00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media have finally taken notice of the brutal killing of a white woman by a black man in Charlotte, but to them, the real outrage is that conservatives are upset about it. That's what they're upset about. Also, there's a growing movement to abolish property taxes, and yet a shocking number of taxpaying Americans seem to be opposed to this idea somehow, and Rand Paul cites the book To Kill a Mockingbird in an effort to explain why we shouldn't blow up drug cartels.
00:00:22.600There are a bunch of reasons why that argument isn't compelling, starting with the fact that the book, despite being force-fed to every American child for decades, isn't very good. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:03.720Yesterday, we talked at great length about the horrific killing of Irina Zarutska, the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was savagely stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte by DeCarlos Brown, an evil, psychotic, criminal barbarian with a lengthy rap sheet.
00:02:18.180Now, to review, if you're not familiar yet, Irina was on her way home from a shift at the pizza place where she worked.
00:02:25.800She boarded the light rail car and sat down in front of Brown without a single word exchange between them.
00:02:31.680A few minutes into the ride, Brown pulled out a knife, stood up, and began butchering Irina to death without warning.
00:02:38.100And then he proceeded to walk around the train, leaving a trail of blood behind him.
00:02:42.760Nobody attempted to intervene at any point.
00:02:45.140We now know that Brown has been arrested 14 times or had been arrested 14 times before this awful crime was committed.
00:02:57.720The criminal justice system, which has no interest in dispensing justice to criminals, which should be its one and only job, had 14 chances to get this creature off the street.
00:03:08.240They could have permanently removed him from society after the third arrest or the fourth or the seventh or the 10th.
00:03:15.140But instead, they gave him 14 chances.
00:03:18.340Even after he committed armed robbery, after he committed assault, after he committed more than a dozen other crimes, the system simply churned him back out, waited for him to get arrested again, and then churned him out again like some kind of demonic merry-go-round ride.
00:03:57.540It is the direct result of deep and widespread systemic failure and corruption.
00:04:03.180She should have the murals and the streets named after her.
00:04:07.420The judges and city officials who let her kill her loose on the street should all get the Derek Chauvin treatment.
00:04:14.840Instead, up to the point when we filmed the show yesterday, Irina's case, far from being treated like any kind of national scandal, was completely ignored by the national media.
00:04:23.620None of the major media outlets had said a word about it.
00:04:27.320CNN, MSNBC hadn't spent even 30 seconds of airtime reporting on it.
00:04:31.680The New York Times, Washington Post hadn't dedicated five sentences of coverage to it.
00:04:37.900It was a total media blackout, made all the more infuriating by how utterly, disgustingly predictable it was.
00:04:45.180But these days, of course, the media, well, they don't lead the conversation as much as they wish they could and as much as they used to.
00:04:50.480The conversation happens without them until they're forced to chime in for fear of being reduced to even greater irrelevance.
00:04:58.020So over the past 24 hours since our episode aired, finally, some of the major corporate media outlets decided to acknowledge this case as we had left them no choice but to acknowledge it.
00:05:09.260And their spin is exactly what you would expect.
00:05:12.920To the media, the story is not the murder itself, but rather the fact that conservatives are talking about the murder.
00:05:21.240It isn't that a black criminal butchered an innocent white woman, but that we have noticed that this happened.
00:05:28.360There are now headlines like this one from Politico.
00:05:30.460Ukrainian refugee killed in North Carolina gets dragged into political messaging war.
00:05:35.180President Donald Trump and MAGA allies are using the killing of Irina Zrutska to attack Democrats.
00:05:39.900Yes, you see, Democrats are really the victims here.
00:05:45.080A young woman bled to death in public, but the real concern is that Democrats are being attacked by conservative pundits on social media.
00:06:06.400The stabbing video does fuel our crime message.
00:06:09.780And that's because our crime message is that crime is bad.
00:06:14.980And people who commit crimes should go to prison and not be permitted to stab women to death on the train or anywhere else.
00:06:22.880In the same way, you could say that a video of a house fire fuels our firefighting message, which is that it's bad for houses to burn down and we should put out the fires rather than allowing them to engulf entire neighborhoods.
00:06:37.160You know, our messages tend to be pretty simple in that way.
00:06:39.860But there is one part of this absurd Axios piece that warrants a special mention.
00:06:46.020Quote, MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime and accuse mainstream media of undercovering shocking cases.
00:06:57.000Shocking video of the fatal August 22nd knife attack on 23-year-old Irina Zarutska on a light rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, dominated weekend conversations on Trump-friendly social media.
00:07:08.000The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte's light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.
00:07:14.300The video is easily shared or leaked and can instantly pollinate across social media.
00:07:18.980A visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.
00:07:24.840As we've covered extensively on this show, crime stats can be manipulated in many ways.
00:07:30.200I mean, you can show decreases in violent crimes simply by not reporting the crime or not charging the criminals.
00:07:37.400If a city decides to pretend that vast categories of crime aren't crimes anymore or to pretend they're not happening,
00:07:43.920then crime statistically will go down.
00:07:47.300It's not hard to make a city safer on the stat sheet, but making it safer on the light rail car, however, is a different matter.
00:07:55.380You know, a city can be safe on a sheet of paper, but not safe on the street or the sidewalk or at the gas station or on public transportation and so on.
00:08:04.500The videos break through the false narratives and the juked crime stats by showing us what's actually happening.
00:08:10.020I mean, it's one thing to hear that a city has X number of murders.
00:08:13.160It's another thing to see what that means, to see how these murders are happening and where they're happening and who they're happening to and who they're being committed by.
00:08:21.420And that's why all the security cameras and police body cams are becoming a major problem on the left, especially because of that last point, who the crimes are being committed by.
00:08:34.120Don't be surprised when there's a major push to get rid of the cameras, you know, all these security cameras and everything in the name of privacy.
00:08:42.740I mean, as we've talked about many times, we've already seen the beginnings of this process with police body cams.
00:08:47.600The left wing race hustlers demanded the body cams and the body cams proceeded to annihilate all of their narratives about police brutality.
00:08:54.200And now they're not so hot on body cams anymore.
00:08:56.280A similar thing will happen and is already happening or rather beginning to happen anyway with security cameras.
00:09:04.320And here's a story on that note out of Canada.
00:09:09.520So Hamilton man has been ordered by the city to take down the security cameras on the outside of his home, even though he says a lot of the videos have been used to help with police investigations.
00:09:26.280I have one there, one there, one there.
00:09:30.500Dan Miles says he has 10 security cameras outside his home on McNabb Street North, downtown Hamilton, and he says he needs them.
00:09:38.500Because we had a lot of attempted break-in enters into our home and other homes around us.
00:09:43.680Miles has posted videos of break-ins online.
00:09:46.920He also says police have asked him for his videos over the years to help with investigations.
00:09:51.640We reached out to Hamilton police and they say they can't confirm the use of Dan Miles' videos, but told CHCH News they often work with homeowners, businesses, and drivers to get footage.
00:10:03.020CHCH has used videos from Miles, like this one seen here, showing the moments before a fatal crash two years ago at Barton and McNabb.
00:10:12.700These cameras are imperative to our neighborhood watch.
00:10:15.240They're imperative to the safety of our community.
00:10:17.320But last week, Miles received an order to comply with the city's fortification bylaw, asking him to remove his cameras.
00:10:25.320The bylaw says homeowners are not permitted to view or listen beyond the perimeters of their own property.
00:10:31.500A notice from bylaw, I thought, how could this be?
00:10:34.100Everybody has ring doorbell cameras pointed at the street and city property, and my neighbors have cameras pointed at my house, and we all...
00:10:41.620The city of Hamilton has confirmed the order to remove the cameras to CHCH News.
00:10:50.660It's not because he's paranoid, but because of a rash of attempted break-ins at his house.
00:10:56.140So now he's got a camera to cover every single angle of his house.
00:11:01.040The cameras have been used not only to protect himself against burglary and other crimes, but to help solve and prevent crimes in the neighborhood.
00:11:09.200So all of that, you would think, is good.
00:11:12.500The only thing that's not good is that he needs the cameras in the first place.
00:11:15.460The fact that he needs 10 cameras is the bad part.
00:11:19.000But the fact that the cameras have been effective, that's good, you would think.
00:11:24.240Well, now his local city school marm bureaucratic tyrants are telling him to take the cameras down because of privacy concerns.
00:11:52.660Certain people have been looking for an opportunity to find a case like this.
00:12:00.380They've been looking for opportunities to make this some sort of, like, reciprocal George Floyd situation.
00:12:06.640And that's the part that I think he's almost giving away the game.
00:12:11.300And it's sad to see a lot of people going along with it.
00:12:15.720You know, let me just say a couple of things.
00:12:16.840One is, I mean, what happened to that young woman was horrible.
00:12:19.960And it's everybody's nightmare if you're in any public space, subway, whatever, that something bad is going to happen to you or somebody you care about.
00:12:29.080We don't know why that man did what he did.
00:12:31.720And for Charlie Kirk to say, we know he did it because she's white, when there's no evidence of that, it's just pure race mongering, hate mongering.
00:12:51.720Really, over the weekend, Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, other Trump-aligned figures succeeded in making this senseless death a symbol of big city crime.
00:13:00.740We heard President Trump asked about it yesterday when he was heading home from New York City.
00:13:07.180And then today, Trump did know all about it.
00:13:09.240That's exactly what has happened here.
00:13:10.700This story has trickled up from local news to social media and now to the president's attention.
00:13:16.120And it's being used, as you said, Breonna, as a political symbol, with MAGA media calling for more forceful punishments and more incarceration.
00:13:23.740I have to say, some of the replies to Musk, some of the comments around this story are baldly racist, stoking fear of African-Americans because this man attacked a white woman.
00:13:33.800The open racism on sites like X today, it's eye-popping.
00:13:37.280So the narrative we hear from the media is exactly what you would expect.
00:13:41.900They are infinitely more outraged at the alleged racially charged language of conservative pundits than they are at the actual butchery of an innocent woman by a 14-time career felon on public transportation.
00:13:52.560They are not angry that this woman was killed.
00:14:16.480So just to review, the media can say for sure that it's racist to say mean things about a black guy who killed a white woman.
00:14:23.720But they can't say for sure that it's racist for a black guy to actually kill a white woman.
00:14:27.700So the murder is not racist necessarily, but the commentary about the murder, well, that is racist.
00:14:35.740That's what these despicable snakes are actually claiming.
00:14:39.760Keep in mind, this is coming from all the same people who declared from the first moment that the George Floyd footage went viral that it was a racist hate crime.
00:14:50.560There was nothing in that video, if you recall, not a single thing that indicated any kind of racial motivation whatsoever.
00:14:57.700And yet when a black suspect ODs while being detained by a white cop, it's a racist killing automatically.
00:16:20.740Per capita, the situation is even more dire.
00:16:23.080Black people, young black males in particular, are an order of magnitude more violent and more likely to commit crimes than any other group in the country.
00:16:31.420Black men are 5% or 6% of the population.
00:16:33.280They commit the majority of murders in the country.
00:16:35.520That makes black males in America more dangerous than perhaps any other demographic in the entire world, let alone in this country.
00:16:45.000And we know all this despite the efforts by the FBI and every other institution to hide and bury racial crime statistics.
00:16:52.860Imagine how grisly it would look if they let us see the whole picture instead of just pieces of it.
00:16:56.660But we can see enough to know, without any doubt whatsoever, that the violent crime epidemic is driven by one demographic to an overwhelmingly disproportionate degree.
00:17:07.100And all of that has happened while you, Van, and your propagandist cohorts have spent years claiming that the reality is exactly the opposite of this.
00:17:17.620You didn't just deny that this is happening, you have the gall to claim that the opposite is happening.
00:17:25.700You paint a picture of a country where black people walk around in fear, trembling in fear of white violence.
00:17:33.120Where black people are constantly tired and exhausted by the brutality inflicted upon them by the villainous whites.
00:17:39.920But those of us who you condemn as racists, no, we are the ones who are tired.
00:17:46.920We are tired of not being able to walk down the streets in our own cities.
00:17:51.000We are tired of losing good, productive citizens at the hands of violent degenerates who contribute nothing of value to society whatsoever.
00:17:57.660We are tired of the total lack of accountability and responsibility.
00:18:01.220We are tired of a system that prioritizes the restoration and rehabilitation of violent psychopaths over the protection of innocent, law-abiding people.
00:18:11.660And we are tired of pretending that all of this isn't happening.
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00:20:43.480Well, there's a growing movement, the media tells us anyway, against property taxes, and CNN reports,
00:20:49.860with real estate prices climbing and household budgets under strain, a once-fringed push to eliminate property taxes is drawing new energy
00:20:57.800and the backing of high-profile conservative figures.
00:20:59.960Republican Firebrand Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia recently argued for making it a national priority.
00:21:04.080Billionaire Elon Musk has likened property taxes to a de facto lease from the government that should be abolished.
00:21:10.040And in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis, a once-impossible future presidential contender, has vowed to move his state in that direction.
00:21:16.380DeSantis said if you own your home, to truly own it, you have to own it free and clear of the government.
00:21:21.720For decades, property taxes have underwritten the basic functions of local governments, schools, parks, roads, police, fire departments, trash collection.
00:21:27.040But as some values have surged, as home values have surged, rather, tax bills have ballooned in tandem,
00:21:32.780fueling what David Schleicher, a Yale professor of local government, described as a property tax revolt, shaking cities and states alike.
00:21:41.980Schleicher said, there's a really big trend that's below the radar because it doesn't involve President Trump,
00:21:46.040but it doesn't need fireworks to announce itself.
00:21:47.780It's already changing our relationship with government and how schools work and property markets.
00:21:52.180The frustration is cutting across partisan lines.
00:21:54.600Last year, voters in nine states approved reparendums to cap or curb rising assessments from tying bills to inflation in Georgia to New Mexico
00:22:01.720and Colorado expanding tax exemptions for veterans who own homes there.
00:22:08.520So Florida is considering abolishing property taxes.
00:22:12.220Few other states have had proposals like this discussed.
00:22:14.980I'm not sure if it's mentioned in the article, but Wyoming, North Dakota, I think, have had proposals like this.
00:22:47.920But that is, I mean, that would be amazing.
00:22:52.900And before we get into property taxes specifically, and I know maybe when you, I don't talk about tax policy very often on this show,
00:23:01.420and I think that it just, it feels very boring, even as I say it, when I, just saying the word, let's talk about property taxes.
00:23:09.360It's, I'm like, I almost am boring myself.
00:23:11.240But it is really, it is extremely important, obviously.
00:23:15.620And we should all be able to agree, before we get into the discussion about whether property taxes are abolished, we should be able to agree, should, that taxing both property and income is obscene, just egregious.
00:23:35.400And yet, that's the case in like 40 or 41 states in the union.
00:23:40.200Now, if you want to make the argument, well, we can't abolish both.
00:23:45.180If you want to make the argument that, no, well, Florida can't do that because they don't have an income tax either.
00:24:50.820It's a machine gun style taxation, spraying taxes all over the place.
00:24:55.480That's to say nothing of all the other taxes.
00:24:57.120And then, of course, the federal taxes.
00:24:59.440For most Americans, every dollar they earn is taxed like ten different times in one form or another.
00:25:06.020I mean, you can just think about this.
00:25:07.580If you live in, let's say you live in, you know, we'll take one of the worst examples.
00:25:13.620But if you live in New York and you earn, say, $150,000 a year, you get your paycheck on a Friday, and then let's say on your way home from work, you stop and get a week's worth of groceries.
00:25:29.960Well, how many times do you get taxed during that process?
00:25:37.260Well, just during the process of getting paid and then going to spend some of that money on groceries.
00:25:45.040Well, your paycheck is taxed by the feds.
00:25:48.880That's about 20 to 25 percent out the window.
00:25:51.880Then New York State comes in, takes another 6 percent or more.
00:25:57.980So you're out like 30 percent right away.
00:26:00.260And then you drive to the store and you buy groceries.
00:27:11.200But just looking anecdotally at the conversation online, it's pretty obvious that there are people, lots of people, actual American citizens who are opposed to getting rid of the property tax.
00:27:25.500I've seen a lot of commentary about this proposal in Florida and, and much of it is very critical.
00:27:31.060And this is not just from government officials who are worried that they're going to have less of your money to play with.
00:29:43.840The property tax is arguably even worse than the income tax, which is itself an abomination from the depths of hell.
00:29:49.720But the property taxes are even worse to tax property, not just tax it once at the point of purchase, but to tax it in perpetuity forever, every day, always forever.
00:31:04.300These are what, you know, we would call what we should call, uh, existence taxes.
00:31:10.660Property taxes, income taxes are existence taxes.
00:31:14.120You are taxed for existing because owning property and earning a living are basic elements of existing for most people, or at least they should be.
00:31:24.160Uh, the government is taxing you for simply existing and then also taxing you when you stop existing, you get taxed for existing and for ceasing to exist.
00:31:33.380So I'm not against taxation in principle.
00:31:37.280Yeah, we do need taxes in order to fund some kind of government and you need, uh, a government to have a civilized society.
00:32:10.600It would just mean that you're relying on consumption taxes, sales tax, tourism, you know, taxes.
00:32:15.120Um, that's, I mean, that is one of the things that makes it easier for Florida to do this because of all the tourism, but, um, you know, luxury taxes and you combine that with deep, meaningful spending cuts to get rid of all the billions and trillions of dollars that are wasted.
00:32:36.780And you could have a state, you could have a country where we have a government, we have a, we have all the necessary public services, but nobody is taxed for existing.
00:33:01.740Um, it doesn't need to be, but it feels utopian because there to this point is not, and maybe, maybe, maybe the, the voices are growing a little bit louder, but there is not a real movement right now to get rid of these taxes.
00:33:21.140There's no real overwhelming outcry from the American people saying we are tired of being taxed for existing, you know, for the crime of existing.
00:33:27.480We are tired of getting taxed 10 different times before we even make it home for dinner.
00:41:35.200It's kind of a, it's kind of a sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh way of describing a certain sort of phenomenon.
00:41:41.980And there's a lot of truth to it, but the, the basic, when we talk about slippery slope, all, all we are, all we're pointing out is that, you know, someone that is that, is that there's, there's something that's being normalized or that we're being told we have to accept or tolerate affirm, celebrate, welcome, whatever.
00:42:01.520and there are there are arguments being made in favor of that thing whatever it is
00:42:07.780and when we make the slippery slope argument all we're saying is that well okay
00:42:11.900these arguments that you're making to defend affirm promote this thing i could take those
00:42:21.080arguments intact i could take them totally whole and use them to also argue for xyz other thing
00:42:32.280and these other things over here you you you would even agree are bad so you're making an
00:42:39.180argument in support of something that you like but i could take that exact argument and change
00:42:44.460nothing and use it logically to defend this other thing over here that even you that even you think
00:42:50.880is bad and um the point of that argument is is you know if the argument is true if it's valid
00:42:59.560which it almost is when conservatives make it what it proves is that either the thing that they are
00:43:07.840promoting the thing that they're arguing for is wrong and or the arguments they're using are bad
00:43:16.020arguments um and in the case of the left it's well it's both they're using bad arguments uh and to
00:43:24.140promote a bad thing or maybe it's not even a bad it's more like the thing they're arguing for is is
00:43:29.600bad the argument that they're using is the best one available but it's terrible because it's arguing for
00:43:36.700terrible thing so that's all that uh the slippery slope is is really proving what but what it doesn't
00:43:43.200necessarily mean is that um the next thing in line will be worse because what we haven't you know
00:43:51.120what the slippery slope brings to mind this idea that okay well we'll start with one kind of bad thing
00:43:57.140and then because that's been normalized we'll go to another thing that's a little bit worse
00:44:01.500and then another thing that's a little bit worse than that and another thing is a little worse than
00:44:04.660that until we get all the way down the bottom slippery slope and it's just total anarchy and
00:44:08.060chaos and and depravity uh but what we find is that it doesn't usually work in that kind of really
00:44:15.000neat linear way that all you know and this is what the left does is they they go for the most extreme
00:44:23.280version of the thing whatever it is they're going to go for the most extreme version of it and they're
00:44:28.920going to and they're going to try to get you on board to accept the most extreme version of it
00:44:33.060and then all that other stuff just comes in the bargain it's not like that's coming next it's
00:44:36.960just that's all part of it that automatically they they're they're sort of skipping ahead right
00:44:42.440um we've talked about this with uh with gay marriage for example when people say that oh
00:44:51.260slippery slope that you know we accept gay marriage next thing you know it's gonna be polygamy well
00:44:55.120polygamy is not nearly as bad as gay marriage polygamy is a is a is a much less extreme thing in
00:45:02.940fact polygamy there's a lot of historical precedent to polygamy polygamy makes historically it made a
00:45:09.700certain kind of sense you had to populate the earth you know it's a populating society populating
00:45:15.420civilization and this was one way to do it so it's it's in accordance with nature in that it's it's
00:45:22.920it's uh it's productive you know it's reproductive uh procreative so it's still wrong
00:45:30.200but it's not nearly as disordered or wrong as a gay marriage so they went when it comes to marriage
00:45:39.300when it comes to messing with the definition of marriage they went for the most extreme version
00:45:44.560of that which is two men getting quote-unquote married and all the other stuff is just you kind
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00:46:56.540with all of us to celebrate a decade of the daily wire with the live from your episode of our new show
00:47:01.000friendly fire at 7 p.m eastern time we're not gathering to tell stories of the past this is not
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00:47:27.560maybe not watch live tomorrow at uh 7 p.m eastern at dailywire.com and on the daily wire app now let's get to
00:47:34.240our daily cancellation after the pentagon blew up a boat full of drug traffickers last week jd vance
00:47:45.220immediately celebrated the bombings on social media he wrote quote killing cartel members who poison our
00:47:50.040fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military and then when someone suggested that the
00:47:54.340white house had committed a war crime vance replied simply i don't give a what you call it
00:47:59.300which is a great response as you can imagine there were quite a few replies to jd vance's post
00:48:05.080the vast majority were positive people are tired of seeing overdoses in their families and their
00:48:08.740communities they recognize that foreign drug traffickers operating international waters aren't
00:48:12.220entitled to any due process under our constitution but not everybody was thrilled with vance's reply
00:48:17.580particularly a fellow member of the republican party senator rand paul of kentucky unloaded on jd vance and
00:48:23.660there's a specific portion of his reply that needs to be discussed at some length here's what
00:48:27.960rand paul wrote quote jd uh don't give a vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the
00:48:35.980highest and best use of the military did he ever read to kill a mockingbird did he ever wonder what
00:48:40.660might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial and representation what a
00:48:45.120despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial now if you had to
00:48:51.300classify this form of argument you'd call it an appeal to authority uh or an appeal to fiction really
00:48:56.960and this is when to bolster your point you cite some established expert or legal case or study or
00:49:02.180something like that but in this case instead of citing anything with any substance whatsoever rand
00:49:06.180paul cites to kill a mockingbird and he wonders whether jd vance the vice president united states
00:49:10.700has ever read the book that's the kill shot in rand paul's foreign policy argument now just in case
00:49:16.100you're one of the 10 people in the country who was not forced to read this book at some point in your
00:49:19.700life i should make it clear that to kill a mockingbird is a work of fiction and it's written at a
00:49:24.760child's reading level middle schoolers and high schoolers are the main audience and even children
00:49:29.860when they're ordered to read this book which nobody ever would have read it if not for the fact that
00:49:34.140everyone is forced to read it but even they generally understand that it was written by some random woman
00:49:38.700who invented a story in her head it's not a documentary it's not a textbook on constitutional
00:49:42.340law it's certainly not a manual for how to approach drug cartels it's a dumb story and not an
00:49:48.160especially well-written one either now it's true that for generations to kill a mockingbird has always had
00:49:53.200the full backing of every establishment institution in the country every school and government
00:49:57.600relentlessly pushed the book on young people as soon as it was published in 1960 it won a pulitzer
00:50:01.760within a year of its release a group of librarians in britain declared that to kill a mockingbird was
00:50:06.800just as important as the bible this book was force-fed on everyone just like that u2 album that apple
00:50:12.620installed on everybody's phone without their permission several years ago that doesn't mean that the book is
00:50:16.840any good and it certainly doesn't mean that the book is relevant to a foreign policy debate with jd vance and
00:50:22.380that's why predictably rand paul's post was mocked all over the internet even people who like and respect
00:50:27.520rand paul as i do by the way uh joined in on the fun because it was just too hard to resist for example
00:50:33.200here's a post showing a scene from the movie 300 with the caption uh quote disgusting leonidas brutally
00:50:39.880executes xerxes emissaries without trial hasn't he read to kill a mockingbird and then there's this one
00:50:45.200for the lord of the rings fans quote disgusting aragorn brutally executes the mouth of sauron without trial
00:50:51.580has he read to kill a mockingbird and then uh one more i mean i think we basically get the idea
00:50:55.380unbelievable odysseus cold-heartedly kills the suitors without trial
00:50:58.960uh for making sure they're uh or making sure they're not mentally ill has he read to kill a mockingbird
00:51:04.340and on and on and on put simply not many people were convinced by rand paul's attempt at an appeal to
00:51:10.000authority at the same time there's an even more fundamental problem with rand paul's reasoning the
00:51:14.940problem isn't simply that to kill a mockingbird is a work of fiction that was written for middle
00:51:19.080schoolers i mean by itself that's pretty bad obviously but even if you accept that fact there are some
00:51:24.880other issues here in particular to kill a mockingbird is a scam i mean although the story is fictional
00:51:30.340it's it's based on lies there are very relevant facts about the production of the novel and its
00:51:34.820aftermath that no one really talks about and the reason that no one talks about these facts is that
00:51:39.440they undercut the propaganda that the book is intended to convey and the book is propaganda
00:51:43.260which is why they feed it to force feed it to kids it's all it is all part of the effort to teach
00:51:47.580kids in school that america is a racist country with a racist past and all these terrible things and
00:51:52.700this is what you should feel guilty about that's why that is that is the only reason not because the
00:51:56.680book is some great uh you know um novel some great piece of art it is is purely for that reason and no
00:52:03.100reason other than that you know imagine if say someone as famous and widely read as george rr martin
00:52:08.700released a new game of thrones book and then collectively everyone just agreed to ignore it because
00:52:13.540it contradicted some political narrative from a previous book he wrote it seems hard to imagine
00:52:17.700something like that happening the sheer popularity of the author's existing books would make it seem
00:52:21.340impossible in fact but that's that's what's happened with to kill a mockingbird and before we get
00:52:25.500into that if you never read the book here's just a quick plot summary which i pulled from wikipedia
00:52:30.160for the most part because it's been 25 years since i was forced to read it um or maybe longer i don't
00:52:36.980even remember when exactly but i do remember being given this infernal book uh to kill mockingbird
00:52:42.620takes place in alabama during the great depression a black man named tom robinson is accused of sexually
00:52:48.160assaulting a white woman um atticus finch is the the white lawyer played by gregory peck in the movie
00:52:55.040of course who has to defend tom robinson the whole town wants tom to be lynched because of course all
00:53:00.260the white people in alabama are racist with low iqs and no capacity to engage in any kind of independent
00:53:05.820thought whatsoever we're led to believe that in the south this is how pretty much everyone uh was and
00:53:11.060how every lynching worked and how justice worked and in the south but atticus finch a man of great
00:53:18.160presents a defense he points out for example that tom robertson's left arm had been caught in a
00:53:23.480cotton gin leaving him with a severe physical disability specifically his left arm was useless
00:53:28.880and also 12 inches shorter than his right arm atticus finch being the clever attorney that he is
00:53:33.720used this fact to demonstrate that tom couldn't possibly have beaten the girl since she was mostly
00:53:37.980hit on the right side of her face supposedly that makes some kind of sense even though you know
00:53:41.940there are ways of beating someone on the other side of the face from where you're where your good
00:53:46.960hand is but in any event as the novel or wikipedia summary continues it emerges that the white girl
00:53:52.180had actually made sexual advances on the black man and that the white girl was beaten by her own
00:53:57.580father meaning that there was no sexual assault of any kind committed by tom robinson yes that that's
00:54:02.840the twist the white girl is the sexual aggressor against the black man bet you didn't see that
00:54:07.580coming unless you were a smart kid in school and you knew that well like every book like every book
00:54:13.260that deals with race if we're reading it in school the white person is always going to be the villain
00:54:17.920every single one every single book uh so if you were smart kid in school you would have picked up on
00:54:22.900that uh but they were certainly surprised back in the 1960s when they read this um but then despite
00:54:27.940that fact the jury still convicts tom robinson anyway and that's how racist white people are as we
00:54:32.340all know and then for a good measure the white people kill tom robinson at the end supposedly he was
00:54:37.540escaping but honestly they probably just shot him because he's black and uh that's the gist so you
00:54:43.180know really really bad white people doing really bad white people stuff that's the that's the book
00:54:47.720that's what the book's about again pretty much everyone's familiar with the broad outline um as
00:54:51.680a child you probably you know at least pulled up the spark notes uh what you're probably not familiar
00:54:56.660with by contrast is the backstory for how harper lee the author of to kill a mockingbird came up with
00:55:01.180this plot and it turns out that in real life harper lee's father was an attorney named a.c. lee and
00:55:07.180he mostly handled contractual disputes wills estates that kind of thing wasn't exactly a big trial
00:55:12.240attorney but in december of 1919 several years before harper lee was born a.c. lee took on a
00:55:18.240criminal case this was the first and last criminal case that he would ever handle here's a newspaper
00:55:23.060clipping describing the facts of the alleged crime quote aged a confederate veteran is killed in
00:55:29.060monroe county four negroes charged with murder of bill northrop that's the headline and the article
00:55:34.200begins news reach here today of the murder of billy northrop an elderly farmer and storekeeper
00:55:39.260living six miles from lower lower peach tree now back in the early 20th century wasn't particularly
00:55:45.380uncommon for inexperienced white attorneys to take on cases like this no one else really wanted to do
00:55:49.900it so that's what a.c. lee did even though the facts were pretty dire from a legal perspective
00:55:53.920the article continues quote what is thought to be bloodstains are visible on the overalls worn by brown
00:56:01.180ezel mr northrop had only one arm and is believed he leaned down to get merchandise from under the
00:56:06.620counter he was struck over the head and shoulders with a piece of a scantling with such forces to
00:56:11.800fracture the skull and shoulder this occurrence on friday night over 150 dollars is thought to have been
00:56:16.300stolen 70 dollars were recovered by one of the captured negroes and it is said that they had been
00:56:21.220spending money freely so the elderly white store owner with only one functioning arm is beaten to death
00:56:27.080in his own store and the police later found bloodstains on overalls worn by a black man
00:56:32.100named brown ezel the father of frank ezel who was also arrested for the murder
00:56:36.340so this is all sounding familiar and to kill mockingbird the black suspect tom robinson only has
00:56:41.760one functioning arm that's a key piece of evidence that's supposed to convince the audience that he's a
00:56:45.940really sympathetic and innocent figure in the case but in real life the black suspects brutally murdered a
00:56:50.100white guy who had only one functioning arm so in other words harper lee was inspired by true events
00:56:57.080which you know you might have heard about that in school except she was inspired to completely
00:57:01.580invert these true events and make it so that the sympathetic person with one functioning arm
00:57:05.620wasn't the white victim who was murdered but instead was the black suspect it's a bit like writing a book
00:57:12.000based on the moon landing except the entire mission control team at nasa is a bunch of dei hires
00:57:17.000which actually sounds familiar with you know some movies that have been made but things things get even
00:57:22.780worse for uh to kill a mockingbird when you realize that the younger suspect confessed his role in the
00:57:27.540murder just before he was hanged so uh that was back when they used to you know hang criminals so
00:57:33.420we're not exactly talking about a frame job here this was not a case where harper lee's dad did
00:57:37.320anything heroic or impressive he took on a criminal case for the first time in his life he lost his
00:57:41.940client confessed and was executed and that's what actually happened in alabama when harper lee's father
00:57:46.120decided to take on a criminal case involving black defendants but of course if harper lee had written
00:57:50.040that story that actual story she would not have won the pulitzer and no child would have been
00:57:56.620forced to read her book in fact they probably would have you know burned her book and made it a hate
00:58:02.620crime to read it i mean the book would have been banned from schools not made into mandated reading
00:58:06.340now you probably didn't know any of this it's not part of the mythology of the book that's taught
00:58:11.580to students in middle school it's not part of the mythology of the of of you know american history of
00:58:17.840the south part of that mythology where every single white person south or a bunch of racist
00:58:22.720bigots and horrible people and they were just killing black people randomly all the time um
00:58:26.960neither is the fact that harper lee actually wrote a sequel of sorts many years after the publication
00:58:31.800of to kill a mockingbird the sequel which maybe you heard of is called go set a watchman
00:58:37.220um and really go set a watchman began as an early draft of to kill a mockingbird but it was released
00:58:43.780after the fact by harper lee in 2015 just a year before she died and in that book atticus finch is
00:58:49.800not portrayed as some noble crusader who bravely wages war against all the southern racists instead
00:58:54.100very early on in the novel atticus is discovered in possession of a pamphlet called the black plague
00:59:00.100and he attends white supremacist meetings and introduces racist speakers he tells his daughter
00:59:05.660that blacks in the south aren't ready for civil rights which is a direct quote from the book quote
00:59:10.580do you want your children going to a school that's been dragged down to accommodate negro children
00:59:15.440and can also atticus also says quote what would happen if all the negroes in the south were suddenly
00:59:20.120given full civil rights i'll tell you there'd be another reconstruction would you want your state
00:59:24.380government run by people who don't know how to run them negroes down here are still in their
00:59:28.720childhood as a people they've made terrific progress in adapting themselves to white ways
00:59:32.660but they're far from it yet and it goes on from there uh quote all the democratic party has to do
00:59:39.160with jefferson these days is put his picture up at banquets jefferson believed full citizenship
00:59:43.240was a privilege to be earned by each man that it was not something given lightly nor to be taken
00:59:47.680lightly a man couldn't vote simply because he was a man in jefferson's eyes he had to be a responsible
00:59:52.040man i'd like very much to be left alone to manage my own affairs in a live and let live economy i'd like
00:59:57.060for my state to be left alone to keep house without advice from the naacp which knows next to nothing
01:00:02.240about its business and and cares less so this is not exactly gregory peck's version of atticus finch
01:00:08.440this isn't the version you were forced to read in middle school um he's a guy who rages against
01:00:13.820the supreme court for outlawing segregation hates the naacp and thinks the civil rights movement is a
01:00:19.040fraud and then towards the end of the novel when atticus's daughter freaks out and says she wants
01:00:23.860to drive away from home saying this isn't the same atticus finch that she thought she knew her
01:00:27.900uncle jack slaps her across the face um and he tells her that she needs to start facing reality quote
01:00:33.780you have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas no matter how silly
01:00:38.220you think they are that's the message of the sequel of to kill a mockingbird which again is more like
01:00:44.000a first draft of that book so to put it mildly should be a pretty clear sign why no school assigns
01:00:49.580this book for children to read it's also pretty clear why when ghost of the watchman was released
01:00:54.100various news outlets wrote articles about how terrible it was and how it never should have been
01:00:58.040published because it destroys harper lee's so-called legacy or whatever um now did you know about any
01:01:04.900of this was ran paul familiar with the backstory here probably not and for being honest that's
01:01:09.160probably the most interesting part of to kill a mockingbird all all historic context surrounding
01:01:13.100the book from its origin story to its sequel has been memory hold just read to kill a mockingbird
01:01:19.980children are told it contains important life lessons supposedly and then when some of those
01:01:24.460children go on to become u.s senators they repeat the mantra when they're confronted with someone
01:01:28.660who doesn't believe in civil rights for foreign narco terrorists who are not american citizens
01:01:33.380the very first thing that comes to mind is is not a rational argument it's not a clever retort
01:01:38.600instead they simply ask as ran paul did have you read to kill a mockingbird as if that should end the
01:01:44.600entire debate the better question for people like ran paul is have you read go set a watchman or did
01:01:49.780you skip that particular children's book and if so please stop citing the prequel when the sequel is
01:01:53.900available i mean there's a whole backstory within the harper lee metaverse that you really need to
01:01:58.360explore immediately it'll change your whole perspective believe me give ran paul a copy of
01:02:04.240ghost at a watchman who knows he might start calling for nuclear bombs to be dropped on drug cartels
01:02:08.460overnight as long as we're letting harper lee control our foreign policy from beyond the grave i mean
01:02:13.140anything's possible of course for everyone else people who prefer to address facts as they exist in
01:02:17.140the real world instead of children's literature from the 1960s uh really neither book is worth reading and
01:02:22.520none of this matters in particular to kill a mockingbird is not based in reality it's not an accurate
01:02:26.840reflection of life in alabama during the great depression it's not even an accurate reflection of what
01:02:30.460harper lee's father experienced during the great depression it is instead a very heavily promoted
01:02:34.920piece of racial propaganda one that's intended as with every other piece of racial propaganda
01:02:40.180promoted by our establishment to demonize white people and portray black criminals as sympathetic
01:02:45.260victims of circumstance to kill a mockingbird is a poorly written book whose history has been
01:02:50.560sanitized relentlessly in order to continue promoting that narrative and that is why to kill a mockingbird
01:02:57.480a book that you've almost certainly been forced to read at one point in your life is today very
01:03:01.840belatedly canceled that'll do it for the show today thanks for watching thanks for listening talk to you