According to early numbers, ratings for the Grammys plummeted a stunning 33% over last year’s viewership. Then, Allie Stuckey and Elisha Krauss join the Panel of Deplorables to discuss FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepping down, the Netherlands’ approving the assisted-suicide of a 29-year-old mentally ill woman, and a new study published by Cambridge University Press showing that conservative men and women are hotter than their counterparts on the Left. Finally, King George III dies on This Day In History.
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According to early numbers, ratings for the Grammys plummeted a stunning 33% over last year's viewership.
The awful awards show lost a third of its audience, and rightly so.
We will analyze why Americans are tuning out and how Aristotle warned us about Kesha and Kendrick Lamar.
Then, Ali Stuckey and Elisa Crouch joined the panel of deplorables to discuss FBI Director, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepping down after embarrassing texts emerged suggesting that the bureaucrat may have used the federal government to undermine the Trump campaign.
The Netherlands approving the assisted suicide of a 29-year-old mentally ill woman, and a new study published by Cambridge University Press showing that conservative men and women are hotter than our counterparts on the left.
My panel of deplorables must have contributed greatly to this scientific study.
Finally, King George III dies on this day in history.
I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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So, the Grammys got destroyed in the ratings.
33% down on last year.
Which already was performing pretty dismally among the key 18-49 demographic.
It was awful.
I watched it.
I am the guy who watched it, or at least some of it, which is saying something.
I believe I constituted a full 50% of the Grammy's audience from last night.
And I only watched parts of it because both Drew, for his show, and Fox and Friends First made me cover it.
If one of them had asked, I would have refused because life is too short.
But both of them asked, so I watched it.
It was horrific.
But it did bring to mind some curious thoughts on the culture.
First, last night's Grammys prove Aristotle right.
We will explain more on that later.
And Patti LuPone's performance showed that our musical culture really has decayed.
It's not just nostalgia.
It's not just sentimentalism.
Our popular music really is worse now.
So, to begin, let's really get started.
I'll put my keeps down here.
To begin...
Whatever it is that Kendrick Lamar does should be illegal.
I'm kidding, maybe.
I'm sort of kidding.
It is not just awful music and not great culture.
And it's ironic, actually, that I'm talking about Kendrick Lamar because I actually kind of like the idea of Kendrick Lamar.
For the culture, he's probably a positive force.
He's apparently a devoted Christian.
He doesn't do drugs.
He's monogamous.
He's engaged to his longtime girlfriend.
He credits all of his success to God.
He said, quote, He did vote for Barack Obama in 2012 because he said Mitt Romney doesn't have a good heart.
I don't like that very much.
That's neither charitable nor true.
But all in all, the idea of this guy is pretty good.
And he is among the best that the music industry in 2018 has to offer.
But his music is terrible.
It's just awful.
That for some people, this is their primary exposure to art.
This is what they think art is.
That is a tragedy for our culture.
Here are some lyrics from Kendrick's bizarre, apparently, I guess, political opening at the Grammys.
Quote...
Run for your life.
You couldn't understand any of this, by the way.
I had to Google this and look them up.
Run your life.
I live a better life.
I'm rolling several dice on your life.
I live a better life.
I'm rolling several...
You get the point here.
Run for your life.
I live a...
Run your life.
Ah, this is my heritage.
All I'm inheriting money and power.
The mecca of marriages.
Tell me something.
Ah, you can't tell me nothing.
Ah, you can't tell me nothing.
I'd rather die than to listen to you, my DNA, not for imitation.
Your DNA is an abomination.
This how it is when you're in The Matrix, dodging bullets, reaping what you sow, and stacking up the footage, living on the go and sleeping in a villa, sipping from a Grammy, walking in the building, diamond on the ceiling, marble on the floor, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Sentence on the way, killings on the way, won't you tell them I got millions on the way.
So the lyrics are just completely incoherent.
The music isn't really even music.
I would play a clip, but I think I'll probably get flagged for intellectual property.
So take my word for it, and then I also won't subject you to this thing.
Trump's tweet to Jay-Z is more musically compelling rap, but we will get to that later.
So Lamar talks through whatever that was.
Then Dave Chappelle, whom I generally like, he's generally sort of funny.
Chappelle comes on stage and says, quote, I just wanted to remind the audience that the only thing more frightening than watching a black man be honest in America is being an honest black man in America.
And this is Chappelle's shtick.
His comedy is largely just about how awful it is to be a black man in America.
Chappelle, by the way, is worth an estimated $42 million, but he seems to be doing okay.
The shtick, however, is usually funny.
Usually.
Last night, eh, no.
You know, it seemed like an easy joke.
It wasn't terribly motivated.
Whatever.
Then they kept singing, or whatever they do.
Then Bono came in for some reason, and then it was over, thankfully.
In Aristotle's politics, Aristotle observes, quote...
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul.
When one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion.
If over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
And that's what we're seeing here.
Alan Bloom wrote about this too in The Closing of the American Mind.
And this is typically caricatured as old fogies yelling, get off my lawn, and talking about how rock and roll makes the kids immoral.
But he has a point.
Hearing is the most soul-shaping sense.
Faith comes through hearing.
It's the most important sense.
St.
Paul writes about this in Romans and Galatians.
Faith comes through hearing.
Why is that?
The first act of Abraham, as portrayed in Genesis 12, is to hear the voice of God.
He hears the voice of God.
No burning bush, no fire, no clouds.
It's the voice of God.
Because hearing implies a relationship.
Seeing, reading, they're more solitary.
They're more voyeuristic.
They're more open to distortion.
The angel doesn't send the Virgin Mary a letter.
As Pope Benedict XVI explains, then at the time, Cardinal Ratzinger, "Mary hears the Holy Spirit, "the Word so fully that it becomes flesh in her.
"In the beginning was the Word, "and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
"The creation itself is an act of speech, God says, He speaks, let there be light.
Hearing is the most important sense.
And so bad music is worse than bad paintings or bad recipes or bad movies.
There's something seriously insidious about bad and bass music.
So with that in mind, enter Kesha.
Kesha came out and did some ditty, apparently, about the Me Too slacktivism.
This is ironic, in part because Kesha was like the first Me Too person.
Kesha had these awful experiences, awful abuse at the hands of men, and she was kind of ignored for it.
But now she gets to do her Me Too thing.
But only one woman won a major Grammy Award last night.
So, so much for Me Too, I guess.
So much for the seriousness of Me Too in the music industry.
The main gag of the night featured Hillary Clinton, who just last week was exposed for having covered up a sexual harassment incident on her presidential campaign.
Not believing the woman, not punishing the alleged culprit.
Now I know what you're thinking.
Hillary Clinton has made a career out of enabling sexual predators and smearing his victims, but apparently this was a separate incident.
So the Me Too, Time's Up, Virtue signaling, slacktivist Grammys not only feature Hillary for some reason, but they featured her reading excerpts from a book, the Michael Wolff Fire and Fury tabloid thing, that falsely portrays one of the most powerful women in the country, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, as a bimbo who Who is sleeping with Donald Trump, a charge for which there is absolutely no evidence.
Evidence, there's none for this.
So a terribly offensive charge, an actual example of some of the disrespect toward women that these MeToo clowns pretend to care about.
Then Camilla Cabello, Cabello, whatever, whichever, whoever that is, I've never heard of her before this experience, gave a speech about why we should give amnesty to illegal aliens.
At the Music Awards, how we need a national policy to abolish national borders.
I don't look to pop celebrities for my political philosophy, but that is a logical error that is hard to miss, trying to have a national policy to abolish the legitimacy of national policy.
So she said, quote, today in this room full of music's dreamers, we remember that this country was built by dreamers, for dreamers, chasing the American dream.
And this is one of the problems with all of these euphemisms, the lefty euphemisms, because her statement on its own is true.
America was built by dreamers, I suppose.
Christopher Columbus was a dreamer.
The pilgrims were dreamers.
Founding fathers were dreamers.
But America was not built by illegal aliens who were born After June 15, 1981, and have continuously lived in the United States since July 2007, half of whom don't speak English and a quarter of whom are illiterate.
Which is what the so-called dreamers are referring to.
A very specific group of illegal aliens in the country that was arbitrarily chosen to be the sympathetic group for amnesty.
But America wasn't built for those people either.
People from bad circumstances.
Have long come to the United States to prosper and improve their lot.
And that's wonderful.
It's a good aspect of the country.
The United States wasn't built on the premise that we shouldn't have any national borders or have the right to enforce democratically enacted law deciding who gets to come in and when.
The United States wasn't built so that we couldn't have the ability to govern our own country and our own immigration systems.
Okay.
Then U2 comes out and says...
Blessed are the hellhole countries.
I'll say hellhole.
You know the word.
They're referring to, you know, not a very nice place to live that Donald Trump said.
Blessed are the hellhole countries.
I suppose Bono here is trying to make a theological point.
But of course, because he's Bono, he made the opposite point that he was trying to make.
Our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount says, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Those who live under wretched conditions on earth, because their souls are better prepared for the kingdom, they are blessed, they are blissful.
A camel more hardly passes through the eye of a needle than a rich man enters the kingdom of heaven.
This is a consolation for those living in wretched conditions on earth.
What it explicitly is not is a call for the poor to become rich people.
Our Lord doesn't say, blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, so do everything you can possibly do to make more money.
If the hellhole countries are blessed, it certainly doesn't follow that people in those countries should then try to come to the United States.
That would be the exact opposite of the advice on the Sermon on the Mount.
And actually, that is the point that Donald Trump was making.
He said he doesn't want them to come here.
So apparently Donald Trump and Bono agree because these musicians have no idea what they're talking about on the politics that they spent the whole night spatting off about.
Then there was a bunch more terrible music and then Hillary Clinton showed up.
Here she is.
Fire and fury, spoken word auditions.
Take one.
Trump won't read anything.
He had a longtime fear of being poisoned.
One reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's.
Cousin.
Cousin of mine.
My fourth cousin once removed.
Oof, yikes.
On the one hand, I do almost feel bad for her, because this is truly humiliating, to keep harping on this, keep up all of the snide comments, the self-obsession, the media appearances.
People say that Donald Trump isn't dignified.
Donald Trump is George Washington compared to this woman.
On the other hand, I almost feel bad for the musicians.
They hysterically and ignorantly harp on politics because their art is bad.
That's why they're doing it.
If they had good art, they would just do the art.
That would suffice.
But their art is awful.
It's not just that it's not my taste.
It's not just different strokes for different folks.
It's objectively bad, lyrically and musically.
The saddest moment of the night came when Broadway veteran Patti LuPone showed up and sang Don't Cry For Me, Argentina.
This is a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the musical Evita in the 70s.
This isn't the height of culture.
It was just your run-of-the-mill pop music from 1976.
By today's standards, it's the Brandenburg Concerto.
Unlike most, if not all, of the performers at the Grammys, Patti LuPone is a talented musician.
Unlike most, if not all, of the performers at the Grammys, she carries herself with grace and dignity on the stage.
The other performers, the other so-called musicians, possess none of those things, and so they complain that they don't get paid enough millions of dollars.
Or that they're unhappy because their preferred politician lost an election two years ago.
Or some people didn't get a gold trophy and they really wanted one and others got the gold trophy instead.
It is really pathetic.
Because conservatives are always bemoaning cultural decline.
That's the stereotype.
It's the old guy saying, in my day things were nice and what are you kids listening to?
And usually I think that's just sentimental, that's just saccharine nonsense.
Things change, whatever.
Not everything new is worse.
But this is worse.
The popular music that Grammy artists are churning out is worse.
It's worse lyrically.
It's worse musically.
It's worse technically.
It's worse choreographically.
The performances are worse.
We know that because we could compare Kendrick Lamar's incoherent babbling and Dave Chappelle's lame jokes like a hack-hofer in a dying vaudeville show with a performance that even just a few decades ago would have been pretty good, considered pretty good.
Nice, you know, but by the standards of today's Grammys, it is the height of art.
This is one of the reasons I'm so pleased that President Trump is eager and able to fight cultural battles.
On the one hand, it makes it easier to pass some decent public policy, but also we just need to clear this out, this degraded popular culture, make way for something better.
We need to clean house and government, too, in our bloated, corrupt, insolvent bureaucracy and make way for something better.
So, Jay-Z calls Donald Trump a racist.
In an interview on CNN, Trump fires back at Jay-Z in a tweet.
Here's Jay-Z. Because once you do that, All the other closet racists just run back in the hole.
You haven't been fixed anything.
What you've done was spray perfume on a trash can.
And what you do when you do that is, you know, the bugs come and you spray something and then they come and then you create a super bug.
Right?
Because you don't take care of the problem.
You don't take the trash out.
You just keep spraying Whatever, over it to make it acceptable.
And then, you know, as those things grow, you create a superbug.
And then now we have Donald Trump.
The superbug.
Superbug.
It's like the new Superfly.
Superbug.
And so Donald Trump fires back.
He writes, Which is hilarious.
And not many people have picked up on this.
Scott Adams, as usual, saw it right away.
And he should.
This is so obvious from the tweet.
Donald Trump responded in the form of a rap.
Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, black unemployment has just been reported to be at the lowest rate ever recorded.
Mic drop, MC Donald, I am Wonder Mike and I have come to say hello.
That is Jay-Z, a billionaire.
Jay-Z, a billionaire, claiming in the interview that money doesn't really matter.
And then, Jay-Z, a convicted criminal, who has dealt drugs, shot his brother, and stabbed a guy at a nightclub.
He pled guilty to that.
Jay-Z goes on television lip-quivering because Donald Trump allegedly said a crass word at a closed-door meeting.
Here is Jay-Z talking about how hurtful that is.
Every African country is a whole country.
How does that land with you as a dad?
Yeah, it's disappointing and it's hurtful.
It really is hurtful, more so.
Everyone feels anger.
But after the anger, it's really hurtful because you're looking down on a whole population of people.
And you're so misinformed because these places have beautiful people and have beautiful everything.
And it's just like this is the leader of the free world speaking like this.
They have beautiful people because all people are children of God.
They don't have beautiful everything.
These places don't have beautiful everything.
In Haiti, the country is so poor and crime ridden, there's such scant access to resources that mothers feed their starving children pancakes made of mud.
That isn't beautiful everything.
It would be nice, I suppose, if we could say everything is beautiful there.
The way we know that everything isn't beautiful there is they all want to come here and we give a lot of charity and we send missionaries to these places to help them out.
And Jay-Z, Jay-Z, a guy who pled guilty to getting so angry at a club one night that he started stabbing a guy multiple times.
He is saying, oh, I'm so hurt.
I'm so hurt.
I'm so delicate.
Me, Jay-Z, so delicate.
And they do it because they don't like Trump.
But unlike any other Republican in my lifetime, Trump fights back.
Things cannot decay forever.
The ratings can't fall forever.
The performers can't degrade themselves into nothing forever.
At some point, we will reach the bottom, and then something new will come along, and the culture will improve.
The one hopeful aspect of all this, as I just lost my night watching this awful award show, in 2016, we did not expect the political renaissance that we're seeing now.
Perhaps a cultural rejuvenation will take us by surprise, too.
And if these Grammy ratings are any indication, it cannot be long now.
Okay, enough about the awful fake musicians.
Let's bring on our panel.
But before we bring on the panel, Marshall, you monster.
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This is a very male-heavy show today.
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So, giving your guy a box of chocolates for Valentine's Day.
I'll speak to you as a guy.
I like chocolate as much as the next guy.
I'm a big gavone and a glutton.
It's very boring.
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I think there's a video of me opening the man crate somewhere, and it probably was selectively edited because it looked like I didn't get it right away.
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Okay, we have Allie Stuckey with us, star of CRTV's new show, Allie, and the Daily Wire's own Alicia Krause.
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Okay, we have to get right into the news.
I'm really looking forward, though, to seeing the show later on.
So, news broke this morning that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe will step down, although he will remain on the FBI payroll until he's able to resign with full benefits in mid-March, of course.
McCabe has been under fire after recent texts and documents suggest he may have been involved in plans to use the government to undermine President Trump's campaign Ali, what does this mean for the administration?
Well, I think there's been a lot of problems with Andrew McCabe being at this post for a long time.
Judicial Watch reported on this a long time ago with all the conflicts of interest, of course, with his wife being funded by McAuliffe and all of that.
So I think it's good for the administration.
Now, there are some conflicting reports whether he was actually removed or whether he is just kind of taking his retirement early.
Either way, I think it's one step closer to hopefully draining the swamp.
We've heard about draining the swamp for so long, and then you think, well, there are a lot of these bureaucrats still there.
This is one example, like, okay, we've got a little swamp rat going down the faucet.
Alicia, why are we allowing him to retire with full benefits?
Is this a win for Trump, or does the bureaucracy win again?
Is he just getting to take his vacation a little early?
So he actually, what a lot of people don't understand is he was set to retire in March, but apparently there had been some hubbub and some, one of the theories out there that a friend of the Daily Wire had proposed, Guy Benson said that one of the theories is potentially that because the House Intelligence Committee is voting today on whether or not to release that memo Guy Benson said that one of the theories is potentially that because the House Intelligence Committee is voting today on whether or not to release that memo with all of these text messages and things that were happening with the Hillary Clinton investigation and the Russia investigation during the 2016 election and whether or not McCabe and others used their power within the FBI to use,
to use illegally surveil Trump and members of his team that maybe that's why he's being forced out right now.
We'll see how that vote goes and what that memo actually does show.
And if that health and intelligence committee So what it means for the White House is there's going to be scrutiny here.
It means that people are going to say, okay, is this another Mueller investigation?
Type thing where Trump forced him out.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her press conference earlier with White House pool reporters said absolutely not.
The White House was not a part of this decision, that it came within the leaders of the FBI. So it's kind of weird, though.
He's taking a quote-unquote terminal vacation, and that name sounds creepy to me, but that's right.
It means that he will be on the payroll.
He'll be taking unused vacation time between now and when his official retirement date was up in March.
You know, it's funny because Ben keeps offering me a terminal vacation, and I've never really known what he's meant by that.
I'll have to investigate the case of McCabe.
I wonder, especially if the White House really did have nothing to do with this, is this just bureaucrats protecting their own?
He could get in hot water if this memo comes out, and so he struck a deal to retire early, and this way he doesn't lose his pension.
I hope it's not that, but it certainly could be.
It's in the nature of government to do those sort of things.
The Netherlands.
Speaking of terminal vacations, this is a little bit of a downer, but it gets to a really important bioethical issue.
The Netherlands has approved the assisted suicide of a 29-year-old mentally ill woman on Saturday.
This is in keeping with long trends in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, especially in Belgium.
The euphemism lefties use for this practice is euthanasia, meaning the good death.
Ali, the victim says she suffered from terrible demons.
She begged to die.
She wanted to die.
Is there any justification for government-sanctioned assisted suicide?
Well, there's kind of a conundrum here as well.
If she is mentally ill, why are we taking her word for it?
She shouldn't be the one to determine whether or not she should die or should undergo assisted suicide if she is truly mentally ill.
She needs help.
So you see kind of the conundrum and the quandary that someone is in once you put yourself in the place of God.
And that's going to continue to be the case.
People are determining whether or not their life or someone else's life is worth living based on a subjective standard of what the world deems worthy or not.
And you have to carry that to the nth degree.
You have to ask yourself, okay, if someone is very poor, should they be killed or should they be assisted to commit suicide if someone doesn't have a high IQ, if someone can't read very well, if he's not very athletic?
And then, of course, you see the very obvious parallel to Nazi Germany.
And I'm not trying to make that leap to say, okay, you know, it's just a slippery slope.
Everyone I don't agree with is Hitler.
Quite literally is what was happening in Nazi Germany.
So the fact that we are trying to justify it or cover it up with euphemisms, as you said, I think It really shows us exactly the direction that we're going and the value that we have on the safety of life, which is extremely low, unfortunately.
Not everything is comparable to the Nazi regime, but this is.
This is one of the examples when you're killing off people that you deem enfeebled or weak or less than perfect.
I think the comparison is absolutely fair.
And of course, when you follow it to its logical conclusion, This means that anybody whose life is less than perfect has just cause to say, I want to end it all.
And the trouble is, all of our lives are less than perfect.
I'm sorry, go on.
How ironic that, you know, at last night's Grammys, or we hear from the mouths of people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, that it is their Christian duty to think of the least of these when it comes to the 800,000 DACA recipients.
But they don't think of the least of these when it comes to sex...
You know, decision abortions or abortions that the decisions that people make if they discover that they're going to have a mentally handicapped disabled child.
You know, Democrats get a mum on that and that's totally okay with them.
It just goes to show that the left and specifically these socialized nations don't really care about the least of these even though they claim to.
40-year-old illegal aliens, those are dreamers, those are the least of these we have to take care of, but babies in the womb and the mentally ill who are chronically depressed, those, no, that's okay, we can get rid of those people.
Alicia, do you think this could ever take hold in the United States, a movement toward greater assisted suicide?
Absolutely.
Unfortunately, yes.
I wrote a piece a couple weeks ago about an assisted suicide person that was against it, JJ, a guy from upstate New York.
Incredible story.
Lived three years past when doctors told him that he should have used assisted suicide.
ended up having another son, creating more life even after he'd gotten his death sentence.
He had the same type of brain cancer that Vice President Biden's son Bo died of.
And we've seen, we've seen the media reports, people like him didn't get coverage, but Brittany Maynard, who was a Californian who moved to Oregon and ended up ending her life via assisted suicide, who had the same type of glaucoma and cancer, was lauded by the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, even People Magazine, and I think Marie LA Times, Washington Post, even People Magazine, and I think Marie And so you are seeing this kind of death with dignity, or like you said, they use the phrase euthanasia.
They don't even want to use the wording of what it is.
It's suicide.
And I think that unfortunately this culture of death, we see it with babies in the womb when it comes to the left, and now they're looking into and they have this love affair for some reason with assisted suicide and people choosing to die with dignity.
And it's...
It's quite frankly really scary and really disturbing and it's legal now here in the state of California.
That's exactly right.
Whenever you hear these euphemisms, death with dignity, the more ridiculous, the more you should pay attention.
Dreamers, euthanasia, the good death.
Exactly in direct proportion to how absurd the euphemism is, you can be sure that the thing that it's trying to get around and it's trying to describe around is awful and you should run away from it.
The one bit of hope I have here is obviously for terminally ill people, people who are on their last legs, doctors throughout the United States for...
Ever and ever have increased the medicine a little bit, turned up the drugs, have in a more subtle way let people die.
This does not mean there's a federal regime of assisted suicide.
This does not mean there's a right to assisted suicide.
This does not mean there are councils determining whose life is worth saving and whose life is worth ending because they're a drain on the system or something like that.
It is really awful at all times.
The one bit of hope is that the pro-life movement has been so successful in the United States, even as the entire rest of the Western world has lost its mind on abortion, the United States has become much more pro-life.
According to a 2016 Marist survey, national survey, on the actual questions of abortion, not on do you call yourself pro-life or do you call yourself pro-choice, on the actual question 52% of women, the majority of women, think that abortion should be illegal in 99% of cases.
So with those numbers, I am somewhat hopeful that that culture of death won't catch on as it has in Europe.
But, you know, I always try to see the Leftist Tears Tumblr half full of covfefe rather than completely empty.
Well, and it shows that the Democratic Party is really out of touch.
They work so hard to really adhere to and focus on those women that marched and that are really passionate, this very small group of women that are very passionate, because studies also show the majority of millennials, I think over 70% of them, think that abortion should be restricted to just the first trimester.
And, you know, this week you have the 20-week abortion ban coming up in the Senate, and you have Democratic senators like Kirsten Gillibrand from New York and Kamala Harris from right here in California that are just, you know...
I'm so verklempt and so upset and it is the worst thing in the world that how dare Mitch McConnell bring up this legislation to end abortion federally at 20 weeks but they won't acknowledge that the polling is against them so I kind of wonder and would ask those women which women are they really representing when the majority of women do not agree with them.
I think they're on the wrong side of history, to borrow one of their empty slogans.
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Scientists in a new study published by Cambridge University Press have discovered that hot people tend to be right wing.
The researchers write, quote, controlling for socioeconomic status, we find that more attractive individuals are more likely to report higher levels of political efficacy, identify as conservative, and identify as Republican.
Allie Stuckey, Alicia Krause.
I rest my case.
Ladies, ladies, are you surprised by this, Allie?
No, we actually hear about this all the time, I think, especially since Trump took office because he surrounds himself, it seems like, with attractive women, not necessarily on purpose.
What a coincidence.
Not necessarily on purpose, maybe not, but a lot of attractive women surround him, I guess.
And there was actually an article not too long ago that dissected the women's faces to support Trump.
I was in this article and compared It's Ivanka Trump, even Kellyanne Conway, all these people.
And apparently we have the same facial symmetry or something like that.
And then I was going to make the argument it's because conservatives are just so much happier than man-hating feminists.
And it's our hearts that are actually making us more beautiful because we're just happier and nicer than Tommy Lahren.
So, I don't know.
That is the wrench in that theory.
I actually do want to talk about Allie's point.
Lefties are so angry about everything.
I had the same thought.
I would like to think that it's because, you know, we're good on the inside.
That's what I tell my four-and-a-half-year-old daughter, who is really beautiful, but I tell her she has to be sweet and beautiful on the inside as well, and that that's what people are attracted to in us.
And then they listen to our ideas, and then they're like, wow, those ideas make way more sense than what MSNBC is spewing.
But who knows?
I mean, I think maybe when we are appealing to women, fellow women...
That those two things are a factor, but let's be honest, when we're dealing with dudes, it's all about the outward appearance.
But, well, absolutely, of course, that goes without saying.
But that's what I want to know.
Which way does it go?
You know, lefties could be sipping a Mai Tai on a float in Turks and Caicos, and they would find something to complain about.
Is it, which way does it go?
Do more contented people just tend to be conservative, or are conservatives more likely to be contented?
Is this a chicken or an egg kind of thing?
Maybe the latter.
I think it's definitely the latter.
But, you know, an interesting observation is someone here in L.A. You know that episode of The Office where Ryan talks about how Pam is like a Scranton 7 but a New York 5?
Yeah, sure.
In L.A., everyone's like a 12 compared to the rest of the country.
Yeah.
I myself think I'm like an Oklahoma 7.
Who knows?
But there's this element of like, if you look at the mainstream media, if you look at last night's Grammys, if you look at the Oscars that are coming up in a couple of weeks, everyone in middle America will think, oh my god, all the coolest, hottest people must be leftists because that's what they're seeing all the time.
I think we need to like blast this study, you know, far and wide so they understand that it's okay to come to the dark side.
People on the right are pretty too.
It's okay.
It's fine.
We've got all the hotties.
You just don't see them on your TVs.
Exactly.
Okay, ladies.
Well, thank you for being here.
This was very nice to see you.
Finally, in our last few minutes, we're going to get to This Day in History.
Allie, best of luck on the show today.
I look forward to watching.
Thank you.
Alicia, I'll see you outside my studio in like 10 minutes.
Okay.
Okay.
See you guys.
Now it's time for This Day in History.
This Day in History.
On this day in history in 1820, King George III died.
You will remember King George III from when we whooped his greatest military force in the world during the Revolutionary War and won a country for ourselves.
Because of this unhappy connection, Americans sometimes take a glib and dismissive view of George III. His 4,000-pound statue in downtown Manhattan became the first casualty in America's increasing obsession with toppling monuments.
The mob did have a good reason in that case, though.
After the Declaration of Independence was read for the first time publicly in New York on July 9, 1776, a group of future soldiers stormed downtown to melt the statue for bullets.
That's fair enough.
That's a decent use.
By the outbreak of the war, George III had not even received the Declaration of Independence.
On the question of various burdens to pay for the French and Indian War, like the stamp tax, George III was generally more sympathetic than his government to the colonists' concerns.
The tax burdens on the colonists were far lower than those imposed on George's subjects in Britain.
Indeed, they were the lowest in the Western world, the taxes imposed on the American colonists.
George was generally fairly universalist in his charity.
One of the complaints, actually, that our founding fathers listed in the Declaration of Independence is that the king had defended the rights of, quote, merciless Indian savages.
He was too nice to the Indians.
After the Revolutionary War, King George III was very frank about this.
You know, this is a guy who had a great character and reputation in Germany.
In Britain, I believe he was shockingly loyal and faithful to his wife.
He may have been the only royal ever in history to be faithful to his wife.
This was a guy of good classical education, good morality, and after the war he said, quote, I will be very frank with you.
I was the last to consent to the separation, but the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I had always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
He didn't want to lose the Americas and the United States, but having lost them, he met them as gentlemen and as separate independent powers.
When Benjamin West, George's royal court painter and a good old Pennsylvania boy, told King George III that George Washington would step down as leader of the United States after two terms, George responded, if he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
So while we find ourselves battling the statue topplers who want to tear down and erase our history, all of the great men who built our country, perhaps we should be an example and take an even broader and more charitable view and give even former foes like George III their due.
So, R.I.P. George III, a good king.
We had our differences, we fought a war over it, and now he's a good guy.
We should look back on him with some dignity.
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