The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1453 - Race-Baiting WNBA Players Are Sabotaging Their Own League Out Of Spite

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wells Show, WNBA players have invented what may be the most contrived

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00:03:02.140 You know, there are a lot of stories out there about lottery winners who go on to destroy

00:03:05.980 their lives.

00:03:06.740 Something like 70% of them supposedly go bankrupt within a few years.

00:03:09.720 It's not hard to see how that would happen.

00:03:11.600 When you give a lot of money and attention to a person who didn't earn any of it, that

00:03:15.000 person doesn't suddenly change overnight.

00:03:16.980 Instead, more often than not, all of their worst character traits are amplified 10 times

00:03:21.800 over.

00:03:22.180 And in many cases, that leads to a very public and humiliating collapse.

00:03:26.220 This is a principle that doesn't just apply to individuals, it turns out.

00:03:29.300 It applies to organizations, too.

00:03:30.900 Unearned fame and fortune are far more destructive than they might appear.

00:03:35.120 And right now, there's no organization on the planet that proves this point more than

00:03:39.640 the WNBA.

00:03:41.400 The league just posted its highest average game viewership in 24 years.

00:03:46.640 They're bringing in massive new sponsorships, at least by the league's standard.

00:03:50.620 They're selling out arenas, which used to be unheard of for the WNBA. 1.00

00:03:54.580 And so this should be a dream come true for everybody involved in the WNBA, from the executives

00:03:58.980 to the players to the reporters who, for their sins in a past life, have been cursed with

00:04:02.700 the job of covering a women's basketball league.

00:04:05.540 Everyone should be overjoyed.

00:04:07.720 But there's a big problem.

00:04:09.720 All of this success, every bit of it, is due to the presence of one player in the league.

00:04:16.200 And that is a generational talent named Caitlin Clark, who, of course, you've heard of.

00:04:20.300 And still probably the only WNBA player whose name you know. 0.96

00:04:23.680 She's the reason the WNBA just won the lottery. 1.00

00:04:26.900 Without Caitlin Clark, nobody cares about any of these players or the league.

00:04:31.080 With her, most people still don't care, but a lot more people care than did before.

00:04:36.320 And everybody knows that, right?

00:04:38.340 Therefore, everyone in the league, other than Caitlin Clark, is doing exactly what so many

00:04:43.860 lottery winners do.

00:04:45.180 They're allowing all of their worst personality traits to surface because they just can't help

00:04:49.900 themselves.

00:04:50.980 Several months ago, I covered the many cheap shots that Clark has had to deal with on the

00:04:54.620 court.

00:04:54.840 Some of these cheap shots look like, I mean, they look a lot like criminal assault, but of

00:04:58.840 course, they aren't prosecuted.

00:04:59.760 They also talked about the many champions of diversity in the media who are strangely very

00:05:04.700 unhappy about the diversity that Clark has brought to the WNBA, a league that is mostly

00:05:09.160 made up of black players.

00:05:11.780 There's been a lot of resentment in this league lately, in particular since the season began.

00:05:17.060 And the thing about resentment, as we all know, is that it tends to fester over time.

00:05:21.540 It gets worse and worse.

00:05:23.180 That's exactly what we're seeing now, now that the season is winding down, the playoffs are

00:05:28.580 underway.

00:05:30.060 Over the past week, week or two, race hysteria in the WNBA has somehow reached yet another 1.00

00:05:36.680 inflection point.

00:05:37.940 The league is currently in the midst of what really might be the single most contrived racism

00:05:44.580 scandal, certainly in any professional sport, at least since the fake noose in Bubba Wallace's

00:05:50.040 garage.

00:05:50.480 Specifically, a bunch of WNBA players have come out claiming that they've been victimized

00:05:55.980 by racial slurs and other forms of racist attacks.

00:06:00.140 Like, a lot of players are claiming this.

00:06:02.960 In other words, they're now accusing the people who have started showing up to WNBA games for

00:06:07.760 the first time in more than two decades of being horrible racists.

00:06:11.180 So now for the fine print.

00:06:14.360 None of these racial slurs we're told about, some of which have supposedly occurred during

00:06:19.700 games, none of them, as far as I'm aware, have actually been caught on camera.

00:06:25.180 Interesting.

00:06:26.240 There's no visual or audio evidence that might substantiate any of this.

00:06:31.140 Not a single credible report, even.

00:06:34.080 That's extremely unusual, obviously, given that there are cameras and smartphones at every

00:06:38.000 WNBA game.

00:06:39.840 You'd think that if a mob of racists were buying up WNBA tickets so they could heckle 1.00

00:06:44.900 the players with racial slurs, as is being claimed, then the videos would be all over

00:06:50.020 the internet.

00:06:51.240 But those videos are not all over the internet.

00:06:53.460 They're not anywhere on the internet.

00:06:55.580 So instead, we have to take the player's word for it.

00:06:57.840 Here is Brittany Greiner, for example.

00:07:00.260 Listen.

00:07:00.460 How do you feel about what has happened over the past year with the W since you first came

00:07:08.100 in to where it is now?

00:07:09.620 And obviously the game has grown and people have, there's new fans, but how do you, do

00:07:16.180 you appreciate the new fans without all the noise that's come?

00:07:19.460 I don't appreciate the new fans that sit there and yell racial slurs at myself, my teammates,

00:07:27.320 and the people that I play against.

00:07:30.720 Because, yeah, those might be opponents, but those are friends, too.

00:07:35.640 You know, they don't deserve that.

00:07:37.640 So I don't appreciate the new fans.

00:07:39.080 I think it's okay to do that.

00:07:41.280 But I do appreciate the new fans that respect the game.

00:07:44.520 There's that woman, Brittany Greiner, again.

00:07:52.560 You know, the question that Brittany Greiner was asked was about the massive growth of

00:07:58.040 this league, which was dead in the water just a year ago and had been dead for its entire

00:08:02.600 existence.

00:08:03.840 And the reporter asked, what do you think of all the new fans?

00:08:07.640 And like, in any other context, when someone says, what do you think of all the new fans

00:08:11.240 that are coming in?

00:08:11.880 And usually it's, oh, it's great.

00:08:14.360 We love how everybody is supporting the league and we're so grateful.

00:08:17.820 None of that.

00:08:20.280 You know, instead of some gratitude, some appreciation for the people who have saved the WNBA, who

00:08:25.800 pay to come out to see bad players like Brittany Greiner, instead of that, we get resentment. 1.00

00:08:32.100 Instead, we're told by Brittany Greiner that the fans are racist.

00:08:34.520 They buy tickets just so that they can yell racist things that are never captured on camera,

00:08:41.360 because not only that, these racists happen to be magicians.

00:08:43.540 They can shout racist things while also being completely invisible.

00:08:47.580 And they can shout it at like a frequency that Brittany Greiner can hear, but nobody else

00:08:51.900 can.

00:08:54.140 They're like ghosts.

00:08:55.560 They just appear in the stands and they shout the N-word a few times and then they disappear.

00:09:02.020 Now, put aside the fact that Greiner is obviously lying.

00:09:05.580 Let's say hypothetically that someone did shout a slur at a WNBA game and it really bothered

00:09:10.300 people like Brittany Greiner.

00:09:11.760 Nothing about the answer makes sense, even in that context.

00:09:16.680 I mean, why would that be the first thing that Greiner mentions when the reporter asks

00:09:20.140 about the fans?

00:09:22.000 Why not say, well, the overwhelming majority of the fans are great people.

00:09:25.320 I'm so happy that they're paying money and I'm so grateful to have them.

00:09:29.600 Like, why wouldn't you, even if this was happening, why wouldn't you start with that?

00:09:34.840 If anyone should be striking a note of gratitude, it is Brittany Greiner.

00:09:38.480 Less than two years ago, the Biden administration traded away a Russian arms dealer, someone who

00:09:43.320 conspired to murder American citizens in order to get that person out of a Russian prison. 0.52

00:09:49.340 So Greiner has every reason to be extremely grateful to this country, not just because

00:09:53.380 of the paycheck for playing basketball poorly, but also because the United States is a lot

00:09:58.080 nicer than a Siberian gulag, I would think.

00:10:00.920 At the very least, you'd expect that Greiner would be happier than the usual WNBA player. 0.98

00:10:06.780 That's obviously not the case.

00:10:08.480 Now, of course, the media, especially the sports media, is uncritically reporting on

00:10:11.640 this phantom crisis of races at WNBA games.

00:10:14.600 Just search WNBA racism in Google. 1.00

00:10:17.120 You'll get dozens and dozens of mainstream media articles frantically shouting about the

00:10:22.160 racism crisis in the WNBA.

00:10:24.400 And many other players have raised the alarm about this invented epidemic.

00:10:28.440 Here's just another one.

00:10:30.240 Watch this. 0.90

00:10:31.900 Honestly, it's been a lot of nonsense.

00:10:34.040 I think in my 11-year career, I've never experienced the racial comments from the Indiana Fever fan base.

00:10:43.200 You know, we had her face on a serious matter that happened in this world, and it's unacceptable, honestly.

00:10:50.640 In response to those comments, the WNBA issued a statement saying,

00:10:54.440 The WNBA is a competitive league with some of the most elite athletes in the world. 0.93

00:10:59.660 While we welcome a growing fan base, the WNBA will not tolerate racist, derogatory, or threatening comments 0.89

00:11:07.120 made about players, teams, and anyone affiliated with the league.

00:11:11.860 League security is actively monitoring threat-related activity and will work directly with teams and arenas

00:11:18.440 to take appropriate measures to include involving law enforcement as necessary.

00:11:26.360 Here's the kind of dramatic, sad music in the background.

00:11:28.900 This is really serious stuff.

00:11:31.660 Law enforcement might have to get involved.

00:11:34.260 WNBA games have become like Klan rallies, from what we're told.

00:11:38.780 You're not going to see any of that on video or hear any of it, but, you know, just take their word for it.

00:11:44.500 Take the WNBA's word for it. 1.00

00:11:45.680 Take the media's word for it.

00:11:47.560 Yet, some WNBA players are still upset that the media isn't making an even bigger deal out of the fake racism scandal.

00:11:54.820 Reading from the USA Today, quote,

00:11:56.320 Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese says the media should have done more to combat the ongoing issue of racism in women's basketball

00:12:04.620 before it reached a boiling point.

00:12:06.780 The WNBA on Wednesday condemned all racist, derogatory, or threatening comments that have been directed towards players

00:12:11.340 after Connecticut Sun All-Star Elissa Thomas called out racial comments from the Indiana Fever fan base

00:12:16.120 following the Sun's series-clinching 87-81 victory over the Fever.

00:12:20.400 Reese said this has been a long-standing issue, noting that she's been the subject of racially motivated hate for some time.

00:12:26.180 Reese, however, said her pleas for accountability and action have been repeatedly ignored.

00:12:30.240 Quote,

00:12:30.460 The media has benefited from my pain and me being villainized to create a narrative.

00:12:35.000 She wrote on X.

00:12:35.980 They allowed this.

00:12:36.800 This was beneficial to them.

00:12:38.180 Y'all a little late to the party and could have tried to put out this fire way before it started.

00:12:44.080 Yes, it's a fire.

00:12:45.420 A fire is raging.

00:12:46.740 A fire of hate.

00:12:47.560 You're not going to see any of the fire.

00:12:48.880 You can't see it, but it's there.

00:12:51.260 Trust Angel Reese on this one.

00:12:52.680 This shaming obviously had the desired effect on some of the media, which is what led to this line of questioning.

00:13:00.360 Listen.

00:13:01.680 Melissa, how did you personally deal with the hate, the racism, the attention, scrutiny, and then also just navigate that to go out there and hoop?

00:13:10.800 Um, I feel like I kind of, I'm the type of person where I just be putting like a lot of stuff to the side and try to keep like the main thing, the main thing.

00:13:25.100 So I don't be trying to get too like deep into like the, um, the other side of things.

00:13:30.840 Cause I know at the end of the day, I'm just, you know, I'm here to play basketball and it's also like, you know, there's, there's only so much you could say when you're here.

00:13:40.800 Well said, uh, very eloquent, very eloquent.

00:13:44.660 These are eloquent, uh, really intelligent people, great people, the best of the best.

00:13:51.480 He says, Melissa, uh, is that actually her name?

00:13:55.540 N-A-L-Y-Y-S-A. 1.00

00:13:57.460 Is that how you spell her name?

00:13:59.980 Capital N-A, capital L-Y-Y-S-A.

00:14:03.960 Is that actually how you pronounce it?

00:14:05.380 Is that how you spell it really?

00:14:07.040 Um, I mean, that's not how you spell that name, but maybe that's how she spells it.

00:14:11.280 Anyway, how did you personally deal with the hate, the racism, the attention, the scrutiny is what we just heard is the question there.

00:14:18.440 If you listen to these press conferences, you think that skinheads are like rushing the court and assaulting the players in the middle of the games.

00:14:26.000 At the very least, you'd expect that this player would have been subjected to some kind of horrible racist chant or something from one of the WNBA's racist ghost fans.

00:14:34.540 But here's what actually happened.

00:14:35.640 Uh, Melissa has a girlfriend named, uh, Dijona, D-I-J-O-N-A-I, Dijona Carrington, who also plays in the WNBA.

00:14:47.420 And recently, uh, Carrington nearly took Caitlin Clark's eye out on the court just a few minutes into the game.

00:14:54.820 This is one of the many flagrant fouls against Clark that have occurred since she started in the league.

00:14:59.020 Uh, and, and this one wasn't even called, but here it is.

00:15:02.520 Watch.

00:15:02.720 Clark, harassed by Carrington, finds Boston.

00:15:07.940 Clark gets hit in the face by Carrington and is down.

00:15:11.360 Caitlin Clark is down, no call as Connecticut takes advantage.

00:15:15.540 And Clark is still down after taking a shot following the pass to Boston.

00:15:23.220 Clark in pain after she caught that fingertip in the eye or right around it from Carrington with no whistle.

00:15:32.020 Now, there's nothing Indiana can challenge here because no call on the floor was made.

00:15:49.600 Clearly, not on purpose from Carrington, but also enough contact that it certainly could have been a personal foul.

00:15:57.640 By the way, I looked it up.

00:16:00.420 N-A-L-Y-S-S-A. 1.00

00:16:02.260 That's how she spells her name on the list.

00:16:03.680 So it's not as bad as two Ys, but still, like, that's not how you would spell that name.

00:16:08.400 Um, you don't need the Y.

00:16:09.880 It should be an I. 0.95

00:16:11.100 Don't, don't, don't put Ys in your name for no reason.

00:16:14.640 That's a whole other thing.

00:16:15.560 We could talk about that some other time.

00:16:16.940 Now, after this foul, as you'd expect, there were a lot of angry fans on social media.

00:16:21.260 To a lot of people, it looked intentional.

00:16:22.640 Uh, I don't know if it was intentional or not, but that, that was the conversation.

00:16:26.620 So in response, a USA Today reporter named Christine Brennan did what any reasonable sports journalist would do.

00:16:32.780 She asked Carrington if the hit was intentional because that's what everybody was talking about and wondering about.

00:16:40.140 Uh, watch, let's watch.

00:16:41.520 DeJanae, um, did you, uh, when you went and, uh, kind of swatted at Caitlin, did you intend to hit her in the eye?

00:16:51.820 And, and if so, could you just, or, or if not, either way, could you talk about what happened on that play?

00:16:57.000 I just, I don't even know why I would intend to hit anybody in the eye.

00:17:01.260 That doesn't even make sense to me.

00:17:02.660 But, no, I didn't.

00:17:03.680 I didn't know I hit her, actually.

00:17:05.500 Um, I was trying to make a play on the ball, and I guess I followed through and I hit her.

00:17:10.320 So, obviously, it's never intentional.

00:17:12.180 That's not even, like, the type of player that I am.

00:17:14.920 Um, so, yeah.

00:17:16.380 Did you and Marina kind of laugh about it afterwards?

00:17:18.480 It looked like you, there was, later on in the game, they caught you guys laughing about it?

00:17:22.340 No.

00:17:22.840 I just told you I didn't even know I hit her.

00:17:24.960 So, I can't laugh about something I didn't know happened.

00:17:29.040 So, these are obviously reasonable questions from Christine Brennan, the reporter there.

00:17:32.500 They're not racist.

00:17:34.180 It's not offensive.

00:17:35.880 It's the bare minimum you'd expect under, under the circumstances.

00:17:38.520 It's the kind of questions that reporters ask male athletes all the time.

00:17:43.060 When there's a foul, when there's a scuffle, it's the same kind of questions.

00:17:47.940 But Carrington immediately gets snippy and obnoxious in response.

00:17:50.780 And then, just for asking these questions, Brennan, who incidentally is one of the biggest champions of women's sports in the industry,

00:17:55.880 is now getting dogpiled.

00:17:56.960 In particular, the WNBA Players Association just put out one of the most demented statements imaginable.

00:18:01.740 They wrote, quote,

00:18:03.360 The statement then said Brennan was guilty of abusing her privileges and charged that she does not deserve her credentials.

00:18:29.400 It continues, quote,

00:18:30.500 We call on USA Today Network to review its principles of ethical conduct for newsrooms

00:18:34.140 and address what we believe is a violation of several core principles, including seeking and reporting the truth.

00:18:39.080 USA Today Sports should explain why a reporter with clear bias and ulterior motives was assigned to cover the league.

00:18:44.740 We also urge the league to review its policies and take measures to prevent such issues protecting the integrity of the game and its players.

00:18:50.300 So, we're at the point now that journalists can't even ask black players about fouls they commit against Caitlin Clark without being accused of racism

00:18:59.700 and somehow also homophobia for asking the question.

00:19:04.260 That's how much racism there is in the WNBA. 1.00

00:19:06.360 Even asking questions is now racist, which I guess we already knew.

00:19:11.760 Now, obviously, there's no reason to take any of these people seriously,

00:19:14.060 but just to make sure that I wasn't missing anything,

00:19:16.900 I went looking to see if I could find the most egregious examples of racism in the WNBA. 0.99

00:19:21.280 And I came across this monologue from a sports commentator named Nick Wright.

00:19:26.100 It's from a couple of days ago, and it's about as unhinged as you'd expect.

00:19:29.540 Watch. 0.61

00:19:29.820 And none of that is the story for me right now because this mediocre, unimpressive, grown woman decided 1.00

00:19:40.340 she was going to wear this outfit looking like this to a basketball game. 0.97

00:19:46.820 And if you can't see, it says ban nails, and she has long, fake nails on her fingers mocking D.Janae Carrington. 1.00

00:19:58.040 D.Janae Carrington, who plays for the Connecticut Sun, who was interrogated all week

00:20:04.100 because when she swiped for the ball, she hit Kaitlyn Clark in the eye. 1.00

00:20:09.220 Forget the fact that Kaitlyn knew it was unintentional.

00:20:12.740 Everyone watching seemed to think it was unintentional.

00:20:15.620 The internet decided maybe it was intentional, and it became the story.

00:20:23.060 And if you sense anger in my voice, it's because it's there.

00:20:26.600 Because race in this country is a rubber band, y'all.

00:20:36.280 And when one side stretches, the other side gets a little more tense.

00:20:43.260 And then when one side snaps back, the other side feels the reaction to it.

00:20:50.620 And fortunately, by some miracle, our country's racial rubber band hasn't actually fully snapped in 160 years. 0.62

00:21:02.740 Oh, so profound, Nick. 1.00

00:21:06.620 This is the worst thing about these controversies in sports, is that we have to hear these morons giving their social commentary. 1.00

00:21:13.620 Dear God, shut up. 1.00

00:21:16.160 You talk about people playing a game for a living. 1.00

00:21:18.980 That's what you do.

00:21:19.760 And hey, nothing wrong with that.

00:21:21.600 I watch a lot of sports commentary.

00:21:23.420 Nothing wrong with it.

00:21:24.120 But that's what you do, okay?

00:21:26.920 You don't know.

00:21:27.500 You know about people playing games.

00:21:28.920 You don't know anything.

00:21:29.560 Just stay in your lane, buddy.

00:21:33.080 So his grand example proving that the WNBA is racist is that a woman mocked the player who gave Caitlin Clark a black eye with her nails.

00:21:41.760 Apparently that's racist.

00:21:43.120 It's racist to say we should ban nails means we don't have the long, you know, fake nails while you're playing.

00:21:51.280 And apparently it's racist.

00:21:52.440 It's racist to take that position.

00:21:54.800 That's why this podcast host is invoking the Civil War.

00:21:57.820 Because someone said you shouldn't have long nails when you're playing in basketball.

00:22:02.460 Mockery of WNBA players is a threat to the entire country, apparently. 0.98

00:22:06.240 At least if those WNBA players are black. 1.00

00:22:08.660 If they're white, you can mock them all you want. 1.00

00:22:10.900 You can assault them on the court, in fact. 0.98

00:22:13.120 Which, by the way, which, by the way, of course you should ban long, fake nails in basketball. 1.00

00:22:20.440 I can't believe that hasn't already happened.

00:22:23.680 Why would you be wearing long, fake nails when you're playing basketball?

00:22:27.920 People get poked in the eye all the time.

00:22:29.760 You're going to literally take someone's eye out.

00:22:32.400 That's not just mockery.

00:22:33.580 That's like a really obvious thing.

00:22:36.880 I can't believe that's not already against the world.

00:22:40.040 Of all the safety precautions, you let people walk around with these long blades sticking off of their fingers.

00:22:47.020 It's like you're playing basketball against Wolverine.

00:22:52.320 Anyway, that monologue continues.

00:22:54.340 And he's complaining and complaining.

00:22:55.860 And he tries to give other examples of racism.

00:22:58.360 So what this fake outrage tells you is that racism isn't really what they're upset about.

00:23:04.460 This is just too manufactured and overblown to take seriously.

00:23:08.820 They're reaching to a degree that's comical and delusional at the same time.

00:23:13.540 This scandal has been invented out of whole cloth by WNBA players for one reason and one reason only. 0.95

00:23:18.260 They are wracked with envy and resentment that the most popular player in the league is white.

00:23:25.820 I mean, what they're really claiming is that Caitlin Clark, by bringing a bunch of white fans to the league,

00:23:30.280 has naturally also brought racism.

00:23:33.200 Basically, they're complaining that too many white people are watching women's basketball now.

00:23:39.180 And for her part, Caitlin Clark has basically gone along with this narrative, by the way.

00:23:42.500 She made a statement denouncing all of the made-up racism.

00:23:45.500 You know, predictable.

00:23:47.320 Now, the racial hysteria reminds me of the summer of 2020 just playing out on a much, much, much smaller stage.

00:23:54.520 A white woman playing basketball has become the WNBA's George Floyd moment, basically. 0.99

00:23:59.440 And just like we saw with the George Floyd situation, before long, you know, people start to push back.

00:24:06.180 No normal person wants to pay money to support a team only to be told that they're racist and horrible for doing it.

00:24:12.120 It's a big part of why the DEI grift has begun to collapse.

00:24:15.520 And it's why the WNBA's brief resurgence isn't going to last very long either. 1.00

00:24:20.440 Very soon, the league will be back on the path to irrelevance and bankruptcy.

00:24:24.020 It's clear that, you know, none of these players or executives or sports journalists really want the league to succeed anyway.

00:24:33.960 To borrow an adage from the world of sports commentary, you might even say that the WNBA is like a rubber band.

00:24:39.480 One that's been stretched to the limit by pathological narcissists who only know how to complain and demean their own fans on the basis of their skin color.

00:24:47.280 And one deranged sports podcast and self-pitying press conference at a time, that rubber band is about to break.

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00:26:05.600 Okay, we'll start with this, and I'll have more on this tomorrow, sort of putting my thoughts together to do a longer monologue.

00:26:10.940 But for now, here's the latest from Fox on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene.

00:26:19.860 It says, at least 99 people have died from Hurricane Helene.

00:26:22.860 Fox weather correspondent Robert Ray reports the latest on the devastation.

00:26:25.820 One Asheville, North Carolina resident sounded the alarm as this community battles the devastation left by Hurricane Helene,

00:26:32.200 detailing the apocalyptic weekend as the death toll continues to rise while millions are left without power and water.

00:26:38.900 Officials in Asheville are still trying to rescue residents who have been trapped by the historic flooding over the weekend,

00:26:45.300 just left many without access to power, running water, and cell service.

00:26:49.260 As of Monday morning, the North Carolina National Guard activated more than 500 soldiers and airmen

00:26:53.700 and more than 200 vehicles and aircraft, including emergency aviation assets as well as high-water response vehicles.

00:27:00.820 The NCNG reported that it completed 16 air missions, resulting in the rescue of 119 citizens and 11 pets.

00:27:09.740 So the largest single mission saw the rescue of 41 people, but many are still trapped.

00:27:16.080 And it's, you know, they're saying the death toll officially is at 99, but it's rising by the day.

00:27:23.320 So a total catastrophe. I mean, you've probably seen some of the images on, you know, on social media at least.

00:27:30.940 Western North Carolina in particular has been wiped out.

00:27:35.180 Truly like biblical devastation in a very beautiful part of the country, too.

00:27:39.200 We've been out to Asheville, my wife and I, in our family several times.

00:27:44.700 My wife and I spent our anniversary there a couple of years ago.

00:27:46.860 So we love the area. And to see it washed away by a hurricane is, I mean, it's awful.

00:27:52.940 It's also just, it's bizarre. It's like kind of mind-boggling.

00:27:58.880 Because when you're in the mountains of North Carolina, you're not really worried about hurricanes.

00:28:04.100 I mean, it's not like living on the coast.

00:28:06.460 It's not like you're living, you know, in Tampa or something.

00:28:10.620 Out in southern Appalachia, you just aren't thinking about hurricanes.

00:28:14.320 Which is why, when people say, well, why didn't they evacuate?

00:28:18.640 Well, I think that's a much fairer question for, you know, coastal Florida communities that get hit by hurricanes every year.

00:28:27.000 And, you know, you know how it goes. You've seen it before.

00:28:31.080 And so that question always arises when you've got people in those communities who stay behind and then they get trapped.

00:28:38.460 But out in Asheville, it's just not, it's not on your radar.

00:28:42.360 You're not thinking about hurricanes.

00:28:44.320 So, the most important thing is to get these people the help they need.

00:28:48.300 And if you want to donate, my wife and I will be donating as well.

00:28:51.520 If you want to donate, I posted a link on my Twitter of an article that lists a bunch of organizations that are helping the victims.

00:28:59.400 And I'll put that link in the description on YouTube as well.

00:29:02.620 I'll pin it on Twitter so you can find it.

00:29:03.900 And, of course, before you give money to any organization, you should vet the organization to make sure the money is going, going to go to the people that need it.

00:29:10.340 But this list is a good place to start, I think.

00:29:14.580 Meanwhile, and like I said, I'll have more to say about this tomorrow, but it's very noticeable that this disaster is, I mean, it's a disaster unlike anything we've seen in many years in this country.

00:29:33.320 But it's not getting the kind of media coverage that it should be getting.

00:29:38.580 I mean, yes, the media is covering it.

00:29:40.260 They are covering it.

00:29:41.120 They have to.

00:29:42.020 They can't not cover it at all.

00:29:44.920 But, well, I'll put it this way.

00:29:47.260 It's not getting Hurricane Katrina levels of coverage, you know, even though it is a Hurricane Katrina level disaster.

00:29:58.720 So that's very conspicuous.

00:30:02.420 And what's the reason for that?

00:30:04.640 Well, the reason is obvious that this happened under a Democrat administration during an election.

00:30:10.080 And so there's really nothing in it for the media politically to make too big a deal out of this, which is which is why you'll also notice that all of the people who blamed Bush for Katrina are now insisting that the Biden administration cannot be at all blamed for Pauline.

00:30:33.420 In fact, they're indignant.

00:30:35.000 Indignant, indignant if you even suggest that the response from the federal government has been less than sufficient.

00:30:42.560 If you even try to connect the dots between the president, the administration, Kamala Harris, and this disaster in North Carolina, what you get from the left is they're there.

00:30:56.880 How dare you?

00:30:57.740 How dare you?

00:30:59.000 Politicize, politicize this disaster.

00:31:01.940 And this, again, is coming from all the same people.

00:31:03.840 You just go back.

00:31:04.820 If you're old enough to remember, Hurricane Katrina wasn't all that long ago.

00:31:10.660 The same people who that was weeks and weeks and weeks of doing everything they can to pin it on Bush.

00:31:20.100 And now Obama, of course, is or rather Biden, all the same.

00:31:25.200 Biden is.

00:31:26.600 It's got nothing to do with it.

00:31:27.760 Can't blame him.

00:31:28.780 So these people are just.

00:31:29.660 I mean, obviously, they have no integrity, no shame at all.

00:31:37.380 In fact, some people have pointed out.

00:31:40.580 And there was a tweet, if I can find it.

00:31:42.300 You probably remember the one enduring image from Hurricane Katrina, which isn't actually an image of Hurricane Katrina, but it's the image of Bush flying over the aftermath of the hurricane in Air Force One looking out the window.

00:32:05.280 And this is supposed to be one of the most infamous photographs of all time, because it shows that Bush is detached and he doesn't care.

00:32:17.100 He's up in the airplane looking out.

00:32:19.360 Now, that whole thing, the outrage over that photograph is totally contrived, obviously.

00:32:23.680 Like, he's there surveying the damage.

00:32:29.720 What do you want him to do?

00:32:30.700 You want him to rappel down into the middle of the floodwaters as the president?

00:32:35.340 You want him on a boat, like, actively rescuing people?

00:32:39.880 Of course not.

00:32:41.200 And if he had shown up to do that, that would be a scandal of its own, because now you're taking all these resources, because he's the president.

00:32:47.940 We've got to protect him.

00:32:48.780 And because you're taking these resources for a photo op.

00:32:52.260 So he did the right thing, which was, I want to see what's happening.

00:32:55.760 I want to see with my own eyes, but I don't want to go down there in the middle of that and be a huge distraction.

00:33:01.660 But we know how the media responded.

00:33:03.360 We know how the left responded to that.

00:33:05.660 And now, and this is a Charlie Spearing reporter for the Daily Mail who made this connection.

00:33:11.940 There's a photograph of Kamala Harris that's, it's almost exactly the same thing.

00:33:22.100 It is her on her plane.

00:33:24.740 The window's closed, though, so she's not looking out the window.

00:33:28.180 On her plane, looking at pieces of paper that, by the way, appear to be blank.

00:33:35.680 Looking at blank pieces of paper, and then there's a caption about how she's doing everything she can for the victims of Hurricane Helene.

00:33:42.680 Same thing.

00:33:45.280 It's also, that was, that picture from George Bush, three days after Hurricane Katrina, that picture, big scandal.

00:33:51.460 Three days after Hurricane Helene, Kamala Harris, also in her plane, flying, and, but this time she's looking at a piece of paper.

00:33:58.640 So she didn't even go, like, she's not even flying overhead.

00:34:00.800 She's off wherever else.

00:34:01.940 So this should be the same scandal, should be the same level of mockery and everything else, and outrage because of this picture.

00:34:11.740 But, of course, there won't be because these people, again, have no integrity and no moral standards whatsoever, and no shame.

00:34:20.440 All right.

00:34:21.880 Postmillennial has this report.

00:34:23.460 The youngest voting age group between the ages of 18 and 24, including those who will be getting the opportunity to vote for the first time, are identifying as more conservative than liberal, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll.

00:34:33.680 This is a shift from the slightly older group of voters between 25 and 29.

00:34:37.520 The poll found that among American men between the ages of 18 to 24, 26% identify themselves as conservative, while only 22% identify as liberal.

00:34:45.320 This number is 5% higher than men between the ages of 25 to 29, where only 21% identify as conservative.

00:34:52.100 This conservative shift is also seen among women, with those aged 18 to 24 being 3% more conservative than women aged 25 to 29.

00:35:04.620 So these are mostly encouraging results, but it's probably oversimplifying to say that they are just encouraging, because I think that when you look at the trends in the younger generations, trending more conservative, as it says, than most people expect.

00:35:19.740 I think there are a few different things going on here to produce these results, and together, all of the contributing factors are creating a situation that's probably unique in American history and world history.

00:35:34.340 Because on the one hand, the traditional religious faith is trending downward, like hard.

00:35:45.100 It's a hard, severe downward trend.

00:35:47.380 Church attendance is falling off a cliff.

00:35:49.740 And that's why you see, and it says this in the same poll, that although they're trending more conservative politically, they still, you know, Kamala Harris still wins the younger generations on issues like abortion.

00:36:02.260 So that's the dynamic.

00:36:04.820 And I think this kind of explains it.

00:36:06.900 Kamala wins on that issue.

00:36:08.040 She wins because as people lose faith, as they lose their religious grounding, they begin to see human life as more and more meaningless.

00:36:15.460 They view life in an increasingly materialistic, utilitarian way, which helps the Democrats.

00:36:21.580 It helps the left.

00:36:22.300 It helps them win on issues like abortion.

00:36:25.040 Because when it comes down to it, the pro-life message will not resonate with you if you don't see life as sacred.

00:36:31.600 If life itself has no meaning, then to be pro-life has no meaning.

00:36:37.040 So this is the very deep, very profound philosophical challenge that the pro-life movement is grappling with, or maybe failing to grapple with, perhaps.

00:36:46.960 On the other hand, the younger generation is growing up in a country largely shaped by left-wing ideas and policies.

00:36:54.200 So young people are seeing the results of those policies.

00:36:57.420 They can see that the results are abysmal.

00:36:59.540 They're experiencing that.

00:37:00.620 They see that it isn't making their lives any better.

00:37:04.120 On top of that, all of the authority figures in their lives are liberals.

00:37:10.800 Most of them anyway.

00:37:11.920 Teachers, administrators, when they get out into the working world, management, HR departments, all of that is liberal.

00:37:18.420 The man is liberal.

00:37:19.760 And so the youthful instinct to rebel, the youthful male instinct especially, drives them away from liberalism.

00:37:30.380 Liberalism isn't cool.

00:37:31.840 It's not rebellious.

00:37:32.700 How could it be?

00:37:33.380 It's not cool or rebellious to say the same stuff that your guidance counselor or your HR manager says.

00:37:40.500 Because liberalism is the establishment.

00:37:43.440 So I think this is the tension.

00:37:45.020 What happens when you have a basically godless generation, not raised with any kind of faith, that nonetheless sees the results of liberalism and wants to rebel against it?

00:38:02.180 Well, you end up with something like we have now.

00:38:05.580 Where with the younger generations, the left is winning on something like abortion pretty handily.

00:38:11.640 But then on the other hand, politically, the trends are going the opposite direction.

00:38:17.520 And so it's all kind of confused.

00:38:20.520 I also wanted to talk about this briefly.

00:38:24.180 This is from the interview that Kamala did with MSNBC last week.

00:38:28.440 And we talked about the interview.

00:38:29.600 It wasn't really an interview at all.

00:38:30.840 MSNBC is not interested in interviewing Kamala.

00:38:34.660 We know that.

00:38:35.960 Not asking real questions.

00:38:37.500 So there's not a lot to say about it.

00:38:39.020 But I did want to make a point about something that we didn't touch on last week that she said when she was asked about her economic plan, which is basically non-existent.

00:38:51.820 And because it's non-existent, she gave her standard stump speech with the familiar talking points about paying your fair share, she says.

00:38:58.980 And we've heard this from her a million times.

00:39:00.960 But this is just the latest.

00:39:03.640 Let's watch that.

00:39:04.340 Expanding that child tax credit, or you mentioned housing before, giving that extra money for a first home, if you can't raise corporate taxes or if GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get the money to do that?

00:39:17.940 Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?

00:39:19.860 Well, but we're going to have to raise corporate taxes, and we're going to have to raise – we're going to have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share.

00:39:33.980 That's just it.

00:39:35.060 It's about paying their fair share.

00:39:36.840 I am not mad at anyone for achieving success, but everyone should pay their fair share.

00:39:43.080 And it is not right that the teachers and the firefighters that I meet every day across our country are paying a higher tax than the richest people in our country.

00:39:53.320 Bill Gates just said it this week.

00:39:54.660 If he was in charge of taxes, he would have paid more.

00:39:57.060 But how do you find that line to make sure corporations are paying their fair share, but they're not leaving our country?

00:40:03.760 Well, listen, I work with a lot of CEOs.

00:40:06.020 I have spent a lot of time with CEOs, and I'm going to tell you that the business leaders who are actually part of the engine of America's economy agree that people should pay their fair share.

00:40:17.840 They also agree that when we look at a plan such as mine that is about investing in the middle class, investing in new industries, investing in bringing down costs, invest in entrepreneurs like small businesses, that the overall economy is stronger and everyone benefits.

00:40:36.020 So, pay your fair share.

00:40:40.380 Like I said, we've heard this a million times.

00:40:42.800 And it's always very – I get annoyed when I hear the pay your fair share stuff.

00:40:53.740 And this is – and this is – Democrat politicians, of course, they're always saying this.

00:40:58.680 And you can't help but get annoyed by it if you have, like I have, you know, if you've experienced kind of the spectrum of income levels.

00:41:09.800 If you've gone from nearly poverty level wages to being in, you know, a high tax bracket and you've had stops all along the way.

00:41:20.660 When you have that experience, you start to get an idea of what fairness looks like, you know, fairness.

00:41:30.560 And it is – it doesn't seem very fair.

00:41:33.160 Because fairness, when you hear from Kamala Harris, the kind of fairness that is baked into the system right now and that she wants to, you know, create more of, it means that you're punished for climbing your way to the top.

00:41:52.420 Now, it's a punitive, like you're actively – the more, you know, you start at the bottom, and this is supposed to be like this American dream, right?

00:42:01.960 You're supposed to climb the ladder.

00:42:03.540 And if you do that, you start to see that, like, for every rung you manage to scratch and claw your way up to, you're punished for it.

00:42:12.140 It's like a punitive thing.

00:42:14.500 It's the system basically saying, like, no, you're not supposed to do this.

00:42:18.340 This is – oh, oh, you think – oh, you want to go from there to there?

00:42:21.080 Well, here you go. 1.00

00:42:22.880 Here's what you get for that, you jerk. 0.99

00:42:25.480 And then when you get to the – close to the top, you're looking at a situation where the federal government takes 40% of your income. 1.00

00:42:33.460 40 damned percent. 0.97

00:42:35.180 And that's just the start. 0.98

00:42:36.120 I mean, that's not even getting into property taxes and state income taxes and so on.

00:42:40.180 So there are some people in some parts of the country that are paying, like, 60%.

00:42:45.240 And it's crazy.

00:42:48.880 It's just insane.

00:42:51.060 So here's how it works.

00:42:52.420 This is fairness, we're told.

00:42:56.180 The top 1% of income earners pay almost 50% of all of the federal income taxes.

00:43:04.520 1% pays 50%.

00:43:06.640 The top 10% pays 75%.

00:43:10.700 The bottom 50% pays 2%. 0.59

00:43:14.320 And the bottom 40% pays zero.

00:43:17.500 Pays nothing.

00:43:18.660 So, in – fair?

00:43:24.020 This is how we achieve fairness?

00:43:25.460 And how in God's name do you make it more fair by making the people who already pay for almost everything pay for more?

00:43:35.460 Like, what definition of fairness are we using here?

00:43:39.380 And again, I say this as someone who, for a long time, was in the paying zero group.

00:43:44.760 Now I'm in the group that pays 50%, and I don't – I've never experienced fairness the whole way, the whole time.

00:43:55.320 I don't – I don't – you know, I didn't see what's – where's the fairness?

00:43:58.960 I don't know, what are you talking about?

00:44:02.960 Especially because when I was paying no income tax, I had no kids.

00:44:07.820 I was a single man.

00:44:08.820 I had no dependents, no kids.

00:44:10.520 I had very little skin in the game.

00:44:12.660 Just kind of living on my own.

00:44:13.840 And now I have six, and the government comes in and takes 40%.

00:44:19.640 Six kids, that is.

00:44:23.420 Fair?

00:44:25.860 But Kamala says that we make it more fair by, again, forcing the people who already pay basically everything to pay even more.

00:44:36.580 You make it more fair by penalizing success even more than we already do. 0.97

00:44:41.420 And meanwhile, you've got these, like, brain-dead liberals running around.

00:44:48.100 I'm talking about the ones who, you know, not the ones in charge, but the one – the people, the supporters, the Kamala Harris supporter types, 0.88

00:44:57.280 who they'll look you in the eye with a straight face, and they'll tell you that, like, rich people don't pay anything.

00:45:01.480 They don't pay any taxes.

00:45:03.000 They don't pay – they get away, they don't pay any taxes.

00:45:05.320 Like, what are you talking about?

00:45:07.000 They pay almost everything.

00:45:08.800 Not only do they pay something, but, like, everything almost.

00:45:13.400 What in the world are you babbling about?

00:45:17.440 They're – this is how – this is what Kamala Harris is able to take advantage of, 1.00

00:45:23.560 is you've got people who have no clue how our tax system actually works.

00:45:28.220 Totally oblivious.

00:45:29.320 And they will look you in the eye, and they will tell you that the top 1%, they don't pay anything.

00:45:37.960 They need to start paying more.

00:45:41.120 What do you mean they don't pay anything?

00:45:43.480 They – again, they – how much more money do you really think the federal government should start taking?

00:45:51.440 Like, 40%?

00:45:52.240 That's a lot.

00:45:54.900 That is a lot of someone's income to just come and take.

00:45:59.780 What do you want them to take?

00:46:01.720 What, 70%, 80%?

00:46:04.720 And, of course, Kamala Harris supporters will probably say, yeah, it should be that.

00:46:07.440 You can afford it.

00:46:08.160 Okay, so let's just go in and take the most successful people and just bankrupt them.

00:46:15.020 It's just completely bankrupt them.

00:46:17.480 Give people zero incentive for trying to succeed or climbing the ladder.

00:46:22.620 Take away all the incentives.

00:46:24.440 That's a great way to prosperity, isn't it?

00:46:26.740 That's how you make your country prosperous.

00:46:29.020 That's how you make it flourish.

00:46:32.040 These people are just – they are just clueless.

00:46:35.000 They don't know how the world works.

00:46:36.560 They don't know how the country works.

00:46:37.740 They don't know how the tax system works. 0.90

00:46:39.380 They don't know.

00:46:41.380 And that's how Kamala Harris – that's how – that's Kamala Harris' bread and butter, are those kinds of people who are utterly, totally clueless.

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00:48:03.400 The 2024 vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walls is coming to Daily Wire Plus tomorrow night.

00:48:08.080 But let's face it, these debates are better with friends, especially friends who can spot every lie and false promise.

00:48:13.140 That's why we're doing a special backstage with pre-show analysis from Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy Boring, and they're forcing—I mean, I'm also allowed to be there as well.

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00:48:39.560 Can't wait to see you there.

00:48:41.020 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:43.140 As the left becomes progressively more bizarre and detached from reality and common sense, it tends to look with increasing alarm and suspicion at things that are normal.

00:48:58.660 It scratches its head in confusion trying to understand why normal people do normal things.

00:49:03.480 It becomes like some sort of alien species studying humanity from afar, struggling and failing to comprehend.

00:49:09.640 This explains a recent article in Newsweek written by a reporter named Marnie Rose McFaul.

00:49:15.340 Her bio says she's based in London, but her reporting style suggests that she's based on Jupiter or something.

00:49:20.620 Here's the headline.

00:49:21.220 Quote, how hot girls became the right's new obsession. 1.00

00:49:27.460 Yes, Miss McFaul has used her powers of perception to notice this new and curious trend where men are attracted to beautiful women. 1.00

00:49:35.960 Now she's writing a lengthy analysis about it and consulting experts to better understand this weird, bizarre thing that's happening.

00:49:45.580 Let's read on.

00:49:48.420 It all began with Sydney Sweeney's cleavage. 1.00

00:49:51.980 In March, the 27-year-old actress hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time wearing low-cut outfits during the start and close of the show,

00:49:58.260 which featured a number of jokes about her physical appearance, including a sketch where she played a Hooters waitress. 0.79

00:50:03.040 SNL cast member Bowen Yang revealed in a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast that the Euphoria star was practically begging everybody to make body-related jokes.

00:50:11.660 She came in and was like, please, everyone, make jokes about my booze, he said.

00:50:16.140 At the time, Sweeney's appearance sparked much discourse and was lauded by a number of right-wing commentators as the death of woke.

00:50:22.260 More on that later.

00:50:23.360 The actress has become a so-called conservative hot girl, a so-called conservative hot girl, a pin-up for the modern-day right-wing movement,

00:50:30.880 as attempts to expand the appeal of conservatism beyond the confines of its largely older white male base.

00:50:35.420 Sweeney and other conservative hot girls don't necessarily have any tangible involvement with politics, 1.00

00:50:40.320 though some have strong political affiliations, but they've been claimed by right-wing public figures as their own, whether they appear to like it or not.

00:50:50.720 Now, you know, when you think about the great opening sentences in the history of literature,

00:50:57.160 you may recall iconic lines like, call me Ishmael, or it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

00:51:03.000 One of my favorites from Notes from the Underground, I am a sick man, I am a spiteful man.

00:51:09.240 Those are all powerful ways to begin a story, but none of them come close to the literary brilliance of the first line of this Newsweek article,

00:51:17.300 which again says, it all began with Sidney Sweeney's cleavage. 0.63

00:51:22.180 Now, there's a hook that keeps the reader reading, so let's continue.

00:51:26.900 The conservative hot girl isn't a particularly new phenomenon.

00:51:29.740 Victoria Kan, an associate professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK, told Newsweek,

00:51:35.160 women have been positioned through the lens of the masculinist imagery in conservative populist politics for a very long time. 1.00

00:51:41.540 Sweeney appears to have kicked off the latest wave of conservative hot girls at a time when conventional beauty standards have been adopted as a purported antidote to wokeness. 0.99

00:51:49.060 That word was initially associated with progressive movements, but has since been co-opted by conservative critics to mock what they perceive as excessive political correctness,

00:51:56.760 virtue signaling, or a tendency to overemphasize identity politics.

00:52:00.760 Amy Tatum of Burnmouth University told Newsweek that this focus on hot girls is a way for the right in the U.S. 1.00

00:52:09.220 to fight back against perceptions of wokeness.

00:52:11.680 Holding up women in a sexualized fashion could be a tactic to reinforce gender stereotypes around women's appearance. 0.99

00:52:18.640 Does the conservative hot girls' rise symbolize a more liberal thinking about sexuality,

00:52:22.940 or is it the installation of women as objects for political gain? 1.00

00:52:27.380 Definitely the latter.

00:52:29.760 Catherine Rottenberg of Goldsmiths University of London said,

00:52:33.180 there is no liberal thinking about sexuality here.

00:52:35.740 Patriarchy and populism go hand in hand.

00:52:38.140 Hannah Yellen of Oxford Brookes University in England told Newsweek,

00:52:41.520 policing women, their appearance, and their bodies is an integral mechanism of the American right. 1.00

00:52:47.480 Well, that was predictable.

00:52:49.700 The feminist journalist is initially mystified about this cutting-edge new trend of men liking attractive women, 0.56

00:52:56.340 but she quickly determines that the whole thing must be a patriarchal conspiracy.

00:53:02.600 Because men don't actually like attractive women.

00:53:05.240 This cannot be a natural predilection.

00:53:07.960 It must be rather a nefarious mechanism that men use to control and, 0.60

00:53:12.260 as the Oxford Brookes University professor says, police women. 1.00

00:53:16.580 How are they policing women?

00:53:19.780 In what way exactly does a man control or police women just by noticing that Sidney Sweeney is attractive?

00:53:26.340 Well, that's never really explained.

00:53:28.660 Because it is, of course.

00:53:30.640 And it's especially when you consider that men actually have very relaxed beauty standards,

00:53:38.300 quote-unquote, for women.

00:53:39.500 So if women feel pressured to dress a certain way or partake in any particular fashion trend or, you know,

00:53:48.420 wear a lot of makeup or get plastic surgery or do anything elaborate or expensive to enhance their appearance,

00:53:55.460 that pressure, if it exists at all, is coming from other women. 1.00

00:54:01.500 Like, 100% of the time, okay?

00:54:05.120 So, for example, just one minor personal example.

00:54:09.120 A few weeks ago, we had the red carpet premiere for my new film, Am I Racist, which is in theaters now.

00:54:13.280 Get your tickets at miracist.com.

00:54:15.400 And my wife, as you might expect, was slightly stressed out about finding the perfect dress to wear for the occasion.

00:54:21.840 Perfectly natural.

00:54:22.620 Any wife would feel the same about attending a function like that. 1.00

00:54:25.120 And as men, we tend to look with a certain kind of bemusement as our wives search frantically for the right outfit for the occasion.

00:54:33.680 That's because, you know, to me as the husband, I think my wife looks beautiful in anything she wears.

00:54:38.240 If I was the one setting the beauty standard, there'd be nothing to stress over.

00:54:43.280 All she has to do is look like herself, and I'll be impressed.

00:54:46.400 She could grab a $30 dress off the rack at Walmart, and I would rate it a 10 out of 10 if she was wearing it. 0.99

00:54:51.880 And I'd be totally sincere in doing that.

00:54:53.760 But I'm not the one whose judgmental gaze, you know, she has to worry about.

00:54:59.680 It's other women. 1.00

00:55:01.480 So the worst kept secret in the beauty standards discussion is that women are the ones who set unreasonable and sometimes unhealthy beauty standards for other women. 0.67

00:55:10.540 It's not men doing that.

00:55:12.240 Now, that's not to say that men find every woman beautiful, okay?

00:55:18.120 That's not to say we don't have any standards.

00:55:19.680 We find beautiful women beautiful. 1.00

00:55:22.800 Some women have more average looks. 1.00

00:55:24.360 Some women are, unfortunately, ugly. 1.00

00:55:26.720 There's not much a nice dress or makeup or even plastic surgery can do to change any of that, really. 0.97

00:55:32.520 A beautiful woman is beautiful in a cheap dress and little or no makeup. 1.00

00:55:36.500 An ugly woman is probably still ugly in a nice expensive dress and 40 pounds of makeup. 1.00

00:55:40.580 In fact, she may even look worse. 0.98

00:55:41.540 The only thing that a beautiful woman can do to look ugly in our eyes as men is overeat and become obese. 1.00

00:55:47.860 And on the other end, an ugly woman might become beautiful by eating healthy and losing weight. 1.00

00:55:54.180 And this is how beauty standards work for men.

00:55:57.380 It's like they're pretty reasonable and certainly uncomplicated.

00:56:01.980 Men are attracted to attractive women.

00:56:04.240 There's nothing political about it.

00:56:05.900 There's nothing manipulative about it.

00:56:07.560 But it is women, feminists specifically, who have not only created unreasonable beauty standards but have politicized beauty standards. 1.00

00:56:16.680 So the real problem for feminists like Marnie Rose McFaul or the experts that she interviewed for her article, which, by the way, from what I could tell in that article, they're consulting the experts to find out why men are attracted to beautiful women. 1.00

00:56:32.820 Not one man was consulted in that article.

00:56:35.360 I mean, am I wrong?

00:56:36.060 Every person that she talked to was a woman. 1.00

00:56:38.800 She's trying to find out why men are doing a certain thing or why they're attracted. 0.66

00:56:42.700 Didn't talk to a single man.

00:56:43.940 Like, what does that tell you?

00:56:44.940 Like, that's just, that's feminism exemplified right there. 1.00

00:56:49.140 It's everything you need to know about feminism is in that article. 1.00

00:56:52.520 Not only that the article exists and that they are mystified by the fact that men are attracted to women, but that they, she never even asked a man about it.

00:57:01.880 So their real problem is not that men have beauty standards, but rather that we recognize beauty at all.

00:57:10.440 And as we've covered many times on this show, the left hates beauty.

00:57:14.860 It produces only ugliness, ugly art, ugly buildings, ugly people.

00:57:20.700 There is a war on beauty in our culture, just as there is a war on truth and a war on goodness.

00:57:26.480 Beauty is good and true, which is why it too must be abolished.

00:57:30.860 And that is why they feign incredulity at men who appreciate beauty.

00:57:37.600 And that is also why Newsweek and its anti-beauty writer and all the experts that she talked to are all today canceled.

00:57:47.940 That'll do it for the show today.

00:57:48.720 Thanks for watching.

00:57:49.280 Thanks for listening.

00:57:50.200 Talk to you tomorrow.

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