On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talked about the way the mainstream media has been covering Congresswoman Katie Hill’s (D-CA) sex scandal, and Congresswoman Ihlan Omar’s (D-MN) sex scandal. Video and partial transcript below:
There are two major sex scandals going on right now in the House of Representatives, among Democrats, that not a lot of people are talking about. The mainstream media are going to block it out, because it doesn’t look good for Democrats. There’s Katie Hill, who is a Democrat congresswoman who was engaged in not just a lesbian love affair for a couple of years, she was engaged in what was termed a “throuple,” a three-way love affair with her husband and this very young staffer.
There is a photo that leaked of Katie Hill sitting completely naked, combing and brushing her twenty-two year old staffer’s hair. This photo leaked. Now, imagine, of course, if this were a Republican, what this story would – I mean, this would be wall-to wall-coverage, demands for resignations, this would be going on 24/7.
Now, imagine you were a man. Could you – oh my gosh. I can’t even contemplate if it were a man. But because it’s a Democrat, it goes away. Ilhan Omar is in a sex scandal now because she left her husband for – oh, by the way, the thing with Katie Hill, the reason she broke up the couple and her husband is now filing for divorce, is because Katie Hill simultaneously was sleeping with her male campaign consultant as well.
Same thing here, Ilhan Omar has an affair with her campaign consultant. She’s married; he’s married. He leaves his wife, she’s leaving her husband, and they’re having an affair together. I don’t mention this because I even want to publicly shame Katie Hill and Ilhan Omar for their sex scandals. Politicians having sex scandals is not news; politicians having sex scandals is a daily occurrence, especially this is true of members of Congress. So I don’t mention it to shame them.
I mention it – I mean, I’m sure they feel a lot of shame, as they should – but I mention it because, one, it shows you the double standard on how sex is treated among Democrats and Republicans. Two, it shows you how complicated sex and relationships are. I mean, there were some people who were applauding Katie Hill for leaving her husband because she’s come out as a lesbian now, and her husband responded and said, she’s not a lesbian, she’s bisexual and she’s leaving me for a man. So that’s a bad thing, but it would be good if she left him for a woman for some reason.
To show you the double standard on the behavior, on every topic, from sex to rhetoric to lynchings, all the way to presidential rhetoric at the top. When Democrats do it, when the Left does it, it’s wonderful and beautiful and to be celebrated; when Republicans do exactly the same thing, it’s awful and terrible and could never be worse. The one advantage – we talked about yesterday about how awful social media is, and how it really feeds into this narcissism we all feel in our culture – the one advantage of this high technology is it gives us a lot of historical perspective. Nothing goes away on the Internet; the Internet is forever. We can compare these things, we can expose that hypocrisy. That is the silver lining in the storm cloud.
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