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Sept. 19, 2018 - The Michael Knowles Show

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Ep. 219 - Below The Belt

Stormy Daniels continues to epitomize grace and class as she compares President Trump’s genitals to cartoon fungus, CNN dedicates a segment to Donald Trump Jr.—not the President’s son—and Hillary Clinton says we should believe accusers. Then, the Blaze’s Stu Burguiere drops by to talk about the news and why it matters. Finally, the meaning of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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	Stormy Daniels continues to epitomize grace and class as she compares President Trump's genitals to cartoon fungus.
	CNN dedicates a segment to Donald Trump Jr.
	I'm not talking about the president's son.
	And Hillary Clinton says we need to give women accusers the benefit of the doubt.
	I kid you not.
	Then the blazes Stu Burgier drops by to talk about the news and why it matters.
	Finally, the meaning of life.
	All that and more.
	I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
	We're going below the belt today.
	It is going to be a saucy, saucy show.
	So the Brett Kavanaugh update.
	You know, Brett Kavanaugh, the absolutely unimpeachable, you know, without blemish Supreme Court nominee.
	So they've made up some crazy stuff about him and they're trying to portray him as a rapist or something.
	To catch you up on this, the accusation came from Christine Blasey Ford, who says that 36 years ago, Or somewhere thereabouts, when they were drunk teenagers, Kavanaugh tried to get her shirt off at a party.
	And she doesn't remember where the party was or how it came together or exactly who was there.
	And she's changed her story since she first mentioned it for the first time ever six years ago, 30 years after it allegedly happened.
	And the other person who says that she was in the room, or the other person who she says was in the room, calls the accusations absolutely nuts.
	Then another person who she says was at the party, a guy named, what's his name, PJ, Patrick Smith or Smythe, he says that he was not at the party.
	She then said she would testify before a congressional hearing, and now she says she won't do it.
	Christine Blase, more like Christine Blase Ford, if you ask me, am I right?
	Because she won't do it.
	She isn't going to show up now.
	Surprise, surprise.
	I wonder why.
	I wonder why.
	Because the accusation is not credible.
	Regardless of what happened or didn't happen, it really now looks like...
	Nothing like what she's describing happened.
	Now, one person came out on Twitter and said that she was there and she knows about this and she was at the high school at the time and that he's guilty as sin.
	This tweet from this person said, I graduated from Holton Arms.
	And knew both Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge.
	Christine Blasey Ford was a year or so behind me.
	I remember her.
	I signed the letter in support of her.
	The incident was spoken about for days afterwards in school.
	Kavanaugh should stop lying, own up to it, and apologize.
	And then so people, they were running with this.
	The media were running and tweeting and yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And then she deleted it.
	She deleted the tweet.
	And then we now have the latest from...
	This is also being reported on Twitter.
	She said, yeah, I wasn't there.
	I don't know.
	Please don't contact me.
	I don't want to testify.
	So nobody wants to testify to this because, hmm, wonder why.
	Wonder why.
	And the Democrats are dragging it out and out and out.
	So...
	Before we get into how all the politicals are reacting to this, I just want to show you the degradation of our culture.
	I want to show you CNN's segment on Donald Trump Jr., as it were.
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	And speaking of, a perfect segue.
	Here is CNN. CNN dedicated an entire segment to the most pressing news of the day.
	She writes that her first sighting of Donald Trump in 2006 in his hotel suite in Lake Tahoe was shocking.
	She writes that he changed and they both joked about his hair.
	I pointed to his hair.
	What's going on with this?
	I know, he said with a smile.
	It's ridiculous.
	She says the two talked about family.
	What would your wife think of you being here with me, Stormy writes.
	Oh, don't worry about that, he said.
	It's not a big deal.
	And anyway, we have separate bedrooms.
	She writes Trump then brought out a picture of Melania holding their son Barron, who was just four months old at the time.
	And when Daniels came out of the bathroom, she claims Trump was lying on the bed in his underwear.
	They had sex.
	She then describes his genitalia in great detail.
	His penis is distinctive in a certain way, she writes.
	I'm going to spare you the rest of this.
	I don't think I need to subject my audience to the rest of this.
	This went on for four minutes.
	That might not sound like a lot when you think about podcasts or whatever.
	Four minutes is an eternity on cable news.
	You know, I go on Fox and Friends about once a week.
	Usually, these hits are like two minutes, maybe.
	You know, if they give you four minutes, that is a lot of time.
	And they spent four minutes talking about how distinctive it is in a certain way, and Stormy said it isn't.
	Ooh, ooh, ooh.
	CNN, facts first.
	I'm a banana.
	Yeah, they are.
	It's all bananas on CNN. That's all CNN wants to talk about.
	Remember the apple and banana ad?
	A lot of bananas.
	And it is bananas.
	I mean, this is so...
	The next time that they're lecturing you, we have serious journalists.
	Every journalist at CNN, because there are a couple ostensibly not-so-horrible people there...
	They should speak out against this.
	This is disgraceful.
	This is so, so disgraceful.
	Even, I get it, if you want to mention the book for some reason, fine.
	Four minutes on this?
	Give me a break.
	But that's all they're going to talk about now.
	It's sex, sex, sex.
	We're going to talk with Stu a little bit later about how the sex is just dominating our political culture.
	But there are incredible ironies now.
	We're getting back to Kavanaugh, because that's the major story here.
	Democrats are coming out in force in total hypocrisy, jumping on this.
	It is pure hackery.
	I actually had the privilege of sitting down last night with Hillary Clinton to discuss Brett Kavanaugh.
	The FBI is not conducting an independent investigation, it's conducting a background investigation.
	And the client, if you will, the requester, is the White House.
	So the precedent that you just referred to is the precedent for getting the FBI to conduct an investigation, and that's what the White House should do.
	Now, you can believe Hillary Clinton here.
	You actually can.
	In a certain respect.
	If anybody knows about getting investigated by the FBI, it is that old crooked crone.
	She has been the object of law enforcement since, what, the 80s, the 70s?
	We're going to be speaking with Ken Starr soon.
	Back deals in fraud and money laundering, hiding documents, stealing federal records.
	This woman knows what it's like to be the subject of a federal investigation.
	And she's pretty good at avoiding the consequences of that, too.
	But then she gets into the purest hypocrisy of them all.
	I'm so glad.
	It was so nice of Hillary Clinton to come on my program last night.
	Here she is in the most stunning sexual hypocrisy of all.
	That's what the Republicans should be doing right now, from the White House down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Senate.
	Give the benefit of the doubt to the court and the country.
	And that means have an investigation that will then lead to a hearing that will then lead to a vote if appropriate.
	So give women accusers the benefit of the doubt.
	For those of you who are not familiar with Clintonese, they're amazing at manipulating language, because they're both very intelligent people, the Clintons, and they're amazing at manipulating language to not just quite get around everything.
	So she's saying, we need to give the benefit of the doubt to the court and the country.
	What does that mean?
	If we're going to give the benefit of the doubt to the court, she should talk about how great Citizens United was.
	If we're going to give the benefit of the doubt to the country, she should talk about how great it was that they elected Trump.
	What she's really trying to say without saying is give the benefit of the doubt to women accusers.
	But she can't quite say that because she smeared and slandered all of the credible accusers against her husband for decades.
	Jennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broderick, who accuses President Trump, President Trump, President Clinton of raping her.
	We spoke to Juanita Broderick on the show.
	She smeared them.
	Trailer park trash.
	Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park and this is what you get.
	The bimbo eruption.
	She smeared all of them.
	So what we're now being told is that women who have credible accusations made in a timely manner with evidence, with witnesses against a powerful figure, they should not be believed.
	But a lady who shows up five minutes ago to say that a drunken teenager tried to take her top off 36 years ago and she has no witnesses and can't give any details and won't speak, that woman is to be believed.
	I think that's the, it's obviously hypocrisy.
	It's obviously pure hackery.
	Anytime a Democrat does this, it's pure hackery.
	The party of Jefferson, the party of Thomas Jefferson, poor Sally Hemings.
	The party of FDR, who died in his mistress's arms.
	The party of JFK, where do I begin?
	How many interns at once in the Lincoln bedroom?
	The party of Bill Clinton.
	Now they're lecturing us on Brett Kavanaugh?
	A totally unimpeachable character?
	Are you kidding me?
	That's absurd.
	By the way, I was just naming the Democrat presidents who did this kind of stuff.
	Let's not even get into the senators and the congressman, Ted Kennedy.
	It's crazy.
	Joe Biden jumped on the bandwagon, too.
	Joe Biden, former Vice President of the United States, he is saying with regard to the Kavanaugh allegations, quote, So presume that the accused is guilty.
	Guilty until proven innocent.
	That's what Joe Biden is saying.
	Joe Biden, who...
	I don't know if you've ever Googled Joe Biden women.
	Just go down that rabbit hole on YouTube for a while.
	He's like smelling their hair.
	Get away, Uncle Joe.
	Guilty until proven innocent.
	That's what they're saying now.
	Until it's one of them that's accused.
	Until it's Keith Ellison.
	They're not talking about Keith Ellison, are they?
	A woman credibly accusing him of beating her.
	They don't talk about Bob Menendez.
	They don't talk...
	Not those guys.
	It's pure, pure hackery.
	And we cannot...
	We cannot tolerate this.
	We've got to get to Stu in a second.
	But we should not tolerate this as Republicans.
	Because some conservatives are getting squishy on this.
	Roth Douthat, who has an interesting perspective, he is a conservative, never Trump conservative at the New York Times.
	He's saying basically the same thing as Joe Biden.
	He's saying almost the same thing today.
	That it's incumbent on Brett Kavanaugh, unfair as it may be, to prove that he didn't do it.
	To prove that he wasn't there.
	No, it's not.
	No, it's not incumbent on him.
	And it's absurd for Republicans and conservatives to try to hem and haw and say, well, I don't know.
	Maybe he should.
	Who knows?
	I didn't do it.
	No.
	It's a totally ridiculous charge.
	It's pure hackery.
	Even if he did try to get a girl's shirt off 36 years ago, first of all, there should have been some sort of investigation.
	And the same people who are saying that when you commit a crime as a teenager, it shouldn't be held against you for the rest of your life.
	If you commit a crime as a 25 year old, it shouldn't be held against you.
	A lot of people on the left.
	Don't allow them to get away with this.
	And first of all, there's no evidence when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh.
	Don't allow them to get away with this.
	It's so important.
	I think there are some conservatives and Republicans and members of the administration who just want to get rid of him and do someone else.
	Ivanka, according to some report, which is probably bogus, but Ivanka Trump is apparently saying that they should can Kavanaugh.
	There are people who are saying we should cut bait here.
	Jeff Flake is saying we need to hear her out.
	No, we don't.
	No, we don't.
	Stop it.
	If we lose on this, if we allow them to bork Brett Kavanaugh, to slander this guy who is apparently spotless, we're never going to get another judge through.
	We can't win anything.
	Why?
	If we can't get Brett Kavanaugh through, we can't get anything through.
	I don't know what we're even running for at this point.
	It becomes a circus.
	It is so much more important than they're having us believe.
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	But don't give in on Brett Kavanaugh.
	Where do we go from there?
	First of all, any guy, any guy, whoever is up for any political position, is dead.
	If an unsubstantiated claim about trying to get a girl's top off 36 years ago with no evidence, no witnesses, even the witness won't speak or the accuser won't speak, if that can torpedo your entire career, every man is finished.
	On both sides of the aisle.
	It's not just affecting Republicans.
	Every guy is finished.
	Probably most women are finished.
	Who can survive that?
	You can't give in.
	What they're going to try to say is, "Oh, well, Kavanaugh, he's compromised.
	Get someone else.
	Just go for someone else.
	Come on.
	It's not a big deal.
	There are plenty of other good judge candidates." No.
	No, no, no.
	If it weren't a big deal, they wouldn't be pushing so hard at this.
	Don't let them get away with this.
	It is immoral to let them get away with this.
	Do not let them do it.
	And all right, that's my important message to all conservatives and Republicans.
	We've got to talk about all the important news, though, like gay Muppets and the ban of memes throughout Europe.
	And for that, we bring on Stu Bergier, who is on the Glenn Beck program.
	He's on the News and Why It Matters.
	And the Glenn Beck guys are hanging around the studio this week.
	And I love Stu.
	He's got a great perspective.
	So let's bring him in.
	Stu.
	Thanks for having me.
	Quite an honor.
	Quite an honor.
	Well, you know, you were just around here.
	You figured, oh gosh, I've got five minutes, three hours.
	I'll go do Knowles' show.
	That's fine.
	Because I was on your show yesterday.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The News and Why It Matters.
	Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
	It was a ton of fun yesterday.
	And especially in this news cycle, I'm actually beginning to question the premise of your show.
	Yeah.
	Which is that the news matters.
	I don't really...
	I'm not convinced at all.
	We've got 35-year-old accusations.
	We've got the president's Mario Kart.
	I don't need any of that.
	It's disturbing.
	It's very disturbing.
	The news and why it's disturbing is the new title.
	The news and why you should pay attention to something else.
	Because there are other very important news stories today.
	Yes.
	I would say after the Mario Kart and after the most important news stories are...
	Bert and Ernie, the well-known Sesame Street puppets, there's a big debate on between different writers and creators of them as to whether or not they're gay.
	Coincidentally, I don't know why this is, but in my notes for our interview, whoever taped this put a gay pride sticker on there so we have their vote.
	Are Bert and Ernie gay?
	Bert and Ernie, you know, they're a wonderful team.
	And they've provided us so much happiness for so long.
	I don't think they're gay.
	And here's my premise for this.
	The guy who created them said they're not gay.
	Is that all the evidence you have?
	No, I can go deeper.
	They're made of felt.
	Most gay people are not made of felt.
	They're made of gold blamé, usually, or beads.
	Something shiny.
	Felt isn't shiny at all.
	Puppets don't usually have any genitals.
	So it's difficult for them to engage in any sexual activity.
	You know, I don't know.
	I've never taken clothing off of a puppet or used some kind of Brett Kavanaugh over here that you're checking out puppets.
	There was an incident at a party.
	75 years ago.
	I don't want to go too deep into it.
	During the Lincoln administration.
	Miss Piggy was involved.
	It was not pretty.
	But, yeah, that's an interesting thing is that we have to come up now with sexuality for puppets.
	Mm-hmm.
	You know, the guy, it was actually kind of sad, the guy who kind of brought this to everybody's attention, he said that he was a writer, I guess, for many years for Bert and Ernie, which I thought they came up with all their own material, and I'm a little frustrated about it.
	I know, they have a whole staff.
	This guy was Mark Saltzman, I think.
	Mark Saltzman.
	And he said he always considered them gay and he wrote them as if they were gay.
	And he modeled them after his own relationship and he's gay.
	But I thought that was really sad because Bert and Ernie sleep in separate beds.
	Is this guy, what's happening at the house?
	I'm into it.
	I think he's got the right idea.
	I want to stretch out.
	I don't need somebody rolling over onto me.
	Separate beds is fine.
	Separate California kings, I'm into it.
	Yes, well that's the problem.
	I think they had twins.
	Like you're an adult.
	You know, I know you're on a kid's show.
	I believe Bert and Ernie were full grown.
	I don't believe they're ever getting any taller.
	So, you know, I think the twin bed thing was a little rough.
	It's just like, we can't, you know, Glenn's book, he's out here to promote his book in Attitude to Outreach.
	And it's like, this is the typical thing.
	The typical nonsense we have to get excited about every day.
	And it's, you know, on that point, because I got the book yesterday.
	I'm really enjoying it so far.
	People might have seen Glenn Beck was out.
	We were smoking cigars.
	He was puffing out of a bong yesterday.
	But there is this constant need to politicize everything, to be outraged at everything.
	And when it comes to Bert and Ernie being gay, of course the reasonable person would just say, are you kidding me?
	But there is a question, too.
	Culturally, why does every friendship have to be gay now?
	Like, you know, when guys are buddies, they're like, oh man, that was really fun last night, no homo.
	You say, no writer, no, we're not gay.
	You actually, I mean, I get it can be funny or whatever.
	It is weird that Bert and Ernie lived together for so long.
	Yeah.
	What happened to friendship?
	Like, can't people just be...
	Guys be platonic friends and not everything be very sexual?
	I go out of limits saying yes.
	I think they can be platonic friends.
	I feel like I have several.
	Now, they may make a move on me at any time.
	That's true.
	You might make a move on them.
	I don't know.
	Who knows?
	Two drinks and a wink away from making any kind of decision.
	You never know.
	And it's like, I don't know.
	Like, I... I can understand, like, there's part of me that understands this, right?
	Like, if you've been around for a long time, and you're gay, and you feel like you haven't been accepted, you're looking maybe for cultural things that you can kind of attach yourself to, but you don't get to force the creative abilities of the people who created these things.
	Frank Oz, he came up with us, and he has an opinion about who these people are.
	They're good friends.
	It was at a time in which we didn't try to force sexuality into kids' shows.
	Children's programming wasn't the target for gay or straight sexuality.
	It wasn't a great place for it.
	And I feel like, in reality, everybody knows this, right?
	But we have to wake up every day.
	And to find our reason to get through the day, to give ourselves a little bit of energy, a little bit of juice, to make our lives have a little meaning, we've got to get something to get pissed off about.
	And, you know, that's nonsense.
	It doesn't make me happy.
	I don't know anybody it does make happy in the long run.
	And I would rather go back to a time in which, you know, I have kids.
	I have two small kids, five and seven.
	And even though I don't think I've ever seen them watch Sesame Street.
	They watch the Michael Knowles show, but they don't watch it.
	Yeah, we just put Knowles on repeat all day.
	And they learn a lot.
	They learn a lot.
	They're saying interesting words.
	Where'd you learn that?
	We've got to destroy the television, I think.
	But, you know, I'd rather have them.
	That's something you want to teach your kids.
	You want to walk through that journey with them.
	You don't need that taught to them by Sesame Street.
	They're going to be taught by a puppet.
	I'd rather have control of what the puppet says.
	That's right.
	And there is this part of outrage culture, which is, why are we always outraged over these sex things?
	The Stormy Daniels and whatever.
	I think in part, it's not because we've suddenly discovered sex.
	People have known about sex for a long time.
	It's just that it's such a basic and fundamental passion.
	Yeah.
	That we just focus on it to the exclusion of other things because we're not capable of thinking of other things.
	All people want to talk about in politics is gay marriage, gay sex, abortion, Roe vs.
	Wade, this, that.
	It's all Donald Trump's flings with porn stores.
	It's all sex, sex, sex all the time.
	I think it might have to do with people not reading books.
	We're not having other interests.
	We're not maintaining other sorts of relationships.
	Right.
	I mean, like, it's hard to get people's attention, right?
	You go into this, books are long.
	They're hard.
	They've got words.
	They're all over the place.
	There's almost no pictures in many of them.
	Oh, no.
	Yeah, it's terrible.
	Don't tell me that Glenn's book doesn't have any pictures.
	Oh, you don't want to see the pictures in Glenn's book.
	You never want to see pictures of Glenn.
	That's a rule I always live by.
	But it's true.
	It actually takes time.
	And I think this happens so much in politics, right?
	Like where, you know, you can go through...
	I mean, how many times did we go deep into, you know, into the Obamacare bill?
	You're going deep into all these, like, really in-depth, you know, pieces of legislation that they're passing.
	And you get about halfway through some of these sentences and you feel like you look up and just everyone's, like, dazed.
	They're on their phones.
	They've gone to, you know, they're playing, you know, Candy Crush, whatever they're doing.
	And sex can easily redirect that conversation.
	I mean, you know, the Kavanaugh thing, like, they tried.
	They tried going down the road of, well, he's, you know, what did they try?
	They tried abortion.
	They tried birth control.
	Yeah, right.
	Like, they went through all...
	No one was trying...
	They weren't saying, hey, this guy doesn't know the Constitution.
	They weren't saying, hey, this guy's not qualified.
	They were like, hey, you know, 36 years ago, this guy may have done something at a party which we don't know when it was or where it was or, you know, who was there.
	Right.
	She doesn't really remember it.
	Yeah, she doesn't really remember it.
	I don't know, get rid of them.
	Because that was the only thing that could get anyone's attention.
	If you're talking about the things a Supreme Court justice should actually be judged on, you get no audience.
	And it's frustrating.
	This happens way too much, and it happens on both sides at some level.
	But the media in particular, they will take every Donald Trump tweet and try to make the biggest thing in the world out of it.
	And it's like, what is he doing?
	They'll make this big thing about how he's so easy on Russia, right?
	Ignore his tweets.
	Ignore what he says.
	Just look at the actions of his administration.
	Look at his actions.
	He's been tough on Russia.
	Sanctions all over the place.
	Much tougher than Barack Obama.
	Much tougher than Barack Obama.
	And there's no recognition of that in the media, or at least it's very rare.
	And I think it's because, well, a tweet is like the ultimate journalist lazy tool.
	Right?
	Think about journalism 20 years ago.
	You'd have to go to a place, and you'd have to find people who were there, and you'd have to ask them questions, and they'd blather on about nothing for a while, and then at the very end, they'd maybe say something that you have to pull out for TV. Now, go to Twitter.
	Search key terms.
	Find someone who says they were there.
	Put it on the screen.
	Your quote's done.
	You didn't even have to walk out of the room.
	That's right.
	And I feel like now we're to the point where even with something at the presidency of the United States or any cultural issue, they'll just go on and they'll find a few tweets to support their case.
	And that's it.
	It's honestly just lazy, but it reinforces that addiction that we were talking about.
	People are just bouncing back and forth looking for that.
	Because outrage is lazy.
	Anybody can do it.
	Anybody can pretend to do it.
	How dare you?
	How dare you?
	Sorry, I'm offending all of the outraged Americans.
	And I've noticed this on Twitter.
	I can...
	I'm perfectly happy going hard, fighting for your team, fighting for your guys, not letting them railroad Kavanaugh, you know, being a pugilist, punching back twice as hard.
	I'm all into that.
	But one should have some perspective, right?
	I always find on Twitter, if I'm genuinely getting angry, you have to get off Twitter.
	You have to shut it down.
	Nothing good will come of that.
	But that seems like it's the whole media cycle now.
	It's all of the, certainly on the left, it's true on the right as well.
	And so now if our news cycle has become outrage and tweets and memes, I want to focus on those last two parts, the tweets and the memes and the internet of it all.
	In the European Union right now, they are debating the important issues.
	Not Russia encroaching on their borders, not the Islamic invasion, the 65 terrorist attacks in the last four years, none of that.
	No, that's not true.
	No, no, no.
	They're gonna ban memes.
	They're gonna ban internet memes.
	This is a real thing.
	They're debating article 13 to censor internet memes.
	What is this about?
	Well, I mean, they say it's about copyright, right?
	Because, you know, if you have a meme of The Office, well, then The Office really owns that still shot that you're posting and putting print on.
	I mean, but that seems to be just a scam, right?
	Like, you know, first of all, I think we've learned over the years that trying to censor content on the Internet does not go well.
	You know, you lose control of your industry quite quickly when you do that.
	But...
	This seems to have more of a political motive, right?
	Like, you know, they've seen the effectiveness of this stuff.
	It does move people.
	And in a way, I think going back to the previous conversation, it's sad, right?
	Like, you shouldn't be moved politically by a meme.
	I don't know, but have you seen, like, really, really, really good memes?
	Well, when they're really, really good, yeah, then I'm in.
	But it's kind of ridiculous, right?
	You should be moved by a book.
	You should be moved by a Supreme Court argument.
	You should not be moved by a picture from Parks and Rec.
	What about the one of the guy with the girl, and he's looking at the one girl, but he's holding the hand of the other?
	I mean, that's very convincing.
	That's an exception.
	That's the one exception.
	Yes, that is...
	Hard cases make bad law.
	I feel like our new constitution should just be that picture.
	And we should just put freedom on one side and communism on the other.
	And that's just the whole thing.
	Maybe if someone would read it then, it would be interesting.
	But yeah, I think that they've seen the success of this and how they can get people to move really quickly.
	A lot of times to ideas that weren't really considered kind of in the Overton window of politics before.
	And that scares an organization like the EU, which I would argue should ban itself and just go away.
	Right, of course.
	Right, that would be my idea.
	But it's like they want to make sure that they have that control.
	These things that come up, they're going to try to push them down however they can.
	The closer they are to control over these arguments, the better and more secure they feel.
	And I think it's connected to the outrage.
	I think the two are because where the memes come from.
	The reason I really defend the memes, I don't know, especially the one with the guy and the girl.
	Yeah, well that one, of course.
	Especially that one.
	It is because they're funny.
	And they take on political issues with humor.
	They might be shallow.
	They might be partial.
	But they are funny.
	And the reason that they're allowed to be funny, the reason that the right is able to take a hold of humor, is because the left is so angry and shrieking and pink hat.
	No!
	Because they're doing that right now.
	Because they are living in such a fantasy.
	We're allowed to make fun of them.
	And it works.
	It's really funny.
	And so I see this move by the EU, which is the archetypal, tyrannical, you know, like octopus body as representative of the left, which is trying to censor all of that.
	Censor that humor.
	Shut it down.
	Shut down Twitter accounts.
	Shut down conservative speakers on campuses.
	I don't think that works for them in the long run.
	I don't think that censorship is a winning platform.
	It never is.
	I mean, look at Mubarak.
	He shuts down the entire internet, and he's now no longer there, right?
	It's a polite way to put it.
	Yeah, it's one way.
	But it's true.
	I mean, I think trying to shut people away from ideas draws them to them.
	It's more, in the long run, it gets you to a better place if people are debating these things in a way that creates more depth.
	But you have to get people in the door.
	We did this going back, I'm on the Glenn Beck program as well, and this is kind of the philosophy of the show from its very beginning, which was the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
	It's like you go in there and you're going to grab the people at some level with being silly and having fun with these things.
	But I would imagine a lot of people came to real political positions and understanding of our foundational principles Yeah.
	If you're 15 years old, you're not going to go freaking read the Constitution.
	You're not going to care what Ben Franklin was yapping about.
	But if you get a meme, it's funny, and then it kind of brings you to a story, and then it brings you to something where they link into something with a little bit more depth.
	Pretty soon you're reading Edmund Burke.
	Exactly.
	You're right there.
	So I do think that that's a process that actually happens now.
	I have this tendency to when these new things, you know, like when Twitter starts, to me it's just like, wait, what?
	You want to do 140 characters?
	This seems ridiculous.
	I liked, this is silly.
	I mean, at the beginning when blogging started, it was something that you kind of would mock.
	It's the same thing with talk radio.
	The mainstream media looked at that and said, that's stupid.
	But over time, these things turn into something real.
	It really moves people.
	It can really engage people.
	And that's positive as long as you take that extra step afterwards where you actually learn what the foundation is.
	And, you know, hanging out with you guys the last few days.
	Obviously, we've known each other longer than this week.
	But it's been so fun.
	I mean, it's really fun going on the show.
	I always forget how funny Glenn is, too, because I think of Glenn as this kind of serious guy.
	He's really, really funny.
	Because you're everywhere.
	You're on the News and Why It Matters.
	You're on the Glenn Beck Program.
	Where can people find you all over the blaze?
	What is the easiest way to tell people, go here now?
	Well, I would definitely, on Twitter, since we're there, at World of Stew would be a great place to go follow.
	You know, obviously Facebook and everything else.
	But The Blaze, yeah, News and Why It Matters, Glenn Beck program every day, and Wonderful World of Stew is another show.
	There's a lot of stuff out there that I think you'd like on that as well, so check it out.
	All right, Stew, thanks for being here, man.
	I appreciate it.
	It was awesome.
	Thanks.
	Good to see you.
	That guy is so smart.
	He really tells me how to understand all these really confusing news cycles.
	Right now, we've got a lot more to talk about.
	I've got to talk about Cory Booker.
	I've got to talk about the absurd mainstream media profile of him now and why he's not going to win the presidency.
	I'm sorry.
	He might be a nice guy, but he's not going to win.
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	We'll explain also the meaning of life.
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	Because once we get Kavanaugh through, so long as those squishy little Republicans don't go soft on me, once we get Kavanaugh through, this is...
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	We'll be right back with so much more.
	When I wake up in the morning, you know, we're usually about 1215 to 1230, you know, supposed to be at the Daily Wire probably 10 we're usually about 1215 to 1230, you know, supposed to be at When I wake up, one of the first things I like to do is read a Lefty Puff piece.
	I find there, they, because then I start laughing.
	I start my day with some joy.
	Mark Wahlberg likes to start his day working out and praying.
	That's one way to do it.
	I like to read lefty puff pieces on New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Fox.com.
	So there's a new one out today on Cory Booker.
	And this made me realize that Cory Booker will never, ever be the President of the United States.
	Here's the piece.
	There are a couple points I want you to notice here.
	I want you to notice, one, the difference between how the left-wing media, which is to say the mainstream media, how the media treat Democrat politicians and how they treat Donald Trump and Republicans.
	The title is, Can I Get a Hug?
	Cory Booker's got a lot to give.
	A lot of love to give.
	And he's betting that's what it will take to win in 2020.
	Donald Trump had a lot of love to give too, according to Stormy Daniels.
	You don't see those fluffy titles for him though, do you?
	So, I want you to notice that.
	I want you to notice the treatment.
	And then I also want you to notice what a horrible candidate Cory Booker is.
	So, here's just the first paragraph of the piece.
	Anyone who thinks it's nothing but teeth-grinding paranoia and rank misery in Washington these days hasn't been to the office of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
	These people are happy.
	Indeed, his staff are some of the cheeriest, nicest people you could ever hope to meet.
	When I arrive on a hot, swampy morning just before Labor Day weekend, I'm greeted with hugs and candy.
	An exuberant woman in a dashiki sits at reception.
	What's a dashiki?
	We'll get to that later.
	Kristen Lynch says, The communications director greets me, okay, hugs me, and takes me to Booker's office, where we say hello to his chief of staff, Matt Clapper, who also hugs me.
	Booker has not hugged me yet, but give him time.
	A young staffer comes in and hands Booker a brown paper bag and tells him she managed to score the last three in the cafeteria.
	From the look of joy on his face, I imagine a bag of cheeseburgers.
	But alas, it's just celery and carrot sticks in plastic deli containers.
	Booker is a vegan.
	He opens one up and munches on a carrot.
	Munches on a carrot.
	I am going to hold my tongue.
	Hold my tongue, Michael.
	That's what I'm going to do.
	So...
	Where to begin?
	Where to begin on the hugs and the love and the dishikis?
	So they're painting this picture of him as this wonderful guy.
	Because there is a portion of the Democrats who want him to be the nominee.
	Especially in New York and New Jersey where Cory Booker is from.
	And they're angling for Cory Booker to be the nominee.
	You remember six years ago he was defending Mitt Romney and he was the moderate normal guy.
	Cory Booker is a very intelligent man by the way.
	And so what Corey did then was he was trying to be the moderate guy.
	And then he realized that that wasn't the ticket because his party has completely gone off the rails.
	So now he's the crying guy with tears of rage and, oh, I love you.
	And he thinks that's going to help him.
	It's not going to help him.
	Moreover, though, I want you to realize how totally isolated the left-wing media has become.
	The elitist left-wing Democrat base has become.
	Because...
	They actually think, the New York Magazine, they genuinely think that eating celery and carrot sticks is likable.
	I think Cory Booker thinks that, that being a vegan makes you likable.
	You're such a good person.
	Because now, in many ways, in a left wing that has become post-Christian, that has become materialist in a certain way, they've adopted other religious values like...
	Veganism.
	Or yoga, to borrow Matt Walsh's observation.
	Or this or that.
	You've got to serve somebody.
	So even if you're pretending to not worship God or not be a Christian or whatever, you're going to worship somebody.
	You're going to worship humanity.
	You're going to worship animals.
	You're going to worship the environment.
	You're going to worship somebody.
	And that's what they think is going to play.
	This does not play.
	Look at who we just elected.
	We elected Donald Trump.
	We elected a guy who takes photos in private jets...
	Thumbs up while he's chowing down on KFC and slurping Diet Coke.
	This is not going to play, but to them it does.
	Because they don't know anybody who eats KFC. They don't know anybody who does this.
	I mean, the effete holes that these people come from.
	I've seen it.
	I mean, I've lived in coastal places.
	I've gone to elite institutions.
	And they really believe this.
	They say, oh, you know, I just had my celery sticks.
	Mm-mm-mm.
	Oh, I just love hummus.
	I like hummus as much as the next guy.
	They would never consider eating like a pudding cup.
	That does not play at all.
	And they're making another big mistake, not just on the style that they're choosing, but thinking that the election is going to be about style and not policy.
	This is from later in the article.
	Robbie Mook, who was a Clinton aide, direct quote, Robbie Mook, who managed Clinton's 2016 campaign, cautions against reading the upcoming campaign as a battle over policy issues.
	So what he thinks, what the left believes, is that this is really going to be just about style.
	That's why Cory Booker is pretending to cry and fight tears of rage and hold these weepy little press conferences.
	One, he thinks that style is going to work because his party is very feminized and all the men are these little soy boys.
	It doesn't work.
	Nobody wants a man to behave like a woman.
	They might say that they do.
	They might pretend that they do.
	They don't.
	It doesn't look good.
	We just elected Donald Trump, who is slightly more knuckle-dragging than Attila the Hun in his public statements.
	And people like that.
	They actually want that.
	There might be other ways to do it, but they want a man to show strength.
	And weeping and crying at press conferences with Liz Warren ain't going to do that.
	But to Robbie Mook's point, to the Democrats' point, that this is going to be about style and not policy, I think he's misreading the country.
	I think they're totally misreading the country because they've drawn the wrong conclusions from Trump's election.
	I hear this all the time from my lefty friends, New York friends.
	They say Donald Trump was elected because of his worst stylistic instincts, because of his worst statements, because he's bad, bad, bad.
	That is not true.
	They might conclude that, but that's not true from the Trump voters I know.
	From the Trump voters that I talk to, and Ann Coulter wrote a great book about this.
	We're going to be talking with Ann Coulter soon.
	Donald Trump was elected for policy purposes.
	He was.
	He was.
	He was elected for the judges.
	He was elected for immigration.
	He was elected for tax cuts.
	Here's a little bit of evidence for this, by the way.
	Donald Trump, people say he has no ideological moorings.
	He has no beliefs.
	He has no policy preferences.
	I don't think that's true.
	Donald Trump presented a legitimately unique position.
	A policy platform in 2016.
	He was talking about some of the dangers of free trade.
	No Republican was doing that.
	He was talking about immigration in a very blunt way because it's very fashionable for Republicans to say, oh, we really have to do something about immigration and then give everybody amnesty and keep the floods coming in.
	And Trump said, no, we're not going to do that.
	We're not going to give anybody amnesty and we're going to deport illegal aliens.
	That was different.
	People were not saying that before Trump.
	He was offering...
	A different policy platform, and he was elected for that platform.
	Everybody that I talk to, I talk to a lot of people, I travel around the country, they say, oh that Trump, he's really got to lay off those tweets, but I like what he's doing.
	That's what it's about, and it's going to be about that.
	The Democrats, they've whipped themselves up into the fantasy of what this election has become, what the 2016 election has become in their meta-narrative, in their historical fiction.
	It's not going to serve them well.
	This is about policy, and it's going to be about an honest debate.
	And, you know, one of the great characteristics of Donald Trump is people view him as a blunt talker, that he's...
	He doesn't BS. He tells you what he's thinking.
	And he's kept his promises.
	He's one of the few politicians we've seen who's actually managed to keep his promises in office.
	That's why we're all so shocked at him.
	I think that's what it's going to be about.
	I've got to go.
	This is really rough because there's so much more to talk about.
	I've got to talk about James O'Keefe and the deep state.
	I've got to talk about the novel solution to Venezuelan economic crises and starvation.
	But we've got to just skip ahead.
	I promised you that we'd talk about the meaning of life.
	At the Emmys, which you didn't watch, I know for a fact you didn't watch them, some lady who I don't know was wearing a Nike-designed outfit on the red carpet because she was going to tell her message.
	And she sums up a lot of what the left and maybe even parts of the center are thinking right now in America.
	And I want to show the conclusions of her thoughts and the errors of her thoughts.
	Here she is.
	Look at you, Sporty Spike.
	Thank you, baby.
	Okay, why are you wearing Nike?
	I am wearing Nike to applaud them for supporting Colin Kaepernick and his protest against racial injustice and police brutality.
	Is this custom Nike?
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely, honey.
	I have some drag queens come over and put some beads on it.
	Some sparkle.
	You know how they roll.
	They roll good.
	Yes, Kate Moss and DJ Fierce Changela.
	Yes.
	So when did you decide to do this?
	You know, I was actually swimming the other day.
	And I was like, what can I do?
	What can I do that's meaningful?
	I'll wear Nike.
	I'll wear Nike.
	That is the left.
	They're in their swimming pool.
	They're like sipping on their chi-chi or something.
	And they say, what can I do?
	What can I do that's meaningful?
	I'll wear Nike.
	That's what they're thinking.
	They've got existential dread.
	They feel meaninglessness in their lives because the worldview that they have adopted and adopted militantly deprives their lives of meaning.
	And they say, what can I do?
	What can I do?
	I'll wear Nike.
	They end up with these absurd, ridiculous ways to try to give some meaning to their lives.
	Also, regardless of their absurd politics, this does remind me why I like some showbiz people.
	It's just they're so wacky.
	And then the drag queens came over and they put beads on my, yeah!
	You know, there's just this kind of innocent, sweet thing.
	I don't know.
	She doesn't seem like a political philosopher exactly, so perhaps she can be forgiven some of her political ignorance.
	But that really highlights everything.
	You know, the hosts at the Emmys, the SNL guys, One of the jokes was, they said, you know, white people never thank Jesus.
	They never thank God in their acceptance speeches.
	The only white people who thank God in their acceptance speeches are Republicans and ex-crackheads.
	And this got a ton of outrage.
	Everyone was so upset.
	Show me the lie.
	Show me the lie.
	Show me the white person who thanks God in his acceptance speech who isn't a Republican or an ex-crackhead.
	I can't find one.
	I don't know.
	Where is he?
	This gets to a real point about the modern left, which is that they've deprived themselves of meaning.
	They boo God at their national convention.
	They remove God from their platform.
	They try to remove God from their platform.
	They don't have meaning on top of their lives, so they have to find it in ridiculous places.
	They're looking for love in all the wrong places.
	That's the problem.
	If you want the cure to outrage...
	First of all, take a look at the man in the mirror, because you might be complaining about everyone else on Twitter being outraged.
	But take a look at the man in the mirror, especially if you're on the left these days.
	But also then look up.
	You know, look up.
	The people who I know, we were at that backstage yesterday with Glenn and Ben and Drew and Jeremy and everybody, and We were all kind of laughing about politics and having a good time and it occurred to me, all of us believe in God.
	I think every one of us has different religious views, but we all have a religious grounding in God, in a theistic vision.
	Look at that.
	If you make an idol out of politics, you're going to be really, really miserable and you're going to make yourself look ridiculous and you're going to wear a Nike shirt to the Emmy Awards and that's not going to age very well.
	Don't do that.
	That shouldn't be your god.
	There is something more.
	And if you look up, you're going to have a better time in politics and you're going to make yourself look less absurd.
	Okay, that's the show.
	I know we're running late.
	Too bad.
	I don't care.
	We've got a lot more Get Your Mound Back questions in.
	We're going to do that tomorrow.
	We've got some great interviews coming up.
	People that I'm talking to.
	I don't know.
	Maybe Ken Starr.
	I don't know.
	Maybe a lot of people coming up.
	So tune back in.
	In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
	This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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