The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 313 - Media Matters Releases A Daily Wire Greatest Hits Album

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, another mass killing last night, but the media is less

00:00:03.920 interested in covering this one. Why is that? We'll talk about it. Also, Media Matters compiled

00:00:08.800 a video highlighting all of the supposed bigotry at the Daily Wire. It's really more like a

00:00:14.580 Greatest Hits compilation, so I'll play that for you today on the show, and we will answer

00:00:19.380 your emails today on the Matt Walsh Show. All right, so there's a new Home Alone coming out.

00:00:29.200 They're rebooting, remaking Home Alone. They're doing it over again, because this is what

00:00:33.760 we're doing now, just taking every movie that was in the 90s and redoing it, which is more

00:00:37.380 evidence, of course, that Hollywood has run out of ideas, which we already knew. But the

00:00:40.580 bigger question for me, if you're doing an updated version of Home Alone, how are you

00:00:44.580 going to get around the fact that modern technology exists, which was already sort of a problem

00:00:50.380 for the first one, even though, yeah, cell phones, you didn't really have cell phones

00:00:53.540 back in the early 90s, but you did have phones. And my memory of that movie is for somehow

00:00:59.060 the mother never thought to just call the kid on the phone and talk to him. It's been

00:01:05.260 a while since I've seen it, but she just never calls him. But then if you have cell phones

00:01:10.680 now, it seems like this would be a 12-minute movie that would end with, Kevin wakes up,

00:01:15.780 he realizes that he's been left, calls his mom on the cell phone, she says, oh crap, we

00:01:20.200 forgot you, turn it around now. They come back, credits roll, end of movie. And you know what?

00:01:24.780 If that's what they do, if it's a 12-minute movie, which ends with a cell phone call being

00:01:29.640 made, I would respect that because that's gritty, that's realistic. If you're going for gritty

00:01:34.880 realism, which is a thing nowadays, then I think why not really do it? All right. Much to discuss

00:01:42.440 today, including Media Matters compiling a greatest hits compilation for The Daily Wire, which we

00:01:48.720 all really appreciate. We're going to talk about that. I'll play some of it. But before we do that,

00:01:55.180 we have to talk about something quite a bit more serious. There was another, and maybe you didn't

00:01:59.920 hear about this one, but there was another mass killing last night. This one, though, isn't getting

00:02:05.200 as much media attention, and there's a pretty obvious reason why. We'll get into that in a second,

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00:03:31.540 All right, so Garden Grove, California, about 30 or so miles outside of downtown L.A.

00:03:36.940 That was the site last night of a mass killing spree that left four people dead. Four people killed at

00:03:44.320 random by a mass murdering scumbag. So this would be the third mass killing incident in America this 1.00

00:03:52.900 week. Yet, this particular one isn't getting the same kind of attention as the others, and why is

00:04:01.620 that? Well, my guess would be that it's partly because of the weapon of choice. He didn't use a

00:04:08.200 gun. He used a knife. And for that reason, this has gotten, as I said, not a ton of attention.

00:04:15.500 This morning, for example, I was perusing a few of the news sites for some reason. Went to NBCnews.com,

00:04:24.340 and this didn't even make above the fold on the website. It wasn't even one of there. If you go to,

00:04:30.360 you go to the website, the first few stories you see at the top wasn't at the top. You had to scroll

00:04:35.000 down six or seven stories to get to this. The reason for the media to de-emphasize this story is

00:04:42.420 obvious. It doesn't fit the narrative. It's not something they can use to advance a political

00:04:46.800 agenda. But it's still an important story because four people died. Four people were stabbed to death

00:04:52.960 as this guy went around town attacking random pedestrians. It's a brutal, horrible story

00:05:02.600 that certainly is newsworthy, one would think. And it shows, it demonstrates a truth that I think we

00:05:12.020 all need to understand. And it's because of this that the media ignores it. But what it shows

00:05:19.140 is, you know, the minute someone decides that they want to kill mass numbers of people and they don't

00:05:28.440 care if they live or die in the process. This guy did live. He was arrested. But they don't care if

00:05:34.620 they live or die. They don't care if they go to jail. So they don't care about the consequences

00:05:39.880 and they want to kill a lot of people. The minute a person gets to that state psychologically and 0.90

00:05:48.060 spiritually, there is basically no law, no law in the world that could stop them from hurting

00:05:54.120 people. There's no law that's going to do it the minute someone makes that decision. 0.93

00:06:00.360 Now, it's unlikely, the government wants us to feel otherwise, but it's unlikely that you have

00:06:09.820 ever been saved from being a victim in one of these kinds of incidents by a law. What I mean is,

00:06:18.480 it's unlikely that you were ever in a situation where a person would have hurt you or shot you,

00:06:24.660 stabbed you, whatever, but for laws preventing them. That's probably not the case. The reason why

00:06:33.840 you hopefully have never been shot or stabbed, unless you have been, but the reason, if you

00:06:37.460 haven't been, the reason why you've been spared that is it's probably just because nobody ever

00:06:45.460 seriously wanted to hurt you or you were never in a place where a psychotic killer decided he wanted

00:06:52.040 to attack. It's kind of scary to think of it that way. I know. We would sort of rather think

00:06:58.540 that the government is this all-seeing, protective eye that's just stopping all bad things from

00:07:06.980 happening. Maybe when we get very lazy, we may like to think of it that way, but that's not how it is.

00:07:13.880 The one thing keeping us safe, keeping society together, is the simple fact that most people

00:07:18.860 don't want to cause serious harm to others. If that ever changes, then chaos ensues.

00:07:26.580 Now, that doesn't mean there should be no laws. Obviously, laws serve a purpose. I'm not advocating

00:07:31.300 anarchy here, but the point is, I think here's the point. We need to think of it this way.

00:07:41.140 We need to think, what if my luck runs out? What if a murderous psycho ever does come to harm me?

00:07:51.880 How will I protect myself in that situation? Because most likely, if that happens, if that

00:07:58.900 murderous psycho has his eyes set on you for whatever reason, the only thing that will protect you in that

00:08:04.540 moment is you. In that moment, in that situation, you are going to be the first, last, and only line

00:08:12.000 of defense for yourself. And so we all need to protect ourselves. It's not paranoia. It's just

00:08:17.360 being prepared. It's being safe. This is the point that gun rights advocates are trying to make. It's a

00:08:23.060 very reasonable point. Even aside from the constitutional issues, which are important, obviously,

00:08:28.800 because we can't just discard the law, and the Second Amendment is law. But even beyond that, it's a really

00:08:39.480 reasonable point that if you're ever in a situation, and you have no control, really, over whether you'll

00:08:47.020 ever be in a situation. But if you're ever in a situation where someone does want to do you harm, in that,

00:08:53.900 now, we could talk about what laws and this and that. In that moment right there, all of that stuff melts

00:09:00.560 away. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what laws are there. It doesn't matter what national

00:09:05.100 conversations we're having. It doesn't matter what policies are enacted. It doesn't matter what initiatives

00:09:10.340 we're working on. None of that matters in that moment. In fact, the police probably don't even matter in that

00:09:16.360 moment, because they're face-to-face now. They're not going to be there in time, probably, for you.

00:09:21.000 So it's just, can you protect yourself or not? And I think that's how we all need to start thinking.

00:09:32.780 Again, it's not about being paranoid. It's just about realizing this basic truth,

00:09:39.020 that when it comes down to it, if someone is coming after you, if you end up in the line of sight of one

00:09:46.420 of these murderous psychos, you're going to be the only person who can protect yourself. So are you

00:09:51.200 going to be able to do that or not? All right. Media Matters. The fine folks at Media Matters who

00:09:58.120 are huge supporters of this show and every show on The Daily Wire, they watch all our shows every day

00:10:03.400 and then will frequently post highlights of the show. Now, of course, they do it to try to whip up

00:10:08.440 outrage against us. But the fact is, they're still watching the show. In fact, they're watching right now.

00:10:12.860 So I want to say hi to whatever Media Matters minion is watching the show right now. I want to

00:10:15.980 say hello. Thank you for being here. Glad to have you with us. Hope you enjoy. Hope you're enjoying

00:10:20.500 the show. Hope you enjoy the rest of it. So yesterday, Media Matters released something

00:10:26.440 that I guess is supposed to be some sort of expose titled The Daily Wire is a cesspool of bigotry and

00:10:33.280 hatred. And it goes through the various sins of all the hosts on our site, including yours truly,

00:10:38.340 all the terrible things we've said. Here's how they introduced the report. It says,

00:10:41.440 founded by editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro in 2015, with funding from fracking magnate and former

00:10:47.860 Ted Cruz donor Ferris Wilkes, The Daily Wire was intended to be a profit-generating outlet mixing

00:10:52.620 conservative opinion and news. The site regularly advocates positions and rhetoric that are racist,

00:10:57.460 sexist, and disparaging of the LGBTQ community. While most of this comes from Shapiro or Ryan

00:11:03.600 Saavedra, the daily podcast hosts hosted by Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Clavin also

00:11:09.280 regularly employ ugly rhetoric about minority and oppressed groups. Media Matters looked at their

00:11:14.280 podcast released on The Daily Wire site since the beginning of 2019 and found that the site is a

00:11:20.240 platform grounded in hatred and bigotry. Below are the podcasters and examples of their sexist, racist,

00:11:27.260 bigoted commentary. So Ryan got it. Ryan got a nice shout out there. I didn't realize that.

00:11:31.480 Um, so congrats, Ryan. What, um, in fact, they, so they gave him, they said that he's a bigger source

00:11:39.680 of bigotry than, uh, than me, Knowles, or, or Clavin. Yeah, that's not fair. What follows then is a

00:11:47.040 lengthy list of a bunch of stuff we've said, stuff that's supposed to be offensive, I guess. But

00:11:52.200 hopefully if you, if you don't like reading, they also put together a compilation of all the hatred and

00:11:57.780 bigotry from Daily Wire hosts. Um, but the hatred is much more of a highlight reel, I think,

00:12:03.660 sort of a greatest hits. Actually, I'm thinking that I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks

00:12:06.740 and I'm thinking maybe I'll hire the folks at Media Matters to put together a gate, a couple

00:12:10.780 greatest hits shows for me that I can play in my absence. Um, I don't even need to hire them.

00:12:15.700 Actually, they'll do it for free, uh, which is very generous. So what I want to do is take a look

00:12:21.740 at their video. Um, they say they reviewed seven months of podcasts to put this together.

00:12:28.580 So let's, I think it would be rude of me after they've done all that work. It'd be very rude of

00:12:35.680 me to ignore it. Um, and, and no, I, so I want to play it for you and we'll go through and take a

00:12:43.100 look at it. So, um, here we go. How is it that drag queens have escaped the blackface backlash? 1.00

00:12:49.580 Okay. Actually stop right there. Uh, I, I just want to say that I'm honored that I got to be first

00:12:56.020 in the hate montage. This is my greatest professional achievement. And as for what I said

00:13:01.120 that right there, I couldn't possibly, you know, I said that, uh, that, uh, uh, drag is, is female 1.00

00:13:07.500 blackface. Um, I, I, I want to stipulate. I could not possibly be more right about that. It's amazing

00:13:18.660 how right I am on that point. In fact, going back and watching that again, it was a lot of fun to

00:13:27.240 relive my rightness. Amazingly right. Uh, yes, drag is female blackface. It is a grotesque mockery of 1.00

00:13:35.640 womanhood. Absolutely. I retract that. Not at all, not, not at all. Um, and in fact, that's a, 0.58

00:13:43.220 that's a point I make all the time. I make it in a lot of my speeches and it does it. People

00:13:48.840 get upset about it, but I I've yet to hear anyone explain how I'm wrong. I understand that it makes

00:13:54.740 your tummy hurt. It makes you upset. You don't like hearing it. Fine. Understood. And I'm sorry

00:13:59.480 about that. I'm sorry about your tummy, but how am I wrong? It is my contention that when you've got a 0.55

00:14:07.380 man dressing up in this absurd, um, cartoonish costume, pretending to be a woman, I think that 1.00

00:14:18.960 that is demeaning to, to women. I think it makes a caricature of womanhood. How am I wrong? It seems

00:14:26.260 to me that being the drag, that's exactly what that's, that's, that's pretty much the definition

00:14:31.740 of drag, making a caricature of womanhood. That's exactly what you're doing. It's certainly not 0.98

00:14:38.480 realistic. I've never, have you ever seen a woman, a real woman who dresses like a, like a drag queen 1.00

00:14:44.200 dresses? You ever seen that? No. So what the, what the drag queen is basically telling us is like, 0.90

00:14:50.400 this is how they see womanhood and they see it in a very insulting and degrading light. 1.00

00:14:56.640 So, um, yeah, I'm, I'm a hundred percent right about that. Uh, let's go back to the clip.

00:15:02.680 The very fact that women wear leggings tells you something the female body is made to attract. 1.00

00:15:07.640 Planned Parenthood is the, is, is, is a rapist's best friend. Now, isn't there a difference 0.84

00:15:11.940 between standing up for integration, standing up for the right of black people to move into a 0.99

00:15:15.980 community once they can afford it? Jew hating Congresswoman Ilan Omar. Transgender women aren't 0.99

00:15:21.960 women. Love is love. Or if it feels good, do it. As a result of this, the logical conclusion is 0.99

00:15:28.180 we're going to normalize pedophilia. Obviously they won the same sex marriage battle. Do you 0.96

00:15:32.340 think that they're going to win the redefinition of sex battle as well? If they win that battle, 0.64

00:15:36.260 then it really is over. Western civilization is over at that point. The West broadly invented every

00:15:42.240 single thing that's ever been invented, but, and made virtually every discovery that has ever been

00:15:46.740 discovered. Personally, I agree with Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump that you should not be allowed

00:15:50.880 in the country. If you think it stinks, feminism has created this generation of women who think 1.00

00:15:56.140 they matter because they're women who think their ideas matter because they're women who think their 1.00

00:16:01.220 ideas are protected because they're women. They're not. All right. I just want to say, I disavow, 1.00

00:16:07.280 I disavow that sexism from Andrew Klavan. How dare he suggest that women should be judged based on their

00:16:16.360 personal individual merits and not given credit just simply for being women? How dare he suggest

00:16:22.120 that? How dare he? Am I doing this right? All right, go back. But women have their own advantages. 1.00

00:16:29.980 Mainly they have their sexuality and they have their appearance and they have the desires of men.

00:16:35.200 Okay. Stop there again. I just want to say, I disavow, I disavow the sexism of that strange homeless man

00:16:42.300 talking to himself in his car. I am disgusted that he would suggest whoever that guy is.

00:16:49.840 I couldn't tell because of sunglasses. I am disgusted that he would suggest that men are

00:16:54.500 attracted to women. And this is a fact that women sometimes exploit. How dare he say, I mean, because

00:16:59.340 no woman's ever done that, right? I mean, no, no woman would ever dream of exploiting the fact that 0.55

00:17:05.180 men are attracted to women. It's never happened ever. Um, and so for him, for that homeless man

00:17:12.200 to, to, to even suggest such a thing, offends me personally. I think he owes an apology to women

00:17:21.120 everywhere. All right, let's go back to the video. If I had to choose between these 95% of people who

00:17:27.600 thrive in this Christian setting and the 5% of gay people who are cast out, uh, who ultimately find

00:17:34.280 themselves rejected for who they are, I would obviously choose the 95% over the 5%. I think 1.00

00:17:40.180 that it is worse to slaughter babies after they've been born than to wear blackface. Wait, let's stop 0.99

00:17:46.040 there again. Did Knowles just say that it's, it's worse, it's worse to kill babies than to paint your 0.98

00:17:53.720 face black. That is so outrageous. I mean, media matters is right. These people, except for me, 1.00

00:18:01.220 the other two, these, these people are dangerous for, I mean, for him to say that it's worse to

00:18:09.980 kill a human being than to paint your face a certain color. Uh, what, where's this guy coming

00:18:14.900 from? I can see why that made it into the montage. I mean, it's not like that's a totally innocuous

00:18:21.000 statement that any civilized person on the planet would agree with. That's no, no, no, no, no,

00:18:25.460 this is, this is, this is really controversial stuff. Abortion helps rapists cover up their

00:18:31.540 crimes. You are just not a decent person. If you support giving lethal injection to infants, 0.99

00:18:36.220 abortion doctor, number four is a problematic term because it includes the word doctor.

00:18:40.320 I would suggest the term medical assassin. There is obviously something wrong in the house of Islam. 1.00

00:18:46.100 There is a lot more evidence that Ilhan Omar has sympathies for Al Qaeda than there is that 0.98

00:18:50.560 Donald Trump is a racial bigot. My joke about her was she was so angry. She almost exploded, 0.86

00:18:54.440 but the TSA took the belt off. When you come out of a hellscape like Somalia and America takes you in, 1.00

00:19:01.060 nurtures you, elevates you to Congress, and you don't feel grateful for that. You, there is something

00:19:05.980 terribly, terribly wrong with you. She supports Sharia law, which I think is the dividing line

00:19:11.380 between Muslims we can live with and Muslims we can't live with. But the question of whether it's 0.99

00:19:15.340 inherently violent is important. It's certainly not a religion of peace. It's a religion that's 1.00

00:19:19.320 cancerous. That anti-Jewish ideology is an ideology being embraced by Ilhan Omar, 0.97

00:19:24.440 and Rashida Tlaib. 0.99

00:19:25.440 AOC is an ignoramus. Rashida Tlaib is an anti-Semite. Ilhan Omar, also anti-Semite. They deserve 1.00

00:19:34.260 all the attacks. They deserve all the trouble they're getting.

00:19:37.280 Of the top 14 major wars going on in the world right now, of the top 14, 13 of them involve 0.96

00:19:44.280 Islam.

00:19:44.860 These movements, Students for Justice in Palestine are, which is one of the most ironically named

00:19:50.120 groups, because it's not led by students. It isn't about justice, and there's no such

00:19:54.220 country as Palestine.

00:19:55.200 All right, I just need to interrupt here again and say that in all seriousness here, it's

00:20:01.480 been 90 seconds, and I haven't been featured at all. And that seems unfair to me. It seems

00:20:06.940 unfair that Knowles and Klavan get their bigotry featured for a minute and a half, and I'm ignored.

00:20:11.880 That is truly, truly hurtful, Media Matters, especially because I guess that was supposed

00:20:17.600 to be a whole chunk of them insulting AOC and Ilhan Omar. I've insulted them, too. So

00:20:24.240 what, you didn't, what, my insults weren't good enough to make it in that part of the hate

00:20:30.060 montage? Pretty hurtful. That cuts deep.

00:20:34.000 Tlaib? No, I don't think that Tlaib has dual loyalty, because there's no evidence at all

00:20:40.280 that she's loyal to America in the first place. Immigrants today, though, it's a very different 1.00

00:20:44.720 situation. They are not building the country, because it's already built. And oftentimes,

00:20:49.700 they're not even interested in being part of our culture. They want to come here and do 1.00

00:20:53.020 their own thing.

00:20:53.960 Trump promulgated that whole birther nonsense, and it was nonsense, but I didn't think that

00:20:58.680 was racist either. That's a fantasy. The fantasy that Trump is making racist.

00:21:04.000 Racism worse, that he's bringing out from under the rock all the evil white supremacists. 0.99

00:21:08.080 That white supremacism is a growing problem, which the numbers show that it is not. 0.98

00:21:11.840 White males of today are not allowed to look back in history and admire or enjoy the work 1.00

00:21:18.840 of other white males.

00:21:21.040 The point he's making, that civilization has come from Europe, is true.

00:21:26.780 I read his manifesto, The Great Replacement, it was called, because he is objecting to the

00:21:31.380 fact that immigrants of color, and it wasn't necessarily Islam. He didn't sound too friendly

00:21:37.140 to Jews or anybody else. He said he believed in white people, and he defined white people

00:21:42.040 as people of European descent.

00:21:43.560 Okay, so there we have Klavan simply describing, reporting what was in a manifesto.

00:21:50.380 Um, I, I, I, I, I can't even figure out how that, I really, I actually can't figure out

00:21:56.680 how that made it in there. I feel like they're trying to pad Klavan's stats a little bit by

00:22:00.820 putting stuff like that in there, which really isn't fair. He's had a few things that, I mean,

00:22:05.780 come on, how does that, how does that make it in the, in the montage at all? All right,

00:22:10.320 let's, um, so we've got a few more minutes. Let's watch the rest of this.

00:22:13.100 He says, how is Barack Obama black? He's also white. It's also a fair point. You will see 1.00

00:22:18.260 illegal aliens waving the Mexican flag. If you want to live under the Mexican flag, 0.69

00:22:27.080 go back to Mexico. 0.94

00:22:29.540 Multiculturalism is a implausible, implausible philosophy. It cannot be, it cannot be that 1.00

00:22:36.180 cultures that enslave people, that cultures that treat women like trash, that those cultures 0.99

00:22:41.320 are equal to cultures that do not, that cannot be. That was one of the things that was kind of 1.00

00:22:45.280 lost in the, in the whole Me Too hysteria. There were also plenty of cases, um, where you looked

00:22:49.940 at it and it was pretty apparent that the women were also culpable. Feminists are insecure 1.00

00:22:55.060 about the fact that they themselves are not men. This, you know, hysteria, um, that we found in the

00:23:02.680 Me Too movement is that it engenders suspicion. So if we don't say that, hey, this Chelsea Manning was 1.00

00:23:08.680 actually Bradley Manning at the time. And if we call it in the her and say, she, we're being polite.

00:23:14.100 We're not being hurtful. Now I'll call anybody, anything where they want to be called. I really

00:23:17.880 will. I'll call him the King of Romania. I don't care.

00:23:20.460 All right. Let's stop again because see, this is what I'm talking about.

00:23:23.780 Clavin says that, um, that he'll call people whatever they want to be called.

00:23:28.780 How did that make it in? Isn't that exactly what he's, what we're supposed to say? Isn't that just

00:23:33.380 being respectful? How did that make it in? Does he work for media matters or something?

00:23:39.200 I think that Andrew Clavin works for media matters and that's why he put a lot of his own stuff in

00:23:42.840 here and featured himself, padded his bigotry stats. I'm starting to get suspicious. Okay.

00:23:49.980 It's conspiracies now are floating around in my head because that doesn't make any sense to me.

00:23:55.500 All right. We got, um, let's, let's play the last minute of this, uh, trip down memory lane.

00:23:59.740 This is especially true in these hot button social issues like transgenderism, where you could face

00:24:05.620 social consequences. If you speak obvious truths, you could speak professional, you could face

00:24:11.180 professional consequences. If you speak obvious truths, you can cut your body into 17 different

00:24:16.080 pieces. You still will not change your gender. Every cell you have is of a specific gender. 0.99

00:24:21.180 People are so desperate to be included, to be included in the supposedly oppressed LGBT category

00:24:28.140 that they're making up label labels that make no sense just so they can be included. Just goes to

00:24:34.380 show you that this is not an oppressed group. In fact, it shows you that the opposite is the case.

00:24:39.420 It shows you that this is a privileged group. Pride month. Now it's about gender. It's about 0.74

00:24:44.020 sexual identity. So now there aren't just two genders. There are 56 different genders.

00:24:49.860 These gay activists are out there prowling like lions, waiting for these kids to come and tell them 1.00

00:24:54.880 that their religion, your religion rejects you. There is no God. Your family rejects you. 1.00

00:24:59.740 Families stink. The patriarchy stinks. Marriage is between a man and a woman. No 1.00

00:25:03.760 amount of social engineering is going to change that. So if we're talking about two gay men adopting 0.74

00:25:08.940 a child, so you think the mothers, we just, you know, it doesn't need a mother. A man cannot 1.00

00:25:13.240 function as a mother. He thinks that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man just because he puts

00:25:19.880 on lipstick. If you put on lipstick, then you're a woman. But of course, that's not what makes a 1.00

00:25:23.940 woman. So if marriage is going to be anything, and if it's going to have any purpose whatsoever,

00:25:28.960 then it must be a union between a man and a woman. So there you go. Uh, by the way, 0.82

00:25:36.240 elephant in the room here, why isn't Ben in the montage at all? I mean, come on, was media matters

00:25:43.680 just, I guess they were trying to give the rest of us a chance to shine, which, which, uh, which I,

00:25:48.520 I appreciate that. I, I guess pretty, pretty thoughtful, but a little bit, a little bit

00:25:53.340 surprising. Now, if it's, if it's possible to find anything serious to say about what we just

00:26:03.540 watched together, it is pretty revealing that the leftist minions at media matters selected those

00:26:11.420 clips. Okay. And they, they put them all together without explaining why they're offensive.

00:26:18.920 That's, what's funny here is that they, it's, they don't go into any, any explanation. They just

00:26:24.120 show us the clips, assuming that the clips are so offensive that they don't even need to explain

00:26:31.540 why they're offensive. They think it just speaks for itself. It's self-evident that this is, this is

00:26:36.680 offensive stuff. Meanwhile, most people are going to watch most of that. I mean, I don't, I don't want

00:26:42.340 to put words in your mouth or tell you how you feel about it, but I'm, I'm guessing most of the

00:26:47.520 people watching right now or listening, um, when you hear that montage, you're probably your thought

00:26:54.560 was something like, um, okay. I, because most of that is just really innocuous

00:27:03.420 and, and, and pretty self-evident. So it shows how we're living where we really are living in

00:27:11.900 forget about, about, about living in two separate countries. Some people say that this country has

00:27:16.860 become so divided ideologically that it's like two separate countries, um, or, or even, or more

00:27:24.320 countries, you know, maybe it's fractured even more than that. But I think it's worse than living in

00:27:29.000 two separate countries. It seems to me that we're living in two separate universes. Um, we are just

00:27:35.080 living in two separate realities. That's how far apart we are. If you could watch that montage

00:27:43.440 and come away truly offended by most of what you heard there and shocked and appalled by it,

00:27:50.620 uh, then you, you're, you're, you're, you're living and you're living in some other universe. I, I can't

00:27:56.460 even, you're living in a universe where basic fundamental truth is offensive and that's what

00:28:09.100 makes the divide in our country. Now that's what makes it so much more severe and, and, and so much

00:28:16.820 worse than times past. I've said before, and I believe that we are more divided now than we were

00:28:26.400 during the civil war, significantly more divided. And I don't think that I'm not saying that I think

00:28:32.680 we're actually going to have another civil war. I don't think we will for any number of reasons.

00:28:36.840 One being that the divide is not exactly precisely geographical like it was back then.

00:28:42.580 There are geographical elements to it, but it's not, it's not quite as clean as it was then.

00:28:47.520 And, um, and, and other reasons too. I just don't, I don't, I don't see that happening, but

00:28:51.400 ideologically culturally, I think we are, there's a, there's a greater divide because even back in

00:28:56.700 the civil war, they disagreed obviously on some very important issues. And I think even more

00:29:03.600 significant than that, as far as what caused the war to happen was the cultural, they, they're two

00:29:08.980 very different cultures in the North and in the South, the industrial culture of the North, the

00:29:13.740 agrarian, um, you know, uh, culture of the South, but they still agreed on, on really fundamental

00:29:25.800 things. There was a fundamental agreement on things like objective truth. There is a God, um,

00:29:35.040 their objective morality. Now they disagreed on what was moral and what wasn't notably the issue

00:29:44.300 of slavery. So there were substantial disagreements in the realm of morality, but they both at least

00:29:51.560 agree that objective morality is a thing that exists. So if you can get there, at least when both sides

00:29:59.020 who are arguing over something can at least agree that, yeah, morality exists, it's a thing. Um,

00:30:03.640 but now let's argue about whether or not this particular thing is moral. Well, at least there,

00:30:08.880 there's some hope of eventually reaching an agreement, but if you can't even agree that

00:30:13.640 objective morality is a thing in the first place, then your argument can go nowhere. So those that's,

00:30:20.800 that's our divide has gone much deeper than divides in the past. And, um, this is just one minor example,

00:30:27.660 but, um, uh, that's, I think that's the trouble. All right. Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. Matt

00:30:35.260 Walsh show at gmail.com is the email address. Take a look at some emails. Uh, this is from Peter

00:30:42.300 says, hello, Supreme leader Walsh. I hope this email finds you well. And the glory of my beard will

00:30:46.880 at least grant me the blessing of a quick death. When your regime comes, despite the fact that I am 0.97

00:30:50.800 about to attempt to enlighten your already all knowing magnificence. I agree with your overall take on video

00:30:56.780 games and their desensitizing effect on the mind, even though I'm a pretty avid gamer myself,

00:31:00.920 the dirty secret is that I believe the vast majority of other gamers would also probably

00:31:05.160 agree with your general take that children of a certain age should cap their amount of time playing

00:31:08.780 games and hyper gore artificial though. It may be obviously doesn't have a positive psychological

00:31:13.700 effect on a still molding mind that just to stop you there. That's interesting. So you're telling me

00:31:17.680 that makes me feel a little bit better. You're telling me that, that this is according to you,

00:31:22.900 maybe you're wrong, but it's your feeling based on your conversations with other

00:31:26.540 gamers that most gamers would actually agree with a lot of what I've said, even if they

00:31:31.000 won't say it. Um, so that makes me feel a little bit better because I, you know, that was the

00:31:36.940 frustrating thing for me. We're talking about this video game thing. I, yes, I'm biased in favor of

00:31:41.940 my own points, but I do feel like most of the points I've made are pretty obvious and it's,

00:31:46.740 it's hard for me to believe there could be disagreement. Things like it's, it's, it's not healthy

00:31:52.900 for a kid to spend hours and hours a day playing video games. He should do other things like go

00:31:57.600 outside and be in the fresh air and things like if a kid is exposed to hyper, as you say, hyper gore,

00:32:05.100 really, really violent video games, um, for, for, for hours a day, starting early in childhood,

00:32:11.780 that probably will have a psychological impact. To me, those two propositions are,

00:32:16.760 are, are extremely obvious, shouldn't be controversial. And so what you're saying is

00:32:23.740 you think most gamers would actually agree though. Maybe they, well, I'll read the rest of what you're

00:32:27.640 saying. Um, the thing is that, no, I'm not going to read the rest of it. I'll just tell you what

00:32:33.500 you're saying. I won't do that. Uh, the thing is that, uh, that measured, that measured take is

00:32:38.880 usually not the stance held by the media or politicians alike, no matter what side of the aisle

00:32:42.860 they're on. Ever since the nineties, video games have always been one of the major boogeymen that

00:32:47.620 get trotted out after a shooting and put up as a main cause right next to the second amendment.

00:32:51.800 So this over defensiveness of gamers is a reflexive response established over literal decades to the

00:32:56.380 regular vilification of our favorite hobby. It's like how Republicans will say that Trump does no

00:33:00.660 wrong to the press, even though they might not like something he tweeted or said. It's showing a

00:33:04.680 united front against a perceived enemy coming into our territory, especially since the overreaction

00:33:09.460 could even lead to ridiculous regulations in our still relatively untouched sphere of entertainment.

00:33:14.060 I know this isn't how you think, but was just giving, uh, hoping to give some perspective on

00:33:18.080 this controversial topic. Well, that was helpful. Um, that was a helpful, help, help, helpful

00:33:24.320 perspective. You started by saying you were going to disagree with me, but I don't think you disagreed

00:33:28.120 at all. Um, you're just giving the perspective of, uh, we're trying to explain maybe why some gamers

00:33:33.600 are reluctant to have this conversation. And I, I, I understand you, you, you, you make the comparison

00:33:41.780 to Donald Trump. And I think that's an apt comparison because you say that the Republicans

00:33:49.100 and conservatives who disagree with a lot of what Trump says, but in public they'll, they'll defend

00:33:54.220 it. And because they're trying to show a united front, I, I could say for sure, I know that's the

00:33:59.140 case because I I've been in green rooms. All right. I've been in green rooms with, with, with people

00:34:04.000 who are sitting there complaining about what Trump said, and then they go on TV and defend it.

00:34:10.140 So I've, and anyone who's in media, we've all been in that. We all know in media, we all know the

00:34:15.420 conversations we have behind the scenes. Um, and I just, I'll just tell you that, uh, I've talked to a

00:34:23.600 lot of people in the conservative media space and things like Trump's tweeting almost there's, 0.95

00:34:29.140 agreement among almost everybody that it's stupid and he needs to stop a lot of it, 0.96

00:34:33.180 but they won't say it publicly. A lot of them. And I, I, I can understand the thought process 0.99

00:34:39.300 united front and all that. And you don't want to say something that's going to be exploited by, um,

00:34:47.680 by, by the, the other side as it were. But I still think that

00:34:54.240 number one, we, we can't forfeit truth. I, I, if we do that, even if it seems like a small truth,

00:35:04.120 if we forfeit truth and honesty, uh, then I really don't see the point of anything anymore.

00:35:12.500 So this isn't a sermon or a homily on my part. I, I really, I honestly do not see, I do not see the

00:35:19.020 point. If we're going to say, well, let's not be honest. Let's not be truthful. Let's pretend to

00:35:25.060 hold views. We don't actually have for the sake of winning. Well, I could dispute whether or not

00:35:31.460 that's actually a, a, an effective strategy. I don't think it is, but even if it were, I don't,

00:35:37.140 what are we fighting for? The thing that gets me up every morning, um, the thing that motivates me

00:35:45.520 is that I feel like I'm fighting for truth, you know? And if I'm, if, if that's not it,

00:35:52.340 if we're giving that up and say, yeah, it doesn't matter. That doesn't matter as much.

00:35:56.860 Then I don't see the point. I don't, I don't even know why I'm doing this. I might as well just go

00:36:00.240 work at, you know, I might as well just leave this and go work at Jiffy Lube or something. It just,

00:36:05.420 why, why do this? So even something like video games, I, you know, if you agree that there are some

00:36:14.660 issues with video games, um, and things like we should, we should parent, not the government,

00:36:22.640 parents should regulate how much time the kids spend playing video games, things like that.

00:36:27.840 I think you should say so publicly for, for no other reason than it's, it's the honest thing to do.

00:36:35.600 And if that's, if that's not enough to motivate us, then I also think, you know, um, coming across

00:36:44.900 as less reasonable than you really are. I don't think that's an effective debating strategy.

00:36:52.660 So when you have gamers that did not, at least publicly, well, even if they feel differently in

00:36:56.820 their heads who publicly deny that there's anything wrong with video games at all, or that they could

00:37:02.520 have any negative impact, well, you just come across as unreasonable and people are going to

00:37:08.340 take you less seriously. So if we're not worried about the moral aspect of being dishonest, then

00:37:16.520 what about this? I think coming across as unreasonable, as incapable of nuanced thinking,

00:37:23.480 I don't think that ultimately helps. I think it's going to, what it leads to, whether we're talking

00:37:28.140 about gamers or Trump fans or any, any category of people, when they pretend to be less reasonable

00:37:33.980 than they are, they pretend that they can't understand nuanced arguments. Uh, I think what

00:37:39.060 that leads to is people aren't going to take you seriously anymore and are not going to listen to

00:37:43.880 what you have to say. See, I've, I've been at this point with, with a lot of gamers, honestly,

00:37:49.160 um, this week that I've gotten tons of emails and messages and things from, from, from people who

00:37:55.720 play video games and 90% of them are so unreasonable that it makes me want to tune it out and say,

00:38:04.240 I don't care what any of you people have to say. I can't, cause I can't talk to you.

00:38:08.240 Now I hear from someone like you, um, Peter, and it makes me say, okay, well, here's a reasonable

00:38:12.540 person. I'm so glad. That's why I'm talking to you now for 20 minutes. I'm just so, it's so

00:38:15.820 refreshing. I can talk to a reasonable person about this. So I think, um, being reasonable,

00:38:20.200 I think, I think is, uh, not only the morally correct choice, but ultimately I think it helps

00:38:25.960 us. Um, whatever your cause may be, I think it helps your cause. All right. This is from LD says,

00:38:32.880 hello, Matt, you're a fan of calling things stupid and cowardly. Well, you rant about white supremacy, 1.00

00:38:37.780 your, your rant about white supremacy and antisemitism yesterday, white supremacy and antisemitism in 1.00

00:38:43.120 scare quotes, by the way, was stupid and cowardly. These are hoaxes perpetuated by the left to 1.00

00:38:48.060 slander conservatives. You play right into their hands by panicking about these boogeymen 1.00

00:38:52.180 disappointed. Um, okay. LD. I agree that the left slanders conservatives as white supremacists

00:39:04.000 and white nationalists and racist. And I talk about that all the time. Uh, and I am obviously opposed to 0.91

00:39:10.920 that. And those labels don't have the impact they once did because they are so often misused.

00:39:18.440 And that's something that a lot of us have been trying to explain to the left

00:39:21.340 for a while now, that when you go around calling everybody that anyone who disagrees with you is a

00:39:27.160 racist. Well, what you've made it is so that when you actually encounter a real racist, you have

00:39:33.200 nothing left to say about them that will have any impact because you've already used that word a

00:39:38.960 million times where it didn't apply. And so it's the old boy who cried wolf situation.

00:39:45.720 So that's, that's, that's all true. But to suggest that white nationalists, racists don't exist

00:39:53.300 is obviously absurd. They do exist. They've been coming after me all week. Okay. I can report they 0.98

00:40:03.620 exist. Talk to Ben. You know, uh, Ben has 24 hour security following him around because of these

00:40:11.240 people, because of the threats that he gets. So I, you know, LD, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonna do you the

00:40:19.640 favor of assuming that you just don't know what you're talking about. And maybe you don't because

00:40:25.500 you, you, you haven't, you haven't encountered these people. You haven't come up against them.

00:40:28.980 And so you, you just don't know, but I'm telling you, they exist. They are very real.

00:40:36.380 And Ben is not the only media figure who needs security around the clock because of them.

00:40:42.600 That's not a joke. That's, that's real. Um, and they are some of the most vile creatures on earth

00:40:49.500 without, without even, it's not even close. I can tell you, it's not even close. Uh, when it comes to

00:40:54.220 the hate mail and stuff that I get, the, the, the most disgusting vile hate mail talking about my

00:41:01.160 family, you know, personal stuff, the majority of it comes from these types, these types who you say

00:41:08.660 don't even exist. Well, am I hallucinating? We're all just hallucinating here. Well, I'll tell you

00:41:14.980 what's not a hallucination is the three mass shootings. Over 80 people have died in three mass

00:41:20.620 shooting events, um, perpetrated by people who specifically were motivated by white nationalist

00:41:26.300 talking points. They all specifically stated that they were committing these acts to advance

00:41:31.700 the white nationalist cause three mass shootings in eight months. How many do you need? That's what

00:41:40.100 I asked yesterday. Do you need 10? Do you need 15, 20, 30? So it's a real question. How many do you

00:41:45.780 need before you're willing to admit that? Yes, they're real and they're a problem. 80 people

00:41:53.160 dead in eight months. That's not enough for you. An average of 10 a month, not enough. What do you

00:41:57.760 need? You need, you need 90, a hundred, 800. Just give me a number. Give me the number. Give me the

00:42:04.360 body count. White nationalists are a small group. Yes. They're a fringe group. Yes. But they are loud. 0.94

00:42:11.240 They are vocal. They are scum. And every once in a while they go out and murder dozens of people. 1.00

00:42:17.940 The suggestion that we should just ignore them and pretend they don't exist. Well,

00:42:21.560 well, what else do I call that? But stupid and cowardly. You're right. I am a fan of those two 1.00

00:42:26.820 words because there's so much stupid and cowardly stuff happening. And here's an example. 1.00

00:42:31.080 Maybe I should say stupid or cowardly. I think if you're going to, if you really think that they 1.00

00:42:39.680 don't exist or they're not an issue, then I think that's just stupidity on your part. If you know they 0.99

00:42:43.860 exist and that they're out killing people and you say we still, still shouldn't talk about, then you're 1.00

00:42:47.780 a coward. So those are the two options. Um, listen, goes without saying, but if, if there had been 0.99

00:42:59.440 three of the deadliest mass shootings in history, totaling 80, 80 casualties, um, over the last few

00:43:07.520 months, perpetrated by Antifa members, then you LD and every conservative would be screaming about it

00:43:16.320 at the top of your lungs. And I know you're going to say, well, Dayton, Ohio, that was an Antifa member.

00:43:21.440 Sure. It was. And what are conservatives doing? They're screaming about it. And for good reason,

00:43:26.940 even though, look, there, there is, and the fact his, that shooter was a radical left winger.

00:43:33.200 That's a fact. That's a fact that should be discussed. It's a relevant fact. It is a, it is a,

00:43:38.440 it is also a fact that, um, we know that if, you know, if he were a Trump fan and all this stuff,

00:43:45.700 uh, the media would be plastering that everywhere. They're not with, in this case, and that's for

00:43:50.220 political reasons. And that's dishonest. So that's all true. It's also true. And it can't be denied

00:43:56.180 that there is a distinction between the El Paso shooter and the Dayton shooter in that we know

00:44:02.480 that the El Paso shooter was specifically doing this for political reasons to advance his,

00:44:09.660 his evil ideology, which is white nationalism. We know that he was very clear about that.

00:44:15.360 Now the Dayton shooter, as it stands right now, we don't know his motives. It's, it's right now,

00:44:21.120 it seems very possible that he happened to be a left wing, uh, lunatic, but this was a domain. 0.96

00:44:27.280 He killed his own sister. So it seems like this could have been a domestic thing and the politics 0.77

00:44:32.560 were unrelated or only tangentially related. And that's, you know, I, maybe that's another one of

00:44:39.740 those truths. I'm supposed to just pretend I don't notice, or it's a distinction. I'm supposed to

00:44:43.500 pretend I can't see, you know, in order to be a good team player, but that's, uh, that's, that's,

00:44:50.720 that's the reality. And what I'm saying is if in the past eight months, there had been three

00:44:57.900 massive mass shootings, like I said, it's three of the worst in history have been carried out by

00:45:03.300 these people in eight months. If there had been three mass shootings to that level in the last eight

00:45:08.920 months perpetrated by Antifa members who wrote manifestos saying they were doing this, um,

00:45:16.220 in order to advance the Antifa cause, you would have conservatives saying, you know what? We need

00:45:21.140 to shut down every Antifa group. We need to arrest all of them. It needs to be, we, you know, the next

00:45:25.200 time the Antifa gathers, the FBI needs to show up, arrest them all, throw them in Guantanamo.

00:45:29.360 That's what conservatives would be saying. And we all know it. Instead, what you're saying about

00:45:34.200 this LD because you are a coward is, Oh, you know, they, they don't even exist. These white 1.00

00:45:38.620 Nats, they don't exist. No, I see nothing. See nothing. I see nothing. All right. Um, 0.78

00:45:48.300 from Eric says, hi, Matt, I'm a huge fan of the show. I just wanted to thank you for your sobering

00:45:54.480 view on many of the tough issues. As someone who rejected almost all of my parents' attempts to get

00:45:57.680 me into sports and grew up on video games, I was hoping to add, uh, as you could tell, like, as I said,

00:46:02.960 90% of my, of my email this week has been about video games. Um, I was hoping to add a very

00:46:07.340 different perspective to the violence of video games topic. I think people get overly defensive

00:46:11.180 of video games at the drop of a hat due to video games historically being blamed and attacked on

00:46:15.620 multiple occasions. Okay. So this is a similar point to the one I just read. Uh, I'll finish

00:46:19.960 reading it though. Hillary in 2005 advocated for regulations against them and Gamergate, just to

00:46:24.380 give examples, just like in the gun debate, I think there's a reflex amongst the people who hold

00:46:29.020 them dear to react very defensively out of fear that things will be taken away, whether or not

00:46:32.940 it's justified. I think this is the reaction we are seeing. Um, I think to your point, parents,

00:46:37.920 to your point, parents should be, uh, should be taking over here just as you wouldn't let a seven 1.00

00:46:41.520 year old watch Saving Private Ryan. You shouldn't let them play games like Grand Theft Auto either.

00:46:45.480 The only point of disagreement I would have is that I've actually seen research showing video games

00:46:49.220 can act as an outlet for the pent up excitement young boys have. Unlike static forms of media, such as

00:46:54.140 movies and television, this was certainly true for me growing up and my love of them allowed me to

00:46:57.940 make friends that I have had for life. Uh, yeah. Uh, so I already kind of responded to that point

00:47:03.460 and, uh, and it's, you know, I take your point. Um, you, you also threw in that this can, it can be an

00:47:09.380 outlet for aggression. Uh, you know, I, I've expressed my skepticism of studies on this issue

00:47:15.500 on either side, because I think the methodology, it just, it doesn't, it can't really get to the heart

00:47:21.900 of the matter because we're dealing with what motivates human behavior. And that's a really

00:47:26.320 hard thing to quantify in a study. But, um, I would have to look at the study you're talking about

00:47:32.160 that it's a, that this is a, or the research saying this is an outlet. Um, I, it would seem to me that

00:47:41.620 playing video games would be like TV, a method of suppressing the energy and excitement and aggression

00:47:52.900 of a young boy. Um, so an outlet in that sense, which isn't really an outlet, it's suppressive,

00:47:59.080 but, uh, I don't see how it could replace, I don't see how it could really replace it because

00:48:07.360 the energy and aggression that a, that a young boy has, it's very physical. There's a physicality

00:48:12.820 to it. And that's why you see a, you know, a six-year-old boy like my son just bouncing around

00:48:18.760 the house, literally climbing the walls, jumping over the furniture, running around. I mean, I've

00:48:24.180 never seen the kid walk six years. I've never seen him walk. I've never seen him walk from point A to

00:48:28.400 point B. Well, okay. Unless I told him like, go to bed or go clean your room. And then all of a sudden

00:48:32.980 I'll, and then he, and then he almost crawls. He's going, crawls. He's going so slow. So it's

00:48:37.160 with my son, he's either moving literally at the pace of a, of a glacier or like continental drift.

00:48:45.520 He's either going that slowly or he's running. There's no in between. Um, and that's because

00:48:49.180 he's full of energy. And so it's very physical and he needs, and he just, he needs to get that

00:48:52.680 physical energy out. I don't see how sitting stationary and moving your thumbs could ever be

00:48:58.240 a sufficient outlet for that. I think maybe it could be like a bandaid. Uh, uh, but the kid

00:49:06.400 also is going to need to get that physical energy out. Um, all right, let's see. Is there one that

00:49:12.620 isn't video game related that I could read here? Um, uh, nope, there isn't. Okay. So I think we,

00:49:25.980 I think we've covered the video game discussion and we'll just leave it there. Kind of an

00:49:31.720 anticlimactic end. I apologize for that. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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