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The Michael Knowles Show

Ep. 25 - All Politics Is Local. Or National. ft. Mayor Jesse Dwyer

The Michael Knowles Show

The Michael Knowles Show

News Commentary, News

4.828.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is all politics local? Small-town mayor Jesse Dwyer explains. Then, the Daily Caller’s Amber Athey and the Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo join the Panel of Deplorables to talk Ted Cruz’s porn preferences, uncontacted Amazon jungle tribes, and Michael's cousin Hillary Clinton’s latest tinfoil hat rantings at the launch of her terrible book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is all politics local or has the entertainment news industry made all politics national?

0:06.4

We discuss with the mayor of the village of Greenwood Lake, New York, population 3301,

0:12.0

Jesse Dwyer, then the daily callers Amber Athe and the daily wires Amanda Prestige-Jachamo

0:17.4

joined the panel of deplorables to talk Ted Cruz's porn preferences, uncontacted Amazon

0:23.1

jungle tribes, and my cousin Hillary Clinton's latest tinfoil hat rantings at the launch

0:28.6

of her terrible book. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles show.

0:40.4

I couldn't even get out of my mouth my second cousin once removed Hillary's book. It's so it's

0:44.3

such an upsetting event that she's going to be going on this tour and showing her face, but

0:49.5

probably it's good for Republicans. So anyway, today we always talk about national politics. We

0:55.2

talk about President Trump, we talk about big trends, we talk about the sky high view,

1:00.5

we never talk about local politics. We never talk about politics on the ground. What it's really

1:05.5

like for people who are going out there, pressing palms, going to spaghetti dinners, and what regular

1:12.0

Americans in that little sliver of the country between LA and New York are thinking and what their

1:16.8

lives are like and what they're talking about beyond just the latest Trump tweet and all of the

1:21.9

reaction to it. So I would like to talk about local politics today. I want to talk about the real

1:26.9

nitty gritty because I think basically the problem with all political shows right now is that the

1:33.3

reason that they like sports predictors very often get their predictions wrong is because they

1:39.4

don't actually go out there and talk to voters. And so they miss that huge swat that's not us.

1:44.2

Michael Not us, but not us because we press the palms and we've got these great experts who are

1:48.1

coming in. So I think former House Speaker Tip O'Neil really made the blanket statement on this

1:57.5

when he said all politics is local. Now he's a Democrat so he's probably wrong and here is Newt

2:03.3

Gingrich explaining why he's wrong. First of all O'Neil was wrong, all politics is not local,

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