The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 327 - Buttigieg Mangles The Bible Again

00:00:00.000 All right. Happy Football Monday, everybody. It is the first Monday of the football season,

00:00:04.680 so that's pretty exciting. I hope that your team fared well yesterday as you were watching the

00:00:08.600 action. My Baltimore Ravens managed to squeak out a 59-10 victory, so that was pretty exciting to

00:00:14.680 watch. You know, I do just want to say this as we enter into football season that I think it's

00:00:20.460 important to note that it is our patriotic duty as Americans to watch and enjoy football. There

00:00:26.460 is no excuse. I don't want to hear this stuff of, oh, I'm not a football fan. That is unacceptable

00:00:32.460 in America these days. Football is America's pastime. It is our most sacred tradition. It

00:00:39.600 has completely supplanted baseball in those categories. It's not even close anymore.

00:00:43.980 I mean, we aren't even the best. America is not even the best at baseball in the world anymore,

00:00:49.460 and basketball has also gone international, but football, our football is, well, that just belongs

00:00:57.180 to us. It's our thing. So think about it. Football involves large men crashing into each other at

00:01:02.340 fast speeds, is unique to us in America, and it stole its name from a lame international version

00:01:09.300 and then improved it. So that is, it is quintessentially American, and the most American thing about it is

00:01:13.980 that we invented this new sport, and we were like, well, what are we going to call it? And we said,

00:01:19.640 we'll call it football. And the rest of the world said, you can't call it football. We already have

00:01:23.220 a thing called football. You can't. And we said, no, that's what we're going to call it. I don't

00:01:26.080 care. It's just, we're going to take that. We're just going to call it that. And then they said,

00:01:29.120 but you don't even really use your feet. I mean, with our football, you're kicking the ball with your

00:01:33.300 feet. So for you to call it football doesn't make any sense. And we said, yeah, that's what we're going to

00:01:36.580 call it anyway. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense. Try and stop us. And then we took it and

00:01:42.040 we turned it into a billion dollar industry. And then we decided, we said, you know what,

00:01:46.260 you know what every football team needs is we need to hire a full-time staff of attractive women 1.00

00:01:51.980 who just stand on the sideline. Their only job is to cheer on the men. And so we did. And so that's

00:01:56.920 a thing too. I mean, how can you, it's, it's, it is, it is some, well, someone who doesn't like

00:02:04.740 football, I have to question, I do have to question their patriotism, their loyalty. And, and that's,

00:02:10.520 that's all there is to it. All right. So there's a lot to discuss today.

00:02:14.860 Um, and we're going to get into, you know, unfortunately we have to start on a Monday by

00:02:19.840 talking about some of the, uh, baby killing enthusiasts over on the democratic side, because

00:02:25.580 they're at it again, embarrassing themselves and the country. And so we're going to talk about that.

00:02:29.920 But before we do first, a word from a stamps.com, you know, no one really has time to go to the

00:02:35.280 post office. You're busy. You got all this stuff you got to do. And who has time for the traffic

00:02:39.980 and for parking and lugging all your mail and packages. Nobody has time for that. So that's

00:02:44.120 why you need stamps.com. One of the most popular time-saving tools for small businesses. Stamps.com

00:02:48.980 eliminates trips, trips to the post office, and it saves you money with discounts that you can't

00:02:53.200 even get at the post office. So it's a win, win, win for you. Stamps.com brings all the amazing

00:02:56.960 services of the U S post office right to your computer. Whether you're a small business sending

00:03:01.220 invoices, you're an online seller shipping out product, you're a large warehouse, whatever you are,

00:03:05.760 stamps.com can handle all your issues with ease. You can print official U S pastage, postage,

00:03:13.840 pastage, postage 24 seven for any letter, any package, any class of mail, anywhere you want

00:03:19.140 to send it. Once your mail is ready, just hand it to your mail carrier or drop it in a mailbox.

00:03:23.320 It really is that simple. Now, right now, this is the important part. My listeners get a special

00:03:29.020 offer that includes a four week trial plus free postage and a digital scale without any long-term

00:03:35.040 commitment. You just have to go to stamps.com, click on the microphone at the top of the homepage,

00:03:39.620 type in Walsh, and you can get all those deals. That's stamps.com, enter Walsh.

00:03:45.880 All right. So as I said, let's begin with the baby killing enthusiasts. We've got a few items to 0.90

00:03:50.180 discuss related to this, um, to this, to these, these, these people first, um, noted abortion lover,

00:03:57.160 Pete Buttigieg was on the radio show, the breakfast club a couple of days ago, and he took the

00:04:04.440 opportunity to launch into another one of his trademark sermons. And there's, um, this one is,

00:04:11.380 is, uh, more disturbing than usual. So let's, let's watch a bit of this.

00:04:17.180 So what's the reckoning between the GOP and Christianity?

00:04:19.380 Well, GOP has got to deal with the fact that they have come on board with a president that is,

00:04:22.720 uh, completely against not just our values, but their own. Right. I mean, if you're, if you're in

00:04:28.440 Mike Pence's world where, you know, being Christian has a lot to do with, with, uh, you know, a kind

00:04:34.200 of rigid, uh, traditional sexual ethics, like that's not how I come. Uh, stop right there for

00:04:38.840 just a minute. Uh, because yet again, he goes in with the Mike Pence thing. I mean, this guy is

00:04:48.800 absolutely obsessed with Mike Pence. He must have Mike Pence posters hung up in his bedroom. He

00:04:56.040 probably has a Mike Pence cardboard cutout in the middle of his living room. He probably spends his

00:05:01.340 time writing poems about Mike Pence in his diary. Every question he's asked, I mean, he can be asked

00:05:07.420 a question about, so what's your opinion on, uh, you know, the situation in North Korea? Well, you know,

00:05:12.360 the thing about that is Mike Pence, dude, take it easy. I mean, this, if I was Mike Pence, I'd be getting

00:05:18.200 a restraining order. I would be seriously concerned at this point. This is not normal for you to be

00:05:23.600 that completely focused on Mike Pence of all people. So, um, Buttigieg brings it back to Mike

00:05:34.560 Pence, but, uh, let's, let's go. And if we can get past Mike Pence and see what else he has to say.

00:05:40.120 I mean, if you're, if you're in Mike Pence's world where, you know, being Christian has a lot to do with,

00:05:45.920 with, uh, you know, a kind of rigid, uh, traditional sexual ethics, like that's not how I come of

00:05:51.080 Christian, but he does. And yet he thinks that this president, uh, ought to be the moral as well

00:05:57.220 as political leader of this country. Okay. Actually stop it right there again, because we haven't even

00:06:01.480 gotten to the point yet. We haven't got to the crux of the issue yet, but here is Buttigieg

00:06:07.140 mocking Pence for Pence's supposed rigid sexual ethics. And, and where's he getting that from?

00:06:15.740 Why are you accusing Pence of having rigid sexual ethics? Well, is it, I guess it's from the fact

00:06:19.740 that Pence doesn't want to go on lunch dates with, with women who aren't his wife. Well,

00:06:23.880 whether you consider that rigid or not, and I don't, why is Buttigieg commenting on Pence's

00:06:29.640 relationships? I mean, Buttigieg, which again is just weird. It's just weird, Buttigieg. Give it a

00:06:39.580 rest. Talk about something else. I mean, next thing you know, Buttigieg is going to be bringing up stuff

00:06:46.480 about Mike Pence that he shouldn't even know. Like, well, you know, Mike Pence had waffles for

00:06:50.740 breakfast this morning. Um, I know because I was staring in his window with my binoculars,

00:06:56.060 but, but, but can you imagine how Buttigieg would react if Mike Pence ever returned the favor and

00:07:05.760 were to make comments about Buttigieg's, uh, sexual ethics? What if, what if, what if Pence were to get

00:07:12.920 up there and say, you know, uh, Mayor Buttigieg has a, has a, with his libertine sexual ethics,

00:07:19.420 Buttigieg would collapse into tears at that. He would be so scandalized. How dare you make

00:07:25.840 comments about my personal life, even though I've been talking about you incessantly for the last

00:07:30.260 19 months. All right, let's go back to the video. And you got an entire Republican party coming on

00:07:36.640 board with this, but I think deep down they know that this isn't right. Meanwhile, you got religious 0.98

00:07:40.340 traditions that teach us about the importance of lifting up the stranger, uh, the importance of

00:07:44.600 lifting up the poor, of healing the sick, um, that, you know, you, I mean, you go through the New

00:07:49.480 Testament for sure. And every other, uh, word that comes out of the mouth of Christ is about

00:07:55.780 things like helping those in need. And you got a Republican party dedicated to its opposite.

00:08:00.940 There will be a reckoning over that. Now, right now they hold everybody in line with this one,

00:08:05.460 uh, kind of, uh, piece of doctrine about abortion, right? Which is obviously a tough issue for a lot of

00:08:12.840 people to think through morally. Then again, uh, you know, there's a lot of parts of the Bible that

00:08:18.280 talk about how life begins with breath. And so even that is something that we can interpret

00:08:23.480 differently and, uh, I'm pro-choice. Take up, uh, me too. But I think no matter where you think

00:08:29.320 about the kind of cosmic question of how life begins, most Americans can get on the board with

00:08:34.740 the idea of, all right, I might draw the line here. You might draw the line there. But the most

00:08:39.080 important thing is the person who should be drawing the line is the woman making the decision. 1.00

00:08:42.900 Absolutely. And I think that if you're a man who's against abortion, you haven't gotten the wrong

00:08:46.380 woman pregnant. I mean, wife, I'm just saying, I'm just saying we've had some slip-ups. Um,

00:08:53.800 all right. So that, there you go. First of all, the other dude there, not sure who that is,

00:09:01.960 but his reason for supporting abortion is that sometimes he quote slips up and quote,

00:09:07.780 gets the wrong woman pregnant, the wrong woman. Now, if that's not a sexist comment,

00:09:14.020 I mean, if that isn't about the most misogynistic thing I've seen, I've heard in a long time,

00:09:18.560 then I don't know what is. He's saying the reason he likes abortion is that sometimes you get the,

00:09:22.720 you slip up and get the wrong woman pregnant. But Buttigieg just laughs it off. I half expected

00:09:30.820 him to give a fist bump to the guy or something. He has no problem with that. If he really cared

00:09:36.300 about women and he had a problem with sexism, he would have spoken up and said, that's, that's not

00:09:40.760 appropriate. But no, cause he was still thinking about Mike Pence. He was distracted. Now, in terms

00:09:48.660 of the, the theology or lack thereof, um, what Buttigieg says, says here is completely false.

00:09:56.620 Of course, nowhere does the Bible affirm this idea that a baby isn't a baby until birth.

00:10:03.020 In fact, the Bible says, before you formed me in the womb, you knew me. So this makes it pretty

00:10:10.700 clear that God recognizes our humanity, the humanity of all humans from beginning to end.

00:10:16.500 And he, and importantly, he has a plan for all humans. Um, and that plan probably does not involve

00:10:23.980 being murdered in the womb because if it did, then he never would have created the person to

00:10:27.220 begin with. There'd be no, you know, if that's what God wanted and intended, God is not going to

00:10:34.140 make a human life intending and wanting and hoping that the mother will kill the child before the child's 0.84

00:10:42.060 even born. Um, the stuff about the breath in the Bible, this is obviously said in a poetic way,

00:10:51.800 the breath of life. God breathes into, uh, human beings, gives them the breath of life.

00:10:58.660 That's what Buttigieg is referring to. That clearly is not literal. Nobody thinks that God is

00:11:03.320 literally leaning down from heaven, like from the clouds and breathing with his mouth into the

00:11:08.860 nostrils of a person. And that's how they come to life. Nobody, that is, it's rather beautiful,

00:11:14.900 poetic imagery to describe something. That's pretty clear. Now I'll tell you what's not just

00:11:21.780 poetic. The incarnation. As Christians, that is, I think, rather obviously something that we take 0.92

00:11:29.120 literally. And this biblically for a Christian is the coup de grace, uh, uh, for pro-abortion talking 0.71

00:11:37.000 points. I mean, this, this is it. Jesus Christ was incarnate in the womb. Um, he was, he was

00:11:45.280 miraculously conceived in the womb. Now he could have come to earth in, in any way that he

00:11:51.720 chose. He could have, he could have, uh, descended from heaven the way that he would, uh, would

00:11:57.040 eventually ascend. He could have materialized out of thin air. I mean, there are many different ways

00:12:01.500 he could have done it, but he chose to come to earth, um, uh, through the vessel of, of human

00:12:08.980 pregnancy. So if you're saying that unborn babies are subhuman, then you are saying that Christ was at

00:12:17.300 one time subhuman. That is your Christology to use the, the, the, the theological term. Your,

00:12:24.100 your Christology is that Jesus Christ was at one time less than human, but it's a central doctrine

00:12:32.900 of our faith that Christ was fully man and fully God. The idea of him being less than man and fully

00:12:38.880 God is heretical to say the least. And it just does not comport with Christian theology at all. This is

00:12:44.900 something completely separate. Christ elevated all of mankind by becoming man. Thus he elevated fetuses

00:12:53.480 too by becoming one. So if abortion wasn't wrong before the incarnation, which it was, it certainly 1.00

00:12:59.760 is afterwards as all of human life, including from the fetal stage was elevated, sanctified, uh, by,

00:13:09.700 by the incarnation. This is, I mean, this is something that when we're having the, the, the,

00:13:16.500 the theological argument about abortion among Christians, and oftentimes I hear Christians

00:13:21.080 cite verses from the old Testament, the 10 commandments, the, the one that I cited before

00:13:26.960 you formed me in the womb, I knew you, Jeremiah. Um, and, and those are all good things to cite. I mean,

00:13:33.720 the, the 10 commandments, uh, that shall not kill. That's pretty, pretty solid. And, and obviously

00:13:40.060 it applies to abortion. But I think from a Christian perspective, this should be the first thing. I 0.98

00:13:45.180 don't know why this isn't brought up more often. I think the incarnation, you want to say, you want

00:13:50.980 to say, well, there's nothing in the Bible. There's no pro-life statement in the Bible. The incarnation is

00:13:54.960 about the most pro-life statement you could, the God could possibly make. And it just makes it so it's,

00:14:03.860 it, it, it ends the discussion from a Christian perspective. There's nowhere to go from there. 0.67

00:14:12.320 Now on this same general subject, let's go over to the AP, which for whatever reason decided to put

00:14:18.500 out a big, um, uh, big pro-abortion propaganda video. And this video, which I'll show you now,

00:14:28.260 it tells us the sad story of a poor woman who had to go across state lines and spend a lot of money to 0.70

00:14:34.260 kill her child. And we're supposed to feel very sorry for her. Um, and let's see if it succeeds in

00:14:39.500 making her sympathetic. Watch this. What I would learn the hard way is when you first stop taking

00:14:44.300 birth control that first couple weeks, that first like few days, you're, you're most fertile. So I

00:14:50.280 got pregnant in like early February. I was housing insecure at the time. I like, I had just started

00:14:56.420 a job. I didn't have any support. I didn't have any health care. They said that they would be able to

00:15:04.220 help me, but I had to get there before I turned 28 weeks. And so I had less than 10 days. Um, and they

00:15:11.480 said that my procedure would cost about $10,500. It's not a decision to be made lightly because

00:15:20.940 on top of early, I didn't make it lightly. Um, because it was on top of a large, um, emotional,

00:15:30.080 like turning point, like decision to make in my life. It was a large financial decision to make.

00:15:36.940 Now, if you're listening on, uh, iTunes or on SoundCloud and you couldn't see the video there,

00:15:43.420 um, there were some captions that I think were relevant to the,

00:15:47.200 to the issue, uh, such as the fact that she was 26 weeks pregnant when she went and got this

00:15:56.300 abortion. Actually, she was probably about 27 weeks because she said in the video that she,

00:15:59.840 she called the, when she called the abortion clinic in New Mexico, she was less than 10 days from the 28

00:16:05.940 week cutoff, which probably means by the time she got the abortion, she was at 27 weeks, but let's

00:16:10.060 just call it 26 weeks just for the sake of argument. Uh, 26 at 26 weeks, a child has almost a 90% chance

00:16:17.820 of survival. The vast, vast, vast majority of babies that are born at 26 weeks. And that does have,

00:16:22.980 it happens all the time. It's, it's a, it is not an uncommon occurrence to have a baby that is

00:16:27.960 so premature. 90% of them, nearly 90% survive. At this point, a baby has all of his vital organs.

00:16:37.860 He has all of his physical features that we associate with, with being human. He has his

00:16:43.100 nervous system. He's a baby. He's just a baby. That's you can go into the, which my own, uh, our,

00:16:50.260 our first kids, the twins were premature, not 26 weeks premature. They were born at, uh, 34,

00:16:55.640 35 weeks. And so they spent a little bit of time in a NICU, the, um, the infant, the, the natal ICU,

00:17:01.500 ICU, uh, unit of the hospital where they send babies who are premature and need, need help breathing.

00:17:07.840 So I can remember being up in the NICU unit and seeing babies that were much more premature

00:17:13.400 than my babies were. And these are just babies. These are not, this is not a mass of gelatinous,

00:17:22.640 amorphous cells lying there. Okay. These are babies. They look in every way like babies. They

00:17:30.060 are babies. They need temporary medical treatment and in order to survive. And then most of them

00:17:36.120 will go on to live normal lives and they'll have no prolonged medical effects at all. You know,

00:17:41.740 they just need help at the beginning to breathe. Now we're told that abortions this late 0.99

00:17:49.240 don't happen unless there's some kind of catastrophic medical situation. I've heard

00:17:55.220 this many times. I'm sure you have too. That, Hey, well, women, they're not, they're not doing 1.00

00:18:00.080 this willy nilly. They're not going to go and get an abortion in 26 weeks unless, unless, you know,

00:18:04.240 they need it for, for the sake of, uh, of survival. If there's a threat to the life of the mother.

00:18:09.780 Well, as I've said many times, there, there has never actually been a medically necessary abortion.

00:18:15.060 And if there is a catastrophic medical situation that happens at 26 weeks or 28 weeks or 30 weeks,

00:18:20.600 which does, which does occur, then at that point, maybe the baby needs to come out of the woman. 1.00

00:18:28.020 Yes, but there is no reason to kill the baby ahead of time. By that time you have essentially a fully

00:18:33.700 formed baby. So no matter what, if there's a medical problem, that baby needs to come out. The woman 1.00

00:18:39.340 is going to have to deliver the baby. The only question is, are we going to kill the baby before 1.00

00:18:44.080 it is delivered? And there is no medical reason to kill the baby ahead of time. But in any case, 0.98

00:18:50.540 that's not even the situation here. There was no catastrophe. She said that she was housing insecure,

00:18:57.020 which means what she was living in an apartment or something. And she, uh, she had just started a new

00:19:03.060 job. That's it. That's what she tells us. She wasn't going to die. There was no, there was no

00:19:09.560 serious medical complication. Pregnancy wasn't going to kill her. It would have just been super 0.93

00:19:14.820 inconvenient to have a kid at that point. So she killed it. And sure, you know, if you just started 0.99

00:19:19.680 a new job, um, and, uh, and you have a, a baby that's, that's inconvenient. Yeah. Um, I mean,

00:19:30.800 we, my, my wife is pregnant now and she's going to give birth in the next month or so. And, uh,

00:19:37.580 anytime you have a new baby on the scene, there are a lot of inconveniences. Yes. It can be a very

00:19:42.700 inconvenient thing in a lot of ways to have a newborn baby. You got to stay up at night. It does,

00:19:47.120 the baby's not sleeping. Well, you got to take off of work, all these different things. You got

00:19:50.920 to go to the doctor a lot, a lot of inconveniences that obviously is not a suitable moral justification

00:20:00.180 for murder, obviously, which is why the pro-abortion people, they don't want to talk

00:20:06.180 about it in terms of convenience. What they want to talk about are these extreme rare cases, medical

00:20:12.180 abnormalities and so on. But here we have an abortion of convenience at 26 weeks when the baby

00:20:19.940 had a 90% chance of survival and the AP is taking this story and they're proudly putting it out there

00:20:27.200 and they expect us to feel sorry for the woman, not the baby. Just completely deranged.

00:20:35.120 Absolutely deranged. But I'm, I'm, I guess the point here is I am grateful, um, to the AP for putting

00:20:46.080 this story out there. Their intention obviously is, is for, to promote abortion, but the effect is for

00:20:55.020 any normal person with a, with an even half formed conscience, when you see that, you're going to think

00:21:01.820 that's, that's terrible. That's just wrong. I mean, she, there, there are so many other options

00:21:09.120 available to this woman. She could have had the baby. She could have put the baby up for adoption. 1.00

00:21:13.820 There are other things she could have done and we should expect her as a society to explore those 0.66

00:21:19.060 other options. The same way we expect a mother or a father with born children who finds themselves in

00:21:26.740 a situation where they can't care for the child anymore. And that happens also. But what do we

00:21:31.460 say to those, to those parents? We say we've, we're very sorry you're in that situation, but you need to

00:21:38.440 go put the child up for adoption. You need to make sure that you find someone who can care for that

00:21:43.860 child. Because what you cannot do is just leave the kid in the living room and split town. And what you

00:21:50.900 certainly cannot do is kill them. No matter what situation you're in, no matter how dire your 0.69

00:21:57.320 situation is, you cannot kill your child. You have a responsibility to that child. And that responsibility

00:22:03.300 at the very least requires you to go and make sure that, um, that someone else is going to care for the

00:22:11.060 child. If we, if we have no problem saying that and putting that kind of responsibility onto the

00:22:18.720 shoulders of parents of born children, there is no reason why we can't put that responsibility

00:22:24.200 onto the shoulders of parents of unborn children. It's the same idea, the same principle, and that's 0.67

00:22:30.200 all. All right. I also wanted to mention this. Um, Roman Polanski, film director and a noted child

00:22:39.760 rapist has a new movie out and the new movie just won best director at the Venice film festival.

00:22:45.440 Now this to me is noteworthy, especially during a week. And this is why it really caught my eye.

00:22:50.660 Um, during a week when certain Hollywood stars have been calling for blacklists of anyone in

00:22:55.900 Hollywood who might support Donald Trump, you know, the five or six people in Hollywood who

00:22:59.500 support Donald Trump, there's been Debra Messing and other, uh, Hollywood celebrities have been saying

00:23:04.020 we need to blacklist them and everything. Well, they're trying to take the moral high ground on Trump

00:23:09.980 while they continue to support someone like Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski, who let's recall 0.96

00:23:15.580 drugged and raped a 13 year old girl. And this is not, um, uh, allegedly or anything like that. 0.74

00:23:23.960 He was convicted. He pled guilty actually. Now he was able to, he was able to plead the charges down

00:23:29.840 to rather than rape, I think, uh, pled it down to unwanted sexual contact or something like that,

00:23:36.060 pled it down to a lesser charge. Uh, but then rather than face the music and, and do whatever time

00:23:43.240 he was, he was going to, he was, he was going to be sentenced to, he fled prosecution. He left the

00:23:48.040 country and he has been on the lam ever since he is, he is a fugitive. He is a fugitive from justice

00:23:53.320 for 40 years now after raping a child. Um, and in spite of that, he has had a successful career in 0.86

00:24:01.340 Hollywood making movies. Now, apologists for Hollywood are going to point out that, well,

00:24:07.420 this was the Venice film festival, not a Hollywood function. So we can't blame Hollywood for this,

00:24:13.040 but it's all related. It's the film industry besides which Polanski has had no trouble finding

00:24:17.820 top film stars to appear in his movies throughout his career. Uh, people like Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet,

00:24:25.060 uh, Christophe Waltz, John C. Reilly, Ewan McGregor, Adrian Brody, Johnny Depp, Ben Kingsley,

00:24:30.840 Sigourney Weaver. These are not fringe character actors that nobody's heard of. These are top

00:24:37.060 names. And these are people who have appeared in, in, in a film directed by someone who they know

00:24:43.940 is a child rapist, a confirmed child rapist. Um, and Polanski won best director at the Academy 0.96

00:24:51.040 Awards 15 years ago. Meryl Streep gave him a standing ovation. Whoopi Goldberg famously defended

00:24:58.640 him saying, well, it wasn't, it wasn't rape rape. She said, whatever that means. Polanski is Hollywood's

00:25:05.260 guy. They love him. Sure. He was kicked out of the, out of the Academy last year because they had

00:25:11.780 to, they had no choice with all the Me Too stuff going on. They, they knew they had to, um, get rid

00:25:18.560 of him and pretend to take some kind of moral stand. But it was all, it was, it was a farce considering the

00:25:23.560 fact that they kicked him out of the Academy in what it was 2018 back in like 06 or 07, they,

00:25:29.900 they gave him best director. Um, and you know, now they want to circle around and say, and say,

00:25:39.540 nevermind, but they still can't help themselves. So he's still getting awards and he's still,

00:25:43.560 he's still getting people to come star in his movies. Um, so that gesture meant, meant nothing

00:25:48.560 from, from the Academy. It was a total classic CYA move and nothing more. Polanski is, as I said,

00:25:55.800 Hollywood's guy. Let's not forget that. And this is an important thing to keep in mind. Um,

00:26:02.860 as, especially as we head into the 2020 election, and we're going to be subjected to all kinds of PSAs

00:26:15.660 and all kinds of lecturing from these people, whether it's about Donald Trump or it's about

00:26:21.780 climate change or it's about guns or whatever, they're trying to take a moral stance. Meanwhile,

00:26:27.920 Roman Polanski is the, the big grotesque, disgusting child raping elephant in the room. 0.98

00:26:35.200 And I mean, really just, I don't want to belabor the point, but I really think about this. This, 0.99

00:26:48.400 this is not one of those things where, where the, where they're continuing to support Polanski,

00:26:54.240 uh, because they can just claim that he didn't do it. It's not one of those things.

00:26:58.800 Like the, like the people that still support OJ and say, Oh, he didn't, he didn't really do it.

00:27:04.980 Which, which obviously is absurd. He clearly did it. And he's all but admitted it. Um,

00:27:10.360 with Roman Polanski, it, he pled guilty and there's no, no one is saying he didn't do it.

00:27:17.560 The people who still support him in Hollywood. And again, these are big names. These are prominent,

00:27:21.920 big names who still support him. What they must be saying is not, he didn't do it, but yeah,

00:27:27.980 he did it, but it's okay. That's the, now they're not saying that directly. Whoopi Goldberg came as

00:27:34.140 close as anyone's come to saying it directly. He said, it wasn't rape, rape. Um, uh, meanwhile,

00:27:41.400 not only was she a child, but she was, she, he drugged her and raped her. If that's not rape, 0.98

00:27:45.780 rape, then what is, if you're telling me that that's not really rape, Whoopi Goldberg, then,

00:27:51.320 then what in the hell possibly could be if that doesn't qualify. But anyway, um,

00:27:57.980 what they must be saying is they don't see a problem with it. They're fine with it with a

00:28:03.020 grown man, drugging a 13 year old child and raping her. And that's not surprising that they feel that 1.00

00:28:09.000 way, but it's important to keep in mind. These people are absolute moral degenerates. 0.90

00:28:14.140 All right, let's see. Um, we're going to get to emails. Matt wall show at gmail.com. Matt wall show 0.98

00:28:23.380 at gmail. Actually, before we get, before we talk about, uh, before I answer some emails, I did,

00:28:27.300 I did have one more issue I wanted to discuss. And, uh, this is kind of, this is kind of,

00:28:33.300 kind of personal and, and, uh, you know, it, it's hard for me to talk about, so I apologize.

00:28:39.560 But last night, uh, last night I had to run to the store for something. And as I often tend to do

00:28:50.600 when I'm, when I'm just making a late night run to the store, I went out in my very stylish,

00:28:56.000 though also comfortable and convenient, um, socks and sandals combo. And I'll show you a picture

00:29:02.780 because I'm not ashamed, right? I'm not ashamed. Here's a picture of, of the, um, of the getup that

00:29:08.140 I wore to the store. Now, sure. It's, it's comfortable. As I said, it's also very fashion

00:29:12.480 forward. It's very bold as you can see. Well, I'm in line checking out and the dude behind the

00:29:19.220 register actually makes fun of me and my footwear to my face. He didn't even wait till I had gone.

00:29:26.000 Like any other self-respecting person just to my face, he makes fun of me. So I go home and I tell

00:29:31.520 my wife about it, hoping that someone I'll have someone to, to, to, you know, comfort me in my,

00:29:36.920 in my time of, of this very trying time. And instead she makes fun of me too. And then she

00:29:42.520 actually grabs her phone and quickly takes a picture of my feet and text it to her sister so

00:29:47.180 they can make fun of me together. Now, of course I'm feeling, I'm feeling attacked and unsafe in my

00:29:53.360 own home. Here I am trying to live my truth, trying to stand in my truth, trying to wear my

00:29:59.160 truth. And this is how I'm treated. So then I post this picture on Twitter last night thinking that,

00:30:04.860 okay, now I'm going to find emotional support because that's what Twitter is known for is,

00:30:08.540 you know, emotional support. But instead there's just more mockery and shame and bullying and ridicule

00:30:13.980 heaped on me and my, and my socks and sandals. So I want to say this.

00:30:17.400 Um, first of all, the anti socks and sandals bigotry in this country needs to end. Our

00:30:25.920 forefathers came to this country because they wanted to be able to wear whatever foot attire

00:30:31.140 they chose. And if they could see, if George Washington could see the way that people with

00:30:37.520 socks and sandals are treated now, he would be rolling over in his grave. Second, let it be known

00:30:42.300 that I am an icon in the fashion world. I don't talk about it very often. I don't brag about it,

00:30:48.160 try to make a big deal about it, but people come up to me all the time, all the time. And they say

00:30:52.080 to me, Matt, I want to thank you for your bold and beautiful fashion choices. You have changed my

00:30:56.740 life. I mean, look at me right now. I'm wearing a, you know, a black, some black pullover with some

00:31:00.860 weird green vomity colored t-shirt. I mean, this is, this is fashion folks. Third thing is for those

00:31:08.800 who say, Oh, why would you wear socks and sandals? Because if you're wearing socks, then just put on

00:31:13.500 shoes. And if you're wearing sandals, what are the, what's the point of the sock? Well, I'll explain

00:31:16.540 to you. First of all, there are two really good reasons to wear socks and nails. Um, if, if, if you

00:31:21.320 already have socks on and you want to leave the house and you need some kind of other footwear to

00:31:27.940 put on and you have sandals right next to the door, but your shoes are all the way upstairs, that's a

00:31:33.580 good reason. And second, if your socks are awesome and you want to show them off, then that's another

00:31:40.500 good reason. Though I shouldn't have to justify myself. And, uh, I really am tired of the way that

00:31:47.540 socks and sandals are treated. Okay. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Um, now we'll go to emails,

00:31:57.160 Matt wall show at gmail.com, Matt wall show at gmail.com. This is from Matt says, uh, or from

00:32:04.260 Chuck, sorry, says Matt, you sound like a communist when you say college athletes should get paid in a

00:32:09.460 free market economy. Those players are agreeing to sell their label labor for free tuition, a college

00:32:15.080 degree, and the fame of playing the game. If they're good enough. Yeah. I got a lot of emails

00:32:20.560 like this. We talked about paying players last week on the show, I think on Friday. And, um, I feel

00:32:25.380 pretty strongly that, that, um, college athletes, at least in the, the major schools and the major

00:32:32.160 sports, the sports that rake in billions of dollars, like for example, college football,

00:32:37.560 it's the main thing we're talking about here, um, that they should get a cut of those profits.

00:32:43.540 Now, Chuck says that that makes me a communist. Well, what I'm talking about is people being paid a

00:32:49.980 fair market value, um, for, for the labor that they provide. How is that communist? That is free

00:32:59.040 market. The, the, the college system is a corrupt rigged system. It is a really a rigged system

00:33:07.460 where the players come in and they are exploited in every possible avenue through ticket sales and

00:33:15.040 merchandise and TV deals and everything else. And it is set up so that all of that money

00:33:21.560 is going to go into the pockets of the coaches and the administrators and other people who are not

00:33:27.060 playing. These, these head coaches, these major schools, they are paid multiple millions of dollars

00:33:35.240 a year for coaching football. Where does that money come from? It's it, the money comes from the

00:33:43.040 people that are going to the games to watch people that are buying the merchandise and everything

00:33:45.700 else. That's where the money's coming from. How is it communist for me to say that everybody

00:33:51.600 involved in earning that money should see a piece of it? It's the opposite of communist. In fact,

00:33:58.900 this system right here, this is like a communist system where it's set up so that the people,

00:34:04.120 the sort of administrative roles at the top, they're going to see all the money. And then the peons at

00:34:08.680 the bottom are, they got to be satisfied with, you know, free lunch. So no. And to say free tuition,

00:34:18.560 a college degree. Okay, great. At most, what's that worth? Let's say at most, you get the $200,000

00:34:26.280 at the upper end, about $50,000 a year compared to a coach who's making 5 million a year.

00:34:33.380 And not only that, but in order to play, they're not able to actually focus on their education.

00:34:43.040 The colleges might say, oh yeah, we want to do the education first. That's not how they feel.

00:34:47.700 That's not what they really want. To me, it's a very simple question. Okay. Very simple.

00:34:55.300 That these college programs, the major college programs earn billions of dollars collectively

00:35:04.720 from, from these, from these players. The question is, should only the people not playing

00:35:15.040 get a piece of that money? Or should the people playing also get a piece?

00:35:21.740 I cannot understand the argument for, no, no, I feel strongly that only the, that the administrators

00:35:29.120 and coaches should be millionaires and, and the, and the, the kids should be satisfied because they

00:35:33.080 get a free education. Like who, who, what kind of position is that? It's so bizarre to me. I don't

00:35:37.400 even understand it. Why do you feel so strongly that, um, you know, the, the head coach should get

00:35:42.740 $5 million and the pay, the player should be paid nothing. Why, why? If you think you're protecting

00:35:47.940 the integrity of amateur sports, it's not amateur when you've got people, when, when there, when

00:35:53.040 there's billions of dollars being made, it's not amateur. It is professional sports. When you can

00:35:59.300 get paid $5 million a year or $9 million a year as one head coach in college football is being paid

00:36:04.840 right now in order to coach it, then that's not amateur anymore. That is professional.

00:36:09.360 Uh, so I, I, I, I just really don't get it at the very least. I hope you would, you would agree

00:36:18.580 at the very least that these kids should be able to, if go out on their own and profit from their

00:36:26.900 own name, because the way it's set up right now is that, yeah, these kids get free housing and free

00:36:32.360 lunch. Meanwhile, the coaches are making millions a year. And not only that, the players aren't

00:36:38.940 allowed to go out and sell, say their own Jersey or get paid for a sponsorship or for a TV

00:36:45.420 appearance. They're not allowed to, they get in trouble. If a, if a player is caught and this has

00:36:51.040 happened, players are caught, you know, God forbid selling their own merchandise based on their own

00:36:57.060 name. And they get in trouble for that. And we're supposed to be outraged at them for trying to profit 0.97

00:37:02.400 off of their own name and not at the system. That's that, that, that stipulates that the only people 0.84

00:37:07.520 who are allowed to get filthy rich off of this are the, are the, the, the, the, the coaches and

00:37:12.100 administrators who are exploiting these kids for money. I mean, that to me is crazy. At the very

00:37:16.580 least, I hope you would agree that these, if, if someone is a top college quarterback and they're a

00:37:22.280 great player and therefore their jerseys are worth money and therefore there are companies that want

00:37:28.300 to have sponsorship deals with them and therefore they can get paid for TV, they should be able to go

00:37:32.360 out and do that. And if you're telling me that you think they shouldn't be able to, then please

00:37:37.760 don't give me any of this nonsense about how you're, this is free market capitalism. This is the

00:37:43.360 interference in free market capital. This is the, the, the NCAA saying, no, we, you're not, you're not

00:37:48.960 allowed to engage in the free market. We're not allowing you to do that. You are not allowed to go

00:37:54.940 make money. We're going to make millions. You are not allowed to make any. Again, that, that I, I,

00:38:04.180 psychologically, I, I cannot understand what would lead someone to support. I can understand why the

00:38:10.340 NCAA likes that system. They're getting all the money. They're getting rich. But, uh, for someone

00:38:15.100 who's not even involved either way, like what, why? All right. Um, this is from Jonathan says, Hey, Matt, love

00:38:23.900 the show. What are your expectations on the Raven season this year? And are you as high on Lamar

00:38:27.580 Jackson as a lot of Baltimore fans seem to be? I'm originally from Buffalo, which means I have to

00:38:31.100 be a bills fan. And I'm hoping to hoping passing on Lamar for Josh Allen wasn't a mistake. Well,

00:38:35.640 after that performance, yes, I mean, Lamar had a perfect passer rating through for 300 plus yards,

00:38:40.960 five touchdowns. Uh, and he made some really good throws. Now people could say, well, that was Miami

00:38:45.020 dolphins. They're tanking this year. And that's all true, but they're still a professional football team.

00:38:49.340 Um, and they still have a pretty good secondary. And, uh, look, I don't, I, you know,

00:38:53.240 I don't care how bad the team is. If you can go out and play like that, then that's a good sign.

00:38:56.880 And in fact, this is, this, this is what good, good teams are supposed to absolutely trounce bad

00:39:02.400 teams. And so winning, uh, you know, what was it? 49, 59, 59 to zero to 10, 59 to 10. That's,

00:39:11.180 that's, that's a sign that you're a really good team. And you're also a good player. If you can

00:39:16.800 perform that way against any competition, I don't care if it is the Miami dolphins.

00:39:20.660 This is from Andrew says, there's a lot of controversy around the idea of open versus

00:39:24.980 concealed carry. It's a huge point of debate within the gun community, um, gun owner community.

00:39:29.080 My issue with it, isn't the idea of banning open carry, but rather with the banning concealed carry

00:39:33.220 and States that effectively force you to open carry. The big reason to open carry is comfort,

00:39:38.520 especially with a larger gun. The second biggest advantage is ease of access. If an older person,

00:39:44.200 if it's an older person carrying this way, the former wouldn't surprise me as much.

00:39:47.560 Even in my mid thirties, my hands are not what they were in the twenties and my twenties. And I

00:39:51.820 can't imagine what a person in their fifties and sixties would go through there. The other,

00:39:55.480 uh, perspective of open carry is the amount of restrictiveness in laws around concealed carry.

00:40:00.260 It varies greatly from state to state, but if you, um, accidentally flash a bit of metal or print

00:40:06.260 excessively, it could be considered brandishing. There's plenty of people CCing out there.

00:40:11.380 Concealed carry. You can make, uh, you can make more than a couple of them, but you have to be

00:40:16.720 paying attention. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if you could carry a three 57 around and not get a 0.76

00:40:22.020 lot of notice in States where it was legal. If only because no one can pry their eyes away from

00:40:25.620 their phones, not really in disagreement one way or another. I find myself on the fence and believe

00:40:29.840 in the ideas of tact and circumstance. When open carry is in play, the exception being legality as

00:40:34.120 mentioned above, I think a vast, vast proportion of the carry community would respect their wishes

00:40:38.660 and probably vote with their dollars. Yeah. Um, those are good points. Uh, and, uh, I guess I

00:40:46.920 hadn't really addressed, we talked about open carry last week and I said, I, I don't really see the

00:40:51.640 point of it. And in all my years, I almost never see people open carry, even in States where it's

00:40:57.240 legal. I've lived in States where it's legal. I've lived in States where, um, you know, I've lived in

00:41:03.400 States where they have concealed carry and open carry. I've lived in States where they only have open

00:41:06.140 carry. I, I, I just, I rarely ever see it. Uh, it's just a very small minority of people who seem

00:41:11.880 to be, to want to open carry. And I said last week, I can't, I generally can't see why someone

00:41:19.400 would, unless they're just trying to sort of show off that they have a gun and they're wearing it as

00:41:23.040 a fashion statement. Now, Andrew brings up some points of, of reasons why someone might open carry

00:41:29.580 for legitimate reasons. And so I take that point. I guess there are some legitimate reasons there,

00:41:34.560 but we also can't deny that, you know, it's true that most gun owners are responsible. As I said last 0.96

00:41:42.780 week, most gun owners are responsible, mature and all of that. They treat the gun. They respect

00:41:47.260 the firearm as they, they see it as a tool. They understand that it, it, it can be dangerous if

00:41:52.820 misused. And so they have a proper respect for it. And that's most gun owners. That's not every gun

00:41:58.500 owner though. And there, there are some people, and I think this is also a problem. It's a minority,

00:42:03.420 but there are some people in the gun owning community who, who just are way too impressed

00:42:09.180 with their guns. And, and they, they, they do see it as a fashion. They think they're cool for

00:42:13.420 having, that's why they take the whole thing. I mean, this is a sort of a separate issue,

00:42:16.640 not a big deal, but the people who take pictures of themselves, you know, like, like, um,

00:42:22.780 you know, the people, if you go on Facebook and all, all of their pictures are them with their

00:42:27.620 guns and everything, I, you know, that to me sometimes can come across like you're treating

00:42:34.220 it like a bit of a toy. Now, if you have one or two pictures of you with a gun, I'm not saying

00:42:38.260 there's no problem with that. I'm just saying there are some people who are constantly taking

00:42:42.380 pictures of themselves, posing with the guns, like they're James Bond or something that makes

00:42:46.520 me uncomfortable. And when I see the, the open carry, it kind of sometimes seems to be in that

00:42:52.160 vein of people who are too impressed with it. Um, and the reason why it's so noticeable is that

00:43:00.600 it is very different from the attitude and the approach that the vast majority of gun owners

00:43:04.340 have. So that's my issue. But all of that aside, even if there are legitimate reasons to open carry,

00:43:12.700 and I take your point that there can be, uh, the point still remains. The main point we talked about

00:43:17.220 last week is that if that, I think it's perfectly reasonable for individual stores and establishments

00:43:22.800 and companies to say, okay, maybe you could do it out there. We don't want you to do it in here.

00:43:27.600 I think it's reasonable for them to say, and we as gun owners have to respect that. Uh, and we should

00:43:34.060 respect it. All right. So we will leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Godspeed.

00:43:41.060 If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. And if you want to help spread the

00:43:47.740 word, please give us a five-star review and tell your friends to subscribe as well. We're available

00:43:51.640 on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts. Also be sure to check out the other

00:43:56.800 Daily Wire podcasts, including the Ben Shapiro show, Michael Knowles show, and the Andrew Klavan show.

00:44:01.640 Thanks for listening. The Matt Wall show is produced by Robert Sterling, associate producer,

00:44:05.820 Alexia Garcia del Rio, executive producer, Jeremy Boring, senior producer, Jonathan Hay. Our

00:44:11.420 supervising producer is Mathis Glover. And our technical producer is Austin Stevens, edited by

00:44:16.580 Donovan Fowler. Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina. The Matt Wall show is a Daily Wire production,

00:44:21.840 copyright Daily Wire 2019.

00:44:23.500 Hey everybody. It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. You know, some people are depressed

00:44:27.880 because the American Republic is collapsing. The end of days is approaching and the moon has turned to

00:44:32.620 blood. But on the Andrew Klavan show, that's where the fun just gets started. So come on over

00:44:36.960 to the Andrew Klavan show and laugh your way through the apocalypse with me, Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 09, 2019

Ep. 327 - Buttigieg Mangles The Bible Again

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript