The White House is no longer missing its words on the coronavirus lockdowns. On this, the 245th

day of 15 days to slow this spread, the White House specifically are wonderful White House Press

Secretary, Kayleigh McAnany, who makes all of our hearts go bitter pattern. Kayleigh McAnany came

out and used a perfect word to describe the ever increasing COVID lockdowns. She called them

Orwellian. I think a lot of the guidelines you're seeing are Orwellian. Let me start by saying

the CDC has put out considerations as we prepare to go about Thanksgiving, about socially distancing,

wearing masks, doing what you can. There's a whole list of pages of very good considerations,

and in that they say, we're not recommending a certain number of people, but we are giving

considerations that you should put in place. And I think that's the American way, the American

people know how to protect their health. We've dealt with COVID for many months, but it's Orwellian.

It is Orwellian. There's a whole lot of new speak going on, and there are a whole lot of

thought police on the left. The left wants to defund the police. I think probably it would be a

little wiser to defund the thought police, particularly as they ramp up their control. I'm Michael

Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday

is from Bart Simpson. I imagine that's a pseudonym, but that's what he says his name is.

Bart Simpson writes, funeral homes should add a Republican voting option for the deceased. I think

that's absolutely true. You know, conservatives have long said, I think this is Chesterton's word,

that because we view traditions so highly, because we look to our founding fathers, because we

look to our ancestors, that we're the greatest Democrats of all, because we don't just want to

enfranchise the living people. We also want to enfranchise the people who came before us. We want to

learn from their wisdom. We want a democracy of the dead, and the left obviously took that suggestion,

and they really, they got it just a little bit wrong, because what they ended up doing is putting

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