00:10:21.600That person, the real whistleblower, came out.
00:10:24.700Well, it didn't come out publicly, but published something anonymously with Project Veritas just to try to, I guess, realizing that someone else is being framed for the deed.
00:10:35.700And what they published, it's worth going and checking out what they had to say.
00:10:41.360But it says, in part, I came forward with this information bearing no motives other than to have this information public.
00:10:47.700I did not and do not seek any personal gain from this information, whether it be financial or otherwise, and will always decline.
00:10:53.880When I became aware of this moment, I had the same reaction as many of you did.
00:11:07.740I sit here with all of you in complete shock.
00:11:09.620I, like many, are at a loss for words on how this has been handled.
00:11:13.600Instead of addressing this head-on like the company has in the past, it has spun into a mission of seek and destroy.
00:11:19.120Innocent people that have absolutely nothing to do with this are being hunted down as if we're all sport.
00:11:23.120I challenge all of you to actually look inwards and remember why this company engages in journalism.
00:11:27.780We all hold the First Amendment at the foundation of this company, yet forget its history, its purpose, and its reasoning for even coming into existence.
00:11:36.160To begin with, how lost we are, yearning to be found.
00:11:39.940I went to Project Veritas for the sole reason that any other media outlet would have probably shelved this as well.
00:11:46.960I thank all of them and James for seeking the truth.
00:11:57.260They're still trying to track this person down.
00:11:59.420By the way, in case you were wondering, the rest of media has continued their blackout of this story.
00:12:07.080One of the most blatant blackouts of a story that I can think of, aside from the yearly blackout that they do of the March for Life every year,
00:12:23.400when there are 500,000 people marching down the street in Washington, D.C.,
00:12:27.540literally walking through the front yard of these people, and it gets hardly any coverage by the media.
00:12:33.620So it's sort of on that level in terms of everyone in the media being on the same page that we're not going to talk about this thing.
00:12:41.460Brian Stelter, CNN's media reporter, did his show on CNN yesterday.
00:12:48.960It's a weekly show that he does on Sundays.
00:14:10.120It was just they pretended it wasn't happening.
00:14:11.820And this shows, again, what fake news really consists of and how it works, what media bias really means.
00:14:22.320Because the way people talk about the media, the critics of the media, the way that they, or I should say we, often talk about the media and media bias,
00:14:34.120it's as if we're saying that the media literally invents stories out of whole cloth.
00:14:40.000Well, not literally invents stories out of whole cloth.
00:14:43.760I mean, no one thinks that they're actually building a story out of cloth.
00:14:46.900But anyway, we talk about it as if we're saying that the media is just making up stories off the top of their head and reporting it.
00:14:57.020Now, that might happen sometimes, or something close to that might happen sometimes.
00:15:01.280But that's not generally the way media bias and fake news works.
00:15:05.240And it's important for us to realize this so we know what we're dealing with.
00:15:08.820In reality, the bias is much more insidious.
00:15:12.140And it's more insidious because it's less glaring.
00:15:17.280Though this time it's pretty damned glaring.
00:15:19.980But the real bias, the most damaging kind of bias, is in how they choose which stories to ignore.
00:15:28.280So that's how you know if they're really worried about something.
00:15:32.540Not because they're making up stories, but if they just ignore it and pretend it's not happening.
00:15:40.040And the good thing for them is when they do that, they can always turn around and say,
00:15:45.440Oh, what do you mean? This isn't fake news.
00:17:25.880Now, what PolitiFact tries to do here, the move they pull, is to say that, well, yeah, the candidates said they would provide health care to illegals, but they never said it would be free.
00:17:57.920I mean, does anyone have any doubt that if you asked any of these candidates whether a poor illegal immigrant with no money should still get coverage, does anyone have any doubt that they would all say yes?
00:18:09.280So they don't need to say free, but this is, once again, it's the lie by omission.
00:18:17.560PolitiFact says, well, they never said free.
00:18:19.680Yeah, but you're leaving out the fact that that is implied.
00:18:22.980When Democrats are talking about health care, the free part is implied.
00:18:27.880Okay, here are some poll results that I'm seeing shared around on social media that are, I think, pretty interesting.
00:18:52.380Almost half of Protestants, over half of Catholics, almost 80% of religiously unaffiliated, all of them say, sure, no need to be married to raise kids.
00:19:02.360Now, technically, there is a way to understand this question that could justify those results.
00:19:12.920The question was, can, not is likely to.
00:19:17.980So technically, you could say, well, what if you've got an abusive, alcoholic, married couple compared to sober, non-abusive, unmarried parents?
00:19:32.160Couldn't the unmarried ones in that scenario do a better job of parenting or at least as good a job?
00:19:39.240And sure, but that's, so if the question is, can, is it logically possible?
00:19:44.860Well, yeah, it's logically possible, but that's, it's not really what the question seems to imply.
00:19:49.860It seems to imply that to 60% of Americans, there isn't much of a difference between married and unmarried couples when it comes to their abilities to, to raise kids.
00:20:00.500And that is just completely foolish and also pretty concerning.
00:20:05.120When you consider that a certain portion of the people answering that question or who have that opinion haven't had kids yet themselves.
00:20:13.320And so what they're revealing is that, you know, if I ever have kids, I don't see any reason why I have to be married first.
00:20:18.460One of the, if I could just explain briefly for anyone who's confused on this, one of the most important things that you can give to a child, one of the most essential needs of a child, besides the basics of food, water, clothing, shelter, all that.
00:20:40.140But one of the most essential, deeper human needs of a child is security.
00:20:44.320And I'm not just talking about physical security, although there's that, but also emotional, spiritual, psychological security.
00:20:51.640That knowledge, that feeling that he's in a stable environment where both parents are committed to each other and to the family and they aren't going to leave, they aren't going to give up, they aren't going to abandon, they aren't going to cut and run.
00:21:03.920Um, when you aren't married and you're raising kids, you simply cannot provide that kind of security to the child, which is something the child needs.
00:21:15.520In fact, you are refusing to provide it.
00:21:18.620You are, you are clearly refusing it in principle.
00:21:23.420You're saying to the kid, even if you're not saying it out loud, the implication is what you're saying is, yeah, I could leave anytime.
00:21:28.780That's why I'm not getting married is because I want to have the ability to leave.
00:21:33.920And maybe a child at a very young age can't put two and two together on that.
00:21:38.000Doesn't really understand what marriage is versus not marriage.
00:21:40.440But as a child gets older, they're going to put that together and realize that the only reason you're not getting married is because you want to have the option of leaving.
00:21:51.340And that is very traumatic for a child.
00:21:55.080I mean, I can remember, um, as a kid, when I first, my parents were married, but, and growing up, you know, as a very young child, before I went to school, even the idea of parents leaving and marriages falling apart, just, I, it never occurred to me.
00:22:36.500Um, and, and I remember going to school and with all these, and I start meeting all these kids with divorced parents.
00:22:45.160And that was, I, I can very, I can remember distinctly when that realization dawned on me, that that was even an option, that that was even a thing that could happen.
00:22:58.320And that's really difficult for a child.
00:23:00.860So I remember going home to my mom and, and bring this up to her and saying, you know, I'm worried that you and dad are going to, are you and dad going to get divorced?
00:23:09.280And I was saying that not because of things I'd seen in the home, but just because of things I'd heard from my friends at school.
00:23:28.980And I believed her, but being able to believe her, if she had tried to say that to me, if she had tried to sit me down and say, look, your dad,
00:23:39.260dad and I, we're never going to leave each other.
00:23:40.720We're in this for the long haul where, you know, we're, we're, we're all together.
00:23:54.580And being able to believe it was really important for me.
00:23:57.720I think for my development as a child to just know that I'm, that I'm safe when I go home and that this thing we've got going on in the house, it's not going to fall apart.
00:24:10.260And you got to be able to give that to a kid.
00:24:12.120Now, of course, there are, you know, we're talking about divorce.
00:24:15.700So there are children who think they have that, that kind of security, and then find out they don't.
00:24:23.700But the ideal here, the point is that we should be giving that to a child, which means getting married and, and then importantly, actually staying married.
00:24:33.920Okay, let's go to emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.
00:24:41.840Actually, before we get to emails, I did have one other thing to say.
00:24:44.380The, the important issue that I, I didn't want to gloss over the Popeye's chicken sandwich that everyone's been talking about.
00:24:52.860I finally, I finally had a chance to try it.
00:27:02.280You know, they're not going to, they're not going to do that for you, but, um, when it comes down to the food, it's just, I think there's no denying it.
00:27:08.140The Popeye's chicken sandwich is just better.
00:27:28.140Um, I really enjoyed your piece of music you played last week.
00:27:31.400I listened to it over and over and was deeply inspired and found it spiritually uplifting.
00:27:35.280I recently argued with a friend regarding discrimination of the basis of religion.
00:27:40.340I have difficulties understanding why it's wrong.
00:27:42.700Unlike race, which one is born with religion is a set of viewpoints and moral values that a man can accept or reject.
00:27:49.560So why is it at all wrong to discriminate?
00:27:52.260If I believe that one, that one's beliefs are bigoted or wrong.
00:27:55.660I was thinking maybe there's a distinction between kids who are raised with a certain religion and didn't choose it to adults who can decide for themselves.
00:28:23.420As for your third question, I took it.
00:28:24.880I took the theocratic fascist thing down for a time because I thought it was important for me to emphasize my preferred pronouns, which are we, us, our.
00:28:59.020What, uh, if you're confused, when you're faced with a parental situation or decision, basically what you're going to say to yourself is what's the right thing to do.
00:29:12.020So you may be tempted sometimes to do the wrong thing, but what I would recommend is don't do that thing, the wrong one, do the right one.
00:29:20.860And, um, anyway, I'm writing a parenting advice book in which I sort of flesh this out in more detail because I know it can be a little overwhelming at times.
00:29:28.840As for your first question about discrimination based on religion, it depends on what kind of discrimination you're talking about.
00:29:34.260Uh, you, as a private citizen, I agree, have every right to discriminate against me based on the fact that I'm Catholic.
00:30:15.700Um, that's what freedom of religion really protects.
00:30:19.020That's why it's folded into the first amendment.
00:30:21.400It protects your right to believe what you believe and to say what you believe.
00:30:27.140And, and those two rights are fundamental to us as, as human beings.
00:30:31.380Um, you say that religion is a choice.
00:30:36.200Well, I don't, in a sense, yes, but in another sense, no, because is it really a choice to believe something?
00:30:46.920I would argue that it's, it's kind of not really a choice to believe because you, you either believe something or you don't.
00:30:53.060So what you can't do is just get up one day and decide that, okay, I'm going to believe such and such or get up and decide, oh, I believe this.
00:31:05.800So if, if, if, when we talk about choice, if what we mean is that, you know, the ability to just switch courses and you're, you're, you're walking that direction and you choose to walk to walk another direction.
00:31:17.980If we're talking about that sort of choice, then in a sense, no, religion and belief is not a choice because you either believe it or you don't.
00:31:27.480Um, you can make choices that eventually lead you to certain conclusions that you hadn't arrived at before.
00:31:35.720And can, you can make a series of choices that lead you in the direction of developing a new belief system or losing a belief system that you had before.
00:31:45.400Um, you can choose to, uh, listen to someone as they're explaining their belief system.
00:31:51.160And you could choose to take that seriously and consider what they believe.
00:31:55.220So you can make all those choices, but what you can't do is just at the, at the drop of a hat, snapping your fingers, choose to believe something or to not believe something.
00:32:04.660And that again is why it's so important that we have this freedom because whatever you think about religion, whether it doesn't matter for the, for the government to come in and say, you can't believe that.
00:32:20.920Well, it's not only is that tyranny, but it's, it would be impossible to follow that or for the government to come and say, you have to believe this.
00:32:29.940Like for the government to impose a state religion and say, Hey, if you live here, you have to believe this religion.
00:32:37.580What if I don't, what if I can't, what if I just don't believe it?
00:32:43.540So that's, um, those are the things to keep in mind.
00:32:47.280And, and again, but the most important thing is when we're talking about freedom of religion, even if you're not a religious person, I don't know if you are or not, but.
00:32:54.660But even if you're not a religious person, you should still take freedom of religion seriously.
00:33:01.620And it's still important to you because it's not just religion per se that it's protecting.
00:33:07.000It's your right to believe things and you have your own belief system, whatever it happens to be.
00:33:11.820And so the freedom of religion protects that.
00:33:14.400Also first amendment protects that, uh, broadly speaking.
00:33:17.800Okay, let's go to Travis, uh, says thoroughly enjoyed your banjo song.