The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1257 - The Media Attacks Republican For Protecting His Kids From Porn

00:00:00.060 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has found a new line of attack against the new Republican Speaker of the House. 0.74

00:00:04.880 They're upset that he doesn't let his kids watch porn.

00:00:07.260 This is what passes for a scandal these days.

00:00:09.100 Also, new polls show Biden losing in several key states, but Democrats know who's to blame for that, the voters.

00:00:14.960 Plus, Obama offers his insight into the war in the Middle East. 0.81

00:00:17.460 It's even more inane and pointless than you expect.

00:00:19.680 Finally, a public official's suicide is being falsely blamed on conservatives. 0.91

00:00:23.860 The full story is pretty disturbing, but it's worth talking about.

00:00:26.160 All that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:53.260 When Republicans selected their new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, I was, at the time, critical of the pick because of some of the stances that Johnson has taken in the past.

00:02:02.320 Primarily, I was concerned with his past support of the BLM narrative and his expressions of outrage over the, to use his word, murder of George Floyd.

00:02:10.660 But since then, despite these potentially serious qualms, the media have been doing everything in their power to make me like Speaker Johnson.

00:02:19.460 They're not doing this on purpose, of course.

00:02:21.320 They're trying to make him look bad.

00:02:23.620 But as we know, nothing makes a person look better than when the media tries to make them look bad.

00:02:28.680 And to that end, they have attacked Johnson repeatedly over the last few weeks for several reasons, mainly for being a Christian, for being socially conservative, and for being a theocratic fascist.

00:02:41.300 Now, that last description is not remotely accurate, sadly.

00:02:44.560 But when a person is attacked along these lines, it only gives them more credibility.

00:02:49.440 And Johnson is, in this way, racking up lots of credibility.

00:02:54.420 And now we have the most desperate line of attack of all. 0.83

00:02:59.120 So the latest crime committed by the new Speaker of the House, according to the media and the gaggle of brain-dead leftist zombies on Twitter, is that, get this, he tried to prevent his children from looking at pornography. 0.97

00:03:15.120 And in the minds of these porn-crazed hyenas, this is a big problem. 0.98

00:03:20.420 This is an outrage. 0.69

00:03:21.520 Mike Johnson's attempts to protect his children from graphic sexual content is one of the great political scandals of our time. 0.91

00:03:29.840 What kind of freak doesn't want his kids to watch porn, they ask incredulously.

00:03:34.300 Now, they're pretending that they don't understand it. 0.98

00:03:36.420 They can't possibly understand.

00:03:37.320 Or maybe they're not pretending.

00:03:38.320 Maybe they really don't understand why a parent wouldn't want his kid to look at porn.

00:03:41.860 Either way, this latest faux controversy, like so many faux controversies before it, starts with a Rolling Stone article.

00:03:49.520 Rolling Stone, of course, is an amazing publication in a certain way. 0.71

00:03:53.760 Even amid a media landscape populated almost entirely by lying, scheming, soulless parasites, Rolling Stone still manages to stand out. 0.97

00:04:03.820 They, you know, they are the gutter journalists that make other gutter journalists cringe. 0.98

00:04:09.580 And this article is no exception.

00:04:10.960 And just to give you an idea of how weak this hit piece is, you should know that the entire article is, from the Rolling Stone, is just 373 words long.

00:04:22.440 That's because the article is irrelevant.

00:04:24.360 They don't spend much time on the story because there is no story.

00:04:27.780 They just want to publish the headline.

00:04:30.740 And the headline says this.

00:04:33.060 Mike Johnson admits he and his son monitor each other's porn intake in resurfaced video.

00:04:39.720 Now, this framing has, of course, been immediately adopted by other media outlets and hundreds of leftists on social media.

00:04:47.000 Many articles and posts have repeated it or a version of it.

00:04:50.060 The left insists that this supposedly, this supposed revelation is creepy and weird and gross.

00:04:57.780 They've called Johnson a predator and so on.

00:05:00.880 And, of course, if this headline was literally true, if Rolling Stone was not a worthless propaganda rag, then we'd have to agree.

00:05:10.000 You know, you note the carefully selected phrase, porn intake, which suggests that Mike Johnson is actively consuming porn and sharing the material with his son.

00:05:20.760 Porn intake means that Johnson is a porn viewer and his porn viewing is being monitored by one of his kids.

00:05:27.500 In fact, the website Political Wire makes this claim explicitly.

00:05:30.960 Here's the headline.

00:05:32.160 Mike Johnson admits his son monitors his porn viewing.

00:05:36.500 Now, this implies, doesn't really imply, but outright claims that Mike Johnson is actively watching porn and the porn is being shared with his son. 0.57

00:05:45.600 If that was really the case, then, yes, it would be extremely disgusting.

00:05:49.900 But it is not the case at all.

00:05:52.820 It is a slanderous lie by people who are determined to make normal, responsible parenting into something bizarre and even abusive.

00:06:01.260 This all becomes obvious if you read the article to the extent that there even is an article to read.

00:06:07.140 But better yet, you could just watch the resurface clip for yourself to see what he really said.

00:06:13.360 Here it is.

00:06:13.900 Covenant Eyes is the software that we've been using a long time in our household.

00:06:19.980 I first learned about it at, I think, a Promise Keepers event in the early 2000s.

00:06:23.960 I think it was developed in about the year 2000.

00:06:26.800 But it's the largest accountability software that there is.

00:06:30.520 And there's some paperwork out there on the table that I think everybody may have picked up on the way in.

00:06:34.440 If not, go get it.

00:06:35.800 It's a subscription-based, we don't make any money on this.

00:06:38.620 I'm telling you, we use it, okay?

00:06:40.880 I'm endorsing it because I'm a user.

00:06:43.040 It's about $15 a month, $16 a month, something like that.

00:06:45.820 And you get up to 10 devices.

00:06:47.060 And what it is, it's accountability software.

00:06:48.980 So men in a church, you know, men's Bible study groups will do it.

00:06:52.240 That's how it was presented at Promise Keepers.

00:06:53.820 But they also mentioned, hey, when your kids become teenagers, especially if you have boys, dads, they're talking to the guys at this event, you might want to think about doing this with your sons.

00:07:02.480 And so we've been doing that.

00:07:03.480 And so what it does, real simply, is it has an algorithm and software.

00:07:06.700 It's way above my head how it works.

00:07:08.380 But it scans.

00:07:10.180 You obviously opt into it.

00:07:11.720 But it scans all the activity on your phone or your devices, your laptop, tablet, what have you.

00:07:16.740 We do all of it.

00:07:17.800 And then it sends a report to your accountability partner.

00:07:21.160 So my accountability partner right now is Jack, my son, right?

00:07:25.140 And so he's 17.

00:07:26.400 So he and I get a report of all the things that are on our phones or all of our devices once a week.

00:07:31.880 If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice.

00:07:36.940 I'm proud to tell you my son has got a clean slate.

00:07:39.300 All right.

00:07:40.460 Okay.

00:07:41.060 So what's the actual story here?

00:07:42.700 The story is that Mike Johnson monitors his child's Internet usage to make sure that his child is not accessing harmful and objectionable material.

00:07:51.200 And the app he's using, Covenant Eyes, also gives his son access to the content Johnson is viewing on his own phone. 0.93

00:07:57.900 Now, anyone who is not an insane idiot immediately understands the point of this latter step. 0.98

00:08:03.620 You have to be a perverted freak yourself to see it as something perverse. 0.99

00:08:07.840 Johnson is obviously trying to model good behavior for his son. 0.97

00:08:12.180 He's not having his son monitor his porn intake because there is no porn intake.

00:08:17.660 The whole point is that Johnson doesn't look at porn, and he wants his teenage son to know that he doesn't look at it because he's trying to be a good role model.

00:08:25.360 This is called responsible parenting.

00:08:28.500 And it may be necessary because Johnson's teenage son is living in a culture, same as the rest of us,

00:08:35.100 where people often claim that everyone, especially every man, looks at porn.

00:08:41.280 Porn consumption is treated as some sort of inevitability, as if it's literally physically impossible to refrain.

00:08:49.820 It's important for a teenage boy to know that that isn't true.

00:08:54.600 Okay.

00:08:54.740 It's a lie.

00:08:55.960 It is possible to live free from the clutches of porn.

00:08:59.960 It's more than possible.

00:09:01.680 And there are plenty of men who are, in fact, living that way.

00:09:05.320 This would seem to be the point that Johnson is trying to make to his son, and it's an important point.

00:09:09.940 Now, I grew up in a time before smartphones, but we had a, I guess you might say, a version of this kind of system in my house as a kid.

00:09:16.280 The system was simple.

00:09:17.320 We had one computer.

00:09:18.740 It was in the most public and visible area in the house, and anyone could see what anyone else was doing if they happened to walk by.

00:09:24.960 My parents didn't have their own computer in their room or whatever.

00:09:28.040 They used that one computer because they had nothing to hide, and they wanted us to know that they had nothing to hide,

00:09:32.480 and everyone just used the computers and just, that's it.

00:09:36.480 This is called setting a good example, which is a concept utterly foreign to the leftist social media mob.

00:09:42.680 Now, of course, these days it's not necessarily practical to have only one stationary device with internet access to be shared by everyone in the home.

00:09:49.500 So smart parents, in that case, look for other ways to practice openness and accountability in cyberspace.

00:09:57.760 Smart parents, or just smart people in general, parents or not, understand that a desire for secrecy on the internet,

00:10:04.860 wanting to keep your internet activity hidden from your loved ones,

00:10:08.700 is almost always a sign that you're doing things you should not be doing,

00:10:13.080 things that are harmful to you and to your family.

00:10:15.380 Now, of course, the left has looked for other reasons to object to Johnson's responsible parenting as well.

00:10:22.920 The Rolling Stone throws another line of attack against the wall.

00:10:25.380 Quote,

00:10:26.060 Outside of the creepy big brotherness of it all,

00:10:29.400 Receipt Maven also aired concerns about whether Covenant Eyes,

00:10:32.300 which is still a working subscription-based service,

00:10:34.460 might compromise Johnson's devices if he's still actively seeking accountability.

00:10:38.840 Quote,

00:10:39.120 A U.S. congressman is allowing a third-party tech company to scan all of his electronic devices daily

00:10:43.740 and then uploading reports to his son about what he's watching or not watching,

00:10:46.980 Receipt Maven wrote.

00:10:48.220 I mean, who else is accessing that data?

00:10:51.300 Now, again, if you think it's creepy or big brother for a father to monitor his child's internet usage, 1.00

00:10:59.320 you are simply too stupid to be participating in this discussion or any discussion. 1.00

00:11:04.000 The best thing you can do is shut up, you stupid child, and let the adults have this conversation. 1.00

00:11:10.300 Now, I assume you're also the kind of person who would say that telling a child to do chores is forced labor. 1.00

00:11:16.440 Sending him to his room is false imprisonment. 0.99

00:11:19.960 I can only take solace in the fact that most of these people are childless losers 0.99

00:11:22.820 and will remain so for the rest of their miserable lives, 0.99

00:11:25.800 which is a good thing because they'd be horrible parents. 0.99

00:11:27.700 But as for the other concern, I think we can use our brains

00:11:31.800 and assume that Johnson does not have Covenant Eyes installed on his work devices.

00:11:36.120 It's pretty clear that he's referring to his personal devices and the ones in his home.

00:11:39.800 So, in the end, there are two ways of interpreting this story.

00:11:44.700 One interpretation is that Mike Johnson has installed surveillance software

00:11:48.940 on all of his phones and computers, including his work phone

00:11:52.060 and the computer in his office on Capitol Hill,

00:11:54.580 where he then proceeds to download an unlimited supply of pornography,

00:11:58.600 which he shared with his son.

00:12:00.900 The other interpretation is that Johnson has this accountability program

00:12:04.460 on his family's personal devices

00:12:06.560 so that he can protect his kids from pornographic content

00:12:09.860 while also modeling good behavior for them. 0.98

00:12:13.560 In other words, you can interpret this like a deranged lunatic 0.97

00:12:17.060 who can't comprehend the English language 0.97

00:12:18.820 or like a normal, sane person.

00:12:22.040 And that choice is really up to you.

00:12:25.300 But obviously, this is not really a matter of misinterpretation.

00:12:31.680 We know the real reason why the left is going after Johnson for this.

00:12:36.400 And this is the real point.

00:12:37.340 This is the most important point. 1.00

00:12:39.400 That these are weak, frail, porn-obsessed automatons 1.00

00:12:45.260 who lack willpower and self-control. 1.00

00:12:48.200 And they feel shamed.

00:12:49.560 They feel rebuked whenever they encounter someone who doesn't look at porn.

00:12:54.840 Someone whose life isn't dominated by it like theirs is.

00:12:59.520 They view these people, people who try to live,

00:13:04.160 who make any attempt at all, really, to live a virtuous life.

00:13:07.220 They view them with a mixture of astonishment and hatred

00:13:12.200 and, of course, resentment and envy. 0.99

00:13:15.320 They themselves, being so emasculated and feeble and weak and pathetic, 1.00

00:13:20.940 can barely even conceive of the possibility of not watching porn. 1.00

00:13:26.220 They can't even wrap their heads around the potential of not being a slave to your vices.

00:13:32.180 They are themselves such slaves to their own impulses

00:13:36.360 that they think anyone who exercises self-control is some kind of mutant.

00:13:41.500 And this is not just about pornography, by the way.

00:13:44.320 Anyone who engages in healthy practices in basically any aspect of life

00:13:49.300 is a freak of nature in their eyes.

00:13:52.560 They instinctively lash out against the person

00:13:55.340 because if they don't lash out against that person

00:13:58.360 who's trying to live a healthy life and live a virtuous life,

00:14:00.820 if they don't lash out, if they don't attack,

00:14:04.360 then the other option is introspection.

00:14:07.880 The other option is that they see this person,

00:14:11.100 maybe they see a family,

00:14:13.040 they see parents that are attentive and care about their kids

00:14:17.100 and are making a real effort to protect their kids

00:14:21.400 and protect their souls.

00:14:25.140 And they see that and they know that they don't do any of this.

00:14:27.500 And, you know, they can, again, lash out at that person and try to destroy them.

00:14:33.940 Or they can look at themselves and think,

00:14:36.360 well, man, if this person can make healthy choices

00:14:40.980 and live a good moral life or at least try to,

00:14:43.720 you know, not perfect, but they're trying,

00:14:46.140 then maybe it's not as impossible as I've convinced myself.

00:14:50.340 You know, maybe I'm living this way,

00:14:53.840 not because it's impossible to live any other way, 0.95

00:14:56.320 but just because I'm a coward making excuses for myself.

00:15:01.940 This is the rabbit hole that you threaten to send these people tumbling down

00:15:06.860 if you attempt to live a virtuous life in their presence.

00:15:11.280 But they're too scared to take the ride.

00:15:13.900 They're too timid and craven to actually look honestly at themselves.

00:15:17.480 So instead, they descend on you and try to rip you to shreds

00:15:23.320 for committing the crime of being a better person than them.

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00:16:53.920 Tragic news for the Democrats to start off.

00:16:57.340 CNN has a report.

00:16:59.780 Former President Donald Trump holds an edge over President Joe Biden

00:17:02.580 in a series of hypothetical matchups among registered voters in four key swing states.

00:17:07.320 New polling from the New York Times and Siena College shows.

00:17:11.520 In Nevada, a state Biden narrowly carried in the 2020 presidential election.

00:17:15.100 Trump boasts 52% support to Biden's 41%, which is a wide margin.

00:17:21.380 Trump also tops Biden in Georgia,

00:17:23.200 a state that was central to his ploy to overturn the last presidential election.

00:17:27.480 Just reading verbatim from CNN.

00:17:29.240 With 49% to Biden's 43%.

00:17:31.880 Trump leads Biden in Arizona, too, with 49% to the president's 44%.

00:17:36.280 In Michigan, Trump holds a five-point lead as well, 48% to Biden's 43%.

00:17:41.820 Each poll has a margin of sampling error between 4.4 and 4.8 points,

00:17:46.280 and the head-to-head matchup remains theoretical.

00:17:48.800 Primary voting does not begin until next year.

00:17:54.020 So that's the story, anyway.

00:17:55.520 That's the latest poll.

00:17:56.820 It is interesting.

00:17:58.640 I mean, the poll results are interesting.

00:17:59.980 The fact that the media is choosing to amplify these polling results is also interesting,

00:18:09.300 because, of course, we know that they are not exactly Trump fans.

00:18:16.380 And I think part of the reason for them is, of course, that they want Biden out.

00:18:21.640 I mean, I don't think this is no secret now.

00:18:23.880 It's no conspiracy theory either.

00:18:25.480 They want Biden out.

00:18:26.780 They don't want him as the nominee.

00:18:29.260 They realize that they need a different nominee, because Biden is already dead, basically.

00:18:35.780 And they need someone who is at least still breathing.

00:18:38.060 And so I think that's part of the strategy here, as the poll results, not just reporting on the poll results,

00:18:46.240 but making it like big headline news.

00:18:48.240 It's putting pressure on Biden, which is why you've got more and more people predicting that Biden will not be the nominee eventually.

00:18:56.100 Ultimately, it'll be Gavin Newsom or somebody like Gretchen Whitmer or something like that, Gretchen Whitmer.

00:19:02.720 But I think at this point, it's hard for me to see how it's not Biden at this point.

00:19:09.680 I mean, it's getting pretty late in the game to try to throw somebody else in there, and maybe that's part of the point.

00:19:17.520 But if I had to put money on it right now, and I would not have said this two months ago.

00:19:25.000 If I had to put money on it right now, I would say Biden is the Democrat nominee.

00:19:29.380 Because I think they are just putting all their eggs in the basket of Trump getting knocked out by the lawfare strategy that they've chosen against him.

00:19:44.060 That's what they're planning on.

00:19:47.240 And I could obviously be wrong.

00:19:48.460 This is why I usually don't make political predictions of this sort.

00:19:51.000 And the fact that I've just made this prediction probably means that the opposite will happen.

00:19:54.800 But still, that's what I would say.

00:19:55.800 Either way, it's bad news for Biden, and the news gets worse and worse, especially when you look at Biden's shrinking base of support in the black community and other demographics that have been the Democrats' most dependable voting blocs historically.

00:20:08.600 But like we talked about in the opening about introspection, looking at yourself, well, is all of this going to cause the Democrats to look at themselves and think about what they're doing wrong?

00:20:20.840 Of course not.

00:20:23.200 Instead, here's a Democrat representative on CNN explaining that it's all the fault of the voters, of course.

00:20:31.940 Here's the deal.

00:20:32.900 Perception is reality.

00:20:34.520 And so when you look at the data that was provided in this poll, it talks about how people feel.

00:20:39.500 And when people decide whether they're going to the poll or whether they're not going to the poll, it's all about how you feel in that moment.

00:20:46.340 And so while the facts may not align with their feelings, their feelings are dictating their reality.

00:20:53.300 Their reality is that they said that they feel better or they felt better when Trump was in office.

00:20:58.820 But we've been trying to push back.

00:21:00.800 We've got some very popular African-American artists that are out here saying things like, oh, I got checks when Trump was in office.

00:21:09.080 I want those checks again, not understanding that that really came from Congress.

00:21:12.780 So we've got a couple of things, the perception issue, and then we also have an issue as it relates to civics in this country and people not understanding exactly how any of this works.

00:21:24.640 I love that.

00:21:25.580 That's great.

00:21:26.220 That is amazing.

00:21:27.400 I do love it. 1.00

00:21:28.440 According to this Democrat representative on CNN, what she is saying is that black Americans are less enthusiastic about Biden this time around because they, the black Americans, are emotional, immature, and ignorant. 1.00

00:21:44.860 That's exactly what she just said. 1.00

00:21:47.280 They don't understand civics or how the government works.

00:21:50.880 That's what she's saying.

00:21:51.780 And, you know, in general, when it comes to voters, you know how I feel about this.

00:21:57.840 When it comes to voters in general, I agree that there is a lack of understanding of civics and how our government works.

00:22:06.000 In fact, if we can all agree that this is an issue, then we should start finally talking about how do we start weeding the people out who are going into the, you know, going to vote on election day or before election day.

00:22:16.940 Without even understanding anything about the system that they're participating in.

00:22:23.080 But, of course, nobody wants to have that conversation. 0.71

00:22:26.620 But in this case, she is referring specifically to black Americans.

00:22:29.980 And, you know, I know that the next part doesn't need to be said, but I'm going to say it anyway.

00:22:35.800 In fact, we can all join in because we know what it is.

00:22:39.100 Can you imagine if the situation was reversed?

00:22:42.220 And seriously, though, can you? 0.98

00:22:43.820 Can you imagine a white Republican blaming Trump's lack of black support on the emotional immaturity and ignorance of the black community as this woman just did? 0.98

00:22:55.620 I mean, there would be a nuclear explosion of outrage over that, obviously. 0.93

00:23:00.220 And, of course, in this case, the people, black or white, who are leaving Biden or at least aren't going to show up for him, looking to support somebody else.

00:23:12.340 For those people, it's not emotionalism or ignorance.

00:23:16.900 It's actually pretty simple.

00:23:18.580 They are asking themselves, has anything in the country improved since Biden was in office?

00:23:25.220 Like, what has this guy done to improve anything?

00:23:30.180 Now, it's not that the president is responsible for every personal problem you have.

00:23:35.340 That's not the point.

00:23:36.980 But on a national level or on a community level, especially when you look at the communities that most black voters live in,

00:23:45.160 you have to ask yourself if the people in charge of leading the nation or of your community are doing it well or not.

00:23:53.820 Is there any evidence that they're doing it well, that they are leading well?

00:23:59.220 And that's it for Biden.

00:24:00.460 It's as simple as that.

00:24:01.200 He's not leading well.

00:24:02.340 He's not leading at all because he's barely sentient.

00:24:06.640 The proof is in the pudding, and there's no need to speculate.

00:24:11.080 If anyone's life has improved over the past three years, and I'm sure for some people it has,

00:24:17.460 but if it has, it is in spite of the people running things, not because of them.

00:24:23.820 But this is always what the media does, of course.

00:24:25.940 They tell us to ignore the reality in front of our faces.

00:24:30.200 Don't pay any attention to that.

00:24:33.060 That's what the trust the experts is all about, and that's essentially what you just heard in that clip.

00:24:36.980 It's a version of trust the experts.

00:24:38.660 She's saying, yeah, these black Americans, you know, they're looking at the country. 1.00

00:24:45.200 They think that they can see that the country's not in good shape, that it's gotten worse over the last few years.

00:24:51.200 They think they see that.

00:24:55.420 But no, you can't trust your own eyes.

00:24:57.720 You have to let the experts.

00:24:59.160 The experts will tell you.

00:25:01.140 The experts will tell you whether the country's in good shape or not.

00:25:04.820 Who are the experts?

00:25:05.800 Well, it's just whoever happens to be speaking on CNN.

00:25:09.540 Well, they're all the experts because they're on TV.

00:25:11.080 They're in front of cameras.

00:25:11.740 So don't make common sense judgments.

00:25:15.480 Don't decide anything for yourself.

00:25:19.120 They'll decide.

00:25:20.780 That's basically the argument.

00:25:22.620 All right, Fox News has this report.

00:25:24.340 Police in Washington, D.C. arrested just one person as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated in the city on Saturday night.

00:25:32.620 Protesters could be seen vandalizing the White House fence and wrenching at the gate.

00:25:37.260 And anti-Semitic graffiti was left on several buildings along the protesters' path through the city.

00:25:43.100 The Metropolitan Police Department says it made one arrest of an adult male during the hours-long march.

00:25:50.040 And as far as the vandalism goes, the protesters could be seen defacing multiple statues in downtown Washington,

00:25:56.220 wrapping Palestinian flags around a statue of Benjamin Franklin, another of General Marquis de Lafayette near the White House.

00:26:02.760 There were other statues as well.

00:26:03.660 I think Andrew Jackson was another one that got that treatment.

00:26:07.260 And we have some video of that.

00:26:10.740 Let's watch that.

00:26:11.260 Let's watch that.

00:26:14.260 Okay, so a lot of that kind of thing.

00:26:26.480 And this is, first of all, why I've been saying all along that what we're seeing now with the quote-unquote free Palestine movement,

00:26:33.880 it really, it is just BLM repackaged.

00:26:37.320 It's the exact same thing.

00:26:39.820 That's why you see all the same sorts of signs.

00:26:41.840 It's all the same methods that are being employed.

00:26:46.300 I mean, they're defacing the same statues, just with different graffiti this time around.

00:26:51.000 The only thing we haven't seen yet, yet, is rioting on a large mass scale.

00:27:01.260 So we haven't seen that yet, and I'm emphasizing yet, because I think that's what's coming next.

00:27:06.120 But it is, it's to say, the same funding, the same people, the same activists, they're just waving a different flag.

00:27:15.980 A lot of the same flags, actually, but just adding in.

00:27:19.860 It's more, it's not even different slogans.

00:27:21.980 It's just adding in a few other slogans as well on top of it.

00:27:24.720 And when it comes to defacing statues like this, I mean, that Fox News article says that one person was arrested, which is no surprise.

00:27:34.580 This is what we have grown accustomed to.

00:27:37.680 But still, I think it needs to be said that if we were a serious country, and we were serious about our country and our history,

00:27:47.300 we would not tolerate people treating our statues and monuments this way.

00:27:52.340 It will never, no matter how often we see it, I will never fail to find it enraging.

00:28:01.000 And yes, maybe that's why they're doing it, so you're taking the baits if you get all angry about it.

00:28:07.300 But I actually respect and cherish our national history.

00:28:13.780 And so I think, and if you do, it should make you angry to see people disrespecting it this way.

00:28:18.420 I mean, if you treat our monuments like this, it should be like, get the hell out of our country.

00:28:23.800 It should be a simple, it should be automatic deportation. 0.76

00:28:26.140 Get the hell out of our country. 0.94

00:28:27.240 If you don't respect our monuments and our statues and our history, just get the hell out. 0.99

00:28:31.400 You don't belong here.

00:28:32.520 This is not your country.

00:28:33.420 You do not belong here.

00:28:34.300 Go somewhere else.

00:28:36.540 Or better yet, don't leave because we're going to put you in prison first.

00:28:39.560 Unironically, okay, if they passed a law tomorrow saying that if you deface one of our historical statues, you get 10 years in prison automatically.

00:28:51.820 Even if you just hang a flag on it, that's it.

00:28:54.180 There's no permanent damage being done.

00:28:56.600 10 years in prison.

00:28:57.520 If they passed that law, I would support it.

00:29:00.060 I would throw a parade in the, I'd throw a one-person parade in the street supporting it.

00:29:03.580 That's how much I would love it.

00:29:04.480 And it's not hyperbole or exaggeration.

00:29:08.520 This is the kind of thing.

00:29:09.860 If you want to have a country at all, then you need to take it seriously.

00:29:16.460 That means taking your history and your culture seriously.

00:29:20.640 And these kinds of cultural vandals should not be tolerated.

00:29:27.960 I mean, think about it this way.

00:29:28.960 Go to a non-Western country and go to a major city, or maybe their capital city, go somewhere downtown, find a monument to one of their historical icons or heroes, and climb up on that monument and spray it with graffiti. 0.66

00:29:52.200 What do you think is going to happen to you in pretty much any non-Western country?

00:29:57.360 How are they going to respond to that?

00:30:00.040 If there was a mob of people doing it, do you think there's just one person arrested at the end?

00:30:04.380 Maybe they get hit with a $50 fine for being a public nuisance?

00:30:08.020 Do you think that's what happens?

00:30:10.780 There's a good chance that everybody involved, we never hear from them again.

00:30:14.940 But if we do hear from them again, it's going to be years later, and they're going to have a very unfortunate tale to tell about what they've endured.

00:30:22.540 But you know what?

00:30:23.220 But the other thing is, non-Western countries generally, these days, they take their own history and their culture a lot more seriously than we take ours.

00:30:33.180 To their benefit and our detriment.

00:30:36.380 Because we should be doing the same thing.

00:30:38.440 There should be some things that are just, we do not tolerate.

00:30:41.820 Of course, we tolerate everything.

00:30:43.060 You know, I would like to maybe take that list of, right now, if we have a list of tolerable things, that everything is on, everything is tolerable, that we tolerate everything.

00:30:57.320 The intolerable list is empty.

00:30:59.180 I'd like to start putting a few items back on that list.

00:31:02.520 This should be one of them.

00:31:03.520 Speaking of intolerable, moving to this, Daily Wire has this report.

00:31:08.740 Former President Barack Obama whitewashed the Islamic terrorist attacks that Hamas committed against Israel last month.

00:31:14.500 The terrorist murdered 1,400 Israelis, wounded 5,300, and kidnapped more than 240 people.

00:31:19.320 Obama made their remarks during an appearance on the leftist podcast Pod Save America late this week, according to a preview clip released by the podcast.

00:31:27.700 So, it's kind of a long clip.

00:31:31.560 We probably won't play the whole thing.

00:31:32.600 But let's, here's Obama.

00:31:35.480 I think this is the first time we've really heard from him, at least in person, since everything started back in early October.

00:31:46.420 And here's Obama in to save the day with his, what is supposed to be his kind of sophisticated, nuanced, moral perspective.

00:31:57.700 That's his whole shtick, right?

00:31:59.540 That's his gimmick, to pretend to be morally sophisticated. 0.98

00:32:03.600 But he's the guy that's going to come in and say, no, no, no, you're all, let me, you're all, you're all so, you simpletons.

00:32:10.820 Let me, let me explain to you the complexities of this situation.

00:32:15.160 And he tries that here, but not to spoil the ending.

00:32:20.000 Spends a lot of time babbling about it.

00:32:21.480 At the end, he says basically nothing.

00:32:24.500 Let's watch.

00:32:25.460 If there's any chance of us being able to act constructively to do something, it will require an admission of complexity.

00:32:39.460 And maintaining what on the surface may seem contradictory ideas.

00:32:42.980 Okay, just pause for a while.

00:32:44.420 It's exactly what I'm talking about.

00:32:46.480 We must maintain.

00:32:47.600 It requires an admission of complexity.

00:32:54.180 What does that mean exactly?

00:32:56.620 So right off the bat, he just has phrases like this that he drops.

00:33:00.880 It's instinctive for him.

00:33:03.180 Phrases that maybe on the surface initially, if you're naive, may sound smart.

00:33:11.780 And then you think about it for one second, you say, what does that mean?

00:33:16.480 What?

00:33:17.400 Admission of complexity.

00:33:19.840 Okay, let's continue.

00:33:21.620 That what Hamas did was horrific, and there's no justification for it. 0.99

00:33:27.400 And what is also true is that the occupation and what's happening to Palestinians is unbearable.

00:33:43.040 And what is also true is that there is a history of the Jewish people that may be dismissed unless your grandparents or your great-grandparents or your uncle or your aunt tell you stories about the madness. 1.00

00:34:08.720 Okay, can we pause for one second?

00:34:09.920 I can't even listen to this.

00:34:11.800 Everything about it, including the tone of voice, this is maybe a pet peeve on my part, but it's very common these days that people speak, and then their tone goes up at the end of the sentence to make it sound like every sentence is a question.

00:34:29.780 And that's exactly what we're hearing here.

00:34:31.640 Every statement he makes, notice at the end, the tone goes up so that every statement is phrased like a question.

00:34:41.000 And I don't know what that is exactly or when that became popular, but people like Obama, this is what you always hear.

00:34:50.980 But we haven't gotten to the most absurd part yet, so we've got to keep listening.

00:34:54.340 Semitism and what is true is that there are people right now who are dying who have nothing to do with what Hamas did and what is true. 0.85

00:35:09.200 I mean, we can go on for a while, and the problem with the social media and trying to tick-tock activism and trying to debate this on that is you can't speak the truth.

00:35:24.580 You can pretend to speak the truth.

00:35:26.840 You can speak one side of the truth.

00:35:28.940 And in some cases, you can try to maintain your moral innocence, but that won't solve the problem.

00:35:37.740 And so if you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth.

00:35:43.980 And you then have to admit nobody's hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.

00:35:59.900 I look at this and I think...

00:36:02.720 Actually, no.

00:36:04.020 This last part, let's listen to this.

00:36:06.120 Go ahead.

00:36:06.380 Think back.

00:36:07.280 What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward?

00:36:12.540 Okay, all right.

00:36:12.940 So that was it.

00:36:13.480 That's what I wanted to get to.

00:36:14.520 So most people are focusing on the moral equivalence of it, and he's just rambling and not saying anything.

00:36:21.800 Rather than simply stating when terrorists go into a country and massacre some people, it's a horrible thing.

00:36:32.380 He can't just say that.

00:36:35.280 He has to list, do some moral equivocation back and forth, back and forth, until you lose track of what you were even talking about.

00:36:41.800 And that's really the point here.

00:36:42.680 It is obfuscation disguised as being morally sophisticated.

00:36:49.700 So most people are focusing on that, and for good reason.

00:36:52.120 But I love that part of the end there, where he says, none of our hands are clean.

00:36:59.720 Now we have to realize, we're all complicit.

00:37:02.240 What?

00:37:02.560 No, Barack, no, Barack, my hands are clean on this one.

00:37:06.200 I'm not complicit at all.

00:37:07.200 I will tell you right now.

00:37:08.400 I'm not a perfect man by any means.

00:37:10.480 I have nothing to do with any of this.

00:37:12.660 I am not remotely complicit or even partially to blame for anything that is happening in the Middle East, actually.

00:37:21.220 Anywhere in the Middle East.

00:37:22.880 None of it has anything to do with me.

00:37:24.180 I could have never existed, and it would all be happening exactly as it is currently happening.

00:37:28.640 Okay?

00:37:28.860 Maybe I would like to think that I am, as an individual, so significant that everything on the planet would be different if I didn't exist.

00:37:39.560 But that's not the case.

00:37:41.300 So if I never existed, everything currently happening would still be happening.

00:37:45.040 Everything that happened on October 7th would have still happened.

00:37:47.300 Everything happening in Israel would have still happened. 0.82

00:37:51.340 And that's the case for you, whoever you are watching this, most likely.

00:37:57.460 You're an important person.

00:37:58.940 Every life is cherished.

00:38:00.580 Every human life is important.

00:38:02.520 But you could have never existed, and all of this stuff would still be happening.

00:38:06.420 So you are not remotely complicit in any of this.

00:38:09.780 You have nothing to do with it.

00:38:12.360 Same for me.

00:38:13.520 So this statement from him, well, we're all complicit.

00:38:16.180 Who's to say, yes, the Hamas terrorists, they went into Israel, and they massacred innocent people. 0.89

00:38:21.780 But all of our hands are dirty. 0.73

00:38:24.980 We're all partially responsible for that.

00:38:28.940 What?

00:38:30.660 Explain that.

00:38:31.340 Now, of course, the Pod Save America dudes are just sitting there soaking this all in.

00:38:35.880 There's no follow-up question.

00:38:37.360 Okay?

00:38:37.540 There's no, hey, what was that?

00:38:39.340 Can you explain that a little bit?

00:38:40.700 What do you mean we're all complicit?

00:38:43.360 You got an audience full of people.

00:38:44.780 I mean, what did they do to contribute to this?

00:38:47.920 They didn't do anything.

00:38:49.860 And then to support that statement, he says, you know, we're all complicit, and I think of myself, and what could I have done?

00:38:56.180 Yeah, well, you were the president.

00:38:58.500 So, yes, if you want to give yourself some of the blame, you were the president of the United States of America for eight years.

00:39:05.940 You were in charge of American foreign policy.

00:39:09.120 You made decisions about the things that we were going to do overseas.

00:39:13.920 And so if you're looking at the state of the world and saying to yourself, it looks pretty bad right now.

00:39:18.560 Maybe I could have done more.

00:39:19.940 Maybe I could have done things differently.

00:39:21.420 You should be saying that.

00:39:22.500 So, no, no, no, Brock, it's not.

00:39:25.940 We don't all share the blame.

00:39:27.900 You share some of the blame.

00:39:30.700 But that doesn't mean we all do.

00:39:32.500 Because only you were president.

00:39:35.420 Maybe he's saying that everyone shares the blame because he is partially responsible, according to him.

00:39:41.280 And anyone who voted for him is, therefore, partially responsible for that.

00:39:45.900 I mean, maybe in that sense, sure.

00:39:48.120 I guess.

00:39:49.340 I mean, if Barack Obama is admitting, according to his own admission, that he's partially complicit in what's happening in the Middle East.

00:39:58.340 If that's the case, then I guess people who voted for him do share some of the blame.

00:40:02.820 They put him there.

00:40:04.060 But I didn't vote for him either.

00:40:05.460 So, I didn't vote for any of the people that are causing this problem or contributing to it.

00:40:13.560 I had nothing to do with it.

00:40:15.280 So, no, we are not all complicit.

00:40:17.800 We do not all share the blame. 0.81

00:40:20.960 And, you know, I know I'm taking this literally because it's such a literally ridiculous thing to say.

00:40:28.260 But he doesn't mean for it to be taken.

00:40:29.760 He doesn't mean for it to be taken any way at all.

00:40:32.260 He's just babbling.

00:40:33.500 He's babbling around the issue.

00:40:35.460 But the underlying point is to avoid condemning evil acts and the people who choose to carry them out.

00:40:52.640 This is all an elaborate way around any kind of personal responsibility.

00:40:59.460 Because when any bad thing happens, or I should say when any bad act is committed anywhere in the world, there are people responsible for committing that act.

00:41:13.180 And then there might be other people who are indirectly responsible or indirectly contributed to it.

00:41:22.640 Okay, so the blame might fall squarely and only on the shoulders of the person who does it or the people who do it.

00:41:29.960 It may go beyond that.

00:41:33.660 But it is not true to say that we're all responsible for every bad thing that happens.

00:41:38.520 And you only try to claim that if you want to avoid, again, personal responsibility.

00:41:42.060 If you want to avoid blaming the people who actually carry the blame and who are responsible.

00:41:47.960 All right, one other thing before we get to the next segment.

00:41:52.740 This is a video that's gone viral.

00:42:01.480 I've seen it circulating through by several different accounts over the last couple of weeks.

00:42:06.920 It's kind of an interesting video, though.

00:42:09.560 This is a young woman coming to a realization about why she's still single.

00:42:16.080 And I think there's a reason why this video is resonating.

00:42:18.700 It's not actually, I guess I should amend that.

00:42:20.620 It's not that she's coming to a realization about why she's still single.

00:42:23.480 It's about why she can't find a husband specifically. 1.00

00:42:27.120 And let's watch a little bit of this.

00:42:28.800 I just came to the realization why I'm single.

00:42:41.380 Every guy that I'm like, oh, yeah, he's attractive.

00:42:44.880 Okay, this is not supposed to be offensive.

00:42:47.920 But I see their wives and they just look like so like, you know, like. 0.99

00:42:58.800 Not like this.

00:43:01.260 Just like.

00:43:03.840 You know, like.

00:43:06.180 Pretend my tattoos are gone.

00:43:10.620 Dude, I look crazy.

00:43:13.300 Like, that's why guys don't want to wife me up.

00:43:17.540 And I just come to this realization.

00:43:20.620 Today.

00:43:22.600 See.

00:43:28.800 Or maybe it's because all of them see me eat sushi after I get out of the grocery store in my car with my bare fingers.

00:43:37.300 And drink sweet tea.

00:43:40.640 Oh, no.

00:43:44.140 Guys.

00:43:46.340 I thought these men wanted like, you know, big, strong, tough girls.

00:43:51.860 I don't know.

00:43:59.240 I feel like all of them are like, like super girly.

00:44:02.680 And all these guys are like, yeah, that's my girl.

00:44:05.320 That's just like.

00:44:06.260 Okay.

00:44:06.660 We're going to pause there.

00:44:07.480 So, I actually feel bad.

00:44:10.580 I feel bad for this, this woman. 1.00

00:44:13.320 And I can.

00:44:14.680 Well, first of all, I can say it's got nothing to do with sushi.

00:44:17.560 It's not because you eat sushi and drink sweet tea.

00:44:19.580 That's not.

00:44:20.220 I've never heard a guy that's.

00:44:22.040 There's never been a guy in history, in fact, who was attracted to a woman and said, well, I like everything about her.

00:44:27.360 But she eats sushi with her fingers.

00:44:28.640 So, never mind.

00:44:29.680 That has never been the case.

00:44:32.280 So, it's not that.

00:44:35.940 But, you know, with this woman, she's, first of all, you know, she's really into fitness, which is in and of itself not a problem.

00:44:45.860 But she's kind of like bulked up, as she said there.

00:44:48.640 You know, she thought that men were attracted to big, strong women. 1.00

00:44:51.240 And so, she's gotten big and strong.

00:44:53.800 Like, you know, very, very muscular and all of that.

00:44:57.960 On top of that, covered in tattoos.

00:45:02.280 I think she goes on in the video to talk about how she owns her own business, which, again, that's not a problem.

00:45:06.540 No one has an issue with that.

00:45:08.580 But, you know, she went for the sort of girl boss thing. 1.00

00:45:13.580 Being kind of loud and rude and crude and a lot of piercings, a lot of tattoos, bulking up at the gym.

00:45:23.040 And she thought that that's what men would be attracted to.

00:45:25.500 And they're not.

00:45:26.600 She's discovering.

00:45:27.240 And some of these things, in moderation, even like a piercing.

00:45:35.640 There's not a lot of guys out there who say, well, I won't date any woman who has any piercings at all.

00:45:41.280 Not all piercings are made the same, though.

00:45:43.800 The, you know, the septum piercing on the nose there, that's, maybe it's a small thing.

00:45:51.440 I have no idea.

00:45:53.440 Like, I don't know anyone.

00:45:56.220 All of the people on earth who think that that particular piercing is attractive have that piercing.

00:46:02.240 There's no one who doesn't have it who thinks it looks good.

00:46:05.580 Everyone else.

00:46:06.740 So, you know, there are, I don't know.

00:46:08.400 You got 1% of the population that has that piercing on the nose piercing there. 0.99

00:46:11.580 And then, for 99% of the rest of the people, all find it, like, kind of off-putting.

00:46:20.940 So, moderation, not all things are the same.

00:46:24.160 But overall, she was convinced, again, that men are attracted to girl boss, large and in charge, loud.

00:46:35.520 You know, a girl can fit in with the guys. 1.00

00:46:38.540 Loves going to the gym all the time, bulking up.

00:46:40.560 That, that's what she believed.

00:46:44.920 And she believed it because that's what she was told.

00:46:49.980 This is the message from the culture.

00:46:51.780 And she's been absorbing that messaging her entire life.

00:46:58.480 And only when she gets into adulthood does she discover that it's a total lie.

00:47:05.900 That this is not actually what men are attracted to.

00:47:07.660 Now, I think she misinterpreted the messaging a little bit.

00:47:15.400 Because it's not exactly, the messaging was never men are attracted to this in women.

00:47:21.540 The messaging was more men should be attracted to these kinds of women. 0.99

00:47:25.500 That's, that's the message from the culture.

00:47:29.740 And maybe she thought, well, this is what men should be attracted to, says the culture.

00:47:32.960 And so they are.

00:47:33.640 But, but they're not.

00:47:34.800 We're not.

00:47:36.460 Like, as it turns out, yes, do men prefer feminine women?

00:47:43.940 Yes.

00:47:46.020 Because we're, we're men.

00:47:49.840 And we're not looking for, you know, if you're a heterosexual man, you, you desire a woman.

00:48:00.360 And that's a, a particular sort of desire that you have because you want to get married, you want to have kids, you want a family.

00:48:10.760 It's all natural desire for human beings to have, for men to have.

00:48:14.360 But, but you don't, you don't need a, a woman who acts like a man or looks like a man or, or, or, you know, takes on the mannerisms of a man. 0.99

00:48:25.800 Why would you want that?

00:48:28.760 I mean, you have guy friends that you hang out with, but you don't need women to fill that role. 1.00

00:48:35.600 You certainly wouldn't, you're certainly not desiring to marry a woman of that sort. 0.74

00:48:39.100 And this is just, this is, this is hard wiring.

00:48:43.920 This is, this is natural.

00:48:45.340 This is nature.

00:48:47.620 This is how we are made.

00:48:49.320 This is how God made us.

00:48:51.300 And for years and years and years, the culture has been telling women like this, that that, that, that's, that wiring can be sort of overridden.

00:49:03.340 And it can't.

00:49:04.960 The good news is, though, that she's coming to this realization.

00:49:09.180 It's not, it's not like she's, I don't know how old she is, but she's not, it's not like she's 65 years old and realizing this.

00:49:15.140 So there is time to change.

00:49:17.760 Take out the piercing. 0.52

00:49:19.140 Can't do much about the tattoos, but, you know, there's, there's time to change.

00:49:23.420 Let's get to was Walsh wrong.

00:49:28.440 The holidays are coming up fast.

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00:50:38.300 Okay, so we've got just two comments today that need to be addressed.

00:50:41.980 The first is from Marky Mark who says,

00:50:44.320 How about parents control their kids just because it's a kid-friendly restaurant doesn't mean unruly kids.

00:50:49.560 Only parents have this perception that their decision to have kids should be tolerated by everybody else.

00:50:55.880 Yes, why would you want to tolerate someone's decision to have a child? 0.62

00:51:02.100 You know, the decision that parents make to have kids,

00:51:04.940 it's only a decision that keeps human civilization in existence.

00:51:12.660 Okay, so those of us having kids and having families,

00:51:16.260 we are holding human civilization in existence.

00:51:19.620 It would cease to exist without us.

00:51:21.960 So we're doing basically all of the work to continue human civilization.

00:51:26.800 From the sound of it, Marky Mark, you're not doing any of it.

00:51:31.940 So, I don't know, maybe that's one reason to have patience for parents with young kids,

00:51:37.860 even in places like restaurants.

00:51:39.240 That doesn't mean that parents should let their kids run wild and do whatever they want.

00:51:44.080 That's not the point.

00:51:45.760 Very few people will come out and say that a kid should just be able to do whatever they want everywhere

00:51:52.660 and not be controlled.

00:51:54.600 No one's saying that.

00:51:57.360 But kids are, you know, naturally energetic and exuberant.

00:52:04.380 They tend to be a little bit louder.

00:52:07.320 And again, it does not mean they do whatever they want, but that's just, that's how kids are.

00:52:12.200 And so if you go to a place where there are a lot of kids,

00:52:15.200 even if all the kids are pretty well behaved, it's still going to be a little bit louder.

00:52:20.880 It's going to be a little bit more energetic.

00:52:22.420 Now, you could view that as a positive thing, a positive and beautiful thing.

00:52:31.160 You could go to a place and say, you know, you could go even to a restaurant and say,

00:52:34.480 oh, all these families are here spending time together.

00:52:38.440 That's a great thing.

00:52:40.760 Apparently, you know, this community where this restaurant is,

00:52:43.840 apparently there are a lot of young families here.

00:52:45.460 It's a lot of great positive energy.

00:52:47.420 That's wonderful.

00:52:47.900 You could look at it that way, or you could sit and stew in resentment.

00:52:55.780 If anything, they should be resentful towards you.

00:52:57.860 Because again, they're doing all the work, right?

00:53:00.320 We are doing the work to keep civilization going.

00:53:03.820 You're not doing anything.

00:53:04.920 We're doing it.

00:53:07.180 And if that means you got to listen to, you know, you got to hear kids sometimes,

00:53:11.840 well, then just deal with it.

00:53:12.980 Because that's the other point.

00:53:13.980 Like, I don't care.

00:53:14.860 It doesn't, if I make sure my kids are well-behaved, okay, we don't let them run the house.

00:53:20.880 We don't let them be inordinately disruptive.

00:53:27.340 But if I bring my kids around somewhere, I bring them into a restaurant,

00:53:29.800 and just their very presence is annoying to you, I don't care.

00:53:32.740 Just deal with it.

00:53:33.400 You can sit and stew and scowl all you want.

00:53:36.200 Don't care.

00:53:37.360 Your opinion and your preferences mean nothing to me.

00:53:41.480 So there's that too.

00:53:42.400 Critical Bass Theory says, you talk about your wife all the time.

00:53:46.040 In other words, you are out about your heterosexuality and shoving it at people unsolicited.

00:53:51.900 Yet this is just another sad attempt to bully people who are different than you.

00:53:55.180 You're stuck in grade school, just like your education.

00:53:57.660 So this was in response to our discussion about asexuals who complain that they don't have a,

00:54:02.980 quote, universally positive experience of being out.

00:54:06.120 Talked about that thing on Friday.

00:54:07.800 And they complain that they don't feel comfortable coming out to their coworkers and so on.

00:54:11.280 So what is the difference between an asexual coming out and me talking about my wife,

00:54:19.120 thus outing myself as a heterosexual?

00:54:21.660 Well, first of all, a few differences, a few distinctions.

00:54:24.620 The first is that heterosexuality exists, okay?

00:54:30.340 Whereas asexuality in humans really doesn't.

00:54:33.580 At least not in a literal sense, okay?

00:54:35.740 As we talked about, there's really no such thing as an asexual person, at least not in

00:54:42.100 the traditional sense of that term.

00:54:44.300 What you do have, though, are people who have low libidos or who do not experience sexual

00:54:49.540 attraction to the same degree.

00:54:52.240 We don't need a whole new category to describe people like that.

00:54:55.200 And the word asexual is very misleading at a minimum to describe people like that.

00:54:59.360 And the second thing is that, you know, when I talk about my family, my wife being a married

00:55:05.860 man, I'm talking about a healthy and normal aspect of life.

00:55:11.740 And there is a difference between talking about healthy and normal aspects of life and talking

00:55:17.660 about things openly that are abnormal and unhealthy.

00:55:21.000 You know, yes, we should be more open about talking about the healthy and normal aspects

00:55:27.080 of ourselves than about the things that are abnormal and unhealthy.

00:55:31.300 So yeah, I can go around anywhere and talk about my wife and kids.

00:55:34.360 It's never inappropriate at all.

00:55:38.200 However, if you identify as an asexual, there are plenty of circumstances where it's not appropriate

00:55:43.440 to talk about.

00:55:45.460 It's an abnormal, it's an unhealthy thing.

00:55:48.620 It's like there's there's some sort of deficiency.

00:55:50.540 There's a there's a problem here.

00:55:53.260 Doesn't mean you're inferior, doesn't mean anything like that.

00:55:55.440 But there's something has gone wrong.

00:55:58.080 If you truly do not experience any kind of romantic attraction to anyone, that is a that's

00:56:03.860 a part of the human life and existence that you are supposed to be able to partake in.

00:56:08.380 And if you can't, then there's a problem.

00:56:11.400 And I and I hope that you try to get it fixed.

00:56:13.360 But but when you're talking about your problems, it's not always going to be appropriate to talk

00:56:18.520 about in every circumstance.

00:56:21.200 And then finally, my family comes up in conversation naturally.

00:56:27.900 When would being an asexual come up naturally in conversation?

00:56:31.640 Like I might say, oh, you know, I was with my wife the other day.

00:56:34.780 We were doing this.

00:56:36.440 It naturally comes up.

00:56:39.260 What would you how does asexuality come naturally?

00:56:41.980 He's oh, you know, the other night I was not having sex with somebody.

00:56:44.380 I just I can't imagine a scenario where it would ever naturally come up in conversation.

00:56:51.520 So that's the issue.

00:56:53.000 Aside from that.

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00:57:42.940 We end today, sadly, with something dark and disturbing.

00:57:52.660 And I don't say that in an ironic way, as I so often do during this portion of the show.

00:57:56.660 It is actually dark and disturbing enough that we aren't really going to be doing a

00:57:59.420 Daily Cancellation today.

00:58:01.160 This story doesn't exactly lend itself to that, but it is still worth talking about.

00:58:05.360 So on Friday evening, around 5 p.m., police officers tried to conduct a welfare check on

00:58:11.660 the mayor of Smith's Station, which is a small town in Alabama, a population of about 5,000

00:58:15.920 people.

00:58:16.920 The mayor, whose name was Fred Bubba Copeland, was driving in his car at the time.

00:58:22.940 And at some point, he noticed that officers were tailing him.

00:58:25.260 After a brief, slow speed pursuit, Bubba Copeland exited his car, pulled out a handgun,

00:58:29.580 and shot himself in front of the pursuing officers.

00:58:33.020 And the married father of three died at the scene.

00:58:36.100 Now, in a country with any kind of underlying moral code whatsoever, those facts alone would

00:58:40.740 allow for some obvious conclusions.

00:58:43.260 For one thing, Bubba Copeland was a deeply troubled man.

00:58:46.120 Also, Copeland's last act was a choice that he made, a wrong choice, but a choice all the

00:58:51.720 same.

00:58:52.840 Now, that may seem too obvious to even say, but we tend to speak in euphemisms about these

00:58:57.460 kinds of situations.

00:58:58.220 And all of the euphemisms are carefully crafted to minimize or erase any degree of personal

00:59:03.780 responsibility whatsoever.

00:59:05.820 That's why the response to Copeland's death from pretty much everyone on the left who has

00:59:09.140 commented on it, from activists on social media to elected officials to corporate media

00:59:13.800 outlets, has been so depraved.

00:59:15.760 But also so predictable.

00:59:17.860 In our culture, which has long jettisoned any sense of objective truth or morality, Copeland

00:59:22.220 is not seen as accountable for any of this.

00:59:25.040 Instead, pretty much without exception, the left is blaming conservatives for this man's

00:59:29.660 death.

00:59:30.560 In particular, a small conservative news outlet in Alabama called 1819 News.

00:59:36.120 Five days ago, 1819 News published a story reporting factually accurate information about

00:59:41.680 Copeland.

00:59:42.100 And specifically, that he, Copeland, had publicly posted pictures of himself wearing women's

00:59:46.940 clothing under a pseudonym on various online fetish websites for people identifying as

00:59:51.640 trans.

00:59:52.420 These were not photos from decades ago.

00:59:55.320 They were live on the internet at the time that 1819 News began investigating them.

01:00:00.240 Copeland also posted a lot of sexual content and encouraged others to take cross-sex hormones,

01:00:04.980 even though by his own admission, he apparently wasn't taking them himself.

01:00:08.840 Additional reporting from Redux revealed that Copeland had also allegedly posted several disturbing

01:00:13.280 short stories and erotica online, including one piece in which he fantasized about killing a local

01:00:19.360 constituent who runs a small business and assuming her identity as a woman.

01:00:24.240 To be clear, Copeland used the identity of an actual constituent in this story.

01:00:28.880 It was not a fictional person.

01:00:29.900 He was openly fantasizing about killing a female constituent and taking her identity.

01:00:34.740 This is the mayor of the town, just to emphasize.

01:00:38.020 Now, I'll talk more about exactly what Copeland was posting in a minute.

01:00:40.680 But for now, it's important to underscore that he uploaded all this material voluntarily to

01:00:45.080 the internet while he was serving as mayor.

01:00:47.080 And since everything that a public official uploads to the internet is newsworthy, especially

01:00:50.680 when it's perverted and depraved, that's an important fact to highlight.

01:00:54.740 With that in mind, let's go through some of the coverage of this episode.

01:00:58.000 Here, we'll start with this.

01:00:59.720 This is a video from the New York Post, for example.

01:01:01.980 This contains a lot of text.

01:01:05.020 So if you're listening to the audio-only podcast, I'll repeat the important part in a moment.

01:01:09.660 The footage begins with a clip of Copeland's address to First Baptist Church, where he was

01:01:13.720 also the pastor.

01:01:14.900 This footage is from shortly after the 1819 news story broke.

01:01:18.420 Watch.

01:01:19.720 I've been an object of an internet attack.

01:01:22.560 An article that was written about my capacity as a mayor, capacity as a pastor.

01:01:26.720 The article is not who, or what I am.

01:01:30.840 Okay, so the New York Post plays the sad piano music.

01:01:33.980 They have Pastor Copeland saying he's the victim, he's being attacked.

01:01:37.860 He suggests the story is misleading without explaining how it was misleading exactly.

01:01:41.640 And then the New York Post explains in the written caption that Copeland had been, quote,

01:01:45.100 outed for having a secret life he shared online as a transgender curvy girl.

01:01:49.560 Copeland, the Post explains, was, quote, exposed by 1819 News in an article which describes

01:01:53.500 Copeland's secret life online as a transgender woman under the pseudonym Brittany Blair Summerlin.

01:01:59.000 Now, for a second, put aside the description of this man as a transgender woman, and notice

01:02:04.260 the framing here right away.

01:02:05.500 Bubba Copeland was outed, according to the Post.

01:02:07.920 The implication is that this poor transgender woman, quote, unquote, privacy was violated, 0.99

01:02:13.100 and we should, you know, feel sorry about that, and we should be angry at the people who

01:02:16.800 outed him.

01:02:17.740 They're acting like someone hacked his hard drive or wiretapped his phone calls, when in

01:02:22.160 fact, what happened was that a website looked at material that Copeland himself had posted

01:02:26.440 publicly for everyone to see.

01:02:28.960 But this notion that Copeland was outed somehow became the framing of every major news outlet

01:02:33.500 and prominent politician.

01:02:34.760 They're all pretending like Bubba Copeland was an innocent victim and, you know, a paragon

01:02:39.220 of the community.

01:02:41.920 Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones, for example, lamented he was a good man and a great mayor.

01:02:45.740 AL.com, a popular outlet in the region, had a senior editor live-tweeting eulogies of Copeland

01:02:51.620 a couple days ago.

01:02:52.360 The Daily Beast faulted a right-wing blog for, quote, outing Copeland's, quote, private life.

01:02:57.320 Newsweek reported that a right-wing website had, quote, outed Copeland, who was supposedly,

01:03:01.000 quote, a transgender woman.

01:03:02.840 The gay news site The Advocate claimed in its headline that Copeland, quote, died by suicide

01:03:07.200 after being involuntarily outed as a transgender woman.

01:03:10.800 Involuntary is a strange way of describing a report detailing content voluntarily and publicly

01:03:18.640 posted to the Internet.

01:03:20.800 And, of course, trans activists have been hammering this theme as well.

01:03:24.340 They're following corporate media's lead.

01:03:25.900 Mark Bacavage, a self-described senior research fellow at the ADL Center on Extremism, wrote,

01:03:30.780 quote, the mayor of an Alabama town and pastor of a local church killed himself after a right-wing

01:03:34.640 news website called 1819 News praised by Steve Bannon cruelly doxed him as transgender.

01:03:41.260 A guy named Zach Lambert, who bills himself as a pastor, quote, passionate about equality

01:03:46.140 and holistic justice, whatever the hell that means, declared that Copeland's suicide proves

01:03:50.140 that, quote, anti-LGBTQ plus rhetoric has deadly consequences.

01:03:54.260 That post has 36,000 likes, by the way.

01:03:57.540 It's the narrative that the left is going with.

01:03:59.500 When a man posts about his weird fetishes online and other people notice and don't approve,

01:04:05.180 the real lesson, they say, is about the dangers of anti-LGBTQ plus rhetoric.

01:04:11.120 On a similar note, Alejandro Caraballo, who's a trans-identified male Harvard instructor,

01:04:16.640 wrote, quote, 1819 News, a far-right dominionist outlet outed an Alabama mayor and pastor as

01:04:22.000 being trans.

01:04:22.540 The mayor subsequently took their own life after being outed.

01:04:26.360 Now, in case you're keeping track, by the way, Alejandro Caraballo, who attacked, is the

01:04:31.440 same person who attacked Lauren Boebert in graphic terms just a few weeks ago after someone

01:04:36.720 leaked surveillance footage of Boebert and her date getting handsy while watching Beetlejuice

01:04:42.200 in a local theater.

01:04:42.960 In fact, I'd wager that nearly everyone on the left condemning those who outed Copeland

01:04:47.060 also went after Boebert for the Beetlejuice incident.

01:04:50.020 Except in that case, Boebert's behavior ended up on the internet because someone took the

01:04:53.940 surveillance footage and posted it without her knowledge.

01:04:56.660 In Copeland's case, he put his sexual fetishes online himself for everyone to see.

01:05:02.080 Yet we're supposed to respect the privacy of the second person and not the first. 0.86

01:05:07.280 This is the kind of logic we're dealing with.

01:05:09.700 And what trans activists and the ADL and corporate media don't want to talk about is what exactly

01:05:13.980 Copeland was uploading online in the first place.

01:05:16.600 I alluded to this earlier, but it wasn't just weird images and fetish content for trans

01:05:20.700 communities online, even though by itself that would clearly be newsworthy.

01:05:24.820 As Redux reports, quote,

01:05:25.860 Copeland's fictional exploits took a dark turn in 2021 when he published Dangerous Obsession.

01:05:30.420 In the story, Copeland describes becoming obsessed with a local business owner who he ultimately

01:05:34.580 murders to assume her identity.

01:05:36.540 The woman murdered in the story is a real individual who lives in Copeland's community.

01:05:39.520 Now, here's some select quotes from Copeland's story.

01:05:43.040 Quote,

01:05:43.700 I wanted her life.

01:05:45.040 Staring at her on the latest social media application, all I could think about was how

01:05:48.260 amazing it must be to be her.

01:05:50.380 At 29 years old, married and due to gastric bypass surgery, had lost a lot of weight.

01:05:54.480 She looked on top of the world.

01:05:56.460 Copeland's character ultimately stalks this business owner and murders her on a cruise ship

01:06:00.800 by throwing her overboard.

01:06:03.000 Now, those details didn't make it into the New York Post's sad YouTube video with the mournful

01:06:07.180 piano music.

01:06:07.920 They don't make it into many of these reports because they don't exactly inspire sympathy

01:06:12.600 for this guy.

01:06:13.340 So they just leave it out of their stories completely.

01:06:15.780 So there's a lot of lying and obfuscating going on here as usual.

01:06:19.260 But if we look deeper, we can learn two important lessons.

01:06:21.860 The first is that the left is desperately looking for, to borrow James Lindsay's phrase, their

01:06:28.660 own trans Floyd, their trans George Floyd.

01:06:32.160 OK, LGBT activists want to duplicate the protests, rioting and general mass psychosis of 2020, 0.98

01:06:38.100 but with themselves as the victim group in the center of it all.

01:06:41.940 But in order to do that, they need a martyr. 0.96

01:06:43.960 They need a death that they can pin on their enemies. 0.92

01:06:47.320 They already do this in broad terms, of course, telling us about the suicide rate of trans and 0.96

01:06:51.340 LGBT people and declaring that all of it is somehow the fault of conservatives. 0.91

01:06:55.020 But broad terms are not good enough.

01:06:56.640 They need a name, a face, some individual person, a martyr, their own George Floyd,

01:07:01.440 to make into the face of the persecution they've invented.

01:07:05.880 Now, I think that the unfortunate death of Bubba Copeland will not be the George Floyd moment

01:07:09.900 they're looking for.

01:07:10.760 But the point is that they are looking for it.

01:07:13.280 And eventually they will find it.

01:07:14.720 And they will exploit it to the fullest extent possible.

01:07:17.660 Mark my words about that.

01:07:19.480 Second, it's important to note the total lack of internal logic on display here.

01:07:23.920 Trans activists in the media are calling Bubba Copeland transgender.

01:07:26.800 But this is a guy who admitted to cross-dressing for his own sexual pleasure.

01:07:30.740 Copeland didn't think he was a woman. 0.98

01:07:33.420 He was aroused by pretending to be one.

01:07:36.540 He told 1819 News he was transgender, but only when he's wearing clothing and cosplaying as a woman.

01:07:42.720 He told his church that he was joking around.

01:07:45.580 But now that Copeland is dead, you're instructed to refer to him as a brave transgender woman

01:07:50.520 because off and on he liked to wear women's clothing.

01:07:52.800 And to be clear, we've known for a long time that the overwhelming majority of trans-identified adult men

01:07:56.980 are playing a sexual game of sorts and demanding that the rest of us play along.

01:08:01.360 It's called autogynephilia.

01:08:03.060 And even though the media never talks about it,

01:08:06.200 it's a known condition in which men are aroused at the thought of themselves as female.

01:08:10.580 For years, we've been told with a straight face to believe the lie

01:08:13.720 that men with this very obvious fetish are, in fact, women

01:08:16.640 simply by virtue of the fact that they have this fetish.

01:08:19.020 They've repeated this lie over and over again with maximum sincerity, as if it's gospel.

01:08:25.540 But lies that are this grandiose and this absurd inevitably break down.

01:08:29.720 They're not sustainable. 0.65

01:08:30.940 One way or another, at some point, liars like this must admit the truth, if only by accident.

01:08:36.820 And with the suicide of Bubba Copeland, that's exactly what's happened. 0.83

01:08:40.020 The trans movement stands for the idea that a woman is someone who wears his wife's clothes for fun 1.00

01:08:45.280 and then uploads some photos on Reddit to arouse himself and, quote, blow off some steam, as Copeland said.

01:08:52.940 That's the extent of the trans ideology's definition of womanhood. 1.00

01:08:57.920 If you are a woman, that's what they think of you. 1.00

01:09:01.120 You have a wife or a girlfriend or a sister.

01:09:03.340 That's what trans activists and the corporate media think of her. 0.99

01:09:07.560 And now they're admitting it.

01:09:09.620 And that's the real lesson here.

01:09:12.160 That'll do it for the show today.

01:09:13.280 Thanks for watching.

01:09:13.880 Thanks for listening.

01:09:14.800 Have a great day.

01:09:15.900 Godspeed.

01:09:16.260 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 06, 2023

Ep. 1257 - The Media Attacks Republican For Protecting His Kids From Porn

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