The Matt Walsh Show - November 14, 2018


Ep. 143 - The Weird Liberal Obsession With Birth Control

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Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Victoria Godspeed Mike
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, feverish, paranoid leftists continue to insist that conservatives want to take away their birth control. Also, the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is in trouble for not including men. Finally, another Fox News personality is chased out of a restaurant.

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00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, feverish, paranoid leftists continue to insist that conservatives want to take away their birth control.
00:00:07.340 Where did they get that crazy idea from?
00:00:09.260 Also, the Victoria's Secret fashion show is in trouble for not including men.
00:00:14.000 Finally, another Fox News personality is chased out of a restaurant.
00:00:17.300 I have a couple points to make about that as well.
00:00:19.320 The website Mike.com has has a very important article up right now about how Victoria's Secret has normalized discrimination.
00:00:31.780 And I mean, obviously, when you think Victoria's Secret, you think normalization of discrimination.
00:00:37.480 Who doesn't? Now, according to Mike's Twitter account, it says that their Twitter account says since its first show in 1995,
00:00:45.160 no plus size out transgender or gender nonconforming people have walked the Victoria's Secret runway ever.
00:00:54.320 This is not a parody of no, this is a real this is a real thing that liberals are upset about now.
00:00:59.600 And, you know, saying that there's never been there's never been any men or obese people walking down the Victoria's Secret runway.
00:01:08.400 That's a bit like saying, well, since the first monster truck race in 1972, no unicycles or scooters have competed ever.
00:01:18.460 Whatever you think of Victoria's Secret fashion show, the whole point of the thing is for these skinny, attractive women to model underwear. 1.00
00:01:28.560 So that's that's that's just why it exists.
00:01:30.560 That's the point of it.
00:01:31.340 If you're looking for a show where men model underwear, as Mike.com apparently is, then you can find that.
00:01:39.980 I mean, I'm sure there are places you can go and you can find that sort of entertainment if you want.
00:01:46.400 But but but but it's just that's not what Victoria's Secret is all about.
00:01:49.480 See, this is the thing about about the left.
00:01:52.900 If you notice, nothing is ever allowed to be about anything or for anything anymore.
00:02:01.040 Have you noticed that this is kind of the consequence of this obsession with fairness and diversity and inclusiveness, because because I'm just trying to think of a way to explain this.
00:02:13.500 OK, to anyone who's a liberal and doesn't understand everything, OK, everything in order to be a thing, in order to have a purpose and an identity and a reason to exist, everything must be a certain thing and therefore must exclude all of the things that it is not.
00:02:36.040 OK, so for a thing to be a thing, it must not be the things that it isn't.
00:02:40.740 Is this making sense to you?
00:02:41.800 So the Victoria's Secret fashion show is specifically a thing where attractive women walk down the runway in underwear. 1.00
00:02:49.180 Now, if that's not a thing that you like or support or think is appropriate or whatever, fine.
00:02:55.900 But when you say, no, this thing cannot be that thing, this thing must include all other things.
00:03:01.700 It must include it must be a celebration of diversity and transgenderism and manhood and obesity, et cetera. 1.00
00:03:09.220 Then you've just destroyed the thing.
00:03:10.780 You haven't expanded it.
00:03:11.980 You haven't diversified it.
00:03:13.760 You haven't made it.
00:03:14.620 No, you've just gotten rid of it.
00:03:16.000 You've gotten rid of the thing.
00:03:17.220 The thing doesn't exist anymore.
00:03:18.620 And that's what the left is doing all over the place.
00:03:20.860 They're erasing all lines, all distinctions, all definitions.
00:03:24.840 And thereby, they're just erasing everything.
00:03:28.440 The sacrament of marriage is another example of this phenomenon, probably a much better example, actually, than the Victoria's Secret fashion show.
00:03:36.180 But that has been the entire argument with marriage.
00:03:40.100 It's, you know, marriage is a certain thing.
00:03:42.120 If you make marriage into anything, then marriage no longer exists.
00:03:46.800 It's not a thing anymore.
00:03:47.800 It has to be a specific thing, which means it must exclude the things that it isn't.
00:03:51.720 Um, and it's just the liberals, um, not that I'm trying to really draw a comparison between the Victoria's Secret fashion show and marriage.
00:03:59.180 I'm, you know, I'm just saying these are examples.
00:04:02.460 And there are so many of the left looking at a particular thing and saying, well, no, that's not right, because it excludes all the things that it isn't.
00:04:11.380 It's, which, which it has to.
00:04:14.140 Okay.
00:04:14.400 That's just, that's what it means to be a thing.
00:04:18.200 Yesterday was thank you, birth control day.
00:04:21.320 I don't know if you celebrated.
00:04:22.920 Uh, I, hopefully you did, but it, it was yesterday was thank you, birth control day.
00:04:27.020 It was a day for people, people on the left, mostly to stand up for their right to use birth control.
00:04:33.140 And, um, and so on social media, especially on Twitter, people were spending the day tweeting about the wonders of birth control, about, uh, uh, how much they need it, how much it has liberated them, how much they love it, uh, how they'll never let anyone take it away from them.
00:04:49.100 I want to give you a quick sample of some of the tweets on the thanks birth control hashtag.
00:04:54.120 Um, just to give you an idea of what people were saying.
00:04:56.780 The first one is from Hillary Clinton.
00:04:58.700 She says reproductive rights are human rights. 0.99
00:05:01.360 Women's freedom to decide whether and when to have children is core to their liberty as human beings. 0.84
00:05:07.220 Today, we celebrate the power to decide.
00:05:10.420 Someone else says, thanks birth control for allowing my husband and I to plan our family.
00:05:13.680 According to our financial and emotional ability, we both believe it would be a disservice to our family to have children.
00:05:18.240 We cannot comfortably afford, uh, thanks birth control for helping women achieve their goals without putting their economic security in jeopardy. 1.00
00:05:24.780 Planned Parenthood says, your body is your own, and if not, you can't be truly equal or free.
00:05:31.120 Access to birth control is vital for people to live full, healthy lives and plan their future.
00:05:36.540 Uh, a couple, uh, some, some Democrat politicians jumped in on the act.
00:05:39.860 A woman's, a woman's right to control her reproductive future is critical to her participation in all aspects of society. 1.00
00:05:46.440 From our economy to our democracy, we must continue to protect that right and stand up for reproductive health care.
00:05:52.180 Uh, so on and so forth.
00:05:55.980 So, you read these tweets, and as a conservative, what's your first reaction when you read those tweets?
00:06:02.600 What's your reaction to them?
00:06:03.660 What do you think?
00:06:05.040 I think I know what your reaction is because I think it's the same as mine.
00:06:08.500 And, uh, so you read that and people say, well, birth control is so important, no one can take it away from me.
00:06:13.140 Your reaction is, um, okay.
00:06:17.100 And, what's your point?
00:06:22.760 You see, this is, this is one of the, one of the absolute weirdest things about the left, is this feverish paranoia that they have.
00:06:30.880 That someone is going to come and take their birth control away. 0.74
00:06:34.200 They've been screaming for years that, that bad men are coming to steal their birth control, even though no one is suggesting that.
00:06:41.500 Nobody is, is threatening to take their birth control.
00:06:45.620 Not one person on the right is proposing that we ban birth control.
00:06:50.460 That's not a thing.
00:06:51.900 That's not a position that we hold.
00:06:54.600 No one is arguing for that.
00:06:56.940 So, it seems like, it seems like every conversation with the left about birth control, it goes like this.
00:07:00.980 The liberal will go, will go, uh, stay away from my birth control.
00:07:05.820 Okay.
00:07:06.260 You're not taking my birth control away.
00:07:09.500 Okay, calm down.
00:07:10.640 I'm not, it's my birth control and you can't have it.
00:07:12.940 I don't want, birth control is mine.
00:07:15.180 And then, that's kind of how the conversation goes.
00:07:18.180 Uh, and, and conservatives are left just sort of really confused.
00:07:22.720 That's what, we don't really know what to say because this is not, how did this ever come up?
00:07:27.100 We never said anything about this.
00:07:28.500 Um, liberals will valiantly defend their right to use birth control while literally no one disputes that right.
00:07:37.680 They insist that no one will take away their birth control while literally no one is trying to take it away.
00:07:44.380 There was an article in the Daily Beast yesterday that, uh, or, well, it was an article that was, that was written a year ago.
00:07:51.000 And, and, which was retweeted by the Daily Beast yesterday, and I'm surprised they retweeted it because they should be embarrassed by it because the, the, the title of the article was, here's how we're going to lose our birth control under Trump.
00:08:04.860 Okay.
00:08:05.580 Well, that was a year ago.
00:08:06.960 Um, has anyone lost their birth control under Trump?
00:08:10.160 Can you find me one single woman in the United States who is now entirely unable to obtain birth control because of Donald Trump?
00:08:17.440 I, I mean, did this prophecy come to fruition?
00:08:23.340 In fact, we've had a Republican government for two years.
00:08:25.800 Have they, have they stolen birth control from anybody?
00:08:28.460 Have they sent the birth control, um, you know, enforcement agency into, raiding into people's homes, into their medicine cabinets to steal their birth control pills?
00:08:37.920 Has that happened?
00:08:39.400 Look, if that's been happening, I will, I will change my tune.
00:08:43.820 I will apologize for all the, all the mockery right now that I'm engaging in, if that is actually happening.
00:08:49.180 If there are women who have been, who have been, um, scared senseless when, when, when federal agents have burst into their homes to confiscate their birth control, if that's going on, then, you know, forget everything I'm saying.
00:09:02.740 But I don't think it is happening.
00:09:04.240 In fact, I don't think it's happened anywhere in the country at all.
00:09:07.620 At all.
00:09:08.540 Okay.
00:09:08.800 Um, so this, this has not happened unless the Daily Beast or any other liberal can provide me an example.
00:09:16.140 I, I'm going to say that it is not happening.
00:09:19.500 Um, now, what is this all about?
00:09:24.220 What, what is this, this, this clamoring about birth control and how important birth control is and how they're not going to let anyone take away their birth control?
00:09:31.780 What is this really about?
00:09:33.020 Well, it's about, it's about a couple of things.
00:09:35.880 We realized, first of all, that when they say that conservatives want to ban or get rid of or take away their birth control, what they really mean is that conservatives don't want to pay for their birth control.
00:09:50.640 This is a conflation that, that, uh, people on the left engage in quite a bit where they conflate, um, you know, us not wanting to pay for something with us trying to take that thing away.
00:10:06.640 Right.
00:10:07.860 There are a lot of things that you do in your life that I would never try to prevent you from doing.
00:10:15.580 And I would never support any law that would prohibit you from doing, but that I still would not want to pay for myself.
00:10:24.540 I mean, there are a million examples, but almost everything you do in your life actually is something that you go ahead and do it.
00:10:30.800 I just don't want to pay for it.
00:10:32.080 That's all.
00:10:34.580 Um, so I, you know, liberals pretend that they don't understand this distinction.
00:10:39.180 I, I, I think they must understand it.
00:10:41.520 Like they must understand that if they came to me and said, Hey, uh, I want to go to the movies and can you, can you give me $25 to pay for a couple of movie tickets?
00:10:53.360 And if I say, no, I'm not going to pay for your movie ticket, it wouldn't make any sense for them to say, why are you trying to stop me from going to the movies?
00:11:00.340 I have a right to go to the movies.
00:11:01.920 How are you, why are you trying to prevent me?
00:11:04.440 You can't prevent me.
00:11:05.760 I'm not trying to stop you.
00:11:06.920 I'm just saying, I don't want to pay for it.
00:11:08.520 That's all because, and why don't I want to pay for it?
00:11:10.720 Because I just, it's my money.
00:11:12.360 I've got other things I'd like to pay for.
00:11:13.820 That's not high on my list of priorities to make sure that you go to the movies.
00:11:18.740 And when it comes to your sex life, you know, as, as you will remind us all the time, your sex life is your sex life.
00:11:25.880 It's your business.
00:11:27.020 Uh, that's my point.
00:11:28.320 It is your business in every sense of the word.
00:11:30.780 It is not my business.
00:11:33.360 I don't want to be involved in it.
00:11:35.500 Okay.
00:11:36.020 It's just, it's not, it's not on my list of, you know, paying to make sure that your sex life is facilitated.
00:11:43.440 That is not on my list of concerns in my life.
00:11:46.820 I've got many other things like we all do that I need to pay for.
00:11:50.080 I got my kids to take care of.
00:11:51.460 I got a family.
00:11:52.040 I got a mortgage.
00:11:52.640 I got all these things.
00:11:53.840 Right. 0.99
00:11:55.140 And making sure that you can have sex. 0.86
00:11:57.520 That's just not on the list.
00:11:58.420 I'm sorry.
00:11:58.840 You know, that's something that you got to take care of.
00:12:01.260 Be an adult and take care of it yourself.
00:12:03.240 That's all.
00:12:05.160 Is it, what happened to consent?
00:12:06.840 Isn't consent important?
00:12:08.780 I do not consent to being involved in your sex life.
00:12:13.500 That's all.
00:12:13.860 I don't consent to it.
00:12:15.560 It makes me uncomfortable, really, to be honest with you.
00:12:19.520 But as long as I'm not involved, go ahead.
00:12:22.380 Take all the birth control you want.
00:12:25.680 I mean, I would take it in accordance with the, with the directions on the bottle, but do your thing.
00:12:31.160 I'm not trying to stop you.
00:12:32.260 No one, no one, no one is trying to stop you.
00:12:38.280 So that's the only, that's the only threat to birth control that exists.
00:12:41.520 And it's not a threat to birth control at all.
00:12:43.280 It's just people are saying, I don't want to pay for it.
00:12:46.120 I just don't want to pay for it.
00:12:47.400 And not that this even matters, but it should be repeated that you don't even need someone to pay for your birth control because birth control is extremely easy to obtain.
00:13:02.540 You can go to any, I mean, you can get free birth control.
00:13:07.580 You can get birth control for cheap.
00:13:09.140 You can, I mean, there's birth control everywhere in our society.
00:13:12.920 Birth control is practically raining from the sky.
00:13:16.100 I mean, or, or do you need it to literally rain from the sky before you'll admit that it, that it's plenty easy to obtain?
00:13:25.260 Because it, it, I would say it all but rains from the sky right now, because you, you can go, unless you live in the desert or something, unless you live in the desert and you don't have a car.
00:13:35.100 And it's a, and it's a, it's a 900 mile walk through the desert sands to get to your, your nearest Walmart.
00:13:41.840 Assuming you don't live in that situation, assuming you live just in society with the rest of us, you can go anywhere and get birth control.
00:13:50.600 You know, people on the left will often make fun of, make fun of conservatives claiming that we're always clinging to our guns and insisting that nobody will take our guns away, even though they say nobody is threatening to take our guns away.
00:14:08.940 Except that in that case, people actually do want to ban guns and restrict guns and confiscate guns and prevent people from buying guns and so on and so forth.
00:14:20.740 That is a, that is most certainly a position that is held by many people on the left.
00:14:26.240 There's no denying it.
00:14:27.600 Right?
00:14:27.760 Meanwhile, nobody on the right holds the position that birth control should be banned.
00:14:36.300 Nobody holds, you would have to go back many years to get to a time where banning birth control was a proposal supported by any significant number of people.
00:14:47.500 But we have, we have just, that has not been the case for a very long time.
00:14:51.220 So what is this about?
00:14:55.300 Well, we know it's, as I said, we know it's partly about the, you know, this conflation of, I have a right to it, therefore I have a right for you to pay for it.
00:15:04.960 So, so there's that going on.
00:15:07.600 But the other part of it is it's just, it's just a really, it's, it's a, it's, it's, it's an absurd talking point.
00:15:19.140 For the left to, to put out there.
00:15:24.200 But if they can convince people of it, it's, it's obviously very convenient.
00:15:29.980 It's a great way to get people mobile.
00:15:31.840 I mean, I mean, if you're a liberal politician and you can actually convince your voters that Republicans are trying to steal their birth control, you're, you know, if you can convince your voters of that, then clearly that's going to be a great way to mobilize them.
00:15:46.840 And, and they have been able, somehow they've been able to convince their voters of that.
00:15:52.340 And all I would say to those voters is, you know, you have Google, you have the internet, just go, just go, go Google this sometime to see how many Republicans have actually proposed banning birth control.
00:16:03.220 And what you'll find is that none of them have.
00:16:05.380 And so you're fine.
00:16:06.660 That's all you don't need to worry about it.
00:16:12.460 All right.
00:16:13.020 One other thing I wanted to mention, um, Kat Timpth is a, is a Fox news personality. 0.99
00:16:21.260 She's, she's the latest one on Fox news to be chased out of a restaurant. 1.00
00:16:25.980 Uh, she was chased out of a bar in Brooklyn earlier this week because some liberals recognized her.
00:16:31.780 And, uh, so they, you know, harassed her, uh, abused her verbally and, and, uh, chased her out. 0.98
00:16:39.500 And so it goes, the same story repeats over and over and over again.
00:16:43.140 Um, I do want to make one point about this.
00:16:45.660 And I, I feel like when it comes to these situations, most of what can be said has been said a million times,
00:16:50.280 but we see that the left strategy now is to be obviously just completely intolerant of those who 0.98
00:16:58.760 hold opposing views, um, to treat them like the scum of the earth, to harass and abuse them. 0.98
00:17:04.120 And so on, I think we should understand why they're doing this though. 0.98
00:17:09.760 Uh, what is the strategy?
00:17:12.500 Why are they doing this?
00:17:14.040 Well, obviously some of this is just garden variety, two-year-old temper tantrums, basically.
00:17:20.280 Just an inability to express their anger or their opposition civilly.
00:17:23.820 So there's obviously a lot of that involved, but there's more to it as well.
00:17:28.640 There's a strategy here and it's all about optics.
00:17:33.120 Okay.
00:17:33.560 Which sounds kind of counterintuitive because we think, well, this is really bad optics on their part to be,
00:17:38.560 to be, uh, protesting at people's homes, terrorizing their wives, chasing them out of restaurants and all of that.
00:17:45.840 Um, screaming at them when they come to speak on college campuses.
00:17:48.900 Which is, it seems like bad optics, but it's only bad optics as far as conservatives are concerned. 0.99
00:17:56.500 We look at that and think, wow, these people are nuts.
00:18:00.460 But I think the strategy is, it's not, it's, it's obviously, it's, it's got, it's, it's not targeted at us. 0.61
00:18:05.120 It's, it's targeted at other liberals and maybe some people who are on the left who lean,
00:18:08.920 who are, who are in the middle and lean kind of to the left.
00:18:11.060 Um, I think the idea is to paint the opposition as completely intolerable, not even worth engaging. 1.00
00:18:23.100 That's the idea is to send the message that these people are so evil and so wrong and so stupid in everything. 1.00
00:18:35.280 They believe that there's nothing we can do, but banish them from society that there's nothing weak. 1.00
00:18:42.000 They're not even worth talking to. 0.89
00:18:43.500 If you see them at a restaurant, kick them out.
00:18:45.780 And that's, that's, that's the idea.
00:18:49.140 And in some ways it's a, it's a smart strategy because then the other side isn't given an opportunity
00:18:55.560 to actually say anything and argue their point and, uh, and therefore show that they are not evil 1.00
00:19:01.480 and stupid, stupid and insane because you're just shouting them down and, and, and chasing them away. 1.00
00:19:06.940 And that's it. 1.00
00:19:07.480 So I think we should understand that, that there is, that there is a definite strategy here.
00:19:15.100 Um, there's some thought that goes into it.
00:19:17.080 It's, it's, it's not, we, we make a mistake when we assume that this is all just a temper tantrum
00:19:22.260 and nothing more.
00:19:22.860 It is partly that, um, but for the people who are encouraged, people on the left who are encouraging
00:19:28.800 this and organizing this kind of stuff and, and, and promoting it and fostering it, there
00:19:36.120 is a strategy for them.
00:19:37.480 And that is to send a message that these, I, that the ideas, these people hold are so 1.00
00:19:43.500 terrible, so idiotic, so irrational that there is just nothing you can do with them, but exile 1.00
00:19:51.820 them from civilized society. 1.00
00:19:54.820 All right.
00:19:55.940 Um, we'll leave it there.
00:19:58.700 Thanks for watching everybody.
00:19:59.920 Thanks for listening and, uh, Godspeed.
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