Ep. 181 - Left Won't Stop Smearing Covington Catholic Students
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The left is desperate to justify their smear of the Covington Catholic students, and now they ve invented another ridiculous accusation, and this one is even worse, even more dishonest than the first one. Also, Notre Dame is covering up some murals of Christopher Columbus, and we ll talk about why that is stupid and cowardly, and also counterproductive.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the left is so desperate to justify their smears of the Covington Catholic students
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that now they've invented another ridiculous accusation, and this one is even worse, even more dishonest than the first one.
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Also, Notre Dame is going to be covering up some murals of Christopher Columbus.
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We'll talk about why that is stupid and cowardly and also completely counterproductive.
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And finally, I'll answer your emails today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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So as we covered extensively yesterday, the left and the media utterly embarrassed itself with this Covington Catholic story.
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They got played by Nathan Phillips, who is a liar and a fraud, tried to provoke an altercation with these students.
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And when he failed, he decided to run to the media and lie about them, which he is still continuing to do, by the way.
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Now, they also, the left and the media, they believed and promoted a version of the story that entirely excluded the role that was played by the black Hebrew Israelites,
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which are these crazy cultists who kicked everything off by verbally assaulting the boys and also random passersby and Native Americans.
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They were just insulting everyone with racist, bigoted, anti-gay slurs.
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But the left and the media just left them out of the story, didn't even mention that they were there.
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And even now, as members of this school, as students at the school, kids, you know, 14, 15-year-old kids,
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are, their faces and their names are being plastered everywhere.
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Their biographies are being analyzed by the media.
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And even now, the names of the black men who actually are guilty of harassment and abuse and are the ones who started all of this,
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No, because we're focusing all on these students who did nothing wrong.
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All in all, the left and the media obviously botched the story.
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The boys have been completely, conclusively vindicated.
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We now have video evidence that shows exactly what happened.
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And it does not line up with the story as it was first presented.
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The culprits are the black Hebrew Israelites and also Nathan Phillips.
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But still, even in spite of that, the left is clinging to its original narrative.
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In the face of all the evidence to the contrary, in the face of the fact that they were clearly played by a con artist,
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They're going to stick with their original version.
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And now it's a game of just trying to kind of retroactively justify their treatment of these boys.
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As they've realized that the original story, well, that's not how it went.
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So now they're trying to come up with other reasons to go after these kids.
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But here's the big one that you would have seen all over social media yesterday.
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Um, now they're telling us that the Covington Catholic students once wore blackface to a basketball game
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where they proceeded to harass the black players of the other team.
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Now, once again, like we talked about yesterday, this accusation,
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there should be just sort of an immediate smell test you can do with this sort of stuff.
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um, that they all wore blackface to a basketball game,
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you should just, you should basically disregard it immediately.
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Unless someone can provide you with conclusive evidence that that is exactly what happened.
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And you look at the whole thing and you say, okay, well, that happened.
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But in lieu of that, I mean, your, your first reaction should be,
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okay, no, there's, there's no way that happened.
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But you're telling me all these kids went to a basketball game in blackface.
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The idea that a bunch of students would, would, would just randomly wear racist costumes to a basketball game.
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Now, the picture, which I'll show you in a minute of these kids allegedly wearing blackface.
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Hey, everybody, where are your racist costumes today?
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Um, it seems like something that's totally made up.
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Yet the left has been spreading this false story.
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And now some, some, uh, news outlets have reported it.
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So here's the, uh, the trash, worthless, garbage, rag, New York daily news.
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Covington Catholic high school students in blackface at past basketball game.
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So they're just putting it out there as a fact.
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They're not even thrown in and allegedly, or some have reported or whatever.
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This is just, they're saying it's blackface at a basketball game.
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This is a, a, a false story, a story that they know is false.
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And, um, I can only hope that New York daily news is, um, is sued, uh, and, uh, run into,
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And I can tell you that the world would be better off without, I mean, the New York daily
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news has never contributed anything of value, um, to the world or to journalism or anything.
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They say, um, I'll read a little bit from this news article.
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It says, this won't help Kentucky student, not Nick Sandman's case.
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A photo said to be featuring Covington Catholic high school students clad in blackface during
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a 2015 basketball game made the rounds on Twitter Monday morning amid last week's indigenous
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The photo depicts several white students, some in blackface, shouting at an opposing
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While the photo's origins couldn't be verified, the official Covington Catholic high school
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YouTube account published a video last January boasting its basketball school spirit and several
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clips, including one from 2012, showcase attendees chanting in blackface.
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So not only are they claiming that the students were in blackface, but they're claiming in this
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news article that they're wearing blackface to mock the opposing player.
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So they're, they've come up even with a, with a motivation behind this act, which they've
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Again, I mean, New York daily news needs to be sued into oblivion.
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Well, first of all, let's look at here's, here's, here's the picture in question.
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So you notice how, you notice how everybody is in black, right?
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Everyone's wearing black and then some are wearing black paint.
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Was it, was it a wear your racist costume to the basketball day at Covington Catholic?
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Which, which the school then videoed and put online proudly for everyone to see.
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Now, I don't doubt that leftists would actually believe that a Catholic school would do something
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That there would be a Catholic school conspiring in a mass act of random racism.
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But anyone with, say, a third of a functioning brain would, would know that that is completely
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ridiculous and knows that there must be more to the story.
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And then if you get the, if you get the bird's eye view of the stadium, or if you see everyone
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sitting in the bleachers, it looks kind of cool that everyone is in, is in the same color.
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And if everyone wearing black is blackface, then I guess when they all wear white for a
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Um, in other words, to call it blackface is a lie.
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They yell and they taunt the opposing players, not because they're black, but because they're
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This is what the fans of the home team have done in every basketball and football and hockey
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game that has ever been played anywhere on earth in history.
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So all these people are looking at this picture and say, Oh my gosh, look at them yelling at
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I saw someone on Twitter said it was, um, I forget the phrase he used.
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He said it was something like looking into the heart of evil or some phrase like that.
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I mean, this is someone who apparently has never left their house, never turned on a
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TV, um, never seen any sort of sporting event that they would see.
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Well, look, they're, they're raising their, they appear to be taunting that player in a,
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Well, I never, you notice how, how leftists become these, um, sort of fainting.
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Victorian era, um, uh, you know, damsels in distress so easily that it, it, I mean, usually
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these are the, these are the people who have no problem with, uh, you know, vulgarity.
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They have no problem with, I mean, they're the ones accusing everyone else of being Puritans,
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but then they see something like this and they go, Oh my gosh, I can't believe it.
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But it's, it's just, it's called, it's a, it's a sport.
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These are high school kids at a sport getting rowdy.
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You, I mean, this whole thing makes me so angry because the lies are just so blatant.
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They, I mean, and, and they know what they're doing.
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They aren't so stupid that they don't understand the concept of a high school basketball game
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They aren't so dumb that they don't understand the, the idea that sometimes everyone wears
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No, they aren't, I know I call them drooling dimwits, but actually I'm doing them a huge
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I mean, that is a huge compliment because either they are drooling dimwits or they are despicable
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evil people who are lying about these kids and trying to get them at a, at, at a minimum
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expelled, if not killed, because these kids are getting death threats.
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And now you're jumping in with this lie as well.
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So either you are a total moron or you are evil and you are trying to get these kids hurt
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In the words of Marco Rubio, let's dispel with the fiction that they don't know what they're
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By the way, um, speaking of bad people, uh, Nathan Phillips has, according to the Cincinnati
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Inquirer has turned down an offer to, uh, sit down and meet with the students.
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There's a local restaurant that had offered to have a kind of, um, break breaking bread
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And Nathan Phillips said that, well, now's not the right time for that.
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But in the same interview, he did insinuate that now he would be possibly in favor of the
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He said, he said, you know, originally I wasn't, uh, paraphrasing, but he said, originally I wasn't,
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I wasn't in favor of them getting expelled, but now I have to revisit that.
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And, and of course he does want various staff to be fired.
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Um, and, uh, this is the hero that the left has given us this Nathan Phillips character,
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who again is a liar, a fraud and a bully who is, um, picking on these kids.
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Um, the left, now I want you to, to remember something here, uh,
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so we had this incident on Saturday, but think back to what happened last week and how the
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left spent much of last week attacking Karen Pence because she got a job at a Christian school.
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Then by the end of the week, um, expose Christian schools was a hashtag trending on Twitter because
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he had the attacking Karen Pence for the Christian school and then hashtag expose Christian schools.
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And this was just a hashtag where a bunch of people were complaining about Christian schools.
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Um, and then on Saturday, a false narrative was quickly constructed claiming that a group
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of students from a Catholic school harassed and taunted a native American man.
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Now, I don't think that all of these events came together coincidentally.
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It's very interesting that expose Christian schools.
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So if you go and you check that hashtag now, you're going to see a whole bunch of tweets
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about Covington because the hashtag fits in really nicely with this story, except the
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Uh, we have, as I wrote last week, we have officially entered a new phase of the culture war
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and gone officially are the days when leftists pretend to see religion as this sort of thing
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that should be relegated to homes and churches and private schools.
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Um, that was a very small amount of extremely limited and qualified tolerance that they had.
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They will not tolerate Christianity in any form, in any forum, especially a private school.
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So if you go and you look at that hashtag that I was talking about, it is filled with open,
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unapologetic hatred for Christian schools as an institution, for the very idea of Christian
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Um, this is sort of the trajectory, I should say, but the pattern is very interesting.
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Um, you know, they, maybe you've noticed this, but they tend to find these perfectly timed real
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world examples to demonstrate whatever point they were already making.
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So think about in the wake of Donald Trump's election, um, they, they, uh, were wringing
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their hands and saying that this is going to embolden racists and bigots and there's going
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Um, and just like that reports of hate crimes come pouring in.
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And so for the first few months after Donald Trump's election, you're just, you were hearing
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Now, of course, many of those hate crimes proved to be hoaxes, but that's a minor detail as
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And then think about Ferguson, you know, Ferguson happened and, uh, uh, we were told that white
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supremacist police officers are on the prowl, you know, hunting down innocent black men.
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And just like that, high profile cases of police brutality presented themselves.
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And it was just this rash of, of, um, of cases like this.
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And there were riots across the country and all these differences.
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It was one city after another, one incident after another.
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Now, again, many of those cases were not legitimate examples of police brutality, but the truth
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or falsehood of the case is irrelevant to leftists, obviously.
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And then this week we were told that Christian schools are nests of bigotry and intolerance.
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And then what do you know, video surfaces of kids at a Christian school verbally assaulting
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I mean, they couldn't have scripted it any better, could they?
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Now, I'm not suggesting that this is all part of some sort of coordinated master plan.
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I don't think that these incidents are all engineered by some shadowy, devious figure behind
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the scenes who's sitting behind a big oak desk, stroking his white cat, you know, and plotting,
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um, all of these various scenarios, the, the conspiracy, if we can call it that is much
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less cinematic in scope and much less dramatic and involves very little actual conspiring because
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There is no need for them to have a meeting and get together and say, Hey, you know, we've
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It's just kind of understood that that's what they're going to do.
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They decide what sort of events, what sort of incidents will be reported and then which
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elements of those incidents and events will be highlighted.
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So then something like the Covington Catholic story is seized upon and exploited and retroactively,
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um, kind of, uh, molded to fit with the narrative that they'd already established.
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Now, if the media and the left had not already been hammering on this point about Christian
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schools, then it's possible that this thing that happened in DC wouldn't have gotten as
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much attention or wouldn't have gotten any attention.
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And obviously if, you know, if you change the demographics around, um, and it doesn't feature
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white males, then it would have gotten no attention whatsoever.
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But it just so happens that it, it, it fits so perfectly with what they were talking about.
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At least if you take it out of context and you lie about certain elements of the story,
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certain crucial elements, then it fits so well.
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So that's why they took it and they, they fit it in.
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Um, so it's not that this, that Nathan Phillips was conspiring with, you know, um, George Soros
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And then, and you know, this was all, this, it's more, this is just something that happened
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and the left and the media knew what to do with it.
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They took it and they fit it into what they were already talking about.
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With, with these narratives and these themes when they hammer on them and the left has not
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gone through the trouble of painting Christian schools as dangerous hate factories for no
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They're going to, they're going to use the fruits of their labor, um, to some end.
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And that end, I think will become very clear, um, very soon.
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Now, before we get to, um, emails, I want to mention this from ABC news, the university
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of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depicts Christopher Columbus
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The school's president said following criticism that the images depict native Americans in
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stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers.
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Um, the 12 murals were created in the 1880s, uh, by Louise Grigori, um, and they were intended
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to encourage immigrants who had come to the U S during a period of anti-Catholic
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sentiment, but they conceal another side of Columbus, the exploitation and repression
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of native Americans, according to the Reverend John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame.
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Now here's, here's what's going to be, and I, and I just want to mention this because this
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is just so emblematic of, uh, of the way that cowardly Christians deal with things these
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So what he's doing is, uh, he's not getting rid of the murals, uh, which again, this is,
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this is art, um, made in the, in the 19th century for, for Notre Dame given to them.
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And, um, so he's not going to just throw them away.
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And he indicated that sometimes maybe for, he would uncover them on certain occasions.
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And then eventually they'll find somewhere else on the campus to put the murals.
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So they're not getting rid of them or put them somewhere else.
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So what he's done here, and this is, this is just what cowardly Christians always do.
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He's come up with a compromise that actually satisfies no one.
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So he's caving to pressure from, from the left, um, from society, from the world.
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He's caving to the pressure, but he's not even doing what they want.
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And then meanwhile, um, those who don't want him to cave are also going to be mad.
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So he's just upset everyone and accomplished nothing.
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This is what happens when you start trying to compromise and you give up on your principles
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and you start caving and surrendering and everything.
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It's, you're, you're not even going to satisfy the people who are coming after you.
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The people who you are bowing before and saying, oh yes, yes, please, please.
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Oh, Matt, dear master, master, the people that you're doing that to, they're not going to
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So you just end up, you end up with a, it's a lose, lose.
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Meanwhile, this, I'm not going to get off on another tangent about Christopher Columbus,
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but, uh, as someone who's actually read about him and studied Columbus, I still find him to
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be one of the great, one of the great men of, of Western civilization, obviously one of the
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pioneers and initial builders of Western civilization, not a perfect man, a complex man and men who
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did great things at any point in history, but especially back, uh, back in those days,
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the great men who did great things and accomplished great, they were always complex.
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They always had sides to them that were, um, less, shall we say, savory.
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And part of that is because if, if you, if you wanted to get on a ship with a bunch of other
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guys and sail across uncharted waters and go to this, um, unknown wilderness and try to
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build a civilization from scratch, which is something that none of us, we can't even conceive
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of that. None of, none of us have ever done that or ever seen that happen. We can't even
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wrap our minds around what that even entails to get on a ship with a bunch of supplies and then say,
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you know, we're going to just sail and hope that we find land and we're going to build a
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civilization. How about that? Um, none of us can even, I mean, all the people that sit there and
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say, well, he shouldn't have done it that way. Well, he shouldn't have done that,
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that part right there. That was no good. Uh, meanwhile, none of us, we can't even find our
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local Rite Aid without a, without a GPS and we're sitting here criticizing. But, um, in,
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in order to do that, you had to have certain characteristics and you also had to be a very
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harsh and severe sort of man and, and, and also brutal. Um, it was kind of necessary. Now that
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doesn't excuse, uh, the bad things that Columbus did or the bad things that anyone did throughout
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history, but it does put it within a certain context that if you want to be an intelligent
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person and you want to study history and you want to have a mature perspective on history and not a
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childish one, then you have to understand the context. But one way or another, uh, Christopher
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Columbus, the early explorers, discoverers, pioneers, settlers, these are the people who built the
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civilization that you and I now live in. And we are enjoying the fruits of their labor.
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We are feasting on the banquet that they provided us. And even as we do that, like brats, we sit and
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we whine about them and complain and insult them. Well, you know, I know it's a cliche to say,
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if you don't like it, get out of America. But sometimes I think that response is, um,
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wholly appropriate. And I think it goes, I think it applies to this. Unless, unless you're a hypocrite
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or an intellectual coward, if you really think that, um, that our civilization is built fundamentally
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on genocide and evil and slavery and all these things, if that's really what you think, and you
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think we have no right to even be here and we stole all this land and we're thieves and criminals and
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everything, then you should leave. Uh, for you to think that and yet stay here and benefit from the
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privileges that those genocidal maniacs gave you, that makes you just incomprehensibly cowardly.
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If you really feel that way, then you must leave and go live somewhere else. I really mean that.
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You, you have to, you can't possibly stay here while thinking that it would be like, if, um,
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if your, if your friend invited you over for a house party and then you, you, you come into the
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house and you say, wow, this is a really nice house, a great party. And he's giving you a feast
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and then you find out and you say, when did you buy this house? And your friend says to you,
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oh, you know, no, there was another family living here. And, uh, actually I just, I just came in
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and killed all of them and, um, they're buried out back. But anyway, uh, the fruit punch is in
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the kitchen. Now, if your friend said that to you, you would leave the house, right? You wouldn't
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just say, oh, okay, well, you know what? I disapprove, but, uh, let me go get some of that
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fruit punch. You wouldn't do that. You would leave the house and then you would call the police,
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right? Now, I don't think that that analogy is at all similar to what, um, the early settlers
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and explorers did. But the point is liberals, that is how they think of it. They think it's exactly
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like that. Yet they're staying in the house party. Cowards.
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Okay. Um, now to the inbox, if you want to send a message to the show, ask a question,
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I lost that one. Justin writes, your, uh, your number two next to Ben in my daily subscription,
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sometimes a better show than his even. I hope he's paying you well. Watch out, Michael Knowles.
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Thank you, Justin. My, um, my great goal in life is to be second place. So I appreciate that. No,
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I do appreciate it. Thank you. Um, from Logan, what does the left have correct that the right
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is failing to understand? That is a great, great question. What does the left have correct that the
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right is failing to understand? I like that question. I think there's a big one. I've talked
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about this before. Uh, they understand, I think what, what sorts of issues will fire people up
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and motivate people. Um, they know how to get to people's hearts and to, to win hearts.
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And they know that you need to win the heart first and then the mind it's heart than mind,
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right? Which, as I pointed out, is something that conservatives tend to not understand. So
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conservatives will go on and on about things like tax policy and jobs and so on, which are important,
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obviously, but you're not going to build movements around them. Um, at least not these days, you won't
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even something like immigration. Okay. Really important issue, uh, an issue that lots of people care about
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obviously. And for good reason, but I'll tell you this, if you had a march on Washington
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for or against illegal immigration, you're not going to get even a fraction of what the March
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for Life gets every single year. Okay. The March for Life pulls three, 400, 500,000 people. You're
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not going to get those, those kinds of numbers for an immigration March. You just won't. I mean,
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you might get a thousand, 10,000, maybe if you promote it really well because abortion, you know,
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the social issues, the cultural issues, these are the issues that have, that are, that
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speak to people at the most intrinsic kind of level. Um, and they have a very deep philosophical
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dimension to them because they get down to the meaning and purpose of life and of society and
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of human existence. And so those are, those are the questions that we all think about. Those are
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the things we care about. Those are the things that we order our lives around, right? Um, you know,
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there are many pro-lifers who have, who have ordered their life around their conviction that
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life is sacred and valuable and that abortion is horrible and needs to be outlawed. There are not
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as many people who have centered their life around immigration, although there are some who specialize
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in that issue, but not nearly as many. Um, because these are the most fundamental, most important,
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most central kinds of issues. And this is where our primary focus should be. Liberals understand that.
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And that's why they've been so effective in, um, in, you know, claiming the culture for themselves.
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Notice, by the way, how long it took, just as an example, notice how long it took conservatives to,
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to figure out that this gender stuff, transgenderism and all that, notice how long it took them to
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figure out that this was something they needed to pay attention to. I remember when I was writing my,
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my book, um, The Unholy Trinity, which you can find in bookstores today or on Amazon.
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And I, I talked a lot about transgenderism in that, in that book. And I remember I was pitching
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that to the publisher and the publisher told me when I was originally talking about the book with
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them, they said, um, they said, well, yeah, but the transgenderism thing, I mean, are people really
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going to care about that by the time the book comes out? And I said, yeah, they're going to care
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about, care about it. This is, this is a, this is an issue now. This is a thing people care about.
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Um, and it just took conservatives a long time to figure that out. Um, Aaron writes,
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Matt, I agree with you about the Covington Catholic situation, but here's my thing.
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The response from church leadership has been terrible. My own diocese denounced the boys as
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soon as it happened. Uh, I've seen many, uh, priests and bishops on social media denouncing them too.
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This seems like total cowardice to me. What do you think? I think you said it well, Aaron. And I
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totally agree with you. Joe says, I don't understand what you're about or why anyone cares what you
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think. Why did the daily wire feel the need to hire an apocalyptic preacher? You're like a hipster
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John the Baptist. And I don't mean that as a compliment. I only want to hear about Ben Shapiro.
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I don't care about you. Well, Joe, you don't mean that as a compliment, but I actually take it as
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one, a hipster, John the Baptist. I, you know, I don't think I'm a hipster, but I love it. I think
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I might have to put that on my Twitter bio. Um, from William, he says, Matt, have you heard of
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the economic school of thought known as distributism? Thomas E. Woods Jr. of the Mises
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Institute describes distributists as believing that social system is best in which productive
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property is widely dispersed rather than concentrated. GK Chesterton, perhaps the most well-known and
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respected advocate of distributism famously said too much capitalism does not mean too many
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capitalists, but too few. Proponents of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics usually
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criticize distributists of trying to sneak in socialism to the back door because of their
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insistence that as many workers as possible ought to own the means of their own labor.
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Um, thus, uh, and then he asks, what do you make of distributism? Thanks for that, William. I,
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I'm a little familiar with distributism. I love Chesterton. And so anything he says,
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I think should be taken seriously. I think the comparison to socialism is off base because the
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point of distributism is precisely to make sure that everyone owns property. Private property is
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the point private ownership. Um, and that is not communal ownership, but actual private owner as an
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actual individuals owning their own land and their own means of production. Now I think of this as less
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of an economic system is more and more of sort of a philosophical, more of a philosophy.
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Chesterton's point, I think is that the, the best thing, the most moral, the most human
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thing is for everyone to own something, to own land, own means of production, not own as a community,
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not own as a state or through the state, but actually own for themselves privately.
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And I think Chesterton was horrified by a world where so few people actually owned anything. And he
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thought, well, that's just, that's not human. Humans should own things. The prop, and I agree
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with that. The problem of course, is that there's no way to get to there with everybody owning their
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own chunk of, uh, of land and their own means of production. There's no way to get there from where
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we are without the government confiscating everything and then, and then kind of, um, redistributing
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it as they see fit, which, which obviously would be insane and terrible and cataclysmic
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and tyrannical and awful. So there's no way anyone could support that. And there's no way
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it would ever happen. But look, here's what I'll say about the distributed. If, um, and I think that
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this is not a far-fetched scenario, if the whole world comes crumbling down and there's some sort
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of apocalyptic event and civilization is, is, uh, reduced to ash and then a few survivors are left
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and we're looking at rebuilding society, rebuilding civilization, and we all get together and we say,
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what sort of economic system should we start with? I think then starting from scratch,
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maybe you could look at the distributism as a model. Um, Tyson says, Hey Matt, I'll keep this
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short at school. My history teacher is very left leaning and we've been discussing illegal,
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illegal immigration. I am in full support of the wall and trying to minimize these people from
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coming into our country. Every time the topic comes up, his argument or deflection, when I state
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my opinion is always, well, did your family come here legally? And I honestly do not know the answer
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to that question. I am wondering what a good response to combat the question is instead of
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leaving me stuck. Um, Tyson, the first answer is that it's irrelevant. Even if you're, even if your
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family did come here illegally, uh, which, I mean, I assume, you know, if they did or didn't,
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um, but whether they did or that's got nothing to do with the issue. The issue is whether or not
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we should protect the border, whether or not we should have immigration laws.
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So when someone says, well, what about you? What did you do? What, what about your family?
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It, okay. That, that can, that can speak to your own personal credibility or whatever,
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maybe, but it has nothing to do with the issue. So even if somebody could, could prove that you're
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a hypocrite, that doesn't mean that you're wrong about what you're saying. So that's a way, that is
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a way of deflecting. It's a way of not engaging with the argument. So the first thing I would say
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when your teacher says that is, okay, you know, I don't know about my family, but can we stick to the
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issue? Can you stop deflecting from the issue? Let's talk about the issue. And, uh, and secondly,
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this idea that, um, that we're all, you know, ancestors of illegal immigrants is of course,
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ridiculous and false. Uh, and you know, there are, you know, my, my family came here, I don't know,
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70 years ago, they came here legally. So the claim just doesn't make any sense to begin with.
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Um, Alison writes, Matt, I go to CPAC every year and I always expect you to be there,
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but you never are. Will you be there this year? Will you be speaking? Well, Alison,
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I'd love to be at CPAC, but I've never been invited. Sniff, tear. Uh, but I mean, if you
00:37:27.680
really wanted me to speak at CPAC, which again, I'd love to do, you could always reach out to CPAC
00:37:31.220
on Twitter and say, Hey, uh, invite Matt Walsh or something. I don't know. I mean, it's something
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that you could do if you really wanted to. Finally, Max says, Matt, your comment that LeBron James is the
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best basketball player of all time was insane. Have you ever heard of Michael Jordan? Never lost
00:37:45.280
a finals end of discussion. Well, that's not the end of discussion. Michael Jordan was in the league
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for, I think 16 years. He only went to the finals six times. That means that he missed the finals
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10 times. LeBron James has been in the league, I think also for 16 years. And he's on, he's on his
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16th year. I believe he's been to the finals nine times already. So, um, this idea that we're giving
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Jordan credit for losing before the finals. Oh, he was undefeated in the finals. He missed it 10
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times. He lost. You know why he was undefeated? Because he lost before he got to the finals 10
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times. How is that better? How is it more clutch to lose before the finals than to lose in the finals?
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That doesn't make any sense. And of course, when you're doing with a finals record thing,
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um, you're not factoring in number one in 2007, LeBron James went to the finals and he dragged a team
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that without him would not even have sniffed the playoffs and he dragged them on his own to the
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finals. The fact that he lost there is irrelevant. Just making it is one of the most impressive feats
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in, in modern sports history. And then also, uh, LeBron James has three times played the best team in
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the history of the game. Uh, Jordan never played a team like the Warriors. Never. He never played a team
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that having the Warriors have three of the best scorers in the league on the same team. And, uh,
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Jordan never played a team quite like that. So I still say that LeBron James, the best basketball
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player of all time. Thanks for watching everybody. We'll, we'll leave it there. Thanks for listening.
00:39:20.800
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