The NBA comes under fire for cowering to the brutal regime of communist China,

but the problem runs way deeper than the NBA, infecting virtually all of corporate America,

Hollywood, and even the US government. We will examine the root cause of the trouble,

the eternal maxim. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Then, Matt Lauer is accused of violent rape,

but is the MeToo movement redefining rape beyond the bounds of reason? We will analyze, as it were,

the evidence. Finally, the mailbag, all that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael

Knowles show. This NBA issue is so much bigger than the NBA. You've probably heard about the NBA

issue. I've been kind of avoiding the story all week because I don't care about the NBA. I don't

care about most professional sports leagues. I really only watch baseball and even that, not that often.

So I've been kind of out of it. All of these names are new to me. The issue is not new to me.

The issue is Will American entities bow down to China for that most holy dollar? Will they give up

their integrity, give up their principles, give up everything they believe in for Maman? That's what

it really comes down to. Every step of the way in this NBA issue has been so pathetic, but it's

not just the NBA. So what happened with the NBA? The NBA issue all began when Darryl Mori of the

Houston Rockets tweeted out seven words. Just a seven word tweet, fight for freedom, stand with

Hong Kong. And the context of this is that the Communist Chinese government is clamping down on Hong

Kong, which is a politically independent entity. It was controlled by the British for 100 years,

and then the British in a moment of stupidity and weakness in the 1990s decided to give Hong Kong

back to China and everything has gone downhill since, because China is one of the worst regimes

in the history of the world. And the West never should have given them back Hong Kong. And now we

are where we are, which is that the brutal Chinese government is going in and clamping down on

protesters because they've increasingly tried to take political control away from Hong Kong over

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