Ep. 1397 - One Thing Is Clear： Biden Is Done
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In the wake of the most disastrous debate performance by a presidential candidate in modern history, here are my top 5 takeaways from the most consequential debate of our lifetime: Joe Biden was barely functional, and Donald Trump took full advantage.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, guest hosted by yours truly, David Cohn, we will dissect
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the top five takeaways from the most consequential presidential debate of our lifetime.
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President Joe Biden was barely functional and Donald Trump took full advantage.
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If you've made it this far, there's a decent chance you recognize I am, in fact, not Matt
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Walsh, but rather David Cohn from the Daily Wire's illustrious sports show, Crane & Company.
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Mr. Walsh is on some sort of sabbatical, so you are stuck with me.
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Last night, America and the entire world got to witness the single most disastrous debate
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performance by a presidential candidate in the history of this country.
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That might sound hyperbolic, but think of it this way.
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Consider all the famous big debate moments from history.
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Dukakis flubbing a question about the death penalty.
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None of those moments are nearly as consequential as what happened yesterday evening.
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This brings me to the first of my top five takeaways from last night's showdown, and that is President
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I will stop short of saying that he won't be the nominee because we still have the convention
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Things can get weird with delegates and superdelegates.
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But I am confident in saying he cannot be the Democratic nominee, not while remaining in the
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state we witnessed on national television, not if Democrats plan to hold the presidency.
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I thought for sure, as did many, President Biden would come out and start, if not strong, at
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least competent, given the adrenaline rush of the moment, and then sort of fade as the 90
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Joe Biden looked like a person who was on his last legs.
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Then Trump walks out on stage, red tie, projecting exactly the opposite image.
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I mean, Trump looked like a man running for president.
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I am at a point in life where I agree with Joe Biden on just about nothing.
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I guess we both like ice cream, and that's about it.
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But he's still the president of the United States, and I'm still an American.
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I point out this cognitive collapse not to attack Joe Biden personally.
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But to protect our country from an incapacitated leader, this man is auditioning to be president
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And it is well past time for the people in his life, the people who hopefully care about
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Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be a likely outcome.
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Upon the conclusion of this evening, Jill Biden was caught ushering her husband off the stage.
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Then at a post-debate function, she spoke to him as if he were a small child.
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The first debate of the 2024 campaign and the earliest presidential debate ever now in
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And swing state focus group will be talking to surrogates, including Vice President Harris,
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getting fact checks from Daniel Dale and new reporting.
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I mean, Mr. Walsh pointed out last night on Backstage, Jill Biden is a candidate for
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worst wife in America due to her refusal to help end this maltreatment.
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Even the legacy media, the corporate press, high level Democrats, CNN, MSNBC were all seriously
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suggesting, immediately following his performance for the first time ever, that Joe Biden,
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Gavin Newsom was out speaking to reporters with the biggest grin on his face that you have
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Nothing like this has ever happened in the immediate aftermath of a presidential debate.
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We have a saying on our sports show, Crane & Company, Trust Vegas.
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Biden's odds to take back the White House plummeted on every single betting market that I checked.
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Some having his chances fall a full 15 percent.
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Even the odds for winning the nomination fell in real time as the debate went on.
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At one point, Biden claimed he had the endorsement of the Border Patrol, only for Trump to call
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And then for the Border Patrol Union to deny that endorsement mid-debate, stating on X, verbatim,
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to be clear, we have never and will never endorse Biden.
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There are so many moments like this that we could play clips for the remainder of the day.
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Perhaps the worst moment came during a response to Social Security.
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I know this is difficult to watch, but watch it.
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Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've
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been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do
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He beat it to death and he's destroying Medicare.
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I mean, I don't mean to laugh, but I mean, this is when behind the scenes, Democrats started
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The president of the United States clearly cannot finish his own sentences.
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This is the current reality, even when the conditions are heavily tilted in his favor.
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This is exactly the kind of thing that led Robert Herr, the DOJ special counsel, to write
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that Joe Biden is so elderly that it would be hard to bring criminal charges against him.
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Democrats spent the last few months denying those claims, lying about those claims, and
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yet here we are, the tangible truth laid bare before the world.
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Even when Joe Biden was able to articulate his thoughts, he ended up shooting himself in
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That was evident during the discussion on inflation, for example.
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There was no inflation when I became president.
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He caused the inflation, and it's killing black families and Hispanic families and just
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You look at the cost of food, where it's doubled and tripled and quadrupled.
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I gave him a country with no, essentially no inflation.
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He destroyed it with his Green News scam and all of the other, all this money that's
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So you just saw Joe Biden admit that when he took office, there was no inflation.
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We must realize the implications of that statement.
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Inflation is the number one issue on voters' minds right now.
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We're reminded of inflation every time we go to the grocery store or out to eat, and Joe
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Biden straight up admits that when he took office, there was no inflation.
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Joe Biden's point was that as people get jobs, then inflation tends to go up because there's
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And it's true that as COVID died down, people returned to work.
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Joe Biden is ignoring the trillions of dollars, new spending, and all that money printing that
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This spending and money printing clearly made inflation worse.
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Here's a fun fact that's not mentioned nearly enough.
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The money supply in the United States hit an all-time high in April of 2022, when Joe Biden
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When you have more of something, its value declines.
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And that's not to say Donald Trump has been perfect on spending, but Joe Biden's record
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Now, to stay fair, as the debate went on, Biden performed a bit better.
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I'd say around the midpoint is when he seemed to get into some kind of a groove, if you can
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Clearly, the bar has been lowered to such an extent that his simple completion of sentences
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Needless to say, that should not be the standard for the president of the United States.
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It was truly striking how much Biden struggled to communicate his most basic talking points,
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Which is a topic that Democrats have been hammering for years now.
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He encouraged those folks who go up to Capitol Hill, number one.
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He sat there for three hours, three hours watching, begging, being begged by his vice president
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and a number of his colleagues on the Republican side as well to do something, to call for a
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Instead, he talked about these people being patriots and great patrons of America.
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In fact, he says he'll now forgive them for what they've done.
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He says he wants to commute their sentences and say that no.
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I don't know how many cases, scores of cases, including the Supreme Court.
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And they said, they said, no, no, this guy, this guy is responsible for doing what is being,
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And these people should be in jail and they should be the ones who are being held accountable.
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And now he says if he loses again, such a whiner that he is, that there could be a bloodbath.
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On January 6th, we were respected all over the world.
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What happened to the United States' reputation under this man's leadership is horrible.
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So even there, in moments where Biden isn't completely short-circuiting, he's mumbling incoherently.
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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.
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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.
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Why else would this debate have been scheduled in June before the Democrats' nominating convention?
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This was the earliest presidential debate in U.S. history to ever take place in an election year.
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By far, the previous record holder for earliest debate in an election year was mid-September of 1980.
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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.
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They managed to kneecap him right before the convention.
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If that's the case, if Joe Biden is being sabotaged, then I expect we'll see a new candidate quickly.
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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.
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And the fact that that is the second conclusion behind Joe Biden's cognitive inability is really a double win.
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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.
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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.
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Trump could have bullied Biden or resorted to personal insults.
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And Trump deserves a lot of credit for performing well, especially in the first 28 minutes of the debate or so.
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And I say this as someone who was very late to the Trump train eight years ago.
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Last night, especially early on, he was composed, presidential.
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He didn't waste the opportunities or the openings he was given.
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Not a single topic went by without Donald Trump hammering Joe Biden on immigration.
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And here's one of Trump's best moments for the entire evening.
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I mean, that's a heavyweight right hook, but delivered in such a way that's honest.
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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.
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I mean, he was much less responsive to the questions being asked, choosing instead to dodge them and hammer Biden on previous responses.
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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.
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But make no mistake, Trump knew he was winning.
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He knew he had Joe Biden in the corner, and being the heavyweight prize fighter that he is, he just kept throwing punches.
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Now, speaking of moderators, my third takeaway is that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash deserve kudos.
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They've previously said very unfair and nasty things about Donald Trump.
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But in this case, they did a worthy job, especially for the first 30 minutes, which is really the most critical.
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Once the questions got into climate crisis and threats to democracy, it seemed a bit skewed.
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But they didn't open the debate with any sort of slanted distraction.
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They focused on the issues that mattered, like inflation.
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And once the debate ended, CNN's analysts didn't try to spin it.
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They directly told their viewers that Joe Biden's performance was a disaster.
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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.
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It started minutes into the debate, and it continues right now.
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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.
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And they're having conversations about what they should do about it.
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Some of those conversations include, should we go to the White House and ask the president to step aside?
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Others are other of the conversations are about, should prominent Democrats go public with that call?
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They do say, in moments in the debate later, the president got better and got his footing.
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But then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting.
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That's one of the rare moments of honesty you'll find from CNN.
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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.
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Unless, of course, this is all part of a larger plan to replace Biden as the nominee.
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Now, there was another viral moment following the debate.
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This is when a CNN panelist appeared to say that Joe Biden was given the questions in advance.
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He goes through six days of preparation at Camp David.
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He knows every one of these questions is coming.
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Now, I just want to let's see what the White House is saying.
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Sources close to the White House are saying he had a cold, wasn't feeling well.
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I mean, as you would expect, that came out early on in the debate.
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But what accounts for someone with so much experience doing so much preparation and this
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He wasn't capable of doing any better than he did.
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Now, would it surprise any of us if CNN gave Joe Biden the debate questions in advance?
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Honestly, I'm at the point I would be surprised if they didn't leak them to his camp.
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At the same time, I think it's likely that she means all questions of this nature should
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have been anticipated by any rational candidate.
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Either way, it's certainly not the best of phrasing for sure.
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And these are very important for Trump's team to understand and remember moving forward.
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Every aspect of last night's debate format, in theory, should have benefited Joe Biden.
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And we all know how much Donald Trump loves playing to a live audience.
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Additionally, Trump loves to interject during debates, name call.
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But in this case, the mics were cut off following each candidate's remarks.
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If the goal was to undermine Donald Trump's game plan or to limit his strength, then the
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Without a live audience, Trump wasn't motivated to play to the crowd.
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And because his microphone was muted after each answer, he didn't get bogged down with
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Both of these format decisions allowed Trump to stay more focused and, more importantly,
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Now, Trump being a bully on stage, that may have been fun for many across the country, but
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not for the people he's trying to win over, not for the suburban housewives, not for the
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My fourth takeaway of the night is about Donald Trump's response to the abortion question he
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The Supreme Court just approved the abortion bill, and I agree with their decision to have
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And if you look at this whole question that you're asking, complex but not really complex.
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51 years ago, you had Roe v. Wade, and everybody wanted to get it back to the states, everybody,
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without exception, Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, everybody wanted it
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And what I did is I put three great Supreme Court justices on the court, and they happened
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to vote in favor of killing Roe v. Wade and moving it back to the states.
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Like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions.
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And frankly, I think it's important to believe in the exceptions.
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But I believe in the exceptions for rape incest and the life of the mother.
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But you have to get elected also, because that has to do with other things.
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Seven states have no legal restrictions on how far into a pregnancy a woman can obtain an
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Do you support any legal limits on how late a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy?
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I support Roe v. Wade, which had three trimesters.
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First time is between the woman and the doctor.
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Second time is between the doctor and an extreme situation.
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The third time is between the doctor, I mean, between the woman and the state.
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The idea that the politicians, that the founders want the politicians to be the ones making decisions
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And if I'm elected, I'm going to restore Roe v. Wade.
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So that means he can take the life of the baby in the ninth month and even after birth,
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because some states, Democrat-run, take it after birth.
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Again, the governor, former governor of Virginia, put the baby down, then we decide what to do
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So he's willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill
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The gentleman who usually occupies this chair has double that amount.
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Many of you listening are in similar positions.
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There should be a tremendous sense of gratitude for Donald Trump appointing justices to the court
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that overturned Roe v. Wade, quite possibly the most significant Supreme Court case of our
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With that said, we must discuss Trump's response to the topic of abortion pills.
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Firstly, he claimed that the Supreme Court had approved the abortion pill.
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The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge involving abortion due to a standing issue, which essentially
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means that they didn't decide the case on its merits.
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Secondly, Trump appeared to say that because of the Supreme Court's ruling, he wouldn't block
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Look, I'm well aware of the Trump campaign's position here.
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And they've come to the conclusion that they can't win the White House if they campaign on
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Pro-life conservatives don't want to hear that answer.
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We want a president to unapologetically support the sanctity of life.
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At the same time, when I hear Donald Trump say the phrase multiple times in an answer,
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To me, that's code for, hey, everybody has been yelling at me for not winning over more
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Traditional conservatives trust my record as president.
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Trust the justices I placed on the highest court in the land.
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I got Roe overturned when no other Republican could.
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Of all the issues to run towards the center for this to be the one, is this a disappointing
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Trump clearly, though, feels this is the right move politically to return to Washington.
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And we all just have to hope he does the right thing if he gets back in office.
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For my fifth and final takeaway, which is a bit lighter than the others, I have to say,
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watching Donald Trump and Joe Biden, two octogenarians, argue back and forth over their
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golf handicaps was the most American thing I've ever seen, for better or worse.
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In case you missed it, here was the incredible moment.
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Just take a look at what he says he is and take a look at what he is.
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Look, I'd be happy to have a driving contest with him.
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The reason I got my handicap, which when I was vice president, down to a six.
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By the way, I told you before, I'm happy to play golf if you carry your own bag.
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That's the biggest lie that he's a six handicap of all.
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Think about all the serious issues facing this country, from inflation, foreign policy,
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Yet these two guys are going back and forth arguing about who would win on the golf course.
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And of the many lies told on that stage, Joe Biden's claim to be a six handicap while needing
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to be physically escorted off the stage by his wife may be the biggest whopper of them
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Now, I played golf for the first time this year or in a year over Memorial Day, and I
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Joe Biden has never been a six handicap in his life.
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Honestly, if I were President Biden in that state that he was in last night, I would steer
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Now, I'll wrap this up by sharing the overarching sentiment I arrived at after watching this unforgettable
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debate and after speaking with several friends last night, many of whom who don't even follow
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Most of us didn't learn anything new about Donald Trump.
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Everything he showcased, love it or hate it, has been baked into the Trump cake for a long
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But millions of people learned something new about Joe Biden.
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Millions of people saw firsthand the cognitive impairments that had been, at least for many
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up to this point, dismissed as right-wing propaganda or hateful conservative rhetoric.
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I can't know for sure that Joe Biden won't be the nominee.
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But I do know that, as a matter of physical and mental ability, he simply can't be the
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Joe Biden is not running the country right now.
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And no matter what happens in this election, he won't be running it in the future.
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The choice is now between electing Donald Trump or electing a cabal of unelected, behind-the-scenes
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That's been the choice, effectively, for several years now.
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The headline is PETA calls on people to stop having sex with meat-eating men.
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I've never wanted to eat a steak more in my life than right now.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has announced a campaign to persuade people
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to stop having sex with meat-eating men after a study found a large gender gap in vegan diets.
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A spokesperson for PETA released a statement explaining the campaign.
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PETA urges lovers everywhere to ditch deadly meat because men apparently don't give, more
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profanity here, about the planet as a new study shows that males contribute significantly
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more to the climate catastrophe than females through their higher consumption of meat.
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PETA is asking people to, again, more profanity.
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PETA is the epitome of an inverted society, right?
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I mean, every member of this hateful organization should thank their ancestors for eating meat.
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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
00:33:16.360
This article goes on to say, the news study found that among societies where men and women
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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.
00:33:42.940
These are the same people who use the term fur babies, right?
00:33:55.880
Like, any type of person who doesn't love pit bulls is sort of a sociopath to me.
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
00:34:14.400
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
00:34:57.740
He has his own custom-made Chevy Suburban with a personalized license plate.
00:35:04.340
A state-of-the-art, air-conditioned, eco-friendly, I may add, doghouse for the football games he
00:35:11.840
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.
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
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It's disgusting to me, and in terms of PETA making a commitment to stop having sex with
00:35:48.060
men who are meat eaters, I fully support this decision, and I would encourage them to stop
00:35:56.400
All right, next story up here is titled, Picasso's Hung in Toilet Cubicle at Mona in Response to
00:36:06.920
So this one comes from producer Sean, and producer Sean back there, you tell me if I'm off track
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here, but a museum wanted to hang Picasso paintings up, but only wanted females, only wanted women
00:36:21.820
to be able to come in and enjoy and view the Picasso paintings.
00:36:28.900
So this resulted in a lawsuit from one man who wanted to come in and see what the Picasso paintings
00:36:35.100
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
00:36:50.740
So look, there are several things at play here.
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First of all, we have a situation where is the free market better than legislation?
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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
00:37:16.620
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,
00:37:27.760
We have to integrate or else we're going to go out of business.
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
00:37:46.960
But if that man who can't come in wants to go to his country club clubhouse where no women
00:37:53.880
can come in, he wants to smoke cigars or play poker, then that is discriminatory.
00:38:01.760
Not only that, but now all of a sudden we're back to knowing what a woman is, right?
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.
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
00:38:27.160
It's further proof that the gender ideology is absolute madness.
00:38:38.340
Until we need some of those boundaries, of course, to discriminate against men, then we're more
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
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require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.
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The legislation that Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed into law the previous Wednesday
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requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in large, easily readable font
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in all classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.
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So this week, we now have Louisiana parents sue to block display of Ten Commandments in school.
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A group of parents in Louisiana filed a federal lawsuit on Monday seeking to block a new state
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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
00:39:58.100
They were optimistic that the court's conservative majority would support the mandate and overturn
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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
00:40:29.140
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
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
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
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
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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
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church who adopted 27 kids from the foster system, sparking a movement to save vulnerable children
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everywhere. We have a trailer for you guys, so you can get a feel for what this movie is all about.
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Are you sure these people want us? I know they do. You can call me mama.
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Oh, Lord. No! No! No! No! No! No! No! If we can't wrap our arms around the most vulnerable,
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then what do we have? Nards! And the children can't take the Nards anymore.
00:45:01.760
22 families want to adopt. The whole town wants kids now.
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
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100,000 children in foster care that need homes, and they need our help. Raising awareness is how you
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can help today. The best way to do that is by seeing Sound of Hope in theaters. This is exactly
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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
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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
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,
00:49:27.780
one that simply is unconscionable for an NBA head coach to blurt out, couldn't be more ridiculous.
00:49:35.760
That's right. Ridiculous, insane. That's what they think of you if you take issue with this sort of
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
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
00:51:00.260
the face of the earth because he dropped an F-bomb is ridiculous.
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
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
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.
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,
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.