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March 10, 2021 - The Michael Knowles Show
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Ep. 717 - The Virtue of Restraint

The White House stonewalls reporters on the record number of illegal alien kids being held in cages, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is now “ex-gay,” and the Cuomo scandals get even worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Some people say that our political situation could not get any worse, but I am an optimist.
I think that our political situation could get much, much worse, and Representative Michael McCaul is here to explain how.
It's not only a threat to these children who are being exploited, and they know the laws in our country, but it's also a threat to Americans of this population coming in.
And, you know, Biden has cut off these agreements with Mexico, Central America, where they'd have to stay in Mexico to apply for asylum.
And now they're...
I've seen this before, Martha.
I predict this.
And by summer, you're going to see, as my governor just said, probably, you know, somewhere around a million people trying to get into this country illegally.
And as I said before, it's ironic that you can get into this country illegally easier than you get a tour of this capital right behind me.
Now, on the bright side, we already have about a million illegal aliens coming in every year.
So that's not what's different.
I think what's different here is he's saying it's going to be a million sort of all at once.
Like the chains are all broken, no restraint left, country being flooded with foreign nationals.
So much to look forward to.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show amid our immigration crisis.
My favorite comment yesterday is a more serious question actually from Carol who asks, if these minors are unaccompanied, how can they be separated from their parents?
That's actually a good question.
Pointing out that unaccompanied means you're alone.
You don't have an escort with you.
The answer to this is that so many people are entering our country right now that you have unaccompanied minors.
You have minors who were separated from either their relatives or the coyotes who brought them over or people who are posing to be their relatives.
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We have this major issue at the border.
It's not only because Joe Biden is president.
These border surges happen under just about every single administration.
What is different is how the administrations deal with it.
So Donald Trump took a much more serious stance on this than his predecessors, where he formed agreements whereby illegal aliens coming from South America and below Mexico would have to apply for asylum, say, in Mexico.
They would not be able to Just go walk on right through and then pretend to be seeking refuge in the United States when really they're just economic migrants.
Donald Trump instituted many other policies that discouraged this kind of illegal crossing of the border.
What Biden is doing is the opposite.
He's taking away the Trump safeguards and he's creating new incentives for people to come illegally.
What happens when you incentivize a certain behavior?
You get more of that behavior.
Which is why Jen Psaki, our favorite current White House press secretary, refuses to give the numbers on the people crossing illegally.
Why won't you confirm that number?
That's a very important number.
We've been very clear that there is an increase, that there are more children coming across the border than we have facilities for at this point in time.
Those numbers are tracked by the Department of Homeland Security, so I'm certainly, I'm just suggesting that you talk to them about specifics.
But we've talked to them, Jen.
They won't confirm the numbers.
Well...
I would encourage you to go back to them and ask them again.
We're not going to confirm them from the White House.
It's not our program.
It's the Department of Homeland Security.
Is the White House encouraging the department to release those numbers?
And in the spirit of transparency that the Secretary promised here at this point?
We certainly encourage transparency.
But what I also think is important is to talk about what the root causes are here and what we're doing from a policy standpoint to try to address the challenges that we're facing and that these kids are facing as they come across the border.
Okay, can you just give us the numbers?
No, we can't.
You've got to talk to Homeland Security.
Yeah, we talked to Homeland Security.
They said we've got to talk to you.
No, yeah, no, I know though, but we can't because look, it's not our program.
I mean, I know that we are the leaders of the executive branch.
I know that we are running this entire branch of the government, but no, you've got to talk to the little bureaucratic agency because we report to them because what do we have to do?
Come on, we're just figureheads over here.
We're not actually running the show.
Okay, well, can you just look?
We know you have the numbers.
We know DHS has the numbers.
Do you want DHS to release the numbers?
Well, no, I'm not saying necessarily they should.
Please don't interpret this to believe that we want you at DHS to release the numbers.
Why can't you just tell us the numbers?
Well, because we want to focus on solutions.
Well, okay, the first part of finding a solution is diagnosing the problem.
Give us the numbers.
They won't do it.
They won't admit it.
These record numbers, they won't even admit that what is going on at the border constitutes a crisis.
They want no labels.
Is this a crisis at the border?
Look, I don't think we need to sit here and put new labels on what we have already conveyed is challenging.
What we have conveyed is a top priority for the president.
What our policy teams are working on every single day.
Obviously, there was a trip to the border this weekend.
They are working over the course of every day since then on putting in place policies that can help address what we're seeing and help ensure that we are keeping these kids safe and moving them as quickly as possible from Border Patrol facilities to shelters.
Okay, so she's got her story and she's sticking to it.
She's not going to give you the numbers because she's focused on policy solutions.
As though you can't do both at the same time.
Say, okay, here's the problem and here's the solution.
She won't call it a crisis.
Doesn't want to admit that it's a crisis because she's so focused on policy solutions.
She doesn't want to think about what she might call the problem itself.
So let's talk about the policy solutions.
That's what Jen Psaki wants to talk about.
What are those policy solutions?
Why, kids in cages, of course.
CBS News Tonight has learned there are more than 3,200 unaccompanied migrant children in Customs and Border Protection custody, a total that has nearly tripled in the last two weeks.
For now, these children are being held in facilities that are managed by Customs and Border Protection, but they are meant for adults.
We know that several federal agencies right now are working together on this issue.
And late this afternoon, CBS News got a statement from the Office of Refugee and Resettlement that says in part they are looking at several options for long term and short term solutions that will help safely take care of these children.
This news report is an absolute masterpiece of propaganda.
It's become sort of tedious even to say, imagine what the news report would be under the Trump administration.
But just actually pay attention to what it was here.
Obviously under the Trump administration, if any border agent sneezed the wrong way, this was genocide and Trump is literally Hitler, putting people into camps or something.
But in the Biden administration, where they are actually putting more kids into more cages than Donald Trump ever did, Cages, by the way, that the Obama-Biden administration built.
In that world, we have record number of people, she acknowledges.
Then we have minors being put in border facilities.
Managed by Customs and Border Protection.
They're not cages.
They're facilities, border facilities managed by CBP. And then, if that's the first little part of the report, immediately she goes, and they're working really hard, and they're really trying to get the kids out.
And we talked to one of the officials, and he promised they're going to do a really good job.
And so that's what they all say they're going to do.
And, you know, goodness gracious, we believe them.
So that's the news.
Not what's happening.
That's a little minor part of the news.
But all those promises that we're getting, because they're really good guys in the Biden administration.
Yeah, they're putting kids in cages, but they don't want to.
I mean, they're doing it, but they'd rather not.
And they're really the first thing they can.
They're going to stop doing that.
So, good on them, right?
Imagine.
Imagine that.
Never admitting nothing.
An old sort of Italian-American New York bit of street wisdom is to deny until you die.
Do not admit anything.
Just keep a straight face and say, absolutely no problems here.
Don't answer questions.
Joe Biden was just...
At some small business in Washington, D.C., and he was doing a little bit of a photo stop.
Joe Biden has now gone 49 days, I guess it is, without a press conference.
By far the longest in modern history for a president to go without a direct press conference.
Biden is asked, very simple question, what's your comment about the crisis on the border?
His press aides all but defenestrate the reporters who dare ask that question.
And then if I would just Come on, let's go Get out of here.
Get out of here, you reporters.
You don't get to do that.
You ask those questions of Trump.
You don't ask those questions of my guy.
Joe's just there kind of looking dazed, kind of wandering around by the cash register.
Huh?
What?
Why am I in a general store in Washington, D.C.? Oh, look at that.
Is that a yo-yo?
He has no idea what's going on.
He doesn't know what's going on at the moment.
He doesn't know what's going on at the border either.
And that's why he won't give an answer.
And by the way, He is smart not to answer, and certainly the aides who are advising him are smart not to let him answer.
There's no good answer he can give, so he just wants to move past it.
You know, this is a problem, especially for Christians in politics, because...
I think the impulse is apologize, admit when you were wrong, have humility, and that's all very important.
That's what we all try to do in our personal lives, and we try to do it as much as is possible in our political lives, but we're living in this graceless culture right now where the minute that you give in to the mob, just even like a tiny little bit, you're done.
You're toast.
There's no apology that will ever suffice for them.
So I think it's very important to recognize that What the political context is and what you can do here.
There are a couple governors who have, in the Democratic Party, who have apologized when there have been accusations against them.
And they're much the worse for it.
And Joe Biden, we can make fun of him and he's dazed and confused all day long.
But that guy is still the president.
Somehow.
Somehow that guy is still the president.
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Gavin Newsom.
We call him Newsolini back in my former state of California.
Gavin Newsom.
Unlike Joe Biden, is a politician who has occasionally answered his critics, answered some of the accusations against him.
And what's he going to get for it?
Well, he's about to be recalled.
Here is Newsom addressing his state.
You know, I know our progress hasn't always felt fast enough.
And look, we've made mistakes.
I have made mistakes.
But we own them.
We learn from them.
And we never stop trying.
After all, that's the California spirit.
We're bent, but not broken.
Bloodied, but unbowed.
Resolved to make brighter days ahead.
And not to let the pain of last year deter us from the hopefulness of tomorrow.
Look, the state of our state remains determined.
I remain determined.
And I just want you to know, we're not going to change course just because of a few naysayers and doomsdayers.
Look, we're not going to change course just because we're on the wrong course, okay?
We're not going to decide to change our strategy just because our strategy isn't working, alright?
I am the absolute glibest politician in America, Gavin Newsom, and I simply don't possess the intellectual or political faculties to change anything.
Not at all.
Alright.
You know, we make mistakes, but we own our mistakes.
Except I'm not owning my mistakes because I'm not changing course at all.
What is that kind of a glib attitude going to get Gavin Newsom?
It's going to get him recalled.
Unless the Democrats can pull some miracle and invalidate half a million signatures on these petitions, which maybe they can, it would be pretty rich because now we're told that Anytime you invalidate any ineligible voter, you know, from the voter rolls, that that's voter suppression and you're a racist and it's un-American.
But sure, they're going to try to do it.
It just, it doesn't seem like it's going to work out particularly well for them.
Now, will anyone beat Gavin Newsom in this perspective runoff?
I don't know.
I don't know if they can.
But it certainly would appear to be what he's aiming at.
A lesson.
A lesson from these politicians.
The clever ones and the less clever ones.
Do not apologize to the mob.
It's very good to apologize in good faith to people who are going to accept your apology in good faith in your life.
But when the mob is coming after you, you really can't apologize.
I saw this yesterday with this poor schlub, this fellow Winston Marshall, who is a musician in Mumford& Sons.
I actually really like Mumford& Sons.
I know, maybe I'm just a child of the...
I was a teenager in the 20 teens, so I really liked Mumford& Sons.
But this guy, I think he's a good musician, and he espoused a very interesting point of view the other day on Twitter.
He said, Congratulations, Andy Ngo.
Finally had the time to read your important book, You're a Brave Man.
You know Andy Ngo.
A friend of the show, a friend of mine, he wrote this book about Antifa.
He has been targeted more than just about anybody by Antifa.
He suffered a brain bleed because of these Antifa militants, and he's got an excellent book out there detailing it because the narrative that we're being told about Antifa is very different from the reality.
We're told that Antifa is just an idea.
Well, ideas don't give you brain bleeds.
So this Mumford& Sons musician reads the book, says, okay, you know, I enjoyed the book.
And then the backlash came.
They were very, very upset that he would read a memoir by a guy who got a brain bleed by leftist terrorists.
And they're even more upset that he would endorse the book.
So he issues an apology.
Mr.
Mumford& Sons writes, Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book that I endorsed.
I have offended not only a lot of people I don't know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates, and for that I am truly sorry.
As a result of my actions, I'm taking time away from the band to examine my blind spots.
For now, please know that I realize how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behavior.
I apologize, as this was not at all my intention.
Oh, buddy.
Buddy, buddy, buddy.
I know exactly what happened here.
And you are getting very, very, very bad advice.
Here's what happened.
This guy, Winston Marshall.
I'm just, I know that I'm just pulling this off the top of my head, but I would be willing to bet a lot of money that something like this is what happened.
He comes out and he sends a tweet and he says, oh, I enjoyed this book.
Wow, this is a very interesting book.
You should consider reading it.
Then, maybe a bandmate or two, maybe some marketing gal in the publisher's office or something, maybe some people around him get upset about it.
Then the Twitter trend happens.
And when you trend on Twitter, you feel like the world is collapsing and around you.
Then he's getting the deluge of hate, the deluge of mean tweets and emails.
And people who are in politics are accustomed to this.
We get that sort of thing basically every single day, so you just don't take it all that seriously.
You know how to deal with it.
If you're a pure entertainer, you're really not used to that kind of thing.
And so it's very jarring when it happens.
Now, because we're living in the cancel culture, where the left attacks people and ruins their careers for saying perfectly ordinary things...
This guy, Winston, is in total survival mode.
He says, oh my gosh, I'm starting to lose things.
This is bad.
This has never happened.
I've just got to stop the bleeding.
I've just got to stop whatever's happening.
And some unscrupulous people are going to go in and they're going to say, hey, you've got to issue a perfectly unqualified apology and you've got to step away for a while, but then it'll all be better.
Then you'll get your career back.
Then you'll get your reputation back.
Then you'll get invited to all the same parties.
Then you'll get all your money back.
And this poor guy believed them.
But it's not true.
It's not true.
Look, in my own career in politics and media, I've had some moments like this where there's a lot of pressure to cave into a mob.
I know basically everybody who is in politics and media has had these moments.
Do not do it.
It is, you only lose by doing it.
You can't, unless you feel you've really done something wrong and egregious, and then you've got to deal with that on your own.
But if you're just talking about something like this, you can never, ever win by giving in to the mob.
And the people advising you to do so are lying to you.
They're not, you think that you can preserve something, that is already lost, you think that you can get them to like you again.
You won't.
You won't.
I would encourage this fella, Mr.
Marshall, if he listens to this show, if he reads Andy Ngo's book, there's a fair chance he listens to this show.
Don't do it.
Reverse course.
Stick to your guns.
Go out there and defend Andy Ngo.
At least you'll keep your dignity.
You'll keep more of your career, I think, if you end up doing that, if you show that you've got a spine.
But even if you're going to lose your career either way at a certain level of this kind of a moment, that seems like the likely thing.
And so at least keep your dignity.
That's what I would do.
Speaking of changes of heart, Milo Yiannopoulos.
Milo Yiannopoulos, very famous right-wing provocateur, sort of famously gay.
Milo is now ex-gay, according to Milo.
Milo is saying he's ex-gay.
I think he's gay married, but they're just not doing that anymore.
They're living together as roommates, and people are making fun of Milo for this.
Is this a troll?
Maybe it is.
Milo is sort of a famous performance artist, so maybe he's just doing it as a publicity stunt or something.
But I'm going to take it seriously.
I'm going to say he actually is going to be ex-gay now.
What does that mean?
He's not saying that he's no longer sexually attracted to men.
He's not saying that he is now sexually attracted to women.
I mean, just read the interview.
He's explicitly not saying that.
He's saying it's very difficult for him, and he still wants to sleep with his Housemate, as he now calls him.
But he's saying, I am choosing not to indulge in those desires.
And people are very angry at Milo for this.
Why would anyone be angry at Milo for this?
Why?
What is it any of your business?
Just like people always say, what is it your business if Johnny wants to sleep with Jack?
Well, on the flip side, why is it any of your business if Johnny doesn't want to sleep with Jack?
If we're told that we now can construct our own sexual identities, why is it the case that the sexual identities can only go in one direction?
Why is it that it can only go in the direction of indulging one's natural desires?
Why can't it go in the other direction too?
If some guy comes out and says, you know, I've done that a lot.
I've done it for a long time.
But now, as I've been thinking about it and praying about it, I don't want to do that anymore.
My sort of mind does not want to do that.
My sort of more fleshly desires do want to do that.
And so I'm going to try to tame my fleshly desires because that, in my view, is the right thing to do.
And so that's what I want to do now.
Why would anybody...
Be angry about that.
The interview, it's really worth taking a listen to the interview.
We'll get into that interview in just a moment.
First of all, it's a very funny interview, but also he is dealing in pretty serious ideas.
So we will delve into Milo's complicated sexual thought in just a moment.
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Milo Yiannopoulos is now ex-gay, he says.
Here is the interview.
It's in LifeSite News.
He opens up and he says, Secular attempts at recovery from sin are either temporary or completely ineffective.
Salvation can only be achieved through devotion to Christ and the works of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
So Milo saying, I'm Catholic now, and I'm reverting to my Catholic faith, and so I'm going to stop doing all this other stuff.
Is this just a troll?
If it is a troll, it's a funny troll, right?
I mean, you've got this guy who is as flamboyantly gay as anybody in public life, and now he's saying, nah, I'm not doing that anymore.
Is that a troll?
I actually have a reason to think that it's not a troll because being a Catholic myself, Milo and I run in some of the same circles.
I don't know him, but we do know a number of people in common.
And I've been hearing about this for a while, that Milo is sort of re-exploring his faith and sort of taking his Catholic faith more seriously.
So I've been hearing about this for months, maybe even a couple years at this point.
I guess I was not quite as surprised to see this interview as some other people were.
He goes on.
He says, I have enjoyed a lifelong affection for the absurd and the outrageous, so part of me gleefully anticipates the day I can seize the moral high ground, however briefly, to denounce others for failures of piety and sobriety.
I hope people will support and pray for me if for no other reason than they share my delight at the prospect of Milo Yiannopoulos furiously and indignantly railing against the homosexuals for sins of the flesh.
That's a very funny line.
Sort of when you see these funny lines, you start to think, hold on, is this whole interview just another performance?
But...
I mean, it's a funny interview regardless.
Even if it is, you know, Milo is very famous for trying on different personalities.
One day he's a buttoned up tweed wearing Brit.
The next day he's wearing, you know, sort of big stunner shades and a giant oversized t-shirt.
And, you know, it's kind of more hip hop or something, right?
He tries all these things on.
This does relate to, forget the sexual question for a moment.
This does relate to the deeper religious question, which is that in Christianity, And Judaism, for that matter.
God is, I am.
Right?
What is God's name?
God responds, I am that I am.
And Christ, in the New Testament, says, before Abraham was, I am.
So he's invoking, he is saying, I am God.
Right?
By saying, I am the I am.
I am being itself.
When a culture...
Finds its identity in I am.
Then things generally sort of are going in the right direction.
When a culture such as ours casts away God and religion, you are left with a rather pitiful question, which is, who am I? You hear this kind of popular phrase, well, I've got to find myself.
You know, who am I? One day I'm this, one day I'm that.
Especially you see this with teenagers, right?
They're always trying on new personalities, trying on new identities because they're sort of adrift.
They're not basing it in this eternal fact of being himself.
Then, Milo concludes his interview.
He says, They say if you let one sin in, others will follow, and now I truly know what that means.
As I've begun to resist sinful sexual urges, I've found myself drinking less, smoking less, you name it.
I confess my weakness for designer shoes and handbags is yet to dissipate.
But I'm coming to realize, however slowly, that lust, per Augustine, is disordered desire for all sorts of things, not just NFL players.
So what he is espousing here is a very Catholic point of view.
And the way this story is going to be read is that he's got some hang-up, or Christians have some hang-up on homosexuality.
But it's really not the case, at least in the traditional Catholic sexual ethic.
It's not just Milo's sexual desires that are off-limits.
It's a whole host of them because the Catholics believe that sex has to be ordered toward a purpose.
So those sort of things that you do when you close the blinds and you're alone at night, that's off-limits.
Having sex without the possibility of creating life Without, without, I'm sorry, without the physical possibility of creating life, that's off limits.
It's a very...
It's a very focused kind of sexual morality.
Chesterton observed, he said, you know, the one thing that kind of got me curious about the church is that it would get attacked for opposite reasons.
On the one hand, it's too ascetic, right?
And just on this particular rigorous sexual morality.
But on the other hand, it's too luxurious.
The gold of St.
Peter's and all this beautiful art and all the fancy clothes and everything gets attacked for opposite points of view.
I mention this whole story not because I am particularly interested in Milo's sex life.
I mention it because of a political question that it brings up.
It reveals the left's real view of sexual preference and sexual openness and sexual tolerance.
We are told in this society of ours that we must tolerate people's sexual behaviors regardless of our own moral views.
Whatever they want to do, we should tolerate that.
Okay, I see the argument for that.
So what about milos?
So what about my, we, if you're telling me, fine, I'm, I'm, I'm in.
We're going to tolerate people's sexual behaviors, even though, even still, there are some things that are off limits, but who knows how long they'll be off limits.
We're going to tolerate people's sexual behaviors, whatever they want to do, not, not ours to judge.
Well, then what about milos?
Milo is saying, this is my preferred sexual behavior now.
I want to be chaste and basically not engage in sex.
Because his sexual desires are such that he doesn't want to indulge them.
Isn't that good?
Isn't that a good thing?
I'm not even saying according to the Catholic logic.
I'm saying according to the logic of the left.
Isn't that a good thing?
But it never cuts that way.
Because the principles that the left is espousing...
Are really not principles so much as they're creating a new order of society.
It's not these universal principles of tolerance and acceptance.
Just a new order for society.
It reminds me of people attacking Mike Pence for not cheating on his wife.
Do you remember that?
They were really upset a few years ago because it came out that Mike Pence would not have dinner dates with women when his wife wasn't present.
I kid you not, I had liberal friends of mine This was before the Me Too movement.
They were angry with me.
They said it's awful that Mike Pence won't go on dinner dates with his staff and with other women.
It's not fair.
It's sexist.
Then five seconds later, the Me Too movement starts, and Mike Pence is looking pretty good, right?
But no, because he's kind of damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
There's no fair standard that's going to apply.
Now, speaking of the Me Too movement, a sixth woman has come forward to accuse Andrew Cuomo of This woman is upping the ante here.
She's saying not only did he wink at her from across the room, not only did he buy her a sausage and pepper sandwich at some political event, no, he touched her inappropriately.
She does not go on to explain how she touched her inappropriately.
We don't know who the accuser is.
The identity is concealed.
It's not quite clear why it's all happening now, right?
Why this trickle is so slow in this sexual scandal for Andrew Cuomo.
But there's another one coming out against Cuomo.
My take on this, I've told you this from the beginning, is I suspect that most of these sexual claims are overblown and opportunistic and a distraction from the real scandal.
The way that you can know this is true is, describe to me the sexual allegations against Andrew Cuomo.
Take 20 seconds.
Describe to me, not who and when, what are the actual allegations?
Can you do that?
I can't really.
Other than the video of him handing a sandwich to a reporter and joking about the sausage.
I can't name them.
It's just so...
And look, I don't have any particular love for Andrew Cuomo.
He should be out of office.
But the way they're doing it is so dishonest.
The reason that guy needs to be out of office is because he killed thousands of elderly New Yorkers.
Not because of a coordinated political attack on the guy to say that he's a creep or something.
He is kind of a creep.
But that's not what this is about.
And there's another scandal brewing, by the way.
It's not just the elderly.
Andrew Cuomo now has another COVID scandal going because he had an order directing group homes for people with mental disabilities to accept COVID patients.
This order was issued April 10th, just weeks into the state's lockdown in an effort to combat the pandemic.
And the issue never, the order never expired.
So people who have problems, people who have mental disabilities specifically, were used as a place to send all the COVID patients at their group homes.
I have relatives who work in these group homes.
I have a little bit of an inside track on this, a little inside knowledge of what's going on.
This is a real scandal.
Thankfully, it didn't spread nearly as much in these group homes as it did in the nursing homes.
Nearly 34,600 people live in these kind of group homes.
6,900 contracted the disease.
Thankfully, not a ton died.
Over 500 died.
I mean, there's a lot of 552 residents of these group homes for people with intellectual impairments died.
Where's that scandal?
No, because we're all talking about the hot dog.
I want to talk about the hot dog.
I want to talk about Milo's hot dog.
I don't want to talk about Andrew Cuomo's hot dog, for that matter.
I want to talk about the actual scandal here that the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to distract from.
But maybe Cuomo's going to lose his job either way.
Speaking of brash people losing their jobs, how's that for a segue?
Piers Morgan.
Piers Morgan has quit his job on Good Morning Britain.
Piers Morgan, you know, he was the host after Larry King left CNN. Then that fellow party went over to Good Morning Britain.
I kind of get a kick out of Piers Morgan.
He's this sort of tabloid figure in Britain.
You can't really pin him down.
And sometimes he seems really right-wing.
Sometimes he seems really left-wing.
So Piers rightly went after Meghan Markle in recent days.
And a fellow broadcaster on Good Morning Britain started viciously attacking Piers Morgan about it.
Piers just walked off set.
And I understand that you don't like Meghan Markle.
You've made it so clear a number of times on this programme.
A number of times.
And I understand that you've got a personal relationship with Meghan Markle or had one and she cut you off.
She's entitled to cut you off if she wants to.
Has she said anything about you since she cut you off?
I don't think she has, but yet you continue to trash her.
OK. I'm done with this.
No, no, no.
Sorry.
Do you know what?
That's pathetic.
You can trash me, mate, but not my own stuff.
No, no, no.
I'm being...
Sorry.
Can't do this.
This is absolutely diabolical behavior.
I'm sorry, but Pierce spouts off on a regular basis.
You can trash me, mate, but not on my own show.
I got to give the guy credit for this.
I usually...
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, storming off set looks really bad.
Part of the reason it looks bad is you have to take the wires off and you're kind of fumbling for a while and you can hear it on the mic.
Piers, I guess, was wearing a wireless mic.
I don't know about the earpiece that he had in, but he did it so gracefully.
He's sitting there, kind of very, you know, British, just taking the licks, you know.
And then the guy's going, she cut you off, yeah.
And she, yeah, you're a jerk, you know, and you're trashing her.
And he's just, okay, bye, see ya.
Just walks off set.
The reason I find this of any interest to our political questions here is because for a long time, The right in this country, not the left, but the right, has espoused this idea that we should always just engage in the free marketplace of ideas.
We should just take any sort of criticism.
That's good.
That's fine.
Because eventually the good ideas are going to win out.
And that's totally cool.
We're anti-censorship, right?
You know, we love free speech.
And so what Pierce did is sort of opposed to free speech because he just walked off the set.
I think he's actually showing us something valuable here.
We are under no obligation, because of our love of free speech or civil discourse, we are under no obligation to engage in bad faith conversations and bad faith debates.
What was going on on Good Morning Britain It was not a good faith debate.
It was not, you know, Piers, I don't think it's right for a newsman to say this sort of thing about the princess or the ex-princess.
And I think this was very personal.
It was not in any way intended to persuade or to, and this guy I don't think was willing to be persuaded.
He was saying, yeah, she cut you off, loser.
Yeah, she's cooler than you.
You're not cool.
And you're a jerk about it, too.
And he just says, oh, this is what we're doing?
Okay, well, I have no reason to engage in that.
I think conservatives ought to do that a little bit more.
The left does it to great political effect.
But what do we do?
We conservatives, we just always go back on the left-wing news shows.
We have the left-wing news outlets moderate our debates.
We just got the news yesterday from the RNC Debate Commission.
That they're not going to have left-wing outlets moderate the Republican presidential debate.
Good.
Finally, we're understanding this.
We're understanding that a free marketplace of ideas, in that sort of marketplace, people have to set the rules of the marketplace.
And if we're going to engage in commerce, we can't engage in fraud.
We want to engage in good faith commerce here, both in the economic marketplace and also in the marketplace of ideas.
Speaking of bad faith, deliberation, and discourse, don't say I didn't tell you so.
You know how much I hate to say I told you so on this show.
During the election, during the 2020 election, and then especially right before the runoff in Georgia, Joe Manchin, one of the two semi-moderate Democratic members of the U.S. Senate, Joe Manson from Virginia comes out and he says, hey, I am not going to let them get rid of the filibuster.
I'm not going to let the Democrats get rid of the filibuster, which is the only protection we have against their extremely radical agenda to not only upend the country, but also maybe give themselves basically permanent political power at the national level.
I'm not going to let them do it.
Take it to the bank.
I, Joe Manchin, I'm not going to let them do it.
So I asked Senator Cruz about this on our show, Verdict.
I said, what's your read on Joe Manchin?
They said, oh yeah, Joe Manchin, you know, he's definitely the most moderate or one of the most moderate Democrats.
But he's never cast a decisive vote.
When it really matters...
When Manchin's going to decide, he goes with his party.
He doesn't go with his conservative constituents.
He goes with the radical Democratic Party.
So after months of hearing, Joe Manchin, good old Joe Manchin's going to save the filibuster, prevent this deluge, Joe Manchin starts to crack on the filibuster.
I'd make it harder to get rid of the filibuster.
I'm supporting the filibuster.
I'm going to continue to support the filibuster.
I think it defines who we are as a Senate.
I'll make it harder to get rid of it, but it should be painful if you want to use it.
You should make sure the place works to where, okay, I want to work with you.
There we go.
There it is.
I love the filibuster.
Oh, man, the filibuster and me, we go way back.
Yeah.
Oh, man, I would love her.
I would never cheat on my filibuster.
No way.
I totally...
But...
But we shouldn't use the filibuster that much.
We should make it hard to use the filibuster.
We should reform.
We should change.
We should...
This freaking jerk.
And he's getting more questions about this.
He's saying, well, you know, my views are changing a little.
Well, you know, can't count on him, guys.
Can't count on him.
The filibuster is really great because it...
Restrains the passions of the Senate, which is supposed to be a more deliberative body than the House of Representatives.
This virtue of restraint seems to be a common thread here, whether we're talking about the southern border, whether we're talking about Milo Yiannopoulos, or whether we're talking about the filibuster in the Senate.
Restraint is a good thing.
Conservatives understand this.
Conservatives recognize we're not supposed to indulge all of our Well, what the Biden administration would appear to be doing is taking away all of the restraints.
Taking away restraints at the border.
Taking away restraints in our elections.
Taking away restraints in our lawmaking.
Taking away restraints and restraints and restraints.
That is not going to look great in 2024, or 2022 for that matter.
Because now they're trying to pass through this Bill H.R. 1, which is going to upend the election system, give Congress a huge amount of authority over congressional elections.
Gosh, what could go wrong there?
And take away a lot of election integrity measures.
So what are we even looking at?
What's our chance that we can win in 2022 or 2024?
It's looking worse and worse by the day.
Now, before we go, I've been told that it is Women's History Month.
I have not covered this on my show.
This is a great oversight.
Michelle Obama is slated to be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame later this year.
According to the National Women's Hall of Fame, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most influential and iconic women of the 21st century, and therefore she's going to be inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame.
What has she influenced?
That would be my first question.
What has she done?
I'm not even attacking Michelle Obama.
She's the first lady.
Nobody voted for her.
Nobody would have voted for her.
What was her influence?
What is iconic?
That's a word I basically would strike from the English language if possible.
It's so overused.
Unless you're referring to icons, I don't know that one should use iconic.
Influential.
In a way, she has had influence.
Do you remember when her husband was running the first time?
And he wins.
And she said that when the American people elected her husband, that that was the only time in her adult life that she was proud of her country.
Well, I guess that does exert some influence because disdain for one's country, for this country, has expanded quite a lot.
Is she responsible for that?
I don't know.
The notion that we need to have a National Women's Hall of Fame is really rich.
One, because it suggests that they can't compete in the National Hall of Fame.
They can't compete with the men.
But then also because at this very moment we're being told that they have to compete with men.
We're being told that women in high school track have to compete with men.
We're being told that there's no difference between men and women.
And a man who puts on a dress is therefore a woman and entitled to beat a girl at track and win her scholarships and take her spot in college.
That is incoherent.
The left doesn't really matter or doesn't really mind this because for the left it's the imposition of their rule is all that matters.
The coherence of the rules doesn't really matter.
You see this understood in George Orwell's 1984.
You see this going on right now.
This is another question of restraint.
You need to have restraint or things don't make sense.
It's the constraints that give coherence to the whole body.
The borders of the country give coherence to the country.
If you don't have borders, you don't have a country.
The constraints of biological sex are what give coherence to men and women.
If men and women are identical, if there's no difference between them, then there's no such thing as women.
Get rid of the National Women's Hall of Fame.
They don't exist because we're all just one kind of blob.
So much for the restraint.
Was that optimistic?
I think that is optimistic because of how much further down the slippery slope we have to fall.
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