run a business myself.
But, you know, he's dealt with lobbyists, he's dealt with Congress, he's dealt with all these things.
He can certainly get things done, and I think if he were a different man who had a different background and didn't say crazy things before he was elected, he would have had a little bit more assistance in accomplishing things in the outset of his presidency.
It's hard to tell how much of the personality helps him, how much of it hurts him.
One good bit of advice that he gave to himself, of course, is despite the constant negative press, Kefefe, that might sum it up.
We need to bring on Jesse.
Will you stick around for our panel?
Absolutely.
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Ted Cruz broke the internet this morning when someone screenshotted an apparent like from his Twitter account that suggested Senator Cruz had been interacting with smut.
With that, I bring on my panel.
I bring on mixed company.
Amber, thank you for coming, your first time on the panel.
It is a great story, but was it Cruz or was it just some staffer?
I would almost have to bet that it was just a staffer, as you all know.
I know, unfortunately.
But as you all know, most of these Twitter accounts of senators and representatives are almost entirely run by either cons directors or lower-level staffers that sort of take care of everything.
So I don't know if it was done intentionally.
I'm sure that the crew's Twitter account doesn't follow any porn sites.
So my guess is that maybe they were on some kind of tweet deck or they were searching for some kind of hashtag and their finger accidentally brushed a like button.
So you don't think that it was some staffer who was up to no good in the halls of one of the buildings up on Capitol Hill?
As fun as that story would be, I really don't think that's the case.
I think this is a whole lot to do about nothing.
Amanda, can you please bring back some smut after that real letdown?
Do you think it makes any sense whatsoever that Senator Cruz was perusing pornography and interacting with pornographers on Twitter?
Does that story hold together at all?
Well, I mean, Rafael Cruz assassinated JFK, so I won't put anything past Ted Cruz.
I mean, maybe he is promoting porn.
I wouldn't put it past this family to do something like that.
Relatively, the porn is pretty innocent compared to murdering a president.
True.
So, again, we can't put anything past this, past the Cruz family.
But in all seriousness, Amber's correct.
I mean, these things are not actually run by these senators or, I mean, if you remember Hillary Clinton's, like, her email and her Twitter, it was all, like, millennial pop stuff.
So, again, these are just, like, young interns.
It was not Ted Cruz, unfortunately, because that would be a great story.
Alright, Jesse.
Let's assume that Ted Cruz was looking at some naked ladies on his computer.
Does it matter?
Does it change our view of Cruz?
Will it affect his job as a senator?
Certainly it's a scintillating story, but is there any implication for him as a politician?
There's one thing I would disagree with first, and that's that I'm pretty confident that Trump's Twitter handle, with all the grammatical errors, is certainly run by him.
I think it's him.
That's true.
He is absolutely the exception to the rule, because Michael and I know firsthand.
These congressmen and senators, they have sometimes a dozen people, if not more, running their Twitter handles and Facebook.
He is the exception, though.
I remember when he tweeted out my book, Reasons to Vote for Democrats, people asked what was the strategy, who did he have to do it, and he just did it when I was on Fox& Friends.
I was on Fox& Friends, I said something nice about him, and he immediately tweeted it.
There was no meeting about this, so good on him.
I love that he's running his own, and we haven't seen any porn on there, but back to Mr.
Cruz.
Jesse?
No, I mean, look at everyone.
Look at the...
Look at all these senators and all these congressmen.
They're all doing crazy things.
And I don't think that something that minor would have really affected his career, especially in Texas.
I don't think he has really a tough time getting reelected in the state of Texas.
But to be honest with you, I mean, it's just not that big of a deal in this day and age.
Are you suggesting that many people look at Internet pornography, that it's a many billions of dollars a year industry?
I am clutching my purse.
I'm shocked.
Absolutely.
I'm sure you've never done it.
Not even now.
I've never even thought about it.
But I think, again, I mean, there's so many issues.
If you look at all these congressmen and all these senators across the entire country, look at all the crazy things they're doing.
Bob Menendez is literally under trial right now for federal bribery.
And I'm sure he's going to be fine.
Unless he gets convicted, in which case he would probably have to resign.
But during that entire process, he'd probably get reelected.
You know, it's like these people, they just...
And that's another point, to bring it back home.
All politics is local.
People don't care about Ted Cruz's little click on a possible porn site, which we all know he didn't do.
And people aren't right now caring too much about Bob Menendez.
They're worrying about local issues, their school taxes, and what really affects them most.
It's not that.
Everybody hates Congress, but they love their congressmen.
Moving on from civilization into the jungles of Brazil, the New York Times is reporting that uncontacted tribesmen have been killed in the jungles of Brazil.
This is the second attack on the uncontacted tribes this year in Brazil, which government has promised to protect them.
So, Amanda, there's this great documentary on Netflix.
Coincidentally, I just watched it a couple days ago.
It's a new documentary on there.
And it's called First Contact, Lost Tribe of the Amazon.
So one of these guys, he's just come out of the jungle, and he describes a jaguar eating his grandmother.
He describes going days at a time, four days at a time, without eating so much as a bite of food.
So the first question that comes into my mind is, why haven't we brought these uncontacted, isolated tribes into civilization?
What is it that's keeping us from bringing them into the nice luxury and glories of the civilized world?
I think this is like a good example of this fear that people have of being labeled like, you know, xenophobic or, you know, all cultures are the same.
Imperialistic.
You can't be imperialistic.
Exactly.
And I think this is like a prime example of that is that, you know, everything is equal.
No, not all cultures are the same.
And this is that example where people are just so scared.
To, you know, show actual civilization.
You don't have to live like a barbarian, but can't do that.
You'll be a xenophobe and imperialistic.
So it's really sad, honestly.
And it's a romantic idea, Amber.
It's this romantic Western idea that there's the noble savage who hasn't been tainted or corrupted by our civilization, which is so awful.
If only we could go back and live in the trees in nature.
But we know it's a terrible life.
They eat bugs whenever they can find them.
They're hunted down.
They have low life expectancies in so much as we can measure how long they live.
Very many of these tribes, particularly in the Amazon, can't count above 10.
So the tribes who have come out that we've contacted have almost universally said they don't want to go back.
They love clothing.
They like having pots and pans and food to eat regularly.
So what does it say about us that we think that the jungle tribesmen have it better than us who have electricity and our problem is that we're too fat, not too skinny?
Well, I think it's sort of this more relativist thing that Amanda was talking about, where I find this is really an issue with liberals, where they sort of fetishize these tribes, and they view them more as almost endangered species than they do actual human beings.
And I'm sorry to interrupt, but great use of the word fetish right after we were talking about Ted Cruz's porn preferences.
Very well done.
Please go on.
Yeah, but I think if we actually are viewing these people as human beings with actual human rights, then we would recognize that on the whole, it's better for these people to be integrated into society.
And there's a reason why we ask immigrants, for example, to assimilate to our culture.
It's because if you don't, you start to see these blatant violations of human rights to You'll notice that, for example, female genital mutilation has been on the rise in the United States.
That's been shockingly a major issue.
And so this isn't all just people being imperialist and being racist.
There's a really good reason why we ask people to assimilate to a certain kind of culture and a certain human rights standard.
And it is so dehumanizing, your right, to say, well, those people, look how cute they are running around naked in the jungle.
We need to preserve them so that we can go and watch them.
How interesting and adorable it all is.
Jesse, let's bring it back to local politics.
You solve a lot of local disputes.
In these isolated areas, villagers often report that the tribesmen will raid their villages, they'll steal their things, they'll kill some of them, they'll attack the local villagers.
But the villagers are not allowed to respond in kind because the uncontacted tribes are totally protected by those governments.
So, in these totally far-flung areas, how should these disputes be resolved?
I personally believe that we shouldn't have much of an involvement in it.
I don't think that we have a right or an obligation to get involved in any situation that's over there in the Amazon.
Other than any sort of a business interest that our nation may have in that area, which obviously there are many, but I happen to believe in an anti-imperialistic view and I don't think that we should be involved in a lot of other conflicts.
Do you think the local governments should go in and try to mediate this or bring the tribes out of isolation or basically say laissez-faire, live and let live, you know, just don't do it in the streets and scare the horses?
Yeah, I think there are a lot of variables that we just don't understand or comprehend from where we're sitting in America.
I would say more than likely, yes, it should be up to the local government to determine the outcome of any local tribes, just like we would handle certain situations like that here in America.
Keep it local.
Now self-serving of the local mayor.
Right, right.
Just trying to bring it right back.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, autonomy.
We want in our village.
I would say that we over here, we shouldn't have anything to do with it.
It should be left off to the local governments of Brazil or wherever this was found.
And I don't think that we have enough information from where we're sitting or enough perspective to give on how that should be handled.
It's great to bring people into a civilized world, but that's what we define as a civilized world.
Just because their life expectancy isn't as high as what standards we might expect them to be, that doesn't mean that that's the life they want to live.
And although some have come out and said that they wouldn't want to go back to living that way, Who's to decide that that's the way that they should live?
That is the most laissez-faire, you isolationist Republican.
But you bring up the point of these villages and this local government.
And speaking of it taking a village, my second cousin twice removed, Hillary Clinton, now says she is convinced that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to defeat her on the release day of her new book, presumably a terrible book, What Happened?
Amber.
What do we even mean by collusion at this point?
What does that even imply?
Well, it's not even a legal term.
Basically what it means is that members of the Trump administration allegedly were in some kind of contact with the Russian government to sway the election against Hillary Clinton.
But let's be honest, this is just another blame game from Hillary.
She's done this time and time again.
She's blamed everything from Bernie Sanders to sexism to white nationalists.
The list goes on and on and on.
Of course, it's very convenient for her to say that she is convinced that Trump has colluded with the Russians.
It's just another part of her blame game narrative.
Jesse, Hillary's approval rating is lower than Donald Trump's.
According to an NBC News poll recently, it's at 30%, the lowest ever recorded for her.
Is she trying to rehab her image with this book tour, and will that work?
Well, unfortunately, you know, I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure she's too old to really make anything of her political career.
Never say never, Jesse!
I'm praying that she does nothing further with her political career.
But I do think she's trying to salvage the Democrats and try to really put more of the blame on Donald Trump.
And again, she falls in the class of sore losers.
I would also say who cares if people in the Trump administration or Trump campaign team did work with Russians to get information which proved that Hillary Clinton was a slimy, borderline criminal and just brought it out to the American people.
Yeah, they never talk about what's in the allegations.
They just talk about – or what's in the documents.
They just talk about how they were gotten.
But this does not shine a very nice light on Hillary Clinton.
It's all been acknowledged that it wasn't illegal, even if they do find that they were colluding, that some people from the campaign were colluding with Russia or attorneys or people from the Russian government.
But again, they literally just proved that Hillary Clinton was not fit to serve as our president.
Just absolutely deplorable.
Good use of the word.
Her entire career was deplorable.
And the fact that she made it so far is horrendous.
I don't think that they did anything wrong if they did.
We've used really sleek tactics to try to get information on our opponents when we work with...
That's a diplomatic way to say that.
It's the nature of the beast.
But you do.
And I think that the ends justify the means in this case, as long as the means were not illegal.
Yeah, as long as the ends is getting Hillary Clinton as far away from the Oval Office as possible.
Amanda, the book is currently number one on Amazon, though it's only been a few hours.
What sort of person is ever going to buy this drivel—no one's going to read the book, right?
They're just going to put it on their bookshelves in Virtue Signal.
I think maybe it's like a lot of conservative journalists buying it up right now, and they're just like reading it and reporting on the hysteria.
Because the thing is, I actually disagree.
I would love for Hillary to stay in politics as long as possible.
She is terrible.
She's hurting the brand.
I want her to run forever.
I wish her the best of health.
Yeah, so I think right now there's an onslaught of conservatives buying the book and just laughing at her and promoting the heck out of it.
And then we'll see.
And also, I would like to bet that there's like a stack of these books in Hillary's, you know, mansions or Chelsea's apartment, you know, so.
That's true.
Bubba has to step over them on his way to the humidor.
Absolutely right.
You bring up a great point.
Run, Hillary, run.
Panel of Deplorables, thank you so much for being here.
Daily Caller's Amber Athe, Daily Wire's Amanda Prestigiacomo, and my buddy, the local mayor, Jesse Dwyer.
Now it's time for the final thought.
Political analysts are like sports commentators.
They only focus on the major leagues and they keep showing up to work no matter how many times their predictions turn out to be wrong.
Now these two character traits are related.
Most talking heads have never passed out palm cards to commuters at a train station or sat through a summer of spaghetti dinners at the VFW Hall.
Instead, they attend cocktail parties with their fellow political, media, and donor class elite.
And that's all well and good.
I like cocktail parties.
They've read all of the philosophic and social scientific literature, they've crunched the numbers, and they devour every myopic op-ed penned by people who have even less perspective on the voting populace than they themselves.
Now, those data points are not without value, but all politics is particular.
Politics comprises particular goals affected through particular people caused by particular issues.
There is a significant, a substantial group of voters that cannot be reached by opinion polls.
Richard Nixon called them the silent majority, George W. Bush called them values voters, and Hillary Clinton called them deplorables.
Far distant elites cannot pin them down, and yet they often decide American elections.
God bless America.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Come back tomorrow.
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