The pop singer Lizzo twerks about self-love in front of a giant inflatable butt at the MTV

video music awards.

We examine how the cult of self-love can actually lead to self-hatred.

Then, future also ran, Beto O'Rourke gives the slave owner's answer on abortion at a campaign

event at the College of Charleston.

And a man leaves his wife for freshman, congressman, and socialist squad member Ilhan Omar when

pressed for comment.

Representative Omar brushed off the allegations, stating, oh please, he's like a brother to me.

All that and more, I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles show.

I can't take credit for that Omar joke much as I would like to.

That one is going around Twitter yesterday and I first saw it on the account, Boomey

Leaks, which has the handle not Wokey Leaks.

There's a lot to get to today.

A lot of weird sex going on.

If we have time, we'll even get to some updates in the Jeffrey Epstein story.

But I have to begin with the video music awards.

Did you watch it?

No, you didn't because nobody really watched it.

But there was some seriously, culturally relevant stuff going on.

It wasn't good.

It wasn't pretty.

It wasn't true and it wasn't beautiful.

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