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Sept. 10, 2018 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 214 - Bad Sports

Democrats humiliate themselves, from campaigning in Canada to filing fake perjury charges against Brett Kavanaugh, and Serena Williams becomes the Hillary Clinton of sports. Then, stupid abortion arguments, self-hating Republicans, and Big Tech turning the frickin’ frogs gay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Democrats humiliate themselves from campaigning in Canada to filing fake perjury charges against Brett Kavanaugh, and Serena Williams becomes the Hillary Clinton of sports.
Then, stupid abortion arguments, self-hating Republicans, and big tech keeps turning the frickin' frogs gay.
I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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A banner weekend for leftist tears.
My Tumblr has been running over.
This was really bad.
From sea to shining sea, from the United States all the way up to Canada for some reason, from the halls of Congress to the Supreme Court, a wonderful weekend for leftist tears.
And one thing that it showed, by the way, is that the left and the Democrats, as the vessel of the left, are really bad sports.
In politics, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
And when you lose, you lick your wounds, you regroup, and then you fight next time.
What you don't do is sit there and whine and cry and wah, wah, wah.
That is all we have been getting from the left.
It is totally unserious.
At the U.S. Open, Serena Williams became the avatar of the left these days.
She's All of the conservatives who watched that saw her and they said, oh my gosh, Serena Williams is Hillary Clinton.
Roger Kimball wrote a good piece on it.
We'll get to all of that, but we've got to start with David Hogg.
He's that young teenage gun-grabber enthusiast.
Because the question with the Democrats is, are they genuinely ignorant or are they being obtuse?
Are they just pretending?
Are they just playing some cynical game?
So let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
Let's start on the generous end of the spectrum, the completely ignorant side of things.
For that, we have to go up to the Toronto Film Festival with Michael Moore and David Hogg.
I'd like to give the microphone to them to speak, and if we have time, we'll take a couple questions.
But I'd like to start with David Hogg here to say a few words.
Thank you.
So here Michael Moore made one of the classic blunders.
He thought that David Hogg would just say a few words.
And David Hogg has never just said a few words in his life, as we're about to find out.
But it almost sounds like the beginning of a joke.
You know, David Hogg and Michael Moore go to the Toronto Film Festival.
This is a hotbed of leftism.
It is an avatar.
It is a symbol of what the left is doing in American politics.
Here are some of the young, benighted Mr.
Hogg's arguments.
I have a question for you guys.
Who's ready to save America?
Who's ready to make America the country that we say it is on paper and make it the actual country that it wants to be?
Thank you.
I think it's the most important thing to realize, however, It's the problems that we face as a country.
Whether it be water in Flint, Michigan, or the amount of mass incarceration of people of color that can't vote.
In Florida, the amount of eligible African Americans that would otherwise be eligible to vote that can't because of a previous conviction is 21%.
In Kentucky, it's 26%.
In Mississippi and Alabama, it's 15 to 16%.
These are people of color that have been historically discriminated against and still are to this day and have their voting rights taken away.
Exactly.
Turn that shame into your vote.
Turn that shame into your vote, except we're in Canada.
Except, so here we have now David Hogg and the Democrats promoting election fraud.
Canadians, go vote!
They really are trying to steal elections.
Now, probably what it is is he just forgot he was in Canada.
He doesn't know that much about politics.
The reason I point out this little segment, though, is I want to point out the racism of this argument.
We hear this a lot from Democrats.
They say, you know, we lock up all of our criminals.
We lock up so many criminals.
And by the way, that's why the crime rate has decreased so markedly over the last few decades.
But we lock up our criminals, and that is racist somehow.
And the premise of that argument is that criminals and black people are the same thing.
But they're not the same thing.
That's a very offensive thing to say.
The Democrats keep saying that.
Locking up criminals is not racist.
That's just a matter of justice.
Black people are not criminals.
Those are not synonymous.
And when they make that argument, they are always arguing about white privilege.
You think, that is the most...
Blind, tone-deaf, privileged argument I've ever heard.
But then he gets to correct the record on Canadians voting.
I think Canadians can donate to political campaigns in the United States.
They can't?
Well, uh...
Well, vote here.
Because...
This poor kid is saying all of this nonsense.
He's spouting all of his ignorance.
And then he's turning to Michael Moore.
And he says, can they donate to political?
No, they can't.
When you have to turn to Michael Moore to get your knowledge about the American political system, you are in deep trouble.
That is not a good place to be in.
So he says, well, vote here.
And this is something that the left does all the time.
I notice this.
Whenever you argue about one particular issue with the left...
They'll say their crazy point.
Then you'll say your point and you'll shut down their idea.
And then they'll just change the topic.
And they'll say, well, what about this?
You see it with abortion.
You say, yeah, abortion is bad and we shouldn't have any abortion and it shouldn't be legal.
And they say, yeah, but how much welfare spending should we spend on kids?
You say, well, that's a separate topic.
I'm not talking about that.
You say you're talking about some war or something, the Iraq war.
And they say, yeah, well, how much money should we spend on public schools?
I'm not talking about public schools.
I'm talking about the Iraq.
They keep moving it because they have to move the goalposts.
They don't have any argument on the topic that you're actually talking about.
And then there is just the Blythe ignorance.
And this was the piece de la resistance.
I took the lid off of my Tumblr so that I could fill it up from Toronto.
Take it away, Mr.
Hogg.
This question to the IRS, if you're watching on Facebook, why aren't you auditing the President of the United States who likely got $30 million from Russia via the NRA? There's an active Department of Justice investigation into this that nobody's talking about.
Also, we're still at war in Afghanistan.
What the hell?
Like, I'm 18 years old.
That war was started 17 years ago.
Think about that.
Also, cheese doodles are orange.
Also, it's kind of chilly outside now because it's the fall.
Also, you're just saying random facts.
Also, pepperoni pizza's delicious.
It's just sputtering and sputtering.
Yeah, of course, we can discuss the war in Afghanistan.
I don't know that think about that is really the best way to do it.
But this point he mentions, which is that the NRA spent $30 million that it got from Russia on the Trump campaign, that is simply not true.
That is just flat out false.
He says that nobody's talking about that.
We know how much money the NRA got from the Russians.
Ooh, Boris and Natasha, ooh.
The NRA received about $2,500 from the Russians.
That is slightly less, slightly more rather, than an order of magnitude off from what David Hogg has said.
Two orders of magnitude off from what David Hogg said.
And the NRA has owned up to this.
They've said, yeah, we've gotten some money from a lot of different places and we can trace some Russian nationals.
And they gave us about $2,500.
Now you might ask, why was that number so low?
Mostly because it's membership fees.
You know this.
If you join the NRA, you pay $30 a year, $100 a year, and then you get your little membership card into the NRA.
So that's what he's talking about.
There's a big difference between that and $30 million.
More importantly, nonprofits can take money from whomever they like.
It's not like a political campaign.
They can take money from any sources they like.
How do we know this?
Because the Clinton Foundation did this for years and years in a way that the left had told us that's perfectly fine.
Do you remember Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton Foundation $25 million, which is close to the number that David Hogg's talking about.
Maybe that's where he got the idea from.
So they give the Clinton Foundation $25 million, and then Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, approves a $29 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
There might be some problems with that.
We might want to look into that.
But it's perfectly fine for the NRA to get membership dues from people around the world, especially when those membership dues don't add up to very much.
This just shows the left is really not to be taken seriously here.
We've really entered into silly season.
They're getting basic facts wrong.
They don't care that they're getting basic facts wrong.
And I don't even want to just beat up on David Hogg because the elected Democrats and Democratic operatives are no better than...
They're no more serious.
The Democrat Party has decayed into a dying vaudeville show.
Nowhere has that become clearer than at the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
There was a big press release that came out over the weekend.
Democratic Coalition.
So this is a super PAC that helps Democrats and left-wing candidates.
The Democratic Coalition sends out this press release that says, quote, Democratic Coalition files criminal complaint against Judge Brett Kavanaugh for perjury in congressional testimony.
Okay, what are they talking about?
What they're talking about is that a decade or so ago, during some congressional testimony, they think that Brett Kavanaugh lied, even though actual legal experts don't think he lied at all and there's no evidence that he lied.
So that's what they're saying.
They're talking about perjury in a congressional testimony a decade ago, which didn't happen.
Then the press release goes on.
It says, a separate judicial ethics complaint will be submitted on Monday to the clerk of the D.C. Circuit for Chief Judge Merrick The only problem with this tactic is that it's not even true.
It won't work, and it's not even true.
We'll get to that in a second.
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The only problem with it is that it's not true.
They say they're filing a criminal complaint against Brett Kavanaugh.
The way we know this isn't true is that it isn't possible.
Private citizens cannot file criminal complaints with the federal court system.
That's not how it works.
So, what they did do is they wrote a letter to the Department of Justice and they said, we really want you to punish Brett Kavanaugh.
So, actually what the press release should have said is, press release, breaking, Democratic Coalition writes a strongly worded letter.
A strongly worded letter to...
The other aspect, by the way, is Merrick Garland is an appeals court judge.
So if they have some ethical complaint about Judge Kavanaugh, it's not going to go to Merrick Garland.
It's not going to go to a district judge, period.
It's not going to go to an appeals judge.
It's going to go to the entity that holds Brett Kavanaugh's law license.
Even Vox.com admits that this is nonsense.
And, you know, For Vox.com to say it, I don't defer to Vox.com on a lot of issues, but even the left here is saying this is all show.
But these are the big headlines over the weekend.
This is the big viral news story.
Why are they doing this?
Why are they running on craziness up in Toronto and these fake press releases that are just a pure lie in the headline?
It's because they have nothing else to run on.
What are they going to run on?
They box themselves in.
We've been hearing about Russiagate for two years.
This investigation, the Mueller investigation, has gone on for over two years.
And what have we gotten out of it?
We found out that Paul Manafort likes expensive suits, and just in the last few days, they've sentenced George Papadopoulos.
He's the Trump staffer who spoke to a Maltese professor who had ties to the Russian government, who probably is best friends with Vladimir Putin.
I don't know.
I made that last part up.
And what did the sentence We're good to go.
By the 2016 election.
They said this can't happen.
We just have to undo it.
If they'd spent that time creating a positive agenda, they might have something to run on right now, but they don't.
So they're just retreating back and back.
They say, it didn't happen.
It didn't really happen.
Please, no.
Trump's really a Manchurian candidate.
Nobody is believing that.
And so this question, are the Democrats being obtuse or the Democrats being ignorant here?
I think at this point, this far in, it is very hard to conclude that they're not just being obtuse.
They're not playing a cynical vaudeville game.
And I've got some more evidence of this in what is undoubtedly the most ridiculous video on the internet.
This was going all around Twitter.
This is from Liz Plank at L.com.
Because in the Kavanaugh hearings, abortion has been the big topic.
Even when they're not openly talking about it.
Everything is about Roe v.
Wade.
Are you going to overturn Roe?
Women's health.
That's the euphemism they use.
Women's reproductive health.
That's the crazy euphemism they use because abortion and reproduction are diametrically opposed to one another.
So here is what passes for comedy and argumentation on the left.
L.com making a video about abortion.
Introducing Male Masturbation Crisis Centers.
The f**k?
Sometimes self-love happens, and just because you do it alone doesn't mean that you are alone.
No, seriously.
How did you get in here?
Look, Trevor, when you're going five against one, you're not just rubbing one out.
In fact, you're rubbing out 70 to 300 million sperm.
The actual seeds of life.
What?
Ugh.
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Do you get it?
Do you get the point?
The sort of point she's trying to make?
Do you get it?
What she's saying is that men, masturbation is just like getting an abortion.
Now, I can't believe that I even have to explain this, but I think I do because the left has failed biology 101.
They failed health class.
They were probably all outside, you know, who knows what they were smoking behind the gymnasium.
That's probably why the legalization campaign is so big on the left right now.
A sperm cell is not the same thing as an unborn baby.
It's not the same thing genetically.
It's not the same thing biologically.
If you leave them uninterrupted, one of them will just remain a cell.
The other one will become a full-grown human person who can make stupid videos like that one.
And I wonder if this is because they don't get the argument or they just refuse to engage with it.
They never engage with the argument.
At these Kavanaugh hearings, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, they never engage with real arguments.
It was all shows and distractions to the other side.
And let's just drill down into what this is.
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed, which he almost certainly will be, People are worried that he's hostile to Roe v.
Wade and that he'll overturn Roe v.
Wade.
I'm not so sure about that.
Ben is not so sure about that.
Ben thinks that he would not actually overturn Roe v.
Wade.
They might place some further restrictions on abortion, but that there's enough precedent that Kavanaugh, in his judicial opinion, wouldn't overturn it.
Who knows?
We'll have to see what happens.
What the left is saying is that if Roe v.
Wade gets overturned, then we're going to have abortion outlawed across the country.
That's not true.
What happens if Roe v.
Wade is overturned is that the question is returned to the states and some states will have legal abortion, some states will not have legal abortion.
That's our federal system.
That's a wonderful thing.
What the left is also saying is that the Constitution has a right to abortion enshrined in it.
And I have to ask them, I've never gotten a good answer to this, do they really believe that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton sat down and said, okay, we're going to have free speech in there, yeah, we're going to have a balance of powers, separation of powers.
Oh, hey, Alexander, don't forget the right to an abortion.
You can't forget the right to an abortion in there.
That's what we fought that revolution for, isn't it, Alexander?
Of course not.
Nobody thinks that that is the case.
But the left is not playing politics in good faith here.
They're not playing politics.
They're interrupting the hearings.
They're making a total show of the hearings.
They're pretending that millions and millions of documents need to be read from when Brett Kavanaugh was in middle school, or else we can't decide if he's an able judge.
The man's been a judge for a long time.
People on both sides of the aisle say he's a very competent judge.
They're not playing politics in good faith.
They know that they lost.
They're still really sore about losing that election.
And rather than regrouping or using legal or serious means of trying to counter the current president, they're throwing these hysterics.
They're just throwing a total temper tantrum.
And this is why total providence, all nature is but art unknown to thee, over the weekend at the U.S.
Open, we got to see...
Serena Williams embody the Democrat Party.
I wish she had actually played her game at the Congress.
But Serena Williams, if you didn't watch it, the U.S. Open, Naomi Osaka won.
She was not expected to win.
Serena Williams was expected to win.
And Serena Williams lost.
Why did Serena Williams lose?
Because she got outplayed by Naomi Osaka.
That's how sports work.
Every conservative, every Republican who was watching this game was watching Serena Williams have this meltdown and just thinking, huh, this looks a lot like national politics over the last two years.
Huh, if someone got outplayed and then rather than being a good sport about it, they break down and start crying.
Roger Kimball wrote up this great piece on it where he kept referring to Serena Clinton and Hillary Williams.
So, here is, the way this first started is that Serena Williams got called for cheating.
Not big cheating, not the crazy cheating, but she got, she was getting a sign from her coach, and she got called out on it.
She didn't think she was going to get caught, and she loses it.
Here's Serena Williams.
Carlos Ramos in the chair.
If he gives me a thumbs up, he's telling me to come on.
We don't have any code, and I know you don't know that, and I understand why you may have thought that was coaching, but I'm telling you it's not.
I don't cheat to win.
I'd rather lose.
It was a coaching violation.
I guess it was a thumbs up, and Serena's setting him straight.
That is not coaching.
So not a good way to start.
She gets called on this.
She immediately goes up, deny, deny, deny.
And by the way, her coach later, Patrick Moratoglu, admitted that he was giving the signal.
He did admit it later.
So now she looks like she's got a lot of egg on her face.
And there are two aspects here.
One, Serena Williams' first instinct is deny it.
Get up in that guy's face.
Say, no, how dare you call me on that?
That wasn't what it was.
I'm letting you know that.
But then you heard the commentator there.
The commentator said, oh, Serena Williams is just setting him straight.
I said, well, I don't know if she's setting him straight.
Did she get the sign or not?
She did get the sign.
We all saw it.
There are cameras all over the place.
Did she get the sign or not?
Did Hillary Clinton wipe the server or not?
Did Hillary Clinton get the money from Saudi Arabia or not?
We all saw it.
Stop telling us not to believe our lying eyes.
But then it gets even worse from there because it starts out now, Serena's getting really agitated, really upset, and then she finally loses her temper publicly.
Wow.
Again, Osaka.
Serena, Alita Dufresne, smash that one.
Carat violation, record abuse.
Point penalty, Mrs.
Williams.
Code violation?
Private email server?
Code violation?
What do you mean private?
So Serena Williams just takes her racket, just smashes it on the ground, which you're not supposed to do, for a couple reasons.
One, it's a violation.
And two, it's not how a sportsman plays.
It's unsportsmanlike.
You don't have any sportsmanship when you're doing that.
Because it's not just all about Serena Williams.
She doesn't just get to win the game just because.
Just because she is who she is.
Hillary Clinton doesn't get to become president just because.
Well, it's her turn.
She's waited long enough.
It's her turn.
It's all about Hillary.
No one else is even running, are they?
It's just Hillary and all of the distractions.
And it's that same thing.
Hillary Clinton's private email server was discovered.
What did she do?
She just hurled a bunch of bleach pit on top of it.
She just wiped the whole thing.
Oh, whoops, sorry.
Senator Clinton, Secretary Clinton, did you wipe your server?
What?
Did I wipe it with a cloth?
Just very, very angry.
And then finally, worst of all, she just loses her cool at the umpire.
I didn't get coaching.
You need to make an announcement that I didn't get coaching.
I don't cheat.
I didn't get coaching.
How can you say that?
You owe me an apology.
You owe me an apology.
I have never cheated in my life.
I have a daughter and I stand what's right for her and I've never cheated.
You owe me an apology.
You will never give me an apology.
When are you going to give me my apology?
You owe me an apology.
Say it.
Say you're sorry.
Well, then don't talk to me.
Don't talk to me.
Spoiler alert, she's not going to get her apology.
You owe me an apology.
My opponents are deplorable and irredeemable.
You owe me.
You say you're sorry.
It was the Macedonians.
It was the Click Farms.
It was the Russians.
It was okay, Hillary.
Yeah, that's fine.
Really looks awful.
Totally losing her cool.
Screaming.
She's sort of on the verge of tears.
And then what you heard in there, you heard about three quarters of the way through, is the beginning of the identity politics.
She said, I have a daughter and I haven't cheated.
I said, what?
What does that have to do with anything?
He said, I didn't cheat.
And then the umpire can point out, no, you did.
I saw it.
We all saw it.
Your coach admitted it.
You did.
She said, no, I didn't.
And I have a daughter.
Okay, I had a tuna sandwich for lunch.
Great.
Okay, if we're talking about things that don't matter whatsoever.
She loses her cool, and he stands firm.
Now, this is a pretty strict umpire, Carlos Ramos.
Apparently, he's a little more rigid than other umpires, but he's sticking to his guns.
Fair enough.
And then, when she's not getting what she wants, when he's not going to kowtow to her and say, well, you're crying.
Okay, you can have it.
She loses it, and she goes full identity politics.
Yeah, they do it.
Serena was watching her coach give her hands.
Verbal abuse.
Give me.
Mrs Williams.
Wow.
Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
Because I said you're a thief.
Because you stole a point from me.
But I'm not a cheater.
But you and I told you to apologize to me.
This is how we excuse any of the referees.
For all the parents out there, what would you do if your child behaved this way?
Because listen to how that argument goes.
She's like, you're a thief.
You're deplorable and irredeemable.
That's what Serena Clinton would have said.
She's like, you're a thief.
And he said, okay, that's a violation.
That's verbal abuse.
You're not allowed to verbally abuse the empire.
But I did it because you stole a point from me.
No, I didn't.
You cheated and I saw it and then I took a point for you well within the rules.
Well, but you should apologize.
No, I'm not apologizing for anything.
Time out.
You go to time.
It's too bad they don't have time out.
That's what they should have done.
That's what they should have done to Serena.
And then we get the final straw.
This is the Hillary Clinton What Happened book.
This is the post-election What Happened book of the U.S. Open.
Take it away, Serena Clinton.
To give me a point to lose a game for whoever's saying that is not fair.
I mean, it's really not.
But you know how many other men do things that are...
I don't think they do much worse than that.
This is not fair.
There's a lot of men out here that have said a lot of things and it doesn't happen to them.
Because I'm a woman, you're gonna take this away from me?
That is not right.
You know, and you know it, and I know you can't admit it, but I know you know it's not right.
This is not fair.
I'm going to lose a game just because I lost a game?
What, you're telling me that just because I lost that game, I'm going to lose?
And I lost a point because I cheated?
And you're saying, that's not fair to lose a point if you cheat.
That's not fair.
I was supposed to win Wisconsin.
I was supposed to win Pennsylvania.
That's not fair.
That's not fair.
And so then, you know, that's not a great argument.
You know, I lost and therefore I lost.
That's not fair.
So then she moves on.
She said, so you're going to take this away from me because I'm a woman.
No, we're going to take it away from you because you lost.
We're actually not taking anything away from you.
It wasn't yours to begin with.
You lost.
It's actually Naomi Osaka.
That's who it is because she won and you lost.
You're taking it away because I'm a woman.
No, actually, the winner's a woman, too.
Spoiler alert, I hate to break it to you.
You can't, you know, if only she had been playing a man, well, if she had been playing a man, you know, it would have been over a lot longer, a lot sooner than that.
But it's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair.
This is being a really bad sport.
Um...
And it's too bad, too, because this girl, Naomi Osaka, did win.
You know, Donald Trump did win.
Somebody did win the election, but it just becomes all about the loser when you're a really bad sport.
And this is why disrespecting the flag is so bad.
This is why all of that not my president stuff is so bad.
We'll explain why in a sec, but I've got to say goodbye.
To Facebook and YouTube.
I'm sorry.
I can't believe we're still on Facebook and YouTube, frankly.
I figured we'd have gotten censored a long time ago.
We're going to talk about social media censorship at the very end and how, you know, they're permitting all of the frickin' frogs to turn gay.
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You get, this is a frothy brew.
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This is why all of this burn, you know, not burning the flag, but kneeling in front of the flag, disrespecting the flag, Nike putting but kneeling in front of the flag, disrespecting the flag, Nike putting Colin Kaepernick on its, on its ads, all of the not my This is why it's so offensive.
It's so unsportsmanlike.
This isn't how we're supposed to behave in a country.
Look, people lose elections.
The politics swings back and forth and back and forth.
Sometimes you're going to lose.
Lick your wounds, regroup, go back.
And I will say, I don't think there's a moral equivalence here between the left and the right.
I think when the right lost, the right regrouped, there was a great movement called the Tea Party movement, which was not about whining and screaming and making up things and saying, it's not fair that I lost.
It was about going back to constitutional arguments, going back.
I mean, it was one of the greatest civics lessons in American history was the Tea Party.
They said, no, we need to get back to this.
We need to rein in this aspect of government.
We need to rein in the regulatory state.
We need to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They had an agenda and they systematically kept electing people from the local all the way up to the federal level.
So they were able to do that in the Tea Party.
What is the left doing?
They're just whining and screaming and trying to undo the election.
I really don't think there's moral equivalence.
And if you don't respect the flag, then you're not respecting the...
If you're disrespecting both the game, actually having the national anthem in the sports game, and the flag generally as a symbol of the country, you're not playing along with the team.
You're going against the core aspect of American identity.
And that is really ugly.
Nobody wants a country like that.
You know, we've got to live with each other.
We've got to live with these people.
So you've got to kind of get along, and at the end of the game, even if you lose and the other guy wins, instead of throwing your racket on the ground, you've got to go around and say, okay, good game.
I'll get you next time, but good game.
And it's this aspect of partisanship that had me a little disappointed in Senator Ben Sasse over the weekend.
Here is Senator Sasse saying he might leave the GOP. Home state.
Senator, thanks so much for joining us.
I have to start.
Yesterday you retweeted someone who said that they switched their party registration from Democrat to no party, and you replied by saying you, quote, regularly consider switching from the Republican Party to becoming an independent as well.
Why and what's stopping you from doing so?
Yeah, so I'm one of about eight people in the U.S. Senate who's never been a politician before, and I think I've been saying for three years that I conceive of myself as an independent conservative who caucuses with the Republicans.
But, frankly, neither of these parties have a long-term vision for the future of the country.
You know, ten years from now, where are we going to be in the future of work when young people are disrupted out of jobs three times a decade?
Future of war and cyber, the collapse of community.
There's massive stuff happening in America, and these parties are really pretty content to do 24-hour news cycles screaming at each other.
The main thing that the Democrats are for is being anti-Republican and anti-Trump, and the main thing Republicans are for is being anti-Democrat and anti-CNN. Here we go.
It seems to me I've heard this song before.
I also love the idea that Senator Sasse is complaining about politicians going on the 24-hour news cycle while he is on CNN, while he is on the 24-hour news cycle.
I like Senator Sasse.
I think he's super smart.
I think he could be a great help to the conservative movement and to the GOP and to the country broadly.
But he's playing this game right now.
I call it being a Republican, but not that kind of Republican.
You've got to say it really fast.
You see this a lot with Republicans who want to be liked by CNN and the New York Times.
You see a lot of college kids are like this.
They say, I'm a Republican, but I'm not that kind of Republican.
Don't wait.
No, I'm not a bad guy.
You know, I hope he cuts this out because, first of all, the New York Times is never going to like you.
CNN is never going to like you.
They're going to use you while you're valuable to them, while you're a good cudgel against other Republicans, and they're going to totally dismiss you when you pose a threat to Democrats.
But also, you need a team.
You do need a team.
I'm not saying we need super uber partisanship.
I'm just pointing out the reality of politics, which is that it is a team sport.
And look at the left right now.
Is the left getting less partisan?
Do you think the Democrats are getting less partisan all of a sudden?
That's not what I see in the wacky vaudeville show that's going on in the congressional hearings right now.
That's not what I'm seeing all across the country in fundraising.
I'm seeing them doubling down.
There are candidates for the Democrats running on impeachment.
There's supposed to be a legal basis for impeachment.
They're throwing that out the window.
They're saying it's pure partisanship.
It's pure politics.
You need a team, and this is not the time to start sniping against your own guys.
I think people need to regroup because they're coming after us in a united front, both in the civil society and in the government.
And nowhere is that more clear than in social media.
So you see this right now on the social media platforms.
Uniformly, they are attacking people who eschewed left-wing orthodoxy.
And I'm choosing my words carefully here.
I'm not saying that they're just targeting conservatives or they're just targeting...
Liberal Republicans.
Or they're just targeting fiscal conservatives and social liberals.
I'm not saying...
Or they're just targeting wacko people who are out on the fringes.
That isn't true.
What they're doing is they're coming for every single person who eschews leftist orthodoxy.
To draw that distinction home, I will point out that Apple has finally kicked Alex Jones off of its app.
So you know Alex Jones.
He's the conspiracy theorist.
He's the shirtless vitamin salesman.
But he was kicked off of Twitter.
Why?
Initially they said he could stay on Twitter.
Then they said he couldn't stay on Twitter.
They kicked him off of all of his social media platforms.
They kicked him off his podcast.
But the app was allowed to remain.
They never said that he violated a rule or anything.
They just kicked it off.
Which means that now, now that he's off of all of social media, he's off of his app, we will not be able to get important political commentary like this.
I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay!
Yeah, me neither.
Me neither, Alex.
But I point that out because, look, is this the conservative agenda to change the water so that the friggin' frogs stop turning gay?
I don't think that's the conservative agenda.
But they're going after him, too.
Why is the left going after him?
Why is big tech going after Alex Jones?
Because he's the easiest one to get.
Look, who's going to argue against taking that guy off of the air?
None of the self-respecting conservatives who read a lot of books and wear tweed jackets and things like that.
But he's just the entry point.
Because they're going to go after him.
They kicked Gavin McGinnis off of a bunch of social media platforms.
Now Gavin's been on Fox News.
Gavin's been a much more mainstream figure.
He founded Vice Media.
Who are they going to go after next?
It's all of this line.
Eventually, over the weekend, we saw Twitter kick off Not crazy Alex Jones.
Not a comedian like Gavin McGinnis.
They kicked off Chris Paranto, who is a CIA security contractor at the Benghazi compound.
He was there fighting during the attack on our compound and our consulate in Benghazi.
Why did they kick him off?
Because he criticized and corrected the record when Barack Obama lied about Benghazi.
And they kicked him off of Twitter for that.
This is what he said.
He said, quote...
Well, Barack Obama previously had said that Republicans and conservatives have delved into conspiracy theories about Benghazi.
What's the conspiracy theory?
So he responded, Chris Peranto said, Benghazi is a conspiracy, Barack Obama?
How about we do this?
Let's put your cowardly behind on the top of a roof with six of your buddies and shoot RPGs and AK-47s at you while terrorists lob 81mm mortars killing terrorists.
Two of your buddies, all while waiting for US support that you never sent.
Hashtag scum.
So...
First of all, how did they kick him off?
They probably were saying, oh, he threatened Barack Obama.
That's not a threat.
He is relating his experience at the Benghazi compound when help didn't come because the Obama administration did not respond appropriately to the Benghazi attack.
And then, worse yet, afterward, they covered it up.
If anybody's going to talk about a conspiracy, the conspiracy was from the Obama administration.
When they lied about it, they said it wasn't a terrorist attack.
They blamed it on some ridiculous YouTube video.
And he corrects the record and he gets suspended for that.
He gets suspended.
This is what's happening.
This is a preview because the left broadly blames social media platforms for the 2016 election.
That before social media, before all of the new media, the left controlled the mainstream media narrative.
The American voters couldn't get conservative perspectives if they weren't distorted and perverted by the left-wing lens of the mainstream media.
With the new media that came out, with the internet, with social media, conservatives could get their point of view across unvarnished.
They could control their own message and their own political destiny.
And they have never forgiven them for that.
They're raking them over the coals.
Social media is responding to it.
And it's only going to get worse.
This is all about the midterms.
And if it works in the midterms, they're going to amp it up for 2020.
This is not the time for that, I'm a Republican, but not that kind of Republican attitude for sucking up to the New York Times or CNN. We really should stop it.
If the Democrats win the midterms, we get impeachment.
If the Democrats win the Senate, we might get a conviction.
There's still a lot of things that we need to accomplish, and it's time that we get serious about accomplishing it before the midterms.
Okay, now we've got to move on to things I hate and things I like.
Why are we doing that?
Well, it's because for today and tomorrow, I'm sitting in for Ben's radio show.
You know, Ben has a radio show that goes out all across the country.
So I'm sitting in for that, and I want to really channel Ben.
You know, it's Rosh Hashanah.
Happy Rosh Hashanah to all of my Jewish friends.
And so I really want to channel him.
And I don't have the yarmulke.
Although Prager U did give me one a few years ago, which I refer to as my Prager Yumaka.
But I don't have that.
I'm not going to really be able to do that.
I don't know enough about the history of Rosh Hashanah.
So the way I'm going to channel it is I'm going to do things I hate and things I like.
I'll do it real quick.
Things I hate.
Waking up early to do Ben's radio show.
You know me.
I need to get at least 17 to 19 hours of sleep per night for Ben's radio show.
You gotta wake up pretty early.
But that's okay, because things I like is doing Ben's radio show.
Did we even tell Ben that I'm doing this?
I basically just kicked down the door and busted in.
And I said, we're doing the radio show.
So what I need you to do is go over and just send the link to the radio.
I think we're on WABC. Send the link to the radio show just all over the place and get those numbers really high.
And I want Ben to just have his jaw on the floor, steam coming out of his ears when he comes back from celebrating the holiday.
That's my request.
Thank you.
I'll be back tomorrow, too.
And make sure you get your mailbag questions in for Thursday because there is a lot of stuff to cover this week.
In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
I will see you tomorrow.
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