The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1202 - The Media Is Still Lying About Michael Brown 9 Years Later. Here's Why.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media and Democrat Party honored Michael Brown yesterday

00:00:03.620 on the ninth anniversary of his death. Incredibly, they're still repeating all of the same lies about

00:00:08.700 this case, even after their false narrative has been completely debunked. Also, pro-lifers suffer

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00:01:27.460 gold to depend on. Again, text Walsh to 989898. Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of the lynching

00:01:34.900 of a police officer named Darren Wilson. On the morning of August 9th, 2014, Wilson tried to detain

00:01:40.380 18-year-old Michael Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store and attacked the store clerk.

00:01:44.480 And that's when, according to the Obama DOJ, quote, Wilson and other witnesses stated that

00:01:49.420 Brown reached into Wilson's SUV through the open driver's window and punched and grabbed Wilson. 0.54

00:01:54.720 Investigators made the determination by observing, quote, bruising on Wilson's jaw and scratches

00:01:59.360 on his neck, the presence of Brown's DNA on Wilson's collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilson's

00:02:03.240 DNA on Brown's palm. Brown then tried to grab Wilson's gun. Wilson shot him. Brown ran away,

00:02:09.480 then turned around and charged at Wilson. And Wilson fatally shot Brown in self-defense.

00:02:15.660 Now, the Obama DOJ did everything it could to find some way to charge Darren Wilson. Yet those

00:02:21.600 were their conclusions. Wilson did nothing wrong, much to the dismay of those who wished to sacrifice

00:02:26.840 him on the altar of racial justice. Now, despite media reports, not a single witness ever claimed

00:02:32.740 that Brown said, don't shoot. And all the witnesses who claimed that Brown's hands were in the air

00:02:37.440 were either contradicted by the evidence or later recanted their testimony or both.

00:02:42.160 Those are the factual details. And if you're so inclined, you can read the full DOJ report online

00:02:46.720 and see it all laid out. What you can find online is what exactly happened to Darren Wilson.

00:02:53.420 His name is never mentioned in the media. It's as if he never existed. The handful of reports on Wilson

00:02:58.520 in recent years suggest that he's living a life of anonymity in the middle of nowhere and that he'll

00:03:02.800 never be able to work as a police officer again. His life was destroyed. Nobody who defamed him as a

00:03:08.760 racist killer ever apologized. Nobody who took part in the destruction of an innocent man's life was ever

00:03:13.960 held accountable for it. In a country that cared about police officers or the truth or both, that

00:03:20.340 would be a national scandal. But we don't live in a country like that. So instead, yesterday, the only

00:03:25.280 name you heard on this anniversary was Michael Brown. They canonized him all over again. Here's how one

00:03:30.940 local news report talked about the case. Listen. Happening right now, a ceremony to honor Michael

00:03:37.100 Brown. He's the teenager shot and killed by a police officer after a confrontation. The shooting

00:03:42.820 happened nine years ago today. Brown's death sparked protests in Ferguson and all across the country.

00:03:49.460 This is a live picture from Canfield Drive, where it happened. Dozens of people have gathered to

00:03:54.880 remember him. Just moments ago, they held a moment of silence for four and a half minutes,

00:03:59.400 representing the four and a half hours Brown's body laid on the street after the shooting.

00:04:05.180 The prosecutor later announced a grand jury had ruled the shooting was justified.

00:04:10.320 Charges were never filed against the officer involved.

00:04:14.300 A ceremony to honor Michael Brown, the teenager shot and killed by a police officer after a

00:04:19.460 confrontation. That's how a news station, quote unquote, is talking about a thug who attacked

00:04:24.520 a store clerk and then tried to kill a police officer. They don't mention any of those facts that we just

00:04:29.280 reviewed because they're inconvenient. Instead, the news station informs you that Brown's body laid in

00:04:33.960 the street for several hours after the shooting, as if that's somehow incriminating or even relevant.

00:04:38.680 Of course, they leave out the fact that the mob that gathered made processing the crime scene so

00:04:44.080 difficult that Ferguson had to call in the SWAT team to control the situation. They don't mention

00:04:48.720 all the lies that the supposed witnesses told the media, like the false claim that Michael Brown had

00:04:53.420 been shot in the back. That never happened. It wasn't just one news station that decided to lie

00:04:58.880 yesterday about this. They all did it. Here's how the local Fox station described what happened. Listen.

00:05:04.140 Welcome back to the 9 a.m. Today marks the ninth year since the passing of Michael Brown Jr.

00:05:10.860 And this tragic incident was sparked an uproar, not only in Ferguson, but across our nation for change

00:05:17.640 against police brutality and injustice faced by African-Americans. Again, without mentioning any

00:05:23.740 details of what Michael Brown actually did, we're told this case has something to do with police

00:05:28.140 brutality and injustices faced by African-Americans. That intro was followed by a sympathetic clip with

00:05:35.080 Michael Brown's family. Apparently, Darren Wilson's family wasn't available. Maybe they're in

00:05:39.060 hiding. We really don't know. What we can say for sure is that there weren't any memorial events

00:05:44.460 honoring Darren Wilson yesterday in St. Louis. Instead, the city put on a series of events

00:05:49.240 celebrating the legacy of the thug who robbed stores and attacked a police officer. Watch.

00:05:54.800 Today marks nine years since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The metro area is honoring his

00:05:59.980 life today with two memorial events. And our Sidney Stallworth is live in Clayton with today's tributes.

00:06:04.660 Good morning, Sidney. Good morning, Michelle Rennie. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot and killed

00:06:12.620 in the streets of Ferguson following a confrontation with a Ferguson police officer. Now, his death

00:06:18.300 sparked outrage in this community and far beyond, leading to demonstrations and calls for police reform

00:06:24.760 nationwide. And in just a couple of hours, our community is going to honor Brown's life and legacy.

00:06:31.340 Now, organizers for these events in his honor are acknowledging that this painful moment of our past

00:06:38.840 can hopefully usher in a new future for our community. The first tribute will be held on

00:06:44.180 Canfield Drive in Ferguson, where Michael Brown was shot and killed. A four and a half minute of

00:06:49.660 silence will be held there at 1115 a.m. to remember the four and a half hours his body laid in the street.

00:06:58.080 Michael Brown was shot and killed following a confrontation, the reporter tells us. So there's that

00:07:03.540 word again. It was a confrontation. It doesn't imply any kind of fault by one side or the other.

00:07:09.640 It doesn't tell you anything. It leaves you completely in the dark, which is the exact opposite

00:07:12.980 of what the news media is supposed to do. They just want you to know that the community came together

00:07:17.400 to, quote, honor Michael Brown's life and legacy. They don't bother explaining why Brown's life and

00:07:23.840 legacy deserves to be honored. What exactly is his legacy? These so-called reporters, they know exactly what

00:07:30.500 they're doing. They're lying on purpose about something that anybody with a Google can prove

00:07:35.260 is a lie in about five seconds. That's all it takes. But obviously, none of these people can

00:07:40.060 think for themselves. So the question becomes, where are they getting the idea to do it? Well,

00:07:44.540 we know that the Obama administration benefited from lying about Michael Brown all the way back in

00:07:49.100 2014, just as they benefited from lying about Trayvon Martin and all the other race hoaxes.

00:07:53.600 That's why the Obama DOJ investigated Ferguson's police department and many other police departments

00:07:57.940 and claimed that they must be racist because they pull over more black people than white people.

00:08:03.520 It didn't matter to the DOJ, apparently, that Ferguson is an overwhelmingly black town, 0.92

00:08:07.980 which might be the reason why more black people are pulled over. They just ran with that reasoning 1.00

00:08:13.080 because they knew the city didn't have the money or the PR resources to fight them. In fact,

00:08:18.280 when the city publicly announced that it disagreed with the Obama DOJ's ridiculous reasoning,

00:08:23.680 the DOJ called the city racist again, just for daring to challenge their narrative. So you're

00:08:30.060 racist. And if you deny that you're racist, then, well, that's just more evidence that you're racist. 0.98

00:08:35.200 It's basically what the DOJ said. And again, that document is online if you want to read it.

00:08:40.340 But it still doesn't answer the question of why now. I mean, why is the media still lying now,

00:08:46.180 nine years later, about this shooting, when everyone knows they're lying?

00:08:50.240 Well, it could be that they're still taking orders from the Democrat Party,

00:08:54.180 which somehow has not given up on this lie. Squad benchwarmer Cori Bush tweeted yesterday,

00:08:58.880 quote, today is the ninth anniversary of Mike Brown's killing. He would be alive today if the

00:09:03.500 institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated. He should be alive today.

00:09:08.140 We will never forget. We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.

00:09:12.640 Of course, Ben Crump and various left-wing groups said more or less the same thing.

00:09:16.140 But it's not just a couple of race-hustling lawyers and politicians from Missouri who are

00:09:20.960 lying about Michael Brown. The Biden administration, at the highest levels, is also

00:09:24.760 portraying Michael Brown as a hero. Again, even now, they're still doing it.

00:09:30.320 This was the State Department's new equity representative speaking yesterday as Tony

00:09:35.500 Blinken looked on. Listen to what she said.

00:09:37.800 I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that today is also the anniversary of the killing of

00:09:43.080 Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black teenager whose death in Ferguson, Missouri,

00:09:49.040 sparked a national outcry. His killing, two years after that of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin,

00:09:55.860 was a pivotal moment in our country, prompting the need to affirm that black lives matter.

00:10:02.900 A slogan that has gained global resonance, not only for people of African descent.

00:10:07.880 Well, that's interesting. The State Department, which uses coordinated disinformation campaigns

00:10:14.360 to inspire color revolutions overseas, with the express goal of overthrowing foreign governments,

00:10:19.740 is now deliberately lying about a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, from nine years ago.

00:10:24.820 They're telling you that an unarmed black teenager was just murdered by a cop for no reason

00:10:28.860 nine years after that narrative was completely and totally debunked.

00:10:34.000 So why are they doing that? They know exactly how destabilizing that lie has been over the past

00:10:40.620 decade. So take a look at this chart. It shows the rate of violent crime in Ferguson over the past

00:10:45.900 few decades. And that's the red line that you can see on the chart. It also shows you how many cases

00:10:50.460 police have solved in the city over the same period of time. And that's the green line. So you might

00:10:55.820 notice some trends there. It's kind of hard to miss. You see a big bump in violent crime around 2014

00:11:01.100 when the U.S. government decided to pretend that Michael Brown was a hero, while the number of

00:11:05.100 violent crime cases actually solved goes drastically in the other direction. And you can find similar

00:11:11.360 charts from every major American city that there is. I mean, in recent years, police were either

00:11:16.400 defunded or scared away. No cop wants to be lynched for doing his job after all, and understandably so.

00:11:23.760 And so predictably, cities got much more dangerous. A lot of people died.

00:11:27.280 And it started with the Ferguson lie, which was the genesis of the modern BLM movement. 0.51

00:11:33.780 Now, to the left, all those deaths were collateral damage. They think it was all worth it because the

00:11:39.100 rise of BLM meant more political power for them. They recruited a mob of enforcers who could literally

00:11:44.580 set entire communities on fire with impunity as a message to the rest of the country. They were able

00:11:49.300 to demonize local police departments and power the FBI, which they controlled. And for the corporations

00:11:54.680 who bankrolled Democrats, the rise of BLM was also a welcome diversion from rising populist sentiments

00:12:00.400 in both parties. The lying about Ferguson, in that sense, isn't so remarkable. The State Department

00:12:06.220 and the Democratic Party are pushing for an internal revolution here for the same reason they push for

00:12:10.460 color revolutions elsewhere. They want to tear down the system of government that we have in this

00:12:15.080 country. In our rule of law, in our traditions, they want to tear it all down. And they want to

00:12:20.020 replace them with something very different, something equitable, as they would say, with them in charge,

00:12:25.420 of course. So far, their strategy is working, we have to say. And it's a perfect example of how the

00:12:33.040 left plays the long game. Okay, they've obtained total narrative control. Now, sure, their whole

00:12:39.700 narrative was debunked when it comes to Michael Brown, when it comes to many of these BLM cases,

00:12:44.620 completely debunked. But what do they care? They'll just keep repeating the lie year after year after

00:12:51.020 year until eventually the other side gets tired of correcting it. And then what happens? Well,

00:12:56.260 their version makes it into the history books. It does make you question how much of the stuff that

00:13:02.440 you find in history books can actually be trusted. You know, if Cori Bush and the State Department and

00:13:08.100 the entire media and Democrat Party can lie about something that we all remember,

00:13:11.240 what happens when there's nobody left who remembers it? The unfortunate reality is that

00:13:17.780 historical lies gain more power and momentum as time goes on and we move further away from the event

00:13:23.960 they're lying about. The truth, however, doesn't have that kind of advantage. It doesn't benefit from

00:13:31.240 the distance. If anything, as time goes on, for the truth, the road becomes harder. And that is exactly

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00:15:18.380 promo code Walsh. Okay. So I want to start here. This is a story that actually some on the left have

00:15:24.560 been messaging me about and saying, why are you talking about this? Huh? Are you afraid to talk

00:15:29.640 about it? Are you afraid? Which look, I mean, you can say what you want about me, throw whatever

00:15:34.600 insult you want. I don't care. But you really can't accuse me of being afraid to talk about

00:15:39.700 things. I, you know, I think at least I should get credit for that. If nothing else, I'll talk

00:15:45.300 about anything. I'll tell you exactly what I think about any topic for better or worse. You'll,

00:15:50.580 you'll just know how I feel about it. I think I've more than demonstrated that by now. So

00:15:54.180 here's the story that I'm afraid to talk about. It's a major defeat for the pro-life movement

00:15:58.960 in Ohio this week. Here's the APs. I'll read you the, the APs absurdly partisan report on this,

00:16:07.780 um, story says Ohio voters resoundingly rejected a Republican backed measure that would have made it

00:16:13.960 more difficult to change the state's constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the

00:16:17.700 nation's latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide

00:16:22.340 protections last year. The defeat of issue one on Tuesday keeps in place a simple majority

00:16:27.920 threshold for passing future constitutional amendments rather than the 60% supermajority

00:16:31.860 that was proposed. It's supporters said that the higher bar would protect the state's foundational

00:16:36.400 document from outside interest groups. Voter opposition to the proposal was widespread,

00:16:41.000 even spreading into traditionally Republican territory. In fact, in early return, support for the

00:16:45.380 measure fell far short of former president Donald Trump's performance during the 2020 election

00:16:49.200 in nearly every county. President Joe Biden hailed Tuesday's results, releasing a statement saying,

00:16:54.720 this measure was a blatant attempt to weaken voters' voices and further erode the freedom of women to 1.00

00:16:59.240 make their own healthcare decisions. Ohioans, uh, spoke loud and clear and tonight democracy won.

00:17:05.560 While abortion was not directly on the special election ballot, the result marks the latest setback

00:17:09.780 for Republicans in a conservative leaning state who favor imposing tough restrictions on the

00:17:13.080 procedure. Ohio Republicans placed the question on the summer ballot in hopes of undercutting the

00:17:17.620 citizen initiative that voters will decide in November that seeks to enshrine abortion rights

00:17:21.440 in the state. Other states where voters have considered abortion rights since last year's Supreme Court ruling

00:17:26.540 have protected them, including in red states such as Kansas and Kentucky. Okay, so, uh, this issue was about

00:17:33.680 the procedure for amending the state constitution, but really, as everyone on both sides understood,

00:17:39.200 it was really about abortion. And the defeat here means that, uh, it'll be much easier for abortion

00:17:43.760 advocates to enshrine the right to baby murder in the state constitution in the future. And that fight

00:17:49.640 will commence, well, now. I mean, it already has commenced. And yes, this is the latest in a series of,

00:17:55.080 of, uh, referendums where voters in various states have come down on the side of killing babies. That is

00:17:59.840 absolutely the case. So the dominant narrative now, which you hear on the left and the right

00:18:07.260 is that ultimately the overturning of Roe is a disaster for conservatives because it has rallied

00:18:16.620 the pro baby murder factions and sort of made this into a mobilizing issue for that side, just like the

00:18:23.700 pro-life side, just like the pro-life issue used to be, used to be, they say, uh, a mobilizing issue

00:18:30.240 for conservatives, but it isn't anymore because of, uh, of Roe v. Wade. I mean, this is the narrative

00:18:34.420 anyway. And then of course the, the GOP's, uh, underperformance in 2022 is blamed on the Roe decision.

00:18:42.060 Their predicted, uh, landslide defeats across the country in 2024 are also being blamed ahead of time

00:18:48.880 on, on, on the same. Uh, what do I make of all this? Well, a few points. The first and most important

00:18:55.600 is that even if overturning Roe, uh, v. Wade has had this cascading effect, and even if you can,

00:19:04.680 if you can, if you can blame every conservative or Republican defeat, uh, over the last year and a

00:19:09.860 half or so, if you can blame it all on the overturning of Roe, like, even if it was valid to do that,

00:19:16.300 um, it, it would still be worth it. I mean, obviously worth it. Like, there's nothing to

00:19:25.420 think about. So if you could convince me that all these things, it's all because, uh, Roe was

00:19:31.260 overturned. And then you would ask me, well, are you still happy Roe was overturned? If you could go

00:19:35.060 back and do it again, if you could, if you could, uh, you know, go back and change history, would you

00:19:38.820 do it so that it wasn't overturned? Um, no, I wouldn't change history. Yes, I'm, I'm happy that it

00:19:43.160 happened. Of course I am. Okay. Because we're saving babies from being killed. And that obviously

00:19:49.380 takes priority over any other consideration, including political considerations. And this

00:19:55.200 is really what it comes down to. Conservatives who are lamenting that Supreme Court decision now

00:20:00.440 have only revealed that they are actually fundamentally pro-abortion themselves. So every

00:20:05.580 single conservative that you see who is, uh, is, is, you know, openly lamenting it,

00:20:12.740 this is what happened now because Roe was overturned and making it so much harder for Republicans.

00:20:18.160 Those are all pro, even if they don't admit it, they're pro-abortion conservatives because,

00:20:22.060 which is actually not possible to be pro-abortion conservative. Because if you aren't pro-abortion,

00:20:26.140 if you're actually pro-life, then you believe that unborn babies are people,

00:20:29.460 people like you and me. And so obviously you want to overturn a court decision that enshrined

00:20:35.940 the murder of these people as a constitutional right. Obviously you do that and you let the

00:20:41.220 chips fall where they may, but there's no question that you do it. You have to do it.

00:20:48.140 Um, you do whatever you can to save these children.

00:20:52.440 And if you believe they are children, right? Apparently lots of conservatives have bought into

00:20:58.920 the clumps of cells thing. And there's also no question by the way, that, that thousands of

00:21:05.260 lives have been saved by the overturning of Roe. You can, you can listen, even as on the left,

00:21:10.340 they celebrate, uh, these victories and they say, ah, you see this, this, this is all backfiring on you

00:21:15.140 at the same time. They will also, so one minute they're pub, there's a headline about how this is

00:21:20.820 all backfiring on Republicans. And it's actually a great boon for, uh, for the left and for liberals and

00:21:25.940 Democrat party. But then the next minute they'll publish a headline, uh, talking about, uh, in very

00:21:31.680 apocalyptic tones about how, Oh my goodness, more babies are being born now. And there's all these

00:21:38.220 women to give us all these horror stories about women who, uh, didn't have access to quote abortion 1.00

00:21:43.420 care. And so now they, they, uh, uh, dear God, they had to have their baby rather than killing the

00:21:47.700 baby. And now the baby is alive rather than dead. So even they will acknowledge that there are lots of

00:21:54.520 abortions that would have happened and did not because Roe was overturned. That's just not,

00:21:59.060 that's not even, uh, debatable. Like thousands of lives have been saved. Thousands of children's

00:22:05.320 lives have been saved by the overturning of Roe. Any cost is worth it. It's hard for me to think of

00:22:13.300 a cost that wouldn't be worth it. When, when you are, when you are, um, doing something that certainly

00:22:23.200 doesn't end, but greatly, uh, reduces a Holocaust. Okay. This is a Holocaust of children that has been 0.97

00:22:32.840 happening in our country for decades. It's the Holocaust of the unborn. And again, if you believe 0.98

00:22:40.380 that these are actually people, which of course they are, because what else could they be if not

00:22:46.600 people, then whatever needs to be done to prevent it is just must be done. Starting of course with

00:22:55.800 overturning that, uh, absurd decision. Now, second, I don't buy that every Republican defeat ties back

00:23:04.160 to the Roe decision. Uh, we lost in 2022 because there were a lot of bad candidates who ran bad

00:23:10.640 campaigns and Republicans didn't stay on message. They didn't even know what their message was.

00:23:15.920 Did Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania lose because of Roe? The guy's pro abortion. Is that what, 0.93

00:23:20.800 is that why he lost? No, he lost because he's a bad candidate. One of many. And if the Republicans

00:23:26.640 nominate bad candidates again, then we're going to lose again. That's why I say we should be single

00:23:31.180 issue voters in the primary, because the only thing that matters is whether the candidate can beat

00:23:35.160 the Democrat in the general. Everything else is irrelevant. It's a moot point. If he's not going to

00:23:39.380 actually get into office third, and here's the really important point, abortion is a winning 0.98

00:23:49.140 issue for conservatives, but you have to know how to argue it. Okay. It's not automatically a winning

00:23:57.520 issue. No issue is automatically a winning issue. It all depends on how you argue it, how you fight for

00:24:02.700 it. So as an example, as an analogy, for a long time, you probably will recall this, for a long

00:24:13.640 time, we were told that all things LGBT, right? LGBT, trans, all that stuff, gender, for a very long

00:24:21.520 time, we were told that those are all losers for conservatives. That whole territory, okay? The whole 0.99

00:24:28.240 territory that is claimed under the rainbow, the ever expanding and getting uglier rainbow flag, 0.93

00:24:33.980 that whole territory is, you can't, don't go anywhere near it because you're going to lose.

00:24:38.980 You step onto that territory, you're going to lose that battle every time. That's what we were told

00:24:42.640 for years. Nobody says that anymore. In fact, now it's the opposite. Now the left complains that

00:24:50.580 conservatives are using the pride flag and using LGBT issues because it's just so easy for them. It's red

00:25:00.160 meat, which is a very interesting complaint because it was the opposite of that for years.

00:25:07.600 For years, it was the opposite of red meat. It was like, you don't touch it. It's toxic, toxic meat.

00:25:11.540 And so we were told that it's a loser. And now we've seen that it's not. Fighting back against

00:25:22.160 the LGBT cult is not a loser for conservatives. You just have to know how to fight it. And so 1.00

00:25:27.760 conservatives were fighting the wrong way. They didn't know how to fight it. They were too afraid

00:25:32.040 to fight it the right way. And so they lost. I mean, they lost mostly because they weren't even engaging.

00:25:36.800 So it's the same with the abortion issue. You have to fight on the abortion issue the same way we do

00:25:45.220 with the LGBT stuff. And here's how you do it. I'll tell you how. You expose the other side as 1.00

00:25:54.460 incoherent and extreme. That's how you win. How do you do that? Well, I'll tell you. Abortion comes up 0.98

00:26:03.800 in a debate. Say it's a political debate, a candidate debate. And you want to expose the

00:26:10.380 other side as incoherent and extreme. This is exactly what we've done with LGBT, trans. 1.00

00:26:15.860 We've exposed it as incoherent and extreme to the point where that's how it's branded now in most

00:26:21.940 people's minds. They see the pride flag and they think this is an incoherent, extreme thing. That's

00:26:26.520 what they think. And it is and it always was that. And we expose that. How do we do that with the

00:26:32.840 abortion issue? Well, it's very simple. You only need to ask three questions.

00:26:37.940 So you throw these three questions at your opponent if you're in a debate.

00:26:42.320 One, is an unborn child a person? Two, what is a person? And three, should it be legal to abort a

00:26:54.020 child five seconds before the child is born? Those three questions are all you need.

00:26:59.200 Because your opponent, if he wants to protect the right to an abortion,

00:27:05.180 will have to answer no to the first. He'll have to say, an unborn child is not a person. It's a

00:27:10.600 fetus. A fetus is not a person. He's going to have to say that. And then you ask him, okay, well,

00:27:16.520 then what is a person? So he's not a person. How do you define person? He won't be able to give you

00:27:21.880 an answer to that question. Nobody on the pro-abortion side can tell you what a person is.

00:27:27.760 So you see, there's a very familiar strategy being used here. But that's because it works.

00:27:34.280 And when there's a fundamental incoherence in your opponent's viewpoint, sometimes the most basic

00:27:39.440 questions can expose it. And so for LGBT, it's what is a woman? For abortion, it's what is a person? 0.57

00:27:47.280 They can't define it. They will not be able to. They're not going to be able to come up with a

00:27:53.260 coherent, non-arbitrary definition of person that will successfully exclude every person in the womb.

00:28:02.400 They can't do it. But then, of course, well, okay, so you said a fetus is not a person,

00:28:07.560 but you don't know what a person is. So how do you know the fetus isn't a person?

00:28:11.340 So according to you, actually, so you don't really know. Obama famously said years ago that it's above

00:28:16.740 my pay grade to answer that. So it's above your pay grade. You don't really know. So even according

00:28:20.200 to you, the quote unquote fetus could be a person, is what you're saying, because you don't know what

00:28:25.080 a person is. And it's above your pay grade, and you're not really sure, and it's up for debate.

00:28:29.320 So even by your own logic, abortion could be the mass slaughter of 60 million people.

00:28:38.400 That's as far as you can go with your argument. You can't even deny that it's the Holocaust 0.98

00:28:43.160 of 60 million people. You can only say that, well, it might not be, or it might be.

00:28:49.800 And then finally, the last question, you know, can you abort a quote unquote fetus five seconds

00:28:54.840 before birth? He's going to have to say yes to that, because if he says no, well, no,

00:29:01.480 you're not five seconds before. Okay, what about 10 seconds before? What about 10 minutes before?

00:29:05.620 What about 10 days before? So how far does this go back, and where do you draw the line?

00:29:09.420 And so he understands that. If he says, well, no, you can't abort a child five seconds before birth,

00:29:16.240 that raises all kinds of other questions he doesn't want to answer. And so he has to take

00:29:20.940 the position, as almost everybody on that side of the issue has taken by now, that yes, abortion

00:29:26.200 should be fine up to the moment of birth, and sometimes far beyond that.

00:29:31.060 So just with those three questions, we've exposed the movement as incoherent. They don't even know

00:29:35.620 what a person is, yet they're sure that a fetus is not a person. How does that make sense? And also

00:29:40.040 extreme, they think it should be okay to kill a baby, fully developed, that can easily survive 0.92

00:29:47.880 outside the womb five seconds before birth. So why do, just to summarize this lengthy discussion,

00:29:57.220 why do Republicans appear to lose on this issue? Well, it's because very rarely do they do what I

00:30:09.060 just described. When's the last time, and it's not like it's never happened, but how many times can

00:30:14.640 you remember in a debate with a Republican where they do exactly what I just said, where they turn

00:30:20.240 to the other side and say, hey, I got a few questions for you. Can you answer these basic questions?

00:30:23.040 Almost never happens. Instead, here's what happens. They allow themselves, like idiots,

00:30:29.480 to get backed into a corner, to be in the defensive position, and they allow for the entire conversation 1.00

00:30:35.580 to revolve around hard cases, rape, incest, life of the mother, and the entire discussion becomes about

00:30:40.540 that. They never manage to find a way to get out of that, get out of the corner, get back on the

00:30:49.880 offense and say, hey, okay, you want to talk about the 1% of all cases, the extreme cases? We can talk

00:30:54.260 about that. But before we talk about the 1%, let's get to the 99% issue, okay? Let's talk about that

00:30:58.140 first. So I'm not going to say a word about the 1% cases until you answer a few questions about the

00:31:02.600 99% of cases. How about that? You answer these questions, we can go right back to the, you want

00:31:06.920 to talk about rape, incest, life of the mother? We can do that, perfectly fine. Before we do that,

00:31:11.660 I need you to answer some really basic questions about the issue itself. You almost never see

00:31:18.320 Republicans doing that. And the reason they don't do it is because they're, you know,

00:31:23.900 a lot of Republican politicians, frankly, aren't smart enough to even think of these things. And

00:31:27.080 second, they're so terrified of the issue that they just want it to be over. It was just the

00:31:31.920 same thing with LGBT for so long. The moment that it came up, you could tell they're so terrified of

00:31:36.000 it, they just want it to be over. You could tell they're just, it's the moment it comes up in a

00:31:39.420 debate, a discussion. They, you know, curl up in a fetal position and pun not intended, but they

00:31:49.000 curl up into a fetal position and they just want it to be over so they can move on to something they're

00:31:53.520 more comfortable talking about. All right. Tragic situation in Hollywood. TV line reports the SAG-AFTRA

00:32:02.900 strike is already putting a squeeze on actors' finances, even for an Emmy winner. Billy Porter,

00:32:08.640 who shot to fame and won an Emmy on the FX drama Pose, now says he has to sell his house due to the

00:32:14.360 financial strain of the strike. I have to sell my house, he tells the UK's Evening Standard,

00:32:18.980 because we're on strike. I don't know if that quote was really necessary. It just literally

00:32:22.820 restates exactly what we said in the sentence before. So this is bad writing, but it doesn't

00:32:25.880 matter. For an artist like Porter, quote, until you make FU money, which I haven't made yet,

00:32:32.520 life is still paycheck to paycheck, he says. I was supposed to be in a new movie and on a new

00:32:36.640 television show starting in September. None of that is happening. This is a tragic story.

00:32:41.660 Billy Porter, I mean, this is the face of the tragedy unfolding in Hollywood right now.

00:32:48.980 Okay, while you continue on with your lives, totally ignoring this horrific tragedy that is

00:32:56.900 happening right now in Hollywood, and you have men like, excuse me, thems like Billy Porter,

00:33:02.160 whatever he identifies as, who are, were supposed to be in a movie in September, and now the movie's

00:33:11.300 been delayed. Terrible, terrible stuff. Porter also took a shot at the anonymous Hollywood

00:33:17.480 executive who told Deadline that the goal was to drag out the strike until writers and actors were

00:33:21.600 forced to sell their homes. Quote, so to the person who said, we're going to starve them out until they

00:33:27.520 have to sell their apartments. Well, you've already starved me out. He's not putting himself in the best

00:33:33.640 negotiating position here. And he goes on and says, to hear Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, say that our

00:33:45.100 demands for a living wage are unrealistic while he makes $78,000 a day, I don't have any words for it,

00:33:50.580 but F you. That's not useful, so I have to keep my mouth shut. I haven't engaged because I'm so

00:33:55.560 enraged. Yes, Billy Porter just wants a living wage. So now we're being told that Billy, that an

00:34:01.800 Emmy-winning actor is not making a living wage, according to them. For those who don't recall,

00:34:10.240 here's what Billy Porter looks like. I think we have the, let's put that picture up. So that's just

00:34:14.160 what he looks like. Uh, this guy's not making a living wage, he tells us. So maybe if he spent

00:34:19.800 less money, you know, dressing up like, uh, the evil queen from Narnia, uh, maybe he'd have enough

00:34:25.560 money to pay for his home. Maybe he could pay his mortgage if he wasn't spending it on whatever the

00:34:30.720 hell that is. Just a thought. But there are a lot of stories like this, these tales of woe,

00:34:35.360 uh, that are coming out of Hollywood. And the problem for these Hollywood actors and writers

00:34:40.940 as the, as the strike, uh, lingers on and, you know, it's going on for many months now.

00:34:48.820 And in many of these reports, they're kind of complaining that there's not like nobody cares,

00:34:52.760 but no one's paying attention to them. And the reason for this was two reasons. First of all,

00:34:57.440 so this is, this is all self-inflicted. You've chosen to, uh, you've chosen to go on strike.

00:35:04.400 You don't have to, but you did. Um, well, really three reasons. Second reason is the obvious one

00:35:10.100 that many of these people that are on the picket line are like millionaires. So it's a little bit

00:35:14.500 hard to feel sorry for them. And then, and then third, you're asking for sympathy from people

00:35:20.080 who have never received any from you. Um, because when have any of these people shown any concern

00:35:28.600 for our wellbeing? I saw someone, you know, bring up this point on Twitter. I don't remember who, but

00:35:33.660 it would be very interesting to go back and I'm sure we could, and I don't know if Billy Porter,

00:35:40.300 I'm going to assume that Billy Porter is probably part of this, but it'd be very interesting to go

00:35:44.640 back and find these actors that are complaining because they want more money or whatever. And

00:35:49.800 they're asking for everyone's sympathy and find what they were saying during the COVID lockdowns

00:35:55.200 and how many of them were in, uh, doing PSAs when they were telling us all to, well, just stay home,

00:36:02.800 give up your job. It doesn't matter if you're not making money. We're all in this together.

00:36:06.500 Remember, we're all in this together. And they said that while they continued working the entire time.

00:36:15.480 And now they come to us begging for sympathy and, uh, there's just not much

00:36:19.060 that we can provide, unfortunately for them. Daily Wire has this report. Monique Worrell lashed

00:36:24.960 out on Wednesday morning after Florida Republican governor, Ron DeSantis suspended her from office

00:36:29.580 as state attorney for the ninth judicial circuit for dereliction of duty and incompetence.

00:36:35.360 Uh, DeSantis said that Worrell, who was backed by a group tied to Democrat billionaire George Soros

00:36:39.640 has allowed murderers, other violent offenders and dangerous drug traffickers to receive extremely

00:36:44.160 reduced sentences and escape the full consequences of their criminal conduct.

00:36:47.860 The policies and practices mentioned in the executive order that led to her suspension

00:36:51.860 include, uh, avoiding minimum mandatory sentences for gun crimes, avoiding minimum mandatory sentences

00:36:57.580 for drug traffic offenses, allowing juvenile offenders to avoid serious charges and incarceration

00:37:02.040 altogether, avoiding valid and applicable sentencing enhancements, limiting charges for child

00:37:08.260 pornography, and seeking, uh, withhold of, uh, adjudication in situations not permitted under Florida law.

00:37:15.720 And that's why she was, um, suspended from office by DeSantis. But she's not happy about this,

00:37:23.780 as you can imagine. And she said at a press conference following her suspension that her office did,

00:37:27.680 did things unconventionally, quote unquote, they're being unconventional, you know, not prosecuting

00:37:33.280 criminals, uh, sending dangerous people back on, back on, out onto the streets so they can kill and 0.86

00:37:38.900 maim more people. They're just, it's just an unconventional, unorthodox approach is all.

00:37:45.560 You know, being lenient on child pornographers, that's a, just an unconventional approach.

00:37:51.900 Which of course, by the way, it's also these days not unconventional. It's actually quite

00:37:56.620 conventional in these major cities and, and by these, uh, Soros DAs. Um, she claimed that DeSantis

00:38:04.060 was a dictator who has implemented tyranny and has single-handedly destroyed democracy in the state

00:38:09.260 of Florida. Worrell said that while her legal team is prepared to fight her suspension through the 0.65

00:38:13.980 legal system, but did not believe that she would be successful because the courts have been assembled 0.93

00:38:18.400 by the governor, the legislature has a supermajority in favor of the governor. Uh, so she's very upset,

00:38:24.340 but she's been kicked out of office, uh, because she wasn't doing her job. 0.96

00:38:27.720 And that's great news. And this is not the first time that DeSantis has done this.

00:38:34.700 And, and I would hope that no matter who you support in the primaries, um,

00:38:41.040 everyone should be looking at this and saying, yes, this is good. This is what we need all

00:38:48.040 Republicans to be doing. This is what every Republican governor should be doing. So we should

00:38:52.000 be turning to every other Republican governor in, in the country and saying, okay, how many Soros

00:38:57.700 DAs have you suspended? And if the answer is none, well, we better find out that there are no

00:39:03.920 Soros DAs in your entire state. Uh, and it, and, but there almost certainly are because they're all 1.00

00:39:10.100 over the place. It's an infestation. And, uh, so if there are, and you haven't suspended any,

00:39:16.060 well, that's a problem. And we need, we need to be turning to other Republican presidential candidates

00:39:22.420 and saying, this is what we need to see from you. This is what you need to promise to do.

00:39:26.720 This is what you need to actually do. If you're lucky enough to become president, you need to

00:39:31.740 start firing people, like rooting out the corrupt people within the bureaucracy and getting rid of

00:39:38.840 them. Lots of them sending them on the unemployment line so that they are, they are, and we should 1.00

00:39:46.060 know that you're doing it. And we will know that you're doing it when you do it, because they're

00:39:48.640 going to, they're going to, there's going to be a bunch of press conferences where they're going

00:39:51.560 to complain and they're going to cry and they're going to say, this is terrible. It's tyranny.

00:39:56.640 This is what we need to see. This is what draining the swamp actually looks like.

00:40:02.420 Okay. It's not just a slogan, or at least it shouldn't be.

00:40:07.320 Because when we talk about the swamp, we are referring to actual people in positions of power.

00:40:13.880 In many cases who were not, who were not voted into those positions. Sometimes they were,

00:40:19.680 sometimes they're not. But in your bureaucracy, you get both. And, but these are actual people

00:40:26.020 who are corrupt, who are abusing their power, misusing their power. And the way that you drain

00:40:32.440 that swamp, whether it's a swamp in Florida or, or in DC, whatever level we're talking about 0.75

00:40:38.560 is by identifying those actual human beings and getting rid of them, firing them. 0.97

00:40:50.740 All right. Finally, this is kind of petty, I admit, but it does raise some questions for me.

00:40:56.220 Some questions I find perplexing. Mike Pence, who is also running for president,

00:41:00.600 put out an ad where he hits Biden over gas prices. So far, so good. Makes sense.

00:41:05.700 Well, they decided they wanted to get Pence on film at the gas pump. And that's where things get a

00:41:12.240 little bit confusing. Let's watch this ad. Hey, everybody. Mike Pence here. Remember $2 a gallon

00:41:19.260 gas? I do. And then Joe Biden became president of the United States and launched his war on energy.

00:41:26.160 Since that time, gasoline prices are up 60%. Electricity prices are up 25%.

00:41:32.040 Joe Biden's war on energy is causing real hardship for working families, small businesses and family

00:41:38.100 farms. But we've got a plan to relieve all of that. We just unveiled the Pence Energy Plan that'll not

00:41:43.860 only put our country back on a path to energy independence, but by 2040, we will reclaim America's

00:41:50.520 role as the leading producer of energy in the world. Join us in the fight for American energy leadership

00:41:57.360 leadership by going to MikePence2024.com. We can lead the world once again to a more prosperous and a

00:42:04.700 secure future for America with energy independence and American energy leadership.

00:42:11.900 OK, well, Mike Pence about to drive down the road and break down when he runs out of gas because he

00:42:16.900 didn't pump any gas there. And I don't mean to get tentacle, but that's just not how pumping gas

00:42:21.480 works. You heard the beeping in the background the entire time because that's the pump beeping at him

00:42:25.360 saying, you got to pay first. You got to pay first, you bum. You can't, you got to pay for this. 0.82

00:42:30.100 That's what the pump is saying. You can't just get right out of your car and then grab the pump and

00:42:34.960 put it in and expect anything to happen. You got to do your credit card. You got to hit all the

00:42:38.340 buttons and all that. And then when you do pump the gas, you actually have to, you need to hold the

00:42:41.300 lever down in order to pump the gas. Otherwise, there's no gas that can come out and it's not going to

00:42:45.740 work. So here's what I'm trying to figure out. This is, again, a little pedantic, but you decide you want

00:42:54.320 to get a video. You're in the Pence campaign. You want to get a video of Pence doing something normal

00:42:59.780 so that voters will resonate with it. Hey, he pumps gas like I do. He's at a gas pump. I've been to a

00:43:05.220 gas pump. He puts gas in his car. I put gas in my car. He should be president. And I don't really

00:43:12.400 get it. I don't think this is the kind of thing that works. I don't think voters think this way.

00:43:17.660 Donald Trump has probably never pumped gas in his entire, can you imagine Donald Trump at a gas pump?

00:43:21.720 He's probably never pumped gas in his entire life. And his supporters don't care about that.

00:43:27.500 I think people don't care that much about that in the end.

00:43:30.780 Anyway, I think the relatability is maybe one of the biggest fallacies in politics. I actually don't

00:43:36.560 think that, especially when it comes to presidents, that people care about relatability. They don't need

00:43:40.740 to feel like they relate to the person. They got to feel like this person is a leader. This person

00:43:44.380 could take care of these problems. And that doesn't mean being able to relate to them.

00:43:49.420 So, but still, I mean, campaigns have often think that they need to do this. And so Pence is doing

00:43:56.760 that thing. But then the Pence campaign makes the same mistake that many campaigns make when they

00:44:01.960 have the candidate do the normal thing, but then they don't bother making sure that he's doing the

00:44:06.760 normal thing correctly. So it's like the thing where the candidate's at a grill. Hey, you caught me

00:44:13.420 here just barbecuing for the family and having a little barbecue. And then you look at the spatula and

00:44:17.780 the price tag is still hanging off of it. And there's still crease marks in the apron because

00:44:22.080 you could tell they just bought it from, from, you know, from Lowe's three hours ago. And the

00:44:29.260 meat's not even sizzling on the grill because they didn't heat it up before they put the meat on

00:44:33.280 and all that. So it's like, you're going to do this at least just a little bit of effort to make

00:44:37.840 it look believable. Otherwise, what's the point? It's just the same thing here. How is there nobody in

00:44:42.560 the Pence campaign? There's at least a few people involved in this ad, I would think.

00:44:47.040 And nobody said to him, hey, well, let's just, you know, like, let's go through the whole process.

00:44:50.660 You put the credit card in, pull the gas out. We're not going to have that beeping sound in

00:44:54.340 the background in that case. Actually pump the gas. I just, I don't get it. These basic mistakes

00:45:01.640 that campaigns make. And I am no, I'm not suggesting anyone should hire me to be on their campaigns.

00:45:09.420 Not that I'd ever want to be on anyone's campaign. I'm not going to pretend that I'm some sort of like

00:45:14.360 political whiz kid, but these basic things I understand at least. So if you're going to do

00:45:21.640 the relatability thing, just make sure you're doing it correctly. That's all I'm asking. Okay. That's

00:45:28.220 it. Let's get to the comment section.

00:45:39.420 Okay. So yesterday, one of the things we talked about is there's a video of a woman who's still

00:45:45.480 very terrified of COVID, but she wants, she's in a little bit of a quandary. She's in a,

00:45:49.620 she's in a pickle because she wants to see the new Barbie film because she's a great feminist, 1.00

00:45:54.280 she says. But at the same time, we're still in a pandemic after all. And so she decided that she's

00:46:01.120 going to rent out an entire theater and invite only a certain number of people so they can socially

00:46:04.760 distance and everybody's going to wear N95s and you can't scratch your nose and you have to leave

00:46:08.940 the theater to scratch your nose during the movie and all the rest of it. So we played that video

00:46:12.320 and some comments are related to that. Sir Greedy says, strongly disagree, Matt. This isn't fear of

00:46:19.240 death. These people are control freaks. I think it's an interesting comment because you say that as if

00:46:25.480 these two things are mutually exclusive, which of course they aren't. Being a control freak,

00:46:31.940 I think, not to get too psychological here, but I think being a control freak is very often rooted

00:46:37.900 in a fear of death, especially when it comes to things like COVID. The kind of control freak thing

00:46:42.560 that we've seen with COVID and for these people who are still clinging onto it, yeah, they're control

00:46:48.740 freaks and they're also power hungry, but why are they that? Like, what do they get out of that? And I

00:46:56.200 think ultimately, so maybe not entirely this, but ultimately it's a fear of death.

00:47:01.940 People like this, that's why all the stuff like the putting up the plastic dividers, I mean,

00:47:11.520 all these things during COVID that looking back on it now look insane. And in fact, looking at it at

00:47:16.400 the time also looked insane. It was insane the entire time. So all these sort of things, it was all

00:47:22.060 about feeling like you had control over the situation, feeling like you could control things you really

00:47:29.460 couldn't. And so when they require that you put on a mask, even if they put on a cloth mask and

00:47:36.920 everyone knew that this is not really doing anything, but you feel like you're taking control

00:47:41.780 of the situation. Another comment says, it's really concerning that we still live in a society where

00:47:46.960 there are people that still insist on wearing masks. I'm just utterly speechless when it comes to

00:47:50.980 the U.S. anymore and how far we've come and where we are now. Just astonishing, really.

00:47:56.320 Yeah, I kind of go back and forth on this because I don't know, is it more concerning

00:48:01.720 that some people wear masks or that so few people do? And let me explain what I mean by that. I'm not

00:48:12.240 saying that people need to start wearing masks. What I mean is, I assumed, I think like a lot of people,

00:48:17.480 I thought that all the, with all the masks mandates going on, you know, and during that

00:48:22.840 whole time, and I often said how it's broken people's brains and you see people walking around

00:48:27.300 outside with masks on and driving in the cars with masks and all the rest of it. And I thought that

00:48:31.740 when the mask mandates went away, that many more people, which I thought that like half the country

00:48:38.100 would keep wearing masks because their brains have been broken by this. And they would, the hypochondria

00:48:43.120 and everything, it's not just going to go away because the mask mandates went away. And so that's what I

00:48:47.040 thought was going to happen. And that hasn't happened. I mean, certainly half the country

00:48:50.240 is not wearing masks. And at one level, that's good because I don't want to walk around and see

00:48:54.080 a bunch of idiots wearing masks. But at another level, to look at it like from the pessimistic 1.00

00:48:59.600 angle, you know, to see the black cloud within the silver lining, which is my specialty, what that

00:49:05.780 means is that all these people were wearing masks, not because they'd been convinced that they

00:49:12.160 really needed to in order to save their lives. I mean, that would make them gullible,

00:49:17.360 but they were wearing it out of pure obedience. And so the moment they were told you take it off,

00:49:24.560 everyone just took it off. Pure obedience. It was like, no one was even convinced by this.

00:49:29.020 It was just obedience. And they needed the, you know, it's like at airports, you know, airports and

00:49:34.740 airplanes were the, one of the last holdouts when it came to the masks. And I'd walk around here,

00:49:41.880 you know, it's true on an airplane. Like you had to just wait, they would kick you off the plane.

00:49:45.180 If you wanted to be on an airplane, you had to wear the mask. Otherwise they would just kick you

00:49:47.440 off and you wouldn't be able to fly. But in airports, I did a lot of traveling all throughout COVID.

00:49:52.620 And, um, and in airports, you had to, technically they had a policy saying you had to wear masks.

00:49:58.880 I never did wear it in an airport. And I was only, only, I only got yelled at once. And I just

00:50:04.780 ignored that person and kept walking because they were working at like a, someone working at a

00:50:08.240 Cinnabon or something and yelled at me. You have no control. You have no power here. Cinnabon guy.

00:50:13.220 Um, so you didn't even like in these contexts where you could have, yeah, technically there was a

00:50:17.640 policy saying you had to wear it, but you could have just not worn it. And I didn't, a lot of people

00:50:23.060 didn't, but all these people did, they, they needed, they needed someone in a position of authority

00:50:28.640 to say, okay, it's okay for you to not wear it now. And then they just stopped. So again,

00:50:35.500 it's good. People are wearing it, but the fact that people were able to switch that flip so quickly

00:50:42.660 just shows that rather than have they having been officially brainwashed, it's in fact that people

00:50:49.180 were simply being unthinkingly obedient. And I'm not even sure if that's more encouraging. I think,

00:50:57.800 uh, I'm not sure how to make sense of it all. All right. Uh, and finally, of course,

00:51:04.540 we have to throw this comment in it as well. Ghastly Cretan says, how can you be so concerned

00:51:10.080 about getting a flu, but at the same time, eat yourself into morbid obesity? Um, and that was

00:51:14.480 the point about that video that I don't even think I said out loud because it felt, yeah, it's just like,

00:51:18.760 we're, we're so used to that by now, is it the, the, all throughout COVID and even now people that

00:51:24.100 are, the people that are still, the people that are still hanging onto the masks. And then you look

00:51:28.580 at them and you say, well, there are so many other, if you're concerned about your health, good, good to

00:51:32.520 be concerned about your health. There's so many other things that are threatening you right now

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00:52:46.460 There are many ways to spread a lie. You can simply tell people things that aren't true. You

00:52:51.340 can deny things that are true. Lies come in many forms, but if you want your lie to be accepted

00:52:55.420 as gospel and reported by every mainstream media outlet, then the best way to tell it

00:52:59.400 is through a study. And if you listen to the show, you know that I've spent a lot of time trying

00:53:04.240 to explain why you can't blindly trust the results of a study just because it calls itself a study.

00:53:09.940 But this is what many people do. As long as they, as long as the study confirms what they already

00:53:13.500 believed ahead of time, then they will just accept the study uncritically. And this uncritical

00:53:18.120 willingness to believe and cite studies almost always without reading them, which means without

00:53:22.660 knowing its methodology and limitations, means that any alleged researcher with an agenda can rig his

00:53:28.160 research to say whatever he wants it to say, assured that nobody will notice or call him on it.

00:53:32.000 If he wants it to say exactly what the media and other powerful institutions want it to say,

00:53:37.200 then he can be even more assured that his results will be accepted without skepticism by a bunch of

00:53:41.480 credulous partisan hacks who see science not as a method for understanding the physical world,

00:53:45.960 but as a shiny gloss to cover their preconceived ideological beliefs.

00:53:49.900 In other words, I am not always impressed with studies. And today, my skepticism has been vindicated

00:53:55.540 yet again. CNN reports excitedly about a new study which finds that, quote,

00:54:00.940 transgender and non-binary patients have no regrets about top surgery. No regrets at all. None. 1.00

00:54:09.300 Which would mean that top surgery, a cosmetic double mastectomy to remove healthy breasts, 1.00

00:54:14.660 stands alone as the one single human decision that nobody ever regrets, ever at all.

00:54:20.640 Already, this is starting to feel just a tad bit dubious, but let's continue. CNN reports, quote,

00:54:28.900 some arguments in favor of laws that restrict gender-affirming care claim that patients may

00:54:32.940 someday regret any irreversible or semi-irreversible part of their transition. But a small new study found

00:54:38.860 that satisfaction with one such surgery is significant, even over the long term. The study

00:54:43.220 published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery shows that people who had a gender-affirming

00:54:47.360 mastectomy, sometimes called top surgery, had extremely low rates of decisional regret and

00:54:52.880 extremely high levels of satisfaction with their decision to have the procedure. The results are,

00:54:57.780 quote, overwhelmingly positive compared to other medical and non-medical decisions, the study said.

00:55:02.320 Now, we're then told that the, quote, median satisfaction with decision scale score was five

00:55:08.160 on a five-point scale, indicating the highest possible level of satisfaction. The median decision regret

00:55:13.700 scale score was zero on a 100-point scale, meaning not a single patient regretted their choice to have

00:55:20.220 the surgery. Later, CNN notes that some studies differ slightly from these results. They admit that.

00:55:26.980 One review of multiple studies they tell us finds that the rate of regret is one percent. So it's either

00:55:33.100 zero percent or one percent. Imagine that. To put this into perspective, you will find higher rates of

00:55:41.800 regret among women who get double mastectomies for breast cancer, like actual life-saving procedures.

00:55:49.220 The number of people who regret getting tattoos is more than 10 times the number who supposedly regret

00:55:54.100 having their healthy breasts removed. You would be extremely hard-pressed to find any medical procedure, 0.99

00:55:59.940 even ones that are actually life-saving, where only zero or one percent of patients regret it.

00:56:05.420 You'll be hard-pressed to find any decision of any kind in any context of life

00:56:09.780 that just zero or one percent of people regret. Even if a decision is healthy and reasonable and good,

00:56:17.300 you'll still have a certain number of people who regret it, because that's human nature.

00:56:22.260 We're expected to believe that top surgery, quote-unquote,

00:56:25.720 somehow transcends human nature itself, that it's a true magic bullet.

00:56:29.840 Everyone who does it is happy. Not just happy, but perfectly happy. A five out of five on the

00:56:37.860 happiness scale. Now, you might be asking, how could they have possibly arrived at this conclusion?

00:56:44.360 Well, let's find out. For that, we must do the thing that I often do on this show, but that no media

00:56:50.020 outlet ever does. We have to read the study. And I read the entire study, and I took notes, and here's

00:56:55.300 what I found. First of all, this is a survey of 139 mastectomy patients from one hospital who had

00:57:02.460 their procedures between two and 20 years ago. This is not, in other words, a representative

00:57:07.620 cross-section of the country. It's not that. And it relies entirely on self-reported data, which

00:57:13.200 already means that the whole thing is tainted and basically useless. In order for a respondent to report

00:57:18.460 regret, she would need to first feel regret, obviously. Second, be willing to admit to herself

00:57:25.860 that she has regret. Third, be willing to admit to a third party that she has regret. And fourth,

00:57:31.700 be willing to accept the political and social implications of admitting to regret in a study

00:57:36.440 like this. What this means is that a study finding no self-reported regret doesn't mean that nobody

00:57:43.720 experienced regret. It could mean that, technically. Or it could mean that nobody was willing to report

00:57:50.460 their regret in the context of this study. And what that means is that the study is, again, useless.

00:57:58.260 There are simply way too many factors, psychological, social, cultural, political, standing in the way.

00:58:04.320 And even without those factors, still the study would be flimsy at best because self-reported data

00:58:08.640 in general in any study is infamously unreliable. This is well known in science. It's called the

00:58:15.220 Hawthorne effect. When your subjects know that they're being observed, and especially know why

00:58:20.500 they're being observed, they will inevitably modify their responses and behavior. This is the reason why

00:58:26.940 there's no such thing as true reality TV, because nobody acts real when they know the camera's on.

00:58:33.540 And it's also why you can't ascertain true levels of regret simply by going up to somebody and saying,

00:58:39.320 hi, I'm doing a study to find out if people regret making the kind of life-altering decision that you

00:58:43.540 made. What say you? Don't worry, we'll record whatever answer you provide, and we'll just assume

00:58:47.640 that you're being honest with yourself and us. Second, 139 people in one region of the country from

00:58:53.900 one hospital is an absurdly small sample size already, but it's even worse when you consider that

00:58:57.960 the survey was actually sent out to 235 patients. Only a little more than half actually responded.

00:59:05.780 So to conclude that nobody regretted the surgery, you must assume that the 40-plus percent who didn't

00:59:11.080 respond also feel no regret. But is that assumption warranted? Well, obviously not. I mean, common sense

00:59:18.680 would tell us that patients who do regret the procedure are far less likely to participate in a

00:59:23.840 study that forces them to relive that experience. In fact, the whole narrative about extremely low

00:59:29.860 levels of regret and detransition, it's entirely based on the fact that very few patients who

00:59:35.440 detransition actually announced their detransition officially in a context that would result in it

00:59:42.120 being recorded statistically. And you don't have to take my word for it. Here's an actual detransitioner 1.00

00:59:47.960 explaining this point. Listen. Hey, I'm about to testify this morning, so I don't have a lot of

00:59:53.900 time. But I just wanted to let you guys know that detransitioners do not go back to the gender

00:59:59.080 clinics which harmed them and report that they're detransitioning. My paperwork, as far as the numbers

01:00:04.520 go, still says that I'm happy and trans. So when you guys are like, only 1% of people detransition or

01:00:10.900 2%, you don't know that. You're making that up. And the numbers you have about how many happy trans

01:00:16.080 people there are, that's wrong too. Because again, my paperwork says I'm happy and trans.

01:00:21.000 I did not go back to the gender clinic, which harmed me. And when I tried to ask for my records,

01:00:25.700 they ghosted me. So. I'd say it's pretty mind-blowing to watch a video featuring a woman 0.99

01:00:30.160 who, according to this recent study, doesn't exist. But assuming she does exist, her point is pretty

01:00:35.800 obvious. Most of these detransitioners do not go back to these clinics or consult with researchers 1.00

01:00:40.380 and announce and say, hello, I'm detransitioning. Please change your records accordingly.

01:00:44.220 Of course, even if they do announce it this way, we have to trust that the clinics and the

01:00:48.420 researchers will go against their own ideological, political, and financial interests by honestly

01:00:52.840 recording that information. And we can't trust that, obviously. But it's a moot point because

01:00:57.540 most detransitioners don't go through that process. And if two could play at the study game, 0.90

01:01:02.380 then I can tell you that a 2021 study by the Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research

01:01:06.200 found that as many as 75% of detransitioners do not report their detransitions.

01:01:10.340 So you have your self-reported data. I have mine. If you like, we can just throw out both

01:01:15.500 and fall back on common sense. And that's perfectly fine with me.

01:01:19.640 But we're just getting started. Third, if you read a little further into the study,

01:01:23.020 you'll find this very interesting tidbit. Quote,

01:01:26.720 13 individuals had strong discordance among their satisfaction with decision and decisional

01:01:31.540 regret scores. The satisfaction with decision scale was ordered first, and these 13 participants

01:01:36.340 were noted to have high satisfaction and high regret, suggesting a possible error due to item

01:01:42.820 order. What does that mean? It means that 13 of the participants actually did report high levels

01:01:49.560 of regret, but their responses were thrown out. The researchers decided that the self-reported regret

01:01:55.420 contradicted other answers on the survey, which meant that they had the right to ignore

01:01:59.000 those answers completely. Now, it's possible, as they know, that these respondents didn't read the

01:02:04.160 survey correctly or made a mistake in filling it out. That's what they just assumed. Well,

01:02:08.680 these ones said they had regret, and so they must have made a mistake. This is a paperwork error.

01:02:12.960 They obviously didn't know what they were doing. Okay, yeah, that's possible. It's also possible that

01:02:19.380 they feel deeply confused and conflicted about the procedure, which is why they at once claimed to be

01:02:23.920 satisfied with it and also regretful of it. This kind of inner turmoil is to be expected. It makes

01:02:30.260 sense, and in fact, it makes a lot more sense than all the respondents who rated their satisfaction

01:02:34.600 as a neat and clean 5 out of 5 and their regret at a 0 out of 100. As I've already explained, life doesn't

01:02:42.360 work that way. There's almost nothing in your life that you truly have 100% satisfaction with and 0%

01:02:49.660 dissatisfaction with. That doesn't exist on this side of heaven. Yet those are the answers that the researchers

01:02:56.940 found most credible, while the answers reporting high levels of dissatisfaction along with high

01:03:02.160 levels of satisfaction were deemed somehow illegitimate when those actually reflect human

01:03:07.440 nature, and that speaks to something that might actually be going on honestly in a person's mind.

01:03:13.980 Fourth, if you go all the way to the end of the study, you finally get to the section that

01:03:17.040 acknowledges its limitations, and it's a rather long section. That's where you're going to read this

01:03:22.140 fascinating passage. Quote, this study had several limitations. Although this study includes robust

01:03:28.420 long-term data surrounding regret and satisfaction with decision following gender-affirming mastectomy,

01:03:33.180 the cross-sectional nature of this study and variation in follow-up time among participants

01:03:36.800 pose the possibility of recall bias. The association of time elapsed with regret specifically is unclear,

01:03:42.220 with systematic review suggesting that regret may increase over time. Ah, well, okay then.

01:03:48.860 Zero patients regret top surgery, quote-unquote, but also, the authors note, regret actually might

01:03:55.560 increase over time. So the real number, we're being told, is either zero or something higher than zero.

01:04:04.940 That's what the study ultimately determines. Either nobody regrets their cosmetic double mastectomies,

01:04:09.940 or a certain number of people do regret them, and that number might be high or low. This is what

01:04:14.840 they've determined. This is what the study actually says. So, to review, zero people regret top surgery

01:04:22.020 so long as you assume that a survey of several dozen people from one hospital represents the entire

01:04:27.480 country, and so long as you assume that the respondents who actually did report high levels

01:04:31.820 of regret accidentally filled in the survey wrong and didn't mean to say that, and so long as you assume

01:04:37.200 that the 40% who didn't respond at all would have said that they had no regret if they did respond,

01:04:42.000 and so long as you ignore the many problems with self-reported data and the personal and political

01:04:46.400 biases that would skew the results, and so long as you pretend that the women who have publicly

01:04:50.940 testified to the regret actually don't exist or are lying. So, if you assume all of that,

01:04:56.580 then the answer is clear. Chopping your breasts off is the key to happiness, and everyone who has ever 0.96

01:05:00.840 done it is now living in a state of unending bliss. And if you believe that, then I've got an invisible 0.73

01:05:06.820 unicorn in my backyard I'd like to sell you. And if you believe that, you probably work for CNN.

01:05:13.040 And you are today, for all those reasons. Canceled. That'll do it for this portion of shows. Move

01:05:18.020 over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 10, 2023

Ep. 1202 - The Media Is Still Lying About Michael Brown 9 Years Later. Here's Why.

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