The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 116 - Trump Is Right - The Media Are ＂The Enemy＂

00:00:00.000 So I want to revisit something I said at the top of the show yesterday, and I admitted that I did think, I had thought, I used to think that some of Trump's, President Trump's anti-media rhetoric was overblown and even dangerous, potentially.

00:00:18.760 But the media's handling of Brett Kavanaugh and this whole story has been just so completely terrible that it's proven him right in every respect.

00:00:32.480 About everything he said about the media has been proven right.

00:00:35.300 They really are an enemy of the people, to use a phrase that he's gone back to many times.

00:00:40.180 And it's a phrase that the media gets very upset when he says that, but I think they've proven it.

00:00:47.280 They are so fully invested in their left-wing ideology.

00:00:53.100 They're so fully invested in, you know, those convictions that they cannot be ethical or honest or objective, even if they tried to be.

00:01:05.840 I don't think they could be.

00:01:06.960 And they don't try.

00:01:07.940 They're not interested in trying.

00:01:09.040 So, with the Kavanaugh scandal, the media has just completely abandoned any semblance of objectivity or integrity or anything else.

00:01:19.040 This is not the first time they've done this.

00:01:20.620 They've done this before.

00:01:21.920 There are many examples.

00:01:23.000 Let's just recall one other before we get to this one.

00:01:25.200 Probably the most egregious example prior to this was Ferguson.

00:01:29.600 Ferguson, recall how the media in that case took the very first version of the story that they received and they repeated it.

00:01:39.120 And this is a story given to them by the accomplice, by Mike Brown's friend, who had just robbed, you know, helped in this strong-arm robbery and was obviously trying to cover for himself.

00:01:50.700 So, and that should have been obvious to any experienced journalist, hearing the story of the friend who's gotten in trouble with the police for one reason or another, you should think, well, let's, this story might not be, let's, let's back up.

00:02:05.260 Before we repeat this story, let's back up here for a minute.

00:02:08.840 But they didn't do that.

00:02:09.740 They took the story and they repeated it, hands up, don't shoot, and so on and so forth.

00:02:13.200 And they, they kept repeating it as absolute fact, even when it became clear, even when it was confirmed that the story was false, fabricated, made up, they still repeated it ad nauseum.

00:02:27.100 There were people burning down buildings because of the, of the, the false narrative that they constructed and they kept repeating it.

00:02:36.920 So what's happening now?

00:02:38.360 Um, well, now they are waging an all-out war, an explicit smear campaign against, uh, Kavanaugh at the behest of the Democrat party and for the purposes and no other purpose other than this.

00:02:51.140 And that is to keep a, a, an, an abortion opponent off of the court. 0.98

00:02:56.040 And so that's what this is all about.

00:02:57.860 Now, what, what else can you call them but enemies?

00:03:01.520 I mean, they're certainly enemies to the truth.

00:03:04.200 Uh, they're enemies of, of decency.

00:03:06.540 They lie, destroy, uh, distort.

00:03:10.680 They sow discord.

00:03:12.280 So what, that, that's what enemies do.

00:03:14.680 You know, that's what, that's what an enemy of the American people, that's what an enemy of America would do.

00:03:22.400 Right?

00:03:23.020 That's what they, that's what they try to do.

00:03:24.540 They, they, they, they bring destruction and, uh, chaos, which is what the media does.

00:03:30.720 Um, and I don't think, now listen, because sometimes we can go too far in the direction when we talk about fake news and we say, well, it's all fake news and everything they say is wrong.

00:03:48.560 And, and, and they're just all the time, just inventing stories out of thin air.

00:03:53.240 And, um, no, that, that's, that's not correct.

00:03:58.140 Okay.

00:03:58.700 Uh, it's, it's not, you go pick up, if you actually ever, ever did decide to read the New York times, you're not going to find cover to cover as it were, uh, nothing but total mythology.

00:04:07.400 That's, that's, that's not how fake quote unquote fake news works.

00:04:10.500 That's not generally how media bias works.

00:04:12.900 Most of the time with media bias, you know, and you read a story, you hear a story in the news.

00:04:18.620 Most of the time, you can be pretty sure that 85 to 95% of what they're saying is basically true.

00:04:24.300 Uh, maybe even a hundred percent is true, but most, this is how it usually works with media bias.

00:04:29.960 They're very selective in the stories they tell us and in the ways that they present those stories.

00:04:36.500 Okay.

00:04:38.080 That's usually how media bias works.

00:04:41.400 Um, but on occasion, when they really feel compelled to it, when they have a very strong ideological interest and also when they have a strong ratings interest as well.

00:04:54.960 And when those things intersect, then it's game over.

00:04:57.000 But, but on, on those occasions, they will, they are willing to go with a completely made up story.

00:05:03.660 Not a story that they necessarily made up, but a story that was given to them that was, that is, that is very, very likely fabricated.

00:05:11.680 So hands up, don't shoot is one example of that, where they were willing to go with a fabricated, dangerous story and roll with it because of ideological reasons and because it was great for ratings.

00:05:23.580 And now they're doing the same thing with Brett Kavanaugh, um, and especially with Julie Swetnick.

00:05:28.580 So that, that's exhibit A, um, Monday night, MSNBC aired an interview with, uh, with Julie Swetnick, you know, the third Kavanaugh accuser. 0.84

00:05:38.000 Swetnick's story is totally ridiculous, literally unbelievable in the sense that it cannot be believed.

00:05:43.880 She claims that Kavanaugh and his friends were members of an organized rape gang that would systematically drug and brutalize women at parties that those women, including Swetnick herself, would continue attending despite knowing that they'd probably be raped. 0.99

00:05:58.000 Okay, that's the story that she tells.

00:05:59.820 Um, they, NBC News admitted they could not find a single person to corroborate her account.

00:06:04.700 They could not find a single person to, uh, substantiate anything she said.

00:06:08.900 They could not find a single other eyewitness.

00:06:10.600 There are no police reports. 0.93

00:06:11.860 There are no nothing from this period of time when you've got these apparently, uh, terrorist boys running around, raping people left and right.

00:06:19.880 Um, they also said that Swetnick's account had changed in the last week.

00:06:23.900 What she told NBC, NBC News was not completely consistent with what she had said through her lawyer, Avenatti, uh, just only a week ago.

00:06:31.720 Yet they chose to air, and this is what I'm talking about, this is a perfect example of how the fake news thing works.

00:06:38.420 Nobody is, is claiming, at least not any rational person is claiming that NBC News is the originator of Swetnick's story.

00:06:46.700 No, Swetnick, who appears to be a bit of a nutcase, um, she, she came forward with this story and they said, let's go with it.

00:06:55.580 Uh, now these people at NBC News, these are smart people. 0.99

00:06:58.620 These aren't stupid people. 0.91

00:07:00.020 They know what they're doing. 0.99

00:07:01.560 So they're just like you and I, the first time they hear the story, they're just like you and I.

00:07:05.040 They know that, okay, come on, really?

00:07:07.000 Before you even get into a lack of corroborating evidence, lack of witnesses, so forth, uh, before you even get into that, they're going to have the same reaction any other normal person with a brain would, and they're going to say, really?

00:07:16.920 Uh, but, and if this accusation came out against a liberal nominee for the Supreme Court or a liberal politician, they would absolutely spike that story, and for good reason.

00:07:29.580 I mean, they'd be justified in doing so because it's completely unsubstantiated and it is ridiculous on its face, but here they went with it, um, even though it is libelous, despicable propaganda, they reported it, they presented it as hard news, and so, yeah, um, fake news.

00:07:50.760 Not only that, but, but as I mentioned yesterday, Swetnick, uh, on NBC was clearly regurgitating, blatantly regurgitating stories that she had heard herself in the media the previous week.

00:08:06.880 So she, uh, you know, she used certain key phrases.

00:08:09.940 She called Kavanaugh a, quote, sloppy drunk, a, quote, mean drunk.

00:08:13.120 She said that he, he pushed girls into walls and all this stuff.

00:08:16.220 Those are, those are stories, allegations, descriptions that the media had been churning out and, uh, and, uh, uh, reporting, quote, unquote, over the last week.

00:08:27.960 So she was taking those lines and those stories from the media and repeating it back to the media, and they were then repeating it as if it was new information.

00:08:36.740 Um, meanwhile, the, the rest of the left-wing media have been digging into these accusations that Kavanaugh threw ice at somebody at a, at a party three decades ago.

00:08:50.400 Originally, now, this has changed a little bit.

00:08:52.300 I think it was originally that he threw a beer on somebody, and now, then it was ice, and then maybe it was a beer first, and it became ice, or an ice, and then, I don't know.

00:08:59.900 Um, it's, it's, it's all confused, but he, according to, uh, these people that are coming out through CNN and the left-wing media, Kavanaugh was drunk at some point in his college years, and he threw something at somebody, okay?

00:09:15.900 CNN openly questioned whether Kavanaugh's ice-throwing history should be disqualifying. 0.93

00:09:24.260 That was a question that was asked by, by, by a CNN anchor to, um, to Democratic Senator Hirono, who, just as a side note, this Senator Hirono, who I never, was never on my radar prior to all this, but, uh, apparently she's, we're talking about one of the biggest hacks and liars in all of American politics, and, and I didn't even really know about her, but now, now she's kind of risen to the surface, um, much like pond scum. 0.92

00:09:51.260 Um, and, anyway, she, um, she, that's, that's a metaphor. 1.00

00:09:58.320 I'm not saying she's pond scum. 0.99

00:09:59.480 I'm just saying she's, in a way, behaved like pond scum, let's just say. 0.99

00:10:04.760 Um, she was asked, is this disqualifying? 0.97

00:10:09.300 And she said, well, this is why we need an FBI investigation, okay?

00:10:12.440 This is why we need an FBI investigation, is to find out whether there was, uh, whether, whether ice was thrown.

00:10:18.800 Um, then consider Allison Camerata on CNN.

00:10:23.800 She, uh, someone came on, on CNN, a voice of reason came on CNN and said that, well, to talk about him throwing ice is, quote, a distraction, it's a degradation of the debate.

00:10:36.240 Camerata said, this is what she said, she said, I disagree.

00:10:38.940 I think it's part and parcel of the entire thing.

00:10:41.480 I think that if you're known as a belligerent, mean, fighting drunk, that's relevant.

00:10:46.160 I think that it's relevant to then a, a woman who says that you would corner her and put your hand over her mouth.

00:10:52.500 Somehow that, that I think makes more sense than if you were just a fun drunk who always fell right asleep.

00:10:58.540 Okay?

00:10:59.020 So I think it is relevant.

00:11:02.060 Now, first of all, I don't think a fun drunk is someone who falls asleep.

00:11:04.760 That's a lame drunk, but put that to the side. 0.90

00:11:06.420 Um, she, she is directly saying, she's actually saying that a guy throwing ice when he's drunk 30 years ago is an indication that he might be a serial rapist. 0.98

00:11:20.820 That's what she's saying. 1.00

00:11:21.620 Another sidebar for a moment, all of this hand-wringing over Kavanaugh's alleged aggression as a teenage boy, his supposed fights that he got into or whatever, it is all so stupid. 0.97

00:11:37.040 In fact, I would be more suspicious of a guy who never got into fights as a teenager than a guy who did, because it's the most normal thing in the world. 0.92

00:11:47.180 The most normal thing is for a guy, um, uh, you know, men between the ages, certainly starting it around.

00:11:54.240 Well, I don't know.

00:11:55.040 My, my son is five years old.

00:11:56.940 You should see, you should see now when his, when his little cousin comes over and they just, they just beat the hell out of each other.

00:12:02.580 I mean, all in good fun.

00:12:03.740 But, um, as soon as they see each other, they're on top of each other, they're wrestling around, doing whatever.

00:12:10.120 That's what boys do.

00:12:11.540 And, um, that doesn't change.

00:12:13.440 Like, that's how it is.

00:12:14.580 My son is in that age now.

00:12:17.540 I mean, he was in that age, essentially, as soon as he came out, like a day after he was born, he was, he was that age.

00:12:23.200 Um, and that's how it remains for like, I mean, into your, well, I mean, into your twenties, that's how it is.

00:12:33.080 Um, so that, that's normal.

00:12:38.360 And it's, it, it's, it's, especially as a teenager, all it indicates is that there is a presence of testosterone in this person, which again is normal.

00:12:47.980 I mean, when I was a kid, uh, I mean, I can think of so many, I once, I punched my friend in the head when I was a kid because he fouled me during a pickup basketball game.

00:12:59.400 And then he wouldn't admit that he fouled me.

00:13:01.900 And, uh, and cause I, look, I was that guy in pickup basketball.

00:13:05.480 Every time I went for a shot, I would, I would say, and one because I got fouled all the time.

00:13:10.120 All right.

00:13:10.440 I mean, I was taller than some of the other kids I play with.

00:13:12.820 So they thought they had to foul me.

00:13:14.420 Um, so, but you know, and I would always demand, right?

00:13:17.200 Like if I'm fouled and then of course he claimed that he didn't foul me, he did.

00:13:21.000 So what'd I do? 0.98

00:13:21.920 I punched him in the head. 0.96

00:13:22.720 All right, look.

00:13:23.580 Um, and then he punched me back and, uh, and I don't know, I was 15 years old.

00:13:27.880 30 minutes later, we were fine.

00:13:29.540 30 minutes later, we were, we were hanging out.

00:13:31.640 It was fine.

00:13:32.380 We were laughing about it.

00:13:34.220 I mean, this stuff happened all the time.

00:13:35.500 It's normal.

00:13:37.760 Uh, boys are aggressive, physical.

00:13:40.180 This is what they do.

00:13:41.160 So what we, we would, uh, we would almost come to blows over, over video games.

00:13:48.720 It's a big one, uh, over discussions like whether DC or Marvel is the best.

00:13:55.100 We would play these, we would play these pickup football games.

00:13:58.920 And the only reason we played them was, it was really just an excuse to let out our aggression.

00:14:02.860 You know, a kid got two of his teeth knocked out one time.

00:14:06.780 Um, there, there was another time where, you know, I, a guy was

00:14:09.900 tackled and then I jumped on the dog pile after he'd already been tackled, which I think

00:14:14.960 is fair and pick up football.

00:14:16.680 I mean, of course you jump with the dog pile, right?

00:14:19.040 Yeah.

00:14:19.200 He was already down, but we don't have refs. 1.00

00:14:21.120 So he was mad about that.

00:14:22.720 Um, the next time I had the ball, he came and I was going out of bounds.

00:14:26.600 He came and tackled me anyway, out of bounds.

00:14:28.820 And I fell into a bush and I thought I broke my arm.

00:14:31.040 Um, and so we got into a scuffle and then again, 30 minutes later, we're fine, right?

00:14:34.880 This is just what boys do.

00:14:37.060 Um, I'm not saying of course, that any of that makes sexual assault.

00:14:41.240 Okay.

00:14:41.560 I'm just saying that none of that can be considered evidence that a guy is a sexual assaulter because

00:14:49.140 it is so completely normal.

00:14:51.460 And I would say even healthy, I'll put it to you this way.

00:14:55.880 A boy is going to get his aggression out one way or another, and it's better to get it

00:15:01.140 out by scuffling over pickup basketball games than to get it out through some other means.

00:15:05.720 Like, I don't know, like a school shooting, for instance.

00:15:08.480 I mean, um, boys have this aggression and this sort of violence in them.

00:15:14.360 And that's one of the reasons why it's now I'm getting so sidetracked here, but it's just

00:15:18.380 important to me, it's one of the reasons why we have, why it's important to get kids

00:15:21.940 into sports and football and basketball and whatever, um, even soccer, if you have to

00:15:26.380 no, not soccer, but any other sport.

00:15:30.220 One of the reasons we do that is, is because they have this aggression, this sort of violence

00:15:33.840 in them and let's channel it through some, in some healthy and competitive way and a fun

00:15:39.680 way.

00:15:40.920 And that's why it's so intensely unfair to dig up this kind of stuff from a guy's teenage

00:15:47.300 teenage years.

00:15:50.000 You have no idea what it's like to have that raging testosterone going on unless you're

00:15:55.900 a guy, in which case you do know what it's like.

00:15:58.860 So stop acting shocked when you find out that Kavanaugh was a lot like you were at that age.

00:16:05.060 And I'm not talking about the sexual assault.

00:16:06.840 I'm saying, I don't think the sexual assault happened.

00:16:09.120 I'm saying all this other stuff is not an indicator of sexual assault for the reasons that

00:16:13.620 I'm describing.

00:16:14.200 So leaving the sexual assault with the, that's uncorroborated, unsubstantiated, talk about

00:16:21.080 the things that are, that are arguably substantiated, where there's some kind of witnesses or whatever.

00:16:25.840 And all we have there is just, he drank and he was, and he could be aggressive.

00:16:30.940 Like that's, that's the only thing potentially that there's, that there's corroboration for.

00:16:35.420 And so what?

00:16:37.340 So he's exactly like every other boy.

00:16:39.160 And you know what?

00:16:40.200 If Kavanaugh went to more parties than you did, you might say, well, look, I wasn't going,

00:16:44.520 you know, when I was a 15 year old boy, I wasn't going to parties and stuff like that.

00:16:48.320 Well, you know why?

00:16:48.980 It's probably only because you weren't invited to them or your parents wouldn't let you go,

00:16:52.240 but you would have gone.

00:16:53.320 I mean, let's be honest. 1.00

00:16:54.300 Um, uh, you would have gone, but you did do stupid, aggressive things. 1.00

00:17:03.040 Don't say you didn't, you did. 1.00

00:17:06.080 And that doesn't make you a rapist and it doesn't make Kavanaugh a rapist.

00:17:10.580 And it's just, it is so unfair.

00:17:13.360 And the people that are doing it, they must know how unfair it is.

00:17:18.220 I mean, maybe it's possible if you've got some, maybe with some women, if they've never 1.00

00:17:25.120 been around guys that much and they have a really oblivious sense of what guys are like,

00:17:31.040 and if they're not a mother and they didn't have brothers, like maybe there could be some

00:17:35.300 women who are really actually surprised and shocked and scandalized to find out that

00:17:42.460 Kavanaugh made dirty jokes in his yearbook and got into a fight at a bar.

00:17:47.180 Maybe there are some women, you know, because that's just not how they were, but, uh, any 1.00

00:17:51.860 guy, any guy, no guy who is honest could say that they're surprised by that.

00:17:58.200 Um, but all of the Kavanaugh coverage has been in this vein.

00:18:03.200 Um, the left-wing news channels and newspapers, they're acting as hit men for the Democrat party.

00:18:09.380 They're digging up even the most irrelevant accusations and rumors, and they're reporting

00:18:13.920 them as fact.

00:18:14.860 All of this stuff is just prejudicial.

00:18:20.200 There's, there's a reason why, okay.

00:18:22.480 There's a reason why, and I know we're not in a court of law, but ideally if we're, if

00:18:26.720 we're going for what's ideal, what's fair, the court of public opinion should adopt some

00:18:32.740 of the principles that you find in a court of law.

00:18:34.980 And I'll tell you one of them, one of those principles, innocent until proven guilty should

00:18:38.500 be one.

00:18:39.240 The other one is you cannot allow, um, prejudicial and irrelevant evidence into the discussion.

00:18:49.700 So if this wasn't a court of law, if, if, if Brett Kavanaugh was being tried on charges

00:18:56.140 of rape, which he's not and never will be because there's no evidence and there's no

00:19:00.100 basis for it.

00:19:00.980 But if he were, there's no way his lawyers are going to let the lawyer and the judge,

00:19:06.720 there's no way the judge, if it's a halfway competent judge, the judge in that trial would

00:19:11.400 never let this story about ice being thrown into the, into the courtroom, probably wouldn't

00:19:17.960 let the stuff in the yearbook either because it's not relevant.

00:19:21.400 It doesn't prove anything.

00:19:22.360 And all it does is it just prejudices the jury.

00:19:25.200 It paints a picture with irrelevant details and it exploits the naivete and the gullibility

00:19:32.320 and the obliviousness of the jury. 0.99

00:19:36.300 So that if there is anyone on the jury stupid enough to say to themselves, like Alison Camerata, 0.99

00:19:41.400 if Alison Camerata was on the jury and she would say, well, he threw ice, maybe he's 1.00

00:19:45.340 a rapist. 1.00

00:19:46.320 Like the court courtrooms know that there are people that dumb out there in the world. 1.00

00:19:50.440 And that's why they would never let that into the courtroom. 0.97

00:19:53.540 The prosecutor would love to put it in, but, um, defense attorney judge would never allow 0.50

00:19:58.720 it for this reason.

00:20:01.300 Um, and you know, the worst, the worst thing of all, I think is that, is that the media

00:20:06.520 believes that they somehow have the right to behave this way and yet to remain free from

00:20:13.680 criticism while they behave this way, they chalk it all up to, um, uh, you know, they

00:20:20.660 had any attack against them.

00:20:22.120 They say it's an attack on the first amendment, but they are the ones undermining the first

00:20:26.960 amendment by using it as a cover so that they can lie and slander.

00:20:32.560 They're the ones undermining the first amendment by abusing it like this.

00:20:36.420 And they say that all this anti-media sentiment is in the country is just the result of president

00:20:41.060 Trump.

00:20:41.640 No, the anti-media sentiment is the result of their own behavior.

00:20:45.700 People detest them because they behave detestably.

00:20:51.580 It's funny how that works.

00:20:53.040 People have contempt for contemptible behavior and the media has been nothing if not contemptible

00:21:00.960 throughout this whole Kavanaugh saga.

00:21:04.860 Thanks for listening to everybody.

00:21:06.580 Godspeed.

00:21:06.940 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 03, 2018

Ep. 116 - Trump Is Right - The Media Are ＂The Enemy＂

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