The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 200 - The Media Beclowns Itself On Jussie Smollett Story

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left and the media, but I repeat myself, have embarrassed

00:00:04.300 themselves yet again with this Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax story. But will they learn anything

00:00:10.460 from this? Will there be any self-assessment on their part? No, of course not, but we'll talk

00:00:14.440 about that. Also, I want to discuss why victimhood has become such a desirable status in modern

00:00:21.340 America, so desirable that people will make up hate crimes just so they can be a victim.

00:00:25.960 And finally, speaking of fake victimhood, we'll talk about Colin Kaepernick's multi-million

00:00:31.640 dollar payout from the NFL. All of that today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:39.700 Welcome to the Matt Wall Show, everybody. Thanks for being here. Thank you for tuning in. I hope

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00:00:54.680 of the Daily Wire. All right, Smollett. Smollett, Smollett, Smollett, Smollett. Still haven't

00:01:00.800 figured out how to pronounce the guy's last name. I guess I should have checked by now. Poor old

00:01:05.980 Jussie Smollett might be in a bit of trouble. Let me get you caught up on the latest first in case

00:01:12.340 you weren't paying attention over the weekend. And frankly, I hope that you were not paying

00:01:16.340 attention over the weekend. I hope that you have a life and you do other things on the weekend besides

00:01:21.740 check the news online. So the Empire actor, well, you're aware of this part. He claimed he was

00:01:28.500 assaulted in a hate crime committed by two white Trump supporters at 2 a.m. Chicago in negative

00:01:33.720 10 degree temperatures while he was walking back from Subway with a tuna sandwich. And he says he

00:01:38.520 was beaten, put a noose was put around his neck, bleach was poured on him. They shouted, this is MAGA

00:01:44.280 country in Chicago, called him racial and homophobic slurs and so on. So you know that part of the

00:01:51.580 story. You also know, especially if you've been listening to this show, that the story is, of

00:01:57.140 course, absurd and obviously a hoax. And you didn't even, you didn't really need any other

00:02:02.260 information. You didn't need to know about the fact that, for instance, he's on camera for all but 60

00:02:08.820 seconds of the, of his walk back from Subway. And there's no assault recorded in that, in that chunk

00:02:17.860 of time. But you didn't need to know that to know that this is a fable. But now the picture is

00:02:24.140 becoming more clear for anyone who didn't already see it clearly. Late last week, two men who appeared

00:02:31.260 in the security camera footage, walking near because nobody else appears in the footage except for

00:02:36.640 Smollett and then these two guys, who are seen walking near the site of the alleged attack.

00:02:42.000 Well, these guys were apprehended. And then it turns out that they're Nigerians. Also friends

00:02:47.340 of Smollett's. One of them is Smollett's physical trainer or workout partner or whoever. They know

00:02:52.020 each other. One or both of them has appeared on the on the show Empire before. And they were questioned,

00:02:59.680 were very briefly described as suspects. But then they were released unceremoniously and rather

00:03:05.300 quickly. And law enforcement sources told the media that they, the brothers, confessed that the

00:03:12.720 whole attack was, was staged. Smollett, according to these sources, paid these guys to attack him.

00:03:20.520 It was all a setup. They paid the sources say it was 3,500 bucks that they were paid, which,

00:03:26.400 you know, seems a little on the cheap side. If someone's going to pay you to attack them,

00:03:32.280 I think, I mean, shouldn't that run at least 10,000? I would think. So it was all a setup.

00:03:37.460 And now police want to interview Smollett again, as the investigation has shifted, they say,

00:03:44.460 and it seems has shifted in the direction of Smollett himself. But he has, he's hired a defense

00:03:49.400 attorney, which of course, when you're the true victim of a crime, isn't that what you do? Isn't

00:03:53.540 that the first thing you go and do is you, you, you hire a defense attorney for yourself,

00:03:57.580 but he has a defense attorney now, and he's been reluctant to speak with the police

00:04:01.760 for, I guess, understandable reasons. Now, before we go any further, let's go back. I think it would

00:04:13.060 be profitable for us to go back and look at how our illustrious news media, our courageous, brave,

00:04:20.940 bold, uh, first amendment, protecting firefighting news media. Let's take a look at how they responded

00:04:28.980 to this story. Let's remember, let's recall, because I know they want to shove it down the

00:04:34.000 memory hole. They don't want us to remember, but let's remember how the media responded to this

00:04:38.320 ridiculous story when Smollett first came out, uh, with, with his claims. So here's a brief

00:04:44.080 compilation, uh, put together by Grabian, uh, Grabian, Grabian news, which gives us a little

00:04:51.460 taste. Here it is beaten with a noose around his neck and hospitalized empire star, Jesse Smollett

00:05:00.620 was the victim of a vicious racist and homophobic attack. His attackers hurled racial and homophobic

00:05:07.200 slurs. Two people yelled racist and homophobic slurs, racial and homophobic slurs, not only homophobic,

00:05:14.060 we're talking about racism, we're talking about hate with steroids. They are looking for two

00:05:19.600 suspects who are apparently wearing make America great again hats. The offenders uttered, this is

00:05:25.320 MAGA country. The hate crime went down early this morning in Chicago. Officials are investigating

00:05:30.340 the alleged assault as a hate crime. And now police say they're investigating this as a possible

00:05:34.260 hate crime. Anyone attacked in a hate crime like this is an outrage. This is, this is stomach turning,

00:05:41.340 mind boggling information. It's out of control. Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, tweeting the

00:05:47.840 racist homophobic attack on Jesse Smollett is an affront to our humanity. And Senator Cory Booker

00:05:53.700 said the vicious attack on actor Jesse was an attempted modern day lynching. Kamala Harris calling

00:05:59.320 the attack an attempted modern day lynching. I'm so shaken by the story. This is horrible to report.

00:06:05.140 This is a horrible story. I like this is a horrible story. Yeah. I mean, the circumstances

00:06:09.300 is horrific. Horrendous and unacceptable. Absolutely despicable. Yeah. A lot of people can't believe

00:06:14.780 this is actually happening in 2019. It's hard to believe that we're reporting that we're even

00:06:20.300 saying words like this in 2019. This is America in 2019. So you see, sometimes they, they bother to put

00:06:29.280 alleged in front of the attack. Sometimes not. Uh, but what you find is, is just in general,

00:06:37.440 uncritical reporting of this, uh, attack. There was, there was from the media, there was basically

00:06:44.740 no skepticism. Now they're claiming that they were skeptical and we'll get to that in a minute, but

00:06:49.980 there was basically no skepticism. So, so even, you know, I, I know that legally, uh, you can always

00:06:57.660 cover yourself if you, if you just say alleged, right. But, uh, to uncritically report something

00:07:04.940 like this, even if you put a legend in front of it, that's, that's, that's not good enough

00:07:08.240 because this story, there was no evidence for it. It was obviously absurd. Um, and so when you're

00:07:14.940 reporting it, that should be part of your report. You should really be emphasizing. Now I'm not saying

00:07:21.580 that if you have a, look, if this guy's at least a D list celebrity, uh, he claims that this thing

00:07:27.280 happened. So I'm not saying it's not news, but the news is that this is a really extraordinary

00:07:34.200 claim that this guy is making. And there is no evidence for it. That that's the news. That's,

00:07:39.600 that's what front and center. That's what you should be saying. And then if you really are,

00:07:45.440 if you're a real journalist actually looking to get to the story, you should then be going out on your

00:07:51.220 own to investigate this and, and look into it and do some real investigative journalism.

00:07:57.820 Um, but the media didn't do that. Let's also not forget the celebrities who rushed to Smollett's

00:08:04.500 side, taking him completely at his word, using this supposed attack to score political points.

00:08:11.000 The best example of this or worst example, depending on how you look at it is, um, the actress Ellen

00:08:16.860 Page who was, um, on Colbert show. And she found a way, if you remember a week or two ago, she found

00:08:25.000 a way to pin this supposed hate crime on Mike Pence. She, she got to the bottom of it. Okay. She did

00:08:30.720 investigate and she found out that it was Mike Pence is the one who did it. Um, or at least is,

00:08:36.520 is responsible for surprise for, for, uh, uh, inspiring it. So here's, here's Ellen Page. 0.96

00:08:42.840 I'm like really fired up tonight. This is how, this is how you have to be fired up. It feels

00:08:47.460 impossible to not feel this way right now with the president and the vice president, Mike Pence,

00:08:52.360 who like wishes I couldn't be married. Let's just be clear. The vice president of America wishes I

00:08:58.560 didn't have the love with my wife. He wanted to ban that in Indiana. He believes in conversion therapy.

00:09:06.840 He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the government of Indiana. And I think the thing we need to know,

00:09:15.520 and I hope my show, Gaycation, did this in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened

00:09:20.240 the other day to Jesse. I don't know him personally. I saw, I sent all of my love.

00:09:27.380 Connect the dots. This is what happens. If you are in a position of power and you hate people

00:09:34.120 and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble, you spend your career

00:09:40.500 trying to cause suffering. What do you think is going to happen?

00:09:46.260 Kids are going to be abused and they're going to kill themselves and people are going to be beaten

00:09:51.100 on the street.

00:09:55.460 I have traveled the world and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet.

00:09:59.500 I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this.

00:10:08.320 This needs to stop.

00:10:15.100 Okay.

00:10:17.620 By the way, that's a really, Colbert's show is supposed to be a comedy show, right?

00:10:21.880 A really hilarious segment there with Ellen Page. Great, great comedy.

00:10:26.100 Okay. So what have we learned from all of this? Well, nothing, I guess. Whatever there is to learn

00:10:36.000 from this situation, the rational among us already knew. And whoever did not know it probably is not

00:10:42.260 capable intellectually of learning anything ever. But that fact aside, I think there are some major

00:10:48.260 lessons. And so here are a few of them. Number one, and this is really important. There is nothing

00:10:55.520 virtuous about simply believing a claim that somebody makes. So these days, whenever someone

00:11:04.740 claims that they were the victim of sexual assault or hate crime or what have you, and they come forward

00:11:11.900 with their story, people, especially on the left, will solemnly declare, I believe you. I believe it.

00:11:19.080 Yes, I believe. As if believing someone is some sort of moral obligation. Like it's some sort of moral

00:11:28.340 act to believe a story that somebody is telling you. But it isn't. To believe someone is to think

00:11:39.120 that what they're saying is true, right? That's what it means to believe someone. Somebody tells you

00:11:44.980 something. Someone comes and says, oh, it's raining outside. Either believe them or I don't. And if I

00:11:50.200 believe them, it means that I believe that it's raining outside. That the information they're

00:11:55.540 conveying to me is true. That's what it means to believe someone, right? To believe that what

00:12:01.360 they're saying is factually correct. Not just morally correct, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but factually

00:12:07.500 correct. And we should believe that something is factually correct if there is good objective

00:12:14.680 reason to believe it, such as evidence, such as the general believability of whatever they're saying.

00:12:25.660 Okay? Then we can believe them. So if somebody comes to me and says, it's raining outside,

00:12:30.860 and I know them to be a generally trustworthy person, then in that case, that's probably going

00:12:37.700 to be enough for me to believe them because the claim that it's raining outside is not especially

00:12:41.700 incredible. So if a halfway credible person comes up to me and tells me that, I'll probably believe

00:12:48.320 them because it rains all the time. So it's a perfectly believable story. However, if somebody

00:12:55.640 comes to me and says, I was just assaulted at 2 a.m. on my way back from Subway by two guys in Chicago

00:13:04.680 yelling, this is MAGA country, two guys who happen to have a bottle of bleach and a noose on hand,

00:13:11.020 if somebody comes to me and tells me that, I'm going to need some more evidence. I'm going to need

00:13:19.360 a really good reason to believe that because that is an extraordinary claim. That's a,

00:13:25.300 that's a claim that just seems to defy common sense for a whole bunch of reasons.

00:13:36.800 So if there's no good reason to believe what someone is saying,

00:13:41.920 then, well, if there's no good reason to believe it, and there's no good reason to disbelieve it

00:13:47.800 either, then we should be neutral on it. We shouldn't believe it or disbelieve it. It should just be,

00:13:52.500 it should be something we're just waiting for more information. But if there's good reason to

00:13:57.460 disbelieve it, then we should disbelieve it. So if it's an extraordinary claim and there's no evidence

00:14:05.480 for it whatsoever, then that's, that's a good reason to disbelieve it. That is a good reason

00:14:11.440 to actively believe that what they're saying is not true. Although of course it's, it's a tentative

00:14:17.780 judgment because they could produce evidence and then you'll change your assessment.

00:14:21.960 But either way, this is the process for believing something. So this whole thing, it's, it's sort

00:14:28.320 of an offshoot of, Oh, I believe women believe women. Well, no, I, why should we believe women? 1.00

00:14:34.740 I don't believe women. I don't disbelieve women. I don't, it's, it's, it's, it's got the fact that 0.62

00:14:40.780 women has nothing to do with it. I believe a woman, if she tells me, if she, if she makes a claim that is 1.00

00:14:48.440 believable, I believe believable things that women tell me. And I disbelieve unbelievable things that 1.00

00:14:57.460 women tell me. Same for men. It makes no difference to me whatsoever, what their gender is when they're 0.71

00:15:02.940 telling me the story. It also makes no difference to me, what race they are. Second thing. And you

00:15:14.580 know, this, this is one of the major, one of the major takeaways. We talked about this last week,

00:15:17.920 but it, it, it, it, it needs to be emphasized again that this is what happens when victimhood

00:15:24.760 is celebrated. We look, we live in a country, in a culture where it is considered desirable to be a

00:15:31.600 victim. And so when, when, when you create an environment like that, you're going to have

00:15:36.480 people inventing victimhood stories. I mean, it's just going to happen. There's no way around it now.

00:15:44.600 You know, consider the fact that there was a time in America, not that long ago,

00:15:51.540 when a man, a man would never pretend that he was beaten and defiled in the street.

00:15:58.340 You know, there was a time in America when a man would never pretend that because he would be

00:16:04.420 embarrassed. He would be humiliated by such a story. A man would have too much pride to go around

00:16:10.180 inventing a story about how he was beat up. And I can, I mean, I remember when I was a kid,

00:16:17.420 it just, it, you would never, as a, as a kid in school, you would never pretend that you were beat

00:16:24.420 up. If anything, it would go the other way, where if you were actually beat up, you would pretend you

00:16:29.800 weren't because you have pride as a man and you don't want people to think that you were beat up.

00:16:35.580 So, um, when I was a kid, it, you know, I got into fights a few times. If I was going to, to lie

00:16:43.000 about it, I would lie in the other direction. I would try to make myself look better. I would try

00:16:46.720 to make it seem less like I got beat up or like I lost the fight. I would try to, you know, that's,

00:16:52.240 that's where the exaggeration would come on the other end of it to make me look like less of a

00:16:57.680 victim. And that's, that's how it should be for men. And now you shouldn't lie either way. You

00:17:03.700 shouldn't exaggerate. But, uh, I think as men, if you're going to lie about something like that,

00:17:11.360 it's much more natural and makes much more sense. And it's, and I would even say as much healthier

00:17:17.200 to lie in the other direction, to make yourself seem like less of a victim. Um, so you know what,

00:17:25.400 it would make more, I still wouldn't believe it, but it would make more sense to me. I could

00:17:29.540 understand it more. If Jussie Smollett had made up a story about how he was walking down the street

00:17:35.940 at 2am and two, um, and two MAGA ninjas with MAGA hats jumped, you know, from a rooftop and with

00:17:45.340 nunchucks and tried to, uh, and tried to assault him, but he, you know, he dropped kicked them and

00:17:50.160 did some Kung Fu moves and they all ran away right now. If Smollett had told that story, now that would

00:17:55.440 be as believable as the story he did tell, but that would be a better story to make up because number

00:18:01.640 one, it's more entertaining. And number two, I, at least I understand that you're trying to make

00:18:06.480 yourself seem like a tough guy. And so you're trying to get that sort of attention where the

00:18:10.920 attention where people think that you're tough and strong and all of that. So at least there's,

00:18:16.000 I can sort of understand the motivation, but to make up a story that you were beat up, I, it just,

00:18:23.220 not that there's anything shameful. I mean, people, people are jumped and beat up all the time. And

00:18:28.960 you, you, you shouldn't feel like you have to lie about that and you shouldn't. And I'm not saying

00:18:34.380 that there's, there is anything shameful about, uh, about actually being a victim. I'm just saying

00:18:39.460 that as men, I think the more natural masculine instinct is to not want to be a victim.

00:18:50.020 Even when you are a victim to wish that you weren't and to not want to go around telling everybody about

00:18:57.840 it, but we have, uh, we, we've just completely flipped things on their head now where that is

00:19:09.280 gone now, you know, and, and now people, they, they see the status symbol, not as being a tough guy,

00:19:16.080 not as being a guy who wins the fight. Uh, now the status symbol is just being a put upon degraded,

00:19:24.300 uh, victim. Third thing that we find from all this is that the left, which again, like I said,

00:19:35.400 these are lessons that we already knew. So not really lessons, but the left has an utterly cartoonish

00:19:39.400 idea of, of, um, of white men. I mean, just think about the last few months. Um, we, we start with

00:19:46.320 Kavanaugh and the media and the left told us and believed that Kavanaugh as a teenage boy was a part 0.91

00:19:56.000 of some sort of roving rape gang. And then we have the Covington Catholic student, uh, debacle where

00:20:04.220 we're told that these, that these teenage boys just randomly, a whole massive horde of them just

00:20:11.260 randomly for no reason accosted, uh, a native American, an elderly native American gentleman

00:20:17.520 who was just there playing his, his drums peacefully. And then we're told about the two

00:20:23.160 white guys prowling the streets of Chicago and so on. All of these stories are, as I said,

00:20:30.440 unbelievable, but the reason why people on the left believe them is because they have such a 0.51

00:20:36.180 cartoonish, exaggerated, demeaning, insulting, um, idea of white men. This is how they see white men.

00:20:48.480 Smollett, he made up this story and he thought it was believable because this is how he sees white 0.93

00:20:53.280 people or, or especially, or I should say, this is how he sees white conservative men.

00:21:01.280 And so when he was inventing the story, he thought, yeah, well, this is totally,

00:21:04.700 this is what they do, right? This is how they are.

00:21:10.780 And then related to this, the fourth thing, the media just cannot stop, uh, beclowning itself. 0.84

00:21:17.660 Journalists made fools of themselves again with this case, but don't for a minute think that 0.81

00:21:23.380 there's going to be any accountability. Okay. There's not going to be any honest self-assessment. 0.95

00:21:27.280 So don't, don't imagine that. In fact, if you want to know how the media is going to rationalize

00:21:33.380 its behavior on this story, um, well, we're already seeing, we're already seeing what they're,

00:21:38.720 what they're doing with it. So let's, let's look at this segment from, um, Brian Stelter show

00:21:42.960 on CNN. And this is right. Now we're getting an idea of, of the media after being embarrassed on this,

00:21:53.460 this gives us an idea of, of how they're going to kind of get around it. So watch this.

00:21:57.660 The narrative was set so early on that January day, because TMZ first heard about this alleged

00:22:03.200 attack. TMZ was the first to say they heard the MAGA country quote. It came from a source close to

00:22:08.340 Jussie. So immediately this was a political fight, right? Immediately there were political stakes to

00:22:13.580 this story. Uh, Liz, do you think that, that distorted it? Right. I mean, the, the MAGA, uh, quote,

00:22:19.320 I remember reading about this story and looking for a real, uh, reputable media outlet reporting on that.

00:22:25.280 And I could not find one, right? The people who were repeating that quote were not news outlets,

00:22:30.880 were not media outlets. It was repeated by sure people who maybe had good intentions of wanting

00:22:35.940 to spread this story and had empathy for what they thought was, you know, a real story, but we can't

00:22:40.100 confuse celebrity tweets with the media and the press. And you know, so you're saying actors and

00:22:45.720 activists who were rushing to his side because they're friends with him and they support him and

00:22:49.520 they're concerned about a possible hate crime are not the same as Chicago reporters who were trying to

00:22:54.000 find out what happened. Exactly. And okay. See, see, it wasn't the media. No, the media didn't do

00:22:58.340 anything wrong. The media, it's not their fault. It was, uh, you know, it was celebrities. It was

00:23:04.620 people on Twitter. No, the media didn't do it. And I should say something that look from what I've

00:23:12.280 seen just online, local media in Chicago, they have been pretty good on very good on this story.

00:23:19.140 Actually, they've been on top of it. Um, it seems, it seemed to me that they were skeptical from the

00:23:23.780 start. They've been trying to get to the bottom of it, really investigating the story, getting,

00:23:28.960 getting new information out there. So local media in Chicago has been good, but national media can't

00:23:36.600 take credit for that. Okay. That's got nothing to do with CNN. The national media disgraced itself

00:23:42.320 as usual. You know, Trump yesterday was, went on Twitter and he tweeted a familiar slogan with him.

00:23:50.220 He said, um, the rigged and corrupt media is the enemy of the people in all caps. And he said this

00:23:58.000 kind of thing a million times, but once again, journalists on Twitter, um, took this tweet and

00:24:04.360 they, they very somberly pointed to this to show how there's a war on the press and on the first

00:24:10.760 amendment and they are victims and so on. And, uh, we need to appreciate them more because this,

00:24:17.380 this is, this is what they have to deal with. They're being persecuted. Well, here's, here's my

00:24:23.380 suggestion for, for those in the media, for, for so-called journalists in the so-called news media,

00:24:29.180 rather than whining and feeling sorry for yourself when Trump calls you enemy of the people or fake news

00:24:39.040 or corrupt or whatever, rather than whining and feeling sorry for yourself, maybe you folks in the news

00:24:45.300 media should stop and consider why so many Americans agree wholeheartedly with Donald Trump. 0.96

00:24:54.420 Why is it that so many people think that you really are the enemy and that you are corrupt and you are fake 0.91

00:25:02.100 and rigged. Okay. You can go pout in the corner and stomp your feet and say, this isn't fair. We do it, 0.99

00:25:11.860 you know, pat yourselves on the back and Hollywood can make another movie celebrating the courage and

00:25:20.240 heroism of journalists. That's fine. Or you could actually stop and assess and look in the mirror

00:25:28.640 and say, how have we gotten to the point where so many people in this country hate us? Why does

00:25:36.080 everyone hate us so much? It could be that all the people who hate you are just awful and horrible. And 0.99

00:25:42.860 maybe that's it. Or maybe it's because you have earned this contempt over decades and decades.

00:25:53.180 Do you ever consider that maybe people are just sick of the propaganda and the slanted way that you

00:26:02.500 present every story and how you hop on any opportunity to make certain people look bad?

00:26:13.160 Do you ever think people are maybe just tired of that?

00:26:15.340 Oh, no, that can't be it. No, no, no. Everyone is wrong. You're right. Everyone else is wrong.

00:26:26.660 By the way, one other thing to mention on this before I move on. I think it just it has to be

00:26:31.620 emphasized, not that this is even the main point, but this is this has got to be the dumbest race hoax 0.98

00:26:37.320 in history by by Smollett. Just think about if you're if you're going to do this, which I don't 0.96

00:26:46.520 know why you would why I do know why he did it, as we've talked about, because victimhood is is

00:26:51.160 profitable. But if you're if you're going to do it, and you're going to put all this thought into it,

00:26:57.780 to the point of allegedly, apparently, paying people off and it just seems like, man, 0.99

00:27:04.020 you made a lot of really of really dumb mistakes. And the first mistake was to involve other people 0.97

00:27:12.560 in it. So if you're going to make up a story about getting beat up in a hate crime, it's better to

00:27:20.740 just invent the culprits out of thin air, just invent imaginary people. Don't actually enlist real

00:27:28.420 people in the the the plot with you. Because when you do that, and and eventually they're found.

00:27:37.880 And eventually they flip on you, which they will now there's going to be positive evidence that you

00:27:42.280 lied. Whereas if the people just didn't exist, then there'd be no one for the police to find and

00:27:47.880 question and flip. And then of course, the other big mistake was involving the police in the first

00:27:54.300 place. See, here's the thing. Police are very good at detecting lies. Okay, police have very finely

00:28:03.260 tuned BS detectors. This is what they do. Especially when you're dealing with detectives, they detect this

00:28:10.600 is what they deal with liars every single day. This is what they do for a living. I guarantee you

00:28:16.800 that the police within five seconds, they knew that this was made up. I guarantee within five seconds,

00:28:23.460 they knew it. Of course, they started to go through the process and do everything and investigate. And

00:28:28.360 I'm sure they did all of that exactly as they should. But just their gut instinct dealing with

00:28:34.300 pathological liars every day, I guarantee they knew right away. So if you're going to make up a hate

00:28:40.360 crime, just do everything you can to avoid involving the police. Once you do that, it's over because

00:28:46.780 they're, they're, they're, they're not going to fall for it. Um, and then if you make really rookie

00:28:51.480 mistakes, like hanging onto your sandwich the whole time, uh, it's just, you stand no chance.

00:28:59.680 All right. One other, uh, let's see here. What else I want to mention? Um, Colin Kaepernick. Okay.

00:29:05.540 Colin Kaepernick had this collusion case that he was against the NFL, alleging that the NFL had

00:29:11.900 colluded to, uh, bar him from the league so that no teams would, uh, would, would hire him or bring

00:29:18.200 them on their squads. And he finally settled that case with the NFL. And I don't want to spend a lot

00:29:24.280 of time on this. I just want to mention that the reports indicate that his settlement with the NFL

00:29:28.680 was in the 60 to $80 million range. So apparently he made between 60 and $80 million from the NFL.

00:29:38.140 And you add that to the Nike contract that he got, which was, I don't know how much that was tens of

00:29:44.020 millions of dollars. He's getting paid by Nike. I mean, being this kind of relates back to what we

00:29:50.820 talked about to begin with being a victim really pays in America. So you could tell why Smollett made

00:29:57.680 this up because victimhood literally pays. Colin Kaepernick is put forward as some sort of martyr

00:30:07.420 for some kind of great cause. Well, martyrdom has never been such a cushy gig. Has it

00:30:14.700 being a martyr now pays you tens of millions of dollars, not to mention all the fame and, and,

00:30:21.580 and, uh, and admiration, uh, that comes with it. It's just martyrdom ain't what it used to be,

00:30:30.720 I guess is the point. All right. Let's, uh, let's get to some of your emails before we wrap up here.

00:30:35.540 You can email the show, Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. This is from Joshua. He says,

00:30:41.740 hi, Matt. A couple of days ago, you touched on the theory of alien life existing out in the universe.

00:30:46.180 And that left me with a couple of questions on how aliens fit into God's plan for the universe.

00:30:51.740 If God did create aliens, do you think he placed us so far apart? Uh, so we don't interfere with each

00:30:56.840 other's histories and that we are never meant to find them in the first place. Also, is it possible

00:31:01.320 that they could have their own interpretation of the Trinity Bible and Christianity? Hi, Joshua.

00:31:06.460 Yeah. I've also, I've often thought the same thing. We talked about aliens on Friday. One of my

00:31:10.140 favorite subjects. Um, maybe the vast distances are there for a reason because there's, there's just,

00:31:16.280 we're not supposed to ever make contact. As for your second point, I certainly think that a race of 0.99

00:31:20.620 hypothetical aliens could well have their own scripture. It must have their own sort of scripture.

00:31:25.920 And it's likely they have nothing called Christianity. Um, as we know it, although if

00:31:32.400 they are rational creatures and God has revealed himself to them, then they can't have their own

00:31:36.780 Trinity. Uh, the Trinity is the Trinity is the Trinity anywhere in the cosmos, anywhere in reality that

00:31:42.320 you go, but thank you for the email. Uh, let's see here from Lance. He says, Matt, in regards to your

00:31:49.560 discussion about aliens today, have you heard of Fermi's paradox? How does that weigh on your point?

00:31:55.920 Hi, Lance. Yes. The, uh, the Fermi paradox says that there are, there are trillions of stars out

00:32:03.120 there. Um, many of them billions of years older than the sun, which means that if there are other

00:32:09.040 worlds in the universe, other planets with, with intelligent, rational life, then some of those

00:32:13.980 civilizations should be billions of years ahead of us. And thus we should have already received a

00:32:20.420 visit from, from some of them. Um, the fact that we haven't maybe indicates that we're alone in the

00:32:25.900 universe after all. Well, that is an interesting theory, but I have a couple of responses to that.

00:32:32.220 Number one, who says that we haven't been visited, man? Haven't you ever seen that show? Ancient

00:32:38.520 aliens. Okay. Aliens have been here. Aliens have done everything. They've built the pyramids. They

00:32:42.500 have done, they've done everything. Um, according to that show, aliens were the primary architects

00:32:48.620 on earth for the first, like 10,000 years of human civilization. So that's number one. Number two,

00:32:54.840 um, more seriously, keep in mind the distances that we're talking about here. Okay. There are 5 trillion

00:33:01.940 miles in a light year. The nearest star to ours is four light years away. So that's 20 trillion miles.

00:33:09.760 The nearest galaxy to the Milky way is the Andromeda galaxy. And it is 2 million light years away from

00:33:17.160 earth. So 2 million times 4 trillion miles. That's how far away it is. My point is that

00:33:23.920 even if life is exceedingly rare in the universe, even so rare that there's only one life bearing

00:33:31.820 planet per galaxy, let's say, let's say that life is that rare where you have basically one light, one

00:33:38.980 planet with intelligent life per galaxy. Well, that would be very, very rare, but that would still mean

00:33:43.660 that there are a hundred billion planets with intelligent life because there are a hundred billion

00:33:49.340 galaxies, but the distances between them would be so vast. I mean, 2 million light years. That means

00:33:57.680 that even if you were going at the speed of light, which as far as we know is impossible, but even

00:34:02.260 if we could do the impossible and go the speed of light, it would take 2 million years to get to the

00:34:07.960 next galaxy. And there's no way that you would survive on a spaceship for 2 million years, even if it was

00:34:13.380 some sort of generational spaceship, um, where you had whole civil, entire civilization living on a

00:34:18.960 spaceship, going to some distant galaxy. Well, still 2 million years is a long time to survive in those

00:34:25.680 quarters. So it could just be, uh, it could just be that, that the distant, it's just impossible that

00:34:32.800 there's, there is no technology that exists or could ever exist anywhere in the universe that could

00:34:40.240 traverse those distances. It's possible. Um, let's see, I heard a bunch of other emails, but I'm running

00:34:46.520 out of time. So let me, I had an email from Grace, um, which with a really interesting question. She says,

00:34:58.400 Hi, Matt, I've been wanting to know your opinion about something. Um, sometimes I will hear Christian 1.00

00:35:02.740 apologists argue the case for Christianity on the basis of near death experiences. They point to all the stories

00:35:10.660 of people being medically dead and then experiencing a vision of Christ or of heaven. Do you think this

00:35:17.320 is an effective argument? What is your position on NDEs of near death experiences? Grace? I think

00:35:24.540 it's a very good question and something that really interests me a lot. And I've read a lot about it.

00:35:29.740 So what I'm going to do, this is going to be a teaser. I'm going to save that question for tomorrow's

00:35:34.180 show because I'm running out of time and I want to give myself plenty of time to get into that.

00:35:37.380 Um, so we'll hope I'm going to hold that thought and you'll have to tune in tomorrow for the answer.

00:35:43.100 Nice little tease there. Cliffhanger ending. So we'll leave it there. Um, thanks everybody for

00:35:48.520 watching. Godspeed.

00:36:02.620 Today on the Ben Shapiro show, the Jussie Smollett hoax reaches its natural endpoint

00:36:07.300 President Trump's wall is still divisive and Democrats celebrate losing jobs in New York City.

00:36:11.560 That's today on the Ben Shapiro show.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 18, 2019

Ep. 200 - The Media Beclowns Itself On Jussie Smollett Story

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