The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1298 - It's Time To Unite Against The Real Enemy

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Ron DeSantis is out of the Republican primary, which means the primary is effectively over.

00:00:05.160 It's time for conservatives to unite to fight the real enemy, and we got a look at how evil that enemy is over the weekend

00:00:10.000 when Joy Reid on MSNBC passionately defended putting books with graphic, horrific sexual content in schools.

00:00:16.420 Also, a reporter asks Dana White what kind of leash he puts on his fighters to stop them from saying transphobic things, quote-unquote.

00:00:22.900 The conversation does not go well for the reporter, and Nikki Haley claims that she was persecuted daily as a child for her brown skin,

00:00:29.180 which raises a few questions such as, what brown skin?

00:00:32.380 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:01:00.040 This episode is brought to you by Preborn.

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00:01:08.940 When Governor Ron DeSantis abruptly canceled his media appearances over the weekend,

00:01:12.800 it led to a lot of speculation that he'd be ending his presidential campaign.

00:01:17.140 And sure enough, on Sunday, that's exactly what happened.

00:01:19.420 Facing the prospect of a distant third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, DeSantis bowed out and endorsed Donald Trump.

00:01:26.200 Now, on one hand, the disappointment from DeSantis' supporters, of which I was one and am one, is understandable.

00:01:33.200 He's a fantastic governor who's more effective at advancing conservative policies than any other politician alive today.

00:01:40.100 There's just no doubting that.

00:01:41.720 The track record is clear.

00:01:42.720 At the same time, there's also no question that it's a good thing that the primary effectively ended this weekend,

00:01:48.600 as opposed to an even more protracted war of infighting among conservatives that leads always to the inevitable conclusion anyway,

00:01:57.520 with millions more dollars wasted on pointless attack ads and everything else.

00:02:01.900 We're not going to do that.

00:02:02.860 Donald Trump will be the party's nominee.

00:02:04.360 And that's going to be the case, no matter how often Nikki Haley, who's still in the race,

00:02:09.260 reminds us that she's a woman of color and that she's also a person of color and a woman,

00:02:14.040 and she was bullied for being brown on the mean streets of Orangeburg, South Carolina. 0.79

00:02:18.660 But more on that later.

00:02:20.440 This thing is over.

00:02:21.540 And that means that the right can unite against its real enemies.

00:02:25.980 And the real enemies are the powerful forces in our society who hate this country,

00:02:32.000 who despise its people, and who seek to destroy our families and corrupt our children. 0.98

00:02:38.420 And one of the clearest examples of this effort is the sheer scale and dishonesty of the left's fraudulent war

00:02:45.940 against what they call book bans.

00:02:48.480 As City Journal has noted, politicians at every level of government,

00:02:51.260 from Governor Chris Sununu in New Hampshire to former Representative Liz Cheney in Wyoming,

00:02:55.980 they all have claimed that schools are censoring classic reading materials,

00:03:00.780 particularly in school libraries, at the behest of the Republican Party.

00:03:04.000 Joe Biden has even appointed a book ban coordinator to pursue civil rights cases

00:03:08.880 against libraries that offend the LGBTQ cult with their censorship, their alleged censorship.

00:03:14.760 Biden also launched his re-election bid eight months ago with a video falsely implying

00:03:20.980 that Florida had banned the book To Kill a Mockingbird, which simply was not true.

00:03:25.300 Of course it wasn't true, as even the Associated Press later had to admit.

00:03:29.280 The truth is that this campaign against book bans is nothing more than a crusade

00:03:32.720 to put pornography in schools.

00:03:36.020 That's been clear for a while now.

00:03:37.660 We've all seen the footage of parents repeatedly getting thrown out of school board meetings

00:03:41.120 just for reading passages from the pornographic books in their children's school libraries.

00:03:46.680 So these are books that are in the school libraries that you can't even read out loud

00:03:50.180 at a school board meeting because they're too graphic.

00:03:53.220 Dozens of those videos are out there at this point.

00:03:56.940 And this is about exposing children to smut.

00:04:00.020 And, you know, everyone can clearly see that.

00:04:01.860 Anybody with a brain and who's honest can see that.

00:04:04.740 What's changed is that now, with the election rapidly approaching,

00:04:07.820 the forces pushing this degeneracy are emboldened.

00:04:11.460 They're dropping the pretense that they're worried about discrimination

00:04:14.260 or teaching history or whatever.

00:04:16.000 They are, at this point, all but coming right out and saying

00:04:19.060 that they want to expose children to pornographic materials.

00:04:22.820 And they're doing it with the express support of the largest media conglomerates on the planet.

00:04:27.040 Now, if you doubt that, I want you to watch this remarkable footage from MSNBC the other day.

00:04:31.940 This is from Joy Reid's show.

00:04:33.860 And speaking of remarkable, it remains one of the great marvels of the world that Joy Reid,

00:04:38.900 despite being viscerally unpleasant to listen to or look at,

00:04:42.360 and despite having nothing important to say and having never offered an even mildly interesting

00:04:47.060 insight into any topic ever in her entire life,

00:04:49.960 still has a show that, for yet another week, has not been canceled.

00:04:53.620 Then again, this is MSNBC. 0.99

00:04:54.960 I mean, they specialize in giving extraordinarily annoying and unappealing and stupid people TV shows. 0.99

00:05:00.700 Al Sharpton still has a show on that network, after all, last I checked. 0.99

00:05:04.660 Although I've never really checked, to be honest.

00:05:06.660 Anyway, back to Joy Reid.

00:05:07.600 So she was interviewing the co-founder of the group Moms for Liberty,

00:05:11.060 which is, and the group is co-founded by a woman named Tiffany Justice.

00:05:15.040 Now, before I show you the clip, here's the backstory.

00:05:18.800 What's bothering MSNBC is that Moms for Liberty does not want a book called 1.00

00:05:22.480 All Boys Aren't Blue, a memoir manifesto written by LGBTQ activist George Johnson

00:05:29.020 to be available for children to check out from school libraries.

00:05:32.700 This is a book that includes descriptions of anal rape and incest,

00:05:36.780 which are too graphic for me to read on the air.

00:05:39.520 And this is the disadvantage that we find ourselves in when it comes to this issue,

00:05:43.640 which is that you really need to hear specifically what's in these books

00:05:49.020 to fully appreciate just how deranged these people are for wanting to put these books in schools.

00:05:56.060 But the material is so objectionable and disgusting and embarrassing

00:05:58.940 that I simply will not read it out loud.

00:06:01.560 So, you know, I mean, you can look it up for yourself and see.

00:06:04.920 But suffice it to say that the book contains very, very detailed accounts of rape, sodomy,

00:06:10.380 and other things that you really don't want your kids reading about.

00:06:15.780 And there are, look, there are hundreds of thousands of books in circulation

00:06:21.260 that do not have any of that sort of content.

00:06:24.680 Okay, so there's just no reason why this book, especially, of all books, needs to be in a school library.

00:06:34.100 As I've tried to explain in the past, almost every book that's ever been written

00:06:38.160 will not be in any school library or in any school at all.

00:06:42.860 You know, like, because there's so many books.

00:06:45.260 So no matter what, you're choosing a very small, like, thimble-sized portion

00:06:51.080 of all the books that have ever been written to be in your school.

00:06:55.440 All the other books are not going to be there.

00:06:58.600 And so when you decide that this book in particular needs to be in the school,

00:07:07.040 when you've got all these other books available, it really raises a lot of questions about your motives.

00:07:14.640 I shouldn't really say they're not really questions.

00:07:16.160 I mean, we know what your motives are.

00:07:17.880 So this is a book that, according to local reports,

00:07:20.300 is available in the young adult nonfiction section of two libraries in Huntsville, Alabama.

00:07:25.140 These sections are for children between the ages of 12 and 18,

00:07:27.840 which is roughly in line with the publisher's age recommendation for this book.

00:07:31.820 And according to Moms for Liberty, there are records of a child as young as nine

00:07:35.460 checking out All Boys Aren't Blue from the library.

00:07:39.160 What's incredible is that in this interview, Joy Reid does not dispute anything about the content of the book

00:07:43.720 or how obscene it is.

00:07:45.400 She doesn't concede that maybe nine-year-old children shouldn't be reading this.

00:07:49.740 Instead, she goes out of her way to defend the book.

00:07:52.500 Joy Reid begins by complaining that parents are going online and sharing passages from the book

00:07:57.360 that she says are somehow taken out of context.

00:08:00.820 And then she makes a very familiar argument from there.

00:08:03.540 Watch.

00:08:03.800 The question I'm asking is, what is the expertise that you have and other Moms for Liberty advocates have 0.99

00:08:11.740 to decide that a book, an award-winning book like All Boys Aren't Blue,

00:08:15.940 isn't appropriate for students to read?

00:08:18.460 What is your expertise?

00:08:18.940 What a tragic story of a young man who's anally raped by his adult family member. 0.99

00:08:23.800 So you have incest, rape, pedophilia. 0.93

00:08:26.200 Joy, you said you'd let me answer, so I'm going to answer for you. 0.99

00:08:28.740 In what context is a strap-on dildo acceptable for public school?

00:08:33.680 Just, I mean, that's my question to you. 0.98

00:08:36.020 Tell me what the context around the strap-on dildo or the rape of a minor child by a teacher. 0.98

00:08:42.380 Hold on a second. 0.99

00:08:43.040 No, no, no.

00:08:43.440 We're talking about public school.

00:08:45.140 One moment.

00:08:45.680 All right.

00:08:46.020 So now you've asked me questions.

00:08:47.320 Sure.

00:08:47.720 And I'm going to answer it.

00:08:48.680 Okay.

00:08:49.000 Well, who is the main character?

00:08:50.100 What's the name of the main character in All Boys Aren't Blue?

00:08:52.980 You're asking me right now.

00:08:54.060 You just gave me very specific information about this book, so you're presenting yourself

00:08:58.380 as somebody expert.

00:08:59.540 It's the gentleman.

00:08:59.960 Hold on.

00:09:00.760 Who's the main character in the book?

00:09:01.960 The main character is the author.

00:09:03.460 Who's the, what's his name?

00:09:04.800 George, I believe is his first name.

00:09:06.400 Because you're giving me very specific information that is presenting yourself as an expert.

00:09:08.500 You're asking me to remember the name of an author.

00:09:10.520 You just remembered very specific things.

00:09:12.100 Joy.

00:09:12.560 Here's my question.

00:09:13.380 You're talking about strap.

00:09:14.140 You didn't answer my question.

00:09:15.240 I'm going to answer your question.

00:09:16.400 Great.

00:09:16.720 I would love to hear that.

00:09:17.520 Absolutely.

00:09:17.840 Well, I'm interviewing you and you're not interviewing me, so let's just make sure it's 1.00

00:09:21.000 a conversation, okay?

00:09:22.080 Okay, sure.

00:09:22.520 So what I'm saying to you is that as you are not an expert in this book-

00:09:26.640 I don't have to be an expert to know that dildos aren't appropriate for public school. 1.00

00:09:30.020 I mean, come on, let's get real.

00:09:33.200 Yeah, and she never really gets around to an answer, by the way.

00:09:35.740 Because, of course, there is no way to answer that. 0.97

00:09:37.020 Like, what's the context for anal rape or strap-on dildo, as was asked, that would make 0.99

00:09:43.300 it acceptable for a child? 0.99

00:09:44.480 What context makes that okay?

00:09:46.940 You freak. 1.00

00:09:47.840 You disgusting freak. 1.00

00:09:50.280 Like, that we even have to ask you that question? 0.99

00:09:54.140 It's like, I applaud Tiffany Justice for being able to contain her disgust to the level that 0.63

00:10:02.500 she does.

00:10:03.640 I find very impressive.

00:10:05.140 I would not be able to do that. 1.00

00:10:07.400 Because you, Joy Reid, are just an awful, awful person. 0.99

00:10:12.780 And it's just evil. 1.00

00:10:16.640 Like, evil to your freaking core that you want to expose this to kids. 0.97

00:10:21.280 But all she has is, well, she says, you're not an expert, unlike whoever gave this pornographic 0.98

00:10:25.860 book an award.

00:10:27.020 They're the experts. 0.99

00:10:27.800 So therefore, shut up. 0.98

00:10:28.620 You don't have to, you don't get to have an opinion. 0.99

00:10:30.940 That's what she's saying.

00:10:32.340 Now, you may have noticed that it's become, of course, a common rhetorical tactic on the

00:10:35.840 left, whether they're talking about climate change or transgenderism or book bans or pretty

00:10:39.300 much anything, in the absence of any guiding moral principles, they're now fully reliant

00:10:44.620 on the expert class to the point that they can't think for themselves anymore about anything.

00:10:49.680 And they don't want you to think for yourself either.

00:10:52.320 It's just a reflex now.

00:10:53.360 What do the experts say?

00:10:54.620 The experts about what?

00:10:56.060 We're at the point where they don't want you to object to pornography in the children's

00:11:01.040 section without first getting an expert's approval.

00:11:04.560 I mean, just think about that for a moment. 0.96

00:11:05.500 Joy Reid is claiming that you cannot object to children being exposed to books about anal 0.94

00:11:09.720 rape unless you are an expert, which raises the question, Joy, expert in what?

00:11:15.220 Like, what the hell kind of expert do you need to be to understand the simple common sense

00:11:19.860 fact that 12-year-olds don't need to be reading graphic sexual content? 0.69

00:11:24.840 I mean, how long until they tell you you're not allowed to object to full-on child pornography

00:11:28.860 or pedophilia unless you are an expert?

00:11:31.800 Based on their logic at this rate, it probably won't be long.

00:11:35.740 In fact, that's basically where we are right now.

00:11:38.440 Of course, in that clip, Joy takes this approach to a new level of absurdity when she demands 1.00

00:11:42.980 that Tiffany Justice name the author of the book, All Boys Aren't Blue. 0.98

00:11:47.060 And I mean, it's the dumbest gotcha I've ever seen. 0.95

00:11:50.080 And I guess because Justice couldn't provide the guy's full name quickly enough, we're supposed 0.96

00:11:53.500 to conclude that she's not an expert in the book.

00:11:56.020 You don't need to be an expert in this.

00:11:57.480 And therefore, she's excluded from having an opinion on the topic.

00:12:02.140 Because, you know, you can't object to children being exposed to sexual content unless you can

00:12:06.620 give the full name of the person who created the sexual content. 0.99

00:12:10.280 Makes total sense if you have brain damage.

00:12:14.040 And speaking of brain damage, what follows from Joy Reid next, as you probably would have

00:12:17.060 guessed, is the usual disingenuous parental rights argument.

00:12:20.980 The idea is that parents should be able to expose their children to whatever they want,

00:12:24.080 and reasonable people shouldn't be allowed to step in and prevent that.

00:12:28.000 And these people don't give a damn about parental rights in any context, except when it's parents

00:12:33.220 who want to expose their kids to sexual content or parents who want to mutilate and castrate 0.75

00:12:38.860 their kids.

00:12:39.280 So those are the only times that these demons care about parental rights.

00:12:44.920 Let's watch.

00:12:45.340 Why is it your right, or a Moms for Liberty activist's right, to say that a parent who

00:12:52.480 wants their child to have access to this book, which gives a personal experience of this

00:12:57.380 author, that why doesn't a liberal parent, for instance, or a parent of an LGBTQ kid,

00:13:03.320 why don't they have a right for their child to just have access to this book?

00:13:06.860 Why is it your right to say they can't?

00:13:08.280 So, again, we're talking about incest, rape, and pedophilia.

00:13:12.020 And each parent has to decide what is appropriate for their child to read.

00:13:18.980 So I want you to answer.

00:13:20.080 I'm going to ask you one more time.

00:13:21.460 What is your right to tell a parent who wants their child, who might feel seen by this story,

00:13:28.100 why don't they have the right?

00:13:29.700 Why don't they have the right, as a parent, to say, my child can have access to this book?

00:13:34.200 If a child feels seen by this story, that means that they have been the victim of a predator.

00:13:40.220 That means that they have either been raped by a family member, they've experienced rape.

00:13:46.040 And your proof of that is what?

00:13:47.340 You just said that if a child feels seen by this story.

00:13:50.900 So to recap, the conversation began with Joy suggesting that the context of the book makes

00:13:55.060 it acceptable somehow, but she never explained what context would justify showing a child

00:13:59.100 a graphic description of anal rape and incest.

00:14:01.520 So now she circles back to original point in a roundabout way.

00:14:04.560 She implies that some children could benefit from reading the story because they'd feel

00:14:07.420 seen and represented in the pages.

00:14:10.260 And if parents want to encourage that, then we're supposed to go along with it.

00:14:13.860 Now, she actually says all that.

00:14:15.260 You heard it yourself.

00:14:15.940 And again, just to be clear, this is not a book that encourages kids to take up sports

00:14:19.460 or solve mysteries or learn about space flight or something. 0.97

00:14:23.100 This book is exposing children as young as nine years old to graphic scenes of anal rape. 0.85

00:14:27.140 And according to the corporate press, children should read books like this.

00:14:30.060 And, you know, see themselves in the books.

00:14:35.020 As Tiffany Justice pointed out, the implications of that are pretty dark, to say the least.

00:14:39.160 This gets to the heart of what this whole debate is about, which is the left's attempt to legitimize

00:14:42.820 deviant sexual contact with children.

00:14:45.300 I mean, it's not hard to conclude that the reason they want to show children these books 0.76

00:14:49.340 about graphic underage sex is that they see no problem with children engaging in this kind

00:14:54.180 of behavior.

00:14:55.760 And that could be why, throughout this whole interview, Joy never once condemns the content

00:15:00.120 of the book.

00:15:00.660 She doesn't say that some children probably shouldn't read it.

00:15:02.880 I mean, she wouldn't even concede that.

00:15:04.000 She wouldn't concede anything.

00:15:05.560 Instead, she falls back on this idea that parental rights are absolute and we should never be

00:15:09.180 able to dictate what other parents can and can't do.

00:15:11.400 Even though, again, she doesn't give a damn about parental rights in any other context.

00:15:15.620 But notice the incoherence of this argument.

00:15:18.320 Because first, Joy says that no one can have an opinion about this book unless they're an 1.00

00:15:22.120 expert.

00:15:23.200 And they've read it cover to cover and they can name the author's full name and give

00:15:26.380 his date of birth and social security number.

00:15:28.620 And a few minutes later, Joy says that every parent should have the right to show their kids

00:15:31.840 this book and their decision must be respected no matter what.

00:15:34.340 So this is what's called a contradiction.

00:15:35.860 And people who understand basic principles of logic can spot it right away.

00:15:39.300 But people like Joy and the rest of the corporate press are too concerned with ideology to bother

00:15:43.760 with principles or logic or anything else.

00:15:45.860 And that's why, rather than present any kind of argument for why children need to read about 0.94

00:15:50.460 anal sex, Joy concludes the interview by launching into bizarre personal attacks on 0.99

00:15:56.180 Moms for Liberty. 1.00

00:15:57.340 Watch.

00:15:58.440 Let me ask about the people who are making the decision for their parents, because you have

00:16:02.360 not answered yet why a liberal parent or an African-American parent can't.

00:16:05.640 We have parents who are Democrats who are members of our organization.

00:16:08.280 But you're still trying to make decisions for all the kids.

00:16:10.900 Here are some of the parents that are filing or some of the your advocates.

00:16:15.840 Bridget Ziegler, the Moms for Liberty co-founder, the wife of the recently ousted Florida Republican

00:16:21.360 Party chairman, Christian Ziegler, who allegedly was involved in threesomes, same-sex threesomes.

00:16:27.720 Mrs. Ziegler was removed from the school board at which she was a leader.

00:16:32.500 She wasn't removed from the school board.

00:16:33.960 OK, you have Lauren DePaola. 0.86

00:16:36.360 She was making book ban requests in Alachua County.

00:16:39.840 But then records show that she and her husband didn't live there.

00:16:42.060 They'd sold their home in that county.

00:16:43.900 Carrie Blair in Tennessee, who was arrested for property theft charges after allegedly stealing 0.97

00:16:51.120 from Target, skip scanning and Target.

00:16:53.220 Why should those three people get to make decisions about what other children should be 0.65

00:16:57.700 able to read?

00:16:58.280 Other parents' children should be able to read.

00:17:00.060 Now, I have no idea if any of those allegations are true.

00:17:03.920 And by the way, if you really want to play this game, Joy, do you want to go down the

00:17:07.160 list of all the pedophiles and sexual abusers in the public school system?

00:17:12.020 OK, let's find all the teachers and administrators that support this kind of stuff. 0.94

00:17:15.900 And you want to go, you want to find a list of all the sexual abuse inflicted by those

00:17:20.840 people?

00:17:23.700 So, you know, I don't know if that's true.

00:17:26.780 From what Tiffany Justice says, they seem shaky.

00:17:28.560 But honestly, it doesn't matter.

00:17:30.500 This is a painfully transparent attempt to distract from the issue that this whole interview

00:17:34.120 was about.

00:17:34.780 I mean, even if all that's true, even if Moms for Liberty is full of the worst people 0.99

00:17:38.780 on the planet.

00:17:40.080 OK, and that's not even like what she said that one of them, one of them didn't like stole

00:17:45.260 from Target and didn't scan.

00:17:46.360 Like, what the hell does that have to do with anything?

00:17:48.180 But even if they're all serial killers and Nazis and supervillains, does that suddenly 0.99

00:17:53.880 make it appropriate to supply children with reading material about anal rape? 0.99

00:17:58.800 Like, is that what you're saying? 0.97

00:18:00.900 So when a woman says, you know, I don't think that kids should be reading books about anal 0.99

00:18:05.580 rape, your response is, well, yeah, but you stole from Target. 1.00

00:18:12.500 What does that have to do with anything?

00:18:15.220 It makes no sense.

00:18:16.360 But this is all Joy Reid can do.

00:18:17.640 She doesn't want to talk about the books or why she wants children to read them.

00:18:20.840 Instead, she just wants to attack the people who are pointing out what's in these books.

00:18:24.940 I mean, it's hard to put into words the depths of the evil that is on display here.

00:18:29.700 This isn't just one race hustler in MSNBC talking like this.

00:18:32.520 It's pretty much all of the corporate press, along with the Biden administration, all the

00:18:36.660 powerful institutions who are committed to pushing this smut in schools. 0.97

00:18:40.300 It's going to take an equally forceful, concerted effort to stop them from succeeding.

00:18:45.220 And this month, lawmakers in Florida introduced a bill that represents a really good start.

00:18:49.040 Legislation would ban teachers and government employees from displaying the so-called pride

00:18:53.120 rainbow flag or associated lapel pins in public buildings and schools for obvious reasons.

00:18:58.060 The flag is a symbol of a radical religious cult that's specifically used to target children

00:19:02.400 and indoctrinate them into an ideology that seeks at every turn to sexualize and corrupt 0.96

00:19:06.600 them.

00:19:06.840 And soon, if the bill passes, that symbol, which became omnipresent sometime in the past

00:19:11.460 decade, will be gone.

00:19:13.660 Now, it's simple and effective proposals like this that have made Florida under Ron DeSantis

00:19:17.140 an attractive state for conservative families to live in.

00:19:21.140 He's not campaigning for president anymore, but he's still going to be a leader in this fight,

00:19:25.360 which could not be more urgent at this point.

00:19:27.380 And what's needed now, especially as the primary effectively comes to a close, is for every

00:19:32.640 conservative to unite and join in the fight against this evil.

00:19:39.360 Let's get to our five headlines.

00:19:46.820 During the Sanctity of Life Month, we honor the 65 million babies whose lives have been tragically

00:19:51.720 ended through abortion.

00:19:52.640 Since the overturning of Roe, babies' lives are at an even greater risk.

00:19:56.080 It's been reported that abortion, the abortion bill accounts for over 50% of all abortions,

00:20:00.500 making this tragedy available 24-7.

00:20:02.680 I was just kind of like, Lord, if this is, you know, if this is the way, you know, let

00:20:07.440 me know.

00:20:07.780 If this is not the way, give me a sign, you know, before I walk through these doors.

00:20:11.560 And I was, as I was getting ready to walk up the steps and touch the doorknob, you know,

00:20:16.220 a guardian angel.

00:20:17.180 And he just told me, he was like, baby, you don't have to go in there.

00:20:20.260 And he was like, I know someone that can help him.

00:20:22.120 Just to see the development of a baby that small.

00:20:25.020 And I say baby because, I mean, he had little arms and legs.

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00:20:59.200 Well, as mentioned, Ron DeSantis has ended his campaign.

00:21:03.060 Here he is on Sunday making the announcement.

00:21:06.720 Listen.

00:21:08.000 Now, over the past many months, Casey and I have traveled across the country to deliver

00:21:12.140 a message of hope that decline is a choice and that we can, in fact, succeed again as

00:21:17.620 a nation.

00:21:18.640 Nobody worked harder and we left it all out on the field.

00:21:22.460 Now, following our second place finish in Iowa, we've prayed and deliberated on the way

00:21:26.460 forward.

00:21:27.380 If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more

00:21:32.800 interviews, I would do it.

00:21:34.820 But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we

00:21:39.640 don't have a clear path to victory.

00:21:41.280 Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign.

00:21:45.240 I'm proud to have delivered on 100% of my promises, and I will not stop now.

00:21:50.680 It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another

00:21:54.720 chance.

00:21:55.660 They watch his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using law

00:22:00.800 fair this day to attack him.

00:22:02.980 Well, I've had disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation

00:22:07.980 of Anthony Fauci.

00:22:09.060 Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden.

00:22:12.860 That is clear.

00:22:14.280 I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge.

00:22:19.180 He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear,

00:22:24.240 a repackage formed of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.

00:22:28.660 The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology

00:22:35.760 are over.

00:22:37.200 Okay, so the only thing surprising about this development is sort of the number of people

00:22:42.820 who appear to be surprised by it.

00:22:45.700 I think this was entirely foreseeable and inevitable.

00:22:48.960 DeSantis, if he had any shot to win, any long shot to win the presidency or win the nomination,

00:22:55.860 it had to begin with a convincing win in Iowa, and that didn't happen.

00:22:59.580 Instead, it was a convincing defeat.

00:23:00.900 And so that was that, you know, time to get out.

00:23:03.920 DeSantis is not the kind of guy who stays in and drags it on for months, refusing to

00:23:09.160 let go after that first defeat.

00:23:12.360 One of the things I like about his leadership style is that he's decisive, and he was here,

00:23:17.800 and that's good.

00:23:18.600 So the Republican primary is over.

00:23:20.220 Nikki Haley is still in, sure, but she doesn't really count.

00:23:22.420 She's not a conservative.

00:23:23.140 She's not going to win.

00:23:23.740 And, you know, it's over.

00:23:26.640 It's time to move on.

00:23:27.760 And, you know, like I said, I'm happy to move on.

00:23:31.820 I supported DeSantis.

00:23:33.140 I like DeSantis.

00:23:33.900 I think he would have made a great president.

00:23:36.560 But I think he would have run circles around Biden also in the general election.

00:23:42.100 But if that was not going to happen, then I'm happy the primary is over, and it's not

00:23:47.840 going to be this whole long, protracted thing, because, you know, I've just, partially it

00:23:52.560 is in my old age, maybe.

00:23:54.140 I've lost my taste for conservative infighting.

00:23:58.140 I just don't like it.

00:23:59.480 I don't like it when we're at each other's throats.

00:24:01.460 In a primary, it's inevitable.

00:24:04.140 But I would much prefer to all be on the same page, united against our common enemy.

00:24:10.000 And I'm hopeful that will happen now.

00:24:14.260 I think it will.

00:24:15.220 Well, and I'm not sure how much value there is in going into a whole postmortem of the

00:24:20.300 DeSantis campaign.

00:24:21.280 You've probably already heard it from a million other people.

00:24:25.120 There's no reason to harp on it for very long.

00:24:26.980 I would just offer a few thoughts in that vein.

00:24:29.560 And first, the dominant view, one thing I do want to say is that you've got this dominant

00:24:34.520 view, is that DeSantis never should have run in the first place.

00:24:38.300 It was a huge mistake for him to run.

00:24:40.420 The campaign was a mistake from the start.

00:24:45.220 And I understand that view.

00:24:47.240 It's probably true that nobody was going to beat Trump, especially once he was indicted.

00:24:53.540 At that point, it was basically over, if not before that.

00:24:57.280 But I also think that this was DeSantis' time.

00:25:03.000 You know, it's easy for people to say, well, we'll just wait until 2028.

00:25:05.280 But he's the most effective, popular, and talked about governor in the country now.

00:25:10.440 Not in four years.

00:25:12.340 He's going to be term limited out of the governor, out of that position, out of the governor's

00:25:16.840 mansion before we get to 2028.

00:25:19.180 And so right now, that was the case.

00:25:23.020 Like, this was the case right now.

00:25:25.100 And politics is all about timing.

00:25:26.940 So you might say that this was DeSantis' time.

00:25:29.380 The only problem is that Trump is still on the stage.

00:25:32.800 So DeSantis' time came when Trump's time had not yet ended.

00:25:37.480 And that was the problem.

00:25:40.000 That's sort of the tragedy of it for DeSantis.

00:25:41.640 But, you know, it's easy enough to say, in hindsight, well, he never should have run.

00:25:46.640 But I also don't think that, even though I don't like the inviting, I'm happy there's

00:25:54.860 not going to be a protracted, you know, Mars slog to the inevitable end, which I think many

00:26:00.100 people are worried about.

00:26:02.720 All that is the case.

00:26:03.680 But at the same time, I also don't think that we should have just had a coronation where

00:26:08.500 there's not even, like, an attempt to do any kind of campaign at all, you know.

00:26:13.860 So I just don't know if I can jump on board.

00:26:17.260 Not that it matters now.

00:26:19.140 But all the people saying he never should have run, I'm not sure that I can jump on board

00:26:22.040 with that.

00:26:23.160 Was the DeSantis campaign a disaster?

00:26:26.720 Again, a lot of people seem to think so.

00:26:29.020 I do think he made some significant mistakes.

00:26:31.280 I've talked about some of those during the campaign.

00:26:33.300 It was not a perfect campaign.

00:26:34.240 But then again, I'm not sure there is a perfect campaign against Donald Trump.

00:26:36.880 There's no perfect campaign in general.

00:26:38.500 But there's especially not when you're running against Trump.

00:26:41.220 So, you know, yeah, I can point out the flaws.

00:26:45.600 As many people have pointed out the flaws.

00:26:48.460 Could I devise one that would actually win?

00:26:51.180 And for all the people out there that are saying, oh, he did it the whole wrong way.

00:26:54.540 What would have been the winning campaign?

00:26:55.960 Did you have the secret this whole time that you could have done it?

00:27:00.040 Probably not.

00:27:00.800 Because the big central question for the situation DeSantis was in was always going to be, what

00:27:10.180 do you do about Trump?

00:27:11.480 Do you go after him aggressively?

00:27:13.560 Do you try to saddle up next to him and kind of play nice and be an ally?

00:27:18.060 Do you try to ignore him entirely?

00:27:20.100 Pretend he doesn't exist?

00:27:20.940 Well, we've seen examples in this very primary of candidates trying all three of those approaches

00:27:27.820 and they've all lost.

00:27:31.020 Of course, Christie went after Trump aggressively.

00:27:33.860 Vivek positioned himself as a Trump ally.

00:27:36.480 You had plenty of candidates who were basically ignoring Trump as most they could.

00:27:39.340 DeSantis at first did ignore him kind of and then went after him.

00:27:42.180 Um, I, you know, that's, that's, those are really the only three options for, I mean,

00:27:48.240 broadly speaking, there's only three ways you can go about it.

00:27:51.780 There are different ways of approaching each of those strategies, but those are the three

00:27:55.440 strategies.

00:27:55.940 I don't know if there's a fourth one and we saw people try all three and it just didn't,

00:28:00.240 it didn't matter.

00:28:01.160 Um, no matter what, it proved hopeless.

00:28:02.540 It's like, it's like debating over the best strategy for wrestling a gorilla, a gorilla.

00:28:06.320 You know, it's like, maybe there are strategies for wrestling a gorilla that are less bad than

00:28:10.560 other strategies, but there's no good strategy.

00:28:13.420 You're probably going to lose no matter what.

00:28:14.900 Um, and, uh, so that's the situation where they're in.

00:28:19.140 And, you know, one other thing I wanted to say is that I've seen some commentary online.

00:28:24.580 Uh, some people commenting on the fact that in the video we just played of him announcing

00:28:28.440 his, that he was dropping out, that DeSantis oddly seemed looser and kind of happier than

00:28:34.060 he has the whole campaign.

00:28:36.420 And I kind of noted that too, before I read anyone else saying that.

00:28:38.980 And I saw all the people that picked up on that and, you know, I can't read the guy's

00:28:42.240 mind.

00:28:42.580 It's possible that we're just, uh, imagining things, but I did think the same, the same

00:28:47.100 thing.

00:28:47.480 And, um, and I think it definitely is true that DeSantis seemed on the campaign trail,

00:28:54.040 like he didn't want to be there, like he didn't want to campaign, um, kind of awkward and

00:28:57.900 reluctant on the campaign trail.

00:29:00.120 And, uh, now he does seem, at least in that video, he seemed a little bit more relieved.

00:29:04.360 Again, this is me psychoanalyzing him.

00:29:06.140 I could be totally wrong, but if there's any truth to that, then I think it's because

00:29:10.000 DeSantis, from what I can pick up about him and read about him, I don't think he loves

00:29:17.620 being a politician.

00:29:19.300 Um, I don't think he desperately wanted to be president.

00:29:22.360 He obviously wanted to be president.

00:29:23.840 He ran for president, but I never sensed in him this kind of like single-minded, obsessive

00:29:28.920 ambition to be president, like the Hillary Clinton thing, where I have to be president

00:29:33.200 no matter what, um, as if it's the only thing he's ever wanted his whole life.

00:29:38.800 Uh, it always seemed to me like he ran because he thought, like, he was called to do it and

00:29:45.040 he had a responsibility to do it and this was, this was the time to do it and so he did

00:29:48.840 it, um, while not really relishing, uh, the, many of the things that come along with campaigning

00:29:56.980 and all that sounds like a criticism and maybe from some people it would be.

00:30:02.780 For me, it's not.

00:30:03.540 I, that's, I, I like that.

00:30:04.780 Maybe it's one of the reasons I like DeSantis because I can, I can relate to like, I, if I

00:30:09.360 was a, I would never be a politician, but campaigning, I would hate doing that.

00:30:12.400 I don't want to get, you know, if I, when I think about, uh, uh, being in a position

00:30:17.520 of political leadership, again, I have no interest, but the only appeal that I could

00:30:21.460 see is like actually being in the position and trying and getting things done, like being

00:30:25.660 in a position where you can, where you can put your agenda into practice and, and do

00:30:31.780 those things.

00:30:33.100 So I could see, um, finding some fulfillment in that, but the campaigning part of it, my

00:30:40.020 God, you know, I would hate that.

00:30:43.120 And I think DeSantis did, um, which, which is, it's a, it's a problem when you're a politician

00:30:49.420 because you have to campaign and you have to make it look like you want, like you like

00:30:52.280 it.

00:30:53.320 But, um, I actually think that this is one of the things that makes him a good leader.

00:30:59.060 It's like, I, okay.

00:31:00.880 He just cares about doing, getting, getting the stuff done.

00:31:03.300 That's the only thing he cares about.

00:31:04.300 He doesn't care about all the rest of the frills and the showmanship and the pageantry.

00:31:08.580 And I think that's a good attribute for a leader, but it's a bad attribute for a campaigning

00:31:18.320 politician.

00:31:20.040 Um, and those two things come in conflict, you know, we've seen that time and time again.

00:31:26.120 So campaign is over, endorsed Trump and, uh, primary is over and now it really is, it's

00:31:34.300 Trump or Biden.

00:31:35.320 That's, that's it.

00:31:36.320 Those are the choices.

00:31:37.920 Um, and it's really not a choice.

00:31:39.840 It's really, there's really nothing to think about.

00:31:41.820 Like Biden's presidency has been certainly the worst, most disastrous presidency of my

00:31:46.900 lifetime.

00:31:47.500 It's in the conversation for, I mean, among the worst, at least, uh, in American history

00:31:53.320 and we cannot have another four years of it.

00:31:55.580 So there's nothing to even think about.

00:31:57.360 Okay.

00:31:59.500 Last week we talked about Sean Strickland, the UFC guy who smacked down that woke reporter

00:32:05.180 in Canada who tried to throw some old tweets or whatever in his face.

00:32:08.340 And instead, Sean Strickland stood by his past statements, doubled down on them in no

00:32:13.000 uncertain terms.

00:32:14.000 Uh, it was great to watch.

00:32:15.140 Well, Dana White, who's the president of the UFC, of course, was next up to bat.

00:32:18.960 And he was asked at a press conference a couple of days ago, uh, by a different reporter about

00:32:24.240 those comments.

00:32:25.000 And he was asked about the, what sort of leash, uh, he gives his fighters when it comes to

00:32:31.080 their free speech.

00:32:32.220 And the conversation did not go well.

00:32:34.280 I mean, it didn't go well for the other guy.

00:32:35.680 Went great for Dana White. 0.74

00:32:36.500 Let's watch this.

00:32:38.000 You obviously give a long leash to your fighters about, you know, what they can say when they

00:32:43.520 are up there with a UFC microphone and you are getting into territory of homophobia,

00:32:48.340 transphobia, like, is there, I don't give anybody a leash.

00:32:51.680 Well, I'm saying you, a leash, I'm like free speech, control what people say, kind of tell

00:32:59.900 people what to believe, kind of tell people, I don't tell any other human being what to

00:33:05.720 say, what to think.

00:33:06.560 And there's no leashes on any of them.

00:33:10.380 What is your question?

00:33:12.380 I was asking that question.

00:33:14.060 I'll move on though.

00:33:15.120 Yeah, probably a good idea.

00:33:16.320 Uh, that's ridiculous to say I give somebody a leash.

00:33:19.940 Free speech, brother.

00:33:21.520 People can say whatever they want and they can believe whatever they want.

00:33:25.920 I just, I love the reporter's response.

00:33:28.440 But Dana White says, I don't give anyone a leash. 0.91

00:33:29.980 What's your question?

00:33:31.500 Um, I was asking that question, but I'll move on.

00:33:35.000 You can't see him on the video, but you could just, you could tell his head's bowed.

00:33:38.100 He's got his hands in his pockets.

00:33:39.800 It's like, nevermind.

00:33:41.000 Uh, it was great.

00:33:42.620 Fantastic response.

00:33:43.520 Exactly the right approach.

00:33:45.160 Uh, this is why it's so frustrating when people allow themselves to be bullied and backed

00:33:49.260 into corners by these media vultures.

00:33:51.440 You know, these kinds of guys, like whoever that guy was asking the question, what do

00:33:55.440 you have to say about the fighters who were venturing into the realm of transphobia?

00:34:00.900 Um, you know, you, you, you see what happens when you actually push back against these people

00:34:07.640 is that they fold like a cheap suit.

00:34:09.200 They totally disintegrate in the face of the slightest resistance.

00:34:13.420 Um, all these guys have glass jaws, you know, they just, they, they breathe in their direction

00:34:18.420 and they will fall apart.

00:34:20.180 Yet so often we see people cave.

00:34:22.280 We see people surrender.

00:34:24.380 We see people acquiesce.

00:34:25.900 Um, anyway, like play out the same scenario, but instead of the, the UFC, let's say that

00:34:33.960 it's the MLB.

00:34:35.040 Okay.

00:34:35.280 It's the, it's major league baseball.

00:34:37.260 Um, and some baseball player had dared to criticize the, uh, hallowed sacred LGBTQ community

00:34:44.180 in the past.

00:34:45.180 And the reporter found the tweet and, you know, asked him about it.

00:34:49.360 Um, first we know that the player would break down in tears right there.

00:34:53.400 You know, he'd, he'd have a whole stuttering, stammering speech, apologizing and saying,

00:34:57.560 well, you know, I, I've grown as a person and I've realized that the LGBTQ community is

00:35:02.460 amazing and beautiful and right about everything.

00:35:04.900 And, and, and diversity is so important and, uh, equity is, you know, and we hear all that.

00:35:09.660 And then when the commissioner of the league is asked about it, we get the disavowal and the,

00:35:16.840 the denunciation, we get the whole, yes, well, the comments made in the past were

00:35:21.460 reprehensible major league baseball does not condone these comments.

00:35:25.020 This player will be imprisoned in sensitivity, hard labor camp until they no longer have the

00:35:30.740 ability to form any opinions of their own, uh, et cetera.

00:35:33.840 I mean, that's the way it usually goes, but with these guys, the UFC, it's just like,

00:35:38.480 yeah, I said it.

00:35:39.360 So what deal with it?

00:35:41.580 I don't know.

00:35:42.160 That's my opinion.

00:35:43.140 That's what I feel.

00:35:45.120 Okay.

00:35:45.520 Uh, which I really appreciate.

00:35:48.440 In fact, this has been a great weekend for non-wokeness in sports.

00:35:52.400 And I think it's important to recognize that and celebrate it since we spend so much time.

00:35:56.480 And I know that I have complaining about the reverse.

00:35:59.160 We complain about wokeness in sports.

00:36:01.200 So when we see that, when we, when we see, when we see it done, right, I think we should

00:36:05.900 take some time to say, well, that's good.

00:36:09.000 That's the way this should go.

00:36:10.000 So, so we had the UFC acquitting itself quite well.

00:36:13.680 Um, and then also over in the NFL.

00:36:16.340 So first of all, Jim Harbaugh is the Michigan coach, uh, who was once an NFL coach and will

00:36:22.240 almost certainly be an NFL coach next year, uh, either for the Falcons or the Chargers

00:36:26.900 and maybe another team.

00:36:28.020 But he spoke at the March for Life, which is, which is really significant.

00:36:32.040 I mean, and you could, if you want, you could say, oh, he's a football coach.

00:36:36.580 Who cares what he says?

00:36:37.880 A lot of people care what he says.

00:36:39.240 This is somebody with a lot of cultural sort of purchase.

00:36:43.020 And, um, and this is one of the biggest names in football at the March for Life, which is,

00:36:49.100 which is, and we'll play the clip.

00:36:50.300 I think we have the clip.

00:36:51.500 Um, this is a, keep some of my, the March for Life is a place that, especially at this

00:36:57.900 point, a great many Republican politicians will not go there because they don't want 0.87

00:37:03.060 to be tied to the pro-life movement because they're cowards.

00:37:05.360 But, uh, here was coach Harbaugh at the March for Life. 0.90

00:37:07.340 Welcome, coach Harbaugh.

00:37:10.780 Thank you, Jeannie.

00:37:15.220 Thank you all for being here.

00:37:18.900 It's a great example that you're setting.

00:37:22.280 It's testimony for the sanctity of life.

00:37:27.840 It's a great day for a march.

00:37:34.120 It's a great day.

00:37:35.360 This is football weather.

00:37:36.580 Let's go.

00:37:41.140 What an incredible honor to get to introduce Ben Watson, talented individual on the field,

00:37:48.300 talented, courageous, fearless leader off the field.

00:37:51.540 He's making a difference in the lives of so many.

00:37:53.800 Um, so, you know, he had a few things to say that he introduced Ben Watson.

00:37:59.620 I mean, we could complain about this reality all we want, but, but the, the reality is that

00:38:05.340 a guy like Jim Harbaugh showing up at the March for Life and speaking for 45 seconds, like that

00:38:13.740 will have more impact on the culture than 50 speeches that I could give at the March for Life.

00:38:19.460 Um, which is why this is a, it's a great thing to see.

00:38:24.480 Meanwhile, his brother, John Harbaugh, a coach of my Baltimore Ravens,

00:38:28.700 we're going to the conference championship, not that any of you care,

00:38:31.380 uh, went to, uh, went up to speak at the press conference after the Ravens dominating win over the Texans,

00:38:36.040 uh, on, uh, on Saturday.

00:38:38.360 And he began with, uh, a Bible verse, which I thought was fantastic.

00:38:41.720 Let's watch this.

00:38:43.120 I just want to start off with this.

00:38:44.540 Um, this is something that was sent to me before the game and it just is meaningful to me.

00:38:47.420 So I'm going to share it with you, uh, because I think it's, uh, uh, the right thing to do.

00:38:52.360 And it's, it's a verse, um, greatness, power, glory, victory, and honor belong to you

00:38:59.880 because everything in heaven and on earth belongs to you.

00:39:03.000 The kingdom belongs to you, Lord.

00:39:05.200 You are the head and the ruler over everything.

00:39:07.780 So there's amazing spirit on this team.

00:39:10.740 And, uh, just want to kind of give honor and glory where it's due.

00:39:13.420 Um, that is also fantastic.

00:39:17.400 We, we should mention that the team they beat, the Texans, is led by their great rookie quarterback,

00:39:21.760 CJ Stroud, who, who is a very devout, very vocal Christian who gives glory to God every time he's, uh, he's on camera.

00:39:27.940 So listen, institutionally, the NFL still does some annoying, woke things sometimes. 0.99

00:39:31.860 And you'll still see somebody, you'll see, like, end racism written on a field or whatever, something stupid. 0.76

00:39:36.240 But it's also true that this side of the UFC, the NFL, and football generally has by far the most conservative 0.97

00:39:42.560 and religiously devout people in all of sports, which is, um, many of whom, again, are more conservative and religious,

00:39:50.460 conservative and, and, and, and devout than what you'll find among Republican, elected Republican leaders.

00:39:57.340 Like, far more, actually.

00:39:59.920 Um, which is one of the reasons I don't like this movement you see by some conservatives to kind of throw sports out entirely.

00:40:06.620 Uh, you know, you see some saying that all sports are woke and they're all a waste of time.

00:40:11.000 But the truth is that sports are an important part of culture.

00:40:14.120 There's never been a human culture that has not had some kind of organized, recreational, physical competition,

00:40:20.060 otherwise known as sports.

00:40:21.160 It's an integral part of having a culture.

00:40:23.640 And, uh, so if you care about the culture, you should care about things like sports.

00:40:25.760 It's just like, you should care about things like entertainment.

00:40:27.420 You can't, you can't throw these things out.

00:40:29.860 It's, that is culture right there.

00:40:32.120 And sports are, I think, naturally non-woke, especially physical combat type sports.

00:40:39.860 Um, now you might have institutionally, they might try to make it woke, but it's, it's, they're working against the grain.

00:40:46.320 It's no surprise that football and MMA are the least woke of all sports.

00:40:50.180 Because, uh, these kinds of sports are inherently masculine, aggressive, merit-based contests. 0.96

00:40:57.360 You can't really deny reality or exist in a leftist fantasy world when you're in the octagon or you're out on the football field.

00:41:03.400 It's just like, this is, you know, it's me against you.

00:41:06.180 It's our team against your team.

00:41:07.040 And it's, you're, you're in reality and, um, strongest guy, best guy wins.

00:41:12.880 And, uh, you can see that even though the NFL has had some very public and very disastrous episodes of wokeness, the Kaepernick stuff, of course, prime example.

00:41:20.980 Football is still fundamentally non-woke and, and also culturally important.

00:41:24.920 Now, of course, my, my theory about physical violence sports being inherently non-woke is undermined by the NHL, which at this point is the most woke, most annoyingly, embarrassingly left-wing of all sports leagues.

00:41:37.300 But then also the NHL is, is, I mean, hockey is basically Canadian.

00:41:40.880 So you've got the Canadian-ness, which is counteracting all that. 0.72

00:41:45.680 Um, a little bit of a, of an outlier there.

00:41:48.080 All right, finally, I don't have a lot of time for this and we don't really need a lot of time for it, but I did want to touch on it.

00:41:54.920 Uh, Newsweek article says, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, put United Airlines on blast, accusing an airport agent of grabbing his dog without consent and then accusing the agent supervisor of threatening him in a shocking conversation.

00:42:09.680 Crenshaw took to social media on Saturday night to share his and his wife's experiences with United.

00:42:14.080 In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, Crenshaw explained that while his wife was on a trip to see him with their infant daughter, his mother-in-law, and their two small dogs,

00:42:22.000 they were told that their pets could not fly.

00:42:24.220 Even after his wife opted to try to find another flight, the agent attempted to grab one of the dogs, Joey, out of the carrier, according to Crenshaw.

00:42:32.100 Um, and that's what led to a whole thing.

00:42:35.420 And then Dan Crenshaw went and talked to United's vice president of airport operations, Philip Griffith, and he recorded that.

00:42:41.520 Um, and he put this whole video on, uh, on, on Twitter.

00:42:48.180 It's getting a big reaction.

00:42:49.860 So here's some of, uh, Crenshaw's videos as he's reviewing the initial incident.

00:42:55.600 Let's watch.

00:42:55.940 So what you're watching here is you're seeing a nice young lady and her mother traveling with two small dogs and an infant.

00:43:04.380 And you're about to see a crazed, unhinged United ticketing agent reach in and grab the dog, start ripping things off of the dog's bag while my wife tries to stop them. 0.71

00:43:16.800 You can see it right there.

00:43:18.740 Now, you might be thinking, okay, Dan, there must have been a lot leading up to this.

00:43:23.500 Maybe they were yelling at, maybe they had a good reason.

00:43:26.640 Well, here's the thing.

00:43:27.280 We have the whole video.

00:43:28.560 I have the whole video for multiple angles.

00:43:31.320 That woman in the video is actually my wife. 0.81

00:43:33.680 She was trying to push away my two month old infant daughter away from the unhinged United agent. 0.97

00:43:39.640 And as they were pushing them out, getting out of the terminal, she reached in and grabbed her property, grabbed our dog. 1.00

00:43:47.460 So why would she do that? 0.98

00:43:49.700 We have the whole video for multiple angles.

00:43:51.520 The video is kind of boring.

00:43:52.960 It's only about 10 minutes long.

00:43:54.080 And really, the only purpose in showing it is to show you that my wife and her mom acted very calmly.

00:43:59.660 See, they're much nicer people than I am.

00:44:01.800 If somebody told me my dog couldn't fly, I'd be pretty upset because he's flown about 500 times throughout his life.

00:44:08.320 He's not too big to fly.

00:44:09.560 I know a lot of you have this kind of problem, especially with United Airlines.

00:44:12.760 Okay, so the video is kind of boring, he says, and he's absolutely right about that.

00:44:17.840 There are a lot of things I don't agree with Dan Crenshaw about, but I certainly agree with him on that point.

00:44:22.220 The video is kind of boring.

00:44:23.220 So this video got like 4 million views on Twitter as of last night.

00:44:26.380 A lot of people seem to be outraged along with Dan Crenshaw at what his wife and his mother-in-law experienced.

00:44:33.980 And I should say that he, so he was trying to talk to United about this, and eventually he gets a meeting with this Philip Griffith guy, and he records the meeting.

00:44:46.060 And in the meeting, and then Dan Crenshaw makes a big deal about the fact that in the meeting, Philip Griffith yells at him and tells him to shut up.

00:44:52.640 Of course, before Philip Griffith yells and says shut up, Dan Crenshaw cusses at him.

00:44:56.880 So it's kind of like sort of even there.

00:45:01.660 I don't know.

00:45:02.200 I've got to be honest.

00:45:02.700 I don't see it.

00:45:03.260 I mean, I'm no defender of the airlines, especially United.

00:45:06.160 In fact, I don't think anyone in media attacks airlines more than I do recently.

00:45:10.240 So I'm not predisposed to be on their side about anything.

00:45:14.380 And I'm not exactly on their side here, but my main take is like, who cares?

00:45:19.760 First of all, he calls the gate agent unhinged and crazed.

00:45:23.420 At another point, he says that she violently grabbed his dog.

00:45:27.180 I mean, that is at best a very overdramatic way of describing what's on the video.

00:45:32.140 Okay, that's like you're being a drama queen.

00:45:33.920 Calm down. 0.99

00:45:35.180 Unhinged and crazed. 0.98

00:45:37.040 Come on.

00:45:38.080 I mean, if you heard that description without seeing the video, you'd expect something quite a bit more egregious than what you see in the video, right?

00:45:46.040 You hear someone say, unhinged and crazed woman, grab my dog. 1.00

00:45:49.540 You'd expect like the woman is screaming and screeching and her head's turning around 360 degrees like the exorcist. 1.00

00:45:55.480 And I don't know, she's climbing up walls or something. 1.00

00:45:58.480 At least you'd expect something more aggressive than what's in the video.

00:46:01.480 Because what's there is it's like maybe inappropriate, a little bit over the line.

00:46:06.060 But does it really warrant a United States congressman turning this into a national scandal?

00:46:12.080 Does it warrant a 10-minute video breakdown by a congressman because of that?

00:46:19.420 Is it really something that any of the rest of us should give a damn about?

00:46:23.840 And by the way, normal people have really unfortunate experiences in airports all the time that are quite a bit more egregious than anything in that video.

00:46:38.360 And the thing is that normal people, they're not going to be able to meet with the VP of operations in like a sit-down, in-person meeting.

00:46:46.260 They're not going to be able to do that. 0.98

00:46:47.420 They're just screwed. 0.76

00:46:49.200 And I don't think Dan Crenshaw has never done a 10-minute video about any of that. 0.98

00:46:54.620 So it's when his own family's inconvenience and suddenly he cares.

00:46:59.700 And it kind of surprises me that so many people, if you look at the comments, are on his side and not pointing this out.

00:47:07.380 Like, really?

00:47:08.180 Do you not see this as a guy who, he's just, he was personally annoyed by this and so he's turning it into, so you're a congressman.

00:47:16.040 There's a certain expectation we have for you that you're not going to get hung up on stuff like this.

00:47:24.460 And, you know, you have something like this, to turn it into a public affair as a congressman,

00:47:33.280 to take something that's personally inconvenienced or upset you, and to make it a public affair,

00:47:39.200 that has to meet a certain bar where this is actually relevant to the public.

00:47:44.500 So you have to say to yourself, okay, all of my constituents, all of the people, the Americans that are out there

00:47:50.580 and that are suffering and that have experienced horrible things, should they care about this?

00:47:58.300 As a congressman, that's what you have to ask yourself before you share anything publicly about that you experienced.

00:48:03.220 It's like all those people, should they care about this thing that happened to me?

00:48:05.920 And if I was in Dan Crenshaw's shoes, I would say absolutely not.

00:48:10.520 They should not care about this.

00:48:13.020 Okay, that's why, I've had plenty of unpleasant interactions at airports,

00:48:18.480 and I've never gone and even thought to go and get the video of it and play it and post it,

00:48:27.500 which is something that I wouldn't be able to do,

00:48:31.380 just like I wouldn't be able to go meet with the VP of operations.

00:48:33.740 And also, any other non-politician would not be able to do that.

00:48:41.580 So, it's hard for me to see this as anything but a politician caring about himself and his own affairs,

00:48:50.360 which is fine, but then, you know, trying to turn it into a public spectacle for his own benefit

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00:50:41.500 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:49.240 I actually had other plans for the daily cancellation today, better plans you might even say,

00:50:53.540 but then I saw this clip of Nikki Haley all over Twitter.

00:50:56.400 And yes, I will keep calling it Twitter until the day I die, just like the football team in Washington will always be the Redskins.

00:51:02.340 The clip is from an interview Haley recently did with NBC News where she was asked about some of her recent comments about race,

00:51:08.440 which the media has construed as racist.

00:51:11.560 And this really shows you already how meaningless the racism charge is from the media.

00:51:16.040 Like if they can even make Nikki Haley into a far right Nazi racist, then they can do it to anyone. 0.52

00:51:22.140 And in this case, the NBC reporters were very concerned that Haley had in recent days

00:51:25.540 tried to earn an acquittal on the racism charges by pointing out that she has black friends.

00:51:30.900 And NBC informs her that using the I have black friends excuse is a trope, which is itself racist.

00:51:36.880 Now, I've said before that the only problem with using the I have black friends excuse as a defense against racism

00:51:44.700 is that you are defending yourself against a racism accusation in the first place.

00:51:49.460 To defend yourself in the first place is to already lose.

00:51:52.520 The minute you grovel to these people and try to prove your anti-racism credentials, they own you.

00:51:57.840 That's why the only appropriate response when someone on the left calls you racist is to look them in the eyes and say,

00:52:02.540 I don't care that you think that of me.

00:52:05.320 You aren't agreeing that you're racist because you aren't, but you also aren't collapsing on the ground

00:52:10.380 and begging for their pardon and forgiveness.

00:52:12.940 Instead, you're letting them know that their opinion of you and the labels they put on you mean nothing to you

00:52:17.920 and they have no power over you.

00:52:20.880 Now, all that said, even if you shouldn't be allowing yourself to be put on the defense in the first place,

00:52:27.180 it's also the case that, objectively speaking, I have black friends is a great defense against a racism accusation.

00:52:33.440 Somebody who has black friends is almost certainly not racist against black people.

00:52:38.200 In fact, friendship with another human being entails by definition that you do not think that they are inferior to you

00:52:45.240 based on race or any other factor outside of their control, because if you do think that, then they're not your friend.

00:52:50.660 So if someone has black friends, they aren't racist against black people.

00:52:55.380 Like, that's a pretty good indication. 0.53

00:52:59.180 The idea that this is somehow an illegitimate defense or somehow irrelevant to the racism question entirely is totally absurd.

00:53:06.880 Which is something that Nikki Haley could have pointed out in this exchange, but instead, she went this route.

00:53:12.280 We were the only Indian family in our small southern town.

00:53:19.040 I was teased every day for being brown.

00:53:23.960 So anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I've said on how hard it was to grow up in the deep south as a brown girl.

00:53:33.100 Anybody can look at my record and see when Walter Scott was shot down by a dirty cop, how I made sure that the Walter Scott family didn't suffer because we put the first body camera bill in the country in place.

00:53:47.120 Anybody can look at the fact that when we had nine amazing souls die in Mother Emanuel Church, I did something that no Republican or Democrat ever wanted to touch,

00:53:57.480 which was call for the Confederate flag to come down because it would take two-thirds of the House and Senate and was an impossible feat.

00:54:03.960 I don't know what you're implying with that, but what I will tell you is saying that I had black friends is a source of pride.

00:54:11.120 Saying that I had white friends is a source of pride. 0.53

00:54:13.380 If you want to know what it was like growing up, I was disqualified from a beauty pageant because I wasn't white or black because they didn't know where to put me.

00:54:23.940 Okay, let's just slow down here and take this one at a time.

00:54:28.360 First of all, just to address the elephant in the room here, Nikki Haley is not really brown, or at least if she is brown, she's a very light shade of it.

00:54:38.500 Technically, we're all shades of brown from a color spectrum perspective.

00:54:41.280 I've never seen a literal white person.

00:54:44.580 There are no people with skin pigment the same shade as a sheet of computer paper.

00:54:48.640 So if Nikki Haley is brown, she's only brown in the sense that any white person is brown. 0.90

00:54:52.820 I'm not doubting that Haley's family is really from India.

00:54:56.900 They are.

00:54:57.860 But the point is that if she doesn't tell you she's brown, you would never know.

00:55:02.160 In fact, like most people, I didn't find out until this election cycle that Haley is Indian.

00:55:06.240 And when I found out, like most people, I said, what?

00:55:09.600 Nikki Haley isn't white?

00:55:11.100 And I had to go check Wikipedia.

00:55:12.360 And sure enough, like, oh, her family's from India.

00:55:15.240 I had no idea.

00:55:17.000 All that to say her stories of anti-brown persecution strain credulity from the start.

00:55:23.100 And what are the stories?

00:55:24.060 Well, she says that she was disqualified from a beauty pageant for being brown. 0.99

00:55:27.280 We're supposed to believe that way, way back in the ancient times of the 1980s, South Carolina's beauty pageant circuit had never encountered anyone who hailed from Asia or anywhere in the Middle East or anywhere in South or Central America.

00:55:41.280 So they saw Nikki's slightly brownish skin and their minds were blown.

00:55:45.300 They didn't know what to do.

00:55:46.700 Like, they looked at her and they said, wait a minute.

00:55:49.080 I've heard of black people.

00:55:50.300 I've heard of white people.

00:55:51.140 But what is this?

00:55:52.680 They make people in this color act.

00:55:55.160 What do we do here?

00:55:56.200 Like, you know, hit a button, set off an alarm.

00:56:00.260 It was a total panic.

00:56:01.400 It was pandemonium.

00:56:03.120 This is what the beauty pageant official apparently said to Nikki sometime in the early 1980s.

00:56:08.340 I must confess that I find that somewhat difficult to believe.

00:56:11.560 In fact, it sounds very similar to the single woman who informs you that men aren't interested in her because they are intimidated by her staggering beauty.

00:56:19.980 It sounds like the most desperate cope of all time.

00:56:22.980 I mean, there are, after all, other more obvious reasons why men may not be interested in you.

00:56:29.040 Just as there are other more obvious reasons why you might have been disqualified from a beauty pageant.

00:56:35.400 But I guess we'll never know.

00:56:37.600 I mean, it is possible that beauty pageants in South Carolina 40 years ago had a policy that only people from Africa, Europe, or North America were allowed to participate.

00:56:45.140 It's possible that black and white people were teaming up together to discriminate against Asians.

00:56:51.660 That's a team we don't see very often.

00:56:54.900 Like, those are, that's a, you know, an assortment, a team we don't see very often.

00:57:01.560 And I wasn't there.

00:57:03.220 I can't say for sure.

00:57:04.600 What I can say for sure, though, is that there is simply no way Nikki Haley was teased every day for being brown, as she claims.

00:57:12.400 I've never heard anyone being teased for being brown ever in my entire life.

00:57:18.360 I'm sure it's happened at various points in American history, but the claim that she, as someone who barely even qualifies as brown, was teased on a daily basis her entire childhood because of her brownness is just impossible to believe.

00:57:31.720 If it was true, I would say it's not the worst thing in the world.

00:57:35.020 Like, every kid is going to be teased for something, and if they choose your maybe very slightly darker skin tone as the subject of ridicule, that's not too terrible, all things considered.

00:57:45.020 I mean, it's better than being called ugly or fat or a loser or whatever.

00:57:48.760 Every kid gets picked on by someone for something.

00:57:51.380 It's an unfortunate reality of growing up, especially in the school system.

00:57:54.700 And none of it should be happening.

00:57:56.840 No one should be getting teased because they have brown skin, if that's even happening.

00:57:59.880 I don't even know what that would sound like.

00:58:01.300 But of all the things you can be teased for, I'm not sure why that would be any worse than any of the other horrible things that kids have said and say to each other.

00:58:11.360 But that's assuming that this really happened, which it probably didn't, at least not at the rate and frequency Nikki is claiming here.

00:58:18.780 But whether it happened or not, or however often it did happen, if it happened at all, none of that matters. 0.98

00:58:25.020 First of all, if you are a grown adult trying to gain sympathy based on what your elementary school peers said to you, no matter what they said to you, no matter how rude they were, then you are pathetic. 0.93

00:58:39.320 It is just not acceptable to be a 50-year-old adult trying to earn pity points from what some alleged schoolyard bully teased you about 40 years ago. 0.94

00:58:48.440 And the only time it's okay for an adult to bring up the grade school bullying they suffered is if they're talking to a child and trying to encourage a child by saying, you know, I went through it, I turned out fine, you'll be okay.

00:58:59.420 Like in that context, you'll be excused for drudging up those memories.

00:59:03.040 But to bring it up to other adults, in an on-camera interview, no less, in a desperate attempt to make yourself seem sympathetic, is just embarrassing on every possible level.

00:59:14.600 And it's all for nothing in the end anyway, because you cannot play the victim game against the left and win.

00:59:20.360 This is their game.

00:59:21.580 They own it.

00:59:22.740 They own the stadium.

00:59:24.200 They run the league.

00:59:25.320 They're paying the refs.

00:59:26.820 It's like trying to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs.

00:59:29.220 The whole thing is rigged.

00:59:29.960 You can't win.

00:59:30.560 You aren't allowed to.

00:59:33.040 I'm the biggest victim, so I'm right, is a move the left invented.

00:59:37.100 You can't use it against them.

00:59:40.140 Why can't you use it against them?

00:59:41.320 Because they could just say, oh, that doesn't count when you do it.

00:59:43.960 What do you mean it doesn't count when I do it?

00:59:44.920 Well, this is our game.

00:59:46.580 We made it up.

00:59:48.020 It's like, have you ever tried to play a game with, like, a child that a child has invented?

00:59:52.960 With my kids, play this game, Daddy.

00:59:56.480 What's the game?

00:59:57.100 We made it up.

00:59:57.780 And I quickly discovered that whatever we're doing in this game,

01:00:01.140 all the rules are designed just to make sure that somehow they win and I don't win.

01:00:05.780 And this is exactly how it works on the left.

01:00:08.880 So you can't win.

01:00:10.540 And why would you want to?

01:00:12.020 Have some self-respect.

01:00:13.280 Have some dignity.

01:00:14.240 Be a grown-up.

01:00:15.840 If they try to lead you into a conversation like this, just look at them and say,

01:00:20.140 you don't really think I'm racist.

01:00:23.420 This is just a game you're playing.

01:00:25.420 But even if you do think it, I don't care.

01:00:28.240 I'm not here to justify myself to you.

01:00:30.600 Now ask me about something that actually matters or this conversation is over.

01:00:35.380 That's all you have to say.

01:00:36.940 Can you imagine if Nikki Haley had said that?

01:00:40.000 Even I would have to.

01:00:41.160 I would do 15 minutes praising her just for that alone.

01:00:43.620 It would be that simple.

01:00:47.880 But Republicans like Nikki Haley are just not capable of it,

01:00:51.100 which is why she is today, once again, and forever, canceled.

01:00:56.580 That'll do it for the show today.

01:00:57.380 Thanks for watching.

01:00:57.840 Thanks for listening.

01:00:58.360 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:00:59.120 Godspeed.

01:00:59.440 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 22, 2024

Ep. 1298 - It's Time To Unite Against The Real Enemy

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