The movie about Kermit Gosnell has entered its second week at the box office, but it s already being dropped from hundreds of theaters. Why is the left so terrified of Gosnell, and why is the media so afraid of it?
00:00:00.000Coming up on the Matt Wall Show today, the movie about Kermit Gosnell entered its second week this weekend after an extremely impressive showing in its first week.
00:00:08.000Yet, the film is already being dropped from hundreds of theaters. Is it being blackballed?
00:00:13.520Yes, of course. But why? Why is the left so terrified of Gosnell? Why is the media so terrified of Gosnell?
00:00:21.540Well, we'll talk about that now. Stay tuned.
00:00:23.460Oh, man. This is a tough day for me. It was tough waking up this morning and finding a reason to go on.
00:00:38.560The Ravens lost yesterday. My Baltimore Ravens lost on a missed extra point. On a missed extra point in the final seconds of the game.
00:00:47.540They've got the most accurate field goal kicker in the history of the league. He's never missed an extra point in his entire career, including college.
00:00:53.940Like 300 straight made extra point kicks. And this is the one that he decides to miss.
00:01:00.160And then we lost the game. And to make matters worse, you know, after the game last night, I was sitting in the living room in a state of deep shock and misery.
00:01:10.060And in a bit of an existential crisis, asking myself, what's the point of life? What's the point of anything?
00:01:16.300And then my daughter comes in and she says, what's the matter, Daddy? Are you sad? You look sad.
00:01:24.020And I said, I said, yes, I'm very sad. The Ravens lost on a missed extra point at the end of the game.
00:01:29.700And she said, what's an extra point? And I said, well, it's the field goal that you kick after a touchdown if you're not going to go for two.
00:01:35.560And she said, what's a field goal? What's a touchdown? What's going for two?
00:01:38.540And I said, please stop interrogating me. Can't you see that I'm that I'm traumatized here?
00:01:43.600And she said, well, are you going to cry, Daddy? And I said, yes, I might cry.
00:01:49.180I might cry. And she said, well, daddies don't cry.
00:01:54.220No, daddies don't cry. And I said, you're right. Daddies don't cry, except when their football team loses on a missed extra point at the very end of the game.
00:02:01.800Then they might cry. And then she said, and I'm not I'm going to quote her exactly.
00:02:05.460OK, she said, that's silly, Daddy. That's silly to cry over football. Football is silly.
00:02:14.880And so what was I going to do? I called the police on her, had her carted away, which is not the kind of thing that you want to ever.
00:02:21.100It's not a decision you ever want to make as a parent, especially when your daughter is five years old.
00:02:24.820But what else was I going to do? She's she's if she's going to go around saying things like that.
00:02:31.800But I will in a in a in an act of great courage and resilience, I will try to soldier on and move on somehow with my life.
00:02:42.640All right. What I want to talk about. The the film about Kermit Gosnell has entered its its second week at the box office.
00:02:52.220It entered its second week this past weekend. And despite only showing on 600 or so theaters in its first week,
00:02:59.300and despite the limited budget and despite being ignored by the media, it completely it managed to crack the top 10 in its first week,
00:03:07.860the top 10 at the box office, which is extremely impressive.
00:03:10.980OK, to get into the top 10, given the situation. Now, keep this in mind when it comes to box office totals.
00:03:18.000And you hear about, you know, you hear about a movie like like Avengers is number one at the box office for 10 straight weeks or whatever.
00:03:26.280Well, keep in mind that movies like the Avengers, they open on 4000 screens and they have hundreds of millions of dollars of marketing and merchandise.
00:03:35.140I mean, you can't avoid them. You know, for six months leading up to the movie coming out, the movies everywhere, everywhere you go.
00:03:41.540You see it. You see previews of commercials and merchandise. And then it's on every single screen across the universe.
00:03:49.000And so a movie like that, it has to be number one. It's got to be number one for two months.
00:03:53.220If it's not, then it's a massive failure because the movies, the movie studios pay a lot of money to manufacture interest and to get the movies out there.
00:04:02.100And so that's why, in my mind, there's nothing particularly impressive about a massively hyped, massively expensive movie showing on 4000 screens with 15 showings apiece ending up number one at the box office.
00:04:17.360But that's why I'm never, you know, every time there's a new Marvel movie or Star Wars and everyone's like, oh, it's the number one movie in history again.
00:04:26.200Well, of course, number one that, you know, movie tickets now cost eighty seven dollars as opposed to as opposed to in the 90s when there were five dollars.
00:04:35.180And the movie studios paying millions of dollars to brainwash us into seeing the freaking thing.
00:04:42.020So, of course, of course, it's number one. That's not impressive.
00:04:44.220But a movie like like Gosnell with no press, very little marketing on a few screens on a small budget, well, cracking a million dollars and the top 10 in that case is huge.
00:04:55.820Yet, as The Daily Wire reported this weekend, the film was dropped.
00:05:01.520Again, only its second week, it was dropped from almost 200 screens of the of the only 600 it was showing on in its second week.
00:05:09.880This is a top 10 movie that was dropped in its second week and dropped from theaters with 20 or 30 screens where it was in the top 10 among all those films.
00:05:20.800And many of those theaters dropped it after one week, which is unprecedented, which it's just it's unheard of.
00:05:27.180Despite what anyone might want to say to try to come up with a rationale, this is unheard of.
00:05:32.360This doesn't this doesn't have even if a movie performs really poorly in its first week, it's it's pretty rare for it to be dropped after one week.
00:05:39.820Usually at least gets one other week. But to be a top 10 movie and then get dropped after after seven days in the theater, it's just it's ridiculous.
00:05:49.420Let me read a little bit of the story from The Daily Wire. It says, according to John Sullivan, the film's marketing director, who also served as a producer,
00:05:56.000the drop cannot be written off as a mere coincidence or, quote, business as usual.
00:05:59.940Well, he says he told The Daily Wire, I can tell you from my experience in 15 years of releasing movies independently, we're in uncharted territories.
00:06:08.580It is an impacted fall, no doubt about it. But the fact that we've been dropped from theaters where the movie is the number six or number nine movie is just something you don't see.
00:06:16.500It's hard not to believe it isn't about the content of the movie.
00:06:19.140We have theaters that are dropping on the movie that are that are top theaters that are performing very well.
00:06:25.220We've been the number six in a 15 plex theater and it gets dropped this week.
00:06:31.840We've been number nine in a 30 plex and we're getting dropped this week.
00:06:35.320So that's it's the number nine movie out of 30.
00:06:37.640And they drop it. There are about 15, 15 theaters like that where typically you would not get dropped.
00:06:46.400He says, I do recognize it's a crowded market marketplace because Halloween is is going to be a huge opening.
00:06:52.740But it's very odd to me that you're within the top 10 and you're getting dropped out of a movie house.
00:06:59.100The filmmakers have also received varying reports of theaters actively preventing customers from buying a ticket by not advertising the film
00:07:06.580or declaring it sold out before capacity is reached.
00:07:09.660While some of those situations may be the result of human error, Sullivan says the apparent blackballing is too consistent to be ignored.
00:07:16.540And then he goes on to talk about how it's unprecedented.
00:07:22.140And a public statement on Facebook, the film's producer said he had received worrying reports from across the country regarding customers inability to buy tickets.
00:07:30.260And then he talks about some stories of people that, you know, even in the theaters where it's being shown,
00:07:36.480they're being prevented or it's being made difficult to buy tickets to the movie.
00:07:43.380One of the ways that, you know, this isn't all a coincidence is because this is how this is just totally in keeping with how the Gosnell story has been treated
00:07:52.060and how the Gosnell movie has been treated and the actual event itself before then.
00:07:57.320But speaking of, you know, staying on the movie for just a minute,
00:08:01.540we should also mention that hardly any media outlets even bothered to review the movie.
00:08:06.900Rotten Tomatoes, which is a site that compiles movie reviews.
00:08:11.440So you could go and see, you know, get a, get kind of an aggregated percentage score on how good the movie is,
00:08:21.600even though the percentages are oftentimes very misleading.
00:08:24.780But, um, it could only find 10 reviews for Gosnell across the entire internet.
00:08:30.380It could find, it could find 10 reviews by comparison, the Halloween movie, which came out this weekend has over 200 reviews.
00:09:22.060As I said, the movie has been a success in spite of all this, uh, obviously showing that there's intense interest in the movie.
00:09:29.880Um, the average movie, if it's only playing on 600 theaters and it's not getting any press and there's hardly any marketing,
00:09:37.940the average movie like that is just, it's not, it's going to make a few, it's going to make a few thousand dollars and then it's going to be gone.
00:09:44.400Um, but as I said, to pull in a million, get into the top 10, that shows that there is enormous interest in the movie.
00:10:00.880And then the story, you can't say, well, the story doesn't matter.
00:10:03.620I mean, you know, it's, it's, I mean, it's, it's a, it's an irrelevant story.
00:10:09.120That's why no, the story is very dramatic, very relevant, very current.
00:10:13.920Um, Gosnell is, as the tagline of the movie correctly points out, Gosnell is the worst serial killer in American history.
00:10:23.020Now to recap very briefly, in case you've forgotten about Gosnell, or if you never heard about him in the first place, um, the abortionist was, was officially charged in 2013 with the murders of seven infants and one woman.
00:10:36.500Uh, but the total body count is, is, is much higher than that.
00:10:42.060Um, Gosnell used scissors to sever the spinal cords of hundreds of live babies, hundreds, maybe even more, maybe thousands.
00:10:50.320Um, one employee of the, of the clinic in Philadelphia testified that she personally witnessed this procedure, um, snipping as Gosnell called it at least 30 times.
00:11:03.120Um, so although he was, although he was only charged only, uh, charged with murdering seven infants, as if that's not bad enough, you've got just one witness who says, well, I saw it happen 30 times.
00:11:14.700Um, in some cases, uh, uh, she was given the child's severed feet or any, or another severed body part to put in a jar and keep as a trophy.
00:11:24.800Uh, to be clear, children were, I just think this needs to be emphasized.
00:11:30.620Children were, were born alive outside the womb, fully formed.
00:11:37.340These are born infants and then they were decapitated.
00:11:40.660That's what was going on hundreds and hundreds of times over the course of 30 years.
00:11:47.760There's a reason why this clinic was dubbed the house of horrors because it's not a cliche.
00:11:53.460There were, um, quoting from, from a one medical student who saw it.
00:11:57.840Uh, he said there were fetuses and blood all over the place.
00:12:02.520Um, you could, another nurse reports that you could literally hear the screams of children who were born alive and then butchered.
00:12:11.380So if you can imagine this, this, this butcher shop where there's blood stains on the walls, body parts in jars and buckets and, uh, and the screams of children being murdered.
00:12:26.360I mean, it's just carcasses and body parts were stored in, in shoe boxes, water jugs, break room, refrigerators.
00:12:34.480Um, and this is to say nothing of the, of the unsanitary medical equipment, which caused disease and infection in the patient, patients.
00:12:42.160Um, one woman had to go to a hospital and, uh, and have part of her intestine removed after contracting an infection from, from Gosnell's clinic.
00:12:52.380And then another woman died, at least one woman died as a result of this, of this malpractice.
00:12:57.780Now, the point is, this is a significant story that deserves to be told, that should be told.
00:13:05.360It's the kind of story that if it were happening in any other profession, any other alleged medical field, um, there would have been five movies and two TV specials about it already.
00:13:15.680I mean, if you could imagine, if you could imagine, uh, an orthodontist or a, or a pediatrician murdering hundreds of patients, it would be the biggest story in the country and film adaptations would come almost immediately.
00:13:32.180That's the way it would be, would be treated.
00:13:33.860But this, because it's an abortionist, has always been treated as a non-story.
00:13:39.920Uh, one Washington Post reporter infamously said that, uh, Gosnell's systematic slaughter of infants over the course of 30 years is just a local crime story.
00:13:50.420That's how she, when, when, uh, when asked to justify her paper's decision to ignore the story, she said, well, it's a, it's just a local crime story.
00:13:59.460Hundreds of dead babies, local crime story.
00:14:02.160So, um, and to put that in context, by the way, um, this is not long before, um, Ferguson, where you had one, you know, one, uh, one teenager that was shot by a police officer and what turned out to be a, a totally justified shooting.
00:14:26.720But that, you know, one, one person being killed, that, that wasn't treated as a local crime story.