The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist？” Was Snubbed By The Oscars

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Academy Awards put out their short list for documentaries.

00:00:03.800 Somehow the number one documentary of the decade didn't make the list. Imagine that. Also,

00:00:07.940 Joe Biden says that the mysterious so-called drones in the sky are probably not nefarious,

00:00:12.700 but he's not exactly sure. San Francisco, having solved all of its other problems,

00:00:16.020 appoints a fat acceptance czar. And Justice Kentonja Brown-Jackson goes from being a really

00:00:20.680 bad jurist to an even worse Broadway star. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:03:01.720 to reclaim your privacy today. I have to confess that I don't spend any amount of time using the app

00:03:08.280 known as Blue Sky, which is the left's alternative to X. And there are a lot of reasons for that. One of

00:03:13.460 them is that if I started posting on Blue Sky, my account would be nuked within about five seconds.

00:03:18.100 It's an app that doesn't tolerate any kind of dissent from left-wing orthodoxy,

00:03:22.420 an echo chamber in the purest form. If you're not there to commiserate with self-loathing trans

00:03:27.780 activists or to come up with clever new ways that a special counsel could remove Donald Trump from

00:03:32.340 office, then there's just not much to do. In other words, it's what every social media platform on the

00:03:36.380 internet used to be before Elon Musk got involved. Now, that being said, you can make the case that Blue

00:03:41.580 Sky still serves a purpose. It offers the same value proposition that MSNBC provided on election

00:03:47.780 night, which is this. When left-wingers assemble and shut out everyone who disagrees with them,

00:03:53.960 then at the very least, the meltdowns can be pretty entertaining. They can also reveal a lot about the

00:03:58.500 left's thinking and what's going on in the institutions they control. So case in point,

00:04:02.960 if for some reason you found yourself on Blue Sky lately, then you know that, to the great surprise of

00:04:09.260 left-wing activists, they're starting to lose control over one of the most powerful weapons

00:04:13.880 in the culture war and in Hollywood, which is Disney. The big story over on Blue Sky recently has been

00:04:19.520 that Disney just pulled an episode of the Marvel animated series, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

00:04:26.740 According to leaked online footage, the episode is about a boy who identifies as transgender and wants

00:04:33.100 to join a girls volleyball team. The coach of the team is completely fine with this, either because

00:04:37.920 he's a really enlightened activist or because he just wants to win really badly. Not exactly clear,

00:04:42.960 but the coach of an opposing team who looks extremely menacing and whose name is Greer takes issue with

00:04:49.780 this whole arrangement. And as the episode progresses, the boy says lines like, I'm trans. My very existence

00:04:55.960 breaks Greer's rules. He also wears pride-themed knee pads and has a trans is beautiful sticker on his

00:05:03.320 water bottle. Other players, including one who identifies as non-binary, quote-unquote,

00:05:08.800 call Greer narrow-minded. Ultimately, the evil coach uses some kind of magical curse to confine

00:05:14.380 the boy and his teammates to the locker room and basically kidnaps them and puts their lives in

00:05:19.180 danger in the process. At one point, a character trapped in the locker room says, we could literally

00:05:23.780 die. So not exactly a subtle piece of trans activism. It's a transparent attempt to indoctrinate 1.00

00:05:30.060 children into believing that there's nothing strange at all about a boy playing girls volleyball

00:05:34.300 or the idea that girls can transform into boys. And of course, the episode also intends to demonize

00:05:39.000 any adult who says otherwise. And by the way, in case you're curious, I watched some of the footage

00:05:43.660 online that the episode ends with the boy player becoming really frustrated that he's trapped in the

00:05:48.800 locker room by the evil coach who hates him because he identifies as trans. So he punches his fists

00:05:53.800 really hard into the floor and breaks through the ground, revealing that it's actually an LCD screen.

00:05:58.200 So I guess that even in the fictional cartoon works of trans activism, so-called trans girls are prone 1.00

00:06:05.180 to uncontrollable testosterone-fueled outbursts. But in any case, no part of this production is

00:06:11.620 surprising in any way coming from Disney. What is surprising is that, at least for now, Disney has

00:06:18.420 pulled the episode. For once, they've decided that the indoctrination is just too on the nose.

00:06:23.200 And over on Blue Sky, someone who worked in the show's art department named Derek Malik Johnson,

00:06:28.860 pronouns he, him, posted this message to explain why. It's not the most grammatical post in the world,

00:06:34.160 but I'll try my best to read it. So it says,

00:06:36.980 So I guess I finally got hit with one of the project's episodes I worked on is getting shelved

00:06:43.380 because of which party that won the recent election. It breaks my heart knowing this impactful

00:06:48.420 and amazing episode is now about to be considered a lost media episode.

00:06:54.640 Now, with writing skills like that, I'm sure this guy will be hired by Disney to script the next Marvel

00:06:58.800 film. But officially, Disney has denied that they've pulled this episode because of the election or

00:07:03.480 because people are tired of trans activism posing as children's entertainment. They're also suggesting

00:07:07.560 that they're not influenced in any way by the fact that female volleyball players have been severely

00:07:11.440 injured by trans-identifying male players. But more recently, in the context of yet another

00:07:17.320 programming change, Disney has been more forthright about their motivations. So they've just eliminated

00:07:23.440 a so-called trans storyline in a different show. This is an upcoming episode of their animated series

00:07:29.740 Win or Lose, which is out early next year on Disney+. As The Hollywood Reporter put it yesterday,

00:07:35.100 quote, Pixar's original animated series Win or Lose will no longer include a transgender storyline in a

00:07:40.960 later episode. The series follows a co-ed middle school softball team named The Pickles in the week

00:07:46.980 leading up to their championship game. Each of the eight episodes center on the off-the-field life

00:07:51.300 of a character and their point of view, whether it be a player, a parent, a coach, or an umpire.

00:07:56.820 Now, here's the statement that Disney provided The Hollywood Reporter to explain the change. And again,

00:08:00.800 they're much more honest in this case about why they made the change. Shockingly honest, you might

00:08:05.880 even say, quote,

00:08:07.180 You think? Now, just a few months ago, a statement like that would have been unthinkable coming from

00:08:24.680 Disney. They were promoting their bold decision to include non-binary characters with they-them pronouns 0.96

00:08:31.180 in films like Elemental as recently as just last year. They had the same-sex kiss and light year

00:08:37.200 and so on. And now they're coming right out and saying that, in effect, it's inappropriate to use

00:08:42.800 cartoons to indoctrinate children into trans ideology. Now, of course, that statement doesn't go nearly

00:08:48.640 far enough. And this should not be a revelation for them, you know, but it's a start. And it's another

00:08:56.160 sign among many that we've seen in recent weeks that we're seeing a very rapid and profound change

00:09:01.600 in American culture, particularly as it relates to trans activism. But all of that is not to say

00:09:07.780 that we've won the battle for our culture, especially in Hollywood. You know, we're a long way from

00:09:13.820 that victory, in particular in Hollywood and the film industry. And the other day, we got a very clear

00:09:20.020 reminder of that fact when my film, Am I Racist, the top documentary film of this year by a mile,

00:09:27.200 the top documentary film of the decade, was snubbed from Oscar contention in the non-fiction

00:09:33.260 category. We didn't even make the shortlist of the top 15 films, which they eventually whittled down to

00:09:39.320 the final five nominees. And so this is, they didn't announce the nominees yet. They announced

00:09:44.100 their shortlist. They're essentially their top 15. These are the 15 films in the category that

00:09:49.120 they're going to choose from to pick their nominee. And we didn't make the top 15 with the number one

00:09:55.120 film in the genre by a wide margin. So as far as snubs go, objectively speaking, it's a pretty big

00:10:03.340 one. Not a surprising one by any means. I'm not shocked by it, but it's still a big snub.

00:10:09.620 As Deadline reports, quote, Am I Racist, the controversial documentary that satirizes diversity,

00:10:14.200 equity, and inclusion initiatives, failed to make the Oscar shortlist of non-fiction features today,

00:10:18.780 despite earning more money at the box office than any other documentary this year, by far.

00:10:23.280 It scooped up more than $12 million in the domestic box office, but that wasn't enough to sway the

00:10:27.580 minds of Academy Documentary Branch members who determined the shortlist, as well as the eventual

00:10:32.600 five Oscar nominees. Yes, the minds of the Academy Documentary Branch members have apparently decided

00:10:39.500 that documentary audiences don't know anything about documentaries. Because we might have an audience

00:10:46.000 score on Rotten Tomatoes above 95%. We might have exceeded box office totals for documentaries going

00:10:52.780 back six or seven years. But in the end, none of that matters. What does matter is what the Academy

00:10:59.340 Documentary Branch members think. And these Academy Documentary Branch members, according to the Academy,

00:11:05.920 have, quote, demonstrated exceptional achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures,

00:11:10.400 mostly by producing their own documentaries. And they've decided that Am I Racist is not,

00:11:16.180 in fact, an achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures. Some of these branch members have

00:11:21.560 even produced films that have grossed more than $50,000 internationally. So, you know,

00:11:28.000 they're qualified to make these kinds of determinations. They have their finger on the pulse of audiences

00:11:32.680 everywhere. So, what films did meet the branch members' high standards this year? Well, it turns

00:11:38.660 out that, to no one's surprise whatsoever, they rewarded a handful of films that address political

00:11:45.580 issues from a left-wing perspective. This is from Deadline's report, once again, quote,

00:11:50.760 films that focus on political questions beyond U.S. borders did get love from the DOC branch members,

00:11:55.580 among them The BB Files, Alexis Bloom's documentary that serves as a brutal takedown of Israeli Prime

00:12:00.400 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. No Other Land, a frontrunner for the Oscars, condemns Israeli

00:12:05.560 government policy in the occupied West Bank. Union, the documentary directed by Brett Story and

00:12:10.740 Stephen Meng, follows the first successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation,

00:12:16.180 a facility located on New York's Staten Island. Ah, yes, who could forget Union, the highly compelling

00:12:23.480 documentary that followed the successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse and make your

00:12:29.580 Amazon delivery slightly more expensive? It was a film that, you know, audiences just couldn't get

00:12:34.900 enough of. After all, it's a documentary that grossed a whopping $47,000 at the domestic box office,

00:12:41.240 which is more or less what we got with MI Racist, minus around $12 million. It's also a movie that

00:12:48.680 no one has said a word about, and like almost no one has seen, but who cares? In terms of cultural

00:12:56.560 impact and relevance in the year 2024, you know, union is it. And then far down the list, you've got

00:13:03.340 MI Racist. By the way, another film, again, to no one's surprise that made the shortlist is that Will

00:13:10.760 Farrell trans documentary, you know, where he goes across the country with his trans friend. And,

00:13:16.700 you know, that one also made, again, a documentary that probably no one has seen, but hasn't had no

00:13:23.600 cultural impact of any kind at all, but, you know, also made the list. Now, to be clear, of course,

00:13:28.680 this is an entirely expected outcome. No one here has been out of shape in shock and horror

00:13:35.400 because the Academy isn't celebrating us. We didn't make the movie in order to seek validation

00:13:40.380 from left-wing activists in Hollywood, and it's no surprise that we didn't get it. I mean,

00:13:45.280 if we wanted to make a movie that would be accepted by Hollywood, we would not have made that movie of

00:13:49.980 all movies. But two things can be true at the same time. This snub can be completely predictable and

00:13:57.400 unsurprising while also being still objectively outrageous and totally discrediting for the Academy

00:14:04.620 Awards. You know, if a conservative can make a documentary that crushes every other film in

00:14:09.580 its genre that year and beats every film in its genre in the past six or seven years, and yet still

00:14:14.720 not even crack the top 15 by the Academy of Standards, that means that conservatives are simply

00:14:19.040 excluded from having their work recognized by Hollywood. There's no other way to interpret it.

00:14:24.520 Again, not a surprise, but, you know, very discrediting. Now, granted, box office totals and audience

00:14:32.600 reception don't necessarily mean that a film is awards-worthy. It'd be easy to point out that,

00:14:40.480 you know, superhero films always, or at least until recently always, make billions of dollars and

00:14:46.160 achieve high audience scores. Does that mean that Spider-Man should win the award for Best Picture?

00:14:51.640 No, not in my opinion. However, if there was a shortlist for Best Picture, if they whittled it down to the

00:14:56.840 top 15, then yes, you'd expect the highest-grossing film of the year to at least be in the running for

00:15:01.120 consideration. But more to the point, you know, documentaries are a different animal entirely.

00:15:07.100 It's very easy for a big-budget superhero film from a major studio to earn a lot of money. It's

00:15:13.720 basically guaranteed. On the other hand, it is extremely difficult to create a documentary that

00:15:19.460 makes even a million dollars in the box office, let alone 12 million. And that's proven by the fact

00:15:24.320 that our film is in the top 35 all time. I mean, among all documentaries that have ever been made,

00:15:29.820 top 35 for domestic box office totals, what that means is that in the nonfiction category,

00:15:36.600 it is very, very challenging to tell a story and explore an issue in a way that a large audience

00:15:42.700 finds compelling and interesting. But that is, after all, the whole point of a documentary.

00:15:49.140 If your documentary doesn't connect with people, then by definition, it cannot be good and should

00:15:56.300 not be in the running to win any award. If it does not connect with the audience, it has failed

00:16:01.800 to do the one thing that it must do in order to qualify as artistically successful. So the performance

00:16:09.020 of our film, both in theaters and on our platform, proves that we succeeded not just financially but

00:16:14.880 artistically. We explored an issue and told a story in a compelling and interesting way, which means,

00:16:21.160 yes, at a bare minimum, we should be in the running for a nomination. By all rights, we should get the

00:16:25.540 nomination and win. But none of those things happen purely because of politics. And whether

00:16:30.580 you want to admit it or not, I mean, that does have larger ramifications for our culture. It affects

00:16:34.460 the kinds of films and shows that Hollywood produces. More importantly, it affects what our children

00:16:38.900 see as well. But Disney is relenting, as I mentioned earlier, but only to a point. This is very much an

00:16:45.440 ongoing fight because one thing I've learned, and maybe the main thing I've learned after getting

00:16:53.260 into filmmaking is that the left truly believes that it owns the art of filmmaking. Not just that

00:17:01.040 it owns Hollywood, which it does, but that it owns filmmaking itself as an art form. So any conservative

00:17:07.940 who makes a film in any genre is an intruder, is a usurper showing up in a place where he doesn't

00:17:15.780 belong. That's the way they see it. So the truth is that the success of our films, and by the way,

00:17:23.660 both of our films, both documentaries, are easily the most watched and influential documentaries of the

00:17:30.240 decade. I mean, we have the top two in this decade. And there's really no dispute. I don't think

00:17:36.960 anything else is even close to in the running. But that actually makes it less likely that they'll

00:17:43.900 be recognized by critics or awards. Our success is an affront to them. They hate us for it. They feel

00:17:49.200 personally insulted by it. Now, if this snub tells us anything, it's that we're angering all the right

00:17:55.060 people. And unfortunately for the esteemed Academy documentary branch members, all they've accomplished

00:18:01.880 this week is guaranteeing that we're not going to stop. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:19.280 All right, let's talk about drones. Shockingly, I haven't talked about this issue at all,

00:20:26.500 I don't think, on the show, even though you'd think it'd be right up my alley. This is like,

00:20:31.140 this is a story tailor-made for me, and so why haven't I talked about it? Maybe it's the

00:20:38.300 contrarian in me. I talk about UFOs when nobody is talking about them or cares about them, and then

00:20:43.280 I don't talk about them when everyone's talking about them and cares about them.

00:20:48.180 I didn't plan it that way. It's just how it worked out. But in any case, mysterious drone sightings all

00:20:54.300 over the country. You're familiar by now with the basics of this story, starting in New Jersey and

00:20:59.580 kind of branching out from there, at least along the East Coast. There have been these drone sightings,

00:21:06.420 hundreds of sightings. The Pentagon on Monday came out and said, everything's fine. Nothing to see

00:21:13.880 here. These are all just commercial aircraft or hobbyist drones or stars or weather balloons or

00:21:22.160 light refracting from Venus or any number of explanations. Basically, any explanation as long

00:21:28.140 as it's boring and not scary. That was their statement. We don't know exactly what this is,

00:21:34.280 but we're sure that whatever it is, it's fine. Which is the kind of answer that you wouldn't accept

00:21:44.840 in any other facet of your life. If you went to the doctor because you had some strange thing going on

00:21:54.940 in your body, you had some strange growth or something, and you go to the doctor, the doctor

00:21:59.440 says, well, I don't know what that is, but I'm sure it's fine. You wouldn't accept that. He's

00:22:04.900 like, well, if you don't know what it is, then how can you know that it's fine? It's like the fact

00:22:09.080 that there's something anomalous going on here is, in and of itself, is a pretty good indication that

00:22:14.100 it might not be fine. And yet we get this kind of answer from the government a lot, and that's what

00:22:19.540 they've been saying here is they don't know what it is, but it's probably fine. Yesterday, Biden

00:22:24.400 finally addressed the drone craze, I think for the first time, though very briefly, and talking to

00:22:29.900 reporters, and here's what he said.

00:22:33.360 I'm heading home now from Memorial State. Will you hold a press conference before the end of the year?

00:22:39.180 What's the explanation for all those drones over New Jersey? What's the behind all of that?

00:22:47.160 Nothing nefarious, apparently. But they're checking it all out. I think it's just one...

00:22:53.220 There's a lot of drones authorized up there. I think one started, and they all got everybody

00:22:59.820 wanted to get in the deal. But we're following this closely. So far, no sense of a danger.

00:23:07.000 Will you speak to Prime Minister Netanyahu about a ceasefire deal in the next month?

00:23:11.300 I've spoken to him. I'll just speak again.

00:23:13.380 When did you last...

00:23:14.180 Okay, so he says nothing nefarious, apparently. Apparently he's doing a lot of work there.

00:23:21.320 Not exactly instilling confidence, once again. Nothing nefarious, apparently.

00:23:27.380 And the problem is that the official explanations don't really comport with some of what we're

00:23:33.000 seeing. For example, the Express yesterday had footage of taken by a passenger on a plane over

00:23:40.920 what they think is Detroit, on its way into Newark, but over Detroit. And this passenger

00:23:50.920 saw these kind of glowing orbs in the sky. This was 10,000 or 12,000 feet in the air above

00:23:58.380 the clouds. And let's take a look at that.

00:24:05.640 So, there are the orbs. You can see the glowing orb-like vehicles.

00:24:09.980 This is an altitude well above where a commercially available drone could fly.

00:24:16.700 And...

00:24:16.980 All right, that's good. That's enough of that.

00:24:22.160 And there have been a lot of sightings like this. Hundreds, as I said, across the country

00:24:26.320 for several days now. And, you know, Pentagon and White House say it's nothing.

00:24:31.880 They don't know what it is, but it's nothing. They're sure of that.

00:24:34.140 Many other theories have been floated. Some have said that these are drones or aircraft

00:24:39.900 from, you know, some kind of foreign adversarial power. Chinese spy drones, as I just read an

00:24:48.520 article floating that as a possibility. I find that hard to believe, because the whole point,

00:24:52.900 and, you know, what do I know, but the whole point of a spy drone, I would think, is that

00:24:58.160 it's not supposed to be detected. But these things are lit up like glowing like the Fourth

00:25:04.600 of July, you know? So, I mean, I don't think your enemies are trying to put on a light show

00:25:09.480 for you. So, enemy spy drones that thousands of people can see and that attract hundreds

00:25:18.680 of headlines, there seems to be a concept problem. This is just not, it's not how that's supposed

00:25:24.340 to go. So, I find that hard to believe. The other possibility is that these crafts are part

00:25:29.260 of some U.S. government operation. I find that explanation kind of unsatisfying. What

00:25:36.200 would be the point? I mean, a common variation of this theory, or, you know, that you've probably

00:25:43.540 heard is that maybe the government's looking for something. And there's stories about a lost

00:25:49.540 nuke loss, radioactive materials, and, of course, there's no evidence of that. And once the sightings

00:25:58.500 spread out across the East Coast, it becomes even less satisfying. What are they looking for

00:26:04.040 15,000 feet above Detroit? You know? And, of course, you always get the people who say,

00:26:10.520 well, this is a diversion tactic. They're trying to distract us. That's what this is all about.

00:26:16.300 But as I always say to that, there will be no reason for the government to do anything so elaborate

00:26:23.180 to distract us. They don't need to conduct some convoluted operation with thousands of drones

00:26:28.780 across the East Coast to distract us. We are already distracted all the time, constantly.

00:26:36.000 You're distracted right now listening to me. Okay? Everybody is always. So, that's why I always

00:26:41.180 get a kick out of this. They had to do all this to distract us. They could just point to a squirrel

00:26:47.120 over there. We actually had a two-day news cycle about a squirrel. So, anything will distract us.

00:26:56.460 They could, I don't know, make Taylor Swift break up with Travis Kelsey. That would distract the 1.00

00:27:04.120 American public way, way more than 10,000 drones ever could. So, I find a lot of the standard

00:27:11.320 explanations unsatisfactory, which leaves us with the only remaining plausible answer, which is that,

00:27:22.000 yes, these are aliens. You know? Sorry, I know you expected me to say that. I know that

00:27:27.520 I'm not surprising you. I know as soon as you saw this, if you're a fan of the show, as soon as you

00:27:33.480 saw the drone thing, you're like, oh, Matt's going to say it's aliens. Well, yeah. It's because that's

00:27:37.360 what they are. I don't know what to tell you. So, I can't surprise you. Because in order to surprise

00:27:41.840 you, you have to be wrong. And that would be the most surprising thing for me to be wrong. But I need

00:27:45.420 to stick with my boring habit of being right, which means I have to say, these are aliens.

00:27:50.540 You know, one important fact here is that many of the initial New Jersey drone sightings

00:27:56.720 were over the ocean or of what appeared to be craft coming off of the ocean.

00:28:04.220 This is a common theme with UFO sightings. They're often seen coming out of or back into,

00:28:10.320 seemingly, the ocean. What's the significance of that? Well, I don't know. But I do know that

00:28:16.560 the deep ocean is the last place on Earth that is mostly uncharted and mostly unexplored. The deepest

00:28:23.040 parts of the ocean are less accessible to us than the moon. And meanwhile, people often ask, well,

00:28:29.620 if aliens are coming here, where are they going? Are they just coming and flying around a little bit

00:28:34.740 and then leaving a minute later? That just seems like a, that's a long way to go to just fly around

00:28:39.940 and leave. Doesn't make a lot of sense. And you're right, it doesn't. So, what if they're coming here

00:28:46.380 and actually staying? What if they are establishing alien bases under the water? I mean, that would be,

00:28:53.740 that would be one way to explain this. That's one explanation. Is it the best way to explain it?

00:29:01.020 Depends on what you mean by best. If by best answer, you mean most exciting, most interesting,

00:29:09.180 most fun, then yes, it's the best answer. The best answer is it's aliens coming out of their

00:29:16.260 alien bases in the ocean. That's the best answer. If that, now, if by best answer, you mean most

00:29:22.400 plausible, well then, stop being a bummer. Okay? It's, you have your drone theory, I have mine.

00:29:30.160 Nobody knows. So, when it comes to this, you just got to go with the most fun possible answer. That's my,

00:29:35.700 that's my, that's my version of, uh, Occam's razor. Okay? That's, that's, that's my little

00:29:42.320 twist on it. Only when it comes to mysterious things in the sky. Only then will I say that

00:29:48.080 I will choose the most fun possible explanation. Uh, and I'm, I'm doing the same here. I got to stick

00:29:56.420 by my guns on this. All right, I want to mention this story too. This is from a few days ago at this

00:30:01.480 point, and I missed it while I was away, which, which by the way, a lot of you in the audience were

00:30:05.380 upset that I disappeared without explanation. Um, and I also disappeared right when this drone stuff

00:30:11.680 was going on. So, you might have thought I'm on some kind of mission related to the drones. Uh, but

00:30:16.840 that was not the case. Actually, I left because of my, uh, we had a surprise party for my dad's 70th

00:30:21.460 birthday. And the problem is my dad listens to the show. So, I couldn't tell you guys that I was taken

00:30:26.000 off a few days because then he'd be suspicious. So, for the sake of preserving the surprise, I had to

00:30:30.860 spring this on you without notice. These are the moral quandaries that one faces while, uh,

00:30:36.160 attempting to pull off a surprise party. But anyway, uh, which we did pull off by the way,

00:30:40.660 he was surprised. So, this, this, uh, this happened late last week. And, uh, I have to say a few things

00:30:48.440 about it. You've probably already seen the clip. We'll play it anyway. This is Crystal Mangum, who's the

00:30:53.820 accuser in the Duke Lacrosse case, uh, admitting in a podcast last week that she made up that rape

00:31:01.060 claim almost 20 years ago. Now, I think it was in 2006. So, almost 20 years ago, it was all made up.

00:31:06.800 And, uh, she finally admitted it. Let's watch the clip.

00:31:11.620 And I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't. And that was wrong. 0.94

00:31:21.940 And, um, I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me, um,

00:31:32.200 and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.

00:31:42.860 And I hope that they can forgive me.

00:31:46.320 So, she made it all up. Uh, we already knew that she made it up. Any honest and intelligent person

00:31:52.020 knew that, knew it at the time. It was always obviously a lie. And now she's admitting to it

00:31:58.520 20 years later, uh, apologizing, hopes that, that they can forgive her. All she did was completely

00:32:04.900 ruin the lives of three young men. All she did was have these, uh, young men or try to have them 0.99

00:32:10.940 thrown in prison for decades. Um, all she did was, you know, tear the country apart over a lie that 0.99

00:32:16.620 she made up. And now she wants to be forgiven, uh, forgiven with zero accountability, zero consequences,

00:32:21.280 zero punishment. It's just obscene. Like, um, and imagine the reverse of this. Okay. Imagine,

00:32:28.040 um, imagine a man raped a woman and got away with it. And then 20 years later said, uh, yes, 0.95

00:32:37.560 I raped her. I'm sorry. That was wrong. I hope she can forgive me. Um, and then imagine that was 0.99

00:32:44.260 the end of it. No legal repercussions, no prison time, just an oops, sorry about that. I screwed up

00:32:50.660 and that's it. And in it, it, the apology almost makes it worse at that point because there's no

00:32:57.280 accountability. It almost makes it worse because it just makes the lack of consequence all the more

00:33:02.300 glaring and ghastly. And this comparison works because as I've said many times, falsely accusing

00:33:09.780 someone of rape is just as evil as rape itself. These are, these are two sides of the same coin,

00:33:16.600 essentially. The false rape accusation is basically the female version of rape. Uh, an evil pervert man 0.61

00:33:27.720 who gets off on imposing himself on women becomes a rapist, uh, an evil pervert woman who gets off on 1.00

00:33:35.040 imposing herself on men often becomes a false rape accuser. And the trauma suffered by the rape 0.99

00:33:43.440 victim and the false rape accusation victim is, is very similar, equally severe, equally devastating.

00:33:51.040 Um, and you know, of course, when you say things like that, people, people will accuse you of

00:33:59.460 downplaying the severity of rape. Um, but if you interpret it that way, it's just because it's

00:34:04.800 not, this is not downplaying the severity of rape. You are downplaying the severity of falsely accusing

00:34:10.160 someone. Okay. The point here is not to diminish the severity of rape, but to take this other thing

00:34:15.800 and, and make a point about how significant that is, that this is on the same, we're not bringing

00:34:21.300 this down a level. It's this other thing. We're bringing it up, making sure that it's on the correct

00:34:25.660 level. We're bringing it up a level in terms of, uh, explaining the severity of it. I mean, it, you,

00:34:31.560 when we say ruin the life of someone, this, this, that is what you are doing. You are ruining their

00:34:38.200 life. Um, and those guys who were accused, I don't know where they are today. Hopefully they've been

00:34:44.220 able to, uh, you know, pick up the broken pieces and build some kind of life. It's not,

00:34:50.580 your life isn't literally over. You continue living hopefully, but, um, you have just sent

00:34:58.000 their life careening off on a new course, um, that it shouldn't be on. And you've done this

00:35:03.480 all with your false accusation. And in the meantime, and we can't, uh, understate the point

00:35:11.680 that you, you are trying to put them in prison. You're trying to have them locked up in prison

00:35:18.000 on false pretenses. So it's also kind of a form of kidnapping. I mean, you're, you're,

00:35:26.460 that's what falsely imprisoning someone is. And that's what you're trying to do. You're trying

00:35:30.780 to use the legal system to do it because you can't do it yourself, but that is what you're

00:35:36.780 trying to do. Um, now Crystal Mangum, I believe is already in prison for second degree murder. 1.00

00:35:47.680 She, uh, I think she stabbed her and killed her boyfriend, I believe, because this is just a

00:35:53.920 wonderful person all around, but she's set to be released, released soon. And she should now be

00:35:59.360 looking at another 20 years in prison at least. Okay. You want, I mean, forgiveness, uh,

00:36:07.920 the, the guys that she victimized, I don't know if they, I think if I was in their shoes,

00:36:15.300 I'd have a very hard time forgiving her. Uh, I think obviously it'd be a very hard time whether

00:36:19.680 I could actually forgive her or not. I don't know. And I don't know if they, if they can't forgive her,

00:36:23.560 I, I would totally understand that. Uh, it's not my place to forgive. It's not any, it's not anyone's

00:36:29.280 place. This is one of the things people don't understand about forgiveness. When you have someone

00:36:31.880 who, uh, does something and then they, they go in public and say, Oh, I, I, I, I'm asking for

00:36:38.900 forgiveness. You know, the forgiveness from the public, even if we could grant it is meaningless.

00:36:44.080 We were not the ones who were harmed by this. We're not the victims. So our forgiveness means nothing.

00:36:49.720 We actually can't forgive you. We, we aren't involved in this. Um,

00:36:55.160 the, the men that she victimized, they could choose to forgive her or not. But what I do know

00:37:03.780 is that, you know, forgiveness can be an effect, uh, you know, is, is in effect a sort of one way

00:37:10.840 street in that way that a person chooses to forgive or they choose not to. But reconciliation,

00:37:17.240 having any kind of real reconciliation, that is not a one way street that, that on the part of the

00:37:24.840 wronged person, it involves forgiveness on their end or on the person, on the part of the person who

00:37:30.000 did the wrong thing, there must be accountability. You have to be willing to suffer the consequences

00:37:36.700 and accept the consequences of the terrible thing that you did. And by the way, if you're not,

00:37:44.980 then you're not actually sorry. So your apology is not real. Um, and in this case, there's no

00:37:52.180 consequence, no legal consequence, which is just crazy. Um, and all that does is encourage more of

00:38:00.560 this kind of stuff in the future. When someone could come out years after the fact and say, yeah,

00:38:04.860 you know what? I made it up. And there's no consequence at all. I find that, uh, as I said,

00:38:10.520 obscene is the best word I can think of for it. Uh, Daily Mail has this story. The San Francisco

00:38:18.360 Department of Public Health has hired a consultant on weight stigma and weight neutrality despite the

00:38:24.040 city in the midst of a battle against rampant homelessness, open air drug use, and violent

00:38:28.880 crime. Virgie Tovar, a self-described anti-waste-based discrimination expert, describes herself as a

00:38:35.300 prominent advocate for fat positivity and body acceptance, announced, uh, announcing her appointment

00:38:39.780 on her Instagram. She called it an absolute dream come true. I'm unbelievably proud to serve the city.

00:38:45.440 I've called home for almost 20 years in this way. Tovar wrote, this consultancy is an absolute dream

00:38:50.600 come true. And it's my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public

00:38:55.360 health. Okay. So San Francisco has a million serious problems. The city's falling apart. Anyone who's

00:39:02.040 been there recently as I have been multiple times, unfortunately knows that this is no exaggeration. 0.99

00:39:07.860 I mean, it's a filthy, disgusting place. Uh, I can't imagine ever living there. If I was offered a 0.92

00:39:13.220 job that pays 10 times more, my current salary, I, I, but I had to live in San Francisco, I wouldn't

00:39:19.380 take it. Um, I wouldn't even be tempted to take it. That's how revolting San Francisco is. San Francisco

00:39:23.420 is so bad that the fact that there are gay men walking around fully naked in the city 1.00

00:39:29.440 is actually not even the worst thing about it, about the city. It's top five for sure. I mean, 0.96

00:39:36.620 it's, you know, probably three or four on the list, but it has so many problems that somehow

00:39:40.500 there are things even worse than exhibitionist weirdos walking around. And, uh, in spite of all

00:39:48.780 that, the city is taking the time to focus on weight stigma with their weight stigma czar,

00:39:55.120 Virgie Tovar. Uh, and by the way, here she is, uh, uh, this is a video making the rounds on, on,

00:40:01.580 on X, but here she is, uh, introducing herself. Let's watch this.

00:40:06.500 Hi, my name is Virgie Tovar and I'm the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat,

00:40:10.920 as well as a few other books on fat positivity and body acceptance. When I think about what people

00:40:17.760 might be surprised by or what you wouldn't think of when you think of eating disorders,

00:40:22.800 I immediately think of being a kid. I was a kid in a larger body, a teen in a larger body,

00:40:28.300 and also I'm an adult in a larger body. And the message I always got from my doctor was

00:40:32.720 shrink your body by any means necessary. And it really felt like there was a sense of a don't ask,

00:40:38.480 don't tell. So, um, because I truly, truly, truly believed, right. And this is where I think the

00:40:43.960 surprise comes in. I really believed that this was about my health. I really believed that my doctor

00:40:49.280 was right. What I think of, what you think of when you think of eating disorders, I think of being

00:40:56.320 a kid. That's a, that's a sentence that she just, she just said there. Uh, a couple of things here.

00:41:02.400 Number one, yeah, you, you should, you should make yourself smaller by any means necessary. That,

00:41:10.860 that is correct. Uh, there's nothing sinister about that by any means necessary. You should make

00:41:16.460 yourself smaller. If that's the message you get from doctors, like that's the correct message.

00:41:19.900 That doesn't mean that you should be bulimic or anorexic because those methods aren't necessary

00:41:25.140 to lose weight. They're also not recommended from a health perspective, obviously, but the point is

00:41:30.940 they aren't necessary. So if you're hearing the message that you should lose weight by any means

00:41:35.380 necessary, that is not an advocacy for, for eating disorders. That the necessary means for losing

00:41:41.760 weight is, is eating less and moving more. Okay. That, that is what is necessary. That is the

00:41:48.700 necessary. Those are the necessary means. And yes, that is what you should do. And second, um,

00:41:55.980 she says she's the author of a book called, you have the right to remain fat,

00:42:00.340 which by the way, I know I said recently that gag gifts are lame, but there are exceptions to every rule.

00:42:07.440 And, um, it would be very funny to give that book to somebody as a gag gift, um, wrap the book,

00:42:14.320 hand it to them, tell them, you know, you saw this book on the shelf and thought of them immediately.

00:42:19.620 And, uh, you thought that they'd find it inspiring. Now, important disclaimer here. This is a, this is a

00:42:24.540 gag gift only for men. You know, this is you as a man, give it to a male friend or a male family member

00:42:31.180 who has a good sense of humor. I would not give this as a gag gift to a female. Okay. Don't give it to 1.00

00:42:36.120 your wife as a gag gift. That would be a very good way to ruin Christmas. Um, a funny thing for me to

00:42:41.280 think about you doing that. But, um, anyway, I looked at the book on Amazon. Here's the description

00:42:47.500 in case you're curious. It says, growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was

00:42:55.220 something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it and

00:43:00.560 gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Just a side note. Um, and you always hear

00:43:06.860 this from, you know, uh, morbidly obese people that, um, well, I've tried dieting for, for two

00:43:14.860 decades. No, you haven't. Okay. Two decades of dieting. And you look like that in literally

00:43:20.660 impossible, literally impossible to, to diet for two decades and end up looking like that again.

00:43:26.680 It breaks the laws of physics. It cannot be done now. I mean, well, I guess it depends what you

00:43:33.820 mean by dieting. You could just have a really, really bad diet. I mean, your idea of dieting

00:43:38.460 could be insane, but like actual dieting where you're, you know, you're, you're, you're cutting

00:43:45.400 down the calories. And again, you're, you're moving more. The calorie deficit two decades and

00:43:51.000 you're morbidly obese, impossible to do, cannot be done. So every time you hear this, I've tried

00:43:57.380 dieting. I've tried everything. No, you haven't. I've tried everything to lose weight. No, you

00:44:01.400 haven't. Not only have you not tried everything, you haven't even tried the one single most obvious

00:44:07.240 thing. And the only thing that aside from drugs will make you lose weight, which is to cut the

00:44:15.020 calories and to move, move more. Um, so you haven't tried, you haven't tried everything. You

00:44:20.680 haven't tried anything. Actually, you've tried nothing basically. Um, but there was also this

00:44:28.460 line I like. She says, um, Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally. Food is free

00:44:34.080 for moral judgment and you can jiggle through life with respect. Uh, jiggle through life with

00:44:44.880 respect. Those are those, those words that were written and not to be funny. And of course the

00:44:49.840 whole premise here misses the point intentionally. You know, the, these fat acceptance people always go

00:44:54.580 on about how all bodies should be valued equally, which yes, true. If you mean that all people,

00:45:01.900 regardless of their size should have equal rights and moral dignity as human beings, that's true.

00:45:08.820 But that's also exactly why you shouldn't be fat. If you value yourself and your body,

00:45:12.660 you should not be doing something that destroys yourself and your body. Fat acceptance is no

00:45:16.840 different than, you know, the idea of cancer acceptance. Imagine a movement that tells you to

00:45:21.920 embrace and enjoy having cancer. Like imagine a movement that, that, that says we shouldn't negatively

00:45:27.680 judge people who do things that cause cancer. We should encourage them to keep doing it.

00:45:35.480 You know, write a book called, You Have the Right to Die of Cancer. Now, of course, this analogy

00:45:39.980 doesn't actually work because there can be a point with cancer when you do have to basically accept

00:45:45.060 it. You know, if you're terminal stage four, cancer is untreatable, inoperable. Um, then at that

00:45:51.140 point, you know, basically you should be in the acceptance stage. Although even, even then it'd be

00:45:55.380 perverse to insist that somebody love and embrace the cancer itself. It's a tragedy, uh, at this

00:46:03.060 point unavoidable. So, so hopefully you, you can find happiness and peace in spite of the cancer,

00:46:07.920 but you don't find it in the cancer or through the cancer or because of the cancer. Um, on the other

00:46:15.000 hand, there is never a point with fatness where you should just accept it. Uh, it, it's something,

00:46:20.860 it's, it's never terminal. I mean, you, you can always become less fat as long as you're alive,

00:46:26.100 uh, which you won't be for very long if you insist on being morbidly obese. And that's really the

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00:48:38.580 You may have heard the phrase theater kid occupied government. It's an expression that in normal

00:48:49.960 circumstances is not meant to be taken literally. It's been used in cases where, say, the Biden

00:48:53.940 administration invites TikTok influencers to the White House or when Eric Swalwell starts crying in

00:48:58.980 Congress because of a meme that depicts Donald Trump rescuing cats from Haitian migrants. These are 1.00

00:49:04.020 situations in which Democrat politicians act like theater kids or when they promote influencers who

00:49:08.740 seem like theater kids. But in general, no one is actually suggesting that theater kids are literally

00:49:13.220 occupying the government and conducting its day-to-day operations. It's an expression. It's meant to parody

00:49:17.820 Democrats in exaggerated terms to highlight how absurd things become when they're in power. But by this

00:49:24.520 point, we're all very familiar with the Democrats' uncanny ability to turn absurd and exaggerated

00:49:28.860 situations into reality. They're becoming impossible to parody. And as if to prove that point,

00:49:34.140 a Democrat on the Supreme Court has just decided to embrace her inner theater kid in the most literal

00:49:39.560 sense. As you may have seen, Kentonji Brown Jackson had her debut on Broadway on Saturday night,

00:49:45.700 appearing in the musical And Juliet, which apparently is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's 0.71

00:49:50.980 Romeo and Juliet. She plays a character called Queen Mab, who, according to a poster from the production,

00:49:56.680 has she-her pronouns. And she appears in two scenes that were written specifically for her for a one-night

00:50:02.620 only performance. Here's some of the promo video that they released after her appearance. Watch.

00:50:09.480 Female empowerment. 0.99

00:50:16.640 Sick. 0.97

00:50:18.400 Welcome to the first day of rehearsal.

00:50:20.920 Thank you.

00:50:21.420 I'm so excited to be here. This has been a dream of mine.

00:50:24.720 Tonight, we have a very special guest, Supreme Court Justice, Kentonji Brown Jackson!

00:50:34.980 Now, just from the short clips that appear in the promo, you can already tell that she can't act.

00:50:40.140 She actually managed to bungle one of the few lines she had when she gets interrupted by the crowds and

00:50:44.400 just stops mid-sentence. And other clips from her performance demonstrate that she can't really sing

00:50:49.180 either. But before I subject you to that footage, I need to make the point that even if Kentonji Brown

00:50:54.340 Jackson could act and sing, she still shouldn't have made the decision to appear in this play for

00:50:59.200 several reasons. For one thing, it's completely unwatchable political propaganda. In particular,

00:51:04.080 it's a full-on embrace of every ridiculous tenet of gender ideology, including the idea that people 0.81

00:51:08.780 can be non-binary. That's notable because gender ideology is currently before the Supreme Court in 0.94

00:51:14.540 the case pertaining to Tennessee's ban on child castration. During oral arguments in that case,

00:51:18.960 Kentonji Brown Jackson compared Tennessee's ban to a prohibition against interracial marriage,

00:51:24.300 made it very clear that she's a partisan on this issue. And now she appears to be openly celebrating

00:51:28.240 that fact in a play centered around these kinds of ideas, which should be disqualifying all on its

00:51:35.860 own. And to give you some idea of what this new version of Romeo and Juliet is like, there's a

00:51:40.620 character called May, who apparently is Juliet's best friend and who identifies as non-binary and uses

00:51:47.540 he, she, they pronouns. Uh, watch.

00:51:52.820 I'm not a girl, don't tell me what you believe. I'm just trying to find a woman in me.

00:52:03.240 Hi, I'm Justin David Sullivan. I use the pronouns he, she, and they, and I play Juliet's best friend, May.

00:52:09.700 While I'm in between.

00:52:12.600 May goes on a journey of self-discovery, finds love, and explores their gender identity.

00:52:21.080 So just to restate, this is the play that a sitting justice on the U.S. Supreme Court decided to

00:52:25.980 participate in. The justice who couldn't define the word woman during her confirmation hearing, 1.00

00:52:30.400 saying that she's not a biologist, um, is now endorsing propaganda about gender that's written

00:52:36.380 by activists on Broadway. But again, even if this play wasn't a piece of lazy activism, even if it

00:52:42.360 were the best play on Broadway, there's still no justification for a Supreme Court justice to

00:52:47.020 appear in it. I mean, at the same time, it's obvious why Katajibar Jackson decided to go through

00:52:51.480 with this, as if you couldn't tell from all the praise and applause she received in that clip.

00:52:55.140 She gave an interview with CBS where she explained her reasoning.

00:52:59.100 It's a story about, um, female empowerment and, uh, you know, women's ability to do what they want

00:53:10.580 to do to control their own destiny. I think it's a wonderful message and obviously very fun.

00:53:16.660 Other justices actually have, um, done somewhat similar things. I just also think it's very

00:53:24.680 important to remind people that justices are human beings, that we have dreams, and that we are public

00:53:32.540 servants, um, and we're not so detached from the people that we serve. I guess this moment reinforces

00:53:41.880 for me that anything is possible. You know, I didn't let anything sort of hold me back or stop

00:53:48.500 me the obstacles that I would think were pretty obvious based on my background. And so I think the

00:53:55.300 lesson is don't give up and don't be deterred. So there's a lot to think about, uh, here, but maybe

00:54:02.800 the best part is when she says that she's appearing in this Broadway play with a scene that was written

00:54:06.720 just for her because she wants to remind everyone that she's a public servant going out of her way 1.00

00:54:12.120 to appear in a play so she can attract as much attention as possible and fulfill her childhood

00:54:15.680 fantasy. But it's really for your benefit, peasant. So just shut up and clap as she breaks the glass 1.00

00:54:21.940 ceiling or whatever. Then she goes on to say that it's shocking that she was able to achieve this 0.98

00:54:25.640 lofty goal given her background and how all these obstacles were stacked against her. But here's the

00:54:31.540 thing, um, no obstacles were stacked against her. Solely on account of her race and gender,

00:54:36.000 she was admitted to a prestigious law school and she became a Supreme court justice after just one

00:54:39.840 year of serving on an appellate court because Joe Biden needed to nominate a black woman. And now

00:54:44.120 she's a Broadway actress because once again, she's getting preferential treatment instead of being 1.00

00:54:48.400 assessed on merit. So the total lack of self-awareness here and the all encompassing narcissism

00:54:53.620 is almost as bad as her decision to appear in this play in the first place. This is not a woman who 1.00

00:54:59.300 should be deciding cases at traffic court, much less the highest court in the country, but

00:55:03.340 she says it's totally fine because other justices have kind of done similar things in the past.

00:55:09.300 She was apparently thinking of this moment from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's career when she did a poor job of 0.92

00:55:14.460 reciting some feminist propaganda at the opera one time. Watch.

00:55:19.180 The best of the house of Krakentorp have open, but not empty minds. The best are willing to listen

00:55:30.720 and learn. No surprise then that the most valorous Krakentorpians have been women. 0.98

00:55:39.680 Now the whole clip is even longer, but no one should have to be subjected to it. It goes without

00:55:49.360 saying that, you know, this is not the kind of thing we want Supreme Court justices to emulate.

00:55:53.740 It's just painful to watch. In the case of Ketaji Brown Jackson, some people have tried to defend

00:55:58.880 this as a harmless, if deeply cringey, hobby. Maybe we should overlook this, they say, because after all,

00:56:06.220 Scalia liked going to the opera or whatever. But even aside from the fact that attending the opera

00:56:12.040 is nothing like what Jackson did, Scalia was also a skilled and competent jurist. Ketaji Brown Jackson

00:56:18.500 is not. Her opinions are riddled with factual errors, for one thing. At one point, for example,

00:56:24.440 she stated in an opinion that white doctors are significantly more likely to kill black babies 0.99

00:56:29.720 than black doctors are, but she overlooked the fact that white doctors are typically better trained, 0.97

00:56:34.140 so they tend to see babies of all races who are in critical condition, the worst cases.

00:56:40.260 On top of that, Ketaji Brown Jackson also got the numbers completely wrong. She said that,

00:56:44.260 according to a study, the survival rate for black infants who have black doctors was more than double

00:56:49.440 their survival rate when they have white doctors. In reality, the study showed a difference of survival

00:56:53.500 rates of less than 0.2%, which is essentially nothing, especially when you factor in the different

00:56:59.600 levels of experience the doctors have. This wasn't some trivial error. This was contained in

00:57:03.740 Jackson's dissent to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that overturned affirmative action.

00:57:09.120 Her reasoning for trying to uphold affirmative action was based on obvious lies, but she never 0.84

00:57:14.300 apologized for that. She never demonstrated a hint of self-reflection in this context or any other

00:57:18.020 context. Instead, she's now feeding her ego on Broadway. By the time she spent practicing for her

00:57:23.320 Broadway performance, would it have been better to utilize reading and learning how to do the job

00:57:28.260 she's been assigned? Of course, if she did that, then she wouldn't get to do a media tour to promote 1.00

00:57:33.120 herself and her new book, which just came out a few months ago. Somehow, Ketaji Brown Jackson secured

00:57:38.060 a million-dollar advance for that memoir, even though nobody read it, and it fell off the New York

00:57:42.500 Times bestseller list in like a month. Sales figures haven't been released, but as we all know,

00:57:46.960 books written by famous leftists are a bit like Hunter Biden's paintings. They have no value,

00:57:51.520 but strangely, someone is always willing to pay a lot of money for them. Now, I'm not suggesting that

00:57:55.520 Ketaji Brown Jackson is getting money from some nefarious source. I have no idea. What I am

00:57:59.560 suggesting is that Ketaji Brown Jackson has been given an awful lot of attention for someone as 0.99

00:58:04.220 thoroughly unintelligent and mediocre and narcissistic as she is. Her latest turn as an 1.00

00:58:09.120 actress on Broadway, a bad one, is just the most recent example of that. This is the Hamilton

00:58:14.980 phenomenon all over again. It's yet another occasion for rich New York elites to feel virtuous by

00:58:20.300 applauding mediocrity in the name of social justice. And above all else, the reason this

00:58:26.720 whole farce is so galling is that we used to expect just a certain amount of decorum and dignity

00:58:35.620 and seriousness from people who hold important positions in government, and we should still expect

00:58:43.660 that. Or else we'll just never get it. And that is why Ketaji Brown Jackson and the queer-themed 0.99

00:58:51.280 Romeo and Juliet remake that she just appeared in are both today canceled. That'll do it for the show

00:58:58.100 today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 18, 2024

Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist？” Was Snubbed By The Oscars

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