The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 361 - Courageous Media Exposes Dastardly Daily Wire Hoax

00:00:00.000 Okay, I really need someone to help me out with this. Hopefully the media can look into it. I

00:00:03.860 was doing some research this morning. Actually, I was researching marine biology, which is how I

00:00:08.460 spend my free time, and I came across a really fascinating photograph. Take a look at this.

00:00:14.400 As you can see, in this footage, there's a bear holding machine gun riding a great white shark.

00:00:21.940 Now, I've heard of this phenomenon before. I'm pretty sure they mentioned it in a David

00:00:26.140 Attenborough documentary that I watched a while ago. But there's part of me, as I'm looking at

00:00:32.700 that photo, there's part of me that thinks, I got to be honest, there's a part of me wondering,

00:00:36.900 has this been doctored in some way? Has it been altered? Is there some funny business going on

00:00:44.800 here? I don't know. Because on one hand, it makes perfect sense. You would expect bears and sharks to

00:00:50.740 team up. Why haven't they done it by now? On the other hand, we live in the age of fake news,

00:00:57.440 folks. And we need to face that fact. There are people out there. There are propagandists

00:01:04.180 who want to confuse us and sow discord. So you can never be too short. And I'm hoping the Washington

00:01:13.440 Post or CNN or the New York Times can look into this, do some fact checking, just run it up the

00:01:21.000 flagpole, see what happens. Maybe call the White House, see what they have to say. Because we need

00:01:26.580 to get to the bottom of this, guys. If there are shark riding bears patrolling our oceans,

00:01:33.000 we need to know. And the other question we really, this is the question we need to ask is,

00:01:36.920 whose side are they on? Of course, I asked for the media's help here because they've really been

00:01:43.840 on top of the forgeries and photoshops this week. They've been doing a lot of fact checking.

00:01:49.660 They spent all of yesterday, as I'm sure you've heard, trying to figure out if this photo of Trump

00:01:55.480 giving the Medal of Honor to a dog was photoshopped. Here's that photo. Turns out, pretty surprising

00:02:02.440 here. Turns out it was. It was photoshopped. In fact, it was photoshopped by, I'm ashamed to say,

00:02:09.080 it was photoshopped by the Daily Wire. My own company. My own company is trying to fool the world

00:02:18.660 into thinking that the White House gives medals of honor to dogs. Thank God the media exposed it.

00:02:26.640 Thank God the media exposed us. And we're going to talk more about this issue today. Also,

00:02:31.520 on top of that issue, we're going to be talking about some other things as well. The most disturbing

00:02:36.000 drag queen story hour yet. And this one really sets the bar at a whole new level. And we're going to

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00:04:25.900 Okay, hey, by the way, the picture of the bear riding the shark is actually from a shower curtain

00:04:30.960 that I found on Amazon. So pretty much the greatest shower curtain of all time. If you're interested in

00:04:37.260 picking one of those up, go check that out. Now, this thing with the dog photo,

00:04:41.980 I think it all started with Steve Herman of some news outlet or another earnestly fact-checking

00:04:49.580 the obvious joke image of Trump giving a Medal of Honor to a dog, an image that the brilliant

00:04:57.520 Daily Wire social media team did in fact come up with. After that, and then Trump tweeted it out,

00:05:04.600 and I think Steve Herman was among the first. This is what he said.

00:05:09.360 I've requested details from the White House on this photo. There was no such canine event on

00:05:14.960 today's POTUS schedule, but there is a Medal of Honor ceremony set here for later today for an

00:05:19.760 active duty Green Beret. There was no such canine event, Steve Herman says. And then he goes on.

00:05:28.320 He's got a long thread dealing with this important issue. It's photoshopped, acknowledges a White House

00:05:34.860 official. The dog is not here at the White House yet. And then he goes on some more and he starts

00:05:42.300 retweeting. Someone else says, why the terrible Photoshop on top of everything else? Someone else

00:05:47.960 says, this is incredible. It is despicable. Additional words fail me. Wait, it's incredible.

00:05:56.540 It's despicable. So this is Steve Herman thinks it's despicable. Well, he retweeted someone who said

00:06:00.960 that this Photoshop is incredible and despicable. What's despicable about it? I don't even understand

00:06:08.980 the criticism. And then he retweets someone else, someone else saying, well, just the president of

00:06:19.480 the United States disseminating a doctored image created by a right-wing propaganda site.

00:06:24.180 Hey, you might hurt my feelings saying stuff like that about us. So that's Steve Herman. And then

00:06:30.740 a bunch of other news media outlets started fact-checking. My favorite headline was from

00:06:35.740 Twitter's trending section where they do sort of their own headlines. And it said, their headline was,

00:06:43.700 this photo of Trump awarding hero military dog is altered, New York Times reports. Then it continues,

00:06:50.760 on Wednesday, President Trump shared a photo of the canine hero injured in the operation that led

00:06:55.580 to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. A New York Times report pointed out the image appeared to be

00:07:00.780 an altered version of a 2017 Associated Press photograph. Well, thank God for that report. It's

00:07:07.280 been altered, folks, in case you were wondering, because I had no idea. And then the actual New York

00:07:14.160 Times report is great. The headline is, Trump tweets faked photo of hero dog getting a medal.

00:07:21.760 And the best part is that there are two authors on this article for the New York Times. Two. They put

00:07:28.960 two reporters on this story. Okay, you check to see if any dogs have ever been awarded the Medal of

00:07:35.100 Honor, and I'll contact the White House. We're going to get to the bottom of this if it's the last thing

00:07:39.340 we do. And then a bunch of other outlets got into the act, and they started actually calling up

00:07:45.780 the Medal of Honor recipient whose photo was used to make the funny joke image of the dog.

00:07:52.580 And they wanted to know if he was offended. Or I should say, they wanted him to be offended

00:07:58.540 and suggested to him that he should be. But he, being a grown man and a Medal of Honor recipient,

00:08:06.480 was not offended at all and apparently laughed and said he thought it was funny. And also said that,

00:08:11.640 hey, you know, dogs are also part of the team. And so I got no problem with them being recognized.

00:08:18.320 So he was cool about it. But the media insists that this is something we should be upset about.

00:08:23.640 They can't even explain why we should be upset. Just that we should be.

00:08:28.140 Because on this one, I have to tell you, yeah, I really don't understand what the criticism even is. 0.98

00:08:39.060 Very often the media will make criticisms of Donald Trump that I think are frivolous or stupid or 0.99

00:08:44.500 I disagree with. But I at least understand conceptually what they're saying. In this case, 0.99

00:08:53.260 even if I wanted to be offended by this jokey, funny Photoshop of a dog, I don't, I can't figure

00:09:02.100 out why I would be. I couldn't be offended even if I wanted to be. And this, after three years,

00:09:10.080 the media is still doing this. They're still embarrassing themselves by picking apart every

00:09:16.780 little thing Trump does. It's on top of everything else. If you're left-wing media

00:09:24.440 and you hate Donald Trump and you want him gone, this is a really bad strategy.

00:09:32.100 Of course, it's bad news reporting, but we're way past that. They don't care about actually

00:09:35.640 reporting the news. That's, they don't care about that. So even from their perspective,

00:09:40.400 perspective as, as left-wing propagandists, this is just a terrible strategy.

00:09:52.140 Rather than focusing on the big things, uh, that Trump does wrong, we're going to, we're going to,

00:09:58.300 we're going to pick apart every single little thing. We're going to turn into headline news.

00:10:03.220 And then of course, if ever they do have a legitimate criticism or a real thing, a real,

00:10:10.760 a real controversy, no one pays attention to it because, well, just the day before they were

00:10:15.660 going on about the dog. All right, but I'm not going to go on about it for much longer than that.

00:10:20.680 So we'll move on. This is interesting. Judicial Watch has a report, which in this report, it shows,

00:10:27.640 it shows how Planned Parenthood influences democratic politicians. And, and we all know

00:10:34.480 that Planned Parenthood does, but it turns out unsurprisingly that they influence democratic

00:10:41.000 politicians by just telling them exactly what to say verbatim. So let me go to the Judicial Watch

00:10:47.860 report, which you can find at judicialwatch.org says, Judicial Watch today released 115 pages of

00:10:55.760 documents from the office of governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, that show he received abortion

00:11:00.660 talking points directly from Planned Parenthood. These documents were obtained as a result of two

00:11:05.700 separate Virginia Freedom of Information Act requests. The February 1st, 2019 request was

00:11:11.060 seeking all records of communications of Northam or members of his staff related to abortion,

00:11:16.300 women's reproductive health, and or Virginia House Bill 2491. Judicial Watch likewise requested 0.56

00:11:23.780 communication records between Northam and his staff with Virginia State Representative Kathy

00:11:28.860 Tran or her staff. So this was just summarizing rather than reading the entire thing. This was after

00:11:39.920 the statements that Northam made in the infamous statements in that radio interview

00:11:47.660 where he was asked about what a state lawmaker said, a state representative Kathy Tran had said

00:11:56.040 about how abortion should be legal up until birth. And Northam was asked about that. And infamously,

00:12:02.820 he went a step further and strongly indicated that he thinks that, oh yeah, abortion should be legal up

00:12:09.940 until birth. And maybe even afterwards, because after the baby is born, a decision will be made.

00:12:17.260 Or no, that's his actual words were, just to remind us all what he said. If a mother is in labor,

00:12:25.100 I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept

00:12:30.420 comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desires.

00:12:36.280 And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. 0.73

00:12:44.040 Strongly indicating that the discussion is about what are we going to do with this kid? 0.99

00:12:48.460 Kill him or keep him? 0.93

00:12:51.360 So after that, and that blew up in his face, PR nightmare. And so he gets in contact with the 0.83

00:12:57.620 folks over at Planned Parenthood, asking them what he should say in the future about abortion.

00:13:04.160 And Alexis Rogers responded in an email from her PPAV, it's a Planned Parenthood.org email account,

00:13:14.740 titled Top Line Messages for Northam. And these are the talking points that she gave to Northam to say,

00:13:23.340 there is no such thing as an abortion up until birth, making a decision, which is totally false,

00:13:29.800 of course. Making a decision about whether to continue a pregnancy is a complex and personal

00:13:34.240 decision. Politicians have no place in this process. As a physician, I know how important it

00:13:40.080 is to trust my patients and for my patients to trust me. These are complicated medical decisions

00:13:46.080 that families deserve to make in private without political interference.

00:13:49.800 And then in a section of talking points titled Tricky Q&A, Rogers advises, if possible, answer on

00:13:58.620 background, not for attribution. If a woman is in labor, she couldn't and wouldn't have an abortion.

00:14:05.360 And that politicians and pro-life groups were characterizing safe legal abortion in a completely

00:14:10.260 inaccurate and misleading way. Okay. So these are the exact points that Northam is being given.

00:14:17.060 And this is what Planned Parenthood does with Democrats, is just tell them, this is what

00:14:20.780 you're supposed to say. I think it's really interesting there that this woman from Planned 0.99

00:14:24.360 Parenthood is telling him what to say from his own perspective as a doctor. So she is saying,

00:14:34.660 she who is not a doctor, presumably, is telling him what to say from his perspective as a doctor.

00:14:40.080 And it just goes to show how completely empty these talking points are.

00:14:49.680 This is all, the reason why you go and try to get talking points from someone is because you don't

00:14:55.040 want to engage on the issue. And so these are all ways of just deflecting.

00:15:00.060 The very first talking point that he's given is to simply deny what he's just been talking about.

00:15:09.300 There is no such thing as an abortion up until birth.

00:15:13.220 Well, the only reason why this controversy came up for him is that one of his own state

00:15:17.460 representatives was advocating abortion up until birth, explicitly. And so Planned Parenthood's

00:15:23.300 solution is just to say, oh yeah, just pretend you never said that.

00:15:26.400 Pretend that the thing that we are advocating doesn't exist.

00:15:34.380 That's how it works. Planned Parenthood is, they are, they own the Democrat Party. The

00:15:40.960 Democrat Party is a prostitute for Planned Parenthood, essentially. 1.00

00:15:48.040 Okay, now we go over to a report in The Blaze. These drag queen story hours 0.99

00:15:54.920 seem to be getting progressively more disturbing. And this may be the worst one yet. Reading now

00:16:04.480 from a report in The Blaze, a photograph shows a mini skirt wearing drag queen story hour performer

00:16:08.860 with an exposed crotch as children sit close by. According to a writer who attended the event

00:16:14.860 earlier this month at Ridgedale Library in Minnesota and then took the photo, Ann Taylor noted in her

00:16:21.780 caffeinated thoughts piece that about 22 children ranging in age from infant to toddler, preschooler and

00:16:27.640 elementary schooler were in attendance along with adults.

00:16:31.340 Taylor said performer Sasha Soda, who wore a pink mini skirt, spiked heels and a shirt with an exposed midriff,

00:16:38.000 strode in suggestively past the children, sitting down in a chair before several preschool age girls

00:16:42.960 with his legs spread wide, exposing his nylon covered crotch in front of children sitting at eye level. 0.52

00:16:51.280 We noticed that he did this often while reading nervously before the children.

00:16:55.600 And then here's a picture of it. I hate to show it to you, but we need to know what we're dealing with here.

00:16:59.820 And there's a picture of Sasha Soda flashing these children.

00:17:05.880 She also mentions, you could go to Caffeinated Thoughts or go to The Blaze and read more of this.

00:17:13.840 But she talks about, as you heard, 20-some children there. Parents are there.

00:17:19.380 She mentioned that there were some dads there who left.

00:17:22.860 Now, she didn't say whether the dads left with their kids. I hope they did.

00:17:30.080 But the first thing I think when I see this, see stuff like this, is why isn't any father?

00:17:39.580 Why haven't we seen a case yet where a father steps up and confronts one of these people for what they're doing on the spot?

00:17:52.700 If you've got a guy sitting down in a miniskirt, flashing children, that would be a good time as a father,

00:18:02.180 not just to leave meekly and sneak out the back, but to stand up and say,

00:18:08.720 this is not acceptable, this isn't going to happen, you need to get up and get the hell out of here.

00:18:13.780 Why isn't that happening?

00:18:18.460 Where are the parents in this?

00:18:22.700 And even worse, of course, in many of these cases, you have parents who are,

00:18:27.820 not only do they not leave, but they stay there and they watch approvingly and they smile and nod and clap along. 0.80

00:18:33.980 It is absolutely disgusting.

00:18:35.080 So for me, this goes back first and foremost to the parents.

00:18:39.100 These, you know, libraries, if libraries, libraries could have these drag queen story hours 1.00

00:18:45.600 where they invite cross-dressing men to come and flash children.

00:18:48.340 You know, if they did that and nobody showed up, then it wouldn't be a problem.

00:18:56.680 This is only a problem.

00:18:58.260 The only reason why it's an issue is because parents are choosing to put their children in the car

00:19:03.440 and drive to these events.

00:19:05.340 So for me, this goes back to the parents.

00:19:09.660 Yeah, the libraries, it's insane for libraries, especially tax-funded libraries,

00:19:14.000 to be using tax funds to put on these perverse, disgusting events.

00:19:19.900 That is despicable.

00:19:22.460 And they shouldn't be doing it.

00:19:23.780 But it would be a moot point if all the parents in the area were real parents

00:19:32.020 and just refused to bring their kids. 0.67

00:19:35.800 Because then you would just have a cross-dressing man sitting alone, sadly, in a room by himself, 1.00

00:19:42.040 reading a story to himself.

00:19:44.760 That's what it should be.

00:19:45.820 By the way, Chad Felix Green over at The Federalist, he wrote a piece on this incident as well.

00:19:56.640 And he reports that this drag queen is a, quote,

00:20:00.640 provocative adult entertainer who usually performs at gay nightclubs.

00:20:07.360 So this is not someone who's just in the business of putting on women's clothes to go and read to children,

00:20:13.360 as weird as that is already.

00:20:15.820 This is someone who, according to Chad Felix Green at The Federalist,

00:20:18.960 this is someone who, what he normally does is he goes and he dresses and he dances for adult gay men at gay nightclubs.

00:20:27.020 This is an adult entertainer.

00:20:29.660 That this library has called up and said,

00:20:32.520 hey, would you put on one of those outfits, one of those skimpy outfits, 1.00

00:20:35.300 and come and read to some kids for us?

00:20:36.620 And then I guess they put a, they, they posted on the bulletin board in the library and parents walk by and they see,

00:20:45.800 they say, oh, that looks, that sounds great.

00:20:49.200 Yes, a cross-dressing man reading to kids.

00:20:51.040 I got to get my kids in for this.

00:20:55.680 It's, it's mind-boggling.

00:20:57.540 It really is.

00:21:00.020 Okay, before we get to emails,

00:21:01.700 I should say,

00:21:04.680 happy Halloween.

00:21:06.000 You know, I'm a big,

00:21:06.480 I'm a big fan of Halloween.

00:21:07.480 I get, I get really excited for it.

00:21:09.640 In fact, here's a photo of me a couple nights ago

00:21:11.800 at a, a trunk or treat event with the kids at our church.

00:21:18.480 As you can see, I'm, I'm, I'm very, very excited and happy and thrilled to be there.

00:21:23.520 You can just see the enthusiasm on my face.

00:21:27.020 And you can also see my quintessential dad outfit.

00:21:30.300 And I didn't even realize until now, as I look at that photo,

00:21:33.820 that I am officially a middle-aged man.

00:21:35.600 The only thing I'm missing with that outfit is,

00:21:38.280 is I guess the new, the all white New Balance sneakers.

00:21:41.260 And then, well, sort of knockoff New Balance sneakers that I bought at Target.

00:21:44.980 And then maybe a fanny pack.

00:21:46.280 Those are the only two things missing.

00:21:47.440 And then I'm, I'm full on dad.

00:21:50.200 But I'll tell you what my lack of excitement was.

00:21:52.360 It's dark.

00:21:54.100 There are a million kids running around.

00:21:56.040 You know what a trunk or treat thing is.

00:21:57.340 It's like people, you go to a parking lot and people show up

00:22:00.420 and they park their cars.

00:22:01.940 And then you, they stand there with candy

00:22:04.320 and you just walk to each car in the parking lot and get candy.

00:22:07.000 So I've got my three kids.

00:22:09.140 I'm trying to keep track of them.

00:22:10.320 They're running in 19 different directions at once.

00:22:12.040 Because, you know, that's something kids can do.

00:22:13.980 Kids are like, who's the blue guy in Watchmen

00:22:16.220 who can multiply himself and go in?

00:22:20.680 That's, that's, that's kind of what kids can do.

00:22:22.040 They can multiply themselves and go in multiple directions at once.

00:22:24.500 So I'm trying to keep track of that.

00:22:25.820 It's dark.

00:22:26.400 There are all these other kids there.

00:22:27.800 There are a bunch of cars.

00:22:28.740 Probably, probably, probably literally 6,000 cars with, with candy.

00:22:33.160 And, and none of the kids even say trick or treat anymore.

00:22:35.260 That's not a thing anymore.

00:22:36.620 You just walk up demanding the candy with your bucket out.

00:22:40.000 They get the candy, very businesslike.

00:22:41.600 And then they go to the next one and they go to the other.

00:22:44.100 And it's just total mayhem.

00:22:45.380 The thing that annoyed me the most though,

00:22:47.360 is that I knew we're going to have to do this all over again.

00:22:53.780 We're going to do it tonight.

00:22:54.780 Because what I've discovered as a parent is that these days,

00:22:59.180 you can't just have one holiday celebration.

00:23:01.700 Every holiday is celebrated five or six times.

00:23:05.500 You've got trunk or treat at the church.

00:23:08.400 You've got the Halloween party at school.

00:23:10.480 You've got a Halloween thing somewhere else.

00:23:12.300 And then you got Halloween on Halloween.

00:23:13.960 And then maybe you've got a second Halloween after Halloween.

00:23:16.320 And then Christmas comes and there's, there's, there's Christmas on Christmas.

00:23:19.460 And then Christmas with the grandparents and Christmas with the other grandparents

00:23:22.120 and Christmas with the other family who didn't show up for the other seven Christmases

00:23:25.320 and Christmas parties.

00:23:26.620 And by the end of it, my kids have acquired this truckload of new toys,

00:23:30.720 95% of which they'll be sick of by next Tuesday. 0.89

00:23:34.500 Back in my day, damn it, we had one holiday. 0.65

00:23:38.940 Okay, the whole year. 0.98

00:23:40.080 That's it.

00:23:40.440 My parents said to me, what holiday do you want to celebrate this, this year?

00:23:43.840 You want to do Christmas?

00:23:44.760 You want to do your birthday?

00:23:45.620 You want to do Halloween?

00:23:46.380 Halloween, because you only get one.

00:23:50.140 And if we chose Halloween, we had to walk 10 miles in between each house without shoes on

00:23:57.920 in flooded streets.

00:24:01.120 And we didn't get candy.

00:24:02.260 We gave them candy. 0.99

00:24:03.400 We passed out the candy and we liked it, damn it. 0.98

00:24:07.860 Kids these days have no idea what it was like in the 90s, which is why I get away with 0.99

00:24:12.340 making up crap about it.

00:24:14.960 But we'll go to emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com. 0.92

00:24:19.280 Is that, I don't know if it's just something with my family or if this is just how it is

00:24:24.600 now, where you celebrate each holiday 60 times.

00:24:29.060 Because it really wasn't what I did as a kid.

00:24:31.680 But it seems to be that's the trend now.

00:24:34.580 Or maybe it's just me, I don't know.

00:24:37.600 Or really, it's not me, it's my wife who insists that, you know, each holiday must be

00:24:42.120 celebrated 12 or 13 different times.

00:24:47.320 Okay, from Simon, this says, it says, dear great bearded one, I have proudly worn a beard

00:24:51.480 for a long time, but last night shaved it off into mutton chops to look more like Jake

00:24:55.800 Blue's John Belushi for my Halloween costume.

00:24:59.620 I felt no one would understand the costume if I had the beard.

00:25:02.200 Now the morning after, I see my naked face and I am ashamed, wondering if I have sinned against

00:25:07.660 God and against my future leader, I would appreciate some guidance on this matter.

00:25:12.480 Were my actions appropriate?

00:25:14.500 Simon, first of all, I think you know the answer to the question.

00:25:19.980 The guilt that you're feeling should tell you everything you need to know.

00:25:24.200 Let me ask you something.

00:25:25.440 If you wanted to dress up as an injured Civil War soldier, would you cut your arm off to sell

00:25:31.560 the costume? 0.98

00:25:32.020 If you wanted to be the headless horseman, would you cut your head off?

00:25:37.800 If you were going as Ray Charles, would you blind yourself?

00:25:42.880 And hey, you were going as John Belushi, did you gain 100 pounds?

00:25:47.500 You know, were you method acting as far as that goes?

00:25:52.340 If the answer is no to all of these questions, then you tell me why it was necessary to shave

00:25:58.860 your beard. So no, your actions were not appropriate.

00:26:03.820 They were despicable and a betrayal of the bearded community. 1.00

00:26:08.040 You, sir, are a traitor and a scoundrel. 1.00

00:26:11.660 And may you feel the wrath of God in this life and the next. 1.00

00:26:15.640 But thanks for the email.

00:26:16.820 From Beth says, hi, Matt, what's your take on Halloween?

00:26:19.740 Some of my friends feel strongly that it's a pagan holiday and Christians shouldn't celebrate it.

00:26:23.540 Yes, now we do the annual is Halloween a pagan thing.

00:26:28.500 Every year we have to talk about it.

00:26:29.760 So I appreciate Beth because this has to be our annual discussion about that.

00:26:35.720 No, I don't think that Halloween is pagan. 0.97

00:26:38.600 I think the anti-Halloween stuff among Christians is frankly silly. 0.81

00:26:43.500 Of course, they're free to make their own decisions in their own families about whether 0.95

00:26:47.080 they want to celebrate Halloween or not.

00:26:50.800 But as a matter of history, no, Halloween is not pagan.

00:26:54.400 Actually, at its root, it's a very Christian holiday.

00:26:57.580 Halloween, All Hallows' Eve, All Saints' Eve, tomorrow is All Saints' Day.

00:27:01.360 That's the roots of the holiday.

00:27:03.380 Now, can you trace certain aspects of the modern traditions associated with Halloween

00:27:11.420 back to, quote, pagan cultures a long time ago?

00:27:14.980 I mean, sure, probably.

00:27:18.820 But you can do that with every holiday and probably every tradition you can think of.

00:27:26.200 Probably you could trace some of the associated customs back to, quote, pagan civilizations.

00:27:32.220 Because you go back far enough into the past and almost everyone was a pagan.

00:27:36.260 Certainly all of the major civilizations were pagan.

00:27:40.060 You know, the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, so on and so forth.

00:27:42.740 So, that's part of our human heritage.

00:27:46.040 And therefore, certain aspects of that past, some parts of our traditions, have carried over.

00:27:57.060 And so what?

00:27:59.780 You know, they don't have any pagan meaning anymore.

00:28:02.660 Birthdays.

00:28:03.560 Birthdays are pagan. 0.70

00:28:04.620 I don't know if people knew this.

00:28:07.240 I think the Jehovah's Witnesses know this.

00:28:08.940 I think this is why they don't celebrate birthdays.

00:28:10.660 I'm pretty sure about that.

00:28:12.200 Well, I know they don't celebrate birthdays.

00:28:13.780 I'm not really sure why.

00:28:14.660 But maybe that's the reason.

00:28:16.000 They say, well, it's pagan.

00:28:17.860 And that's actually true.

00:28:19.660 That pagan cultures were the first to celebrate birthdays.

00:28:23.400 I think it was, I think it really, you trace it back to the Egyptians.

00:28:28.640 Don't quote me on this.

00:28:29.720 I'm pretty sure.

00:28:30.300 Google it to check to check.

00:28:31.380 But I'm pretty sure that birthdays, you trace back to the Egyptians, and many of the things,

00:28:36.620 like birthday candles and so on, originally, those were expressly religious things.

00:28:43.580 It was a religious symbolism.

00:28:44.880 It was a pagan religious celebration.

00:28:47.000 Now, Judaism in ancient times, they did mark certain special birthdays, but there was no tradition of celebrating every single birthday in Judaism, which is, you know, we trace our own religious heritage back to that.

00:29:03.940 And so if you want to go back far enough, you say, well, birthdays were not really a Jewish thing.

00:29:09.920 They're not a Christian thing. 0.95

00:29:11.280 They were a pagan thing.

00:29:15.500 But I ask you, when we celebrate birthdays, are we therefore worshiping pagan gods?

00:29:22.460 I mean, obviously not.

00:29:24.260 Just because it's something that originates with paganism doesn't mean that it still has pagan intent or pagan content.

00:29:32.480 Pagans also wore pants.

00:29:33.700 Does that mean we shouldn't wear pants?

00:29:35.860 Are we idol worshiping when we wear pants?

00:29:38.320 It gets absurd after a while.

00:29:40.540 But all of this is irrelevant anyway because Halloween is, in practice, in reality, actually a very modern holiday.

00:29:48.600 All of this history, which, as I said, really begins in Christianity with certain of its associated traditions, perhaps going back to paganism.

00:29:57.520 But all of that is academic because Halloween, as it has become today, is a modern commercial invention.

00:30:05.500 Halloween, the type that we celebrate today, has very little resemblance to anything that anyone did back in ancient times, whether monotheistic or polytheistic.

00:30:16.620 So, really, it is just, it's a modern thing that we do.

00:30:23.580 It's just a silly tradition. 0.66

00:30:26.160 It's not a big deal.

00:30:28.580 Now, if you're telling me you don't do Halloween just because it's a hassle and you don't feel like dealing with it, then I'm with you.

00:30:33.840 Because that I totally understand. 0.82

00:30:35.380 But if you're telling me that you're worried that all the people who are celebrating Halloween are sort of accidentally worshipping pagan gods or something, then I have to say that I find that to be a little bit ridiculous. 0.57

00:30:48.240 This is from Mitchell, says,

00:30:49.440 After reflecting on LGBTQ History Month, a particular idea kept pestering me, the search for a non-binary pronoun.

00:30:56.700 The currently prevailing notion is they-them, but this solution fails grammatically.

00:31:01.200 We need a singular pronoun. 0.98

00:31:02.820 And this brings me to what I call the it argument.

00:31:05.380 The English language already has a genderless pronoun, it.

00:31:08.840 But certainly referring to another person as an it would be deemed rude and downright dehumanizing, which is correct, but why?

00:31:14.720 We, for the most part, use the word it to describe subjects or objects that are not men or women, i.e. inanimate or animals.

00:31:21.700 For example, if you were to pay a compliment to a parent of a baby and didn't know the gender, you wouldn't call the baby an it.

00:31:26.920 You would just call the baby a baby.

00:31:28.900 However, you wouldn't be so careful with regards to a person's car or pet goldfish or even dog.

00:31:32.900 If the starting position of a non-binary person is, I am not a man and I am also not a woman, 0.61

00:31:38.520 then they have coincidentally put themselves in the same group as inanimate objects and animals, thus dehumanizing themselves.

00:31:43.860 I submit that by rejecting it as a sufficient pronoun on the grounds that it is dehumanizing,

00:31:48.840 they are seeding the idea that being a man or woman is an integral part of the human condition.

00:31:53.120 I'm a long-time viewer, first-time emailer, and I would love to hear your thoughts on this argument.

00:31:56.320 Does it hold water or could it be improved?

00:31:58.020 I would say it does hold water.

00:31:59.920 I don't think I can improve on it.

00:32:01.000 I think you're exactly right.

00:32:03.640 And I think I'm not even going to add to it.

00:32:06.060 I think you have landed on something, on an important insight here.

00:32:13.420 That when you get rid of the he or she, I think the people who do that realize that it's kind of dehumanizing.

00:32:26.320 So they're trying to come up with a pronoun that isn't he or she, but that also isn't dehumanizing,

00:32:31.760 and they have a lot of difficulty doing it, which is one of the reasons we talked a few weeks ago

00:32:34.540 about all the made-up pronouns now.

00:32:36.740 Because they're just, yeah, they're trying to avoid the most obvious thing would be it.

00:32:43.060 But nobody wants to be an it for good reason.

00:32:46.640 And so, yeah, maybe that should make you think that, oh, okay, well,

00:32:50.480 so maybe it is integral to the human person to be a he or she,

00:32:53.620 and I should just stick with that because I am a human being.

00:32:56.380 I'm not an it.

00:32:57.080 This is from Antonio, says,

00:33:00.340 Hi, Matt, I hope you'll be supreme dictator one day.

00:33:03.420 I would like to ask you 10 yes-no questions.

00:33:06.640 I think that if the questions are correctly formulated,

00:33:10.380 this interviewing method is very interesting.

00:33:12.860 Let's see if you can give me 10 yes-no.

00:33:15.920 One, should abortion be illegal?

00:33:18.380 Yes.

00:33:19.460 That was an easy one.

00:33:20.860 Two, should sex change operations be illegal?

00:33:24.900 Yes.

00:33:25.300 Three, were the many accusers of Kavanaugh lying?

00:33:31.140 Yes.

00:33:32.600 Four, should Jussie Smollett go to jail? 1.00

00:33:35.180 Yes.

00:33:36.620 Five, is Islam a religion of peace?

00:33:39.280 No.

00:33:40.260 Six, will you send your children to university?

00:33:44.040 That one I can't do yes or no because, first of all,

00:33:47.060 it's not going to be totally up to me.

00:33:49.920 So that one I'm going to have to do N.A. on that one.

00:33:53.560 Not applicable at the moment.

00:33:54.760 I'm not sure.

00:33:55.800 Seven, would you like to know the day of your death?

00:33:58.780 No.

00:33:59.580 Eight, would you take a pill that would guarantee eternal life?

00:34:02.160 No.

00:34:03.340 Are you talking about eternal mortal life?

00:34:05.640 Well, mortal, no, I guess it's not because it's eternal,

00:34:07.460 but eternal life in this world where I'm just living in this physical body forever?

00:34:12.120 There are a lot of problems there.

00:34:13.360 I mean, for instance, eventually the Earth itself will be destroyed.

00:34:18.180 I mean, eventually our entire solar system, eventually our whole galaxy will be destroyed.

00:34:22.220 And then if I'm still around, I'll just be floating around in space for eternity.

00:34:26.340 That sounds horrifying.

00:34:29.360 Nine, will Trump be reelected?

00:34:31.720 I'll say yes if the left and the media, the Democrats, continue on their current trajectory

00:34:36.840 and continue with their current strategy, then I would say yes, he will be.

00:34:41.240 Ten, is feminism a cancer of Western society? 1.00

00:34:43.740 Yes.

00:34:45.120 Well, it was a fun exercise.

00:34:46.040 I don't know.

00:34:46.400 I wish you challenged me a little bit more with the yes or no questions.

00:34:48.660 Most of those were pretty easy.

00:34:50.300 So what I would say, Antonio, is maybe try again.

00:34:53.020 I mean, really challenge me.

00:34:54.280 Give me something hard here.

00:34:55.040 But thanks, everybody, for watching and hope you have a nice Halloween, a fun Halloween,

00:35:02.440 if that's even possible.

00:35:03.460 And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:35:04.540 Godspeed.

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00:35:48.160 Hey, everyone.

00:35:48.740 It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:35:50.720 Well, it is Halloween, and that means overexcited children pretending to be what they're not

00:35:54.800 will be coming around your house asking you to give them your stuff.

00:35:58.680 So it's kind of like the Democrat primaries.

00:36:01.180 Scary.

00:36:02.140 We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:36:04.220 I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 31, 2019

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