The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 400 - Trump's Masterstroke

00:00:00.180 Listen, you guys know that I'm not shy about criticizing Donald Trump. You know that I'm

00:00:05.160 also very far from a Trump groupie. Very, very far, in fact. So hopefully it will have some

00:00:11.980 meaning when I say that, from my point of view, Trump has just completed what I think is the

00:00:17.160 masterstroke of his presidency. What was supposed to be a historic blunder, a catastrophe, World War 0.61

00:00:24.020 Three has turned out to be his finest moment. Think about it. Well, let's just go back and review.

00:00:29.820 Iran attacked Americans, killed an American contractor, attacked our embassy. This, on top 0.97

00:00:36.860 of all the provocations through the years and through the decades, all the bloodshed and the

00:00:40.620 mayhem that they've been responsible for, all the American troops that they've killed by proxy in 0.56

00:00:46.020 the Middle East. And finally, a U.S. president has enough of it, decides to act like the most

00:00:52.260 powerful country in the world, which we still are, by the way, by many magnitudes.

00:00:56.280 And he orders a strike against Soleimani, global mass killer, leading terrorist in the world,

00:01:01.680 and also the number two guy in the Iranian government. The people, you know, the people

00:01:05.600 who called, who originally, when this happened, all the people saying this is a really big deal

00:01:10.320 and all of that, they were right. It doesn't happen that often. For us to go after someone so

00:01:17.080 publicly like that, someone of the status of Soleimani in the Iranian government, it's basically

00:01:23.500 unheard of. But Trump said, no, we're not going to let this piece of garbage continue sauntering 0.99

00:01:29.600 around the Middle East, killing our guys. He's going to pay for it. And we're going to send a 1.00

00:01:34.560 message. And the message is going to be, if you do this, you better watch the sky, because we're

00:01:39.860 coming for you. So he orders the strike, turns Soleimani into beef stroganoff. And then we get

00:01:46.360 a week of panic from the media. It's, oh, it's World War III. Oh, no, this is the worst thing

00:01:53.020 that's ever happened to the earth. It's terrible. So on and so forth. And then last night, the Iranians 1.00

00:01:58.140 launched their missiles at American bases in Iraq. And the panic reaches fever pitch. I don't know if

00:02:04.500 you were online last night, but it was a one for the record books as far as panic goes, media-driven

00:02:10.600 panic. We were told that it's officially the beginning of global conflict, World War III,

00:02:17.400 World War III, over and over again. And then it turns out, you know, as is so often the case,

00:02:24.960 the people who believed initial reporting at face value, took it at face value, the people who jumped 0.83

00:02:31.080 in right away with all the sensationalizing looked ridiculous, as always. Because it's like people 0.52

00:02:39.660 never learn. When you've got some big event in the early going, whether it's a conflict overseas or

00:02:48.400 it's a mass shooting or whatever, the reports that you initially hear are almost always wrong.

00:02:55.520 So what's the best thing? Just don't react to them. Don't say anything. You don't need to go

00:03:01.100 online and say anything. But people never learned. So it turns out nobody was killed. No Americans,

00:03:09.040 no Iraqis apparently, minimal damage. It was a face-saving measure by Iran. They were beat and 1.00

00:03:15.960 they knew it. They knew that they couldn't afford to get into a direct conflict with the U.S.

00:03:20.040 because, of course, all along, you know, even before last night and how that turned out, all the 0.71

00:03:26.020 people talking about World War III, it was always incredibly silly. As if Iran is going to march 1.00

00:03:34.080 into battle directly with the United States. We would wipe them off the face of the earth. And they 0.99

00:03:38.940 know that. They know that we can do that to them. And they don't want that to happen. Because at least

00:03:44.840 the Iranian government, the people in power, you know, they're not the same as suicide bombers who

00:03:50.500 don't care if they, yeah, yeah, I'm going to be destroyed, but I'm going to take a few of you out

00:03:54.580 with me. That's not their attitude. They want to stay in, they like being in power and they want to

00:03:58.960 stay there. And they know that if we wanted to, we could just kill all of them. And they don't want 1.00

00:04:04.900 that. So that's why the idea that there was ever going to be a World War III over this was

00:04:08.700 completely ridiculous. And especially now, because they wanted to avoid the conflict. So they launched the

00:04:13.460 missiles and they didn't kill anybody. And I guess I assume in Iran, they're telling their people over 0.85

00:04:21.660 in Iran, the media is probably saying, in fact, the media, the Iranian media, which, and these were

00:04:25.960 reports that were parroted by MSNBC in the early going, the Iranian media is claiming that they killed,

00:04:31.820 you know, dozens of American soldiers. But they didn't. They just want to pretend they did, which if

00:04:37.800 they want to pretend, then fine. You know, if they want to have their little symbolic attack to try to

00:04:41.880 save face with their citizens, who cares? It really doesn't matter. So then Trump gets up there this

00:04:48.120 morning, delivers what I think is his best speech of his entire presidency. And I've always said that

00:04:54.280 I think Donald Trump on the teleprompter is way better than Donald Trump riffing at a political

00:05:02.680 rally or something. Not as fun, maybe not as engaging, not as funny, but he actually has a point and a

00:05:11.480 message that he can get across when he's staying on the teleprompter. And so, and it's not about, you

00:05:17.100 know, maybe his delivery on the teleprompter isn't necessarily the best, but who cares? It's about the

00:05:24.100 message. It's about what's being said. And as far as that goes, the message, and even the tone, I thought it

00:05:30.640 was superb. It was resolute, tough, not belligerent, not escalating. Basically saying, okay, Iran, you've seen what

00:05:40.000 will happen. You've seen what we're willing to do. So back off now. This is what peace through strength

00:05:47.240 looks like. We always, we've talked about peace through strength. We haven't seen an example of

00:05:52.740 it in this country for many decades. Here's an example. This is what it is. So that's what it is.

00:06:00.700 Trump takes out Soleimani, sends a message, weakens Iran, both structurally because they lost their number

00:06:05.300 two guy. And in the eyes of the world, face it, we face a symbolic reprisal that caused no casualties.

00:06:12.740 And then, um, and then Trump basically declares victory. Brilliant. I think it's brilliant. Um,

00:06:19.600 I know that I like, like most Americans, I don't want another war in the Middle East. 0.52

00:06:25.440 I prefer for us to be out of there entirely, focusing on issues here at home. I think that's

00:06:29.620 where most people are. But at the same time, we are, as I said, the most powerful nation in the

00:06:35.600 world. And there's no reason why we shouldn't act like it. And there's no reason why we should let

00:06:40.860 guys like Soleimani do what they do and get away with it. This is what's been so frustrating for

00:06:46.300 Americans for a long time. Where we say, you know, you got a guy like Soleimani, we can, we could take

00:06:51.720 him out. He's been taking our guys out for years. We could take him out. Why don't we do it?

00:06:59.680 What's, what's Iran going to do on earth? They can't do anything. 1.00

00:07:04.340 That's what people have been saying in this country for a long time. Well,

00:07:06.740 finally, we get someone like Trump who's, who's, who has the same approach.

00:07:12.460 Um, and, and he does it. It's a, it's, it's really a question of having, having leaders with

00:07:17.700 the boldness to take action, but also the, the, the smarts to not let that action turn into some

00:07:25.320 Middle Eastern quagmire, another Middle Eastern quagmire, because we've had a lot of those. 1.00

00:07:31.560 So that's what we need. You take action, take care of the problem, but you don't, you know,

00:07:39.100 acting like the most powerful nation in the world. I think part of that is taking action and then

00:07:44.380 getting out and, and, and, you know, and going back to worrying about problems at home again,

00:07:49.780 not getting bogged down in some 15 year long war. So by demonstrating Trump, by demonstrating

00:08:00.560 that he, that he has both of those things where foreign policy is concerned, that is boldness

00:08:05.960 and smarts. I think Trump, well, it's a win for America first and foremost, most importantly, but

00:08:12.240 politically, I mean, this is a huge win for Trump, huge win. If, if, if, if Trump had responded

00:08:20.880 to this symbolic attack from Iran by, you know, by sending more missiles in their direction or

00:08:33.320 something like that, then yes, that would be him escalating and actually now killing Soleimani.

00:08:38.980 That was justified. That was not an escalation. When you've got a guy that's been killing our

00:08:44.220 people for years and then we kill him, how could that possibly be considered an escalation?

00:08:50.140 But responding in a, in a direct and dramatic and, and, and, and, you know, militaristic way to

00:08:56.500 something like this, that would be an escalation. That would be like, okay, now you really are

00:09:01.580 starting a war, but that's not what Trump is doing. I think that's what the left expected

00:09:06.860 him to do. I think that's even what they hope he would do because for them, it's all about,

00:09:11.460 of course, party over country.

00:09:13.340 Um, but that's not what he did. So major, major, I, I, I don't think you could, it'd be hard to

00:09:23.200 overstate what a, what a, what a win this is again for America. First, first of all, because this is

00:09:29.760 a message that Iran will, and not just Iran, but people are going to realize that, okay, you know,

00:09:35.200 now there's someone in the white house right now, or we can't necessarily get away with the same

00:09:39.080 things we used to get away with. And then politically, I think, um, I think if, you know,

00:09:46.900 it's, since we're still a year away from the election, I'm not going to sit here and say he

00:09:51.400 just won reelection based on that. Because as I always say, people have very short memories these

00:09:56.440 days. And by next week, I think no one's going to be talking about Iran anymore. But even so, I think

00:10:04.200 to, to the extent that this remains in the conscious of, of Americans and in our memory, I think if

00:10:10.220 Trump does win reelection, this will have something to do with it at least. So big thing. Now, the

00:10:17.320 question is, we took out Soleimani, who even, most Democrats would at least admit was a really bad guy.

00:10:26.700 Now you have people like Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they wouldn't even admit that much.

00:10:32.060 For them, it was all about how terrible Trump is. And they wouldn't even just gesture towards

00:10:37.780 the idea that Soleimani was at least a bad guy. But most of them, you know, Sanders and Warren and

00:10:44.680 Biden would at least admit that he was a bad guy. But they said, oh, you know, yes, he was a bad guy,

00:10:50.400 but to do this, the consequences, it's just not worth it. Well, now we see the consequences were

00:10:57.060 they launched some missiles and purposely avoided hitting anybody with them.

00:11:03.740 That's the consequence, a symbolic attack, a symbolic reprisal.

00:11:08.180 So now that World War Three has been canceled, although not really canceled because it was never

00:11:11.780 going to start to begin with, Soleimani is dead. How is the left going to argue that it was still

00:11:19.360 wrong to kill Soleimani? How are they still going to do the, yeah, he was a bad guy, but he deserved to

00:11:24.360 die, but we shouldn't have killed him. Because, because why? Because of the, because of the, 0.88

00:11:31.960 the minimal property damage done by the missiles that didn't kill anybody. I mean, what, what are you?

00:11:36.600 Now they're going to come up with an argument, of course, because they just could not possibly ever

00:11:42.420 admit that. Yeah. You know what? Trump did the right thing. He did the right thing. It worked out

00:11:48.040 well. He handled it well. They cannot admit it. Ever. No matter what it is. I mean, it, it, it,

00:12:01.600 Trump could, could come up with the cure for arthritis and, and Democrats would say, well,

00:12:08.080 yeah, I mean, that's great and all, but think about all these unemployed rheumatologists now

00:12:12.440 who don't have jobs or Trump could, could rescue a, a kitten from a tree. And they would say, yeah,

00:12:20.180 great that you got them out of the tree. But now, I mean, his chances of getting run over by a cement

00:12:24.220 truck or have just increased. And now he's going to end up in the streets. Look at what you've,

00:12:28.940 what you've done. That's how it goes for the Democrats. Um, but well done by Trump.

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00:13:45.200 Okay. I wanted to touch on this briefly reading now from the daily wire report. Um, it says Covington

00:13:50.040 Catholic high school student, Nick Sandman has reportedly received a settlement from CNN after

00:13:54.480 suing the left-wing network for smearing him last year. Fox 19 reported CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a

00:13:59.800 lawsuit with Covington Catholic student, Nick Sandman. The amount of the settlement was not made

00:14:02.780 public. Um, Sandman also filed lawsuits against the Washington post and NBC universal each for $250

00:14:10.500 million or more is reportedly reportedly planning to sue Gannett owners of the inquirer. Sandman's

00:14:16.780 attorney, Todd McMurdy, and, um, also Lin Wood filed a $275 million lawsuit against CNN in March

00:14:22.660 of last year and, um, um, would, uh, told Fox news saying basically that CNN was probably the most

00:14:31.340 vicious in their attacks. So the, the lawsuit was for $275 million. We don't know what the settlement

00:14:38.140 is probably not $275 million, but we could, we could also probably guess it's for a substantial amount.

00:14:45.680 I wish we knew the amount. Hopefully that leaks at some point, but this is, this is great. I, there's

00:14:53.120 not much to say about it other than this is a happy ending to a story for once. And it represents

00:15:00.280 finally somebody fighting back against the media, which is, this is what needs to happen. There,

00:15:06.000 you need to actually, we need people punching back in this way, not just punching back by complaining on 0.58

00:15:11.560 Twitter or whatever, but hitting them where it hurts in their pockets. Because usually the media

00:15:18.780 does this and they get away with it. They smear somebody with innuendo and false reporting and

00:15:24.940 taking things out of context. And then they just move on, you know, after a few days, the real story

00:15:30.360 comes out and maybe we get a little bit of a, of a, of an oops, sorry about that from the media or,

00:15:36.900 but usually not even that they just move on to the next thing and pretend it never happened.

00:15:41.560 And there are so many examples of this, probably the most egregious that comes to mind is Kavanaugh.

00:15:46.740 But, uh, even think about, I mean, go back a few years to, to, uh, the, to Ferguson and officer

00:15:53.500 Wilson, who was smeared across the media as a racist murderer, hands up, don't shoot and everything.

00:16:00.400 All of that was reported by the media as, as fact with, with no skepticism whatsoever. Then the grand

00:16:06.560 jury report comes out, basically clearing officer Wilson's name. We've got a forensic evidence,

00:16:12.600 eyewitness testimony, all backs him up. And then the federal government does their own investigation,

00:16:18.660 the justice department under Obama. And they also come to the same conclusion. But of course,

00:16:23.700 in that case, the media has yet, has never, uh, circled back around to say, oh, you know what?

00:16:28.480 We got that one wrong. So they just ruined officer Wilson's life, smeared him as a racist and that's

00:16:34.560 it. And that's normally how it goes. They're not called to account for it. Um, there are no

00:16:40.960 consequences. I'm hoping that this represents a new phase. I'm hoping that this is not, this is just

00:16:49.620 sort of a tip of the iceberg moment. It's not a one-off thing where people who are smeared by the

00:16:56.320 media say, you know what? No, we're not, I'm not gonna let you move on from that. I'm gonna make you

00:16:59.880 pay for that. So congratulations to, to Nick and to his family and to everybody over at Covington

00:17:05.860 Catholic for being vindicated in this way. And congratulations on the big payday. Don't spend it 0.99

00:17:11.160 all in one place. All right. Now switching gears a little bit, I want to do some, some football news

00:17:16.720 here. There's, there've been some head coach openings in the league recently, as there are around

00:17:23.380 this time every year. And most of those openings are, are now filled. Uh, Dallas fired Jason Garrett,

00:17:30.060 hired Mike McCarthy, Carolina fired Ron Rivera, hired Matt rule. Uh, the Browns fired Freddie

00:17:37.540 kitchens and that job is still open. And the giants, the giants fired Pat Shermer. And then it was just

00:17:43.960 announced yesterday that they were hiring a position coach from the Pats, Joe judge to be their, their new

00:17:49.820 head coach, which is a little bit strange on a number of levels because number one, no one's ever

00:17:54.600 heard of Joe judge. Also, when you, when you talk about position coaches for the Pats, I mean, wide

00:18:00.640 receiver was their weakest position and yet that guy gets a job, but these kinds of decisions are often

00:18:06.540 made, especially in New York. Um, it's, you know, they're, they often make these head scratching

00:18:13.120 decisions in their personnel department and with coaches, but this is more than just sports news.

00:18:19.960 We're told this is all evidence of institutional racism in the NFL, because of course, because

00:18:26.200 everything is racism. This is a racial crisis because we're told none of the openings were filled

00:18:33.120 by a black head coach, which is racist. And so the media has been making a big deal about this,

00:18:39.380 publishing articles, doing segments on ESPN and so on about how all the openings were filled by white

00:18:44.620 people. And that's very, very bad. It's a very terrible thing. It's a big problem. Very racist.

00:18:50.200 Stephen A Smith, a man who yells for a living, he's a professional yeller. Well, he, uh, he did some 0.75

00:18:57.200 more yelling yesterday, a lot of yelling, some very loud yelling, slightly louder than usual yelling 0.93

00:19:02.500 about the fact that the NFL is persecuting black men. And, um, anyway, here's what he had to say.

00:19:09.380 There is a Rooney rule in place. And still this kind of stuff is happening. I want to announce

00:19:16.540 on national television that I personally am going to take it upon myself, whether it's to communicate

00:19:22.240 with the NFL league office, whether it's communicate with owners, whether it's to sit up here and raise

00:19:27.660 holy hell, whether it's to recruit my contemporaries in this business to address it. We got a problem.

00:19:34.200 This is some BS. Ain't no way around this. We moving in a reverse direction.

00:19:41.640 We moving in a reverse direction. Black men are not being treated fairly in the national football 0.86

00:19:48.720 league. Somebody got to say, somebody got to say, you got to be kidding me. When, when the stuff that 0.99

00:19:55.120 has happened over the last year for this stuff to go on and we just go sit up here and have a sports

00:20:01.680 conversation. No, I ain't having no damn sports conversation at this particular moment. Something 0.93

00:20:05.820 wrong. Now the national football league or somebody else, we got to change this Rooney rule is bogus

00:20:11.160 clearly because it's being bypassed. The original intent, what it was intended to produce is being

00:20:18.340 circumvented. And black men in the national football league are being ostracized from key positions in

00:20:25.420 international football league. Somebody needs to say the NFL league owners, the world of sports,

00:20:31.680 sports, talk television, sports radio. Y'all are going to be hearing from me. Something got to be done.

00:20:37.620 Something got to be done. Just so you know, if you don't follow sports media, which if you don't

00:20:43.380 good for you, that's probably the right decision. But if you don't, that's how Stephen A. Smith,

00:20:48.400 that's, that's him all the time. He's on TV for 19 hours a day somehow. And he's always yelling no

00:20:55.660 matter what he's talking about, which I know coming from me, it's kind of hypocritical because I yell

00:21:00.440 a lot too, but I yell probably 40% of the time for Stephen A. Smith. It's 98% of the time. And the

00:21:06.480 other thing is he's talking about sports. So at least in this case, he's pretending to be doing this

00:21:11.460 socially conscious thing and he's standing up against racial injustice, but usually it's there.

00:21:16.760 They're just talking about something sports related. So they're talking about, you know,

00:21:21.720 the, the, the Titans punting on, on fourth and six rather than going for it. And he's losing his

00:21:26.740 mind over something like that. It's like, dude, it's just sports. These, I like watching it too,

00:21:32.920 but really we're talking about people playing a game. It really doesn't, we don't need that level

00:21:40.040 of passion. Just turn it down maybe five or six notches. So I just wanted to touch on

00:21:46.720 this issue because really it shows you how ridiculous the attempt to racialize everything

00:21:51.380 really is. This, this racial bean counting that goes on of NFL head coaches. It's maybe as stupid

00:22:00.760 as, as identity politics gets. Well, probably not. It gets stupider than this, but it's still pretty 1.00

00:22:06.960 damn stupid. And you see how this works. You see how they turn things into a racial issue, 1.00

00:22:13.300 how the media does it. Um, and, and the way they do it is they just need a few stats, a few tidbits

00:22:19.500 that they can stitch together into a narrative about racial oppression, regardless of how baseless

00:22:25.300 that narrative is. It doesn't need to make sense. They just need a few facts. And so in this case,

00:22:32.800 the fact is that there are 32 head coaches in the league. Only three of them are black.

00:22:37.460 That's all they need. And it's off to the races. So let's talk about this. First of all, 0.99

00:22:45.200 it's not true that all four of the head coach openings were filled by white people. Ron Rivera

00:22:50.920 is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent. He was hired. So if this is a racist conspiracy, then I don't know

00:22:58.740 how he made the cut. Second, the offensive coordinator for the chiefs, Eric B enemy is

00:23:04.360 black and is also considered a, a prime candidate for these jobs. Um, so far, he hasn't been hired

00:23:10.940 for any of them. And that's, that's part of what guys like Stephen A Smith and people in sports media

00:23:17.120 are freaking out about. They're saying, well, Eric B enemy is, you know, as a black man, he's very

00:23:20.680 qualified for the job, the chiefs, he's an offensive coordinator for the chiefs. And, and, and look how

00:23:26.280 good that offense has been. Why hasn't he been hired? Well, he hasn't been hired because the

00:23:30.660 chiefs are still in the playoffs. That's why he's not hired. They're still in the playoffs.

00:23:36.060 And if a guy is currently, you know, on the sideline for a team calling the plays,

00:23:41.800 you can't hire him to be your head coach. So they need to wait until the season's over.

00:23:47.120 But a lot of these teams are impatient. Also keep something else in mind. These teams that are

00:23:53.840 constantly having head coach openings like the Browns, uh, you know, the reason why they have

00:24:01.360 head coach openings all the time is because they're bad organizations, not racist organizations. They're

00:24:06.980 just bad. And so a lot of these teams are impatient. The Redskins, another example, they're impatient.

00:24:13.840 They don't want to wait for the season to be over. And so, uh, for the post season to be over rather.

00:24:17.860 And so they, they hire whoever's available. They make these panicked choices. And so that's why,

00:24:23.900 you know, this, this, who I agree is a highly qualified candidate, probably would be a good

00:24:29.520 head coach, but he's not available to be hired right now because it's the post season and the

00:24:35.660 chiefs are still in the game. Although they're going to get knocked out by the Ravens next week in the

00:24:40.780 AFC championship game. Um, so, and, and, you know, I still think he'll probably get hired for

00:24:49.060 the Browns job. Although, you know, if you care about the fate of black men in the NFL, then you 0.73

00:24:54.160 really shouldn't wish that job on, on, on any black man or any person of any race, because to be the 0.98

00:25:00.220 head coach of the Browns is a, really a, a, one of the worst fates that can befall anybody.

00:25:05.300 Also, there are three black head coaches in the NFL, maybe soon to be four. There are 32 teams.

00:25:13.940 Four out of 32 is about 13%. Black people account for 13% of the U S population.

00:25:21.220 That would make the NFL head coaching roster pretty much perfectly reflective of the racial 0.92

00:25:26.900 makeup of the larger population. If that's important, which it isn't because this is all

00:25:31.860 insane and ridiculous. And it doesn't matter when you're looking for head coach, you're supposed to 0.94

00:25:37.880 try to hire the person best suited for the job who cares what his skin color is. Makes no difference. 0.96

00:25:44.040 Teams will hire the person who they think is best for the job. Now, oftentimes they're wrong about that,

00:25:50.020 but that's not because they're blinded by racism. It's because a lot of these teams are owned by

00:25:54.940 rich people who really don't know anything about football. Dan Snyder with the Washington Redskins

00:25:59.540 is, uh, is exhibit A in that regard. So the idea that they're refusing to hire black coaches for

00:26:06.960 racial reasons is just completely absurd. Stephen A. Smith says that, says that black men are treated

00:26:15.420 unfairly in the NFL. Unfairly. 70% of the players are black. Most of them are millionaires. 1.00

00:26:22.540 The NFL pays, pays people millions of dollars to play a game. 70% of those people are black. 0.99

00:26:32.340 And you call that being treated unfairly? That's being treated, if that's being treated unfairly, 0.93

00:26:38.360 then I would love to be treated unfairly like that. Now the response here is to say, well, but

00:26:44.060 70% of the players are black, then why aren't 70% of the coaches black? Now that definitely seems like 0.99

00:26:51.920 a good point if you don't actually watch the sport. If you do, you would know that there's very little

00:26:59.660 connection between playing the sport and coaching it, at least not at this level. Maybe at the,

00:27:06.860 at the peewee level, maybe at the little league level or whatever, there, there's a connection, but,

00:27:10.800 but at the, at the professional level, there's very little connection between being a great player

00:27:16.840 and bring a, being a great coach. Most of the great head coaches in the league right now were not great

00:27:23.720 players. Many of them played at some level, but they weren't great. A few were. Mike Vrabel from the

00:27:31.040 Tennessee Titans head coach, great player. But most of them weren't. You know, they say that those who

00:27:38.440 can't do teach. Well, those who can't play coach. Andy Reed is a very successful coach in the league, 0.85

00:27:45.680 has been for a long time, even though he's never won a Superbowl. He played offensive tackle in

00:27:51.260 community college. That's as high as he went. That's the extent of his playing history. Now here's

00:27:57.040 the point. He was an offensive tackle for community, in community college, obviously wasn't very good.

00:28:03.220 If he was great, if he was a great offensive tackle, if he was like Jonathan Ogden,

00:28:10.180 then he probably would have gone on to a, to a legitimate school and then went to the pros.

00:28:18.980 So he probably never would have become a coach because he would have, he would have, or at least

00:28:22.660 his, his coaching career would have been backed up by about 20 years because he would have played

00:28:28.540 all that time. Bill Belichick, greatest NFL coach of all time, as, as much as it pains me to say,

00:28:35.020 played lacrosse in college, got out of college and then became a started, started coaching.

00:28:41.960 And, um, again, if, if, if rather than being the greatest coaching talent of all time,

00:28:48.360 he had been one of the greatest players of all time, then he would have played. And that's how he

00:28:53.860 would remember him. So you can conclude that there are these guys, you know, that these guys got jobs

00:29:00.640 because they're whites, or you can approach the issue with a little more thought, a little more

00:29:05.340 nuance, and you can come to the conclusion that they cultivated a talent for coaching because they

00:29:10.680 didn't have a talent for playing. And I think that's probably more, that's probably closer to the truth.

00:29:17.640 So let's turn this around and look at it the other way, because I've never understood this.

00:29:23.820 We say that it's racism because most coaches are white. Well, then why couldn't I argue that it's 0.93

00:29:29.780 racism that most players are black? If we're saying that black people are discriminated against

00:29:37.820 in the coaching ranks, leading to white people taking most of the jobs, couldn't I argue that white 1.00

00:29:43.980 people are discriminated among the players, leading to black people taking most of those jobs?

00:29:51.900 If you're going with the racial angle of the coaching question, then you have this pretty 0.98

00:29:56.880 insurmountable logical problem that you have to deal with, which is that if the lack of black 0.99

00:30:01.580 representation on the sideline is racism, then what about the lack of white representation on the

00:30:08.480 field? Is that not racism? I mean, think about it. There are entire positions,

00:30:13.980 positions in the NFL right now, where there are zero white players.

00:30:21.820 Cornerback. Okay. There are no white cornerbacks in the NFL right now. None, not a single one, 0.77

00:30:28.820 not a sick. And that's in a very important position and a high paid position. No white people, 1.00

00:30:34.640 none. The last one that I can think of was Jason Sehorne and he retired like 15 years ago.

00:30:40.600 And since then, there have been none playing, playing that position. Zero. How do you explain

00:30:47.220 that? If three black coaches out of 32 is racism, what do you say about zero white cornerbacks out of

00:30:55.060 like 100 or more that are in the league right now? You know, if three out of 32 is racism,

00:31:02.520 that isn't zero out of 100 racism, this is the problem. The racial grievance thing, the racial

00:31:10.120 bean counting that goes on, it only ever goes one way. And that's why it's ridiculous. Because there 0.99

00:31:18.500 has to be some principle here. There must be some logical system you're using. And whatever that system

00:31:25.980 is, well, I, I, it's, I, I should be able to apply it to the players as well.

00:31:35.000 Because the system seems to be, well, there aren't, there are, there aren't that many black 1.00

00:31:42.220 head coaches and therefore racism. That's as, that's as complex as the system is.

00:31:47.680 Are there a lot of black head coaches? No, not really. Well, that's racism. Okay. Well,

00:31:54.140 are there a lot of white players comparatively? No, there's not. So, well, I guess that's racism.

00:32:01.500 Also, by the way, Marvin Lewis was a black head coach in the league for 15 years. He was the head

00:32:10.920 coach of the Bengals for 15 years. Never won a playoff game. He kept his job for 15 years.

00:32:18.080 Never won a playoff game. So I ask you, if the NFL is racist against black head coaches,

00:32:24.640 how did a black head coach keep his job for 15 years despite never having any success?

00:32:33.560 That, that doesn't make any sense. That doesn't really fit with the narrative, does it?

00:32:37.960 That's certainly not what you would expect. Like, if you didn't know any better, and I told you,

00:32:43.460 you knew nothing about the situation. And I told you that there's a racist conspiracy in the NFL

00:32:49.020 against black coaches. The last thing you would ever expect to see is a black head coach keep his 0.96

00:32:55.800 job for 15 years without winning a playoff game. Yeah, that's what's happened. And can you think

00:33:00.580 of an example of a, I can't, can you think of an example, if you, if you follow, follow football,

00:33:05.700 can you think of an example of a white head coach with a track record as unimpressive as that,

00:33:12.380 and yet who kept his job for that long? I can only think of, of, of a few white head coaches

00:33:19.340 recently who've, who've kept a job for anything close to that long. And all the ones that come to

00:33:25.120 mind, Bill Belichick, Pete Carroll, John Harbaugh, Bill Cowher, before, you know, Mike Tomlin took over,

00:33:31.560 black head coach, they all won Super Bowls. So it just, it, it doesn't work.

00:33:42.260 There's sort of a, this is part of what you do where you have a theory. The theory in this case

00:33:48.620 is that there's some sort of racial, racist conspiracy against black head coaches. And then

00:33:54.840 you think to yourself, okay, if that's true, what would I expect to see before I, before I even

00:34:02.980 look at the situation and before I even look at what's actually happening, what would I expect to

00:34:10.380 see? And you certainly would not expect to see a black man keep his job for 15 years, despite not 0.99

00:34:20.500 ever really doing anything. So that doesn't work. It doesn't work with the theory. And you have to 0.86

00:34:27.180 deal with that. How do you deal with it? Well, now you're left with doing these sort of ad hoc

00:34:35.340 things where you're trying to, you know, special pleading and you're trying to work around that.

00:34:39.780 Well, no, no, I mean, it's still racism, but that's different because X, Y, Z, and you have to,

00:34:43.740 or maybe just consider the possibility that this has nothing to do with race. Consider the possibility

00:34:52.940 that whether we're talking about the player or the coach or the medical staff or the chain gang

00:34:59.920 or the refs, consider the possibility that these people got the job because the people in charge of

00:35:07.060 hiring them thought they were the best for the job. And those people can be wrong. I think with the

00:35:12.800 refs, they're pretty much always wrong, it seems like. But that's how it happens. It's not because

00:35:18.740 they're taking race into account. Zero white cornerbacks in the NFL. Do I think that if there

00:35:26.940 was a white player at that position who was really, really good, do I think that a team would refuse to

00:35:35.360 put him on the roster because he's white? Do I think that any coach or any GM is saying,

00:35:43.100 yeah, you know, this white, this, this guy is really good. You know, he's a great, great in

00:35:46.800 coverage, six foot one, runs a four, three, great stats, playmaker, but no, we're not going to put

00:35:54.740 him on as a corner because he's white. Now his skin's a little bit too, a little bit too light for 1.00

00:35:58.560 this position. No, do I think any? No, of course not. That's absurd. And in a similar way, I very

00:36:05.140 much doubt that there are any GMs or owners saying, you know, this man would be a great coach,

00:36:10.720 great with X's and O's, great leader, so on and so forth, but he's black so we can't hire him. I don't 1.00

00:36:15.540 think that's happening. I don't think it's happening explicitly. I certainly don't think that those sorts

00:36:20.620 of conversations are explicitly happening. I also don't think that it's even happening as a thought

00:36:24.560 process. And the other thing is finally, um, if you are racist, I think probably the last

00:36:35.540 line of work you would get into is, you know, professional sports like in the NFL or the NBA.

00:36:45.260 It just doesn't, you know, if you're, if you're an NFL owner, and as I said, there are a lot of

00:36:51.980 incompetent and terrible NFL owner. But if you're a racist, if you're a racist rich guy, I think the 0.86

00:36:57.540 last thing you would do is buy an NFL team where you're going to be paying millions of dollars to 0.98

00:37:04.280 a lot of black athletes. It just doesn't, doesn't seem, if you're a racist person, it probably seems

00:37:11.340 like the last thing you would do is, is, is, is give millions and millions of dollars to the race

00:37:17.340 that you're a racist against. So that doesn't make a lot of sense either. All right, let's move on to

00:37:22.480 emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com. This is from Don says, Matt, what are

00:37:28.380 your picks for the divisional round? Uh, great question. Since we're on the topic of football,

00:37:34.980 decided to put this one at the top. So, um, first game on Saturday is Vikings at 49ers. I'll take the,

00:37:41.360 uh, I'll take the dark horse there. Actually, I'll take the underdog. I think I like the Vikings.

00:37:45.280 Uh, I don't really believe in the 49ers. I think they've looked pretty mortal, uh, recently and I

00:37:53.840 don't think their defense is as good as it is billed to be. Uh, I think the Vikings defense is

00:37:58.440 really good. So I think that it could handle the, the 49ers attack. And I think Kirk Cousins is, is

00:38:04.520 playing, playing better than people expect us. I'm going to take, um, the Vikings there. And then

00:38:10.840 you've got, uh, so the next game would be Titans at Ravens. I'm biased obviously, but I think the

00:38:15.800 Ravens are going to win that by probably three touchdowns. I don't think it's even going to be

00:38:19.960 close. Uh, the Titans defense is mediocre and you got to be a lot better than mediocre to shut down

00:38:26.520 the best offense in a league. Ravens are putting up 33 points a game. Lamar Jackson is going to be

00:38:31.720 the MVP. And if you want to beat the Ravens, you, you got to find a way to keep that offense to

00:38:37.320 like 20 points. Titans aren't doing that. You know, if the, if the Ravens get up their usual

00:38:44.300 33 points or 40 points or 45, you're not going to win unless your, your offense is so dynamic

00:38:51.980 that it can put up 40 points. The Titans are not putting up 40 points. Derek Henry,

00:38:57.420 great running back. He ran against the Patriots. He ran for 182 yards against the Patriots. One of the

00:39:03.260 best performances we've ever seen from a running back in the playoffs. They got 14 points off of

00:39:08.040 that. So what, unless he runs for 700 yards in the game, um, I don't think they're going to win

00:39:12.940 Texans chiefs. I I'll take the sort of obvious one there. I'll take the chiefs Seahawks Packers.

00:39:19.220 Um, neither of these teams impress me that much. Both have glaring weaknesses, but in a duel between

00:39:24.460 Wilson and Rogers with Rogers at home, I guess I'll take Rogers. This is from Colin says,

00:39:30.520 I was extremely disappointed by your segment on Jim Baker and forgiveness. You basically said that

00:39:35.120 Christ was full of it and forgiveness doesn't matter. That was his major folkness focus, forgiveness,

00:39:40.820 but you wave your hand at it and say, forgiveness doesn't matter. Very disappointed in you today,

00:39:46.880 Matt. Uh, yeah. Colin is referencing our discussion yesterday about the televangelist, Jim Baker,

00:39:53.440 who is a convicted criminal fraudster, accused rapist, and all around charlatan and thief. 0.90

00:39:59.620 Went to prison, then came out and got right back into the televangelist game and is still on TV 0.99

00:40:07.360 mangling the Bible and leading people astray. Now, anticipating some of the responses to my

00:40:12.440 criticism of Baker, I said yesterday that I don't, I don't want to hear anything about how it's okay

00:40:17.700 to follow him now and listen to him and take him seriously because we have to have forgiveness.

00:40:22.360 Yeah, he's a convicted felon. Yes, he's a, he's convicted for lying and stealing and he went to

00:40:29.200 prison for it. And I originally was sentenced to I think 40 some years in prison, but we should

00:40:34.960 forgive him, forgive him for that. My point was, and I stand by it, that forgiveness in this context

00:40:43.200 is a cop-out. And I know that that's sort of a, not, not what you would expect a Christian to say, but 0.95

00:40:53.880 that's my point. I think in the Christian church today, we have a massive misunderstanding about

00:41:00.200 what forgiveness is and when we're supposed to forgive and who we're supposed to forgive.

00:41:05.800 So I, I just get tired of the concept of forgiveness being misused and abused by Christians 1.00

00:41:13.520 who are just looking for an excuse to justify following or listening to a charlatan or who

00:41:18.200 are used to listen, looking for an excuse to, to be apathetic about something because I think

00:41:25.760 that's when it most often comes up. As I said yesterday, and I reiterate again, if you were

00:41:32.200 not yourself personally affected by somebody's misdeeds, it doesn't mean anything for you

00:41:38.140 to forgive them. It's not your place to forgive. That's the question I have. That's what I want,

00:41:44.380 I'd like for someone to answer. What does it mean for you to forgive someone who did something

00:41:50.920 to someone else who isn't you? Okay, so if you see Bob punch Jim in the face, what does it

00:41:58.580 mean for you to come up to Bob and say, I forgive you for that? So Jim is sitting there, nose bloody,

00:42:06.200 you know, or maybe he's lying on the ground, knocked out. You come up and say to Bob, I forgive

00:42:11.000 you. I forgive you. I think Jim, when he comes to has every right to say, what do you mean you

00:42:16.840 forgive him? What do you, you have nothing to do with this, butt out. It has, your forgiveness

00:42:22.380 is meaningless in this case. You were not involved. You're not the one with the bloody

00:42:28.060 nose. It's very easy when your nose isn't bleeding to forgive the person who caused the

00:42:33.980 bloody nose. That's my point. And again, I ask, what does it mean? Functionally speaking,

00:42:41.000 in that context, what does forgiveness mean? As I said, a lot of times it's an excuse to be

00:42:47.820 indifferent. I was talking to somebody recently, and this is not, certainly not the first time

00:42:52.680 that forgiveness has come up in this context. I was talking to someone recently about abortion

00:42:57.180 and I was talking about abortionists and how evil it is, what they do and how they exploit 0.99

00:43:02.840 women and obviously kill millions of babies. And it was the same thing. I was told, oh, we

00:43:08.080 have to forgive them, forgive them, forgive them. What do you mean forgive them? I'm not the

00:43:16.520 one they're exploiting. I'm not the one they're killing. So, okay, sure, I can forgive them.

00:43:24.280 And? And the other thing is, you say forgive them. Well, we should be righteously angry at

00:43:32.700 them, should we not, considering what they're doing? So righteous anger is necessary morally.

00:43:37.500 It's not only justified, but necessary. So we should be righteously angry. We should want

00:43:44.260 to stop them from what they're doing. We should condemn what they're doing and then also forgive

00:43:51.680 them. I'm not saying that we can't forgive them as well. I'm just asking you, what does

00:43:56.560 that mean exactly? What would really be the difference between you as an unaffected person

00:44:03.980 being righteously angry, condemning the act, trying to stop it, and forgiving, versus you

00:44:12.560 being righteously angry, condemning the act, trying to stop it, and not forgiving? It seems

00:44:18.120 like it's kind of the same. I don't know what... My theory of forgiveness is that it is something,

00:44:25.480 it is a one-on-one, intimate sort of thing, where we forgive people who have hurt us and

00:44:33.880 done things to us. That's where forgiveness matters. That's where we should forgive. It's

00:44:42.260 just like, as I said yesterday, it's just like turning the other cheek. Similar concept. If

00:44:47.160 you're turning the other cheek when someone else is being assaulted, attacked, or insulted,

00:44:54.280 that's not you really turning your cheek. That's you turning your back on the victim and

00:44:59.340 being a coward. Because when you're not the victim, you know, you shouldn't be turning the 0.55

00:45:04.700 cheek. It's not your cheek to turn. In that case, you should be turning your cheek towards

00:45:12.220 what's happening and focusing on it, and you should be defending the person, the victim.

00:45:18.200 It's up to the victim to turn the cheek and forgive. Not you.

00:45:24.600 So that's my point with someone like Jim Baker. You know, you can say all you want,

00:45:28.160 I forgive him, I forgive him. You know, he swindled a lot of people. And if you were not

00:45:34.840 the one swindled, if you were not the one whose faith was rocked by this person and what he did,

00:45:42.680 if you were not the one allegedly abused and assaulted by him, I don't know what your

00:45:49.980 forgiveness means. I don't know what it does. Finally, from David says, Dear Matt, I can't

00:45:57.520 believe what you did yesterday by ingesting crickets. I have certain pets that I feed crickets

00:46:00.960 to and have done this for about a decade now. The first thing I learned was to never inhale

00:46:05.320 while opening a bag of live crickets. Not the smell of excrement exactly, but in the neighborhood.

00:46:10.080 Distilled evil, perhaps? You joked about going outside to farm some yourself. Don't look up 0.97

00:46:14.980 YouTube vids of insect parasites. I'm sure these were raised in sterile conditions, hence the $26 per

00:46:20.560 pound. Farewell, my friend, and please don't do that again. I like your show too much. I thought

00:46:26.060 about that yesterday after I ate the cricket because I'm a hypochondriac and generally paranoid.

00:46:32.600 So after I ate the cricket, I said to myself, what should I be worried about right now? And I do

00:46:37.620 this a lot. This is what an anxious person does. You're constantly doing this survey in your mind

00:46:43.300 of, I know there's some stuff I should be worried about right now. What should it be?

00:46:48.480 And I thought, after I ate the cricket, I thought, there must be, and I thought, yeah, 0.96

00:46:51.860 parasites. What if I get a tapeworm or something now? But as you point out, my wife bought those

00:47:00.520 crickets from an organic shop. Very expensive crickets. So I would hope at the very least that

00:47:08.320 they are parasite-free. But we'll find out. I'll keep you updated on the state of my intestines,

00:47:15.300 if you're concerned about it. And I think we'll leave it there. Thanks, everybody, for watching.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 08, 2020

Ep. 400 - Trump's Masterstroke

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