Ep. 59 - Cynical Democrats Suddenly Recant Sex Crimes
Now that the Clintons are finished and Roy Moore is on the ropes, Democrats are spewing crocodile tears over their decades of covering up sexual abuse against women. Then, Amelia Hamilton, Jacob Airey, and Candace Owens join the Panel of Deplorables to discuss insufferable millennial card game Cards Against Humanity’s vow to subvert immigration law, the ironically named global atheist convention “Reason To Hope” being cancelled because no one wants to go, and the poetic diction of President Trump’s latest tweets.
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Now that the Clintons are finished and Roy Moore is on the ropes, Democrats are spewing crocodile tears over their decades of covering up sexual abuse against women.
We'll analyze their alleged repentance.
Then Amelia Hamilton, Jacob Berry, and Candace Owens join the panel of deplorables to discuss that The insufferable millennial card game, Cards Against Humanity, and its vow to subvert immigration law.
The ironically named global atheist convention, Reason to Hope, being canceled because no one wants to go.
And the poetic diction of President Trump's latest tweets.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
Oh, we got a new vintage for the Leftist Tears Tumblr.
We have a new vintage coming out this week.
It is the Crocodile Tears Vintage.
We haven't seen these in a very long time, but they are pouring out the likes of which we have not seen in a while.
I need to subscribe a few more times just to contain them.
Every Democrat across the spectrum is pouring out crocodile tears now that the Clintons are no longer useful.
They can say, ah, well, yeah, Bill wasn't so nice to women.
And yeah, well, Hillary intimidated all of his victims and smeared them in the press and ruined their lives.
But yeah, we shouldn't have done that.
But hey, we've changed now because Roy Moore is on the ropes.
Just for context, let's look at a Bill Clinton accuser and alleged rape victim, Juanita Broderick.
Then he tries to kiss me again.
And the second time he tries to kiss me, he starts biting on my lip.
Just a minute.
He starts to bite on my top lip and I try to pull away from him.
And then he forces me down on the bed.
I just was very frightened.
I tried to get away from him and I told him no.
I didn't want this to happen.
He wouldn't listen to me.
Did you resist?
Did you tell him to stop?
Yes.
I told him please don't.
He was such a different person at that moment.
He was just a vicious, awful person.
Is there any way at all that Bill Clinton could have thought this was consensual?
No.
Not with what I told him and with how I tried to push him away.
It was not consensual.
Do you know how the Clinton campaign and the Clinton machine tried to explain this at the time?
They said, I think it was James Carville said this, well, you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you see what happens.
That's how he explains the way all of these accusers, like Juanita Broderick.
Well, the tune has changed today.
I wonder what's different now.
I wonder what's different now in 2017 than it was when Bill Clinton and the Clinton machine was a force in democratic politics.
I wonder what it could be.
The Atlantic ran a headline, Bill Clinton, a reckoning.
They wrote, quote, If Weinstein and Mark Halperin and Louis C.K. and all the rest can be held accountable, so can our former president and so can his party, which so many Americans so desperately need to rise again.
There it is.
There's the whole argument.
We just desperately need the Democrats to rise again, and that's why we're willing to do it.
it.
At least the Atlantic was honest about their motives for kicking Bill to the curb and admitting that they're horrible hypocrites over this issue for 20 years, 30 years.
Matt Iglesias at Vox was not so honest.
He He said, quote, Now,
looking back after the election of Donald Trump, the revelations of massive sexual harassment at Fox, the news stories about Harvey Weinstein and others in the entertainment industry, and the stories about Roy Moore's pursuit of sexual relationships with teenagers, I think we got it wrong.
Oh, do you now?
Do you now?
That's convenient timing, isn't it?
Well, at the time I was thrilled that they brushed all of this under the rug.
But now we could use it against Republicans.
Now we got Donald Trump.
There's some allegations against him from random people.
There are obviously the allegations against Roy Moore.
So I think I've changed my tune now.
And do I have to protect Bill Clinton anymore?
No, I don't.
Is Hillary going to run again?
Probably, but she's useless.
Okay, good.
Now we can move on.
Jake Tapper.
Jake Tapper.
We should play this clip first.
This is Jake Tapper just within the last few days talking about Bill Clinton, the Juanita Broderick affair in light of Roy Moore.
You know something, and maybe it's the southern accent that reminds me of this, but I think we are, and we've seen some of this in the press.
There was a story in The Atlantic called Bill Clinton, a reckoning.
Chris Hayes said something the other day, and other people have.
But the accusers of Bill Clinton back in the 90s were never given the credence and treated with the same respect that these women are being treated.
And I think that there is...
Something to be said about how society has evolved since then.
But in addition, it's hard not to look back at that period and think, you know what, the media treated those women poorly.
Yeah, without a doubt.
You can't rewrite history, but what I am concerned about now is that I see a lot of Republicans, people like Ann Coulter on Twitter, going back and bringing up people like Senator Kennedy, Clinton, other people that did have previous acts of sexual misconduct, almost as a way of saying, well they did it, we can too.
Well, you can't rewrite history.
That's what she said.
Well, you can't rewrite history.
But let's talk about more Republicans.
Yeah, well, I know, Jake, you brought up Bill Clinton.
But look, you can't rewrite history.
Isn't that right?
Now, good on Tapper for bringing this up, I guess.
But again, this timing is just so absurd that it's really hard for me to take him seriously.
He wrote a piece, by the way, during the biggest Clinton scandal, Monica Lewinsky.
He wrote a piece for Washington City Paper titled, I Dated Monica Lewinsky.
He went on a date with her, I guess.
He said, quote, physically, she was pleasant without being overwhelming.
She's a little chubby, but she's leaps and bounds prettier than that vacuous mugshot beamed all over the world.
And I will say he does sort of defend her in that piece, but he trotted her out for a good tabloid article in that paper when he was just a young reporter, just like everybody else.
And he's had this epiphany, the epiphany that, oh, we should have been harder on Bill Clinton, just right after the Clintons are no longer useful to them.
And it would benefit Democrats to sweep them under the rug because Jake Tapper, par excellence in recent years, flacks for Democrats.
wrote a piece called, quote, "I believe Juanita." Now she actually goes further in this piece than her co-partisans, and she defends the Democrats at the time.
But she says there were plenty of reasons to disbelieve Paula Jones, some of the accusers, et cetera.
But nevertheless, we should throw Bill under the bus now because he isn't useful to us anymore.
It isn't just Bill Clinton, though.
Democrat anti-Trump fanatic Louis C.K. has gone down.
Anthony Weiner, very famously, has gone down.
Bizarrely, Jon Stewart was good friends, even a roommate, with both of them.
Here is Jon Stewart talking about Louis C.K., his good pal.
Good friend and colleague Louis C.K. has been accused of and has admitted to some lewd acts involving women.
What was the impact on you when you heard not only the accusations but his admission?
Um...
Stunned, I think.
Is that right?
That's right.
What is your...
Hey, John, so I'm going to put you on the spot with your good friend of decades, whom you know very well, and you actually were asked this question last year and you decided to punt on it.
What happened when you found out that he's a sexual pervert?
Uh, well, stunned.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, that's the ticket.
I was completely stunned.
Give me a break.
There is this weird thing with Stewart, too, because he's famously been good friends with Louis C.K. for a very long time.
He obviously knew about this.
If everyone else knew about this, his good buddy Jon Stewart knew about this.
But he also was roommates with Anthony Weiner.
So when the first, when Andrew Breitbart broke the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, or tweeting scandal, he...
It wouldn't cover it on the show.
He wouldn't cover it for days and days and days.
And eventually he said, well, look, I'm pals with Anthony Weiner.
We used to live together in Hoboken, I believe.
And eventually he had to cover it.
He was forced to because it was so absurd.
He wasn't covering the most salacious story in politics.
But kind of a weird thing that Jon Stewart is pretty tight with both of the most extreme sexual deviancy stories in democratic politics in the last decade or two.
A little odd.
I'm not accusing him of anything, but quite a coincidence.
Then, of course, there's Hillary Clinton.
It all goes back to Hillary Clinton.
Hillary famously said on the campaign trail, "...all accusers should be believed." But of course, she then was in charge of the bimbo eruptions at the White House.
She didn't believe those accusers.
She stepped in in 2010, we've learned, to overturn President Bush's ban of a European Islamist, Tariq Ramadan, who is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Bush had banned him from the United States.
She personally stepped in to approve his visa.
Ramadan has been accused of rape and sexual assault by three women in the last ten days.
She also publicly said that Juanita Broderick was not credible.
That Hillary Clinton pressured her to stay silent.
So she said, Bill raped her, and then Hillary came up to her, pressed her hand and said, we appreciate everything you do for us, and then looked into her eyes and said, that means everything.
I appreciate everything that you do for us, implying keeping quiet about the rape.
Now, Juanita Broderick is firmly convinced that Hillary knew, Hillary pressured her, Hillary covered it up.
Democrats now who are conveniently saying, yes, I believe Juanita.
It took 20, 30 years, but yeah, now I believe Juanita.
Okay.
Put your money where your mouth is, because if you believe Juanita, then you have to believe her whole account, right?
You can't just say, well, I believe this, but I don't believe this.
She's trustworthy here, but she's a liar here.
You have to give evidence for that.
If you believe Juanita, then you believe that Hillary Clinton knew about the rape.
Hillary Clinton pressured her to stay silent, intimidated her, and smeared other victims of Bill Clinton.
And if you're willing to do that, then look at yourself in the mirror and ask what changed.
What made you believe Juanita?
Because you voted for the woman.
You did everything within your power to put her into the White House just 12 months ago.
Very convenient timing from Democrats.
I'm not buying a bit of it.
For further analysis, we bring on our panel of deplorables.
We have an excellent panel today.
Candace Owens, Jacob Berry, Amelia Hamilton.
Thank you for being here, Amelia.
Your first time on the panel.
Appreciate it.
Hi.
Candace, you have been red-pilled.
That's your name.
That's your screen name on the Internet.
So this sort of thing can happen.
People can change their minds on plenty of things.
Is there any chance that this change of heart is earnest or is it just totally cynical nonsense?
It's absolutely not earnest.
And in that clip that you just showed, it's just proof of that because they're almost throwing it back on conservatives.
They hate when a mirror is held up to them.
They're throwing it back on conservatives.
Well, how dare conservatives say this or say that because they are being called out on their hypocrisy.
And if it was at all genuine, then you're going to have to explain to me why they just tried very seriously to put Bill Clinton back in the White House.
Right.
That's exactly it.
It's so recent.
And the saying, well, we can't blame Hillary.
No, if you believe Juanita, then you have to blame Hillary.
Hillary is deeply at fault here.
Amelia, in the 1990s, feminists came to Bill's defense, led by Gloria Steinem.
They defended him because he shared their policy priorities.
Is this such a bad thing?
Policy questions of freedom, justice, security, national priorities.
Should they really be derailed because men are dogs?
I think that you can probably find a man who isn't a dog, who shares some of your beliefs, who shares some of your policy positions.
And those are probably the men to support.
I mean, particularly in these moments.
As a man, as someone who identifies as a man, I will say...
We're all dogs.
Every man is a dog.
We all fall short of the glory of God.
And God is dog spelled backwards, by the way.
Is that a coincidence?
I don't know.
But in cases like these guys, is glorious stardom justified?
Are Republicans in Alabama justified?
Especially in Alabama, where you say all of the accusations are 40 years ago.
They seem credible to me.
But regardless, we're talking about issues of freedom, national politics, politicians by definition are scumbags.
Should we Should we vote for them anyway, or should we allow this personal behavior from these dogs to derail a political agenda?
No, we need to have some kind of standards.
And this seems like a pretty low bar to be able to pass.
And just because they share certain political beliefs, they still have to be decent human beings.
And like you said, politicians, they tend to be little, like you said, scumbags.
But we can't just let things of this nature especially go because they share certain policy beliefs.
We have to, like I said, have some kind of standards here.
But should we unilaterally disarm?
This is the trouble.
A lot of the commentary today on Clinton is, if we had only held him accountable, then maybe politics wouldn't have degraded itself such as it is.
The founder of the Treasury Department, a founding father, Washington's aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, famously cuckolded at a man named James Reynolds.
It was the first sex scandal in American history.
And John Adams, second president, said there weren't enough whores in Philadelphia to contain his superabundance of secretions.
Obviously, I see a running theme in American politics.
Had Democrats held Bill Clinton to account in the 90s, would we see a politics that is not so degraded today?
I think politics is always going to be degraded.
And like you said, it always has been.
I think we just need to hold everyone accountable always.
They should have done it then.
We need to keep doing it now.
I think things are a lot more public now.
We've got social media.
We've got everything else.
So I think that's in a lot of ways a good thing.
People know what's happening now.
Things are being made public.
And now that they are being made public, we need to do something about it.
Alright, that's what we have to do.
It is all very public now, and this whole show is public for all of you up to this point.
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The card game, insufferable millennial card game, Cards Against Humanity, is running a holiday promotion to buy a lot of vacant land along the U.S.-Mexico border and prevent Trump's wall.
This game is the worst.
For those of you who haven't played it, it's like a pretentious version of Apples to Apples or Mad Libs so that skittish liberals can say some naughty words and giggle.
After one or two plays, all of the fun of it is gone.
You know, they'll have one card that says, our class trip was ruined by blank, and then it'll just have a bunch of cards that have different bodily fluids or racial epithets on it or something.
So it's funny for a little bit, and they bill it as a party game for horrible people.
In reality, though, it's just a game for liberals so that they can say some naughty things because political correctness is so awful.
Then they all giggle at how terrible it is and they know, well, we're not the real horrible people.
We're not the horrible people who, you know, ride tractors and vote for Republicans and things like that.
We just sip Chardonnay in New York and giggle at all of these mean things.
So, Jacob, is Cards Against Humanity, which bills itself as un-PC, has it gone full political correctness now?
Oh, absolutely.
I've personally never played it.
As far as my board games, I have higher standards, or excuse me, my card games.
But I think this is just them doing some virtue signaling.
I know some of their cards have gotten them in trouble in the past, and people still buy it, they still play it, but I think this is just them saying...
Hey, yeah, our card game, it may be politically incorrect, but look at us.
You know, they're doing the grandstanding on the border, as they like to say.
That's like Bill Clinton, right?
Yeah, sure, I abuse women in positions below me, but, you know, abortion, right?
I'm good on abortion.
Candace, the millennial generation is known.
It is known by its overwhelming performance of apathy.
This is just something I've noticed.
All the music is very apathetic.
Everyone gets tattoos everywhere.
It's an expression of philosophic nihilism.
You know, everything's whatever, man, and we're all going to die someday.
Yet, these guys are so triggered by Donald Trump.
To look at things with the glass half full, is this evidence that at least this culture of nihilism is crumbling?
I can't look at this with the glass half full, so I'm going to say that what this is is dramatic irony.
It tells you why people can't take millennials seriously.
I mean, they put together this game, Cards of Humanity, which you mentioned is supposed to be this super non-political, we get to say what we want, but they can't bear the thoughts that Of not allowing people that don't belong into this country to run in here freely and drive up everybody's taxes.
I mean, this is why people can't stand liberals.
Everything they do is hypocritical, and it's ironic in all of the bad ways that you can talk about irony.
And it's ironic because it's within confines, right?
They say, oh yeah, we can say all these bad things, but only within this certain social convention that we've all agreed is perfectly fine, and we all have to look at each other, and okay, I'm not serious, okay, good, good, good.
Amelia, on that point, in the old days, card games used to be complicated, and creative games used to require creativity.
Cards Against Humanity is a very simple card game, and it completely precludes creativity.
You can't be creative at all.
What does the decay of games say about our culture?
Well, decay of culture.
I think it really just, again, goes back to that lowest common denominator.
It's like, let's all get together and say some horrible things.
There's no need to have any creativity.
There's no need to think about it.
It supplies you with the horrible things to say.
You don't even need to think of those on your own.
At least like you were saying with Mad Libs, you had to think of something.
So, you know, people aren't getting together and doing something creative, having some fun.
They're just saying some words that were already supplied to them.
And they're so absurd.
I mean, sometimes it's absurd things can be funny, but it gets old.
It gets old and tedious pretty quickly.
You would think, though, that a culture that is decadent, a culture that has fallen into disrepair and nihilism, you would think that it would make its recreation complicated because that's what it's focused on.
But instead, this is just the laziest game ever.
Is it evidence of a sloth in the millennial generation?
Or am I reading too much into this stupid game?
Thank you.
No, I think absolutely.
You know, this is the Postmates kind of of games, where everything is just being handed to you, and you just sit there and throw your cards out, and there's nothing else required.
Nothing and no creativity, no strategy, just this is mine, here we go.
Yep.
Marching off to the grave.
Speaking of that, speaking of all of those philosophic ideas, the third annual Global Atheist Convention, ironically called Reason to Hope, has been canceled because nobody wanted to go.
Amelia, after a decade of totally undeserved plaudits given to Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, whose writing I enjoy but whose thoughts aren't that smart, has atheism peaked?
Are we headed right now for a religious reawakening?
You know, I think it's possible.
You know, people really are searching for some kind of meaning, and people used to get it from things like religion.
And, you know, now we're finding, you know, people are going to the theology of Harry Potter talks, you know, where they find out, you know, following that is sort of some kind of a religious experience.
And people are really searching for that kind of meaning, for that kind of guidance.
Yeah, I think they should look to the traditional places because they're not finding it in Harry Potter.
It is so sad that our generation, the myth is Harry Potter.
That's what we're grounding our mythical thinking in.
Really pathetic.
I think Harold Bloom said it would be better for...
The literary critic Harold Bloom said that it would be better for children to watch television than to read Harry Potter because all of...
No one ever just takes a walk.
It's all these awful cliches like, oh, I'm going to stretch my legs.
They always just stretch their legs and just take a walk.
Candace, there is significant evidence...
That the post-millennials, this is the cause for hope.
I'm going to make you hopeful before the end of this show, so help me God.
There's significant evidence that the post-millennials, Gen Z, are far more religious and church-going than we millennials because, as Amelia just said, they're looking for meaning.
What is causing this return to religion?
Obviously, they're looking for meaning, but what is the immediate cause in our time of that?
I don't really know.
That's a really good question.
Maybe when you get to a point where you have so much invested in the books written by J.K. Rowling, and then you read her Twitter feed, you realize that you made a wrong turn.
So right after you get off of the Twitter feed, you realize that you need God in your life, and you are going down a pathway.
That's a profound thought, actually, because this generation has made gods out of people who do not deserve to be gods.
They've made gods out of celebrities.
They've made prophets out of J.K. Rowling.
And then you look at their behavior, you look at their Twitter feed, you look at everything, and you realize that everybody falls short of the glory of God, and certainly Hollywood...
We all fall short, but those guys fall a lot shorter.
And so that might be it.
There's been a betrayal by our gods.
And even the philosophic gods that we've made for ourselves, environmentalism, all of the ideologies that have come to replace Marxism and therefore traditional religion, they've failed us.
I don't know if it would be too far to say, you know, Nietzsche thought that God is dead, but really we've learned that all the other things are dead too, and we have to go back to that first one.
Jacob, the irony of this convention title is that atheism, of course, means there is no hope.
We're born, we die, we turn to worm food.
Good play.
Yet, in every civilization at all times throughout history, man has demonstrated a longing for God.
Is this just a cosmic joke on mankind, or is that longing evidence that God exists?
I think that the longing is evidence that God exists.
As far as, you know, reasons to hope, I think it's more, the very title of the conference tells me that it's not just atheism that has peaked, it's nihilism that has peaked.
Because, you know, it's funny when Jerry Seinfeld is doing it, right?
You know, a show about nothing.
But no one wants to think that their life means nothing.
They don't expect it to be, you know, like William Shakespeare or Dr.
King Jr., but they want their life to have some sort of meaning.
And it's funny.
Seinfeld is funny because it's absurd.
Exactly.
We're laughing at these people with their meaningless problems and meaningless lives.
And that's why I think that it was kind of ironic that they called it a reason to hope because if atheism is true, there is no reason to hope.
You know, it's always going to be the greater species is always going to conquer the lesser species because that's just how Darwinianism works.
But I think that, yes, that longing is a sign that God exists out there.
And this convention is a sign that God exists.
The fact that it got canceled is a sign that God exists.
In my experience of God, he's a pretty whimsical fella.
And so the atheists name this convention, absurdly, a reason for hope.
And then...
In itself, it's a reason to despair.
It's the opposite of hope.
And then it gets canceled and we get a reason to hope.
God can turn everything, even the death of his own son, for good.
Even the fall of mankind, for good.
A felix culpa.
Okay, speaking of reasons to hope, we have to get to Trump's torrent of grade A 100% pure covfefe tweets since his return from Asia.
Among them, quote, while in the Philippines, I was forced to watch CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad and fake it is.
Loser.
Loser!
Another quote.
Do you think the three UCLA basketball players will say thank you, President Trump?
They were headed for 10 years in jail.
And then another great one.
The failing New York Times hates the fact that I have developed a great relationship with world leaders like Xi Jinping, president of China.
By the way, capitalization is getting a little wonky in some of these.
They should realize that these relationships are a good thing, not a bad thing.
To U.S., the U.S. is being respected again.
Watch trade.
It is actually hard to believe how naive or dumb the failing New York Times is when it comes to foreign policy.
Weak and ineffective.
Just a moment of applause.
It is so poetic.
Jacob...
To play devil's advocate, if this were a Democrat doing this, we would be losing our minds.
We would be going insane with anger.
Is it okay to applaud Trump's tweets, as I just did, just because he's a Republican?
Well, not just because he's a Republican, but I absolutely, and even me, I've said many times on this show, I'm a Trump skeptic.
I'm not a never-Trumper, and I'm not on the Trump train, but I'm a Trump skeptic.
But I actually admire this about Trump.
Republicans have forever been saying, hey, we need a president who will stick it right to the media.
And so...
I'm actually enjoying this greatly.
I think it's a thrill ride.
And maybe if President Obama had done this, I might have been a little disturbed by it.
But hey, call me a hypocrite if you want, but I am enjoying it completely.
Because President Trump just has this way of doing it where you just have to laugh.
You just go, oh my gosh, he just took on the New York Times and CNN, and it was amazing.
If Obama had done it, it would be totally bizarre and terrifying.
But it's because of how they've built their careers.
Both Obama and Trump built their careers such that they exposed enough of themselves that aspects of them that might scare people are no longer scary.
So Barack Obama did this in his book, Dreams from My Father.
He talked about how his father was a We're good to go.
Flew in from Mars right now.
You would say the Earth is on the brink of collapse.
But if you've followed Trump for 40 years and you've followed his influences as a matter of persuasion and rhetoric and media, you say, no, I see where this is coming from.
I see what he's doing here.
Now, to your point on the culture warrior, Amelia, many of the so-called conservatives who have spent decades calling for culture warriors are now demurring because Trump is waging those battles.
Is the Donald the culture warrior that we have been waiting for?
Well, I guess it depends on who we is.
We on the right.
We broadly as conservatives.
Before the Trumpianism came in, the conservative movement of Bill Buckley and Bill Kristol and Irving Kristol and Pethoritz and all those guys.
I would say no.
For that group, I would say no.
I don't think that he's necessarily helpful.
I think that the message frequently gets drowned in the messenger.
In the delivery.
So while I think the culture war is important, I don't think it's necessarily being waged in the most helpful way that it could be.
But I wonder with that, because people say, oh, if he'd only said it more politely, then it would work.
But I don't really see that.
George W. Bush was a very polite man.
He didn't do a terribly bang-up job in the culture war.
And with Donald Trump, he misspells a word, he capitalizes a word wrong, he chooses strange language, and then it's all we can talk about.
His tweets are all anyone has talked about for two years.
Is it not possibly the case that for people, and I don't mean to call out these guys, I like them personally, but Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg and the Never Trump crowd out of NR and Weekly Standard, is it possible just that they wanted this culture warrior, they wanted to fight the culture, and they had a vision of it, and they didn't expect it to look like this?
And so now that we get, no one expected it to look like this, now that we have it, that we don't recognize it.
You know, I really, that's certainly possible.
I don't know.
I still think that it's just not quite the warrior that we wanted.
You guys are depressing me.
You and Candace, come on, man.
I'm sorry, the glass is half empty all around.
Jacob, you've got to make me feel better at some point.
But Candace, first make me feel worse.
The Washington Post wrote a story today, quote, Trump's Asia trip was hardly the success he says it was.
That was in the news section.
That was not an op-ed.
That was not an editorial.
They filed that under news.
They passed that off under news.
Of course, they offered no evidence.
It was absolute tripe, the so-called foreign policy analysis.
If the Washington Post and CNN and the New York Times are going to behave like children without any journalistic standards, having to recant stories, having to fire reporting staff, then shouldn't we treat them like the children that they are?
Shouldn't President Trump treat them like the children that they are?
I think altogether we need to stop talking about the Washington Post.
That is Jeff Bezos' personal diary.
His feelings, his thoughts go into there.
His feelings and thoughts, which aren't based in facts, are written for the world.
Everybody understands the Washington Post is literally just his play toy at this point.
To go back to your earlier point, I absolutely love what Trump is doing.
I think he is the cultural warrior that people were looking for.
People, meaning us people, that hold jobs.
And when we watch our TV screens, we are so tired of hearing politicians.
We are so tired of somebody making something that's horrible, sound great, wrapping it into a bone, presenting to us the same BS that we get all the time.
We want somebody who talks like us.
When I look at the TV and I'm watching CNN and they're lying to me, I'm going, loser!
You know?
And Donald Trump is able to do so effectively.
He talks like he's talking to the people, for the people.
He's not dressing anything up in a tuxedo.
And I just, I wanted to make your day better, Michael, by letting you know that I think he is the cultural warrior that we all needed.
I cannot love his sweets.
It's the best thing since Kanye West.
Love them both.
And I love your point of talking about people.
He's a guy who doesn't speak in this mealy-mouthed particular language of politics.
He speaks like regular people speak.
Don't get me wrong.
I am all for elites.
I am all for elitism and elites.
But they have to actually be elites.
They have to be royals.
They have to be aristocrats.
They have to be seriously educated and wise and sophisticated and well-behaved.
And these people who have been pretending to be elites for decades and decades in American politics simply are not.
There is absolutely no reason for me to respect journalists at CNN or The New York Times or Jeff Bezos' personal letter to the world.
There's no reason.
They're not actually elites.
They don't know anything.
They don't possess wisdom.
So give me an elite and I'll consider respecting them.
But until then, give me a straight talker.
Absolutely right.
Okay, panel, excellent to have you here.
You took me on a journey of emotions.
I was so happy there at the end.
Amelia, thank you for being here.
First time.
Candace Owens and Jacob Berry, thanks for coming back.
We will talk to you all again soon.
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That's the whole thing, folks.
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We have a great interview, by the way, with Eric Metaxas coming tomorrow over Martin Luther.
He refutes some of my objections to the corpulent German heretic.
And we have a good conversation about his new book, Martin Luther, and then I'll answer all of your questions.
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