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Sept. 27, 2018 - The Michael Knowles Show

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Ep. 224 - The Gang-Raping Of Brett Kavanaugh

Democrats and the media gang-rape Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and President Trump gives a delightful news conference. Then, Glenn Beck stops by, and finally, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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	Democrats and the media gang rape Brett Kavanaugh.
	President Trump gives a wonderful and hilarious press conference.
	Then, Glenn Beck stops by.
	And finally, the mailbag.
	I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
	Oh, what a day.
	What a day.
	First of all, welcome to my boudoir.
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	I've been glued to my screen all morning watching the stupidest miscarriage of justice that I have seen since Anita Hill.
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	Okay, so we've got to get right into the news today.
	If you haven't been watching, lucky you.
	Oh, lucky you if you've missed out on some of the stupidest hearings ever.
	So, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate today, the Judiciary Committee.
	Brett Kavanaugh is set to testify, though I think that either that's happening right now or that's about to happen.
	I have not seen it yet.
	What have we had since last we spoke?
	We have now had people coming out.
	This new woman, Julie Swetnick.
	Accusing Brett Kavanaugh, milquetoast Federalist Judge Brett Kavanaugh, of participating in gang rapes.
	Of facilitating gang rape.
	Brett Kavanaugh.
	Oh, by the way, this woman, this new accuser, her ex-boyfriend filed a restraining order against her.
	Apparently she's a total looney tune.
	Her lawyer is Michael Avenatti, so we know that she's a looney tune.
	She sued her previous employer for sexual harassment using the law firm run by Deborah Katz, who is also the lawyer for Christine Ford.
	Are you catching a theme here?
	Are you sensing a pattern?
	All these people seem to be connected.
	I watched all of those testimonies earlier.
	Christine Ford, I saw it point by point.
	I won't subject you to the clips, but it's a total circus.
	The one thing that's come out of this, which is really shocking...
	Is that we're actually seeing Lindsey Graham be just a hardline, bad MF-er?
	You know, I mean, this guy is really like Lindsey pulled through on the leather jacket, you know, got the brass knuckles on.
	Here is Senator Lindsey Graham reacting to Christine Ford's testimony today.
	When they say that she wasn't sure we were willing to go out there, that's a bunch of bull.
	I don't know what they told Ms.
	Ford, but we were willing to go to California.
	We were told she couldn't fly.
	All I can say is that we're 40-something days away from the election, and their goal, not Ms.
	Ford's goal, is to lay this past the midterms so they can win the Senate and never allow Trump to fill the seat.
	I believe that now more than ever.
	I don't know who paid for a polygraph, but somebody did, and here's what I'm I'm more convinced of.
	The friends on the other side set it up to be just the way it is.
	I feel ambushed as the majority.
	We're going to hear from Mr.
	Kavanaugh, Judge Kavanaugh, and I've been a judge, a prosecutor, and a defense attorney, and here's what I'll tell you.
	When it comes to where it happened, I still don't know.
	I don't know when it happened.
	She said she's 100% certain it did happen.
	I bet you Judge Kavanaugh will say I'm 100% sure I didn't do it.
	The people named say they don't know what Ms.
	Ford's talking about.
	She can't tell us how she got home and how she got there.
	And that's the facts I'm left with.
	A nice lady who has come forward to tell a hard story, that son corroborated, and this is enough.
	God help anybody else that gets nominated.
	Based on what I heard today, you could not get a search warrant or an arrest warrant because you don't know the location, you don't know the time, you don't have any corroboration.
	Yeah, you give it to him, Lindsey, you bulldog.
	Bulldog Lindsey Graham, here he is.
	He's absolutely right.
	From the beginning of her testimony onward, she got there, she sat down, she said, you know, after my opening statement, I anticipate I'm going to need a little caffeine, so we're probably going to have to break.
	Well, if you anticipated that, why didn't you bring a cup of coffee with you?
	Or better yet, have a cup of coffee before you sat down.
	Is it because you want the television coverage to only cover your statement and not cover up any of those pesky questions?
	Is that what happened?
	She's asked these questions.
	Her story has been changing.
	The Senate Judiciary Committee appointed a prosecutor to ask these questions because none of the men want to seem like they're angry and asking her questions.
	So they got this nice looking woman to ask the questions instead.
	She's changed her story, Christine Ford, at various points.
	I don't know what happened to her.
	Something might have happened.
	Maybe something didn't happen.
	But from this testimony, we cannot conclude that any of this is credible.
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	It is not credible.
	These allegations that she's making are not credible.
	Why?
	Lindsey Graham said it.
	She didn't tell us the year.
	She can't tell us how she got there.
	She can't tell us how she left.
	She can't really tell us where it was.
	She can't tell us the circumstances.
	The people that she's named as having been there say they weren't there or they say that Brett Kavanaugh wasn't there.
	There is no corroborating evidence.
	Now, what the Democrats are trying to do is make a circus out of this and say, well, there was another accusation.
	You say, yeah, but that other accusation was from some total wackadoodle whose boyfriend got a restraining order right on her.
	He says, yeah, but it was another one.
	It's with all these accusations, you know.
	I mean, you know, accusations, right?
	I mean, no, I don't know.
	What, are any of the accusations credible?
	Well, no, but there's so many of them.
	Yeah, but they're all, if I, so if one crazy person tells me that, you know, the sky is about to rain down purple donuts, and then four other crazy people tell me the same thing, that doesn't mean the sky is going to rain down purple donuts.
	It means you've got a lot of unsubstantiated claims.
	That was an analogy I made on the fly.
	I don't know how much it totally holds up.
	It doesn't mean that.
	Just because you have a lot of people saying something, you need evidence to back that up.
	By the way, there were a few really important moments here.
	The prosecutor asked her, said, did you give your medical record, the medical record of you talking about this assault, the diary entry from the therapist, did you give that to the Washington Post?
	And the lawyer jumps in.
	He said, oh, you don't know.
	Don't answer that.
	You don't have to answer that.
	Don't know.
	But no, no, no.
	And she says, well, I don't know.
	I don't...
	I said, what do you mean you don't know?
	So it turns out that Christine Ford's short-term memory is as bad as her long-term memory.
	Because it's not like asking her what you had for lunch a dozen days ago or two weeks ago.
	It's asking her the only piece of even quasi-evidence, sort of resembling evidence that you have...
	When you were talking to the Washington Post, did you hand that to them?
	And she said, I don't know.
	That was less than eight weeks ago that she would have done that.
	You don't remember less than two months ago?
	Really, really smells fishy.
	I don't know what she thinks.
	I don't know what she thinks happened or if she's mistaken or if she's lying or even if it really did happen.
	But we have no evidence for it.
	And what these people like Maisie Hirono, the Democrat senator from Hawaii, what they're saying is he's guilty until proven innocent.
	And a lot of people now are saying he's too tarnished.
	You're trying to tarnish him, but he's not too tarnished.
	And by the way, I've got to tell you something.
	I was watching this on CNN this morning, because I'm at a hotel room, so I've got CNN. If I watched CNN, I probably would believe that this guy is like a super Nazi rapist killer.
	I would.
	I actually empathize now because I had to watch CNN. I empathize with a lot of America.
	If you were getting your news from CNN, they had a whole panel.
	And all they did after every little bit of testimony, they would just go one by one.
	Jake Tapper, whoever the other people are, say, oh, well, very credible testimony.
	Oh, yes, it was very credible.
	It was, you know, one thing that struck me about it, the credibility of it.
	Credible, credible, credible, credible, credible, credible.
	Didn't seem credible to me.
	Didn't present any evidence.
	She contradicted herself several times.
	She actually admitted to changing aspects of her story.
	She appears to have contradicted the guy who gave her the polygraph test.
	She wouldn't answer questions about who she's met with.
	We know the lawyer comes from Dianne Feinstein.
	We know it stinks to high heaven.
	Credible, credible, credible, credible.
	Give me a break.
	And I've got to tell you, these moments, I wish we were going to run out of time, but I think Donald Trump explained this very, very well.
	Because you've got these guys like Jeff Flake who's saying, well, we need to hear them out.
	I won't vote.
	These kind of fake, squishy, vishy Republicans.
	But...
	He had this great line in this press conference outside the U.N. where he talked about George Washington.
	He compared the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh to the kind of treatment George Washington would get if he were up for a job these days.
	Here he is.
	Look, if we brought George Washington here and we said we have George Washington, the Democrats would vote against him, just so you understand.
	And he may have had a bad past.
	Who knows?
	He may have had some...
	I think accusations made.
	Didn't he have a couple of things in his past?
	George Washington would be voted against 100% by Schumer and the con artists.
	I mean, 100%, 100%.
	So it really doesn't matter from their standpoint.
	That's why when John asked about the FBI, if the FBI did the most thorough investigation in the history of the FBI and they found him to be 100% perfect, he would lose every single vote.
	Now, If the Republicans win tomorrow, I think you're going to get some votes from the Democrats.
	You know why?
	Because we all know why.
	Because it's called politics.
	Then you'll probably get some votes.
	There it is, the honesty of the Donald.
	He's going out and he says, you know what it is?
	It's politics.
	That's what it is.
	We've got one other excellent point that he made because this press conference was the answer to his UN speech.
	He gave this stately, incredible, erudite, sophisticated UN speech.
	Obviously, it was totally misreported in the media.
	So then he has to do what Trump does, which is give this wacky, zany, I think it was a 91-minute or 81-minute press conference where he goes all colorful and then he gets all of the coverage again.
	But there were some really great moments to it.
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	This last bit, Trump was asked his opinion on what's going on with Brett Kavanaugh today, and a lot of other, you know, like the Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, you know, ridiculous types would play it up really sanctimoniously.
	Cory Booker right now is questioning the girl, Christine Ford, and all the Democrats are opening their testimony.
	They say, I just want you to know this isn't a trial, and I just want you to know I I believe you.
	I believe you.
	And they all do it because all this thing is about is getting clips for them for their 2020 campaign and clips for the midterm ads that they're going to run on it.
	Donald Trump, because he's a more honest broker than these guys, he just goes right for it.
	Here is President Trump on the hearings.
	I can only say that...
	What they've done to this man is incredible.
	I think when you really look at it all, it's not going to change any of the Democrats' minds.
	They're obstructionists.
	They're actually con artists because they know how quality this man is, and they've destroyed a man's reputation, and they want to destroy it even more.
	And I think people are going to see that in the midterms.
	What they've done to this family, what they've done to these children, these beautiful children of his, and what they've done to his wife.
	And they know it's a big, fat con job.
	And they go into a room, and I guarantee you, they laugh like hell at what they pulled off on you and on the public.
	They laugh like hell.
	People are going to have to make a decision.
	36 years, there's no charge.
	All of a sudden, the hearings are over, and the rumors start coming out.
	And then you have this other con artist Abinadi come out with another beauty today.
	He's got another beauty today.
	I love it.
	This is the Donald Trump that I think really resonates.
	If you showed the American people, you say, okay, a woman who for 36 years never mentioned anything, can't recall any of the details of the event, all the other people that were allegedly there deny it, men and women, the guy's been a federal judge forever, six FBI investigations, now all of a sudden this comes out.
	What do you believe?
	That Or do you have Donald Trump's take?
	It's a con job.
	It's obvious.
	It's transparent.
	Obviously, it's going to be the latter.
	We've got to get to Glenn Beck.
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	That would be so weird.
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	And man, he told me some stuff I actually did not know about him and had not heard going back 20 years.
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	And we'll be right back after that with The Mailbag.
	Glenn, thank you for being here.
	Really?
	Alright, thank you.
	No, I have to tell you, I only did that because I've been here all week, and Michael, I don't know if you know this, but they treat you like garbage.
	They do, they do.
	You didn't want to feel left out.
	Well, no, I mean, it's just a habit, you know, hanging around with Ben.
	He just trashes you, personally.
	I mean, it's not even professional.
	My family, my looks.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	Yeah.
	I was kind of, I was wondering, I figured now would be a good opportunity.
	How's it looking at the Blaze?
	Are you guys hiring?
	You'd always be welcome.
	He said he was going to call ice on you the other night.
	I thought he was going to call ISIS on me.
	He's really got a vendetta out.
	You know why he's got the vendetta?
	No.
	Well, you can understand this because you and I were authors.
	Yeah.
	We're best-selling authors.
	Right, right, right.
	So I, it's because I wrote this book, this best-selling book.
	And the writing is brilliant.
	Thank you very much.
	You're very lucid.
	It's brilliant.
	Very clear.
	No, it's good.
	It's good, really good.
	Yeah, it's pithy.
	That's what I like about it.
	It's just, it gets right to the heart of it.
	Brevity is the soul of wit, and so therefore I'm the wittiest guy.
	Even though it's 200 and some pages, it's very brief.
	Now, you have also come out with a book.
	You made a different choice, though.
	You put words in your book.
	I put words in mine.
	Addicted to outrage.
	I actually wrote this book twice.
	Did you?
	No, literally I did.
	I wrote it the first time, and I learned so much while I was writing it that by the time I got to the end, I was like, okay, that...
	That's all not right.
	That's too elementary.
	Wow.
	And so I went back and I rewrote the entire book, which was a little brutal.
	Was it just your thinking that changed your process, or was it something about the news or the circumstances?
	No, it's my thinking.
	You know, it's been really strange, because when I left Fox, that was on a prompting.
	I mean, I went to Billy Graham and talked to him about it.
	And Billy Graham said, I said, I'm leaving Fox and I wanted to talk to you about it.
	And he said, that sounds like something I would do if I were the adversary, convince you to leave Fox.
	And I said, well, I don't think it was.
	I think it's prompting from Lord.
	And he said, tell me about it.
	And so we sat and talked.
	We were supposed to spend about 20 minutes.
	We ended up spending about five hours together.
	And he, in the end, agreed with me in my thinking.
	But I knew...
	That I had done my best, and I believed in what I said, but the country was spiraling out of control.
	And was that what convinced Billy Graham?
	To convince Billy Graham of something, that's a...
	Yeah, I mean, I don't want to, you know...
	But it was spiritual in nature, and it was about reconciliation.
	And he said, you know, reluctantly, I... Okay, I think you're right.
	Because I was very upset when that show...
	I loved that show.
	I watched it.
	I loved doing that show.
	I loved it all the time.
	That was so fun.
	It was on when I was in college.
	We would insist on having your show on all the time.
	Fox was on a lot, but we would sit around the TV in the common room.
	It was fun.
	It was a great show.
	I scared the crap out of Fox.
	Because it was ad lib.
	Right.
	And we would turn in a script every day.
	And they would pour over it.
	And then I'd get in and I'd say, yeah, turn off the teleprompters.
	And, you know, so they were just freaked out.
	I mean, I know because I know people at the White House.
	I had people at the White House, senior, watching every episode.
	We had Media Matters watching episodes.
	We had everyone watching every episode going...
	Good God, what is he going to do today?
	It's kind of an early understanding of podcasts.
	Even if I'll go on Fox and Friends for a three-second hit, and everything's bulleted, it's laid out, the chyrons, everything's really set.
	Podcasts, though, I mean, we don't have a script, you'll notice.
	No papers here.
	And it was...
	It was just speaking from the heart and just laying it out and not caring.
	Caring that we did a good job and that we got it right.
	I mean...
	What I loved about that show and all of your work is it wasn't talking points.
	You would bring in history.
	You would bring in everything.
	And you had fun with it.
	Fun is a dirty word for conservatives, or it shouldn't be.
	When September 11th happened, I had no idea.
	I mean, I had just signed a deal with Premiere, but I wasn't national yet.
	And I was supposed to start January 2002.
	Excuse me.
	And I had just signed the deal in August.
	And what I was doing was a parody of talk radio.
	It wasn't serious.
	Right.
	Okay?
	Most people don't know this, but, I mean, I used to, you know, I used to do 40 nights on the road with comedy.
	Mm-hmm.
	And so when September 11th happened, they called me and said, we need you on the air now, nationally.
	And honestly, Michael, I spent about three days solid beforehand on my knees going, I'm the wrong guy, Lord.
	What am I doing?
	Why are you making me do this?
	I don't know any of this stuff, okay?
	I mean, I paid attention somewhat.
	You know, when I was in New York at WABC in 98 or 99...
	I remember we bombed an aspirin factory.
	I'm not sure what the date was, but Clinton bombed this aspirin.
	Because he needed to get Lewinsky out of the headlines.
	That's what everybody said.
	And I was on the air that day, and I had done my homework.
	He was going after a guy that nobody had ever heard of.
	And I started doing my research on him.
	And I said, okay, I know everybody thinks he's trying to get, but I want you to listen to this guy.
	And I read all of his words.
	And he was coming to New York and he was going to kill us.
	And the phones blew up.
	Everybody's saying, you just love Clinton.
	I'm like, I don't like, what are you talking about?
	Have you met me?
	Yeah, have you met me?
	I don't like Clinton.
	No, it's not his policies.
	I'm telling you, he's right on this one.
	And I remember saying on the air, within 10 years, in this city, buildings, bodies, and blood in the street, and it'll have this man's name on it.
	I forgot about that until September 11th.
	The name was Osama Bin Laden.
	Wow.
	And all you have to do is take people seriously and read.
	So I had done some, but not really.
	I mean, somebody called me up and said...
	Where do you stand on, you know, the Israelis and the Palestinians?
	And I'm like, I don't know.
	Beats me.
	I don't know.
	I mean, as far as I was concerned at that time...
	I don't know.
	The whole thing could go into a sinkhole.
	They're never going to solve it.
	You've been battling forever.
	I've got the answer.
	I've got the answer.
	Just don't talk to each other.
	So I had no idea.
	And all of a sudden, this big burden of responsibility, you know, Ezekiel 33, I think it's 33, 37, 33, where he says, you know, I will place watchmen on the towers, on the gates.
	And if that watchman sees trouble coming and doesn't blow his trumpet, the blood on everyone that could have been rescued is on his hands.
	Well, that's millions for me.
	And if I really, truly believed it, I had to say it.
	So when I got to Fox, I wanted to say it because I knew that nobody wanted to eat that because I had just gone through 2008.
	And man, I lost stations and money and everything else because 2006, I was saying...
	Financial crisis could collapse the entire economy, could collapse the European economy, because this is all bogus.
	I don't even know how it works.
	And, you know, at the time, I was up reading about the frickin' money supply on a prompting, and I got so mad at God.
	I'm reading about the M1, M2, M3 money supply.
	Mm-hmm.
	And it's like 2006, and I'm in bed.
	It's at 3 o'clock, and I'm reading this, trying to understand it.
	And I kind of have kind of an Israel, you know, relationship with God.
	Yeah, a little association.
	Yeah, a little struggle with him.
	And I remember, and I pulled the book aside.
	He said, get off me!
	I am never going to need this.
	I don't know what you're making me read this for.
	And then the economy collapses, and Barack Obama gets in, and Roger Ailes had been courting me for a while, and I kept saying no.
	And I didn't want to do cable news.
	But I knew then that it was kind of too divine to be, that platform to be available.
	And so I signed a deal for two years and decided to entertain the folk.
	A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.
	And that point is, I think it's really lost on people.
	And maybe it was lost to some people in the Fox audience.
	Because if you go out, if you use a little humor, if you go out and have a little, I've been using a little covfefe, you know.
	If you have a little bit of that, and then you get some eyeballs and you get a real message through.
	As long as you don't violate the principles.
	My problem was...
	In some ways, the press and the fact that Jon Stewart...
	Now, this is a really delicate line that I don't see there's a difference, but I think others do.
	Jon Stewart did...
	What I was doing every day for an hour with one.
	And it's just the difference was I was on a news channel.
	He was on the comedy channel.
	Now I contend if I did it on the comedy channel, they still wouldn't have been okay with it.
	- Well, certainly they wouldn't have hired you also.
	- Yeah, right. - On the comedy channel. - So it doesn't matter, but that was the excuse That it was mocking, you know, the news.
	And in a way, that's true.
	I mean, you know when, you know that an industry, literally, if you look back, when someone comes to the inside and mocks it and ridicules it from the inside, it's over.
	Right.
	And I think I was the sign that news is over.
	And it ushered in this totally different world.
	I mean, we are in a totally different world now.
	No millennial I know has cable.
	They don't even pay for cable.
	No.
	It is all internet.
	It's all new media.
	It's all podcasts, Netflix, whatever, streaming.
	I'm not doing any mainstream media for this book.
	You're not going on TV? Nope.
	He'll sell more copies.
	No, because you know what?
	Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan to me was the, I said this a couple of weeks ago when Elon Musk was on.
	Yeah.
	And you know, the stock market goes down.
	Now I, I'm, I put in my calendar, Rogan, Elon Musk.
	I don't want to miss it.
	Right.
	Okay.
	And you brought that, that great little bong the other day.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	So he's on with Rogan and the stock market goes down and I'll bet you 60% of the people in the media industry had no idea.
	And a good portion of that Didn't even know who Joe Rogan was.
	And a portion of that didn't know what a podcast was.
	They're just so arrogant, out of touch.
	It's over.
	It's over.
	That's right.
	So, Glenn, you get knocked for catastrophizing.
	But the trouble is that you're often right about the catastrophes that you're seeing.
	So...
	Give me a happy note.
	Give me something here.
	Happy?
	I'm an optimistic catastrophist.
	There must be like a Gilbert and Sullivan song.
	This seems like a good thing to me.
	The new media, at least this part, the new media allow conservatives especially to get our message out there unvarnished, undistorted, unperverted.
	You're selling books.
	On new media, because that's where the eyeballs are.
	People are tuning out of CNN. So, I absolutely agree with you.
	But it requires us, and I urge you to read the book, sincerely.
	You gave me a copy yesterday.
	I look forward to it.
	You will enjoy it.
	And because it talks about what's happened to us, why it's happened to us, and what's happening right now is the postmodernists.
	They are changing everything because they have, since the Paris riots in the 60s and 70s, they realized they could not take the Western world and destroy it just through culture.
	And they learned it in the 60s.
	So they came back and they looked at postmodernism and said, okay, how do we make this to destroy the West entirely, all of it, Bring it down at the same time so then you're free to start Marxism or a new whatever you want.
	Some people see things that never were and ask, why not?
	Correct.
	So, if you understand that, then you can start to change your argument because the more you throw it back in anger, you're throwing accelerant on the fire.
	And I think they're going to scare a lot of people that don't want To lose capitalism.
	You know, on the left too.
	Right.
	I know a lot of people that vote differently than me that don't want to lose capitalism.
	Capitalism has been pretty good to us.
	It's been pretty darn sweet.
	The problem is, we are up against the clock now.
	I think our economy is a matter of time before that comes apart.
	I'm hoping that it keeps lasting as long as it can.
	You have Russia.
	Nobody's paying attention to a guy named Alexander Dugan.
	Everyone your age should be paying attention to him because he is targeting people like you.
	And it's a very dangerous philosophy.
	You have the Middle East.
	And worst of all, You have tech.
	You have high tech, which is starting a time bomb in one.
	And also, as they start that time bomb, they are gathering more and more information, which is more and more power.
	Information and knowledge is power.
	And then doing strange things like working with the Chinese.
	Who are literally turning that into a police state.
	That's right.
	It's 1984.
	It's horrible what's coming there.
	We have to Remain Americans.
	Remain calm.
	Find as many like-minded people that want to live in capitalism and freedom and understand the Bill of Rights.
	I don't care who you voted for in the past.
	I don't care.
	I don't care what you've done in the past.
	Well, unless you're Brett Kavanaugh.
	That's a whole different story.
	You're out.
	Hang him up by his neck.
	Get him out of here.
	But let's start looking to the future.
	And if we If we hold together and we begin to talk about the ethical uses of technology, we're going to enter a time that will have freedom beyond any of our expectations.
	The world in the next 10 years is going to change so dramatically.
	That 10 years from now, you'll watch this and it will feel like watching I Love Lucy.
	Seriously.
	Well, that is a happy note to end on.
	And it does remind me that you are truly the master broadcaster because that is the greatest possible segue I have ever heard for the ethical use of technology to go over and subscribe at dailywire.com.
	Glenn, thank you very much for being here.
	Thank you.
	And once Shapiro finally runs me out of town on a rail.
	Oh, he's going to do it.
	Well, then I'll be able to go to Texas.
	I'm only telling you this as a friend of yours and his.
	What he says privately about you is horrible.
	It is profane, pornographic, vulgar.
	I say to him, you're orthodox?
	Really?
	And he just goes off.
	Ben, I didn't even know that was a word.
	That mental image.
	Well, thank you for telling me.
	I appreciate it.
	In the privacy of our own show.
	Yeah, I mean, we're not on the air now, are we?
	Well, no, I'm sure they must have cut this, right?
	Did you cut it?
	Wait, what?
	Glenn, thanks for being here.
	Thank you.
	All right, I'll see you.
	Thanks, man.
	Appreciate it.
	All right, Glenn, get out of my hotel room.
	So that whole time that we've been airing that, I have been watching the live testimony of Judge Kavanaugh.
	It was stunning.
	We came for the drama.
	We got the drama.
	I will be going over some immediate reactions to that right now.
	It was really something else.
	Plus, we're going to have the mailbag, by the way.
	We're going to have to fit a lot of that in.
	Maybe we'll have to do a little mailbag tomorrow.
	But before we do that, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
	Sorry, guys.
	Go to Daily Wire.
	If you're at DailyWire.com, thank you very much.
	You help us keep the lights on.
	You keep Covfefe in my cup.
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	We'll be right back.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So we've got some immediate reactions to this.
	I had it on.
	The TV is right over here.
	I was watching that live testimony.
	Judge Kavanaugh, there was some debate among analysts earlier.
	Is Kavanaugh going to come and, you know, be very staid and quiet and judicial and let it go?
	Or is he going to bring it?
	Is he going to defend his reputation and fight back?
	He fought.
	Fought back.
	Oh my goodness.
	He punched back.
	He talked about how unfair it was.
	He hit them hard.
	He had calendars from the damn summer.
	Where did he find these calendars?
	He talked about it.
	He said, oh, my father kept all the calendars.
	From like the 70s, which is, by the way, all nature is but art unknown to thee, a divine providential strike of luck.
	It was really incredible.
	And by the way, it was convincing.
	It was...
	I mean, at this point, if Judge Kavanaugh is lying...
	This guy is one hell of a psychopath.
	He looked like a man who was wrongly accused.
	It looked like the Crucible, you know, John Proctor and the Crucible or something.
	Really, it was a stunning testimony.
	I want to really analyze this when we've got video because it's still going on right now.
	So we're going to get to that more tomorrow.
	But a stunning performance.
	My takeaway is, all in all, Christine Ford did fine.
	She didn't do bad.
	She did contradict herself a little bit.
	She did seem a little kind of one minute she was kind of laughing and then the next she was really serious and shaky voice.
	It was a little weird, but it was fine.
	It actually wasn't bad.
	She sort of did well by her and her Democrat friends.
	But Kavanaugh did really, really well.
	He did really well.
	So obviously if there's any justice in the world, you give it to Kavanaugh.
	I mean, there's no evidence at all.
	He called the Swetnik allegations that he was running a gang rape syndicate, he called it a farce and a joke.
	It was really excellent.
	Excellent stuff.
	I'm going to vote for this guy for president.
	I don't know what it is in the last couple of years that Republicans have grown a backbone, but I'm really pleased to see it.
	This is really good.
	We can't let them do this.
	If we let them get rid of Kavanaugh, Who's left?
	Who goes up?
	Who goes up to the Supreme Court?
	The guy is virtually perfect.
	He's got this unimpeachable record.
	And if you can't get him through, who do you get through?
	We can't let them do it.
	Really good stuff.
	Okay, we've got to get to the mailbag.
	I probably only have about five minutes left, but c'est la vie.
	We'll do it.
	First question from Madeline.
	Hi, Michael.
	I used to identify with liberals in my college days, but my views have since swung to the right since my mid-20s.
	While I strongly agree with almost everything the left does, I don't think that everyone who identifies with the left is a bad person.
	I think many on the left are coming from a place of genuine compassion for others.
	With that said, who do you believe is strategically behind the evil ideologies and policies that are supported by the left?
	Yeah, I don't think that...
	Many, or certainly not most, and probably even, I don't think very many lefties are bad people.
	I think that they're misguided or overly emotional or wrong-headed.
	G.K. Chesterton put it very well when he was talking about his friend George Bernard Shaw.
	He said that it's not that Shaw doesn't have a heart.
	He's got a very big heart.
	It's just a heart in the wrong place.
	And I think lefties' hearts are in the wrong place.
	They're progressive, so they're progressing toward utopia.
	The idea is that mankind is perfectible.
	There's an obvious progress that we're going toward.
	And so therefore, if you stand in the way of progress, if you stand with word history yelling stop, if you're a conservative, then you are either very stupid or evil.
	You have bad intentions.
	And for smart conservatives, for conservatives who can even string a few words together, it's not the former, so it has to be the latter.
	That's why they impugn our ideas, but they impugn our motives, but we don't really impugn their motives.
	And so that's the ideology.
	I mean, who's behind the ideology?
	Name your pick.
	Karl Marx, Nietzsche, I don't know.
	It's bad ideas.
	Bad ideas are behind it.
	When you trace bad ideas back far enough, you get to the devil.
	But I think it's caused by pride, and it's no coincidence that the left embraces pride all over.
	Not just gay pride, but fat pride, thin pride, racial pride.
	Not white pride, obviously, but other racial prides.
	A lot of pride.
	That's where it comes from.
	From Seth.
	Hi, Michael.
	I've been watching the Kavanaugh confirmation process as closely as most.
	Something's bothering me.
	Clearly the Democrats are doing whatever they can to delay his confirmation with the hope of retaking the Senate in November, stalling it indefinitely.
	My question, isn't it hypocritical for Senate Republicans to complain about these blatant political tactics, considering that in 2016 they did virtually the same thing in delaying Merrick Garland's One thing that has driven me crazy about the modern American left is its inconsistency in ideology and approach to issues.
	So when so-called conservatives have engaged in similar behavior, it's troubling.
	Thanks, and keep up the good work.
	Thank you for the question, Seth, but you are totally wrong.
	I'm sorry to say.
	Totally wrong.
	Yeah, it's true.
	Republicans politically stalled Merrick Garland's nomination.
	We knew it.
	We knew we could do it.
	We knew that the election was going to decide it.
	So we just stalled it forever.
	What we didn't do is call him a rapist crime syndicate mob don who just goes around raping women from 36 years ago.
	We didn't do that at all.
	We just delayed it like civilized human beings.
	Like people who aren't wicked little hysterical child monsters.
	But what they have done, what the left has done here, is based on nothing.
	Nothing.
	They have tried to ruin a good man's reputation with no evidence.
	If they had any evidence whatsoever, if they had any corroboration, then maybe you could consider it.
	But there's no corroboration.
	Actually, the people who would be called on to corroborate it deny that any of it ever happened.
	They'd have been called on by the accuser.
	It's total nonsense, and it's really, really wicked.
	Look, if they had just said, we're not going to...
	We're not going to confirm Kavanaugh.
	Fine, but they couldn't get away with that because they don't have the votes.
	I mean, that's politics.
	Politics is a blood sport.
	But what they've done to this man is purely wicked.
	How much more time do I have?
	I can probably do one or two more, right?
	From Samuel.
	Dear Michael, I have a moral question regarding hacking.
	I've learned a way to observe other people's network activity via packet sniffing.
	My question is this.
	Is it moral to spy on another person if they leave tier information unprotected to spy on their computer searches?
	I don't know.
	Is it moral to spy on someone if they leave their bathroom window open?
	Do you think that's moral?
	So you see a cute little girl in the shower and you look through a window?
	What are you, Brett Kavanaugh?
	I'm kidding.
	I'm kidding.
	It's a very heated subject today.
	Well, it depends on what the spying is.
	If you're spying on some bad guy to achieve a certain good who's doing something illegitimate or something criminal, then I suppose it's fine, especially if you're a civil authority.
	But if you're just spying because you're a little curious, yeah, that's not fine at all.
	It's no better than being a peeping Tom in someone's bathroom window.
	Can I do one more?
	I want to do one more.
	I'm going to do one more.
	From Sean.
	Hello, Michael.
	Love the show.
	I just had a question regarding all of these claims of sex allegations.
	Listening to people like you, Ben, Andrew, Matt Crowder, and Levin help keep me sane.
	I'm not the only person wanting evidence.
	I just want to ask why colleges are canceling classes and leftist mobs surrounding Ted Cruz over allegations when these same people are doing nothing over the allegations of Keith Ellison that has police reports and medical evidence of his abuse of his ex-girlfriend.
	Because they don't care.
	Because they don't care about rape and they don't care about sexual assault.
	They did this to George Will.
	When he was contradicting the reigning orthodoxy and ideology about sexual abuse on college campuses.
	And they said, you don't take it seriously, a bunch of idiot senators.
	Including Liz Warren, I think.
	And his response was perfectly right, which is that He said, I think that I take sexual assault much more seriously than you do.
	Because he's unwilling to make a political circus out of it.
	Because he's unwilling to use it as a cudgel against people that he happens not to like.
	Because he's unwilling to use it as a wedge to affect a certain political agenda.
	And that's exactly what these Democrats are doing today.
	It's disgusting.
	It offers no...
	Advantage or consolation to victims of rape and sexual assault, it trivializes it.
	They do this on campus when they try to take sexual assault out of courtrooms and put it into campus tribunals.
	Obviously it tramples on the rights of the accused, the rights to due process, but it diminishes the crime itself because rape is a serious crime.
	It should be taken very seriously.
	It should not be tried by a bunch of bumbling professors or doddering Democrats trying to angle themselves for 2020 campaigns.
	In a kangaroo court circus before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
	It's a real crime and it should be taken seriously.
	And if you're not going to take it seriously...
	That's my show.
	I'm a little angry about these Kavanaugh things.
	I will be tonight at the Kavanaugh, or at the Kavanaugh, at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
	So we're going to be talking about the simple joys of being right.
	I'll be able to channel all of my frustration into an understanding of the joys of being conservative.
	And we've got other speeches coming up too, October 24th, October 25th.
	We'll release more information about that soon.
	In the meantime, we're going to have to get to more mailbag tomorrow.
	That's just the way it is.
	Too bad.
	In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
	This is The Michael Knowles Show.
	I'll see you either tonight or tomorrow.
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