The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1362 - The Left Suddenly Forgets About Gaza And Spends Two Days Outraged Over A Frat Boy's Joke

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media has assembled the outrage mob once again,

00:00:03.520 this time to hunt down and punish a frat boy who allegedly made racist noises while confronting a

00:00:08.620 pro-Palestine protester at Ole Miss. Also, a new investigation reveals that the state of

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00:01:58.800 Walsh to 989898. As soon as the hobo encampments began popping up on university campuses all over the

00:02:05.580 country, it was only natural to wonder how long these students could hold out before something else

00:02:10.240 grabbed their attention. College kids aren't known for their commitment to anything necessarily,

00:02:14.700 especially right before the beginning of summer vacation. And it was never clear exactly how

00:02:18.700 stinking up a few random quads and holding out for humanitarian aid in the form of a Chipotle

00:02:24.400 burrito bowl was ever going to affect what's happening in the Middle East anyway. Of course, 0.75

00:02:28.780 the whole operation, as I've outlined previously, was never even about Gaza or Israel in any way.

00:02:33.960 Instead, it's about repackaging anti-white hatred into yet another astroturf national campaign of

00:02:39.600 riots and civil disorder just in time for a presidential election. So at some point, it's the reason

00:02:45.520 these kids would stop pretending to care about the war in Gaza altogether. They would drop the act

00:02:50.440 and move on to something else. Over the weekend, as if on cue, that pivot took place. All at once,

00:02:57.080 on campuses and inside newsrooms all over the country, left-wing outrage over the Middle East

00:03:01.600 subsided. And it was replaced with abject horror concerning a new, supposedly far greater crime against

00:03:10.100 humanity. This act of pure, unadulterated evil took place, if you can believe it, on the campus

00:03:16.560 of the University of Mississippi. And it was all recorded on video. Now, if there are children in

00:03:21.580 the room right now, avert their eyes or even turn off this podcast because it's too much for them to

00:03:28.140 see. If you have a sensitive stomach, turn away now. This is footage of the atrocity that was caught

00:03:34.180 live on camera. Brace yourself.

00:04:04.180 Okay. Now, if you're anything like me, you probably missed the part of that footage that

00:04:32.200 you're supposed to be angry about. In fact, you're probably watching, like, where's Waldo? You're

00:04:36.120 watching it. You're trying to spot, where's the offensive thing? It's kind of hard to see.

00:04:40.660 For a supposedly, for such a supposedly earth-shattering event, you know, it's kind of

00:04:45.020 tough to spot. Instead, what you see, or what you think you see, is a bunch of frat bros who probably

00:04:50.980 aren't even that political. They're probably just tired of the narcissistic and highly fragrant

00:04:56.000 leftists who have been defiling their campus. They're pro-America more than anything else. The

00:05:01.520 American flag overalls are a pretty big clue there. Beyond those overalls, which are fantastic,

00:05:07.820 by the way, what's the big deal, you might ask? Well, leave it to the crack reporting team of the

00:05:13.020 Mississippi Free Press to explain why exactly we should be outraged. As one of the paper's reporters

00:05:18.040 put it, quote, a white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a black 0.97

00:05:23.960 woman who was protesting for Palestine. Okay, so if you go back and you look at the tape and you focus 0.93

00:05:29.640 entirely on the right-hand side of your screen, you'll see about two seconds of a student jumping

00:05:34.780 up and down while flailing his arms and making a face. And we're supposed to conclude this student

00:05:40.660 was dancing like a monkey and therefore was also insinuating that black people are like monkeys. 0.98

00:05:48.100 And in turn, we're supposed to be extremely outraged by all this. Now, there are a lot of 0.98

00:05:51.920 logical leaps here, which I'll get to in a second. The path from, you know, normal to outrage,

00:05:57.420 if you want to get from one to the other, requires you to jump across like five different

00:06:01.420 widely spaced lily pads. But first, it's important to understand that this was the

00:06:06.760 unanimous reaction from the left. Even as a supposed genocide, quote unquote, is going on

00:06:11.220 in the Middle East, this is what they decided to hyperventilate over. Jamil Hill got the lynch

00:06:16.120 mob started. She wrote, quote, what fraternity does he represent? The fraternity's national

00:06:20.920 leadership needs to be contacted immediately and that frat should be barred from campus.

00:06:25.040 She wants the whole frat barred from campus, not just that one guy.

00:06:29.240 CNN, NPR, Newsweek, the Associated Press, pretty much every other outlet published

00:06:32.880 similar pieces with a similar tone about the supposedly racist confrontation.

00:06:39.000 A former DNC field worker named Adam Parkomenko wrote that this incident is yet more proof that

00:06:44.140 America is, quote, a racist country. The NAACP chapter at Ole Miss bemoaned the, quote,

00:06:49.680 abhorrent but also entirely unacceptable and, quote, deeply disheartening behavior in the

00:06:54.760 footage. The Guardian reported that some said that Mississippi's, the Mississippi's governor

00:07:00.080 reminded them of a segregationist, quote unquote, because he put out a tweet praising the students

00:07:06.420 in that video. Just to review that, he tweeted out that clip, probably didn't even notice the

00:07:13.220 supposed monkey sounds, like I didn't, like a lot of people didn't the first time. And he said

00:07:19.860 something positive about the students generally, and so therefore he is a segregationist. That's

00:07:24.580 the, like I said, there's a lot of logical leaps going on here. The Daily Beast called the clip

00:07:28.840 gross. Left-wing lobbyist Nina Turner wrote, quote, this is a video showing anti-blackness.

00:07:35.300 And Turner also scolded Congressman Mike Collins, who had praised the students in the video, 0.83

00:07:39.140 quote, representative, that is a white man making monkey gestures at a black woman.

00:07:44.260 And these protesters are not terrorists. Don't play games. Check yourself. 0.99

00:07:49.660 And to be clear, it's not just commentators on the left who are saying things like this. Some

00:07:53.200 conservative pundits joined in as well. Rob Smith, for example, wrote, the Ole Miss incident was

00:07:58.960 incredibly racist. I don't care what influencers say or post. I care what elected officials do.

00:08:03.900 Representative Mike Collins is an absolute clown for posting what he posted. I said what I said, 0.98

00:08:07.980 cry more. I like when someone who's crying says to other people, cry more. Like, dude,

00:08:14.840 you're the one crying over that video that is as innocuous as it gets. Former RNC chairman Michael

00:08:21.400 Steele agreed, quote, Representative Mike Collins, this is not taking care of business. And if you

00:08:25.600 think it is, exactly what is the business you're referring to? Your casual approval of racist

00:08:30.540 behavior and the need you seemingly feel to brag about it is an abject failure of your leadership as

00:08:35.560 a member of the United States Congress and not a proud moment for you or Ole Miss. So this is,

00:08:42.420 in short, yet another moment where several commentators on the right have joined in with

00:08:46.920 the outraged mob on the left, which is something that never happens the other way around, of course.

00:08:52.100 And in response to this outrage from all sides, the student's fraternity, Phi Delta Theta,

00:08:56.500 has kicked him out. So they have already succumbed to the pressure. It happened pretty much

00:09:01.300 immediately. Ole Miss has opened a student conduct investigation, which sounds ominous.

00:09:07.320 And instead of everybody just ignoring this episode and moving on, because that's about,

00:09:11.220 there's about 10 million more important things happening in the country right now,

00:09:14.640 it's following the standard cancellation template from 2020. The student's, uh, has been doxxed online,

00:09:20.540 his pictures all over the place, he's being threatened, uh, organizations are cutting ties.

00:09:25.220 You know the drill. The other familiar part of the story is that, once again, the mob is claiming

00:09:31.060 that out-of-context video footage tells us everything we need to know about the particular

00:09:35.540 incident. But as a basic factual matter, it's not even clear to me that this student was making

00:09:41.820 monkey noises in the first place. Again, he's featured in the video for something like 1.2 seconds.

00:09:47.500 I never noticed the quote-unquote monkey noises until everyone else pointed it out.

00:09:51.640 And without that prompting, I'm not sure I ever would have interpreted it that way to begin with.

00:09:56.280 And more to the point, you know, there's something funny and ironically racist about

00:10:00.540 leftists always trying to connect monkey noises to black people. Like, it seems to me that if, 0.91

00:10:07.120 if you see that and you, and you think, well, he's making a monkey noise, he must be talking about a 0.81

00:10:11.700 black person, then it seems like you're, you're revealing something about yourself and your, 0.67

00:10:17.820 your, your own perceptions more so than about this kid.

00:10:21.640 But this is a recurring theme and you have to wonder why that is. They did the same thing in

00:10:25.480 late 2022 when somebody allegedly made monkey noises at a girls' high school volleyball game

00:10:30.760 in Texas. You might remember that incident because we talked about it on the show, but you probably

00:10:35.740 don't remember it because the narrative was embarrassing for everybody involved and the

00:10:40.580 immediate, the media immediately dropped it. So just to refresh your memory, here's the allegedly

00:10:44.980 racist footage, which was uploaded by a mother in the stands. I want you to watch and listen and

00:10:50.100 see if you can detect the monkey noises here. Listen.

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00:11:22.160 OK, so now if you with the prompting ahead of time that listen for the monkey noises, you could probably hear something that's like, OK, well, maybe I guess that's it.

00:11:34.800 You can hear someone streaking in the background.

00:11:37.680 But without that prompting, it's I don't know where your mind has to be without that prompting at all.

00:11:45.100 To listen to a video like that and number one, think, oh, that's someone's definitely doing monkey noises. 0.84

00:11:50.620 And then number two, think, well, they must be targeting it at black people. 0.93

00:11:56.140 Like to get from not just one, but to make it to two.

00:12:00.040 Again, you're saying something about your own perceptions, it would seem to me.

00:12:04.500 Now, you'll notice that no one in the stands or on the court reacted in any way to these allegedly racist monkey noises.

00:12:10.740 In fact, not even the players who were supposedly being targeted by these chants reacted.

00:12:14.720 You can see like everyone's just sitting there.

00:12:15.960 No one's even looking over to see what's going on.

00:12:18.560 It was only after this woman got home and uploaded the footage saying that she heard a racist monkey chant that some sort of investigation was launched by the school district.

00:12:26.120 But the story fizzled out, though, because if you listen to the footage, it's not remotely clear what the woman's really talking about or or or, you know, who what what noises are being made or who they're being targeted at.

00:12:36.700 People do all kinds of chants at sporting events to make all kinds of noises for all kinds of different reasons.

00:12:41.540 So for all we know, that's what's happening.

00:12:44.720 At Ole Miss, maybe this frat kid saw a large, irate woman intentionally antagonizing him and all of his friends. 1.00

00:12:49.880 Maybe he decided to jump up and down to yell and mock her, not because she's black, but because she's being annoying and she's antagonizing them. 0.96

00:12:57.600 It's even possible that he had no animus towards this woman whatsoever. 0.91

00:13:00.240 After all, during the same interaction, the frat bros also referred to this large black protester as a Lizzo.

00:13:07.200 And, you know, we're being told that that was also a racist racist comment.

00:13:10.240 But that's interesting to me because previously we have been told relentlessly, in fact, that Lizzo is the paragon of female beauty.

00:13:18.040 All women should aspire to look and act like Lizzo. 1.00

00:13:22.600 So really, they were complimenting her, weren't they?

00:13:24.500 I mean, if you if you think she's a beautiful woman, this is a compliment.

00:13:27.800 So maybe in this instance, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

00:13:30.960 Who knows?

00:13:31.420 But here's the important point.

00:13:32.980 Even if the student did what they accused him of doing, even if he was imitating this Lizzo lookalike in a disparaging way, then at worst, he's guilty of making an inappropriate joke.

00:13:46.880 Now, you can call it racist or bigoted if you want to, you know, if it makes you feel more oppressed and that makes you feel good, that's fine.

00:13:52.760 Doesn't really matter.

00:13:54.240 Whatever you call it, this is not the sort of thing that a kid should have his life destroyed over.

00:13:58.560 However, there are much worse sins than engaging in a mocking dance for two seconds, no matter how bigoted, quote unquote, that dance might allegedly be.

00:14:06.580 And the response to this student should reflect that.

00:14:08.780 In fact, at a public university like Ole Miss, it's also not clear that the school has any right to punish him at all.

00:14:13.520 The First Amendment allows students at public universities to exercise their right to freedom of speech, which includes speech that many people find bigoted or offensive.

00:14:20.800 And also, by the way, if you've been listening to the show for the last two weeks, you know that I have made that exact same argument about free speech, applying to even speech that we find abhorrent.

00:14:30.960 I have made that exact same argument to the pro-Palestine protesters, you know, in their favor as well.

00:14:38.160 Now, there's been a lot because there's actually been a lot of that kind of speech on college campuses the last few weeks, if you haven't noticed.

00:14:44.360 And most of it's coming from the other side.

00:14:48.340 And there's no argument that this Ole Miss incident is somehow uniquely offensive and horrible, because pretty much every day, college kids are caught on camera doing and saying things far worse than this, especially during these protests.

00:15:00.100 And again, especially coming from the other side of the protests.

00:15:03.980 The pro-Palestine protesters have said plenty of vile things.

00:15:07.200 One activist held up a sign at Columbia saying Jewish students should be Hamas's next target, quote unquote. 0.98

00:15:12.580 Quote, somebody just yelled, kill the Jews at a rally at Northeastern University the other day.

00:15:16.720 Now, it's not clear who exactly said that, but you'd think that there'd be some proportional amount of interest in answering that question.

00:15:23.500 But there isn't really.

00:15:25.340 And of course, there's systematic anti-white and anti-Asian bias at all of these schools, in both admissions and hiring all the time.

00:15:32.240 And that impacts a lot more lives than whatever this frat boy was doing for two seconds.

00:15:35.720 So if we're going to destroy this one kid's life over this two-second whatever he was doing, then we should, I guess, also expel all these protesters and fire every administrator in every one of these schools.

00:15:50.460 And until we do that, then no one should even pretend to care about this one Ole Miss frat boy being bigoted or whatever.

00:15:56.160 But it's so disingenuous that it's actually nauseating.

00:16:01.000 And this is a point that goes without saying, but, you know, I'll say it anyway. 0.98

00:16:07.020 If this was a black student making racist statements and gestures at a white frat boy, none of these people would give a damn. 0.93

00:16:15.980 The outrage mob would either ignore it or outright defend it. 0.97

00:16:19.380 And we have heard, and by the way, we have heard anti-white statements coming from the pro-Palestine protesters.

00:16:26.820 There was someone on camera at one of these protests saying, we don't like white people here. 0.90

00:16:30.900 We hate white people here or something like that, pretty explicitly. 0.96

00:16:35.760 But you hardly remember it because there's no conversation about it. 0.99

00:16:39.380 Nobody cares. 0.90

00:16:39.960 And even more, we know this is the case because, you know, these, the outrage mob doesn't give a damn when white people are beaten to a pulp on camera. 0.94

00:16:52.300 I mean, forget about mean things being said about them.

00:16:55.480 For example, here's a story that precisely nobody on the left cares about.

00:16:59.200 Remember the black guy in Brooklyn who sucker punched a 57-year-old white woman in the face, breaking her jaw?

00:17:04.240 We talked about that. 0.97

00:17:05.780 Well, he's a habitual offender who's done this several times.

00:17:08.700 Here's that footage.

00:17:10.960 Tonight, an Eyewitness News exclusive and yet another unprovoked, violent attack in New York City, this time in Brooklyn.

00:17:17.100 A vicious sucker punch out of nowhere yesterday to the face of a woman as she was just walking down the street in Crown Heights. 0.53

00:17:24.280 Tonight, she's talking through her injuries to Eyewitness News reporter, Sephan Kim.

00:17:29.400 It is a random, unprovoked, vicious attack on a 57-year-old woman in Brooklyn.

00:17:34.160 Watch as the suspect ignores another man walking nearby,

00:17:37.060 then punches the woman in her face, causing her to stumble backwards. 1.00

00:17:41.440 What happened? What are you hearing me? What are you hearing me?

00:17:44.920 I was bleeding a lot. I'm so scared, so afraid.

00:17:49.320 Dulce Pichardo was on the receiving end of that punch. 1.00

00:17:52.040 Her mouth now wired shut, her face fractured in several places,

00:17:56.000 drinking food out of a straw for six weeks, permanent damage to her lower lip.

00:18:00.360 Three teeth knocked out and she might need surgery. 0.99

00:18:02.600 In this Eyewitness News exclusive, Pichardo says he didn't say a word, just stared at her, then broke her jaw.

00:18:09.040 He hit me very, very strong over here.

00:18:13.540 And he break everything here.

00:18:15.220 Every day is break.

00:18:16.860 So it's another random, unprovoked attack. 0.88

00:18:21.040 They just assume that none of these videos of black people punching white people can possibly be racially motivated. 0.54

00:18:26.400 They're all just random. 0.73

00:18:29.060 You know, the frat kid's dance is immediately determined to be racist. 0.97

00:18:32.600 But a black person going around punching white people is just acting randomly. 0.76

00:18:37.620 Well, maybe the supposed monkey noises, if they were monkey noises, were also random. 0.97

00:18:42.700 And random things happen all the time, apparently.

00:18:45.860 And anyway, that assault happened in March.

00:18:47.840 What happened next?

00:18:48.660 Well, in a rare move in New York, prosecutors upgraded this guy's charges to a felony.

00:18:52.200 They also wanted to put him in jail before trial.

00:18:55.440 But the judge overseeing this case, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Schiarino, rejected the prosecutor's bail request.

00:19:03.060 So he's back out on the street right now. 0.85

00:19:06.600 They put that guy back on the street where he can punch more people.

00:19:11.060 And if you have a problem with that, you should know that the judge doesn't care.

00:19:14.640 He just retired to Florida.

00:19:16.360 That's not an exaggeration.

00:19:17.200 The judge has left the state.

00:19:19.120 So he released this guy and just left the state.

00:19:22.040 He's fled the hellhole of New York, which he has helped to turn into a hellhole for a state that actually enforces the law.

00:19:27.660 Now, I can give about a million more examples of anti-white violence that's not simply tolerated but endorsed by the most powerful institutions in this country. 0.54

00:19:35.560 None of it gets a fraction of the attention of one white student doing a dance for two seconds at Ole Miss.

00:19:40.940 But I don't need to go through all these examples because it's not 2020 anymore.

00:19:45.020 There's no excuse for anyone on the right to fail to recognize what's going on here.

00:19:48.760 When one side is allowed to commit racial violence with impunity, while the lynch mob assembles to punish the other side for mockery and jokes,

00:19:58.600 it's a pretty big clue that nobody really cares about the mockery and jokes.

00:20:03.200 It's all a power play.

00:20:05.500 And unless conservatives want a beat-for-beat replay of 2020, which is clearly what the left wants at this point,

00:20:10.940 then it's well past time we stop pretending otherwise.

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00:21:10.540 We start with a CBS News investigation in Massachusetts where taxpayers have so far

00:21:16.040 forked over a billion dollars to feed and house illegal immigrants and homeless people,

00:21:23.080 and mostly homeless illegal immigrants.

00:21:26.340 And it turns out, shockingly, that this money is being used in a very inefficient way.

00:21:31.780 I don't know if you can believe that.

00:21:33.860 It's, like I said, it's shocking.

00:21:36.320 Have you ever heard of such a thing?

00:21:38.440 That the government is spending millions of dollars on something and doing it in the least efficient,

00:21:43.520 most expensive, least effective way possible.

00:21:47.560 It's making sure, as it always does, that it gets the least bang for its buck that it possibly can,

00:21:53.840 or rather, bang for our buck that it possibly can.

00:21:57.200 Totally unprecedented.

00:21:58.120 Anyway, here's the report.

00:22:00.140 Listen.

00:22:01.700 The I-team was first to uncover a $10 million no-bid contract for a catering company,

00:22:06.920 and the hotel groups collecting millions for housing and food contracts.

00:22:10.860 WBZ chief investigator Cheryl Fiendaka has been digging into those contracts and discovered

00:22:16.120 there appears to be little to no state oversight of the vendors,

00:22:20.920 who are collecting tens of millions in taxpayer money.

00:22:28.720 Honestly, there's nothing edible.

00:22:30.400 Here are some of the dinners that taxpayers paid $21 for.

00:22:35.100 Spaghetti with hot dogs and rice with one chicken drumstick.

00:22:38.880 The spaghetti with the hot dog in it.

00:22:42.400 Really?

00:22:42.720 We're paying $21 for that?

00:22:44.720 Okay.

00:22:45.740 It's just crazy.

00:22:46.900 These lunches and dinners were given to migrants and homeless families at the Fairfield Inn,

00:22:51.760 Dedham, Boston.

00:22:52.420 The contract obtained by the I-team shows the state is paying this one hotel $7,343,316 for food,

00:23:03.980 with no provision or requirement that the meals be nutritious or meet USDA recommendations,

00:23:11.100 leaving it up to the hotel to decide what to serve.

00:23:14.280 When you hire a vendor like that, you need guidelines.

00:23:17.060 You really, really should have some oversight of the quality of the meals that are being served.

00:23:24.120 But the contract does not have any oversight provisions for the food,

00:23:28.300 nor does it give the state the right to inspect the meals,

00:23:32.360 meaning the state is paying vendors millions without knowing what it's getting for its money.

00:23:37.620 I don't think that we could have really foreseen just how horribly this is being managed.

00:23:42.240 When you look at those meals and when you look at the cost of the hotels,

00:23:48.760 it doesn't take a lot of negotiation to make these contracts better.

00:23:53.500 The Fairfield Inn is part of Geary Hotel Management.

00:23:56.820 Nine of its hotels have state contracts,

00:23:59.620 and by the end of the year, will collect $24,319,212 for the meals it's providing.

00:24:08.800 Okay, now, first of all, spaghetti and hot dogs might sound kind of gross,

00:24:17.040 but I will say that that does remind me of how I ate when I was completely broke

00:24:22.740 and living alone from the ages of 20 to 25.

00:24:25.740 In fact, that meal for me would be sort of a splurge,

00:24:28.740 because usually I'd eat just spaghetti or just a hot dog because those were cheap foods and easy to make.

00:24:34.440 But if I was really feeling fancy, then I would combine them.

00:24:39.540 And another combination that I loved was, well, not loved, but that I endured,

00:24:44.900 would be instant mashed potatoes and a hot dog.

00:24:49.000 So those are the two, because you would get a box of instant mashed potatoes,

00:24:51.740 you'd get a hot dog, and you'd put gravy on the whole thing.

00:24:56.280 Don't knock it until you try it.

00:24:57.320 Anyway, the point here is that the meal isn't bad.

00:25:03.920 And just to be clear here, the problem is not the type of meal.

00:25:11.020 Like, this is the issue that, of course, the CBS, the local CBS affiliate in Boston has.

00:25:17.700 This is the problem they have.

00:25:19.220 To them, this is why it's a scandal,

00:25:20.900 is because the meal, the quality of the meal for these poor, unhoused migrants is not up to snuff. 1.00

00:25:28.820 And so for them, that's the problem.

00:25:30.260 And the woman that they interviewed was a nutrition professor.

00:25:33.860 So they brought in a professor, an academic,

00:25:36.760 because he needed an expert to tell us that a hot dog and spaghetti isn't the most nutritional meal.

00:25:41.900 It's also not the least nutritional meal either.

00:25:43.960 I mean, you could do a lot worse.

00:25:47.080 But that's not really the scandal.

00:25:49.300 It's not that they failed to get FDA approval or whatever.

00:25:52.440 It's not that there's not enough nutritional value.

00:25:54.800 The problem is threefold.

00:25:58.520 Number one, the Massachusetts state government has somehow found a way to spend $21 on a hot dog and spaghetti.

00:26:10.980 Now, I know that inflation is bad right now.

00:26:16.220 But it should not cost you $21 for that meal.

00:26:20.260 Because even with inflation, okay, a pack of hot dogs is still like five or six bucks.

00:26:26.180 Box of spaghetti is two or three dollars, even with inflation.

00:26:31.200 So even on like the higher end, if you're buying like high quality hot dogs and higher quality boxes of spaghetti,

00:26:38.580 you know, for $10, you should be able to make like 10 plates of gourmet spaghetti and hot dogs.

00:26:45.540 Should run you like one or two dollars a plate.

00:26:48.580 And they're spending 20 times that per plate.

00:26:52.740 That's what they're doing.

00:26:54.400 And that's problem number one.

00:26:56.680 Problem number two, of course, is that taxpayers are footing the bill.

00:27:00.980 And problem number three, which is actually problem number one, this is the primary problem,

00:27:04.540 is that this is all being done for criminal aliens who are in this country illegally and shouldn't be here in the first place.

00:27:14.040 This is not a problem that we should have to solve.

00:27:16.720 Feeding these people should not be should not be the issue.

00:27:21.580 And I'm also not interested in hearing, you know, we just we just there was that committee hearing in New York on the migrant crisis.

00:27:31.600 And we played the clips a couple couple weeks ago where you had in this case,

00:27:36.580 it was mostly migrants from Africa who were called in and were complaining about.

00:27:43.080 I don't know if it was spaghetti and hot dogs, but it was the meals that they found to be similarly unappealing.

00:27:49.960 And they were complaining about the quality of the meal.

00:27:53.220 Well, I'm not really interested in hearing your complaint because you shouldn't be here in the first place if you're an illegal immigrant. 1.00

00:28:00.420 Now, you know, you know how I feel about the illegal immigration crisis.

00:28:06.520 You know that I want the border to be shut down.

00:28:09.200 It is disgusting and an outrage that we are allowing immigrants to come here illegally and take our resources, 1.00

00:28:17.640 take it from from us and our families while actual Americans are suffering.

00:28:23.100 So, you know where I stand in all that.

00:28:25.260 So rather than repeating those arguments.

00:28:29.860 I think it's worthwhile to highlight another fact that this story makes clear,

00:28:34.680 which is that.

00:28:37.180 Even if I agreed, even if we all agreed that it was morally right.

00:28:43.100 It's an ideal and even a moral obligation for the United States to act as a global homeless shelter.

00:28:51.820 Now, I certainly do not agree with that.

00:28:54.280 I think most of the people watching this show don't agree with that.

00:28:56.880 But, you know, that's the argument that's made from the other side, that this is our obligation.

00:29:01.000 We are, for whatever reason, for whatever reason, we are obligated.

00:29:04.620 Just because we happen to live here in America,

00:29:06.920 it is our obligation to feed and house anyone who happens to come here.

00:29:11.640 We have to be prepared to feed and house the entire world.

00:29:16.620 Now, the interesting thing is the people that say that will also be quick to mention that,

00:29:23.340 you know, America is not in any way superior to anybody else.

00:29:28.400 You know, American exceptionalism is a bigoted concept, they'll tell us.

00:29:32.100 So we're not superior.

00:29:33.560 We're not exceptional.

00:29:34.780 There's nothing special about us.

00:29:35.640 In fact, not only that, but we're worse than everybody. 0.97

00:29:38.820 We are like, we're moral cretins compared to the rest of the world. 0.82

00:29:42.020 They'll tell us.

00:29:43.540 But then at the same time, we have a special obligation to take care of everybody,

00:29:48.780 and, you know, no other country has it.

00:29:50.300 So it doesn't really make a lot of sense.

00:29:52.700 But let's just say, for the sake of argument, that we were to agree with that.

00:30:00.000 We say, you know what, it's our moral obligation.

00:30:01.800 We should, we should, we should feed and house everybody, invite 8 billion, we can fit 8 billion

00:30:07.180 people here.

00:30:08.140 Like, technically we can, technically, putting aside issues of resources and everything,

00:30:12.700 technically we could fit 8, we could fit the entire population of the planet into America.

00:30:17.260 Maybe we should.

00:30:17.760 Maybe it's our obligation.

00:30:18.640 Well, if you accept that insane argument, you're still left with the problem, with the practical

00:30:27.180 problem.

00:30:28.060 You're left with the issue on practical grounds that our government is obviously not capable

00:30:35.340 of playing this role, of playing the role of global homeless shelter.

00:30:40.760 We can't, I'm not sure that any government could do it, certainly there's no government

00:30:45.940 that could feed and house the entire world, but we certainly can't.

00:30:51.160 I mean, they're spending $21 on a plate of spaghetti and a hot dog.

00:30:56.220 So they've found a way to make the cheapest possible meal expensive.

00:31:02.480 Like, I'd hate to see what would happen if they started serving, I don't know, bologna sandwiches,

00:31:06.780 bologna and cheese sandwiches.

00:31:07.800 It'd be like $95 a plate, bologna, white bread, American cheese, maybe some baby carrots on

00:31:16.680 the side.

00:31:17.480 That's a $95 plate at the four-star Uncle Sam restaurant.

00:31:21.720 So we don't even, you hardly need to get into the moral argument at all.

00:31:28.280 Again, as insane and deranged as the moral argument is from the left, it's like, this

00:31:33.100 doesn't work.

00:31:34.360 We can't do this.

00:31:35.340 It's, it's just not, it's, it's, let some other government try it.

00:31:41.600 We obviously can't.

00:31:43.760 We're over here playing $21 per plate for spaghetti and a hot dog.

00:31:47.540 That's, that's what we're doing.

00:31:50.480 All right.

00:31:51.400 Here's a clip that is circulating online right now, though.

00:31:54.760 It's actually from a few months ago.

00:31:55.940 This is RFK Jr. doing a town hall with Patrick Bette David, his podcast.

00:32:04.360 And he's asked about the issue of gender transitions for minors.

00:32:08.560 And here's what he says.

00:32:10.200 What will you do as a president to get this nonsense out, to prevent kids under the age

00:32:17.960 of 18, with or without the consent of the father, to transition?

00:32:21.480 You may even say that is an okay policy you're a part of that many families disagree with.

00:32:25.480 One, what's your position on this?

00:32:26.840 And what will you do as a president?

00:32:27.980 I mean, my, my position is that people should not be able to have access to those procedures

00:32:34.280 that minors shouldn't without parental permission.

00:32:36.940 And, you know, I don't, I don't know enough about it, Patrick, to, to say that it should

00:32:45.760 be completely illegal.

00:32:47.620 Under 18?

00:32:48.540 No, no.

00:32:49.180 But yeah, I just don't know enough.

00:32:52.180 Okay.

00:32:52.860 So he says he doesn't know enough.

00:32:54.500 And like I said, this is from a couple of months ago, but it's getting attention now

00:32:59.200 for whatever reasons, it's circulating.

00:33:02.560 I didn't see it until now, or at least I don't remember.

00:33:05.380 I don't recall seeing it if I did.

00:33:07.980 And I will say that RFK Jr.'s defenders have pointed out that this is a short clip from a

00:33:14.700 longer conversation on the topic.

00:33:16.800 And they've said that this is out of context.

00:33:20.080 And that is a problem.

00:33:21.560 It can be a problem of out of context clips.

00:33:24.160 They, we just talked about it to open the show, circulating online all the time.

00:33:28.640 And people assume that they know everything they need to know based on, you know, in this

00:33:32.520 case, a 45 second clip or a two second clip even.

00:33:37.100 So that can be a problem.

00:33:38.780 But in this case, actually, it's not like this is not out of context.

00:33:42.020 There's nothing misleading about this clip.

00:33:44.560 This is his position as he stated it.

00:33:46.740 And if you watch the longer conversation where they talk about this for seven or eight minutes,

00:33:52.180 it's just more of that.

00:33:54.260 It's more of that.

00:33:55.400 It doesn't really flesh out.

00:33:57.140 There's not, out of context would be if he said this, and then if a minute later he said

00:34:03.060 something that completely changes our perception of what we saw in that 45 second clip.

00:34:08.960 But there is nothing.

00:34:09.860 It's just he kind of circles around and around the point that he makes in that clip here where

00:34:14.920 he says he doesn't really know enough about it and he isn't an expert and so on and so on.

00:34:20.160 And I have to say that I really find this kind of triangulation to be more detestable than

00:34:31.580 actually just coming out explicitly in favor of child gender transitions.

00:34:37.220 Like somehow I find the position that he takes and that we often hear from the so-called

00:34:44.320 reasonable liberals, which RFK Jr. is supposed to be one of them.

00:34:47.600 But I find that this kind of middle ground, like I'd almost prefer if you just defend the

00:34:57.080 indefensible, come out and try to defend the indefensible rather than trying to find this

00:35:00.680 middle ground approach.

00:35:03.020 If you're going to defend the evil thing, then just defend it.

00:35:08.580 It seems even more deranged to try to, you know, like, well, I can see from both sides.

00:35:15.160 It's like if we were debating, I don't know, we were debating whether it's good to be a

00:35:18.800 serial killer.

00:35:20.500 And and most, you know, of course, most people are going to say, no, I think being a serial

00:35:24.200 killer is bad.

00:35:25.340 Serial killing is a bad thing.

00:35:27.860 But then you have a few actual serial killers who say, you know, actually, I think it's

00:35:31.040 good.

00:35:31.320 I'll tell you why I think it's good.

00:35:33.320 And that's and that's really demented.

00:35:36.440 But then if you had some people in the middle who were like, well, I think we need more information

00:35:40.840 on this topic, I before we can determine, you know, like you got the anti serial killer

00:35:45.760 saying one thing pro on the end and I can see you can both have good points.

00:35:48.980 I think I need to do.

00:35:49.620 I don't have enough information.

00:35:51.280 I need to do more research on serial killing before I decide how I feel about it.

00:35:56.920 Somehow that to me seems like the craziest of the three possible positions that you could

00:36:02.480 take.

00:36:02.740 There are there are some things.

00:36:07.520 That you should just know, you know, there are some conclusions you should be able to

00:36:11.600 simply just draw without without doing any research, actually, like there are some things

00:36:19.060 that don't take any research to figure out.

00:36:22.880 And I know this is this.

00:36:24.840 There are plenty of times when doing research is a good thing.

00:36:27.440 Plenty of issues that there are issues where you really shouldn't say anything about them at all

00:36:33.280 until you've done some research, because it requires research to understand.

00:36:37.940 I mean, any any issue involving foreign policy, for example, or most most issues involving foreign

00:36:43.120 policy require research because now you're dealing with countries and, you know, geopolitics

00:36:49.540 and oftentimes disputes that go back years and decades and centuries.

00:36:54.480 And so it requires some base of knowledge.

00:36:56.240 It does require some research before you can, you know, take a firm position on it.

00:37:02.960 And there are plenty.

00:37:03.960 We do have a problem of plenty of people taking positions on things without doing any research

00:37:07.160 whatsoever.

00:37:08.420 But there are times when the why we need to do more research where that can be that's

00:37:13.400 a cop out.

00:37:15.660 Because there are there are things you don't need to research.

00:37:17.840 And one of them is the question of.

00:37:22.380 Is it OK to chemically castrate children?

00:37:28.060 That's just not something you need to research.

00:37:30.260 We don't need to do any research on it.

00:37:31.680 The very first time that I discovered that this was a thing that was happening, whenever that

00:37:41.460 was, years ago, first time I ever encountered this concept, I immediately knew, well, no,

00:37:50.160 that's terrible.

00:37:51.460 That's obviously an awful thing.

00:37:53.100 We should not do that.

00:37:54.000 But there's there's literally no context that could ever make that OK.

00:38:01.060 And just so happens that I have done plenty of reading on these issues ever since then.

00:38:05.060 And, well, what do you know?

00:38:07.220 Everything that you read only only only makes what is obvious.

00:38:11.220 Well, it can't be any more obvious, but it only it only underscores what should already

00:38:14.520 be obvious to everybody.

00:38:15.380 Um, and so, again, this is just this is one of those things.

00:38:22.500 And it goes to show it's like if you cannot.

00:38:26.520 I know that RFK Jr.

00:38:28.820 And he and he has been, you know, he's he's contradicted the left on a few issues.

00:38:35.020 Like vaccines, of course, is the main one.

00:38:39.020 And it's really starting to seem like that's really the only one.

00:38:41.680 Um, because on every other issue that we've heard him talk about over the last several

00:38:46.160 months, he basically just gives you he either gives you the full on radical left playbook

00:38:51.720 on it or he gives you something like this where it's like it's it's basically it is taking

00:38:56.320 the left side, but trying to do it in a way that seems less committal, but it's still a

00:39:00.900 leftist position.

00:39:03.660 And so, yeah, he's he's he's that one thing where he had the guts to contradict the left.

00:39:08.260 That's fine.

00:39:08.940 But if you can't get this issue right.

00:39:15.300 Either because you really are confused about it somehow. 0.99

00:39:18.980 Or you're too cowardly. 0.99

00:39:21.620 To come out and say what you know to be true. 0.99

00:39:24.300 Either one.

00:39:24.800 And I'm not sure which is worse.

00:39:26.100 Probably the cowardly thing is where being cowardice being cowardly is usually the worst

00:39:30.500 than the alternative.

00:39:31.300 But whichever is the case, if you cannot and do not come out explicitly and firmly on an

00:39:43.320 issue like this, then it's just, you know, you're you've totally discredited yourself intellectually

00:39:49.760 and morally.

00:39:53.120 And all of your opinions on every other topic have now become irrelevant and worthless.

00:40:00.320 You know, it's one of those kinds of issues.

00:40:02.860 All right.

00:40:03.340 Now for your your dose of cringe today, although we've already seen plenty of it.

00:40:07.420 It is a heavy dose.

00:40:08.460 I'm warning you.

00:40:08.960 This is a viral video posted by the Twitter account and wokeness, not made by that account,

00:40:14.680 but but reposted to Twitter by it.

00:40:16.840 This video is made by students at Harvard Medical School.

00:40:21.180 And here it is.

00:40:23.380 Looking at my notes, but my knowledge ain't fleeting.

00:40:26.640 Space repetition, give me something to believe in.

00:40:28.500 Pass all my tests, but I just give them the re-in.

00:40:30.220 In the food chain, we're the ones that eat you.

00:40:32.040 Harvard Med, ain't no bottom feeder.

00:40:33.920 MD stands for my demeanor.

00:40:35.660 Ask permission before I ever greet you.

00:40:37.320 Does it radiate?

00:40:38.140 Does it come with strain?

00:40:39.020 Scale one to ten, can you rate the pain?

00:40:40.860 When I knock the door, you ask who is it?

00:40:42.640 You can check my coat, it'll spell my name.

00:40:45.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:48.960 Yeah, you're messing with some Harvard MDs.

00:40:51.760 Found my best friends for life from this Harvard MD.

00:40:55.360 Giving everything we got for this Harvard MD.

00:40:58.820 Now from the top, make it drop, come get your Harvard MD.

00:41:02.520 You got your offer, now say yes to this Harvard MD.

00:41:06.060 We're talking doc, doc, doc, that's a Harvard MD.

00:41:09.800 You deserve the spot you got, future Harvard MD.

00:41:13.560 There's some docs in this house. 0.99

00:41:15.220 There's some docs in this house. 0.99

00:41:17.200 There's some docs in this house. 0.99

00:41:20.000 Hmm.

00:41:20.200 So there it is.

00:41:23.960 Played a whole minute of it for you.

00:41:25.460 I thought you would, you know, probably 15 seconds would have been enough.

00:41:28.840 Ten, five seconds.

00:41:29.760 I mean, not playing it at all.

00:41:30.760 It would have probably been, you would have preferred that.

00:41:33.580 Ten, 15 seconds, you would have gotten the point.

00:41:36.260 Decided to go the whole minute for your own good, for your own betterment.

00:41:41.660 It's a character building exercise.

00:41:43.200 Exercise, like my dad always told me.

00:41:46.500 You know, this is a, it's a good way to, if you have to do something you don't want to do.

00:41:50.380 Builds character.

00:41:52.980 Now, if you're listening only to the audio podcast, then you could hear the song.

00:41:56.460 And maybe in a certain way you experienced the cringe in an even more sort of direct, concentrated form.

00:42:03.180 But what you didn't see is not only you missed the dancing, sad to say for you, but you also didn't see how many people were involved in this thing.

00:42:12.920 Like this was, there were 50 Harvard MDs who got together on four or five different locations across campus to make the worst music video of all time.

00:42:23.400 And can I just say this?

00:42:24.660 And I know I tend to harp on this point anytime we play bad poetry or bad music, which we so often do on the show.

00:42:34.560 But can you at least rhyme?

00:42:38.200 I mean, look, you can't rap, you can't sing, you can't dance.

00:42:41.340 Fine.

00:42:41.720 I'm not going to blame you for that.

00:42:44.260 But can you at least rhyme?

00:42:45.940 Can you make the lines rhyme?

00:42:48.520 You're Harvard MDs.

00:42:49.860 You can't figure out how to write lines that rhyme at least.

00:42:54.860 You're messing with some Harvard MDs, found my best friends for life as a Harvard MD, giving everything I got for, to be a Harvard MD or whatever.

00:43:05.920 That doesn't rhyme.

00:43:07.060 You cannot rhyme Harvard MD with Harvard MD.

00:43:09.580 And also, by the way, you can't put best friends for life.

00:43:13.460 That phrase cannot appear in a rap song.

00:43:16.260 You cannot.

00:43:17.040 It's like there are laws against that, or there should be.

00:43:20.980 But that's really a minor concern in the grand scheme of things, I suppose.

00:43:23.920 Well, actually, it's not minor.

00:43:26.420 I think people making rap songs and poetry that doesn't rhyme has become, it's a real epidemic in this country.

00:43:33.480 It really upsets me a lot.

00:43:35.640 Still, the bigger issue is just the total collapse of professionalism everywhere in the country, especially in the medical field.

00:43:44.940 Which is the place where, you might argue, we need it the most.

00:43:50.400 Like, 30 or 40 years ago, you would not have been able to find any Harvard MDs or MDs anywhere else that would participate in something like this.

00:43:59.740 They would just never do it.

00:44:00.800 And why wouldn't they do it?

00:44:03.260 Just because, like, it's not, you don't do that.

00:44:06.540 It's a certain dignity to being, or there should be, to being in the medical profession.

00:44:11.980 You're supposed to be a very educated person.

00:44:14.000 There's a kind of dignity to that, and you wouldn't be caught dead participating in something like this.

00:44:18.180 Not because you can't have fun or anything like that, but just, like, you wouldn't, especially not in the, you know, with the white coats, and I don't know why they're wearing masks the whole time, but, like, they're in professional attire doing this.

00:44:30.360 And I think not all that long ago, you would not have been able to find any doctor who would participate in that.

00:44:38.540 And now it's hard to find a doctor who won't do something like this.

00:44:42.660 I mean, it's like every hospital and medical school in the country is just churning out music videos and dance videos and everything constantly.

00:44:52.760 And I think that that is not exactly a positive development.

00:44:57.560 And now a very special message from our old friend, Adam Carolla.

00:45:00.840 Catch the series premiere of Mr. Burcham this Sunday, 9 o'clock, 8 central, exclusively on Daily Wire Plus.

00:45:09.140 Episode 1 is streaming for free, so no excuses, people.

00:45:12.860 Mr. Burcham is decades in the making, and now it's showtime.

00:45:17.000 Check out the Mr. Burcham trailer and see what the fuss is all about.

00:45:21.800 Just tell me what you need.

00:45:22.960 Jump into the first one.

00:45:23.920 Rolling. Speed. Action.

00:45:26.040 Sawbuck's looking a little chubby-wubby.

00:45:28.360 So I bought him some new food.

00:45:29.780 It's organic and vegan.

00:45:31.980 Dogs are supposed to eat meat.

00:45:33.980 They're descendants of wolves.

00:45:35.580 You ever see a vegan wolf on the Nature Channel?

00:45:38.480 No, I'm a vegan.

00:45:41.700 Coffee is for closers, ladies. 1.00

00:45:43.960 Listen up!

00:45:44.820 Hey, don't make this a prison hug.

00:45:46.460 I'm a heteronormative, cisgendered, white male.

00:45:49.880 For which I apologize.

00:45:52.020 I'm black, and that used to be enough.

00:45:53.980 But I'm also bilingual, and I'm non-binary.

00:45:57.120 We're the army!

00:45:58.000 We drink more before 9 a.m. than you Navy pukes do all day. 0.98

00:46:01.280 He rubbed all the fur off his emotional support ferret. 1.00

00:46:04.400 The damn thing look like a four-legged penis! 1.00

00:46:08.480 Charity and work. 1.00

00:46:13.520 Two words that should never go together.

00:46:16.040 Like women and opinions. 1.00

00:46:17.980 I want a burly man. 0.62

00:46:19.100 They're salty and make me dizzy.

00:46:20.600 Sorry, I just need to find a thingy to fix my gaming chair.

00:46:23.660 When I was on the construction site, my chair was a five-gallon bucket.

00:46:28.500 It was also my toilet.

00:46:34.080 Hey, I'm done.

00:46:35.320 I'm going back to bed.

00:46:36.740 Thanks a lot.

00:46:37.460 Remember, Mr. Burcham's series premiere this Sunday, 9 o'clock, 8 central.

00:46:45.300 Stream it free only on Daily Wire Plus.

00:46:50.120 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:51.720 Well, last week we endured one of the silliest outrage cycles in recent memory when the media

00:47:02.480 and the internet mob came together to scream at South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for killing

00:47:07.480 a dog 20 years ago. 1.00

00:47:09.280 Now, as we discussed, the anger was absurdly overblown and incredibly stupid, but Noem was 1.00

00:47:13.700 even stupider for bringing the dog-killing story up in the first place. 0.99

00:47:16.880 And she included the anecdote in her forthcoming book titled No Going Back, scheduled to be 0.97

00:47:21.360 released, I believe, tomorrow.

00:47:23.580 The book is obviously meant to increase her national political profile and boost her unofficial 0.55

00:47:26.980 campaign for vice president.

00:47:28.700 Instead, as any story about killing a dog is destined to do in our culture, it torpedoed

00:47:33.640 her vice presidential aspirations and her political career along with it. 0.92

00:47:37.360 This book was supposed to be her ticket to the White House, but now she'll have to settle

00:47:40.220 for being a part-time Fox News contributor, which is where her career would have ultimately

00:47:44.980 ended up even if she became vice president. 0.87

00:47:46.680 So you might say this just gets her to the ultimate destination much more efficiently

00:47:50.980 and quickly.

00:47:52.280 But in any event, it turns out that the story of her poor deceased dog is not the only strange

00:47:57.500 detail that she, or more precisely, her ghostwriter, included in the book.

00:48:02.080 On Sunday, she appeared on Face the Nation to talk about the book, and the conversation went

00:48:07.040 from weird to weirder very quickly.

00:48:09.820 Watch.

00:48:10.300 So you write about lessons learned in leadership, and you bring up some specific incidents I want

00:48:17.580 to ask you about.

00:48:18.640 You talk about meeting some world leaders and one specific one.

00:48:23.440 Quote, I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

00:48:27.600 I'm sure he underestimated me having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants. 1.00

00:48:33.300 I've been a children's pastor after all.

00:48:36.280 Did you meet Kim Jong-un?

00:48:37.780 Well, you know, as soon as this was brought to my attention, I certainly made some changes

00:48:45.580 and looked at this passage.

00:48:48.220 And I've met with many, many world leaders.

00:48:50.560 I've traveled around the world.

00:48:52.580 As soon as it was brought to my attention, we went forward and have made some edits.

00:48:57.320 So I'm glad that this book is being released in a couple of days and that those edits will

00:49:01.800 be in place and that people will have the updated version.

00:49:05.540 So you did not meet with Kim Jong-un?

00:49:07.260 That's what you're saying?

00:49:09.820 No, I've met with many, many world leaders.

00:49:11.840 Many world leaders.

00:49:12.820 I've traveled around the world.

00:49:13.940 I think I've talked extensively in this book about my time serving in Congress, my time as

00:49:18.640 governor, before governor, some of the travels that I've had.

00:49:22.260 I'm not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders.

00:49:25.440 I'm just not going to do that.

00:49:27.660 This anecdote shouldn't have been in the book.

00:49:30.080 And as soon as it was brought to my attention, I made sure that that was adjusted.

00:49:34.260 So the book is not released until Tuesday.

00:49:36.840 And so we're doing all that we can.

00:49:38.880 So she says that she's not going to talk about any specific meeting with world leaders, except

00:49:43.660 that in her book, the one that she's there to promote, she does talk about a specific

00:49:48.500 meeting, one with Kim Jong-un.

00:49:50.100 The problem is that any vaguely aware person will know that the communist dictator of North

00:49:56.020 Korea probably isn't holding any meetings with the governor of South Dakota, because

00:50:01.180 why?

00:50:03.000 And Noam has asked whether that meeting actually happened.

00:50:05.080 And all she will say is that it was brought to her attention.

00:50:08.740 And so it will be changed in the book.

00:50:11.880 Well, what was brought to her attention?

00:50:13.580 Did somebody bring to her attention the fact that she never actually met the leader of North

00:50:17.620 Korea, or did someone bring to her attention the fact that this claim was made in her book?

00:50:23.280 And if the former, then how could she have not known that she didn't actually meet the

00:50:27.500 leader of North Korea?

00:50:28.360 And if the latter, how could she have not known that this claim was made in her book?

00:50:32.500 Obviously, the book was ghostwritten.

00:50:33.900 No great scandal there.

00:50:35.020 But did she really not even read her own book?

00:50:38.700 Well, we know she read it because she's the narrator on the audiobook.

00:50:42.080 So we're left with two possibilities.

00:50:43.740 Either she knowingly lied about meeting Kim Jong-un and just assumed that nobody would call

00:50:48.400 her on it, or she thought she met him, only to find out later that she didn't.

00:50:54.060 Well, how could that mistake be made?

00:50:55.840 The interviewer probes that question to find out how could you mix this up, but really doesn't

00:51:02.240 get anywhere on that.

00:51:03.400 It all adds up to, as we can see, the most awkward, cringiest kickoff to a book tour that

00:51:08.240 we've probably ever witnessed.

00:51:09.980 And it's not over.

00:51:10.880 This exchange about North Korea and the question of whether Noam has ever actually met Kim Jong-un

00:51:15.220 or been to North Korea, or whether she knows where North Korea is or what it is, continues,

00:51:21.000 all while Noam refuses to admit that any mistake was made.

00:51:23.560 Even though she says that the thing she won't admit is a mistake is being changed, nonetheless,

00:51:30.740 before it's released.

00:51:31.660 Watch.

00:51:31.860 And I'm taking responsibility for the change that we've made.

00:51:37.660 Okay.

00:51:38.200 And for the mistake in the book.

00:51:39.660 And I've told you that.

00:51:40.800 And I'm...

00:51:41.700 No, it's not.

00:51:42.640 What I've said is that I have decided...

00:51:43.820 You're not taking responsibility for the mistakes in the book.

00:51:45.640 I've decided this, and I am saying that this book is very, very good, and I've met with

00:51:52.620 many world leaders, and that there are world leaders that I've met with that are in this

00:51:57.560 book.

00:51:57.840 There are many that I've met with that are not in this book.

00:52:00.540 Okay.

00:52:00.760 And this is an anecdote that I asked to have removed because I think it's appropriate at

00:52:07.120 this point in time.

00:52:07.780 But I'm not going to talk to you about those personal meetings that I've had with world leaders.

00:52:11.360 Okay.

00:52:11.600 I'm just not going to have that conversation because I think it's important.

00:52:15.740 What?

00:52:16.760 Wait, what?

00:52:18.200 I'm not going to have that conversation because I think it's important?

00:52:21.440 So then wouldn't you want to have the conversation if it's important?

00:52:24.900 And again, if you don't want to give talk about personal meetings, why is it in your book?

00:52:30.160 She actually said the book is very...

00:52:32.040 So, Governor, did you lie about what's in the book?

00:52:36.120 Well, the book is very, very good.

00:52:37.400 It's a very, very good book.

00:52:39.300 First of all, the book is very, very good.

00:52:42.260 So translation, I didn't write my book or read it until I did the audio book, but I

00:52:46.940 was tuning myself out for most of that.

00:52:48.940 And if I did notice any problems, I figured it was too late to bring it up.

00:52:52.360 And I just hope that nobody else would notice, which is a safe bet because as everybody knows,

00:52:57.080 Republican politicians, especially ones that are associated with or hope to be associated

00:53:00.800 with Donald Trump, rarely encounter any scrutiny at all.

00:53:04.080 So, of course, why couldn't you get away with just flagrantly making up events in your book?

00:53:10.820 This brought us finally to the infamous story of poor Cricket, and here's how that exchange

00:53:16.220 went.

00:53:16.460 I want to ask you again about the book.

00:53:21.800 I know you know this question is coming because there's been such an enormous backlash about

00:53:26.480 your revelation that you shot and killed a wire hair pointer named Cricket, who is 14 months old.

00:53:32.820 You say in the book she came from another family that struggled with her aggression.

00:53:37.560 You've been training her to hunt.

00:53:39.320 She got too excited, ruined the hunt, and then attacked and killed some chickens. 1.00

00:53:43.700 I wonder if you have regrets about sharing this story.

00:53:49.720 You know, Margaret, this book is filled with vulnerable, painful moments in my life, filled

00:53:55.860 with times where I've made very difficult decisions.

00:53:58.560 The reason that the story is in the book because people need to understand who I am and some of

00:54:03.380 those difficult decisions.

00:54:04.620 This was a dangerous animal that was killing livestock and attacking people.

00:54:08.860 And I had little children at the time.

00:54:11.680 Our operation had many kids running around and people in interaction with the public.

00:54:16.440 And I made a difficult choice.

00:54:17.660 I think you're a mother, too, and you have little kiddos.

00:54:20.380 Would you make a choice between your children or a dangerous animal?

00:54:23.620 And I think I would ask everybody in the country to put themselves in that situation because

00:54:27.360 that's what I faced.

00:54:28.380 And I talk about it because what I'm tired of in this country is politicians who pretend

00:54:33.300 to be something that they're not, that they aren't willing to have the hard conversations

00:54:37.220 and look at the past and the tough decisions that they've made.

00:54:41.300 What I talk about in the book extensively when people are able to get it on Tuesday is to

00:54:45.680 see the whole story and the truth, not the spin that the media has put on this story.

00:54:50.000 The media has put some or removed most of the facts.

00:54:53.680 And what the reason this is in there is because I want people to know that I don't ask anybody

00:54:58.480 else to take on my responsibilities.

00:55:01.440 I don't ask anybody else to take on my responsibilities.

00:55:03.420 When there's a dog to kill, I do it myself.

00:55:05.640 And I like it. 1.00

00:55:07.340 Damn it, I like it. 0.99

00:55:09.240 I actually would have respected her more if she had just said that. 1.00

00:55:12.160 Like if she had just said, look, I wanted to kill a dog, so I killed it. 0.99

00:55:15.560 I kill animals all the time. 0.98

00:55:16.460 What are you going to do about it?

00:55:18.060 Like I would have, I'll be alone in this, but I personally would have respected that a little

00:55:22.560 bit more, it'd still be pretty weird.

00:55:24.160 But although now, given the made up Kim Jong-un story, I'm seriously starting to wonder whether

00:55:29.700 Cricket even existed.

00:55:31.860 It's possible that she never killed any dog and her ghostwriter made that up too.

00:55:36.960 And maybe Noam didn't want to admit that it was made up, so she just went with it.

00:55:41.240 That's at least a possibility we have to consider at this point.

00:55:44.360 And that's not the only animal execution recounted in her memoir.

00:55:47.040 Soon, the conversation turned to the goat that also crossed Kristi Noam and didn't live

00:55:53.560 to tell about it.

00:55:54.480 Listen to the details on this one.

00:55:57.040 In a part of a chapter called Bad Day to Be a Goat, and then after you shot the dog, you

00:56:03.140 quote, realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.

00:56:06.540 Walking back up to the yard, I spotted our billy goat.

00:56:09.380 You said he smelled and would chase kids, so you took him to the gravel pit and shot him

00:56:13.980 twice.

00:56:14.500 How do you justify that?

00:56:18.440 How was the goat a threat?

00:56:19.840 And I'm asking you this because it seems like you're celebrating the killing of the animals.

00:56:26.540 Not at all.

00:56:27.320 This has been a story that my political opponents have tried to use against me for years.

00:56:31.100 It's well known in South Dakota, and it has been to other people.

00:56:34.980 And I want the truth to be out there and to understand that these animals were attacking

00:56:40.120 my children, that we live on a farm and a ranch, and that tough decisions are made many times.

00:56:46.200 And it is to protect people.

00:56:48.580 And I'll tell you, the extremism of other people and how they have attacked me politically,

00:56:54.000 I understand that.

00:56:54.680 They're doing the same thing to me that they do to Donald Trump every day.

00:56:58.200 First of all, don't bring Donald Trump into this.

00:57:02.660 He's got enough issues.

00:57:04.180 You don't need to rope him in.

00:57:08.100 But I'm sorry, let's just back up for a moment.

00:57:10.380 So she killed the goat on the same day that she killed the dog.

00:57:18.480 She said, I don't think we knew that, or at least I didn't.

00:57:21.640 She was hyped up on adrenaline, filled with bloodlust, looking for something else to kill. 0.97

00:57:27.160 And she happened to see that punk-ass goat hanging out by the barn and just decided then 0.92

00:57:33.580 to take him to the same gravel pit that at this point, I guess, was covered in blood 1.00

00:57:38.320 and just busted two caps in his ass. 0.99

00:57:41.860 And this is a story that a politician has decided to tell in her memoir, and she recounts 1.00

00:57:46.800 it in a chapter titled, Bad Day to Be a Goat.

00:57:51.720 Now, I'm, and also, by the way, the fact that this, according to her, this has been a political,

00:57:58.740 this is like a well-known political controversy in South Dakota going back years.

00:58:02.620 Like, they've been debating the smelly goat that Kristi Noam killed for years now.

00:58:10.120 I don't know if that's true or not.

00:58:11.300 I don't know if people in South Dakota, when they heard this story, like, oh yeah, so there's

00:58:14.400 the story about the goat again.

00:58:16.540 I'm not sure if it's like, if it's that well-known, but that's pretty great if it is.

00:58:21.580 I'm starting to get the impression that this whole book is just her bragging about killing

00:58:25.360 various animals, interspersed with imaginary, fictionalized retellings of meetings with world

00:58:30.540 leaders that never actually happened.

00:58:32.740 So the whole book is like, it's like a murderous, blood-soaked fever dream.

00:58:37.000 I actually might, I will buy, I'm intrigued.

00:58:39.400 I want to buy a copy of the book now.

00:58:41.160 Honest to God, it sounds, it sounds entertaining at the very least.

00:58:45.720 And we haven't even made it to the best part yet.

00:58:48.620 Listen to this.

00:58:50.500 But on the, on this point, though, because you have been rumored to be a potential vice

00:58:55.180 presidential candidate, as you know, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said,

00:58:59.620 killing the dog and then writing about it ended any possibility of her being picked as VP. 0.98

00:59:04.980 You talk multiple times about it.

00:59:07.060 In fact, at the end of the book, you say the very first thing you would do if you got to

00:59:11.060 the White House that was different from Joe Biden is you'd make sure Joe Biden's dog was

00:59:15.120 nowhere on the grounds.

00:59:16.580 Commander, say hello to cricket.

00:59:19.100 Are you doing this to try to look tough?

00:59:22.140 Do you still think that you have a shot at being a VP?

00:59:25.700 Well, number one, Joe Biden's dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people.

00:59:33.420 So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision

00:59:39.260 on a dog and what to do with it?

00:59:40.720 Well, he's not living at the White House anymore.

00:59:41.960 That's the question that the president should be held accountable to.

00:59:45.840 Commander, say hello to cricket.

00:59:48.640 This is apparently not a joke.

00:59:50.320 She really ends the book by threatening to kill Joe Biden's dog. 0.95

00:59:55.620 I'm officially sold.

00:59:56.920 I'll be pre-ordering my copy as soon as this show is over.

01:00:01.300 And also, I like, by the way, this interview was just nothing but the interviewer bringing

01:00:06.120 up one animal after another and asking for her to justify why she killed it.

01:00:10.700 And or bringing up one animal after another to justify why she killed it or will kill it 0.98

01:00:15.240 in the future.

01:00:15.720 And she engages each time. 0.90

01:00:18.720 You know, she's like, well, that ghost smelled like garbage and it was annoying my kids. 1.00

01:00:22.800 What do you want me to do?

01:00:24.640 Now, granted, when I say that I want to read this book, it's because the book, you know,

01:00:30.540 it would seem is a completely insane train wreck.

01:00:35.460 And that might help her sell copies, but it represents an act of political suicide. 0.87

01:00:39.940 I mean, this is something so close to actual self-immolation that watching that interview,

01:00:45.280 I almost expected her to shout free Palestine. 0.99

01:00:48.120 She has destroyed herself completely in the most unnecessary, egregious, and hilarious way

01:00:58.860 that we've ever seen.

01:00:59.900 And she's done all that in an effort to promote herself. 1.00

01:01:02.500 Many such cases, especially in politics.

01:01:04.540 But that is why Christy Noem is not by me, but by her own choosing today canceled.

01:01:13.060 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:14.060 Thanks for watching.

01:01:14.620 Thanks for listening.

01:01:15.320 Have a great day.

01:01:16.520 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 06, 2024

Ep. 1362 - The Left Suddenly Forgets About Gaza And Spends Two Days Outraged Over A Frat Boy's Joke

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