Ep. 1180 - Tearing Down Monuments And Putting Up Pride Flags
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 8 minutes
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171.84222
Summary
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2016, the left has lost their minds. Pro-life efforts are booming. The White House moved the American Flag to the side in order to put a Pride flag in its place. Meanwhile, the capital city of New York put up a Pride Flag on City Hall for the first time while also removing a memorial to a Revolutionary War hero. Also, Donald Trump speaks out against his political prosecution by the Biden administration. The Good Samaritan Daniel Penny comes out for the FIRST TIME on video to tell his version of the story. And Megan Fox lashes out at people criticizing her for dressing her sons in girl clothes. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the White House moved the American flag to the side this week
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Meanwhile, the capital city of New York put up a pride flag on City Hall for the first time
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while also removing a memorial to a Revolutionary War hero.
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The symbolism says a lot, and none of it is good.
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Also, Donald Trump speaks out against his political prosecution by the Biden administration.
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The Good Samaritan Daniel Penny comes out for the first time on video to tell his version of the story.
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And Megan Fox lashes out at people criticizing her for dressing her sons in girl clothes.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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The one-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned is coming up,
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Pro-life efforts, which are more important now than ever, are booming.
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You heard that right. Despite the narrative, pro-lifers didn't go away.
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They increased in numbers. In fact, 40 Days for Life is changing hearts and minds
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They've had a record number of locations since Roe was overturned.
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They have grown in both volunteers and locations.
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With about 1 million volunteers in 1,500 cities,
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they hold peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities.
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This success has come with new unwanted attention from the federal government
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As one of the largest pro-life organizations in the world,
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no one is in a better position in 40 Days for Life to end abortion in each state in a post-Roe America.
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You can help them fight the ongoing legal battles of protecting free speech for their volunteers.
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Help them defend free speech by giving a tax-deductible gift of any amount at 40daysforlife.com.
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It used to be that when someone made a statement and then made another statement
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that implied something completely different, we had a name for that.
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We called it a contradiction, and it wasn't considered a good thing.
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You know, not too long ago, contradictions could end political careers in this country.
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When Tim Murphy said publicly that he was pro-life but then privately told a woman to kill her baby,
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Al Franken met the same fate after he bought into the Me Too hysteria
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But a lot has changed in the few years since Tim Murphy and Al Franken were forced out of Congress.
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All of a sudden, contradictions are everywhere, particularly in the political world.
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The only way to ensure world peace is to fund a war, foreign policy experts tell us.
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We are a sanctuary state, but we don't want any more illegal immigrants, say Gavin Newsom and Eric Adams.
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Men can turn into women, gender studies professors shriek.
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Euthanasia is health care, the Canadian government insists.
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All of these statements are contradictions, but you're hearing them all the time now.
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Mao even wrote an essay entitled On Contradiction a century ago.
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Mao understood well that contradiction drives social change.
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Maybe the most important contradiction that revolutionaries must embrace, Mao argued,
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is the relationship between construction and destruction.
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On their face, these two concepts are polar opposites.
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If you want to build something new, you lay a foundation, you get to work.
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A half century ago, Mao famously explained, quote,
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In other words, there is a logical relationship between the two concepts.
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Creating a new society, one totally unlike whatever came before,
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Creating new symbols requires wrecking the old symbols.
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Mao's teachings led to, of course, tens of millions of deaths,
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the destruction of historic artifacts, mass starvation.
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or the last thing you'd want our political leaders in this country to do,
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So this weekend in Albany, the capital of New York,
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we saw maybe the clearest example in recent history
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of both construction and destruction happening simultaneously.
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Under the cover of darkness at 5.30 in the morning,
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the city removed a statue of Revolutionary War hero
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And at the very moment that workers took Schuyler's statue away,
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the so-called Progress Pride flag was waving in the background.
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For the first time in the city's history, by the way.
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So here's what that looked like. You can see it there.
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Taking the statue away, and then we've got the multiple Pride flags
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including the brand new non-binary, BIPOC, trans, whatever flag.
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Now, if that seems like a carefully engineered juxtaposition, it is.
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It's choreographed to deliver a very clear message.
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Mao's disciples in the New York state government
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know that if they want their new flag to have any kind of legitimacy,
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You can't have construction without destruction.
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If you want revolution, you can't introduce a new idol
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So that's exactly what the local government did,
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as explicitly as they possibly could have done it.
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if you're just an average person living in New York
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with reasonable political views, what few of those may remain,
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no one ever bothered to ask a significant number of New Yorkers that question.
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A few bureaucrats in New York just decided to do it.
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A few years ago, and this weekend, they cut through the red tape and they did it.
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A local news station did conduct a man-on-the-street-style interview
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with a couple of residents, you know, in the city to get their perspective.
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But none of them could explain why the statue is being removed.
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The people have been listened to, and it feels good.
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I'm just happy that taking Donna's the history behind it
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is not something that should be, you know, celebrated.
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I was glad to see some action finally taken on an issue
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that actually percolated, what, about four years ago, I think.
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She says the group of teenagers spent a whole school year
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that related to the statue, not only the history of it,
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but why was it made, what the cost was to make it,
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with controversial statues that related to enslavement.
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Stewart says the students wrote to Mayor Sheehan
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rather to preserve it and use it for educational purposes.
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One of the things that was very important for the teens
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it was taken down at the behest of a group of teenagers.
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And the primary reason, as we heard in the clip,
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will make City Hall more, quote-unquote, welcoming.
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If the standard is that any unwelcoming statue needs to go,
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that sits, for example, outside City Hall in Newark?
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But George Floyd didn't own slaves, you might say.
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All George Floyd ever did was break into a woman's home
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hold a gun to her chest, rob her in front of her kid,
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but the powers that be will treat us like we're children,
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He's one of the reasons this country exists today.
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Multiple towns and forts are named after him in New York.
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the Albany Times Union described Schuyler this way.
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Philip Schuyler was a leading American statesman
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to the First Continental Congress of Philadelphia
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instrumental in the victory of the American colonists
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instead celebrated an unexpected victory at Saratoga.
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Schuyler returned to the city of his birth as a hero.
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It's still on the Times Union's website from 2013.
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Here's a recent article from the paper from this year.
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While noted as a politician and revolutionary war hero,
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was created by five Albany high school students
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While the report notes Schuyler's accomplishments
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his legacy is still marked by owning human beings,