Ep. 225 - Outrageous Miscarriage Of Justice In The Smollett Case
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Jesse Smollett, who staged a fake hate crime against himself, has been let go. Also, the President of CNN made a stunning admission about his network and about the nature of journalism. And finally, I ve got a video of Pope Francis that you just have to see to believe it.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in an outrageous development, Jesse Smollett, who staged a fake
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hate crime against himself, has been let go. All charges dropped. So we will discuss this incredible
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miscarriage of justice and we'll figure out what, if anything, we can learn from it.
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Also, the president of CNN made a stunning admission about his network and about the
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nature of journalism. And finally, I've got a video of Pope Francis that you just have to see
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to believe. It's pretty, it's pretty incredible. All of that today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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freedomforschool.com. Well, I was planning on, I was, I was flying up here, uh, on the plane,
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flying over here, I should say. And I was planning on, um, starting the show. I have to admit by doing
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a bit of gloating about what a great week it's been, you know, for right wingers and what a terrible
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week it's been for left wingers. But then this Smollett thing happened. And I, I think that the,
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the timing I imagine is not actually coincidental. Um, just breaking this afternoon, the state
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attorney's office in Chicago has swooped in to drop all of the charges against Jussie Smollett.
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Now that office is headed by a woman named Kim Fox. And you may, if you've been following the
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Smollett case, you may remember that name because, uh, we were told about a month ago that she recused
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herself from the investigation. And it wasn't exactly clear why she recused herself, but then
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we find out that she's got some sort of connection to the Smollett family. Uh, but now she's back and,
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uh, she's giving Smollett a walk. So the police department is furious. The mayor is furious.
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I'll play those clips a little bit later on. Um, and that is when I talk about the police department,
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let's remember that the police department is, and I feel like I have to in this, in this day and age of,
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of identity politics, I have to make a note of the fact that the police department is headed by
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a black, uh, police chief. So this is not a case of, you know, racist white police officers trying
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to railroad an innocent black man. That's not what's going on here at all. Um, what did the
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prosecutor's office say to, to justify this decision to drop all the charges? Well, they haven't said a
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whole lot, but they did say this after reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case,
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including Mr. Smollett's volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his bond
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to the city of Chicago. We believe this out, this outcome is a just disposition and appropriate
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resolution to the case. Notice what they're not saying. They're not saying that the evidence,
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that the evidence wasn't sufficient. They're certainly not saying he didn't do it. All they're
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saying is that he's already done some community service. And so there's no point in pursuing this.
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That's what they're saying that, well, yeah, he, you know, he, he, he tied up all these police
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resources. He, um, he took advantage of racial tensions. He lied. He did all that, but you know,
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he's done some community service in the past. So that's essentially the statement. They're also
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keeping his bond. Um, they said in reviewing the case, Smollett's agreement to forfeit his bond is
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part of the reason why they're letting him go. Now that is an insane reason to let anyone go. I mean,
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whether they're, they're, you know, innocent or not, but, um, it certainly isn't a reason that you're
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giving if the man is innocent, an innocent man gets his bond back. That's the whole point. Uh,
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and an innocent man doesn't have to do any community service either. So this is not what
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they say. If, if it's just, you're brought up on charges and then they find out that, oh,
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you know what? There's no, they're there. They're not, they're going to drop the charges. There's not
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going to be any talk of community service or, uh, or, or, you know, you agreed to let them keep your bond.
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Joe maggots, uh, maggots. I don't know how to pronounce his line. Interestingly enough,
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his name is spelled M a G a T S. So MAGA T S. Um, that's the assistant state's state's attorney.
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He has specifically clarified. This just happened recently that Smollett is not exonerated. This is
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not an exoneration. He says, this is what he said. Here's the thing. We work to prioritize violent
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crime and the drivers of violent crime. Public safety is our number one priority. I don't see
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Jussie Smollett as a threat to public safety. We stand behind the investigation. We stand behind
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the decision to charge him and we stand behind the chart. Listen to this part. We stand behind
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the charges in the case. The mere fact that it was disposed of in an alternative manner does not
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mean that there were any problems or infirmities in the case or the evidence, uh, disposed of in an
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alternative manner. Isn't that nice? If you ever get brought up on, uh, you know, if you ever commit
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a crime and wouldn't it be nice if they dispose of the charges in an alternative manner, but that's
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very interesting. They're saying that they stand behind the charges. We stand behind the charges, but
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we're letting him go. Translation. They know that he's guilty as hell, but they're giving him a pass.
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Anyway, um, nitwits on the left, uh, morons on the left are celebrating as if Smollett has been vindicated
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when actually the exact opposite has happened. You know, I just read for you the statement,
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they stand behind the charges and it's not an exoneration. So not only does this not indicate
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his innocence, but it actually only further indicates his guilt. And it also indicates the
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corruption of the, uh, judicial system in Chicago, which we already knew about.
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You've got the state's attorney's office coming in, interfering, going behind the police department's
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back to let a rich celebrity walk on charges that, uh, she herself never claims were erroneous
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and that actually they say they stand behind. Now, by the way, this is exactly what the left
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thought, um, was going to happen with the Mueller investigation. What they said there,
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what they were worried about, they said, they told us for two years, what's going to happen
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is that a, a biased third party is going in this case, Trump is going to interfere to shut down an
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investigation despite overwhelming evidence of guilt. Now that didn't happen with Mueller and Trump.
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It did happen with Smollett. In the end, uh, it turns out that it's always the liberals who do
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the colluding. Have you noticed that? This is another case of collusion.
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So every time you hear liberals talk about collusion, it is always projection because what,
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you know what they're really upset about? They're upset that you're, you're treading that or they
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think that we're treading on their territory because what they're saying is, no, that's,
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you guys aren't supposed to do that. That's our thing. That's our move. Okay. Get your own moves.
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Um, if you're wondering whether justice existed exists in this world, consider this case and
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consider that Smollett will, will now be worshiped as a hero on the left. And you already see that
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developing. Um, he'll get his job back. In fact, he'll probably get the raise that he did all of this
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to attain in the first place. And, uh, the left is to embrace him now. Well, unless they are total
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absolute brain dead idiots, which is possible, but they're not all that. Okay. The ones who are not
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brain dead idiots, they know that he's guilty, but they're going to overlook the fact that he's
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guilty. They're going to overlook the injustice that was done here. They're going to overlook the
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fact that Smollett exploited racial tensions and did all this stuff for his own gain. And they're
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going to overlook it for ideological reasons as usual. So let me, uh, play a couple of clips for
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you. Here's, um, here's Smollett, uh, gloating outside of the courthouse. I've been truthful
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and consistent on every single level since day one. I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of
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one drop of what I've been accused of. This has been an incredibly difficult time, honestly,
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one of the worst of my entire life, but I am a man of faith and I'm a man that has knowledge of my
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history and I would not bring my family, our lives or the movement through a fire like this. I just
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wouldn't. Okay. I can only, I can only stomach so much of that. What an absolute sociopath. Um,
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um, but he wins. Let's face it. And why does he win? Well, he certainly doesn't win because he's
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innocent. The evidence against him was and is overwhelming, including the fact that his two
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friends admitted to the whole thing. Okay. They've got the accomplices confessed and said, yeah, this is
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what happened. Have you noticed that they're not, um, resolving Smollett and his attorney and the
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prosecutor, they haven't resolved to go out and find the real culprits and find out who are these
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racist white people that are prowling the streets, looking for black people to assault. Nobody is
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saying that they want to go find those people. Why is that? That's because they know that the real
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culprit is the guy who just waltzed out of the building, a free man. In fact, um, Smollett's
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lawyers today came out and, uh, in a, in a really incredible admission, they admitted that the Nigerian
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brothers, the friends of Smollett who were arrested, and they're the ones who confessed to this whole
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thing and, and, and spilled the beans. Um, his lawyers today in the press conference admitted that
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they were the ones who attacked Smollett. So they said that Smollett, yes. Okay. Smollett was attacked
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by, by these two Nigerians who Smollett knows yet somehow his attorneys claim that Smollett wasn't
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lying. Well, hold on a second. If I'm not crazy, I thought the whole thing here was that Smollett said
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that it was two white racists who attacked him and shouted, uh, this is MAGA country, right? So to
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believe in Smollett's innocence, here's what you have to believe. You have to believe that two
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Nigerian friends of Smollett decided to randomly assault him on the street at 2 30 AM, you know,
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in the morning in December and scream, this is MAGA country. And that Smollett not only did not
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recognize them as his friends, but didn't even recognize them as Nigerian and instead thought that
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they were white. Um, that's, you're going to have to accept that if you want to believe in
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Smollett's innocence. And that is simply impossible to believe. So back to the question, why does he
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win? Uh, why does he get away with it? The answer I think gets us closer to understanding
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the true nature of privilege in this country. He gets away with it first of all, because he's rich and
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famous. All right. Um, there is a two tier justice system in this country. There is the track that,
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that, you know, plebs like you and me will be on. If we commit a crime, we're going to be on the normal
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track. And if we did it and they have evidence, we're going to go to jail for it. We're going to
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face the consequences. And then there's another tier for people like Jussie Smollett, um, who have
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the money and have the clout and the fame and all that kind of stuff. Um, so don't, don't make the
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mistake of thinking that, Oh, so, okay. So now we're allowed to file false police reports. And
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now I'm going to go and file false police reports until my heart's content. No, don't, don't make
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that mistake. Uh, because you need to get a few TV gigs first and then, uh, and then maybe get a
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high rise apartment somewhere in Chicago. And then maybe you can get away with it. Um, although even
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then you might not get away with it because, you know, think about this. James Woods, let's just say,
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uh, is a famous celebrity, right? White conservative celebrity. I assume pretty wealthy.
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Well, do you think that if he had fabricated a story about two liberal black men assaulting him
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and, uh, you know, on the street corner, do you think that if he had made up that story,
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he would have faced no consequences for it? No, of course he would have. Because there's one other
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factor that matters here. And that factor is identity politics. Smollett has everything going
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for him. He has wealthiest fame. He has a whole fistful of victim tokens by virtue of his, uh,
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of his race and his sexual orientation. And he's a liberal, he's a Trump hater. Um, I refer you back
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to the victimhood flow chart that we talked about a few, a few weeks ago. Well, Smollett just has too
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many victimhood points. Um, he, he, he, he is simply untouchable, which is why there was really
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never any chance of him facing real justice, especially in a place like Chicago and the
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state's attorney's office. They may have well just, they may as well just come out and said,
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did you really think we're going to prosecute this guy? Come on, come on. That that's their whole
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statement should have just been that come on guys. What did you think was going to happen?
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And I would have respected that. I would, I would have respected that statement a lot more because
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at least it's honest. Um, all right. I want to play a couple other clips for you because, uh,
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not everyone in Chicago is taking this lying down. So here's Rahm Emanuel, uh,
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mayor of Chicago speaking out. Where is the accountability in the system? You cannot have,
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because of a person's position, one set of rules apply to them and another set of rules apply to
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everybody else. In another way, you're seeing this play out in the universities where people pay
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extra to get their kids, a special position in universities. Now you have a person because of
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their position and background, who's getting treated in a way that nobody else would ever,
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sorry about that, would don't get near. I'm doing near my sermon here that would ever get close
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to this type of treatment. Okay. So he he's, he's pretty angry and it's nice to see that from him.
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Uh, I wasn't expecting that to be honest. And here is the, uh, the police chief who also is
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not happy about this. So listen, um, I'm sure we all know what occurred this morning.
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My personal opinion is that you all know where I stand on this. Um, do I think justice will serve? No.
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I think this city is still owed an apology. And, and let me digress for a moment. When I came on this
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job, I've been a cop now for about 31 years. When I came on this job, I came on with my honor,
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my integrity and my reputation. If someone accused me of doing anything that would circumvent that,
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then I would want my day in court period to clear my name.
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I've heard that they wanted their day in court with TV cameras. So
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America could know the truth and though they chose to hide behind secrecy and broker a deal
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to circumvent the judicial system. My job as a police officer is to investigate an incident,
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gather the evidence, gather the facts and present them to the state's attorney.
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That's what we did. I stand behind the detective's investigation.
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I'll let Mary Emanuel comment further. Now, remember that these are Democrats. Okay. At least,
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uh, Rahm Emanuel is, I don't know about the police chief. I kind of assume he is because it would be
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really hard to get to a position of leadership in a place like Chicago, if you're a conservative,
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but even these guys are, um, saying that this is bogus and that it's wrong and it's a fraud.
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So to summarize, let's say there's a new rule now. Okay. The new rule is
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you aren't allowed to complain about wealth and privilege and wealth disparity if you're cheering
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this on. And if you go on social media right now, you're going to find, uh, a lot of
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social justice warriors, a lot of liberals who are very, very happy that a, a, a wealthy, uh,
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celebrity has gotten away with committing a crime by virtue of his wealth and his fame. Um,
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and, uh, and his privilege. And so that's just, that's just not going to work.
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All right. I want to go back to, uh, to Mueller for, or Mueller for a moment. Uh,
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Mueller, Mueller, Smollett, Smollett. I don't know. Smollett, Smollett. I don't know.
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You know who I'm talking about. Uh, and I want to talk again about the implosion of the news media.
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Um, there's a report in the New York times about news media leaders who are trying to defend their
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performance, uh, in recent months and years, especially with regard to the Russian collusion
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case. Um, various people were interviewed in this report in the New York times,
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but I want to zone in on Jeff Zucker, who's the president of CNN.
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Now CNN beclowned itself perhaps worst of all, but if you're thinking that Zucker is ready to, uh,
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come out and take accountability and admit his faults and pledge to do better or whatever,
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no, he's about as, about as apologetic as Smollett is. So, uh, this is what he told the times. Now,
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this is a really incredible quote. Okay. This is, again, I emphasize, this is from a,
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the president of an alleged news organization. Okay. He says, um, we are not investigators.
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We are journalists and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we
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did. A sitting president's own justice department investigated his campaign for collusion with a
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hostile nation. That's not, um, enormous because the media says so that's enormous because it's
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unprecedented. Now, did you, did you catch that?
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Yeah. We're not investigators. We're journalists.
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This is a fascinating statement. It's, it's as if a surgeon went to perform an operation on you with
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his hands still smothered in like barbecue sauce from the, from the ribs that he had at lunch.
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And you go, Hey doc, can you wash your hands before you cut me open, please?
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And he said, Hey man, what do I look like? A hygienist? I'm not a hygienist. Okay. I'm a doctor.
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Yeah. But you're kind of a hygienist too. If you're a surgeon,
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I mean, it comes with the territory, doesn't it? You can't properly treat people, which is your job,
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if you're spreading the infection and you're spreading diseases.
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So something similar could be said about journalists. Your job is to report the truth,
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but you can't report the truth if you don't first find out the truth. Now I shouldn't have to explain
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this to someone like Jeff Zucker, who again is a, the president of a news organization.
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And if you want to find out the truth, that is going to entail some form of investigation.
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But if you don't investigate before reporting, you're just in spread, you're, you're spreading
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infections. You're spreading disease. You're spreading fake news and misinformation and propaganda.
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So yes, in a journalist is an investigator. I mean, this, the quote you see being,
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you see being tossed around online all the time about how, you know, journalists are like
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courageous firefighters that are running towards the fire. Well, yeah, you're not just running towards
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the fire to gawk at it, right? You're supposed to be running towards the fire, figuring out what's
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going on, how, who set the fire, you know, figuring out all the details. So there's going to be some
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element of, of investigation. You know, so if I know this, if I understand this basic fact about news
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reporting, it's very disturbing that the guy who runs CNN does not understand it. And that really tells
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you everything you need to know. I mean, everything you need to know about, about the modern news media
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has been just been distilled right there in those two sentences. We're not investigators. We're
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journalists. And as I talked about yesterday, uh, that, that is actually very true that at least
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these days, that's the case where now, you know, investigation and journalism are seen as these two
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mutually exclusive pursuits. And in most cases, yeah, a journalist, uh, although he should be an
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investigator is not, he's more of an, an entertainer or, um, or a, uh, you know, a propagandist,
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a smear merchant many times, but not an investigator. So Jeff Zucker unwittingly, uh, told a very profound
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truth there. All right. Finally, I have to play what is without doubt, um, without hype, I think the most
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awkward 45 second video clip that you will ever see in your entire life. Um,
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take the cringiest moments in a show like the office and ramp it up to 11. And this is so much
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worse because it's real as far as I know. Now, before I play this, let me give you a little bit
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of a, a little bit of a setup. Pope Francis was celebrating mass as he does. Um, and afterwards,
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he formed a greeting line to say hello to the pilgrims who came out to, uh, to see him.
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Well, standard protocol, if you're not Catholic, um, maybe you don't know this, but standard
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protocol, if you're Catholic is when you meet the Pope, you're supposed to kiss his ring.
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Now the Pope, I assume knows this because he's been Pope for like seven years, I think six or seven
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years, but it appears that he's not a fan of that particular protocol. So, uh, this is just
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I would have collapsed into myself and formed a black hole that would have sucked everything
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into itself and obliterated existence as we know it, almost.
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Number one, if Pope Francis doesn't want to do the ring-kissing thing, then why doesn't
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he have his people make an announcement, like publish the new protocols, right?
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Let everybody know that you don't do that so they don't make fools of themselves.
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And the thing is, if you saw the video, every time someone tried to kiss his ring, he lurched
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If I went to go shake someone's hand in a social situation and they leaned in to kiss my hand,
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I don't know where you're from, but we don't do that around here.
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But this is, people have been kissing his ring for seven years.
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Second question, I understand why the first couple of people got rejected, but wouldn't
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the fourth or fifth person in line start to figure it out?
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If you see all these people getting rejected, by the time it gets to you, wouldn't you just
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It seems like they were really desperate to kiss his ring.
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Number three, this isn't really a question, but a statement.
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I mean, it's kind of hilarious, but it's also inexcusable.
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Even if you don't like the ring kissing thing, the fact is that these people apparently weren't
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And this was their one chance to meet the Pope.
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And I'm sure they were really excited, but then this is what happens.
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Their one encounter with the Pope was probably the most awkward, cringiest encounter they've
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If the president had some weird thing about not wanting to shake people's hands, I would
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I respect people who don't like to make physical contact with anyone in any situation except for
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You know, I never want, there are about, you know, five or six people in my life who
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I ever want within, like, it's like, this is my, you can't come closer than this for
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But let's say the president had a thing like that.
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Well, then it's his responsibility to tell people that.
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And so there's not an awkward thing where people go to shake his hand and then, and then there's
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the, you know, when you go to shake someone's hand, they don't shake yours.
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And it's kind of like this, you know, you don't know what to do with your hands.
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Fourth point I'll make about this is as a Catholic, and I know that I may lose some Catholic street
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cred in saying this, but although I think the Pope handled this terribly, I would be fine with
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getting rid of the whole, the whole ring kissing rigmarole.
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I know that, see, what Catholics will say is, well, it's, it's not a sign of deference to
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It's a sign of deference to the office, which, which is, I get that, which is fine.
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But as human, you see, as human beings, we, we don't really deal well with abstract concepts
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And so inevitably, even if we talk about respect the office, have pay homage to the office,
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it's, it's really going to end up being, no, where we are paying homage to the man who
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We can't help, but draw that connection because as I said, we don't deal in abstracts.
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Uh, we deal in what is personal and right in front of us.
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So I think that a lot of the pop, pomp and circumstance surrounding the Pope, uh, I, I
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And, um, I think that these men in leadership positions in the church could do well to, uh,
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to be humbled, uh, and to be, be treated more like just regular men, because at the end of
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Um, so any effort to inject some humility and take out some of the pomp and circumstance,
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I don't know if it's really helped matters, especially in recent, in recent years.
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And I say that, and that doesn't just go for the Catholic church, by the way.
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Um, now other churches might not have the, the ring kissing bit, but there are, there are
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Um, there are plenty of other churches, other denominations where the pastors are treated
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like, like celebrities, like their own little gods.
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And, uh, and other churches like mega churches, the pastors, they might live in big mansions
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and people go and they, they, they treat the pastor like he's a, you know, the lead singer
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And that's certainly not in keeping with the, um, with Jesus's style, let's just say.
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You can always email the show, of course, at mattwallshowatgmail.com, mattwallshowatgmail.com.
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Don't think that just because I'm in this fancy studio that you can't send me emails
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Um, this is from Lisa says, you read my email on your show today and you said that, uh,
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where this came in yesterday, you met, read my email on your show today.
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And you said that teacher raises should be given on a case by case basis.
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While I understand that argument, the public school system is too broken for that to work.
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Here's why the raises would come from the school administration and they define teacher
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success by their student failure rate exclusively.
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As I've already in my experience as a teacher, as I've seen already in my experience, teachers
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will get easy work, will give a easy work and hand out A's as grades just so their failure
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rate is low and administration is happy with them.
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So if you're a good teacher who actually holds students accountable for their learning,
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you probably will have a slightly higher failure rate.
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Admin does not like this because it puts the school state funding in jeopardy to admin.
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You are immediately a bad teacher if you have a failure rate higher than they like.
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And that's simply not the case, especially if you teach a hard subject and students are
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on their phones the whole time refusing to learn.
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So if admin is in charge of the raises, then the do nothing teachers you described as giving
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out worksheets and never teaching would get all the raises and the good teachers who actually
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That would definitely not encourage them to stay or even encourage them to become a do nothing
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If they see it works for their lazy colleagues, basically the system is too broken for improvement
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So this is coming from someone in the system who's saying the system is broken and needs
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And I have to tell you that I get so many emails from teachers and people who are in the
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public school system, because I talk about this kind of, these kinds of issues all the
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And you would be shocked, or maybe you wouldn't be, if you saw just how many teachers will say
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exactly that to me, they'll say, listen, I'm in this system and it's, it's a disaster
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That's very concerning, but I appreciate your honesty there, Lisa.
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This is from, well, unfortunately I didn't get this person's name.
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I just wanted to chime in on, on your discussion about teacher salary.
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I am a second year teacher teaching kindergarten in a high, in a high poverty charter school
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I want you to know that I wholeheartedly agree with most everything you have said regarding
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One, every teacher in America knows the deal before they sign up for it.
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You can Google median teacher salary any minute you please.
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I didn't start teaching and think, wait one damn minute, where are the riches I was promised?
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Two, but teachers have the most important job in America.
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Hell yes, my job is extremely important and the perks I enjoy from it are extremely rare
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B, you can tell this person's a teacher, by the way, by how they've organized their email.
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B, federal holidays, random days off at least once a month.
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C, fall break, Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, spring break, summer vacation.
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D, children come to work with you and ride home with you.
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Three, wait though, teachers don't really work for only eight hours a day.
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You knew going in that teaching is a unique profession.
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I work many evenings and most weekends, newsflash, because I want to.
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Four, okay, but still, even with all those ridiculous benefits,
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teachers don't make enough money to pay their bills.
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That's enough to pay the bills, including the monumental loan debt
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that I knowingly signed on to incur the debt, pay the debt.
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Additionally, some teachers suck, like really suck.
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Blind raises for people who teach because you can literally glide on
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I think teacher burnout occurs from having to perform not only as a teacher,
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Concerning email in many respects, but great and very honest.
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And the last two emails that I read, this is what I was talking about yesterday.
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There are really great teachers out there who, as I've said many times,
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are up against it because they're up against a broken system and they're also up against,
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as this emailer mentioned, they're up against these parents who don't do any parenting
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and then they send their awful kids into school and the awful kids behave awfully.
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And what happens when the teachers try to deal with that problem and instill some discipline?
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Well, now the parents are going to swoop in and finally take an interest in their child
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in order to come to their defense and interfere with the discipline.
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So that, it's not anything that I would want to deal with.
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Since you have three children, do you find it easier to raise one sex over the other?
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And the standard answer to this question is that boys are way easier.
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And I'm going to agree wholeheartedly with the standard answer.
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I have a five-year-old boy, a two-year-old boy, plus a five-year-old girl.
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It's just like having a couple of like rabid raccoons running around the house.
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They're climbing things, knocking things over, eating everything,
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And plus, I know what kind of games to play with them and everything.
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One of our favorite games is, we call it tackling.
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We just go outside, we run in circles and tackle each other.
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She's more like having, I don't know, a really moody cat or something in the house.
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If you've ever been around a cat, they always seem like they're up in their head,
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And she gets upset for reasons that are often mysterious to me.
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And I can't snap it out of her by making a farting noise like I can do with the boys.
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Like she can hatch these various schemes and plots and enlist her brother into them.
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And then set him up as the fall guy when it all goes to hell.
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It's impressive that she could do that at five.
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I will say she's much more helpful around the house.
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Like she's, my son is useless when it comes to chores.
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But my daughter likes to clean and cook and do dishes and fold laundry and all that kind of stuff.
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She's very helpful, very smart, very joyful when she wants to be.
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But also prone to drastic and mysterious mood swings.
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But it is the greatest joy in the world to have these raccoons and cats running around your house.
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It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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How is it the press so disgraced itself in their miscoverage of the Russian non-collusion scandal?
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They didn't cover the corruption of the Obama administration.
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Who appointed all the clowns who got the scandal rolling?