Andrew Klavan

Andrew Klavan is a crime and suspense novelist who has written essays and op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Like Knowles, Klavan is a consistent supporter of Trump and subscribes to religious conservatism that is sometimes more moderate than Walsh’s.

Sexism:

Klavan argued that the female body is “made to attract men,” and women should sympathize with the “powerful sense of attraction” that men feel. “If women are asking us to respect them, as we should,” Klavan asked, “shouldn’t they have a little bit of understanding of our experiences?” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 4/2/19]

Klavan said that “the video game industry” is “already” the “battleground for culture wars” and that Gamergate -- a sexist attack on women gamers that Vice described as “a massive, coordinated harassment campaign masquerading as a pseudo-political movement” -- was “people trying to defend their right to play whatever games they wanted.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 3/6/19, Vice.com, 9/14/17]

Klavan said, “Feminism has created this generation of women who think they matter because they are women, who think their ideas matter because they are women, who think their ideas are protected because they are women. They’re not.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/11/19]

Klavan claimed that “the future is always male” and warns that “demonizing men causes mass shootings. [The Andrew Klavan Show, 8/5/19]

Racism/bigotry:

Klavan claimed conservatives have always said that all minorities are welcome into the country, but “there is a price of admission that you pay.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 1/07/19]

Klavan said “we should thank Christian white men” for creating our civilization. [The Andrew Klavan Show, 1/5/19]

Klavan claimed that birtherism wasn’t racist. It was based only on the fact that Obama “didn’t feel like he was one of us -- not because of the color of his skin but because of the color of his patriotism.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 2/4/19]

Klavan claimed that blackface isn’t “insulting per se” but is a “hurtful idea.” He said there should be acceptable forms of blackface, such as if a child wants to dress up as Black Panther for Halloween. [The Andrew Klavan Show, 2/7/19]

Klavan said the actions and manifesto of the white supremacist shooter who killed over 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, don’t “necessarily condemn anything that he was trying to represent.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 3/18/19; NBC News, 5/2/19]

Klavan claimed that the outrage white suburbanites felt when Black kids were bused into their neighborhoods was understandable. “Isn’t there a difference,” Klavan asked, between “standing up for the right of Black people to move into a community once they can afford it, once they’ve worked their self way up a ladder,” and “a busload of kids who haven’t been brought up the way your kids have brought up?” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 3/20/19]

Klavan said that “you can disagree with [Trump’s] policies,” but “you cannot say is that he’s a racist or that he’s acted in a racist way. You could say Obama was a racist.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 5/21/19]

Klavan said the U.S. should not allow immigrants into this country who don’t share our “Western values.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/11/19]

Klavan speculated that Omar may believe in Sharia, saying, “Does she support Sharia law, which I think is the dividing line between Muslims we can live with [and] Muslims we can’t live with?” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/16/19]

Klavan said his “joke about” Omar is that she was “so angry she almost exploded, but the TSA took the belt off her.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/17/19]

Klavan again said that Obama used his birth certificate to “troll the right, and it worked. And Trump trolled him back.” He claimed that birtherism was not racist because Obama did not sound like a “typical” American president. [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/22/19]

Anti-LGBTQ bigotry:

Klavan said, “Transgender women aren’t women ... and the only way you can maintain that fallacy is if you silence people who disagree.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 1/31/19]

According to Klavan, “Leftism basically implants its newspeak, its white lies, into our language by insisting that it’s impolite and hurtful” to not address people by the gender and name they identify with. Klavan also said, “You can cut your body into 17 different pieces, you still will not change your gender. Every cell you have is of a specific gender.” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 4/12/19]

Klavan argued that “if gay people are going to come on board, they have to subscribe … to the founding ideas” by accepting the fundamental principles of religious liberty. [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/3/19]

Klavan warned that “these gay activists are out there prowling like lions” to corrupt Christian children with their “terrible, terrible culture” [The Andrew Klavan Show, 7/19/19]

Michael Knowles

Michael Knowles is an occasional guest on Fox News programs and author of Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide -- a completely blank 266-page book that sold 60,000 copies in less than a week and became a top-selling book on Amazon. Like Walsh, Knowles opposes reproductive rights and trans acceptance, and he is arguably the most vocal supporter of the Trump administration among the four Daily Wire podcast hosts.

Anti-abortion extremism:

Knowles declared that abortion is similar to what he described as child sacrifice in witchcraft, saying that Americans “sacrifice our babies” to “hyper-individualism,” “total freedom of choice, and freedom from obligation,” and concluding, “It’s the same exact thing.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 2/26/19]

Racism/bigotry:

Knowles asked why former President Barack Obama isn’t considered also white, saying, “His mother is white, he was raised largely by a white family, if not exclusively.” Knowles also claimed that Obama’s education and political career demonstrate that he “is like the most privileged guy ever.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 3/12/19]

Knowles claimed, “A lot of Democrats these days don’t like Jews. They have antipathy for Jews, and they have a racial preference for Arabs.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 5/14/19]

Knowles said the “leftist culture in America that hates itself, that hates the West, that hates our tradition, that hates our system of self-government” wants people to support immigration so immigrants “can come here and erase our own culture.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 5/23/19]

Knowles claimed that birtherism was not a racist movement and people thought Obama isn’t an American because he “doesn’t speak like an American. He doesn’t speak in the sort of ideas that are traditionally American ideas.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 6/04/19]

Knowles said the left is seeking to “flood this country” with undocumented immigrants to “radically change American culture” while “the right wants to ... maintain the integrity of our nation.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 6/18/19]

Knowles claimed, “There is a lot more evidence that Ilhan Omar has sympathies for Al Qaeda than there is that Donald Trump is a racial bigot.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 7/25/19]

Anti-LGBTQ extremism:

Knowles lamented that our “mentally insane society” “indulged and encouraged” trans people. [The Michael Knowles Show, 1/16/19]

Knowles argued that “in hot-button issues like transgenderism … you could face social consequences if you speak obvious truths,” but “no one gains when you indulge delusion. No one gains when you indulge in fantasy. That’s a false compassion.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 4/04/19]

Knowles said that if “gay people really just wanted to be tolerated by society and accepted by society, why would they choose” pride for their motto when it is “the worst sin of all,” further claiming, “The left has a much bigger agenda than sexual tolerance. Sex is just a way in.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 6/03/19]

Knowles asserted that “we need a definition of marriage” and claimed, “Marriage is between a man and a woman. No amount of social engineering is going to change that. And I think it’s ultimately an act of political cowardice for us to back away and say … we don’t want to fight that fight.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 6/20/19]

Knowles claimed that the “logical conclusion” of the sexual revolution is that “we’re going to normalize pedophilia.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 6/24/19]

Knowles said that in supporting trans people, the left is making  “a power grab for ontological control -- the control, the power, to redefine reality itself.” [The Michael Knowles Show, 8/1/19]

Matt Walsh

Matt Walsh is a former blogger who has embraced the label “theocratic fascist.” He uses his podcast to consistently push a regressive form of Catholicism that opposes the legality of same-sex marriage and trans rights. Walsh frequently rails on what he describes as the evils of abortion rights and recently helped organize an anti-choice rally in Pittsburgh. 

Sexism: 

Walsh has claimed he did not learn “a single thing” from the #MeToo movement and that most men learned nothing from it “because we already knew that.” Walsh went on to minimize the movement by limiting its message to just “don’t rape.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 1/15/19]

Walsh asserted that “one of the things that got lost in the #MeToo hysteria” was that “women have their own advantages” and many women manipulate men with their sexuality for “career advancements.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 1/16/19]

Walsh claimed that “insecurity is what drives” feminists and that they are “insecure about the fact that they themselves are not men.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 3/6/19]

Walsh complained that because of #MeToo “hysteria,” a lot of “chivalrous and good men” are now “afraid” to “help another person, especially a woman, because they don’t want to be accused of anything.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 5/9/19]

Walsh said the “defining factor” for sexism, harrasment, assault, and rape “is how the woman feels about it.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 6/12/19]

Walsh claimed the only “everyday” oppression that feminists living in “urban centers” may face is manspreading and being complimented at work. [The Matt Walsh Show, 7/25/19]

Walsh pointed to an overly “feminine influence” on boys as a potential contributing cause for mass shooters. [The Matt Walsh Show, 8/6/19]

Anti-abortion extremism:

Walsh characterized abortion rights supporters as people who “support giving lethal injection to infants,” saying, “You are a sick and perverted person if you support that.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 1/23/19]

Walsh said Planned Parenthood is “a rapist’s best friend.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 5/15/19]

Walsh called abortion providers “hitm[e]n” and “assassins.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 5/23/19]

Racism/bigotry:

Walsh called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “Jew-hating.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 2/12/19]

After criticism erupted against John Wayne for an unearthed interview he gave to Playboy in 1971 in which he said, “I believe in white supremacy,” Walsh claimed that the controversy is part of a coordinated effort to deny white men the ability “to look back in history and admire or enjoy the work of other white males. … Our heroes must be culturally approved.” [The Washington Post, 2/20/19; The Matt Walsh Show, 2/20/19]

Walsh said that unlike previous immigrants, current immigrants to the U.S. are “not building the country because it’s already built,” and they are “Balkanizing” the country. [The Matt Walsh Show, 4/05/19]

Walsh stated of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), “There is no evidence at all that she is loyal to America.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 5/06/19]

Anti-LGBTQ extremism:

Walsh said dressing in drag is “female blackface” and drag shows are “essentially female minstrel shows.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 2/14/19]

Walsh stated that if marriage “is going to have any purpose whatsoever, then it must be a union between a man and a woman.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 3/01/19]

Walsh asserted that if there is trans acceptance in society, “Western civilization is over.” [The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special, 3/31/19]

Walsh said that not referring to trans or gender nonbinary people by the appropriate gender pronouns “is a hill to die on” because “I’m not going to lie for you, and that is just a lie and I won’t participate in it.” [The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special, 3/31/19]

Walsh ranted against “gay adoption,” falsely saying children adopted by same-sex couples are at a “disadvantage” because they have “certain emotional, psychological needs” that will not be met by same-sex parents. [The Matt Walsh Show, 4/18/19]

Walsh claimed that “people are so desperate to be included … in the supposedly oppressed LGBT category that they are making up labels that make no sense, just so they can be included. It’s become a very sought-after club to be in.” Walsh stated that the LGBTQ community “is not an oppressed group” but is a “privileged group.” [The Matt Walsh Show, 6/03/19]

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