The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 399 - Media Continues To Mourn Beloved Terrorist

00:00:00.000 So, did you see this photo? It's Soleimani flying home to Iran. He's on his flight.

00:00:06.200 His casket is there. Look at the photo right now. This is apparently him flying home

00:00:10.780 in his casket. His casket's in the seat. And people are saying this is weird. It's weird

00:00:16.760 for the remains of a global mass killer to be flown home commercial in a box. But the thing is,

00:00:23.220 in fairness, I know people are reacting to this, but in fairness, this is how everybody flies on

00:00:28.860 United now. It's the new policy, unless you pay for the living person upgrade, which is just $89.99,

00:00:34.020 by the way. Speaking of Soleimani, you know, the media is still in a state of mourning over his

00:00:39.700 passing. And ABC went so far as to send a reporter to Iran to very somberly and respectfully cover the

00:00:48.660 terrorist funeral. Martha Raddatz was on the scene there in Iran. And I think you just need to,

00:00:55.980 well, you just need to see this. Good morning, Robin. I have been in the

00:01:00.340 midst of anti-American protests in Iran before, but nothing like this. A powerful combination of

00:01:06.660 grief and anger with shouts of death to America echoing through the streets around us.

00:01:14.420 This morning, mourners filling the streets of Iran's capital of Tehran for the funeral of

00:01:20.980 General Soleimani, killed by that U.S. drone strike last week. Aerial images capturing the sea of

00:01:28.960 Iranians, packing the streets to pay tribute to a man revered by many here.

00:01:34.760 Trump made a big mistake. He killed our hero.

00:01:39.260 Soleimani's image everywhere. The impact of his death, profound.

00:01:43.760 The crowds are massive and emotional. There are many tears here, many signs with Soleimani's picture

00:01:50.740 on them. But the message is also very clear. These people want revenge.

00:01:56.340 Are we human or not?

00:01:58.380 As we made our way through the streets of Tehran, people surrounding us, shouting death to America.

00:02:05.420 We will have very hard rebrand of Mr. Trump.

00:02:08.600 Inside the funeral service, the emotion just as powerful. The supreme leader of Iran,

00:02:15.560 weeping and praying over a coffin draped in the Iraqi flag. This is the largest funeral in Iran

00:02:22.620 since the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.

00:02:27.040 Hard revenge. Doesn't that sound like a Dolph Lundgren movie? Sounds like a B-list action movie from the

00:02:34.260 80s. Hard revenge. But you get the idea anyway. This is pure Iranian propaganda. 1.00

00:02:41.420 The Iranian government couldn't have scripted it any better. I mean, maybe they did script it. I don't 1.00

00:02:46.520 know. No mention of the fact that Soleimani was a murderous scumbag. No mention of him attacking our

00:02:54.600 embassy or killing our troops. No mention of his oppression and torture of many thousands of people.

00:03:00.400 No, instead, we get the story of Soleimani, the beloved hero, now mourned by millions.

00:03:07.880 Which, as far as that goes, the media has been very impressed with the turnout for his funeral

00:03:12.880 and for all the mourning, the millions of people in the street. Mourning is passing. But remember,

00:03:19.400 this is Iran. So when you hear that millions of people are out bewailing the death of a government

00:03:26.260 official, it's a bit like hearing that there's a 99.99% voter turnout in North Korea or something

00:03:34.400 like that. If you don't show up for the funeral of the dead government official, you could be taking

00:03:43.440 your life into your hands. So the fact that everybody's out there, I'm not sure we should

00:03:48.260 be impressed by that. By the way, side note, maybe you had the same thought when you were watching that

00:03:54.200 clip there. Martha has, as you notice, the scarf, you know, the hijab on her head there. Which is kind 0.95

00:04:03.280 of interesting because, of course, in fundamentalist Muslim cultures, women aren't allowed to show their 0.99

00:04:10.680 heads. Women really can't show any part of their body except for their hands and their faces. And in 1.00

00:04:15.640 fact, in the most extreme cases, they can't even show their faces. And why is that? Well, because a woman 1.00

00:04:22.420 in these cultures, a woman is owned by the men in her life, her father and then her husband. And for 0.99

00:04:30.080 her to let anyone see her head aside from her male owner would be a great sin. Now, feminists in this 1.00

00:04:37.880 country complain about the patriarchy and about the alleged systematic oppression of women and so on.

00:04:44.960 But there is no patriarchy here. There is no systematic oppression of women. Women can do and say 1.00

00:04:50.440 whatever they want in this country. They can even, as I've gone over many times, they have more rights

00:04:56.140 in this country than men do. They can do things. They have power and authority that men do not have.

00:05:03.200 In fact, very profound power and authority. They can kill their children without the consent of the

00:05:08.800 father. They have power over life and death, judge, jury, and executioner. That's what they can do in this

00:05:13.240 country. Yet in this country, feminists still complain that they're being oppressed. And they look for the 1.00

00:05:20.280 patriarchy around every corner and they try to find every opportunity they can to label something 1.00

00:05:24.900 patriarchal oppression. But then they go to Iran, a truly patriarchal country. You want to know what 0.62

00:05:30.260 the patriarchy looks like? It looks like Iran. That's what the patriarchy is. You've got a country 0.72

00:05:35.820 where women are really oppressed, where they can't even show their heads in public. And Martha Raddatz 1.00

00:05:43.280 goes there and she wears the scarf on the head in order to respect the custom. That's what I saw

00:05:50.180 online. There was this discussion on social media about the fact that she's wearing that. And the

00:05:58.980 defense that I saw from people as well, she's respecting the local customs. So if it's an anti-woman

00:06:05.740 custom, if it's an oppressive patriarchal custom, you'll respect it. Really? You don't do that here.

00:06:12.620 Or you wouldn't do that here, I should say, because there really aren't any oppressive

00:06:17.480 patriarchal customs here in this country. But you certainly wouldn't. And even many of our customs

00:06:23.500 that are not patriarchal or oppressive, we're told that we don't have to worry about those customs

00:06:28.160 anymore. So as long as it's a Muslim custom, then you'll respect it. Since when do leftists care 0.96

00:06:36.320 about customs? You know, that's, it's, in this country, they couldn't give a damn about custom.

00:06:42.080 Custom, tradition, not only do they not care about it, but they'll say it should be torn down just

00:06:48.800 for the sake of it. You should tear down old traditions just because they are old traditions.

00:06:54.800 But Muslim customs, even anti-woman ones, even ones that treat your entire body like it's shameful, 0.98

00:07:00.980 like it is the, the, the owned property of a man. Uh, well, those customs, we have to respect,

00:07:07.620 respect those customs. I mean, in this country, think about a feminist complain, um, uh, you know, 1.00

00:07:13.940 that the patriarchy won't let them go topless at the beach. That's pretty much anytime we talk about

00:07:18.880 it in the past when I've talked about the fact that women have all the rights that men do in this

00:07:22.060 country and, and even rights that we don't have. And so the, the fight for women's rights in this

00:07:27.800 country is over. The one example I'm always given, there's always somebody who says, well,

00:07:32.940 wait a second. Uh, women can, women aren't allowed to take their shirts off in public, but men can, 1.00

00:07:38.640 which actually, I don't even think that's true anymore. I think in pretty much every,

00:07:43.820 pretty much anywhere you go, uh, or most places in this country now it's, it's, you know, if, if,

00:07:49.460 if it's a place where men can take their shirts off, technically women can too in, in many places in 1.00

00:07:53.780 this country. So that's not even really true anymore. Um, but I mean, just think about that.

00:08:01.920 So in this country, that's a custom that shouldn't be respected.

00:08:08.000 But again, the fundamentalist Muslim custom of, of, of, you know, in other words,

00:08:13.000 if I were to defend, if there are any laws anymore saying that women can't take their shirts off in 1.00

00:08:20.220 public, but men can, if I were to defend that by saying, well, you know, that's our custom. That's

00:08:24.040 our, that's our social convention. And maybe in Europe and some other places, it's, it's, it's a

00:08:29.080 little bit more libertine, but that that's not the way that it is in this country. So if I were to

00:08:34.740 defend it on that basis, no liberal would be convinced by that because they would demand to

00:08:41.440 know, okay, well, why is it a custom? Who cares if it's a custom? I'm not going to respect it just

00:08:45.020 because it's a custom, but no, you go to a fundamentalist Muslim country, they put where

00:08:51.700 they put women in bags essentially. Um, but that one, yes, with, with, with the utmost reverence,

00:08:57.940 we must respect those customs. It's absurd. Now you could point out that, uh, Raditz had to dress

00:09:04.060 that way because if she didn't, she'd be stoned to death. And that's fair. That's a fair point. Um,

00:09:09.900 I, I, if I were her, I certainly wouldn't want to be stoned to death either. But if you have to

00:09:15.760 submit to oppression in order to go there, and you're only going there in the first place to do

00:09:22.060 a puff piece about a terrorist who died, then maybe don't go, maybe don't go and do the puff piece.

00:09:30.800 So you are debasing yourself, submitting to patriarchal oppression, covering yourself in shame.

00:09:37.820 Uh, just so that you can go there and tell us what a wonderful guy this terrorist was.

00:09:47.740 Maybe, maybe don't. That's my thought. Maybe don't.

00:09:52.460 Anyway, we're not done yet with the, with the media's mourning. Um, because the media is not

00:09:56.760 done mourning. Tom Elliott has put together a montage of the media wailing over the death of

00:10:01.740 their hero. And it's, well, again, it's just something you have to see. Watch this.

00:10:06.180 He was a war hero, the commander of Iran's feared Quds Force. Qasem Soleimani was no ordinary general.

00:10:14.340 The U.S. officially classified him as a terrorist, but in Iran, he was a national hero.

00:10:19.340 He's regarded as personally, incredibly brave. The troops love him. I was trying to think of

00:10:23.720 somebody. I was thinking of De Gaulle. A revered figure in Iran and some other places in the Middle

00:10:28.520 East. Smart, charismatic, ruthless, strategic, and bold. His power made Iranians proud. But even 1.00

00:10:35.400 many of Soleimani's enemies admitted he was a military genius. Qasem Soleimani was an evil genius.

00:10:42.840 Soleimani was in charge of spreading Iranian influence around the world, and he was extremely good at it.

00:10:49.800 He is the, think of the French Foreign Legion, you know, if you will. By killing Qasem Soleimani,

00:10:55.120 the U.S. has stripped Iran of an inspirational military leader. The crowds are massive and emotional.

00:11:01.700 There are many tears here. Thousands of mourners on the streets in Iran. Symbolic caskets aloft,

00:11:08.280 weeping and chanting, I am Soleimani. The supreme leader of Iran, weeping and praying over a coffin

00:11:16.000 draped in the Iraqi flag. Smart, charismatic, ruthless, bold, strategic. 0.61

00:11:25.040 Do you think they eulogized bin Laden that way? Did the media? Bin Laden was smart. He was strategic.

00:11:32.380 He was bold. He had a following of a lot of people who loved him. Yet when he died, for some reason,

00:11:40.220 the media didn't use those kinds of words to describe him, did they? Well, why is that?

00:11:47.100 Because it would be completely crazy and inappropriate. And the fact that he's smart is not the point.

00:11:56.600 Okay, that's not what he's going to be remembered for. Bin Laden is remembered and will always be 0.99

00:12:02.020 remembered as one of history's great villains, as a mass murderer. And so, in this country,

00:12:06.600 that's how we eulogize him, or should eulogize him. Same for Soleimani. But the difference is,

00:12:13.820 the reason why the media is using these kinds of descriptors for Soleimani, but they didn't for

00:12:20.120 bin Laden, what's the difference? Well, of course, the difference is that bin Laden was killed under

00:12:25.680 Obama, and Soleimani was killed under Trump. And that's the difference. That's the only difference.

00:12:40.500 Of course, we know, it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, we know that if this was Trump,

00:12:48.320 or if this was Obama who had done this, it would be entirely different. The descriptions of strategic,

00:12:53.860 bold, and genius, that would be applied to Obama and his mission to kill Soleimani. That's the way

00:13:05.200 it would go. But because it's Trump, no, he's not the strategic, bold genius for doing it. It's the

00:13:11.480 guy he killed that was the strategic, bold genius. All right, and then there's Colin Kaepernick.

00:13:17.260 Um, you know, Colin Kaepernick, he wants you to know, by the way, that he's still very much

00:13:23.900 oppressed. And in reaction to the killing of Soleimani, Kaepernick sent out a few tweets of

00:13:29.400 his own, which, first of all, I went to his Twitter page just to find these tweets. And can

00:13:33.880 we just take a look at his Twitter page for a second? I don't know if you've seen this, but

00:13:36.700 take a look at it. This is what this is. I'm not making this up. This is what his Twitter page

00:13:40.560 looks like. He's got eight pictures of himself at the top of his page. His page is decorated with

00:13:48.120 eight pictures of himself. And every photo has that pensive, thoughtful, persecuted look to it.

00:13:55.160 It's, it's amazing. I mean, how did that conversation even go? His social media manager

00:14:01.520 or whatever, you know, said to Kaepernick, hey, we, uh, we got your page set up and we've got your

00:14:05.720 header with a really nice photo of you. I think you'll like it. Check it out. And he says, no,

00:14:10.480 needs, needs more me. Okay. So we'll add another photo. No more. Okay. We'll put three photos up

00:14:16.800 of you more five more, more, more, more, more me. Put up all the photos, all the photos of me,

00:14:25.120 put them all up there. Anyway. So, um, to his, uh, his, his very narcissistically adorned Twitter

00:14:33.540 page, he posted a few tweets and this is what he said. He said, there is nothing new about American

00:14:38.420 terrorist. Uh, there is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against black and brown people 0.55

00:14:43.080 for the expansion of American imperialism. And then he said, America has always sanctioned and

00:14:49.140 besieged black and brown bodies, both at home and abroad. American militarism is the weapon wielded by 0.86

00:14:55.160 American imperialism to enforce its policing and plundering of the non-white world. So killing 0.99

00:15:01.940 Soleimani who was, who has tortured and murdered, murdered thousands in his life, um, not just white 0.96

00:15:08.880 people, by the way, that is a terrorist attack against brown people, we're told. And America is 0.61

00:15:17.940 always sanctioning and besieging black and brown people. He says, well, let's, let's think about this. 1.00

00:15:23.660 How has Kaepernick himself been sanctioned and besieged by America? Let's take a look at that.

00:15:31.940 Kaepernick was paid to play a game for six years. And, and, and during that time he made well over

00:15:38.100 $40 million. Then he flunks out of the league because his production is declining and he's not

00:15:43.820 worth the trouble anymore. Once he starts with the, with the Anthem antics, it becomes a PR nightmare.

00:15:48.240 Nobody wants to bother with him. And so he leaves, he's, he leaves the league. He flunks out,

00:15:54.120 ends up signing a deal with Nike worth millions and millions of dollars. And then he sues the NFL

00:16:00.560 and gets paid something reportedly in the range of 60 to $80 million. Uh, and then Nike just a few

00:16:06.940 weeks ago or a few months ago released, uh, Kaepernick's new shoe. He's got a shoe coming

00:16:11.440 out. He's got his own shoe, even though he's a failed NFL player. He's not an athlete anymore.

00:16:15.500 He's a professional victim, but he's got his own shoe. So this is sanctioning and besieging to be a

00:16:20.860 professional football player turned professional victim, obscenely rich, famous, hailed by the media,

00:16:28.280 millions of, of fans adore him as a hero for doing nothing at all. Really? This is sanctioning

00:16:35.460 and besieging. This is the persecution that Kaepernick has suffered. All I can say is,

00:16:42.600 and I'm sure you're with me on this, please somebody besiege me in this way. I would love

00:16:49.120 to be besieged with a hundred million dollars. Please. I beg someone persecute me in the way that

00:16:54.460 Colin Kaepernick has been persecuted. I would, I would, I would love that kind of persecution that,

00:16:59.760 you know, there's, there's a lot of persecution that goes on in the world, uh, that doesn't look

00:17:04.340 quite so fun, but, but the Kaepernick persecution. Yeah. I think I would, I think I could go for that. 0.87

00:17:12.460 I could get used to that. All right. Let's take a look at this. Speaking of frauds and charlatan,

00:17:18.420 Jim Baker, Jim Baker is a televangelist, convicted fraudster, accused rapist, allegedly raped his

00:17:26.820 secretary back in the eighties, paid her off, um, was kicked out of ministry, then gets convicted on

00:17:32.320 multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, went to prison for that. Um, and

00:17:39.940 basically through his whole career, he's, it's just been one scandal after another. Most of the scandals

00:17:44.140 are sexual or financial in nature, but he's back to being a televangelist now somehow, somehow people

00:17:50.360 still go and listen to this guy deliver sermons. Now, the good news is, I guess, uh, if I, if we're

00:17:57.040 going to give, uh, old, uh, Baker, uh, credit for one thing, he's not a prosperity gospel preacher

00:18:02.480 anymore. He used to, he used to be a prosperity gospel charlatan back in the eighties before he went

00:18:06.800 to prison. And he, uh, and that's the, that's the idea that if you're really holy and you pray a lot,

00:18:12.520 God will give you lots of money and make you rich, which means that of course, if you're not rich,

00:18:18.900 if you're poor, it means that you're not holy and you haven't prayed enough. So that used to be his 1.00

00:18:23.260 thing, but he went to prison and he says that he read his Bible in prison and he realized he was

00:18:28.460 wrong. So this is a guy who's, I think he's 80 years old now. And I believe, uh, and he went to

00:18:34.920 prison and he was in the prison in the nineties, early nineties. So he read his Bible all the way

00:18:41.740 through for the first time when he was what, like 50. He'd been in ministry his whole life.

00:18:49.580 Finally, in his fifties, he says, you know what, maybe I'll pick this thing up and read it.

00:18:54.140 So he just read it recently, only recently realized what's even in the Bible.

00:18:59.680 Yet people still go to him to hear his theological opinions. I think he got out of prison in like 94,

00:19:06.160 95, got back into ministry in 2003 or four. So it's only been eight years since this 50 plus

00:19:13.680 year old man even read his Bible and he's a televangelist. And people are going back to him

00:19:19.600 to hear what he has to say about theology. It's amazing. And he delivered one of those theological

00:19:26.200 opinions this week. Let's take a listen to it. You know what? Trump is a test whether you're even

00:19:33.620 saved. Only safe people can love Trump. No, you got to be really saved. You got to forgive.

00:19:43.580 You got to be able to forget. You forgive when you're saved. So there you go. If you don't love

00:19:48.060 Trump, you aren't saved. That's Baker's new grift. You know, you see, he, he, he just moved on from

00:19:54.400 one scam to the other. His old scam was prosperity theology. That didn't work. He took his own advice

00:19:59.280 a little bit too much, ended up in federal prison, but he gets out and eventually reinvents himself

00:20:06.540 and his theology, starts pandering to the Trump crowd, starts getting more political, realizes

00:20:12.620 there's an audience there. And now he says that no wealth is not the test of whether you're saved.

00:20:18.760 Trump is the test. So it's a, it's a, it's not a, it's not an economic or financial litmus

00:20:25.840 test that gets you into heaven. It's a political one. God's going to check your scorecard, check

00:20:32.720 your voting record, decide based on that. All I could say is, you know, obviously it's not

00:20:40.140 worth our time to break this down and explain why this charlatan fraud scamming people,

00:20:48.760 so on and so forth, uh, is wrong about this. It's not worth the time, but it does just bring

00:20:57.640 up again, you know, this, this guy has an audience, people that watch him on TV, people that go to,

00:21:06.060 to, to, uh, to his, you know, whatever, listen to him speak. Why it is such, and he's not the only

00:21:16.900 one, of course, you know, there's a, there's a, a lot of them out there of these blatantly obvious

00:21:24.540 charlatans and frauds who are manipulating and, and, and just saying whatever they have to do

00:21:34.320 to gain a following and enriching themselves and using the Bible and the, the, this cloak of

00:21:42.420 Christianity to do it. And it's so obvious what they're doing yet. Millions of Christians

00:21:49.680 fall for it. It is such an indictment.

00:21:56.740 It is an, it's an indictment on the, the, the lack of depth and intelligence among so many American

00:22:05.980 Christians. And I'm sorry to put it that way. I, I, I don't, I don't, I, I, I hate that that is the 1.00

00:22:11.100 fact, but it is the fact. And maybe I shouldn't even say intelligence because I think that lets

00:22:17.880 people off the hook. If people that go and listen to Baker to say that they're stupid, uh, I wish that

00:22:23.380 it was just a matter of stupidity because you know, you can't help being stupid, but it's more than

00:22:29.720 that. You're being willfully deceived. So I, I actually, in fact, I'm going to amend that

00:22:35.260 statement. It's not, it's not a matter of intelligence, uh, because I'm not gonna let

00:22:38.940 anybody off the hook. I think these are people who are being willfully deceived

00:22:43.180 because they go and listen to this guy because they, they get something out of it that they like.

00:22:53.320 He's tickling their ears. He's saying things that they want to hear. He's giving them a version

00:22:58.420 of Christianity that they like. And that's why they go to him. And at some level they must know

00:23:03.560 because they're not stupid. They must know that this is all BS and that this guy's a wolf in

00:23:10.880 sheep's clothing. They, they must know it. So I hold them accountable too.

00:23:19.100 And before it was, okay, you go to somebody like Baker, uh, because of the prosperity theology.

00:23:25.780 And he says, and he promises you wealth and riches if you pray the right way. And of course,

00:23:31.560 that's going to be appealing to people. And so that's why they go to him and they're willing

00:23:35.500 to overlook all this stuff. He's like, he's convicted of fraud. He's a convicted fraudster.

00:23:42.680 Then we're going to overlook that because he's telling us what we want to hear. Well, he, you know,

00:23:46.460 he, he decides that's not so popular anymore. So I'm not going to do that anymore. And remember,

00:23:50.040 and also prosperity theology, the heyday of prosperity theology was in the eighties,

00:23:55.600 the seventies and eighties. Um, in, in recent years, a lot of people have woken up to the scam

00:24:01.440 and other people in Christian, in, in the church are fighting back against it. So it's not so popular

00:24:06.980 anymore. I don't think it's a coincidence that Baker had his come to Jesus moment. Literally,

00:24:12.400 he had his realization right around the time when prosperity theology wasn't popular as popular as

00:24:18.200 it used to be. So he realizes it's not so popular. He comes up with a new scam.

00:24:25.600 And this time it's more political and everything. And, and, uh, he's like a Republican televangelist

00:24:30.440 now. And so people who are Republican, they like to hear this. That's great. I mean, if you're

00:24:37.560 already a Trump supporter, right, you would, and this guy says, Oh, you're saved. If you support

00:24:42.260 Trump, that's nice to hear. Yeah. But you know, it's wrong, you know, you must know it. And we got

00:24:51.940 to do better than this. We just have to, and I don't want to hear it. You know what? And I know

00:24:58.600 I'm going to get emails from people saying, Oh, well, what about forgiveness, Matt? Shouldn't we

00:25:02.400 forgive him? Yeah. He went to jail. Yeah. He's a convicted fraudster and liar who went to prison

00:25:07.680 was originally was supposed to go to prison for like 40 years and got out. I mean,

00:25:11.660 he should still be in jail right now. Um, uh, and yeah, he paid off a woman that he allegedly raped

00:25:19.540 and so on, but we should forgive. We forgive. I don't want to hear that. Okay. This, this

00:25:28.340 forgiveness thing has become such a cop-out. It's become this sort of such a broad concept

00:25:37.800 that it's supposed to be a get out of jail free card for people. And it's not, first of

00:25:42.820 all, what does it mean? If you're not directly affected by something bad that somebody did,

00:25:49.540 you realize that you forgiving them means nothing. What do you mean you forgive them?

00:25:55.640 So a guy commits fraud and, you know, scams people out of money and you are not one of

00:26:04.480 the people who got scammed out of money and you forgive him. What do you mean? You, it's

00:26:08.320 not up to you to forgive. It's like if a guy's a serial rapist and, and you say, Oh, I forgive

00:26:14.360 him. I forgive him. You weren't a victim. If you're not a victim and you're not a family,

00:26:19.920 what do you mean? What does it mean for you to forgive him? What does that even mean? It's not

00:26:24.000 up to you to forgive. And it costs you nothing to forgive. Yeah. It's really easy to do that.

00:26:29.540 Yes. I can sit here. In fact, right now I'm going to sit here, I'm going to wave my hand

00:26:34.020 and I'm going to forgive everyone who's ever done anything bad that didn't affect me.

00:26:37.720 I forgive all of you. Yeah. Every single one of you. Yeah. I forgive you. I mean, there's

00:26:44.700 a guy in Chicago right now, stealing somebody else's car. I forgive that guy. I forgive

00:26:50.880 him. Go in peace. You have my blessing. What does that mean? It doesn't mean anything.

00:26:59.560 Forgiveness is something that you do, um, that you offer, uh, to someone who has wronged you

00:27:05.700 personally. It's the same thing with a turn the other cheek. Oh, we're supposed to turn

00:27:10.060 the other cheek. Yeah. Turn the other cheek is when you are personally offended or insulted

00:27:15.400 or attacked and, and, and you respond that way to your own. But if someone else is attacked,

00:27:21.380 um, and you don't respond to it and you just sit back and let it happen, you can't say,

00:27:28.620 Oh, I was turning the other cheek. It's not your cheek. It's really easy for you to turn

00:27:32.660 it when you're not the one getting slapped. So it's a similar thing with forgiveness,

00:27:38.180 which doesn't mean that I'm not, I'm not saying that we should hold, that we should, uh, sit,

00:27:44.780 hold grudges or that we should not allow people to change their ways and so on. That's not my point.

00:27:51.280 I'm just saying forgiveness is easy and cheap when you are not the one affected by it.

00:27:56.660 Second point about forgiveness, just because you forgive someone doesn't mean that you trust them

00:28:04.420 again. It doesn't mean that you, uh, go to them as an authority, especially a moral authority ever

00:28:12.040 again. It doesn't mean that you forget what they did. It doesn't mean you allow yourself to get

00:28:17.460 scammed by this person. That's not what it means. So, uh, Jim Baker convicted fraudster.

00:28:27.320 Yeah. Go ahead and forgive him. Whatever the hell that means. If you're not a, if you were not a

00:28:32.260 victim of one of his many crimes, so go ahead, go ahead and forgive him. That doesn't mean

00:28:37.700 that you should go and listen to him as a moral or theological authority.

00:28:42.540 And in fact, if he was actually serious in his, in his, if he was actually repentant

00:28:48.740 and penitent, he wouldn't be putting himself up as a moral and theological authority. He would

00:28:54.560 have gotten out of prison and went off into obscurity and moved into the mountains or something

00:28:59.540 and, and, and lived in penance for the rest of his life because he would have realized that he is not,

00:29:06.080 that he is not capable of being, of being in that position, that he had betrayed people's trust in

00:29:13.400 such a way, in such a, in egregious way that it would be wrong for him to put himself in that

00:29:18.840 position again. That's what he would do if he was really penitent. But no, he gets, he hops right

00:29:26.460 back on the saddle, starts making money again off of, uh, off of distorting the gospel. And you

00:29:34.520 think that's penitent? No, not at all. I mean, it's just like if, if, I mean, here, here's a time

00:29:44.560 of real forgiveness. You know, if, if a spouse cheats on you and then you find a way to forgive

00:29:53.800 them, okay, well now that's, that's a real heroic feat. I mean, that's meaningful. If you can actually

00:29:57.500 forgive your spouse for cheating on you, forgive, forgive someone else's spouse for cheating on them.

00:30:03.220 That doesn't mean anything for you to do that. Good, good job. Nicely done. Good for you. But

00:30:07.220 so forgive your own spouse. Yeah, very, very, uh, it takes a lot, but that doesn't mean that you

00:30:15.320 automatically trust them again. Okay. And, um, it doesn't mean, you know, and, and, and there are

00:30:22.180 going to be things like probably if, if, if they've, if they've cheated on you and you're trying to rebuild

00:30:27.420 the marriage, there are going to be things like, okay, now you, you can't have the same sort of

00:30:33.540 privacy online that you had before. Okay. I mean, I'm going to be suspicious. If you're locking your

00:30:38.740 phone down, if I, you know, if I'm trying to go on, if you're making sure that you're logged out of

00:30:44.820 Facebook or something before I go and use the computer, I mean, things like that, I'm going to be

00:30:49.720 suspicious. Not because I haven't forgiven you, but because I'm not stupid. And I know that this

00:30:57.220 is something that you've done in the past and that you apparently are prone to.

00:31:05.320 All right, let's, uh, okay, let's move on. I have a bunch of emails to answer, but first,

00:31:10.600 okay, well, my wife went to an organic grocery store. Uh, actually it was, it was, uh, it was called

00:31:17.120 the, the organic mommy market. I think she said, or mom's organic market or something like that.

00:31:22.780 Something along those, one of those places where you go there and you buy a jar of almond butter for

00:31:27.660 $43. One of those things. And she comes home with, um, with these, I don't know if you could see that

00:31:35.360 there. These are, this is a bag of crickets, barbecue crickets. And she dares me to eat them on my show

00:31:44.380 to do a taste test of the crickets on my show. And this is pretty evil on her part. I have to say,

00:31:49.660 because she knows she, she, she damn well knows that I have the maturity of a 12 year old. And so

00:31:56.300 when you say to me, I dare you to do this, I double dog dare you. She knows that I have to do it. I can't

00:32:03.200 not do it. Even though I'm a 33 year old man, allegedly, if I'm dared to do something, I feel like

00:32:09.040 I have to do it. My six year old son can and has coaxed me into doing things that were not necessarily

00:32:16.100 smart just by daring me to do them. So that's, that's where I'm at. And so she says that, and

00:32:20.620 that means I have to do it. But as it happens, um, she didn't even really need to dare me to do this

00:32:26.460 because bugs are all the rage these days. It's very environmentally friendly. Everyone's talking

00:32:30.260 about how you're supposed to eat bugs. And as you guys know, I care deeply about environmentalism.

00:32:35.900 It's an issue that's near and dear to my heart. It's probably my number one issue in life. As you

00:32:41.140 know, I talk about it all the time. And so, uh, this is something that, you know, I, I feel morally

00:32:48.100 obliged to do. Um, I just hope that these are free range crickets because I only eat it. I only eat

00:32:57.000 insects that are free range, open source, grass fed Buddhist. By the way, this is a, just to give a

00:33:04.820 shout out to the company. This is a company called Bug Bistro barbecue crickets. These are barbecue

00:33:10.220 flavor crickets, uh, from Entomo Farms, it looks like. And there is a, there is a warning, very

00:33:18.940 helpful warning on the back of this. It says, uh, allergy warning contains insects. So if you were

00:33:25.580 wondering if the bag of insects contains insects, it does. The bag of insects doesn't contain Skittles.

00:33:31.160 It turns out it does contain insects. So, um, all right, well, let's, let's give these a try. First

00:33:38.300 of all, they do, it, it, you know what, it, the bag of crickets, it smells like a bag of crickets.

00:33:46.720 It pretty much smells exactly like you would expect. If I were to blindfold you and put this

00:33:51.120 in front of your nose, you would say, hmm, smells like a bag of crickets. And you would be exactly

00:33:55.240 right. So let's, um, let's stop stalling and give these a shot. This could be life-changing. I mean,

00:34:02.700 if I discover that I love these things, I can just go outside anytime, grab some crickets and have a

00:34:07.840 nice snack. So, um, they do look like crickets too. Got the eyes still there. You know, they haven't,

00:34:16.100 they haven't really tried to pretty these things up at all. Hmm. Yeah. You know,

00:34:27.720 so the taste, it's got a little bit of a, a little bit of a nutty almond taste to it.

00:34:46.100 Definitely very, there's a very, very distinct almond flavor there. It, it tastes a little bit

00:34:55.120 like there's a little bit of, of, of almond. There's a little bit of mud and there's a whole

00:35:05.500 lot of cricket. Yeah. It tastes a little bit like if you were to walk outside in, in, in the mud,

00:35:14.740 then come back inside, take your shoe off, smother the bottom of the shoe and barbecue sauce and lick 0.58

00:35:22.760 it. That's sort of the taste. Not terrible, not good. I'll tell you the worst thing about it.

00:35:32.820 The taste is, you know, the taste is not so bad on a, on a pure taste scale. I would say it's,

00:35:37.880 it's a, it's a, it's about a level above Taco Bell, which isn't hard to do, but what makes the

00:35:44.760 experience somewhat horrifying is the anatomical aspect of it, where you can really feel and taste

00:35:52.480 all the different parts of the cricket exploding in your mouth. And that's that, that part I don't

00:36:00.340 really enjoy as much to be honest. Um, I wonder what happens if I just, so I just tried the head

00:36:11.600 there. You know what? The head's not so bad. I think I'm more of a head guy. I think, uh, I think

00:36:18.280 I like the head, but, but the red, because the rest of the body, that's where you get all the legs 0.89

00:36:22.600 and everything and the wings. Plus when you eat the head, you get the, you, you absorb the brain,

00:36:29.580 the tiny little brain of the insect. And so you, I believe scientifically you, you absorb the insect's

00:36:34.600 IQ. And so after about three or four of them, you'll be as smart as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:36:41.100 uh, which is, which is nice. So that's insects. I, um, I think I still prefer to eat cows instead

00:36:50.540 as, as, as somewhat tolerable as these are, I think I would just prefer to stick with beef,

00:36:57.120 but that's, that's just me. Uh, and I am, I am wondering how much these costs because this was

00:37:02.120 at an organic market and I don't even want to ask my wife, but I'm afraid that when I ask her,

00:37:07.600 she's going to tell me they were $27 for a bag of bugs. Yeah. The aftertaste, not so great either.

00:37:18.380 Very crickety aftertaste. All right, let's move on. Uh, this is from, uh, let's say we'll go to

00:37:26.800 emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com. Now I have the cricket parts sucking my teeth

00:37:33.120 and in my throat. Not pleasant, not very pleasant. This is from Jana says, uh, Hey Matt, just a heads

00:37:43.880 up. Never attend a mass in Argentina. My mother is from there. So I have firsthand experience.

00:37:49.280 If you, however, decide to ignore my advice, you'll be expected to not just shake people's hands,

00:37:53.380 but to also hug them. Argentinian men kiss each other in the cheek. Most Argentinians are of Italian

00:38:00.580 descent. So there's that. And Pope Francis knows that of course, but this Pope is a commie. So he's 0.78

00:38:04.760 fine with Castro and Maduro grabbing his hands, but lashes out when someone else does it.

00:38:08.660 You know, um, Jana, I kind of appreciate that. And I got a few emails, but we talked about the

00:38:18.480 sign of the peace in Catholic mass last week. And yeah, I heard from other people from other

00:38:22.840 countries saying, Oh, you know, in our country, it's even worse than that. There's hugging and

00:38:27.120 kissing. I kind of appreciate that. Now don't get me wrong. It's horrific. If I ended up in a church

00:38:33.260 where they did that, I just become a Jehovah's witness on the spot. But what I'm saying is if

00:38:38.640 you're going to take a break in the action randomly to let people exchange signs of peace, whatever that

00:38:44.200 means, you may as well go full tilt. I mean, you might as well really go for it because the awkward

00:38:50.440 formal American thing with the handshake, where you're just peace be with you. Yes. And with you.

00:38:57.640 Yes. Yes. Peace be with you. Peace be with you. Peace, peace, peace. Or you're just barely grabbing the

00:39:02.000 person's hand. It sort of defeats the purpose. So at least with the Argentinians, they really, 0.99

00:39:07.540 I mean, when they give the sign of peace, they really give it. And so that I, as horrible as it

00:39:14.720 is, I can appreciate that. This is from Nicholas says, Hi, Matt, greetings from the land of spiders.

00:39:20.180 And unfortunately right now, fire. I wanted your thoughts on the, I've got crickets on the desk here.

00:39:26.260 I wanted your thoughts. And I've still got crickets stuck in my throat right now,

00:39:31.660 as I'm, as I'm, this is, can't they at least, can't they at least tear the legs off these things

00:39:38.440 before they put them in the bag? Greetings from the land of spiders and unfortunately right now,

00:39:43.640 fire. I wanted your thoughts on the theological considerations of these fires. Last year,

00:39:47.420 a famous Australian sports star said that the fires were God's punishment for same-sex marriage

00:39:52.040 and abortion. Both are legal in Australia, but we also have the rare distinction alongside Ireland

00:39:57.820 of approving same-sex marriage in a popular vote, which happened in 2017. Do you think he's right? 0.96

00:40:03.700 So are the, okay, so the question is, the fires in Australia, are they a punishment for God for

00:40:07.920 same-sex marriage? First of all, Nicholas, I'm sorry for what you guys are going through down there

00:40:13.040 in Australia. It really is unbelievable the extent of these fires. Is it divine punishment?

00:40:23.500 No, absolutely not. I think that's ridiculous. Really big fires like this happen in Australia

00:40:29.980 because it's hot and dry. And that's why it happens. If God was going to torch countries that

00:40:37.560 allow same-sex marriage, you mentioned Ireland, why isn't Ireland on fire? Well, you could say Ireland 0.88

00:40:44.220 is wet and cold, so they don't really get forest fires like other countries, like Australia does.

00:40:48.960 But if this is divine action, then the physical conditions don't matter. Do you think God needs

00:40:55.240 it to be the right physical condition in order to start a fire? This is God we're talking about.

00:41:02.480 God could set Ireland on fire if he wanted to, and yet he doesn't. And in fact,

00:41:08.960 I think if you were to see, if Ireland were to be on fire to the extent of Australia,

00:41:13.240 that would be quite a statement. I mean, you'd almost be forced to come up with some supernatural

00:41:19.800 explanation for it. But it just so happens, I guess, that the places that God decides to punish

00:41:26.540 with a fire are also the places where fires always happen anyway, and the place where even fires of this

00:41:33.700 magnitude have happened in the past, even before same-sex marriage. So that's the problem with saying

00:41:37.920 that a natural disaster is some kind of punishment from God, because they happen all across the world,

00:41:43.220 natural disasters do, at random places, affecting everyone randomly, and they've always happened

00:41:50.900 everywhere, natural disasters have. There's no observable connection between a country acting

00:41:56.940 immorally and natural disasters. So we really don't observe that. We don't observe that as a country

00:42:03.300 descends into immorality, natural disasters become more common. We don't, we don't, that's, that is not

00:42:09.840 what we observe. I think what Christians try to do with this is very similar to what leftists do 0.83

00:42:16.040 by blaming it on global warming. Again, you can't blame it on global warming because Australia has

00:42:20.720 always had bushfires, and they've, and they've had really bad ones in the past also. It might, maybe

00:42:25.680 it's been a while since they've had one like this, but it has happened. There was a bushfire in 1920

00:42:30.000 something, 1926, I think, that killed 30 plus people. There was a bushfire in the 1930s that

00:42:35.260 killed 70 plus people. But way back in the 20s and 30s, very few people were driving. There weren't,

00:42:42.600 you didn't have nearly the same number of factories and the industrialization that we have now

00:42:47.200 to the same extent, the same degree. And yet these things happened back then. So you, you really,

00:42:54.780 again, you don't observe this steady increase in bushfires to go along with so-called global warming.

00:43:06.460 And just, and it's the same thing with people that try to make it a divine punishment.

00:43:10.300 And I get, and I think this is probably the most prescient point here, actually, is that,

00:43:13.800 and I should have mentioned this before, the fires in Australia right now, many of them have

00:43:17.540 been deliberately set by people. Last I read, 200 people have been arrested in Australia for setting

00:43:23.480 fires. So you can't blame it on climate change. It wasn't climate change that made them set the

00:43:28.680 fire on purpose. It wasn't God who made them do it. They did it on their own. And so that's how I

00:43:35.340 would respond to that. By the way, since we're on the subject, and yes, as we've talked about,

00:43:40.780 the fires are really bad. It's a terrible situation. But the media is doing quite a lot of sensationalizing

00:43:45.920 because they want to draw this connection between this and global warming. So I want you to look at

00:43:51.200 this. This is, this is pretty incredible. Here's a map. This is a map that ABC posted yesterday.

00:43:57.660 And this supposedly shows the scale of the fires in Australia. That red stuff around the edges,

00:44:03.720 according to ABC, that's all fire. Now, now let me, let me show you another map. This is a map of

00:44:10.060 Australia's population density. And you see where all the population centers are in Australia.

00:44:15.800 And you see how they're around the coastlines there. What do you notice? According to this,

00:44:21.320 according to ABC anyway, everybody, almost everybody in Australia is on fire right now.

00:44:27.460 So everyone is dead, according to ABC. You see all the places where there's population,

00:44:34.440 all of that is on fire, which of course is not the case. I think that the actual death toll is 25

00:44:40.520 or 30 at this point, which is horrible. It's obviously a terrible thing. And, and, but that's what

00:44:46.500 makes it so atrocious when the, when the media sensationalizes, because you don't, not only is

00:44:55.300 it unethical and immoral and you're lying, but it's not necessary. The actual situation is really,

00:45:02.240 really bad. So you don't have to make it up. You can just report what's actually happening.

00:45:06.880 It's the same thing with mass shootings and school shootings. You see the media trying to pump up the

00:45:12.120 numbers by saying, Oh, there are 200 mass shootings a year or whatever crazy number they come up with.

00:45:17.180 No, it's not anywhere close to that, but they do happen and they're really terrible. And so you

00:45:23.660 don't need to do this. Putting aside how unethical and immoral it is. It's also, it's so unnecessary.

00:45:29.760 You could stick to the facts and the facts themselves are horrific enough on their own.

00:45:36.940 They don't need your embellishment.

00:45:43.720 Let's see. I'll do one more. This is from Andrew says, great show. Love your commentary. I enjoy and

00:45:47.440 have for the most part, always enjoyed comedians like Gervais, Chappelle, and Rogan. However, I find

00:45:51.620 that as much as we like to lift them up right now, as we side with them against the outrage culture,

00:45:55.400 the Catholic predator jokes and atheistic attacks always strike me the wrong way.

00:45:58.680 Is this an inability to take a joke on my part or would you want these jokes to be gone from the

00:46:03.660 repertoire for better enjoyment? And this is an interesting point. I saw somebody online yesterday

00:46:09.000 say, Hey, conservatives, Ricky Gervais isn't on our side. He's not a conservative.

00:46:13.580 And that's true. He's not. He's Ricky Gervais is pro-abortion, socially liberal, extremely atheist.

00:46:20.580 His standup act, I've watched a couple of his standup acts and I think he's very funny. I think he's

00:46:27.620 really talented, not just as a comedian, I think he's more talented even as a, you know, as a,

00:46:35.260 in creating shows and as a script writer for TV shows. But anyway, this atheism is a big part of

00:46:43.080 what he does. And his standup act consists of at least the ones I saw. It's like 80% jokes about

00:46:48.860 religious people. But that's actually why I appreciate him because he's not pandering.

00:46:53.600 He really is an equal opportunity offender. Joe Rogan also is atheist and is very outspoken about

00:46:58.600 that. But I appreciate that because number one, you're being honest about how you feel and what

00:47:04.060 you think. And I think we need that in this country, even if I disagree. I mean, at this point,

00:47:11.040 I'm at a point right now where I'm so tired of the pandering that happens on both sides.

00:47:17.920 I'm so tired of the same old thing from everybody, everyone, just the same talking points. It's just

00:47:25.220 how redundant and repetitive everything is and how safe everybody is. You know, you find your tribe or

00:47:31.200 your side and you stick to those talking points. You don't want to upset them. You always want.

00:47:35.660 So I'm at the point where I can appreciate anyone who is actually honest about how they feel and

00:47:44.660 thinks for themselves and isn't worried about cultivating a tribe or sticking to a tribe's

00:47:51.800 talking points. But it's just, it just says, look, this is how I feel is what I think.

00:47:57.440 Some of it is going to be consistent with what this camp says. Some of it's going to be with this

00:48:01.900 camp. I don't care. This is just what I think. So I appreciate that. Um, and I also appreciate

00:48:08.660 that, you know, somebody like Ricky, Ricky Gervais, he is liberal yet. He's up there calling out his

00:48:14.900 own people. And, uh, I, I respect that as well. So, you know, it doesn't, yeah. I mean, if,

00:48:23.180 if I'm going to sit and watch a comedian, would I prefer if they don't spend 25 of the 45 minute

00:48:32.960 set, making fun of Christians? Yeah. I mean, I'd prefer it personally, but, um, 0.80

00:48:40.040 I guess my point is the fact that somebody like that with that viewpoint got up at the golden globes

00:48:48.500 and did what he did. I think that's more powerful.

00:48:53.180 The fact that he's a socially liberal atheist and even he's up there saying this to these people

00:48:59.540 that makes it more powerful. It's more powerful than if some conservative Christian had done it.

00:49:06.200 Not that a conservative Christian would ever be invited to host the golden globes in the first

00:49:09.760 place, but that's the point. We need people in that world to, you know, speak out against some of this

00:49:18.400 stuff. All right. Uh, we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks

00:49:23.120 for listening. Go get your, uh, bug bistro crickets today and enjoy them. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:49:30.860 Godspeed.

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00:50:13.000 Hey everyone. It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. You know, Harvey Weinstein is

00:50:18.000 on trial, but it's not just him. It's the entire mainstream news and entertainment media and the

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 07, 2020

Ep. 399 - Media Continues To Mourn Beloved Terrorist

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