The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 90 - Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers？ Beethoven Canceled. Florida Hit Hard by Hurricane Sally.

00:00:00.000 you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not

00:00:06.140 be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended

00:00:09.800 with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates

00:00:13.980 welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the abraham accords

00:00:22.100 have been executed at the white house i was there to witness the historic event and while there were

00:00:28.000 great speeches given by the representatives of all of the countries privy to the accords whether

00:00:34.120 that be the united states or israel or the united arab emirates or bahrain i thought there was

00:00:39.440 something particularly noteworthy about the remarks of israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu now

00:00:45.900 bb has been accused throughout his career of being a warmonger and he sure as hell is making a lot of

00:00:53.360 peace on his way out of power as likely we're seeing the end of the bb reign in israel we are

00:01:00.160 seeing a real ignited sense of peace and graciousness take a listen to some of the prime minister's

00:01:06.300 comments thank you both for your wise leadership and for working with the united states in israel

00:01:11.520 to expand the circle of peace i am grateful

00:01:16.000 i am grateful to king hamad of bahrain and to you foreign minister abdul latif al-zayani for joining us

00:01:26.560 joining us in bringing hope to all the children of abraham

00:01:33.520 to all of israel's friends in the middle east those who are with us today and those who will join

00:01:48.560 us tomorrow i say assalamu alaikum peace unto thee shalom

00:01:56.240 florida governor ron desantis has issued a state of emergency for the panhandle counties of our state

00:02:06.320 those are in the first congressional district which i serve and as i've talked to state emergency

00:02:12.400 managers and local officials we see a number of water rescues underway what's occurring is really a

00:02:19.280 series of months and months of rainfall being dumped on the florida panhandle in a matter of

00:02:25.920 hours and there are two effects here first is the effect of the combined storm surge with

00:02:32.480 these heavy heavy rains but as the storm moves north the rain is going to continue to fall and

00:02:39.360 it is going to fill the rivers and then those rivers will crest and when they flow downstream toward

00:02:45.600 the gulf of mexico they're going to encounter flood plains that are already full of water and so the

00:02:52.640 flooding impact while severe now and combined with the storm surge is not going to abate

00:02:59.200 just when the storm moves on there will be a second wave if you will of risk associated with those

00:03:05.600 floods i spoke with governor desantis yesterday he talked about the positioning of water rescue

00:03:11.840 assets the support for our local officials who are engaged in that work we're seeing reports of many

00:03:17.920 many uh rescue requests to the escambia county sheriff's office and that work is underway please

00:03:24.560 continue to follow your local emergency management offices wear has also covered this very closely and

00:03:32.640 is getting out the important information as to where people can go for high ground but it's it's very

00:03:38.080 important now if you are able not to overburden emergency management officials by making good decisions by being

00:03:45.360 resilient by following the direction of our local officials that will help ensure that our resources

00:03:52.160 are best directed to those in the most severe need please pray for the florida panhandle these are tough

00:03:58.080 times for us but frankly we're going to get through this we are used to it we're very well equipped to deal

00:04:05.120 with these kinds of storms and we're dealing with really an extraordinary amount of water right now

00:04:10.880 that can be quite dangerous and we ask for the support and cooperation of our residents and citizens

00:04:17.520 as we encounter the challenge ahead governor desantis was on the weather channel discussing

00:04:22.240 this storm just moments ago take a listen we have uh both with the florida national guard we've

00:04:27.120 activated hundreds of national guardsmen they have high water vehicles to be able to go in and perform

00:04:32.640 rescues if needed we also have helicopters staged in the area and then we also have activated some of the

00:04:38.880 urban search and rescue teams have scrambled those from other parts of the state uh staged them up in

00:04:43.920 north florida and so they'll be ready to go obviously when you have 80 mile an hour winds uh they're not

00:04:50.000 going to be able to operate in that so as the winds die down if there's help needed they will be there

00:04:54.960 ready to do it uh and so we're really looking at this yes it actually got stronger on the wind and 100 mile

00:05:00.800 an hour winds is nothing to sneeze at but as you mentioned there's so much water being dropped there's going

00:05:05.600 to be more this is a very slow moving storm you're going to see more and more water accumulate you're

00:05:11.280 going to continue to see flooding uh but what will happen is as this storm continues to move past places

00:05:17.520 like pensacola and goes north the water that it drops north of the panhandle is also going to impact

00:05:24.320 floods that could happen uh several days from now so this is not something that's just going to be a

00:05:28.720 one or two day thing uh people are going to have to be vigilant for for several days

00:05:36.080 now even beethoven is being canceled vox's nate sloan and charlie harding have the story how beethoven's

00:05:45.040 fifth symphony put the classism in classical music now you may be wondering what did beethoven say that

00:05:52.320 was so offensive well actually nothing the critique of beethoven is not a consequence of any of his

00:05:59.040 action or behavior or speech but simply that he achieved such a level of success and he became so

00:06:07.520 symbolic within the classical movement that the perception was able to spread that one had to be

00:06:15.200 and look like beethoven to be successful and so merely by being a white male the argument being

00:06:23.200 made in this vox piece is that beethoven perpetuated elitism and classism and exclusion within classical music

00:06:34.640 here's my hot take nobody should have to apologize for their gender or their race no matter what it is

00:06:42.880 and success and achievement in humankind will come in every gender in every color in every creed and

00:06:52.960 in every background that's what makes us so special as humans that we can come from different places and

00:07:00.080 have different experiences and achieve greatness like beethoven did and so in the fifth symphony the

00:07:08.240 piece begins with this dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun and then it ends with the lighter

00:07:15.440 melodic tunes and it symbolizes going from you know this kind of dramatic moment of struggle to triumph and

00:07:23.840 for beethoven that was reflected autobiographically in his need to overcome personal deafness to become this

00:07:33.200 great composer but now the move from you know struggle to triumph by a white man is viewed as some sort of

00:07:41.200 appropriation of

00:07:43.760 overcoming obstacles that it's not possible for a white man to truly understand and overcome obstacles

00:07:50.400 and so it's improper for

00:07:52.800 the fifth symphony to be cast in this light through the lens of history and through the lens of music

00:07:58.960 what nonsense no matter what color you are there are folks out there who have to overcome obstacles

00:08:06.080 you know i see it every day in my wonderful mother since i've been three years old my mother has been in

00:08:11.280 a wheelchair she often has pain that she never even talks about or complains about and she triumphs in her

00:08:18.320 life despite her personal challenges and while i'm sure there are challenges that absolutely people have to

00:08:25.280 overcome as a consequence of their circumstance it is not a reason to demean the successes of others

00:08:33.840 just because of their skin color and so while vox may be up for canceling beethoven 0.69

00:08:39.920 i'm gonna play me some fifth symphony tonight

00:08:46.160 dr li ming yon presents as a whistleblower calling out the chinese communist party for its role in

00:08:53.280 coronavirus she was on tucker carlson tonight take a listen to the interview

00:08:58.240 is the virologist who says she has evidence about where this pandemic actually came from

00:09:03.520 we're happy to have her on tonight doctor thanks so much for coming on hi hi tucker hi tucker thank

00:09:08.720 you thank you i know that you've published some of your research you're planning on publishing more

00:09:12.640 soon give us for a non-scientific audience a summary of why you believe this virus came from a lab in

00:09:20.160 wuhan please okay briefly from my first report i can present the solid scientific evidence to our

00:09:29.040 audience that this virus kobe 19 sas kobe 2 virus actually is not from nature it is a man-made virus

00:09:40.480 created in the lab based on the china military discover and owned the very unique bat coronavirus 0.99

00:09:50.160 which cannot affect people but after the modification becomes a very harmful virus at now

00:09:59.200 so i have evidence to show why they can do it what they have done how did they do it now this gets

00:10:08.320 even weirder because following the interview instagram actually labeled this as misinformation as untrue based

00:10:17.040 on the reports that they have purportedly aggregated from independent fact checkers my question is who

00:10:24.480 fact checks the fact checkers and why is big tech given the ability to arbitrate truth or falsity in

00:10:31.200 our country you know the motives and suggestions and science of dr yawn are fair to be questioned and

00:10:40.080 tested other people should be brought in to observe whether or not she's correct in her reflections on

00:10:46.480 what the chinese communist party has said but here's what i know when you've got a few folks at instagram or at

00:10:53.600 other big tech companies that just declare themselves the arbiters of truth those who can be so enlightened that

00:11:01.760 they can determine whether or not something is candid before the rest of us have the opportunity to test those

00:11:08.000 mores against facts and evidence we lose the important robust debate and discussion

00:11:14.080 that is absolutely necessary for a free society so i don't know if dr yawn is telling the truth

00:11:20.720 i do know that the chinese communist party lied to our country i do know that they had the gene sequence 0.59

00:11:27.520 and held it and that they didn't release it and so it's entirely consistent with what the ccp has done

00:11:33.760 to uh i think fall in line with these allegations by dr yawn but i am not here for big tech telling

00:11:41.360 the rest of us what we can and cannot believe i suspect tucker will be dealing with this tonight

00:11:47.280 on his show and i'm going to be watching some economic news cnbc's fred imbert has the story

00:11:57.280 dow rises 100 points ahead of fed announcement and today we're seeing stocks rise as investors are

00:12:04.560 bracing themselves for the federal reserve's latest decision on monetary policy this will be the last

00:12:10.560 meeting of the fed before the u.s presidential election some good earnings numbers from fedex

00:12:16.800 boosting sentiment and it appears that chairman jerome powell has more tolerance for inflation with

00:12:24.000 the decision to keep interest rates low so markets responding well to that we hope that the president

00:12:30.640 is re-elected and that that maintains the sense of optimism in our economy and in our country that

00:12:37.040 has driven more investment here that has created rising wages and that really put us in a great

00:12:42.880 position before this pandemic so more inflation likely means that it's a good time for americans to

00:12:49.040 accrue debt right now you know our boomer parents really benefited by accruing debt for their

00:12:53.920 homes and then seeing inflation rise so their earnings rose and at the same time their debt

00:13:00.080 wasn't rising at the same degree as their earnings so they were able to build equity in homes and pay

00:13:05.760 them off faster and sell them for higher prices with rising real estate if inflation occurs we could see

00:13:12.640 the most damaging impacts for savers and seniors and those who are you know still earning who are not on

00:13:19.040 a fixed income would likely be the greatest beneficiaries but all in all we still just

00:13:24.080 have to see the productivity and the job numbers continuing to beat expectations and even in the

00:13:30.000 wake of this pandemic the trump administration has found a way to ensure that we continue to beat

00:13:35.680 expectations on jobs that will drive productivity that will hopefully instill greater consumer confidence

00:13:42.320 and will ensure that america's best economic days are still ahead of us

00:13:49.600 i got the chance to join lou dobbs last evening take a listen to the interview in florida there are

00:13:55.120 three reasons why the president is surging first the jewish vote donald trump has been the most pro-israel

00:14:01.200 candidate probably in america's history today's abraham accords will only create more enthusiasm for

00:14:07.360 the president in florida with those voters second is the hispanic vote this might not be politically

00:14:12.800 correct lou but the hispanic vote is surging for president trump because they are turned off by this

00:14:18.880 black lives matter movement that is becoming increasingly violent and increasingly destructive 1.00

00:14:23.840 and i would say the third reason is that the biden campaign itself has become paralyzed by their own

00:14:29.040 political correctness you won't believe this but the biden campaign is refusing to go door to door to

00:14:34.960 to talk to their voters and encourage them to participate in the political process and so it's a

00:14:39.360 lot like the trump campaign is going back and forth on the basketball court scoring uncontested layups

00:14:45.280 because the biden campaign has become so paralyzed by this nonsense over the virus needing to impact

00:14:51.600 every element of our life major league baseball announcing an agreement between the league and the

00:15:00.320 players association to move elements of the playoffs into a bubble this will be the first time since i

00:15:06.800 think 1944 that the world series is not contested on one of the home fields of the teams and it appears

00:15:14.960 they have learned lessons from the nba the nba has been quite successful keeping coronavirus at bay allowing the

00:15:22.240 playoffs to occur with the participation of the major stars of the sport and it absolutely would be a shame if

00:15:29.760 as baseball playoffs got going you didn't see some of the sports great players able to participate

00:15:36.320 and compete as those playoffs roll on so i think this is a good sign that the players in the league

00:15:42.160 were able to work together to emphasize player safety to maintain a high level of competitiveness

00:15:49.040 and hopefully have a great world series a game one is set to start on october 20th and it'll be great to see

00:15:55.280 thanks for listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates a little bit of sports news the denver

00:16:04.640 nuggets are moving on to face the lakers in the western conference finals in the nba and my miami

00:16:10.640 heat the team i've rooted for since i was a young man living in miami shores they won game one against

00:16:16.720 the favored boston celtics and it was great to see though i have to say there are elements of the nba

00:16:23.520 that are just becoming increasingly difficult to watch like when i saw one of these social justice

00:16:29.040 messages on the back of a jersey that said liberation it really highlighted a level of ignorance you know

00:16:36.480 i've been to places in the world where liberation is needed for the people and for anyone to think

00:16:43.360 that america is not a liberated people i think is to simply deny the reality that that we see existing

00:16:51.280 both in our country and throughout human existence we are the freest most capable most prosperous people

00:17:00.000 that have ever existed and we're so lucky that not only do we get to be born in this period of time

00:17:05.040 but that we get to be born as americans or those who are naturalized get the opportunity to be americans

00:17:10.720 we should cherish that we should love that and to you know state that we need improvement and that

00:17:17.200 there are areas where society can improve is as obvious as the written word of the constitution

00:17:22.640 itself because our founder said that we would always need to strive to be a more perfect union 0.88

00:17:27.440 and that's obviously the case but to suggest that we are not liberated is in fact wrong and ignorant

00:17:34.800 and just increasingly a burden on the nba and sports in general and it shouldn't be because sports should

00:17:42.400 bring us together it should create tribal bonds that permeate politics and work and other elements

00:17:48.320 of social life and we should get to enjoy the achievements of our fellow americans who can do

00:17:55.440 things that we cannot but when you see this stuff where folks are suggesting that we are not liberated

00:18:01.360 it really makes you question the values and the judgments that are placed in this particular exercise

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The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - September 16, 2020

Episode 90 - Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers？ Beethoven Canceled. Florida Hit Hard by Hurricane Sally.

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