The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Trump continues his historic first week with another major

00:00:03.740 achievement, pardoning Biden's pro-life political prisoners. Meanwhile, Democrats in the Senate

00:00:08.100 unanimously blocked a law that would require doctors to provide medical treatment to newborn

00:00:12.420 infants. The pro-life cause is winning, but we have a long way to go. Also, Trump declassifies

00:00:16.960 all of the files on JFK, MLK, every other famous assassinated person in the 20th century who used

00:00:22.200 three initials. The rumor mill swirls around Barack and Michelle Obama. Are they headed for

00:00:26.520 divorce? That's the story anyway. And a musical about a transgender drug kingpin earned 13 Oscar 1.00

00:00:33.300 nominations in spite of the fact that this movie is without question one of the worst things ever

00:00:38.280 put to film. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:56.520 This is it, your final weekend to get 47% off new Daily Wire Plus annual memberships. Get

00:01:11.640 unlimited access to uncensored ad-free daily shows, groundbreaking documentaries, movies and series

00:01:16.520 and more. Use code 47 at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Did you know that 80% of resolutions

00:01:22.820 fail by February? Well, this year can be different because I've discovered something that's transformed

00:01:27.400 my approach to health. It's called Lumen, the world's first handheld metabolic coach. Here's

00:01:32.840 what makes Lumen special. It measures your metabolism through your breath, showing you whether you're

00:01:37.160 burning fats or carbs every morning. I take a quick breath into my Lumen and it gives me personalized

00:01:42.020 nutrition recommendations for the day. You can even check before and after workouts to optimize my

00:01:46.540 fitness routine and make sure I'm staying on track for my 2025 goals. You see, your metabolism is like

00:01:51.820 your body's engine. It's central to everything from energy levels to sleep quality. What I love about

00:01:56.340 Lumen is how it adapts to your body's needs because your metabolism is at the center of everything your

00:02:00.680 body does. Optimal metabolic health translates to a bunch of benefits, including easier weight

00:02:05.860 management, improved energy levels, better fitness results, better sleep, et cetera. Who doesn't want

00:02:11.300 all that? Well, the best part is that Lumen provides clear insights and guidance to help you make

00:02:15.800 informed decisions about your health. It's not about quick fixes, but understanding your body and making

00:02:20.560 sustainable changes. Take the next step to improve your health. Go to lumen.me slash Walsh to get 20%

00:02:26.720 off your Lumen. That's L-U-M-E-N dot me slash Walsh for 20% off your purchase. Thank you, Lumen,

00:02:33.660 for sponsoring this episode. Today is the annual March for Life rally here in Washington, which I'll

00:02:39.020 be attending today along with pro-life activists from all over the country. And it's easy to forget that,

00:02:43.940 you know, our wonderful pro-life Republican presidents prior to Donald Trump wouldn't even show up in

00:02:50.200 person to the March for Life. George Bush, for eight years in a row, hid in the White House and

00:02:56.640 refused to come out and even say hello. Trump was the first president to break that mold when he became

00:03:01.640 the first sitting president of either party to attend the event in person back in 2020. And then

00:03:06.740 just two years later, thanks to judges Donald Trump appointed to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade was

00:03:11.360 overturned. A generational goal of pro-life activists was finally accomplished, sparing the lives of 0.61

00:03:17.300 millions of children. In the wake of this historic victory, of course, Democrats retaliated. The Biden DOJ

00:03:23.360 commenced the wave of illegitimate prosecutions targeted at peaceful pro-life protesters all over the

00:03:28.240 country, from Washington to Tennessee to Michigan. And here's how these prosecutions worked. First, the DOJ

00:03:34.060 alleged that the protesters were violating the FACE Act, which protects, quote unquote, access to abortion

00:03:40.260 facilities. And then the Biden DOJ invoked the KKK Act, otherwise known as the Conspiracy Against Rights Act,

00:03:47.300 which is a law that has nothing to do with abortion facilities. It's a Reconstruction-era law

00:03:51.060 that was intended to prevent the KKK from intimidating black people from voting or serving

00:03:56.740 on juries. And by pairing these two laws together in a very novel way, the DOJ was able to pursue

00:04:02.820 felony charges and extremely lengthy prison sentences for these peaceful pro-life demonstrators.

00:04:08.860 Every single person attending one of these protests at an abortion facility could be accused of being

00:04:14.400 a conspirator, even if they didn't step foot in the facility itself. This is a legal approach that

00:04:20.520 was never even considered to be possible when the FACE Act was debated in Congress back in the early

00:04:25.020 1990s. In fact, Senator Ted Kennedy explicitly stated at the time that, quote, if an individual does

00:04:30.480 violate this law for the first time, it is not a felony. Well, that would be news to 75-year-old

00:04:36.720 Paulette Harlow. She's the mother of six children, including four kids she adopted.

00:04:40.400 Harlow was sentenced last summer to 24 months in federal prison for conspiracy against rights

00:04:46.880 and FACE Act violations. This is an obviously outrageous sentence that was issued by D.C.

00:04:53.280 Judge Colleen Collar Coddly. And in particular, the judge completely ignored the fact that Harlow

00:04:58.840 was in very poor health. As Harlow's husband stated during sentencing, quote, I feel like

00:05:02.940 Paulette is dying. In my heart, I think she's having a hard time staying alive. Instead of responding

00:05:08.160 to this information in any way, the judge appeared to mock Harlow's faith, saying that

00:05:12.260 she should, quote, make an effort to remain alive because that is a, quote, tenant of Harlow's

00:05:17.000 religion. Paulette Harlow was sentenced to home confinement until federal officials could find

00:05:22.260 a prison that could handle her medical needs. Now, outside the courthouse, Harlow emphasized that

00:05:28.220 she wasn't violent in any way. And just looking at her, you could tell she doesn't deserve to spend

00:05:33.220 two years in a federal prison. She's obviously not a threat to anyone. Watch. 0.92

00:05:38.660 Paulette, we've all just come out of your sentencing hearing here in D.C.

00:05:44.960 What would you like to tell our LifeSite News readers about what just happened there?

00:05:51.500 There was a great injustice with the entire case. And the worst part of it was that they

00:05:58.440 portrayed us as violent, something that people in the pro-life movement would never be. We would

00:06:05.400 never be violent. We absolutely abhor that. We especially abhor the violence that's put upon

00:06:13.580 the young babies that are being torn limb for limb. I mean, that is the ultimate violence. And we

00:06:18.700 certainly wouldn't, we wouldn't partake in any violence.

00:06:21.780 They went, the prosecutor and the judge went out of their way to keep using that term violent,

00:06:28.020 right? And you look like a violent person. They really did. And it was just, it was based on the

00:06:34.600 lies that the staff told. Now, if you can look at this elderly, infirm lady and think that she 1.00

00:06:40.640 deserves two years in federal prison for sitting outside of an abortion clinic, then you're simply 0.99

00:06:47.840 a bad person, if not a lunatic. As Harlow's lawyers at the Thomas More Society have pointed

00:06:54.440 out, this prosecution gets even more unlawful when you look at the cases the D.O.J. chose not to

00:07:00.040 prosecute over the last four years. Specifically, the D.O.J. failed to prosecute, quote, almost any of

00:07:06.480 the more than 170 incidents of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches nationwide

00:07:11.840 in the wake of the leak of the Dobbs decision, there were at least 86 Catholic churches and 74

00:07:18.060 pregnancy resource centers that were targeted after Dobbs. And one of those resource centers

00:07:22.900 received a threat that said, if abortions aren't safe, neither are you. And yet when the Daily Signal

00:07:29.660 reached out to the D.O.J. and the FBI to see if any of these cases were being investigated,

00:07:34.440 they didn't get a response. In other words, the D.O.J. was clearly targeting pro-life protesters

00:07:40.220 specifically because of their religious and political beliefs. They were applying the law

00:07:45.620 to different groups of people in different ways. And by the way, the FACE Act is also supposed to

00:07:51.160 allegedly protect pro-life pregnancy centers. It's under the same law. So the people that attack

00:07:57.260 those pregnancy centers should get at least the same sentences. And they didn't. In fact, in most cases, 0.75

00:08:03.900 they were not charged at all with anything. So this is unconstitution and it is unethical and immoral.

00:08:10.880 And the point of it was to intimidate pro-lifers into silence. That's why they arrested these people

00:08:16.500 like they were terrorists. They hit Paul Vaughn's home like he was bin Laden. Watch.

00:08:21.520 I'd like to speak to you about the D.O.J.'s Project 2022. It happened October 5th. It was 7 a.m. in the

00:08:27.940 morning when my house was assaulted, my wife and children were terrorized, and I was kidnapped at

00:08:32.840 gunpoint by four armed men. I had just sent three of my children to the car so I could take them to

00:08:37.680 school when the house began to shake from a loud banging near the front door. I heard men shouting

00:08:42.080 on my porch, open up FBI. The banging continued. As I looked out a side window to check the location

00:08:48.020 of my children, I saw two unmarked SUVs with lights flashing, but I did not see my children.

00:08:53.640 The banging continued and I heard more shouting. I opened the curtains on the front door to find

00:08:57.920 three men with guns trained on the door. I asked who they were looking for, and they replied,

00:09:03.260 we're here for you. They did not identify me or provide identification for themselves.

00:09:09.320 As I believe there was an imminent threat to the safety of my wife and seven children who were home

00:09:13.120 that day, I determined to surrender myself to them, hoping that they were legitimate law enforcement.

00:09:18.420 I opened the door and stepped out onto the porch, staring down the barrels of both a pistol and an

00:09:22.960 automatic weapon pointed at my head. This wasn't an especially incredible prosecution

00:09:28.000 by the DOJ because it was clear to everyone that Paul Vaughn wasn't even blocking access to the

00:09:34.220 abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Video evidence proved that. He wasn't, he was not

00:09:41.020 blocking the entrance at all. Instead, they accused Vaughn of stalling the police negotiators outside of

00:09:46.500 the facility. So again, they're treating anyone remotely associated with these protests as a

00:09:51.880 violent terrorist. But yesterday, Donald Trump put an end to these political prosecutions.

00:09:58.500 He signed pardons for nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life protesters, including Paulette Harlow and

00:10:04.720 Paul Vaughn. Watch. Next, we have a set of pardons for peaceful pro-life protesters who were prosecuted

00:10:13.440 by the Biden administration for exercising their First Amendment rights. Do you know how many?

00:10:18.860 I believe it's 23, sir. 23 people were prosecuted. They should not have been prosecuted.

00:10:28.160 Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this. 1.00

00:10:38.680 They'll be very happy. So they're all in prison now. Some are. Some are out of custody. It's ridiculous.

00:11:03.100 Now, between these pardons and the repeal of Roe, there is now absolutely no question

00:11:10.440 that Trump has done more for the pro-life cause than any other Republican president in history. It's

00:11:18.640 not even close. During the campaign, there were some conservatives who doubted that. Some of them

00:11:24.840 suggested that pro-lifers shouldn't vote for Donald Trump. But that was always a very bad idea,

00:11:30.440 as I argued at the time. And now everyone can see it. I mean, for the first time in history,

00:11:37.620 pro-lifers have a true advocate in the White House. Donald Trump is that. What the hell did

00:11:44.300 George Bush ever do for the pro-life cause? What did Ronald Reagan do? Well, I'll tell you what they

00:11:49.320 did. They treated pro-lifers like the redheaded stepchildren of the conservative movement. They did 0.61

00:11:54.220 nothing. Now, Trump, even though he is personally more moderate on the abortion issue than I am,

00:12:02.040 he is actually delivering major wins for the cause. He's actually accomplishing things,

00:12:07.600 things that seemed impossible not too long ago. And he's not stopping. Donald Trump is now

00:12:11.700 single-handedly reversing a wave of lawfare against pro-lifers who were punished in cruel and inhumane

00:12:17.220 unconstitutional ways because of their religious beliefs and their political beliefs. In fact,

00:12:24.020 we've had so much success on this issue in the last few years that some conservatives would even

00:12:29.600 say, and you hear this said now, that the march for life is pointless. Why even still have it?

00:12:35.960 Well, if you're wondering about that, events elsewhere in Washington, I think show why it's

00:12:41.900 necessary. As you might have heard, every Democrat in the Senate just voted against a measure

00:12:46.900 that would have required doctors to provide life-saving medical treatment to infants who

00:12:52.040 are born alive after a botched abortion. So they've temporarily blocked the bill because in the

00:12:57.700 Senate, as of now, you need 60 votes to clear a filibuster and force a vote. Now, even the

00:13:03.520 reasonable Democrats, like noted slob John Fetterman, voted in favor of infanticide, voted against the

00:13:12.160 bill and in favor of infanticide. Here's what Fetterman wrote, quote,

00:13:15.340 I've always stood on the side of Roe and a woman's right to make her own health care choices. 0.98

00:13:20.480 It's absurd to mandate criminalization because of those choices. Any bill that does so, including

00:13:26.220 the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act, is a no from me. It's absurd. It's absurd, he says,

00:13:33.380 to provide medical treatment to infant children who are already born, infant children who are lying on

00:13:39.420 the table and dying. John Fetterman, that disgusting oaf, that slob, you know, John Fetterman, 0.99

00:13:46.540 Shrek, says that it's absurd to provide them. He's not even just opposed to it. It's ridiculous. 0.97

00:13:52.700 It's a ridiculous thing to try to provide medical care to infants. 1.00

00:13:56.560 That's what this bridge troll says. In other words, he's saying that women have the right 1.00

00:14:04.500 to murder their children even after they're born. And of course, this is the natural extension of 0.67

00:14:11.280 Democrats' pro-abortion logic. And in this case, he's just coming right out and saying it.

00:14:16.620 So, no, I really don't want to hear another word about so-called moderate Democrats.

00:14:24.280 A lot of people have been saying that about John Fetterman lately. 0.98

00:14:27.940 In fact, when I was criticizing him for dressing like a gross, disgusting, 0.99

00:14:31.940 ridiculous slob at the inauguration wearing gym clothes, there were a lot of conservatives who said, 0.99

00:14:39.080 well, he's one of the good ones. Don't criticize him. Oh, yeah, he's a good one who just voted in 0.99

00:14:44.220 favor of infanticide. That's the good one? No, there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat. I

00:14:50.840 don't know how many times we need to learn this lesson. Even the moderate mainstream Democrats believe

00:14:56.140 that infant children outside the womb have no inherent right to life. Now, if you look at the

00:15:02.540 text of the law, that becomes very clear. Here's what the law requires. Quote, any healthcare practitioner

00:15:07.660 present at the time the child is born alive shall, A, exercise the same degree of professional

00:15:14.040 skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably

00:15:18.640 diligent and conscientious healthcare practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the

00:15:24.420 same gestational age. And B, following the exercise of skill, care, and diligence required under

00:15:29.860 subparagraph A, ensure the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.

00:15:36.880 And then the law states, quote, a healthcare practitioner or any employee of a hospital,

00:15:40.680 a physician's office, or an abortion clinic who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the

00:15:45.400 requirements of paragraph one shall immediately report the failure to an appropriate state or

00:15:49.980 federal law enforcement agency or to both. This is not some hypothetical scenario. I mean,

00:15:57.200 it happens more often than you might think. In Florida, 14 babies were reported to have survived

00:16:02.260 abortions in 2023, and 16 babies survived abortions in 2022. That's just in one state. In Michigan,

00:16:09.780 122 babies were involved in so-called failed abortions, and we have no information as to what

00:16:15.600 happened to them afterwards. In Tim Walz's Minnesota, as we've previously discussed, at least five abortions

00:16:21.760 resulted in a live birth in 2021. And instead of receiving life-saving measures, at least two of those

00:16:27.380 infants received comfort care, which is to say they let them die. And instead of outlawing this,

00:16:36.040 the state of Minnesota decided to simply stop posting records from those failed abortions.

00:16:40.680 So now they can kill infants and not tell anyone. On the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer made an attempt

00:16:48.640 to defend infanticide. Here's how he framed the argument. Listen.

00:16:51.720 The bill is a very definition of pernicious. It attacks women's health care using false narratives

00:17:00.040 and outright fear-mongering. And it adds more legal risks for doctors on something that's already

00:17:06.400 illegal. So much of the hard rights anti-choice agenda is pushed, frankly, by people who have little

00:17:13.220 to no understanding of what women go through when they're pregnant. The scenario targeted by this bill

00:17:19.760 is one of the most heartbreaking moments that a woman could ever encounter. The agonizing choice

00:17:27.280 of having to end care when serious and rare complications arise in pregnancy.

00:17:33.160 And at that moment of agony, this bill cruelly substitutes the judgment

00:17:40.620 of qualified medical professionals and the wishes of millions of families

00:17:46.400 and allows the ultra-right ideology to dictate what they do.

00:17:53.960 First of all, he claims that the bill is redundant. He suggests that it's already illegal

00:17:58.140 to commit infanticide. But, I mean, first of all, since when do the Democrats care about that,

00:18:03.640 even if it was true? They pass redundant bills all the time. Remember, it was the Biden administration

00:18:09.700 making lynching illegal, signing a bill banning lynching, even though lynching is already illegal

00:18:18.800 in 50 different ways. So since when do they care about a law being redundant? But in this case,

00:18:26.020 it's not redundant. As we just established, many states are currently allowing doctors to kill infants

00:18:30.700 after they're born by providing them with a lesser standard of care. The doctors are allowed to do this

00:18:36.580 and no one reports them for it. The law against murder is clearly not being enforced in these contexts.

00:18:43.180 That's why we need this legislation, because it actually addresses the problem.

00:18:46.860 It enhances the report inquirements surrounding this barbarism so that doctors can't keep hiding it.

00:18:53.840 If you parse what Schumer is saying, he's trying to argue that some women decide to kill their children

00:18:59.420 when it's clear that they're going to have serious life-altering medical problems.

00:19:03.000 And then when those children manage to survive the abortion, he's saying that we should allow the 0.97

00:19:07.900 women to finish the job, so to speak. But again, having a life-altering medical problem doesn't 1.00

00:19:13.940 mean you deserve to die. You are entitled to the same degree of care as anyone else with that life-altering

00:19:20.380 medical problem. And that's what the bill requires. I mean, what if a four-year-old child has an accident

00:19:26.040 on the playground and ends up disabled for life? Would it be okay with Chuck if the child's parents decided

00:19:30.880 to simply suffocate him with a pillow and throw him in a dumpster out back? Apparently so,

00:19:36.580 because that's what his own logic would justify. Democrats' decision to block this bill, I think,

00:19:43.360 proves two things. First of all, it shows that the Democrat Party is still radically, horrifically,

00:19:49.360 satanically extreme, despite whatever concessions to moderates they claim to be making.

00:19:54.660 And secondly, it demonstrates that despite all of our victories in recent days and years,

00:20:00.360 we still have a lot of work to do. The pro-life movement has never had more power than it has

00:20:07.980 right now. And at this moment, after the over-embrace of infanticide that we just saw in Congress,

00:20:15.800 it's clear that we need to use it. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:20:27.160 Okay, quite a lot going on right now. It's hard to keep track of it all. I mean, what's that saying?

00:20:33.140 There are years when nothing happens and weeks when years happen or something like that.

00:20:40.220 So a lot's going on. So let's try to get through as much of it as we can. Daily Mail reports,

00:20:44.160 the last secret files about the assassination of John F. Kennedy can now be published after

00:20:48.660 President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification of all remaining documents

00:20:52.280 about the 1963 murder. And this also, the executive order obtained by the Daily Mail said,

00:20:59.600 more than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Roderick F.

00:21:03.440 Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the federal government has not released to the

00:21:07.980 public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve

00:21:12.300 transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related

00:21:17.580 to these assassinations without delay. And his intelligence chiefs will have 45 days to put

00:21:24.640 together a plan to release the RFK and King archives. And so all this stuff is coming out.

00:21:32.680 I mean, this, I mean, it's, it's just kind of mind, mind boggling and mind blowing what's happening

00:21:40.940 right now. I mean, think of it this way, declassifying all documents related to the most significant

00:21:49.300 and high profile assassinations of the 20th century is the kind of thing that if it's going to happen at

00:21:57.380 all, you would expect that it would be the capstone of a presidency, right? It's the kind of thing that

00:22:04.100 if a president's going to do it, which none of them have up until now, you'd think they do it on the way

00:22:09.360 out the door. Instead, Trump has jumped right in and done it right away. And he's doing it along with

00:22:16.980 dozens of other extremely significant, far reaching, truly revolutionary moves. And this is all in the

00:22:24.660 first week. And here's another way of looking at it. Take everything Trump has done in week one

00:22:31.160 and spread it out over the course of four years. If that's all he did in his presidency,

00:22:39.600 if he only did the stuff he's done this week and you spread it out, we would have to say at the end

00:22:47.200 of his term that it was a highly successful presidency. If it was just this one week of

00:22:53.740 stuff and it was spread out, you'd look back at it after four years and say, wow, that was a

00:22:59.620 that was a whirlwind presidency. I mean, he achieved quite a lot. And yet this has all been done in one

00:23:05.180 week. I mean, it's extraordinary, right? What else is there to say? To me, Trump's second term in

00:23:13.420 office so far, and we're only a weekend. But so far, his second term is the fulfillment of Trump's

00:23:21.660 promise. And I don't just mean that he's fulfilling actual promises that he made, although he is doing

00:23:27.600 that. I mean that it's the fulfillment of the promise of having a guy like Trump in the White House.

00:23:36.860 People who supported Trump from day one, going all the way back to 2015, the people who supported him

00:23:42.440 all the way back then, they did precisely because they imagined that he would be the kind of guy who

00:23:48.020 would do exactly what he's been doing this week. And that didn't happen his first term, right? At the

00:23:54.320 end of Trump's first term, you had to look back on it and say, well, it was successful. He was a good

00:24:00.120 president. But in terms of the actions he took as an executive, it was for the most part pretty well

00:24:05.960 in line with what you would expect from a solid Republican president. There really wasn't anything

00:24:12.100 that he did in the first term where you would look at that and say, okay, well, only Trump would do

00:24:16.960 that. But this is different. Now he's doing things where you look at it and you say, yeah,

00:24:27.740 only Trump would do that. We needed Trump to do that. He's doing things that no Republican president

00:24:34.780 before him did. And he's doing things that very, very, very few Republicans today would do.

00:24:45.240 So already in week one, we can say, okay, we needed Trump for this. We needed Trump to do

00:24:51.460 this kind of thing. So it's been just remarkable, truly. And also, by the way, you can't understate,

00:25:05.780 I mean, Charlie Kirk had a tweet about this yesterday. And I think it's certainly true that 0.93

00:25:09.820 people are talking about Trump 2.0 and how Trump 2.0 is so much more focused and determined and just

00:25:19.000 on a mission to get as much done as he possibly can. And that's true. But the other part of that

00:25:26.920 is it's Trump 2.0. It's also Trump's team 2.0. So we also have to give a lot of credit to the team

00:25:34.460 around him. It's just a much better team this time, so much better. And he's got people around him who

00:25:42.300 are just like him are also on a mission, know exactly what they want to do, are determined to

00:25:50.260 do it. And they don't care what the media says about it, what the left says about it. We're just

00:25:56.900 going to get it done. People like Charlie Kirk himself. So, all right, now let's, let's go check

00:26:04.000 out the rumor mill. There's a lot of discussion on social media this week about the rumor that

00:26:12.100 Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are headed for a divorce. And so far, American media outlets are

00:26:19.080 staying far, far away from this story, as you would expect. But it's all over social media. It was

00:26:25.220 trending on Twitter last night on X. I was, I was looking for an article about it. And as for American

00:26:32.500 outlets, I, I, I found nothing except for this in Yahoo. It says rumors are rife surrounding

00:26:40.920 Barack and Michelle Obama's marriage. And there's growing speculation that they're headed for a

00:26:44.400 divorce. A couple who have been married for over three decades have recently garnered significant

00:26:49.600 attention to their personal life. Speculation has intensified after Michelle skipped two high 0.78

00:26:54.580 profile events, fueling discussions about the couple's marriage. Um, so she was not at Jimmy

00:27:01.420 Carter's funeral and she also was not at the inauguration. Now, not being at the inauguration

00:27:06.740 is it's weird. It's strange. It looked weird. You know, especially when you had, if you're watching

00:27:12.620 the inauguration, the ceremony and you know, there's this long process of all of the, uh,

00:27:20.260 upper level mucky muck people coming out and, uh, and they all walk out slowly and most of them 0.99

00:27:26.960 are paired up, you know, married couples. And then you just see Barack Obama walk out by himself

00:27:31.980 without his wife. It looked really strange. Now that you could explain maybe just by the fact that

00:27:38.820 Michelle hates Donald Trump with a passion. And so she refused to go not going to Jimmy Carter's

00:27:45.200 funeral though is, is different. That to me is the much stranger absence. Uh, so there's that

00:27:52.340 that's fueling the rumors. And then there's also just rumors of people claiming that they have

00:27:57.500 talked to people that are close to the Obama's or in the inner circle. And you know, that's where

00:28:02.120 all this stuff is coming from. Uh, and the other part of this rumor, which isn't mentioned in the

00:28:06.240 article is that allegedly Barack and, uh, Jennifer Aniston are now an item allegedly according to the

00:28:13.300 rumor. That's the rumor that he's cheating on Michelle with Jennifer Aniston. That's the gossip.

00:28:18.600 That's the tea as the kids would say. I don't know if the tea is correct, but that's what it is.

00:28:23.860 I don't know if any of this is true. Uh, I will say that it will be pretty damned hilarious if

00:28:30.640 Barack leaves his wife for a white woman. Uh, I mean, we don't root for that to happen. I believe 0.99

00:28:38.800 in the sanctity of marriage. I don't want anyone to get divorced, even Michelle and Barack, but there

00:28:44.080 would just be so many levels of irony to that, that, uh, and, and for so many people on, on the

00:28:49.680 left and so many of the race hustlers who idolize and worship Barack, it would be such a, it would

00:28:56.260 cause such turmoil for them that, uh, I admit I would enjoy it, but those are the rumors I will say

00:29:06.100 personally, and maybe I'm, I have no information. I don't know. I don't know anybody, but I find these

00:29:12.080 rumors implausible for two reasons. And first it's hard to believe that Barack Obama is shacking up

00:29:25.940 with Jennifer Aniston because she, she doesn't seem like his type. You know, if you catch my drift,

00:29:35.240 you know, I mean, according to other rumors, Jennifer Aniston is not Barack Obama's type. 0.99

00:29:43.560 And I don't mean because she's white. That's not the physical feature that would seem to take her 1.00

00:29:49.020 out of the running in the Barack Obama sweepstakes. You know, I don't, I'm trying to be delicate about

00:29:56.220 it. Um, because he's gay. That's, that's the reason. I mean, that's, so that, I mean, 1.00

00:30:01.460 that that's allegedly, allegedly that's the allegation is that he's gay. I don't know.

00:30:06.720 Uh, it's an allegation based at least in part on the fact that he said himself in a letter to his

00:30:11.100 ex-girlfriend back in the eighties that he, uh, imagines himself making love to men every day.

00:30:18.080 He did say that, that I, so pretty substantial evidence that he's gay just based on that alone.

00:30:23.820 But the other problem with this rumor is that, uh, is that successful and ambitious public figures,

00:30:29.860 politicians in particular, just don't get divorced. Uh, divorce is too messy. It's too ugly. 1.00

00:30:35.900 And that's why there's a long, long history of political couples who hate each other and stay

00:30:41.060 together for decades. Anyway, um, purely for appearances, Bill and Hillary are obviously the

00:30:48.080 poster children. So why even get divorced? I mean, they can live in separate houses and lead their 0.55

00:30:53.400 own lives and just appear in public together a couple of times a year. You know, like I said,

00:30:58.380 there's a long tradition of that sort of thing. Why muck things up with a divorce? Uh, image is

00:31:03.020 everything for these people, image brand. That's all they care about. And that's enough to keep them

00:31:08.860 together. So, you know, you've heard, uh, stay together for the kids, which by the way is a good

00:31:14.620 reason to stay together. But for people like Barack and Michelle, it's, it's stay together for the brand.

00:31:20.180 And, uh, and so I, I don't see this happening, but that's also why if, if it, if they do divorce,

00:31:29.100 if the rumors, which could be totally unsubstantiated are true, I tell you right now,

00:31:35.020 uh, it's going to be accompanied by a major marketing push for divorce. Now, obviously divorce 0.64

00:31:43.100 is already hugely popular in America. I realized that, but in Obama divorce means that we're going 0.71

00:31:50.680 to see divorce celebrated and promoted in this country. Like we've never seen before and we've

00:31:55.920 already seen it happen, but it'll be at a level we've never seen because the media will tell us

00:32:02.580 like, they're not going to be able to say, Oh, well, Barack and Michelle failed in their marriage

00:32:08.720 and their failures. And that's why they're divorced because that's what it means when you get a

00:32:13.360 divorce. It means you failed. They won't be able to say that. So instead they're going to tell us

00:32:17.560 that no, the Obamas are role models for getting divorced. Getting divorced in your sixties is, 1.00

00:32:23.200 is strong and courageous. Everyone should be doing it. Uh, so if you think we're already a divorce

00:32:29.720 obsessed culture, well, we ain't seen nothing yet. Uh, if this turns out to be true, but we will see.

00:32:39.380 Speaking of crumbling marriages, uh, a theme emerges. The Daily Mail has this.

00:32:46.020 Kamala Harris was all smiles and affection for her beloved second gentleman, Doug Emhoff,

00:32:51.300 the immediate aftermath of her crushing presidential election defeat. But now that

00:32:55.180 president Donald Trump has been sworn into office for sore loser Harris, it is now all about the blame

00:33:00.340 game. And her target has flipped to her quote dead weight husband. And as she weighs her political 0.67

00:33:06.400 future, maybe a 2026 run for governor of California or another try for the nation's top job two years

00:33:11.400 later, please, please do that. Please do that. Kamala. Uh, yeah, take don't nevertheless. She 1.00

00:33:18.700 persisted. Remember don't, don't let, don't let these sexist men get you down, run, run for president

00:33:25.280 again. Keep running. I mean, you're what? 60. You got, you got three, four, five presidential term

00:33:35.140 cycles that you can still run for. So I say, keep doing it. Keep going for it. Um, anyway, she, uh,

00:33:43.660 according to Daily Mail, she has, she has to consider whether Emhoff is an asset or a liability.

00:33:47.500 One source exclusively told dailymail.com there's plenty of blame to go around as far as Kamala

00:33:53.580 is concerned. And Doug has his share. Doug did Kamala no favors during the election. Frankly,

00:33:58.920 he looked like a hypocritical ass after the bombshells that he had got his child's nanny 1.00

00:34:03.420 pregnant while married to his first wife and assaulted his ex-girlfriend on the heels of his 1.00

00:34:07.020 I am woman crusade. So another political marriage on the rocks, according to, you know, 1.00

00:34:14.640 sources in this case, at least it is being reported by, uh, by some mainstream outlets.

00:34:20.920 That's the other thing. I'll tell you this, that if Barack and Michelle get divorced, if that does

00:34:26.700 happen, uh, you're going to see a wave of political divorces after that. If they get divorced, then like 0.99

00:34:33.680 every, every prominent political couple in the country is going to be divorced in the next two years

00:34:41.460 because they're going to finally, like once they make that okay, uh, then all the rest of them are

00:34:46.960 going to look at each other like, okay, we don't have to fake it anymore. Uh, so that's the other

00:34:50.500 thing that's going to happen. But the, the Doug Emhoff story I think is interesting that there's kind

00:34:59.620 of a lesson here. You know, this is not just a delighting in the, in the rumor mill. This is,

00:35:04.460 there's a lesson. If this is true, there's a, there's a lesson here, um, that this is what happens

00:35:10.840 when you take the backseat to your wife and, and you let her take the lead and you kind of play the,

00:35:19.260 you play the housewife role, which is what Doug Emhoff was doing. Now, if you do it as Emhoff did,

00:35:26.960 you'll be celebrated. You'll be praised. Uh, your wife, if she is, uh, you know, a feminist in good 0.61

00:35:35.060 standing, we'll say that she's so appreciative of how supportive you're being, but in truth,

00:35:40.860 she will begin to see you as dead weight because, uh, you know, if you're Doug Emhoff and in his case,

00:35:49.620 his wife's running for president and he doesn't even have a job anymore. And he's just, his whole

00:35:53.320 role is just to like, be her, you know, her caddy following her around and holding her purse. Um, 0.92

00:36:02.300 inevitably when you do that and you become that as a man, as a husband, your wife's going to look

00:36:07.740 at you and say, why do I need this guy? Like, what are you doing exactly? What, what, what, what,

00:36:15.040 what purpose are you serving? And as much as we might try to pretend that gender roles are arbitrary 1.00

00:36:21.780 and meaningless, you know, the fact is that you make yourself useless, uh, you make yourself dead 0.99

00:36:29.520 weight. If you don't fulfill your quote unquote gender role. And the same thing happens in the 0.95

00:36:38.380 reverse. You know, if a man, uh, works for a living and, and he's, so he's kind of fulfilling his role

00:36:47.920 as the provider, but he has a wife who, you know, doesn't really cook, doesn't really clean,

00:36:53.920 isn't terribly attentive to the kids, isn't a homemaker. Um, then, then he's gonna, you know,

00:37:01.600 he starts to look around and he thinks, well, why do I, why do I need this? Like, what is she doing

00:37:06.520 exactly? I wanted a wife and I don't have one. She's not doing any of the wifely things. 1.00

00:37:10.540 I'm doing everything like I, you know, I'm better with the kids than she, I, you know, I, I do all

00:37:17.020 this stuff more than she does. Um, and once that thought occurs to him, well, now the marriage is

00:37:23.920 hurtling towards disaster, you know? And so this really goes both ways. And the common thread is

00:37:30.920 that a spouse, um, isn't living up to the promise, which is implicit or in fact, explicit

00:37:38.800 in the marriage vows. No matter what modern society says, no matter what we try to tell

00:37:44.700 ourselves, no matter how we lie to ourselves, the fact remains that when a woman marries a man,

00:37:50.020 she wants a husband and a husband that means something, not a business partner, not just a 1.00

00:37:58.100 friend or a roommate, not a, uh, a generic like associate who comes along for the ride. She wants

00:38:05.600 a husband. Otherwise, what's the point? And if the husband isn't doing any of the things that

00:38:11.000 husbands were always meant to do, again, what's the point? And, um, so don't be Doug Emhoff.

00:38:21.980 Despite what you were told by the media as a man to model, model yourself after Doug Emhoff. Uh,

00:38:28.020 well, this is, this is, this is what happens. Failure and disgrace. And then you get discarded.

00:38:34.420 Uh, that's what you, that's what being Doug Emhoff gets you. Uh, let's see.

00:38:44.000 Here's a very important story. So we've done a few things that are kind of important, but, uh,

00:38:47.860 I did have to mention this. Um, daily mail again, reports on a, uh, a controversy surrounding a

00:38:53.880 healthcare worker's decision to apparently, uh, twerk on her patient's head. Um, now the question

00:39:05.920 is, why did she do this? You know, was it part of some kind of, some kind of, uh, unorthodox

00:39:12.880 medical treatment? Well, the report says healthcare worker has prompted outrage after sharing videos

00:39:19.980 of her twerking on top of a disabled patient's head. Lucretia Coyan from Loganville, Georgia

00:39:25.980 claims she's the woman seen in the now viral footage. In the clip, 19 year old Coyan is seen

00:39:32.060 19. How is she a healthcare worker at 19? Well, there's your first problem. Uh, seen dancing

00:39:41.900 on the handles of a patient's wheelchair. And this apparently provoked backlash. Oh, you think?

00:39:49.980 So here's Ms. Coyan addressing her, um, revolutionary healthcare techniques. Watch.

00:39:58.980 Right now it's a video that's going viral of me, the healthcare worker that's dancing on top

00:40:04.980 of her patient's head is not what it is. Trust and believe. All I gotta say for now is angles

00:40:10.200 play a big part, but we're going to answer that another time. Okay. A lot of people in the comments

00:40:14.980 talking about sex. Um, just all type of dumb. Nonverbal. Trust and believe. He's verbal. And 1.00

00:40:23.980 if he's not verbal to his kins, then I don't know what's going on over there. But around

00:40:29.980 here, he'd be verbal. And I got proof. What you say? You want to get a hug? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

00:40:36.980 He looks very aware and comfortable to me. So y'all need to stop jumping to cocoons. Even though,

00:40:44.980 yeah, I do see how you look, but trust me, it's not. Enough is enough. Stay tuned.

00:40:49.980 Yeah. You know, I mean, she, she does, she has a point. Uh, what, like, what are we always told?

00:40:55.360 We're always told don't get in the middle of a patient and their healthcare provider. It's not

00:41:00.180 our business. It's not for us to interfere size. This is America. And, and if we don't have the

00:41:07.660 right to twerk on the heads of medical patients, then what is this country? What did our forefathers

00:41:14.720 fight and die for? If we can't even twerk, you can't even twerk on the head of one disabled person 1.00

00:41:21.780 in a wheelchair. What's the point? The constitution is dead. I tell you, uh, anyway, this woman's 1.00

00:41:30.640 obviously a monster, uh, should be fired. Clearly also arrested for assault. And, um, and every day 0.98

00:41:37.240 with, with each new viral dancing video, my faith in the healthcare industry dies a little more at this

00:41:43.180 point. I have no faith at all. I mean, it's, it died a long time ago, but, but the stuff keeps

00:41:47.720 piling on. And now I have to worry that if I go in for surgery, that there's going to be a twerking

00:41:53.320 contest happening, you know, while I'm laying there unconscious. I mean, these, this is yet another

00:41:58.580 thing I have to worry about. And the thing that concerns me the most, of course, is that

00:42:02.000 the fact that a person like this was able to get a job in healthcare to begin with. Now, sure. I mean,

00:42:12.120 the medical institution, and I don't know, and the report doesn't say what hospital or clinic this

00:42:17.840 happened at, but whatever the medical institution was, they can always say, well, Hey, we didn't know

00:42:25.080 that she was going to start twerking on our patients and, you know, okay, maybe they didn't,

00:42:33.780 maybe she didn't list that skill on her resume. I could, I could buy that, but there's just no way

00:42:38.640 that after this video goes viral, there's no way that her immediate managers are going to look at

00:42:45.320 that and go, wow, that's shocking. She, she didn't seem like the type. No, they're going to, I mean,

00:42:52.160 they'll be shocked because it's shocking behavior, but it's not going to be, it's like they're going

00:42:58.020 to think to themselves, well, yeah, if anyone here was going to do that, it would have been her.

00:43:01.780 So my point is that if you're the sort of person who would do this, then you have various serious 0.89

00:43:08.080 mental and moral defects that should be glaringly obvious from the outset. And, and yet she still 0.82

00:43:16.460 managed to get a job at some level in healthcare, which is quite disturbing. Let's get to the comment

00:43:24.000 section. Not only did that lady cop have two fingers in the trigger guard, but she also had 1.00

00:43:38.280 the muzzle pointed at the dude rules one and two of firearm safety. And she broke both of them. 0.88

00:43:44.820 That's the one good thing to come of the incident is that the video can now be used in gun safety

00:43:50.040 classes for the rest of time, which I assume it will be. It's a perfect teaching tool given that

00:43:55.980 she broke all of the most basic gun safety rules. She did everything precisely wrong. So

00:44:02.700 it is a, uh, uh, yeah, it is a tool that can be used to educate people in the future. I suppose.

00:44:11.380 Uh, I wonder if Matt was aware of the, uh, Masonic symbol in his logo, the, the one,

00:44:18.560 the one triangle up and one down, all the DW hosts have a Masonic symbol, slide the two triangles

00:44:25.180 together toward each other and remove the middle piece. And you get the hexagram. Also Israel's 0.88

00:44:31.000 national symbol to boot. Well, actually the symbol is my initials. So that's what that, that's the,

00:44:40.660 that's the D that's the deep, dark secret behind the Matt Walsh logo is MW. So, so what you're saying

00:44:47.480 is that my parents were engaged in some kind of conspiracy when they gave me those initials,

00:44:52.440 but really it goes, it goes back to them. Although I do have to say that I, I really kind of envy

00:44:58.520 people like you, uh, left this comment, people who see conspiracies and secret symbols everywhere

00:45:04.640 all the time. I mean, I'm not even being facetious. I actually do envy that because it has to be a

00:45:10.760 pretty entertaining life. I mean, you're living every day in basically an Indiana Jones film and

00:45:18.280 it's gotta be really interesting. I mean, I don't know if it's a recipe for a successful life or being

00:45:23.060 a successful, well-rounded, grounded, intelligent person, but it's gotta be entertaining. I mean,

00:45:29.100 you must be having a blast. And, uh, so something to be said for that.

00:45:34.200 I'm gonna have to put my two cents for why I'm pro women in the police force. It's true that men are

00:45:40.820 stronger physically than women in most cases, but women are better at talking slash relating slash 1.00

00:45:45.800 being empathetic towards people. A woman cop might be better at keeping the altercation from being 1.00

00:45:50.820 violent. In my opinion, we should want to avoid violent altercations. Those other people will sue

00:45:55.840 the police department if injured or someone dies. We should want to reduce liability. Women are better 0.98

00:46:00.500 at keeping altercations neutral. So it doesn't get to the point of having to take down the other

00:46:04.660 person. Also, I would personally not want to arrest a typically nonviolent person because they have

00:46:09.340 anxiety with police, like for a traffic stop, they'll potentially get caught in the system. Plus it hurts

00:46:14.120 their potential future employment. The goal should be not letting an altercation get to the point where

00:46:19.300 a police officer has to get physical. Well, you know, but I don't think it actually works that way.

00:46:25.360 I mean, we saw in the video yesterday, a nonviolent encounter was turned violent because of the female 1.00

00:46:31.980 cop's incompetence. And, uh, you know, generally speaking, avoiding violent altercations, which I

00:46:38.500 certainly agree should be the goal, but avoiding them often requires, uh, a, it didn't require it in

00:46:47.240 this case. In this case, you just needed to have to be, you know, even just basically competent,

00:46:53.540 but often with, uh, with police work, I think avoiding a violent encounter requires among other

00:47:02.560 things, a more physically imposing presence because the suspect is less likely to become

00:47:09.160 violent. If he knows ahead of time that he won't get away with it. Now that's not going to stop.

00:47:14.580 That's not always going to stop someone from getting violent. I mean, we know that clearly, but

00:47:19.000 if he is going to be stopped ahead of time, I would think that a larger, stronger male cop is more

00:47:25.480 likely to get that kind of peaceful compliance than a smaller, weaker female cop. Uh, or even if the 1.00

00:47:33.760 altercation does become, uh, tense or even physical, a male cop is, is going to have a better chance of

00:47:42.520 just, you know, uh, containing the person and, um, and getting them under control without having to

00:47:49.400 resort to tasers and, and guns and all the rest of it. Um, but a female cop that's going to be, 1.00

00:47:56.720 is going to have a harder time doing that. And I think the female cop also presents a kind of 1.00

00:48:00.060 temptation to the suspect because he knows that he could overpower her and run away and escape.

00:48:05.180 And it's probably more likely to try it, but, but also just on an emotional level, um, you know,

00:48:13.280 which is what you're talking about, you have a better chance of keeping things peaceful.

00:48:18.940 If you can keep yourself together and, and not lose your cool and not take things personally

00:48:26.280 and not get overly emotional. So is a female cop less likely to lose her cool in that situation? 1.00

00:48:38.000 Is a female cop is a, is a female in general, less likely to take things personally, get a bit 1.00

00:48:46.060 emotional, you know, get, get a little bit flustered in these kinds of situations. Like you're saying a

00:48:51.520 woman is less likely to have that happen. I just don't, I don't, I don't think that's the case.

00:48:59.760 I don't know what you're basing that on. Um, I think that, you know, because it's when we talk about

00:49:06.860 combat roles or police work or fire, you know, being a firefighter and we say that men are better

00:49:15.140 suited for these jobs, which, which they are, we often are talking about, we, we, we often focus

00:49:21.500 on the physical side of it, which is kind of the easier thing and the less controversial thing,

00:49:26.720 I suppose, talk about to just point out that, Hey, men are stronger and it requires physical

00:49:31.740 strength to do these jobs. And so men should do them. Um, I think we talk a little bit less about

00:49:37.060 the emotional and psychological aspects of these jobs and how men on that level are also better

00:49:46.740 suited for them. Um, you know, it doesn't, women are not inferior. It's nothing like that. Men and 0.99

00:49:54.240 women are just different. Men and women are different and men have an easier time, uh, being 1.00

00:50:03.680 sort of emotionally detached, not taking things personally, um, not, not, not kind of bringing

00:50:11.460 emotions into it. I think men just have an easier time with that in general. Women tend to be more 1.00

00:50:16.460 emotional. You know, that's that, it shouldn't be a controversial thing to say. And, uh, by the way,

00:50:22.640 it, you know, in most contexts in life, that's a good thing. I gotta, I, I wouldn't want women to, 1.00

00:50:29.820 to, to, to be emotionally identical to men. I don't want my wife to be emotionally identical

00:50:37.960 to me. I don't want that. Men and women are different. It's a good thing. But, um, in some

00:50:46.640 of these jobs, there's a certain kind of emotional and psychological, uh, burden that you have to bear

00:50:54.060 that I think often men are simply better suited for. Um, and, uh, as I said, that's the, that's

00:51:03.800 the more, that's the less popular thing to talk about when we discuss this issue. But I also think

00:51:11.200 it's, it shouldn't be controversial. I think we all recognize this. It's the final weekend to get 47%

00:51:16.860 off your new daily wire plus annual membership 47% off because of course we're celebrating Donald Trump

00:51:22.240 as the 47th president of the United States. Our celebration will continue, but the deal ends

00:51:27.380 Sunday. All you got to do is head over to dailywire.com slash subscribe. Use code 47. You'll

00:51:32.420 lock in 47% off for an entire year of daily wire. Plus our original groundbreaking entertainment,

00:51:38.300 including the number one documentary of the decade, Emma racist, and so much more is all available

00:51:43.020 to you. Every dollar you spend goes directly back into the fight to bring you the facts and

00:51:47.720 reshape culture. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe. Use code 47 to check out and let's

00:51:53.640 build the future together. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:03.060 A month ago, we got the tragic news that my film, am I racist? Was not going to be an Oscars contender.

00:52:09.140 The Academy of motion pictures, arts and sciences decided that the top documentary of the decade did

00:52:13.960 not deserve a nomination of any kind or even a spot on the shortlist for nominees. And this was a

00:52:19.480 legitimate and by all rights, objectively speaking, outrageous snub, but it was also about as surprising

00:52:24.460 as the fact that I wasn't awarded a Nobel prize last year or any year before that, believe it or not.

00:52:30.460 It's not hard to understand what's going on here. The Academy has clearly decided to exclude

00:52:33.960 conservatives from having their work recognized. The left believes that it owns the art of filmmaking

00:52:38.060 and any outsider, especially an outsider who is successful, is immediately cast out.

00:52:43.520 We are intruders. We are interlopers. You might even say that we are undocumented migrants in the

00:52:49.700 land of filmmaking. Build the wall, Hollywood shouts, in our case. Still, that left the question of what

00:52:56.400 kind of films the Academy would decide to shower with awards this year. And now at long last, we have

00:53:02.360 an answer to that question. And specifically, we know that a Netflix musical called Emilia Perez

00:53:08.040 has just received 13 nominations at the Oscars, which is by far the most of any film this year.

00:53:14.920 Those nominations include Best Picture, Best Director, among a slew of other major categories.

00:53:20.180 And now before we talk about it, I will admit that I'm biased. I hate musicals in general.

00:53:28.100 And the problem is that my suspension of disbelief totally breaks down the moment the character

00:53:34.160 starts singing. And I start to wonder, you know, well, I just think of it too literally, I guess.

00:53:39.380 And I start to wonder, how do the characters all know the words to this song?

00:53:44.040 Why are the other characters on screen not reacting with shock or confusion when one of them

00:53:50.400 bursts into song randomly? And even on the rare occasion when the songs in a musical are actually not

00:53:55.380 awful, I still find myself enduring them. I'm just waiting for the characters to stop singing

00:54:00.960 so we can get back to the story. And, you know, if you think I'm being hard on musicals,

00:54:05.900 just ask yourself one question. When was the last time you watched a non-musical movie

00:54:10.200 and thought to yourself, you know what this movie could use? Random musical numbers.

00:54:17.300 You've never thought that about any movie because singing does not improve a movie.

00:54:21.720 In the case of the musical, you just kind of tolerate it. That's my take on that.

00:54:26.480 Those are my cards on the table. I'm not a musical guy. But even with that bias,

00:54:31.800 I still think I can say with some credibility that this musical is extra bad. It is,

00:54:39.880 whether you like musicals or not, an extremely terrible film. It has to be said that this film

00:54:45.960 is so atrocious, so obviously bad in every way that it actually manages to do the impossible. It makes

00:54:51.600 Joker 2 slightly less atrocious to the point that it's no longer the worst musical of the last

00:54:57.340 century. Watching Joker 2, as horrible as that film was, cannot possibly prepare you for the pile of

00:55:03.820 donkey dung that is Amelia Perez. Now, to give you a sense of the plot, such as it is, the film is about

00:55:09.880 a murderous cartel leader who decides that he wants to live a more authentic life. So he hires a lawyer

00:55:15.720 to help him transition into a woman and then go into hiding, leaving his family behind.

00:55:22.060 And the lawyer ends up checking out a hospital in Bangkok that's apparently willing to perform

00:55:26.460 the surgery. And that leads us to this scene, which is so much worse than I ever imagined it

00:55:33.060 could possibly be. Even after everything I heard about this film, nothing could have prepared me for

00:55:39.140 this. And I promise you, this is real. This is actually in the movie. You might think that this

00:55:44.440 is AI or something. This is some kind of weird AI parody. No, this is in the movie. Okay. This is

00:55:51.200 one of the major musical numbers in this film, which just received 13 Oscar nominations, including

00:55:56.960 Best Picture. Here it is.

00:55:58.720 Hello, very nice to meet you. I'd like to know about

00:56:03.660 sex change operations. I see, I see, I see. Man to woman, or woman to men? Man to woman. From penis to vagina. Is it for you? For me? No. What would you like to know about it, madam? I want to know it all. What is the protocol? The techniques and the risks? How many operations? How much time do you want to know about it?

00:56:33.640 What do you need?

00:56:34.640 What is that? Adam's apple reduction. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:56:40.640 What is that? Adam's apple reduction. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:56:54.640 Yes, from penis to vagina. That was a line in the song. It was almost certainly the first song in world history to have that line, for better or worse. In this case, worse. By the way, The Godfather, the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time. 1.00

00:57:24.640 Received 11 Oscar nominations. This movie got 13. I say that again. The movie you just saw got 13 Oscar nominations. In fact, we could go on all day with these kinds of comparisons because very few films in Hollywood history have had as many nominations as this train wreck.

00:57:42.920 The record. The record shared by a few films, I think two or three is 14. So Amelia Perez missed the record by one. 0.56

00:57:51.300 Which is no doubt a sign that transphobia is alive and well in Hollywood. Oscars so transphobic. They only gave the trans musical 13 nominations.

00:58:01.980 Now, in any case, what they're trying to convey in that scene that I just showed you, I think, is that this particular gender clinic is a little indiscreet and business oriented.

00:58:13.740 So the lawyer needs to find another place to secretly transition the murderous cartel boss.

00:58:19.400 But really, this scene conveys a lot more than that. First of all, it conveys that this movie has the worst writing that we've ever seen in a professional film.

00:58:29.060 It appears that the writers were all drunk or high or severely brain damaged or some combination of the three.

00:58:36.540 They're also conveying that the actors can't hold a tune, can't carry a tune, which is a rather significant problem for a musical.

00:58:43.580 Badly written songs, badly performed. And of course, with the whole Night of the Living Dead routine, they're just highlighting how barbaric these procedures really are.

00:58:51.720 Which is why a lot of trans activists and trans organizations are already condemning this film.

00:58:56.040 It's too much even for them. Like when you produce a piece of trans propaganda that makes even trans activists stop and go, hey, well, take it easy. 0.78

00:59:07.860 This is a bit much. It's a little on the nose, guys. Well, then you have a you have a serious problem.

00:59:13.800 So you can start to see why this film isn't exactly going over well with audiences, particularly audiences in Mexico, by the way, where this film is set.

00:59:21.560 This is a portrayal of Mexico that was filmed in Europe and written by a French filmmaker.

00:59:26.840 And which I mean, that in and of itself, no problem.

00:59:30.380 But the but the problem is that it kind of shows they're presenting this as some kind of authentic look into Mexican culture.

00:59:35.860 When it's really an authentic portrayal of what a ham fisted director can achieve when handed a script that could have been written by a team of semi-literate crackheads.

00:59:46.060 And that's not even the worst scene, arguably.

00:59:49.320 As the plot continues, the cartel leader eventually reunites with his family and kind of misses doubtfire situation where he pretends to be somebody else.

00:59:56.840 It's all very creepy. It doesn't really make a lot of sense.

00:59:59.880 Eventually leads to this scene where an actress just comes out and states the moral of the film, which is that undergoing trans surgery somehow makes you a better person. 0.84

01:00:09.580 That's what the plot is getting at.

01:00:11.460 This horrible cartel boss gets a sex change and undergoes a kind of spiritual rebirth. 0.96

01:00:17.140 In this particular scene, the doctor tries to say that trans surgeries are just about cutting up body parts. 0.70

01:00:22.540 I said it doesn't actually make you a better person, but that's when we get this musical number about how actually the doctor is wrong.

01:00:30.580 Watch.

01:00:32.480 Doctor, I know you did a lot of studies.

01:00:38.800 Doctor, but let me say I disagree.

01:00:43.180 Please?

01:00:45.180 Changing the body changes society.

01:00:48.260 Changing society changes the soul.

01:00:50.640 Changing the soul, changing society, changing society, changes it all.

01:00:57.760 Doctor, you better trust my Mr. Mystery.

01:01:02.480 If you had seen what he has shown to me, you'd be a better man.

01:01:10.880 Now, you could argue that the guy in that scene just gave the greatest acting performance of all time.

01:01:18.960 You could argue because we cannot understate the incredible acting skill it must require to sit there and not break out into hysterical fits of laughter when the other actor in the scene is singing a song like that.

01:01:35.040 You know, you know, I mean, in fact, I thought the same thing about Sonic 3 and not to bring Sonic 3 back into this.

01:01:39.920 I thought the same thing about Sonic 3.

01:01:41.200 That you could argue that all of the human actors, all the live human actors in Sonic all deserve Oscar nominations only because acting in a film like that and delivering the lines without laughing.

01:01:58.700 Being able to do that alone, I think, is a towering artistic achievement.

01:02:07.780 So anyway, but back to this one.

01:02:09.280 You know, the whole thing is not exactly subtle propaganda, but it apparently resonated with the Academy.

01:02:13.880 And in particular, the Academy was impressed with the performance of the trans-identifying man named Carla Sophia Gascon, who plays the drug dealer in the film.

01:02:23.200 So this is a trans-identified actor playing a trans character.

01:02:29.740 So the Academy gave Gascon the nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

01:02:36.660 So for the first time in history, a man has been nominated for Best Actress.

01:02:42.760 And he's almost certainly going to win, of course.

01:02:45.700 So the Academy is, you know, they're obviously looking for a way to send a message to Donald Trump in one way or another.

01:02:52.060 Cannes gave him the Best Actress Award already.

01:02:55.020 Golden Globes did the same thing a few weeks ago when they gave the film the Best Picture for a Musical Comedy Award.

01:03:00.420 And then Gascon went up to the podium and gave an incoherent speech about how trans-identifying people are being thrown in jail and beaten up, allegedly.

01:03:09.580 Watch.

01:03:10.540 The light always wins over darkness.

01:03:15.040 And I have a lot of things to say to you because you can maybe put us in jail.

01:03:32.680 You can beat us up, but you never can take away our soul, our existence, our identity.

01:03:45.040 And I want to say to you, raise your voice, freedom, and say, I want, I am who I am, know who you want.

01:04:03.940 Thank you so much.

01:04:04.980 Now, putting aside the whole sob story, I mean, this is an actor who decided in his late 40s that he's really a woman.

01:04:14.160 It's one of the least convincing imitations of a woman that you'll ever see. 0.94

01:04:18.240 Nobody watching this person will conclude, even for a second, that he's a woman.

01:04:22.060 But in this film, we're supposed to believe that this cartel boss has everybody fooled.

01:04:28.140 No one, not even his own family, can detect the ruse.

01:04:31.740 All he had to do was put a wig on and a dress, and nobody has any idea.

01:04:37.000 It's also ridiculous and grotesque that in a rare case of political unity, the outrage has actually been bipartisan.

01:04:44.340 Listen, a lot of people on the left are especially upset, as the L.A. Times reports, quote,

01:04:48.300 Mexican intellectuals have accused the movie of reducing the country's horrific drug wars,

01:04:52.380 which have killed nearly half a million people, with more than 100,000 missing in this century alone,

01:04:57.120 to a song and dance farce.

01:04:59.320 GLAAD described it as a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.

01:05:03.380 On a podcast, superstar Mexican comic Eugenia Derbez ridiculed the accent of Mexican-American Selena Gomez, 0.99

01:05:11.980 who plays Emilia's wife, as indefensible. 0.99

01:05:15.600 Apparently, the performance is so bad that it's causing an international incident over Mexico.

01:05:19.860 One person writes,

01:05:21.100 Even Terminator's Hasta La Vista babies sounded more natural.

01:05:26.700 There are a lot of comparisons to Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled, RoboCop, and so on.

01:05:30.560 And, you know, Taco Bell is apparently more authentically Mexican than this film is. 0.91

01:05:36.520 And on top of that, it's not just the left and all of Mexico that's upset by this trash heap of a movie.

01:05:42.580 There's also backlash coming from the right, especially now that a man has been nominated for Best Actress.

01:05:48.520 But in this case, I think the outrage from the right is misplaced.

01:05:51.900 And that's because when this man wins the award for Best Actress, which he most likely will,

01:05:57.460 it'll be the first time in history, the first time in the history of the Academy Awards,

01:06:02.680 that women are shut out of both lead acting awards.

01:06:06.720 They will not win.

01:06:07.560 No woman will win a lead acting award in the 2025 Academy Awards, most likely.

01:06:14.120 And, of course, the other nominees will have to pretend to be thrilled about that.

01:06:17.200 You know, Mikey, Madison, whoever that is, Demi Moore, Fernanda Torres.

01:06:20.560 I only recognize one of those names.

01:06:23.440 Everybody else will clap and pretend that it's the greatest thing ever.

01:06:27.460 And so will his co-stars, including Selena Gomez.

01:06:29.840 So why not just let them pretend?

01:06:34.040 Let the dude take home the Best Actress trophy. 1.00

01:06:37.340 The actual female actresses who get robbed by this deserve it. 1.00

01:06:42.120 None of them have the courage to speak out about the trans madness. 1.00

01:06:45.420 Certainly none of them will have the guts to say anything about this.

01:06:48.320 And so now the monster they helped to create is turning against them.

01:06:53.420 And the timing couldn't be worse for these people.

01:06:55.420 Most Americans have moved on from gender ideology.

01:06:58.060 We're moving past this farce, as the second Trump administration is demonstrating. 0.86

01:07:02.580 But the weakest and most cowardly among us, namely every actress in Hollywood, 0.62

01:07:06.540 are still clinging to it.

01:07:08.660 And now it's probably going to cost them in a very tangible way.

01:07:11.720 And there's some real poetic justice there.

01:07:15.840 Now, Emilia Perez isn't actually about the transformative power of gender ideology. 0.99

01:07:19.860 It's about how gender ideology degrades women and insults everyone's intelligence on a grand scale. 1.00

01:07:26.020 And that's not the message the filmmakers wanted to send with this film,

01:07:28.800 but it's the message that everybody has received.

01:07:31.020 And that is why the man who's been nominated for Best Actress in the Academy Awards

01:07:35.060 and the actresses who are too cowardly to object to it are today canceled.

01:07:41.140 I'll do it for the show today and this week.

01:07:43.360 Have a great weekend.

01:07:44.140 Talk to you on Monday.

01:07:45.300 Godspeed.

01:07:45.640 Godspeed.

01:07:59.500 Godspeed.

01:08:00.480 Godspeed.

01:08:01.660 Godspeed.

01:08:02.100 Godspeed.

01:08:02.920 Godspeed.

01:08:03.940 Godspeed.

01:08:05.200 Godspeed.

01:08:09.160 Godspeed.

01:08:12.120 Godspeed.

01:08:14.420 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 24, 2025

Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript