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🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | In the age of virtual political conventions, President Trump may accept the Republican Party |
0:04.8 | nomination at Gettysburg, which is obviously the site of another great oration by the first |
0:10.8 | Republican president, who, like President Trump, had to put down violent insurrections led by |
0:16.8 | Democrats and who had to defend our liberties and to defend our country. The symbolism |
0:22.8 | so beautiful, totally fitting, CNN is furious. |
0:26.6 | And, Pam, we've reported that President Trump is considering delivering his GOP nomination |
0:31.6 | acceptance speech from the White House, but amid some criticism of that potential venue, |
0:35.6 | the President is now floating another one. This time, he's talking about the hallowed civil war |
0:40.0 | battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but that could be controversial too, particularly |
0:44.5 | because this is a President who has consistently positioned himself as a defender of Confederate |
0:49.2 | symbols and monuments to Confederate generals. Pam? |
0:52.0 | Yeah, that's a fair point to make. |
0:53.5 | That's not a fair point to make. What is a defender of Confederate symbols? I guess it's just |
0:59.3 | another way to say, he's a Nazi, he's a white supremacist, he's a terrible, awful person. |
1:03.3 | You know, else was the defender of Confederate symbols? Abraham Lincoln, the man who won the |
1:07.2 | civil war and freed all of the slaves. Because he understood we have to come together as a country. |
1:11.6 | We have to recognize what what history has done and how it's shaped our country and how we need |
1:16.6 | to unite all as Americans with malice toward none with charity for all. But the left |
1:22.7 | doesn't want you to understand history. They want to weaponize ignorance. We'll fight back. |
1:28.0 | I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. |
1:38.5 | Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday on the YouTube's comes from |
1:44.0 | Muhammad Farouk, who says, as a Muslim, I say good for Mr. MacArthur, defying a government |
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