00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, is accused of sexual assault.
00:00:05.800The media didn't want to run with this story. They said it's not corroborated, so we're not going to run with it.
00:00:10.740But wait, they did run with the Kavanaugh story, even though the Kavanaugh allegations were far less credible than the allegations against Fairfax.
00:00:19.600So we'll try to sort through this, talk about that today.
00:00:21.580Also, I'll answer your emails, including a really interesting email from someone who wants to know how to respond to claims that Jesus never existed.
00:00:28.900So we'll talk about that today as well on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:41.180Welcome to the show, everybody. Thanks for being here. Thank you for listening.
00:00:45.640Justin Fairfax, lieutenant governor of Virginia, as you've heard, has been accused of sexual assault.
00:00:52.240The accusation comes in the midst of all the Ralph Northam stuff and the governor in the midst of his, you know, people calling for him to resign because of his sordid history of blackface and moonwalking, when really he should just resign because he supports killing babies after they've been born.
00:01:14.120Now, personally, I don't think it's a coincidence that all of this, I don't think it's a coincidence, first of all, that the Northam stuff came out with the blackface stuff and the yearbook, all of that, that came out only days after Northam had committed the cardinal sin of embarrassing the pro-abortion position.
00:01:34.360Embarrassing it by, by actually being honest about it and taking it to its logical conclusion.
00:01:40.300So he committed that sin. That's not going to go unpunished if you're a Democrat. I don't think it's a coincidence.
00:01:45.480And then, of course, it's obviously not a coincidence that, that as Fairfax is on the, on the eve of potentially being elevated to this position, that this comes out about him.
00:01:54.080So it would seem like Democrats maybe leaked the, uh, the stuff about Northam in order to get Fairfax in there.
00:02:00.840Then Northam leaked the stuff about Fairfax in order to keep himself in there. And then, so it's just, I don't know, you know, I don't know, but it's just, it's a mess all around.
00:02:08.860Um, so what are the allegations against Justin Fairfax? Basically the accuser says that she was forced to perform sex acts on Fairfax at a hotel during the 2004 Democratic convention.
00:02:22.760Um, she apparently went into his room. Um, they started kissing and then she was forced to perform the act. That's what she claims, right? Allegedly.
00:02:36.700Uh, it's, it's worth noting that the Washington Post was told about these allegations a year ago and decided not to run with the story because it's uncorroborated.
00:02:47.760Hmm. Now as for Fairfax, he forcefully denies it. He, he, he even, I would say angrily denies it. I mean, he's, he's angry in his denials of this, of this, um, of this charge, which really raises questions about temperament.
00:03:05.500I mean, you have to ask, is he fit to be governor with a, with a temperament like that? A guy who would get angry at, at rape allegations if he didn't do them. That's just, well, we can't have that, right? That's, that's, that's, that's scary. That's weird.
00:03:18.780Uh, and of course that's the inevitable comparison here, um, to Brett Kavanaugh. I mean, I'm being, now, obviously I think it makes sense if you are innocent of a rape accusation, it makes a lot of sense to be angry about it.
00:03:36.100Um, so I think actually anger and emotion, that makes me even more convinced of your innocence because that's how a regular guy who, who is innocent would actually respond.
00:03:47.780But that's not what the left said about Brett Kavanaugh, is it? Um, and remember the post had no problem running uncorroborated claims about Brett Kavanaugh. No media outlet had a problem with that.
00:04:01.920Yet with Fairfax, they suddenly have this great caution. They suddenly are, oh, well, we can't, we can't do that. It's uncorroborated. You know, we, we, what the post said is that they looked into it.
00:04:11.780They tried to find other witnesses and people that could back up the story and they couldn't find that. So they didn't run it.
00:04:17.780Well, they couldn't find it with Brett Kavanaugh either. In fact, it's worse than that. Not only could they not find corroborating witnesses for Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, but they actually found witnesses who were more on Brett Kavanaugh's side, who, who actively denied ever being, ever seeing this happen or being in the same room as these people.
00:04:39.120So they actually found witnesses that, that actively contradicted Christine Ford's claims. Yet they ran with that anyway.
00:04:46.480Um, and, but not only did the, was the media uninterested in these allegations against Fairfax a year ago, they still are uninterested.
00:04:56.960The media has already tried to move on. I went to CNN's homepage this morning and I don't know, as of this morning on CNN's homepage, there was not a single word about Justin Fairfax on the entire homepage.
00:05:09.920And we're talking about dozens and dozens and dozens and we're talking about dozens and dozens and dozens of stories get crammed onto a homepage on CNN's homepage and they couldn't find room for this story at all.
00:05:19.800Uh, which is insane, of course, because this is a big story. This is a big, meaty, twisted, kind of weird political story.
00:05:29.780This is the definition of news and it's happening in Virginia in the media's own backyard. Yet they've already tried to move on from it. How long did it take them to move on from Kavanaugh?
00:05:41.020They were talking about that for weeks, but for Fairfax a day later, they're already done with it. How do these allegations, because now that we're in the middle of this comparison, how do these allegations stack up against Kavanaugh?
00:05:53.700Well, let's think about it for a minute. Christine Ford didn't know the year or the location of her alleged assault, and she waited 30 years to tell anybody.
00:06:08.480Um, this accuser waited only 13 years, and she knows the exact date, time, and location. And on top of that, Fairfax, I believe, admits that he knew the woman, that even they had a sexual encounter. Um, only he says that it was consensual.
00:06:29.700Whereas in Ford's case, Kavanaugh denies even really knowing her, being around her, and they couldn't find anyone that could even corroborate that they'd been in the same room together.
00:06:41.560Okay. So, you see, that's the problem here. Uh, that it's, it's very clear that the allegations against Fairfax are certainly more credible than the allegations against, um, Justice Kavanaugh.
00:06:58.380On every level. There, there is no, when you do a point-by-point comparison, there is not even one single point where it would seem like Ford's story is more credible than the story, um, that Fairfax accuser is giving us.
00:07:12.680Now, all things being equal, I, I would have no problem with the Washington Post passing on Justin Fairfax's story, passing on, on the story of his accuser. I would have no problem with them passing on that.
00:07:30.540In fact, again, all things being equal, that would be the right thing to do. That would be the responsible thing to do.
00:07:36.860Because even though these allegations are certainly more credible than the allegations against Kavanaugh, they still are uncorroborated. Um, she has no witnesses. She has no evidence to provide, apparently, at least none that she's, she's come forward with yet. So, it's only, it's only one accuser. I mean, how, how could you, you run with this?
00:07:56.140So, it's the responsible and right thing to do to, to, to say, no, we're not, we're not going to do anything with that. Um, the problem though, is that of course, they don't pass on similar stories about Republicans.
00:08:11.960So, their decision not to run with the Fairfax thing, that wasn't them being responsible or them being cautious or them, them trying, you know, it wasn't that at all. It wasn't journalistic standards. No, it was just, this is the wrong political party.
00:08:26.140The media wields sexual assault allegations as weapons, uh, against their ideological opponents, which is so despicable that it is almost beyond description.
00:08:38.800You know, I'll sometimes, I, I will sometimes talk to people, uh, people who are more on the left end of the, of the spectrum and, um, people who don't really, who still don't really understand why conservatives hate the media so much.
00:08:53.060And, um, and they think of it as kind of this silly thing that we're always complaining about the media and, um, and they think that we're kind of fabricating this, this conspiracy, like we're just, we're all a bunch of paranoid lunatics who have this conspiracy theory that the media is out to get us.
00:09:13.640Well, if that's, if that's the case for you and you're watching this and you want to understand why conservatives hate the media so much, well, this is the reason right here.
00:09:23.300Just compare the way justice Kavanaugh's accuser was treated and the way those allegations were treated and the way that they were amplified and then compare that to more credible allegations against Fairfax.
00:09:39.320But the way that those are treated and rather than amplified buried, just look at that and then tell me, I mean, can you honestly tell me that there is not political bias at play here?
00:09:51.760What other explanation could you come up with other than that?
00:09:59.040One other thing, uh, I wanted to mention in this realm related to the Virginia mess yesterday.
00:10:03.840I said that, um, I don't think Northam should resign because he wore blackface 30 years ago.
00:10:10.880I don't think he should resign for that reason.
00:10:13.040I think he should resign because he advocated infanticide last week.
00:10:16.920That's the reason I think he should resign.
00:10:18.880Um, I heard from, and I wrote about this as well.
00:10:22.280And I heard from several people who said that, uh, who kind of took issue with that and they accused me of downplaying the blackface thing, uh, or even justifying it.
00:10:32.460And I was accused of justifying blackface, which of course is not what I said.
00:10:37.480Um, my point simply is that once again, all things being equal, I would not support the political destruction of a guy over insensitive behavior from his college days.
00:11:04.240It's not like this happened 70 years ago.
00:11:06.100I mean, this was in what the, the eighties.
00:11:08.700So that was recent enough that the whole, well, it was a different time excuse, uh, doesn't hold up as well.
00:11:16.040I mean, it was a different time, but it was still the eighties and everybody knew in the eighties that you weren't supposed to wear blackface.
00:11:22.280Um, so that's all true, but I still think that a man can do stupid, offensive, inappropriate things, even racist things when he's young and then he can grow and change and he can become a decent, respectable adult.
00:11:39.160Um, we have to allow as a, as a country, we have to allow people to grow.
00:11:45.260We have to allow them to change, especially over now.
00:11:49.040It's one thing if someone does something horrible yesterday and then the next day there's, they're claiming that they've undergone some sort of, uh, some sort of epiphany or, or whatever.
00:12:02.340You know, you have to understand human nature, but people do change over the course of 30 years.
00:12:06.520And it's very common for a guy in his fifties to be completely different, to be a comp almost a different person entirely from the person that he was in his early twenties.
00:12:17.880Um, or even for someone in their early thirties to be totally different from how they were in the early twenties.
00:12:23.720It's a, it's, it's a, it's a very common thing.
00:12:28.040Um, and sometimes you can, sometimes it can, it can be pretty sudden and happen pretty, not, not overnight, but, uh, you know, oftentimes that you just look at the difference between someone who's say 28 versus someone who's 23.
00:12:43.740It's only a five year difference, but it could really be night and day.
00:12:51.760We can't always be forcing a person's younger self on their older self and trying to put them in this box, uh, keep them contained in the box that they built when they were young and never allow them to break out of it.
00:13:07.860The difference though, with Northam is that we know that he never grew into a decent and respectable adult.
00:13:14.760Um, now perhaps he stopped moonwalking with shoe polish on his face, although who knows, but he has since graduated to much worse offenses and now he's out there advocating for killing babies.
00:13:26.280So in his case, we know that he, that he, uh, uh, didn't grow that much, at least not morally if he's advocating infanticide.
00:13:34.940But I do think it's an important point generally for the next time something like this happens.
00:13:40.480Because the truth is, even though he's a Democrat, if it weren't for the infanticide thing, even if he, even though he was a Democrat, um, if this thing had come out about the blackface, I would be saying, no, I don't think you should resign over that.
00:13:51.460Now, if you can prove to me that he was wearing blackface yesterday, then we have a different story.
00:13:57.800But if, if it, if it become, if it's apparent that it happened back 30 years ago, hasn't happened since then, then he's just changed it.
00:14:05.560You know, he, he changed it, let him apologize, let him repudiate his past and then move on.
00:14:12.260But again, it's different in this case because of, um, because of the infanticide issue.
00:14:19.520But I do feel the need to stipulate that when I call for him to resign, and I do call for him to resign, not that it matters what I say, but it's because of the infanticide thing.
00:14:29.340And that's what I think we should all be focused on.
00:14:32.020Uh, speaking of infanticide, let me see if I can pull this up really quick here.
00:14:37.760Um, Daily Wire has the story on Monday, Senator Patty Murray, um, blocking a Senate bill that would require doctors to give aid to babies who survived abortions, objected to the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
00:14:56.980And her one vote was enough to prevent the Senate from passing the bill in a unanimous consent vote.
00:15:02.380Um, so we don't, we don't need to dwell on that because this is, we, we know this is where the Democrat Party is, but this is just to highlight the fact that this is where, this, this is what the Democrat Party has become.
00:15:22.020Um, that you can't even, this was a bill that was, it wasn't an anti-abortion bill.
00:15:29.040This was just, if a baby is born alive, you have to give it basic medical care.
00:18:15.280So, um, you know, this effort to find an in-between spot for all eternity where the babies will just linger there forever, separated from, from, from God.
00:18:26.640Well, that's, that's the same thing as, as them going to hell.
00:19:25.260So, I would look at it more as just a kind of trend of thought in the Middle Ages, and that's all.
00:19:30.440We don't have to lend it any more credence than that.
00:19:32.280Now, it's true that the reason why there are some Christians who say, well, I don't think that God would do that, but I have to be, I'm open to the idea that maybe he does.
00:19:42.960And the reason why Christians say that is because the Bible doesn't explicitly address this question.
00:19:48.300And that's true, that the Bible does not.
00:19:51.900Now, there are a few verses you could cite and go to to talk about God's approach to babies and all of that kind of thing.
00:20:00.520And that's fine, but I also, but I feel like I'm not going to start throwing verses at you, because verses can be thrown back and forth.
00:20:06.980And when you have an issue like this, where the Bible doesn't explicitly answer it, then you end up with this quote mining, this kind of cherry picking, proof texting thing, where people are just throwing verses out of, just ripping verses out of context here and there and throwing them back and forth like a food fight.
00:20:24.580And I think it's totally fruitless, and it leads to nothing in the end.
00:20:27.920So I think with a question like this, rather than proof texting and ripping out quotes and just throwing them and saying, there, you see, I think we can use our faculties of reason, actually, to figure it out.
00:20:43.060Because God does give us our faculties of reason.
00:20:46.760This is something that God has given us, so we can use it.
00:20:49.980Now, that doesn't mean that our faculties of reason are infallible, or that we can always trust what we happen to think.