The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1456 - Why Debate “Moderators” Prove That The Media Is The True Enemy Of The American People

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media has done a lot of fact-checking during this election,

00:00:03.700 and especially during the debates. Unfortunately, every single fact-check has been wrong. We'll go

00:00:07.700 through the list today. Also, Kamala Harris takes the side of the dock worker union that's 1.00

00:00:11.980 threatening to cripple the economy. A lib journalist gets horribly offended when a

00:00:15.700 flight attendant tells her to have a blessed day. And Jussie Smollett emerges from hiding

00:00:19.820 to explain to the world why he's still a victim. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:27.440 between the presidential and vice presidential debates, there was one glaring similarity. The

00:02:32.260 moderators weren't able to keep their mouths shut. In the first debate, the rules allowed the 0.93

00:02:37.520 moderators to fact check, whatever that means exactly. In the second debate, the rules didn't allow 0.79

00:02:41.980 fact checking. But in both cases, the moderators couldn't help themselves anyway. They weighed in

00:02:46.220 over and over again. And every single time, they interjected to help whatever Democrat was standing

00:02:51.240 at the podium, of course. And the format of these fact checks was always the same, too. The moderators

00:02:55.780 would wait for Donald Trump or J.D. Vance to stop speaking. And then they'd hastily recite a rehearsed

00:03:01.860 one-line correction. And then they'd immediately try to change the subject so that Trump or Vance

00:03:05.920 couldn't respond. And this would be disgraceful, even if these moderators were telling the truth.

00:03:11.220 The whole point of a debate is to hear from the candidates, not the moderators. But

00:03:15.460 even if you disagree on that point, I mean, even if you think that it's good for the moderators to

00:03:20.700 intervene when they think a candidate is lying, it's still not clear why they would refuse to let

00:03:26.380 the candidates respond to their fact checks. This wasn't an accident. It was how they approached

00:03:32.080 every single one of these fact checks across two debates and two sets of moderators. And it's worth

00:03:37.100 figuring out why that is. Now, it could be that many on the left don't engage in any kind of critical

00:03:42.560 thought anymore. They just look at the consensus view as reflected by the fact check. And they

00:03:48.540 declare that no further questioning is allowed. They genuinely can't conceive of a situation in which

00:03:54.580 there might be a consensus, but the consensus might be mistaken. On the other hand, it could also be that

00:04:00.640 in this context, the moderators realized that their fact checks would fall apart under any form of

00:04:06.340 scrutiny. And indeed, with every day that passes, that's exactly what's happening. One by one, every

00:04:11.580 single one of these fact checks from these two debates is collapsing. And these are not small errors

00:04:16.880 that we're talking about here. Take, for example, this moment from the debate between Donald Trump and

00:04:21.300 Kamala Harris. Trump was asked about his position on abortion and he gave a long answer. And then

00:04:27.600 the moderator, Lindsay Davis, fired off a one line fact check before pivoting immediately to Kamala

00:04:34.440 Harris. Watch. They have abortion in the ninth month. They even have, and you can look at the 0.68

00:04:41.260 governor of West Virginia, the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor is doing an

00:04:45.920 excellent job. But the governor before, he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do

00:04:52.500 with the baby. In other words, we'll execute the baby. And that's why I did that, because that 0.95

00:04:56.980 predominates, because they're radical. The Democrats are radical in that. And her vice presidential pick,

00:05:03.500 which I think is a horrible pick, by the way, for our country, because he is really out of it.

00:05:07.940 But her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says

00:05:14.920 execution after birth. It's execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born,

00:05:20.500 is okay. And that's not okay with me. Each individual state is voting. It's the vote of

00:05:26.820 the people now. It's not tied up in the federal government. I did a great service in doing it.

00:05:31.120 It took courage to do it. And the Supreme Court had great courage in doing it. And I give tremendous

00:05:36.280 credit to those six justices. There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby

00:05:41.540 after it's born. Madam Vice President, want to get your response to President Trump?

00:05:45.700 Well, as I said, you're going to hear a bunch of lies. And that's not actually a surprising fact.

00:05:51.040 Now, at the time, a lot of people pointed out the obvious problem with this fact check. Donald Trump

00:05:54.880 never actually said that it was legal to kill babies after they were born. But he did say that

00:06:00.540 it was happening. And he cited a very specific and well-known piece of evidence. The former governor of

00:06:05.640 Virginia, Ralph Northam, strongly suggested to a radio show in 2019 that in certain cases,

00:06:11.700 such as fetal abnormalities, his bill would allow doctors to kill children after they're born.

00:06:16.360 Actually, he didn't really even suggest it. He flat out said it. Quote, if a mother is in labor,

00:06:22.020 I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant will be delivered. The infant will be kept

00:06:25.360 comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.

00:06:30.020 And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. 0.73

00:06:33.260 Now, defenders of Ralph Northam recognized how twisted and demonic that quote is. So for the

00:06:38.780 past several years, they've insisted that he wasn't talking about euthanizing children who

00:06:42.980 survived failed abortions. And they claim the governor wasn't actually talking about allowing

00:06:47.980 newborn infants to die either. Presumably, that's the spin that Lindsay Davis had in mind when she 0.96

00:06:54.560 corrected Donald Trump during this debate. She declared with authority that there's no state in

00:07:00.240 the entire country where it's legal to kill children after they're born. What was missing

00:07:04.500 from her fact check is what John Solomon at Just the News has now proven, which is that

00:07:09.240 children are being born alive in this country, and then doctors are allowing them to die without even

00:07:15.640 attempting any life-saving intervention. It turns out that until 2023, the state of Minnesota kept

00:07:21.620 records on how many infants were born alive during failed abortions. And those records show that from

00:07:27.220 2019 to 2021, during Tim Walz's tenure as governor, at least eight infants were born alive following a

00:07:34.060 botched abortion. Not a single one of those infants received life-saving care. The two infants in 2021

00:07:42.540 received comfort care. All eight of the children died. So all of them were left to die, were allowed to

00:07:51.700 die, which is morally indistinguishable from directly killing them. It's the same thing. 0.82

00:07:59.920 And none of the doctors involved were ever investigated or charged for any of this, even though at the time,

00:08:05.040 Minnesota law required, quote, responsible medical personnel to use, quote, all reasonable measures

00:08:09.940 consistent with good medical practice to preserve the life and health of the born-alive infant.

00:08:15.320 Well, they didn't, and they weren't charged with anything. But just to cover his basis, Tim Walz changed the law

00:08:20.200 in 2023. And now the law does not require life-saving measures at all for infants who

00:08:26.220 survive abortions. Instead, it requires that doctors care for the infant who was born alive

00:08:30.980 without specifying exactly what that care entails. So they changed the law so that it no longer specifies

00:08:38.100 that you actually have to, you know, give life-saving care to the infant. The law also gets rid of the

00:08:45.200 reporting requirement for the state health agency. So nobody can learn how many children are being

00:08:50.800 killed or allowed to die. Again, the same thing after they're born. Now, if you look at the records

00:08:57.720 that Solomon found, you can see why Democrats might want to cover them up. They're as ghoulish as you can

00:09:03.140 imagine. Here's the July 2020 report for Minnesota, for example. Quote,

00:09:08.080 In one instance, fetal anomalies were reported, but residual cardiac activity was present at two

00:09:15.260 minutes. Care of fetus was transferred to the second medical doctor. No measures taken to preserve

00:09:21.740 life were reported, and the infant did not survive. In one instance, comfort care measures were provided

00:09:27.180 as planned, and the infant did not survive. In one instance, the infant was pre-viable. No measures

00:09:33.620 taken to preserve life were reported, and the infant did not survive. Now, notice that the

00:09:39.900 report doesn't even bother to clarify whether life-saving measures could have saved some of

00:09:44.440 these infants. That's not a piece of information that the health department decided to track for

00:09:49.140 some reason, because it's irrelevant to them. They don't recognize that the infant has any right

00:09:55.260 to be alive in the first place. But the report is very clear on the fact that children who survived

00:10:01.140 abortions were consistently allowed to die in the state of Minnesota without any attempt by a doctor

00:10:05.840 to save them. No measures taken to preserve life is a consistent theme here. You don't get any more

00:10:12.540 information than that. And rather than provide any more transparency on this point, the state under Tim

00:10:18.000 Walls has gone ahead and shut down record-keeping entirely. They want us to know less about how these

00:10:25.300 infants are being treated, and how many infants are being allowed to die. The dispatch looked into this

00:10:31.880 reporting, and they confirmed that it's all accurate. Quote, Charlie Kirk and Solomon's claims are correct.

00:10:37.460 Minnesota Department of Health documents show that eight infants were born alive during abortion procedures

00:10:41.620 between 2019 and 2022, and in 2023, Walls signed legislation that repealed most of a statute designed to

00:10:47.800 protect infants born alive after an abortion attempt. So the truth is that Lindsay Davis either has no idea what

00:10:54.120 she was talking about, or she was deliberately lying, probably the latter. Either way, it's beyond

00:10:59.680 reprehensible that no mainstream media organization in this country has bothered to do any investigative

00:11:03.860 reporting on this topic. Apparently, only John Solomon is interested in the question of whether or not

00:11:08.700 children are being systematically killed or allowed to die after they're born. The most we can expect from ABC

00:11:16.820 is a drive-by fact check during a presidential debate with a lot of snark and no substance whatsoever. And also, by the

00:11:25.740 way, just so you understand, allowing infants to die after they're born is the mainstream view of the Democratic Party.

00:11:34.380 This is what nearly every mainstream Democrat believes in this. Because politically and ideologically, they

00:11:42.480 have to, or they believe they have to. Because if a baby survives abortion and you provide medical care to

00:11:50.480 the child at that point, then you are acknowledging two things. One, you're acknowledging that the baby is a

00:11:57.260 human being. Two, you're acknowledging that abortion is an act of violence that has been committed against this

00:12:06.060 human. I mean, you're providing medical care to try to reverse what you were just doing to the baby. I mean,

00:12:16.780 that's, think about it. The doctor is trying to kill the baby. The baby survives. And now, if he's providing 0.98

00:12:24.800 medical care, now he's trying to reverse the thing that he was just doing to the baby 10 seconds ago.

00:12:31.260 So, that's why every Democrat, now they're not going to talk about it. They don't want, they obviously

00:12:35.540 don't want to talk about it. And they'll flat out deny it because they're a bunch of lying scumbags. 1.00

00:12:40.840 But no, you're not going to find any mainstream Democrat who actually comes out and says, yeah, 0.99

00:12:44.240 yeah, you got to provide medical care for the reasons I just gave. They cannot acknowledge

00:12:47.880 the violence of abortion or the personhood and humanity of the child. And this alone should be,

00:12:58.300 I mean, the fact, even if it was, even if it was just eight, just eight infants in one state over

00:13:04.700 the course of three or four years who were just left in the corner of Rome and allowed to die,

00:13:09.620 even if that was all, it should be a major national scandal. It should be one of the biggest scandals in

00:13:17.400 the country right now that everybody cares about, everybody's talking about. And it's not just

00:13:22.320 those, those eight, because this is happening all across the country. Um, and yet we just gloss over

00:13:31.260 it. So to get a sense of how big, uh, even aside from beyond this, this one incredibly important

00:13:40.980 issue to get a sense of how these fact check work, fact checks work, uh, in general, um, I went back

00:13:49.720 and looked at every single fact check from these two debates and every single one of them was either

00:13:54.200 obviously false or extremely misleading. Now I already covered the FBI's crime numbers,

00:13:59.640 which supposedly show that, uh, violent crime is down. The moderator, David Muir cited those statistics

00:14:05.540 in his fact check, uh, during the Kamala Trump debate without providing any context, including

00:14:10.920 the missing law enforcement agencies who didn't report data or the DOJ's report showing that crime

00:14:15.640 has actually surged under the Biden Harris administration. Then there was his claim that

00:14:20.100 no credible reports indicated that animals were being eaten in Springfield. Watch.

00:14:25.900 I just want to clarify here, you rigged up Springfield, Ohio, and ABC news did reach out to

00:14:30.920 the city manager there. Uh, he told us there had been no credible reports of specific claims of

00:14:35.500 pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community. 1.00

00:14:39.900 Well, I've seen people on television. Let me just say here, this is the people on television say my

00:14:43.620 dog was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that, and maybe that's a good thing to say for a 0.61

00:14:49.520 city manager. I'm not taking this from television. But the people are on television saying their dog was

00:14:53.500 eaten. So the city manager says it's not credible to suggest that domesticated animals are being killed in

00:14:58.600 the migrant community. And the moderator and Kamala Harris mocked Trump for saying that he saw those

00:15:03.580 reports on television. Then it turns out that back in March, the Springfield city manager himself

00:15:07.680 did say that there were quite a few credible reports of horrid things happening to domestic

00:15:12.880 animals in Haitian communities in the town. Watch. 0.99

00:15:17.440 One of the things that hurt that I heard that bothered me very much, I've actually had quite a few

00:15:20.900 people contact me here lately, um, is some pretty horrid things occurring to domesticated animals

00:15:26.780 in the neighborhood. Um, we've had some stuff in the park, um, that, um, again, they, they're being

00:15:36.320 taken advantage of for reasons other than, and if you shake your head, Brian, no, no, I asked,

00:15:42.680 I asked me if there was proof. People that have confided in me have asked me for anonymity. I'm not,

00:15:49.680 I can't give their names up. I mean, we haven't seen the proof that you're, and I've heard,

00:15:54.100 I've heard about it. Yeah. So that's another fact check. That was just a complete lie. And

00:15:59.020 actually Trump called it out in real time. He said the city manager was probably just trying

00:16:02.680 to give a political answer when ABC news called. And, uh, and that's exactly what was happening.

00:16:09.040 So let's go down the list. There was also this fact check from the debate, uh, two days ago. Watch

00:16:14.200 scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger, and more deadly because of the

00:16:22.120 historic rainfall. Another drive by fact check that, uh, the candidates were not allowed to

00:16:27.040 respond to. And it's also completely false as I've outlined many times before. Here's how Chris

00:16:31.080 Martz, the same meteorology student that I mentioned the other day on the show responded to this

00:16:35.380 particular fact check quote, there's absolutely zero evidence that climate change makes hurricanes

00:16:39.380 larger in size, i.e. diameter. There's little evidence that hurricanes are becoming stronger.

00:16:44.460 The number of category three to five hurricanes globally exhibit no statistical significant

00:16:48.340 trends since 1980. This is backed by peer reviewed research. There's no evidence that hurricanes are

00:16:53.380 becoming deadlier because of better warning coordination. Deaths are down by more than 75%

00:16:58.660 since 1900 because of that. Chris Martz, again, is a meteorology student and he knows enough to check

00:17:04.700 the actual data before he makes wildly false claims about what scientists say. So what exactly is the

00:17:10.100 excuse of a major media organization for doing this in front of 40 million people? Whatever that excuse

00:17:15.280 is, they're still doing it long before, long after the debate is over. Around midnight, CBS News posted

00:17:20.160 this headline quote, during the vice presidential debate, Senator J.D. Vance claimed Vice President

00:17:24.140 Harris became the appointed border czar. CBS News confirmed, uh, rates this as false. Oh, they rated it

00:17:32.600 as false. Well, that's all there is to it then. The fact check claims that Harris was just assigned to

00:17:37.200 investigate the root causes of migration rather than to oversee enforcement of the law. But if you pull up

00:17:42.240 articles from CBS's own website, you'll find out very quickly that they're lying. Here's an article

00:17:47.140 from 2021, for example, quote, Harris to lead administration's efforts to stem migration at

00:17:52.700 the border. President Biden announced Wednesday that he had tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to

00:17:56.480 lead the administration's efforts to stem migration at the southern border. Not just to investigate why

00:18:01.940 migration is happening, but to stem the migration. At this point, I'm honestly looking for a single

00:18:08.140 fact check that pans out. From what I could tell, none of them have any validity whatsoever. It's

00:18:12.300 actually kind of incredible. And of course, there was no fact check that was more incredible than

00:18:16.380 this one, uh, which we talked about the other day. Let's see it again. Temporary protected status.

00:18:21.540 Well, Margaret, but thank you. Senator, we have so much to get to. Margaret, I think it's important

00:18:25.960 because we're going to turn out of the economy. Thank you. Margaret, the rules were that you guys

00:18:29.660 weren't going to fact check. And since you're fact checking me, I think it's important to say what's

00:18:33.700 actually going on. So there's an application called the CBP One app, where you can go on as an illegal

00:18:39.500 migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala 0.96

00:18:47.520 Harris open border wand. That is not a person coming in, applying for a green card and waiting for 10

00:18:52.940 years. That is the facilitation of a legal immigration, Margaret, by our own leadership.

00:18:57.100 Thank you, Senator, for describing the legal process. We have so much to get to, Senator.

00:19:02.340 That's right. Those laws have been on the books since 1990.

00:19:05.380 Thank you, gentlemen. The CBP One app has not been on the books since 1990. It's something that

00:19:10.840 Kamala Harris created, Margaret. Gentlemen, the audience can't hear you because your mics are cut.

00:19:16.360 We have so much we want to get to. Thank you for explaining the legal process.

00:19:20.840 So that was egregious for all the reasons we talked about, uh, yesterday. Uh, you know,

00:19:25.840 cutting the mics. I mean, there's just no reason why you should ever cut the mics during a

00:19:30.500 presidential, vice presidential debate, especially cutting the mics so that, uh, the moderators can

00:19:36.420 talk. Nobody cares about you. Nobody wants to hear from you. This is not about you. You are

00:19:43.340 totally irrelevant as the moderator. You are completely irrelevant. Your opinions, your everything, 0.91

00:19:49.480 irrelevant. We don't care. So cutting the mics so the moderators could talk is just, it's insane.

00:19:58.100 So the moderators decided to break the rules to enter the debate on behalf of Kamala Harris. 0.87

00:20:05.220 Um, yes, J.D. Vance was right that to the extent these tens of thousands of Haitians are

00:20:09.740 legally in the country, it's only because the federal government has decided to bend the rules

00:20:13.460 and award them mass amnesty. And yes, it's comical that the moderator doesn't fact check

00:20:19.500 Tim Walz's claim that this has been going on to the same extent since the nineties.

00:20:23.320 But in retrospect, you can kind of see why the moderators decided to cut the microphones. After

00:20:28.760 all, every single one of their fact checks up to this point had been wrong. Some of them were

00:20:32.720 called out in real time while others fell apart immediately on social media. And now after all

00:20:37.380 that, they realized that yet another one of their fact checks was blowing up in their faces. So they

00:20:41.900 pressed the panic button. At this point, the only viable solution as I've been advocating for a long

00:20:48.840 time is to eliminate moderators from future debates entirely. Um, they've inserted themselves

00:20:55.340 repeatedly into the discussion only to spread falsehoods and confuse the issues. And they

00:20:59.840 haven't been, um, uh, you know, right about, uh, they haven't been wrong on insignificant topics

00:21:05.020 either. They've been wrong about really significant things, whether illegal aliens are killing animals.

00:21:10.100 They've been wrong about how many Americans are being victimized every year by violent crimes.

00:21:14.300 They've been wrong about whether children are being allowed to die after they're born.

00:21:18.920 These, uh, mistakes, quote unquote, only go in one direction. And that's for a reason,

00:21:24.860 which is that they're not mistakes at all. The truth is that there are very powerful forces

00:21:29.860 in this country that want to enable these atrocities. And after these moderators are all discarded

00:21:35.900 along with their useless fact checks, we need to make sure that those ghouls never hold power 1.00

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00:22:51.080 Daily Wire reports, Vice President Kamala Harris sided Wednesday with dock workers who launched a massive

00:22:56.460 strike this week that threatens to cripple the economy. Harris said, quote, this strike is about fairness,

00:23:04.340 foreign owned shipping companies have made record profits and executive compensation has grown.

00:23:09.460 The longshoremen who play a vital role transporting essential goods across America deserve a fair share

00:23:14.040 of these record profits. Harris also threw in a bar better opponent, accusing former President

00:23:18.640 Donald Trump of making empty promises to workers and promising that she will have workers backs and

00:23:24.340 fight for an opportunity economy. Donald Trump, on the other hand, this is her now, wants to pull us 1.00

00:23:29.840 back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize. Donald Trump makes empty promises after empty

00:23:33.920 promise to American workers but never delivers. He thinks our economy should only work for those

00:23:38.580 who own the big skyscrapers, not those who actually build them. The dock workers union has donated more

00:23:44.860 than $1.6 million to Democrats. Union President Harold Daggett endorsed Joe Biden. And Daggett himself made

00:23:56.020 $728,000 last year as union president, plus another $173,000 as President Emeritus of the New Jersey

00:24:03.720 local. So he's at about $900,000 this guy's making. Close to a million.

00:24:11.180 Okay, so there are, this is, and I mentioned this yesterday, this is starting to look more and more like a setup.

00:24:18.680 This whole dock worker strike thing. I mean, there are two possibilities. And the first possibility 0.51

00:24:25.420 is that it's all what it appears to be on the surface. So you have this millionaire union boss

00:24:30.520 living in a mansion with his Bentley making $900,000 a year, who's now threatening to cause grave harm to

00:24:38.660 American families in order to enrich himself and his friends. Dock workers who were already offered a 50% 0.88

00:24:45.700 raise, which is substantial, but they want a 77% raise, I think. In spite of the fact that

00:24:56.060 by global standards, our dock workers are extremely slow and inefficient, mostly because they've rejected 1.00

00:25:04.640 all forms of automation. So by global standards, this is a subpar job is being done and they want

00:25:13.180 a 77% raise as a reward. And they're willing to cripple the economy and harm your family in order

00:25:18.780 to get it. That's what's happening on the surface. If that's what this really is, then it's unjustifiable

00:25:29.920 from a moral perspective to hold the American economy and American families hostage so that you, 0.72

00:25:37.100 who's already well-paid can just make more money. Especially as, as we talked about yesterday that

00:25:45.140 they don't even really have any examples. They're not even, they're hardly even claiming that they're

00:25:51.900 being mistreated or anything like that. It's just, they just want more money. You know, they just want

00:25:57.340 more. Um, and according to them, they're willing to, they don't care who, they don't care who gets

00:26:04.940 hurt. They'll cause harm to million, hundreds of millions of people. And that's what it takes.

00:26:10.900 They just want more money. And, uh, okay. I mean, if that's the attitude you want to have,

00:26:16.700 but you're definitely not the good guy, like you are the bad guy. It's possible. This could be a

00:26:22.140 dispute where both sides are bad guys. That happens a lot, but you're definitely a bad guy.

00:26:28.980 Um, the only other thing we heard in terms of specific demands, well, they want a lot more

00:26:35.520 money. We also heard yesterday that they don't feel appreciated. People don't appreciate us.

00:26:42.460 Grow up. Okay. Nobody feels appreciated. Nobody does. No one does.

00:26:48.180 What do you want? Do you need the whole country to get together and throw you a pizza party?

00:26:54.180 Make a thank you note? How much ass kissing do you grown men require? 1.00

00:27:02.780 How much appreciation are you giving to other people who do important jobs? 0.98

00:27:08.540 So, uh, that's one possibility, but that's only if it's all legitimate. The other possibility,

00:27:14.240 which to me seems increasingly likely is that this is being staged, uh, to give Kamala a big win

00:27:20.900 heading into the election. Um, it would be a perfect fake story for her, right? I mean,

00:27:28.520 it lines up perfectly. The dock workers are going on strike. The economy is going to be crippled.

00:27:35.040 Um, she's, she's losing the union vote increasingly.

00:27:44.300 So what do you do about that? Well, she takes the dock worker side, 1.00

00:27:48.940 earns points with the unions, brokers a deal, a deal that in this scenario is already inevitable.

00:27:55.360 It's already on the table. Like she's not actually doing anything, but it's all for show. It's a big

00:28:00.380 pageant and the strike is averted. And now she has saved the economy. She's pandered to the unions 1.00

00:28:08.160 and she can present herself as the ultimate deal maker undercutting Trump's, you know, big selling

00:28:14.300 point. So that could be what's happening here. And if that is what's happening, we'll know in the next,

00:28:19.960 we'll know pretty soon. And if that's the plan, then it's pretty clever. That's devious,

00:28:25.420 dishonest, evil, but it is clever. I guess it's a question of whether Kamala or at least her

00:28:31.520 handlers are clever enough to have thought of a plan like that. Am I giving them too much credit

00:28:38.940 by thinking that this might be, that this is all a setup and this is the plan here? Um, I don't know,

00:28:47.100 but as I said, we'll find out it is the timing is just, uh, it, it, it's the timing is really

00:28:56.920 convenient. Well, it's either really convenient or really inconvenient for the Democrats because if

00:29:02.160 it's not a setup and they actually are going on strike and the strike lasts till past the election,

00:29:07.660 well, then it is going to cripple the economy. That's obviously going to hurt the incumbent

00:29:11.720 anymore. And Kamala Harris is the incumbent, but these are all Democrats who donate to Democrats.

00:29:17.580 So would they do that, uh, right before an election? It's, it's, it's hard to believe.

00:29:23.900 All right. The guardian has this report, this rather unfortunate report. We must, uh, we must say

00:29:31.240 Melania Trump made an extraordinary declaration and an eagerly awaited memoir to be published a month

00:29:37.600 from election day. She's a passionate supporter of a woman's right to control her own body. 1.00

00:29:41.720 Including the right of abortion. The Republican nominee's wife, uh, writes amid a campaign in 0.69

00:29:46.960 which Donald Trump's, uh, Donald Trump's threats to women's reproductive rights have played a central

00:29:51.120 role. So the guardians do a little, do a little bit of editorializing, not a little bit, but, uh,

00:29:57.080 she wrote, it is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference 1.00

00:30:01.820 of having children based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the

00:30:06.660 government. Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does 1.00

00:30:10.500 with her own body? A woman's fundamental right of individual liberty to her own life grants her 1.00

00:30:15.460 the authority to terminate her pregnancy. If she wishes, restricting a woman's right to choose 1.00

00:30:20.220 whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. 0.91

00:30:24.340 I've carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life. So this is a full on pro

00:30:29.560 abortion. This is not even, uh, you know, we believe in exceptions, life of the mother and all that

00:30:34.580 kind of stuff. This is just full on. This is the view of abortion that Kamala Harris has. 0.98

00:30:40.360 Um, it is radically, it is in fact radically pro abortion. And that's what Melania Trump is saying.

00:30:45.240 Now, a couple of things about this. First of all, just to respond to the argument that Melania is

00:30:55.140 making and she is making an argument. She's put it in a book and she's putting it out there for the

00:31:00.460 world. So, uh, we should respond to the argument and, uh, it's a bad argument. It's a familiar

00:31:08.740 argument. It's the same one we hear from pro abortion people all the time. And it's just a

00:31:12.860 really bad argument. Okay. You've heard me say it a million times. So now here's a million, a million

00:31:19.200 in one, but this is not about the woman's body. It is not a question of what the woman does with her 0.99

00:31:29.420 own body. There is another body in the mix here. That is what we're talking about. And the child's

00:31:39.580 body is his own body. This is not the child's body in the womb is not an extension of the woman's body.

00:31:48.020 It is not a limb or an organ. Okay. Biologically it's not, it is a whole other entity and you can call

00:31:58.020 that entity what you want. You can use the word fetus as a, as a euphemism. If you want, I don't

00:32:02.760 care what, I don't care what words you use. You can make up your own word, but what you cannot deny

00:32:09.900 scientifically and biologically is that this, that this is a separate body, a separate entity.

00:32:15.700 And that entity is alive. If he's not alive, then the abortion wouldn't be necessary.

00:32:22.640 And he is human because human is a species. And if he's not that species, then what the hell species 0.81

00:32:32.420 is he? So we've established that this is a separate body. It is living and it is human.

00:32:40.740 All three of those things are not up for discussion. Those are just facts. Okay.

00:32:49.840 It is a, it, the sun is at the center of our solar system. Like it's a fact like that.

00:32:55.520 You could argue it you, but you're just wrong. Like if you continue arguing past that,

00:33:01.880 the argument's over. You can keep talking, but the argument is actually over because we've

00:33:06.720 said something that's a fact that's undeniable and, uh, and it's self-evident. So that's what

00:33:12.740 we're talking about. Um, now, yes, the, the, the child's body is dependent upon the mother's 0.81

00:33:21.820 body for survival. That's true. So are we saying that if another person's body depends on you for

00:33:32.260 survival, you automatically have the moral and legal rights to directly kill, uh,

00:33:41.420 that other person because they depend on you for survival. That's the argument pro boards are

00:33:48.200 making. That's the argument Melania Trump is making. Uh, although they won't come out and 1.00

00:33:52.440 actually say that because that is the actual argument is not, Oh, it's the woman's body. 0.98

00:33:56.740 Cause it's not the woman's body. Their actual argument is this separate body depends on the 0.93

00:34:02.040 woman for survival. Therefore she has the, she, she has, she gets to be judged during an executioner. 1.00

00:34:06.860 Uh, she has the moral right to kill the child. And, um, uh, uh, you know, that is less a scientific 0.94

00:34:14.900 argument than it is a moral argument. And I think it's a morally deranged argument,

00:34:19.100 especially because the child, yes, is dependent on the mother for survival in the womb. Guess what?

00:34:30.720 But the child will also be dependent on the mother outside of the womb.

00:34:36.540 Like singularly dependent on the mother, uh, for a long time outside of the womb, not just in the

00:34:46.420 first couple hours. An infant child is totally vulnerable, totally helpless.

00:34:54.940 And is completely dependent on, um, on his, uh, parents and particularly his mother for survival

00:35:05.280 and the mother's body. That's what breastfeeding is. And now you could point out that, well, yeah,

00:35:11.480 the woman is not legally required to breastfeed. True, but the woman is legally required to either 1.00

00:35:20.260 breastfeed the child or provide a, uh, uh, a substitute for breastfeeding legally required

00:35:28.080 to do it. If she were to say, you know what? It's my body. I don't, it's not, it's not my

00:35:33.440 responsibility. So I'm not going to breastfeed this child. I'm not going to get, I'm not going

00:35:37.300 to give him any substitute for breastfeeding, uh, my body. I'm taking control of my body and

00:35:42.120 I'm going to do what I want. And that's it. If she says that the child starves to death and

00:35:48.960 guess what happens there? She goes to prison and it's going to be no use her saying, well, 1.00

00:35:55.880 I want to do what I want with my own body. No, no, no. Um, you have a, you have a special

00:35:59.980 responsibility to that child. You don't have a special responsibility necessarily to the

00:36:06.400 child across the street. If the child across the street starves to death, God forbid, we're

00:36:11.400 not going to put you in jail for that. Okay. Children all over the world, horrible things

00:36:18.060 happen to them all the time. Tragically. We don't hold you responsible for that because

00:36:25.540 they're not your children, but your child, we do. And so if your child starves to death,

00:36:29.980 you go to jail because outside of the womb, we recognize that you as the parent have a special

00:36:40.500 responsibility to your own child. It is a responsibility that requires a lot of you. It requires your body,

00:36:47.620 your, your, your money, your time, your soul, your energy, everything, your heart, soul, mind,

00:36:55.180 everything, uh, is poured into the, the job of parenting. And it is, uh, it, uh, and you have

00:37:04.700 autonomy. You have no autonomy as a parent. You have no autonomy from your child. Your child is utterly

00:37:10.920 dependent on you. Um, and we recognize that as a responsibility. All the pro-life argument is

00:37:23.340 simply that, well, that responsibility starts, starts at the moment that the child exists,

00:37:28.360 not at the moment that the child is born. That's our argument. And it's, it makes a lot of sense.

00:37:35.720 I mean, if we all recognize that that responsibility exists from the parent to the child,

00:37:41.280 then why would it, why do you get a nine month grace period where that you're not responsible for

00:37:46.140 your child? What? The child exists, doesn't he? So, uh, that's how we respond to that argument. Um,

00:37:55.820 as far as the fact that come, that, uh, Kamala Harris, as far as the fact that Melania Trump has 1.00

00:38:03.680 written this in a book, I think, uh, as other, as other conservatives have pointed out, one of the

00:38:09.500 sad realities of the Republican party is that, um, every, every Republican first lady, um, 0.74

00:38:18.280 since Roe v. Wade has been pro-abortion. And, uh, we could have a whole conversation about why that's

00:38:27.360 the fact, but that is the fact. So, and it is important to note here. Um, I don't think it lets

00:38:32.220 Melania Trump off the hook. She is horribly wrong about this, but she is in, in company with every

00:38:41.320 other Republican first lady. And, uh, that doesn't reflect her position is not Donald Trump's

00:38:50.720 position. She is not in the position of, uh, legislating or governing. Um, in general, I've

00:39:00.320 always said, I want to get first ladies less involved. Like I don't, I don't, and I've been 0.60

00:39:04.700 very, I'm not just saying this now. I've always said this, you know, if you listen to the show,

00:39:07.860 I don't care the first ladies, I don't care about them. I want to see less of them. 1.00

00:39:11.320 Uh, I, we don't need to give you a little projects and stuff that like you actually are

00:39:15.960 not, we didn't elect you. You really don't matter. Uh, you know, you matter to your husband,

00:39:22.920 hopefully, but, and to your family, but to the country, there's really not, you're not

00:39:28.280 the queen, you know, this is not actually a monarchy. And so your positions, your, your

00:39:32.920 political views, it's actually not that important to me. I don't really care that much.

00:39:37.220 Um, and that applies to Melania Trump as well.

00:39:41.320 Um, but it is really unfortunate timing.

00:39:47.280 Like, why are we putting this out right now?

00:39:51.400 And, um,

00:39:52.500 and I will only reiterate, uh, a,

00:39:57.420 something that I've said now a few times, uh, a concern that I have,

00:40:01.700 which is that most likely the, the, uh, this is when we know this is going to be a very close

00:40:08.080 election and it's the candidate that can mobilize their own base, uh, the most is probably going to

00:40:17.260 win. Yeah. You got to win the end. You got to win the independence. You have to go and you have

00:40:22.340 to try to steal some from the other side. Some of the, you know, you got to do all that,

00:40:26.600 the moderates and everything, but you got to mobilize your own base.

00:40:32.660 And one of my concerns is that the pro-life base is just being relentlessly demoralized.

00:40:40.180 I mean, it's every week. It's another thing. One thing after another, after another. And, um,

00:40:48.160 yeah, we should say to pro-life voters, you got to vote for Donald Trump. I have said that so many

00:40:53.600 times. I'll say it again. If you're a pro-life voter, you got to vote for Donald Trump.

00:40:58.160 Uh, even if you're pissed off about some of this stuff, you got to vote for Donald Trump.

00:41:05.900 If you care about saving babies, you vote for Donald Trump.

00:41:09.700 Kamala Harris, there's no question about one thing. She is much worse on, uh, on this subject

00:41:16.300 than, than Trump is. Not only do more babies die if Kamala is elected, but also more pro-lifers go to

00:41:24.560 prison. They just sent another pro-lifer to prison. I think this week

00:41:29.040 they're on a, a, a holy war and an unholy war against pro-lifers. And that will continue and

00:41:37.780 be ramped up. Kamala Harris, she did this when she was attorney general in California, 1.00

00:41:43.460 going after pro-lifers and throwing them in prison. That's like one of her favorite things to do.

00:41:50.960 And the Biden administration is already doing it. She is going to, I'm telling you right

00:41:54.480 now for all the pro-lifers who are thinking about staying home and not voting for Trump.

00:42:00.400 You do so at the risk, not only of babies, but of yourself.

00:42:05.240 Because when Kamala gets into office, she's not going to say, okay, well you're,

00:42:08.560 you didn't vote for Trump. So you're one of the good ones.

00:42:12.420 No, she is going to try to criminalize, flat out criminalize pro-life activism. It's already 1.00

00:42:18.300 happening. And, uh, it's going to get so much worse under, under, under Kamala, which is of

00:42:25.600 course a secondary concern to the greater concern, which is that more children will die. So, uh, if

00:42:30.740 you're a pro-lifer, you, you've got to go and vote for Donald Trump. Um, it shouldn't even be like a

00:42:35.920 reluctant or hesitant or anything kind of vote. It should be a, let's go in there, uh, eagerly and

00:42:43.720 vote for this guy because Kamala would be the most pro-abortion anti-life president of all time. 1.00

00:42:53.300 Hands down. Right. So all that said, um, it still is true that politically a demoralized base

00:43:04.900 isn't good. It's, it's not going to help you. It's going to hurt you.

00:43:08.860 Um, and so one worry I have is that the pro-life base, uh, is, has been so relentlessly demoralized.

00:43:17.120 And, um, I think that's something that Trump campaign needs to take note of. And it's like,

00:43:22.460 you gotta, you gotta give them something, uh, give, give them a reason to be excited

00:43:28.160 before election day. All right. I'll briefly mention this. This is a

00:43:36.040 fun story from a few days ago, Fox News reports. Social media users mocked Mother Jones editor-in-chief

00:43:44.620 Clara Jeffrey after she publicly complained about a flight attendant wishing her and other passengers

00:43:49.040 a blessed night at the end of a recent flight. Jeffrey ridiculed the flight attendant in a recent

00:43:54.620 expo, sending her, uh, saying her sendoff was evidence of creeping Christian nationalism in the

00:43:59.400 country and pointing out all the other less Christian adjectives she could have used.

00:44:06.040 Um, well, she actually tweeted was creeping Christian nationalism alert. Alaska air flight

00:44:11.220 attendant just wished us a blessed night as we landed in, um, uh, SFO, which is the San Francisco

00:44:19.120 airport to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed great, awesome, fabulous, amazing,

00:44:25.340 fantastic. She added, as my roommate said, this ain't Montgomery, sweetie. So Clara Jeffery has, 0.57

00:44:34.420 has since taken this post down. She deleted it. She was absolutely hammered for it, ruthlessly mocked

00:44:40.860 and derided, uh, for, for complaining about someone saying, have a blessed night justifiably, uh,

00:44:46.540 justifiably made fun of obviously. But meanwhile, of course the internet went to work on her and they,

00:44:55.180 they did what the internet does. And they very quickly, many people have uncovered several examples,

00:45:00.680 including really recent examples of Clara Jeffery herself using the term blessed in the same

00:45:06.700 context. She had said exactly the thing that offended her when the flight attendant said it. 0.82

00:45:13.380 In fact, she had even specifically praised other people, including Obama, I believe for using the

00:45:20.400 phrase, God bless. So this woman is a shameless hypocrite, no surprise there. Uh, bless her heart, 1.00

00:45:27.380 of course. But this story does, I think, illustrate an important point. It goes to show what the label

00:45:32.780 Christian nationalist now means because it gets, gets tossed around a lot. We're constantly told that

00:45:39.220 we need to worry about these Christian nationalists. And you might think, well, 0.67

00:45:44.380 if you don't know any better, you'll think what's wrong with being a Christian nationalist?

00:45:47.520 Um, isn't that just a nationalist who is also Christian? And isn't a nationalist simply someone

00:45:55.640 who prioritizes his own nation? So isn't a Christian nationalist, a Christian who prioritizes 0.89

00:46:03.540 his own nation, which is another way of saying patriot? You might think that, but that's not what

00:46:11.260 the left means when they say it. In fact, it hasn't been exactly, exactly clear what they do mean,

00:46:16.400 except that we're supposed to be afraid of these people, these Christian nationalists,

00:46:20.560 whoever they are and whatever they believe. Well, now we know, now we have more clarity about, um,

00:46:26.580 what is meant by Christian nationalist. A Christian nationalist is someone who wishes you a blessed

00:46:31.380 day on an airplane. Somebody who says, uh, God bless you when you sneeze is a Christian nationalist. 0.66

00:46:37.020 So in other words, a Christian nationalist is just a Christian.

00:46:44.540 Even though, I mean, really you could say have a blessed day or you could say God bless you and not even

00:46:49.080 be a Christian. But the thing that offends her about it is that she suspects that this is a,

00:46:56.060 this is a evidence that this flight attendant is Christian. So she's connecting the two.

00:47:00.420 And what actually offends her is that is the faith of this, the alleged faith of this flight

00:47:06.060 attendant. So a Christian nationalist is just a Christian of any type is now a Christian nationalist.

00:47:13.600 Or maybe we should say a Christian nationalist is, is a Christian who does or says something publicly

00:47:22.500 to make their faith known.

00:47:28.520 Because I think Claire Jeffrey would, would be the first to say that, no, she doesn't have a problem

00:47:33.120 with you being Christian. Just don't, as long as you're Christian only in your head 1.00

00:47:37.280 and you don't ever do or say anything publicly to ever indicate that that's your religion, uh,

00:47:44.460 then, then it's fine. You can be Christian all you want in your own head. 0.69

00:47:47.240 She might even let you go to church if you're lucky for now. Anyway, you could even go to church.

00:47:56.020 Well, it depends on what the church is and what they're saying there, but you know,

00:47:58.940 there are some churches that she would let you go to, but once you start to in, in any way,

00:48:06.760 even in the most benign way, uh, once you start to make your faith known, once you start to,

00:48:13.140 um, you know, once, once you start to let the light shine so that it's, it's not hidden under a

00:48:19.800 basket, uh, once you start to do that, then you're a Christian nationalist and, uh, you're a terrible 0.94

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00:50:07.960 For our daily cancellation today, we turn to the great civil rights icon, Jussie Smollett,

00:50:12.260 who has emerged from hiding to, as they say, speak his truth. Actually, he's promoting a new film

00:50:19.220 that he wrote, directed and starred in. It's a long awaited feature, hotly anticipated by the legions

00:50:24.760 of Jussie fans out there, of which, needless to say, I am one, probably the only one. And as part

00:50:31.580 of his promotional tour, he sat down for an in-depth interview with People Magazine, where he, for the

00:50:37.360 first time, I believe, spoke at length about the horrific attack in 2019 that nearly cost him his

00:50:42.680 life and his Subway sandwich. Many people think that the attack, you know, must have been somewhat

00:50:47.940 less devastating simply because he planned and choreographed and paid for it himself. But you could

00:50:52.720 argue that that only makes it more devastating. I mean, it's a terrible thing to be assaulted on a

00:50:56.540 street corner at two in the morning. Imagine how much more terrible it must be when you are the one

00:51:01.860 assaulting yourself. It's kind of the ultimate betrayal. So, of course, in this interview,

00:51:07.100 Jussie does not admit that he assaulted himself. He maintains his innocence to this very day.

00:51:13.040 And the journalist conducting the interview, her name is Esther Kang, doesn't press him on it or

00:51:19.280 challenge him in any way whatsoever. In fact, she seems to believe in his innocence as well.

00:51:24.700 Here's the title of the piece. Quote,

00:51:27.040 Inside Jussie Smollett's Darkest Day and How the Alleged 2019 Hoax Tested My Strength,

00:51:33.760 I Was Numb. Note how the word alleged is being used here, even though he was convicted in a court of law

00:51:40.300 and found guilty of staging a hoax. Proper journalistic practice is to drop the alleged qualifier

00:51:46.500 once a person is found guilty of the charge. But if this person was a proper journalist,

00:51:52.180 then Smollett would not be talking to her. So, reading on, Jussie Smollett doesn't care what

00:51:56.700 anyone thinks. In his eyes, only the universe can right his wrongs. Still, the road to finding

00:52:02.640 inner peace was one of the hardest things he's ever faced. He's learned how to hold on for five more

00:52:08.200 minutes amid the chaos of the last five years, a close personal mantra he now holds dear to his heart.

00:52:13.960 Yes, this is really happening. They are doing a hagiographic puff piece on a convicted hate

00:52:20.240 crime hoaxer. A puff piece that descends into incomprehensible nonsense by the second sentence.

00:52:26.180 Only the universe can right his wrongs? I mean, what is that even supposed to mean?

00:52:30.820 Is the universe righting the wrongs he committed or the wrongs that are supposedly committed against

00:52:35.780 him? And how will the universe do that if the wrong that was committed against him was also

00:52:40.620 committed by him? It seems like there's not much for the universe to do in this situation. If I'm

00:52:45.880 the universe, I'm going to look at that and say, well, I mean, that basically worked itself out.

00:52:49.900 So, it's not clear what any of this means, but let's continue anyway.

00:52:54.080 In an exclusive sit-down with people since the 2019 incident, Smollett, 42, joins the Zoom

00:52:59.780 conversation, ready as I'll ever be, from his hotel room in New York City. Five years ago, Smollett,

00:53:04.900 who identifies as a gay black man, claimed that on January 29th, 2019, while on his way home from

00:53:10.440 a Subway sandwich shop, he was attacked by two men late at night, yelling racist and homophobic

00:53:16.080 slurs, putting a rope around his neck and dousing him with bleach. After an investigation conducted by

00:53:20.720 law enforcement, prosecutors alleged that Smollett staged the attack to get media attention and paid

00:53:25.660 $3,500 to two brothers, Abimbola, Alabinjo, and then whatever the other guy's name is.

00:53:33.240 Despite the narrative, he says, so many have assumed Smollett maintains his innocence to this day.

00:53:39.120 Now, again, just to interject, it's not a narrative or allegation. He was proven guilty in a court of

00:53:44.200 law of committing a hoax. Although he was, of course, quite obviously guilty even before the verdict,

00:53:50.600 so he didn't really need that in order to be able to say conclusively that he was guilty.

00:53:54.520 But People Magazine will not let any of that get in the way of Jussie continuing to victimize 0.59

00:53:59.860 himself. Quote, I was numb, he says, recalling the incident to people. I didn't know how to connect

00:54:05.080 the dots. I really genuinely didn't know. I couldn't make sense of what was going on. And I

00:54:10.780 couldn't make sense of what people were actually thinking. What exactly do they think happened?

00:54:15.180 I couldn't put two and two together. Yes, he was confused. He couldn't put two and two together.

00:54:20.920 Couldn't connect the dots. It was bewildering. He paid two guys to pretend to beat him up.

00:54:27.260 And then those guys that he paid to do that thing went ahead and did that thing that he paid them to

00:54:32.100 do. So the thing that he was doing to himself was done. And but it's bizarre. It's a mystery.

00:54:39.980 It's bizarre. How did it happen? Aside from the fact that it happened because he deliberately set

00:54:46.580 it all up and made it happen. But still, how? How is it? He's confused. It's like if I'm walking

00:54:54.820 down the street and I'm looking at my own legs and saying, how am I moving across? I don't

00:54:59.620 understand. How is this happening? I started there and I'm heading there and I don't. What is happening

00:55:04.900 right now? How am I getting there? I mean, I am actually bringing myself there, but how is it

00:55:10.800 happening? You know, it's very confusing. It's very existential. But the good news is that Jesse

00:55:17.400 is very resilient. Continuing, quote, Smollett says that he has since put in years of self-reflection

00:55:23.420 and healing, calling it difficult. In fact, he says, we're still dealing with the repercussions

00:55:27.520 from that narrative. We're still dealing with that every day. At the same time, it's not in my

00:55:32.140 mental. It's not in my soul. It's not in my spirit, says Smollett, who TMZ reported entered

00:55:36.800 an outpatient rehab facility in 2023. People can say what they want about you, but they have no

00:55:41.420 control. They can do whatever they want. They can even put you behind bars. They can control your

00:55:45.900 physical, but they can't control my mind. They can't control my spirit. They can't control my soul.

00:55:52.100 They can't control the knowledge that I have of who I am. Now, the article goes on like that for

00:55:57.800 many paragraphs. I'm not going to subject you to any more of it. But I do have to read this one

00:56:02.580 line, this one more line, a couple of lines, because it's just, you know, it's just great.

00:56:09.420 Continuing, quote, I'm not going to sit here and victimize myself and be like, woe is me,

00:56:15.940 because there's so many people that don't have the platform or resources that I have to protect

00:56:19.700 themselves, Smollett says, saying that people often admit to crimes they didn't commit because

00:56:23.720 they feel it's the easier way out. Yes, Jussie Smollett said he's not going to victimize

00:56:30.540 himself. Now, the irony is glaring enough that I don't need to point it out, even though I guess

00:56:37.040 I just did. Ultimately, though, I think that this interview, if you read the whole thing,

00:56:43.520 which I did for some reason, proves, it proves, number one, that the media are shameless,

00:56:48.120 just shameless to a degree, never witnessed before in human history. But we already knew that.

00:56:54.740 It also proves that Jussie Smollett is a pathological liar who lies so compulsively that 0.98

00:56:59.340 he probably doesn't even recognize when he's lying anymore. I mean, he might actually believe 0.97

00:57:04.500 at this point that it really happened. He might have convinced himself of it at this point.

00:57:10.080 But we already knew that also. I think most of all, it shows what a person becomes when their

00:57:19.340 whole identity is tied up in victimhood. Like Jussie Smollett committed the hoax in the first

00:57:25.620 place because he was desperate to be a victim. Now he's a national disgrace and a punchline,

00:57:32.780 but he clings to his faux victimhood anyway because he doesn't know what else to do. He has no identity

00:57:39.160 outside of his perception of himself as a victim. It is pitiful to watch and grotesque. But also,

00:57:47.780 we have to admit, very funny. And that is why Jussie Smollett and the woman who wrote this

00:57:53.780 fawning article about him are both today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for

00:57:58.900 watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:58:01.820 Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 1.00

00:58:13.900 Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much, 0.96

00:58:17.660 at least not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you love.

00:58:20.940 I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey.

00:58:22.940 I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.

00:58:25.540 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. What you're doing is

00:58:33.860 you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this for you. Is America 0.73

00:58:37.500 inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington

00:58:41.700 Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently. 0.98

00:58:46.420 Yeah, this country is a piece of... White folks. Trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. 1.00

00:58:52.860 Is there a black person around here? What's a black person right here? Does he not exist?

00:58:58.220 Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have to be

00:59:02.540 careful. Never be too careful. In theaters now. Rated PG-13.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 03, 2024

Ep. 1456 - Why Debate “Moderators” Prove That The Media Is The True Enemy Of The American People

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