It is false and for the good of society and especially for
the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion.
Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,
the whole preposterous ideology at every level.
>> [APPLAUSE].
>> Daily Wire host Michael Knowles gave a speech on March 6th over at CPAC.
And that one statement, that one pretty gross disgusting endorsement
of eradicating transgender people did exactly what he was hoping it would do.
It helped him with his show numbers, it led to a bunch of anger.
People who were rightly upset that someone would call for
that kind of violence against a group of people that is incredibly powerless and
discriminated against in this country.
And I would suspect we don't know for sure,
that a lot of the disgusting commentary that comes from people
like him is due to the fact that they get rewarded for it.
Michael Knowles was rewarded for what he said and
it came in the form of increased views on his show and have you seen the guy?
He's, I mean, I'd rather sit through 100 hour long calculus class, but
if he says something that's incredibly inflammatory, it'll get the attention.
Now, why else do we think that he might be a bad faith actor?
Well, he had an interesting experience in college,
he wanted to make it in the entertainment industry.
So he was part of the, I guess theater club or whatever.
And here is an example of one of
the scenes he started, let's watch.
>> You okay, buddy?
Gonna throw up?
>> No.
>> You afraid to go inside?
>> It's not that.
>> I can leave.
>> That was, wow.
>> Thanks.
>> I bet it was, now that was from a short film called House of Shades released in
2015 if you guys want to check it out, I believe it's available on YouTube.
But look, he's acting there, right?
It doesn't mean anything about his sexuality, but
someone who thinks that members of the LGBTQ community should be eradicated,
probably wouldn't want to star in a scene like that.
>> No, it does mean something about his ideology, not his sexuality, you're right.
And so, I didn't watch the whole thing, but
I actually watched enough to get the plot line, okay?
So, he's a kind of a smooth Don Juan character in this short movie, okay?
I know, hilarious.
And that guy that he is making out with and that had sex with,
is a conservative student on campus that he seduces into gay sex and
he does it by plowing full of alcohol.
So he gets him drunk and then he brags about taking his virginity, okay?
So now, if you're actually opposed to the LGBTQ community, would you star
in a movie where you took a conservative students virginity in a gay sex scene?
Probably not, right?
But these days there's a lot of money in hating the LGBTQ community.
>> That's right, that's right.
>> So he couldn't make it as an actor and he couldn't make good money doing that.
So he's, I got an idea,
I'll make good money just attacking these people because there's a market for it.
>> Every once in a while, conservative hosts will say the quiet part out loud.
And that was certainly the case in the next video we're gonna show you.
So you have male hosts from the Daily Wire playing Mario Kart together and
then Ben Shapiro gives the whole game away, watch.
>> I'm gonna be the next beauty pie, I'm gonna make my millions on this game.
>> That would be the first time you've productive.
If we could somehow monetize you, it's video game player I will make that deal.
>> Hey, hip guys, hey, hit a.
>> Hey, watch them make a deontological reference about Mario Kart,
that's a winner.
I mean, honestly, it's not that hard a job, Michael,
all you really have to do is what Matt and I do.
You just say that a man is not a woman, just keep saying it over and over.
>> Just it's not that hard, just keep saying a man is not a woman,
keep saying it over and over and look, the proof is in the pudding.
So why don't we take a quick look Cenk at what happened both in the headlines and in
the analytics for Knowles's show following his statements over at that CPAC speech.
So, as you can see plenty of headlines here, Salon covered it,
CPAC speaker says transgenderism must be eradicated,
Huffington Post wrote about it, other outlets wrote about it as well.
So it generates headlines which generates attention toward his show.
Now, let's look at Michael Knowles's popularity both before and
after the comments.
So this graph shows you Google searches of the phrase
Michael Knowles over the past 90 days, okay?
So as you can see, March 6th was when he made the statements and
then you see this giant spike in his analytics.
Let's go to the next one, this is specifically for YouTube while the spike
is a little smaller, it's still a pretty significant spike.
And if you're wondering what does the 83 number mean there?
Well, 83 essentially means it's 83 out of 100 and
100 means that something is incredibly popular, right?
So the 100 in the first graph and the 85 in the second graph referred to
the search terms relative popularity compared to all other searches.
100 is the highest score you can get on the graph, meaning that Michael Knowles
was one of if not the most popular search term on the day he made his CPAC comments.
Okay, so I tell you all that and this is a genuine question,
I don't know what the right answer is to this.
I am so sick of playing into their game.
>> Yeah, there is no answer.
So I love being constructive on the show, I talk about it all the time,
this one's near impossible stuff.
So, first on that tiny little video where they're playing the Mario Kart, it's
the most true thing the conservative hosts have ever said in the history of America.
So, they gave the game away right there in that little clip,
all we do is we antagonize people and attack them and they can't help but
defend these poor people and then we make tons of money.
That's the whole thing, that's the whole thing.
And you see it in those charts that we pulled up for you guys,
YouTube is where they make the money.
So the fact that he's spiking on YouTube, 83 out of 100 and
then the chart goes up, right?
That's cold hard cash that they're making and they know that.
So now the problem is they're willing to say outrageous things,
which is gonna cause a spike because people are gonna report,
not only is it hateful, but it's also outrageous.
How do you not report someone saying we should eradicate trans people in
this country?
>> I mean, that statement was so
outrageous that a female employee over at the Daily Wire quit.
She was, I can't, I can't do this, calling for the eradication of any group
is disgusting and I want nothing to do with it, so, good on her.
I mean, I probably wouldn't have wanted to work there in the first place, but
she took a stand and I commend her for that.
>> So then it forces us on the left to defend trans folks because we don't leave
anybody behind, trans, gay, Black, Muslim, Jewish,
it doesn't matter, we're gonna defend, right?
Because we're not gonna let them say, we should just eradicate them and
let that stand.
So, that then doubles their attention and doubles their money and they know that
game, but the left cannot play that game because we're decent human beings.
So if we went around going, we should eradicate the right wing, eradicate them,
it would be super outrageous, it would cause a spike.
Number one, we know that but we don't do it.
Number two, if we did do it though,
we would not get the same reaction as the right wing,
the right wing their fans go yes, eradicate them and they love it right?
For us, they'd be, are you nuts?
And our own audience would rightful turn against us because no,
we don't wanna exterminate people that are Republic, that's insane, right?
>> I just don't wanna say crap I don't believe, for money, for money, I don't,
that's why I work here, that's why I work here.
I can't stand constantly chasing money and
by the way, whoring yourself out in that way.
Knowing the kind of damage it does to people who already have no power in this
country, it's unbelievable to me that anyone would look and
then they talk about the masculinity crisis.
I'm a woman, I'm just gonna keep it real, some members of the left might get upset,
but it is who I am and I'm not gonna hide it, I love manly men, I just do,
it's what I like.
I look at that and I see weakness, I don't see a manly man.
I see someone who's a coward, who's willing to do anything for money,
that doesn't turn me on, doesn't turn any real person who has morals, ethics,
integrity on at all.
Lowering yourself like that, picking on powerless people just to make a buck, no.
>> And look, a lot of these guys, it was Andrew Breitbart and
Ben Shapiro and it could be look, that you're trying to get by.
I was an extra totally hilarious stories, I used to write in TV, but
I didn't like it, I never want to do that, I did it for money.
But I always want to come back and start my own talk show and that's what we did
and we suffered for a long, long time making no money doing that, right?
But these guys, they wanted to make it in Hollywood and
that's partly why they're so bitter at Hollywood and at liberals.
>> So, yeah, that's a great point.
Man, a lot of them wanted to make it in the entertainment industry.
So, obviously we showed you the video of Michael Knowles, he was a theater kid.
Ben Shapiro wanted to be a screenwriter,
Steven Crowder was a child actor, things dried up clearly.
And then do I need to remind you about James O'Keefe?
I think I do, I think I do.
>> No.
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[LAUGH] Ana you're gonna accidentally make him famous [LAUGH] anyways.
Yes, all these guys wanted to be in theater, they wanted to be actors,
they wanted to be screenwriters, they couldn't make it.
And so, now they're taking it out on a lot of that community and
it's really the most callous way to make money.
It's disgusting and you should understand that that's part of media, right?
And these guys think I'm gonna target this audience that I know likes that kind of
hate and I'm gonna monetize.