Daily Wire host: “The Olympic torch ceremony is an overtly pagan ritual”
Michael Knowles, on the Olympic ceremony: “They're gonna do weird pagan stuff”
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Citation From the July 26, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): Now, speaking of gaslighting, a transvestite, a drag queen, has been tasked with carrying the Olympic torch on part of its journey to the Paris Olympics and this has sent the conservative commentariat into a tizzy.
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The Olympic torch ceremony is an overtly pagan ritual that begins with a reenactment of the vestal virgins worshiping at the temple of Hera. OK? And then they carry the eternal flame of the Olympic torch on this overtly pagan journey toward this resuscitation of overtly pagan games. So, yeah, they're gonna do weird pagan stuff. I don't know. To me this seems totally on brand. You know me, I'm as rock-ribbed about the trans movement as anybody. I think transgenderism ought to be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level, but pagans gonna do pagan things. I'm not a big Olympic fan either. I think -- I didn't know the Olympics were happening this year. Mr. Davies, who's kind of a big beefcake of a producer and was considering, actually being in the Olympics when he was a younger man, he's really plugged into it. He even called the story to my attention. But I don't know. Yeah. Stuff that derives from weird ancient Greek, especially -- oh, wow. There's a gay thing at a Greek festival. Wow. Stop the presses. I don't know. I guess it takes more to scandalize me than weird pagan sex stuff at a Greek thing.