Ep. 1188 - Willful Ignorance And Lies In The Carlee Russell Case
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 7 minutes
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187.47604
Summary
A 25-year-old black college student named Carly Russell disappeared in the early morning hours of July 13, 2014. Was she a victim of racial profiling? Or was she the victim of a massive urban legend? Is there any truth behind it?
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, yet another race hoax has been exposed this week,
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showing again that we live in a culture fueled by lies.
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The media, the government, all of our institutions are in on it.
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Democrats moved to censor RFK Jr. during a hearing on censorship.
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Rolling Stone attacks me and other conservatives who've pointed out that those concerns,
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who pretend to be concerned about violence and music,
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should be less focused on Jason Aldean and a lot more focused on every rap artist ever, basically.
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And more Americans than ever are going to therapy.
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But is there any reason to believe that all of this therapy is actually helping the mental health crisis that we hear so much about?
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Imagine that you're a black 25-year-old community college student living in Alabama.
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You're struggling to pay your bills and you live with your parents.
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And let's also assume that you're also not a particularly ethical person.
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So in desperation, you start thinking about robbing the spa where you work part-time.
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You even Google search terms like, how to steal money from a cash register without getting caught.
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Systemic white supremacy won't let you get a better job or make more money.
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So what can you do if you're a member of the BIPOC community who needs cash and validation fast, but you aren't getting either of those things?
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Do you make up some sob story and try to get on American Idol?
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According to the experts who have studied this question for a long time, there's one thing you definitely should not do, and that's fake your own kidnapping.
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Because if you did that, you'd never get any kind of attention or raise any amount of money because Americans are so racist that they wouldn't care about your disappearance.
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As the Washingtonian put it recently, quote, missing black people don't receive widespread media coverage.
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The Harvard Political Review double-checked that finding, and they agreed with it, quote,
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missing black and indigenous people do not receive the same attention and public support as white women with similar stories.
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The Washington Post independently looked at all the available evidence, and they concurred with Harvard.
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They reported that, quote, the media loves missing white women.
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Black women are already missing from public view.
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I mean, you'd never see any black women anywhere ever.
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If you're a person of color, quote, unquote, specifically the black color, then don't pretend to get kidnapped for attention.
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Like when someone quits their job and no one at work even notices.
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Now, if there are any experts or left-wing activists who really believe any of that,
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then the drama that played out over the past week in this country must have come as a tremendous shock to them.
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Because here's the recap in case you missed it.
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On July 13th, a black community college student named Carly Russell suddenly disappeared.
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Russell called 911 while driving on the interstate,
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and she said that she was following an abandoned toddler who was walking along the road for some reason.
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She told the dispatcher that she followed this toddler in her car for about 600 yards.
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This toddler was walking along the interstate for 600 yards.
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And then Carly Russell called her brother's girlfriend and then got out of her car to save the child,
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at which point she screamed into the phone and vanished.
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Presumably, based on the expert insight from Harvard and the Washington Post,
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the story would just disappear into the ether, just like Carly Russell herself.
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No one would ever mention the name Carly Russell ever again.
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But what actually happened is that the entire news media lost its collective mind
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and covered Carly Russell's disappearance nonstop.
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Here's just as one example a package from the local NBC station,
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which aired within a day of Carly's disappearance, and here's what they say about it.
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A woman in Hoover near Birmingham has vanished after spotting a toddler alone near the side of the interstate.
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Police say 25-year-old Carlitha Russell was on the phone with her family
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when they heard her scream and then nothing else, even though her phone stayed on the line.
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Her car was found near the spot where she reported the toddler.
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That's where we find Patsy Douglas from our NBC affiliate in Birmingham.
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This is where Carly was last seen, here on I-459 near John Hawkins Parkway in Hoover.
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On Thursday evening, police say Carly called 911,
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saying a toddler was walking down the side of the interstate.
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After calling police, she stopped to get the child and called a family member.
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When police arrived, they found her car and belongings nearby, but no sign of her or the child.
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Family member is now on the search for Carly, her parents desperate for her return.
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I'm going to keep applying the pressure to keep this thing going.
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We really want this to blow up, says Carly's family, and blow up it did.
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It wasn't long before media reports indicated that a witness had seen a vehicle with a male
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with a light complexion near the scene of the crime, which makes sense because white people
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are always out hiding in the woods, sending out toddlers as bait to lower-in black community
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That version of events checked out with ABC News and their rigorous editorial standards.
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ABC ran this package as the search for Carly continued.
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Police in Alabama are searching for a woman who vanished under strange circumstances.
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After she stopped to help a child, she saw walking all alone along an interstate.
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25-year-old Carlitha Nicole Russell called 911, then a family member about, and told a family
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Police say that family member on the phone lost contact with Russell, even though the
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Responding officers then found Russell's car, but not her phone, nor the child.
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Now, I noticed that ABC, like NBC, just comes out and assumes that Carly's story is true.
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They report, as if it's beyond dispute, that Carly, quote, stopped to help a child she saw
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I'll tell you, there's a real missing child out there without verifying it in any way.
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That's remarkable for a few reasons, but the main reason is it's remarkable is that it makes
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For one thing, the interstate where Carly Russell pulled over wasn't some desolate stretch
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There were a bunch of cars and trucks driving by at the time of her supposed kidnapping.
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Here's footage of Carly pulling her car over, and you can see it here.
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And what you see there in the footage is that, you know, many vehicles are driving by as Carly
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puts her hazards on to find the phantom missing child.
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Why did none of the drivers of any of those vehicles call 911?
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Why was Carly Russell the only person who seemed concerned that a toddler was somehow managing
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to run 600 yards down the side of an interstate at night?
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I mean, that's the kind of thing that people will notice.
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Why was there no evidence of any kind of struggle once she pulled over?
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Before we could get answers to any of those questions, a couple days later, if you can
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believe it, Carly showed up at her parents' house totally unharmed.
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She told detectives that a white man with orange hair had kidnapped her, then took photos of
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Carly's boyfriend, meanwhile, posted on social media that she had to fight for her life in
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Then shortly afterwards, he took down that post for reasons that remain unclear.
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Now, at this point, if you're not deranged or hopelessly naive, you're probably getting
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But rather than question any of this, the Today Show on NBC held a sympathetic, exclusive
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And it was just like, if you remember that Robin Roberts interview, the infamous one with
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Jussie Smollett back in the day, where the deeply concerned reporter nods as she's fed
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So here are some highlights from this latest version of that kind of interview.
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That moment you all first laid eyes on her again, what was it like?
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This morning, in an exclusive sit-down with NBC News, the parents of 25-year-old Carly Russell
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are speaking out, describing the moment their daughter appeared on their doorstep after being
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Her parents declined to share what their daughter told them, citing the ongoing investigation.
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And can you tell me what happened Saturday night?
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Anything leading to the case itself, we can't discuss that.
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But they say speculation about the circumstances surrounding Carly's disappearance are only making
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She's having to deal with the trauma of people just making completely false allegations about
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And when I talked to you all on Saturday, you also said your daughter is a fighter and she
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There were moments when she physically had to fight for her life and there were moments
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She should have done a lot more mental fighting before this whole plan was hatched, I think.
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So the parents definitely can't talk about the case for some reason.
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But they can say, even though they're sitting down for an interview, sitting down for an interview
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about the case, but we can't talk about the case.
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And what they can say is that they don't want you to say anything.
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They don't want you to say anything about how strange and totally unbelievable their daughter's
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story is, because that's inflicting trauma on her daughter and on all of them.
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But the mother can say that her daughter had to mentally fight for her life, whatever that
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The bottom line is that they want you to know that they're the victims.
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Well, shortly after the interview, we learned that Carly had been running some pretty suspicious
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Google searches on her phone the day of her disappearance.
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Apparently, Carly stole some stuff from her job and then Googled a well-known action movie
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about a woman's kidnapping, the movie Taken with Liam Neeson, which, by the way, in that
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movie, if you remember, Liam Neeson's daughter was on the phone and then she let out a scream
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when she was kidnapped, which is the same thing that happened with Carly Russell, allegedly.
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The person that was on the phone with Carly Russell, did that person then give a speech
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about how he has a particular set of skills and he will find you and kill you?
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She also searched for information about Amber Alerts ahead of time.
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She had a premonition she was going to go missing, so she looked up Amber Alerts.
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And when cops wanted to talk to her for some follow-up questioning, they haven't been able
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Maybe the white man in orange hair kidnapped her again.
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Police say that there's no evidence that any part of Carly's story is true.
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They haven't been able to confirm any part of it at all.
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And yet the media is still reluctant to point in the direction of the obvious truth here,
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Even the local police chief is too afraid to come out and say that.
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Here was his statement, quote, we want to talk in facts.
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And I do think it's highly, highly unusual to the day that someone gets kidnapped at several
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seven hours or eight hours before that, that they're searching the internet, Googling the
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When you transform victimhood into a currency, when you reward the most unserious and corrupt
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people for their behavior, then you get more corruption.
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Now, I'm going into some detail here about all of this because it illustrates something
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What we're seeing in this case, and in so many others, is pathological lying from virtually
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The powers that be, they don't just play on our fears for ratings or clicks.
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Instead, they actively generate false fears in order to distract us from the things that
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Black women are getting kidnapped randomly by white terrorists who use toddlers as bait.
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They basically just spend the last week saying almost exactly that.
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They're doing this right out in the open, and they're not ashamed of it.
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CNN just published what they call a news article.
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That's the perfect example of this kind of thing.
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Here's the first sentence of this objective news item, quote, mass shootings in major
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metropolitan areas in the United States disproportionately affect black people, and
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The authors complain in the study that, quote, racial and ethnic minority populations are
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significantly more likely to be victims of mass shootings.
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According to CNN, quote, the study found that in areas with higher black populations,
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mass shootings are likelier to occur compared to communities with higher white populations.
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There are also more black people injured and killed when mass shootings take place, according
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Now, the message is that blacks in the city should be worried about racism because of all
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And what, of course, they don't mention is that the overwhelming majority of the so-called
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mass shootings in cities are perpetrated by black people or Hispanics on occasion.
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And that's almost everyone who's committing mass shootings in cities.
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The New York Times ran the numbers a few years ago.
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So they looked at every single mass shooting event that's occurred in the United States
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And roughly 75% of all the mass shootings were perpetrated by black people.
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Of course, CNN doesn't say that anywhere in the article.
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Instead, they tell scary ghost stories about systemic racism so that we don't focus on the
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very real problem of the black community killing itself.
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And they cite experts as cover so they don't have to reckon with the obvious absurdity of
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All they care about is generating the fear, the false fears about things that don't exist.
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And therefore, it's much bigger than corporate media.
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You might have seen that Democrats just ran an ad that's gotten a lot of attention.
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And in the ad, they're claiming that Republicans want to take away birth control.
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They made an advertisement that was intentionally very salacious and also dishonest because it's
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supposed to generate all this attention, which it successfully did.
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Now that we're in charge, we're banning birth control.
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I'm just going to watch and make sure you don't do anything illegal.
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Now, not that it needs to be said, but there is no effort in Ohio or any other state to
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This is an entirely delusional concern, a fear based in nothing but their own imaginations
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The truth is that most conservatives won't even speak honestly about the dangers of birth
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control, though they should, much less try to ban it.
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The bill they're talking about in that ad, it's Prop 1.
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It has nothing to do with birth control at all.
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It's about the procedural requirements needed in order to pass an amendment to the state
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So why are Ohio Democrats lying about Prop 1 and Republicans' supposed scheme to outlaw
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They're warning about evil Republicans coming to steal your birth control so you don't focus
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And when it comes to birth control, they don't want you to focus on the fact that basically
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everything, STDs, divorce rates, unwed pregnancies, has gotten worse since birth control was
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Take a look at the divorce rates from 1965 and 1975 sometime.
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Divorce rate doubled five years after the pill was first made available.
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Again, they're feeding you invented problems so you don't notice the real ones.
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They're giving you fake things to be afraid of so you don't worry about the real threats.
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Hollywood and entertainment writers do the same thing.
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The Atlantic Magazine just published a think piece on the new Barbie movie, and we're getting
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And this one is entitled, What's the Matter with Barbie?
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Greta Gerwig's Barbie is a charming blockbuster adventure about the tribulations of simply
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Yes, the tribulations of simply existing as a woman in modern American society.
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Left unmentioned in this article is that men kill themselves at more than three times the
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According to the CDC data, as of 2021, men have a life expectancy in the United States
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of just 73 years old, whereas women typically live until 79.
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As Harvard Medical School put it, quote, men die younger than women and they're more burdened
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They fall ill at a younger age and have more chronic illnesses than women.
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For example, men are nearly 10 times more likely to get hernias than women and five times
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American men are about four times more likely to be hit by gout.
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They're more than three times more likely than women to develop kidney stones, to become
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They're about twice as likely to suffer from emphysema or ulcers.
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Although women see doctors more often than men, men cost their society much more for medical
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When it comes to health, males are the weaker sex throughout life.
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Although calling it the weaker sex is obviously not a fair characterization.
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So even when we're listing all of the illnesses that men get, there's a take a shot at men
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And you're not supposed to think about that just like you're not supposed to think about
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what's actually happening in black communities or what birth control actually does to women
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or why a struggling black community college student would lie about being kidnapped.
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You're also not supposed to think about the testimony of those IRS whistleblowers or the
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FBI document showing that Joe Biden is personally implicated in illegal overseas influence
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Every power center in this country is willing to lie to you, to your face, as obviously
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as they possibly can to keep you from thinking any of these unapproved thoughts, to keep you
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You know, one of the reasons why hoaxes like the Carly Russell case gain so much traction and
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seem apparently believable to so many people, at least at first, is that the media has laid
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the groundwork by telling us about an epidemic of hate crimes against black people and other
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You only need to look at the numbers to see the lie for what it is.
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For instance, when they insist, as they often do, that trans people are being murdered in
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hate crimes by the dozens every year, one quick look at the stats shows that in order to support
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that assertion, they're categorizing literally every single murder of a trans person as a
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Even though the data indicates that maybe one or two of the victims each year are killed
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But the pathological lying is right out in the open.
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Now, the only good news here is that pathological lying is the easiest kind of lying to spot,
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and it's the easiest kind of lying to reject, therefore.
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What's needed is for people in power to actually do that, to reject this insanity.
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Because if they don't, then, you know, more desperate lunatics will start running into
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They'll take advantage of every weak-willed police chief and every corrupt media outlet in
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It'll happen more often until it happens constantly, until you can't get away from it.
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Lies will become indistinguishable from reality.
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And once that happens, you don't have civilization anymore.
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Okay, I want to start with this because it is the most important.
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We begin with the latest on the saga that has gripped the nation, a story that you will
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agree deserves to be the first thing mentioned in the five headlines.
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A couple days ago, we told you about the controversy in Alaska that erupted when a school board candidate
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entered a parade with a giant Johnny the Walrus parade float.
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And he won first prize thanks to the lib judges of the parade who didn't realize what Johnny
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the Walrus is, didn't know that it's a book written by the transphobe of the year.
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And they realized after the fact they were devastated, outraged, incensed, even though the float is
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I mean, easily the most incredible, most magnificent parade float ever made.
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And yet still, despite its beauty, it is the center of such controversy.
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Well, here's the latest from the local channel KUAC quack, I guess we call it, in Alaska.
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A school board candidate in Fairbanks has made a statement about keeping gender identity options
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Michael Humphrey, who has not filed yet, is running for a seat on the Fairbanks North Star
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He and his family entered a float in the Golden Days Grand Parade last weekend in Fairbanks
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I ordered it off of a website that they manufactured them overseas and gave them my logo and they
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The 20-foot walrus sported the name tag Johnny, which Humphrey says is from the book Johnny
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the Walrus by blogger and commentator Matt Walsh.
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The people who already knew about Johnny can appreciate it and those who didn't can learn a
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The Johnny the Walrus book talks about a boy who imagines he is something he's not and
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his mother, feeling peer pressure, tries to transform him until Walsh, as a zookeeper,
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After the parade, a controversy erupted on social media with many Fairbanks and saying the book
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is a message against LGBTQ plus people and the float is also.
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That float does not represent the values of the chamber or any of the employees or the
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Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce CEO Jeremy Johnson says parade judges only saw the walrus
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as an Alaskan animal appropriate for the parade.
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They even thought Humphrey was using the walrus to cleverly refer to his own mustache.
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Johnson says he's received emails saying the chamber supports hateful ideas and as a non-profit
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He says they don't and will talk more at a regular board meeting Monday.
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This is going to be a topic of discussion, whether this float judging category should
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Well, I'm glad to hear that they are going to be holding a board meeting about this.
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So the controversy over the parade float continues in Alaska.
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I'm not saying that up in Alaska, they apparently don't have much to worry about, but maybe they
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So when you live in a state where it's like only five other people live, you don't have
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many of the same problems, which I think is one of the reasons why people move there.
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And there's no better evidence than this story, which I just find phenomenal.
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And as I said, you know, Michael Humphrey, the schoolbird candidate, I don't know anything
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I know he's opposed to gender ideology, which is really all I need to know.
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But even before that, I unequivocally endorse any and all political candidates who make Johnny
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So for me, I'm a single issue voter and it is Johnny the Walrus parade floats.
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And he's really the only candidate I can support right now because he's the only one who has
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done this, which raises a question about all the other political candidates.
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This is a you should ask that of anyone running for any political office.
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Where do you stand on Johnny the Walrus parade floats and why have you not made one yet?
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Some would argue a slightly more important story, but I don't think so.
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House Democrats tried and failed to censor Robert Kennedy Jr., a Democrat Party candidate
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So that's the irony here is a hearing on censorship.
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And they tried to censor him during the hearing.
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Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz moved to shift the select subcommittee on the
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weaponization of the federal government hearing on Thursday to executive session because Mr.
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Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments as recently as last
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The congresswoman cited a House rule against testimony found to defame, degrade or incriminate
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any person, which would allow the committee and aside to determine whether to allow such
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Now, of course, he hasn't said anything anti-Semitic.
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All these accusations are false in the first place.
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And I say that as we've talked before about Robert Kennedy Jr. and all of the credit that
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There's even a lot of conservatives saying it's like, I've all but endorsed him for president.
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And I don't go nearly that far because he is a Democrat.
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So the best you could hope for a Democrat is that by Democrat standards, they'll be not
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But that still means it's someone you someone you could never actually support.
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I mean, if this is someone who was was worth supporting, they wouldn't be a Democrat anymore.
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So to be a Democrat at all requires you to sign on to some some some really basic tenets.
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It doesn't mean that every accusation they make about him is true.
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But it's also interesting that this happens only a couple of days after we had Barack Obama
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come out and we talked about this on the show a few days ago.
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He published his his letter, you know, to the librarians of America lamenting all the
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efforts to shut down conversation and center censor and ban books and all the rest of it.
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And he talked about how how important it is, how important it is for us to have conversations
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and to express our ideas and the controversial ideas or ideas people don't like.
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Most of all, he said, and while claiming that in reality, of course, pretty much all of the
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And and it's that's just because we don't believe in it.
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For one thing, it's it's against our principles.
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But also strategically, it doesn't make any sense for us, like strategically for Democrats,
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for the left, censorship is all it's their only strategy.
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So it's all they can do because they can't engage on the issues.
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And if you can't engage in the best you could do is try to shut down the other side.
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But for us, it's no, if you if I know that you're wrong about something, then I want your
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The crazier you are, the more I want people to see it.
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So that I can engage with it and I can show why it's wrong, although oftentimes we don't
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even need to do much work to show why it's wrong.
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Their approach is entirely different because they know they don't have the truth on their
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Rolling Stone published this article yesterday.
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All week long, a culture war has been raging around country star Jason Aldean's Try That
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in a Small Town, a turgid power ballad wrapped around an unsubtle warning to protesters and
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See how far you make it down the road, quoting the song.
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To many observers, that sounds uncomfortably close to the kind of threat that the Klan used
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to issue to civil rights activists and that modern day racists continue to spout today.
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The music video, which juxtaposes stock footage of Canadian protesters with scenes set at the
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site of a 1927 lynching, didn't help dispel that impression.
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So the scholars have chimed in on this on this pop song and they've noticed the uncomfortable
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parallels between Try That in a Small Town and white nationalist ideology.
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Aldean claims he's just singing about community and neighborly harmony.
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It says, the article says, some right-wing trolls, though, don't want you to think too
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Alleged Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is moaning about Ice-T's 1992
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song Cop Killer and sex and violence and hip-hop.
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Frequent hate monger Matt Walsh whines that nearly every rap song for the past 30 years has
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directly and enthusiastically glorified murder, drug dealing, robbery, and every other violent
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TV comedian turned far-right fringe voice Roseanne Barr got in on the act too with a salty tweet
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This is a familiar pattern, Rolling Stone says, to anyone who's paid attention to the past few
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When the heat gets too high on the right wing, they try to change the subject to hip-hop.
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It's why when shock jock Don Imus was under fire for his nasty racist remarks about the
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Rutgers women's basketball team in 2007, some people wanted to talk about rappers' language
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So they're accusing, so I like he's accusing us of changing the subject and bringing up the
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And then he goes immediately to Don Imus and Bill O'Reilly.
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But this is always the game, is to say, oh, well, this is whataboutism, you're changing
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Yes, maybe we've attached ism to it, but that doesn't mean that it's not valid.
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It's a way of establishing that you, that this principle that you're espousing, you don't
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So you have stated a principle, you've made a statement, you've applied it to this one
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And we're saying, well, what about all these things over here that this would also apply
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Part of the whatabout is to try to get to what you're actually saying.
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So on this topic, up on the left and in the media, they're pretending to be terribly scandalized
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by violence, by violent rhetoric in a song, right?
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And they're worried about what it might encourage people to do and what it might provoke.
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They're saying things like the song is dangerous.
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And what we're saying is, OK, if you're worried about violent lyrics in songs, what about all
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What about like almost every rap song that's ever been made?
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Does that there's there's a lot of violence there and it's it's much more explicit.
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And we laid this out a few days ago, not only is it much more explicit, but whereas Jason
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Aldean, if he's encouraging violence at all or talking about it in a favorable way, he's
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talking about violence in defense of the innocent, violence in defense of your community, violence
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Which, yeah, those are all good kinds of violence.
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Violence in defense of the innocent, violence in defense of yourself.
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It is good to defend yourself and defend the innocent.
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So that's what he's talking about, whereas the big difference with violence and a lot
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of rap songs is that while it's being explicitly promoted and glorified.
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by people who, by the way, oftentimes have actually engaged in this kind of violence themselves
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On top of that, the violence they're talking about is not violence in defense of the innocent
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It's violence, you know, it's violence motivated by greed.
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It's violence motivated by just pure indifference to human life.
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So it is entirely valid for us to say, well, if you have an issue with violence in music,
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So you're proposing that something is a problem.
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You're skipping over all of the worst examples of that problem.
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Until you find this one little thing to pin the whole issue on.
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That's what we're pointing out, because if we are going to have any kind of meaningful conversation
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about violence in music, violence in media, that can be a worthwhile conversation.
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But it's not a worthwhile conversation if we don't get the full picture first.
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We don't get the full picture of what we're of what we're dealing with.
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This Rolling Stone article, do they get to the point in the article of actually dealing with these comparisons, like explaining?
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You don't care about any of this stuff with the rap music.
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Why is all of that violent rhetoric in like literally thousands of rap songs through the decades?
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And it doesn't concern you and you never bring it up.
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He never gets around to engaging with that question or answering it, of course, because there is no answer.
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All they can do is point at what we're saying and say, what about ism?
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Oh, you see, if you bring up our hypocrisy and our double standards, then it is automatically invalid to bring up our hypocrisy and double standards.
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Not a lot of insight there, but maybe if we go to The View.
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The View had dealt with this Jason Aldean song yesterday, and let's listen to what they had to say.
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Maybe they'll have something more intelligent to offer.
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This was, to me, something where about half the people in my life see it one way and half the people in my life see it a different way.
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So I'm trying to like kind of see what are we disconnecting on.
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I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that his intent wasn't to, you know, stoke division, glorify violence or racism.
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I'm going to give him that benefit of the doubt.
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But I'll say this, there was a line, so for the many folks who are offended by this, there's a line in it that says, try that in a small town.
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So for a lot of my friends and family who are legal gun owners in small communities, they're like, yeah, that's what we do if someone breaks into a story.
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He's talking about the right to defend yourself.
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What I thought of when I read that was Ahmaud Arbery.
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I think of a black man in a small town in the South who literally just got shot for doing nothing wrong.
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So I think what becomes problematic is that there's a lack of recognition of what this means to about 50 percent of the country whose experience isn't Jason Aldean's.
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I'm kind of a country gal about like a quarter of the time.
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But this is also, for the folks on the right who are defending this, they see the BLM riots, many, like I think many can acknowledge protests and riots, that George Floyd's death and murder was evil.
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But so was the killing of someone like David Dorn, a black retired police officer who was defending his friend's store and was shot during the riots and aftermath of that movement.
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So I think if people of good faith can see both sides, they can see there is an issue with this song because of what it means to a lot of communities.
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But there is an issue of violence, of looting, of rioting.
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Yes, but why are you linking it to black people?
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Well, once again, there's I guess we gave it a shot.
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We gave it a shot to see if there's anything insightful being said on The View.
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A long conversation, though, has went on for a long time.
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In every major media outlet, all the shows have been talking about this.
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Once again, you're not going to find this kind of conversation about any other violent form of music, which is a shame.
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Because as I said, this is actually a worthwhile conversation to have.
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And you could throw Jason Aldean's song into it.
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Because it's not something I'm going to listen to myself.
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But if you want to have a broader discussion about, okay, well, you've got your violence that's portrayed in movies and in TV shows.
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When is it a bad thing that we should be worried about?
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But we can't do that when you've just decided to give, again, to take all the worst examples of this and to give them all a pass.
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I've had this for a few days and haven't had a chance to play it yet.
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But I enjoyed this video posted to Twitter by the account Leftism4U.
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And this woman is upset over her ex-husband's parents or ex-in-laws showing her trans child what is a woman.
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Now, let's just play the video and then we'll talk about it.
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My ex-in-laws today forced my child, who has come out as transgender, to sit and watch what is a woman.
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They called me to vent and talk to me about it because they needed a safe space to talk.
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That is a very precarious power to behold, being the safe space.
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I casually suggested that, as revenge, they should salt the coffee pot while everybody's asleep.
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Because then, you know, the salt will dissolve.
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Well, I don't know anything else about these in-laws, but I will say credit to them for this.
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And, you know, it does bring up kind of an important point that I've wanted to make about this.
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Because people ask me all the time whenever this movie comes up.
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And I get the question from parents a lot about is the movie appropriate for kids?
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And, you know, the exact age when you feel comfortable playing it for your kids, that's obviously a determination you have to make on your own.
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As a parent, there's a judgment call that you have to make.
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What I will say, especially for younger kids, I wouldn't show them what is a woman or, you know, any other kind of media that deals seriously with this issue for younger kids.
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If they haven't been exposed to this, like I'm not, my oldest kids are 10 years old.
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Because I'm not going to expose them to these concepts.
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But if you have a kid who's already been exposed to this, and they've been not only exposed to it, but they've been sucked into the cult already, then that is a time for not only a really serious conversation about this issue, but even to show them a movie like What is a Woman?
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You know, this is a kid who's very, very confused and is living in a state of, like, mental fog right now that's been intentionally imposed on him by the adults in his life, including his mother.
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There is someone who made it into the, almost made it into the daily cancellation today,
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but I decided that I wanted to rant about something else instead in that segment.
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So instead, an honorable mention that I'll give is to my wife.
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And she tweeted yesterday, and I should say last night she tweeted this.
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I want you to understand that she went to bed last night.
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She said she was tired and she had to go to bed, and that's fine.
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So I was out in the living room, and she had gone to bed, I thought, supposedly sleeping.
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When I see this pop up on my Twitter feed from my wife, it says,
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Who in the Nashville area is selling pygmy goats?
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In my spare time, I'm going to have a hobby farm.
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She's supposed to be sleeping, but instead she's awake in bed researching goats for this goat farm that she wants to have,
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but will not have because this is not happening.
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You know, I have lost every argument in my house about animals that we've ever had.
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Every animal I said I didn't want, we ended up getting from cats to dogs to chickens.
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So I'm telling you right now, if you live in the Nashville area, do not give this woman your goats.
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You know, when she was doing this last night, I was looking up recipes for goat stew last night when my wife was researching her goat farm.
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Because that's what's going to happen to your goats.
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Are you going to get up every morning to go milk the goat?
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Fresh from the animal that I can see down there out the window.
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And if I wanted goat milk, I just go to the store.
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No, but it's cheaper to get your goat milk fresh.
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Even if it is, it's not worth the effort for a minor savings on a beverage that we don't even drink.
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And my three-year-old daughter really wanted a pet goat.
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But only because I'm a dad and she's the three-year-old daughter.
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And like any dad of a three-year-old daughter, I always say yes to her.
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Like my older kids will come in the kitchen and say,
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The point is it's not fair to take advantage of that.
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I'm completely on board with the M. Night Shyamalan-esque celebration of hot dogs.
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because I appreciate aliens so much and have so much respect for them
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is one of the reasons why I hate Signs so much.
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Because of the way that, I think we've talked about this,
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the way that it portrays the aliens as somehow morons
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who come to a planet that's almost entirely comprised of water,
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Not to mention they can't figure out how to navigate through a locked basement door,
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even though they were able to make it, you know, 500 light years across space.
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does that mean that now that hot dogs are the official food of the SBG?
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We're always told that these hormones are life-saving medications.
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then that would disqualify a trans person from enlisting in the armed forces.
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but was denied because of my asthma and dependence on my daily medicine.
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then they're not going to allow you in the military,
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You're not going to have the physical fitness required
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where you're going to have access to that medicine.