The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1397 - One Thing Is Clear： Biden Is Done

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, guest hosted by yours truly, David Cohn, we will dissect

00:00:05.360 the top five takeaways from the most consequential presidential debate of our lifetime.

00:00:11.080 President Joe Biden was barely functional and Donald Trump took full advantage.

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00:02:38.840 If you've made it this far, there's a decent chance you recognize I am, in fact, not Matt

00:02:45.540 Walsh, but rather David Cohn from the Daily Wire's illustrious sports show, Crane & Company.

00:02:51.720 Mr. Walsh is on some sort of sabbatical, so you are stuck with me.

00:02:56.520 Last night, America and the entire world got to witness the single most disastrous debate

00:03:02.240 performance by a presidential candidate in the history of this country.

00:03:06.700 That might sound hyperbolic, but think of it this way.

00:03:10.540 Consider all the famous big debate moments from history.

00:03:14.280 George H.W. Bush looking at his watch.

00:03:17.140 Reagan deflecting the attacks about his age.

00:03:19.880 Dukakis flubbing a question about the death penalty.

00:03:23.240 None of those moments are nearly as consequential as what happened yesterday evening.

00:03:28.460 This brings me to the first of my top five takeaways from last night's showdown, and that is President

00:03:35.300 Biden is done.

00:03:36.740 He can't be the Democratic nominee.

00:03:38.940 I will stop short of saying that he won't be the nominee because we still have the convention

00:03:43.900 to go.

00:03:44.760 Things can get weird with delegates and superdelegates.

00:03:47.600 But I am confident in saying he cannot be the Democratic nominee, not while remaining in the

00:03:53.160 state we witnessed on national television, not if Democrats plan to hold the presidency.

00:03:59.620 Let's begin from the very top.

00:04:01.800 I thought for sure, as did many, President Biden would come out and start, if not strong, at

00:04:08.840 least competent, given the adrenaline rush of the moment, and then sort of fade as the 90

00:04:14.660 minutes went on.

00:04:15.440 I could not have been more wrong.

00:04:17.640 This was a disaster, even from the walkout.

00:04:21.040 Let's watch it together.

00:04:45.440 The contrast was immediately obvious.

00:04:53.180 Joe Biden looked like a person who was on his last legs.

00:04:56.520 I don't know how else to say it.

00:04:58.960 His voice was muffled, muted.

00:05:01.160 He looks lost.

00:05:02.140 Then Trump walks out on stage, red tie, projecting exactly the opposite image.

00:05:07.620 I mean, Trump looked like a man running for president.

00:05:11.300 Joe Biden looked like a ghost.

00:05:13.320 Look, I'm an American.

00:05:14.980 This hurts me to watch.

00:05:17.180 I am at a point in life where I agree with Joe Biden on just about nothing.

00:05:22.860 I guess we both like ice cream, and that's about it.

00:05:26.160 But he's still the president of the United States, and I'm still an American.

00:05:30.320 I point out this cognitive collapse not to attack Joe Biden personally.

00:05:34.840 We all get older.

00:05:35.860 It's a fact of life.

00:05:36.860 But to protect our country from an incapacitated leader, this man is auditioning to be president

00:05:43.980 for another four years.

00:05:47.280 And it is well past time for the people in his life, the people who hopefully care about

00:05:52.920 him, to step in.

00:05:55.440 Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be a likely outcome.

00:05:58.680 Upon the conclusion of this evening, Jill Biden was caught ushering her husband off the stage. 0.97

00:06:05.000 Then at a post-debate function, she spoke to him as if he were a small child.

00:06:12.120 See for yourself.

00:06:14.180 The first debate of the 2024 campaign and the earliest presidential debate ever now in

00:06:18.620 the books and in front of the voters.

00:06:20.740 I mean, look at this.

00:06:21.500 He can't get off the stage by himself.

00:06:25.040 That's the president of the United States.

00:06:27.000 And swing state focus group will be talking to surrogates, including Vice President Harris,

00:06:30.920 getting fact checks from Daniel Dale and new reporting.

00:06:33.100 The wide shot there from the stage.

00:06:34.780 Such a great job.

00:06:35.860 You answered every question.

00:06:37.880 You knew all the facts.

00:06:39.160 You answered every question.

00:06:41.140 That's the bar, y'all.

00:06:42.480 And let me ask the crowd, what did Trump do?

00:06:46.740 Why?

00:06:49.020 Look at his face.

00:06:50.100 You answered every question.

00:06:52.740 There's no commentary necessary, really.

00:06:55.420 I mean, Mr. Walsh pointed out last night on Backstage, Jill Biden is a candidate for 0.98

00:07:01.200 worst wife in America due to her refusal to help end this maltreatment. 1.00

00:07:07.520 Even the legacy media, the corporate press, high level Democrats, CNN, MSNBC were all seriously

00:07:14.580 suggesting, immediately following his performance for the first time ever, that Joe Biden,

00:07:20.100 step aside.

00:07:21.680 Gavin Newsom was out speaking to reporters with the biggest grin on his face that you have

00:07:26.620 ever seen.

00:07:28.040 Nothing like this has ever happened in the immediate aftermath of a presidential debate.

00:07:33.880 This is a debacle of the highest order.

00:07:36.800 We have a saying on our sports show, Crane & Company, Trust Vegas.

00:07:40.960 Biden's odds to take back the White House plummeted on every single betting market that I checked.

00:07:47.500 Some having his chances fall a full 15 percent.

00:07:51.280 Even the odds for winning the nomination fell in real time as the debate went on.

00:07:57.760 At one point, Biden claimed he had the endorsement of the Border Patrol, only for Trump to call

00:08:03.600 him out on it during the rebuttal.

00:08:05.000 And then for the Border Patrol Union to deny that endorsement mid-debate, stating on X, verbatim,

00:08:12.020 to be clear, we have never and will never endorse Biden.

00:08:17.060 There are so many moments like this that we could play clips for the remainder of the day.

00:08:22.040 Perhaps the worst moment came during a response to Social Security.

00:08:26.800 I know this is difficult to watch, but watch it.

00:08:29.700 We must.

00:08:30.480 Please play it.

00:08:31.720 Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've

00:08:37.740 been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do

00:08:45.020 with, look, if we finally beat Medicare.

00:08:52.480 Thank you, President Biden.

00:08:53.800 President Trump?

00:08:55.380 Well, he's right.

00:08:55.880 He did beat Medicare.

00:08:56.940 He beat it to death and he's destroying Medicare.

00:09:00.840 I mean, I don't mean to laugh, but I mean, this is when behind the scenes, Democrats started

00:09:06.840 panicking.

00:09:07.780 The president of the United States clearly cannot finish his own sentences.

00:09:13.400 No one was interrupting him.

00:09:15.300 There was no audience to distract him.

00:09:18.100 This is the current reality, even when the conditions are heavily tilted in his favor.

00:09:24.320 This is exactly the kind of thing that led Robert Herr, the DOJ special counsel, to write

00:09:30.220 that Joe Biden is so elderly that it would be hard to bring criminal charges against him.

00:09:37.220 Democrats spent the last few months denying those claims, lying about those claims, and

00:09:42.720 yet here we are, the tangible truth laid bare before the world.

00:09:47.300 Even when Joe Biden was able to articulate his thoughts, he ended up shooting himself in

00:09:52.420 the foot.

00:09:52.980 That was evident during the discussion on inflation, for example.

00:09:56.820 Watch this.

00:09:58.320 There was no inflation when I became president.

00:10:01.360 You know why?

00:10:02.260 The economy was flat on its back.

00:10:04.640 15% unemployment.

00:10:06.260 He decimated the economy.

00:10:08.080 Absolutely decimated the economy.

00:10:09.860 That's why there was no inflation.

00:10:11.540 And he caused the inflation.

00:10:13.040 He's blaming inflation.

00:10:14.580 And he's right.

00:10:15.400 It's been very bad. 0.97

00:10:16.300 He caused the inflation, and it's killing black families and Hispanic families and just 1.00

00:10:21.300 about everybody. 0.98

00:10:22.380 It's killing people.

00:10:23.620 They can't buy groceries anymore.

00:10:25.580 They can't.

00:10:26.200 You look at the cost of food, where it's doubled and tripled and quadrupled.

00:10:30.360 They can't live.

00:10:31.700 They're not living anymore.

00:10:33.400 He caused this inflation.

00:10:34.980 I gave him a country with no, essentially no inflation.

00:10:39.040 It was perfect.

00:10:39.940 It was so good.

00:10:40.580 All he had to do is leave it alone.

00:10:42.360 He destroyed it with his Green News scam and all of the other, all this money that's 0.62

00:10:46.920 being thrown out the window.

00:10:48.220 He caused inflation.

00:10:49.780 As sure as you're sitting there.

00:10:52.780 So you just saw Joe Biden admit that when he took office, there was no inflation.

00:10:59.240 We must realize the implications of that statement.

00:11:02.780 Inflation is the number one issue on voters' minds right now.

00:11:06.160 We're reminded of inflation every time we go to the grocery store or out to eat, and Joe

00:11:11.700 Biden straight up admits that when he took office, there was no inflation.

00:11:17.280 Now, I'm going to be as fair as possible.

00:11:19.560 Joe Biden's point was that as people get jobs, then inflation tends to go up because there's

00:11:24.440 more money circulating.

00:11:25.740 And it's true that as COVID died down, people returned to work.

00:11:30.340 The problem is this.

00:11:31.560 Joe Biden is ignoring the trillions of dollars, new spending, and all that money printing that

00:11:38.140 occurred under his administration.

00:11:40.220 This spending and money printing clearly made inflation worse.

00:11:43.920 Here's a fun fact that's not mentioned nearly enough.

00:11:46.880 The money supply in the United States hit an all-time high in April of 2022, when Joe Biden

00:11:54.600 was in office.

00:11:55.940 This is economics 101.

00:11:57.700 When you have more of something, its value declines.

00:12:00.880 It's printing money leads to inflation.

00:12:03.680 That's what we have now.

00:12:05.200 And that's not to say Donald Trump has been perfect on spending, but Joe Biden's record

00:12:09.980 is worse, which is why he couldn't defend it.

00:12:13.300 Now, to stay fair, as the debate went on, Biden performed a bit better.

00:12:18.080 I'd say around the midpoint is when he seemed to get into some kind of a groove, if you can

00:12:23.740 even call it that.

00:12:24.920 Clearly, the bar has been lowered to such an extent that his simple completion of sentences

00:12:29.960 comes off as some small victory in moments.

00:12:33.000 Needless to say, that should not be the standard for the president of the United States.

00:12:38.120 It was truly striking how much Biden struggled to communicate his most basic talking points,

00:12:43.960 even on January 6th, okay?

00:12:45.960 Which is a topic that Democrats have been hammering for years now.

00:12:49.780 Here is how the exchange transpired.

00:12:52.400 He encouraged those folks who go up to Capitol Hill, number one.

00:12:57.320 I sat in the dining room off the Oval Office.

00:12:59.600 He sat there for three hours, three hours watching, begging, being begged by his vice president

00:13:05.800 and a number of his colleagues on the Republican side as well to do something, to call for a

00:13:10.600 stop, to end it.

00:13:11.920 Instead, he talked about these people being patriots and great patrons of America.

00:13:17.140 In fact, he says he'll now forgive them for what they've done.

00:13:21.560 They've been convicted.

00:13:23.020 He says he wants to commute their sentences and say that no.

00:13:27.680 He went to every single court in the nation.

00:13:30.380 I don't know how many cases, scores of cases, including the Supreme Court.

00:13:34.760 And they said, they said, no, no, this guy, this guy is responsible for doing what is being,

00:13:40.820 what was done. 0.99

00:13:41.520 He did do a damn thing. 0.98

00:13:42.960 And these people should be in jail and they should be the ones who are being held accountable. 0.99

00:13:48.640 And he wants to let them all out.

00:13:50.160 And now he says if he loses again, such a whiner that he is, that there could be a bloodbath.

00:13:54.920 Thank you, President Biden.

00:13:56.160 And let me tell you about January 6th.

00:13:58.800 On January 6th, we had a great border.

00:14:02.040 Nobody coming through, very few.

00:14:04.180 On January 6th, we were energy independent.

00:14:06.460 On January 6th, we had the lowest taxes ever.

00:14:09.140 We had the lowest regulations ever.

00:14:10.840 On January 6th, we were respected all over the world.

00:14:14.200 Smart answer.

00:14:14.800 All over the world, we were respected.

00:14:16.620 And then he comes in and we're now left at. 1.00

00:14:19.320 We're like a bunch of stupid people. 1.00

00:14:21.840 What happened to the United States' reputation under this man's leadership is horrible. 1.00

00:14:27.960 So even there, in moments where Biden isn't completely short-circuiting, he's mumbling incoherently.

00:14:35.540 Then Trump turns the entire line of attack around, deflecting it perfectly, and then went on to point out correctly that he repeatedly told protesters not to engage in any violence on January 6th.

00:14:47.240 Really, it's hard to shake the feeling that last night's event was intended to produce this result by exposing Joe Biden's cognitive decline to the entire world.

00:15:00.600 I mean, think about it this way.

00:15:02.020 Why else would this debate have been scheduled in June before the Democrats' nominating convention?

00:15:07.760 This was the earliest presidential debate in U.S. history to ever take place in an election year.

00:15:14.580 By far, the previous record holder for earliest debate in an election year was mid-September of 1980.

00:15:23.160 I mean, not to get too conspiratorial, but if you wanted to sabotage Joe Biden's candidacy, this would be a really good way to do it.

00:15:31.020 They managed to kneecap him right before the convention.

00:15:34.100 If that's the case, if Joe Biden is being sabotaged, then I expect we'll see a new candidate quickly.

00:15:40.700 We would need to see a new candidate quickly.

00:15:43.020 Democrats will also likely intensify their efforts to imprison Donald Trump because at this point, it's fairly clear they're running out of options.

00:15:52.480 And this brings me to my second takeaway.

00:15:54.740 Donald Trump won the debate.

00:15:56.660 And the fact that that is the second conclusion behind Joe Biden's cognitive inability is really a double win.

00:16:05.100 I mean, one of my main thoughts prior to last night was President Biden can perform poorly or not even at all, yet still win the night if Donald Trump comes off as overly antagonistic.

00:16:17.980 He could have shouted or lost his temper or tried to talk over Biden, which was a habit we all remember from the debate last time around.

00:16:25.800 Trump could have bullied Biden or resorted to personal insults.

00:16:30.440 This was not the case.

00:16:31.820 And Trump deserves a lot of credit for performing well, especially in the first 28 minutes of the debate or so.

00:16:38.720 Donald Trump put on a master class.

00:16:41.920 And I say this as someone who was very late to the Trump train eight years ago.

00:16:46.720 Last night, especially early on, he was composed, presidential.

00:16:50.920 He didn't waste the opportunities or the openings he was given.

00:16:54.840 Not a single topic went by without Donald Trump hammering Joe Biden on immigration.

00:16:59.780 It was a constant talking point.

00:17:01.480 And here's one of Trump's best moments for the entire evening.

00:17:04.640 Let's watch.

00:17:05.100 I mean, that's a heavyweight right hook, but delivered in such a way that's honest.

00:17:29.480 It doesn't come off as bullying.

00:17:30.820 It's what the American people are thinking.

00:17:34.200 Now, as the debate went on past the 30-minute mark, that's when Trump, how should I say, went off the rails a bit.

00:17:40.620 I mean, he was much less responsive to the questions being asked, choosing instead to dodge them and hammer Biden on previous responses.

00:17:48.700 To be fair, that was around the time that I felt the moderators started to let their bias show a bit more in terms of questioning.

00:17:55.660 But make no mistake, Trump knew he was winning.

00:17:58.200 He knew he had Joe Biden in the corner, and being the heavyweight prize fighter that he is, he just kept throwing punches.

00:18:05.920 Now, speaking of moderators, my third takeaway is that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash deserve kudos.

00:18:11.860 Yes, they're clearly biased.

00:18:13.320 They've previously said very unfair and nasty things about Donald Trump.

00:18:17.480 But in this case, they did a worthy job, especially for the first 30 minutes, which is really the most critical.

00:18:24.280 That's when the most eyeballs are tuned in.

00:18:26.720 Once the questions got into climate crisis and threats to democracy, it seemed a bit skewed.

00:18:32.160 But they didn't open the debate with any sort of slanted distraction.

00:18:35.820 They focused on the issues that mattered, like inflation.

00:18:38.460 And once the debate ended, CNN's analysts didn't try to spin it.

00:18:42.440 They directly told their viewers that Joe Biden's performance was a disaster.

00:18:47.240 Watch this.

00:18:47.740 It was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party.

00:18:57.520 It started minutes into the debate, and it continues right now.

00:19:00.800 It involves party strategists.

00:19:02.900 It involves elected officials.

00:19:04.340 It involves fundraisers.

00:19:05.480 And they're having conversations about the president's performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket.

00:19:13.120 And they're having conversations about what they should do about it.

00:19:15.860 Some of those conversations include, should we go to the White House and ask the president to step aside?

00:19:20.200 Others are other of the conversations are about, should prominent Democrats go public with that call?

00:19:25.600 Because they feel this debate was so terrible.

00:19:28.740 They do say, in moments in the debate later, the president got better and got his footing.

00:19:33.360 But then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting.

00:19:37.280 That's one of the rare moments of honesty you'll find from CNN.

00:19:41.320 And it came at an important time.

00:19:42.880 The world is watching.

00:19:43.880 With all of that said, CNN and most other legacy media outlets have spent years now trying to shame anyone who even dares make mention, who dares even question Joe Biden's ability to serve as president.

00:19:57.840 So they brought this on themselves.

00:20:00.600 Unless, of course, this is all part of a larger plan to replace Biden as the nominee.

00:20:05.860 Now, there was another viral moment following the debate.

00:20:08.720 This is when a CNN panelist appeared to say that Joe Biden was given the questions in advance.

00:20:14.160 Let's take a look together.

00:20:16.120 He goes through six days of preparation at Camp David.

00:20:19.000 More than that.

00:20:19.460 And they know the rules.

00:20:20.200 It was more than a week.

00:20:21.060 OK, and so more than a week.

00:20:22.540 They know the rules.

00:20:23.800 He practices with the mics.

00:20:25.360 He knows every one of these questions is coming.

00:20:28.140 And yet he couldn't fill the time.

00:20:29.720 Now, I just want to let's see what the White House is saying.

00:20:31.940 Sources close to the White House are saying he had a cold, wasn't feeling well.

00:20:35.320 I mean, as you would expect, that came out early on in the debate.

00:20:37.620 But what accounts for someone with so much experience doing so much preparation and this

00:20:41.720 being the outcome?

00:20:42.500 Honestly, I think the question answers itself.

00:20:45.320 He wasn't capable of doing any better than he did.

00:20:47.860 Bingo.

00:20:48.480 Bingo.

00:20:48.940 Now, would it surprise any of us if CNN gave Joe Biden the debate questions in advance?

00:20:54.220 Of course not.

00:20:54.960 Honestly, I'm at the point I would be surprised if they didn't leak them to his camp.

00:20:59.440 At the same time, I think it's likely that she means all questions of this nature should

00:21:04.180 have been anticipated by any rational candidate.

00:21:07.080 Either way, it's certainly not the best of phrasing for sure.

00:21:11.020 Two final thoughts here regarding CNN.

00:21:13.160 And these are very important for Trump's team to understand and remember moving forward.

00:21:19.020 Every aspect of last night's debate format, in theory, should have benefited Joe Biden.

00:21:25.020 First, there was no live audience.

00:21:26.660 And we all know how much Donald Trump loves playing to a live audience.

00:21:30.040 Additionally, Trump loves to interject during debates, name call.

00:21:33.800 But in this case, the mics were cut off following each candidate's remarks.

00:21:38.780 If the goal was to undermine Donald Trump's game plan or to limit his strength, then the

00:21:44.120 strategy backfired.

00:21:45.380 Without a live audience, Trump wasn't motivated to play to the crowd.

00:21:49.960 And because his microphone was muted after each answer, he didn't get bogged down with

00:21:54.480 crosstalk.

00:21:55.160 Both of these format decisions allowed Trump to stay more focused and, more importantly,

00:22:00.700 to not come off as overly antagonistic.

00:22:04.680 Now, Trump being a bully on stage, that may have been fun for many across the country, but

00:22:09.900 not for the people he's trying to win over, not for the suburban housewives, not for the

00:22:14.800 centrists, not for those key independents.

00:22:17.460 My fourth takeaway of the night is about Donald Trump's response to the abortion question he

00:22:23.280 was asked.

00:22:24.060 Here's part of what he said.

00:22:26.760 The Supreme Court just approved the abortion bill, and I agree with their decision to have 1.00

00:22:32.620 done that, and I will not block it.

00:22:34.940 And if you look at this whole question that you're asking, complex but not really complex.

00:22:40.760 51 years ago, you had Roe v. Wade, and everybody wanted to get it back to the states, everybody,

00:22:46.480 without exception, Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it

00:22:51.360 back, religious leaders.

00:22:53.160 And what I did is I put three great Supreme Court justices on the court, and they happened

00:22:58.320 to vote in favor of killing Roe v. Wade and moving it back to the states.

00:23:03.160 Like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions.

00:23:06.280 I am a person that believes.

00:23:08.180 And frankly, I think it's important to believe in the exceptions.

00:23:11.120 Some people, you have to follow your heart.

00:23:12.500 Some people don't believe in that.

00:23:13.720 But I believe in the exceptions for rape incest and the life of the mother.

00:23:19.240 I think it's very important.

00:23:20.720 Some people don't.

00:23:21.620 Follow your heart.

00:23:22.300 But you have to get elected also, because that has to do with other things.

00:23:26.660 You've got to get elected.

00:23:27.880 Seven states have no legal restrictions on how far into a pregnancy a woman can obtain an 0.98

00:23:34.400 abortion.

00:23:35.340 Do you support any legal limits on how late a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy?

00:23:40.300 I support Roe v. Wade, which had three trimesters.

00:23:44.360 First time is between the woman and the doctor.

00:23:47.040 Second time is between the doctor and an extreme situation.

00:23:51.080 The third time is between the doctor, I mean, between the woman and the state.

00:23:56.280 The idea that the politicians, that the founders want the politicians to be the ones making decisions 0.90

00:24:02.140 about a woman's health is ridiculous. 1.00

00:24:04.320 That's the last. 0.99

00:24:04.980 No politician should be making that decision.

00:24:07.060 A doctor should be making those decisions. 0.99

00:24:08.640 That's how it should be run.

00:24:10.420 That's what you're going to do.

00:24:11.740 And if I'm elected, I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade. 0.96

00:24:14.620 So that means he can take the life of the baby in the ninth month and even after birth,

00:24:20.460 because some states, Democrat-run, take it after birth.

00:24:23.920 Again, the governor, former governor of Virginia, put the baby down, then we decide what to do

00:24:28.620 with it. 0.95

00:24:29.160 So he's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill 1.00

00:24:34.740 the baby. 0.99

00:24:35.200 Nobody wants that to happen.

00:24:37.020 Better.

00:24:37.060 That's better.

00:24:38.820 This is a topic that's deeply personal to me.

00:24:41.620 I have three babies under three years old.

00:24:43.880 The gentleman who usually occupies this chair has double that amount.

00:24:47.640 Many of you listening are in similar positions.

00:24:50.040 There should be a tremendous sense of gratitude for Donald Trump appointing justices to the court

00:24:55.580 that overturned Roe v. Wade, quite possibly the most significant Supreme Court case of our

00:25:01.180 time.

00:25:01.520 With that said, we must discuss Trump's response to the topic of abortion pills.

00:25:07.200 Firstly, he claimed that the Supreme Court had approved the abortion pill.

00:25:11.160 Technically, that's not true.

00:25:13.320 The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge involving abortion due to a standing issue, which essentially

00:25:19.880 means that they didn't decide the case on its merits.

00:25:23.600 Secondly, Trump appeared to say that because of the Supreme Court's ruling, he wouldn't block

00:25:28.820 the abortion pill in any way.

00:25:31.140 Look, I'm well aware of the Trump campaign's position here.

00:25:34.880 They are making a political calculation.

00:25:37.260 They're sizing up the political realities.

00:25:39.940 And they've come to the conclusion that they can't win the White House if they campaign on

00:25:44.440 a total abortion pill ban.

00:25:47.720 Pro-life conservatives don't want to hear that answer.

00:25:49.960 We want a president to unapologetically support the sanctity of life.

00:25:55.520 At the same time, when I hear Donald Trump say the phrase multiple times in an answer,

00:26:00.740 you've got to get elected.

00:26:02.120 You've got to get elected.

00:26:03.620 To me, that's code for, hey, everybody has been yelling at me for not winning over more

00:26:08.540 independent voters.

00:26:09.760 So that's what I'm doing here.

00:26:11.760 Traditional conservatives trust my record as president.

00:26:14.900 Trust the justices I placed on the highest court in the land.

00:26:17.660 I got Roe overturned when no other Republican could.

00:26:21.920 That message was clear.

00:26:24.180 Now, is it disappointing?

00:26:25.540 Of all the issues to run towards the center for this to be the one, is this a disappointing

00:26:30.080 answer for many of us?

00:26:31.440 Absolutely.

00:26:32.880 Trump clearly, though, feels this is the right move politically to return to Washington.

00:26:37.520 And we all just have to hope he does the right thing if he gets back in office.

00:26:42.400 For my fifth and final takeaway, which is a bit lighter than the others, I have to say,

00:26:47.260 watching Donald Trump and Joe Biden, two octogenarians, argue back and forth over their

00:26:52.480 golf handicaps was the most American thing I've ever seen, for better or worse.

00:26:58.380 In case you missed it, here was the incredible moment.

00:27:01.100 Just take a look at what he says he is and take a look at what he is.

00:27:05.720 Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him.

00:27:08.480 The reason I got my handicap, which when I was vice president, down to a six.

00:27:13.540 Six?

00:27:14.940 Look at Trump.

00:27:15.380 By the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf if you carry your own bag.

00:27:20.320 You can do it.

00:27:21.840 That's the biggest lie that he's a six handicap of all. 1.00

00:27:25.120 I was an eight handicap.

00:27:26.300 Now it's eight.

00:27:28.520 From six to eight.

00:27:30.420 I've seen you swing.

00:27:31.260 I know you swing.

00:27:32.300 Let's not act like Joe Biden.

00:27:33.900 President Trump, we're going to do it.

00:27:35.100 Let's not act like Joe Biden.

00:27:38.400 Think about all the serious issues facing this country, from inflation, foreign policy,

00:27:43.880 foreign wars, the national debt.

00:27:45.860 Yet these two guys are going back and forth arguing about who would win on the golf course.

00:27:51.240 And of the many lies told on that stage, Joe Biden's claim to be a six handicap while needing

00:27:57.840 to be physically escorted off the stage by his wife may be the biggest whopper of them

00:28:03.620 all.

00:28:04.040 Now, I played golf for the first time this year or in a year over Memorial Day, and I

00:28:08.540 shot 99.

00:28:09.820 Joe Biden has never been a six handicap in his life.

00:28:14.380 Honestly, if I were President Biden in that state that he was in last night, I would steer

00:28:19.120 clear of even mentioning the word handicap.

00:28:22.200 Now, I'll wrap this up by sharing the overarching sentiment I arrived at after watching this unforgettable

00:28:28.440 debate and after speaking with several friends last night, many of whom who don't even follow

00:28:33.220 politics closely.

00:28:35.060 Most of us didn't learn anything new about Donald Trump.

00:28:39.560 Trump was Trump.

00:28:40.660 Everything he showcased, love it or hate it, has been baked into the Trump cake for a long

00:28:46.140 time now.

00:28:46.720 But millions of people learned something new about Joe Biden.

00:28:50.860 Millions of people saw firsthand the cognitive impairments that had been, at least for many

00:28:57.180 up to this point, dismissed as right-wing propaganda or hateful conservative rhetoric.

00:29:04.940 This was the night that the election changed.

00:29:08.380 I can't know for sure that Joe Biden won't be the nominee.

00:29:11.480 But I do know that, as a matter of physical and mental ability, he simply can't be the

00:29:18.200 nominee.

00:29:18.880 Joe Biden is not running the country right now.

00:29:21.520 And no matter what happens in this election, he won't be running it in the future.

00:29:25.940 The choice is now between electing Donald Trump or electing a cabal of unelected, behind-the-scenes

00:29:32.220 bureaucrats who really call the shots. 1.00

00:29:34.700 That's been the choice, effectively, for several years now.

00:29:38.160 But after last night, that choice is now obvious to every single voter in the country.

00:29:44.420 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:31:49.500 First story up is about PETA.

00:31:52.160 I want to read you this article here.

00:31:53.500 This is from Blaze Media.

00:31:54.980 The headline is PETA calls on people to stop having sex with meat-eating men.

00:32:01.220 I've never wanted to eat a steak more in my life than right now.

00:32:05.540 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has announced a campaign to persuade people

00:32:11.140 to stop having sex with meat-eating men after a study found a large gender gap in vegan diets.

00:32:18.180 A spokesperson for PETA released a statement explaining the campaign.

00:32:21.840 PETA urges lovers everywhere to ditch deadly meat because men apparently don't give, more 1.00

00:32:29.480 profanity here, about the planet as a new study shows that males contribute significantly

00:32:34.820 more to the climate catastrophe than females through their higher consumption of meat. 0.98

00:32:41.120 PETA is asking people to, again, more profanity.

00:32:44.720 I'll just, I'll stop right here for a second.

00:32:46.720 PETA is the epitome of an inverted society, right?

00:32:51.580 I mean, every member of this hateful organization should thank their ancestors for eating meat.

00:32:58.360 Can you imagine if the PETA organization members, great, great, great, great, great grandfathers

00:33:04.420 decided, hey, I want to upend the natural order of everything that my lineage has done up to

00:33:10.940 this point, and I'd like to stop eating meat.

00:33:13.660 No PETA member would be alive right now.

00:33:16.360 This article goes on to say, the news study found that among societies where men and women

00:33:22.560 were given more freedom to choose their diets, men were far more likely to choose meat diets

00:33:28.700 than vegan ones, while women were more open to choosing vegan and vegetarian. 0.69

00:33:34.860 Is that surprising?

00:33:36.820 Is anyone truly surprised by that? 1.00

00:33:39.060 PETA is breeding grounds for lunatics.

00:33:42.940 These are the same people who use the term fur babies, right? 0.94

00:33:47.840 Like, what kind of term is that?

00:33:50.020 Now, I love animals.

00:33:51.380 I have a dog.

00:33:52.200 I love my dog.

00:33:53.420 My dog is Penny Lane, the pit bull.

00:33:55.880 Like, any type of person who doesn't love pit bulls is sort of a sociopath to me.

00:34:01.420 That's what I think.

00:34:02.600 But I wouldn't go around calling Penny my fur baby.

00:34:06.020 Actually, I can't even think of a more disrespectful thing to say to the dog that really gets treated

00:34:11.880 like a princess in our house.

00:34:14.400 This is the same group, PETA, that tried to cancel the University of Georgia's English

00:34:19.600 Bulldog mascot, Ugga, on multiple occasions at this point, stating, as the back-to-back national

00:34:26.660 champions, this was a year ago, can't Ugga find in its heart to honestly examine the impact

00:34:33.960 of its promotion of defending deformed dogs and call time on its outdated live animal

00:34:47.760 mascot program?

00:34:49.020 It's almost unreadable, to be honest with you.

00:34:52.820 Do you know how well Ugga lives?

00:34:55.560 Do you know the lifestyle of this dog?

00:34:57.740 He has his own custom-made Chevy Suburban with a personalized license plate.

00:35:03.180 That's more than I get.

00:35:04.340 A state-of-the-art, air-conditioned, eco-friendly, I may add, doghouse for the football games he

00:35:11.080 attends.

00:35:11.840 When he's not in there, he's taking pictures with the cheerleaders.

00:35:15.780 And when each Ugga dog passes, he is entombed in a marble mausoleum. 0.99

00:35:21.660 That's royalty.

00:35:22.620 That dog's royalty, and you have the audacity, PETA, to call him deformed.

00:35:28.800 I'm convinced PETA members are the ones who actually hate animals.

00:35:33.480 There's no way you can be the arbiter of which animals get to live and which ones must die because

00:35:39.140 you think that they are deformed. 0.97

00:35:41.500 It's disgusting to me, and in terms of PETA making a commitment to stop having sex with 1.00

00:35:48.060 men who are meat eaters, I fully support this decision, and I would encourage them to stop

00:35:53.760 procreating at all costs.

00:35:56.400 All right, next story up here is titled, Picasso's Hung in Toilet Cubicle at Mona in Response to

00:36:04.560 Adverse Discrimination Ruling.

00:36:06.920 So this one comes from producer Sean, and producer Sean back there, you tell me if I'm off track

00:36:12.460 here, but a museum wanted to hang Picasso paintings up, but only wanted females, only wanted women 1.00

00:36:21.820 to be able to come in and enjoy and view the Picasso paintings.

00:36:26.520 No men allowed. 1.00

00:36:28.900 So this resulted in a lawsuit from one man who wanted to come in and see what the Picasso paintings

00:36:34.380 were all about.

00:36:35.100 So the curator created a loophole called the Ladies' Lounge and said she would consider using

00:36:43.380 this loophole and turning it into a toilet to enable men not to be able to come in to 0.67

00:36:49.500 this art gallery.

00:36:50.740 So look, there are several things at play here.

00:36:54.460 First of all, we have a situation where is the free market better than legislation?

00:37:00.080 I mean, first of all, that is typically my response to these situations.

00:37:03.860 Hey, I want to let the free market act in a way that is best for it.

00:37:08.940 If that includes discrimination, then allow businesses or museums to punish themselves and

00:37:15.300 go out of business.

00:37:16.620 I mean, this is historically what happened, let's say, with the NFL.

00:37:20.620 NFL owners didn't want to let minority races play in the league until they find out, hey, 1.00

00:37:26.000 we're losing every single game.

00:37:27.760 We have to integrate or else we're going to go out of business.

00:37:31.620 This is the example here.

00:37:33.860 But what is amazing to me is the constant double standard.

00:37:38.460 And we want to create a toilet lounge, a toilet lounge where no men can come in and look at 1.00

00:37:45.460 these Picasso paintings.

00:37:46.960 But if that man who can't come in wants to go to his country club clubhouse where no women 1.00

00:37:53.880 can come in, he wants to smoke cigars or play poker, then that is discriminatory.

00:37:59.100 How is that not a double standard?

00:38:01.760 Not only that, but now all of a sudden we're back to knowing what a woman is, right? 0.96

00:38:07.240 Like, isn't it amazing that anytime it's convenient to display any traditional understanding of

00:38:14.020 the way the world works and has worked for millennia, then all of a sudden we know what a woman is. 1.00

00:38:20.300 We know what a woman's bathroom is. 1.00

00:38:22.180 We know who's supposed to go into that bathroom, and we know who's supposed to be kept out of that

00:38:26.700 bathroom.

00:38:27.160 It's further proof that the gender ideology is absolute madness. 1.00

00:38:31.880 This isn't about equality.

00:38:33.560 This isn't about feelings.

00:38:35.360 This is about destroying boundaries.

00:38:38.340 Until we need some of those boundaries, of course, to discriminate against men, then we're more 0.91

00:38:44.280 than fine with that, and you can't come in and see the Picassos.

00:38:48.840 Next up, as Mr. Walsh pointed out Friday a week ago, Louisiana became the first state to

00:38:55.220 require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.

00:39:00.820 The legislation that Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed into law the previous Wednesday

00:39:06.980 requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in large, easily readable font

00:39:14.280 in all classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.

00:39:19.280 So this week, we now have Louisiana parents sue to block display of Ten Commandments in school.

00:39:26.720 A group of parents in Louisiana filed a federal lawsuit on Monday seeking to block a new state

00:39:33.820 law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school.

00:39:38.500 The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, of course we would get to them, one of the

00:39:43.920 organizations representing the parents, has condemned the legislation as blatantly unconstitutional.

00:39:50.560 But the law supporters were eager for a legal fight, which they hoped would bring the

00:39:55.560 issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:39:58.100 They were optimistic that the court's conservative majority would support the mandate and overturn

00:40:03.700 a 1980 ruling that struck down a similar law.

00:40:07.540 The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed on Monday in federal district court in Baton Rouge.

00:40:13.700 There are nine families with children in Louisiana public schools.

00:40:17.340 They include two Unitarian Universalist families, a Presbyterian family, a Jewish family, an atheist

00:40:24.600 family, and non-religious family.

00:40:27.140 Isn't that redundant towards the end there?

00:40:29.140 In the lawsuit, the families assert that having the Ten Commandments posted in every elementary,

00:40:35.420 secondary, or post-secondary public school classroom would render them unavoidable.

00:40:40.980 As a result, according to the suit, the law unconstitutionally pressures students into religious observance,

00:40:48.900 veneration, and adoption of the state's favored religious scripture.

00:40:53.920 That is a heck of a statement to make in a lawsuit in a time where the Rainbow Coalition

00:41:04.540 is spewing alphabet propaganda, LGBT propaganda, and putting up rainbow flags of any kind of

00:41:12.860 nature in classrooms across this country without a single word.

00:41:17.040 I would like to know, would any of these parents sue the school district or sue the state if

00:41:22.680 they had a rainbow flag or a Black Lives Matter flag posted up in their classroom?

00:41:28.000 You know, I was talking about this issue last year with my good friend and colleague here,

00:41:34.300 Spencer Clavin, when the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team decided to host the Sisters of Perpetual

00:41:41.800 Indulgence, not just host them at a baseball game, gave them a community service award of some sort.

00:41:49.520 And, you know, we were talking about, is that a way for this leftist lunacy to sort of barter or

00:41:56.920 demand a trade? Well, if you don't want us to have the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the baseball 1.00

00:42:03.360 game, then don't have the Sisters of the Poor at the baseball game. Or to say, if you don't want 1.00

00:42:08.560 rainbow flags in the classroom, then don't put up the Ten Commandments in the classroom.

00:42:14.240 And I thought, you know, Spencer said something really poignant, which was, do not retreat to

00:42:20.060 neutrality, right? Like, if we can't, as a society, set a moral distinction between the Sisters of

00:42:28.240 Perpetual Indulgence, a drag queen operation, a difference between that and the Sisters of the

00:42:35.700 Poor, even though you may not be Catholic, if you can't understand the moral distinction of that

00:42:40.660 when you see it at the baseball game, then society has collapsed. If you can't walk into a public

00:42:47.040 school classroom, public school where our funding goes, where our dollar bills go, where our taxed

00:42:52.780 income goes, if you can't walk into the classroom and understand the distinction between the Ten

00:42:58.380 Commandments on the wall, even though you may not be religious, you may not be Christian, if that bothers 0.98

00:43:03.800 you to such an extent, but you're completely fine looking at a rainbow-colored flag that supports

00:43:10.060 all sorts of sexual deviancy, which is its own sort of, becoming its own sort of religion, or at least

00:43:17.300 a cult might be a better word, then how far has society fallen if we can't understand those sorts

00:43:24.300 of distinctions? So this is a big issue. I know Mr. Walsh touched on it last week. Now we have

00:43:29.600 Louisiana parents set to sue, which the governor was anticipating, and now it's happened, so we'll

00:43:34.720 keep you posted on that moving forward. If you haven't heard, Jeremy Boring announced an exciting

00:43:40.080 partnership with Angel Studios and Daily Wire Plus to bring you a brand new film called Sound of Hope,

00:43:47.920 The Story of Possum Trot, and it's coming to theaters this July 4th. I've seen the film. I've greatly enjoyed

00:43:54.220 the film. Last year, Angel Studios' movie, Sound of Freedom, made a profound impact by shining a

00:44:00.460 powerful light on the child trafficking crisis. Now, Angel Studios is back, continuing their fight

00:44:07.180 for kids, and Daily Wire is joining them. Sound of Hope is the true story of 22 families from a rural

00:44:14.520 church who adopted 27 kids from the foster system, sparking a movement to save vulnerable children

00:44:21.380 everywhere. We have a trailer for you guys, so you can get a feel for what this movie is all about.

00:44:27.160 Please take a look.

00:44:30.380 Are you sure these people want us? I know they do. You can call me mama.

00:44:39.920 Oh, Lord. No! No! No! No! No! No! No! If we can't wrap our arms around the most vulnerable,

00:44:48.940 then what do we have? Nards! And the children can't take the Nards anymore. 1.00

00:44:55.220 This is something that we must do.

00:45:01.760 22 families want to adopt. The whole town wants kids now.

00:45:05.520 That's about right.

00:45:08.280 What's happening with Possum Trot could mean a huge change for the system.

00:45:18.940 I watch this film, as I said, and I have to say it is incredibly moving, and it places strong family

00:45:33.520 values at its core. It's more than just a movie. It's a call to action. Right now, there are over

00:45:39.660 100,000 children in foster care that need homes, and they need our help. Raising awareness is how you

00:45:46.660 can help today. The best way to do that is by seeing Sound of Hope in theaters. This is exactly

00:45:52.900 how we start a movement to change culture. Sound of Hope is coming to theaters July 4th,

00:45:58.340 and tickets, they are on sale now. You can get showtimes at angel.com slash Matt. Now let's get

00:46:06.040 to our daily cancellation. Many of you may remember J.J. Reddick as a standout basketball player at Duke

00:46:18.500 University, or as a 15-year NBA veteran, or as a sports personality for the insufferable network

00:46:26.340 that is ESPN. Well, as of this week, Reddick has officially been announced as the 29th head coach

00:46:32.540 of the Los Angeles Lakers. And during his very first introductory press conference,

00:46:37.940 Reddick was asked a question that wasn't particularly shocking or difficult to handle,

00:46:43.000 but his response made headlines regardless. Here's the question followed by Reddick's response. Watch

00:46:49.400 this. Hey, J.J. Claire doing with The Guardian. First of all, sorry, right in front of you. First of all,

00:46:55.020 happy birthday. Second of all, what misconceptions or concerns about you that you've heard in the last

00:47:03.160 few weeks are you the most, like, looking forward to dispelling when you're the coach?

00:47:11.680 It's a valid question, and I've certainly heard everything. You know, it's been a really

00:47:17.960 interesting six weeks or so, just in terms of, you know, being part of the engagement farming

00:47:29.560 industry. You know, it's been really interesting. However, I don't really have a great answer for

00:47:36.660 your question, because I really don't give a f***. Like, honestly, I want to coach the Lakers. I want 0.89

00:47:45.040 to coach the team. I don't want to dispel anything. I don't. At first, I thought for sure this was some

00:47:53.300 AI-manipulated deepfake. But no, J.J. Reddick really dropped the F-word during his initial public

00:48:01.420 address with the Los Angeles Lakers, completely out of the blue. In fact, he said it again later on in

00:48:07.820 the same answer. This is how he chose to introduce himself to the country and to millions of Lakers fans

00:48:14.280 around the world. Now, the Lakers went from coaches like Bill Sharman and Pat Riley to this. There's

00:48:21.060 really no other way to describe that moment other than the personification of unprofessionalism.

00:48:27.120 Not to be too dramatic, but you have to ask, is this how far our societal standards have fallen?

00:48:34.000 Are we really at the point where the new head coach for one of the most storied franchises in the

00:48:39.320 National Basketball Association can use profanity of this nature on national television in his

00:48:46.320 inaugural press conference? Now, from the reaction to Reddick's vulgar response, it seems that

00:48:52.060 unfortunately we are indeed at that point. Many sports journalists even cheered his language and

00:48:57.740 attacked people who were bothered by it. This is Garrett Seawright at Barrett Sports Media, for example,

00:49:03.860 declared that we should welcome Reddick's honesty and his decision to be unapologetically himself.

00:49:13.920 He accused people criticizing Reddick's remarks of, quote, pure insanity and being holier than thou.

00:49:21.740 Seawright added, quote, but for sports reporters and hosts to pretend as if it were some great blunder, 0.96

00:49:27.780 one that simply is unconscionable for an NBA head coach to blurt out, couldn't be more ridiculous. 0.93

00:49:35.760 That's right. Ridiculous, insane. That's what they think of you if you take issue with this sort of 1.00

00:49:41.880 language. Meanwhile, Zach Gelb was even more zealous in defense of J.J. Reddick. He delivered a full

00:49:48.440 throated defense of the constitutional right of Lakers coach to drop F-bombs and violate all kinds of FCC

00:49:56.820 rules whenever they please. If you want to see what a straw man fallacy looks like in real time,

00:50:03.160 here is your chance. Let's watch it together. So J.J. Reddick drops one F-bomb in the press

00:50:08.620 conference, and you would have thought that J.J. Reddick was like the worst human being in the world.

00:50:15.380 I can't believe now, Stu. I'm defending J.J. Reddick. I can't stand the man's guts. He's insufferable.

00:50:24.160 He's a pompous ass. Don't get me wrong. But people pretending as if he committed some crime 1.00

00:50:32.980 yesterday because he dropped an F-bomb in the press conference? Get over yourself. Toughen up a

00:50:40.060 little bit. Oh, what about the children? Oh, the children are listening. So if you don't like that

00:50:47.220 language, be a parent, lecture your children, and tell them you don't speak that way in public.

00:50:53.180 But how people are making this out to be as if J.J. Reddick is the worst human being to ever walk 0.99

00:51:00.260 the face of the earth because he dropped an F-bomb is ridiculous. 0.93

00:51:04.940 Yeah, there's a lot of passion there, that's for sure. But it's not really clear who Zach Gelb is 0.94

00:51:09.840 talking to. No one watched this interaction and said J.J. Reddick committed a crime or that he's

00:51:15.340 the worst person ever to live. What people are saying, myself included, is that J.J. Reddick

00:51:20.520 did something that was highly inappropriate. And more than that, his press conference was a symbol

00:51:25.920 for how professionalism in all contexts, not just in sports, is dying in this country. That used to be

00:51:33.560 something people cared about, but increasingly, they do not. That's especially clear if you take a look at

00:51:39.380 social media. Jamal Christopher, for example, wrote, quote, grown men crying about J.J. Reddick

00:51:45.560 dropping the F-bomb. Crazy times we live in. Again, crazy, insane. You see these words they want to call

00:51:51.760 us? The host of football talk added, people losing their mind over an F-bomb is wild to me. Another

00:51:58.300 one here, J.J. Reddick dropping F-bombs in his press conference. I'm sold. Love the hire. I guess we

00:52:06.640 shouldn't be too surprised. Social media is the cesspool of our time. But how about Rob Palenka?

00:52:12.980 The general manager for the franchise is sitting right beside Reddick. No rebuttal, no comment,

00:52:19.960 no apology. There's no word from the team owner, Jeannie Buss. There's no statement from the Lakers

00:52:25.220 PR. At least we got a solid response from Michael Kay. I wasn't familiar with this gentleman, but he made

00:52:31.700 the same point that crossed my mind when I first saw this. So let's watch it together.

00:52:36.980 I'm going to be the old guy on the lawn. You're shouting at clouds. And you know what? Maybe I am

00:52:43.240 sometimes. But when Peter, who's young and hip and fresh, if he brings it up, it kind of opens the

00:52:51.240 door for me just a little bit to climb through. A little bit. The portal. What exactly has happened

00:52:57.700 happened to the coarsening of our society? Yeah. Where a guy who went to Duke, a bright guy,

00:53:04.240 just drops an F-bomb. Why? On live TV. Why do you, why? Is that okay now? Is that okay? No. So maybe

00:53:11.700 the FCC should change all these rules too. I mean, this guy just dropped it. And it's not just J.J.

00:53:16.980 Reddick. But this is a man of authority right now. People use the F-word like it's nothing now.

00:53:22.900 Yeah. Kay went on to say correctly that young kids could have been watching that press conference.

00:53:29.720 And this isn't even the kind of behavior that we want our kids to be modeling, obviously. To be

00:53:35.500 clear, it's not as if J.J. Reddick were yelling at a player on the basketball court and a microphone

00:53:41.340 picked up the profanity. It's not like he got cornered in the locker room after a tough loss by

00:53:46.760 a hostile reporter making inflammatory comments. Not that that vulgarity in any situation is

00:53:53.740 defensible, but it's certainly more understandable. A general will address his troops in battle

00:53:59.860 differently than he speaks to the public. And don't get me wrong. I'm not claiming to be someone who

00:54:05.540 never uses foul language. I've said far worse phrases in my life. I've used that exact term probably at

00:54:11.600 some point this week. I'll probably use it again in the future, but I wouldn't say it during the most

00:54:16.880 important public interactions of my life. I would hope that if I use this language during my first

00:54:23.520 interview with Jeremy Boring and Ben Shapiro, that they would have stopped me straight away

00:54:28.440 and shown me the door. Hearing Reddick say this while being introduced for his first ever head coaching

00:54:34.580 gig or assistant coaching gig, if you think LeBron James is the head coach, it got me thinking back to

00:54:40.720 a Deadspin article I read several years ago. Now, Deadspin has become such a useless publication

00:54:47.260 that it's been sold off more times than old baseball cards. So take this with a grain of salt.

00:54:52.820 But the headline for the column is how J.J. Reddick's abortion contract was conceived. In the piece,

00:55:00.940 Barry Petschke alleges, quote, in 2007, J.J. Reddick's first year in the NBA, he and his model

00:55:08.400 ex-girlfriend Vanessa Lopez agreed to a bizarre contract which stipulated Reddick would have to 0.98

00:55:14.860 fake a relationship with Lopez for one full year or pay her $25,000, either one, in exchange for her

00:55:23.840 getting an abortion. A series of emails were then released between Reddick, his attorney, Greg McNeil,

00:55:30.440 a financial advisor, Jeff Silverman, in which they allegedly debated about the exact wording and version

00:55:36.760 of the contract. Both parties eventually signed one of these versions, according to the report,

00:55:42.220 just hours before Lopez terminated her pregnancy, which the physician identified as being 16 to 17

00:55:50.820 weeks along. Now, I've witnessed firsthand people extort money from high-profile athletes

00:55:56.940 and celebrities, and that could be the case here. I'm not vouching for any of these allegations.

00:56:01.940 But this episode does underscore why it's so important to live your life in such a manner

00:56:08.300 that your character is beyond questioning. It's important to carry yourself appropriately as often

00:56:14.660 as possible and never give anyone reason to doubt your integrity. Saying the F word on the grandest

00:56:21.600 stage of your career does not help that cause. Apparently, though, this is just life in 2024.

00:56:28.860 Forget the bar for professional standards being low. There is no bar. All words are the same.

00:56:35.760 They carry no meaning. They have no weight. We're all just living in a giant undergrad philosophy class.

00:56:42.660 Every word is just made up of the same 26 letters. We're just making different noises with our mouths.

00:56:48.700 What's the big deal? This is the mindset of the boundary list. Words don't matter. Men can be women. 0.99

00:56:56.500 Nations don't really exist. Nations don't really exist. This is the regressive nihilism we are fighting

00:57:02.460 on a daily basis. So y'all can call me an old curmudgeon, the get-off-my-lawn guy, lame, 0.80

00:57:10.540 but I'll tell you what I find lame. Watching someone with zero respect for himself, his family,

00:57:17.480 his name, the organization welcoming him in to the point that he behaves like this in an environment

00:57:24.180 that should be fit for our children to watch. That's why J.J. Reddick and all the many defenders

00:57:30.600 of his classless and inexcusable behavior are today canceled. I need to get off my lawn.

00:57:37.280 That'll do it today for the Matt Walsh Show. Thanks so much for tuning in. Before you go quickly,

00:57:41.680 I do have a shameless plug. I have a brand new song out this morning. That's right. I wrote it.

00:57:47.580 I sing it. It's called Southward Bound. It was produced by Nashville legend Kent Wells. I encourage

00:57:53.300 you to go listen to it and download it. You can get it on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, anywhere where

00:57:59.280 you traditionally listen to music. You can also catch me in about a half hour on the sports show

00:58:04.840 Crane & Company. That'll be 3 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Central. Thank you so much for watching and

00:58:11.160 listening. I'm David Cohn, guest hosting for Matt Walsh. Have a great weekend. See you next week.

00:58:17.580 I'll see you next week.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 29, 2024

Ep. 1397 - One Thing Is Clear： Biden Is Done

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