The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1449 - How The FBI Is Willing To Risk Your Safety To Get Kamala Elected

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats are celebrating an alleged drop in the crime rate.

00:00:04.240 This is supposed to be proof that the Biden-Harris strategy of not fighting or prosecuting crime

00:00:08.700 has somehow succeeded in creating less crime.

00:00:10.860 But the actual statistics, of course, tell a very different story.

00:00:13.260 Also, Donald Trump promises to kill the Department of Education.

00:00:16.060 Let's hope he does.

00:00:16.800 And the Washington Post shocks the world by publishing an op-ed, a mostly positive op-ed,

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00:00:23.620 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:10.600 Shortly after the two ABC moderators entered the presidential debate on the side of Kamala

00:02:15.600 Harris, there was a brief moment when Donald Trump pushed back.

00:02:18.980 And it happened when David Muir finished one of his drive-by fact checks concerning the

00:02:24.740 crime rates in this country.

00:02:26.480 The moderator intended to immediately ask Kamala Harris a question so that Trump couldn't

00:02:30.600 respond.

00:02:30.980 But Trump did respond, and the moderator had no answer to what he said.

00:02:35.200 Let's watch that moment again.

00:02:37.240 And we have a new form of crime.

00:02:39.100 It's called migrant crime. 0.98

00:02:40.360 And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible.

00:02:43.380 President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down

00:02:47.120 in this country.

00:02:47.800 But Vice President Harris-

00:02:48.740 Excuse me, the FBI defraud-

00:02:49.400 They were defrauding statements.

00:02:51.120 They didn't include the worst cities.

00:02:53.480 They didn't include the cities with the worst crime.

00:02:56.460 It was a fraud.

00:02:58.120 Just like their number of 818,000 jobs that they said they created turned out to be a fraud.

00:03:03.280 President Trump, thank you.

00:03:04.120 I'll let you respond, Vice President Harris.

00:03:05.260 Well, I think this is so rich, coming from someone who has been prosecuted.

00:03:10.100 Now, if you're going to debate a candidate when you're really supposed to be the moderator,

00:03:16.040 then you should at least be able to debate.

00:03:17.980 But Muir had no answer when Trump refuted his canned talking point about FBI data.

00:03:22.640 He sheepishly had to pivot to Kamala, who started laughing awkwardly.

00:03:26.600 And that's because what Trump said was true.

00:03:28.280 This summer, when the FBI released its quarterly uniform crime report showing that crime was down,

00:03:32.780 they didn't include data from New York or Los Angeles.

00:03:36.480 The NYPD and LAPD are the two biggest police forces in the entire country,

00:03:40.740 but they didn't report their data at all,

00:03:43.000 apparently because they couldn't comply with the FBI's new data tracking requirements in time, supposedly.

00:03:48.640 And that wasn't particularly unusual.

00:03:50.520 Back in 2022, roughly one-third of the country's 6,000 police agencies didn't report crime data to the FBI.

00:03:56.940 This isn't some partisan talking point that I'm making here.

00:04:00.180 The FBI admitted all this.

00:04:01.420 It's just a fact.

00:04:02.780 Now, yesterday, though, the FBI released its latest updated annual report.

00:04:07.080 And the agency claims that this time around,

00:04:08.880 the report comprehensively documents violent crimes that occurred in 2023

00:04:12.100 because the data comes from law enforcement agencies that cover more than 95% of the country's population,

00:04:17.100 including this time the NYPD and the LAPD.

00:04:20.940 And according to the new data, car thefts went up by about 20% from 2022 to 2023.

00:04:26.880 So that's a massive increase.

00:04:28.340 But violent crime was supposedly down overall by 3%.

00:04:32.300 While murder and non-negligent homicide were down more than 10%.

00:04:36.640 Reported rapes were down nearly 10% as well.

00:04:38.940 And property crimes dropped 2.5%.

00:04:41.200 Now, as you'd expect, left-wing media outlets celebrated the news.

00:04:45.060 They portrayed it as vindication for Kamala Harris and her debating partner, David Mueller.

00:04:50.600 Watch.

00:04:50.900 Just moments ago, the FBI released a new report showing the national crime rate decreased in 2023.

00:04:59.060 NBC's Ken Delanian is with us this morning.

00:05:00.920 Ken, good morning.

00:05:01.640 Break down what this report says.

00:05:04.020 Good morning, Jose.

00:05:04.980 This report is entitled Crime in the Nation.

00:05:06.820 It's the FBI's best estimate of what happened last year in terms of crime.

00:05:10.240 And it shows a significant decrease.

00:05:12.500 Violent crime decreased an estimated 3% last year, according to the FBI.

00:05:16.840 Murder and manslaughter came down an estimated 11.6%.

00:05:20.940 That's the biggest drop in the last 20 years.

00:05:24.640 Aggravated assault down 2.8%.

00:05:27.080 And here's what's also important to know about this, Jose, because there's been a lot of criticism

00:05:30.860 of FBI crime data.

00:05:32.600 This data covered 94% of the U.S. population.

00:05:37.300 And while it's true that not all crimes are reported, all murders are counted.

00:05:41.340 And what this shows big picture, because this is the second year in a row that the FBI has

00:05:44.900 documented the decline in violent crime, it shows that after a big spike during the pandemic,

00:05:50.040 violent crime is back down to around 2019 levels.

00:05:55.400 So a few things about this.

00:05:56.580 First of all, several large police departments, including the NOPD and the LAPD,

00:06:00.300 did not report demographic data about those crimes to the FBI.

00:06:04.680 If you pull up these police departments on the FBI's website, you won't be able to see

00:06:09.380 the race and gender of assailants or their victims, for example.

00:06:13.340 On social media yesterday, a lot of people interpreted this as proof that NOPD and LAPD

00:06:18.160 didn't report violent crimes at all, but that's not true.

00:06:20.520 They did report violent crimes, but they left out information about who's committing them

00:06:23.780 and who the victims are, which is still a notable omission, especially when the Biden

00:06:29.380 administration and Kamala Harris are claiming that we live in a white supremacist hellscape 0.85

00:06:32.840 where it's not safe for black people to go about their lives. 0.82

00:06:36.440 And it's an unexplained omission, too.

00:06:38.140 My producers reached out to the FBI, LAPD, and NOPD to ask why this data was missing.

00:06:42.700 We have not heard back yet.

00:06:43.760 But in general, the FBI's numbers are being accurately reported by MSNBC and other mainstream

00:06:48.800 outlets.

00:06:49.160 If you think the FBI's data captures all the crime that's occurring, then yes, the data

00:06:54.740 is a sign that this country is safer than it was a year ago.

00:06:57.900 And that'd be a good thing if that was true.

00:07:01.100 The problem is that this data doesn't, in fact, capture all the crime that's occurring

00:07:06.060 or anywhere close to it.

00:07:07.860 As even that MSNBC report conceded, the only way for the FBI to hear about crimes is if someone

00:07:13.120 reports them to a police department in the first place.

00:07:15.920 The victim needs to report it, and then the police department needs to then report that

00:07:20.900 to the FBI.

00:07:21.820 That's the only way we know.

00:07:23.680 At least that's the only way it shows up in these statistics.

00:07:27.320 And that may not be happening as much as it should be because people don't have any confidence

00:07:32.080 that police or prosecutors will do anything about the crime that is reported.

00:07:36.540 Unless we're talking about homicides, which are usually reported because it's hard to conceal

00:07:40.360 a body, this is a significant problem with the data.

00:07:44.240 And the Biden administration itself acknowledges that.

00:07:47.100 Earlier this month, the DOJ released a report entitled Criminal Victimization 2023.

00:07:52.100 The report is unique in that it doesn't rely on police department data.

00:07:55.380 Instead, it captures non-fatal crimes that weren't reported to law enforcement using something

00:08:00.160 called the National Crime Victimization Survey, or NCVS, which is administered by the Bureau

00:08:05.480 of Justice Statistics and the Census Bureau.

00:08:07.240 And as the DOJ put it, the NCVS collects information on whether crimes were reported or not reported

00:08:13.160 to police and on the reasons why the crime was reported or not reported.

00:08:17.600 Victims may not report a crime for a variety of reasons, including fear of reprisal or getting

00:08:22.160 the offender in trouble, believing that police would not or could not help, and believing

00:08:26.200 the crime to be too personal or too trivial to report.

00:08:29.540 So the reason the DOJ collects the data is that, as it turns out, there are a lot of crimes

00:08:34.860 that aren't reported, far more than you might think.

00:08:37.440 Quoting from the report,

00:08:38.300 Approximately 45% of violent victimizations were reported to police in 2023, which was

00:08:43.820 not significantly different from 2022.

00:08:46.220 The percentage of rape or sexual assault victimizations reported to police increased

00:08:49.700 significantly from 21% in 2022 to 46% in 2023.

00:08:55.260 A lower percentage of robbery victimizations were reported to police in 2023, 42%, than in

00:09:00.640 2022, 64%.

00:09:02.380 During this period, the percentage of overall property crime victimization reported to police

00:09:06.420 decreased from 32% to 30%, due in part to a decline in the reporting of motor vehicle

00:09:12.060 thefts to police from 81% to 72%.

00:09:15.020 So when you hear that the FBI reports that property crimes were down 2% in 2023, you have

00:09:21.440 to keep in mind that, according to the DOJ's crime survey, only around a third of property

00:09:25.640 crimes are reported to police in the first place.

00:09:28.880 And the majority of other non-fatal violent crimes aren't reported either.

00:09:32.320 The exception appears to be motor vehicle thefts, which are reported at a rate of more

00:09:36.140 than 70%, which is still down from the year before that, down significantly, actually.

00:09:42.360 And that just so happens to be the same category that, according to the FBI data, increased from

00:09:46.880 2022 to 2023.

00:09:49.660 Although 70% of reports, even that, you know, seems remarkably low.

00:09:56.960 Because that means that 30% of car theft victims didn't even report it to the cops.

00:10:02.960 How could that be the case?

00:10:04.300 Well, you know, I actually have some personal experience here.

00:10:09.640 I had my car stolen out of a parking lot downtown a couple of years ago here in Nashville.

00:10:14.980 And I did report it to the police, you know, because that's what you think you should do.

00:10:20.940 And precisely nothing happened.

00:10:22.780 A detective followed up a few days later, but that was it.

00:10:25.940 I never heard another word about it.

00:10:28.660 In fact, I was told that they had eyewitnesses and, I believe, video of the perpetrators.

00:10:34.360 But they were, as I was told, a bunch of kids, and there wasn't much that could be done or

00:10:40.320 would be done, you know, which is very common.

00:10:43.340 It's a very common experience for people that report crimes to the police.

00:10:46.460 So if my car's ever stolen again, my incentive to report it is much lower because I know now

00:10:52.300 that nothing will happen.

00:10:54.260 Now, I still will report it in this case because I need to report it in order for insurance

00:10:58.440 to cover it.

00:10:59.020 But that would be my only incentive.

00:11:01.080 The only reason I'm doing it is just file the paperwork so I can, you know, so I can

00:11:04.680 send it to the insurance companies.

00:11:07.140 And that's also probably why car theft reports are so much higher relative to other types

00:11:11.340 of crime.

00:11:12.380 But in any case, the point is that a lack of enforcement has a very demoralizing effect

00:11:19.680 on the victims of crime.

00:11:21.920 The takeaway from the DOJ survey is that under the Biden administration, crime has increased

00:11:27.560 across the board.

00:11:28.520 Here's how the Wall Street Journal summarized the survey data, quote, the NCVS report for

00:11:33.500 2023 finds no statistically significant evidence that violent crime or property crime is dropping

00:11:37.960 in America.

00:11:39.080 Excluding simple assault, the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony,

00:11:43.480 the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019, the last year before the defund

00:11:49.200 the police movement swept to the country.

00:11:51.760 The problem is especially severe in major cities.

00:11:55.140 This is something that's also not captured by the reporting we're hearing about the FBI's data,

00:11:59.420 but it's true.

00:12:01.060 Major cities are completely unrecognizable from what they were just a few years ago,

00:12:05.920 and there's no sign that this trend is going to change.

00:12:08.520 Quoting again from the journal, according to the NCVS, the urban violent crime rate increased

00:12:12.640 40% from 2019 to 2023.

00:12:15.300 Including simple assault, the urban violent crime rate rose 54% over that span.

00:12:19.480 From 2022 to 2023, the urban violent crime rate didn't change to a statistically significant

00:12:25.580 degree, so these higher crime rates appear to be the new norm in America's cities.

00:12:31.260 Now, of course, there are reasons to be skeptical of survey data in general.

00:12:34.800 The Bureau of Labor Statistics just admitted they overestimated job growth in this country

00:12:38.400 by something like 800,000 jobs, and that was because the surveys they used evidently

00:12:44.000 aren't very reliable.

00:12:44.920 But in this case, the DOJ survey has a few advantages over the FBI's data.

00:12:48.640 As I mentioned, it captures crimes that aren't reported to the police.

00:12:52.060 And if you want to know the real crime rate, you have to take that into account, because

00:12:56.060 otherwise all you're getting is the crime reporting rates, which is not the same as the crime rates.

00:13:03.100 And additionally, the DOJ has been running this survey since the Nixon administration.

00:13:07.620 So they've been doing it for a long time.

00:13:08.960 But the FBI recently overhauled its data collection method in 2022, which makes it very hard to

00:13:15.560 compare year-to-year changes in crime.

00:13:17.380 And that's a major problem, because it's essentially impossible to establish a baseline for comparison

00:13:22.700 with the FBI data.

00:13:25.440 By contrast, with the survey data, we can get a broader look at the overall increase in crime

00:13:30.840 under the Biden-Harris administration, not just looking at 2022 and 2023.

00:13:34.880 And more to the point, there are plenty of other indicators that the DOJ survey is correct,

00:13:40.220 and that America has become a more dangerous place to live in under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:13:47.800 For one thing, you can go to any major city in the country and visit a CVS or a Rite Aid

00:13:52.720 and see how many items are hidden behind glass.

00:13:54.760 We'll talk about that more in the five headlines.

00:13:58.280 You can look at how police departments have shrunk all over the country, from New Orleans to York.

00:14:02.120 You can also look at some other indicators that no one's talking about.

00:14:05.620 For example, the homicide victimization rate in this country increased by 19% from 2019 to 2023.

00:14:11.260 That's a nearly 20% increase in the rate of people getting killed by other people,

00:14:15.560 whether intentionally or unintentionally.

00:14:18.020 And you can see the chart there.

00:14:20.820 It seems like a rather significant jump, to put it mildly.

00:14:23.980 But this is data that no mainstream media outlet will report.

00:14:27.220 It's only because of an account on X called Data Hazard, which came up with the numbers by looking at death certificates,

00:14:33.960 that we have this information at all.

00:14:36.720 So think about that.

00:14:37.600 We have a 20% increase in the homicide victimization rate in just four years.

00:14:42.280 Any other country at any other time in history would call that a crisis.

00:14:45.900 But using that kind of language wouldn't play well for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:14:50.820 So instead, her promoters are resorting to a familiar tactic.

00:14:53.960 They're selectively relying on data that helps their candidate while ignoring the data that contradicts or complicates that narrative.

00:15:00.640 It's all part of an effort, once again, to convince you to ignore what's happening right in front of you,

00:15:06.420 what you can see with your own eyes, what you're experiencing in your own lives.

00:15:09.080 They don't care that more people are dying since 2019 or that most violent crimes are still going unreported.

00:15:15.720 They only care about one thing, which, of course, is winning in November and retaining their power.

00:15:20.580 So they're disregarding all new months, all complicating factors in their reporting on this.

00:15:27.400 But the rest of us, people who actually want to live in this country, regardless of who the president is, we can't accept that.

00:15:32.900 A government that will lie about the deaths of its own citizens will lie about anything.

00:15:39.640 And after the one-sided misleading response we saw to the FBI's data yesterday,

00:15:43.360 it's clear that that's exactly the kind of government that Kamala Harris supporters want. 0.99

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00:17:12.700 So Trump had a rally in, I think it was Pennsylvania last night,

00:17:17.340 and here was my favorite part of what he had to say.

00:17:21.260 Let's watch that.

00:17:22.600 We spend more money per pupil than any other country by far,

00:17:27.420 and yet we're at the bottom of the list.

00:17:29.860 Out of 40, we're ranked about number 40,

00:17:32.560 and I'm going to close the Department of Education and move education back to the states.

00:17:38.080 And we're going to do it fast.

00:17:41.100 Maybe I'll have you do that.

00:17:43.500 I'll use Lee.

00:17:44.920 Maybe I'll have you.

00:17:45.860 You could do it.

00:17:46.440 That's not too easy.

00:17:48.640 We'll get somebody great.

00:17:49.960 We'll get Lee Zeldin is here with us tonight.

00:17:52.660 We'll get, I think we'll, I think that's a job for Lee.

00:17:56.940 So this is a great idea.

00:17:58.500 It's exactly what needs to happen.

00:18:00.200 It's what many conservatives like myself have been calling for since forever.

00:18:04.540 And I hope Trump actually does it.

00:18:06.840 It'll be a, it'll, now, if he does it,

00:18:09.580 if he closes the Department of Education, as he just promised to do,

00:18:13.860 it'll be a major, major panic, if he does,

00:18:21.100 panic by the media and by the left.

00:18:23.200 There's going to be hysteria, unlike anything we've seen before, truly.

00:18:27.340 I mean, and we're used to seeing a lot of hysteria around Donald Trump,

00:18:29.960 completely irrational hysteria, as hysteria always is, by definition.

00:18:38.340 But this will, this will dwarf all of that.

00:18:42.100 I mean, can you imagine if he actually shut down the Department of Education?

00:18:46.400 The way the media will report that, the kinds of things they'll say about it.

00:18:50.260 It's a war on education.

00:18:51.680 He's destroyed education.

00:18:53.400 No children will be educated.

00:18:54.800 Education is dead.

00:18:55.940 No one's going to learn to read or write anymore.

00:18:58.660 It's, it's, it's just like Hitler all over again, somehow. 0.90

00:19:03.920 So that's going to happen.

00:19:05.300 And, but Trump should do it anyway.

00:19:08.860 He'll have nothing to lose.

00:19:10.160 Final term.

00:19:11.040 He's almost 80 years old.

00:19:12.200 They hate his guts anyway.

00:19:14.120 They want to put him in prison. 1.00

00:19:15.500 They want to kill him. 0.99

00:19:16.200 They've tried to do both. 1.00

00:19:17.480 So, you know, go in there like a damn wrecking ball, 0.99

00:19:21.040 a bull in a china shop, whatever metaphor you like, 0.99

00:19:23.580 and, and get it done.

00:19:26.200 I mean, this should be a day one priority. 0.99

00:19:28.120 Kill the Department of Education. 1.00

00:19:30.180 Kill it with fire. 1.00

00:19:31.620 Burn it down. 1.00

00:19:33.420 Dance around its ashes. 1.00

00:19:35.960 Metaphorically, I mean.

00:19:37.520 Not literally.

00:19:38.160 In a poetic sense. 0.99

00:19:41.700 Burn it down and dance around its ashes joyously. 0.79

00:19:46.600 And as Trump, Trump briefly pointed out in that clip, 0.91

00:19:48.880 if we're judging our current education system by its fruits, as we should,

00:19:54.960 then the case is basically closed here.

00:19:57.740 I mean, the fruits, the results are abysmal.

00:20:00.800 The education system is, is simply failing to educate a huge number of kids

00:20:05.420 who go through the system.

00:20:08.420 I'd say it's failing to properly educate basically all of them.

00:20:12.480 The Department of Education was founded about 40 years ago or so.

00:20:18.600 So, just ask yourself this.

00:20:21.180 Are kids today generally better educated than kids 40 years ago?

00:20:26.700 Does anyone think that?

00:20:28.380 Anyone at all?

00:20:29.080 Take an 18-year-old high school graduate.

00:20:32.260 Let's go back to 1954, just to make it nice and, you know, round numbers.

00:20:39.540 There's 18-year-old high school graduate in 1954.

00:20:44.940 18-year-old high school graduate in 2024.

00:20:48.940 Who's better educated?

00:20:50.780 Who is more literate?

00:20:52.160 Who is more knowledgeable about history and literature and civics?

00:20:57.440 Who's a more mature, well-adjusted, well-spoken, articulate person?

00:21:07.540 Is there any question?

00:21:09.540 I mean, would anyone put their money on the 2024 graduate in that race?

00:21:13.720 I don't think so.

00:21:15.360 And that's because our education system is a catastrophic failure.

00:21:21.000 And it's such a failure that it has created a civilization-level crisis.

00:21:25.200 It's a crisis that cannot be entirely fixed by abolishing the Department of Education

00:21:29.940 because you're still going to have the public school system that will still exist.

00:21:34.360 And ultimately, the public school system itself needs to be abolished.

00:21:38.360 The whole thing, the entire system should be dismantled because it is utterly failing in its basic job to educate kids.

00:21:51.060 There are a lot of other reasons why we should destroy the public school system, get rid of it, abolish it.

00:21:56.480 But you don't really need to get past this, which is they're not doing the job.

00:22:01.640 You've got a whole bunch of poorly educated or basically uneducated 17- and 18-year-olds coming out of that system after spending 12 to 13 years in it.

00:22:15.220 And they've learned almost nothing.

00:22:18.920 They know basically nothing about the world, about history, about literature, about any of the subjects that they should be well-versed in after spending all that time in that system.

00:22:29.960 They know basically nothing.

00:22:32.200 And we all kind of understand this.

00:22:33.880 I mean, rarely will you hear anybody step up to the plate to argue that the average American citizen is pretty well-educated, pretty knowledgeable.

00:22:48.360 There's a reason why one of the cheapest things you can do as a YouTuber is just go out to any street corner somewhere and ask basic trivia questions to random people passing by.

00:23:00.480 And if you do that for 30 minutes, you're guaranteed to find a whole bunch of adults who can't tell you who was the first president of the United States, what century was the Civil War fought in, things like that.

00:23:20.040 We all know that it's very, very easy to find adults who cannot answer those kinds of questions.

00:23:25.620 Questions that, with a properly functioning education system, seven-year-olds would be able to answer.

00:23:34.180 And what is that an indictment of?

00:23:36.640 It's like, so everyone knows that.

00:23:39.480 And yet few people, relatively few people, make the obvious connection.

00:23:43.920 Who do we blame for that?

00:23:46.000 Of course, you primarily blame the education system.

00:23:48.380 That's the system that's supposed to be doing all that stuff.

00:23:51.320 And they aren't doing it. 0.99

00:23:52.860 So if we can all kind of agree that, frankly, there are a whole bunch of morons that we're surrounded by in this country, which we are, who do we blame? 0.98

00:24:07.640 It's the education system is supposed to make sure that doesn't happen. 1.00

00:24:10.420 That's your job.

00:24:11.200 You're not doing it.

00:24:12.420 You are failing.

00:24:13.540 It's not working.

00:24:14.360 So the whole system should be totally destroyed.

00:24:20.300 But this is a good start.

00:24:23.240 The more localized you can make education, the better.

00:24:27.300 Education is not something that can be handled by a bureaucracy.

00:24:30.640 Bureaucracies can't handle anything.

00:24:32.200 They make everything worse, especially education.

00:24:35.080 And education also cannot be mass-produced like iPhones in a Chinese sweatshop somewhere. 0.98

00:24:41.240 It is an individual thing.

00:24:47.320 And you have to educate children individually, as individuals, to the extent possible.

00:24:57.060 And obviously, you can't do that even in a homeschool environment.

00:25:03.220 Even with our kids in homeschool, they get as individual as an education can be, they receive.

00:25:12.460 But even then, we've got multiple kids.

00:25:14.980 And so it's not entirely individualized.

00:25:20.000 But you want to get as close to that as you can.

00:25:22.300 And the more you expand it and expand it and expand it to make it ultimately a federal issue,

00:25:28.640 then you just have this assembly line, you know, wholesale kind of approach.

00:25:35.580 And it just doesn't work.

00:25:38.960 Here's a report out of California about a familiar site.

00:25:42.880 And this kind of relates back to the opening monologue.

00:25:45.560 But, well, we'll play this first.

00:25:48.520 So then I want to read some comments about this from people on the left,

00:25:54.560 sort of how they interpreted and who they blame for it.

00:25:56.780 But let's watch this.

00:25:59.500 Locking up shelves to protect items is what some Rite Aid stores in Los Angeles are doing

00:26:05.500 due to a rise in retail crime.

00:26:07.700 It's really unfortunate.

00:26:09.720 This is video of a store in Compton, where you can see nearly all items are under a lock and key,

00:26:15.940 from paper plates to candy.

00:26:17.580 At this Rite Aid in Santa Ana, a different view.

00:26:21.460 Items are out in full display, including makeup and other essentials.

00:26:25.880 The same thing at this Calabasas location.

00:26:29.120 And in Beverly Hills, this Rite Aid has some beauty products locked in shelves.

00:26:34.400 We did ask Rite Aid for more information on the security changes,

00:26:37.880 if they are being made at specific stores or if they are being added to all.

00:26:42.480 We have not received a response.

00:26:44.220 Now, this clip is being passed around Twitter with some commentators unhappy about it.

00:26:50.300 Unhappy and blaming Rite Aid for this.

00:26:53.520 So here's someone named Christopher Webb, who identifies himself, not surprisingly, as a lifelong dem.

00:26:59.000 He says this.

00:26:59.540 I know I'm not the only one who's had enough of these convenience stores keeping everything under lock and key.

00:27:05.540 Who has time to wait 10 minutes for an employee to unlock a deodorant?

00:27:08.760 Amazon's the beneficiary of this bad business strategy.

00:27:12.000 Rite Aid.

00:27:13.960 Another commentator agrees.

00:27:14.980 These retailers spent millions putting everything in locked cabinets because they banned everyone claiming crime, which was debunked.

00:27:25.600 My target now leaves all the doors open and you can't take carts down the aisle because of the doors. 1.00

00:27:31.120 It's insulting and stupid. 1.00

00:27:34.920 Oh, well, that's good news. 1.00

00:27:36.380 Crime has been debunked.

00:27:37.760 Did you know that?

00:27:39.200 It's okay, everybody.

00:27:41.120 They debunked crime.

00:27:43.400 Crime is a myth.

00:27:44.980 It's a right-wing conspiracy.

00:27:47.860 There's no crime.

00:27:49.600 So if you think you were the victim of crime and you say, I was just a victim of a crime.

00:27:55.300 Well, you're going to have this, this lib, you know, swoop into the scene to say, oh, excuse me.

00:28:00.700 Actually, that's been debunked.

00:28:03.100 No, someone just shot me and stole my wallet.

00:28:05.640 No, that's been actually, actually, that's been debunked.

00:28:09.800 It's debunked.

00:28:12.360 Sorry, it didn't happen.

00:28:13.620 Crime doesn't exist.

00:28:15.760 People don't commit crimes.

00:28:17.540 What are you talking about?

00:28:18.680 It's never happened.

00:28:23.200 So why are stores locking up merchandise?

00:28:25.560 Well, because.

00:28:27.560 Because they enjoy losing money.

00:28:29.540 They are deliberately making shopping less convenient for their customers because they want to lose money.

00:28:34.640 This is a classic get poor quick scheme by these dastardly retailers.

00:28:41.040 They're like anti-grifters. 0.62

00:28:42.540 They're the opposite of grifters.

00:28:43.460 They engage in dishonest schemes in order to lose money on purpose.

00:28:47.160 That's what's happening here, apparently.

00:28:51.000 At least that's the, that is the, the version that we get from the left.

00:28:54.260 That is the, that's the vision. 0.99

00:28:55.960 That's how much these morons understand like basic human nature and basic business principles. 0.99

00:29:02.300 That's the kind of insight these people have into life, that that's what they think. 1.00

00:29:08.260 They think that the stores just want to lose money.

00:29:10.500 Like, like that's what motivates these big corporations is to lose money.

00:29:15.060 No, of course, in reality, crime is a very real thing.

00:29:20.280 And the reason stores do this is that there's so much shoplifting that they have no choice.

00:29:27.240 Yeah, yeah, it's incredibly annoying.

00:29:28.940 We all agree on that.

00:29:31.020 I was just in Walmart the other day and they had like a shampoo and razors locked behind glass.

00:29:38.100 It was the first time in this Walmart, which I go to all the time.

00:29:42.980 It was the first time that I'd seen that.

00:29:44.660 And this is a recent development that they put all that stuff behind, behind glass.

00:29:50.820 And it was, it was an, I, I actually ended up not buying the shampoo and the razors that I needed.

00:29:57.400 Which is what I came there for because I didn't want to wait around for an employee to come and unlock the stuff.

00:30:02.980 And to me, you know, it's time consuming and also embarrassing.

00:30:06.560 Like the idea that I have to have an employee come and like, I have to ask their permit permission.

00:30:13.020 Like I'm a child.

00:30:14.400 Mommy, can I get the shampoo? 0.78

00:30:17.160 Can you unlock?

00:30:17.900 And then they're going to like monitor me while I'm buying, judging, judging my shampoo purchase.

00:30:25.640 Okay.

00:30:26.000 If I go for the scented shampoo, all of a sudden I'm getting judged.

00:30:28.940 Okay.

00:30:29.220 I like the scented shampoo.

00:30:30.340 You know, I don't think we need to, that's, this is not a communal thing.

00:30:34.800 I don't, why are you sitting there watching the shampoo that I'm buying?

00:30:37.220 So I ended up not, not even, I just went somewhere else.

00:30:45.380 And, you know, I'm, I will, I can make a movie where I intentionally antagonize rooms full of people to the point where they call the cops on me.

00:30:55.740 And I'm fine with that.

00:30:56.420 I can handle that.

00:30:57.340 But I can't handle calling an employee to unlock the shampoo for me.

00:31:00.920 That I can't do.

00:31:01.840 That's too cringe even for me.

00:31:05.440 So what's the takeaway here?

00:31:09.860 Yes, stores are definitely losing money because of this.

00:31:12.320 I know that because they lost my money.

00:31:13.660 And I can only assume I'm not the only one.

00:31:17.380 And, and it's a basic fact of, fact of economics.

00:31:21.540 You know, it's a consumer habit, habits 101.

00:31:24.540 The more convenient something is, the more likely that people are to do it, the less convenient, the less likely.

00:31:32.360 So why are stores doing it?

00:31:34.480 Are they unaware of this fact?

00:31:36.980 Does Walmart need a lesson from these Twitter commenters in how to, how to get people to buy stuff?

00:31:44.580 Are the bigwigs at Walmart checking Twitter and seeing this comment from whatever his face and saying, oh, did you see this?

00:31:52.120 Apparently, this is making us lose money.

00:31:54.360 I didn't, I, yeah, I had no idea.

00:31:56.380 I thought more people would buy it if you lock it behind glass.

00:32:00.180 I think it'd make people intrigued.

00:32:02.560 They would think that it has more value.

00:32:04.300 And so now there'd be lines around the block to buy shampoo.

00:32:08.760 No, I don't think that's the way it's working.

00:32:10.100 It's working.

00:32:10.540 Walmart made like $650 billion last year, okay?

00:32:16.000 They made enough to buy entire countries.

00:32:20.440 And so I think they know a thing or two about consumer habits.

00:32:24.240 I think they understand basic economics, okay?

00:32:29.280 I'm not, I'm not much of a trust the experts guy, but, and the left usually is, but this is one area where, yeah, you kind of trust the experts.

00:32:37.300 Like, if I go into Walmart and they're doing something, I just sort of assume that they're doing that because that's the best way to make money in this circumstance.

00:32:46.980 Like, they're pretty good at making money.

00:32:48.580 I mean, they're pretty good.

00:32:50.080 This is Walmart we're talking about.

00:32:52.180 And so, yeah, I mean, whatever, if I went to a Walmart and they had like a, they built a huge moat around it with crocodiles in it, I would say like, okay, well, I guess that's, this is how, this is the best way for them to make money right now.

00:33:05.640 Because like, this is Walmart, they know they wouldn't do it if, I don't understand how that could be the case, but it must be because they wouldn't be doing it otherwise.

00:33:14.920 And yet we do know that in, you know, in a vacuum, certainly you lose money by putting the stuff behind glass.

00:33:22.280 So what does that mean?

00:33:22.820 It means that the shoplifting problem isn't just bad, it's really, really, really bad.

00:33:30.540 That's the takeaway.

00:33:31.420 That's the lesson that a rational person can draw, that Walmart and Rite Aid and all the rest of them, they're looking at this and they're saying, yeah, we're going to lose money if we lock all this stuff behind glass.

00:33:41.880 We'll lose more if we don't.

00:33:44.800 And so they're doing the least bad option.

00:33:50.020 Shoplifting is a crisis.

00:33:51.700 Crime is a crisis.

00:33:52.740 Why?

00:33:56.300 Well, because, because our cultural degradation has reached a point where so many people have not been raised with a basic moral foundation.

00:34:04.620 Don't steal is like one of the most basic, most elementary level moral lessons that you're supposed to teach your kids.

00:34:11.760 And a lot of people have not been taught that.

00:34:14.380 You know, it's a scary thought, but there's a lot of people in this country where they say, oh, well, if I can take that and have it for free, why wouldn't I?

00:34:25.500 And if you try to explain the moral, it's like, you know, you're talking to a wall.

00:34:30.720 For them, it's, yeah, I'll take it, it's free, I'll just take it.

00:34:32.820 If I can take it, I don't have to pay for it, that's what I'll do.

00:34:34.460 And meanwhile, and certainly not unrelated to this, you've got these Soros DAs across the country who've stopped prosecuting these kinds of crimes.

00:34:45.360 Rather than doubling down and getting tougher on minor, quote unquote, crimes like shoplifting, which is what they should do, they've stopped prosecuting them entirely.

00:34:53.580 So you end up with a whole bunch of morally stunted human beings who have no compunction about stealing, along with a justice system that lacks the willpower to do anything about it.

00:35:08.520 And, you know, you add those two factors together and now I can't buy shampoo without adult supervision at Walmart, right?

00:35:20.100 That's the way that it all kind of shakes out.

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00:36:26.240 But, you know, I made a documentary that unexpectedly became a cultural phenomenon.

00:36:30.020 And I'm not talking about Am I Racist?

00:36:31.360 That's the most recent one.

00:36:32.400 But before that was What is a Woman? 1.00

00:36:34.920 It's the film that started an important conversation.

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00:36:46.120 The documentary explores one of the most debated questions of our time.

00:36:49.380 It's been amazing to see how this journey and to go on this journey and find an answer

00:36:53.400 and how it's resonated with audiences across the world.

00:36:56.240 You'd watch the film that started it all.

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00:37:07.100 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:37:14.740 Well, we know that the mainstream media is corrupt, dishonest, and both intellectually and morally bankrupt.

00:37:22.020 That is the fundamental reason why, as we've been tracking on the show for the past few weeks,

00:37:25.800 mainstream film critics have refused to review my new film Am I Racist?

00:37:29.160 But credit where credit is due, a few journalists, even if they aren't film critics,

00:37:34.100 from a few major publications have had the gumption to acknowledge the movie's existence.

00:37:39.680 And yesterday, most unexpectedly, the Washington Post was added to that list.

00:37:44.880 The film critic at the Post, whoever it is, still has not reviewed the film and probably never will.

00:37:51.000 But the journalist Megan McArdle did bravely venture to theaters to watch the movie and wrote about it.

00:37:58.320 Wrote about it mostly positively, it turns out, after the fact.

00:38:02.860 And here's the headline.

00:38:04.220 You might not enjoy Am I Racist?

00:38:06.240 You should watch it anyway.

00:38:08.720 Which I could not agree more.

00:38:11.180 Whether you like it or don't, still watch it.

00:38:13.260 That's my message.

00:38:14.280 Now, even before reading her piece, I'm impressed simply that she's willing to do the thing that

00:38:21.720 people who are paid to watch and write about movies have been too afraid to do.

00:38:26.340 But the readers of the Washington Post are not so impressed.

00:38:30.140 In fact, their reaction demonstrates why most mainstream outlets have been too afraid to venture

00:38:35.700 down this road.

00:38:36.760 And we'll take a look at their reaction in just a moment.

00:38:38.760 But first, let's read a little bit of McArdle's take on the film.

00:38:43.440 She begins,

00:38:44.280 As I drove to the AMC Theater in Danvers, Massachusetts, my phone kept peppering me with

00:38:49.340 the same plaintive question.

00:38:51.500 Am I racist?

00:38:52.500 It was startling the first time it happened.

00:38:55.260 And for a second, I wanted to reassure my phone that no, consumer electronic device can't be racist.

00:39:01.120 But the phone wasn't really asking.

00:39:03.340 Rather, it was reminding me that I had tickets for the latest movie by Matt Walsh, a conservative

00:39:07.380 podcaster and provocateur who was probably most famous for his film What is a Woman?

00:39:11.260 That movie apparently did well enough to justify releasing the new one onto about 1,500 screens

00:39:16.440 this month.

00:39:17.320 It was number four at the box office, albeit a distant fourth in a very slow week, which

00:39:21.560 is why I was going to see it.

00:39:23.100 While you might not like this suggestion, you should do the same.

00:39:26.080 Just, you know, FYI, actually, it wasn't a very slow week.

00:39:33.140 Our film came out only a week after Beetlejuice set box office records for the month.

00:39:37.860 And we weren't a distant fourth.

00:39:39.320 We were like 700K behind the third place film, which isn't really distant.

00:39:43.360 And that was Deadpool and Wolverine.

00:39:45.620 But, you know, but who's counting?

00:39:47.580 I mean, I'm counting obsessively every day, but let's not get hung up on those details.

00:39:52.100 Continuing, I'm not promising you'll enjoy the movie.

00:39:55.200 If you're on the liberal to progressive side, you'll think it's simplistic and unfair, which

00:39:59.260 yes, obviously.

00:40:00.960 But it's also effective.

00:40:02.160 And people on that end of the spectrum should watch it to understand why it works and why

00:40:05.460 the left keeps providing Walsh such a rich trove of targets.

00:40:09.060 If you don't like the people he's lampooning, it's easy to convince yourself that he's revealing

00:40:12.720 something deep and important, just as I've heard progressives argue that Borat movies

00:40:16.240 were laying bare the hateful underbelly of America.

00:40:19.260 But what Walsh is actually revealing is two not very surprising realities of human nature.

00:40:23.320 First, that every group has an awful fringe, and it's easy to make that group look bad if

00:40:27.860 only the fringe's worst moments survive the cutting room floor.

00:40:31.400 Second, that the human instinct for avoiding confrontation is exploitable if you're sufficiently

00:40:36.420 willing to violate the social contract.

00:40:38.400 Both points have already been amply demonstrated by a long history of cults and dictatorships,

00:40:44.100 not to mention middle school.

00:40:45.760 Yet to give Walsh his due, it's still jaw-dropping when participants in the ersatz diversity workshop 1.00

00:40:51.980 sit silently or even participate as he berates a sick-looking elderly man in a wheelchair for

00:40:56.400 being a racist.

00:40:57.560 Walsh eventually stops the workshop when it seems as though they're actually considering

00:41:01.100 flagellating themselves with the whips that he's passed out.

00:41:03.980 So, this is not exactly a rave review.

00:41:08.480 She credits the film for being effective, but also calls it simplistic and unfair.

00:41:12.920 She also attempts to absolve the left of any blame for what we document in the movie.

00:41:17.760 And she does that by writing off, you know, Robin DiAngelo and company as the fringe.

00:41:23.600 Now, as one of the guys who made the film, I, of course, disagree with these assessments.

00:41:29.320 Um, the core message of the film may be in many ways simple, but that's not the same as being

00:41:36.060 simplistic.

00:41:37.480 And the Robin DiAngelo's of the world are certainly not in any way the fringe of the left. 0.82

00:41:44.720 You know, Robin DiAngelo conveys and promotes left-wing racial ideology, not a fringe version

00:41:51.860 of it, but a mainstream version of it.

00:41:53.980 I mean, this is a woman who, as she confesses in the film, is hired by Fortune 500 companies

00:41:59.580 and major government agencies to do workshops for their employees.

00:42:03.280 And calling that fringe, I think, is rather absurd.

00:42:06.900 Um, by analogy, and it's kind of, it's hard to come up with an analogy for the right because

00:42:11.380 nobody on the right has access to those kinds of institutions.

00:42:14.780 But, you know, imagine if Sean Hannity ever found himself in an embarrassing situation and

00:42:21.540 I tried to claim that he's just a, well, he's just a fringe right-winger.

00:42:25.540 I mean, say what you want about Sean Hannity, he's definitely not a fringe character on the

00:42:30.320 right.

00:42:31.200 And Robin DiAngelo is considerably less fringe than that on the left.

00:42:34.840 After all, the most mainstream thing a conservative can do is host a show on Fox News.

00:42:41.000 On the left, mainstream means that you're doing, you're, you're doing work for Coca-Cola

00:42:46.620 and Google and Netflix and so on, which is what Robin DiAngelo says that she's done in

00:42:52.280 the film.

00:42:53.100 And that's the kind of mainstream that Robin DiAngelo and her cronies are. 0.85

00:42:57.900 And it's, it's as mainstream as you can get.

00:43:02.420 Okay.

00:43:03.040 I cannot think of anything more mainstream.

00:43:05.140 Google is like the definition of mainstream.

00:43:08.480 And so if you're getting hired by Google, then you are mainstream, you're the mainstream

00:43:15.160 of the mainstream.

00:43:18.200 On the left, anyway.

00:43:20.520 So I think McArdle is incorrect in some of her analysis, but still, I give her credit for

00:43:26.780 offering any analysis at all, even a wrong analysis.

00:43:30.200 And it's not entirely wrong.

00:43:31.900 So here's how she wraps everything up.

00:43:33.520 A number of the people attending his workshop walk out as the strangeness escalates.

00:43:38.440 And earlier in the film, he gets kicked out of a workshop that someone else runs.

00:43:41.980 But that happens only after he leaves the room, giving participants time to figure out who

00:43:45.840 he is and reach consensus on expelling him.

00:43:48.500 Most people sit through his provocations because, well, it would be rude to leave or point out

00:43:53.020 how bizarre his suggestions are.

00:43:54.740 That itself is telling, however, because some of his targets are also exploiting those same

00:43:59.260 conciliatory social instincts, which is what makes the movie's jokes land.

00:44:03.800 When progressive activist Syrah Rao monologues about the awfulness of white women to a group

00:44:08.000 of white women at one of her race to dinner events, which reportedly cost up to $5,000 0.98

00:44:11.660 to stage, the faces of the guests foreshadow those of Walsh's workshop participants, the frozen

00:44:16.860 anxiety of someone witnessing a social offense and unwilling to return it in kind.

00:44:21.160 That's also what you see on the face of celebrity diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo when

00:44:26.540 a bewigged Walsh gives all his cash to a black producer as reparations and invites DiAngelo

00:44:31.260 to do the same.

00:44:32.420 I dropped my head into my hands as DiAngelo went scurrying for her wallet, though I confess

00:44:36.900 I also laughed.

00:44:38.300 Because you can't help think of how many times DiAngelo has been paid for advice on how white

00:44:42.960 people ought to interact with people of color.

00:44:45.360 And some of that advice is only slightly less bizarre and patronizing than suggesting we haul

00:44:50.420 out our wallets and tip them $20.

00:44:52.820 DiAngelo and Rao and a number of others gained money and fame during the Great Awoke

00:44:56.520 opening because decent people, genuinely concerned about America's racial divides, were too polite 0.94

00:45:01.700 to point out that they sounded like lunatics.

00:45:04.020 Those well-intentioned Americans had their social instincts hacked, the machinery diverted 0.97

00:45:08.220 into a continuous loop of unproductive navel-gazing instead of the racial justice they were trying

00:45:13.060 to achieve.

00:45:14.040 That's what left them vulnerable when Matt Walsh showed up to exploit the same bug.

00:45:19.280 Now, that's her main takeaway, and she's right.

00:45:22.960 What we attempted to do in the film, successfully, I think, is tap into the same exploitation and

00:45:29.340 manipulation methods that these DEI race hustlers use and turn it against them.

00:45:35.720 And if McArdle noticed that, then she understood the basic point of the film, even if I could

00:45:40.760 quibble with some of her analysis.

00:45:42.060 But the basic thrust of it, she understood and is articulating, I think, very well.

00:45:47.840 Her readers, though, are doing quite a bit more than quibbling with her analysis.

00:45:54.120 In fact, they are offended that she's offering any kind of analysis at all.

00:45:58.900 So I perused the comment section on the Washington Post website, and I'll give you a brief sampling,

00:46:04.860 enough to kind of get the basic gist.

00:46:07.420 And as I read these, I'm going to ask our editors to put some sad piano music in the background

00:46:11.180 in order to really capture the vibe of these distraught commenters who have been betrayed

00:46:16.220 by this, effectively, this movie review from a journalist.

00:46:21.180 Here's what they have to say.

00:46:22.400 Just reading a few.

00:46:24.040 Yeah, I'm going to give my money to someone who fights everything I support.

00:46:27.580 If he was being sincere in doing the work, that would be one thing.

00:46:30.720 But to pay to see a mockumentary about racism from an alt-right Trumper?

00:46:34.640 To put money in that guy's pocket?

00:46:36.280 To go to see this to, as they say, own the libs as a liberal?

00:46:41.120 Well, that's an easy pass. 1.00

00:46:43.080 Another says, my God, the depth of your stupidity and that of Walsh is deeply, truly staggering. 1.00

00:46:49.860 Or is it just pure bigotry? 1.00

00:46:51.320 Or is it just running a con on suckers for money? 1.00

00:46:54.460 We know why moronic movies like this work. 0.99

00:46:57.020 It's because they have a huge propaganda apparatus constantly lying to these people. 1.00

00:47:01.120 And that includes grifters like you.

00:47:02.780 It's because they were raised by people unconcerned with truth or facts or history or empathy with others.

00:47:08.740 And many were told this was just God's will.

00:47:11.540 We should give a person money who has openly supported theocracy and fascism so we can understand?

00:47:17.360 Should I donate money to Nazis so I can understand? 0.98

00:47:21.500 The next one says,

00:47:22.320 Another says,

00:47:36.080 So he's not sincere, therefore is a racist and thinks this is all something to laugh about.

00:47:41.260 Why would you support and promote this project, Ms. McArdle? 0.53

00:47:44.660 Unless you yourself are happily and openly racist too. 0.98

00:47:48.740 Y'all are effing weird. 0.98

00:47:51.000 Another says,

00:47:52.040 I didn't know anything about Matt Walsh, the person that created the movie recommended here by Megan McArdle.

00:47:57.260 I would have more respect for McArdle in the post if I had never read this column.

00:48:00.880 If I had never known anything about Matt Walsh.

00:48:03.140 And another says, 0.56

00:48:05.100 Walsh's last movie was utterly repugnant.

00:48:07.800 If you paid to watch another movie by him for anything other than science or journalism,

00:48:12.480 you just might have a problem.

00:48:15.320 And one more,

00:48:16.980 This grifter movie has nothing to do with racism.

00:48:19.960 It's about owning the libs and getting famous and rich off the MAGA goobers who will confirm their biases.

00:48:26.300 So pretty much like all the rest of the current Republican cult from the orange leader down.

00:48:30.140 Now I have to say,

00:48:32.720 I really take exception to that last comment.

00:48:35.240 He says the movie isn't about racism.

00:48:37.060 It's actually about getting rich and famous.

00:48:39.560 But why can't it be about racism and getting rich and famous?

00:48:43.640 I mean, two things can be true at once, right?

00:48:45.600 We could kill multiple birds with one stone here.

00:48:48.680 And as for the rest of these comments,

00:48:50.420 The most important thing to keep in mind is that these are people who have not seen the movie.

00:48:57.180 They object to anyone seeing it at all.

00:49:00.220 They didn't even pay attention to McArdle's analysis.

00:49:02.960 It didn't matter what her analysis was.

00:49:04.960 In their minds, she betrayed them simply by watching it.

00:49:09.360 I mean, this is the cult mentality that you find on the left.

00:49:11.640 And although the right has plenty of issues of its own,

00:49:14.440 you don't find anything quite like this on our side.

00:49:18.780 You know, conservatives would not get angry at a right-wing commenter

00:49:21.520 for watching a Michael Moore movie and offering a perspective on it.

00:49:24.880 And in fact, you know, if there's a new Michael Moore movie out,

00:49:27.820 which there hasn't been in a long time,

00:49:29.660 and people are talking about it and the left is celebrating it,

00:49:33.360 I think if you're a right-wing commentator,

00:49:34.760 you're actually kind of expected to watch it

00:49:36.540 so that you can give your take on it.

00:49:38.680 Because your audience wants to know.

00:49:41.280 They want to know, like, what do you think about this thing?

00:49:43.080 And indeed, pretty much every movie Hollywood churns out,

00:49:47.860 documentaries and narrative features,

00:49:49.680 are made by raging leftists.

00:49:51.740 As a conservative commentator myself,

00:49:54.460 you know, I don't have to worry

00:49:55.740 that my audience will dogpile me

00:49:58.960 if I watch a movie and give my thoughts on it.

00:50:02.300 You find this attitude on the left for two basic reasons.

00:50:05.460 The first is that their worldview is a brittle, fragile thing.

00:50:09.300 It cannot withstand any serious or even not-so-serious challenge.

00:50:13.080 Which means they have to steadfastly avoid anything that might challenge it.

00:50:17.360 C.S. Lewis once wrote that a young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist

00:50:20.920 cannot be too careful of his reading.

00:50:23.760 And the same can be said about a young man or a woman,

00:50:26.180 or an old man or woman,

00:50:27.640 who wishes to remain a sound leftist.

00:50:29.380 But the other thing that comes out in these comments,

00:50:33.240 and also in the backlash that YouTube reviewer Jeremy Johns experienced

00:50:37.500 when he dared to notice that my movie exists,

00:50:40.420 is that many on the left have come to believe

00:50:42.900 that they own the art form of film itself.

00:50:46.540 If you're on the right,

00:50:48.080 you know, you've long since grown accustomed to the fact that,

00:50:50.400 as we just established,

00:50:51.800 virtually every movie you've ever seen

00:50:54.380 was made by people who disagree with you and probably hate you.

00:50:57.320 So, leftists have had the exact opposite experience,

00:51:00.060 and this has given them a sense of kind of artistic entitlement.

00:51:02.920 They believe that art belongs to them.

00:51:05.500 You know, conservatives who make art are treated as intruders,

00:51:08.260 as burglars,

00:51:09.100 kind of sneaking through the window in the middle of the night.

00:51:12.220 The only appropriate response is to kind of shoo them away.

00:51:16.020 They don't belong here.

00:51:17.480 Art is not for them.

00:51:18.900 That's the attitude.

00:51:19.640 And it's a delusion that I'm quite happy to break, I have to say.

00:51:24.200 I will say, though,

00:51:25.220 that I did find one comment on the Washington Post website

00:51:28.460 from somebody who says they actually watched the film,

00:51:31.380 and here's what the comment says.

00:51:34.020 Quote,

00:51:34.520 I went out of my way to see it last week.

00:51:37.380 What a horrible excuse for a movie.

00:51:39.740 Like watching MLK on steroids. 1.00

00:51:42.440 Now, I promise you,

00:51:44.960 I did not make that comment up.

00:51:46.360 This is someone insulting me by,

00:51:48.280 I guess,

00:51:48.940 calling me MLK on steroids.

00:51:51.700 I don't know if he means that

00:51:53.000 I'm like MLK,

00:51:54.860 but extremely muscular,

00:51:55.740 or if he means that

00:51:56.880 in a more kind of philosophical sense,

00:51:59.080 that I'm like a civil rights pioneer

00:52:00.420 turned up to the nth degree.

00:52:02.720 Maybe he means it in both ways.

00:52:04.100 I'm a muscular,

00:52:05.240 turbocharged,

00:52:06.780 civil rights icon.

00:52:08.460 I can only assume that's what he's trying to say,

00:52:10.280 and all I can say to that is

00:52:12.540 guilty as charged.

00:52:15.020 Perhaps if we do a sequel in the next film,

00:52:16.780 I'll pass around a petition

00:52:17.620 to change the Martin Luther King Jr. monument

00:52:20.040 to the Matt Walsh monument.

00:52:21.940 And it's an idea worth considering, at least.

00:52:24.480 So that comment was obviously correct 0.76

00:52:26.420 and deeply, deeply rational, I think,

00:52:28.760 but the other one's not as much.

00:52:30.620 And that is why the Washington Post readers

00:52:32.460 who are having a heart attack

00:52:34.400 because somebody watched my movie

00:52:35.860 are all today canceled.

00:52:39.340 That'll do it for the show today.

00:52:40.000 Thanks for watching.

00:52:40.600 Thanks for listening.

00:52:41.220 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:52:42.600 Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 24, 2024

Ep. 1449 - How The FBI Is Willing To Risk Your Safety To Get Kamala Elected

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