The Matt Walsh Show - September 10, 2018


Ep. 100 - The Republicans Demonstrate Cowardice By Funding Planned Parenthood

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Republican funding Planned Parenthoods abortion efforts Republican funding of Planned Parenthoods
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Godspeed Michael Knowles Kelly Robinson Jeffrey Dahmer
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Happy 100th Birthday to me! In celebration of this momentous occasion, I decided to celebrate by celebrating the fact that Planned Parenthood has been funding a company that executes over 300,000 human beings a year.

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00:00:00.000 As you can see, I am broadcasting live from the surface of the sun because of the brightness.
00:00:06.880 I don't know why it's so bright.
00:00:07.920 Actually, it's raining outside, so I'm not sure why it looks like this.
00:00:10.200 Actually, it's a big moment, though.
00:00:12.200 I believe this is my 100th episode.
00:00:15.560 So it's a huge milestone, not just in my own life, but also, I think, in the history of the world.
00:00:21.940 It's a huge moment.
00:00:23.120 And in celebration, I will now issue forth one celebratory honk of my horn.
00:00:34.760 This is very exciting, okay?
00:00:36.400 Are you ready for this?
00:00:37.940 This is huge.
00:00:42.000 Oh, I can't.
00:00:42.820 Well, yeah, because my car is off, so I can't.
00:00:45.760 The horn doesn't work because my car is off.
00:00:48.160 This is very sad, isn't it?
00:00:49.140 This is pitiful. 0.60
00:00:49.680 My one pathetic celebration I can't even do because the car is off. 0.95
00:00:55.180 It's a very sad.
00:00:56.520 Michael Knowles celebrated his 200th episode recently, and I think they threw like a parade for him.
00:01:02.320 And he rode on a golden chariot attached to an elephant down the street, I believe.
00:01:08.100 And here I am in my car in the rain with a broken horn shouting into my webcam.
00:01:16.120 That's my celebration.
00:01:17.560 Let's just move past it.
00:01:20.840 Now, I'd like to turn your attention to a story, and I'm going to read a little bit of this to you.
00:01:27.780 This is in The Hill.
00:01:30.980 The headline is, Planned Parenthood launches largest ground game in its history.
00:01:36.260 It says, Planned Parenthood's political arm is launching a massive effort to reach millions of voters in order to unseat Republicans at the state and federal levels.
00:01:44.560 Kelly Robinson, National Organizing Director for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, says Planned Parenthood Votes is launching its largest ground game ever to turn out voters and educate them about what's at stake.
00:01:55.320 We'll knock on more doors and reach more voters than ever before in a midterm cycle.
00:02:00.840 Planned Parenthood and its partners say that it plans to reach 4.5 million voters before Election Day through advertising, door knocking, and other means.
00:02:09.480 This ground campaign is in addition to the $20 million ad campaign that the organization announced in March.
00:02:19.460 Now, the fact that Planned Parenthood is spending tens of millions of dollars to help Democrats get elected is, that's nothing new.
00:02:29.540 They've been doing that for a very long time.
00:02:31.400 But there is something different this time around.
00:02:34.180 Something that's a little bit different.
00:02:36.180 Because actually, the Republican Party is funding the effort.
00:02:41.720 The Republican Party is funding the effort to unseat themselves.
00:02:48.700 Okay.
00:02:49.760 Just if you're wondering about how smart the Republican Party is, there you go.
00:02:54.660 The Republican Party, which I should remind you, has been in control of the government for two years.
00:02:59.380 That Republican Party is funding Planned Parenthood and thus funding this effort to destroy them.
00:03:04.660 But, you know, more importantly, they are funding also an effort to destroy babies.
00:03:11.440 The government is continuing to hand hundreds of millions of dollars a year to a company that executes over 300,000 babies a year.
00:03:20.640 I feel like I should repeat that figure just for emphasis.
00:03:24.700 The Republican Party, the Planned Parenthood, sorry, I get them confused now because they seem very similar.
00:03:31.040 Planned Parenthood aborts over 300,000 babies every year.
00:03:37.840 And this is from, they claim that, oh, well, abortion is only 3% of what we do, which is a total lie.
00:03:44.820 It's a completely made-up statistic.
00:03:46.760 It's an absolute, total, complete lie.
00:03:48.880 Um, but it also doesn't even matter because whatever percentage of the overall thing it is makes no difference.
00:03:58.020 The fact remains, we can look at the raw numbers and see they kill 300,000 human beings a year.
00:04:06.740 So the idea that, um, I mean, does anyone, would anyone look at Jeffrey Dahmer and say, and say, well, yeah, I mean, but serial killing,
00:04:15.920 that was only like 5% of what he did.
00:04:20.700 I mean, on a daily basis, it was only probably about 1%.
00:04:23.520 No, we, we, we, we don't, we don't look at that.
00:04:26.660 We don't, we don't, we don't look at the Nazi party and say, well, the Holocaust was only like 30% of what they did overall.
00:04:33.260 I mean, you think about everything else they did.
00:04:34.920 I mean, it was really only, because all that really matters is, is, is, is the fact that, um, they are murdering people.
00:04:42.460 Right. But the Republican party, um, as they are in charge of the government and have not only, not only have they, have they refrained from cutting off this taxpayer pipeline to this murderous organization,
00:04:56.600 they've actually taken active measures to prevent the severing of that pipeline.
00:05:02.240 And for that reason, it must be said that the Republican party is funding Planned Parenthood.
00:05:07.180 The Republican party is taking money out of your pocket and putting it into the blood soaked hands of baby killers. 0.96
00:05:13.300 This is not just a Democrat initiative anymore.
00:05:15.840 This is a Republican initiative.
00:05:17.260 And this is, you know, this is more than just cowardice because the cowardice of the Republican party gets a lot of attention. 1.00
00:05:28.600 We all know that the Republicans are a bunch of cowards. 1.00
00:05:31.280 And so, you know, that, that's true, but they're also idiots. 1.00
00:05:35.080 And I think that the idiocy of the GOP, uh, should get its due as well here. 1.00
00:05:40.860 That the Republicans are, are funding the Democrat party while they fund abortions. 0.98
00:05:47.260 Because Planned Parenthood, despite being a tax, um, a publicly subsidized organization is somehow allowed to funnel millions of dollars back into the coffers of Democrat campaigns.
00:06:01.780 So for, in the past, when it, when it had been the Democrats in charge of this, what the Democrats would do is it's a great deal for the Democrats because what they could do is they could take money from you,
00:06:10.740 give it to Planned Parenthood, and then Planned Parenthood would wash it and give it back to them.
00:06:15.500 And, I mean, great deal, right?
00:06:17.600 I mean, I don't, I don't know, it's, I don't see how it could possibly be legal, but it is a, is a great deal.
00:06:23.700 The Republicans had a chance to, uh, have had many chances to put an end to this money laundering operation, but they chose not to.
00:06:32.380 It's, it's, it's incredible.
00:06:34.540 Well, it's not incredible.
00:06:35.780 That's what makes it incredible.
00:06:37.060 What's incredible is that it's not incredible. 1.00
00:06:38.700 It's incredible that Republicans could be so inept, so stupid, so spineless, so gutless, so oblivious, so clueless, and yet they could be all of those things to such a degree, unsurprisingly. 0.99
00:06:53.320 Now, it is true that, um, Trump did partially defund Planned Parenthood a few months ago, uh, by, by changing a few of the health and human services rules, Planned Parenthood will now be deprived of like $50 million a year in tax funding. 0.99
00:07:10.880 And that's fine, that's good, nice, but, um, that's not even a drop in the bucket, because it still leaves half a billion dollars a year that Planned Parenthood will receive.
00:07:23.500 Before it was $550 million, now it's just $500 million.
00:07:28.540 $500 million of tax money a year goes to Planned Parenthood.
00:07:33.540 We gave Republicans total control of the government, and they have not even managed to put a stop to this.
00:07:42.980 They haven't even managed to put a stop to the insanely unethical practice of funding abortion conglomerates, um, which, which should have been square one. 0.97
00:07:58.080 They should have got that done in the first week, on the first day.
00:08:01.920 You know, if they really are a pro-life organization, think about it, the Republicans, they claim to be pro-life, pro-small government, and pro-financial responsibility.
00:08:16.820 Well, they would only need to be one of those things to defund Planned Parenthood.
00:08:21.380 If they were just one of them, they would have gotten it done in the first week.
00:08:24.720 Yet, they claim to be all three of those things.
00:08:28.660 They claim that those three things are their guiding principles, and yet they have provided us no evidence whatsoever to, uh, to prove that.
00:08:37.960 By the way, um, uh, let me just address one thing briefly here, because this is what's always said any time we talk about Planned Parenthood funding, you know, or funding Planned Parenthood.
00:08:50.640 The defenders of the, um, of the baby killers will argue that, well, you know, taxpayers aren't actually funding abortions, and they're not really funding the political campaigns, because the tax money doesn't go towards those things.
00:09:04.800 You see?
00:09:06.680 Um, that's the argument.
00:09:08.460 Um, and that argument is about as credible as the, well, it's only 3% of what they do.
00:09:15.680 Okay, the thing is, both of those arguments are not only false, but irrelevant.
00:09:20.880 That even if they were true, it wouldn't make a difference.
00:09:24.080 But they're not true.
00:09:26.320 And the thing is, to even, to even begin to accept that argument, we'd have to trust Planned Parenthood.
00:09:33.060 Okay, because Planned Parenthood, they're the ones telling us that they're not using any of this money for these other things.
00:09:41.200 Can we trust them?
00:09:42.380 No. 1.00
00:09:42.960 Because Planned Parenthood is run by filthy, disgusting, um, hideous liars, and we can't trust anything they say. 0.99
00:09:51.820 And certainly any attempts to regulate them or investigate them or check up on them, those are always rebuffed. 0.99
00:09:58.580 Abortion is the least regulated industry since slavery.
00:10:01.760 So it's hard to know if anything they say is true.
00:10:04.580 But in any case, it doesn't matter.
00:10:06.660 It doesn't matter because money is fungible.
00:10:10.320 So, if I'm doing two things, A and B, and you give me money for A, but not for B, you've obviously financed both.
00:10:24.220 Okay?
00:10:24.860 Because the original money that I had before you helped me out, that would have been split between the two.
00:10:34.160 But now that can, all that money can go entirely to B because you've taken care of A.
00:10:40.100 That's what it means for money to be fungible.
00:10:45.260 I'll show you what I mean.
00:10:46.240 Okay?
00:10:46.860 Let's say that, um, just by way, by way of example, let's say that, uh, that, that I want to go on an expedition to Antarctica to, uh, club baby seals to death.
00:11:00.060 Let's say that's, and that's the main thing I want to do down there is I just want to go to Antarctica, Antarctica, find a bunch of baby seals and beat them to death.
00:11:08.080 That's what I want to do. 0.82
00:11:08.920 Okay?
00:11:09.120 Um, but let's also say that while I'm there, I'm going to feed penguins as well.
00:11:15.260 You know, I'll, I'll do that also.
00:11:17.380 You know, now let's say that I only have a certain amount of money to spend on this humanitarian mission.
00:11:23.420 I don't have enough money to do both things right now.
00:11:25.660 I can't, I can't finance it as it stands.
00:11:28.380 I cannot finance both the seal clubbing and the penguin feeding.
00:11:32.800 Then let's say that you come by and you announce plans to give me a large sum of cash, but only for the penguin feeding, because you very much disapprove of the seal clubbing.
00:11:45.620 Now, thanks to you, all of my own supply of money can go towards beating baby seals to death since you're taking care of the other half.
00:11:54.000 So, so even though you made this, even though you gave me all this money and you said, now, I don't want to, I don't want one penny of that to go towards beating seals.
00:12:04.080 Now, I know I'm giving money to someone who's going to go, I'm giving money to a person who's going to go beat baby seals, but you better not use any of that, of that money for, for, for that.
00:12:13.000 Do it for, you know, use this money for the other thing.
00:12:14.740 So, even though I said that, or even though you said that, you still have funded both things.
00:12:23.500 Now, of course, that's ridiculous, though, because you would never give me money for a trip to Antarctica if you knew that I'd be spending a large portion, a large portion of my trip murdering baby seals. 0.60
00:12:34.040 And if you refuse to give me any money, and, and then I said, well, you must hate penguins then. 0.91
00:12:43.200 The penguins are going to starve.
00:12:44.940 You're telling me you don't want to fund the feeding of penguins?
00:12:48.200 What's wrong with you?
00:12:50.000 Well, then you would simply point out that there are many other ways to support the penguin population without funding an expedition whose primary purpose is to murder baby seals.
00:12:59.780 That's, that's what you would say.
00:13:05.560 But the economics here are still the same.
00:13:07.880 If you give me money for one, you give me money for both.
00:13:13.080 So, just like if you, if you, you know, it's, if you pee in one side of the pool, you have peed in both sides of the pool, because that's how, that's how water works, and that's how money works.
00:13:26.920 So, we are financing abortions.
00:13:30.060 We're financing a lot of them.
00:13:31.440 That's the reality. 1.00
00:13:32.960 Your tax money goes towards killing children. 1.00
00:13:36.260 It's that simple. 1.00
00:13:37.640 There's no way around it.
00:13:42.540 So, anyone who defends the subsidizing of Planned Parenthood, they should at least defend it honestly.
00:13:48.360 And so, our money not only goes towards killing children, but it also goes towards funding the Democrat Party.
00:13:58.180 Which means that the Republican Party is, is, is not only subsidizing the killing of children, but they are subsidizing the political campaigns of their opponents. 0.99
00:14:08.000 Which means that the Republican Party's continued funding of the abortion industry is the greatest act of not only political cowardice and betrayal, but the greatest act of political stupidity that I think we've ever seen in our lifetimes. 0.99
00:14:24.240 But what else can you really expect from such a collection of empty suits, liars, and pushovers, which is what the Republican Party is? 1.00
00:14:37.600 And I'll leave it there. 0.97
00:14:39.540 Thanks, everybody, for watching.
00:14:40.740 Thanks for listening.
00:14:41.800 Godspeed.
00:14:42.240 Godspeed.