The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 87 - Racism And Our Sh**hole Culture

Episode Date: January 15, 2018

During a private, bipartisan meeting, Democrats allege President Trump called Haiti a…not very nice place to live. Now everybody is calling him a racist. We’ll analyze the claim, the facts, and racism in our not very nice culture. Then, Elisha Krauss joins the Panel of Deplorables to discuss creepy male feminist Aziz Ansari, Senator Romney, and the new most popular name is the Netherlands: Muhammad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During a private bipartisan meeting, Democrats alleged President Trump called Haiti a not very nice place to live. Now, everybody is calling him a racist. We'll analyze the claim, the facts, and racism in our not very nice culture. Then Christopher Helly and Alicia Krauss joined the panel of deplorables to discuss creepy male feminist, disease Ansari, Senator Romney, and the new most popular name in the Netherlands. Hint, it's Muhammad. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles Show. so much to get to today, but you know what? We're going to make it through. We're going to make

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along ideological lines all the way along that spectrum. So, did President Trump say that Haiti is a not very nice place to live during a private meeting? My first reaction is that this does not in any way expand or abridge my liberty. Not in any way. It doesn't affect American interests. It doesn't have anything to do with American governance. So I don't really care what the president thinks about whether Haiti is a not very nice place to live.

I certainly would not imperil what has been a highly effective pro-freedom agenda over whatever comments he did or did not make in a private meeting. But we're interested in intellectual curiosity here. So let's examine the question. Is Haiti a not very nice place to live? Here are some statistics. 80% of Haitians live on less than $2 a day. One in four Haitians lives on less than $1.25 per day.

Global remittances to Haiti, that's $2.3 billion, of which the United States sends more than half. That constitutes over a quarter of Haiti's total GDP. A quarter of their GDP is just people sending them charity money. The Haitian unemployment rate is 50%. Despite widespread agriculture, Haiti has to import half of its nation's food and 80% of its staple food rice. That's because just 10% of Haiti's crops are actually irrigated. Half of Haitian children do not attend school. Haiti's literacy rate is only 64%.

which is lower even than the Caribbean average. 30% of Haiti's population regularly starves. Infant mortality is a staggering 55 per thousand live births. Less than half of Haitian households have access to potable water. Just a quarter of households have adequate sanitation. Crime is rampant. Reliable statistics obviously are hard to come by there.

One study showed an annual murder rate of 120 people per 100,000 residents. And then another study showed an annual murder rate in just Port-A-Prince of seven 130 people per 100,000 residents. Rape is rampant. 14% of Haitian households have reported having at least one member suffer sexual violence. Haitian children are regularly traded throughout the country for sexual slavery.

Desperate mothers regularly feed their children mud. Cookies made from dirt, water, and salt just to fill their bellies when the food runs out. Life in Haiti is a living hell. Obviously, that's why Americans send so many Christian missionaries to that country. That's why the Clintons were able to siphon off and misuse millions of dollars of Haitian relief donations for God knows what purpose. Americans pour charitable funds and efforts into Haiti because the country is not a very nice place to live. No one until Democrats found it convenient has ever questioned that idea. How about the charge that America needs more immigrants from prosperous countries than not very nice countries?

The left and anti-Trump Republicans are calling the comments racist. Are they? Let's look at the data. So on the one hand, high school graduation rates for Haitian immigrants are actually slightly higher than the foreign-born population average in the United States. Same with labor participation. Haitian immigrant household income is lower than the average for the overall foreign-born population. 91% of Haitians who have obtained lawful permanent resident status did so through chain migration. That's where you come and then you get your family and then they get somebody and then you get other people. Virtually none of the Haitians in America got status through employee.

green cards or visa lotteries. Remittances to Haiti have increased four-fold since 2000. They now reach $1.3 billion a year. So in relation to other immigrant groups, that's a mixed bag. But we're forgetting an important thing. Donald Trump won the presidency in no small part on curbing the influx of immigrants, legal and illegal, on prioritizing Americans who are already here over open borders policies favored by the GOP establishment and Democrats, compared to native-born populations in America. Haitian immigrants are well over twice as likely not to graduate from high school,

they're almost twice as likely to live in poverty, they're two and a half times as likely to lack health insurance for their children, and there are two and a quarter times as likely to be on a major welfare program. Now, even putting aside that these comments are alleged, the Haiti is an not very nice place to live, that they're alleged by a top-ranking Democrat

and that they're disputed by Republicans in the room, even putting aside that they were said during a private meeting, let's just indulge the hypothetical that he did say them. Would it be nicer? Would it be more elegant? Would it be more cooth to phrase the comment another way, rather than use such blunt and insulting language to an ally of the United States, albeit an impoverished one? Of course. Of course it would. Would Ronald Reagan have phrased it differently? Of course he would have. But we live in a not very nice culture to use a phrase. I'm sure there are other words you could use. That isn't Donald Trump's fault. Trump may be a product of

the culture. His language may be a symptom of that culture, but he didn't cause it. Ronald Reagan was the product of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Donald Trump is a product of 90s tabloids and reality television. Do you behave within the same bounds that dictated personal morality in the early 20th century? Do you? Do you dress appropriately and formally? Do you speak politely? Do you attend church and act chivalrously, et cetera, et cetera? Of course you don't. A lot of people are blaming Trump for our not very nice culture because it's too painful to look at the real culprit, staring back at us in the mirror. As for racism, for the decline in race relations, let's compare Donald Trump to his predecessor. Actually, I'm sorry, before we get to that, before we talk about this is a little

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1992 L.A. riots, quarter century before, with 69% of Americans perceiving race relations as generally bad. According to a CNN-OrC poll, 54% of Americans think race relations worsened specifically under Barack Obama, including 57% of whites and 40% of blacks. In 2009, this was the first instance of this.

Harvard professor, Henry Lewis Gates, tried to force his way into his own front door. I guess he'd forgotten his keys. Confused neighbors called the police. Two officers showed up, of whom was black and asked for ID. Gates descended into hysterics, screaming, quote, this is what it means to be black in America.

Do you even know how many graduate degrees I have? Do you know who you're dealing with here? I'm a professor at Harvard. Can you even spell Harvard? That's what I'm assuming. That's what he said, you know. The officers arrested Gates on charges of disorderly conduct. How did Obama respond?

Well, I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the... So I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts. What's been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys. Jimmyed his way to get into the house. There was a report called into the police station that there might be a burglary taking place.

So far, so good, right? I mean, if I was trying to jigger into, well, I guess this is my house now, so it probably wouldn't happen. But let's say my old house in Chicago, here I'd get shut. Now, I don't know not having been there and not seeing all the facts what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident, is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionate. There it is. There's the Obama doctrine. Listen, I may not know a single thing about the case here, but let me weigh in because it offers me a political advantage. The Obama MO frequently wrong, but never in doubt. Then fast forward a few years in 2012, a Hispanic man that the New York Times desperately tried to call a white guy named George Zimmerman called the police, reporting that a young man who appeared to be on drugs was wandering around his neighborhood. The cops instructed him to stand down, but Zimmerman pursued him anyway. The initial confrontation

remains a mystery, but all of the available evidence supports Zimmerman's claim that at some point Martin knocked him to the ground, jumped on top of him, and pounded his head into the pavement. Zimmerman grabbed his gun and shot Martin. Obama, of course, could not help but weigh in on the local crime issue, and here's how he responded. But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. Totally needless, senseless fuel on the flames of racial division, but that's Barack Obama. That's our not very nice culture. And it isn't totally Barack Obama's fault either. He spent eight years degrading the culture, sure. But by the time Obama had come around, the left had spent

decades sowing the seeds of division decay and victimhood. Enter Barack Obama, then enter Donald Trump. Our culture is a not very nice place, and we can't look to politicians to fix it. That's not what politicians do, put not your trust in princes. To quote a true cultural figure, and coincidentally, a guy who was both black and white at various times in his life, no message could have been any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make a change. Good advice from an actual cultural figure. Okay, let's bring on our panel. We've got Daily Wire Zone, Alicia Krause. So the question is, should we care about this Haiti thing? You know, did he say it, did he say, some people say he said it, some say he didn't say it, if he did

say it, is it a big deal? Should we be hand-wringing and pulling out our hair? Or he's cutting the government, let him do it. It doesn't affect my freedom. Adios. I think if he wants to win a re-election, he needs to definitely be cutting back on the idiotic comments, especially when he's in mixed company. I mean, let's be honest, how dumb do you have to be to say something like this? One, and then two, say it in front of Chuck Schumer, and Dick Durbin and a Washington Post reporter. It was so dumb to say. I think if you get to the crux of the issue, it is a tacking, thing to say. I think it's something that should have been clarified or needs to be clarified. But I'm one of those people that even if he's saying dumb things, actions speak louder than words.

And if you want to go and talk about immigration policy and who was more heartfelt on it or not, I mean, there's lots of things that Obama did during Hiddis administration that could be viewed as anti-immigrant. That's absolutely right. That is a real comparison here. Because, you know, Trump got so much flag for the travel ban, for instance. The travel ban was an expansion of an Obama-era policy. You didn't hear people saying this was the end of the constitutional republic during Barack Obama. And there is, even if the statement is true, I don't know. I don't trust Dick Durbin, but that said, both sides are flacking for their own parties, so who knows if he said it. But I just don't care if he said it. I don't care if a Queen's real estate developer made an uncouth remark

in a private meeting. It doesn't... Except that Queen's real estate developer is the president of the United States now, and he has to understand. And I'm talking, I'm thinking of reelection here. I'm thinking 2018, midterm elections for Republicans could be tough, and he's not making it any easier. And I know he likes to punch at the Republicans and some people that he has establishment, which some of them are, that he attacks and some of them are not. But if he wants his side to win and if he actually wants to promote those things that you're talking about, that's going to make America great again, then he needs to be very careful what he says and how he says it. But I don't know. I certainly would have agreed with you a year and a half ago.

But I'm not sure the one thing this guy hasn't been is careful with his language. He's been exactly the opposite of careful with his language. Yeah, and he hasn't had to face an election. And, you know, there is an election that he lost in Alabama, which wasn't good for him. But the other guy that had been to decide for that year out of a year and a half, you know, ended up losing two. So good job, Steve and Donald. They're both of their candidates lost. And that's not a good sign in addition to the polling that you're saying.

I mean, you and I both worked on campaigns. We're the political nerds and the news junkies that have actually. worked on and run political campaigns before. And you know that voter turnout in off years, it can really negatively affect Republican voters. It can affect both parties and Republicans tend to get out more. But if Trump keeps saying things like this and if there's more Trump-like candidates kind of saying things like this, I think you're jeopardizing potential Republican voters that aren't just going to go out and vote during the midterms. You might. The question is, do they care about these private comments? In the past, I would have said yes. Now I'm a little more

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It's just you and me today. We've lost Christopher. We'll bring him back some other time. That's always good to talk to him. So this topic is important. We've got a lot of women's issues today. Aziz Ansari is being accused of sexual impropriety. For reference, here is the comedian Aziz Ansari.

Talk about the relationship. My girlfriend has influence on me. She's a big feminist. And, you know, that made me think about those kind of issues. I'm a feminist as well. Any feminists here, clap, any people, think? Now, here's the thing, okay? Now, there's a lot of people that didn't clap.

But I don't believe you. Because if you look up feminists in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights. And I feel like everyone here believes men and women have equal rights, yeah? But I think the reason people don't clap is that word so weirdly used in our culture. Now people think feminist means like some woman's gonna start yelling at them. Like Precious' mom is gonna start throwing stuff at you.

I feel like if you do believe that, if you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks you're feminist, you have to say yes. You have to say yes. It doesn't matter what you do. Now his accuser, his sexual harassment accuser, writes, quote, the move he kept doing was taking his two fingers in a very V shape and putting them in my mouth in my throat to wet his fingers because the moment he'd stick his fingers in my throat, he'd go straight from my redacted and try to redacted me. That is from a woman who says she went on a date with him, he took her back to her place and

started getting real weird and hansy and chasing her around the room. Alicia, why are feminist men such creeps? I'm just sorry, Mom. Every time I'm on Michael's show, he makes me talk about these things. I know. Maybe I'm the Me Too guy. I know. I read the report. I'm actually a fan of Aziz, you know, going back to Parks and Rec.

I think Master of None, even though it's an obviously liberal show, it's very entertaining and well-made. I mean, he even did episodes on this where he talked about sexual harassment and, like, you know, I don't want to give it away to people that haven't watched season two, but there's a whole theme there about how he misses out on a job opportunity because somebody, you know, was me-toeing some women. And so it's so interesting. This actually, I think, and Carol Markowitz at the New York Post had a great tweet storm about this yesterday, and it's so true. This is actually what happens when you tell women, hey, you're as sexually active and as, you know, turned on and you should be like this because if we're equal to men, we should be able to have one night stands with nothing attached to. And I think that that's what this was. I mean, there was an act that occurred that she said she was okay with.

Then she decided to stay the night. I actually think it was at his hotel room after the Emmys last year. And then throughout the night, he kept trying to get with her once again. And she was uncomfortable with it. And when he texted her and said, hey, it was fun, which is totally like a guy that had been hooked up with the night before would say, she said, well, I'm glad it was fun for you, but it wasn't for me. He apologized for it. And then now a year later, she's coming out with this, you know, story. This is not a Me Too story.

This is not Harvey Weinstein blacklisting her. This is not Harvey Weinstein raping her. This is a bad, a hookup gone wrong that I think now a year later, she's like, hmm, maybe it's a me too thing, but it's not. Well, yeah, there is this climate of a witch hunt right now where any time men act a little weird or awkward or aggressive or bizarre around women, which is statistically 100% of the time, then it's considered on par with Harvey Weinstein raping people. But he sums it up so well because you're right. There is this feminism thing of like, yeah, I'm going to go out and get a man tonight as if that's ever been a hard thing ever once in history. And so men go into this and they say, okay, we're exactly the same. Men and women approach sex exactly the same. way. So I'm going to... Because that's what they've been told by feminists for so long. That's what they've been told for their whole lives. And so now, you know, Aziz Ansari

behaves as though this woman is a man. And surprise, surprise, it turns out she's actually a woman and doesn't react to sex the same way that men do. So what is the appropriate conservative response to feminism? You know, feminism, he said, feminism just means that you think men and women should have equal political rights. Of course that isn't true. If that were the case, it would be called egalitarianism. It wouldn't be called feminism, right? Feminism clearly pertains specifically to womanhood and femininity. What should conservatives consider as our version of feminism? I think it's there in the Declaration of Independence, right? And then in my Christianity, that's something I was actually talking to my four-year-old about yesterday. She was wondering why she had today off

of school, and I was explained to her as much as I could in a four-year-old way, who Martin Luther King Jr. was of what he taught us. A conservative Christian, yeah. Yeah. that, you know, the all men are created equal sign with where our rights come from. And I think that that's the problem, whether it's first wave or third wave feminism, is that they renege on that first part and they don't want to acknowledge the first part of where their rights come from. And if you don't understand where rights come from, then how are you supposed to teach your sons and daughters what is right and what is wrong? I don't know if that's hope for simplifying it, but... Oh, of course. There has to be a foundation if we're going to have a serious way of dealing with the sexes.

But there also is this little old fashioned thing called chivalry that takes the opposite premise of feminism. The premise of feminism is that men and women are exactly the same. We're indiscernible. We're indiscernible creatures and there are no real meaningful differences between men and women. And then there's chivalry, which says that men and women are complementary. We see this in the Christian story. We see this in Genesis, in the way Christ talks about male and female, as complementing one

another and in the beginning God created man both male and female he created them and chivalrousness holding a door picking up a check or something was for a long time in the 90s and 2000s considered politically incorrect it was paternalistic it was condescending do you think that chivalry is making a comeback or is that wishful thinking I actually think that I would stand with a former secretary of state Condi Rice on this she did an interview with David Axelrod at CNN recently and she talked about how she is afraid of women kind of becoming infantilized and unable to defend ourselves. And I think she actually used the phrase snowflakes.

She was like, let's not do that to women. You know, women are strong, we are unique, and we don't want to create an atmosphere where it's such a gotcha towards men that men end up not wanting women around because it turns out that we do complement each other. There are things that women, sorry guys, can do better, and God created all of us for a reason

to make the world go around, quite literally. So, I mean, if we don't, women don't have men, there will end up being no more mankind. That's just one of the basic things that would occur. And I think that there is a place for a mix of modern-day feminism with old-fashioned chivalry. Because I know in my work, I want to be judged not just on how I look, but what I bring to the table and my talents, not that I have a hoo-ha. And I think that there is also an element of, I do like it when Michael Knowles apologizes

for being rude and not holding the door open for me. And so there is a balance and an understanding that the world has to have of how men and women are similar and how men and women are different. But in those differences, women can still be strong and powerful and beautiful. There's nothing wrong with that. Right, absolutely right. Okay, we have to move on because it's all but certain in political news. Mitt Romney is running for Senate from Utah. Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, who then took up residence in New Hampshire before the 2012 primaries, has now changed his home residence on Twitter to Holiday, Utah. Romney, you will recall, has been an outspoken critic of President Trump

since the 2016 primary campaign, saying his promises are worthless, though he later attempted to reconcile when he was being considered for Secretary of State. Alicia, this is a strange situation. Republicans voted for Romney in 2012. He was our nominee. He was our guy. But even then we knew he comes from the moderate wing of the party. His father is the former standard bearer of the moderate wing of the Republican Party. How should conservatives feel about his candidacy?

I think that really it only matters to the conservatives of Utah. And I think if you're the conservatives on a federal level like me, I mean, I'm stuck with two idiots here in California serving as my senator. Right. So our senators. And so I would be happy with another stalwart like Romney, Republican stalwart in the Senate. I know that he's going to really 95% of what the Trump administration puts forward. I guarantee you Mitt Romney is going to vote the way that Trump would want him to vote. I mean, he is.

Yes, Romney care was awful why we decided to go with the guy that actually had Obamacare named after him before Obama care came along. invented the thing, right. It was such a bad idea. But I think that Mitt overall, he's just a gem of a human being. He is obviously connected with the people of Utah. I mean, he's had a home there forever. The core, the home, I guess the HQ for his faith is there. And I really think that he in the Senate is a bonus for the Senate.

I think that they're really, it's a win-win here. And I think even for those Trump supporters that view him as establishment, they're going to wait and see that he is really, I think, going to be beneficial to President Trump. And he is good. at sussing out where the political wins are, and he's not a total rigid idiologue, he said when he ran against Kennedy in Massachusetts, he said, I wasn't a conservative during Reagan Bush, I was an independent during Reagan Bush. Fast forward to 2012, he was a pretty

conservative guy. So I think he can probably suss that out. But to your point, if he runs, is there any way he doesn't win this seat? I don't think so. I think we might actually see 100% like on a ballot as the results come in. That's right. I mean, who knows? Maybe it'll be 90% I think that he definitely could win. He should win. I think that Bannon might be running somewhere with the tail between his legs, but had Bannon still been, if Bannon were still in the picture, I guarantee you this would be a race where he'd come up with a crazy candidate to run against him. Oh, it absolutely would be if he hadn't just been crushed under the heel of Donald Trump two weeks ago.

I don't really see Bannon staging a comeback for this election. But who knows, politics is weird. I don't know. It brings me such joy to hear that phrase for me, though. The final story, we have to talk about. The mainstream media reported last week that NOAA is the most popular baby name in the Netherlands, but after one takes into account variations in spelling, turns out it's not NOAA, that's the most common name.

The actual most common name for newborns in the European country is Muhammad. Elisha. Is it racist for the Dutch or the Swedes or the Polish or the English to want to keep their countries primarily Dutch or Swedish or Polish or English? I think yes. I mean, the way that you raise that question. I think that there is definitely, if you are looking at race, if you're looking at ethnicity and determining this is how we're going to let people in, this is how we're not going to let

people in, then, yes, I do think that that is a problem, that that is racist. But I mean, if you look at Sweden and Norway versus places like Finland that have a much stronger immigration policy, you know, they said we're not going to be taking in people from just anywhere. We are going to strongly vet people. And then once they're here, we're going to do this, this and this to make sure that they are integrated into our society. That I don't think is racist at all.

But what are these countries? You know, for the United States, it is a country in so many ways founded on an idea. A country founded on an idea in Plymouth, a country founded on an idea in Philadelphia. And obviously, it's founded by people, but there are people of various ethnic groups and who bred with one another and intermarried.

And so clearly America, to say America's a country founded on an idea, is certainly justifiable and is a long stream throughout American history. Not so with England and not so with Italy or France. Those are countries founded on people, founded on the angles, founded on groups of people that over the centuries have either invaded or conquered or whatever.

So it might be racist, but I don't know. Isn't that the essence of their state? It's a state founded on a people. Should we really oppose that? And it's a very good point, and I think it's a point that Democrats should be asked about because Democrats and progressives in the United States typically look to Europe, specifically, you know, more socialist to Europe of, oh, this is what we should look like.

You know, we should have their health care, we should have their open borders of immigration, we should have all of these things. But I actually think the whole Megan Merkel being engaged to Prince Harry thing is going to start exposing that the United Kingdom and a lot of Europe is more racist and actually implies and executes racism on a daily basis more than the whole of the United States. I mean, Larry Elder, a friend of the Daily Wire, you know, has a great-prager you video on this about, is America still racist?

And definitely in comparison to these other countries that, like you said, were not founded on the ideas of freedom and liberty and individual principles like the United States were. I think you're going to, in this day and age, in 2018, in the new year, we're going to start seeing that stuff kind of trickle more out of those countries.

Of course, America is the only non-racist country ever founded in the history of the world. And I'm perfectly fine with that. I am more than happy for the English to remain English and for the Italians to remain Italian and for the Sicilians to remain Sicilian and for the Dutch to not have Muhammad be the most common baby name. I'm more than happy for countries they're based on peoples to have their own countries for for Middle Eastern countries to have their own peoples. But I do like that America is a shining city on a hill and it's a country founded on an idea and this actually gets back to the essential Christianity. of the West. Christianity is the motivating force of the West. How should Protestants and Catholics

alike, any Christian variety, view this issue? You know, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. On the other hand, Muslims have tried to invade the West for 1,400 years. Charles Martel turned them away in Tours in 732, in Tours, by the way. That's not outside Medina, that's outside Paris. and Pope St. Pius V, the 5th, turned Muslim invaders away at Lepanto in 1571. How should the Christian West regard our Muslim visitors in 2018? Man, I'm sorry, I was just thinking of President Obama then talking about how the Crusades were so awful, and Christians still need to apologize for them.

I know. I should send Obama a book about the Crusades so you can learn anything about that work. You're given that, you know, Islamic history lesson there to mean your audience. audience. I think that, I think, you know, the beautiful thing about Christianity is that we know that anyone can be welcome into the fold, and that that is their choice and their right to make that decision because of the free will that God gave them. And I think that, specifically, I think that overall, they're unfortunately now, if you watch CNN, if you watch MSNBC, even sometimes if you watch Fox News, if you're the average viewer in another country looking, what you see as what you view as Christian is sometimes spewing what some people would dub as craziness or hate speech.

But when you meet the individual Christians of the United States and you talk to them about what they want and what they want to adhere to and what they want to protect here, it isn't saying, oh no, we don't want Muslims here. It's just saying we want to protect, you know, our rule of life, Western civilization, the Judeo-Christian values that the United States is founded upon. And whether you're Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic, Protestant, whatever, if you want to adhere to those values to you, can. And I think that that's something that the church needs to consider on a whole. Just stick to the gospel, keep the politics out of it, please. That's right. You don't necessarily need to go to daily Mass and wear a mantia and chant Gregorian chants. But you do have to accept certain premises.

And if your culture doesn't accept those essential premises of the West, you can't live here, buddy. Sorry, you just, you have to. I know people don't want to be free, but you have to be free. You have to accept those premises. Okay, Alicia, a wonderful panel to a surprisingly wonderful panel. Good job, other guys. Of all you, yeah, great stuff. Thank you for being here. Now we must turn because it is Martin Luther King Day.

So I want to close on some MLK. You'll notice the left always refers to the man as Dr. Martin Luther King, even though he never carried a stethoscope. They never call him Reverend Martin Luther King, even though he was a Baptist minister. So as always, the left's choice of wording is no accident. Let's close the show today with Reverend King's most magnificent speech. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Come back tomorrow. We'll do it all again.

We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longivity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain and I've looked over and I've seen the promised land but I want you to know the night

we'll get to the promised land anything I'm not fearing any man my eyes have seen the glory the Michael Null's show is produced by Marshall Benson executive producer Jeremy Boring Senior producer Jonathan Hay. Supervising producer, Mathis Glover. Our technical producer is Austin Stevens.

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