The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1110 - Democrats Try To Ambush Me At A Hearing, Fail Hilariously

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, I testified at a committee hearing to support a bill

00:00:03.600 banning child mutilation. The pro-mutilation Democrats on the hearing took the opportunity

00:00:08.180 to ambush me, but it didn't work out quite the way they planned. We'll play the clips and

00:00:11.840 I'll tell you all about my experience today. Also, AOC defames libs of TikTok at a committee

00:00:16.700 hearing in DC. We'll do the fact check that the fact checkers won't do on that defamation. And

00:00:21.500 Airbnb bans the parents of a conservative commentator, then backtracks. Plus, the school

00:00:26.500 is forced to apologize after serving chicken and waffles for Black History Month.

00:00:30.000 We'll try to figure out how a delicious meal could possibly be offensive. All of that

00:00:33.540 and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:25.800 Yesterday, I had the opportunity to testify at a House committee hearing to voice my support for

00:01:31.520 legislation banning the castration and mutilation of children in Tennessee. Now, I've addressed school

00:01:37.000 boards in the past, as you know, but this was my first time in front of any kind of legislative

00:01:41.180 committee. So it was an interesting learning experience, kind of like my own schoolhouse rock

00:01:46.120 sort of experience. And one of the key differences here is that in my school board speeches, I've spoken

00:01:52.580 out against policies and measures that the boards were wanting to put into place or had already put

00:01:58.620 into place. In this case, however, I was speaking in favor of a bill that the majority of the

00:02:02.900 legislature has already expressed support for. So I didn't need to convince them of what they already

00:02:07.840 believe or urge them to do what they're already going to do, but rather my plan was simply to

00:02:11.960 add my voice of support as a citizen of the state. Now, you may be understandably concerned based on

00:02:19.500 that description that my appearance in front of this committee must have been rather boring and lacking

00:02:24.740 the kind of fireworks that you might expect and hope for. Well, allow me to allay those fears, because

00:02:29.980 fortunately for you, there were a few Democrats in the room who, though on the losing side of this

00:02:35.100 issue, were still determined to use my appearance as an opportunity to try and score some points with

00:02:40.520 their own base. So after I delivered my brief remarks and all the other witnesses, there were three

00:02:45.660 others on the anti-mutilation side and four on the pro-mutilation side. They had their turns also to

00:02:51.980 speak. And then the lawmakers on the committee had the chance to ask us questions. And the first question

00:02:56.880 came from a Republican who had a very fair and relevant query about the oft-repeated claim, which we also

00:03:02.280 heard from other witnesses during the testimonies, that medically affirming quote-unquote

00:03:07.100 trans-identified youth is necessary to decrease their suicide rate. And because this is the thing that got 1.00

00:03:13.040 everything kicked off, I want to play this clip for, it's a little bit long, but it's also, it's an

00:03:17.780 important point too. So here's my answer to his question. Just a quick question for you. We've heard

00:03:24.420 in the news last week and even today that it's pro-life to vote against this bill. We've heard that

00:03:35.860 suicides are prevalent and suicide has impacted my family. So I'm sensitive when I hear

00:03:43.020 something like that. I've read some of the stuff that you've done and I was wondering, can you speak

00:03:49.700 to the statistics of mental health and suicidal tendencies for the people who have gone through

00:04:00.340 transition or for people who have not? In your studies, from what I've read, can you speak to

00:04:04.760 that? Sure. Sure. Well, the claim that, you know, doing the chemical castration drugs or surgery or

00:04:12.560 hormonal intervention, the claim that this prevents suicide or has positive psychological

00:04:18.700 effects down the line is utterly, totally baseless. There are no credible long-term studies that bear

00:04:25.080 that out. And one of the reasons for that is that there couldn't possibly be any credible long-term

00:04:29.200 studies because we've never done this to kids on this scale ever before in history. So this current,

00:04:35.460 shall we say, crop of children, they are the guinea pigs. This is all experimental. We're sort of trying

00:04:40.920 it out on them to see if it works. Now, they have attempted a few times to do studies. And the

00:04:45.100 interesting thing is that the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, WPATH, which is

00:04:49.240 a radical far-left pro-trans organization, they commissioned a study to try to prove that hormones

00:04:56.900 and puberty blockers decreased suicide rates among trans-identified youth. And even in their own study,

00:05:04.320 they found that they couldn't prove it. They couldn't make that link because it's just not

00:05:07.700 possible to do. The other thing I would mention too is that, you know, the number of trans-identified

00:05:15.380 youth has skyrocketed in recent years. We're talking about exponential 10x, 20x growth. Just huge

00:05:21.500 numbers have increased. And what we hear from the pro-trans side is that, well, this is not a social

00:05:28.400 contagion. It's just that, you know, there's always been this many trans people. It's just that they were 1.00

00:05:32.160 not in an affirming environment before in history. And so they couldn't come out. And now for the

00:05:37.240 first time, trans people have the ability to live their truth, so to speak. Well, if that's the case, 1.00

00:05:43.480 and there have always been these sort of like millions of trans people, and if it's also true

00:05:47.740 that if we don't affirm them, that it would cause them to commit suicide, then we should be able to

00:05:52.400 look back in history and find just this unbroken, incredible epidemic of children mysteriously killing

00:06:00.240 themselves because they weren't being affirmed as trans. And what you find is that that didn't exist.

00:06:05.340 I mean, the youth suicide rate has increased exponentially alongside trans affirmation. 0.92

00:06:12.680 So trans affirmation causes the suicide rate, not the other way around. Last thing I'll note is that

00:06:17.380 the suicide rate among trans-identified people is sky high. It remains sky high. All the data shows this. 0.99

00:06:23.880 It remains sky high even after surgery. And in fact, in the most reliable day that we have,

00:06:28.540 it's years after surgery when suicidality is the highest for trans-identified people.

00:06:34.760 That's the reality. Now, so you see all that. I make a number of claims and arguments in that answer,

00:06:41.780 just as I did in my initial remarks, that the Democrats on the panel had the opportunity to

00:06:46.240 refute. If indeed I was wrong about anything I said and can be refuted, then they had the chance to do

00:06:51.900 it. But they couldn't refute it. They had nothing to say, which, as we've learned about Democrats,

00:06:56.360 will certainly not stop them from talking. So the next question, or what pretended to be a question,

00:07:01.440 came from a greasy little hack named Caleb Hemmer, who rather than discuss the issue at hand,

00:07:06.400 instead decided to try and smear me with that Media Matters hit piece from my time as a shock jock

00:07:11.420 morning host 15 years ago. What does that have to do with anything? What did he think he would

00:07:18.000 accomplish with this? Well, we'll find out. Thank you, Mr. Walsh. I found it interesting. One of our

00:07:23.860 people testified today that they had their gender affirming surgery at 16. And I know you in former

00:07:31.900 comments mentioned this on your blog at about 16, you're an adult who's mature and can make decisions.

00:07:38.360 You're that at 16. I don't care what anybody says, even going so far as to say, you know, 16 people,

00:07:43.460 when you're 16, you should be married and could be pregnant or should be pregnant. So I'm curious if

00:07:50.220 16 is an adult, in your view. Why does this bill have the minor defined as 18?

00:07:59.400 Mr. Walsh is recognized.

00:08:01.240 Yeah, that's a hit piece you took from Media Matters, from something when I was a radio host

00:08:06.720 13, 14 years ago, in my early 20s. It's also not an accurate reflection of what I actually said.

00:08:12.700 I was talking about the fact that people tended to marry young historically, and that's all that

00:08:20.380 that was about. How does that relate to this subject?

00:08:26.400 Just curious of your definition of if you feel like people are adults at 16, should...

00:08:31.620 Well, people are adults at 18. But actually, your brain is not fully developed until you're 25.

00:08:37.220 So we should be having a conversation about whether we should even be doing these surgeries

00:08:42.240 to people at 18. But certainly before 18, it's absurd. I mean, do you think that a 16-year-old

00:08:49.800 can meaningfully consent to having their body parts removed?

00:08:52.620 Do you? No?

00:09:04.640 We do not. Yeah, we asked the questions. It's not...

00:09:08.400 Representative Henry, you are recognized.

00:09:11.460 So, that was one gloriously awkward silence, even more so for those of us in the room. Actually,

00:09:18.400 you can't see it from that camera angle on the clip exactly, but Caleb sat back away from the

00:09:23.340 microphone when I asked him that question, and he kind of looked off to the side, almost like he was

00:09:26.940 trying to pretend he didn't hear the question. It was a bizarre scene, but not so bizarre when you

00:09:32.260 consider that I had asked a question that Caleb Hemmer simply could not answer. He obviously couldn't

00:09:39.080 say, no, that 16-year-olds can't consent to having body parts removed, because then he'd be agreeing

00:09:44.000 with me and with the legislation. He doesn't want to do that. But he also didn't want to come out and

00:09:47.680 say, yes, that 16-year-olds can consent, because that sounds horrific and insane when said out loud,

00:09:53.680 and it puts him in the position of having to explicitly defend a totally indefensible proposition.

00:09:59.320 You'll notice that leftists, they often find themselves in this kind of situation.

00:10:03.220 They hold many views that they cannot say out loud. Their actual positions on the issues are

00:10:10.260 often so deranged, so inconceivably gross, so morally vacuous and incoherent that you can defeat

00:10:16.780 them in an argument simply by asking them to clearly state their own premise. Of course,

00:10:22.700 what this means is that leftists themselves, leftists like Caleb Hemmer, they themselves realize

00:10:30.400 how evil their own policies are. They are deliberately pushing things that they recognize

00:10:36.280 as unspeakably wicked, which is why they will not speak it out loud. And this puts people like Caleb

00:10:43.720 Hemmer somewhere below mere partisan hacks. You've got partisan hacks, and then it's below them that you

00:10:51.340 have the Caleb Hemmers of the world. Because these are people who are consciously evil, which also

00:10:58.160 explains why they would resort to smear tactics against a private citizen at a legislative hearing.

00:11:02.700 Keep in mind, by the way, that I was not there as an author of the bill, nor was I testifying as

00:11:08.080 some sort of accredited expert. I didn't stand up there and say, I'm a medical expert and a doctor,

00:11:14.040 and this is what, in fact, I introduced myself as, I'm a citizen of Tennessee, I'm a husband and a

00:11:19.680 father, and this is how I feel about this. A citizen of Tennessee who supports the bill.

00:11:25.280 And this is supposed to be a democracy, they tell me, right? So the point is that even if they could

00:11:30.280 succeed in tearing me down and embarrassing me, which sadly for them, they didn't, how would that

00:11:36.200 remotely come close to proving that the legislation is bad? Now, if you're wondering how Caleb Hemmer

00:11:44.180 will recover from this humiliation, well, he'll do it, or he'll try to do it, the most weaselly and

00:11:48.780 dishonest way possible, of course. So shortly after the hearing, Ben Shapiro posted that full exchange

00:11:54.420 that you just watched, and he posted it to Twitter. Hemmer responded to the post with a link to a

00:12:00.780 different video, which he urged people to watch instead to see what, quote, really went down.

00:12:07.100 Now, that video was an edited montage by an obscure left-wing propaganda rag called the Tennessee

00:12:12.260 Holler. And what they did is they took all the questions that the, and not really questions,

00:12:17.700 but statements that the Democrats on the committee hearing made to me. And they spliced all that

00:12:23.880 together, and then cut out most of my responses. And then anything else that may have been especially

00:12:29.420 embarrassing for the Democrats, and pasted all the rest of it together with a bunch of very obvious

00:12:33.720 jump cuts and posted that. So Hemmer, therefore, is actually claiming that an edited montage without

00:12:39.400 my responses is a more accurate reflection of what actually transpired than the full unedited clip.

00:12:45.720 That's how shameless this guy is. By the way, if you're concerned about his lack of honesty,

00:12:52.520 and this lack of honesty from an elected official, or perhaps you're not satisfied with his refusal to

00:12:58.180 answer my simple question, you could always reach out to him on any of his social media channels. And

00:13:03.380 look, I'm not telling you. I want to be very clear about this. I am not telling you that I want you all

00:13:08.500 to spam his Twitter and his Facebook and Instagram, that I want hundreds of comments and everything

00:13:14.180 attacking him. I'm not. I could not tell you to do that. I couldn't tell you to do that.

00:13:21.540 I just want to make sure that you have his information so that you can reach out to him

00:13:25.180 to express your concerns. Again, he's an elected official. So you can find him on Twitter at

00:13:28.840 Caleb Hemmer, that's C-A-L-E-B-H-E-M-M-E-R, or Instagram the same way. Then you go to Facebook,

00:13:34.880 you have Facebook.com slash Caleb Hemmer T-N, and then Caleb Hemmer.com slash contact will take

00:13:41.400 you to his website, and that's the contact information for his office. So again, if you

00:13:45.120 have any concerns about the behavior of this public official, or if you really want to know,

00:13:50.880 like does he think that 16-year-olds can consent to having body parts removed, he still hasn't

00:13:54.760 answered that question. But I bet he'd love an opportunity to answer it. And I think he would

00:14:00.880 want to hear from you. He'd be very glad to hear from you. So you can always do that if you want.

00:14:05.460 Now, there's more though. The next question came from Democrat John Ray Clemens, who also had

00:14:11.020 no interest in talking about the substance of the issue. Instead, with the slander already covered

00:14:16.320 by Caleb Hemmer, Clemens went to the Democrats' second favorite tool in the box, which is credentialism.

00:14:22.800 Let's watch.

00:14:24.060 Can you give us a summary of your educational background or your healthcare education experience?

00:14:29.180 Mr. Walsh, you're recognized.

00:14:31.260 My experience in healthcare?

00:14:33.320 Your educational background. I'm just curious. You've testified as to a lot of your own research.

00:14:38.380 I'm curious for what purpose you do that and what background you have to qualify you to speak to that.

00:14:43.760 Well, my background that qualifies me to speak to this is that I'm a human being with a brain

00:14:47.720 and common sense, and I have a soul. And so therefore, I think it's a really bad idea to chemically

00:14:53.400 castrate children. That is my experience. Also, I did, now it's true, I didn't, 0.98

00:14:58.960 I didn't go to college, but I did go to school long enough to learn how to read so I can read

00:15:03.240 the data for myself, and that's exactly what I've done.

00:15:06.140 Representative Clemens, you're recognized.

00:15:07.200 And for what purpose do you conduct your research and use this brain of yours?

00:15:13.260 Mr. Walsh, you're recognized. 0.89

00:15:15.200 I use it for the purpose of trying to protect children from being castrated and mutilated.

00:15:19.220 That's one of the things I try to do.

00:15:21.620 Representative Clemens.

00:15:22.420 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You don't use it to get clicks on your publication?

00:15:27.820 Well, are you using it right now to try to get clicks with this interaction?

00:15:32.580 I really like the idea of drawing attention to the fact that this is happening to children.

00:15:41.700 I know you seem to find it very amusing. I don't.

00:15:43.620 Yes, what qualifies me to speak up against chopping body parts off of kids? Which credentials give

00:15:50.600 me the right to form an opinion about the sterilization of middle schoolers? I wonder

00:15:54.760 what John Ray Clemens might have said if I told him that I'm also against drowning bags of puppies

00:16:00.020 in the river. I'm not even a big dog guy, but I don't think that you should put puppies in a bag

00:16:06.080 and drown them in the river. If I were to tell him that, would he have demanded to know what

00:16:09.500 veterinarian school I attended? This apparently comes as a shock to Mr. Clemens, but using your

00:16:14.460 brain and your conscience, it's not the kind of job that requires a resume or professional references.

00:16:19.900 That's something you're supposed to be doing all the time, especially when it comes to this

00:16:22.800 particular issue. But this is all they have. They cannot challenge me on the merits. They cannot

00:16:28.080 debate me on the substance of the issue. They cannot explain why I'm wrong. So instead,

00:16:31.960 they will make the case that whether I'm wrong or right, I shouldn't be saying anything at all.

00:16:36.100 Now, that's the entire argument. That is the only argument I have heard from these people

00:16:42.220 since I started talking about this issue years ago. The only argument they have,

00:16:47.900 it really only boils down to, you shouldn't be talking about this.

00:16:54.260 Yet they can't even make that case convincingly. So instead, they're left with the bumbling,

00:16:57.900 ridiculous mess you just witnessed. Now, there were more questions or questions, I should say, 0.84

00:17:03.640 after the exchange we just saw there, another Democrat representative started reading my tweets

00:17:08.220 where I advocate for capital punishment for drug traffickers. Now, what in the world could that

00:17:14.300 possibly have to do with the bill in question? Well, he couldn't explain that. And I didn't have

00:17:20.760 a chance to point out how irrelevant it was because they wouldn't let me respond either.

00:17:24.140 So after that happened, they basically got tired of me answering. And so for most of the rest of the

00:17:28.800 time, it was just them talking to me. And then if I try to speak, they bang the gavel. No,

00:17:34.160 this is not, this is not, it's not time for responding. Democracy in action, folks. Isn't it

00:17:39.780 inspiring? But this is all predictable, of course. I don't want you to think that I was surprised or

00:17:46.440 caught off guard. That was their intention. But unfortunately, they were using the same tactics

00:17:50.920 on me that a million hacks and charlatans before them have already used.

00:17:54.860 What I'll say to the Democrats on the committee is this, if you want to rattle me with smears and

00:17:59.860 irrelevant out-of-context quotes and bad faith questions and accusations, etc., you're going

00:18:04.920 to have to try a lot harder than that. A lot harder. Or instead, instead of trying to get better

00:18:12.580 at being gutless smear merchants and disgraceful hacks, you could instead work on becoming better

00:18:18.500 people, better men. You could stop trying to defend the indefensible, what you yourself know to be

00:18:27.820 indefensible. You could stop trading in your soul for the sake of promoting and defending the most

00:18:32.940 depraved ideological agenda mankind has ever known. And instead, you could try to be men of dignity and

00:18:39.040 integrity and moral courage. That's the other option. It's an option that'll work out a lot better

00:18:45.080 for you in a lot of ways, including come Judgment Day, I would add. And in the meantime, another

00:18:50.860 bonus, maybe you won't make such asses of yourself in any more committee hearings. Just a thought. 0.98

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00:19:58.460 to learn more. There was another committee hearing yesterday, so it's a big day for committees. This one

00:20:03.960 was in D.C. where three former Twitter executives have been called in to answer questions about Twitter's

00:20:08.660 decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, of course, rigging there by the 2020 election by

00:20:14.080 suppressing relevant information that might have swayed the voters. And that was all, that was the

00:20:17.940 point of it, of course. We'll start with this clip where AOC takes the opportunity to, instead of

00:20:22.500 discussing the issue at hand, so there's a common theme, a theme is emerging. Instead of talking about

00:20:28.380 that, she instead decides to defame libs of TikTok. Let's watch. 0.95

00:20:33.120 Additionally, Ms. Navarroli, are you familiar with the account libs of TikTok?

00:20:39.980 I have heard of it from the news, yes.

00:20:42.680 Mr. Roth, are you familiar with this account?

00:20:46.460 Yes, ma'am, I am.

00:20:47.760 Are you aware that from August 11th to August 16th, that account posted false information about Boston

00:20:55.340 Children's Hospital, claiming that they were providing hysterectomies to children?

00:21:00.140 Yes, I am aware of that and other claims from the account.

00:21:05.000 And are you aware that this lie was then circulated by other prominent far-right influencers?

00:21:10.520 Yes.

00:21:11.960 And are you aware that all these claims, which I have reiterated were false, culminated in a real-life

00:21:19.600 harassment and ultimately a bomb threat to the Boston Children's Hospital?

00:21:25.280 Yes, I am aware.

00:21:26.080 And this account is still on that platform today, isn't it?

00:21:31.500 Regrettably, yes, it is.

00:21:33.100 Despite inspiring a bomb threat due to the right-wing incitement of violence against trans-Americans

00:21:40.700 in this country, because they cannot let go of this obsession with fixating violence and

00:21:51.660 inciting violence against trans- and LGBT people, in addition to immigrants, in addition to women

00:21:56.660 of color, this is a party that cannot pick on anyone their own size.

00:22:00.780 Hmm.

00:22:02.120 Oh, the old punching-down routine, right? 0.95

00:22:04.920 We're punching down when, you know, there's LGBT. 1.00

00:22:09.860 LGBT, this is institutional power. 0.60

00:22:14.080 Like, every single major corporation is tripping over itself on Pride Month, covering itself

00:22:21.040 in rainbows.

00:22:22.140 And so, you know, LGBT, the most privileged, celebrated group in America and in American

00:22:32.500 history, in fact.

00:22:33.280 And yet, if you say anything critical of any, not even critical of them, if you say, if you

00:22:39.520 remotely say anything critical of some of the things that some of them do, you're punching

00:22:44.020 down.

00:22:44.500 You're punching down on these poor people.

00:22:46.800 Maybe eventually, you know, we keep hearing about us inciting violence, people on the right

00:22:51.480 inciting violence.

00:22:52.520 Because, I hear about this so much, maybe one of these days, one of these people will

00:22:59.280 get around to providing even, like, one example of us inciting violence.

00:23:03.720 Well, I keep hearing about it.

00:23:05.360 I hear about how I do it all the time.

00:23:06.820 I hear about how Libs of TikTok does it. 0.99

00:23:08.980 I'd be really interested to know, when was that exactly?

00:23:12.800 Where's the part where any of us have said, have called on others to commit acts of violence? 0.93

00:23:19.180 It's like, go out into the street and find trans people and beat them up. 1.00

00:23:21.720 But when have any of us said anything even, like, vaguely similar to that?

00:23:29.840 I do have to admit, though, I was pretty jealous when I saw this.

00:23:33.180 Like, I'm, look, not to make it about myself, but I'm the transphobe of the year.

00:23:39.940 And I don't get a mention here.

00:23:41.740 So, AOC at the committee hearing, she wants to go after transphobic accounts.

00:23:46.380 Libs of TikTok, fine, I get it.

00:23:47.620 But I don't, she defames Libs of TikTok, and I don't even get an honorable mention.

00:23:52.040 As the transphobe of the year?

00:23:55.560 You know, I'm the award-winning transphobe?

00:23:58.120 Me and Libs of TikTok, Shia, are in kind of a feud, a battle to see who can be defamed by the media the most.

00:24:07.820 And it's a friendly contest.

00:24:10.100 I thought that I'd surged pretty far ahead with my transphobe of the year award.

00:24:14.300 I thought that, not that I got comfortable or complacent.

00:24:16.780 I just thought that I got a comfortable, I do have a comfortable lead here.

00:24:19.760 I can coast a little bit, maybe pace myself a little bit more.

00:24:24.400 But then she gets the name drop in a congressional committee hearing, and suddenly I'm in danger of getting left in the dust.

00:24:31.060 So, but this shows you how heated the competition is, because this was earlier yesterday.

00:24:34.820 This happened to Shia. 0.52

00:24:36.620 And then later that same day, I get ambushed and defamed at a committee hearing in Tennessee.

00:24:42.240 Now, yeah, hers was federal.

00:24:43.660 I get that.

00:24:45.080 But for me, I was there in person.

00:24:46.680 So it's kind of, I don't know.

00:24:47.660 I think it's kind of close.

00:24:48.360 It's, it's, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a real competition though.

00:24:52.100 We'll see what happens.

00:24:53.460 Um, and ultimately it's who's going to be, this is really what the competition is.

00:24:58.340 Um, who's going to be transphobe of the year of 2023.

00:25:01.620 That's the contest.

00:25:02.780 And, uh, I understand that that's, I, that I'm going to need to need to vigorously defend my title.

00:25:09.800 And I plan to, but I see things like this and it makes me, makes me a little nervous.

00:25:14.800 Now, more to the point, of course, what AOC accused Libs of TikTok of was, uh, totally false, both on, on, uh, inciting violence.

00:25:25.760 That's obviously completely made up.

00:25:28.040 But then, but then, but then also the part about, uh, you know, misinformation about Boston Children's Hospital.

00:25:33.420 Now, just to remind us all so we can all remember.

00:25:37.600 Libs of TikTok, this was not, uh, she didn't post something and say, hey, you know, I heard,

00:25:43.220 I heard that they do, uh, gender-affirming hysterectomies.

00:25:46.260 I heard about this.

00:25:48.360 Now, what she did, she found a video, a Boston Children's Hospital video,

00:25:52.640 where they talk about providing this procedure.

00:25:56.920 So she is quoting them.

00:25:59.120 And let's go back and watch that video again, just so we can all refresh our memories.

00:26:02.820 Gender-affirming hysterectomy is very similar to most hysterectomies that occur.

00:26:07.880 A hysterectomy itself is the removal of the uterus, the cervix, which is the opening of the uterus.

00:26:12.800 And the fallopian tubes, which are attached to the sides of the uterus.

00:26:16.500 Some gender-affirming hysterectomies will also include the removal of the ovaries. 0.93

00:26:20.280 But that's technically a separate procedure called a bilateral oophrectomy.

00:26:23.860 And not every gender-affirming hysterectomy includes that.

00:26:26.920 And people who are getting gender-affirming hysterectomies do not have to have their ovaries removed.

00:26:30.740 Okay, can we go back to just the very beginning of this video again?

00:26:35.940 Just start from the top.

00:26:37.360 Interferming hysterectomy is very similar to most hysterectomies.

00:26:40.760 Stop right there.

00:26:41.900 Right on the corner there.

00:26:42.940 It says Boston.

00:26:45.060 Now, again, we already established in the last, in the opening, that I don't have any medical credentials.

00:26:51.780 I didn't go to college.

00:26:52.740 But, so correct me if I'm wrong, this reading thing can be a challenge sometimes for us, those of us who didn't go to college.

00:26:59.300 But I'm pretty sure it says Boston Children's Hospital.

00:27:03.240 And there's a doctor who works there talking about gender-affirming hysterectomies.

00:27:08.100 Okay?

00:27:08.660 So that's where we got the idea from.

00:27:11.920 Where do we get the idea that Boston Children's Hospital does gender-affirming hysterectomies?

00:27:14.660 Well, we got it from them in this video where they talk about it.

00:27:19.080 That's where we got it.

00:27:21.360 Just so you know.

00:27:23.540 So when AOC and all the rest of them, when they say that this is misinformation, again, as always, misinformation means, when they say it, it means inconvenient information.

00:27:36.260 It means information that I wish you didn't know.

00:27:39.400 That is misinformation.

00:27:40.960 All right, moving on a little bit on that same committee hearing, well, not moving past the committee hearing, because Marjorie Taylor Greene had a few things to say as well, coming from the opposite perspective.

00:27:53.800 And let's watch that.

00:27:56.080 So glad that you're censored down.

00:27:57.680 I'm so glad you've lost your jobs.

00:27:59.900 Thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter.

00:28:02.720 And you know what?

00:28:03.440 Let's talk about something a little bit further.

00:28:05.280 It's amazing to me, Mr. Roth, as the head and trust of safety at Twitter, your ability, or should I say inability, to remove child porn.

00:28:19.620 Now, here's something that disgusts me about you. 0.92

00:28:22.740 In your doctoral dissertation entitled Gay Data, you argued that minors should have access to Grindr, an adult male gay hookup app. 0.94

00:28:33.320 Minors, really? 0.65

00:28:36.540 You know, Elon Musk took over Twitter, and he banned 44,000 accounts that were promoting child porn.

00:28:44.000 You permanently banned my Twitter account, but you allowed child porn all over Twitter.

00:28:51.820 Twitter had become a platform, you said, connecting queer young adults.

00:28:55.960 Yes, you also wrote on Twitter in 2010, can high school students ever meaningfully consent?

00:29:02.320 Everything she's saying there is correct, of course.

00:29:04.860 But the one thing I'll take issue with from Marjorie Taylor Greene is she says that it's, I think she said it's astounding to her, surprising, astounding,

00:29:13.140 that there was all this child porn, and they didn't take the child porn off the platform, but they were going after her,

00:29:18.980 and they were going after Hunter Biden's laptop story and taking conservative content down.

00:29:22.820 She's astounded by that.

00:29:23.700 I'm not astounded by it in the least bit.

00:29:25.480 I'm not even remotely surprised by it.

00:29:28.860 Because they don't, look, why weren't they aggressive in removing child porn before Elon Musk took over?

00:29:35.380 Because they don't see child porn as a problem.

00:29:38.000 They don't see child sex abuse as an issue.

00:29:40.840 They just don't.

00:29:43.480 I know sometimes that can be hard to wrap your head around because if you are a decent person and you do have a soul and a brain,

00:29:51.580 at least a functioning one, then it's impossible to conceive of how anyone could be anything less than totally horrified and infuriated by the abuse of children.

00:30:03.360 But we're dealing with people who do not, whose souls and brains do not function, at least don't function like a human being should. 0.91

00:30:13.460 You know, these are people that have, which isn't to let them off the hook either.

00:30:18.960 It's not like their brain's malfunctioning, you know, through no fault of their own.

00:30:24.280 It's just that they're so beholden to their ideology, they've sacrificed their souls,

00:30:29.100 and they don't have, they just don't see it as a problem.

00:30:33.360 And they also do believe, you know, they do believe that children can make choices,

00:30:43.940 can consent to all kinds of things from a very young age.

00:30:47.800 And they won't say it out loud, but that's what they think.

00:30:50.960 And there are all kinds of implications to that horrific viewpoint.

00:30:56.040 And that's part of what we're seeing here.

00:31:00.480 All right, this is from The Daily Wire.

00:31:01.800 Our Canadian conservative activist and YouTuber Lauren Southern announced Tuesday that her parents

00:31:05.920 had been banned from vacation rental property company Airbnb for being closely associated with their daughter.

00:31:12.020 Quote,

00:31:12.260 Well, we've removed you from the Airbnb platform because your account is closely associated with a person who isn't allowed to use Airbnb.

00:31:18.080 This means you'll no longer be able to book reservations on Airbnb.

00:31:21.580 Southern was banned from Airbnb years ago over her right-wing political views and was denied reinstatement, which she tried to appeal.

00:31:27.320 My parents just got banned from Airbnb for being related to me.

00:31:29.700 Southern captioned the now viral Twitter post.

00:31:32.160 They have never booked anything for me.

00:31:33.940 They don't represent me in any way.

00:31:35.280 They aren't publicly political in any way.

00:31:37.260 How is this sane in any way?

00:31:39.880 As of Wednesday morning, Southern's post about the ban had received more than 6.8 million views.

00:31:47.420 And then there's the follow-up.

00:31:50.480 Airbnb told The Daily Wire, The Daily Wire reached out, that the banning of Southern's parents was a mistake.

00:31:54.340 So they were banned, and then Lauren Southern called attention to it, and now they're saying it was a mistake.

00:31:59.320 We have reinstated their accounts and apologized to them for this mistake.

00:32:03.820 The Daily Wire reached out to Southern about the response, and she said she believes Airbnb is lying about the ban being a mistake

00:32:09.160 and only backtracked because of the public blowback.

00:32:12.840 Yeah, that's exactly what happened.

00:32:14.620 It's not a mistake.

00:32:15.560 What does that mean, mistake?

00:32:17.140 It's like someone tripped and fell and accidentally banned Lauren Southern's parents.

00:32:22.100 Someone hit a button by accident, like some sort of typo.

00:32:25.420 No, this was a decision that they made.

00:32:27.640 There was no basis for it.

00:32:29.940 As she said, it wasn't like she was trying to evade the ban by having her parents book reservations for it.

00:32:36.260 That didn't happen.

00:32:38.340 They banned her, which was completely insane when they did it, but they banned her years ago. 1.00

00:32:45.540 And the other thing, too, is that Lauren Southern mentioned that her parents never appealed it.

00:32:53.000 Okay, so it's not like they appealed it and made their case.

00:32:57.280 So when Airbnb went back on this decision, they weren't responding to an appeal.

00:33:03.300 They were responding to public pressure.

00:33:04.740 That's what they were responding to, which is good.

00:33:06.760 It's good that the public was able to pressure them and that we were able to exert that kind of power.

00:33:12.960 It's a good thing to know that we can do.

00:33:15.640 But it's also very disturbing because what it means is that this was kind of they're testing the waters.

00:33:22.300 They were seeing if they could get away with it.

00:33:23.820 And if they could have, if Southern even just wasn't on Twitter so she couldn't post about it, let's say she had been banned by Twitter also, and so wasn't able to call anyone's attention to this, then, yeah, this would have stayed in place no matter what.

00:33:39.460 Even if it had been appealed.

00:33:41.800 So this is just, this is testing the waters.

00:33:45.700 We already have these big corporate brands and companies and platforms that are banning people for wrong think.

00:33:53.160 And now they want to expand that to even banning your family members.

00:33:57.780 They want to, they want to erase all of you as far as, you know, being consumers of their products and their services goes.

00:34:05.020 And I'm afraid that one of the lessons that they might learn from this is not going to learn, they're not going to learn the right lesson.

00:34:11.060 It's not like they're going to have a come to Jesus moment and say, you know, this, that was really too far.

00:34:13.920 We shouldn't do that.

00:34:15.800 Like, it's, it's bad enough that we're punishing Lauren Southern for having political views. 1.00

00:34:19.840 We don't agree with a punish her parents too. 0.99

00:34:21.840 That's overboard.

00:34:22.360 It's like, that's not the conclusion they're going to draw.

00:34:25.800 I think one conclusion they might draw is that, okay, this needs to be more, like, if we want to erase these people, then it has to be a more, you know, it, it, it, the effort has to be more coordinated.

00:34:42.000 So the real mistake, as far as Airbnb is concerned, is that, yeah, they banned Southern and then banned her parents, but she still had access to all these other platforms.

00:34:52.360 So she was able to call attention to it.

00:34:53.740 So then the elites and the powers that be, what they're going to then decide is that, well, we need to make sure that when we do this, we erase you from everything so that you have no means to speak out against us.

00:35:05.480 And they are, that's already the conclusion that they've drawn.

00:35:09.740 We've seen them do that to several people, but they can't do it on Twitter now because they don't, they don't control Twitter at the moment.

00:35:15.480 All right.

00:35:17.880 What else do we got here?

00:35:19.820 I want to mention one.

00:35:20.620 I've had this sitting on, on deck for a few days.

00:35:23.120 So I'm just going to mention it.

00:35:24.300 This is from Fox News.

00:35:26.160 A New York middle school is apologizing after serving students with a meal on the first day of Black History Month that was deemed to be culturally insensitive.

00:35:32.320 Administrators at Nyack Middle School say that the hot lunch menu was changed by the vendor without their knowledge on February 1st, the first day of Black History Month, to include chicken and waffles with a watermelon dessert, with which the school's principal called an unfortunate situation.

00:35:48.780 We're extremely disappointed by this regrettable situation.

00:35:51.760 Apologize to the entire Nyack community for the cultural insensitivity displayed by our food service providers.

00:35:57.820 I am disappointed that Aramac would serve items that differed from the published monthly menu, especially items that reinforce negative stereotypes concerning the African-American community.

00:36:08.780 And then also there's going to be, I think, cultural sensitivity and all of the sorts of things and apologies and all the rest of it.

00:36:15.680 Here's what I'm trying to figure out.

00:36:18.780 So it reinforces negative stereotypes.

00:36:23.560 Why exactly is it a negative stereotype that a lot of Black people like chicken and waffles?

00:36:29.760 Why is that negative?

00:36:31.160 It's just, is it inaccurate?

00:36:34.420 Like, it is true that you tend to find chicken and waffle restaurants and those sorts of dishes in Black communities more than in, you know, white communities.

00:36:44.000 So, why is that a problem to notice?

00:36:50.360 I like chicken and waffles too.

00:36:51.580 It's a great, it's, it's, it makes sense.

00:36:53.580 It's, it's a great, it's a, it's a great dish.

00:36:56.020 I actually hadn't had it.

00:36:56.880 I'd had it for the first time like a year ago.

00:36:58.360 I'd never had chicken waffles before.

00:37:00.160 And, and then I had it the first time a year ago.

00:37:02.280 I'm like, this is, and it always sounded a little bit weird to me.

00:37:04.060 Like, how do you find chicken and waffles?

00:37:05.660 That's amazing.

00:37:06.060 Then I had them.

00:37:06.640 Like, this is amazing.

00:37:07.420 I love this.

00:37:08.060 So, it's a great food.

00:37:10.720 It's a great dish.

00:37:12.200 I think it's accurate to say that it tends to be more popular and prevalent in the Black community.

00:37:20.480 I'm not sure if historically it was like, it was first designed or, you know, if the first person to come up with the chicken and waffles dish was a Black person.

00:37:29.400 I don't know if that's the case.

00:37:31.780 But who cares?

00:37:33.020 Why is it automatically offensive?

00:37:35.040 What, a negative stereotype.

00:37:37.340 What's negative about it?

00:37:40.440 This is, this is what we did.

00:37:41.580 We decided that every stereotype is automatically negative simply because it's a stereotype.

00:37:48.420 But that's not the case.

00:37:49.080 A stereotype is a, it's a, it's a, it's a generality made about groups.

00:37:57.940 It's like, it's speaking in a kind of general term about a group.

00:38:00.860 And that's, that's, that is not autumn.

00:38:04.840 Now, there, there can be negative stereotypes.

00:38:06.780 There are things you could say about groups that are not accurate, that are not true, that could be degrading or offensive.

00:38:12.620 But not everything is.

00:38:14.080 Just because you're making a general statement and saying, you know, people in this group generally like this or do this or whatever.

00:38:20.320 However, it's, it can be true.

00:38:23.520 It's okay to notice it.

00:38:25.820 But this is the conditioning.

00:38:27.100 This is the conditioning they want.

00:38:28.180 They're, where they're, they're telling us that, that we're not allowed to notice things.

00:38:31.840 Or at least we need to ask permission.

00:38:33.900 There are certain things we're allowed to notice and other things we're not allowed to notice.

00:38:37.000 And we need to get permission first.

00:38:38.360 And the fact that the, the unacceptable things, the things that we're not allowed to notice, the fact that this is so arbitrarily determined, that's part of the game here.

00:38:47.840 It's part of the, as I always talk about, this kind of societal game of Simon Says.

00:38:53.480 So you are allowed to speak in general terms about black people.

00:38:56.720 It's what Black History Month is all about.

00:38:59.420 You're allowed, you're allowed to talk about things like black history.

00:39:01.700 So there are, there are, and if you're to say, well, we're celebrating black history, we're celebrating black culture.

00:39:08.340 That'd be an okay thing to say.

00:39:09.700 You're allowed to say that.

00:39:10.380 We're going to celebrate black culture for Black History Month.

00:39:12.660 Okay, you can do that.

00:39:13.760 That's a, so you're speaking in general terms now.

00:39:17.520 But then what is black culture exactly?

00:39:20.080 So we're allowed to celebrate it.

00:39:21.380 But what, what, what qualifies?

00:39:24.600 Especially when you get into things like food.

00:39:26.240 What are you allowed to say as part of that scene?

00:39:31.700 That's when the rules become extremely arbitrary.

00:39:34.760 And there's just no way, as a reasonable, rational person, there's no way to know,

00:39:39.080 well, I'm allowed to notice that, that this food tends to be a part of that, but not this food.

00:39:43.100 That food's wrong.

00:39:43.740 We can't bring that up. 0.98

00:39:46.700 It's completely ridiculous. 0.81

00:39:48.840 All right, let's get to the comment section. 0.98

00:39:50.300 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard, hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:39:58.560 Funk Soul Bubby says, Matt was probably the kid who brought the American defense figurines to a G.I. Joe sleepover.

00:40:07.200 Yeah, look, and if the sleepover was at my house, we were having fruity O's for breakfast, not, not Fruit Loops.

00:40:13.480 We were, we were definitely, you know, we were having the, the frosted mini squares rather than the frosted mini wheats.

00:40:19.780 That was my, my mom was the queen of off-brand stuff.

00:40:24.220 She could just fight.

00:40:24.960 It's like, there's a, there's an off-brand version of everything.

00:40:28.100 And, uh, that was my house, 100%.

00:40:30.480 And when you've got, you know, I had five brothers and sisters, so that just comes to the territory.

00:40:35.560 Um, we should be doing that more in my house.

00:40:38.340 Like my, my wife, for some reason, still buy, she buys my kids the name brand cereal. 0.61

00:40:43.520 She refuses to get the off-brand cereal.

00:40:45.500 And so we're, we're paying a, like a 3X premium.

00:40:48.440 It tastes basically the same.

00:40:51.380 And, uh, so this is, this is a discussion we have, but I'll, probably not relevant to the rest of you.

00:40:55.820 Uh, Kenny says, is it such a horrible thing for someone to take their own life?

00:41:00.040 If there is nothing else we have control over, it should be whether we live and suffer or, uh, bring about an end that was coming anyway.

00:41:05.700 And that's a thought I've never had to entertain and I hope I never do.

00:41:08.620 But if I do, it's definitely a personal decision.

00:41:11.160 Well, here's the thing, Kenny, it is horrible to take your own life.

00:41:16.300 I mean, suicide is a horrible thing.

00:41:18.140 And I think that you understand that.

00:41:19.660 And, and even the people that, most of the people that say that they don't necessarily agree, well, if, if you were walking across a bridge and you saw a guy about to throw himself off of it to kill himself, you would try to stop him, wouldn't you?

00:41:36.120 You wouldn't stand there and say, well, it's his own decision.

00:41:38.600 I guess he's trying to end his suffering. 1.00

00:41:39.700 No, you would try to stop him because, and in fact, if you saw someone else just standing there watching while it happened, you would think that person's a terrible scumbag. 0.99

00:41:48.460 And they would be. 1.00

00:41:49.760 Yeah, suicide is a terrible thing.

00:41:52.220 But more to the point when it comes to euthanasia, doctors shouldn't kill people.

00:41:57.840 That's the principle here.

00:41:58.840 So, you can try to argue that a person has the right to take their own life or it's okay for a person to take their own life.

00:42:09.200 I don't agree with that.

00:42:14.500 At least on a moral level.

00:42:17.100 Let me say someone has a legal right to take their own life.

00:42:19.140 Well, that's the kind of thing that, like, obviously, I can't, I can't really, if someone kills themselves, obviously, there's no way to legally enforce the law against it after the fact.

00:42:28.580 But I don't think we have the moral right to end our own lives.

00:42:31.760 But that's a separate conversation.

00:42:34.080 Because we're not talking about what people have the right to do to themselves here when it comes to euthanasia.

00:42:37.420 We're talking about what do doctors have the right to do to people.

00:42:41.240 And what I'm saying is that no doctor has the right to directly and intentionally kill another person.

00:42:49.660 Whether that person is an infant in the womb or that person is, you know, is terminally ill or that person is depressed.

00:42:56.540 That should not be a tool in the medical toolbox.

00:43:02.100 Because it's not medicine.

00:43:04.100 Medicine treats, medicine heals.

00:43:06.900 Anything that doesn't do that is not medicine.

00:43:09.620 And so it should not be within the purview of a doctor.

00:43:15.440 And finally, do we have time for this one?

00:43:19.220 Yeah, sort of.

00:43:19.940 Well, not really.

00:43:20.440 But Nick says, why you got to come after Trump all the time?

00:43:23.540 It really casts your credibility into doubt.

00:43:25.120 It seems like reading from the script.

00:43:28.700 Of course, I always get, anytime that I criticize Trump, I'm always told that I always criticize Trump.

00:43:32.920 When it has always been the case that I, in general, I talk about Trump.

00:43:37.720 And I talk about politicians, probably less than almost any conservative in media.

00:43:42.740 You know, I don't focus on these issues that much.

00:43:44.800 I like to focus on other things.

00:43:46.640 So criticize him all the time, I think, automatically is quite inaccurate.

00:43:51.780 My policy has always been that I criticize Trump when he does things that I think are wrong.

00:43:56.740 And then if he doesn't, then I don't criticize him.

00:44:00.120 If he does something that I think is right, then I'll defend him.

00:44:02.420 In fact, just yesterday on the show, when Biden was taking credit for putting a cap on the price of insulin, I said, no, Trump did that.

00:44:11.780 Okay?

00:44:11.980 So that's something that Trump did.

00:44:13.760 Give him credit for that.

00:44:14.460 But Trump also tried to defame DeSantis as a groomer because he took a picture with some women.

00:44:26.680 And I think that's wrong, so I criticize him for that.

00:44:28.980 So that's basically my approach.

00:44:30.280 I think that's a rational, reasonable approach.

00:44:33.260 And just so you understand something, too, because it's still, it kind of boggles my mind that people don't get this, is that criticizing, when it comes to Trump, like when it comes to Trump, there are the sort of grifting, profitable, reading from the script, sacrificing your credibility approach to Trump is always going to be on the extremes.

00:45:00.900 Okay?

00:45:01.820 So someone who always loves Trump and supports everything he does, no matter what, an always Trump person, that's a grift.

00:45:14.580 And the other side, the people who hate Trump so much that then they went and supported Hillary Clinton, and now they support the Democrats, and Bill Kristol, like, hates Trump so much that he just decided to go and become a leftist to spite him.

00:45:24.740 That's also a grift.

00:45:25.780 Okay?

00:45:26.000 And then, because there's like a built-in audience for both of those.

00:45:31.660 It's a simple, it's a simplistic sort of position.

00:45:34.600 There's a built-in audience.

00:45:36.740 Anything in between, we take the in-between approach where you're like, well, when he does things I agree with, I criticize him.

00:45:43.600 When he does things I agree with, I support him.

00:45:45.240 If not, I criticize him.

00:45:46.840 There's no grift there, because that's, you're automatically going to be upsetting people on both sides.

00:45:53.460 And so anytime you do that, it's hard to call that a grift or to say that, well, you're reading from a script.

00:45:58.920 It's like, with Trump, the easiest, especially as a conservative, the easiest thing has always been either just become a full-on leftist, and then maybe you get the CNN hits, and maybe you get something on MSNBC, so you could do that.

00:46:11.260 Or to say, well, he's God incarnate, and everything he does is right.

00:46:19.660 But just trying to be reasonable about it, that's never been, like, really the most profitable position on the guy, or on any politician.

00:46:26.620 But that's the correct position on any politician.

00:46:29.160 So I'm not sitting here and saying that we should be in the middle, like, being in the middle is the right thing all the time.

00:46:35.800 When it comes to issues, to principles, the middle is not the right place to be.

00:46:41.780 But when it comes to a person, a politician, I think the right thing is to support them when they have earned it and not when they don't.

00:46:49.140 A couple weeks ago, we told you about how YouTube removed an episode of our show because my comments about men who want to have uteruses implanted in their bodies were deemed to be offensive and hateful somehow.

00:46:57.600 Now, these restrictive speech policies exist because the world is on a mission to make you woke.

00:47:02.800 It's as simple as that.

00:47:03.940 But our good friend Dennis Prager is on a mission to make you wise.

00:47:06.820 And thankfully, Dennis has created a brand new series with Daily Wire Plus called The Master's Program to do just that.

00:47:12.520 We've had a longstanding relationship with Dennis Prager for good reason.

00:47:15.320 He's been leading the charge against stupidity for longer than I've been alive with content like PragerU's five-minute videos. 0.74

00:47:21.640 Well, The Master's Program takes 40 years' worth of wisdom and experience from one of the most influential conservative thinkers in America today. 0.95

00:47:26.960 And distills it all down in a way that is relevant and accessible.

00:47:30.600 Episodes explore topics like, is human nature basically good?

00:47:33.880 I think we can say for certain that I'm obviously good, but I can't speak for anyone else.

00:47:37.200 So we'll find out more about that.

00:47:38.540 The series also covers the consequences of secularism, which, by the way, are so dire it needed two episodes to explore.

00:47:43.700 A brand new episode of PragerU Master's Program is available to stream right now, but only on Daily Wire Plus.

00:47:49.200 So head to dailywireplus.com to become a member and watch PragerU Master's Program and more.

00:47:54.220 That's dailywireplus.com today.

00:47:56.320 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:59.960 It is perhaps cosmic justice that Sam Smith and Kim Petras perform their satanic ritual at the Grammys.

00:48:08.960 And though they did succeed in getting some of the attention they crave, still most of the conversation surrounding their performance has been focused not on the performance, but on Madonna's face.

00:48:19.360 The aging former pop star introduced the two men on Sunday night.

00:48:23.740 And ever since then, people have been remarking on the fact that Madonna looked like she was having a potentially fatal reaction to shellfish.

00:48:29.580 She looked like Marilyn Manson reimagined as a Muppet. 0.99

00:48:33.080 She looked like she paid $15 to a caricature artist to draw a picture of her and then brought the drawing to her plastic surgeon and said, 1.00

00:48:39.500 turn me into this.

00:48:41.240 And I'm not being mean here.

00:48:42.500 And I'm just trying to be precise in my description.

00:48:44.020 It's important to be very precise.

00:48:45.100 But it's not my fault that Madonna now looks like a large, flightless bird that went extinct in the Pleistocene era. 0.79

00:48:52.720 You can't blame me for the fact that Madonna looks like a sock puppet. 0.88

00:48:55.900 She just does.

00:48:57.540 Now, Madonna herself seems to have noticed the comments and the comparisons and the fact that people are saying that she looks like a ventriloquist dummy from a Jeff Dunham act.

00:49:05.300 And so she sent out this tweet on Tuesday.

00:49:08.540 She said, the world is threatened by my power and my stamina, my intelligence and my will to survive.

00:49:16.220 But they will never break me.

00:49:17.960 This is all a test.

00:49:20.340 She's right, actually.

00:49:21.300 Speaking for myself, I am blown away by her will to survive.

00:49:25.240 I mean, she has a net worth of only $850 million after all. 0.89

00:49:29.440 I don't know how she manages to endure to keep going, to survive against the odds.

00:49:33.460 But she does.

00:49:34.140 She wills her way through it with sheer guts and determination and copious amounts of Botox.

00:49:40.900 It is inspiring.

00:49:42.320 Inspiring, at least, to the New York Times.

00:49:45.020 So while everyone else has been making fun of Madonna, the New York Times has swooped in to explain why we should actually admire her for destroying her face with plastic surgery.

00:49:54.260 In an essay titled, Madonna's New Face is a Brilliant Provocation, the author Jennifer Wiener writes,

00:50:00.080 With blonde braids looped over her ears, dressed in a long black skirt and black jacket, accessorized with a riding crop, one of the best female recording artists of all time stepped into the spotlight of the 65th annual Grammy Awards Sunday night.

00:50:14.040 Madonna was there to introduce Sam Smith and Kim Petras, a non-binary performer and a trans woman.

00:50:18.580 She began by referring to her four decades in the music industry and praised the rebels, forging a new path and taking the heat for all of it.

00:50:25.620 Was anyone listening?

00:50:26.760 Social media's loudest roars weren't about her speech or her longtime LGBTQ advocacy or her upcoming world tour.

00:50:32.740 They were about Madonna's preternaturally smooth and extravagantly sculpted face.

00:50:36.300 All of Madonna's features looked exaggerated, pushed, and polished to an extreme. 0.75

00:50:41.800 There was her forehead, smooth and gleaming as a porcelain bowl.

00:50:45.520 Her eyebrows bleached and plucked to near invisibility.

00:50:48.680 Her cheekbones with deep hollows beneath them.

00:50:51.940 People posted with a picture side by side with that of Jigsaw from Saws and Janice from The Muppet Show

00:50:57.160 and made jokes about desperately seeking surgeon, while extremely online plastic surgeons hastened to guess about exactly what procedures she had undergone.

00:51:07.300 Well, there's that.

00:51:08.580 And now comes the part where the leftist writer does what leftist writers love to do more than anything,

00:51:13.080 which is to try to make simple vanity seem interesting.

00:51:17.760 She continues.

00:51:19.020 Beyond the question of what she'd done, however, lay the more interesting question of why she had done it.

00:51:25.120 Did Madonna get sucked so deep into the vortex of beauty culture that she came out the other side? 1.00

00:51:29.900 Had the pressure to appear younger somehow made her think that she ought to look like some kind of excessively contoured baby?

00:51:36.300 Perhaps so, but I'd like to think that our era's greatest chameleon, a woman who has always been intentional about her reinvention,

00:51:42.880 was doing something slyer, more subversive, by serving us both a new, if not necessarily improved,

00:51:49.020 face and a side of critique about the work of beauty, the inevitability of aging,

00:51:52.380 and the impossible bind in which older female celebrities find themselves. 1.00

00:51:57.540 People complain that she no longer looks like Madonna, but which Madonna comes to mind?

00:52:02.100 She's been a blonde and a brunette, butch and high femme. 1.00

00:52:05.340 She's worn castoffs and couture.

00:52:07.480 She's adopted and abandoned an English accent.

00:52:09.880 She's shown us her roots and her underwear, deliberately putting the hidden parts on display.

00:52:13.940 Every new version of Madonna was both a look and a commentary on looking,

00:52:18.100 a statement about the artifice of beauty and about her own right to set the terms by which she was seen.

00:52:23.380 Is it possible that Madonna has been so blinkered by her fame and wealth that she's lost the ability to see herself objectively?

00:52:28.740 Yes, but whatever her intentions, the superstar has gotten us all talking about how good looks are subjective

00:52:34.420 and how ageism is pervasive.

00:52:35.960 In the end, whether she meant to make a statement or just to look younger, better, refreshed, almost doesn't matter.

00:52:42.260 If beauty is a construct, Madonna's the one who puts its scaffolding on display.

00:52:48.620 Okay, first of all, no.

00:52:51.900 That's not what's going on here.

00:52:53.520 Two points.

00:52:55.520 As for beauty being a construct and subjective,

00:52:59.860 Madonna's face is actually a perfect example demonstrating why that is not the case.

00:53:04.600 Despite the extremely common misperception, beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder.

00:53:12.340 There is an objective quality to it.

00:53:14.580 See, everyone agrees that Madonna's artificial face is not beautiful.

00:53:17.860 Everyone agrees that all the injections and surgeries and plastics have not improved anything.

00:53:23.540 Women, you know, everyone knows that a woman who ages naturally and gracefully is more beautiful 1.00

00:53:27.900 than one who obsessively goes under the knife in a desperate and futile attempt to reverse the clock.

00:53:33.020 Why do we all feel that way?

00:53:34.960 Is it entirely arbitrary?

00:53:36.620 Have we settled on this view randomly?

00:53:39.500 Do we all happen to have the same artificially constructive, subjective opinion about beauty?

00:53:45.260 No.

00:53:46.200 In fact, we recognize, even if we don't realize we recognize,

00:53:51.680 the objective qualities of beauty.

00:53:54.340 We know, even if we don't know that we know,

00:53:57.400 that beauty is wholeness, completeness.

00:54:00.860 Beauty is found in order, in symmetry.

00:54:04.240 Something is beautiful if it reflects its own essence and if that essence is good.

00:54:09.400 That's why a beautiful tree is one that has grown tall and mighty,

00:54:12.500 not one that is rotting and diseased and, you know, covered with graffiti.

00:54:16.540 Thomas Aquinas said that beauty consists in due proportion.

00:54:20.040 And, you know, I think this is basically what he's getting at.

00:54:22.640 Madonna's fake face isn't beautiful. 0.99

00:54:25.280 We all see that it isn't beautiful because it's a rejection of what is natural and true.

00:54:30.640 It is a reflection not of her humanness and her humanity and her womanhood, 0.60

00:54:35.380 but of her vanity and her self-obsessions and her insecurity.

00:54:40.320 There's nothing beautiful about that, and so there's nothing beautiful about her face.

00:54:44.340 Truly, the idea that beauty is subjective,

00:54:48.600 it probably stands alone as the one viewpoint that nearly everyone professes,

00:54:54.180 and yet no one really believes.

00:54:57.400 So you think that you think that beauty is subjective,

00:55:00.240 but you don't really believe that.

00:55:01.760 And I know that you don't believe it because here's how I know it.

00:55:05.980 And, you know, I don't know anything about you, whoever you are listening to this.

00:55:09.480 But what I do know is that you would be appalled

00:55:13.580 if somebody were to look out upon a snow-capped mountain range

00:55:17.940 or a lake glistening in the sunset

00:55:20.200 or someone looked at a Rembrandt painting

00:55:22.960 or who heard a very talented choir singing Amazing Grace.

00:55:27.660 And if that person recoiled and said,

00:55:30.140 Ew, gross. 0.80

00:55:31.360 This is disgusting. 0.98

00:55:34.320 Now, you would be appalled by someone who reacted that way. 1.00

00:55:37.820 You would think that they were insane.

00:55:40.380 You would not say,

00:55:41.580 Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

00:55:42.860 I mean, that's a perfectly valid reaction.

00:55:44.500 You wouldn't.

00:55:46.880 Now, people may resonate differently with these sights and sounds.

00:55:50.060 Some may be more moved than others,

00:55:51.600 but no sane person is actively repulsed by any of those things.

00:55:57.220 Nobody outside the walls of an insane asylum

00:55:59.100 experiences actual revulsion at a sunset.

00:56:02.900 These are timeless and universal beauties.

00:56:07.080 And we're told that each culture reinvents beauty for itself.

00:56:09.540 And yet what we actually find is that all through history and across time,

00:56:12.480 in fact, every culture arrives at strikingly similar conclusions

00:56:15.960 about what is beautiful.

00:56:17.400 Now, there may be cultures that have difficulty creating beautiful things,

00:56:23.700 our culture, for instance,

00:56:25.200 and cultures who intentionally create ugly things instead of beautiful, 0.84

00:56:28.440 again, ours.

00:56:29.820 But everybody knows what is beautiful.

00:56:32.700 Nobody would prefer a bathroom stall

00:56:34.340 splattered with urine stains over the Sistine Chapel. 0.98

00:56:38.220 Nobody would because one is grotesque and filthy. 0.92

00:56:41.440 The other is beautiful. 0.92

00:56:43.480 And we can all see that.

00:56:45.260 Final point.

00:56:45.840 Women like Madonna, who refuse to age gracefully, 1.00

00:56:48.800 they are not victims of ageism,

00:56:51.540 except perhaps the ageism they direct against themselves.

00:56:55.700 Really, they're a reflection of a culture that fears mortality.

00:57:00.980 We worship youth because we are afraid of death.

00:57:05.760 This is like, if you want to call it, it's deathism, I guess.

00:57:08.780 And it really is as simple as that.

00:57:10.480 That's why we worship youth, because we're afraid of death.

00:57:12.920 Now, you may think that both of these things,

00:57:14.440 that worshiping youth and being afraid of death are inevitable in every society.

00:57:19.160 But you're wrong.

00:57:19.860 Because traditionally, especially in more ancient times,

00:57:21.760 the elders in the community have been revered and respected.

00:57:24.600 Age was associated with wisdom.

00:57:26.900 It wasn't shameful to be seen as old.

00:57:28.880 But rather, there was honor and dignity that came with being of advanced age.

00:57:34.060 Yet these were also societies that accepted the reality of death.

00:57:37.440 Death was a part of life for them.

00:57:38.980 They were around it all the time.

00:57:40.320 They may have had different ways of understanding death,

00:57:42.800 different ideas about what happened after you died.

00:57:44.780 But they didn't hide from death itself.

00:57:47.380 Not nearly to the extent that we do today, anyway.

00:57:50.500 These days, it's considered rude to even ask somebody their age.

00:57:55.200 Somehow, the fact that you've been walking the earth for more than 20 years

00:57:59.580 is supposed to be embarrassing.

00:58:02.780 But why should it be?

00:58:03.960 Why should a 65-year-old woman be embarrassed that she's 65? 0.99

00:58:09.080 Well, for no other reason than the fact that 65-year-old women are likely closer to death 1.00

00:58:13.620 than 25-year-old women. 0.57

00:58:15.340 And we see age as proximity to death.

00:58:18.380 And death is the one thing we don't want to be reminded of.

00:58:21.680 And so that's why we reject the aging process entirely.

00:58:25.220 Indeed, much of modern society is, I'm convinced,

00:58:27.920 fundamentally set up to distract us from thinking about our own deaths.

00:58:31.540 But death is inevitable, whether we think about it or not.

00:58:35.940 And Madonna is 64 years old, whether she embraces that reality or not.

00:58:40.520 So she might as well embrace it.

00:58:43.000 There is no shame in being whatever age you are.

00:58:46.180 There is only shame in being ashamed of it.

00:58:50.460 And that's why, ultimately, Madonna is today canceled.

00:58:54.720 And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.

00:58:57.060 Hope to see you there.

00:58:57.720 If not, talk to you on Friday.

00:59:00.340 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 09, 2023

Ep. 1110 - Democrats Try To Ambush Me At A Hearing, Fail Hilariously

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