It sounds funny to say, but the media may have just hit a new low. Angela Rye, appearing on Chris Cuomo’s show, compared wearing a MAGA hat to donning a KKK hood. Why does the media constantly promote these radical left notions? Michael Knowles breaks it down on Thursday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show.”
“It’s very triggering for her (Angela Rye), she thinks of the MAGA hat as the KKK hood,” said Knowles. “She says, ‘As long as that’s the case, we’re gonna have problems.’ Right, there is a problem, but that’s your problem. That’s an Angela Rye problem. That’s a Left problem, it’s not my problem that Angela Rye lives in a fantasy world. That’s not my problem. Angela Rye’s feelings are not my problem.”
He continued: “The fact is, a MAGA hat is not a KKK hood in part because the MAGA hat represents the Republican Party and the KKK hood represents the Democrat Party. There’s nothing racist about making America great again. It’s been a Republican slogan now for 40 years. Nixon used it. Reagan famously used it. She says that she can’t be friends in this interview, she can’t be friends with certain conservatives. If people wear the hat, she can’t be friends with them. That’s your problem. Sorry, darling, okay? I mean, grow up. I can’t make you grow up. I can’t resolve your daddy issues. That’s not up to me.”
“Not only am I unwilling to do it, I actually can’t do it,” he added. “People will order themselves toward virtue, they will order themselves toward discipline. They will order themselves toward recognizing a moral standard, or, those standards will be imposed from above by the government or by some giant oppressive force. That’s the way it’s gonna happen. I can’t argue with Angela Rye’s feelings, they’re her feelings. I can just point to reality, and when you look at the reality of that video, those 16-year-old Catholic school kids were not the KKK. They’re not. I’m sorry. Maybe Angela Rye needs to talk it over with her therapist or something. I’m not a therapist. I just talk about politics. I just try to advance a conservative agenda which is based in reality. It’s based in objective reality, not subjective fantasy.”
Video and transcript below:
What they’re (Democrats) trying to do to excuse their awful behavior is push a tyranny of relativism to say, “Well, who can really say what happened? Who knows? I mean, yeah, look okay… so there are two hours of video footage showing that the Covington kids behaved admirably and with great maturity, and showing that Nathan Phillips is a lying lunatic and showing that the Black Israelites are horrible racists screaming at these white kids, okay, there’s video – that’s one perspective. But I don’t want that to be true.”
Some of these columns they posted, they said, “Look okay, the video shows one thing, but we know what we saw.” No, you didn’t. Look, I know what they saw too. What they saw was what they wanted to see. But they didn’t see the truth. It’s this tyranny of relativism. This hysteria and this primacy of feelings, emotivism rather than looking at objective reality. Nowhere is this clearer than on CNN, on Chris Cuomo’s show, he had a CNN contributor, Angela Rye, come on to compare the MAGA hats to the KKK hood.
Angela Rye: This “Make America Great Again” hat is just as maddening and frustrating and triggering for me to look at as a KKK hood. Like, that is the type of hatred that his policies represent. And until we can have common ground and understand that it’s that triggering, we’re gonna continue to have problems.”
It’s very triggering for her, she thinks of the MAGA hat as the KKK hood. She says, “As long as that’s the case, we’re gonna have problems.” Right, there is a problem, but that’s your problem. That’s an Angela Rye problem. That’s a Left problem, it’s not my problem that Angela Rye lives in a fantasy world. That’s not my problem. Angela Rye’s feelings are not my problem. The fact is, a MAGA hat is not a KKK hood in part because the MAGA hat represents the Republican party and the KKK hood represents the Democrat party. There’s nothing racist about making America great again. It’s been a Republican slogan now for 40 years. Nixon used it. Reagan famously used it. She says that she can’t be friends in this interview, she can’t be friends with certain conservatives. If people wear the hat, she can’t be friends with them. That’s your problem. Sorry, darling, okay? I mean, grow up. I can’t make you grow up. I can’t resolve your daddy issues. That’s not up to me.
Not only am I unwilling to do it, I actually can’t do it. People will order themselves toward virtue, they will order themselves toward discipline. They will order themselves toward recognizing a moral standard, or, those standards will be imposed from above by the government or by some giant oppressive force. That’s the way it’s gonna happen. All of the Founding Fathers wrote about this, especially John Adams and Hamilton and a lot of the Federalists. They wrote about how, if the people lose its maturity, its sense of discipline, its virtue, its moral understanding, its religiosity, its humility. If the people loses that, it’s all sunk. We’re all sunk. We just end up with this. I can’t argue with Angela Rye’s feelings, they’re her feelings. I can just point to reality, and when you look at the reality of that video, those 16-year-old Catholic school kids were not the KKK. They’re not. I’m sorry. Maybe Angela Rye needs to talk it over with her therapist or something. I’m not a therapist. I just talk about politics. I just try to advance a conservative agenda which is based in reality. It’s based in objective reality, not subjective fantasy.