The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 431 - Can Bernie Win？

00:00:00.000 Oh, hi. Sorry, you caught me reading my book, Church of Cowards, which comes out tomorrow.

00:00:06.740 Very embarrassing that you caught me in this organic, unstaged moment where I just happened

00:00:10.620 to be reading this on camera. It is, as I said, does come out tomorrow, Church of Cowards,

00:00:15.240 and you can still pre-order it, though. Go to Amazon and get that pre-ordered.

00:00:18.460 Now, today, let me set that up there. Today, we're going to talk about a few things. We're

00:00:24.320 going to talk, first of all, about the 650-year-old communist who is about to be the Democratic

00:00:28.540 nominee, and conservatives are gleeful about it, giddy, because they figure that a geriatric

00:00:34.460 socialist who has repeatedly publicly fantasized about turning the United States into Soviet

00:00:39.660 Russia will be very easy to beat. And maybe he will be, but I have a word of caution that 0.98

00:00:44.380 I'd like to share with conservatives. Also, the left's campaign to sexualize children

00:00:49.800 never ceases. And today, we're going to talk about one of the creepiest examples we've yet

00:00:55.180 seen, this one courtesy of Pete Buttigieg. And I have five other news stories worth knowing

00:01:00.180 about. Plus, I'll explain why Clint Eastwood is officially canceled. All of that coming up.

00:01:06.620 Now, first, Bernie Sanders. Sanders won the Nevada caucus, which, after Iowa and New Hampshire,

00:01:13.980 puts him pretty much in the driver's seat for the nomination. With the support he has in the

00:01:18.260 ground game, the infrastructure, it's hard to see him losing the nomination at this point,

00:01:22.340 unless a number of the other candidates drop out before Super Tuesday so that the anti-Bernie vote

00:01:27.760 can coalesce around somebody like Buttigieg. But that's probably not going to happen because these

00:01:32.280 are all power-obsessed narcissists, and they're going to stay until the bitter end. So we see

00:01:36.420 the echoes of 2016 with Trump, with the anti-Trump vote in the primary being split between several

00:01:43.840 people, allowing Trump to coast to victory. Speaking of 2016, as I said, I want to offer a word of

00:01:51.500 caution to conservatives because I am seeing this excitement and confidence as people on the right

00:02:01.280 are seemingly quite sure that Bernie will lose in a landslide to Trump. And I've seen people saying

00:02:09.080 he's going to lose 40 states or 45 states or whatever. And I understand that feeling. I have felt it

00:02:17.960 myself. I have myself said that there's just no way, you know, there's no way most Americans are

00:02:25.580 going to vote for a communist. No way. It just isn't going to happen. I have said, a lot of people

00:02:31.620 are saying. But there are many things, you know, that I thought Americans would never do and yet have

00:02:38.600 done in recent years. And here we are as a culture because of it. I'm not saying that I think Bernie will

00:02:45.780 beat Trump. I think the smart money is against him. But I am saying that he could win. And I think

00:02:52.300 that his chances are probably better than we want to think. And in fact, you can make the argument

00:02:57.500 that he's Trump's toughest opponent. So let's think about this. How did Trump win in 2016?

00:03:04.280 What happened? Because according to everything we thought we knew about American elections,

00:03:10.440 he should not have won. The people who were predicting that he would lose, myself included,

00:03:16.880 it's not like it was irrational. Based on everything we thought we knew, he was utterly

00:03:22.740 despised by a large number of Americans. He had no governing experience whatsoever. He was a reality

00:03:28.240 TV show host. There was even a tape of him talking about grabbing women by the genitals that came out 0.98

00:03:34.100 just a few weeks before the election. Now, that kind of stuff is supposed to bury a candidate.

00:03:39.580 Candidates have been buried under scandals and things much less dramatic than that.

00:03:48.440 But it didn't bury Trump. Why is that? Well, I think there are three reasons. Number one,

00:03:52.440 he had a core of extremely motivated and loyal supporters who were very excited about him. And

00:03:58.920 as far as those supporters were concerned, it really didn't matter what came out about him or what he did

00:04:04.580 or what he said. Number two, he was running against a widely despised opponent. Number three,

00:04:10.400 he seized on the moral outrage that people felt in society. Blue collar workers against the elite 0.86

00:04:17.580 and people feeling, you know, the swamp in D.C., people feeling taken advantage of and so on.

00:04:22.940 Well, what do you know? Bernie Sanders has a core of extremely motivated and loyal supporters.

00:04:29.520 And as far as they're concerned, it doesn't matter. You know, we talk about all the dirt and the oppo and

00:04:35.120 so on that's going to come out about Bernie Sanders in the next few months. Yeah, I'm sure it will come

00:04:40.320 out. But as far as the people that go to the Bernie rallies and are practically in tears of adulation,

00:04:46.520 doesn't matter. There's nothing that could come out about him that's going to dissuade them.

00:04:51.120 Also, Bernie Sanders will be running against a widely despised opponent in Donald Trump. And

00:04:58.480 Bernie Sanders is all about moral outrage. So Bernie has these ingredients as well and he has

00:05:04.180 them authentically. And what I mean is it's not like he's trying to rip off Trump. He's not borrowing

00:05:10.300 from Trump's playbook like somebody like Bloomberg is futilely. This is who he is and what he's been

00:05:16.700 doing for decades. Do I think he's going to win? Again, no. But I have, you know, I really have no

00:05:22.560 idea. And neither do you. Neither does anyone. Recent history has shown us that you can't really

00:05:26.520 predict what's going to happen when you throw a person like Bernie Sanders or like Donald Trump

00:05:30.680 into the mix. And that's why conservatives who dismiss him, I think, are making a mistake.

00:05:35.780 And I say that as somebody who has dismissed him as well. Because it's hard to put to the side

00:05:42.240 all the things we thought we knew about the way politics are supposed to work. And it's also hard

00:05:47.940 to put to the side the fact that this guy's a communist. And so he really should not win.

00:05:52.700 It would be crazy for him to win. But just because he shouldn't and it's crazy doesn't mean it won't

00:05:58.720 happen. Now, I want to focus on this third point about Bernie, the moral outrage. This is the most

00:06:07.900 important thing, I think, to understand about Bernie Sanders and about leftism generally.

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00:07:34.380 need to understand about someone like Bernie, and as I said, leftists in general. He's making a moral

00:07:42.100 argument, okay? And that's what resonates. Yes, the unemployment rate is down. The stock market's doing

00:07:48.360 fine. And so when we hear all these things from conservatives, oh, the economy's great,

00:07:52.260 so Trump's fine. Yeah, the traditional economic indicators are good news for Trump. But that stuff

00:08:00.120 doesn't really matter, because there's still an enormous amount of anger and dissatisfaction out

00:08:05.960 there and a deep feeling of unfairness. Now, whether we think that should exist or people should feel

00:08:12.820 that way, it doesn't matter. They do. And that's why Bernie Sanders is resonating. And that's why

00:08:17.820 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the biggest star in politics. There's a reason for this. 1.00

00:08:24.200 Bernie Sanders is pointing to a generation that is starting adult life deep in debt from student loans.

00:08:31.520 And he's pointing to the health care industry and the fact that even people with insurance are

00:08:36.840 finding themselves bankrupted if they actually have to, you know, go out and get medical care.

00:08:40.680 And he's pointing to income inequality and the billionaires in their yachts and so on and so

00:08:46.080 forth. And he's saying this is morally wrong. This isn't right. That's his argument. It's not an

00:08:54.180 economic argument. It's just a moral one. That's all he ever talks about. Now, yes, I believe that his

00:09:02.460 prescriptions to fix these problems are wrong. But that's not the point. The point is that the problems

00:09:09.820 exist and people feel them and people are affected by them. And that's what's going to send them to

00:09:15.320 the voting booth. And when they're at the voting booth, these are the things they're thinking about.

00:09:19.900 Now, I think conservatives need to have a response to this that is more than just, 1.00

00:09:27.880 oh, shut up, you whiners, you losers, you snowflakes, your entitlement mentality. 1.00

00:09:32.600 If that's our response, we lose. Okay. And we deserve to. I think our response needs to begin 1.00

00:09:43.080 by recognizing the fundamental legitimacy of the moral outrage that people feel about this stuff.

00:09:50.160 Because, you know, they're right. It is completely unjust and ridiculous for banks to be giving out

00:09:56.620 massive loans to kids who don't understand what they're doing, have no income, have no assets,

00:10:02.040 and you're going to go and let them sign up for a lifetime of debt. It's crazy. It's unjust. It's

00:10:11.060 wrong. And it's unjust and ridiculous that, you know, I have insurance, health insurance, but we had

00:10:18.780 flu going through the house. And so we needed to go and get flu medicine for our kids, including an infant

00:10:25.280 who could die from it. And it was a hundred dollars per bottle with insurance. I got four kids.

00:10:33.820 And that's just one anecdote. People go through this stuff all the time and you find, you know,

00:10:39.000 it's, it's, you think, well, what's the point of the freaking insurance? What am I paying all this

00:10:43.120 money for? Uh, and it's wrong. You know, it is. People are being taken advantage of.

00:10:49.640 We have to acknowledge that. If we don't, we lose. And worse than, than losing, we're also just

00:10:58.440 wrong. We've put ourselves in, in, in the position of being wrong. So, you know, I've been saying this

00:11:04.380 for years. Liberals make moral arguments. What conservatives so often do is they counter with

00:11:11.120 practical arguments. And guess which ideology has won the culture and won my generation and thus

00:11:19.060 already won the future. It's not the side that always tries to speak to your wallet.

00:11:25.040 It's the side that speaks to your heart and to your conscience.

00:11:28.880 This idea that people vote based on their wallets. I don't know who came up with this

00:11:33.280 originally, but they're wrong. They're flat out wrong. They don't understand how people work,

00:11:38.180 which is interesting because we're all people. So we know, we know what actually motivates us on

00:11:45.040 the most basic and fundamental level. It's not money. It's deeper than that.

00:11:49.060 Um, and if people feel like there's injustice and there's things happening in the world that are

00:11:56.400 wrong, you know, that's, what's going to motivate them the most. And they're going to be willing to

00:12:02.100 make. So, so even if you, if you come and say, well, yeah, but if you, if, you know, if you do this,

00:12:08.260 if you, if you try to solve the problem this way, um, it's, it's, it's, it's not the best economic.

00:12:13.440 It's going to be, there are all these economic problems. People are going to respond to that and say,

00:12:16.740 so what? It's kind of the same thing that pro-lifers say, you know, when we're talking

00:12:24.040 about the fact that we shouldn't be killing babies and you hear the response sometimes from

00:12:29.000 people saying, well, but if we don't, if we don't have abortions, then you're going to have all 0.99

00:12:33.180 these unwanted pregnancies and you're going to, you're going to have all these poor children. 0.75

00:12:37.420 They're going to add to the welfare roles and eventually they're going to add to the

00:12:41.380 unemployment rate and so on and so forth. Are those counter arguments convincing to pro-lifers?

00:12:48.260 No, because what do we say? We say, so what? That's not the point. Even if you're right about that,

00:12:56.280 that doesn't justify killing people.

00:12:58.480 So yes, leftism's moral arguments are bad. That's true. But the answer, um, I don't think

00:13:06.740 is to refuse to engage on a moral level. It's to counter with better moral arguments.

00:13:14.020 You know, I don't know if you've noticed this, but, um, this, uh, refrain that you always hear

00:13:22.260 about, you can't, you can't legislate morality. Ah, no, we can't talk about morality on a public

00:13:26.760 policy level because you can't legislate morality. Who, who are the people saying that?

00:13:31.920 Liberals don't say that. No, this is, these are, these are, this is, this, this kind of weak sauce

00:13:36.800 is what you get from conservatives. Now the left, they used to say that because they tricked

00:13:43.420 conservatives. You know, this is what the left used to always say. Oh, I can't legislate morality.

00:13:47.320 Can't legislate morality. And they tricked dumb conservatives into believing that. And so now while 1.00

00:13:55.160 the left is off legislating morality, conservatives are standing back and say, oh, you can't, can't,

00:14:00.080 no, no, no. We don't legislate morality. Well, we don't, right? That's what the left told us. We

00:14:03.340 don't, we can't think for ourselves, but of course we do legislate. Every piece of legislation is

00:14:11.740 legislating morality. Every law that has ever been written anywhere in the world, in any country,

00:14:16.820 under any government, including ours is legislating morality. Every single one,

00:14:21.440 because we make laws based on what is right, what we think is the right thing to do.

00:14:30.100 Everything that is illegal is illegal primarily because we believe it's wrong.

00:14:39.180 And you might say, well, no, it's, it's illegal. We only make things illegal if it hurts people.

00:14:44.680 That's why it's wrong to kill people. Okay. But, but, but why should it be illegal to hurt people?

00:14:51.020 Because it's wrong to hurt people because it's immoral. So at the bottom, there's always morality.

00:15:00.060 Student loans, as I said, is perhaps maybe the most important example of this as far as the left

00:15:06.000 goes. Bernie's success so far, like it or not, is due largely to this issue. Disaffected

00:15:11.960 young people who are drowning in debt, feel taken advantage of, they feel lied to. And in Bernie,

00:15:19.220 they see someone who not only promises to take the debt away, but also just takes their situation

00:15:24.360 seriously. Um, whereas what they get from the right mostly is shut up your whiners. 0.97

00:15:32.820 The problem with, with, uh, with, with Bernie solution though, just like his solution to everything

00:15:37.820 else is that it is itself immoral and it will only make the problem he's trying to solve worse.

00:15:44.800 Bernie wants to wave a magic wand and forgive all the debt. First of all, uh, that isn't just a bailout

00:15:51.160 of college grads. You're bailing out the universities who take advantage of, of young people by charging

00:15:56.180 them these exorbitant rates. You're bailing out the politicians, the government, which backs the

00:16:00.100 irresponsible loans given to, to kids right out of high school. And in the meantime, uh, you're taking

00:16:06.040 money from people who don't have the debt and you're forcing them to pay other people's debt.

00:16:09.840 And then everyone who didn't go to college in the first place, because they were trying to make

00:16:15.020 wise financial decisions. And so they sacrificed the college education because they knew they

00:16:20.520 couldn't afford it and they didn't want to have all that debt and they weren't going to take that on. 0.99

00:16:25.180 Now you're making them into suckers. You're making them into losers. 0.99

00:16:28.980 So this solution isn't just impractical. It's not just economically infeasible. It's that,

00:16:34.280 you know, it's, it's wrong. It's, it's immoral. It's unjust. It's unfair.

00:16:37.840 And I think that's the language we need to be using. That's the point we need to be making.

00:16:43.820 But then what is the solution? Well, this is something I want to get into more deeply tomorrow.

00:16:49.700 There are a few ideas that have been proposed to address the student loan crisis and the whole

00:16:54.720 issue of higher education. A few ideas that are much better, more moral, fairer, and more

00:17:01.960 financially sound than what the socialists are suggesting. As I say, I want to talk about that

00:17:07.340 tomorrow because it's a larger conversation. But for now, suffice it to say that I think we need

00:17:11.640 to be addressing not just the past, not just the people who already have taken out the loans,

00:17:16.460 but the future also. We need to find a way to stop the bleeding. We need to talk about

00:17:21.140 how to put an end to this entire absurd, unsustainable program of pushing kids into

00:17:27.680 these four-year institutions to get degrees that most of them won't ever use and won't need in the

00:17:33.200 first place. So I have some ideas on that score as we continue the conversation this week, but I'll

00:17:39.280 talk about that tomorrow. All right, coming up, I want to talk about Pete Buttigieg's extremely creepy

00:17:44.940 sexualization of a child, which is something that happened right on stage at one of his rallies

00:17:51.920 over the weekend. But before we get into that, I want to run through five other news stories worth

00:17:57.040 knowing about in a new segment that I'm going to call News. Took me a long time to come up with that

00:18:05.240 name. This is why I'm known as a creative genius. Number one, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being

00:18:10.800 criticized for wearing a designer dress on The View on Friday. Some conservatives on Twitter have

00:18:16.720 pointed out that her dress supposedly cost $500. $500, if you can believe it. Look, there

00:18:23.940 are a lot of very good reasons, very good reasons to criticize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I mean,

00:18:30.240 pretty much everything she says provides you a reason. But let's not be a bunch of losers and get 0.98

00:18:36.900 bent out of shape because a woman who does a lot of TV appearances spent a few bucks on a dress. I 0.91

00:18:42.000 think there's a general rule here. When you're attacking somebody for what they're wearing,

00:18:46.340 rather than for the ideas they're presenting, you're losing. Number two, the Commandant of the Marine

00:18:52.360 Corps on Friday announced the most important issues that Marines need to address in the coming year

00:18:58.220 and beyond, according to him. Those issues include parental leave for adoptive same-sex parents,

00:19:06.340 obviously a huge priority for the Marines, you know, really important stuff. And also,

00:19:11.100 this is the most important thing. He wants to get more women in the ranks. So we have to increase the 1.00

00:19:16.280 number of women in the Marines. He says he wants at least 10% of the ranks to be comprised of women.

00:19:24.720 Now, let me ask you this. Can anyone argue, I mean, can anyone with a straight face argue

00:19:30.500 that increasing the number of women in the Marines will help the Marines be a more effective and lethal 1.00

00:19:36.340 fighting force? And if you can't argue that, if nobody can argue that, then what's the point

00:19:44.540 of increasing the number of women? What's the point of making any changes to the Marines that

00:19:50.300 are not in the service of helping it become better at the one thing that we need it to do?

00:19:55.920 Well, I understand the point. Of course, for the left, the fundamental purpose of every institution

00:20:00.160 in America is to advance cultural leftism. That's, no institution can have any purpose higher than that.

00:20:07.480 Number three, a sad story here. A daredevil who goes by the name Mad Mike Hughes died on Saturday

00:20:13.440 after shooting himself into the air in a homemade rocket to prove that the earth is flat. And I'm not

00:20:20.920 sure exactly what the plan was. I guess the idea was to get really high up in the air and take a

00:20:28.140 picture of the earth to show that it's flat. You know, you could take a plane probably and do the

00:20:35.480 same thing. But he crash landed and died. You know, I'm not going to make any jokes about a man's death,

00:20:41.160 as a lot of people have been doing online, as you can imagine. But I do continue to find it

00:20:47.000 remarkable that flat eartherism exists. Remarkable until I remember that the human capacity for

00:20:55.000 self-deception is basically limitless. We can convince ourselves to believe anything really.

00:21:01.040 And we're also storytellers. You know, we're very good as human beings. One of the best,

00:21:06.380 one of the things we're best at is, is telling stories, which is a very important part of this

00:21:10.540 because flat eartherism is not a theory. It's a story. So flat earthers have this whole story.

00:21:17.660 They tell this myth they've constructed about global conspiracy. Well, not global conspiracies,

00:21:22.460 but you know, uh, conspiracies anyway. And, uh, they, they made up this story and they tell it to each

00:21:28.380 other. And because they find the story interesting and compelling, they figure it must be true.

00:21:33.180 Number four, Mike Bloomberg has been getting criticized for, um, having a bunch of women

00:21:37.820 under NDAs, non-disclosure agreements. Now, these are women who have sued Bloomberg's company for

00:21:46.020 harassment and those sorts of things, but now they can't talk about their experiences because they

00:21:50.340 were made to sign a contract binding them to silence. Well, Bloomberg now says he will release,

00:21:56.160 uh, three women from their NDAs if they ask just three. So this whole thing is starting to 1.00

00:22:03.580 really have the feel of a hostage negotiation. In fact, I heard that Bloomberg will release two

00:22:11.040 more women if the cop cars moved back another 500 feet. And, uh, five, finally the biggest news of the

00:22:17.460 week, of course, of the year, really of the century is, uh, I don't know if I mentioned this,

00:22:20.820 but my book Church of Cowards officially goes on sale tomorrow, uh, but you can pre-order it now

00:22:26.140 on Amazon. Otherwise you can find it tomorrow, wherever books are sold, uh, or online, of course.

00:22:31.660 Okay. Now, uh, speaking as we were before of making the moral argument,

00:22:35.440 I believe the left's sexual exploitation of children is one of the great moral issues of our time,

00:22:44.640 which is why I point to it and highlight it quite frequently. And I think this is one thing that

00:22:53.040 as conservatives, we should be talking about and exposing. And this is the kind of thing that

00:22:58.080 motivates voters. People will go to the polls to put a stop to this. It's, it's the kind of thing

00:23:03.040 that makes people angry. Um, and they're going to care more about this than about the unemployment rate.

00:23:09.380 And more importantly, putting politics aside, we have a moral duty to protect children.

00:23:15.000 So let's take a look at the latest example of this exploitation, courtesy of Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

00:23:21.100 Um, at a campaign rally over the weekend, Buttigieg decided to pull a nine-year-old on stage

00:23:27.660 so that the nine-year-old could talk about his sexuality. And, uh, it's the kind of thing you

00:23:33.880 have to see to believe. Watch this. He says, thank you for being so brave. Would you help

00:23:39.300 me tell the world I'm gay too? I want to be brave like you. Well, I don't think you need a lot of

00:23:45.820 advice from me on bravery. You seem pretty strong. To see you, it took me a long time to figure out

00:23:56.140 how to tell even my best friend that I was gay, let alone to go out there and tell the world. And

00:24:02.180 to see you willing to come to terms with who you are in a room full of a thousand people,

00:24:09.260 thousands of people you've never met. That's, that's really something.

00:24:14.880 So let me tell you, let me tell you a couple of things that might be useful.

00:24:19.420 The first thing is that it won't always be easy, but that's okay because you know who you are.

00:24:26.480 And that's really important because when you know who you are, uh, you have a center of gravity that

00:24:35.420 can hold you together when all kinds of chaos is happening around you. That's the first thing I

00:24:40.440 want you to know. The second thing I want you to know is that you will never know who's taking their

00:24:48.320 lead from you. Who's watching you and deciding that they can be a little braver because you have

00:24:57.340 been brave. Nine years old, nine years old, uh, children at nine years old haven't gone through

00:25:04.520 puberty yet. They don't know who they are or how they feel. They don't have sexual desires yet.

00:25:11.260 They don't know anything about sex. A nine-year-old doesn't have a sexual orientation.

00:25:18.320 So if a nine-year-old tell you, tells you that he's gay, you know, we can, we can talk about the 0.94

00:25:25.680 best way to handle that. But I'm, I'm, I'm very certain that, uh, the best way to handle it is not

00:25:32.100 to pull him on stage in front of an audience on camera and have him announce it to the world

00:25:39.780 that you don't do. Um, there is no good reason to do it. And when I say no good reason, good as in

00:25:46.560 no morally or ethically good reason, it's not going to help the child. There is no way that it

00:25:53.300 could possibly benefit the child for him at the age of nine to publicly announce his sexuality.

00:25:59.740 There's nothing good that comes of it for him. But of course, it's not about the child. In this case,

00:26:06.340 it's mainly about Pete, uh, creepy Pete, who has no compunction about exploiting a child's emotional

00:26:12.260 confusion for the sake of winning a few Brownie points with the media and with voters. Uh, and

00:26:16.640 it's also about, as always trying to reshape our, our fundamental understanding of childhood as a

00:26:22.860 culture, the forces of evil in our culture. They want us to see children as people who have the

00:26:29.900 emotional and psychological capacity to make profoundly important and life altering decisions

00:26:34.900 for themselves. That's how they want us to see kids decisions, like declaring a sexual orientation,

00:26:42.940 even if they haven't gone through puberty yet decisions, like choosing a quote, gender identity.

00:26:50.040 So in the area of sex and gender, at least the left wants us to see children as people who possess 0.89

00:26:56.180 all the competence and self-knowledge of, um, of, of adults. Now, where do we think this goes?

00:27:05.900 I mean, do we think it stops here? Do we think they say, yeah, toddlers can choose their gender and,

00:27:14.200 and third graders can declare a sexual orientation in front of the entire world, but that's it. That's

00:27:19.460 as far as it goes. No more, no further. No, of course not. One thing we've, we've learned about

00:27:25.240 progressivism is that there's a reason it's called progressivism. It progresses,

00:27:29.640 progresses in the sense so that that cancer progresses, it keeps going, it keeps moving,

00:27:34.840 it keeps eating away. Um, and in this case, it's not a far leap to go from here, from very young

00:27:41.960 children and being able to decide a gender and a sexual orientation to arguing that children have

00:27:48.060 the capacity to consent sexually. Um, now I don't think your average leftist right now today necessarily

00:27:58.760 in his mind wants to legalize pedophilia. I don't think that, I don't think he's thought it through that

00:28:06.840 much, but I can say, I can predict that nearly every leftist who today is arguing that three-year-olds

00:28:15.980 can choose their gender. Nearly all of them, 10 years from now, or even five years from now, 1.00

00:28:21.820 will be arguing in favor of, of legalizing pedophilia. It is without question, the logical

00:28:28.240 conclusion, the end point, the last stop on this particular train. And, and we will get there

00:28:36.260 unless of course the sane and decent among us rise up finally in defense of our children

00:28:42.160 and put a stop to this madness. You know, unless those of us who, who know better can, can actually,

00:28:50.500 uh, respond. We talk about moral outrage. We should, you know, we need to respond with the

00:28:58.140 appropriate amount of moral outrage. We should be pissed, furious when we see this kind of thing.

00:29:04.980 When we see what Pete Buttigieg did, when we see the, you know, these kids being taken advantage of

00:29:11.540 by their parents and three-year-old, three-year-old boys being told, oh, you could be a girl.

00:29:17.700 You know, our response should not simply be, oh, uh, we disagree with that.

00:29:23.980 We should be blind with anger because that's how exploitative and evil and crazy this stuff is.

00:29:34.980 But this is also part of what the left does.

00:29:40.080 You know, it's all about normalization. So they keep shoving in our face over and over and over

00:29:45.500 again. And eventually, um, even if we, that what the hope, the hope is that even if we don't agree

00:29:51.820 with it, we become desensitized to it. And so we throw up our hands and say, hey, I don't like this,

00:29:58.540 but it's just the way it is now. Moving on. We can't, uh, we can't allow that to happen.

00:30:07.540 All right. Finally today, um, debuting another new segment on the show. And, uh, in this segment,

00:30:16.100 each day I will be canceling something or someone, you know, a lot of people are critics of cancel

00:30:21.840 culture, but I personally am a huge fan of it. Uh, I'm, I, you know, I, I love the idea anyway.

00:30:27.780 My only problem with all the canceling is that other people are doing it. I think that I should

00:30:33.400 be the one deciding what's what gets canceled. I have a lot of experience hating things. And so

00:30:38.600 I feel that I'm uniquely qualified to make these decisions. So today, um, we'll start off by canceling

00:30:44.840 Clint Eastwood. Now in an interview over the weekend, Clint came out in support of Mike Bloomberg

00:30:50.520 for president, uh, throwing president Trump overboard, basically. In fact, Eastwood said

00:30:54.980 that, uh, that he's a, he's a little fed up with Trump and he wishes that Trump would act quote

00:30:58.860 in a more genteel way without tweeting and calling people names. He said, quote, is a real quote.

00:31:05.660 The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there, which marks, I believe the

00:31:11.020 first time in history that anyone has ever uttered that sentence. The best thing we could do is get

00:31:16.260 Mike Bloomberg in there. But, but that is not why Clint Eastwood is canceled. I want to be clear.

00:31:23.160 Um, personally, I couldn't care less who anyone in Hollywood supports for president makes no

00:31:28.440 difference to me. Eastwood is canceled finally for being the most overrated director in Hollywood.

00:31:33.780 This is a long time coming. And the only reason I'm canceling him now is that I'm hoping that,

00:31:37.880 uh, he, now that he's dumped Trump and gone to Bloomberg, that conservatives will stop pretending that,

00:31:42.540 that, you know, his films are good because I, I, I believe that's what's been going on here.

00:31:47.600 We've all been pretending to like his movies because we have the idea that he's conservative

00:31:53.240 or Republican or whatever. Now we can finally, now we can, we can finally be honest.

00:31:59.640 If you go down Eastwood's list of films that he's directed, now there are a few bright spots in there,

00:32:04.300 but most of his filmography is mediocre and sometimes bad. And in one case, literally the

00:32:11.200 worst that film, by the way, is, uh, is the movie, the 1517 to Paris that came out a couple of years

00:32:16.480 ago. Eastwood film directed it. It's about the four guys who stopped the terrorist attack in 2015 on a

00:32:23.960 train and a very heroic moment, you know, uh, and, and, but also a moment that took about 30 seconds.

00:32:30.880 And so Eastwood tried to turn 30 seconds into a whole movie and he actually hired the guys

00:32:36.840 themselves, the actual real life heroes. He hired them to play themselves in the movie. Now, the

00:32:41.960 problem is that they're not actors. And as it turns out, um, it, it does actually take some skill to

00:32:48.040 act, even to act as yourself. You, it takes talent, which unfortunately these guys didn't have. So it's

00:32:53.960 the worst acting in a major Hollywood film that I've ever seen in my life to go along with some of the

00:32:58.420 worst writing and some of the worst pacing that you'll ever see a monumentally bad film. But this

00:33:03.340 has been Eastwood's MO of late. You know, he takes a real life dramatic moment and he tries to turn it

00:33:08.320 into a whole movie, even if there's not enough of a story there. Sully, he made a, he made a movie

00:33:12.740 called Sully about Sully Sullenberg landing the plane in the Hudson a few years ago. Now, another very

00:33:18.640 dramatic moment that took about two minutes in real life, which leaves you with another about 100

00:33:24.780 minutes to fill. Unfortunately, there's just not a movie there. Million Dollar Baby, uh, another bad

00:33:31.720 movie where at the end, Clint Eastwood's character heroically kills Hillary Swank because she's

00:33:38.440 disabled. That's the end. It's supposed to be heartwarming. Him performing a mercy killing on a 1.00

00:33:45.480 disabled woman is the end of the movie. And, and, and people are supposed to leave, you know, in tears of,

00:33:50.760 of, of, of joy at this, at this, uh, beautiful ending. American Sniper takes a fascinating story

00:33:56.900 of Chris Kyle, the most prolific sniper, sniper in history, somehow manages to make a dull, repetitive,

00:34:03.600 bland movie out of it that barely scratches the psychological or emotional surface of the man at

00:34:09.060 the center of it. Even Eastwood's good movies are problematic, mainly because Eastwood has all the

00:34:15.360 subtlety of a, of a bag of, of hammers falling out of the sky. So you take Richard Jewell, for example,

00:34:20.420 I watched that movie, pretty good movie, important story, but he wants to make the point that the

00:34:25.360 media is irresponsible and reckless, which is a good point. So he takes a real life reporter,

00:34:32.200 Kathy Scruggs, and he turns her into a cartoon avatar of an unscrupulous ambulance chaser. 0.96

00:34:38.380 She's a, she's portrayed as essentially a sociopath with no morals whatsoever. Who's happy when people 1.00

00:34:45.000 die, openly happy when people die and when tragedies happen, because it will make for a good story.

00:34:50.000 And it may be true that the news media operates that way, but, you know, these are actual human

00:34:57.420 beings in the news media and human beings are, are rarely so explicitly evil and callous because

00:35:03.980 humans have a deep need to at least convince themselves that they're decent, virtuous people.

00:35:11.280 Yet the bad guys in this movie are just bad all the way through. No shades of gray, nothing human in

00:35:17.580 them. No nuance to their personalities until the reporter who is, you know, through the entire

00:35:23.720 movie, again, a sociopath, a psychopath, absurdly cartoonishly evil, the entire movie. And then out

00:35:30.020 of nowhere, in the span of about 45 seconds, she has a change of heart, not explained. How did it

00:35:35.260 happen? I don't know. Just out of nowhere, she becomes, uh, she goes from a literal psychopath to a

00:35:40.080 compassionate humanitarian. And at the end of the movie, she's, she's, she's crying, uh, because

00:35:45.360 she's, she's so remorseful about how she's been acting. This is what Clint Eastwood does. His

00:35:49.500 characters are almost always lazily drawn, one dimensional, just there to sort of do their job

00:35:54.340 for the story. You know, Hey, I'm the bad guy, yada, yada, evil stuff. And, uh, it's just not good.

00:36:01.720 And that's why Clint Eastwood is canceled. I'm sorry to do it, but it had to be done.

00:36:07.180 And that's it for, uh, for today. I don't know if I mentioned this, but my book, Church of Cowards

00:36:11.180 goes on sale tomorrow. So, uh, go order that to all of you who do buy the book. Uh, thank you.

00:36:17.600 And I hope you have a great day to those of you who do not buy the book.

00:36:21.080 You bring shame on yourself and your family. How dare you? And to everyone, Godspeed.

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00:37:06.920 As Bernie Sanders racks up victories all around the country, conservatives struggle with whether

00:37:11.840 to root for the radical socialists. So Trump can sweep all 57 states plus Greenland in November,

00:37:16.920 or whether it would be better to root for one of the also-rans on the off chance Bernie

00:37:21.620 could somehow win in November. We will examine the conservative case for Bernie. Then Pete Buttigieg

00:37:27.580 has a prepubescent boy come out on stage at a campaign rally. AOC likes luxury for herself,

00:37:33.580 but not for anyone else. And so much more. Check it out on the Michael Knowles show.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 24, 2020

Ep. 431 - Can Bernie Win？

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