The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1049 - They Are Waging A War Against Truth Itself

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, desperate Democrats are warning that voting Republican means the death of democracy.

00:00:06.040 But the real threat to our democracy, and in fact to our whole civilization, comes from somewhere else.

00:00:10.380 It comes in part from the protesters at my event last night who were ripping pages out of the Bible and eating them.

00:00:15.560 I'll explain.

00:00:16.220 Also, Ted Cruz bravely walks into the chicken coop and debates the squawking hens of The View.

00:00:21.220 CNN tries to embarrass Trump voters in a focus group, but it doesn't work out the way they intended.

00:00:24.960 And Sandy Hook families now want to sue Alex Jones for trillions of dollars, with a T, trillions.

00:00:30.740 And one of the most prominent Native American activists in the country, who just died recently, wasn't actually Native American at all.

00:00:36.980 Imagine that.

00:00:37.660 All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:38.280 We are now officially two weeks from Election Day.

00:01:42.640 There was some question over the summer about whether it would really materialize, but now it seems rather clear that the red tsunami is coming.

00:01:49.700 We can see the signs, the water level dropping, the tide going out, the wave gathering strength as it heads to shore.

00:01:56.120 And when I talk about signs, I don't mean the polls, which are all fake and made up and meaningless and who cares.

00:02:01.420 I'm talking about the Democrats themselves, how they're behaving, what they're saying.

00:02:06.080 They know what's on the horizon, and that's why they're becoming so desperate and frantic. 0.75

00:02:10.940 So this weekend, we saw Joe Biden promising a bunch of TikTok stars that he would pay for their abortions and make sure that every state in the union is sexually mutilating children.

00:02:20.720 This is what Democratic desperation looks like.

00:02:23.880 This is what they do when they're scared.

00:02:26.560 They double down on their infanticide and child castration advocacy.

00:02:30.960 Also, even more indicative, the Democrats are warning that the coming Republican takeover of the House and possibly the Senate as well will spell the end of democracy in America.

00:02:43.540 So Max Boot writes for The Washington Post, quote,

00:02:46.240 If the current trends hold up, Republicans are likely to take over at least the House and quite possibly the Senate, too, along with many state offices.

00:02:53.460 This is how democracies die, both at home and abroad.

00:02:57.260 So democracies die when voters participate in them, says The Washington Post.

00:03:04.720 So by voting, you are killing democracy.

00:03:08.740 In a similar way, you might die of thirst by drinking fresh water or drown by sitting on dry land.

00:03:16.880 MSNBC had a similar message last night.

00:03:18.780 In fact, they took it a step further. 0.68

00:03:20.540 According to Joy Reid and her panel of guests who, all together with their brainpower combined, equal the IQ of a moderately intelligent meerkat, if voters, they say, vote for Republicans, they are essentially Nazis. 0.79

00:03:35.060 Listen.

00:03:36.480 Matthew, we talk about this all the time.

00:03:38.160 Democracy on the ballot.

00:03:39.480 It's not just a slogan.

00:03:40.880 You know, I mean, we're talking about women literally losing agency over themselves. 1.00

00:03:44.680 Donald Trump has said, you know where he's going to challenge the election?

00:03:47.180 Already in advance, he says he's going to do it.

00:03:48.480 Philly.

00:03:49.640 That's a dog whistle, right?

00:03:51.340 I mean, it's not even being hidden at this point.

00:03:54.200 It's just fascism in the open.

00:03:56.300 And what scares me is that I'm not sure everybody minds.

00:04:01.180 You know, I think there are some people who will just sit back and let it happen, thinking it won't be that bad.

00:04:07.340 And that, to me, is almost more dangerous than the radicals.

00:04:10.480 Well, I mean, I'm not calling, I'm not going to say that, you know, the GOP are Nazis at this point or whatever, but it certainly sounds very familiar to what happened in Germany.

00:04:22.680 Which is a bunch of citizens.

00:04:25.000 Adolf Hitler gets a third of the vote.

00:04:27.020 Nobody thought it could happen there.

00:04:28.520 They kind of went along because they said he was going to solve the economy and fix inflation.

00:04:32.580 Yeah, that's right.

00:04:33.780 You can hear those sorts of things.

00:04:35.740 And then, oh, lo and behold, a few years later, they lost their democracy and they're all like, how did that happen here?

00:04:41.000 That's my worry.

00:04:42.360 That is my worry.

00:04:43.880 Obviously, the price of a hamburger, the price of milk, the price of gas is concerning.

00:04:50.160 But that is a short-term problem.

00:04:52.860 The loss of a democracy will decimate everyone's freedom.

00:04:56.220 Yes, your inability to eat is a short-term problem.

00:05:01.100 I mean, I guess it probably is.

00:05:03.580 The only problem is that there, you know, you might not have an opportunity for any problems after that if you're not able to eat.

00:05:09.420 But I am, I have to say, I am begging all of you, absolutely begging you, especially on the left, to learn about something in history other than the Nazis.

00:05:20.340 Not that you actually know anything about the Nazis or how they rose to power, of course.

00:05:23.500 Your understanding of your one single historical period of interest is dubious at best.

00:05:28.820 But it's really time to branch out anyway.

00:05:30.960 It really is.

00:05:32.000 Other things have happened in the world before and since, I promise you.

00:05:35.700 There are other things that you could compare current events to.

00:05:39.480 The possibilities for historical analogies are endless.

00:05:42.900 But you have to read a history book first.

00:05:45.820 In any event, I do appreciate Matthew Dowd's prudence and restraint.

00:05:48.920 I'll give him credit for that because he says that he's not going to compare the GOP to Nazis.

00:05:54.740 But all he's saying is that the GOP are just like the Nazis.

00:06:00.780 He's not going to make the comparison. 0.95

00:06:02.460 He's simply pointing out that Republicans are exactly like the Nazis. 0.72

00:06:06.500 That's all.

00:06:07.340 And you are ushering in the end of democracy if you vote for them.

00:06:11.440 This is all preposterous, of course.

00:06:14.100 Democracy is not under threat because of Republicans.

00:06:18.400 But that is not to say that democracy isn't under threat at all.

00:06:21.700 I mean, it is.

00:06:22.920 And it's much more than democracy that hangs in the balance.

00:06:25.940 The entirety of Western civilization is on the brink of collapse, is indeed in the process of collapsing.

00:06:31.720 It's not because of one election or one political event.

00:06:36.540 It's because we are, as a society, rejecting fundamental basic truth.

00:06:44.040 Our civilizational flight from truth is the real threat to democracy, to civilization.

00:06:50.880 You can't have a functioning democracy without truth.

00:06:53.140 You can't have a thriving country or any real country at all without truth.

00:06:56.400 You can only have chaos and misery.

00:06:58.220 Which brings me to my event last night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

00:07:03.160 Yesterday, I told you about the drama in the lead-up to the screening of my film and my speech and Q&A afterwards.

00:07:08.860 Leftist students and faculty were losing their minds over the prospect of my physical presence on campus.

00:07:13.840 They filed a bias incident report.

00:07:15.960 They tore down flyers.

00:07:17.020 They set up safe spaces.

00:07:18.460 They graffitied all over the campus, including vandalizing a veterans memorial.

00:07:23.060 When I finally arrived on campus yesterday, over 300 protesters, apparently was the number,

00:07:27.440 gathered outside.

00:07:29.320 Many tried to rush inside the building.

00:07:31.660 Some made it in.

00:07:32.480 Some were stopped.

00:07:33.500 They rushed into the screening of the film.

00:07:35.260 They tried to disrupt it.

00:07:36.780 I'm told that one of the protesters literally vomited out of rage.

00:07:42.240 An actual scene from The Exorcist played out.

00:07:45.440 During my talk, they repeatedly pulled the fire alarm, which had the effect of knocking the AV system out,

00:07:51.180 so I didn't have a working microphone for a large portion of the speech.

00:07:54.220 Fortunately, I had a loud enough voice, so that was only a minor inconvenience.

00:07:58.020 Back outside, they ranted and raved incoherently, often branching into grievances that have seemingly nothing to do with the subject of my film or my talk.

00:08:06.980 Here's just one example.

00:08:08.340 Listen.

00:08:08.480 And that includes in organizing spaces, because so much of the time, organizing spaces are dominated by white people who don't give BIPOC voices a chance to speak.

00:08:20.700 All of you, I don't care.

00:08:29.700 It's ingrained in me.

00:08:30.700 I'm not white.

00:08:31.420 It's ingrained in all of us. 0.69

00:08:32.800 But white people, you need to realize your positionality. 0.91

00:08:34.960 You need to realize the space you take up.

00:08:37.120 And you need to realize how hard it is every single day for BIPOC people, especially at this institution.

00:08:43.340 That voice is hard to listen to.

00:08:49.580 Yes, people of color are not able to speak, she screams, into a megaphone. 1.00

00:08:57.520 Most of the speeches and chants were targeting me and explaining why I'm a horrible person.

00:09:01.640 The interesting thing about this girl is that she was at least partially targeting her own comrades.

00:09:05.660 It doesn't take long for them to start to eat each other and eat other things, too, actually.

00:09:12.360 As the protests grew, it also became more explicitly satanic.

00:09:16.040 There was one woman who pulled out a Bible and began ripping pages out of it and eating them. 1.00

00:09:22.080 And we can see her do that here.

00:09:24.000 If you thought I was exaggerating when I call these people demonic, well, here you go.

00:09:29.320 I spoke yesterday about the helpful contrast, right, that you see when these leftist protesters show up.

00:09:36.840 Here's another one.

00:09:38.480 Which way will you go, America?

00:09:41.600 That's the choice that you have.

00:09:42.620 Which way, Western man? 0.98

00:09:43.780 Do you want to join in with the side that eats the Bible and vomits in anger, kills babies, castrates little children? 0.97

00:09:51.720 Or do you want to join literally any side but that one?

00:09:55.600 I mean, this is the choice that he made.

00:09:57.100 Sadly, though, up to this point, our civilization has made its choice.

00:10:03.620 And it chose the Bible eaters. 1.00

00:10:05.460 It chose these screaming, spastic lunatics. 1.00

00:10:09.480 Fundamentally, it chose untruth. 0.97

00:10:12.420 Because as I am constantly reminding everyone, this is what these people represent.

00:10:17.180 It's what they advocate for.

00:10:18.360 It's what they demand.

00:10:20.240 It's why they protest.

00:10:21.800 It's not merely about silencing conservative voices.

00:10:24.380 It's not about squashing debate or discussion.

00:10:27.100 It is all of that.

00:10:29.120 But more importantly, it's about driving truth, even the most basic truths, especially the most basic truths, out of college campuses, out of all of our institutions, out of the public square, off of social media, off of all the platforms, and off into exile.

00:10:44.240 Their goal is to build a society apart from truth, where they can make their own truth and live in their relativistic utopia, one in which everything revolves around the self and around the ego.

00:10:58.460 But we've seen how this utopia works.

00:11:02.120 Specifically, we've seen that it doesn't.

00:11:03.960 It doesn't work.

00:11:05.380 A civilization grounded in relativism is not grounded at all.

00:11:09.980 It is weak and unstable.

00:11:11.720 It will collapse, and it will take everything down with it, including democracy.

00:11:16.440 That's what's at stake here.

00:11:18.860 And that's why we may be tempted to laugh at these embarrassing displays on college campuses.

00:11:23.980 I laugh at them.

00:11:24.760 But what lies underneath all of the hysteria is this war on truth.

00:11:29.240 These kids have been conditioned to lash out blindly, violently, with rage and fury at any discussion of truth, at any individual who speaks truth.

00:11:38.360 That's why I'm doing all this, why I'm in the fight.

00:11:42.580 I see this as a fight for truth itself, and thus for civilization itself.

00:11:49.660 To reiterate what I said at the end of my speech last night, if you'll forgive me plagiarizing myself, it really is as simple as this for me, that the truth matters.

00:11:58.680 And it matters more than anything else.

00:12:00.580 It matters more than ideology.

00:12:03.040 It matters more than your preferences, your feelings.

00:12:05.220 It matters more than your self-identification.

00:12:06.940 It matters more than your life, and more than mine.

00:12:10.700 See, these leftist protesters, they claim that my speaking truth, or anyone else who speaks truth, that when we do that, we somehow put their lives at risk.

00:12:19.900 Now, I don't think that's true, that we're not putting their lives at risk by speaking the truth.

00:12:24.380 But even if it was, I would still speak it, and I would still encourage you to speak it.

00:12:30.000 The truth would be worth the cost.

00:12:32.880 It would be worth the cost of their lives.

00:12:34.620 It's worth the cost of my own life.

00:12:38.000 I would speak the truth if it put my own life at risk.

00:12:40.660 And according to the death threats that I get all the time, it does.

00:12:44.480 And that's because life itself can't have any meaning.

00:12:49.680 Nothing can have meaning apart from the truth.

00:12:53.080 There's nothing to fight for except the truth.

00:12:55.200 Nothing to live for except the truth.

00:12:57.500 There is no love without it.

00:12:59.280 There's no beauty.

00:13:00.280 There's no joy.

00:13:01.120 There's no freedom.

00:13:03.660 There's nothing without truth.

00:13:06.500 And that's why we can't give it up.

00:13:08.520 For anyone's sake.

00:13:10.440 No matter what.

00:13:12.520 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:13.840 Well, there's one other clip I wanted to play from last night before we move on.

00:13:23.700 And I wish I could play the whole exchange, but it's too long.

00:13:27.100 I have kind of a longer clip that I'm going to play still.

00:13:29.620 But you can find the whole clip on my Twitter page.

00:13:32.020 During the Q&A, a person who identifies as trans, who's going through transition right now, did come up to speak in the Q&A.

00:13:42.080 And this doesn't happen very often.

00:13:43.860 This is pretty rare.

00:13:45.280 I mean, I do these Q&As, and anyone can come speak.

00:13:47.900 And I'm always encouraging people who don't agree with me to come speak.

00:13:50.560 And very rarely do they take me up on it.

00:13:52.420 They'd rather go stay outside where they have their numbers and they can shout into megaphones and hold their signs and all of that.

00:13:58.200 But this was someone who actually came and spoke and stood up there.

00:14:02.740 And I appreciate that.

00:14:04.140 It takes courage.

00:14:04.960 It takes guts to do that.

00:14:07.260 From his perspective, this is like walking into the lion's den.

00:14:11.820 This is behind enemy's territory.

00:14:13.260 We're not his enemies.

00:14:15.420 But that's how he would see it.

00:14:17.480 And so it takes guts to do that.

00:14:19.060 So I thought this was an important conversation.

00:14:20.480 I wanted to share a piece of it with you.

00:14:23.960 Here it is.

00:14:24.300 Eight months ago, I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria while I was inpatient here in UW-Madison.

00:14:34.380 I looked into the research and, like, talked to doctors.

00:14:38.100 And through my journey, I decided to explore medically transitioning, you know, because it's shown to decrease suicidal ideation and stuff like that.

00:14:49.720 And since then, although I've had to deal with other issues such as transphobia and sexual assault, I've been more happier overall than I ever was before.

00:15:02.980 And my question to you is, what specifically about medically transitioning do you think is so immoral that we should ignore the potential benefits?

00:15:12.980 And why should I listen to you as somebody who's not a medical professional and has not experienced gender dysphoria?

00:15:21.300 There's a dishonesty behind it.

00:15:22.860 Dishonesty in the false promises that they make, which is that you can attain this image of maleness or femaleness, or that you can actually become, in some ways, the opposite, gender or sex, whatever words you want to use, which is a lie. 0.69

00:15:37.200 It's not true.

00:15:38.340 You never can.

00:15:39.040 I don't think I can, Pat.

00:15:39.900 I have a horrible Adam's apple.

00:15:43.220 My voice sounds like this.

00:15:45.600 I still love myself.

00:15:47.120 And there has always been money in making people happy.

00:15:50.540 Like, wearing nice clothes or good food, it does cost a lot of money.

00:15:56.840 That's why I can't get surgeries that would make me a lot happier.

00:16:02.560 But the point of medicine is not supposed to be,

00:16:07.200 to make you happy in the moment.

00:16:10.020 That's not the objective of medicine.

00:16:12.440 The objective of medicine is your overall wellness.

00:16:14.840 It's about treating what is actually wrong.

00:16:17.620 That's medicine.

00:16:19.260 And so if you are struggling to accept who you were born as, what your actual biological identity is,

00:16:28.400 I have all the compassion in the world for that.

00:16:30.340 I mean, I can't imagine having that disconnect in my head.

00:16:33.760 It has to be a source of immense despair.

00:16:35.860 But what I hate is the medical professionals who, instead of helping you with that,

00:16:40.620 instead of helping you to accept who you really are and find joy and fulfillment in it,

00:16:46.660 they're trying to make a quick buck.

00:16:48.040 And they're selling you false promises.

00:16:49.420 And they're telling you that this stuff is based on long-term studies.

00:16:51.880 And they're lying to you because it's not.

00:16:53.780 There have never been any reliable long-term studies on almost all of this stuff

00:16:58.260 because the fact is that the medical industry only started doing this at such a large scale recently.

00:17:03.620 So they couldn't have the data.

00:17:05.340 They're pretending that they do.

00:17:06.620 They're lying.

00:17:07.740 And that's what I hate.

00:17:08.820 That's the immorality.

00:17:17.820 Yeah, so like I said, that was a piece of it.

00:17:19.220 That's kind of the beginning and the end.

00:17:20.420 And then there's the middle too, which you can find on my, you can find on YouTube.

00:17:23.940 You can find it on Twitter.

00:17:25.260 And I wanted to show that to you because, first of all, again,

00:17:27.400 I appreciate the fact that somebody was actually willing to go and stand up there and ask a question.

00:17:34.800 And also, I want to show that it's, you know, we have this idea

00:17:40.320 that when you're talking to someone who actually is trans or actually identifies that way

00:17:47.060 and is going through the whole process,

00:17:49.040 that it's like we have to choose between being compassionate or being truthful.

00:17:55.320 Those are two separate paths.

00:17:58.720 Those are two different choices.

00:18:00.000 That's the way it's presented.

00:18:01.660 That's not the case.

00:18:02.460 I think you can be compassionate and also say what is true, which is what I tried to do there.

00:18:12.120 Now, if I have one regret, and this is not meant as a criticism of the audience who were great,

00:18:17.220 and really all the audiences we've had on this tour have been awesome, very supportive,

00:18:21.520 and I appreciate them all very much.

00:18:22.840 But I regret in some ways the applause for me at the end there.

00:18:26.520 Not that it was inappropriate.

00:18:27.820 It's just, you know, it's the audience's way of saying they agree.

00:18:31.680 And it's not like a combative applause, but it's the nature of the forum.

00:18:37.100 That's how it works in that kind of forum.

00:18:38.980 And that's fine.

00:18:39.580 But it does, you know, kind of makes it sound maybe at the end like a Matt Walsh destroys type of video.

00:18:45.300 And that's not what it is.

00:18:47.840 It's not what I intended.

00:18:48.740 I certainly hope that the student, you know, didn't, that that wasn't his takeaway.

00:18:54.040 This is not a matter of trying to debunk or embarrass someone, certainly.

00:19:00.240 I care about him.

00:19:01.960 I do.

00:19:02.720 I care about these kids who are being taken advantage of.

00:19:06.720 I know a lot of them hate my guts.

00:19:11.560 They think that I'm a horrible person. 0.99

00:19:13.340 I'm a monster. 0.68

00:19:14.480 And I get that. 0.94

00:19:16.320 That's the way they see it.

00:19:17.920 That's okay.

00:19:19.700 But I care about them.

00:19:21.240 That's why I care about the issue is people like that who are dealing with something, dealing with something real, but it's internal.

00:19:35.080 It's like something in his mind, something real.

00:19:37.680 And if I had a chance to follow up with that student, I would tell him, first of all, that, you know, it's going to be okay.

00:19:44.400 I know he's suffering.

00:19:45.820 I don't doubt that.

00:19:47.200 I know it.

00:19:49.160 But it's going to be okay.

00:19:50.260 He is okay.

00:19:51.160 There's nothing wrong with him physically.

00:19:53.200 He says there that he, he talks about he hates his Adam's apple and his voice, but there's nothing wrong with any of that.

00:20:00.240 You know, that's, that's, that's him.

00:20:01.680 That's who he is.

00:20:02.960 And there is nothing wrong with that at all.

00:20:07.960 That's who you are.

00:20:09.200 There's nothing wrong with who you are.

00:20:10.900 The, the trouble is, is when your mind is not able to reconcile with who you are or for whatever reason is not wanting to accept who you are.

00:20:23.040 And so it's that struggle to accept that, that is the fundamental issue that we need to try to address.

00:20:31.040 As I'm, as I'm always saying, it is very much on our side, which is the side of, of truth, is very much a message of actual self-acceptance.

00:20:41.900 Of real affirmation.

00:20:46.240 All right.

00:20:47.460 I want to play this clip for you because there's, there's so much that is contained in this clip.

00:20:52.700 So much is, is shown, is learned perhaps in this.

00:20:56.800 CNN held a focus group with Trump supporters in Pennsylvania. 0.99

00:20:59.820 And the goal, obviously, because it's a focus group with Trump supporters and it's on CNN, the goal is to embarrass them and to show that they're a bunch of ignoramuses. 0.96

00:21:11.560 But it didn't work out that way. 0.91

00:21:12.880 In fact, it kind of worked exactly the opposite way.

00:21:15.180 The person who was trying to embarrass the Trump supporters only got embarrassed in the process.

00:21:18.840 So I want to go through and watch a little bit of this.

00:21:20.280 Let's see.

00:21:21.820 Doug Mastriano was at the insurrection and he was photographed breaching one of the restricted areas.

00:21:28.220 Is, is that okay?

00:21:30.540 Which area?

00:21:31.280 Because I saw video where Capitol officers were taking away barriers and unlocking doors.

00:21:37.840 So, I mean, I, they opened the gates.

00:21:40.520 So it shouldn't be disqualifying for an elected official if they participate in January 6th.

00:21:45.660 He didn't, he didn't strike anybody.

00:21:47.120 He didn't hurt anybody.

00:21:48.220 And the only one that died was a protester there, not a Capitol police officer.

00:21:52.820 An unarmed female veteran. 0.99

00:21:54.300 That's the only one that died.

00:21:55.540 That's the only one who died.

00:21:56.560 A police officer did die.

00:21:58.380 No.

00:21:59.120 It was a stroke.

00:22:00.240 That's not.

00:22:01.000 That's not on sight.

00:22:02.340 Caused by that.

00:22:02.860 That's because he shouldn't have been a police officer.

00:22:04.820 It was one woman who was shot.

00:22:05.680 So what do you make, though, overall of January 6th?

00:22:08.460 I mean, it was, watching that footage, it was pretty disturbing.

00:22:11.100 I mean, there were people throwing excrement at the walls.

00:22:13.060 All right, let's pause it there for a second.

00:22:15.980 So.

00:22:18.980 She makes, she pivots there. 1.00

00:22:20.840 So what do you make of January 6th in general?

00:22:23.340 Because, because she realized that what she's telling, what the claims that she's making about January 6th are incorrect.

00:22:31.300 And these people know that it's incorrect.

00:22:32.900 So what's happening here is that she's trying to showcase their ignorance.

00:22:37.100 But instead, in fact, they are educating her about January 6th.

00:22:44.320 They are, they are better educated on January 6th than she is.

00:22:49.760 She says this is a common bit of misinformation that we still hear somehow, is that there were police officers who died on January 6th.

00:22:58.660 Didn't happen.

00:23:00.320 Did not happen.

00:23:01.160 There were no police officers killed by the, by the rioters on January 6th.

00:23:10.260 That did not happen.

00:23:11.640 There's Brian Sicknick, who had a stroke, had a medical, you know, had a, had a medical emergency after the fact.

00:23:17.500 And then there were, there were, there were other police officers who, in the weeks and months afterwards, there were, I think it was two, who tragically committed suicide.

00:23:27.880 And shamelessly, for, you know, years now, it is, the, the, the, the left has been, has been taking those suicides and connecting it to January 6th without any evidence whatsoever.

00:23:43.000 So these people know all of that because, well, how do they know it?

00:23:49.420 Because they, although they're participating in a CNN, uh, forum or a CNN, you know, focus group, they don't, they don't rely on CNN to get their information.

00:24:00.720 Really, the sense, rather than being a showcase of the ignorance of Trump voters, which is what CNN was hoping for, it is a showcase of, of, among other things, CNN's own irrelevance.

00:24:11.740 That these random voters that they picked up in, uh, Pittsburgh, they don't, they don't, they don't, they're not looking at CNN for, they don't care what CNN says.

00:24:20.440 Uh, CNN has made itself irrelevant.

00:24:24.080 So then she pivots to talking about January 6th in general.

00:24:26.480 Let's keep watching this a little bit.

00:24:28.560 There were people throwing excrement at the walls and it was, you know, it's the Capitol.

00:24:32.540 It looked a lot like Antifa's actions to me.

00:24:35.440 Except on a much smaller scale, it looked the same as the Black Lives Matter riots.

00:24:39.440 That's what I saw the similarities to me around the country.

00:24:41.720 Indianapolis burns, Kenosha burns.

00:24:44.140 But so it's okay just because, just because one side that you disagree with, it's okay for...

00:24:48.680 No, I'm saying Antifa infiltrated.

00:24:50.500 It's good for one, it's good for the other.

00:24:51.980 Anybody who's harmed anybody, anybody who caused property destruction, that needs to be dealt with.

00:24:57.600 But if you're there making your voice heard at the people's house, no less, that's, again, it's a fundamental constitutional right of an American citizen.

00:25:07.720 And people should not be being held a political prisoner because of it.

00:25:12.480 For misdemeanors.

00:25:13.640 That's East Germany.

00:25:14.720 That's East Germany.

00:25:15.960 Yeah, that's what's scary.

00:25:17.120 It was an actual fiery, but mostly peaceful protest.

00:25:22.640 And the other ones that were the...

00:25:24.740 Was the protest legitimate in your eyes because...

00:25:28.760 Our administration, I feel like, is using it as their Reichstag fire.

00:25:32.960 Yeah.

00:25:33.400 That's exactly what they're using it as.

00:25:35.540 Do you think that President Trump could have quelled the violence that day?

00:25:41.100 Not him.

00:25:41.540 I don't think so, no.

00:25:42.900 I don't think so.

00:25:43.500 It started while he was still speaking.

00:25:45.800 I was actually there.

00:25:46.780 All right.

00:25:47.020 I was there.

00:25:48.740 I'd love to see an hour-long focus group with this group of Americans here, these patriots, and a CNN anchor.

00:25:55.740 You know what I actually want to see, though?

00:25:57.420 What I would love to see is a group of Democrat voters, focus group, ask the same questions.

00:26:03.860 Okay, get some Democrat voters, get some leftists into a focus group and start talking to them about January 6th.

00:26:09.460 And I guarantee there's going to be a whole lot more misinformation being spread.

00:26:13.500 You know, because these are people who actually rely on the corporate media for their information.

00:26:18.900 And if we were to swap them out for leftists, we're going to hear all about how there was like a dozen police officers with a bloodbath, people lying dead all over the place.

00:26:28.800 That's what we would hear.

00:26:29.600 Of course, all the points that they make about what happened with the BLM riots and Antifa, all totally valid. 1.00

00:26:38.760 And the CNN reporter has no response to that other than to say, well, just because one person, so two wrongs don't make a right.

00:26:48.980 Are you admitting that it was a wrong now?

00:26:51.240 Because that would be something new for CNN.

00:26:52.640 Are you admitting that the BLM riots were actually wrong?

00:26:56.960 I don't think anyone at CNN has ever even admitted that.

00:27:01.340 As opposed to on the right, right, with like this one single example that you have of people on the right rioting.

00:27:10.400 And that's what it was.

00:27:11.240 It was a riot.

00:27:11.760 And these were mostly people who are on the right.

00:27:15.900 And it's happened one time in like decades.

00:27:21.760 Okay, as opposed to on the left when it's, I mean, we went through a season, we went through a period of a, we went through a season when it was happening on a daily basis.

00:27:29.540 But you got your one example.

00:27:33.340 And every conservative that I've ever talked to, we have no problem saying that wasn't, that shouldn't have happened. 1.00

00:27:39.800 That was incredibly stupid. 1.00

00:27:42.080 It's a horrible decision. 1.00

00:27:44.500 Okay, there was, I was saying it at the time.

00:27:46.960 There's nothing good can come of this for the people who are participating in it.

00:27:52.520 There's no good that comes of this.

00:27:55.360 None whatsoever.

00:27:57.680 Now, there's, in fact, there's good for the left and for the elites and the powerful people in Washington.

00:28:04.700 They're going to make hay of this.

00:28:05.880 And that's exactly what they've done in the, in the, in the many months after following.

00:28:12.380 So we have no problem saying that.

00:28:14.640 It's no problem for us.

00:28:16.600 On the left, though, they can't, they still have not gotten around to actually denouncing or admitting that, that any, that the BLM did anything wrong by rioting.

00:28:27.140 Those many dozens and hundreds of times that they did.

00:28:29.560 All right, similar theme here.

00:28:33.020 Ted Cruz was able to get himself onto the view, which I have to admit to some, I'm a little bit, I'm a little bit sour about this.

00:28:43.580 I'm a little, I'm a little jealous because this is my, this is my dream.

00:28:47.080 This is my dream is to be on the view.

00:28:50.140 Ted Cruz was, had a chance to be on there.

00:28:52.520 And I will say that if, if it can't be me, you know, there is a, there's, there are, there's a selection of people on the right who, if it can't be me, I would love for it to be one of them.

00:29:03.360 I think Ted Cruz is on that list because he handled this wonderfully.

00:29:07.400 And there were a lot of great moments.

00:29:09.160 Um, but I thought this about election denial was maybe the best moment of all, listen.

00:29:17.960 Anytime a Republican is in front of a TV camera, try to say the election was fair and square and legitimate.

00:29:24.020 You know who y'all don't do that to?

00:29:25.880 You don't do it to Hillary Clinton who stood up and said Trump stole the election.

00:29:29.660 They didn't storm the Capitol.

00:29:30.500 They didn't try to kill my former boss.

00:29:32.000 Who said, who said that the election was stolen.

00:29:34.680 They sat here and said it was illegitimate and you guys were fine with it.

00:29:39.120 Okay.

00:29:39.420 So it's illegitimate when Republicans win, but not when Democrats win.

00:29:42.440 No, you know, here's the thing.

00:29:43.920 We may not like when Republicans win, but we don't go and we don't storm.

00:29:47.960 We don't try to change.

00:29:49.760 We'll go right there.

00:29:50.940 We'll go right there.

00:29:52.180 We don't do that.

00:29:53.320 Did I miss an entire year of Antifa riots where cities across this country were burning and police cars were being fire burned?

00:30:00.260 Well, yeah, I guess you did.

00:30:00.940 Your position is the left doesn't engage in violence?

00:30:03.300 Really?

00:30:03.560 No, they wanted to nuke our friend Mike Pence.

00:30:06.400 How do we make sense of that?

00:30:07.200 You just accused us of doing something we didn't do.

00:30:10.820 You said Hillary Clinton didn't say whatever she didn't say.

00:30:15.100 I'm saying to you, listen, and she said it's sitting here and you were fine with her saying it was illegitimate for Republicans to win.

00:30:21.960 She called Donald Trump the next morning and she conceded the election, Ted.

00:30:25.900 Okay.

00:30:26.260 Who might have took the call?

00:30:27.780 I took Stacey Abrams.

00:30:29.200 All right.

00:30:29.460 She sat there while Donald Trump was getting sworn in.

00:30:34.220 Hillary Clinton says Trump is an illegitimate president.

00:30:35.800 Hillary Clinton says the election is stolen from you.

00:30:38.100 Hillary Clinton in 2002, George W. Bush was selected, not elected.

00:30:42.960 Joe Biden, Al Gore was elected president.

00:30:46.580 So Joe Biden claims George W. Bush was a legitimate president.

00:30:49.300 He just said we don't scream at each other, right?

00:30:50.220 Or is it just you that gets to scream?

00:30:55.880 This is good.

00:30:56.620 And we got to give credit to Ted Cruz because I know you might think, well, that's easy to win an argument with.

00:31:02.760 I just said before that MSNBC panel had the collective IQ of a meerkat.

00:31:07.480 But these women, and there's more of them, I don't even think would make it that high up on the scale. 1.00

00:31:14.980 So you might think, well, there's a bunch of morons. 1.00

00:31:17.440 Of course, you could win an argument. 1.00

00:31:18.680 And they are a bunch of morons. 1.00

00:31:19.760 But even so, it's hard to overstate how kind of overwhelming it can be to be in a totally hostile environment, even when you're surrounded by morons. 1.00

00:31:30.520 In fact, like especially if you're surrounded by morons in some ways. 1.00

00:31:35.320 And everyone is, you sit at a table, everyone's against you. 1.00

00:31:37.960 The entire audience is against you.

00:31:39.780 And to be able to handle that is not something that everyone can do.

00:31:43.780 I thought Ted Cruz did a great job there.

00:31:45.140 And once again, the point that he's raising is obviously 100% correct.

00:31:51.880 But the answer from the left and what you actually hear from the women on the view there is, well, it's different when we do it.

00:32:01.420 And that's how they see it.

00:32:02.620 It's different when we do it.

00:32:05.300 So that's, as I'm always reminding you, that's the standard.

00:32:10.480 It's not so much a double standard.

00:32:11.600 There is one standard, which is that we can do these things and you can't.

00:32:15.900 That's what the standard is.

00:32:18.360 Which doesn't mean that we should tire of pointing out that fact.

00:32:22.660 Any chance you get to point it out and put it on display for everyone else, that's good.

00:32:30.600 So Ted Cruz on the view, he's, this debate is not about convincing the women on the view.

00:32:37.520 They cannot be convinced.

00:32:38.660 We all know that.

00:32:39.280 It's more for anyone else who might see it, any other spectator.

00:32:46.040 All right.

00:32:46.560 A few days ago, Marco Rubio reported that a man who was canvassing for him wearing a Rubio shirt and a DeSantis hat was brutally assaulted by someone because of his political views.

00:32:55.620 Rubio tweeted, quote,

00:32:56.460 So this is apparently yet another example of a conservative being assaulted for his political views.

00:33:16.000 Something that is happening with increasing regularity.

00:33:18.920 But the media isn't interested in that story, obviously.

00:33:22.720 They don't want to talk about it.

00:33:24.320 So they set out to find ways to either they ignore these stories or they find ways to explain it away or outright justify the violence being committed against conservatives.

00:33:35.260 And that's what they're doing here as well.

00:33:36.380 Alex DeLuca with the Miami New Times tweets, quote,

00:33:40.580 Oh, yes.

00:33:59.920 Yes, we know that this white supremacists are famous for their affinity for Marco Rubio.

00:34:07.380 You know, white supremacists just love Marco Rubio.

00:34:10.920 He's their favorite.

00:34:11.660 Now, as for the alleged, so we have two issues here.

00:34:16.100 We have the justification that is being offered for assaulting this man.

00:34:20.280 And then also the claim that they're trying to set this up like it's almost like it's a Jussie Smollett thing.

00:34:25.960 And Marco Rubio made it up.

00:34:27.760 Well, as for the alleged contradiction between the police report and Rubio's claim, here's what the article says.

00:34:32.180 This is their article.

00:34:33.920 It says, quote,

00:34:34.320 Okay.

00:35:03.220 That actually matches up pretty well with what Rubio said.

00:35:07.420 This is not a Jussie Smollett situation.

00:35:09.660 The assault happened.

00:35:11.380 And the circumstances around the assault are similar in both accounts.

00:35:15.300 Neither contradicts the other.

00:35:17.400 There are details missing, which is usually the case in the days immediately following a violent crime.

00:35:23.980 So we'll find out more as they investigate.

00:35:25.940 But, in fact, based on the police report, this helps to confirm what Marco Rubio said.

00:35:33.880 As to the supposed white supremacist connection, this is what it has come to, right?

00:35:43.500 Digging up dirt on assault victims to justify the assault.

00:35:48.040 And that is why they're doing it.

00:35:52.520 I don't know if it's true or not.

00:35:53.700 I don't know anything about this guy's background or what groups he's been affiliated with.

00:35:57.160 I don't know.

00:35:57.920 I'm not going to believe anything just because the media says it.

00:36:00.160 So I don't accept it as true.

00:36:01.480 But it's also completely irrelevant.

00:36:05.360 There's just no reason to be talking about it.

00:36:09.020 It's got nothing to do with anything.

00:36:12.780 So why are they bringing it up?

00:36:15.940 Well, they're bringing it up to, again, justify the assault.

00:36:22.580 And justifying it, it's not as though the person who committed the assault

00:36:26.500 knew that the person that he was assaulting was allegedly affiliated with the white supremacist group or whatever.

00:36:33.820 It's more the media saying, well, this guy's a white supremacist.

00:36:37.840 So it doesn't really matter if he gets beat up.

00:36:39.700 Whatever the reason was, it doesn't matter.

00:36:41.520 His life doesn't matter.

00:36:44.880 That's why the left has spent so much time labeling all of us white supremacists and Nazis. 0.99

00:36:54.020 We're all white supremacists and Nazis. 0.92

00:36:56.040 If we disagree with them. 0.95

00:36:58.420 And it doesn't matter our own ethnicity.

00:37:00.480 It doesn't matter if you're black, white, Hispanic. 1.00

00:37:02.580 If you're on the right, you're a white supremacist and you're a Nazi. 1.00

00:37:04.880 That has been made very clear. 0.96

00:37:07.300 And the reason why they do that is, one, obviously, to try to discredit everything we say without having to engage with it.

00:37:15.780 But, two, it is to set the stage for violence.

00:37:18.600 This, for all of their talk about inciting violence, when you go around claiming that your political opponents are literal Nazis,

00:37:31.300 you are inciting violence against them.

00:37:36.960 That's what you're doing.

00:37:39.600 And you're doing it on purpose.

00:37:41.920 That's the intention behind it, obviously.

00:37:43.680 All right.

00:37:46.120 Let's see what else we have here.

00:37:49.260 This is a report from the Daily Wire.

00:37:51.420 It says, Sandy Hook families are asking a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay them trillions, trillions of dollars in damages,

00:37:59.860 in addition to the $965 million that jurors ordered Jones to pay the families.

00:38:06.820 The families claim that they are entitled to the money because they allege that Jones broke a state law that bans the sale of goods through the use of false statements.

00:38:15.700 Bloomberg News reported that the families arrived at $2.75 trillion by taking the maximum penalty allowed under state law, $5,000,

00:38:24.880 and multiplying it by 550 million social media views that Jones got on his social media accounts in the three years following the 2012 shooting.

00:38:35.960 The family's lawyer said, Alex Jones perpetrates this attack for one reason, greed.

00:38:40.900 Alex Jones will never treat them like real people because they're too valuable to him as targets.

00:38:45.100 So $2.75 trillion.

00:38:49.220 This is obviously grotesque and absurd.

00:38:52.780 It's a joke, not a funny joke, but a joke.

00:38:57.260 Trillions of dollars.

00:38:59.640 And I say this as someone who, from the beginning, I was extremely vocally opposed to the Sandy Hook conspiracy theories.

00:39:06.040 The idea that it was staged or a hoax or whatever never made any sense.

00:39:09.580 There was never any good evidence to support it.

00:39:11.800 There was never any evidence at all, actually, good or not.

00:39:15.860 So you don't have to explain any of that to me.

00:39:17.880 Even so, what they're doing to Alex Jones here goes way, way, way beyond the Sandy Hook stuff.

00:39:25.760 This is transparently an effort to destroy him because he's Alex Jones, because he said a whole lot of other things that are even more offensive to the powers that be.

00:39:34.400 That's obviously the case.

00:39:37.620 No matter how you feel about Alex Jones, that's obviously the case.

00:39:40.540 And we know it's the case.

00:39:41.740 We know it.

00:39:43.080 Because if he was really being bankrupted and to the tune now of they're hoping trillions of dollars, which, of course, he doesn't have anything close to trillions of dollars.

00:39:54.460 Nobody on earth does, not even Elon Musk does.

00:39:58.280 But if it was really about misinformation or defamation, if we lived in a country where misinforming your audience or defaming someone actually led to you being utterly financially ruined and you end up in the hole by $2.75 trillion,

00:40:18.240 then CNN would be ruined and MSNBC would be ruined and the New York Times would be ruined and the Associated Press would be ruined and CBS News would be ruined, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:40:28.080 All of these institutions would be held accountable to the same extent, in fact, to a much greater extent, if we were the kind of country that treated misinformation that harshly, a country that really had no tolerance for it at all.

00:40:41.600 I mean, all the outlets just mentioned, along with every other major corporate media outlet, have deliberately lied over and over again to feed many false narratives, including a racial narrative that has led to city blocks being burned and people actually dying.

00:41:02.920 Lots of people.

00:41:03.560 Let's start with that.

00:41:04.800 Far from the only example, but we could start there.

00:41:08.880 And that's not just misinformation either.

00:41:10.620 It's also defamation.

00:41:13.020 How many cops have been defamed, lied about, had their lives totally destroyed, their families' lives destroyed?

00:41:20.400 How many left-wing media personalities had to pay a billion dollars to Officer Darren Wilson for repeatedly claiming that he shot an unarmed kid while his hands were in the air begging, you know, begging for mercy?

00:41:33.040 How many billion-dollar judgments were meted out there?

00:41:37.500 Where is Officer Darren Wilson now?

00:41:39.340 Have we seen him at all?

00:41:41.220 We haven't seen him.

00:41:41.940 He's in hiding for the rest of his life.

00:41:44.680 His life is ruined because he shot and killed someone who was trying to kill him.

00:41:49.540 He was a totally justified shooting, which on the local and federal level they found was justified.

00:41:59.980 Even Obama's DOJ tried to find a reason to file hate crime charges against him.

00:42:07.460 They looked at the ballistics, they looked at the evidence, and even they couldn't find it.

00:42:10.420 It doesn't matter.

00:42:11.200 It doesn't matter.

00:42:13.480 This man's life is over.

00:42:15.100 His family's life is over.

00:42:16.860 I mean, hiding for the rest of his life.

00:42:19.900 Any billion-dollar judgments for that?

00:42:21.380 I mean, there's that infamous, now infamous photo from, I think it was CNN, and all of the CNN reporters and anchors are sitting around the table and they've got their hands up.

00:42:32.980 And they've got their hands up, don't shoot thing.

00:42:35.100 Every single one of them.

00:42:36.000 Every single one of them.

00:42:39.000 Misinformation, defamation, ruining somebody's life.

00:42:43.840 No accountability.

00:42:45.860 Not one left-wing media personality or outlet was held accountable for that or for pretty much anything else.

00:42:52.680 Possible exception would be the misinformation, the defamation connected to the Nicholas Sandman case.

00:43:02.320 But even there, you know, we don't know what the judgments, say he won some of those lawsuits, thank God.

00:43:08.100 We don't know what the judgments were, but I think we can assume that it wasn't billions.

00:43:15.120 And I think it's a pretty good chance it wasn't even millions.

00:43:20.400 So when you look at the contrast, right, when you look at the people who can get away with misinformation and defamation,

00:43:28.080 and the people who can't, it's very clear what the political agenda is.

00:43:36.080 And there's just no denying it.

00:43:39.300 All right.

00:43:40.700 You know, we also have this clip, which I think we're going to have to save for tomorrow, unfortunately.

00:43:46.220 It's a very, it's a weird thing.

00:43:48.200 I started hearing from people yesterday or a couple days ago that I appeared in a Hallmark film very much without my knowing.

00:43:59.280 I was, I made an appearance in a Hallmark film.

00:44:01.600 It's a film called Noel Next Door because Hallmark, they're now, they started doing their 90 days of Christmas thing or whatever it is,

00:44:09.200 where they start playing a bunch of original and originally terrible, uniquely terrible Christmas films in the lead up to Christmas.

00:44:15.240 And we know that Hallmark has long since gone woke.

00:44:18.980 And so apparently they had a character that some viewers figured seemed to be based on me.

00:44:27.260 And it was kind of like a caricature of me.

00:44:29.860 And I wanted to go through that clip and watch it and just see if we could determine, is this supposed to be me or not?

00:44:34.440 But I think we're going to have to save that for tomorrow.

00:44:35.840 So tune in for that tomorrow because we have to get now to our comment section.

00:44:39.880 Scott Slingerland says, I think it's a little unfair to talk about Cori Bush's poor book sales.

00:44:53.560 She did quite well when you consider how few of her loyal followers are actually literate.

00:44:58.340 That's a good point.

00:45:00.160 That's a good point.

00:45:01.160 She probably sold more books than she has literate fans or fans at all.

00:45:07.240 So I could see that.

00:45:08.680 But that's no excuse.

00:45:10.080 I mean, I sold a book that was intended for an audience of mostly illiterate people in Johnny the Walrus.

00:45:16.580 It was a kid's book.

00:45:17.440 You know, it's a kid's book for young kids, many of whom can't read.

00:45:20.440 And that book did, if I have to remind you again, extraordinarily well.

00:45:25.020 Because I am, if you hadn't heard me mention it before in the past, now a best-selling LGBT children's author.

00:45:31.440 So, Marco Curez says, my family and I drove 500 miles to be at Friday's rally.

00:45:37.140 I'm happy to report that after the event, those Satanists regrouped in a nearby park and cried their eyes out and consoled each other after the trauma of seeing you live in person.

00:45:48.540 They know they lost.

00:45:50.400 And did you get video of this?

00:45:52.260 That is my question.

00:45:53.820 Is there a video?

00:45:54.300 So they were in a parking lot crying after the event.

00:45:58.280 I would love to see video of that.

00:45:59.660 You know, only so that I could extend my sympathies to them.

00:46:04.620 Lenny says, Matt, what do you think of politicians trying to dodge debates?

00:46:07.980 Fetterman will debate Oz tonight, but he had to basically be forced into it.

00:46:12.060 Yeah, I mean, well, for him it makes sense.

00:46:14.220 I guess Fetterman and Oz are going to debate tonight, and it's going to be a bloodbath.

00:46:17.460 It just is.

00:46:19.480 And it would have been even before Fetterman lost his ability to speak coherent sentences, if he ever even really had that ability to begin with.

00:46:27.280 But Oz has been on television for, say, whatever else you want about him.

00:46:32.780 He's got a lot of experience on TV.

00:46:35.020 And so he's been in this kind of environment many, many times.

00:46:37.720 Fetterman never has.

00:46:39.680 So it's already a mismatch.

00:46:41.560 And then you add on to it the fact that Fetterman legitimately has brain damage.

00:46:46.240 And so, yeah, I'm not sure how that's going to work at all.

00:46:49.940 So I don't, I actually don't, I think that the debate should happen.

00:46:53.800 I want the debates to happen.

00:46:55.560 But it's politics.

00:46:57.200 And if you can, if you're in Fetterman's spot and you can get away with not doing the debate, of course you would.

00:47:02.480 It would be political malpractice to do a debate if there was any way of getting out of it. 0.81

00:47:07.720 But there was no way.

00:47:08.700 So he had to do at least one.

00:47:09.580 That's what's happening tonight.

00:47:11.000 It's also, it's an interesting strategy, too, by the way, for him.

00:47:14.520 He's doing one debate and he's doing it so close to the election.

00:47:18.720 You'd think maybe if you're going to do only one, maybe schedule it for like a month ago.

00:47:23.300 So when it goes horribly, then you've got time to try to change the subject.

00:47:28.240 Or another way of looking at it is do it very close to the election so that if it goes horribly, there's not a lot of time for that damage to, you know,

00:47:35.600 there's not a lot of time for all the clips and videos of you choking to circulate.

00:47:39.440 I don't know.

00:47:39.800 Maybe that's the strategy they're going with.

00:47:43.680 Jack says, I've always avoided getting involved in activism because all the ones I've ever met have been really self-righteous and annoying.

00:47:50.780 But to be fair, they were all activists for leftist causes.

00:47:53.440 This is something I can get behind.

00:47:55.200 It's needed and it's time to save children.

00:47:57.920 I'm on board.

00:47:58.780 Well, I'm glad to hear that you're on board.

00:48:00.440 And what you're saying is exactly what we talked about yesterday.

00:48:04.600 This is the, you know, why the right doesn't get involved in activism as much.

00:48:08.620 They have this notion of it as this, like, silly thing and, you know, and we're suffering the consequences of that.

00:48:17.400 We're suffering the consequences of thinking that we don't have time to be activists and we've got jobs and everything else and so we can't do it.

00:48:25.340 And it's true. 0.56

00:48:25.940 We do have jobs.

00:48:26.920 And that is another disadvantage because we don't, you know, you've got to take off work if you want to go to a rally or protest in the middle of the day.

00:48:34.140 But do we want to save the country or not?

00:48:37.300 You know, are we just going to give up?

00:48:39.020 And activism, it's not the be-all and end-all, but there cannot be any political or cultural strategy that doesn't include any activism at all.

00:48:48.140 It does have an impact.

00:48:49.620 It does matter.

00:48:51.260 It's why the left does it.

00:48:52.140 But M.I. Prepper says, I've, I guess that's Michigan Prepper, I don't know.

00:49:00.760 I've been a moderate, I've been a moderate voting for both Democrats and Republicans my whole life.

00:49:05.600 This year I'm voting straight Republican for the first time.

00:49:08.740 It's going to be a straight ticket.

00:49:10.760 I'm hearing a lot of that kind of thing, which leads again to the coming red wave, I would think.

00:49:15.120 And Jonathan says, Matt, as a Muslim, I support you and believe in your intentions.

00:49:20.760 I think everyone in the DW is working on what all of our faiths preach, and that is why Muslims like you and Jordan Peterson and secretly Ben Shapiro. 0.59

00:49:30.460 Yeah, there is, as I said yesterday, if you're a religious person, and I have to always stipulate, an adherent to an old religion,

00:49:42.000 and the leftism itself is a religion, so I don't mean that.

00:49:46.860 If you are a religious person in the other sense of the word, then you would think that there would be plenty of grounds for an alliance when it comes to these cultural issues.

00:49:59.260 And I think that there is.

00:50:00.960 Jill says, Matt, you've been chiming in on airplane controversies, but you haven't mentioned the biggest one, window shade up or down.

00:50:07.940 Please tell me you have the correct view, which is that it always stays down.

00:50:10.820 I think we have talked about this before, and unfortunately, that means that you're banned, Jill, twice over.

00:50:17.140 You're banned once for not being able to recall every single thing we've talked about, which tells me that you're not taking notes during the show, which is unacceptable.

00:50:23.460 And you're banned again for having the absolutely deranged and indefensible position that the window shade should stay down.

00:50:29.800 So I'm just going to say a few things to reiterate.

00:50:32.580 First of all, I am a frequent flyer.

00:50:34.420 I'm probably in the top, I don't know, 1% in terms of the amount of time spent flying in a given year.

00:50:40.920 And yet even I, in planes all the time, I can still appreciate the fact that every time we fly, we are getting access to a view,

00:50:50.340 to a physical perspective that nearly all human beings on Earth who've ever lived have never had access to.

00:50:57.240 Thousands of generations came and went without any one of them ever seeing the Earth from more than a few hundred feet up.

00:51:04.600 And most of them, it was never more than like eight or nine feet up in the air, if that.

00:51:08.760 And we're able to see from 35,000 feet, and you want to keep the shade down?

00:51:14.040 We have this view of the Earth that almost no one's ever been able to see, and you don't even want to look at it?

00:51:22.180 Do you go to the Grand Canyon and just keep your back turned to it the entire time?

00:51:26.420 You probably do, because that's what people do now.

00:51:28.240 They get their back turned so they can take selfies.

00:51:29.700 So they experience the Grand Canyon through the phone behind them.

00:51:33.440 And then they fall off and die.

00:51:35.100 It happens every day.

00:51:35.840 Second, you are not the only one in your row, Jill.

00:51:41.000 Just because you're closest to the window does not mean that you own the window.

00:51:44.360 You don't pay for the window.

00:51:45.660 You pay for the seat.

00:51:46.800 Just like if you sit near the wing of the plane, you don't own the wing.

00:51:50.100 If you sit closest to the engine, you don't own the engine.

00:51:53.220 You don't own the window.

00:51:54.940 You don't own that part of the plane.

00:51:56.540 It's the seat that you paid for, not the window.

00:52:02.120 We all paid for access to the row.

00:52:03.960 We share the row.

00:52:05.540 You have your own seat.

00:52:07.480 The window belongs to the row.

00:52:09.680 And so if you want to put that window shade down, you need to get permission from the other people in the row.

00:52:16.020 Third and final point.

00:52:17.040 I need to be able to see out of the window so that I can keep the plane in the sky with my brainwaves.

00:52:25.020 That is science.

00:52:26.140 All right.

00:52:26.340 I can't explain it.

00:52:27.340 It's just I feel like the plane is more likely to crash if I can't look out the window.

00:52:31.360 It's literally science.

00:52:34.360 It is a scientific fact that if I can see out the window, the plane is less likely to crash.

00:52:38.560 It's been tested by scientists who are doing science, and they determine this.

00:52:45.440 Media Matters can quote me on this.

00:52:47.540 I want this to be the next reason that I am trending on Twitter.

00:52:50.400 Matt Walsh says that he keeps planes in the sky with his brainwaves.

00:52:55.260 I am actually saying that right now.

00:52:58.840 Make that trend.

00:52:59.860 Do it.

00:53:00.140 The whole world needs to see and know about this.

00:53:02.540 Well, now feels like a good time to read another email the Daily Wire was CC'd on in an ongoing ad segment called Breakup Letters.

00:53:12.360 No, these are not Tom Brady and Giselle's hacked emails, but real messages from former Harry's Razor's customers who canceled their subscriptions and switched to Jeremy's.

00:53:21.260 Today's letter is from a man writing to Harry's, quote,

00:53:24.340 I've been a subscriber since 2015, but I'm canceling because I'm one of the knuckle-dragging savages that believes in traditional morality. 0.92

00:53:31.180 I stuck with you all after the Gillette Razor snafu, but I'm leaving because of your treatment of Daily Wire.

00:53:36.920 Delete My Account.

00:53:38.540 Well said.

00:53:39.400 When it comes to all these woke virtue signaling companies, Delete My Account is the new lose my number and, frankly, the only acceptable response to a partner who hates you.

00:53:47.240 So if you're a man who also believes in traditional masculine values like not wearing a dress or ritualistically declaring that boys can be girls and girls can be boys,

00:53:55.980 it's past time that you ditch your woke razor and pick up a Jeremy's razor instead.

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00:54:06.460 Stop giving your money to woke corporations.

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00:54:10.320 And keep the breakup emails coming by copying us at reviews at jeremysrazors.com.

00:54:15.520 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:54:16.960 Right after Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars at the behest of his emotionally abusive wife, legions of apologists on social media came up with a brilliant excuse in the form of a whataboutism.

00:54:32.920 They declared that criticism of Smith and his eventual banishment from the Academy was hypocritical, was even racist, because John Wayne assaulted a Native American woman on stage at the Oscars and never faced any backlash.

00:54:48.000 Now that claim dates back to 1973 when a woman named Sashin Littlefeather took the stage in her buckskin dress and Indian getup to turn down the Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando.

00:54:59.260 She explained that Brando couldn't accept the award for his performance in The Godfather because of a long list of grievances having to do with Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.

00:55:07.840 The complaints went beyond Hollywood, actually.

00:55:10.420 It went all the way back to Wounded Knee in 1890.

00:55:12.440 Now, why a massacre in South Dakota in the 19th century would prevent Marlon Brando from accepting an Oscar in Hollywood in the 20th century was never explained.

00:55:23.720 The greater point, as far as the social media peanut gallery was concerned, is that John Wayne was never held accountable for his vicious assault of the Native American woman.

00:55:34.740 Of course, John Wayne didn't assault anyone on stage.

00:55:37.320 The story, which grows with each retelling, much like the eight-pound bass I caught last June, which was a five-and-a-half-pound bass as recently as last month, is that John Wayne had to be held back by security because he tried to rush the stage and assault the woman.

00:55:53.480 That's the story.

00:55:55.880 Now they say it was an assault before, but he was trying to rush the stage.

00:55:58.640 It turns out that the story about him trying to rush the stage is also an exaggeration of the original story, which was that John Wayne was fuming backstage and ranting about how he wanted to go up there and pull her off the stage, but that he never did.

00:56:12.380 And yet that story, too, as far as we could tell, was also made up.

00:56:16.340 There's no evidence that John Wayne did anything of note that night.

00:56:21.320 Nothing actually happened.

00:56:22.420 This is an urban legend that started to gain steam back in the 70s and has taken on a new life in recent years, whenever the racial grievance peddlers can make use of it.

00:56:31.660 But the story, it turns out, is even faker than we thought.

00:56:36.840 Not only did John Wayne never try to assault a Native American woman, but evidently there never was any Native American woman to assault in the first place. 0.68

00:56:47.060 As a report in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals this week, only a few weeks after her death, Sasheen Littlefeather, who died earlier in the month and had become a prominent Native American activist after that incident at the Oscars, spoke out about Native American issues for decades, was not actually Native American.

00:57:08.020 The Chronicle reports, quote,

00:57:09.140 So, according to her biological sisters, Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi, Littlefeather isn't Native at all.

00:57:15.480 It's a lie, Orlandi told me in an exclusive interview.

00:57:17.780 My father, who was who he was, his family came from Mexico, and my dad was born in Oxford.

00:57:25.440 It is a fraud, Cruz agreed.

00:57:27.000 It's disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people, and it's just insulting to my parents. 1.00

00:57:32.400 Littlefeather's sisters both said in separate interviews that they have no known Native American slash American Indian ancestry.

00:57:38.420 They identified as Spanish on their father's side and insisted their family had no claims to a tribal identity.

00:57:45.140 Quote,

00:57:45.640 I mean, you're not going to be a Mexican-American princess, Orlandi said of her sister's adoption of a fraudulent identity.

00:57:51.460 You're going to be an American Indian princess.

00:57:53.660 It was more prestigious to be an American Indian than it was to be Hispanic in her mind.

00:57:58.380 So this news has been devastating to those who championed her as an activist for all those years.

00:58:02.960 Yet it's a great relief to Elizabeth Warren, who is practically an Apache warrior in comparison to this woman. 0.85

00:58:10.320 At least Warren is one thousandth Native American, or whatever it was. 0.97

00:58:15.200 Littlefeather, whose real name was Marie Louise Cruz, didn't even have that much claim.

00:58:21.460 The article goes on to provide a possible reason why Cruz decided to play dress-up.

00:58:25.860 Quote,

00:58:27.000 News coverage of her burgeoning attempts to make a name for herself in the entertainment world hint at a possible reason for assuming a Native identity.

00:58:34.800 About four months before Littlefeather appeared at the Oscars on September 28, 1972,

00:58:39.660 legendary Chronicle columnist Herb Kane wrote a piece about a turn for the worse in her modeling career. 0.81

00:58:45.600 Quote,

00:58:45.800 Why do them in the first place?

00:59:04.580 Well, explained Littlefeather,

00:59:06.000 Everybody says black is beautiful.

00:59:07.980 We wanted to show that red is too.

00:59:10.500 Like many aspiring actors,

00:59:12.060 this was assuredly not how Littlefeather's dream of stardom was supposed to go.

00:59:15.800 But perhaps it was better than being ignored.

00:59:19.760 Better than being ignored.

00:59:21.560 Really sums it up, doesn't it?

00:59:23.240 It should come as no surprise that even back in the 70s,

00:59:26.060 professional victimhood was already becoming a lucrative career.

00:59:29.920 I mean, that is the decade after all when the boomers came of age, 1.00

00:59:32.720 and they are the ones who invented the field of professional victimhood.

00:59:39.140 They created this industry and the marketplace that demands it.

00:59:43.140 And it also comes as no surprise that neither this San Francisco Chronicle article

00:59:49.060 nor any other article or commentary in the corporate media about this fraud

00:59:53.480 actually grapples with the fundamental question here.

00:59:57.740 And that question is,

00:59:59.840 why is victimhood so profitable?

01:00:03.080 Why is it desirable in our culture to be a victim?

01:00:06.380 How is it that people can establish long and distinguished careers for themselves

01:00:11.000 as professional victims?

01:00:13.760 The Chronicle comes up with an individual explanation for Cruz.

01:00:17.100 She was failing as an actress and as a model and looking for another way to get attention. 1.00

01:00:21.560 But they don't widen the lens and look at the bigger picture because they never do,

01:00:25.160 because they know that if they did, they would see what they do not want to see.

01:00:29.540 Namely, that the desire for victimhood is a culture-wide disease.

01:00:35.240 Sashi Littlefeather and Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal and all the rest of them,

01:00:39.240 the many, many, many rest of them,

01:00:41.500 didn't come up with this on their own or in a vacuum.

01:00:44.660 It is a societal phenomenon.

01:00:47.180 We are conditioning people to desire control and power for its own sake

01:00:51.580 and to attain it in the most shameful, passive-aggressive, manipulative way possible.

01:00:56.520 Through emotional blackmail and the exploitation of misplaced sympathies.

01:01:02.880 Now, of course, people in all cultures and all periods of history

01:01:05.180 have desired power and control.

01:01:07.660 That's part of the human condition.

01:01:09.500 But there are good and bad reasons for wanting it,

01:01:12.600 and there are good and bad ways to try and obtain it.

01:01:16.480 In times past, whether power was desired for a good or bad reason,

01:01:20.160 most often, the way to achieve it was through success,

01:01:25.060 through greatness, through achievement.

01:01:27.980 If you wanted to be somebody, you had to do something.

01:01:31.060 You had to accomplish something.

01:01:33.320 Now we've created a society where a lack of accomplishment is an accomplishment.

01:01:37.660 The less you do, the more you can claim you are oppressed.

01:01:41.420 You just need to belong to the right demographics. 0.99

01:01:43.580 And if you don't, well, that's an easy fix.

01:01:46.540 You can just lie about it.

01:01:48.900 That's what the character known as Sashi Littlefeather figured out,

01:01:52.020 and many young people today are discovering the same thing.

01:01:55.720 And so, as it is probably redundant at this point to cancel a woman who just died,

01:02:01.300 instead, I think today, we will again say to all victimhood merchants 0.64

01:02:04.580 that you are canceled.

01:02:07.340 That'll do it for the show today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 25, 2022

Ep. 1049 - They Are Waging A War Against Truth Itself

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