The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 59 - Cynical Democrats Suddenly Recant Sex Crimes

Episode Date: November 15, 2017

Now that the Clintons are finished and Roy Moore is on the ropes, Democrats are spewing crocodile tears over their decades of covering up sexual abuse against women. Then, Amelia Hamilton, Jacob Airey..., and Candace Owens join the Panel of Deplorables to discuss insufferable millennial card game Cards Against Humanity’s vow to subvert immigration law, the ironically named global atheist convention “Reason To Hope” being cancelled because no one wants to go, and the poetic diction of President Trump’s latest tweets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Now that the Clintons are finished and Roy Moore is on the ropes, Democrats are spewing crocodile tears over their decades of covering up sexual abuse against women. We'll analyze their alleged repentance. Then Amelia Hamilton, Jacob Berry, and Candice Owens joined the panel of deplorables to discuss that insufferable millennial card game, cards against humanity, and its vow to subvert immigration law, the ironically named Global Atheist Convention, Reason to Hope, being canceled because no one wants to go,
Starting point is 00:00:29 and the poetic diction of President Trump's latest tweets. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Nulls show. Oh, we got a new vintage for the Leftist Tears Tumblr. We have a new vintage coming out this week. It is the crocodile tears vintage. We haven't seen these in a very long time, but they are pouring out the likes of which we have not seen in a while. I need to subscribe a few more times just to contain them.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Every Democrat across the spectrum is pouring out crocodile tears now that the Clintons are no longer useful. they can say, ah, well, yeah, Bill wasn't so nice to women. And yeah, well, Hillary intimidated all of his victims and smeared them in the press and ruined their lives. But yeah, we shouldn't have done that. But, hey, we've changed now because Roy Moore is on the ropes. Just for context, let's look at Bill Clinton accuser
Starting point is 00:01:21 and alleged rape victim, Juanita Broderick. Then he tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me, he starts biting on my lip. He starts to bite on my tongue. off the up and I tried to pull away from him and then he forces me down on the bed and I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him and I told him no, and I didn't want the staff to me. Did you resist? Did you tell him to stop?
Starting point is 00:02:16 Yes, I told him, please don't. He was such a different person at that moment. He was just a vicious, awful person. Is there any way at all that Bill Clinton could have thought this was consensual? No, not with what I told him and with how I tried to push him away. It was not consensual. Do you know how the Clinton campaign and the Clinton machine tried to explain this at the time? They said, I think it was James Carville said this, well, you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you see what happens. That's how he explains the way all of these accusers, like Juanita Broderick.
Starting point is 00:02:56 Well, the tune has changed today. I wonder what's different now. Wonder what's different now in 2017 than it was when Bill Clinton and the Clinton machine was a force in democratic politics. I wonder what it could be. The Atlantic ran a headline, Bill Clinton, a reckoning, they wrote, quote, If Weinstein and Mark Halperin and Louis C.K. and all the rest can be held accountable, so can our former president and so can his party, which so many Americans so desperately need to rise again. There it is. There's the whole argument. We just desperately need the Democrats to rise again, and that's why we're willing to do it. At least the Atlantic was honest about their motives for kicking bill to the curb and admitting that there are horrible hypocrites over this issue for 20 years, 30 years. Madaglacius at Vox was not so honest.
Starting point is 00:03:41 He said, quote, what he did to Monica Lewinsky was wrong, and he should have to pay the price. He should have paid the price. At the time I, like most Americans, was glad to see Clinton prevail and regarded the whole sordid matter as primarily the fault of congressional Republicans' excessive scandal-mongering. Now, looking back after the election of Donald Trump, the revelations of massive sexual harassment at Fox, the news stories about Harvey Weinstein and others in the entertainment industry, and the stories about Roy Moore's pursuit of sexual relationships with teenagers, I think we got it wrong.
Starting point is 00:04:11 Oh, do you now? Do you now? That's convenient timing, isn't it? Well, at the time, I was thrilled that they brushed all of this under the rug, but now we could use it against Republicans. Now we got Donald Trump. There's some allegations against him from random people. They're obviously the allegations against Roy Moore. So I think I've changed my tune now.
Starting point is 00:04:29 And do I have to protect Bill Clinton anymore? No, I don't. Is Hillary going to run again? Probably, but she's useless. Okay, good. Now we can move on. Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper, we should play this clip first. This is Jake Tapper just within the last few days talking about Bill Clinton, the Juanita Broderick affair in light of Roy Moore. Maybe it's, you know something?
Starting point is 00:04:49 And maybe it's the southern accent that reminds me of this, but I think we are, and we've seen some of this in the press. There was a story in the Atlantic called Bill Clinton, a reckoning. Chris Hayes said something the other day, and other people have. But the accusers of Bill Clinton back in the 90s were never given the credence and treated with the same respect that these women are being treated. And I think that there is something to be said about how society. has evolved since then. But in addition, it's hard not to look back at that period and think, you know what, the media treated those women poorly.
Starting point is 00:05:27 Yeah, without a doubt. You can't rewrite history. But what I am concerned about now is that I see a lot of Republicans, people like Anne Coulter on Twitter, going back and bringing up people like Senator Kennedy, Clinton, other people that did have previous acts of sexual misconduct, almost as a way of saying, well, they did it.
Starting point is 00:05:46 We can too. Well, you can't rewrite history. That's what she said. Well, you can't rewrite history? But let's talk about more Republicans. Yeah, well, I know Jake, you brought up Bill Clinton, but look, you can't rewrite history. Isn't that right? Now, good on Tapper for bringing this up, I guess. But again, this timing is just so absurd that it's really hard for me to take him seriously. He wrote a piece, by the way, during the biggest Clinton scandal, Monica Lewinsky. He wrote a piece for Washington City paper titled, I dated Monica Lewinsky. He went on a date with her, I guess. He said, quote, Physically, she was pleasant without being overwhelming. She's a little chubby, but she's leaps and bounds prettier than that vacuous mugshot beamed all over the world. And I will say he does sort of defend her in that piece, but he trotted her out for a good tabloid article in that paper when he was just a young reporter, just like everybody else. And he's had this epiphany, the epiphany that, oh, we should have been harder on Bill Clinton,
Starting point is 00:06:40 just right after the Clintons are no longer useful to them, and it would benefit Democrats to sweep them under the rug because Jake Tapper par excellence in recent years flax for Democrats. In the New York Times, Michelle Goldberg, an op-ed columnist, wrote a piece called, quote, I believe Juanita. Now, she actually goes further in this piece than her co-partisans, and she defends the Democrats at the time. But she says there were plenty of reasons to disbelieve Paula Jones, some of the accusers, etc. But nevertheless, we should throw Bill under the bus now because he isn't useful to us anymore. It isn't just Bill Clinton, though. Democrat, anti-Trump fanatic Louis C.K. has gone down.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Anthony Wiener, very famously, has gone down. Bizarrely, John Stewart was good friends, even a roommate with both of them. Here is John Stewart talking about Louis C.K., his good pal. A good friend and colleague Louis C.K. Has been accused of and has admitted to some lewd acts involving women. What was the impact on you when you heard not only the accusations but his admission? Stunned, I think? Is that right? That's right.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Is it... Well, what is your... Hey, John, so I'm going to put you on the spot with your good friend of decades, whom you know very well, and you actually were asked this question last year, and you decided to punt on it. What happened when you found out that he's a sexual pervert?
Starting point is 00:08:04 Uh, well, stunned. Yeah, that's the ticket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's the ticket. I was completely stunned. Give me a break. There is this weird thing with Stuart, too, because he's famously been good friends with Louis C.K. for a very long time.
Starting point is 00:08:16 he obviously knew about this. If everyone else knew about this, his good buddy John Stewart knew about this, but he also was roommates with Anthony Weiner. So when the first, when Andrew Breitbart broke the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal or tweeting scandal, he wouldn't cover it on the show. He wouldn't cover it for days and days and days. And eventually he said, well, look, I'm pals with Anthony Weiner.
Starting point is 00:08:39 We used to live together in Hoboken, I believe. And eventually he had to cover it. He was forced to because it was so absurd. He wasn't covering the most salacious. story in politics. But kind of a weird thing that John Stewart is pretty tight with both of the most extreme sexual deviancy stories in democratic politics in the last decade or two. A little odd. I'm not accusing him of anything, but quite a coincidence. Then, of course, there's Hillary Clinton. It all goes back to Hillary Clinton. Hillary famously said on the campaign trail,
Starting point is 00:09:09 all accusers should be believed. But of course, she then was in charge of the bimbo eruptions of the White House. She didn't believe those accusers. She stepped in in 2010. We've learned to overturn President Bush's ban the European Islamist, Tariq Ramadan, who is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Bush had banned him from the United States. She personally stepped in to approve his visa. Ramadan has been accused of rape and sexual assault by three women in the last 10 days. She also publicly said that Juanita Broderick was not credible. And Juanita, by the way, says that Hillary Clinton pressured her to stay silent. So she said, Bill raped her, and then Hillary came up to her, pressed her hand and said,
Starting point is 00:09:51 we appreciate everything you do for us, and then looked into her eyes and said, that means everything. I appreciate everything that you do for us, implying keeping quiet about the rape. Now, Juanita Broderick is firmly convinced that Hillary knew, Hillary pressured her, Hillary covered it up. Democrats now, who are conveniently saying, yes, I believe Juanita, it took 20, 30 years, but yeah, now I believe Juanita, okay, put your money where your mouth is. Because if you believe Juanita, then you have to believe her whole account, right? You can't just say, well, I believe this, but I don't believe this. She's trustworthy here, but she's a liar here. You have to give evidence for that. If you believe Juanita, then you believe that Hillary Clinton knew about the rape. Hillary Clinton
Starting point is 00:10:33 pressured her to stay silent, intimidated her, and smeared other victims of Bill Clinton. And if you're willing to do that, then look at yourself in the mirror and ask what changed, what made you believe Juanita? Because you voted for the woman. You did everything within your power to put her into the White House just 12 months ago. Very convenient timing from Democrats. I'm not buying a bit of it. For further analysis, we bring on our panel of deplorables. We have an excellent panel today. Candice Owens, Jacob Berry, Amelia Hamilton. Thank you for being here. Amelia, your first time on the panel. Appreciate it. Candice, you have been red-pilled. That's your name. That's your screen name on the internet.
Starting point is 00:11:11 So this sort of thing can happen. People can change their minds on plenty of things. Is there any chance that this change of heart is earnest or is it just totally cynical nonsense? It's absolutely not earnest. And in that clip that you just showed, it's just proof of that because they're almost throwing it back on conservatives. They hate when a mirror is held up to them. They're throwing it back on conservatives. Well, how dare conservatives say this or say that? Because they are being called out on their hypocrisy.
Starting point is 00:11:38 And if it was at all genuine, then you're going to have to explain to me why they just tried very seriously to put Bill Clinton back in the White House. Right, that's exactly it. It's so recent. And saying, well, we can't blame Hillary. No, if you believe Juanita, then you have to blame Hillary. Hillary is deeply at fault here. Amelia, in the 1990s, feminists came to Bill's defense, led by Gloria Steinem.
Starting point is 00:12:04 They defended him because he shared their policy priorities. Is this such a bad thing? Policy questions of freedom, justice, security, national priorities. Should they really be derailed? as men are dogs? I think that you can probably find a man who isn't a dog who shares some of your beliefs, who shares some of your policy positions, and those are probably the men to support. But I mean particularly in these moments.
Starting point is 00:12:29 So I'm as a man, as someone who identifies as a man, I will say, we're all dogs. Every man is a dog, we all fall short of the glory of God. And God is dog spelled backwards, by the way. Is that a coincidence? I don't know. But in cases like these guys, is glorious starnum justified? are Republicans in Alabama justified? Especially in Alabama where you say all of the accusations are 40 years ago, they seem credible to me.
Starting point is 00:12:53 But regardless, we're talking about issues of freedom, national politics, politicians by definition are scumbags. Should we vote for them anyway? Or should we allow this personal behavior from these dogs to derail a political agenda? No, we need to have some kind of standards. And, you know, this seems like a pretty low bar to be able to pass. And just because they share certain political beliefs, they still have to be decent human beings. You know, and like you said, politicians, they tend to be little, like you said, scumbags. But, you know, we can't just let things of this nature, especially go because they share certain policy beliefs.
Starting point is 00:13:35 We have to, like I said, have some kind of standards here. But should we unilaterally disarm? I mean, this is the trouble. A lot of the commentary today on Clinton is, if we, we had only held him accountable, then maybe politics wouldn't have degraded itself such as it is. You know, the founder of the Treasury Department, a founding father, Washington's aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton, famously cuckled at a man named James Reynolds. It was the first sex scandal in American history.
Starting point is 00:14:01 And John Adams, second president, said there weren't enough horrors in Philadelphia to contain his superabendence of secretions, rather. Obviously, there is, I see a running theme in American politics. Had Democrats held Bill Clinton to account in the 90s, would we see a politics that is not so degraded today? I think politics is always going to be degraded. And like you said, it always has been. I think we just need to hold everyone accountable always. They should have done it then.
Starting point is 00:14:32 We need to keep doing it now. I think things are a lot more public now. We've got social media. We've got everything else. So I think that's in a lot of ways a good thing. People know what's happening now. Things are being made public. And now that they are being made public, we need to do something about it.
Starting point is 00:14:49 All right. That's what we have to do. It is all very public now. And this whole show is public for all of you up to this point. I'm sorry. If you don't subscribe to the DailyWire.com, I have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube. I know. We have so much more to cover today.
Starting point is 00:15:02 We have the poetic diction of Donald Trump's tweets. We have that stupid game cards against humanity. And we make fun of atheists. But you can only do it if you go to DailyWire.com right now. You haven't even heard from Jacob ERA yet, but probably that's incentive to just log off right now. If you go to Facebook and, or rather, if you go to DailyWire.com, what do you get? You get me. You get the Andrew Cliven show.
Starting point is 00:15:23 You get the Ben Shapiro show, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. But look at this, folks. The leftist tears tumbler. With all of the crocodile tears pouring out from all corners today, you better get it. You're going to have to get the Atlantic vintage, the New York Times vintage, the Jake Tapper vintage, on and on and on. So go over there right now. By the way, mailbags tomorrow. If you subscribe today, you can submit a question.
Starting point is 00:15:44 I will change your life for the better ASAP. So go there. Dailywire.com. We'll be right back. Okay, we have a lot of news to cover. The card game, insufferable millennial card game, Cards Against Humanity, is running a holiday promotion to buy a lot of vacant land along the U.S.-Mexico border and prevent Trump's wall.
Starting point is 00:16:12 This game is the worst. It is, for those of you who haven't played it, It's like a pretentious version of apples to apples or madlibs so that skittish liberals can say some naughty words and giggle. After one or two plays, all of the fun of it is gone. You know, they'll have one card that says, our class trip was ruined by blank, and then it'll just have a bunch of cards
Starting point is 00:16:38 that have different bodily fluids or racial epithets on it or something. So it's funny for a little bit, and they bill it as a party game, for horrible people. In reality, though, it's just a game for liberals so that they can say some naughty things because political correctness is so awful. Then they all giggle at how terrible it is
Starting point is 00:16:58 and they know, well, we're not the real horrible people. We're not the horrible people who ride tractors and vote for Republicans and things like that. We just sip Chardonnay in New York and giggle at all of these mean things. So Jacob, is cards against humanity, which bills itself as un-PC? Has it gone full political correctness now?
Starting point is 00:17:16 Oh, absolutely. This is, I've never, I've personally never played it. You know, I, as far as my board games, I have higher standards, but, or excuse me, my card games. But I'm, I think this is just them doing some virtue signaling. I know some of their cards have gotten them in trouble in the past. And, you know, people still buy it. They still play it. But I think this is just them saying, hey, yeah, our card game, it may be politically incorrect, but look at us. You know, they're doing the, they're doing the grand standing on, on the, on the ball. border, as they like to say. Well, it's like Bill Clinton, right? Yeah, sure, I abuse women in positions below me, but, you know, abortion, right? I'm good on abortion. Candice, the millennial generation is known. It is known by its overwhelming performance of apathy. This is just something I've noticed. All the music is very apathetic. Everyone gets tattoos everywhere. It's an expression of philosophic nihilism. You know, everything's whatever, man, and we're all going to die someday. Yet, these guys are so triggered by Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:18:17 To look at things with the glass half full, is this evidence that at least this culture of nihilism is crumbling? I can't look at this with the glass half full, so I'm going to... Classic. What this is is dramatic irony. It tells you why people can't take millennials seriously. I mean, they put together this game, cards of humanity, which you mentioned is supposed to be this super non-prone.
Starting point is 00:18:43 political, we get to say what we want, but they can't bear the thoughts of not allowing people that don't belong into this country to run in here freely and drive up everybody's taxes. I mean, this is why people can't stand liberals. Everything they do is hypocritical, and it's ironic in all of the bad ways that you can talk about irony. And it's ironic because it's within confines, right? They say, oh, yeah, we could say all these, you know, bad things, but only within this certain social convention that we've all agreed is perfectly fine, and we all have to look at each other, and okay, you're not saying, I'm not serious, okay, good, good, good. Amelia, on that point, in the old days, card games used to be complicated, and creative games
Starting point is 00:19:23 used to require creativity. Cards Against Humanity is a very simple card game, and it completely precludes creativity. You can't be creative at all. What does the decay of games say about our culture? Well, decay of culture. You know, I think it really just, again, goes back to that lowest common denominator. It's like, let's all get together and say some horrible things. There's no need to have any creativity. There's no need to think about it. You know, it supplies you with the horrible things to say.
Starting point is 00:19:54 You don't even need to think of those on your own. You know, at least like you were saying with Madlibs, you had to think of something. So, you know, people aren't getting together and doing something. creative, having some fun. They're just saying some words that were already supplied to them. And they're all, and they're so absurd. I mean, sometimes it's absurd things can be funny, but it gets old. It gets old and tedious pretty quickly. You would think, though, that a culture that is decadent, a culture that has fallen into disrepair and nihilism, you would think that it would make its recreation complicated and, because that's what it's, that's what it's focused on.
Starting point is 00:20:29 But instead, this is just the laziest game ever. Is it, is it, is it ever? Is it ever? evidence of a sloth in the millennial generation, or am I reading too much into this stupid game? No, I think absolutely. You know, this is the postmates kind of of games where everything is just being handed to you, and you just sit there and throw your cards out, and there's nothing else required. Nothing and no creativity, no strategy, just this is mine, here we go. Marching off to the grave. The third, speaking of that, speaking of all of those philosophic ideas, the third annual global Atheist Convention, ironically called Reason to Hope, has been canceled because nobody wanted to go.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Amelia, after a decade of totally undeserved plot, it's given to Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, whose writing I enjoy but whose thoughts aren't that smart, has atheism peaked? Are we headed right now for a religious reawakening? You know, I think it's possible. You know, people really are searching for some kind of meaning, and people used to get it from things like religion. And, you know, now we're finding, you know, people are going to, you know, the theology of Harry Potter talks, you know, where they find out, you know, following that as sort of some kind of a religious experience. And people are really searching for that kind of meaning, for that kind of guidance in their lives. And they aren't finding it from the traditional places.
Starting point is 00:21:57 And I think maybe we're going to see people turning back to that. Yeah, I think they should look to the traditional places because they're not finding. in Harry Potter. It is so sad that our generation, the myth is Harry Potter. That's what we're grounding our mythical thinking. It's really pathetic. I think Harold Bloom said it would be better for the literary critic Harold Bloom said that it would be better for children to watch television than to read Harry Potter because all of, whenever, no one ever just takes a walk. It's all these awful cliches like, oh, I'm going to stretch my legs. They always just stretch their legs. here, just take a walk.
Starting point is 00:22:29 Candice, there is significant evidence that the post-millanials, this is the cause for hope. I'm going to make you hopeful before the end of this show, so help me God. There's significant evidence that the post-millennial's Gen Z are far more religious and church-going than we millennials, because, as Amelia just said, they're looking for meaning. What is causing this return to religion? Obviously, they're looking for meaning, but what is the immediate cause in our time of that? I don't really know. That's a really good question. Maybe when you get to a point you have so much invested in the books written by J.K. Rowling and then you read her Twitter feed. You realize that you made a wrong turn. And yeah, so right after you get off of the Twitter feed, you realize that you need God in your life and you are going down a backup.
Starting point is 00:23:18 That's a profound thought, actually, because this generation has made gods out of people who do not deserve to be gods. They made gods out of select. They made gods out of select. celebrities they've made profits out of J.K. Rowling. And then you look at their behavior. You look at their Twitter feed. You look at everything and you realize that everybody falls short of the glory of God and certainly Hollywood is that, you know, we all fall short, but those guys fall like a lot shorter. And so that might be it. There's been a betrayal by our gods. And even the philosophic gods that we've made for ourselves, environmentalism, all of the ideologies that have come to replace Marxism and therefore traditional religion, they've failed us. We don't, I don't know if it would be too far to say, you know, Nietzsche thought that God is dead, but really we've learned that all
Starting point is 00:24:06 the other things are dead too, and we have to go back to that first one. Jacob, the irony of this convention title is that atheism, of course, means there is no hope. We just, we're born, we die, we turn to worm food, you know, good play. Yet, in every civilization at all times throughout history, man has demonstrated a longing for God. Is this just a cosmic joke on mankind, or is that longing evidence that God exists? I think that the longing is evidence that God exists. As far as, you know, reasons to hope,
Starting point is 00:24:38 I think it's more the very title of the conference tells me that it's not just atheism that has peaked, it's nihilism that has peaked. Because, you know, it's funny when Jerry Seinfeld is doing it, right? You know, a show about nothing. but no one wants to think that their life means nothing. They don't expect it to be like William Shakespeare or Dr. King Jr., but they want their life to have some sort of meaning.
Starting point is 00:25:01 And it's funny. Seinfeld is funny because it's absurd. Exactly. We're laughing at these people with their meaningless problems and meaningless lives. And that's why I think that it was kind of ironic that they called it a reason to hope. Because if atheism is true, there is no reason to hope. You know, it's always going to be the greater species is always going to conquer the lesser species because that's just how Darwinianism works.
Starting point is 00:25:23 But I think that, yes, that longing is a sign that God exists out there. And this convention is a sign that God exists. The fact that God canceled is a sign that God exists. In my experience of God, he's a pretty whimsical fella. And so the atheists name this convention absurdly a reason for hope. And then in itself, it's a reason to despair. It's the opposite of hope. And then it gets canceled.
Starting point is 00:25:50 a reason to hope. God can turn everything, even the death of his own son, for good, even the fall of mankind, for good, a Felix Culpa. Okay, speaking of reasons to hope, we have to get to Trump's torrent of grade A, 100% Purecofefefe tweets since his return from Asia, among them. Quote, While in the Philippines, I was forced to watch CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad and fake it is. Loser! Another quote. Do you think the three UCLA basketball players will say, thank you, President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail.
Starting point is 00:26:31 And then another great one. The failing New York Times hates the fact that I have developed a great relationship with world leaders like Xi Jinping, President of China. By the way, capitalization is getting up a little wonky in some of these. They should realize that these relationships are a good thing, not a bad thing. To the U.S. is being respected again. Watch trade. It is actually hard to believe how naive or dumb the failing New York Times is when it comes to foreign policy. Weak and ineffective.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Just a moment of applying. It is so poetic. To play devil's advocate. If this were a Democrat doing this, we would be losing our minds. We would be going insane with anger. Is it okay to applaud Trump's tweets, as I just did, just because he's a Republican? Well, not just because he's a Republican, but I absolutely, and even me, I've said many times on this show, I'm a Trump skeptic. I'm not a never-Trumper, and I'm not on the Trump train, but I'm a Trump skeptic.
Starting point is 00:27:35 But I actually admire this about Trump. Republicans have forever been saying, hey, we need a president who will stick it right to the media. And so I'm actually enjoying this greatly. I think it's a thrill ride. And maybe, you know, if President Obama had done this, you know, I might have been a little disturbed by it. But hey, I, you know, call me hypocrite if you want,
Starting point is 00:27:56 but I am enjoying it completely. Because President Trump just has this way of doing it where you just have to laugh. You just go, oh my gosh, you know, he just took on the New York Times and CNN. And it was amazing. If Obama had done it, it would be totally bizarre and terrifying. But it's because of how they've built their careers.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Both of them, both Obama and Trump, built their careers such that they exposed enough of themselves that aspects of them that might scare people are no longer scary. So Barack Obama did this in his book, Dreams from My Father. He talked about how his father was a Muslim bigamist, basically, then atheists, I suppose. and he was raised in these Muslim schools in Indonesia, and he did a bunch of Coke, and he was around radical leftists, and he was friends with leftist terrorists.
Starting point is 00:28:46 And the thing about that book, I will say, by the end of it, you're not afraid of him. He makes it not scary. Same with Trump. If you just flew in from Mars right now, you would say the Earth is on the brink of collapse, but if you've followed Trump for 40 years and you've followed his influences
Starting point is 00:29:03 as a matter of persuasion and rhetoric and media, you say, no, I see where this is coming from. I see what he's doing here. Now, to your point on the culture warrior, Amelia, many of the so-called conservatives who have spent decades calling for culture warriors are now demuring because Trump is waging those battles. Is the Donald the culture warrior that we have been waiting for?
Starting point is 00:29:26 Well, I guess it depends on who we is. We on the right. We broadly as conservatives, before the Trumpianism came in, the conservative movement of Bill Buckley and, and Bill Crystal and Irving Crystal and Pahorids and all those guys. I would say no. For that group, I would say no. I don't think that he's necessarily helpful.
Starting point is 00:29:48 I think that the message frequently gets drowned in the messenger, in the delivery. So while I think the culture war is important, I don't think it's necessarily being waged in the most helpful way that it could be. But I wonder with that, because people say, oh, if he'd only said it more politely, then it would work. But I don't really see that. George W. Bush was a very polite man. He didn't do a terribly bang-up job in the culture war.
Starting point is 00:30:14 And with Donald Trump, he misspells a word, he capitalizes a word wrong, he chooses strange language, and then it's all we can talk about. His tweets are all anyone has talked about for two years. Is it not possibly the case that for people, and I don't mean to call out these guys, I like them personally, but Bill Crystal and Jonah Goldberg and the never-Trump crowd out of NR and Weekly Standard, Is it possible just that they wanted this culture warrior, they wanted to fight the culture, and they had a vision of it, and they didn't expect it to look like this. And so now that we get, no one expected it to look like this, now that we have it, that we don't recognize it.
Starting point is 00:30:53 You know, I really, that's certainly possible. I don't know. I still think that it's just not quite the warrior that we wanted. You guys are depressing me. You're very, you and Candace. Come on, man. I'm sorry, the glass is half empty all around. Jacob, you got to make me feel better at some point.
Starting point is 00:31:10 But Candace, first, make me feel worse. The Washington Post wrote a story today, quote, Trump's Asia trip was hardly the success he says it was. That was in the news section. That was not an op-ed. That was not an editorial. They filed that under news. They passed that off under news.
Starting point is 00:31:25 Of course, they offered no evidence. It was absolute tripe, the so-called foreign policy analysis. If the Washington Post and CNN and the New York Times are going to behave like children, without any journalistic standards, having to recant stories, having to fire reporting staff, then shouldn't we treat them like the children that they are? Shouldn't President Trump treat them like the children that they are? I think altogether we need to stop talking about the Washington Post.
Starting point is 00:31:53 That is Jeff Bezos' personal diary. Okay, his feelings, his thoughts go into there. And people are present feelings and thoughts which aren't based in facts are written for the world. Everybody understands the Washington Post is literally just his play toy at this point. To go back to your earlier point, I absolutely love what Trump is doing.
Starting point is 00:32:12 I think he is the cultural warrior that people were looking for. People, meaning us people, that hold jobs. And when we watch our TV screens, we are so tired of hearing politicians. We are so tired of somebody making something that's horrible, sound great, wrapping it into a bow
Starting point is 00:32:28 and presenting to us the same BS that we get all the time. We want somebody who talks like us. When I look at the TV and I'm watching CNN and they're lying to me, I'm going, loser, you know? And Donald Trump is able to do so effectively. He talks like he's talking to the people for the people. He's not dressing anything up in a tuxedo. And I just wanted to make your day better, Michael, by letting you know that I think he is the cultural warrior that we all needed.
Starting point is 00:32:57 I cannot get enough of his sweet. It's the best thing since Kanye West, love him both. And I love your point of talking about people. He's a guy who doesn't speak in this mealy-mouthed particular language of politics. He speaks like regular people speak. Don't get me wrong, I am all for elites. I am all for elitism and elites, but they have to actually be elites. They have to be royals. They have to be aristocrats.
Starting point is 00:33:23 They have to be seriously educated and wise and sophisticated and well-behaved. And these people who have been pretending to be elites for decades and decades in American politics simply or not. are not. There is absolutely no reason for me to respect journalists at CNN or the New York Times or Jeff Bezos' personal letter to the world. There's no reason they're not actually elites. They don't know anything. They don't possess wisdom. So give me an elite and I'll consider respecting them. But until then, give me a straight talker. Absolutely right. Okay, panel. Excellent to have you here. You took me on a journey of emotions. I was so depressed. I was so happy there at the end.
Starting point is 00:34:01 Amelia, thank you for being here first time. Candice Owens and Jacob. Barry, thanks for coming back. We will talk to you all again soon. That's our show. That's the whole thing, folks. I got to get out of here to read the thousand mailbag questions that are waiting. If you haven't subscribed already, well, you're probably subscribing already if you're watching this now. And if you're listening, go over to Daily Wire and subscribe so you can send it a mailback question. That'll be tomorrow. We have a great interview, by the way, with Eric Mataxis coming tomorrow over Martin Luther. He refutes some of my objections to the corpulent German heretic. and we have a good conversation about his new book, Martin Luther,
Starting point is 00:34:36 and then I'll answer all of your questions. So I am Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Nulls Show. Come back tomorrow. We'll do it all again. The The The The The Show is produced by Marshall Benson. Executive producer, Jeremy Boring. Senior producer, Jonathan Hay.
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