The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 162 - The Media Exploits The Tragic Death Of An Immigrant Child

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a young child crossed the border illegally and then died of dehydration,

00:00:05.120 but the media is cynically twisting this story in a really terrible way.

00:00:09.380 We're going to talk about that.

00:00:10.160 Also, a college student is under investigation for saying positive things about white people.

00:00:14.560 And finally, there is one thing that ties every president of the last 100 years together,

00:00:19.700 and it's a very bad thing, and we have to discuss it today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:23.500 Well, we're going to begin with a terrible and sad story.

00:00:32.140 A seven-year-old girl entered the U.S. illegally with her father last week.

00:00:36.280 She died while in the custody of Border Patrol.

00:00:40.240 Now, there's a lot more to that story, and it's important that you look at the rest of the story before coming to conclusions,

00:00:48.320 but it's obvious what the media wants you to take from the story.

00:00:52.920 So, let's just look, before we get into this, let's look at some of the headlines that the media has used when reporting on this story.

00:01:02.600 The Washington Post headline says,

00:01:04.780 Seven-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration exhaustion.

00:01:10.700 The AP is even worse.

00:01:12.020 It says, Seven-year-old immigrant girl dies after Border Patrol arrest.

00:01:17.740 NPR's headline is, Seven-year-old migrant girl dies of dehydration and shock in U.S. Border Patrol custody.

00:01:25.600 Now, clearly, from the way these headlines are worded, you are meant to conclude that the child died because of something awful that happened to her while she was in custody.

00:01:37.280 That obviously is what you're meant to take from that, right?

00:01:40.260 You're meant to immediately place the blame on Border Patrol, yet if you look at the full story, you see that this is an obvious misdirection and misrepresentation and a really disgusting and just awful one as well.

00:01:57.480 In reality, as it turns out, the child died, it is true that she died in the custody of Border Patrol, but to phrase it that way is clearly misleading.

00:02:09.680 Because she died only eight hours after being taken into custody, and she died of dehydration and shock, which is not something that happens to a person in the span of eight hours.

00:02:21.060 You cannot dehydrate someone to the point of death in the span of eight hours, but you have to read four paragraphs down into the AP story to learn that she hadn't eaten or had anything to drink in several days as she was making the trek across Mexico with her father.

00:02:39.740 Now, so that is how she got to the point of fatal dehydration and exhaustion, is because she had not eaten or had anything to drink in days.

00:02:56.320 The AP, of course, tries to pivot this right back to the Border Patrol.

00:03:00.200 So the article says, reading from the article for a minute, it says,

00:03:05.380 The girl's death raises questions about whether Border Patrol, about whether Border Agents knew she was ill and whether she was fed anything or given anything to drink during the eight-plus hours she was in custody.

00:03:16.800 But wait a second.

00:03:18.360 Doesn't it more so raise questions about why she wasn't given anything to eat or drink for days leading up to this?

00:03:24.820 Isn't that really the question?

00:03:26.120 If a child dies of dehydration, do you ask, well, what has she been doing for the last eight hours?

00:03:33.940 Or do you ask, what's been going on with this child for the last three, four, five days?

00:03:41.140 Now, I don't know anything about her father.

00:03:44.060 It says that she came across the border with her father.

00:03:46.360 I don't know anything about her father.

00:03:47.480 I don't know anything about the situation other than what's being reported.

00:03:50.620 And what's being reported is that she hadn't had anything to drink or to eat in several days.

00:03:54.480 So a decision was made, apparently, to make this journey from Guatemala without proper provisions.

00:04:03.480 A decision was made, apparently, to continue along, keep going, even though the girl obviously was not being provided with the basic necessities that she needs to live.

00:04:12.480 This was not a decision that the U.S. government made.

00:04:15.160 By the way, here's another question.

00:04:18.640 Was the father starving and dehydrated?

00:04:22.920 I don't know the answer to that question.

00:04:24.920 I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.

00:04:27.380 But if he also went days without drinking water, he also should have been on death's door.

00:04:32.700 Obviously, a child, a seven-year-old child, is going to be more susceptible and more frail than a grown man.

00:04:39.380 But even a grown man, if you don't drink for three, four days when you're hiking, when you're on this perilous journey, you're going to also be very sick and probably needing hospitalization.

00:04:52.020 It doesn't say anything about that.

00:04:53.640 So if he himself was not dangerously dehydrated, if he did drink, then you really have to wonder why his daughter had nothing to drink while he cared for himself.

00:05:08.560 But we don't know.

00:05:09.820 These are just questions that should be asked.

00:05:13.040 And they should be asked about the father, not about Border Patrol.

00:05:17.720 It's, of course, being implied by some on the left that Border Patrol must not have given her any water or done anything to treat her while she was in their custody.

00:05:32.940 But there's no basis for that assumption whatsoever.

00:05:36.140 Obviously, they should have given her water.

00:05:41.000 But we have no reason to think that they didn't.

00:05:44.420 In fact, when she began having seizures, she was airlifted to a hospital where, unfortunately, she died anyway.

00:05:51.080 But the point is, if this was pure neglect, if this was how the left is trying to paint it, obviously will paint it, of the Border Patrol.

00:05:58.600 They just don't care about the livelihood of these people.

00:06:00.780 They're just leaving them to die.

00:06:02.560 Well, if that was the case, why was she airlifted, which is obviously an extreme measure.

00:06:06.980 That's something that you do when you're trying desperately to save someone's life.

00:06:10.080 So why was she airlifted to the hospital if she was being neglected?

00:06:12.960 It would seem because they sought out medical attention for her and they did it in such an urgent way, it would seem like this was not a case of neglect on the part of Border Patrol.

00:06:24.500 It would seem as though they were doing everything they could to save her.

00:06:27.440 But perhaps by the time she got to them, it was too late.

00:06:31.660 You know, if you're being dehydrated, at a certain point, your organs start shutting down and everything.

00:06:35.700 And at that point, even if you drink then, it may be too late.

00:06:38.080 So again, if we want to know how this happened, we have to look at the days leading up to this, days in which she apparently was given nothing to eat or drink.

00:06:50.180 Now, the left will say, is saying, that this very sad story shows why we need to be more welcoming of illegal immigrants and of illegal immigration generally.

00:07:06.640 But of course, in truth, it shows the exact opposite.

00:07:09.620 That is the exactly wrong message to take from this.

00:07:12.800 If we if we encourage illegal immigration, then we encourage people to make this dangerous journey, a journey that killed a child and has killed many others. 0.98

00:07:26.100 It obviously would have been better for this girl if her father had determined that crossing the border illegally would be impossible.

00:07:32.660 And so therefore, there's no reason to try.

00:07:35.040 This is a this is a very dangerous journey.

00:07:38.540 She is not the first child or the first person to die in the process.

00:07:42.540 There are many dangers along the way.

00:07:44.580 It is a it is a it is a is a hazardous trek, a hazardous path.

00:07:51.300 So it is the compassionate thing.

00:07:54.280 It is the right thing and the moral thing to discourage people.

00:07:58.800 From doing that to themselves and from doing it to their children, especially.

00:08:02.940 Because that's always what's missed in all of this.

00:08:06.520 When we hear about the children that are coming across the border, children are being detained and we're told that, you know, this is the government is doing something evil by the way they're handling these children.

00:08:17.580 Well, what about the people who are dragging these kids across the desert?

00:08:24.000 Only to try to sneak in across the border illegally.

00:08:27.060 What what about the people who are doing that?

00:08:28.960 The it's not it's not the government bringing these kids across.

00:08:33.740 These are other adults, whether it's parents or or, you know, unrelated adults who are doing this.

00:08:40.500 And so it seems clear to me for the sake of children like like this girl, that the moral and right thing.

00:08:48.560 Is to have the border shut down, you know, so that you can only cross legally in an orderly fashion.

00:08:57.480 And then maybe people will be discouraged from from doing this there.

00:09:03.260 We're being told, you know, we need answers about this.

00:09:05.920 I agree. We need answers.

00:09:06.900 But I think the answers are going to be found by looking at what happened to this girl, as I said, in the days and weeks leading up to this.

00:09:16.160 All right.

00:09:20.840 Here's another story where the media has shockingly misconstrued things.

00:09:28.220 The Daily Wire reported yesterday on this case.

00:09:30.840 A Columbia University student was put under investigation and has been the target of widespread outrage and hatred and a huge backlash after he was caught on video praising white people.

00:09:47.620 OK, the video shows the student, the student's name is Julian von Abel, Abel, I'll say Abel, Julian von Abel, proclaiming his love for himself and for his race.

00:10:00.520 At one point, he shouts that white people invented science and industry.

00:10:04.040 He says, I'll quote a little bit more from this.

00:10:09.180 Student in the video, he says, we saved billions of people from starvation.

00:10:14.140 We built modern civilization.

00:10:15.740 White people are the best thing ever, ever. 1.00

00:10:17.900 I love myself and I love white people. 0.79

00:10:20.840 F. Yeah, we're white people.

00:10:22.280 We did everything.

00:10:23.180 I don't hate other people.

00:10:24.280 I just love myself.

00:10:25.220 Not the most eloquent way of putting that point across, but there you go.

00:10:33.360 It also seems like, if you watch the video, I don't know, it seems like there may have been some drinking involved.

00:10:40.020 I don't know.

00:10:42.280 But as he's saying this, the student is being heckled by a group of other students who are shouting at him, flipping him the middle finger.

00:10:50.760 They're weirdly poking his face and his chest while he's talking.

00:10:54.720 I don't know why, but that's what they were doing.

00:10:58.580 Despite the student being accused of assaulting minority students, the footage never shows him lay hands on anyone.

00:11:07.040 It shows the opposite.

00:11:08.120 It shows people in the angry crowd putting their hands on him multiple times, non-consensually.

00:11:16.720 He did not consent to being touched by them, but that's what they were doing.

00:11:19.920 He never threatens anyone.

00:11:21.280 He's not harassing or attacking anyone.

00:11:24.720 As far as the video shows, he is just stating his favorable opinion about his own race.

00:11:31.260 And this is enough to get him investigated and denounced by his school and called a racist by multiple news outlets.

00:11:38.460 Now, the student has responded to the controversy, and he posted a statement to Twitter a couple days ago, yesterday, I think.

00:11:47.740 And he clarified that he's not racist.

00:11:49.740 He doesn't harbor any animosity towards members of other races.

00:11:53.560 He admitted that what he was saying is theatrical.

00:11:56.960 He was theatrical and sarcastic.

00:11:58.560 He wasn't meant to be taken 100%, totally literally, but he's frustrated at the guilt and the shame that's constantly heaped on white people.

00:12:08.020 And so that's where this came from.

00:12:10.640 Now, this clarification will obviously make no difference whatsoever because a white man just is not allowed to say the things that he said without being branded as a horrific bigot.

00:12:23.440 But that brings us to the forbidden question, which is what actually is wrong with what he said?

00:12:31.300 Why can't a white person say that?

00:12:33.480 Now, I know what's wrong by the current standard and the current way of thinking, but what's actually objectively wrong with the content of what he said?

00:12:42.480 Well, I haven't seen anyone, all the people that have reacted to this, I haven't seen anyone actually explain why it's racist.

00:12:48.480 They just declare it racist as if it's kind of self-evident, like they don't even need to explain it.

00:12:53.920 Well, obviously, if a white guy says that, he must be racist.

00:12:57.020 There's no other explanation.

00:12:59.400 But what's actually racist about it?

00:13:02.400 Again, he says white people invented science and industry. 0.66

00:13:05.420 We saved billions of people from starvation.

00:13:07.540 We built modern civilization.

00:13:09.000 White people are the best thing ever. 0.99

00:13:10.520 I love myself.

00:13:11.320 I love my people.

00:13:12.480 Uh, F yeah, we're white people.

00:13:16.820 We, we did everything.

00:13:18.480 I don't hate other people.

00:13:19.120 I just love myself.

00:13:20.420 I don't hate other people.

00:13:21.660 I just love myself.

00:13:22.480 That's, he says it right there.

00:13:24.040 Now, okay.

00:13:25.960 So he gives white people credit for inventing science and industry. 0.78

00:13:29.200 This is obviously hyperbole.

00:13:30.680 Okay. 0.88

00:13:30.940 Just like white people are the best thing ever is obviously hyperbole. 0.73

00:13:35.220 People often describe things as being the best thing ever.

00:13:38.700 That's a common expression in modern times.

00:13:41.020 And it, it, it, it's not meant to, to be a literal statement.

00:13:44.980 Okay.

00:13:45.360 They're not literally claiming that whatever this best thing is, that it is actually the

00:13:50.360 best thing in, in all of the world.

00:13:52.820 Um, I had a, I had pizza last week.

00:13:55.600 That was a very good pizza.

00:13:56.540 And I said, well, this pizza is the best thing ever, but I didn't mean, I wasn't trying to

00:14:02.460 say this was not meant to be an actual qualitative judgment where I'm saying that pizza is actually

00:14:09.900 the best thing in all of the cosmos.

00:14:11.780 If I were being literal, I would say that pizza is maybe the fifth or sixth best thing in the

00:14:16.800 entire universe.

00:14:17.480 Maybe not the best thing though.

00:14:18.660 So if we could see past the hyperbole, which he admits was hyperbole, there is nothing factually

00:14:27.580 or morally wrong with, with the, the thrust of his comments.

00:14:32.300 White people may not have invented the concept of science or industry, but the fathers of modern 0.99

00:14:37.700 science and the fathers of modern industry are certainly predominantly white.

00:14:41.200 There's no denying that white people did not build modern civilization alone, but, um, statistically 0.88

00:14:48.880 speaking, they were predominantly responsible for building it.

00:14:52.300 White people may not be the best thing ever, but they have often been a very good force in 1.00

00:14:56.860 the world.

00:14:58.260 Okay.

00:14:58.840 Just every race has people who have done great things and have people have done terrible things.

00:15:04.980 Um, but the fact is that white people have done some great things and often been a force of 0.79

00:15:13.400 good in the world.

00:15:14.620 That's not arguable.

00:15:15.820 That should not be a controversial statement.

00:15:18.040 You should be allowed to say the fact that you can't even say that is, is beyond absurd.

00:15:24.600 Now, but here's where, you know, here's where the hypocrisy comes in because we all, we all

00:15:29.120 know this, right?

00:15:29.760 I don't even need to say it, that if, if, if, if this student was a member of any other

00:15:34.860 race and he had been caught on video making the exact same theatrical statements about

00:15:40.440 himself and quote, his people, there would be no outrage at all.

00:15:45.380 In fact, scratch that there would be a lot of outrage, but the outrage would be at the

00:15:48.880 people who were harassing him.

00:15:50.960 The outrage would be directed at the crowd that he was talking to and who were reacting

00:15:56.240 angrily.

00:15:56.940 So if you were to switch this, this scene around, okay.

00:16:01.740 And so you have a, a black student who is making all these declarations about himself

00:16:07.420 and his race.

00:16:08.980 Um, and then you have a crowd of angry white people who are flipping him off and calling 0.96

00:16:14.320 him racist and poking him and everything.

00:16:16.360 And if that were the scene, the outrage would be directed entirely at the crowd, right?

00:16:22.100 Not at the person saying it.

00:16:24.160 We all know this is true.

00:16:26.040 It can't be denied.

00:16:28.000 There is no chance.

00:16:30.000 There is just no chance that a person with darker skin would ever be attacked for saying

00:16:35.620 the things that this student said.

00:16:38.400 And this is the double standard that we're all supposed to simply accept and live with.

00:16:43.100 But people get tired of double standards after a while.

00:16:46.360 And this is the thing that I think people on the left need to try to understand that you,

00:16:51.720 people just get sick of the hypocrisy and they get sick of the double standards and they

00:16:57.060 don't want to, they just, they don't want to play by those rules anymore.

00:17:01.820 They don't want to play that game anymore.

00:17:03.940 Especially when the double standard demands that a whole race of people have to express

00:17:08.640 nothing but shame for themselves and their ancestors as all other races of people express 1.00

00:17:14.440 nothing but pride in themselves and their ancestors. 1.00

00:17:18.360 White supremacy is clearly a stupid, depraved, ugly, hateful thing. 1.00

00:17:26.140 But white guilt is not the antidote to white supremacy. 1.00

00:17:34.260 Okay, you don't, you don't combat white supremacy by saying, oh, no, no, no, white people aren't, 0.97

00:17:40.460 aren't superior. 0.99

00:17:42.700 They actually are inferior.

00:17:44.540 That's, that's, that's, that's not the way to go.

00:17:48.000 You're not going to cure racism with guilt and resentment.

00:17:52.460 You only breed more of it.

00:17:54.060 That is exactly what causes racism.

00:17:56.340 That is exactly what lies at the root of racism.

00:17:59.000 So if we were actually serious about fighting racism, we would recognize, um, you know,

00:18:08.600 we would recognize that the goal here is that no race is superior or inferior.

00:18:17.940 And that whatever your race is, you, you, you, you, you should not be made to feel ashamed

00:18:25.700 of it or like you're inferior or anything like that.

00:18:31.060 You just, you cannot tell people that they have to hate themselves and they have to hate

00:18:37.120 their ancestors and they have to constantly apologize for these historical sins that they

00:18:44.180 had nothing to do with.

00:18:45.440 And at the same time, while apologizing for the historical sins, they're not allowed to

00:18:51.880 take any pride whatsoever in the good things, um, that have happened in the past.

00:18:57.320 You, you, you just can't do that or you can, but it's, the message isn't going to resonate

00:19:02.280 and it's going to have the exact opposite effect.

00:19:05.880 And I think you're going to see more and more people like this, uh, student at Columbia

00:19:10.960 who are saying, you know, I'm just, I'm not going to play that game.

00:19:13.220 I'm just not going to play it.

00:19:15.100 I can't live that way.

00:19:16.360 You want me to live with shame and guilt?

00:19:18.080 I can't do it.

00:19:18.600 I'm not going to do it any more than I would expect you or any member of any other race 0.99

00:19:22.960 to.

00:19:23.200 It's just, it's, it's bull. 1.00

00:19:25.540 It's bull crap. 1.00

00:19:27.520 All right. 0.99

00:19:28.240 Um, last thing before we head into the weekend, I need to break my silence about something,

00:19:39.080 um, that I haven't really talked about, at least not in this forum, Ted Cruz's beard.

00:19:48.560 Cruz famously has grown a beard.

00:19:50.920 Uh, I don't know if you've seen it, but you can go on Google and you can see Ted Cruz has

00:19:54.160 grown a beard.

00:19:54.480 It's been big.

00:19:55.000 It's been headline news.

00:19:55.860 You know, it's been, it's been a big, big topic of conversation.

00:19:58.040 Um, now Cruz has gotten a lot of grief for his beard.

00:20:02.320 Uh, he has faced discrimination as all beardsmen.

00:20:05.760 And that's what we call ourselves in our community.

00:20:08.000 Uh, all beardsmen have faced discrimination at various points in our lives, but actually

00:20:13.760 his beard is great.

00:20:15.040 Uh, he looks significantly better with the beard.

00:20:17.880 And I fact, in fact, if he had grown the beard in 2016, I think if he had grown him in, if

00:20:23.340 he had grown the beard before the 2016 primaries, I think it's very likely that we would have

00:20:27.800 a president Cruz right now.

00:20:29.060 That's, that's, that is the transformative power of the beard.

00:20:32.940 And that's why all men should grow beards. 1.00

00:20:36.260 All men look better with beards than without.

00:20:39.600 That is a simple fact.

00:20:41.560 Now, I'm not saying just to be clear, I'm not saying that all men look better with all types

00:20:47.680 of beards.

00:20:48.200 I'm not saying that any beard whatsoever will improve your look.

00:20:51.840 I just mean that for every man, this is kind of my, my, my philosophical position on facial

00:20:57.980 hair.

00:20:58.340 Uh, for every man, there is an ideal beard form out there in the abstract and it only needs

00:21:06.580 to be realized.

00:21:07.940 Okay.

00:21:08.380 This is kind of the platonic theory of facial hair, but, and so for every man, if you're

00:21:15.080 thinking, if you're a man, you think it's up, should I grow a beard?

00:21:17.060 The answer is, is the answer, the question is not, should I grow a beard?

00:21:21.640 The question is simply, what sort of beard should I grow?

00:21:24.480 Because you absolutely should grow one.

00:21:27.020 And you might say, well, I can't grow a beard.

00:21:28.920 You know, I've can't, it comes in blotchy or whatever.

00:21:31.200 Well, maybe you should look into surgery for that.

00:21:33.700 I mean, there are, there are ways to, to solve that problem.

00:21:36.620 Um, but this brings me to another point.

00:21:42.880 Given the objective beauty of the beard, given the superiority of bearded men over non-bearded

00:21:52.760 bearded, and given the fact that men with beards inspire confidence and admiration, why is it,

00:22:00.500 and I'm thinking about this now because of Ted Cruz, politician, grown-up beard, why is

00:22:04.460 it that presidents in modern times are always beardless?

00:22:07.740 Have you ever thought about that?

00:22:09.240 Now, I want you to listen to this very disturbing fact, okay?

00:22:11.480 It has been over 100 years since any president has had any kind of facial hair whatsoever.

00:22:19.440 And it seems, it seems unbelievable.

00:22:21.160 Like, you can't even believe it.

00:22:21.940 How it's been 100 years and no president has grown any facial hair?

00:22:24.880 Yeah.

00:22:25.440 Taft in 1909, 110 years ago, had a luxurious mustache.

00:22:30.880 He was the last one.

00:22:32.480 And the last president to sport, to sport a full beard was, was Harrison in 1889.

00:22:37.880 Folks, that is 130 years.

00:22:42.480 It has been 130 years since a president has been bearded.

00:22:46.700 So do you want to, you want to know why things are falling apart in this country?

00:22:50.080 Look no further than this one startling statistic that nobody talks about.

00:22:54.420 It has been 130 years since a president has had a beard.

00:22:59.940 Now, through the first 130 or so years of our country's history, facial hair was extraordinarily

00:23:07.300 common in the White House.

00:23:10.860 Whether it was Van Buren's luscious mutton chops or Abe Lincoln's iconic mustacheless beard

00:23:18.900 or Roosevelt's dignified and masculine mustache.

00:23:25.780 It seems that facial hair had grown synonymous with our nation's highest office.

00:23:30.780 But then something happened, you know, and historians have spent decades, volumes have been written

00:23:38.380 by scholars trying to figure out what happened that presidents stopped growing facial hair.

00:23:44.420 Just consider this.

00:23:46.860 The last president with facial hair took office in 1909.

00:23:51.520 The Great Depression happened in 1929.

00:23:54.600 That's 20 years.

00:23:55.460 Only 20 years of baby-faced presidents and suddenly we're in a depression.

00:24:01.340 You think that's a coincidence?

00:24:02.400 I don't think so.

00:24:04.140 And the rest of the 20th century was, in many respects, unfortunate.

00:24:10.840 And obviously there is a connection here.

00:24:12.860 So I say that it's time to put men and women, to be fair, with facial hair, back in the positions 0.98

00:24:20.980 of power.

00:24:21.560 I think if we're looking to solve our problems in society, that's it.

00:24:26.820 We need bearded men running the show.

00:24:31.140 I might be a little bit biased, but that doesn't mean that I'm wrong.

00:24:34.680 All right.

00:24:35.700 I'll leave you guys with that deep and insightful point to ponder over the weekend.

00:24:41.260 As you begin to grow your beard, then you start your beard journey.

00:24:46.160 And I'll talk to you on Monday.

00:24:48.100 Godspeed.

00:24:55.380 Coming up on The Ben Shapiro Show, Democrats prepare for impeachment.

00:24:58.880 New investigations are launched against President Trump.

00:25:01.520 And we check the mailbag.

00:25:02.620 That's coming up on The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 14, 2018

Ep. 162 - The Media Exploits The Tragic Death Of An Immigrant Child

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