The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 170 - The Left Suspends Rules Of Identity Politics Again

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Christian Bale gives the most honest acceptance speech at an awards show in history.

00:00:07.420 We'll talk about that. Also, Ellen DeGeneres was attacked for defending Kevin Hart. 1.00

00:00:12.660 Now, wait a second. Did the rules of identity politics just get suspended again? I guess so.

00:00:17.380 We'll discuss all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:19.860 Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:49.860 That I was going to spend my time trying to whittle an arrow out of a stick that I found in the backyard.

00:00:59.280 Why? Because why not?

00:01:01.860 And also because my son had gotten a bow and arrow set for Christmas, but the arrows were kind of cheap and a few of them were broken already.

00:01:10.720 So I said to him, you know what? I'm going to whittle you. I'll make you an arrow. That's what I'll do.

00:01:17.120 All right. Your old man's going to show you how to make an arrow. And so he was very excited about that.

00:01:22.300 Also, my son's going through kind of this Elizabeth Warren phase where he's obsessed with Indians and he's learning about Indians, reading about them.

00:01:32.040 He has a teepee that he plays in. And so I thought it'd be cool to show him how Indians would make arrows.

00:01:38.420 I assume that this is how they did it. So anyway, the problem was that I couldn't find my pocket knife.

00:01:44.500 So I texted my wife and said, where's my pocket knife? I want to whittle an arrow.

00:01:48.180 So, um, and I guess it shows, it tells you something that my wife didn't really question that at all.

00:01:54.800 She didn't have any questions. She just, she just told me where, where she put it.

00:01:58.120 And I know you might say, what kind of a man has to text his wife about where his pocket knife is.

00:02:03.100 It should just be in his pocket. But I text my wife to find that where, you know, it's just a reflex.

00:02:07.640 Anytime I'm looking for anything, I'll just text her. I was, I texted her, where's the refrigerator the other day?

00:02:12.220 It's just, it's a reflex now. It's just what I do. So I text her, where's the pocket knife? She told me, I said, I'm going to whittle an arrow.

00:02:18.640 She didn't really have any reaction to that, oddly enough. And then about 90 seconds into the whittling process, I took a nice little chunk out of my finger.

00:02:27.740 It went pretty deep and the blood was flowing pretty good. And then I didn't know where the band-aids or the hydrogen peroxide is.

00:02:33.920 So I had to text her where, where are the band-aids and the hydrogen peroxide. So it's kind of a, it's sort of a funny, you know, thing there for her, because from her perspective,

00:02:42.220 I text, where's my pocket knife? And then like 90 seconds later, hey, by the way, unrelated, where are the band-aids and the hydrogen peroxide?

00:02:52.400 Just so you know, though, that my kids were not traumatized by the sight of me bleeding all over the place.

00:02:57.980 And I know that because while I was in the process of bleeding and fumbling around for band-aids,

00:03:03.020 my son comes up to me and asks for a snack. So that just to show you how concerned he was.

00:03:07.700 Anyway, um, the Golden Globes were yesterday. I, I, uh, they, the Golden Globes were held yesterday.

00:03:14.240 I haven't seen the ratings yet for the show, but I continue to doubt whether any human has ever actually sat down to watch an entire award show on television.

00:03:24.400 I just, I can't, I refuse to believe that anyone would do that to themselves willingly.

00:03:31.060 Um, of all the ways to spend an evening, you could read a book, you could play a board game, you could will whittle an arrow, you could cut off your finger.

00:03:38.920 So many things you could do that would be better than sitting there for seven hours, watching rich people congratulate themselves.

00:03:46.360 Um, I just, I don't believe that anyone has ever done. I don't think that any award show has ever been watched on TV by anyone. That's my theory.

00:03:56.340 But there was an award show yesterday, the Golden Globes. And, um, it seems that one thing happened there that's worth mentioning.

00:04:03.660 Um, because it was a moment of incredible, though unintentional honesty. Um, Christian Bale won the Golden Globe for his performance as Dick Cheney in the movie Vice.

00:04:17.640 I haven't seen the movie. Uh, I've heard that it's absurdly openly biased, not surprising about, you know, that's not very surprising.

00:04:25.100 Basically, it's just an undisguised hit piece against Cheney and the Bush administration. It makes no attempt at all to appear that it's anything other than a hit piece.

00:04:36.700 And here's the thing about that. I don't personally, I don't have a problem with movies that mock politicians.

00:04:44.080 Um, as I say all the time, politicians should be mocked. Mocking politicians is, it's an American pastime. It's an American tradition.

00:04:53.580 It's about the most American thing you could ever do is insult one of our politicians. They should all be insulted. Just, just on principle. It's a wonderful thing to do.

00:05:06.280 The problem, though, is that Hollywood would never make a Vice-like movie about, say, Bill Clinton.

00:05:14.160 It would never, ever put something so nakedly scornful and contemptuous, um, out there about a Democrat politician. It would just never do that. That's the problem.

00:05:27.560 The problem is how one-sided it is. My, my dream, my vision would be a, uh, a situation where there are these kinds of movies coming out every year, tons of them, about Republicans and Democrats, where we're just constantly mocking and making fun of these people.

00:05:44.200 It's, it's, it's, it's what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted. Okay. Now, the closest thing that I think Democrats have done, or Hollywood has done, uh, same thing.

00:05:55.780 The closest thing Hollywood has done about Democrats would be the movie Choppa Quiddick, um, about the time when Ted Kennedy drowned a woman.

00:06:05.500 Um, but the, and I saw that movie. It's a, it's a very good movie, but the difference is that they waited 50 years to tell that story and the movie, which again, was a good movie worth watching, but it's also, it's a mature movie.

00:06:20.680 Okay. It's not agit prop. It's not a, it's not a cartoon like Vice. And so the principal players all come across about as sympathetically as possible, given the circumstances, given that it's a movie about a woman drowning.

00:06:34.780 And then people trying to cover it up and, uh, trying to, you know, figure a way to wiggle out of it legally and politically, given all of that, the principal players come across about as sympathetically as possible.

00:06:49.760 Um, the movie isn't trying to paint anyone as just straightforwardly evil. Um, those kinds of movies are always about Republicans. Always.

00:07:01.060 A Democrat will never be the target of a movie like that. So in any case, uh, Christian Bale won.

00:07:10.520 And then he gets up there, uh, to accept his award. And as kind of a nice change of pace, because usually, or often anyway, you'll see these people go up and they'll thank God for helping them to produce whatever piece of filth they're being awarded for.

00:07:27.180 But in this case, Christian Bale proceeded to thank Satan during his acceptance speech. And I think it's the first time, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's the first time in a Hollywood awards ceremony that Satan has been explicitly thanked, uh, for helping, uh, whatever achievement.

00:07:47.160 Now his, his, his thanking of Satan was meant to be tongue in cheek. He was saying that Satan helped him, helped to inspire him to play Dick Cheney.

00:07:58.220 So it was meant to be an insult of Dick Cheney, obviously. Um, but it was unintentionally, I think the most honest moment in the history of award shows.

00:08:09.300 And really, I would prefer this. I would prefer it if most of these people went up there and just thanked Satan rather than thanking God for whatever degrading nonsense they produced.

00:08:25.380 Because Satan is glorified by Hollywood much more than God is glorified. And I think Satan's influence is far more evident in most of what Hollywood comes out with than is God's influence.

00:08:41.460 So yes, thank Satan. Satan deserves most of the credit, after all. I think Christian Bale had that right.

00:08:49.060 So that was a, I think in the end, that was a revealing, honest moment. And we should all be thankful for it.

00:08:58.760 Speaking of award shows, you've heard obviously that Kevin Hart had to resign from his Oscars hosting gig after the outrage mobs descended on him for some supposedly homophobic jokes that he made years ago on Twitter and in one of his stand-up acts.

00:09:15.500 Well, Hart appeared on Ellen this past Friday, and Ellen obviously is a lesbian woman, and she expressed her support for Kevin Hart and asked him to rescind his resignation and to host the Oscars again.

00:09:30.440 She said that she talked to the Oscars people, and they said that they would still like to have Kevin Hart host, even though they threw him under the bus and all that.

00:09:39.480 So she said that she thinks Kevin Hart's a great guy, a phenomenal talent, he's already apologized for the jokes, and he shouldn't need to keep apologizing, and we should all just move on.

00:09:49.960 That was her point. Now, I'm not much of a fan of Ellen DeGeneres. I don't, I'm not, I don't really have an opinion about her one way or another.

00:09:58.060 I don't watch the show. But I thought it was a good moment. And I thought it was great that she kind of stood up to defend Hart against the rage mobs.

00:10:09.320 And it was good that she did it as a lesbian woman, because you would think, according to the rules of identity politics, that should sort of shut down the rage mobs. 1.00

00:10:24.000 Now that because she has credibility to stand up and make this point. Well, the left apparently did not agree. They did not like that Ellen had betrayed them by refusing to join with them and grab a pitchfork and all of that.

00:10:44.540 So Ellen was attacked for defending Kevin Hart. I'll give you just one example of the responses that she received. There was an editorial that made the rounds over the weekend, and the editorial had this title, Who Died and Made Ellen DeGeneres the Gay Pope?

00:10:59.040 The article by someone named Drew Goines says, in part, kindness doesn't mean forgiving people who've done bad things without being sure they understand what happened and are committed to making things right.

00:11:17.220 DeGeneres' unilateral dispensation to Hart on behalf of the LGBTQ community and her kneecapping of Hart's critics truncates that process.

00:11:26.080 That's bad for all the LGBT people she claims to represent, and it's bad for Hart, who gets to skip over the part of the process where he becomes a better, more empathetic person.

00:11:36.160 Hart made a half-hearted apology when he announced that he was stepping down as host, but he hasn't made any clear amends to LGBTQ people, and he certainly doesn't seem to have atoned for his words.

00:11:47.720 How can he, so long as he views the criticism of his past words as, quote, slander on my name?

00:11:53.720 More important, even if Hart had more fully repented, his sins are not Degeneres' to forgive.

00:12:05.140 Well, then, first of all, who is the person who's allowed to forgive him if Ellen DeGeneres can't?

00:12:12.280 But think about the words that are being used here.

00:12:17.860 Repent, dispensation, make amends, atone.

00:12:24.920 Who exactly is the one claiming to be Pope?

00:12:28.740 I mean, what sort of egomaniac demands atonement rather than simply accepting the apology?

00:12:36.980 Apology? Atonement?

00:12:39.580 Atone?

00:12:40.140 What is that, what do you, what is he supposed to do, according to you, Drew Goines, and the rest of the people on the left who are upset that Ellen DeGeneres dare accept an apology from Kevin Hart?

00:12:52.620 What is he supposed to do to atone himself?

00:12:55.660 Does he need to go out into the wilderness for 40 days and fast?

00:12:59.380 Does he need to walk down the street, you know, in, I mean, begging forgiveness?

00:13:08.720 What does he need to, does he need to run through some kind of gauntlet?

00:13:11.600 What do you need him to do?

00:13:13.840 If somebody hurts your feelings, if someone says something that hurts your feelings, and they apologize, that's supposed to be the end of it.

00:13:23.760 You're not supposed to say, well, you haven't fully repented.

00:13:29.520 Atone for your sins. Atone!

00:13:32.640 What kind of person says that?

00:13:36.040 Atone?

00:13:37.920 I mean, who do you think you are?

00:13:40.940 And this, again, is the incredible arrogance that you often find on the militant gay left. 0.99

00:13:48.040 This, um, insistence that everybody bow before them and kiss their feet.

00:13:54.920 It is, it is egomaniacal, is what it is.

00:13:59.600 Now, Don Lemon had something similar to say, um, on his show on, uh, I guess it was on Friday.

00:14:07.540 He, in what we're told is, was an emotional segment.

00:14:11.760 He said that Kevin Hart's apologies have fallen flat, and that Hart needs to do more outreach, and he needs to become a, quote, ally.

00:14:23.020 Again, the, the arrogance.

00:14:27.900 Who are you to demand that someone be your ally?

00:14:31.400 Or that he engage in outreach and make amends?

00:14:38.200 The apologies, he was, his only sin here, his, his, uh, his crime, which was not really a crime,

00:14:46.240 but his crime was that he said, he, he said words seven or eight years ago that I guess hurt some people's feelings, supposedly.

00:14:54.240 Um, and I don't, I don't even buy that they really hurt anyone's feelings at all.

00:14:59.940 Because if anyone's feelings were hurt, they would have expressed it seven or eight years ago when he originally said it.

00:15:06.740 But when you go digging something up, when you go looking for a fence, and you find it, you can't claim to really be offended.

00:15:16.180 Okay, when you go searching desperately through Twitter or whatever, or combing through the archives of somebody's past, um, stand-up performances,

00:15:27.380 looking for something offensive, you're, you obviously want to find it.

00:15:33.300 And so when you find it, you can't say, oh my gosh, my feelings are so hurt.

00:15:37.940 Oh, my tummy hurts.

00:15:39.200 That hurts so much to see.

00:15:40.460 No, it doesn't hurt.

00:15:41.440 You're, you're, you're excited.

00:15:43.660 You found what you were looking for.

00:15:45.520 You went on a, uh, an expedition.

00:15:48.100 You went on a, on a hunt.

00:15:49.880 And you found the thing you were looking for.

00:15:53.880 So you can't claim to be offended.

00:15:55.600 But if you were offended, considering the offense consisted only of jokes, only of words,

00:16:01.920 then all the person needs to do is just apologize.

00:16:04.820 All they need to say is, I'm sorry.

00:16:08.140 And that should be enough.

00:16:11.840 Um, but when you sit there and say, no,

00:16:15.380 you need to be an ally.

00:16:16.860 Look, if somebody were to, to, uh, mock Christians, which of course people mock Christians all the

00:16:23.440 time, especially in Hollywood, and, uh, never does it engender much, much outrage.

00:16:28.780 And you're not going to see an emotional segment from Don Lemon about, you know, incendiary jokes

00:16:35.180 that were made towards Christians.

00:16:38.200 But if somebody does mock Christians and, and then apologizes for it, which again is rare

00:16:47.660 that you would get the apology.

00:16:49.040 But if you did, then, then great.

00:16:51.900 I would be, as a Christian, I would be appreciative of the apology.

00:16:55.860 I would say, thank you for apologizing.

00:16:58.580 I forgive you.

00:17:00.300 Okay?

00:17:00.820 Let's move on.

00:17:02.440 You know what I would never say to them?

00:17:04.040 I would never say, no, you know what?

00:17:05.660 The apology isn't good enough.

00:17:07.180 You need to be an ally of the Christian community.

00:17:09.900 Well, why should they be an ally?

00:17:16.040 Who am I to demand that someone else be an ally of mine?

00:17:22.560 Now, I can ask that they refrain from mocking or insulting me, but I can't, I can't say that

00:17:28.200 my acceptance of their apology is contingent on them being an ally.

00:17:33.720 I have no right to say that.

00:17:35.560 I have no right to make that demand.

00:17:37.260 Maybe they don't want to be an ally of Christian.

00:17:40.640 Maybe they're not Christians. 0.99

00:17:41.600 Maybe they disagree with Christians on a number of points, but they went overboard in expressing 0.85

00:17:46.320 that disagreement and they went into the realm of mockery and insults.

00:17:50.520 And so they apologized, but they still disagree.

00:17:53.140 So I can't say, no, you know what?

00:17:54.740 If you're really sorry, then you're going to agree with me about everything and you're

00:17:59.020 now going to be my ally.

00:18:00.600 It doesn't work that way.

00:18:02.060 And anyway, Ellen DeGeneres, as I said, is a lesbian woman accepting the apology of a 1.00

00:18:11.120 black man.

00:18:11.820 And yet all of these liberals are attacking her for it.

00:18:15.800 Did the rules of identity politics get suspended again?

00:18:19.700 I guess so.

00:18:21.200 Now, Don Lemon is a gay black man, so he might have enough intersectional coinage to make these 0.98

00:18:28.460 criticisms.

00:18:29.720 According to the rules of intersectionality, Don Lemon, as a gay black man, should be about 1.00

00:18:35.720 on the same, he should be, you know, he should be on the same level in the victim hierarchy

00:18:43.280 as a white gay woman, I would think.

00:18:46.420 So, so fine, as a, as a, as a victimized equal, he can say whatever he wants, I guess, according

00:18:54.240 to their rules.

00:18:55.380 But the, but everybody else, I mean, all of these white straight liberals who are on Twitter

00:19:01.900 and, you know, on social media complaining by their own rules, shouldn't they just shut

00:19:07.260 up and butt out?

00:19:08.080 Now, I happen to find it absolutely insane and also morally appalling to suggest that

00:19:13.520 you only have the right to, to, um, to be a part of a certain conversation if you hit

00:19:18.140 certain demographic markers, but that's what liberals claim all the time. 0.99

00:19:22.540 That's their rules.

00:19:24.540 And I could almost respect it almost if they actually followed those rules themselves.

00:19:31.500 But the problem is they don't.

00:19:34.280 They suspend the rules whenever they feel like it.

00:19:36.980 That's the main problem with the intersectionality, the identity politics and everything is that

00:19:43.080 it's never applied equally and fairly and consistently.

00:19:47.160 It just never is.

00:19:49.560 So another example of this would be, um, according to their rules, a pro-abortion man should never

00:19:59.600 get into an argument with a pro-life woman.

00:20:02.180 Um, he should just cede the point whenever a pro-life woman comes along, he should surrender 1.00

00:20:08.960 because no uterus, no opinion, right?

00:20:13.100 Isn't that how it's supposed to go?

00:20:15.700 Liberal men should only ever argue about abortion with pro-life men.

00:20:21.520 But the moment that a pro-life woman chimes in, he should just shut up and bow out.

00:20:26.280 Those are the rules that he tries to impose on others.

00:20:29.300 Those are the rules that he should follow, but he never does.

00:20:32.120 There's that, that video of, uh, and there are many videos like this, many cases like this,

00:20:37.920 but there's the infamous video from a few months ago of a pro-abortion man, um, essentially

00:20:44.800 assaulting some pro-life women who were holding signs as part of a pro-life demonstration.

00:20:51.820 That sort of thing should never happen.

00:20:54.100 Forget about assault.

00:20:54.980 He shouldn't even be, he shouldn't even be arguing with them.

00:20:57.940 He should be bowing before them and saying, you know what?

00:21:01.140 I have no right to have an opinion about this.

00:21:04.480 I mean, it's, it's very convenient that when it comes to the, to the abortion issue, the

00:21:09.840 way that liberals try to present it, um, you know, they'll, they'll say that, uh, pro-lifers

00:21:16.180 are men who are just trying to control women's bodies and they just completely overlook the

00:21:23.360 millions and millions of women who are pro-lifers. 0.99

00:21:27.340 In fact, the, uh, the dirty little secret here is that the pro-life movement is led by

00:21:32.340 women. 0.81

00:21:32.780 Go to the March for Life sometime.

00:21:34.340 The March for Life is going to be in Washington at the end of January this month.

00:21:37.800 Go to the March for Life.

00:21:38.980 I highly recommend it.

00:21:39.880 You know what you're going to find?

00:21:40.780 You're going to find a whole bunch of women, not just women, but young women. 0.97

00:21:45.100 You're going to find a whole bunch of women who are, you know, teenage twenties, thirties 1.00

00:21:50.380 women who are leading this movement.

00:21:55.060 And according to the intersectional rules, according to the identity politics rules, uh, pro-choice

00:22:01.960 men should have nothing to say to them, but it never works that way.

00:22:05.980 Didn't work that way with Ellen DeGeneres and the Kevin Hart situation.

00:22:08.860 It just never works that way.

00:22:10.040 They don't apply the rules to themselves.

00:22:12.660 And you know, the main problem with that.

00:22:15.100 Is when you have a certain rule or a certain principle and you don't apply it consistently

00:22:24.220 and you don't apply it to yourself, then you're never really going to discover the problems

00:22:30.240 with it.

00:22:31.280 That's one of the reasons why I think principled consistency is so important is because when

00:22:37.460 you apply your principles consistently and you apply them to yourself, then you're really

00:22:43.080 going to get a look at your own principles.

00:22:44.900 And if there are any flaws, any problems, you're going to discover them.

00:22:50.340 But when you just suspend those principles, the moment they become inconvenient, you're

00:22:56.180 never going to see the problems with them.

00:22:57.960 So if, um, if pro-choice men were to apply the identity politics principles consistently

00:23:06.500 and then say to themselves, well, you know what?

00:23:09.360 I'm not allowed to say anything.

00:23:11.020 The moment that a pro-life woman chimes in, I have to just, I have to back down. 0.98

00:23:15.260 I can't, I'm not allowed to have an opinion.

00:23:16.860 But if they were to try to live by that rule, they would see, you know what?

00:23:20.760 This is insane, actually.

00:23:22.440 Why shouldn't I be allowed to have an opinion?

00:23:25.240 Why should her demographics mean that I'm excluded from having an opinion?

00:23:29.920 And then maybe they would say, oh, you know what?

00:23:31.700 Okay, so it doesn't make any sense when I apply it to myself.

00:23:35.020 So maybe it doesn't make sense when I apply it to others.

00:23:37.140 Maybe this whole thing is just nonsense.

00:23:41.200 But if you don't apply it consistently, you'll never make that discovery.

00:23:45.680 All right, we'll leave it there.

00:23:48.680 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:23:49.520 Thanks for listening.

00:23:50.640 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 07, 2019

Ep. 170 - The Left Suspends Rules Of Identity Politics Again

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