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Drag Queens Don’t Kill People, Guns Do

Drag Queens Don’t Kill People, Guns Do

The latest right wing fantasy is a giant distraction.

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Mar 23, 2023
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Armed protest at a drag queen story time in Columbus, Ohio. Joseph Scheller / The Columbus Dispatch via USA TODAY Network

by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC – As you might know by now, Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire podcast network has been waging a holy war against trans people and drag shows, insisting that they’re a danger to children even though they’re not. 

The truth is that conservative youth pastors and Republican politicians have committed myriad sex crimes in recent months and years, including sexual assault against children and possessing child porn. Knowles and his colleagues Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro don’t want us to talk about all that, so they’re waving the shiny object of drag queens and trans women to distract their disciples from the real predators.

This week, on his stupid podcast, Michael Knowles was at it again.

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