The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 224 - Democrats In Mourning

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is in mourning as the Mueller report finds no evidence of collusion.

00:00:06.140 But what does it say about the left that they're upset that the president didn't collude with Russia?

00:00:11.640 Shouldn't they be happy about that?

00:00:13.000 Also, what does it say about the media that they spent two years pushing this hoax?

00:00:16.940 Well, nothing good on both counts.

00:00:18.760 We'll talk more about that today.

00:00:20.120 Also, Kamala Harris says that all teachers need a raise. 0.76

00:00:24.200 We need to have a raise for all teachers.

00:00:26.360 But is that true?

00:00:27.540 We'll talk about that issue today as well on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:35.420 So I happened to stumble across this obscure little news report about something called the Mueller, maybe Mueller investigation.

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00:02:51.180 Mueller.

00:02:52.100 As you no doubt heard, the Mueller report has come back negative.

00:02:57.860 Trump did not test positive for collusion.

00:03:00.980 He is not a secret Russian agent, it turns out.

00:03:03.860 He didn't obstruct justice.

00:03:05.220 There's no evidence of that.

00:03:06.280 There are going to be no indictments.

00:03:09.240 That means that it's over.

00:03:11.560 The whole thing is over.

00:03:13.100 Of course, this news is not really news to any rational person.

00:03:19.580 The idea that Trump was some sort of Putin henchman was always ridiculous.

00:03:26.500 But this is the angle that the Democrats decided to pursue for the past two years.

00:03:33.200 And by the way, the idea that Trump was working for Putin, it's ridiculous for many reasons.

00:03:39.740 Not the least of which being, you know, the fact that Trump was out there on the campaign trail

00:03:46.160 saying nice things about Putin, that's one of the reasons why Democrats got it into their head,

00:03:55.360 the left got it into their head, that, oh, he must be working with Putin.

00:03:58.740 Well, if he was, then he wouldn't be out saying those things in the first place.

00:04:04.020 So that's your first hint.

00:04:06.660 Right.

00:04:06.820 But I think we should really stop here and meditate on the profound stupidity of these people.

00:04:18.540 I'm talking about the left, the Democrats, the media.

00:04:21.680 They're all one in the same.

00:04:23.160 Right.

00:04:23.340 Of all the things that they could focus on, of all the things that they could criticize

00:04:28.980 Trump for, of all the points that they could criticize about Trump and his administration

00:04:36.640 and everything, they decide to spend two years on this conspiracy theory.

00:04:41.260 And it's a conspiracy theory that now must officially be consigned to a category that's

00:04:47.640 occupied by the moon landing hoax and 9-11 trutherism and Sandy Hook trutherism and the flat earth

00:04:56.140 theory and so on.

00:04:57.540 Utterly stupid, incredible, irrational conspiracy theories.

00:05:02.040 That's what this is now.

00:05:03.900 That's what this always was.

00:05:05.700 And birtherism too.

00:05:07.920 You remember the idea that Obama, you know, couldn't be president because he wasn't born here.

00:05:14.100 It's, this is in that same category.

00:05:17.120 And in fact, I think you would say in many ways that Russian collusion is basically the

00:05:21.540 left's birtherism.

00:05:23.440 Although as someone pointed out to me on Twitter, actually the birtherism was already the left's

00:05:29.100 birtherism because that was a, a, um, line of attack that originated with the Clinton campaign.

00:05:35.600 But in any case, this is, this is what the Democrats chose to go with, uh, with regards to Trump.

00:05:43.380 There are other things they could have focused on.

00:05:45.540 President Trump, we must admit, does in fact provide his enemies with plenty of opportunities

00:05:53.020 to criticize, uh, many fruitful points of criticism that they could explore.

00:05:58.840 But they said, no, thanks.

00:06:00.680 We're not interested in that.

00:06:02.060 We're going to go with Trump is a secret Russian agent instead.

00:06:04.720 That's going to be our strategy.

00:06:06.040 Just astonishingly, astonishingly stupid.

00:06:11.020 And this seems to be Trump's greatest, uh, skill, or I don't even know if you could call

00:06:18.380 it a skill because I'm not sure that he does it on purpose, but it's certainly his best defense

00:06:22.880 mechanism, whether intentional or not, that somehow, for some reason, he provokes his opponents

00:06:29.040 into criticizing him for the dumbest and most irrelevant things, leaving potentially legitimate

00:06:35.040 avenues of criticism unexplored.

00:06:38.780 And they always go for, for this thing over here, the, the fantastic, um, the incredible,

00:06:45.980 the irrational, that's what they go for.

00:06:47.880 And it's quite a spectacle to behold.

00:06:49.820 But I want you to think about something else.

00:06:55.260 The left has been very upset this weekend, as you can imagine, as I'm sure you've noticed

00:07:02.760 about the news that there was no collusion, right?

00:07:08.360 Rachel Maddow, I'm not going to bother playing the clip, but, uh, this has been going around

00:07:12.680 online.

00:07:13.360 Maddow on her show was, was basically on the verge of tears over it.

00:07:17.740 They're, they're all, they're distraught, very upset, depressed, angry, but think about

00:07:26.820 what it is exactly that's upsetting them.

00:07:29.740 They're upset that the president didn't collude with Russia.

00:07:35.100 That's what they're upset about.

00:07:36.220 Think about that.

00:07:38.220 Mueller came back and said, yeah, um, there's no evidence president didn't do it.

00:07:43.440 Right.

00:07:43.760 Well, we should all be happy about that.

00:07:47.700 I, I don't think I should even have to clarify this, but when you find out if you, if there

00:07:54.320 was ever any doubt in your head in the first place, when you find out that the president

00:07:58.020 did not collude with a foreign government to undermine our election process, when you find

00:08:05.300 that out, if you are a, you know, if you are a person who loves America, if you're a reasonable

00:08:14.040 person, a reasonable patriotic person, when you find that out, your reaction is going to be, oh, well,

00:08:21.380 that's good.

00:08:22.400 Great news.

00:08:24.500 Everybody should be happy about that.

00:08:26.520 That is good.

00:08:27.260 That is objectively good news for everyone, but the Democrats aren't happy.

00:08:34.380 And so if you're, if there was, if you're wondering, um, whether these people really

00:08:40.660 care about the, uh, integrity of our democratic process, whether they care about, um, you know,

00:08:51.500 truth, if you were ever wondering about that, well, well, well, this should clarify it for

00:08:56.720 you that no, they don't care about that stuff because they wanted, they wanted the president

00:09:02.640 to have been guilty of this.

00:09:04.740 They were hoping that it did happen.

00:09:09.320 You may remember, uh, back when Obama was elected and there was a huge outcry on the left

00:09:17.320 because Rush Limbaugh said that, uh, I forget what his exact words were, but he said something

00:09:22.380 like, I hope the president fails.

00:09:25.340 That, that was the, those were, that was the phrase that he used taken out of context.

00:09:30.900 And so, uh, Democrats latched onto that and they said, oh, how terrible, how could you be

00:09:35.680 rooting against the president?

00:09:36.880 Well, in the context, it was clear that Limbaugh was saying, I, I hope he fails in his agenda

00:09:43.000 because I oppose his agenda.

00:09:44.960 I think it's a bad agenda for America.

00:09:46.400 I hope that he fails in carrying it out, which is a perfectly fine thing to say. 0.92

00:09:51.540 And that's what you would expect the opponents of a president's agenda to say.

00:09:57.980 But here now we have, but the way that they, that they misconstrued it is they said, oh,

00:10:02.520 no, you're, well, you're just rooting against, you're rooting against America.

00:10:05.760 I mean, you want bad things to happen to America.

00:10:08.740 You want his whole presidency to be a disaster.

00:10:11.480 That's what you want.

00:10:12.380 And that's not what he said, but that really is what the left apparently wants.

00:10:17.140 They are, again, which I'll emphasize for the fifth time, they are upset that the president

00:10:24.980 of the United States did not collude with Russia and undermine our democratic process.

00:10:30.300 They're upset, which means that they wish he did.

00:10:34.760 All right.

00:10:35.260 Here's a clip that I do want to play for you.

00:10:37.180 Uh, Glenn Greenwald shared this on Twitter.

00:10:39.160 I'm not, I'm not sure if he's the one who compiled the clips or not, but this is, this kind of

00:10:44.160 condenses two years of media hysterity, hysteria, uh, into two minutes.

00:10:49.320 So I want you to watch this.

00:10:50.860 Is a turning point.

00:10:51.780 Today was historically bad for president Trump.

00:10:53.900 Today was a turning point.

00:10:55.660 A turning point.

00:10:56.540 We're at a turning point here.

00:10:57.660 The beginning of the end for the Trump president.

00:11:00.700 We have another bombshell.

00:11:02.060 Mike Pence might have to assume the office of the presidency.

00:11:04.900 Rumblings of the word impeachment.

00:11:06.840 Breaking news.

00:11:07.800 Another bombshell out of the White House.

00:11:09.400 I believe this is the beginning of the end.

00:11:10.900 I do too.

00:11:11.560 It's really the beginning of the end.

00:11:13.260 He may be feeling the walls closing in on him.

00:11:15.240 All the walls closing in on him.

00:11:17.000 The walls closing in on him.

00:11:19.060 Breaking news, a new bombshell.

00:11:20.480 One astrologer says this means the beginning of the end for president Donald Trump.

00:11:24.220 Trump will resign.

00:11:25.320 Trump is going to resign.

00:11:26.360 Is this the tipping point?

00:11:27.780 I know we've said it over and over.

00:11:30.200 You think this is a tipping point?

00:11:31.420 And over and over.

00:11:32.600 This is a tipping point.

00:11:33.880 And over and over.

00:11:35.480 Breaking news, President Trump off the rails.

00:11:37.240 It was the beginning of the end today.

00:11:38.440 The beginning of the end.

00:11:39.720 Breaking news tonight, new bombshell.

00:11:41.360 This is the beginning of the end.

00:11:42.900 The beginning of the end.

00:11:44.360 The walls are closing in.

00:11:45.640 The walls closing in.

00:11:46.820 The walls closing in.

00:11:47.940 Breaking overnight bombshells.

00:11:49.660 This is a very dramatic day and I think it might be near a tipping point.

00:11:52.340 Do you think this is a tipping point?

00:11:54.260 December 1st, 2017, you can mark it down.

00:11:56.880 This is the day that everything changed.

00:11:58.840 The beginning of the end.

00:11:59.940 The beginning of the end.

00:12:01.720 The beginning of the end.

00:12:02.500 The beginning of the end.

00:12:03.640 At the beginning of the year, we begin tonight with a bombshell.

00:12:05.880 Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble.

00:12:07.100 Trump is in trouble.

00:12:07.800 The president will resign.

00:12:09.180 Another hour, another bombshell.

00:12:10.680 This is a tipping point.

00:12:12.000 Trump's going down.

00:12:12.900 This president could be impeached.

00:12:15.320 Resignation.

00:12:16.020 Resignation.

00:12:16.460 I don't think this president is going to serve out his term.

00:12:18.520 Mr. Trump will not serve out his term.

00:12:20.800 He will not serve out his term.

00:12:22.000 No way, no how.

00:12:23.640 Breaking news.

00:12:24.580 Absolute bombs.

00:12:25.400 Donald Trump is not.

00:12:26.300 He's done.

00:12:27.260 And it's over.

00:12:28.840 It's over.

00:12:29.420 The wall's closing in.

00:12:30.460 The wall's closing in.

00:12:31.500 This is going to be the Achilles' Hill.

00:12:33.260 Breaking news tonight.

00:12:34.280 I expect Trump to depart.

00:12:35.820 This week will be the watershed week.

00:12:37.640 Trump is in big trouble.

00:12:39.020 Trump's in a lot of trouble.

00:12:39.780 It's a sign of a terrified old man who feels the wall's closing in.

00:12:43.080 The wall's are increasingly closing in on him.

00:12:45.560 Tonight, the wall's are closing in.

00:12:47.040 Today changed everything.

00:12:48.420 This is the beginning of the end.

00:12:50.520 Today, the biggest tipping point for the Trump administration.

00:12:52.580 What a historic day.

00:12:53.600 The bombshells.

00:12:54.500 He's underwater.

00:12:55.780 He feels the wall's closing in.

00:12:57.680 Turning point.

00:12:58.180 We may be at a tipping point.

00:12:59.440 It's the beginning of the end.

00:13:00.580 The beginning of the end.

00:13:01.740 Another bombshell.

00:13:02.560 How completely embarrassing is that for the news media?

00:13:13.440 If they're capable of being embarrassed, which I don't think they are.

00:13:16.240 But we have to understand, if we don't already, that what you just saw there, okay, that's not news.

00:13:28.880 And that's not a news media.

00:13:30.580 There is no news media.

00:13:32.200 We don't have a news media.

00:13:33.800 That is a category that doesn't exist in America.

00:13:36.060 It simply doesn't exist anymore, if it ever did.

00:13:41.580 What you saw there is not news.

00:13:43.800 Those are not journalists.

00:13:46.520 That is propaganda.

00:13:48.560 This is the same media that, while it was pushing the Russian collusion conspiracy theory for two years, while it was doing that, at the same time, it gave us the Covington Catholic thing.

00:14:04.360 It gave us the Smollett hoax.

00:14:07.000 It gave us Kavanaugh, and so on and so on.

00:14:10.840 These are ideological agents.

00:14:12.860 These are propaganda merchants.

00:14:15.080 They are narrative crafters.

00:14:18.440 That's what they're in the business of doing.

00:14:20.440 They're not in the business of telling the truth.

00:14:24.920 And I know that everyone says this, right?

00:14:29.380 We're always pointing this out, fake news and everything.

00:14:32.400 Well, we all say it, but I don't know if we really let it sink in that we do not have a news media, that you simply cannot trust what you hear from them,

00:14:42.980 because they're not interested in getting to the truth.

00:14:51.880 We should ask ourselves, why is it that the media fell for this Russian collusion hoax for two years?

00:15:00.600 I don't think it's not the case that, in many cases, I don't think it's the case that they were inventing this out of whole cloth,

00:15:11.100 and all of the anonymous sources that they were hearing and everything.

00:15:14.980 I don't think they invented that.

00:15:16.220 They didn't make that up.

00:15:19.280 But the point is, they so badly wanted it to be true.

00:15:24.300 They were so propelled by their biases.

00:15:28.640 They so badly wanted it to be true that they didn't apply their brains to this.

00:15:33.900 And they didn't vet any of it.

00:15:36.900 And so any anonymous source that they heard that said, oh, Mueller's about to come out with indictments and Trump's going to be in a jail cell tomorrow.

00:15:47.720 Well, there was no skepticism.

00:15:49.520 There was nothing like that.

00:15:50.320 There was no vetting because they wanted it to be true.

00:15:54.120 And that's what motivates these people.

00:15:56.360 And that's why we simply cannot trust them.

00:15:58.180 It was the same thing with Kavanaugh, as I said, Smollett, Covington Catholic, all of those, you know, we call those media hoaxes.

00:16:09.380 And in a sense, they are media hoaxes.

00:16:11.240 But we have to understand how the media hoax works.

00:16:14.400 Okay, the media didn't invent those things.

00:16:17.080 The media didn't make up the incident with Covington Catholic.

00:16:21.060 The media, CNN, didn't invent the idea that Kavanaugh was the leader of some gang rape crew in high school.

00:16:31.700 And they were going around to parties and raping women and everything.

00:16:35.740 CNN didn't invent that.

00:16:37.420 Swetnick, Julia Swetnick made that up.

00:16:39.780 So, the way the media hoax works is they decide, based on what they want to be true, which is based on their ideology, they decide which rumors they're going to believe without any discernment, as I said, without any vetting, without any attempt to actually get to the bottom of it.

00:17:00.920 They'll take the rumors and then they amplify them.

00:17:04.180 So, that's how the fake news works.

00:17:06.360 It's not so much, most of the time, that they're sitting around, all the different, you know, supposed journalists and anchors are sitting around in smoke-filled, darkened rooms, hatching what fake stories they're going to tell next.

00:17:19.860 That's not the way it works.

00:17:21.680 It's just that they're so driven by ideology, and when it comes to Trump, they're so driven by their hatred for him that they will accept whatever rumor that they hear, and they'll put it on, you know, they'll put it in front of the cameras, and they'll disseminate it.

00:17:36.360 With Kavanaugh, because of the threat that they believe Kavanaugh poses to so-called abortion rights, again, it was another thing, where they hate him so much, and they are so blinded by ideology, that even a story about gang rape crews, they will take that and they'll run with it.

00:17:56.740 So, no credibility and no reason to listen to these people, and it's been that way for a long time.

00:18:05.780 But hopefully now we've all finally caught on.

00:18:10.480 Okay, what else?

00:18:11.900 Barbara Streisand said, I'm not going to spend much time on this, but Barbara Streisand said in an interview that she believes the Michael Jackson accusers.

00:18:20.060 She believes the story that they're telling.

00:18:21.720 But she also said that Jackson was just fulfilling his, quote, sexual needs, and the kids he molested were thrilled to be there.

00:18:32.620 Those are her quotes.

00:18:33.600 And she said that being molested didn't kill them because they ended up getting married and they're fine now.

00:18:39.120 She actually said all those things as verbatim quotes, okay?

00:18:42.100 Anyway, there's not much analysis to offer here.

00:18:46.040 It's obviously a horrifically disgusting thing to say, so I think we all hopefully understand that.

00:18:52.680 But the only reason I bring it up is because I suspect that she is not the only Hollywood celebrity who feels this way.

00:19:04.380 Why do you think there are so many open secrets in Hollywood?

00:19:08.500 Why do you think it is that a guy like Michael Jackson could get away with doing this for decades?

00:19:17.480 It's because I think quite a few of the people in Hollywood feel exactly like Barbara Streisand did.

00:19:24.320 And so the only difference, though, is most of them know that when they're in front of cameras, they're supposed to pretend otherwise.

00:19:30.360 They're supposed to fake outrage and all of that stuff.

00:19:32.880 But Barbara Streisand forgot to do that this time, and she just let her true color show. 1.00

00:19:41.000 And her attitude is, you know, not a big deal. 0.79

00:19:44.660 So let's not let us be appropriately horrified by what Barbara Streisand said.

00:19:49.580 But let us not think that she's the only one in that camp who feels that way.

00:19:55.200 All right. Kamala Harris has come out and said that she wants a federal program to she wants all kinds of federal programs because there aren't enough of those already. 1.00

00:20:06.180 But this time she wants a federal program to boost the salaries of teachers. 1.00

00:20:11.340 This is what she says. She says in America, public school teachers are paid about 13000 a year less than other college graduates.

00:20:17.680 That could be mortgage payments or the cost of groceries for a family for a year.

00:20:22.680 It's a national failure. It's time we give America's teachers a raise.

00:20:27.260 The L.A. Times offers a little bit more.

00:20:29.720 It says a study by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, found that public school teachers in 2017 made 11 percent less than similar professionals with college degrees,

00:20:41.400 even after taking into account benefits, which are often higher for teachers than many private sector workers.

00:20:46.960 Harris will commit to, quote, closing the teacher pay gap within her first term as president.

00:20:57.020 Details of the initiative, including the price tag and how the program will be structured, will be released in the coming week.

00:21:03.300 OK, now I mentioned this on on social media and I got into trouble because I pointed out the obvious here.

00:21:12.540 And the obvious point is that, yes, teachers make apparently 11 percent less than other professionals with college degrees if we're going to take this liberal think tank at its word, which I don't anyway.

00:21:25.260 But fine for the sake of argument.

00:21:29.580 OK, well, teachers also get an enormous amount of vacation time, don't they?

00:21:36.300 Obviously, they don't work the whole summer.

00:21:39.160 They get breaks in the winter.

00:21:40.520 They get breaks in the spring.

00:21:42.220 They get every federal holiday off.

00:21:44.480 They get a whole lot of three day weekends and that sort of thing.

00:21:48.520 If it snows, they don't have to go to work.

00:21:51.700 All that stuff.

00:21:53.440 So think about that.

00:21:56.960 Imagine whatever you do for a living if you're not a teacher.

00:21:59.360 Because if you're not a teacher, you can't even it's hard to even conceive of this.

00:22:03.560 Imagine getting a vacation every winter, every spring, and then you get two months off in the summer also.

00:22:11.620 So, yeah, they get paid 11 percent less.

00:22:14.760 They also work 11 percent less.

00:22:17.860 They probably work a much, much more than 11 percent less.

00:22:22.600 People don't like it when you when you point this out.

00:22:25.260 I had a whole bunch of teachers attacking me when I pointed this out, saying, I don't understand.

00:22:31.220 Being a teacher is really hard.

00:22:32.720 They work 50 to 60 hours a week during the school year.

00:22:35.280 It's very difficult.

00:22:36.040 They got to bring their work home with them, so on and so forth.

00:22:38.600 They have to do the professional development stuff during the summer.

00:22:41.660 They have to go to, you know, they have things that they're supposed to be doing during the summer.

00:22:45.640 So it's not all just lounging in the shade.

00:22:49.600 OK, that's fine.

00:22:50.980 I understand that.

00:22:52.280 And I understand that many teachers do work hard.

00:22:54.940 So, yeah, they have to take their work home with them.

00:22:57.220 It's the grade papers and stuff.

00:22:59.140 Yeah, there are a lot of people who take their work home with them.

00:23:02.220 So teachers are not alone in that.

00:23:04.600 There are many people who work 50 to 60 hours a week during the school year, and then they

00:23:11.440 continue working 50 to 60 hours a week during the summer, and they only get two weeks of

00:23:15.920 vacation, three weeks of vacation for the entire year.

00:23:18.100 There are a lot of people in that category.

00:23:19.680 So the question is, if you've got people who work those kinds of hours all year long,

00:23:29.740 would it make sense for teachers who work those kinds of hours only for nine months of

00:23:35.960 the year to make as much as the ones who are working like that 12 months a year?

00:23:40.160 I don't think so.

00:23:43.900 After the fact remains, after taking into account whatever you have to do in the summer,

00:23:49.060 professional development, whatever, taking classes, whatever else, teachers still get

00:23:55.020 close to two months off in the summer, plus their winter and spring breaks, federal holidays,

00:23:58.840 like I said, all that.

00:24:00.100 Now, you can't deny that.

00:24:01.040 That's a simple fact.

00:24:01.860 And obviously, it seems to me your pay is going to reflect that.

00:24:07.520 If I went to my employer, The Daily Wire, and I said, listen, I'm not going to give you

00:24:13.420 any content in June or July, so I need those two months off, plus count me out for two weeks

00:24:19.460 around Christmas and a week around Easter, and I want every federal holiday off, and if

00:24:29.440 it snows, I'm not going to, you're not getting anything.

00:24:31.720 If I went to my job and said that, do you think they're going to keep paying me the same

00:24:35.640 amount?

00:24:36.800 No, of course not, because you get paid to work.

00:24:40.460 That's the whole point.

00:24:42.120 That's the whole idea behind having a job, is that you're paid to work.

00:24:47.980 And so if you're only working a total of nine months a year, then yeah, your pay is going

00:24:53.620 to be indicative of that.

00:24:57.580 I'm not saying teachers don't work hard.

00:24:59.800 I'm not attacking teachers.

00:25:02.760 I'm simply pointing out something that I think is relevant.

00:25:07.360 And the fact that teachers get so defensive when you bring this up, it is a, you know,

00:25:15.120 you protesting too much kind of situation where they get so defensive.

00:25:20.320 Another point about this, and this is why I get uncomfortable.

00:25:23.840 Anytime we look at an entire category or a whole profession or a gender, like when people

00:25:34.940 say women are underpaid and all this stuff, or when it comes to the minimum wage, we say,

00:25:40.560 well, we need to make sure that people who are working at fast food restaurants get paid

00:25:44.220 more.

00:25:44.440 Anytime we do that with these broad sweeping kinds of statements about this whole group of

00:25:49.980 people, they're all underpaid.

00:25:51.300 I'm always uncomfortable with that because within that group, you know, there are going

00:25:58.580 to be some people who are very hardworking, very good at what they do and do deserve to

00:26:04.140 get paid more.

00:26:04.660 But there are also going to be some people who are terrible at what they do and are, and

00:26:08.620 are basically worthless on the job and whatever they're getting paid right now is too much.

00:26:16.120 So that's the case for people making minimum wage at a, at Burger King.

00:26:20.020 It's the case for, you know, and it's the case for teachers.

00:26:23.040 So if you're sitting there saying teachers need to get paid more, what do you mean teachers

00:26:26.620 need to get paid more?

00:26:27.680 Every teacher needs to get paid.

00:26:29.940 Are you telling me that I couldn't, I, you, I, you don't think I could find some teachers

00:26:34.260 who definitely don't deserve to get paid more because I'm telling you, I can, I had some

00:26:39.500 teachers like that.

00:26:40.140 I went to public school for 13 years.

00:26:42.680 Um, I had some great teachers.

00:26:46.820 I also had some teachers who their method of teaching was to hand out a, uh, you know,

00:26:52.920 a worksheet and to just sit at their desk, um, doing whatever they're doing.

00:26:59.320 In other words, they didn't teach at all.

00:27:01.680 They never, I, I had to, and we've, we all had teachers like this.

00:27:04.860 I had teachers who never taught.

00:27:07.080 They never did any teaching.

00:27:08.280 They just, they said, read this part of the book.

00:27:11.080 Here's your textbook.

00:27:11.940 Here's a worksheet.

00:27:12.520 And that's it.

00:27:13.660 Not going to be any lectures.

00:27:14.720 I'm not going to explain anything.

00:27:16.020 If you ask a question, I'm going to get angry that you asked the question and I won't be

00:27:20.460 able to answer it because I don't know the subject.

00:27:22.120 I mean, these kinds of teachers exist, right?

00:27:24.600 We all know that.

00:27:26.760 So do those teachers deserve to get a raise too? 1.00

00:27:30.060 No, the problem is precisely because of the teachers union.

00:27:32.740 The problem is that, is that we can't get rid of them.

00:27:37.420 So anytime we get into this discussion, we seem to be ignoring the fact that there are

00:27:42.700 some really bad teachers out there.

00:27:44.840 And that's another point that you're not allowed to make because teachers are, uh, teachers

00:27:51.080 are a, a, a, a group of people that we have, um, canonized before, before death.

00:27:57.160 They have, they have gotten a, a pre-death canonization where they're all saints and they're

00:28:01.500 all martyrs and everything.

00:28:03.140 And some of them are pretty close to saints.

00:28:05.500 It seems like given what they deal with and, um, and what a heroically good job they do

00:28:11.960 in the circumstances.

00:28:13.080 But not all, I don't know how the percentages break down, you know, good, good teachers

00:28:19.840 to bad teachers.

00:28:20.600 What's the percentage?

00:28:21.400 There's a lot of in between in the middle as well, you know, so it's not all black and 0.99

00:28:25.520 white in that sense, but we can't deny that those bad teachers do exist and certainly do 0.92

00:28:30.480 not deserve a raise, which is what they would get.

00:28:32.900 If you have some kind of federal program giving them all a raise, well, then you're giving it

00:28:35.960 to the bad ones as well.

00:28:39.820 How about we do this on a case by case basis?

00:28:45.160 See, if we were to get rid of the teachers union and tenure and all of that, then maybe

00:28:50.620 what the school systems could do is when you have these worthless lump on the log type teachers 0.94

00:28:57.180 who don't do anything and are terrible at their job, uh, terrible their job because they

00:29:02.220 don't even attempt to do their job.

00:29:04.060 Well, if you could get rid of them and free up that, uh, that, that income, then maybe

00:29:09.300 you could start giving raises to the good ones.

00:29:11.360 To me, that seems like a very, a very, uh, reasonable way of going about things.

00:29:19.740 It's one of the reasons I don't like the minimum wage.

00:29:21.600 I don't think there should be any minimum wage.

00:29:24.660 When I go to a, to a fast food restaurant, we've all, we've all had this experience.

00:29:28.540 Sometimes you go to a fast food restaurant, uh, it seems rather often you go to a fast

00:29:34.800 food restaurant and the person behind the counter is awful.

00:29:38.400 I mean, all they're doing anyway, it's just, it's just pushing buttons on a cash register

00:29:43.280 and they can't even do that.

00:29:45.200 Well, they screw that up and they're very solemn and they're, they're gloomy and they're

00:29:48.900 basically scowling at you.

00:29:51.160 Uh, they're mad that you even came in and are, and are daring to, to, to place a food order

00:29:56.660 at all, uh, those kinds of people should be getting paid nothing.

00:30:00.640 I mean, they, they, they, their, their heart, they should be getting paid five cents.

00:30:03.660 They're so bad at their job, but then sometimes you go to a fast food restaurant and you, there's

00:30:08.360 someone behind the counter who's just on the ball and they're energetic and they're happy

00:30:12.060 and they put a smile on, on your face.

00:30:13.920 It's difficult to put a smile on my face.

00:30:15.620 So if you can do that, that's impressive.

00:30:17.640 Um, and there are those types and you think, well, this person should be getting paid $30 an

00:30:21.260 hour.

00:30:21.480 They're so good at what they're doing.

00:30:22.460 I went to a, to fast food restaurant a few days ago and the person behind the counter,

00:30:27.200 they were so good and friendly that they actually succeeded in getting me to, to, uh, to, to

00:30:33.600 order more food than I originally planned to do.

00:30:35.660 They were suggesting other items on the menu.

00:30:38.100 And usually when they do that, I say, no, I don't want that.

00:30:40.480 But this person was so friendly about it.

00:30:41.880 I said, oh, you know what?

00:30:42.660 Yeah, I'll take that too.

00:30:44.100 So that's someone who's worth a lot to the company and they should be getting paid.

00:30:47.660 But the problem is you can't give them the raise because you have to, you know, there's

00:30:50.920 this minimum amount amount that you have to pay to these people over here who are worthless.

00:30:57.000 So that's the problem with that, I think.

00:30:59.360 All right.

00:30:59.860 Let's, uh, let's skip over to emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com.

00:31:05.160 Actually, this first email is, uh, is not an email at all.

00:31:08.360 It was a message sent to me on Twitter.

00:31:10.160 Um, and this is from, uh, Nikola Tesla, which I presume is a pseudonym, but who knows?

00:31:18.760 It says, I'm taking a very unpopular and seemingly callous position.

00:31:22.700 Mark Gomez was arrested for an alleged unprovoked attack on an elderly woman on the New York subway.

00:31:28.320 Yet, according to witnesses, she was brandishing a knife and threatening to kill his daughter

00:31:32.360 who can see him, um, who you can see follows him off of the subway after he kicks the woman

00:31:37.960 multiple times. Allegedly, she is mentally ill, and this is not the first time she has threatened

00:31:42.500 people with a knife. If we as conservatives have learned anything from the Covington Catholic 0.92

00:31:46.600 video and the Smollett case, it's to reserve judgment until the facts are revealed. So many

00:31:51.660 people are jumping to conclusions and making the assumption that, that he should have walked

00:31:55.060 away or called the police. Consider the context. You're stuck on a subway car in Brooklyn at 3am

00:31:59.300 with a crazy woman threatening to murder your daughter. Just before the doors open, you have,

00:32:03.200 you have a choice. Walk away and hope she doesn't follow or take action to incapacitate the threat.

00:32:07.960 It's not popular, but in that situation, the man had every right to make sure his daughter was

00:32:12.240 not murdered. Um, okay. Uh, this is actually not the only message I got like this because I wrote

00:32:23.440 about this case on Friday and let's, let's give this a little bit of context in case you didn't,

00:32:28.180 you didn't see this video. Um, as I said, I wrote about it on Friday. It is an attack against an

00:32:33.060 elderly woman on a train in New York. The attack was caught on video and I'll show you the video

00:32:37.740 now fair warning. This is quite disturbing, but, but here it is.

00:32:41.220 I'm ready.

00:32:42.020 Okay. So that scumbag was caught. Thank God. But he now claims, um, as the person who sent the

00:33:08.920 message alludes to, or his lawyer claims that the attack was in self-defense. Um, the woman,

00:33:15.040 an elderly, a 78 year old homeless, mentally ill woman was, uh, talking about stabbing people or 0.97

00:33:22.680 something. Okay. Even if that's true. And when I, when I wrote about this case and I had some very

00:33:31.280 harsh words for this guy, um, there were a few people who said to me, well, we don't know the

00:33:36.980 context. Don't jump to conclusions. It's not fair for you to jump to conclusions. And I said at the

00:33:42.180 time, I don't care what the context is. There is no context, none that could possibly make it okay

00:33:48.580 to kick an old woman in the head while she's sitting on a bench on a subway train. There is

00:33:54.720 no context that could ever make that acceptable. And I shouldn't have to explain this. Um, in fact,

00:34:00.800 if you're kicking someone in the head, that's a pretty good indication that what you're doing

00:34:06.580 is not self-defense unless you're Bruce Lee, because if you're kicking someone in the head,

00:34:10.380 for most of us, that means that the person is in a position where they probably not a threat to you.

00:34:15.080 It means that they're sitting down or they're on, they're lying on the ground. That that's for most of

00:34:19.560 us, that's the only way we could manage to kick someone in the head. And in that case,

00:34:22.640 that's not self-defense kicking someone in the head is a pretty much a universal case of that is

00:34:28.020 assault. Um, and that's what happened there. So I don't, I don't buy it. Even if this woman, uh, 0.71

00:34:35.060 the idea that she was brandishing and not, come on, she was, you could see the video. She just

00:34:39.100 sitting on the, on a, on a, on a bench. Um, listen, we've all been on, you know, been in the city.

00:34:45.900 We've seen, you know, unfortunately mentally ill homeless people. And, you know, and, um, 0.73

00:34:51.860 so it would be pretty easy, even if this woman was sitting there and she was saying something

00:34:57.480 about stabbing people, she's mentally ill. It would be pretty easy to just back away from her. 0.98

00:35:03.480 And you can see that the train is coming to a halt and it's stopping right as this assault is,

00:35:08.480 is, is unfold. So you just back away from her and you just, and you leave and you go tell the police.

00:35:12.480 There is no reason at all why you need to kick her in the head and then, and then repeatedly keep

00:35:16.840 kicking her. Now you saw that video. Does, does it appear that that guy was worried that this was a

00:35:23.420 struggle, a life and death struggle that did it seem like he was worried for his safety or his

00:35:27.680 daughter's safety, who I didn't see in the video, but does that, is that what it, he kicks her in the 1.00

00:35:32.700 head and then he just strolls off and taunts the camera. That does not appear to be someone who's

00:35:37.500 worried that he's about to be stabbed. That's just someone who's, whatever she said to him,

00:35:41.840 made him angry. And then he responded by brutally assaulting her. And that is obviously not okay.

00:35:48.880 This guy's a total scumbag and should go to prison forever. As far as I'm concerned,

00:35:52.580 they should never let him out. Uh, I'm all about, I'm, I'm the one usually preaching context. You need

00:35:58.660 context. But as I said, there are certain situations where no context is needed. There is no conceivable

00:36:04.260 context where that could have been okay to do. It is, uh, if, even if she had a, even if she actually

00:36:12.700 was holding a knife, which I didn't see that in the video, there is no, it'll be, it's, it's very

00:36:17.140 easy to get yourself out of that situation without anyone getting hurt. She's a 78 year old homeless

00:36:22.740 woman. Uh, it's just incredible to me that anyone would defend that. I can't even, I can't wrap my

00:36:31.840 head around it. Um, from Lisa says, hi, Matt. And, and, and also, by the way, uh, this is to say

00:36:39.920 nothing of the people who are standing around filming this, who I think should be arrested as well.

00:36:45.380 They should be arrested as, as accomplices that this is happening. And your reaction is to film

00:36:52.860 it and, and basically cheer it on. Like you're watching a, you know, a professional wrestling

00:36:57.480 match or something. That guy should not have been able to walk out of that train with his teeth

00:37:03.240 still in his head and his nose still on his face, you know, in a, in a, in a straightforward

00:37:08.320 fashion. I mean, this is, he should have suffered dearly for that. And then the police are called

00:37:13.960 it shows you something. It's not necessarily a statement about society that one scumbag guy

00:37:23.660 assaults an old lady, because there have always been scumbags in the world and there always will 1.00

00:37:27.960 be, but it is a statement about society that these kinds of things seem to happen.

00:37:32.920 And the reaction of the crowd now is just to get it all on video.

00:37:38.480 And they weren't, they weren't getting it on video because they wanted to get evidence to show the

00:37:42.580 police. No, uh, this assault happened weeks ago. Those people got it on video because they wanted

00:37:47.800 to put it online and they thought they'd get a lot of Facebook shares or whatever. Um, the police

00:37:52.580 just happened to stumble across the video online after a few weeks. So it does not seem like that

00:38:00.040 video was taken and then provided to police as evidence. No, this was, people were saying to

00:38:04.200 themselves, Oh, this will, this will make some great content for the internet.

00:38:07.440 And that is a statement about society when, when that is the first reaction that a lot of people

00:38:14.040 have rather than to intervene and beat this guy senseless for assaulting a mentally ill 78 year 0.88

00:38:20.480 old homeless woman. All right. From Lisa says, hi, Matt, I saw you talking about teacher salaries on

00:38:25.580 Twitter and saying it was absurd. How, uh, how many teachers feel under, underpaid given how much

00:38:30.420 vacation time they get as a former teacher myself, who tends to agree with you on almost everything.

00:38:35.680 My one point I'd like to make on this particular issue is this, the public education system,

00:38:40.840 as you know, is horrifically broken. An outstanding amount of first year teachers,

00:38:44.840 around 40% leave the profession after the first year. Like I did. This is because the system just

00:38:50.040 sets teachers up for failure and blame from all sides of the equation. Students, parents,

00:38:55.020 and administration are all quick to blame teachers for students' grades instead of students themselves,

00:38:59.580 not putting in any effort. Even thinking about it now makes me want to pull my hair out.

00:39:03.280 I remember thinking while I was teaching that I wouldn't do another year of this for less than

00:39:07.660 a hundred thousand dollars. As in, I was out of there. Raising teacher salaries obviously won't

00:39:12.860 fix the broken public education system and its many problems, but it might encourage teachers to hold

00:39:17.480 out longer before quitting and feel like they're being adequately compensated for what they're unfairly

00:39:22.300 put through. Lots of school districts are desperate for teachers because they keep leaving in droves for

00:39:27.900 the same reason I outlined above. I tend to agree with the position that raising the salaries doesn't

00:39:32.900 fix the real problem and therefore shouldn't really be a serious conversation. But at the same time,

00:39:37.700 it would encourage a lot of good teachers to stay and put up with the abuse. For the kid's sake,

00:39:42.060 I'm wondering if that's worth it. I'm curious about your take on this.

00:39:46.800 Yeah, well, this is a problem. As I said, there are some really good teachers out there

00:39:50.160 and it's harder to hold on to them, especially because if someone's a good teacher,

00:39:57.380 that means that they have skills. It means that they're a, it means that they have marketable

00:40:01.840 skills that they might say to themselves, well, I could take this somewhere else and make a little

00:40:06.060 bit more money for my family, which is understandable. So I get that argument. But to me, that's just an

00:40:13.420 argument for, as I said, a case by case basis to empower the school districts to, and the state to

00:40:21.300 identify the really good teachers and pay them more. Look, I'm off. I am on board with paying some

00:40:31.100 teachers a hundred thousand dollars or more. I mean, there are teachers that are worth that and we

00:40:36.080 should pay. If you've got a really great teacher who's just on the ball and makes kids excited about

00:40:43.200 learning. That is a difficult thing to do. But if there are teachers out there who can do that,

00:40:47.120 then yeah, pay them a hundred, pay them six figure salaries. Absolutely. If we could make them rich,

00:40:51.540 I would say, let's do that. But that's not possible if the idea is that we have to raise all of their

00:40:59.660 salaries and if we have to keep all the dead weight on board. And there's, and as you know, Lisa,

00:41:04.240 if you were in the school system, um, there is also a lot of dead weight. So I think the answer

00:41:11.640 is, and how this works logistically, I don't know, but the answer is we need to be able to get rid of

00:41:17.740 the dead weight, evaluate on a case by case basis and pay teachers who are worth more, more.

00:41:25.120 Um, it's, there, there should be, in my mind, there should be a, a wide disparity in any given

00:41:34.960 school. There should be a, a, a wide disparity between the lowest paid teacher and the highest

00:41:39.100 paid because there's a wide there in every school, there's a wide disparity between the worst teacher

00:41:46.220 and the best. And I think the pay should reflect that. So, no, I don't think, I don't think an across

00:41:53.360 the board raise for all of them is the way to go. Um, and it's also just the money for that has to

00:42:00.400 come somewhere, has to come from somewhere. And that's another problem. But if you're doing case

00:42:06.940 by case raises, then I think you have more resources to work with. All right. Um, I got some more emails

00:42:14.480 here, but I think we'll leave it there for now and revisit these tomorrow. So thanks for watching

00:42:20.780 everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

00:42:23.360 Today on the Ben Shapiro show, Attorney General William Barr releases the top line findings of

00:42:34.020 the Mueller report, and it ain't good for the Democrats or the media. That's today on the Ben

00:42:37.900 Shapiro show.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 25, 2019

Ep. 224 - Democrats In Mourning

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