Sen. Kamala Harris's campaign has been telling us that violent crime declined under her watch. Well, it's just been revealed that the FBI data was completely wrong. Also, Kamala was interviewed by Brett Baer on Fox yesterday and her performance was atrocious. And Jerry Seinfeld has had an epiphany. He now says that the woke scolds aren't ruining comedy as he had previously claimed. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:09:07.940The FBI's processes, such as how it tries to estimate unreported figures, has long been a black box, even to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Department of Justice's actual statistical agency.
00:09:18.820Now, we're meant to assume that this is one of those innocent mistakes that only ever goes in the same direction, coincidentally.
00:09:26.820It's like that jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics just a few weeks ago, the one that overestimated job growth by about 800,000 jobs.
00:09:33.960We're supposed to conclude that these statistical errors aren't deliberate and that the federal government isn't trying to cook the books in order to help Kamala Harris's failing campaign.
00:09:43.880But there's a very clear reason to doubt that explanation, especially in the case of this FBI revision.
00:09:49.020And that's because the FBI's revised data, which shows all the violent crimes they missed, wasn't announced anywhere.
00:09:56.020The FBI did a stealth edit on their own report three weeks ago.
00:10:01.720And it's only coming to light now because the investigative journalists at Real Clear Investigations noticed this line at the bottom of the FBI's data, quote,
00:10:09.520The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS 2023.
00:10:15.440Now, nowhere did the FBI explain what the update showed exactly.
00:10:21.660They didn't hold a press conference and explain why they undercounted tens of thousands of serious crimes that impacted very real victims.
00:10:28.820Instead, on a hunch, Real Clear Investigations had to pull up the charts and the graphics and do a comparison.
00:10:36.120Even when the FBI released a press release last month claiming that violent crime had fallen again in 2023,
00:10:41.880they didn't mention that their statistics from 2022 were completely wrong.
00:10:45.440So, obviously, this looks a lot like malice.
00:10:49.240And, of course, we have no reason whatsoever to trust that their data from 2023 is remotely accurate either.
00:10:53.840We could probably wait another year and then we'll get the update on those numbers.
00:10:58.200So, we're at the point now where the government can't be trusted to tell us anything.
00:11:04.200Even information as basic as the number of Americans who are being murdered every year.
00:11:08.180And if they can't get that right, or if they're willing to lie about it,
00:11:13.080then there's absolutely no reason to trust what these people say on anything.
00:11:17.420To trust what they say when they say that the earth is getting too hot or that illegal immigrants don't really commit that many crimes or anything at all.
00:11:24.420We are ruled by people who are constantly finding new ways to discredit themselves.
00:11:28.540Now, if there's anything amusing about this whole situation,
00:11:32.580it's that there is one crime statistic that, according to the FBI, keeps going up, like clockwork.
00:11:38.480And that is the number of hate crimes in this country.
00:11:41.140When I looked into the hate crimes reporting system earlier this year, I found that it's completely meaningless.
00:11:57.600The federal government can use hate crimes as a political tool.
00:12:01.160They want to report more hate crimes so they can punish all those dreaded MAGA Republicans who are beating up Asians at 2 a.m. in San Francisco.
00:12:08.480But in an election year, they want to say that violent crimes generally are going down.
00:12:13.900So they just make up those numbers, too.
00:12:16.260That means, among other things, that the so-called fact-checking industry should just be disbanded immediately.
00:12:23.980It's no use citing government reports when they're worse than useless.
00:12:28.360We should never have another fact-check during a live presidential debate ever again.
00:12:33.520It also means that if Democrats really care about misinformation, as they so often claim to,
00:12:38.440then they should demand the immediate dismantling of these government agencies that are apparently incapable of telling the truth.
00:12:43.500The misinformation, as always, is coming from inside the house.
00:12:48.960Now, to be very clear about this, they just tried to memory hole the murders of nearly 2,000 Americans.
00:12:56.500That's what they were just caught doing.
00:12:58.940And even if you think that it was unintentional, it's still very clear that they tried to cover up their alleged mistake.
00:13:05.340That's how little they care about American citizens.
00:13:07.420They'll deny you police protection, and then they'll lie to the public about your death if you're murdered.
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00:21:48.840You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff.
00:21:54.840When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?
00:21:59.340Joe Biden, I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room.
00:22:08.340And he has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.
00:22:25.980After George Clooney said within a few minutes of talking to President Biden at a fundraiser that he thought this was not the same Joe Biden that we saw on the debate stage.
00:32:02.460I mean, physically, from a muscular state, even if it was a little bit less, maybe they do all sorts of tests and drugs and everything else.
00:32:26.680And, uh, I mean, it, it really is that it's, it's, well, there are different levels of the problem.
00:32:34.280So when you say ban it, like there's different, uh, but ultimately it's probably, it's going to be a legislative thing, but it is a simple, you just ban it.
00:32:48.120It should be banned on every possible level where you can ban men from competing in women's sports.
00:32:52.680Um, and, uh, and, and by the way, it's, it, it's not even the law, right?
00:33:02.340When you're, when you're putting this in law or into policy, uh, the policy is not, oh, trans identified men are not allowed to compete in women's sports.
00:34:03.400And I know I, you know, kind of make this point a lot, but it, it, it's, it's worth marveling at just how thoroughly we have won on this issue.
00:34:14.960Uh, I mean, we've really crushed, like we've crushed them on this issue.
00:34:19.400When you've got questions like this being asked on Fox news and the whole audience is against men and women's sports and they're, you know, cheering for it.
00:34:28.800And the Republican candidate is speaking out against it so clearly and forcefully.
00:34:35.880Um, that shows you how much we've won because none of that would have happened or did happen in 2016, uh, or even 2020.
00:34:45.060So it's really been over the last four years, some of us have been fighting on this issue for more than four years, but it's been over the last four years that, uh, that these great strides have been made.
00:34:55.900And, um, we have totally shifted the Overton window on this, on this thing.
00:35:01.000And so for the trans activists, they're, I mean, they are truly fighting a losing battle.
00:35:04.820Um, and you know, I, I, uh, I've, I've been saying now for a while that I think that on the issue of transitioning kids and the issue of women's sports, the trans activists are losing those issues and they will lose them completely.
00:35:21.400Um, but I've also said that on the larger issue of trans ideology, like that's going to be a longer term fight.
00:35:29.220I mean, that isn't going anywhere, but I actually think I, I revise that I think and say now that, yeah, we're, uh, protecting kids from transitioning, protecting women's sports.
00:35:38.680I mean, these issues, it's, it's a, it's been for, for, for team sanity, it's been one victory after another, after another, after another.
00:35:45.800And the trans activists are totally like, it's, it's not going to turn around for them.
00:35:49.340It just isn't, um, and they're losing it and it will be totally lost.
00:35:54.540But I also think that I have an even more optimistic view actually now, um, that I think that even the broader fight against trans ideology, uh, that they're losing there too.
00:36:08.320And, um, 10 years from now, like as a trans activist, even a thing is it, is, or, or, you know, there might be a few, but it's fringe, fringe, fringe stuff that no one's talking about or paying attention to.
00:36:21.120I think that could be the case 10 years, even five years from now.
00:36:24.540And this is kind of more evidence of that.
00:36:27.640This is, uh, so sort of staying on this topic, but going to another story.
00:36:31.160New York Post has this, a trans, I'm reading, I'm reading now, I'm going to read the article from the New York Post, just reading it verbatim.
00:36:40.680A transgender woman convicted of killing a couple to try to get money for her sex change ended up having the procedure covered by California taxpayers, thanks to radical policies backed by VP Kamala Harris.
00:36:50.620The notorious so-called yacht killer, who was born John Jacobson Jr. and now goes by Skylar DeLion, um, is currently serving life without parole after initially being sentenced to death for the slaying of Thomas Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, 2004.
00:37:05.640Uh, DeLion, uh, DeLion, DeLion, 45, um, let's just call him Jacobson, actually.
00:37:16.100Jacobson duped the couple into letting them and, uh, and several associates board their 55-foot yacht and take them out on it after feigning interest in purchasing the vessel.
00:37:25.500While out at sea, somewhere between Newport Harbor and, uh, Santa Catalina, uh, Jacobson used the stun gun to incap, incapacitate the couple and force them to give up their bank account information and sign over the boat's title before tying them to the anchor and tossing it overboard.
00:37:39.460And this was all done in order to get a sex change operation and, uh, and then two decades later, uh, the sex change operation happened, uh, courtesy of the taxpayers.
00:37:52.340Now, by the way, I was reading the article verbatim, at least initially, and the article uses the biologically incorrect pronoun throughout, refers to the killer as she and her.
00:38:02.560Uh, but I didn't want to correct that as I was reading because, you know, I want you to see that the New York Post still felt the need to respect the pronoun preferences of a convicted killer.
00:38:12.000So we're still, uh, that's still happening with the media.
00:38:15.320But in spite of the New York Post absurdly participating in this charade for the sake of protecting the feelings of a murderous psychopath, um, in spite of that, we still see the Overton window shift here.
00:39:19.020Because, uh, going back to one more clip from the interview last night, Brett Baer asked her, uh, about, about this, about, about funding sex change operations for, uh, criminals, for prisoners.
00:39:29.080And here's, here's how she handled that.
00:39:33.480Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access.
00:39:38.800So, are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?
00:39:50.760And it's a law that Donald Trump actually followed.
00:39:53.280Um, you're probably familiar with, now it's a public report, that under Donald Trump's administration, these, uh, surgeries were available to, on a medical necessity basis, to people in the federal prison system.
00:40:09.340And I think, frankly, that ad from the Trump campaign is a little bit of, like, throwing, you know, stones when you're living in a glass house.
00:40:16.720The Trump aides say that he never advocated for that prison policy and no gender transition surgeries happened during his presidency.
00:40:22.240Well, you know what, you've got to take responsibility for what happened in your administration.
00:40:25.040Yeah, no surgeries happened in this pregnancy.
00:40:37.360I, like I said, I think it's, he spent $20 million on those ads trying to create a sense of fear in the voters because he actually has no plan in this election that is about focusing on the needs of the American people.
00:40:55.180I mean, first of all, she says you're responsible for what happens during your administration, which is a problem for her, you know, because that's the opposite of her message most of the time, that she's not responsible for any of the things that happened during her administration.
00:41:06.660And, uh, least of all inflation, the economy, border crisis, uh, crime, all the rest of it.
00:41:12.700But, uh, you know, and, and she blanks, she says that Trump supported this and that's not true.
00:41:20.740So, uh, actually the Trump campaign, of course, Trump never supported sex change operations for inmates and this never happened in the federal prison system under Trump.
00:42:11.880Again, leaving aside the fact that that's not true, um, it, it is a tacit admission that she's wrong.
00:42:20.780I mean, this is a, this is a hundred percent the way you respond when you are agreeing that it's a bad thing.
00:42:29.720So, uh, I don't like, what else do you need to see?
00:42:34.120When you've got Democrat politicians, even the most radical Democrat politicians who four years ago considered this a winning political issue.
00:42:42.240They thought that they, that this was a winner for them.
00:42:44.800That they could make themselves seem tolerant and enlightened and all those sorts of things by going out and supporting sex change operations for inmates, by supporting, uh, gender transitions of children and, and, and everything else.
00:42:58.880And now only four years later, they are running from, from, from, from it as fast as they can.
00:43:08.160When's the last time Kamala on her own brought up trans issues, except maybe in the most sort of opaque way, like in, in, in the most kind of general vague sort of way.
00:43:22.180But when was the last time that on her own at a rally in an interview or wherever, uh, she just brought it up as a point.
00:43:32.240They don't cause they, they are embarrassed of it.
00:43:35.520And, um, and that's how, you know, if you're a trans activist, you know, you're in trouble.
00:43:40.860You know, you're in big trouble because, because you're losing, uh, you know, you're losing the fight in state legislatures.
00:43:51.540You're, you're, you're, you're even starting to lose in the courts and, um, you've lost in the court of public opinion.
00:44:00.640And now you're losing your own people.
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00:46:47.500Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:46:54.880For our daily cancellation today, we must cancel Jerry Seinfeld.
00:47:01.860His show was a touch overrated, but still one of the greatest television comedies of all time, no doubt about that.
00:47:06.720But he hasn't created a solid piece of entertainment, whether a film or a TV show, since Seinfeld went off the air 25 years ago, despite multiple attempts.
00:47:13.560But even so, he's undeniably one of the great comics.
00:47:17.800And over the years, he has shown a willingness to speak out against hyper-PC culture and the deleterious effect that it has on comedy.
00:47:25.160He spoke out most explicitly in an interview with The New Yorker recently, where he said that the extreme left, in his words, is killing comedy.
00:47:36.580As far as I can remember, it was the first time that he had directly called out the left.
00:48:26.560And the other thing that I have said about this, if you're Lindsey Vonn, if you're a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain.
00:49:48.260An inspiration for the ages is Jerry Seinfeld.
00:49:50.920Now, needless to say, this is a cowardly retreat.
00:49:54.420All the more cowardly because of how unnecessary it was.
00:49:58.040People talked about his original comments condemning the extreme left for about half a day and then moved on.
00:50:02.520At this point, he may as well have said it 600 years ago.
00:50:04.680He didn't need to issue any clarification, much less a full retraction and apology.
00:50:09.240But he was obviously quite disturbed by the pushback, however mild and fleeting it may have been.
00:50:15.420Jerry Seinfeld never had much edge to begin with, but whatever edge he may have had at one point, he has now lost, obviously.
00:50:22.520And we've seen this devolution, and it's been quite sad and tragic.
00:50:28.080We've seen it with nearly all of the greatest and most influential comedians and entertainers and cultural figures of his generation, the ones who are still alive.
00:50:37.660They've pretty much all retreated and gotten duller and blander with age.
00:50:43.120Howard Stern is another prime example, and we've talked about that many times.
00:50:48.560People often lament that George Carlin, who's obviously, he would be older, he's a generation above Seinfeld.
00:50:54.660But people often lament that George Carlin isn't around anymore to lampoon the woke insanity.
00:51:02.600What they don't understand is that if he was around, he would almost certainly be in the Howard Stern and Jerry Seinfeld camp.
00:51:51.800The last thing they want to do is rock the boat, which is probably why.
00:51:55.520Probably why it'd be best if most comedians just retired at 50, so we don't have to see them like this.
00:52:01.020Like, it's just sad and pathetic and painful to witness.
00:52:03.860And case in point, Seinfeld now says that the job of a comedian is to make the gate.
00:52:14.240I mean, I can't think of a worse, a more wrong-headed way of explaining what a comedian is supposed to do.
00:52:22.340And this is coming from a legendary comedian.
00:52:24.920But what he says is that the culture sets out the boundaries, draws the course, and a comedian is supposed to operate within those boundaries.
00:52:35.520He's supposed to navigate the course, follow the guideposts, stay on the path that the culture has created for you.
00:53:26.120Now, the reality, of course, is the opposite.
00:53:30.520The primary job of a comedian, the most essential role of comedy in any society, is not to make the gate and follow the course, but to question why the gate is there and not over there.
00:53:42.600Why does the course go this way, but not that way?
00:53:46.540You can't find the humor and absurdity in the boundaries if you're not willing to push them.
00:53:51.020That doesn't mean that comedy always has to be intentionally outrageous or intentionally offensive just for the sake of it, but it does have to be aware of the ridiculous aspects of the culture, the rules that don't make any sense.
00:54:01.820And it has to be willing to lampoon those rules, which will always risk upsetting the people who put the rules in place.
00:54:08.880This is why the left can't do comedy anymore.
00:54:11.040It's why comedians like Bill Burr have gotten much less funny as they've become more liberal.
00:54:15.420Like walking on the path without questioning it or without venturing off of it, that may be the safest thing, and it may be the easiest.