Joe Biden announces his re-election bid, we learn more about the circumstances that led Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson, and a report details the horrific death of an 18-year-old who suffered complications during gender transition surgery.
00:00:00.000Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Joe Biden announces his re-election bid. The prospect of another four years of Biden is terrifying because he's a decaying old vegetable, but also because he's an anti-family tyrant. Just yesterday, for example, Biden declared explicitly that your children are not your own. We'll discuss that.
00:00:15.100Also, we're learning more about the circumstances that led Fox to make the disastrous decision to fire Tucker Carlson. Meanwhile, another cable news host also got the axe yesterday. The difference is that the other one deserved it. And a report details the horrific death of an 18-year-old who suffered complications during a quote-unquote gender transition surgery. This is yet another reason why medical gender transition should be illegal for everyone, not just kids. I'll explain why. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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00:02:01.480This week, the media has been running with a list that purports to rank the 13 most banned books of 2022.
00:02:09.500And the list has been put out for the second year in a row, actually, by the American Library Association.
00:02:15.480It's not your imagination, and it's not fear-mongering. Books, and our free and ready access to them, are under attack in the U.S.
00:02:22.980The American Library Association has the data to prove it.
00:02:25.360The ALA today released their list of the 13 most challenged books of 2022, the titles that have been the biggest targets of banning efforts in school and public libraries.
00:02:35.080The last few years have seen a dramatic uptick in the book banning attempts, an escalation of censorship tactics, and the coordinated harassment of teachers and librarians as political groups and parent associations target works of literature containing what they deem to be objectionable material for young readers.
00:02:49.160For more information on book banning attempts and how to visit, how to fight against them, go to this website, so on and so forth.
00:02:54.580Anyway, books are under attack, they say.
00:04:36.060Simply saying, we're not going to take this book that depicts sex acts between 10-year-old boys and put it in the library at the elementary school so that a fourth grader can read it.
00:04:46.920If you do that, they cry, this is book banning, we're burning books.
00:05:04.180It's like saying that we still live in the Prohibition era because 11-year-olds aren't allowed to buy whiskey at the liquor store.
00:05:11.040The claim doesn't make any sense, but that's because, as always, the people making the claim aren't being honest about their true concerns.
00:05:19.600They aren't upset about any fictional attack on books.
00:05:23.220They're upset because we're trying to exercise control over the material that our children are exposed to.
00:05:39.900President Biden made the agenda clear during a speech in the Rose Garden yesterday meant to honor the 2023 National and State Teachers of the Year.
00:05:49.120And during this speech, he made one especially startling statement.
00:06:12.100Your child belongs to everyone, he's saying.
00:06:14.680Now, you might like to think that Biden doesn't mean this literally, that it's just kind of a meaningless platitude.
00:06:20.700But remember that he belongs to the same party that just passed this law in Washington state.
00:06:26.520The New York Post has the report, quote,
00:06:28.300A Washington state bill that would strip parents' rights to intervene on their kids' medical care in certain circumstances passed the House on Wednesday, clearing its pathway to being signed by the governor.
00:06:38.740An act relating to Supporting Youth, or Senate Bill 5599, allows host homes for runaway youth to house youth without parental permission.
00:06:47.900Furthermore, the host homes do not need to notify parents about where their kids are or if they're getting medical interventions if there's a compelling reason not to, which includes a youth seeking protected health services.
00:07:01.500The protected health services include gender-affirming care, quote, unquote, which for minors arbitrarily included anything prescribed by a doctor to treat gender dysphoria, the bill said.
00:07:10.700Quote, gender-affirming treatment can be prescribed to two-spirit, transgender, non-binary, and other gender-diverse individuals, the bill said.
00:07:19.320Okay, so if a two-spirit child runs away from home and ends up at a host home, then they can undergo gender transition to become two-spirit.
00:07:30.220It's an entirely made-up concept, obviously.
00:07:33.260Another compelling reason, quote, unquote, not to notify parents about kids staying in a host home
00:07:37.000was circumstances that indicate notifying the parent or legal guardian will subject the minor to abuse or neglect.
00:07:44.020So, in other words, when this bill is signed into law, if a child in Washington State decides that he wants to undergo a medical gender transition
00:07:50.720and his parents object to it, all he has to do is run away from home and land at one of these host homes,
00:07:57.040and from there, his parents will be stripped of all rights to protect him from being sterilized and butchered.
00:08:02.580Keep in mind that refusing to affirm your child's gender confusion, because that is what they're saying you should affirm,
00:08:10.120so if you refuse to affirm the confusion of the child, if you tell him that he's really a boy even though he thinks he's a girl and so on,
00:08:18.200that counts as abuse and neglect, according to the people who write laws like this.
00:08:22.580And this is how they will and have already begun to strip rights away from parents across the country
00:08:28.620and induct children into the gender cult by force.
00:08:32.660First, they set the stage by declaring that a lack of affirmation is abusive,
00:08:38.200and then they come to the rescue by extracting the children from those abusive homes
00:08:43.900and leaving them in the arms of a state, where they can be shaped and molded in a literal, physical sense
00:08:51.580and made into the sort of person that the system wants them to be.
00:08:56.500So who exactly is consenting to the procedure in a case where the parent's been cut out of the picture completely?
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00:13:10.880Reports in the LA Times and other places suggest that Rupert Murdoch made the decision to get rid of Tucker.
00:13:18.420Some in the media are suggesting it has to do with different lawsuits, a discrimination lawsuit that was filed by a former Tucker producer.
00:13:25.300But I find that hard to believe, given that, well, Fox itself says that that particular lawsuit has no merit, which we would expect them to say.
00:13:36.540And just based on the details that have been reported, it certainly seems, from my perspective, to have no merit.
00:13:42.520I mean, this woman complains, for example, about a jokey picture of Nancy Pelosi that was hanging on a wall in an office somewhere.
00:13:51.780That's the kind of thing she's offended by and filing a lawsuit about.
00:13:57.340I think that there may have been many things that contributed to it, but I think that basically they pushed Tucker out because of what he stands for and what he says.
00:14:08.100That's really what it comes down to. Tucker is not, not a neocon, corporatist, milquetoast Republican.
00:14:16.460Because he's not that. He's not welcome on Fox.
00:14:21.260They're looking for a reason to get rid of him for that reason alone.
00:18:31.480Yeah, we don't, well, we don't want to celebrate the demise of someone's career, but we're going to.
00:18:36.860But it's, fortunately, it's actually not the demise of Tucker Carlson's career at all.
00:18:42.580I think this is going to work out better for him in the end to be out from under Fox News and go to a place where there's no one trying to control what he says, whether that's out on his own or somewhere else.
00:18:54.560So it's certainly not the demise of his career.
00:18:57.200You have to understand, too, that so much of this, the reaction to Tucker Carlson, especially from other members of the media, is driven by pure jealousy.
00:19:06.260Megyn Kelly, I think, made this point yesterday, and it's true, especially in reaction to this clip by The View.
00:19:12.540Like, lots of people in media, obviously, they hate him on ideological grounds.
00:19:16.200He is one of the most effective advocates for true conservative principles in media.
00:19:27.660But they hate him all the more because he gets ratings and he can go on his own and host his own show and carry a show by himself.
00:19:40.580And millions of people will tune in to watch it and they'll talk about it.
00:19:45.360So that alone is enough reason for especially the hens on The View to hate him.
00:19:51.840Because they're all a bunch of, you know, they're all a bunch of sidekicks.
00:19:55.160They could never take any one of those women individually.
00:19:58.960And many of them have attempted to host their own shows and they're all failures.
00:20:02.760It could never, you could never take one of those women and put them on their own show and expect millions of people to tune in to listen to what they have to say.
00:20:11.680So the fact that Tucker Carlson can be compelling on his own, commanding a presence, sitting in front of a camera, and they could never do that, reason enough for them to hate him.
00:20:22.960But there was other news in cable news yesterday, going from a guy who didn't deserve to be fired because he was the dominant figure and he's getting in cable news and getting all the ratings.
00:20:41.860And it was pretty devastating to me because I found out like right after we finished filming yesterday that Don Lemon was fired, which just meant that I didn't have a chance on the air to make fun of him for it.
00:21:02.560He put out a statement bashing the network, which they then responded to.
00:21:05.880And it seems like the two parties don't like each other.
00:21:08.520That's my expert media analysis of this situation.
00:21:12.140As to what led to it, there are many people who are speculating that this awkward exchange, which we'll play a little bit for you, between Don Lemon and Vivek Ramaswamy on Friday may have been the final straws.
00:21:27.820Obviously, it was not the thing that on its own determined that he was going to be fired.
00:21:31.840But this is kind of the last thing that Don Lemon did before he did get fired.
00:21:38.560The very policies that we implemented in this country in the name of helping black Americans have actually been disastrous for black Americans and all Americans.
00:21:47.640And I think that that's something that we need to wake up to.
00:21:49.780In 1865, you're talking about the black codes, right?
00:22:13.420So what I'm saying is that actually it's policies like that of Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden that are actually holding black Americans back.
00:22:22.300And in particular, his great society where he actually created incentives in the family where if you're a family, you could actually get more money by not having the father in the home.
00:24:20.280CNN insiders took aim at former CNN anchor Don Lemon after he was fired on Monday.
00:24:24.220Lemon was unceremoniously sacked, prompting him to issue a statement in which he complained that CNN's management did not have the decency to tell me directly, adding that he was stunned.
00:24:31.600And then CNN disagreed with that and said that it was that we did tell him and whatever else, who cares?
00:24:42.160One source told the Daily Mail, Don was given every indication when he made the fake ass apology for his disgusting comments and still no one wanted anything to do with him.
00:24:51.880This is after I think the comments he's talking about is when he made the he said about Nikki Haley that she's Pastor Prime.
00:25:00.440Knowing he should have had the decency to not be a misogynistic, sexist POS, Don truly believed he was going to always get out of jail free card because he's black and gay, which worked to his advantage until it couldn't.
00:25:14.500It doesn't matter what color you are or what your sexuality is, the source continued.
00:25:18.240He lost the respect of all the women on staff and no one wanted to work with him.
00:25:22.320Even after this, he still acted no differently and would give the women he worked with attitude because he could sense that they felt a certain way.
00:25:28.420Good riddance and good luck getting a job elsewhere.
00:25:32.620Sources from CNN previously told the Daily Mail that women upset at Lemon's misogyny told management that either Lemon had to go or they would.
00:25:39.380One source said people are hurt by his actions and are not going to let this go.
00:25:43.360It's like every woman over 50 in America has taken this as a personal insult.
00:25:46.820The female staffers at CNN definitely have.
00:25:48.780He needs to make his vacation a permanent one.
00:25:53.440Lemon's various denigrations of women have included suggesting to Bill Cosby sexual assault accuser Joan Tarshish that she could have, she should have bitten Cosby's penis.
00:26:06.820Intimating politician Nikki Haley was past her prime because she was 51 years old.
00:26:10.480As he stated, a woman is in her prime in the 20s and 30s, maybe 40s, and also asking panelists S.E. Cupp whether she was suffering from mommy brain.
00:26:19.960So those are his sexist indiscretions, apparently.
00:26:26.660You know, especially the last two, and we talked about this at the time, the thing when he said Nikki Haley's past her prime, that's not, it was incoherent and it was stupid, but it wasn't driven by his hatred of women.
00:26:44.980Saying S.E. Cupp, something about a mommy brain, you know, that's like, that's an expression people use.
00:26:51.200And even on the right, we shouldn't pretend because we're happy that, hey, it's fine to be happy that Don Lemon got fired, but we shouldn't jump on this bandwagon by saying, oh yeah, talking about a mommy brain.
00:27:40.040He doesn't, he doesn't even drive ratings.
00:27:43.220Should have been fired a long time ago, on that basis alone.
00:27:47.180That's why he should have been fired, it's, but it is, it's, there's some poetic justice in the fact that, though he has been a partisan, untalented, untalented hack for years, and never got fired.
00:28:01.720This is what takes him down, when they pin some bogus sexism charges on him.
00:28:09.320This is actually an example of the left eating their own, and I, and I think it's great.
00:28:15.180You know, this is, it is a, it is a fitting end to his career, and I think for him, now this is not, as we said, this is not the end of Tucker Carlson's career,
00:28:22.640because he's got a huge base of support around him, and whatever he does next, millions of people will go with him to that next endeavor.