The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 128 - Why The Gosnell Movie Is Being Ignored By The Media

00:00:00.000 Coming 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.

00:00:08.000 Yet, the film is already being dropped from hundreds of theaters. Is it being blackballed?

00:00:13.520 Yes, of course. But why? Why is the left so terrified of Gosnell? Why is the media so terrified of Gosnell?

00:00:21.540 Well, we'll talk about that now. Stay tuned.

00:00:23.460 Oh, man. This is a tough day for me. It was tough waking up this morning and finding a reason to go on.

00:00:38.560 The Ravens lost yesterday. My Baltimore Ravens lost on a missed extra point. On a missed extra point in the final seconds of the game.

00:00:47.540 They'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.

00:00:53.940 Like 300 straight made extra point kicks. And this is the one that he decides to miss.

00:01:00.160 And 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.

00:01:10.060 And in a bit of an existential crisis, asking myself, what's the point of life? What's the point of anything?

00:01:16.300 And then my daughter comes in and she says, what's the matter, Daddy? Are you sad? You look sad.

00:01:24.020 And I said, I said, yes, I'm very sad. The Ravens lost on a missed extra point at the end of the game.

00:01:29.700 And 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.

00:01:35.560 And she said, what's a field goal? What's a touchdown? What's going for two?

00:01:38.540 And I said, please stop interrogating me. Can't you see that I'm that I'm traumatized here?

00:01:43.600 And she said, well, are you going to cry, Daddy? And I said, yes, I might cry.

00:01:49.180 I might cry. And she said, well, daddies don't cry.

00:01:54.220 No, 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.

00:02:01.800 Then they might cry. And then she said, and I'm not I'm going to quote her exactly.

00:02:05.460 OK, she said, that's silly, Daddy. That's silly to cry over football. Football is silly. 0.98

00:02:14.880 And 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.

00:02:21.100 It's not a decision you ever want to make as a parent, especially when your daughter is five years old.

00:02:24.820 But what else was I going to do? She's she's if she's going to go around saying things like that. 0.97

00:02:29.160 She's a threat to society. All right. 0.98

00:02:31.800 But 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.

00:02:42.640 All right. What I want to talk about. The the film about Kermit Gosnell has entered its its second week at the box office.

00:02:52.220 It entered its second week this past weekend. And despite only showing on 600 or so theaters in its first week,

00:02:59.300 and despite the limited budget and despite being ignored by the media, it completely it managed to crack the top 10 in its first week,

00:03:07.860 the top 10 at the box office, which is extremely impressive.

00:03:10.980 OK, to get into the top 10, given the situation. Now, keep this in mind when it comes to box office totals.

00:03:18.000 And 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.

00:03:26.280 Well, 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.

00:03:35.140 I mean, you can't avoid them. You know, for six months leading up to the movie coming out, the movies everywhere, everywhere you go.

00:03:41.540 You see it. You see previews of commercials and merchandise. And then it's on every single screen across the universe.

00:03:49.000 And so a movie like that, it has to be number one. It's got to be number one for two months.

00:03:53.220 If 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.

00:04:02.100 And 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.

00:04:17.360 But 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.

00:04:26.200 Well, 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.

00:04:35.180 And the movie studios paying millions of dollars to brainwash us into seeing the freaking thing.

00:04:42.020 So, of course, of course, it's number one. That's not impressive.

00:04:44.220 But 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.

00:04:55.820 Yet, as The Daily Wire reported this weekend, the film was dropped.

00:05:01.520 Again, 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.

00:05:09.880 This 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.

00:05:20.800 And many of those theaters dropped it after one week, which is unprecedented, which it's just it's unheard of.

00:05:27.180 Despite what anyone might want to say to try to come up with a rationale, this is unheard of.

00:05:32.360 This 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.

00:05:39.820 Usually 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.

00:05:49.420 Let 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,

00:05:56.000 the drop cannot be written off as a mere coincidence or, quote, business as usual.

00:05:59.940 Well, 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.

00:06:08.580 It 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.

00:06:16.500 It's hard not to believe it isn't about the content of the movie.

00:06:19.140 We have theaters that are dropping on the movie that are that are top theaters that are performing very well.

00:06:25.220 We've been the number six in a 15 plex theater and it gets dropped this week.

00:06:31.840 We've been number nine in a 30 plex and we're getting dropped this week.

00:06:35.320 So that's it's the number nine movie out of 30.

00:06:37.640 And they drop it. There are about 15, 15 theaters like that where typically you would not get dropped.

00:06:46.400 He says, I do recognize it's a crowded market marketplace because Halloween is is going to be a huge opening.

00:06:52.740 But it's very odd to me that you're within the top 10 and you're getting dropped out of a movie house.

00:06:59.100 The filmmakers have also received varying reports of theaters actively preventing customers from buying a ticket by not advertising the film

00:07:06.580 or declaring it sold out before capacity is reached.

00:07:09.660 While some of those situations may be the result of human error, Sullivan says the apparent blackballing is too consistent to be ignored.

00:07:16.540 And then he goes on to talk about how it's unprecedented.

00:07:22.140 And 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.

00:07:30.260 And then he talks about some stories of people that, you know, even in the theaters where it's being shown,

00:07:36.480 they're being prevented or it's being made difficult to buy tickets to the movie.

00:07:41.620 Now.

00:07:43.380 One 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

00:07:52.060 and how the Gosnell movie has been treated and the actual event itself before then.

00:07:57.320 But speaking of, you know, staying on the movie for just a minute,

00:08:01.540 we should also mention that hardly any media outlets even bothered to review the movie.

00:08:06.900 Rotten Tomatoes, which is a site that compiles movie reviews.

00:08:11.440 So you could go and see, you know, get a, get kind of an aggregated percentage score on how good the movie is,

00:08:21.600 even though the percentages are oftentimes very misleading.

00:08:24.780 But, um, it could only find 10 reviews for Gosnell across the entire internet.

00:08:30.380 It could find, it could find 10 reviews by comparison, the Halloween movie, which came out this weekend has over 200 reviews.

00:08:37.640 So that's 200 reviews to 10.

00:08:39.940 Now, obviously Gosnell isn't as big as a movie as Halloween, despite being scarier and having a more evil villain,

00:08:47.120 but, um, and a more prolific, uh, killer also at the core of the movie. 0.90

00:08:52.740 But still that disparity is ridiculous.

00:08:55.400 Only 10 reviews.

00:08:58.160 Whereas, you know, a movie will typically get a hundred, 150, 200 or more.

00:09:04.180 Um, that is not a coincidence.

00:09:05.620 As the marketing director of the film pointed out, this is not a coincidence.

00:09:08.420 There's an active decision being made to ignore this movie, to blackball this movie, uh, to censor this movie.

00:09:16.520 Now, can it be justified on any kind of practical level?

00:09:21.520 No.

00:09:22.060 As I said, the movie has been a success in spite of all this, uh, obviously showing that there's intense interest in the movie.

00:09:29.880 Um, the average movie, if it's only playing on 600 theaters and it's not getting any press and there's hardly any marketing,

00:09:37.940 the 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.

00:09:44.400 Um, but as I said, to pull in a million, get into the top 10, that shows that there is enormous interest in the movie.

00:09:52.000 Um, so you can't justify it on that.

00:09:54.100 You can't say, well, of course it's being ignored.

00:09:56.100 It's just a, you know, it's a movie nobody cares about.

00:09:58.200 People do care about it.

00:10:00.880 And then the story, you can't say, well, the story doesn't matter.

00:10:03.620 I mean, you know, it's, it's, I mean, it's, it's a, it's an irrelevant story.

00:10:09.120 That's why no, the story is very dramatic, very relevant, very current.

00:10:13.920 Um, Gosnell is, as the tagline of the movie correctly points out, Gosnell is the worst serial killer in American history.

00:10:23.020 Now 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.

00:10:36.500 Uh, but the total body count is, is, is much higher than that.

00:10:42.060 Um, Gosnell used scissors to sever the spinal cords of hundreds of live babies, hundreds, maybe even more, maybe thousands.

00:10:50.320 Um, 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.

00:11:03.120 Um, 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.

00:11:14.700 Um, 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.

00:11:24.800 Uh, to be clear, children were, I just think this needs to be emphasized.

00:11:30.620 Children were, were born alive outside the womb, fully formed.

00:11:37.340 These are born infants and then they were decapitated.

00:11:40.660 That's what was going on hundreds and hundreds of times over the course of 30 years.

00:11:47.760 There's a reason why this clinic was dubbed the house of horrors because it's not a cliche.

00:11:52.180 It really, it really was.

00:11:53.460 There were, um, quoting from, from a one medical student who saw it.

00:11:57.840 Uh, he said there were fetuses and blood all over the place.

00:12:02.520 Um, you could, another nurse reports that you could literally hear the screams of children who were born alive and then butchered.

00:12:11.380 So 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.

00:12:26.360 I mean, it's just carcasses and body parts were stored in, in shoe boxes, water jugs, break room, refrigerators.

00:12:34.480 Um, and this is to say nothing of the, of the unsanitary medical equipment, which caused disease and infection in the patient, patients.

00:12:42.160 Um, 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.

00:12:52.380 And then another woman died, at least one woman died as a result of this, of this malpractice.

00:12:57.780 Now, the point is, this is a significant story that deserves to be told, that should be told.

00:13:05.360 It'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.

00:13:15.680 I 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.

00:13:32.180 That's the way it would be, would be treated.

00:13:33.860 But this, because it's an abortionist, has always been treated as a non-story.

00:13:39.920 Uh, 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.

00:13:50.420 That'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.

00:13:59.460 Hundreds of dead babies, local crime story.

00:14:02.160 So, 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.

00:14:26.720 But that, you know, one, one person being killed, that, that wasn't treated as a local crime story.

00:14:32.420 Nobody said that was local crime.

00:14:34.120 The Washington Post was all over that.

00:14:38.440 Yet hundreds of babies being killed in a major American city in a, in an alleged, um, medical facility over the course of 30 years.

00:14:46.160 That's just local crime.

00:14:48.540 So why is this happening?

00:14:50.340 Um, why did the media ignore, why does it still ignore the Gosnell case?

00:14:54.760 Why does the left in general treat this like it never happened?

00:14:59.120 Why are they so terrified of Gosnell?

00:15:01.380 That's the question.

00:15:02.380 And I think there are three pretty obvious reasons that we'll get into.

00:15:07.420 Now, um, so why is this being ignored?

00:15:13.600 Number one, I think the Gosnell case really explodes one of the most common pro-abortion talking points,

00:15:21.500 which is namely that the prohibition of abortion will lead.

00:15:26.360 If you prohibit abortion, that's going to lead to horrific and unsanitary, uh, back alley abortions and so forth. 0.96

00:15:35.480 Now, that's what we're told.

00:15:38.080 You know, we're told you can't get rid of an abortion because then it's going to be this, 0.98

00:15:41.580 it's going to be a horror show where there's, uh, women, you know, getting abortions in these unsanitary conditions, 1.00

00:15:48.980 unsafe conditions, as, as if it's possible to safely, as if, as if it's ever possible to have a safe abortion,

00:15:55.140 which of course it isn't by definition, because by definition in every abortion,

00:15:59.440 in every successful abortion that's ever been performed, uh, at least one human being has been killed.

00:16:05.800 So there's no such thing as a safe abortion, but, um, those kinds of abortions that the pro-abort people worry about, 0.95

00:16:15.820 those kinds of abortions happened at Gosnell's clinic for 30 years, even though abortion is legal. 1.00

00:16:23.000 And I think a person who takes note of that fact, who says, well, hold on, this is exactly the kind of abortion

00:16:32.700 that I thought we were preventing by having abortion legal.

00:16:39.180 And so I think if you notice that, and then if you get really curious and you start investigating and you say,

00:16:44.540 well, I mean, is Gosnell really unique or have there been situations like this in other clinics across the country?

00:16:50.900 And if you investigate that, you're going to discover, no, Gosnell is not unique.

00:16:54.300 In fact, now he might be on the more, on the more severe end of the spectrum,

00:16:59.200 but in terms of unsanitary, unclean, just horrifically disgusting environments at, at, at abortion clinics,

00:17:07.460 you, you find that across the country. That is not unusual.

00:17:12.800 As well as, by the way, the baby's being killed after, um, after being born alive.

00:17:18.060 That is also not unusual. So a person who takes note of that fact may begin to understand that abortion

00:17:26.340 is a fundamentally dirty, unsafe, violent, gruesome thing. And you can't change that fact by making it

00:17:36.140 legal. So that's one reason why the case is ignored. Number two, on a political level, it is

00:17:43.640 impossible to report on this story without implicating the Democrat party. Philadelphia

00:17:49.040 is a city run by Democrats. And it was in that Democrat run city that a serial killer was able

00:17:54.460 to operate his enterprise for 30 years without interference. I mean, all you needed to do was

00:18:02.780 walk inside the building to see that something was terribly wrong. From all the reports that we've

00:18:08.940 heard, all the witnesses, all the people that worked there, all you had to do was walk inside

00:18:14.280 and you could see that something was very wrong. And if you actually walked past the lobby into back

00:18:20.340 where these things were happening, you would see dead humans in buckets and in jars, and you would see

00:18:27.440 all this stuff. Um, yet somehow city and state officials didn't notice for 30 years

00:18:36.080 or they did notice and they chose to look the other way. And I think clearly that's what happened.

00:18:43.380 Um, because either, either this, either this clinic was completely unregulated. Nobody checked on it.

00:18:50.640 It's allegedly a medical clinic, no regulation, no checking on it, nothing, no oversight, zero for 30

00:18:58.640 years, or there was some oversight. There was some regulation and those people chose to look the other

00:19:04.700 way. And so actually participated in a coverup. I mean, if the media had actually been interested

00:19:10.220 in doing its job, and again, this is why it didn't want to do its job here, but if it, if it actually

00:19:14.620 had decided to do its job and, and, and really dig into this and find out who knew about this, um,

00:19:21.440 there, there, this was not happening on an Island. There was obviously a coverup going on.

00:19:25.520 There were people in the government who had to know about it, had to, and chose to not do anything

00:19:30.320 about it. So how, how deep did that go? Well, we never found out because they ignored the story.

00:19:38.180 But I think the third thing most important, um, the most fundamental reason, the most kind of

00:19:47.380 visceral reason why this story is ignored is because this is abortion. I mean, this is what

00:19:54.700 Gosnell was doing is abortion. That's all. Yeah. He was doing it when the babies were born as opposed 0.52

00:20:02.840 to right before they were born. But this is abortion for all of the pretending that there 0.97

00:20:07.080 is some dramatic difference between regular old murder and abortion. When it comes down to it,

00:20:13.480 of course, killing an innocent, helpless human is killing an innocent, helpless human.

00:20:18.440 Murder is murder is murder is murder. After all, what is, what exactly is the substantive difference

00:20:27.080 between killing a baby moments after it leaves the birth canal and killing it moments before?

00:20:35.280 You know, you've got a baby who just emerged from the birth canal. The doctor is holding the child.

00:20:40.900 Rewind the clock, you know, a few seconds. What? And then, you know, if you rewind the clock and then

00:20:49.460 fast forward, you go back and forth. What is in between the emergence from the birth canal? What is

00:20:55.020 happening in that? So it's, it's a human being, you know, as soon as it comes out, it's a human being,

00:21:00.580 uh, uh, you know, a person, a human being deserving of rights and dignity and all that kind of stuff.

00:21:05.800 And right before that, it has none. Well, what exactly is happening? What magical, mystical

00:21:11.480 thing is happening as the baby comes out of the birth canal to change, to fundamentally change it

00:21:19.540 from a, from a worthless, pointless blob of, of, of lifeless tissue to a human being? I mean,

00:21:27.680 what exactly is happening? Well, the answer is nothing.

00:21:31.720 Um, the difference between the two is simply geographic. The difference is location.

00:21:41.900 Um, and that's what it comes down to. I think the proponent of abortion sees the Gosnell case and,

00:21:49.980 and thinks, yeah, I mean, I guess that's really not too different, is it? And he knows that. And so

00:21:57.940 he looks away and he turns away and he ignores, and he doesn't want to dwell on it. He doesn't want

00:22:04.760 to see abortion for what it is. And he doesn't want us to see, you know, I'm very glad that Kermit

00:22:17.220 Gosnell is in prison for the rest of his life. Um, that's what he deserves. He probably deserves

00:22:22.280 something even worse than that. Um, he certainly deserves something even worse than that, I should

00:22:28.140 say. But at the same time, you know, um, at the same time, the argument that he made in his defense

00:22:40.140 was a, was a pretty good argument. His argument was, well, I was just performing abortions,

00:22:46.540 which are legal. I'm, I'm no different from any other abortionist. And you know something,

00:22:51.560 he's right. And that's, and that's really why, why the left doesn't want us talking about Gosnell

00:22:56.860 because they know that he's right, that he's really no different from any other. You go to any,

00:23:02.980 any average, uh, Planned Parenthood, you go to any, any abortion clinic and the abortionists there,

00:23:07.920 they're no different from Gosnell. Yeah. Gosnell was, uh, was, uh, more unorthodox in his approach.

00:23:14.360 Um, he didn't care as much about hygiene and, and, and, uh, being sanitary, 0.75

00:23:19.600 but when it comes down to it, they're both killing babies for a living 0.85

00:23:23.040 and they both know that that's what they're doing. And I think that's why Gosnell didn't care. You

00:23:30.440 know, for him, he wasn't, uh, the baby comes out, he kills the baby. It didn't matter to him.

00:23:35.220 He'd already signed on to killing babies. He does it every day. That's what he's this way. He did it 1.00

00:23:39.020 every day for 30 years. Made no difference. He knows that there's no difference. And let me tell

00:23:45.640 you something. Every abortionist knows it because these people, although they are not legitimate

00:23:51.340 doctors at all, they're the opposite. They're literally the opposite of doctors. Doctors take

00:23:55.660 the Hippocratic oath, do no harm. And all they do is harm. That's their whole, that's their whole life.

00:24:01.180 That's what they've dedicated their life to, to harming children. But, um, they do have medical

00:24:05.820 training and they do have scientific medical knowledge. And so they know, they absolutely know

00:24:12.780 that what Gosnell did is no different from what they do. It is exactly the same.

00:24:22.560 Which is why every abortionist should be locked in a prison cell. 1.00

00:24:25.840 Um, and that's, uh, simply a, a, an observation and a conversation that pro-abortion people don't

00:24:37.220 want to have. And so they just ignore it. It's, you know, there's nothing that that's, that's,

00:24:44.000 that's the incredible thing with Gosnell this whole time. It's like, it's not like the left

00:24:49.000 ever came up with some narrative to explain away Gosnell. It's not like they, no, they just

00:24:55.160 ignored it. They knew, and they know now there's nothing they can say in defense. They know that

00:25:01.880 this case is bad for them and for their whole worldview, their whole philosophy, their ideology,

00:25:07.260 everything. They know it's terrible for them. And so they just say nothing about, these are the

00:25:11.760 people that say everything that have, that have something to say about everything on this case.

00:25:15.940 They just say nothing. That's how terrified they are of it. And that's why you should go out and

00:25:21.900 support the movie if you haven't. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 22, 2018

Ep. 128 - Why The Gosnell Movie Is Being Ignored By The Media

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