The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 415 - The Staff Of Color

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, everybody. Friends, neighbors, fellow countrymen. We begin today with the esteemed

00:00:06.520 mayor, Pete Buttigieg. It's interesting to watch Buttigieg because you see a man who is trying to

00:00:13.300 cultivate a brand as this inclusive, tolerant, reasonable candidate, and yet also the wokest

00:00:20.460 one of the bunch. He wants to be all of those things, and those things don't really go together

00:00:25.440 in the end. And in a similar way, he's trying to be seen as nice and relatable, even while he is

00:00:31.880 clearly simmering with rage and disgust towards those people who don't think like him. And so

00:00:39.640 there's this constant tension with this guy that you can sense and you can see it and hear it by

00:00:46.460 listening to him speak for five seconds. It's so obvious. Here's a great example, and this isn't

00:00:51.320 the one that I want to focus on today. But this just happened a few days ago, so it's worth

00:00:55.280 mentioning. Buttigieg did a town hall on Saturday, and during the town hall, he was asked by a pro-life

00:01:01.940 Democrat. There are still some of those left, apparently, whether he thinks that she, a pro-life

00:01:08.520 Democrat woman, should be welcome and included in his party. And here's how that went. 0.56

00:01:14.340 We have a question now from Kristen Day about abortion. Kristen. 1.00

00:01:18.420 Well, I am a proud pro-life Democrat. So do you want the support of pro-life Democrats,

00:01:25.940 pro-life Democratic voters? There are about 21 million of us. And if so, would you support more

00:01:31.280 moderate platform language in the Democratic Party to ensure that the party of diversity and inclusion

00:01:36.900 really does include everybody?

00:01:38.920 Well, I respect where you're coming from, and I hope to earn your vote, but I'm not going to try

00:01:48.000 to earn your vote by tricking you. I am pro-choice, and I believe that a woman ought to be able to make

00:01:55.140 that decision. But I know that the difference of opinion that you and I have is one that we have

00:02:09.320 come by honestly. And the best that I can offer, and it may win your vote, and if not, I understand.

00:02:15.700 The best I can offer is that if we can't agree on where to draw the line, the next best thing we can

00:02:22.720 do is agree on who should draw the line. And in my view, it's the woman who's faced with that decision 0.78

00:02:28.120 in her own life.

00:02:28.820 So you notice there, he never said, yes, of course you're welcome. And there was a follow-up too,

00:02:35.500 because he dodged the question basically, and he was asked again directly, do you think the

00:02:41.900 Democrat Party should add language to its platform saying that pro-life Democrats are welcome? And he

00:02:48.700 refused to say that, yes, I think they should be welcome. Point being, no, you're not welcome.

00:02:54.900 You are not welcome. That was his message. He, a man, to this pro-life woman said, you are not

00:03:00.760 welcome. Which is true. It reveals something about himself, but it's also true that pro-life people

00:03:08.920 absolutely are not welcome in the Democrat Party. So what I would say to that woman and to any other 0.99

00:03:14.040 lingering pro-lifers in the Democrat Party, you are definitely unwelcome, if you didn't get the hint yet.

00:03:20.520 And you've been unwelcome in that party for decades now. So I would go and make other arrangements.

00:03:26.760 I'm not saying go become a Republican. I don't care what you are, but the Democrat Party, it doesn't

00:03:32.520 work with your pro-life ethics. So, but he had, but, you know, so his message is you're not welcome,

00:03:41.060 but he said it with a smile on his face. And so it's okay, I guess. Now this dynamic of Buttigieg being

00:03:50.720 angry and spiteful and exclusionary, even while trying to cultivate the opposite kind of brand and

00:03:55.620 image, is even more apparent on issues of race. And so I want to talk about that. There's, he did

00:04:03.880 something. He sent out a memo that is, it's quite easily one of the most racist things we've seen an

00:04:12.780 American politician do in many years. And I'm not exaggerating. We're going to talk about that in

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00:06:51.900 spiteful and exclusionary Mayor Pete. Case in point, the Buttigieg campaign sent around a survey to their

00:06:59.780 staff a few days ago. And Reid Epstein, reporter for the New York Times, has more information about this

00:07:06.960 survey. So I want you to take a look at this. Here's the screenshot of his tweet about it.

00:07:11.380 Epstein reports, Buttigieg staffers circulated a survey of microaggressions on the campaign.

00:07:17.080 Please only fill out this survey if you identify as a person of color, it reads. Answers, quote,

00:07:23.620 will be used to inform our white colleagues about privilege and microaggressions. And then you can see

00:07:28.840 the actual survey there. Not sure if it's too small to read. It says, you know, yes, please only fill out

00:07:36.140 the survey if you identify as a person of color, so on and so forth. And then it says,

00:07:41.140 in the workplace, have you ever experienced the following from a white colleague? Been interrupted 0.80

00:07:47.800 slash talked over? Left off a relevant email chain? Not invited to a meeting directly related to your job?

00:07:55.820 Idea was ignored slash dismissed without explanation? Someone else taking credit for your idea or insight,

00:08:01.600 even accidentally? Been called the name of a different staff member of color? All of the above or other.

00:08:08.840 So you can fill in your complaints if they weren't included on the checklist. And then there's a next

00:08:13.400 part where it's sort of more essay type questions where you can elaborate. It says, what does good

00:08:19.320 allyship look like to you? What does good allyship feel like? What does bad allyship look like to you?

00:08:27.200 What does bad allyship feel like? What does allyship in the workplace look like to you? What

00:08:33.500 does it feel like? This is starting to feel a little bit redundant. Think of a moment or moments

00:08:39.140 during which you experienced microaggressions. Without naming names of the people, can you name

00:08:44.040 the microaggression? Describe those moments. What was the physical environment like? If it happened in

00:08:49.280 in the ether, for example, in Slack, email, or text, identify that. Were there witnesses to it? And

00:08:58.560 if so, do you think they recognized it? You know, microaggressions in the ether, you've got to look

00:09:04.760 out for that. That's really the main place. If you're in the ether, I spent a lot of time in the

00:09:10.900 ether, right? And that's where the microaggressions really come on pretty hard. Okay. There's so much

00:09:17.960 going on here. I don't even know where to begin, but I'll, first of all, notice the word identify

00:09:24.860 there. Identify as a person of color. What does that mean? Well, we know what it means. Anytime

00:09:30.860 somebody on the left uses the identify as qualifier, what is meant is anyone who is this or anyone who

00:09:39.860 has delusions of being this. So Buttigieg is leaving the door open for the Rachel Dolezals of the world. 0.99

00:09:45.900 He's saying that even our race is subject to feelings and we can change our race based on how

00:09:51.760 we feel, which if we can do that with sex, of course we can do it with race. Making race fluid and

00:09:58.160 subjective is much less extreme than making sex fluid and subjective. Because in fact, race is in a

00:10:07.100 way a fluid thing. Now it's not so fluid that you can decide 32 years into your life that you want

00:10:15.180 to be a different race. It's not that fluid, but there is an actual spectrum of race and ethnicity,

00:10:23.340 whereas there isn't one with sex. So if you're going to do it with sex, then of course you can do it with

00:10:26.560 race. And it's not a surprise then that the left is doing this, but I do want to point out that they

00:10:33.400 are doing it. They are now officially making even race and identify as sort of thing.

00:10:41.000 And then also just the phrase person of color, I have to say, and I know that Buttigieg didn't

00:10:45.120 invent this phrase himself. He's dutifully using the phrase because it is the politically correct

00:10:50.740 phrase of the moment. It'll change five years from now or two years from now or six months from now,

00:10:56.220 it'll be a different phrase. And all of a sudden, if you use that phrase, you're a racist. But right now,

00:11:00.820 this is the phrase to use. But it's sort of a nonsensical phrase because it includes everybody,

00:11:09.360 person of color, Caucasians, contrary to popular belief. We are not colorless, translucent monstrosities.

00:11:18.320 I know that I personally, as a white person of Irish ancestry, I may get close to that,

00:11:25.260 but I'm not actually that. We do have color on our skins. And it's not even like we have less color.

00:11:33.460 That doesn't make any sense. It's not less color. It's not even a different color. It's just a

00:11:38.660 different shade of brown. That's what we all are. We're all different shades of brown.

00:11:44.160 So once again, the politically correct term actually causes more division and more segregation,

00:11:49.620 which, in fact, is what it's intended to do. Because it sets up this dichotomy of people with

00:11:55.320 color and people without color, even though that category doesn't exist. Imagine what you would

00:12:04.940 think. Okay. What would you picture if you were a space alien in another galaxy and you were eavesdropping

00:12:10.020 on our radio transmissions. And you kept hearing about people of color who exist on earth as opposed 0.98

00:12:18.520 to other earthlings who apparently have no color. So you would imagine that there must be on earth

00:12:26.840 this group of earthlings who are like ghostly apparitions wandering the countryside, no color,

00:12:34.360 like walking jellyfish, almost entirely see-through. That's what you imagine. That's the image you would

00:12:39.440 have in your head. Anyway, then you get to the actual survey, a survey about how his staff feels,

00:12:51.680 a survey about their fragile emotional states. But he clarifies at the outset, if you're white,

00:12:58.220 I don't give a damn. I don't want to hear about it. I don't care about your experiences. 0.98

00:13:03.640 How is this not racist as hell? I mean, how is it even legal? Forget about ethical. How is it given

00:13:15.600 all the laws governing these sorts of things? Is it actually legal for an employer to send out a survey

00:13:21.920 asking his employees, have you ever had problems with people of this particular race? Think about that

00:13:28.640 for a second. Just think about what's going on here. This is what he asked. He starts out,

00:13:36.340 if you're this race, I don't want to hear from you. Shut up. Okay, people of the other race over 1.00

00:13:40.860 here, have you had any trouble with these folks, with these people? How is that, again, is it even

00:13:49.080 legal to do that? It feels like it's probably not. Imagine, imagine this survey, but with black 1.00

00:14:01.000 colleague instead of white. Imagine a survey that begins with, this is a survey for white people. 0.61

00:14:07.700 If you're black, please, we don't want you to fill it out. And then it begins with, to any white 1.00

00:14:13.740 people, have you had any problems with your black colleagues? Here's a list of problems you might have 0.59

00:14:18.560 had with them. Imagine a survey like that. Imagine the reaction. It's literally unimaginable because

00:14:25.000 it would never happen. But think about it just for a second. Think about the reaction in our culture

00:14:31.720 to something like that. If they're a Republican, and you could say, well, Buttigieg is white, so it's

00:14:37.400 okay. Okay, well, fine. Imagine a black Republican sending a survey like that about his black employees 0.75

00:14:46.900 to his white, I mean, it's, it's the, it would be a, an explosion of outrage, unlike anything we've seen 0.98

00:14:55.340 in recent years. But somehow it's supposed to be okay in the reverse. Somehow. This kind of grotesque,

00:15:06.020 explicit racism is supposed to, for some reason, somehow be okay.

00:15:15.880 Nobody can explain why it's okay.

00:15:19.880 No one can explain that. There's this, there's this constant double standard with racial issues.

00:15:24.120 No one can explain the double standard or justify it. There is no justification. It's obviously a

00:15:29.140 hypocritical double standard. But the answer is, well, deal with it. And then what are the 0.89

00:15:36.440 questions? What are these horrible things that these people of color on the staff are experiencing 1.00

00:15:41.360 at the hands of their translucent, ghostly counterparts? Well, a whole bunch of stuff that

00:15:47.540 all adult humans experience all the time. A whole bunch of stuff that all, this all just simply comes

00:15:55.340 with the territory when you're a grownup in modern society. I was interrupted. I wasn't invited to

00:16:00.800 a meeting. Oh, what persecution, what a burden. First of all, not being invited to a meeting is a

00:16:08.080 blessing. Who complains about not being invited to a meeting? When I don't get invited to meetings,

00:16:14.780 I throw a party. It's the greatest thing in the world to not have to go to a meeting.

00:16:20.020 But yes, what a, you are the only person ever in history to experience such trials.

00:16:28.960 People are so desperate for persecution that they cling to these minor social miscues and

00:16:34.780 annoyances. That's what it is. Being talked over, that happens to everyone literally every single day.

00:16:43.220 It happens to every person. If during their time, during the day, they speak and have conversations

00:16:51.420 with other people. If you do that, it is 100% guaranteed you're going to be talked over

00:16:56.420 at some point, probably multiple times. It happens to everybody.

00:17:01.960 So we take these really super minor, we call them micro, microaggression. Well,

00:17:07.380 it's that, that actually is an apt phrase. It is micro, it is microscopic. And what you're doing

00:17:14.020 is you're taking this a microscope, you can barely even see it. You're taking with tweezers out of a

00:17:18.520 petri dish, this microscopic, little, tiny, small, social annoyance, and you're lifting it up and

00:17:25.180 saying, look what happened to me. But what we do is we take these things, turn them into a race thing

00:17:33.760 or a gender thing. This is, you know, feminists complain about this too. Oh, I'm talked over in 1.00

00:17:38.160 meetings. Meanwhile, it happens to everyone. So, okay, if you're talked over or not invited to a

00:17:47.860 meeting, and then you say, oh, it's racism, or oh, it's sexism. Well, what about when it happens to a

00:17:53.680 white man? How do you explain that? You're not going to call it racism or sexism. So in that case,

00:17:58.900 it's just stuff, it's, in that case, you're going to say, well, it just happens. So why couldn't it

00:18:04.720 just happen over here? Every time it happens here, it's racism or sexism, but what happens here every

00:18:10.480 single time, it's innocuous? Does that actually make sense logically? No. By the way, before we move

00:18:21.780 on and stop picking on Buttigieg, speaking before about the person of color phrase, I should mention

00:18:28.180 that Buttigieg did think of an even more bizarre variation of person of color. And anyway, I have

00:18:35.900 to play this for you. Listen to this. Mayor Buttigieg, just to follow up on that, it seems like some of

00:18:41.440 the concerns within your staff have to do with how they are personally affected by your inability to

00:18:47.740 make movement with voters of color and some of the controversies that have popped up over the last

00:18:52.660 several months. What have you done personally to address some of those concerns from your own staff who

00:18:57.740 have to answer to their friends and their families about why they support you for president? First of

00:19:03.040 all, I just want to say I'm so thankful to staff of color who brings so much to this campaign.

00:19:08.820 Surrogates, staff, and supporters who put a lot on the line in their own lives when they decide that

00:19:14.740 they're part of this effort. And I think we're part of it because we share the same values and because

00:19:19.580 we share the same goal of what we want to do in this campaign and for the presidents. And I want

00:19:24.860 everyone on our team to know that I'm proud of them, that I'm thankful for them, and that I support

00:19:30.020 them. Staff of color. Staff of color. That sounds like, it sounds like something a flamboyant wizard

00:19:38.040 might wield against his adversaries. The staff of color.

00:19:42.420 Now, do you think, staff of color. But do you think any of this, all this stuff that Buttigieg is

00:19:54.320 doing, using phrases like staff of color and sending out these racist memos, dividing his own

00:20:02.440 staff down according to their race, do you think any of this is succeeding in doing what it's supposed

00:20:09.820 to do, which is impress the radical left? That's what he's trying to do, obviously.

00:20:14.060 He's trying to impress them. And you think any of this is succeeding? You think the left,

00:20:20.500 you think the radical left, they're seeing all this and they're going, wow, gee, this fella gets it.

00:20:26.300 He's not like those other white folks. You think that's happening? No, it's not. It's not happening. 1.00

00:20:33.100 The reaction generally from the left to all of this has been, you know, not good enough, not enough.

00:20:41.720 Or I've seen some of them saying this is actually insulting and demeaning, which it is,

00:20:46.340 in fact. Because not only, with an amendment like this, not only is it racist to the white people,

00:20:53.800 but it's patronizing and paternalistic to the, quote, people of color or the staff of color.

00:20:59.980 But, um, so it's not even succeeding. And this is the same theme we always go back to where you've

00:21:09.980 got people embarrassing themselves, humiliating themselves, groveling, saying all these things

00:21:18.160 they don't believe. You think Pete Buttigieg actually think, cares about microaggressions or,

00:21:26.400 you think that's a phrase he would ever really, sincerely, authentically use on his own? No, of course not.

00:21:36.040 There are about 15 people in the whole country who really think that microaggressions exist.

00:21:44.560 And all 15 of them have blue hair and they're college sophomores, okay? Everybody else, no one else actually,

00:21:50.320 with so many things on the left that they get away with, it's almost nobody really believes it.

00:22:01.140 Another, of course, big example with the gender stuff. How many people really, actually, honestly believe

00:22:08.700 that the, you know, muscle-bound male running in the girls' track team is really a girl in some

00:22:18.560 mysterious, mystical way? How many people really believe that? Really, in their, in their heart of

00:22:23.060 hearts believe it. I think, again, it's the 15 blue-haired college sophomores and no one else.

00:22:28.400 But they get away with it because

00:22:30.920 we're all expected to

00:22:33.460 go along with things that we don't believe.

00:22:37.960 And Pete Buttigieg is more than happy to do that 1.00

00:22:40.160 because he is a coward. 0.99

00:22:43.160 All right, let's go to, um, 0.98

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00:24:17.280 Okay. So I finally have a chance to talk about this. I've been meaning to talk about it for a few

00:24:23.340 days now. Paula White, prosperity gospel televangelist, theological scam artist, also

00:24:30.340 spiritual advisor to the president, unfortunately was recently doing some preaching and had some

00:24:37.820 interesting things to say, including appearing to pray for miscarriages. Although she says it was

00:24:44.580 taken out of context, but let's play the clip first. And then we'll talk about her context for

00:24:48.920 this. Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, we interrupt that which has been deployed to hurt the church in this season,

00:24:55.180 that which has been deployed to hurt this nation in the name of Jesus, forgive us

00:25:00.580 for our sins. Come on. I need you guys to pray. We cancel every surprise from the witchcraft and the 0.51

00:25:07.840 marine kingdom, any hex, any spell, any witchcraft, any spirit of control, any Jezebel, anything that 0.94

00:25:14.620 the enemy desires through, through spells, through witchcraft, through any way that is manipulation,

00:25:20.340 demonic manipulation. We curse that we break it according to the word of God in the name of Jesus.

00:25:25.860 We come against the marine kingdom. We come against the animal kingdom, any, the woman that rides upon 1.00

00:25:31.900 the waters. We break the power in the name of Jesus. And we declare that any strange winds,

00:25:38.400 any strange winds that have been sent to hurt the church sent against this nation, sent against our

00:25:43.940 president, sent against myself, sent against others. We break it by the superior blood of Jesus right now.

00:25:50.540 In the name of Jesus, we arrest every infirmity, affliction, fatigue, weariness, weakness, fear,

00:25:56.120 sickness, any self-righteousness, any self-serving action. God, let pride fall. Let pride fall. Let

00:26:04.540 pride fall. Let pride fall. Let pride fall in the name of Jesus. We command all satanic pregnancies 0.98

00:26:12.160 to miscarry right now. We declare that anything that's been conceived in satanic wombs, that it'll 0.96

00:26:18.160 miscarry. It will not be able to carry forth any plan of destruction, any plan of harm.

00:26:23.260 Okay. She's praying that satanic pregnancies will miscarry, miscarry. And she has, she's, uh, well,

00:26:33.440 she's responded to, to the controversy over these remarks, explaining that it was taken out of

00:26:39.520 context. She wasn't talking about physical pregnancy. She says she meant spiritual, spiritual

00:26:45.520 pregnancy. And, um, as in, I guess anyone who's pregnant with an evil plot that the evil plot 0.99

00:26:54.660 will miscarry. This is what she says, quoting her, this is how she contextualized it. She

00:26:59.260 said, anything that has been conceived by demonic plans for it to be canceled and not prevail in

00:27:05.160 your life. That is any plans to hurt people. All right. So, so that, so the satanic pregnancy, 0.63

00:27:13.780 so Satan then is, Satan is pregnant with plans to harm you. And, and she's praying for a miscarriage

00:27:19.660 of those dastardly plans. Listen, I, here's the thing. I believe her. Actually, I believe her

00:27:27.720 explanation. I a hundred percent believe it. It doesn't make sense. It's the dumbest, clumsiest,

00:27:33.660 crassest metaphor I've ever heard in my life. I mean, literally any other imagery, any other words 0.99

00:27:39.900 would have been better to get her point across. She chose the worst possible way to phrase it

00:27:44.640 and a way that even as metaphor is insensitive to women who've had miscarriages. There's why evoke

00:27:51.500 that imagery at all? Um, why evoke miscarriage as a positive thing that you pray for? Why do that?

00:27:59.060 There's no reason to do it. But, um, but I do believe that, that, that is what she meant because

00:28:06.260 it, it makes even less sense. Literally, it makes no sense either way, but it makes slightly,

00:28:12.500 it's slightly more, uh, nonsensical in a literal way. So fine. Whatever. I'll, I'll, I'll buy her

00:28:19.660 excuse. Um, that was metaphor. Of course, she said, she said, she has said a lot of things that

00:28:27.620 are not metaphor. Like for example, this, wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on white house grounds,

00:28:36.240 God walks on white house grounds. I had every right and authority to declare the white house as holy

00:28:42.180 ground because I was standing there. And where I stand is holy. Where she walks is holy. Where she

00:28:51.320 walks, she herself has the power in herself to sanctify any place that she walks.

00:29:00.300 But of course we could spend all day going through Paula White's various heresies and blasphemies and

00:29:05.160 the like. The point is that this person is such a blatant huckster. So explicitly in it for her own 0.94

00:29:12.620 fame and wealth and gain. Uh, so damaging to Christianity in so many ways that she shouldn't 0.52

00:29:21.880 have a following at all. We shouldn't be talking about her satanic pregnancy concept at all because 0.98

00:29:27.280 she shouldn't have any congregation to say that stuff in front of. I think what Christians, 1.00

00:29:32.760 what Christians have to think about and understand is that when we follow and listen to and give

00:29:37.020 credibility to and money and a platform to people like this, it's not only ourselves and our own

00:29:43.880 souls that we're harming. We also damage the church as a whole, Christendom as a whole by elevating

00:29:48.880 these people into visible positions who are so obviously corrupt, so absurdly obvious in their,

00:29:55.620 in their grift. Um, and, and people who are, who are not Christian, you know, they look at someone

00:30:07.300 like Paula White and they say, well, yeah, see, this is what I'm talking about. This is Christianity.

00:30:15.520 This is why I'm not Christian. Here's something we should think about. I think, I think, I think

00:30:20.700 every Christian should, should, should think about this. And it's a difficult thing to think about.

00:30:24.600 It's a difficult thing to try to, you know, it's a difficult perspective to adopt, but we should

00:30:31.140 think, okay, what if I wasn't Christian? What if I wasn't Christian? What if I wasn't raised in the 0.94

00:30:38.280 faith? And now I'm looking as an outside observer. I'm looking out at the scene. I'm surveying modern

00:30:46.040 Christianity. I have no bias in favor of it because I wasn't raised with it. And let's say that I don't 1.00

00:30:53.780 have any bias against it particularly either. Let's just say I, you know, I was raised kind of neutral

00:30:57.380 on the subject of Christianity, which a lot of people are. Um, I'm coming at it from, at it from that

00:31:04.780 perspective with that mentality. And I'm looking at modern Christianity in America. What would I think? 0.74

00:31:11.320 What would I think? What would you think? Would I look at this landscape replete with

00:31:20.000 televangelist, con artists, and hacks, and charlatans, and unthinking sheep who follow these 0.99

00:31:25.660 clowns around? These, I mean, I'm sorry, these frankly idiots that you see in the, in the audience 1.00

00:31:33.000 of these, you know, clapping and applauding. Would I look at that and think, wow, these Christians 1.00

00:31:39.360 really seem to be onto something? I've got to pay closer attention to what they're saying.

00:31:44.900 Would you think that? Would you? I wouldn't. I can tell you right now, I wouldn't. I wouldn't

00:31:53.180 look at modern Christianity, American Christianity from the outside and think to myself, this seems 0.75

00:31:58.860 like a system of thought, a belief system that holds within it the very keys to the meaning

00:32:05.000 and purpose of life and of the cosmos. I don't think I'd think that from that perspective.

00:32:15.040 And we could say all we want. No, but you can't, that's not fair. You can't judge us by

00:32:18.560 Paula White. All right, fine. I mean, we can say that. But the problem is there's a lot of

00:32:25.260 Paula White's out there. Maybe they're not all as bad as her, but there's a lot of them.

00:32:32.620 And, and that's a problem. And it's a problem we need to be very much conscious of.

00:32:43.620 I mean, it, and we, you know, it's easy for us to do this with other religions. I mean,

00:32:50.540 we look at Islam, for example, and we see how there is obviously a huge problem with people 1.00

00:32:56.800 committing heinously violent acts in the name of Islam. And then we hear Muslims say, well, 1.00

00:33:04.140 but you can't judge it based on that. That's not, you know, and yeah, they're, they're in a

00:33:07.580 better position to talk about what Islam actually teaches than we are. We're not experts on the

00:33:11.700 subject. I'm certainly not. But even so, from the outside, we listen to that excuse, even if

00:33:18.420 it's true, but we listen to it and we say, yeah, I don't know. Well, what do people say? What do

00:33:27.920 they think with the Paula White's of the world? By the way, I'm going back to that Paula White clip

00:33:36.000 again. I just want to rewind the tape. We don't have to actually play it again, but because we've

00:33:42.160 addressed the miscarriage part. I didn't, I didn't want to completely skip over the other thing she

00:33:45.700 said, she mentioned twice, the Marine kingdom, the evil spirits of the Marine kingdom. She's 0.98

00:33:53.540 praying that we come against the Marine kingdom. You know, I heard this and I didn't, I didn't pick 0.95

00:34:00.220 up on it the first time that I listened to the clip. I listened back to it and I thought, wait,

00:34:03.840 wait, what Marine, what is she talking about? And I, you know, I've been a Christian for 33 years.

00:34:09.580 I've been to hundreds of churches in my day. I've never heard that before. I've never heard anyone

00:34:14.540 praying against the Marine kingdom. And so I looked it up to see like, what is this?

00:34:19.180 And apparently this is a thing among some Christians. None, no, it's not a thing in any

00:34:24.840 of the churches I've ever been to. Thank goodness. But it is a, it is actually a thing.

00:34:30.840 There are some who believe in an actual aquatic kingdom of like monsters and demons who live in

00:34:37.420 the sea. I read somewhere, I forget where I read this, but I was reading somewhere online,

00:34:43.160 some website about this. And apparently this includes mermaids. There are satanic mermaids

00:34:49.540 who are part of this belief that some people believe that like, I mean, if you go into the

00:34:57.480 ocean, there's an actual underwater, like Atlantis kind of demonic community living there.

00:35:06.860 And this, but again, this is the kind of thing it's, it's so embarrassing.

00:35:11.140 And, you know, this is not a widespread belief, thankfully. Actually, I don't know how widespread

00:35:18.240 it is. I never even heard of it before. But it's, it's, it's so stupid and, and, and, and

00:35:27.100 embarrassing that it does great damage to the credibility of the Christian faith. 1.00

00:35:33.140 Okay. Now, before we move on, if you're a regular listener, you've obviously heard me talk plenty

00:35:46.180 about the pro-life issue, which is the great civil rights issue of our time. Joe Biden says that

00:35:52.060 transgender rights, transgender equality is the great civil rights issue of our time. I tend to

00:35:56.720 disagree. I'd say that the killing of 60 million human children is the greatest civil rights issue of

00:36:02.260 our time. Uh, and there have been few civil rights issues in the history of, of the human race that

00:36:09.340 have been as serious as this. When you consider, uh, the, the death toll of 60 million. But what we

00:36:16.120 know is that while this is happening and, and we as pro-lifers are doing everything we can hopefully

00:36:21.040 to, uh, oppose it and fight against it and protect these, uh, these unborn children, these victims,

00:36:27.240 we know that the left is going further and further off the cliff, getting more extreme and more radical.

00:36:32.760 And while they do that, they're also, um, working to shut down the opposition. And we've had that

00:36:40.520 happen to us. Uh, when Ben Shapiro spoke at the March for Life last year, uh, there were, you know,

00:36:46.340 our advertisers being targeted by left-wing media watchdogs and pitchfork mobs. And we lost a lot of

00:36:53.480 revenue on top of that. It's not the first time that happened either. We're also not the first

00:36:57.520 targets or the only targets at all of the left and of the pro-abortion left, especially live action

00:37:03.260 is one of the biggest voices in the pro-left movement. They've fallen victim to this as well.

00:37:07.300 Um, they've had their advertising efforts, uh, restricted or shut down completely on some

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00:37:17.160 that is why it's so important is why we're so grateful to have you, uh, supporting us and

00:37:23.820 keeping our cameras on and our microphones turned up, even when the left puts pressure on our

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00:37:38.160 awareness and education around the world on this issue. So join live action and make your pro-life

00:37:43.360 voice heard today. Um, all right. So I thought this was, was powerful. I think we'll, I was going

00:37:53.740 to read some emails, but I think instead I wanted to talk about this. So we'll, we'll do this instead

00:37:57.520 of emails today, but you can email the show, mattwalsshow at gmail.com. I thought this was

00:38:03.840 powerful. Uh, me along with every other person with a pulse who saw it, if you haven't seen it,

00:38:08.060 I think you should a segment on ESPN. This is L Duncan reacting to Kobe Bryant's death by sharing

00:38:15.180 a brief story. And it's a story that I think is worth hearing. Listen to this. I met Kobe one time

00:38:21.600 backstage at an event for ESPN in New York. And I saw him and I thought, Oh my gosh, that's Kobe.

00:38:27.540 I got to get a picture for the gram. That's the picture. I didn't get it for a few minutes because

00:38:32.920 as I approached him, he immediately commented on my rather large eight month pregnant belly.

00:38:38.000 How are you? How close are you? What are you having a girl? I said, and then he high five me

00:38:43.860 girls are the best. I asked him for advice on raising girls, seeing as though he quite famously

00:38:48.600 had three at the time. And he said, just be grateful that you've been given that gift because

00:38:53.240 girls are amazing. His third daughter, Bianca was about a year and a half old at the time. So I asked

00:38:58.680 if he wanted more children. And he said that his wife, Vanessa really wanted to try again,

00:39:02.620 for a boy, but was sort of jokingly concerned that it would be another girl. And I was like,

00:39:08.140 four girls. Are you joking? Like, what would you think? How would you feel? And without hesitation,

00:39:13.820 he said, I would have five more girls if I could. I'm a girl dad. When it came to sports,

00:39:18.620 he said that his oldest daughter was an accomplished volleyball player and that the youngest was a

00:39:22.480 toddler. So TBD. But that middle one, he said that middle one was a monster. She's a beast. 0.89

00:39:28.300 She's better than I was at her age. She's got it. That middle one, of course, was Gigi.

00:39:34.660 When I reflect on this tragedy and that half an hour that I spent with Kobe Bryant two years ago,

00:39:39.340 I suppose that the only small source of comfort for me is knowing that he died doing what he loved

00:39:44.060 the most, being a dad, being a girl dad. Now, this sparked a girl dad hashtag, hashtag girl dad on social

00:39:53.960 media, with men talking about their experiences of being fathers of girls. And a little corny,

00:39:59.600 admittedly, but also that's not a bad thing. It's one of the more wholesome and constructive trends

00:40:05.800 to gray social media. And certainly a nice change of pace from the usual petty outrages that suck up 1.00

00:40:11.520 all the oxygen. I'll take the corniness every once in a while over the petty outrage that pretty much 0.98

00:40:20.100 seems to be 98% of the content on social media these days. Now, as a girl dad and myself, two daughters,

00:40:25.860 two sons also, I can relate. And this is the thing that I haven't been able to get out of my head the last

00:40:35.640 few days. I've been thinking, did Kobe Bryant and the rest of the people on that chopper, and remember,

00:40:44.780 there were nine people. So there were seven others alongside Kobe Bryant and his daughter. But

00:40:50.380 did they realize what was happening? Did the helicopter start going down and they had a minute

00:40:57.220 or 30 seconds or 15 seconds where they understood what was happening and they understood that there's

00:41:02.800 a good chance they weren't going to make it? It sounds like the thing maybe just crashed right into

00:41:07.240 the side of a mountain because of the fog and, you know, they couldn't see it. They didn't see the

00:41:12.340 mountain that crashed into it. I don't know if that's what happened exactly. It sounds like that

00:41:16.060 may have been what happened. And in that case, probably there was no warning, no moment of

00:41:21.080 realization before the end. It just happened. So I don't know. But whether it happened that way or

00:41:29.480 not, I still can't get out of my head the image of a man sitting there with his daughter

00:41:36.620 knowing what's going to happen and knowing that he can't protect her. Because as girl dads and boy

00:41:45.880 dads and as dads in general, the thing we want most is to protect our children. That is our number one

00:41:51.680 goal with respect to our kids, is to protect them. Not just physically, but emotionally, psychologically,

00:42:00.140 spiritually, to create security and give them a secure environment and to protect them and to

00:42:08.200 get them into adulthood safely, intact in every sense of the word. So the thought of a man staring

00:42:17.440 at his little girl, looking her in the eyes, knowing that he can't protect her, knowing that pain and

00:42:22.060 death are coming and he can't stop it, that really gets me. And it's something that I think about.

00:42:28.380 I mean, I think about this, it's sort of morbid. I tend to be kind of morbid. Maybe you've

00:42:33.620 noticed. So it was one of the reasons why my mind went here is because I've thought about

00:42:38.040 this. I've flown with my kids several times, as a lot of people have. And I think about

00:42:43.980 this every time I'm on a plane with them. Plane starts going down. What would I say to my

00:42:50.380 kids? But then I think, as I was thinking about that, I realized that all of us,

00:42:58.380 all dads, all moms, too, we're all in that situation all the time, in a way. And this is

00:43:04.660 why there's always this undercurrent of sadness. And it's hard to put your finger on, it's hard

00:43:10.300 to understand as a parent. But I've talked to a lot of parents that have experienced the same

00:43:13.280 thing and know what I'm talking about, that even in your happiest moments as a parent, and in some

00:43:19.240 ways, especially in the happiest moments, there's the happiness and the joy. But underneath that,

00:43:24.300 there's this bittersweetness, this sadness and the sort of longing that lies there, barely beneath

00:43:32.740 the surface, all the time. And it's hard to know exactly why it's there. But I think this is it,

00:43:39.960 because we want nothing more than to protect our children. And we would die to protect them. We

00:43:44.280 would do anything for them. Yet we know that our efforts will prove futile eventually. Hopefully not

00:43:51.440 in this tragic, dramatic, sudden way, like it did, sadly, for Kobe Bryant and his daughter. But

00:43:57.760 maybe it will. I mean, that could happen to any one of us at any time, something like that,

00:44:03.640 sudden tragedy. But however it happens, we know eventually pain and suffering will come for our

00:44:09.360 children, no matter what. This is guaranteed. And we won't be able to stop it. So you look at your

00:44:16.780 child now, if you have young children, especially, you look at your children, young and innocent.

00:44:22.200 They haven't suffered yet in life at all. You know, their worst suffering is when they want a

00:44:27.060 snack and you won't give it to them or something. But, and you think eventually, they're going to

00:44:32.820 suffer one way or another. Not now, we hope not soon. But everyone dies. Everyone suffers.

00:44:41.800 Everyone experiences despair and heartbreak and misery. Everybody does. No exceptions. It's the lot

00:44:48.300 that we have all, it's the, it is the, it's all, for all of us, it is our lot in life. And for our

00:44:55.260 kids as well. One day. Tomorrow, maybe, or maybe many tomorrows from now, it will happen. And that

00:45:04.040 reality, that helplessness is, I think, a source of great pain for parents. We don't dwell on it.

00:45:09.620 We try not to. But it's always there. And that's where parenthood's bittersweet flavor, I think,

00:45:17.460 comes from. So I think about Kobe Bryant on a helicopter with his daughter. Maybe he had a

00:45:25.460 warning. Maybe he didn't. But either way, in microcosm, he was in the same situation we're all in.

00:45:33.480 And not to resort to cliches, but sometimes when talking about these sort of things, it's impossible

00:45:38.820 not to resort to cliches because there's a reason why they're cliche. There's truth to it. So the

00:45:42.320 cliche here is that, you know, as parents, we have to cherish all the more the moments that we have

00:45:47.400 with our kids now. Give them all the love now, all the protection, all the security we can,

00:45:52.000 knowing that it won't last forever. There's a real finitude to it, which is another thing we don't

00:45:59.240 like to think about and don't like to dwell on or obsess over. And we shouldn't. But we shouldn't

00:46:03.980 forget it either, I think. So that's what I was thinking about, wanted to share. On that note,

00:46:13.480 a little bit of a sad note, but I think we will wrap it up for the day. Thanks for watching and

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 29, 2020

Ep. 415 - The Staff Of Color

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