The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 221 - Beto Comes Out For Third Trimester Abortions

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wells Show, Elizabeth Warren shares her favorite Bible verse.

00:00:04.140 The only problem is that her positions, especially on abortion, seem to be completely in contradiction to that verse.

00:00:10.760 Also, Beto comes out in favor of third trimester abortion, which is a required position on the Democrat Party now.

00:00:18.360 And we'll talk about the groping of a child by a TSA agent.

00:00:21.880 And finally, a kid wears a MAGA hat to a vigil for the mosque shooting victims.

00:00:26.920 Some conservatives are rallying around him, treating him like a victim and a martyr because, you know, some liberals at the vigil were attacking him for it, yelling at him.

00:00:35.780 Personally, I'm tired of the attention seeking, trolling behavior on both sides.

00:00:41.520 And so we'll talk about that today as well on the Matt Wells Show.

00:00:48.440 You guys, I don't know if you saw this yesterday.

00:00:51.340 Anyway, Beto O'Rourke apparently inspires enthusiasm from some people.

00:00:58.560 Too much enthusiasm, I would say.

00:01:00.560 This guy tweeted this.

00:01:02.440 Take a look at this.

00:01:03.320 It's a picture of a woman and Beto.

00:01:06.800 And the woman is staring longingly at Beto.

00:01:10.000 And he's got his arm around her.

00:01:11.160 And the caption says,

00:01:11.900 I hope someday that my wife looks at me the way that this woman is looking at Beto.

00:01:16.460 By the way, this is my wife.

00:01:19.700 I mean, take it easy, man.

00:01:22.080 That's not, you don't, if you want your wife to look at you like that, first of all, this tweet ain't helping matters. 0.96

00:01:30.800 So I'll put it that way.

00:01:31.760 But can you imagine liking a politician so much that you would publicly insinuate that your wife is more attracted to him than to you?

00:01:42.440 Can you imagine liking it?

00:01:45.120 I can't, that's not, I can't get that into a politician.

00:01:48.860 I really can't.

00:01:50.180 Speaking of Beto, I've been wanting to mention this for a couple of days on a more serious note because it's very instructive.

00:01:58.100 Beto at a recent campaign stop was asked about third trimester abortion.

00:02:04.440 And the question itself is great.

00:02:06.500 Obviously asked by a pro-lifer and it makes Beto uncomfortable, which is also great. 0.79

00:02:11.960 But his answer is not so great.

00:02:14.180 So I want you to watch this exchange.

00:02:15.980 Are you for third trimester abortions or are you going to protect the lives of third trimester babies?

00:02:23.580 Because, you know, there's really not a medical necessity for abortion.

00:02:28.440 It's not a medical emergency procedure because typically third trimester abortions take up to three days to have. 0.70

00:02:35.160 So you would, in that sense, if there was an emergency, the doctors would just do a C-section and you don't have to kill the baby in that essence.

00:02:43.180 So are you for or against third trimester abortions?

00:02:45.920 So the question is about abortion and reproductive rights.

00:02:50.340 Okay, so he obviously doesn't want anything to do with the question, which is why it's fortunate for him that the media would never ask him a question like that.

00:03:09.440 And they're not, they won't, they're not going to broach that subject again.

00:03:14.320 Whoever this was asking the question clearly is not a member of the media, at least not the liberal mainstream media.

00:03:20.380 But ultimately he comes out in support of third trimester abortions, of abortions of abortions that kill fully developed viable infants shortly before birth.

00:03:33.320 And the way the question was framed made that clear.

00:03:37.400 You know, the woman was saying, well, when you've got these abortions of babies that could just be born, you could deliver them via C-section and they would survive.

00:03:45.740 There's no reason to kill them first.

00:03:47.720 You could end the pregnancy. 0.94

00:03:49.120 Woman doesn't have to be pregnant anymore, but the baby doesn't have to die. 1.00

00:03:52.080 I mean, what should we do about that?

00:03:53.820 And Beto says, well, it's the woman's choice. 0.98

00:03:56.180 Now, if this question had been asked 15 years ago, he probably could have gotten away with saying something like, well, I support a woman's right to choose.

00:04:08.360 However, there should be common sense regulations and we want it to be safe, legal and rare.

00:04:13.460 Nobody likes abortion. 0.76

00:04:14.740 Sometimes it's necessary, yada, yada, yada.

00:04:16.400 But he could have got away with dancing around the question and but but basically coming out against late term abortions.

00:04:25.000 But that's not going to fly anymore on the left.

00:04:28.440 It won't fly in the Democrat Party.

00:04:30.200 You cannot run for president as a Democrat in modern America if you don't support the killing of viable, healthy, third trimester babies.

00:04:41.580 And you just you can't run if you don't hold that position.

00:04:47.720 Now, if I were a Democrat voter, which it may surprise you to learn I'm not.

00:04:52.580 But if I were.

00:04:55.140 That fact would disturb me.

00:04:57.480 It would greatly distress me to realize that lethal injections for infants is now not just an accepted or tolerated position,

00:05:07.260 but a required position in the party that I belong to and vote for and support.

00:05:14.740 Now, both political parties have all political parties have throughout history have had people who are member members of those parties and they go too far to an extreme on a certain issue one way or another.

00:05:31.320 Every political party has decided to tolerate certain extreme or uncouth positions because they don't want to alienate that portion of the base.

00:05:42.660 We all know that's the case.

00:05:44.380 The case in both parties.

00:05:46.640 These are the deals with the devil that that all political parties make.

00:05:50.860 But what we have to understand here is that the Democrats, they're not just tolerating the extremists in their rank who advocate for abortion through all stages of pregnancy.

00:06:02.580 That would be bad enough.

00:06:04.500 But that's not what's happening here.

00:06:06.260 It's much worse than that.

00:06:07.640 This for Democrats is gospel.

00:06:09.460 Now, it is doctrine.

00:06:10.980 It's something you have to support.

00:06:14.260 Or risk charges of heresy.

00:06:16.480 You need to support it.

00:06:17.740 It is a basic fundamental mainstream.

00:06:21.460 This is like a starting point now for Democrats is, yeah, well, obviously you have to be in favor of killing babies in the third trimester.

00:06:27.940 That's just that's just, you know, square one.

00:06:33.700 That's a really disturbing thing.

00:06:36.180 Now, speaking of heresy, Elizabeth Warren did a CNN town hall the other day. 0.98

00:06:41.840 And I guess she was asked about her favorite Bible verse.

00:06:48.680 And this is interesting because even though the Democratic Party is the party of Satan, and even though it has embraced Satanism, and it has embraced infanticide, and all of these forms of just the most, the darkest, most debauched evil you can imagine.

00:07:03.880 Even in spite of all that, still, most Democrats feel the need to pretend to be Christian.

00:07:12.880 We still haven't gotten to the point yet where Democrats will just be honest and say, you know, I don't read the favorite Bible verse.

00:07:21.300 I don't read what you're talking about.

00:07:22.280 I don't read the Bible.

00:07:23.440 I have no idea.

00:07:24.380 I have no interest in that.

00:07:25.380 But now, eventually, we'll be at the, I think, within the next maybe 10 years, that's where we'll be.

00:07:30.940 That's where the Democrats will be.

00:07:32.720 But they're not there yet.

00:07:34.220 So when they're asked about their favorite Bible verse, which is why, even though it's sort of a softball question, if you give that question to Republicans, now, that's the kind of question that the media, that the CNN will never ask.

00:07:47.880 You know, a Republican is never going to be asked that kind of softball question on CNN.

00:07:51.640 But for Democrats, I actually like the question because they are so awkward about answering it as you see them try to scramble, like, wait a second, can I think of one Bible verse?

00:08:05.380 And so it's kind of funny to see.

00:08:08.200 Here was Warren's answer to that question.

00:08:10.940 And I'm sure some of you, a lot of you, know this story.

00:08:14.740 You know, this is the one where the shepherd is dividing the world into the sheep and the goats.

00:08:19.920 And as we all know, sheep are going to heaven, goats, no, they're not.

00:08:26.400 And the sheep ask him, why us?

00:08:30.080 Why us, Lord?

00:08:30.980 Why did you pick us?

00:08:33.280 We look like those, like those guys.

00:08:37.240 And the shepherd, the Lord, answers back by saying, I was hungry and you gave me food.

00:08:45.580 I was thirsty and you gave me water.

00:08:48.280 I was in prison and you visited me naked and you clothed me.

00:08:55.140 And as much as you have done it unto one of these, the least of thy brethren, you have done it unto me.

00:09:01.940 And what I hear in that is two things that guide me every day.

00:09:09.000 The first is there is God.

00:09:14.860 There is value in every single human being.

00:09:19.900 Every single human being.

00:09:21.920 And the second is that we are called to action.

00:09:29.040 That passage is not about you had a good thought and held on to it.

00:09:37.400 You sat back and were just departed, you know, thought about good things.

00:09:42.900 It does not say you just didn't hurt anybody and that's good enough.

00:09:47.060 No, it says you saw something wrong.

00:09:50.720 You saw somebody who was thirsty.

00:09:53.180 You saw somebody who was in prison.

00:09:55.780 You saw their face.

00:09:57.540 You saw somebody who was hungry and it moved you to act.

00:10:02.500 I believe we are called on to act.

00:10:04.540 It really is incredible, the cognitive dissonance.

00:10:12.320 Warren, ultimately, as she's kind of, you could tell she's sort of trying to come up with something.

00:10:19.760 And ultimately, though, she says that her favorite verse has to do with the value of every single human life.

00:10:27.200 And the obvious answer to that is, yes, but what about the human life in the womb, which clearly you think does not have value.

00:10:42.180 So there is this, you see this with Democrats a lot, that they, and it seems, you would think at first, it seems almost odd.

00:10:52.020 If you don't understand how Democrats operate, it would seem odd to you, that they actually will jump on any opportunity to extol the virtue of human life and the value of human life.

00:11:05.520 You would think that they would avoid talking about that because they know that millions of babies have been, 60 million babies have been slaughtered in the womb and they're perfectly okay with that. 0.90

00:11:16.200 So you'd think that they would try to avoid that subject.

00:11:18.540 They would try to avoid the subject of the value of human life because the obvious follow-up question is, well, what about all the babies in the womb?

00:11:26.460 And then they're going to have to explain why, oh, yeah, well, except not those.

00:11:31.860 But they don't avoid talking about the value of human life, number one, because, well, she's on CNN and she knows that she will never get that follow-up question ever.

00:11:40.620 But secondly, I think this is just, it's a kind of intellectual, moral defense mechanism where, you know, if you support the slaughter of millions of babies and you hold such a debased, awful position on something, well, you don't want to admit that to yourself.

00:12:09.620 Like, you can't admit to yourself that you're the kind of person who's okay with that.

00:12:16.520 So you have to keep telling yourself that, no, no, no, I value human life.

00:12:20.120 I value human life.

00:12:21.260 Human life is special.

00:12:22.320 Human life is beautiful.

00:12:23.300 I think that.

00:12:24.000 Yes, I do.

00:12:24.480 And so you see Democrats constantly trying to convince themselves of that, constantly trying to ignore the massive pile of 60 million dead babies that they supported and facilitated and funded and cheered on as those babies were slaughtered.

00:12:43.240 They're trying to ignore that, look over it and insist that, yes, I value human life.

00:12:47.700 It's really pathetic to see.

00:12:50.100 While we're on the subject of satanic evil, there's a new show on Hulu, a show aptly named Shrill, about an overweight journalist woman who, I guess, has a lot of sex and does other things.

00:13:04.520 It's basically just a Lena Dunham show without Lena Dunham.

00:13:07.440 But there is an episode of this show just released, an episode that was apparently produced with the loving assistance of Planned Parenthood, where the main character goes and has an abortion.

00:13:23.400 And afterwards, she comes home and she explains to her roommate, I guess she goes to bed and she wakes up the next day and her roommate comes down.

00:13:34.640 And asks her, how are you, how are you feeling?

00:13:37.560 And she says, I feel great.

00:13:39.400 I feel wonderful.

00:13:41.840 And then she explains that she feels good because she made this decision.

00:13:47.660 She said, I made it this decision only for me.

00:13:50.760 It was something I did just for me.

00:13:52.120 And then she says, I feel so effing powerful right now.

00:13:56.860 Now, this really, this struck me when I watched this clip, because this is literally what a serial killer would say.

00:14:10.240 I mean, I'm not exaggerating.

00:14:11.800 That's what a serial killer would say.

00:14:13.520 They kill because it feels good and it makes them feel powerful.

00:14:17.940 That's why that that's exactly the motive, the motivation behind serial murder.

00:14:22.740 And there's also a real, the other thing that struck me about this is there's a real morbid irony to a woman claiming that she feels powerful after paying someone, likely a man, $400 to kill her baby.

00:14:42.380 She was exploited.

00:14:45.060 This is the opposite of power.

00:14:48.380 She was exploited by this man, by this clinic.

00:14:53.900 She paid them and then they did this thing to her and to her baby. 0.76

00:14:59.840 And she's saying, I feel powerful.

00:15:01.440 But yet again, what you find with this, just like with the Democrats saying, oh, I value human life.

00:15:07.140 And you have women that get abortions and say, I feel great. 1.00

00:15:10.180 I feel powerful.

00:15:11.040 Yet again, it's they're trying to convince themselves.

00:15:14.840 Because, of course, they know at the back of their mind, when it comes down to it, they know the opposite is the case.

00:15:20.880 And women who are honest about it after getting abortions know that the feeling is really one of total powerlessness. 0.78

00:15:31.520 And certainly you're not going to feel good after something like that.

00:15:37.140 All right.

00:15:41.200 Some some more video I wanted to play for you.

00:15:43.320 I have a lot of video clips today.

00:15:45.140 I think this definitely breaks my my video clip record.

00:15:49.020 This is something that's let me see here.

00:15:52.420 I'm sure I have the right thing.

00:15:54.220 Yeah, this is something that's been making its rounds on social media.

00:15:57.440 In fact, President Trump tweeted it.

00:16:00.140 Retweeted it last night.

00:16:01.140 It's actually from a year or two ago.

00:16:02.900 So but for some reason, it just got new life online and it's worth talking about.

00:16:07.800 It shows an enhanced pat down of a child by the TSA at I think it's DFW Airport.

00:16:16.400 And this kid, just for the back story, this kid, he already went through the scanner and he passed that test.

00:16:22.400 But he had, I think, a laptop in his bag that he didn't he didn't take out.

00:16:28.840 He didn't realize he was supposed to take it out.

00:16:30.780 So because he had the laptop, they decided they need to pull him away and do this pat down.

00:16:37.720 It's pretty tough to watch.

00:16:41.600 But but here it is.

00:16:42.600 So.

00:17:12.720 This guy was very focused on the kid's waistband.

00:17:15.360 I don't know if you noticed.

00:17:16.020 He kept going back to that.

00:17:17.480 Really weird.

00:17:19.180 You have to wonder.

00:17:21.280 Did you really have to grope the child for two straight minutes in order to figure out that he's not a terrorist?

00:17:28.660 Did it really not occur to you, maybe within, I don't know, 20 seconds that this kid probably not a terrorist?

00:17:34.800 This is a government agent groping a child because the child is trying to board an airplane.

00:17:40.500 That is the crime that this child committed.

00:17:45.160 Now, that's really not the kind of thing that's supposed to happen in a free country.

00:17:49.020 In any other situation, OK, in any other situation, you would have to commit a crime or be suspected of a crime to be subjected to a search that lengthy and and intimate.

00:18:00.720 In fact, the Bill of Rights would seem to require that you be reasonably suspected of a crime in order for your privacy to be invaded to such an extent.

00:18:09.400 But is the fact that you're boarding an airplane, is that evidence to justify reasonable suspicion?

00:18:19.860 Well, let's think about it over the past 30 years, let's say over the past 30 years.

00:18:27.320 I don't know how many people have boarded airplanes or tried to board airplanes in the United States, but it's certainly billions.

00:18:34.340 I mean, over 30 years, billions of people in the United States have boarded or attempted to board an airplane.

00:18:42.180 How many of those people were terrorists?

00:18:47.900 Well, again, I don't have the exact number.

00:18:49.920 I don't know if anyone could produce that exact number, but I mean, a couple dozen at most.

00:18:56.240 Including 9-11.

00:18:58.840 Basically a handful.

00:19:00.180 So you've got billions versus a handful.

00:19:06.820 So and how many of them have been 12 year old white boys?

00:19:10.580 Zero.

00:19:11.060 Okay, so zero out of billions.

00:19:15.460 So again, the question is, the fact that this kid is going through security, even though he's got a laptop,

00:19:22.540 is that does that at all meet the, you know, the burden of reasonable suspicion that he might be trying to commit a crime,

00:19:30.200 which would then justify his privacy being invaded to that extent.

00:19:34.660 Which would then justify a government agent reaching his fingers down the kid's pants.

00:19:42.540 I would say no.

00:19:44.320 See, that's the problem with the TSA.

00:19:46.360 We have a government agency setting up shop in our airports and subjecting every person who passes through to the sorts of searches that we usually reserve for inmates in a prison.

00:19:55.900 But it can't be justified based on the idea that there's some sort of epidemic of terrorists trying to board airplanes because guess what?

00:20:05.400 There's no epidemic and there never was.

00:20:07.720 Yes, I'm aware of 9-11.

00:20:10.080 I remember it well.

00:20:10.860 It was a disastrous event, obviously.

00:20:13.660 But that one event does not translate into an epidemic.

00:20:17.440 And at any rate, what reason do we have to assume that the government can do a better job of thwarting the next 9-11? 0.55

00:20:27.000 They didn't thwart the first one.

00:20:29.260 I got news for you.

00:20:30.460 It's the government's fault that that was allowed to happen.

00:20:32.980 I mean, it's the fault of the terrorists and the ones who committed the act, first and foremost.

00:20:38.000 But in terms of the people responsible for stopping something like that from happening, it's the government that should have stopped that.

00:20:45.360 And they didn't, and they had plenty of chances to.

00:20:47.440 It was a failure of government.

00:20:48.880 I mean, these guys were in the United States, as you know, for years.

00:20:51.120 They were taking flying lessons.

00:20:52.420 They were planning this thing.

00:20:54.460 And the government never stopped it.

00:20:57.620 So this was a failure of government.

00:20:59.080 This was not a failure of private airport security.

00:21:03.740 Remember that those guys, they took over an airplane with box cutters.

00:21:08.480 Well, at the time, it was not illegal to take a box cutter on an airplane because nobody thought that anyone could take over.

00:21:17.440 It was not illegal to take box cutters onto an airplane because nobody thought that anyone would be able to take over an airplane with a box cutter.

00:21:26.460 So the point is, this was not really a failure of airport security.

00:21:29.800 It was more a failure of government on many different levels.

00:21:34.920 But then what happens?

00:21:36.760 Government fails on 9-11.

00:21:38.800 And the result is that the government gets to take more power and now gets to involve itself in airport security.

00:21:45.600 And that really makes no sense.

00:21:47.360 I'm not saying that there shouldn't be airport security, obviously.

00:21:51.680 There was airport security prior to 9-11.

00:21:55.200 What I'm saying is, there's no good reason for the government to be in charge of it.

00:21:59.860 And I don't see how they have any constitutional right to take charge of it, even though they did.

00:22:06.740 By the way, why just airports?

00:22:09.160 That's what I don't understand.

00:22:10.060 Why don't we have a TSA at train stations and bus stations and cruise ships, shopping malls, sports stadiums, churches, etc.?

00:22:23.060 Those are all just as likely, if not more likely, to be targets of terrorists.

00:22:30.140 Why don't we have TSA agents there?

00:22:36.320 The point is, when you consider the extremely small likelihood that a terrorist is going to be walking through an airport,

00:22:48.900 and it is a very, very, the chances are very, very slim, and the statistics prove that.

00:22:54.480 So if those slim chances can justify creating this entire government agency and having the government take over airports and do all this,

00:23:07.740 if it can justify that, then it would just as well be justified anywhere else where people gather or board public transportation or anything else.

00:23:20.400 Now, I'm not saying that I want to have TSA and all those other places.

00:23:25.020 But if it can't be justified at the train station or at a church or at a ball, you know, at a stadium,

00:23:32.300 if it can't be justified there, then I don't see how you justify it at an airport.

00:23:36.320 Now, I go to, you know, football stadiums all the time, and you do have security, but it's not government security.

00:23:46.100 All right, what else?

00:23:49.260 Last thing before we get to emails.

00:23:50.820 A couple of days ago, let me play this for you.

00:23:53.600 A couple of days ago, a university in Toronto, Canada, held a vigil for the victims of the New Zealand mosque shooting.

00:24:02.780 And some guy decided to wear a MAGA hat to the vigil.

00:24:06.620 And then there were predictable results.

00:24:10.900 Watch this.

00:24:11.280 Okay, let me say that I think it's lame, first of all, to berate people who wear the MAGA hat.

00:24:41.260 There have been plenty of stories about people just wearing the hat to the store or whatever, and then they're accosted by an angry mob.

00:24:48.820 I think that that's stupid.

00:24:50.420 I also think that people have the right to wear whatever hat they want to wear.

00:24:56.140 So, you know, that is definitely the case.

00:25:00.040 But I also am not stupid.

00:25:04.620 So, I know, and you know, and everyone knows, we all know, that the dude wore that hat to that vigil in order to get a reaction.

00:25:15.000 That's the only reason he wore it.

00:25:16.500 We all know that.

00:25:18.200 There's just no way that a person decided, oh, you know what, let me wear this Trump hat to a Canadian vigil for the victims of a racist white mass shooter in New Zealand.

00:25:29.720 There's just no way that a person innocently just thought, oh, you know, yeah, let me see.

00:25:34.060 What should I wear to that vigil for the mosque shooting?

00:25:36.980 I'm in Canada.

00:25:38.300 Oh, yeah, a Trump hat.

00:25:39.400 That's what I should wear.

00:25:40.060 It's not a political event.

00:25:42.740 It's not a Trump rally.

00:25:44.380 It's nothing like that.

00:25:46.620 No need for political statements.

00:25:49.180 So that guy wore it for a reason.

00:25:50.760 He wore the hat because he's a troll and he wanted to get exactly the kind of reaction he got.

00:25:55.820 And I have no sympathy for the kinds of people who decide that vigils for mass shooting victims are good places for stunts like that.

00:26:05.360 But, you know, I saw this video being passed around on Twitter, mostly by conservatives who were saying, oh, look at those mean leftists attacking that poor man.

00:26:17.680 Oh, he's a martyr.

00:26:20.040 So stop it already.

00:26:21.440 I'm so tired of this stupid hat thing.

00:26:23.740 I really am.

00:26:24.480 I mean, aren't you tired of the hat?

00:26:25.640 I'm tired of the hat thing on book.

00:26:27.040 Can we just stop with the hat thing?

00:26:28.400 I'm so sick of it.

00:26:30.460 Yeah, liberals overreact to the hat. 1.00

00:26:32.160 That's true.

00:26:32.580 But I'm also you got these people who wear the stupid thing because they know they're going to get a reaction and they want a reaction and then they get the reaction that they want.

00:26:40.560 And then they go on Twitter.

00:26:41.540 They go on social media.

00:26:42.380 I'm a victim.

00:26:43.220 I'm a martyr.

00:26:44.260 Look at what happened.

00:26:45.020 I had no idea that that was going to happen.

00:26:46.900 And it did.

00:26:47.400 Those mean people were yelling at me.

00:26:49.240 I had no idea they were going to yell at me for wearing a MAGA hat to a to a Canadian vigil for the victims of a racist white shoot.

00:26:57.280 Right.

00:26:57.540 No, I got no clue that that would ever happen.

00:26:59.700 Never.

00:27:00.060 And I wore it.

00:27:00.600 And that's so terrible.

00:27:01.560 Look at me.

00:27:02.000 I'm a martyr.

00:27:03.980 And then you've got a bunch of stupid conservatives who who play.

00:27:08.960 I'll go feed right into it and say, oh, my gosh, that poor man, that poor, poor man.

00:27:14.520 Well, you know, I call them stupid.

00:27:16.100 They're not stupid.

00:27:16.760 They know what they're doing.

00:27:18.040 And that's what annoys me about it.

00:27:19.320 If it was just stupidity, I wouldn't be as annoyed because people can't help being stupid.

00:27:23.720 But all the people, you know, you know, the conservatives who buy into this, they know what they're doing.

00:27:33.060 And so, you know, when I was talking about this yesterday on social media and there were a bunch of conservatives who told me that, well, how do you know?

00:27:45.660 You don't know that he was trying to provoke a reaction.

00:27:48.380 It could have just been, you know, you don't know that.

00:27:50.860 No, that's not the story here.

00:27:52.940 The story is those mean liberals.

00:27:54.280 And I'm just thinking to myself, come on, man, you know that what you're saying is totally bogus.

00:28:01.440 You know that it's BS.

00:28:03.060 So why are you saying it?

00:28:07.260 It's just I'm tired of the game playing.

00:28:09.560 I'm really sick of it.

00:28:11.040 The bad faith demonstrations, the trolling, the self-martyrdom.

00:28:15.920 And everyone is constantly trying to take every opportunity to get attention and to, you know, be in a viral video and to provoke a reaction.

00:28:25.780 And it's just the whole thing.

00:28:29.000 Not to mention, do you really want, I mean, that hat is a politician's merchandise, which it's fine if you want to wear it.

00:28:41.940 But is that really the thing that we want to, we want to make that our symbol?

00:28:47.220 Like that's our new cross or something?

00:28:49.860 Like that's the symbol we're marching under.

00:28:52.040 That's the symbol we're going to martyr ourselves for and get into altercations over.

00:28:56.600 Is that, is the president's hat really?

00:29:04.060 There are better symbols than that.

00:29:05.820 Like, you know, a flag.

00:29:07.760 I mean, okay, that's a symbol that is worth fighting over and for.

00:29:12.220 A cross is a symbol worth fighting over and for. 0.95

00:29:15.640 The president's hat is not a symbol that I think is worth any of this.

00:29:23.580 All right.

00:29:24.820 Let's go to emails.

00:29:26.520 MattWallshow at gmail.com.

00:29:28.060 MattWallshow at gmail.com.

00:29:29.460 This is from Josh.

00:29:30.420 He says, hi, Matt.

00:29:31.320 I heard you say bass on your show today when referring to the stringed instrument, but you pronounced it like the fish, bass.

00:29:40.920 Just curious if this is a regional pronunciation or if I and everyone else is saying it wrong.

00:29:46.280 Josh, I got this email from like 20 people claiming that I called a bass guitar a bass guitar yesterday on my show.

00:29:54.080 That's the claim that I'm getting from all these people.

00:29:56.160 And, I mean, if I did that, that would certainly be embarrassing and that would make me a total moron.

00:30:03.500 But I think that you misheard me, Josh.

00:30:05.600 I don't, you and all these other people, I don't, I think that's fake news.

00:30:08.880 I didn't say that.

00:30:09.580 In fact, we'll check the tape.

00:30:10.500 In fact, no, we're not, we're not going to check the tape.

00:30:12.560 We'll, we don't need, no reason to check it.

00:30:14.500 I mean, it's, you don't need to go back and see.

00:30:17.720 Let's just assume that I'm not so stupid as to have called a bass guitar a bass guitar.

00:30:24.460 I mean, come on.

00:30:27.740 This is from Sarah.

00:30:28.720 Hi, Matt.

00:30:29.080 I love your show.

00:30:31.360 I happened to hear yesterday that a baseball player, Mike Trout, staying on the fish theme,

00:30:37.560 a baseball player got a $430 million contract.

00:30:41.000 That's almost half a billion dollars to play a game.

00:30:44.000 This seems obscene to me.

00:30:45.540 I'm all about capitalism and free markets, but isn't it overboard and immoral for society to get people this kind of money to play a game?

00:30:52.280 What do you think?

00:30:53.100 Yeah, it's certainly a nice payday, Sarah.

00:30:56.160 I think we can agree with that.

00:30:57.860 I would clarify, though, that society is not paying this individual $430 million to play a game.

00:31:03.880 The Los Angeles Angels are paying him $430 million.

00:31:08.120 As far as being overboard, well, you know, keep something in mind here.

00:31:13.300 First of all, that money exists.

00:31:16.560 It's there.

00:31:18.160 It's there for the taking.

00:31:19.260 It's there because people are buying tickets, they're buying merchandise, advertisers are paying their TV contracts and so on.

00:31:27.460 So it's just it's a very lucrative business is professional sports.

00:31:30.840 There's a lot of money there.

00:31:31.900 So someone has to get the money.

00:31:35.640 Should the owners keep all of it?

00:31:37.160 Because that's the only other option here.

00:31:38.880 If we're not going to give in professional baseball these kinds of $100 million contracts to the to the players, then all that means is that the owners are keeping more for themselves.

00:31:49.020 And I don't think that that's any more just.

00:31:55.220 Another thing to remember is that, yeah, these guys are playing a game.

00:31:58.860 That's true.

00:32:00.240 But you know what?

00:32:01.960 Most of us are doing jobs that are not life and death, that are not, strictly speaking, necessary to humanity.

00:32:09.920 But most of us probably aren't bringing people the kind of joy and camaraderie and everything that they get from sports.

00:32:18.580 So it's more than just a game in that way.

00:32:21.300 I think that sports are.

00:32:23.820 I don't mean to be corny about it, but.

00:32:26.600 As I mentioned, I go to football games all the time.

00:32:29.120 I'm a big Ravens fan.

00:32:30.140 And so, you know, I go to a Ravens game.

00:32:34.680 I go to the stadium.

00:32:36.680 And for at least for those three hours, right, we're all just we're all there.

00:32:42.160 We're just watching a game.

00:32:43.320 We're not thinking about any of this other stuff.

00:32:44.780 We're enjoying the game for the game's sake.

00:32:47.260 And and we've got this kind of camaraderie.

00:32:50.280 Yeah, it's a camaraderie over a game.

00:32:52.060 Fine.

00:32:52.420 So it doesn't mean a whole lot.

00:32:53.600 But still, we're all there.

00:32:54.760 And, you know, you score a touchdown and you're giving a high five to everyone around.

00:32:57.880 You don't even know these people, but you're all you got 70,000 people in the stadium.

00:33:01.960 You're all friends for for those three hours.

00:33:04.340 And because you're all just focused on this game and you're having a fun time with it.

00:33:08.480 And so I think that it's it is something important that they're providing, I think.

00:33:15.500 As long as we don't go overboard with it, there are people who.

00:33:19.700 Become way too obsessed with sports and their whole life is just watching sports.

00:33:23.800 It's the only thing they care about.

00:33:24.740 And I think that that's, you know, they could probably use a little bit more moderation because there is more to life than sports.

00:33:31.880 But as long as you can keep it in proper perspective, I think that although it is a game, as I said, it is still a valuable thing to people.

00:33:43.160 And finally, importantly, the fact is that professional athletes are the best in the world at what they do.

00:33:51.960 They're the best in the entire world.

00:33:54.040 And if you can be the best in the world at something, even if it's not, even if it's just a game, but if you can be the best in the world at something, at anything, then you'll probably be rich because of it.

00:34:06.240 I mean, you'll if you're the best if you have a talent that puts you above everybody else on the planet.

00:34:13.700 In that particular area, then you can probably parlay that into millions of dollars.

00:34:22.040 So is it obscene?

00:34:23.320 No, I don't really think it is, honestly.

00:34:25.120 This is from Jake.

00:34:28.340 It says, my four and a half year old boy likes to play dolls, house and kitchen with his little sister.

00:34:32.960 He also likes to play trucks, dinosaurs, blocks and Batman with his little sister.

00:34:37.780 What would the transgender, intersectional, social justice, delusional leftist have to say about that? 1.00

00:34:42.280 Thanks for another great show.

00:34:43.200 You keep talking.

00:34:43.860 I'll keep listening.

00:34:46.740 Yeah, well, I don't know.

00:34:47.860 I guess.

00:34:48.580 So what?

00:34:48.920 So your son is really your daughter and your daughter is really your son, I guess is what they would is what they would tell you, whereas rational people would say your son is just a normal boy and your daughter is just a normal girl. 0.56

00:35:01.680 From Joe says, I listen to your criticism of the Christian film genre. 1.00

00:35:04.960 I have to say I agree with you 100 percent.

00:35:06.820 However, when you mentioned some of the good ones in the genre, you never mentioned the Scorsese film Silence, which came out in 2016, featuring Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver.

00:35:15.220 However, beyond being a great Christian film, I would say it was easily one of the best movies of 2016.

00:35:20.720 Have you seen it?

00:35:21.340 Did you like it?

00:35:21.920 If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

00:35:26.680 Yeah, I know.

00:35:28.000 I didn't see the movie.

00:35:28.780 I read the book.

00:35:30.740 And I really love the book.

00:35:34.980 And I was very moved by it.

00:35:36.760 Up until the last, like, 10 pages, because I don't want to give anything away, spoiler alert, but I mean, the book's been out for 50 years or something, so I don't think it is a spoiler.

00:35:53.860 For me, maybe they changed the ending for the movie, but I don't think they did.

00:35:58.300 But for me, it was all ruined by the fact that at the end, after all of that, the priest apostatizes and gives up his faith and then lives out his life basically in peace and then dies.

00:36:13.500 And so that's where the movie ends.

00:36:15.280 And even that wouldn't be necessarily so bad, because the fact is, people did apostatize in the face of persecution, and so there's nothing wrong with portraying that in a movie.

00:36:28.160 But the book, at least, seems to endorse apostasy, because there's that very strange scene towards the end of the book where the Japanese authorities are trying to get him to apostatize, and they're trying to get him to stomp on a picture of Jesus, if I remember correctly.

00:36:44.260 And then he has this vision where Jesus is telling him, yes, stomp on it, yes, deny your faith, it's okay.

00:36:52.840 And Jesus is encouraging him to do it, and then he does, and then he basically faces no repercussions, lives out his faith, marries a Japanese woman, and so on.

00:37:02.440 I don't know, it was just a very, it was a great story, a great reflection on doubt and suffering and everything, and then it just goes off the rails.

00:37:12.200 And so, that's why, that's my issue with it.

00:37:16.060 From Leon says, hi Matt, listening to your discussion of Christian movies, I agree with most of what you say, but here's my question.

00:37:21.600 Why doesn't the Christian movie industry produce more movies based on the Bible?

00:37:25.440 I don't mean, I don't mean doing another Jesus movie.

00:37:27.480 I mean, any of the hundreds of other stories that nobody has made into a film yet, seems like there's a lot of material there.

00:37:33.380 I couldn't agree more.

00:37:35.500 I say this all the time.

00:37:36.920 But here's the problem.

00:37:38.700 I don't think the Christian movie industry really has the talent available, the acting and writing talent, or the money to do justice to an epic biblical tale.

00:37:50.120 Now, Hollywood has the talent and the money to do it justice, but they don't have the interest or the theological understanding to do it justice.

00:37:58.000 And that's why the Bible is not mined for more stories, even though, as you say, there are so many great stories in the Bible.

00:38:08.220 And any Bible movie will make a gazillion dollars at the box office, so you would think it's a no-brainer. 0.72

00:38:13.680 But for some reason, when it comes to Bible movies, you know, we get a Jesus movie every few years, we get a Moses movie every few decades, we've gotten a Noah movie, and that's kind of it.

00:38:27.400 It's like, those are the stories.

00:38:29.560 When there are so many other great stories that, you know, I don't even think, the Noah movie I thought was pretty terrible.

00:38:36.400 But even if you were more biblically faithful with the Noah, I just don't see how you make that into a great movie.

00:38:44.320 I don't think there's a lot of fodder there necessarily for a great movie.

00:38:47.480 But there are stories in the Bible, a lot of them, that would make really interesting.

00:38:52.520 And not just great movies for Christians or for Jews, but movies that I think anyone could enjoy just because they're interesting stories.

00:39:03.540 But for the reasons I just said, I think Hollywood stays away from it.

00:39:10.500 As a side note, I also feel the same way about, I was talking about this yesterday, I feel the same way about the Civil War.

00:39:17.480 I mean, there should be 10 Civil War movies every year.

00:39:21.100 There are just so many great stories, so many epic battles, so many fascinating characters, so much drama and tragedy and intrigue in the Civil War.

00:39:29.860 But Hollywood basically leaves it alone, doesn't touch it, except for a few, you know, Civil War movies in the 90s.

00:39:36.700 And then every once in a while we'll get a movie that's set in the Civil War era.

00:39:41.400 But as far as an actual Civil War movie, no, we get 600 World War II movies, and many of them are great.

00:39:49.620 But, I mean, there's just so much you could do with just a straight Civil War movie.

00:39:56.420 Or make a movie about the Battle of Antietam.

00:39:59.380 You take any battle, Bull Run, I mean, you take any battle.

00:40:02.640 We've had a Gettysburg movie, but take any of these battles.

00:40:07.260 Chancellorsville, I mean, any of these battles, make it into a movie, it would be a great movie.

00:40:10.180 But they don't want to do it.

00:40:11.120 And we know the reason for that is that political correctness won't allow it.

00:40:16.380 It's the same reason we don't get Bible movies, political correctness. 0.97

00:40:19.380 And I think Hollywood knows that, you know, if they try to make a Civil War movie and make it historically accurate and make it nuanced and mature and interesting,

00:40:33.760 well, then that's going to require that you don't turn the Confederates into cartoon villains.

00:40:42.020 You actually have to give them a nuanced, thoughtful treatment.

00:40:47.800 And also, that's where a lot of the really interesting characters are.

00:40:51.480 I mean, Stonewall Jackson, I think, is one of the most interesting men that the United States has ever produced.

00:40:56.400 But, so, if you're going to make a movie, you'd want to capture those kinds of men in an interesting way.

00:41:06.220 But if you do that, then you're going to have the PC mob coming after you and saying that you're, you know, an apologist for slavery and yada, yada, yada.

00:41:12.760 So, that's why they don't do it.

00:41:15.400 Finally, this is from David.

00:41:16.900 Hi, Matt. I appreciate your segments about the Bible.

00:41:18.920 You seem pretty knowledgeable on the subject.

00:41:21.280 That's an illusion, I assure you.

00:41:22.600 There is one biblical passage that I've recently found kind of troubling, the more I've thought about it.

00:41:27.160 And I'd love to get your take on it.

00:41:29.760 Matthew 27, 52 through 54.

00:41:32.040 I'm sure you know the story and you know why some people struggle with it, so I won't waste your time explaining that.

00:41:36.540 What are your thoughts on the passage?

00:41:37.840 Also, as a related question, do you think it's okay for Christians to struggle with biblical passages?

00:41:44.440 Honestly, I would never say this out loud, but I just find this story and a few others in the Bible hard to believe for a number of reasons.

00:41:50.280 But I feel guilty for thinking that.

00:41:52.720 I'm sure it's a spiritual flaw on my part or lack of faith.

00:41:55.360 Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble.

00:41:57.780 Love your show.

00:42:00.180 Hi, David.

00:42:00.960 Let me answer your, try to answer your first, or I'll do this in reverse order.

00:42:05.080 So, your second question first.

00:42:07.900 Yes, it's okay for Christians to struggle with the Bible. 1.00

00:42:11.260 No, that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

00:42:14.720 It's not a spiritual weakness, I don't think.

00:42:17.040 In fact, I'd say that maybe the opposite is the case.

00:42:20.800 The people who don't grapple with these texts, who don't confront the challenges, they are the spiritually and intellectually weak ones.

00:42:28.340 For instance, a while ago, I was, I remember I was talking to somebody, you know, kind of about this, and I mentioned the struggles I have with some Old Testament passages.

00:42:41.180 Especially the ones where God orders the mass killings of women and children and prescribes slavery.

00:42:47.900 You know, I mean, there are a bunch.

00:42:50.740 The scene where he sends bears to maul 42 children to death because they made fun of a guy's bald head.

00:42:57.580 I mean, to me, it seems like a, you know, a bit of an overreaction.

00:43:00.300 And, I mean, that's, you know, I think that's the thought almost everyone has when they read that passage, right?

00:43:07.720 And so I was expressing this, and the person I was talking to basically said, well, what's the problem?

00:43:12.840 I don't see that.

00:43:13.220 I've never struggled with that.

00:43:14.260 What's the problem?

00:43:14.900 You need to have more faith.

00:43:16.440 It's, you know, it's in the Bible, so it's okay.

00:43:19.520 So what's the big deal?

00:43:22.800 But if you've honestly never struggled with this kind of stuff in the Old Testament, then either you haven't read it, which I think is likely for a lot of these people, or you have the intellectual curiosity of a jar of mayonnaise because, or you're not being honest because you think that it's shameful to admit your struggles.

00:43:43.080 The fact is that anyone who seriously actually reads the Bible and applies their brain to it and really tries to understand what they're reading, anyone like that will encounter the obstacles that you've encountered, David, that I've encountered, and you encounter it because you're studying and you're trying to understand it and you're taking it seriously.

00:44:09.340 It's the people who say, well, no problem.

00:44:11.640 No, I don't, what do you mean?

00:44:13.520 What are you talking about?

00:44:14.160 I don't see a problem.

00:44:15.180 Those are the people who are not studying it and they're not taking it seriously.

00:44:18.760 And so they say, oh, it's just my strong faith.

00:44:22.120 No, it's not strong faith.

00:44:23.320 It's the opposite of that.

00:44:26.060 These people don't even know their own religion and don't care to know it.

00:44:32.340 And so I would say the fact that you're grappling with this and that you would even send an email like that in the first place.

00:44:37.480 I mean, most Christians, David, they're not sitting around thinking about Matthew 27, 52 through 54.

00:44:43.840 They probably don't even know what it says.

00:44:45.720 Never even, they don't think about it.

00:44:47.780 The fact that you're sitting there thinking about it is a really good sign.

00:44:52.060 And it says something about, you know, your spiritual and intellectual maturity.

00:44:55.700 So, okay.

00:44:59.880 Matthew 27, 52 through 54 says,

00:45:02.280 Okay, well, that part we don't have a problem with.

00:45:24.740 So, uh, it's really 52 to 50, 52 and 53 are, are the issues here.

00:45:30.600 The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

00:45:35.620 They came out of the tombs and after Jesus's resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

00:45:41.440 Uh, yeah.

00:45:42.080 After reading that email from you yesterday, I, I, uh, was talking about this on Twitter and I was saying how I also have scratched my head over this passage.

00:45:49.680 It is a tough one.

00:45:50.840 Um, but again, it's only tough when you think about it.

00:45:55.480 If you don't think about it, then there's no problem.

00:45:58.720 Um, there's never any problem with anything in life if you don't think about it.

00:46:01.900 But after thinking, the way I see it, uh, the two issues that arise are first theological.

00:46:08.900 Uh, so this says that a whole bunch of, of holy people from the, from the past, we assume Old Testament saints were raised from the dead immediately after the crucifixion.

00:46:19.580 That's what it says.

00:46:20.760 Uh, they didn't go into the town until after the resurrection.

00:46:23.700 So says Matthew, but they were raised after the crucifixion.

00:46:27.340 And, uh, this is significant because first of all, what the heck did they do for those two days?

00:46:32.300 It says that they came out of their tomb.

00:46:34.700 They didn't go into the holy city until two days.

00:46:36.800 So what were they doing in between is an interesting question.

00:46:40.380 But more importantly, theologically, how does this work?

00:46:43.200 Uh, because Paul says in Corinthians, I think it is, that Jesus is the first fruits of the resurrection.

00:46:48.600 Well, wouldn't this story make the, the Old Testament saints, the first fruits of the resurrection?

00:46:54.340 Uh, because they, according to the text, they were raised first.

00:47:00.400 And anyway, doesn't it kind of distract in some ways from the miracle of the resurrection?

00:47:06.160 If Jesus's resurrection was just one of dozens of resurrections that weekend, it was, it was the last in a series of, of resurrections, apparently, according to, according to Matthew.

00:47:16.540 Um, so that's the theological challenge.

00:47:19.800 The historical challenge is that this would be a momentous occasion.

00:47:23.600 I mean, many tombs are, are breaking open and many people are coming to life.

00:47:27.540 Many people are seeing them walking around the city.

00:47:30.500 Um, yet no other gospel writer noticed this, apparently.

00:47:34.460 Uh, not one of them mentioned it.

00:47:37.000 No writer of any epistle mentions it.

00:47:39.620 Uh, no historian of that time mentions it or has even heard of it.

00:47:43.740 It just seems incredible that every gospel writer would make room to mention, for instance, Jesus cursing a fig tree.

00:47:51.580 Uh, yet only one takes the time to mention that, hey, by the way, uh, there were a bunch of, uh, resurrected dead people walking around Jerusalem.

00:48:01.060 Um, you know, it is, as you say, hard to believe in some ways.

00:48:07.300 So, what can we do with the passage?

00:48:11.240 Well, over the years, Christian scholars have tried a few different moves here.

00:48:16.400 Um, the first is, uh, well, not the first, but there are some who have tried to interpret it metaphorically and have said, well, maybe this was kind of a literary device that Matthew was using.

00:48:28.140 Um, that, but I'm, I'm okay with interpreting things metaphorically if the text supports that interpretation, but the text does not support that.

00:48:37.200 Because why would Matthew drop this weird metaphorical narrative right into the middle of the crucifixion and resurrection story about Jesus?

00:48:45.860 That just makes no sense at all.

00:48:48.000 So, I think you've got to put that to the side.

00:48:49.800 The other thing people have suggested is that maybe the text was added in later.

00:48:53.820 Um, I guess there is potentially some textual evidence that maybe that happened.

00:48:57.720 I don't really know what the evidence is exactly.

00:49:00.760 I do know that this story in Matthew appears in every complete manuscript of Matthew that we have.

00:49:07.160 So, if there was, if there were a few manuscripts of Matthew from way back a long time ago that didn't have that story, uh, then you could start to think that, yeah, maybe this was added in later.

00:49:18.100 And we do know that, uh, that did happen.

00:49:20.760 The, the long ending of Mark, Mark 16, 9 through, uh, 20, whatever it was, is we know was added in later.

00:49:28.740 Uh, the original Gospel of Mark ends with the women fleeing the tomb and telling no one, and that's the end.

00:49:35.700 And, and, and the original, um, or not the original, but the earliest manuscripts of Mark, that's how it ends.

00:49:41.720 The later manuscripts, all of a sudden, have this next part of that ending where it says that, uh, Jesus appeared and, and he told the disciples that they could drink poison and handle snakes and not be killed.

00:49:54.140 But it pretty much everyone knows that someone later on added that in, which, you know, someone should probably let the pen, the Pentecostal snake handlers know about that because those people for years have been handling snakes and getting bit by rattlesnakes and dying because they didn't realize that that story is not original to the gospel.

00:50:11.100 Um, so there's that, uh, the story about the woman caught in adultery and John, uh, early manuscripts of John don't have that story, um, which doesn't mean that the story isn't true.

00:50:25.160 It could have been oral tradition that was passed down and then added in by a scribe later on.

00:50:31.480 And there are plenty of scholars who think that's the case, but the point is, it's not crazy to think that maybe something like that is going on with Matthew.

00:50:41.600 Maybe it's possible.

00:50:43.060 The other option, of course, is that it, it happened exactly as Matthew says it happened.

00:50:48.020 Um, that doesn't answer why no one else noticed it.

00:50:53.420 It doesn't solve the theological difficulties that seem to be raised here, but.

00:50:58.660 Maybe that's beyond our understanding.

00:51:01.880 So what would I suggest?

00:51:03.000 I would say, keep grappling with it, study it, think about it, pray about it.

00:51:07.760 Um, and if you come to a better conclusion than what I just rambled off, which wouldn't be hard to do, then, uh, send me an email and let me know.

00:51:15.720 And maybe, maybe, maybe teach me something about it the more you think about it and study it.

00:51:19.680 But, uh, I would definitely pursue it and, uh, don't be afraid of it and don't feel shamed.

00:51:26.320 And, and don't feel like, oh, I, you know, I, I, I should, I, I'm being too critical about this passage.

00:51:32.060 I, I, I, I should just accept it.

00:51:33.820 Um, no, I, I, cause I, I don't think it's, I don't think critical is exactly what you're doing here.

00:51:40.600 I think it's more, uh, inquisitive and it's good to be inquisitive.

00:51:44.620 We should be.

00:51:46.020 All right.

00:51:47.060 Um, we'll leave it there.

00:51:50.300 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:51:51.320 Thanks for listening.

00:51:52.380 Godspeed.

00:51:52.740 I'm Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 20, 2019

Ep. 221 - Beto Comes Out For Third Trimester Abortions

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