The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 436 - The Left's Bastardization And Degradation Of Faith

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, we'll discuss the continued bastardization and degradation of Christianity 1.00

00:00:05.600 by the media and the political class. Also, five headlines, including one of the best

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00:02:40.980 the left's mangling of Christianity. Um, but a few examples in recent days are especially egregious.

00:02:46.840 So I think they're worth, worth looking at first. Here's a Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a hearing

00:02:51.680 speaking as she claims as a woman of faith. Experiencing this hearing and I'm struggling 0.93

00:03:01.440 whether I respond or launch into this question as a legislator or from the perspective of a woman

00:03:10.840 of faith. It's very difficult to sit here and listen to arguments in the long history of this country

00:03:22.820 of using scripture and weaponizing and abusing scripture to justify bigotry. White supremacists

00:03:31.260 have done it. Those who justified slavery did it. Those who fought against integration did it.

00:03:38.000 And we're seeing it today. And sometimes, especially in this body, I feel as though if Christ himself

00:03:49.500 walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago, that we should love our

00:03:57.620 neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for the least of us, that it is 0.97

00:04:04.980 easier for a rich man. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man

00:04:10.800 to get into a kingdom of heaven. He would be maligned as a radical

00:04:15.440 and rejected from these doors. And it is part of my faith that all people are holy

00:04:24.540 and all people are sacred unconditionally.

00:04:30.360 Okay, stop it. Stop it right there, because I can't. I just can't, as the kids would say.

00:04:35.420 I just can't. I don't even know what I can't. I simply can't.

00:04:39.160 Here we have a supporter of abortion through every stage of pregnancy with no limits at all

00:04:45.040 saying that all people are sacred. Well, AOC, maybe you can explain this one to me. Tell me,

00:04:55.580 if all people are sacred, are they sacred inherently? Or do they earn their sacredness over time

00:05:05.760 by degree as they grow? How does it work exactly? Is the sacredness conditioned

00:05:13.660 on their location with respect to the womb? Is it conditioned on their development? Is it

00:05:19.560 conditioned on their ability to care for themselves? I mean, what is it conditioned on?

00:05:24.880 Well, you said, no, it's unconditional. You said sacred, unconditional. Now, if that's the case,

00:05:32.240 if we as people are unconditionally sacred, then we must be sacred in the womb. And if we are,

00:05:39.300 how do you justify dismembering a sacred being and throwing it in a dumpster or selling its parts

00:05:46.000 like it's an old Chevy or something? Tell me, explain your theory of human sacredness,

00:05:53.360 because I don't quite understand it. You can't explain it because you're a hypocrite babbling. 1.00

00:05:58.660 You're using your alleged faith as a cudgel, as a battering ram to advance your political ends, 0.99

00:06:03.920 which is exactly what you accuse your opponents of doing, but it's exactly what you're doing here.

00:06:07.660 And you're doing it hypocritically because you don't really believe that. 0.92

00:06:12.100 That's what hypocrisy is. As I've explained many times, hypocrisy is not simply saying one thing 0.55

00:06:18.600 and doing another. We all are guilty of doing that. Hypocrisy is saying something you don't really

00:06:25.740 believe. And I don't believe that anybody on the left in modern times could possibly actually believe

00:06:32.200 that all people are sacred. That's a position that the pro-lifers hold. And I agree with it.

00:06:39.040 People are sacred. We have dignity. That's the right position. It's also a position that's

00:06:45.720 inherently appealing to everybody. Of course, we all want to believe that we have dignity.

00:06:50.140 Well, if you want to hold that view, you better go over to the pro-life side.

00:06:56.480 Because that is the logical conclusion of a belief that all people have inherent dignity and

00:07:03.880 sacredness. Meanwhile, we have a number of people attacking Mike Pence as usual. So this is,

00:07:09.780 okay, so this is the, that's, that's another example. And we get this, you know, several times a week,

00:07:15.920 often from Pete Buttigieg, but he's out of the picture now. So now AOC is going to pick up the

00:07:19.820 torch of somebody on the left using faith hypocritically, cynically to advance their

00:07:26.260 political lens. So we've got that. And we've also got the left degrading and heaping scorn and mockery 0.91

00:07:32.980 on faith. And, you know, those two strategies are actually contradictory. You kind of have to choose

00:07:39.000 one or the other. Because if faith is a, is a stupid, silly, ridiculous thing that only dummies 1.00

00:07:45.760 partake in, then you can't also use it to make a point, can you? So meanwhile, we have people 1.00

00:07:54.660 attacking Mike Pence as usual. Mike Pence is, is attacked all that. Mike Pence is the most hated

00:07:59.120 man in Washington, even more than Donald Trump. Despite the fact that he hasn't done anything,

00:08:04.980 he doesn't, he's, he, well, vice presidents don't do much in general. So that's no knock on Mike Pence,

00:08:10.320 but he hasn't done anything really as a vice president to earn this scorn. He's not out there

00:08:18.320 at gay pride rallies, preaching fire and brimstone, uh, you know, into, into a speaker. He's not out 0.64

00:08:24.640 there with a bullhorn shouting fire and brimstone, despite how, how the left portrays him. That's not

00:08:31.220 actually what he's doing. But in any case, they're after Mike Pence now because he's heading up the

00:08:36.260 coronavirus task force and he made the mistake of praying. So here's a tweet that has 18,000 likes

00:08:43.480 currently. It's a picture of Pence and his team, heads bowed in prayer. And the caption says, uh,

00:08:51.780 Mike Pence and his coronavirus emergency team praying for a solution. We are so screwed. 0.99

00:08:57.300 And this is why I talk about in my book, church of cowards in stores now and get on Amazon, 0.99

00:09:03.900 wherever books are sold, uh, that we face mockery and contempt in our culture. If we practice our

00:09:08.740 faith, if we give evidence of our faith in public, this is the kind of treatment we can expect to

00:09:13.380 receive. Now for many Christians across the world, uh, you know, it's, it's, it's quite,

00:09:18.860 it's quite different. It's quite more serious than that. They face not just mockery and scorn,

00:09:23.020 although that as well. But, uh, along with that, um, there are machetes and, and, and rocks and guns

00:09:29.760 and, and, and those sorts of things. Um, we don't, we don't really have to worry about that, but even

00:09:35.620 so for many Christians in this country, just the mockery and the scorn and the contempt and the snide

00:09:41.400 comments on, on the internet are enough to make them run for the hills or better yet run under their

00:09:46.240 bed, or at least to hide their faith under the bed. So nobody sees it. So they don't get made fun of.

00:09:53.020 And that's why I have so much respect for Mike Pence's unapologetic faith or, or the

00:09:57.660 unapologetic faith of anybody. But, but here's the point. Pence is not trying to solve the coronavirus

00:10:04.060 problem only through prayer. If that's what they were doing, I'd be first in line to criticize.

00:10:11.600 If that was their entire plan, they weren't doing anything else. Um, I, I would, I would be the first

00:10:17.760 one to criticize that, but that's not what they're doing. They pray and then they get down to the

00:10:22.960 business of, of taking active steps, whatever active steps that they can personally take.

00:10:28.700 The coronavirus is something that must be approached medically, scientifically, and there's

00:10:33.620 nothing about prayer that precludes that. God gave us brains and expects us to use them. He gave us the

00:10:40.100 capacity for science and medicine expects, expects us to use them too. If you have cancer, God does not

00:10:46.660 want you to sit around the house, not getting treated on the assumption that he'll heal you.

00:10:51.980 In fact, Jesus says, uh, don't, don't tempt you not to tempt God. You don't tempt, uh, uh, God. And

00:10:59.880 that's, and that's kind of what, or, or, or you don't put God to the test rather. And that's sort of

00:11:04.920 what that would be. It's saying, well, you know, I know God that you have provided modern medicine to

00:11:11.400 us that we could use, but I'm not going to use that because I'm going to, I'm going to put you to the

00:11:14.160 test and I'm going to see if you're really going to heal me. That's not what we're told to do. In

00:11:18.520 fact, we are specifically told not to do that, but that's not how most Christians operate.

00:11:24.360 You take the steps you can, God will work in his time, in his ways, and you do what you can also.

00:11:32.400 So there's no conflict here. There's no problem. And by the way, to anyone disturbed by the sight of

00:11:40.040 people praying over a medical or scientific issue, I've got bad news. I've got, I've got really bad

00:11:46.160 news for you because did you know that most of the greatest scientific and medical minds in history

00:11:51.440 have been Christians, have been people who pray? So are we going to throw Newton's ideas out the

00:12:01.260 window? Probably the greatest scientific mind in history. His, his ideas are that he was a devout

00:12:08.100 Christian or, uh, Pascal or Galileo or Kepler or Boyle or on down the list. I mean, even outside of

00:12:16.620 science, you go to, you look at any field, the smartest people, the greatest innovators, the

00:12:22.080 greatest pioneers have, uh, in many cases been Christian. Da Vinci, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Mozart,

00:12:31.840 Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Edison, Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, uh, Adam Smith,

00:12:37.680 Marconi, Dickens, Faulkner, Tolkien, Marco Polo, Neil Armstrong, uh, Magellan, Columbus,

00:12:47.080 Henry Ford, on down the list, all Christians. Now, none of this proves in and of itself that 1.00

00:12:54.600 Christianity is true, of course, but it does make the snide condescension, um, of, uh,

00:13:01.300 or condescension, I should say, condensation, the snide condensation as well. It does make it look

00:13:07.760 rather silly, doesn't it? And it does prove that Christianity, that being devoutly Christian 0.92

00:13:16.640 does not preclude you from being a great genius or from accomplishing real things

00:13:24.080 in the areas of science, medicine, or, or any other area. In fact, evidence would seem to suggest

00:13:31.080 the opposite correlation. The evidence of history would seem to testify to the fact that actually

00:13:37.600 being a Christian helps you in these areas. And it's not hard to see why that would be the case,

00:13:45.040 especially in science. Because in Christianity, we know that there's a purpose, um, and a design,

00:13:55.940 and a logic to everything. And with that underlying, um, foundation, you go from there to discovering

00:14:09.920 exactly what that design is and how it works. So there's, again, no contradiction whatsoever.

00:14:18.080 And it's just, it's very easy to sit there and, and say, oh, these silly Christians praying. 1.00

00:14:26.980 But if that's your attitude, think of all the people that you're accusing of being silly and stupid. 1.00

00:14:31.800 All the guys I just listed. 0.99

00:14:33.220 Now, um, we're going to move on to some headlines, but, uh, first, you know, Super Tuesday is today

00:14:42.520 and we want to hear from you. So, uh, you know, we, we do enough of the, of the punditry and,

00:14:47.060 and, and predicting and everything. We want to hear what you think. Tell us who you think will win

00:14:51.120 the democratic nomination by texting either Biden, Bernie, Bloomberg, or Warren to 83400. And on Tuesday

00:14:58.940 night during Daily Wire backstage, they're going to analyze the results live. Again, text either

00:15:03.320 Biden, Bernie, Bloomberg, Warren to 83400. And the, the, uh, the results will be analyzed on Daily Wire

00:15:10.360 backstage. I noticed that, uh, Tulsi Gabbard is not, is not, I mean, she could win too. So I think she

00:15:16.860 should be, I guess you could text that also maybe. All right. Um, on to headlines. Number one,

00:15:23.880 Super Tuesday, of course, uh, as I just mentioned, 14 states voting in their primaries and Joe

00:15:28.920 Biden is ready for action. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by 1.00

00:15:36.020 go, you know, the, you know, the thing. And as Martin Luther King Jr. Once said, I have a,

00:15:42.800 a, um, you know, one of those, uh, what do you call them? The sleepy thought thingies.

00:15:51.200 I will say that if I had, if I had placed a bet on which democratic candidate would, uh, be the one

00:15:57.660 to refer to God as the thing, all my money would have gone on Sanders or maybe Warren. I never would

00:16:05.020 have guessed Biden necessarily. So I would have lost, I would have lost that bet. Um, and I'm just

00:16:09.260 wondering what, which thing does Biden think is responsible for creating men and women? It could

00:16:15.800 conceivably be this thing or, or one of these things. I'm just wondering which, which thing I,

00:16:23.440 maybe I would go with the hand kind of a hand of God situation there. I'm just trying to understand

00:16:28.980 what Biden's theology is here. Um, now I, I guess if you wanted to be, to be generous to him, you

00:16:37.120 could, you could say that maybe when he said the thing, he wasn't really referring to God. That was

00:16:42.520 more, he was, he was referring to the declaration of independence and he was kind of saying, uh, you

00:16:48.660 know, the, the, well, you know, the rest of it. I don't have to tell you the rest. You know, that's

00:16:52.480 the, the, the thing, the, the thing that says about the, about the people being created equal.

00:16:57.140 I'm not sure either way. Um, this, we're really thinking about putting this guy in the white house,

00:17:05.160 huh? It's not going to get better. Just so you know, people who start losing their minds at 78,

00:17:12.480 they don't suddenly turn it around at 80. It's just, it's, it's, it's kind of, it's a one way

00:17:18.400 ticket, unfortunately. And, uh, that's what I've been saying now for months. It's, we are mortal

00:17:23.780 beings. There are realities. There are limitations that come with being mortal. Unfortunately, I'm not

00:17:30.040 happy about it. Uh, and, and, and, and Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders too, they are running up against

00:17:36.180 those limitations and those limitations should exclude them from the white house. But, uh, you know,

00:17:42.240 they don't because we've decided that, uh, we could never have a 33 year old in the white house,

00:17:49.220 but sure. If you're, but a 93 year old, sure. Why not? Who, who could possibly see a problem with

00:17:53.420 that? Number two, um, sometimes conspiracy theories actually pan out. So those of you,

00:17:59.320 and I'm in this group who insisted for years that Apple must have some kind of self-destruct

00:18:04.480 mechanism in our phones that makes them stop working or slow down whenever the new models come

00:18:09.720 out so that we're forced to go buy the new models. Um, well, it's, it turns out there may be some,

00:18:14.640 there may be some truth to that. Apple has agreed to pay $500 million in a class action lawsuit

00:18:18.600 for intentionally slowing down older phones. And in this case, the lawsuit is focused on, uh,

00:18:23.780 iPhone six and seven. Now they haven't admitted, they haven't admitted that they did it for that

00:18:29.060 reason. In fact, they haven't admitted wrongdoing at all, but they are going to pay out. It looks like,

00:18:33.440 uh, you know, around $500 million, which means if you had an iPhone six or seven, you just struck it

00:18:39.780 rich. All eligible Apple customers stand to receive. Now get ready, ready for this. I hope

00:18:45.260 you're sitting down because your life has changed forever. You receive, it says $25. So go for a

00:18:54.760 splurge at Applebee's, uh, get the, get the entree and get the appetizer. Even if the appetizer isn't

00:19:00.960 half off or got by, by a pair of jeans at Target, you know, if there's a sale, you might be able to

00:19:07.340 buy jeans and socks as, as well. So, I mean, really, uh, uh, go and, and, and enjoy yourself.

00:19:12.460 Go crazy out there. You've earned it. Congrats. Number three, a guy in the Outer Banks recorded

00:19:17.380 a time-lapse video of the, of the Milky Way. And he recorded it from, I guess, what appears to be his

00:19:23.480 makeshift flying saucer home that he lives in. I'm not really sure what's going on here. You'll see

00:19:27.660 in a second. But he captured some mysterious flying objects in the sky. And this comes only a year

00:19:33.840 after another guy in the Outer Banks recorded this. Look, nothing in the sky at all. Then all

00:19:40.620 of a sudden, bam, what is that? Anybody tell me what that is? We're in the middle of the ocean

00:19:50.420 on a ferry. Nothing around. Look, nothing around, no land, no nothing. This raises the question of

00:20:02.360 why are the aliens so interested in the Outer Banks? Uh, I mean, it's nice there, family friendly,

00:20:09.600 nice vacation spot, but I'd recommend to the aliens, if you're looking for a, uh, a beach on the East

00:20:15.580 Coast of the United States. I would look, um, maybe at the Eastern shore of Maryland and Delaware.

00:20:20.820 You know, you've got Ocean City there, Rehoboth, uh, Dewey, Bethany, and all within, all within,

00:20:27.020 you know, uh, 30 or 40 miles. So you, you know, that's what I would recommend to any intergalactic

00:20:33.000 visitors. Of course, we have to entertain the possibility, however remote, that these were not

00:20:38.700 aliens. And what you can say in favor of that theory, the non-alien theory is that it's probably

00:20:44.780 physically impossible for any manned, uh, spacecraft to actually travel from one solar

00:20:49.540 system to another because, because of the vast distances and you would need to travel at the

00:20:53.640 speed of light. And even if you can do that, which is probably physically impossible, you would still

00:20:57.500 be in the spacecraft for many years, for several years, at least just to get, just to get around

00:21:02.820 our local solar systems. Um, and, uh, and, and, you know, then you've got issues of, of radiation

00:21:08.460 poisoning, everything, and as well as all the other practical problems, which means, um, the only other

00:21:13.760 option would be to use wormholes to travel from one solar system to another, but we don't even know

00:21:18.100 if wormholes exist. So arguably the more likely possibility is that the first video was maybe a

00:21:24.540 drone that somebody was flying around. And the second one was, I'm not really sure what that would

00:21:29.600 be. Maybe a whole fleet of giant radioactive lightning bugs possibility. You know, you do see

00:21:37.500 those sometimes. Number four, this, uh, I'm a big fan of Mike Bloomberg was questioned by a voter

00:21:45.140 yesterday. And, uh, and this is how that went. How do you justify pushing for more gun control

00:21:51.620 when you have an armed security detail that is likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines

00:21:56.280 that you seek to ban the common citizen from owning? Does your life matter more than mine or my

00:22:00.720 families or these peoples? Uh, all right. Look, I probably get 40 or 50 threats every week.

00:22:13.040 Okay. And some of them are real. That just happens when you're the mayor of New York City

00:22:17.200 or you're very wealthy. And if you're campaigning for a president of the United States, you get lots

00:22:22.520 of threats. So I have a security detail. I pay for it all myself. And, um, you know, they're,

00:22:29.720 they're all retired police officers who are very well trained in firearms.

00:22:34.040 Great question. I really, it always frustrates me when I watch these town halls and voters have a

00:22:39.500 chance to hold a politician's feet to the fire on national TV. You could say whatever you want,

00:22:44.760 even if the questions are submitted ahead of time. Well, it's, you know, you're there,

00:22:49.000 there are people recording. You might be on live TV. Um, you have the microphone. So submit a fake

00:22:56.840 question, an easy one. And then when you get the mic, ask something hard. Why aren't you doing that?

00:23:03.140 I think throwing a softball question at a politician at a town hall is, is a, is a betrayal of the

00:23:10.060 American. It should lead to an automatic revocation of your citizenship rights. That's, that's what I 1.00

00:23:15.200 would do because it's, um, it's, it's, it's most people don't get this chance. You get the chance,

00:23:21.060 use it. Well, this man used that chance wisely, asked a simple question. Um, but one that gets

00:23:29.280 right to the, to the heart of the matter. And blue Bloomberg's answer of course was weak as expected.

00:23:35.200 He says, well, I'm an important person and I get a lot of threats. Plus the people who have guns

00:23:40.520 around me, they're all very well-trained. The problem with that logic is one, most avid gun

00:23:46.020 collectors are very well-trained. There are very many people who own several guns legally and don't

00:23:53.320 know how to use them. If somebody's a, you know, is, is into, to buying guns, it's, it's because they

00:23:59.440 also like using them, whether hunting or at the, at the range or, or what have you. Um, so they're,

00:24:05.140 they're probably well-trained. They're probably very knowledgeable. And a lot of them are former

00:24:10.920 military. Um, and he says that he gets a lot of threats. Well, I'm sure he does as a public figure.

00:24:17.520 Uh, I'm not anywhere near as well-known as Mike Bloomberg, but I get threats. So I can only imagine

00:24:22.960 that, that it's, it's, it, how it is for people at, at Bloomberg's level of prominence, but average

00:24:28.800 people, ordinary Americans face different kinds of threats. They might not get the, the kinds of

00:24:34.840 death threats that famous people get, but, um, uh, but they, they have different threats,

00:24:40.340 especially if they don't live in gated mansions. They live in neighborhoods often. And in some cases,

00:24:48.180 dangerous neighborhoods. So they have their own reasons to need to protect themselves.

00:24:52.360 So that answer doesn't wash either. The, the, both of those justifications don't wash.

00:24:59.500 And the real reason, of course, this is what Bloomberg can't say, but, uh, you know, the,

00:25:07.400 the guy asked him, is your life more important than mine? Bloomberg's real answer, what he's

00:25:11.800 thinking in his head is yes, that that's actually exactly it. I'm more important than you.

00:25:17.000 He can't say that. So instead he, he, he, he grasps for these other straws. Um,

00:25:22.200 and it just doesn't work out. Number five, finally, Chris Matthews, host of hardball and MSNBC

00:25:27.940 made a surprise announcement on his show last night that he is leaving effective immediately.

00:25:33.860 Uh, and here's how that sounded. Let me start with my headline tonight. I'm retiring. This is the last

00:25:40.020 hardball on MSNBC. And obviously this isn't for lack of interest in politics. As you can tell,

00:25:45.640 I've loved every minute of my 20 years as host of hardball. Every morning I read the papers and I'm

00:25:50.820 gung ho to get to work. Not many people have had this privilege. I love working with my producers

00:25:56.360 and the discussions we have over how to report the news. And I love having this connection with you,

00:26:00.980 the good people who watch. I've learned who you are bumping into you on the sidewalk or at waiting

00:26:05.840 at an airport and saying, hello, you're like me. I hear it from your kids and grandchildren who say,

00:26:11.420 my dad loves you or my grandmother loves you. My husband watched it till the end. Well,

00:26:16.220 after a conversation with MSNBC, I decided tonight will be my last hardball. So let me tell you

00:26:20.720 why. The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins. We see them in politics and the

00:26:26.160 media and fighting for their causes. They are improving the workplace. We're talking here about

00:26:30.920 better standards than we grew up with. Fair standards. A lot of it has to do with how we

00:26:35.440 talk to each other. Compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might

00:26:40.680 have once incorrectly thought were okay. We're never okay. Not then and certainly not today. And

00:26:46.040 for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry. Now the real reason for his sudden departure seems

00:26:51.480 to be the controversies that he's been involved in recently. Some of them having to do with his

00:26:56.760 very controversial stance that he's articulated that he doesn't think a socialist should be the

00:27:01.540 Democratic nominee. Pretty outrageous. Can't have that kind of content on MSNBC these days.

00:27:06.480 He's also been accused of sexual harassment. And this probably is the main thing. In fact,

00:27:10.800 an article was published by GQ about three days ago, two or three days ago, detailing some of his

00:27:17.080 alleged sexual harassment. And the article starts by accusing Matthews of questioning Elizabeth Warren

00:27:25.680 on air after a debate last week. Because obviously it's totally inappropriate for a news anchor to ask

00:27:32.100 questions of a female politician. You can't have that. And then it mentions how he has criticized

00:27:37.900 Hillary Clinton, which is also terribly sexist. And then finally he gets to the sexual harassment or

00:27:43.600 according to the author, very near sexual harassment that she herself suffered a few years ago when

00:27:51.300 she was appearing on his show. And she says that she was in the makeup chair. Matthews came in and was

00:27:58.580 complimenting her appearance and said that she looks so nice in the makeup that he's falling in love with

00:28:03.020 her. Now this obviously was a joke. He wasn't actually professing his love to her. I don't think that she

00:28:08.180 thinks that he was being totally serious. But it was flirtatious. And that's it. You know, that's the extent of

00:28:16.060 the charges that are made against him. And that apparently led to him being forced out of his show after 20

00:28:21.720 years. Now, I'm not a Chris Matthews fan. Frankly, I don't care if his show goes off the air or if it's on the air

00:28:27.920 doesn't make a difference to me. But this is completely out of hand at this point. Completely

00:28:32.880 ludicrous. It is not sexual harassment for a man to compliment a woman or even to flirt with her. 0.91

00:28:40.540 It may not be appropriate, but that doesn't make it harassment, for God's sake. If you don't like

00:28:47.800 the comments that somebody is making to you, then tell the dude to buzz off.

00:28:53.540 You know, I really, it's all of these women who are in these awkward situations where someone says

00:29:01.420 something to them they don't like. And then they say nothing at the time and then they wait

00:29:06.180 and they write an expose in a magazine about it years later. Speak up for yourself or take it in

00:29:14.700 stride and laugh it off. Whatever, however you want to respond to it, respond to it. But there are all kinds

00:29:19.920 of options for responding to it, but waiting two years and then writing an article, a breathless,

00:29:27.400 melodramatic, you know, a tell-all article in GQ, that just doesn't seem like the most rational option.

00:29:37.240 And you know what? Women in the workplace are flirtatious with men all the time. Women make 1.00

00:29:43.880 comments to men all the time. Why do we pretend this doesn't happen? Why do we pretend this is a

00:29:50.240 one-way street? We all know that it's not. Women do this too. And when they do, the man is expected 1.00

00:29:58.600 to take it in stride, to brush it off. If he cries about it, if he acts traumatized, if he goes running

00:30:06.140 to the press and says, oh my gosh, a woman flirted with me. Let me tell you about it. We would all laugh

00:30:11.820 at him. We all would. And we know we would. So I'm sick of this double standard. It's bogus.

00:30:18.060 And it cannot be justified. And don't tell me it's different because men are physically imposing.

00:30:23.780 They might be. I don't think Chris Matthews is very physically imposing, but some men might be.

00:30:28.680 But was this lady worried that Chris Matthews would physically assault her in the makeup room of the 0.99

00:30:34.600 studio? Was she concerned about that? I don't think she was. I think that she was worried

00:30:41.720 about responding harshly to someone who is important in her industry. And also it was just

00:30:47.940 awkward, which is why she waited to stand up bravely, courageously until Chris Matthews,

00:30:54.420 you know, until his star had already started fading and he was kind of on the outs and people were

00:30:58.680 against him because of the stuff with Bernie Sanders. And that's when she comes out and says,

00:31:03.180 okay, now I have a story to tell. Very courageous. But that concern of professional awkwardness

00:31:12.880 or embarrassment can also be felt by men. If a woman is coming on to a man and the man says,

00:31:22.620 I'm uncomfortable with this. This is inappropriate. He might be worried about the reaction that people

00:31:27.880 will have. It might make him into a laughingstock if word gets out that he responded that way to a

00:31:32.320 woman flirting with him. But does that make him a victim of harassment? Does that mean that he

00:31:36.920 needs therapy for PTSD now? No. And nobody would accept that from a man. Everybody would just say,

00:31:44.180 hey, get over it. In fact, there have, and I'm not, this is not me making this up. There have been

00:31:51.160 men who have come out with stories about women that are in this vein and nobody cares. In fact,

00:31:57.980 there was, I think it was a bodyguard of, off the top of my head, I think it was a bodyguard of

00:32:04.180 Mariah Carey, I believe, who came out last year, two years ago and said that he was sexually harassed.

00:32:11.020 Nobody cared. No, no one cared. Everyone just, whatever. It was such a blatant double standard

00:32:18.440 with this. And we all just accept it. Like it's normal. Like, you know what? Yeah. Women have a different 1.00

00:32:23.420 rules. Women can say what they want. Different rules for women. No. You know what? You guys on 0.95

00:32:29.460 the left, you're the ones who say men and women are the same. Okay. Then one standard,

00:32:34.940 one standard. You don't get two, one. All right, moving on for your daily cancellation. We have a

00:32:42.980 simple and quick one. Reuters is canceled and well-deserved. I think, like I said, for the second

00:32:47.580 time. As you can see from this headline and picture, it says, in a Texas chicken joint,

00:32:53.940 Biden and one-time rival Buttigieg unite to stop Sanders. A few problems here. Big problems. First

00:33:00.780 of all, that's not a Texas chicken joint. That's a Whataburger, which is, first of all, a burger

00:33:05.900 joint, not a chicken joint. It says it right there in the title of the restaurant. Also, it's not

00:33:09.820 exclusive to Texas. So calling Whataburger a Texas chicken joint, it's like calling McDonald's a

00:33:17.000 Vermont coffee shop. Now, it does sell coffee, bad coffee, and they are in Vermont, but still,

00:33:23.520 it doesn't really make a lot of sense. And then, of course, the other big problem is that that's

00:33:26.700 not Buttigieg, obviously. That is Luke Wilson. So for that reason, Reuters is canceled. We're going

00:33:34.100 to move on to emails in just a second, but Super Tuesday has finally come upon us, as we've been

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00:34:45.340 Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe. Okay, going to emails, and as I said, this is now more of a

00:34:53.180 why I'm wrong segment, and what I am asking for especially, send an email, mattwalshowatgmail.com.

00:35:00.840 You can send an email for any reason, but the ones I'm especially interested in are the ones where

00:35:04.500 you're telling me why I'm wrong about something, whether it's on the show or something that I wrote

00:35:09.160 or a tweet, doesn't matter, and I am going to argue with you. I'm not just going to let, I'm not going

00:35:14.340 to leave it at that because I'm an argumentative bastard, so I wouldn't be, but I will at least

00:35:19.800 read it and give you a chance, give the other side a chance to be heard. So a couple emails in that 0.50

00:35:25.020 vein. This is from Marcus, says, Dear Matt, I disagree with your comparison between the human body

00:35:29.160 and soul and the jar and liquid of the Kool-Aid man. You ask, can he, the Kool-Aid man, live on

00:35:34.740 in liquid form without the jar? I have hope and faith that he can. The problem is you're assuming

00:35:38.540 that the Kool-Aid man's jar is analogous to the human body and that the liquid is analogous to

00:35:42.200 the human soul. However, this is not the case. The fundamental problem with your analogy is that

00:35:46.160 the body does not contain the soul, but rather does the soul contain the body and make it one,

00:35:50.320 as Aquinas says in Summa Theologia. Of course, the word contain should be understood metaphorically

00:35:56.100 here as the soul is non-spatial. Aquinas' point is that it's the soul which affects matter to make

00:36:00.660 the body one thing both now and over time. The body does not affect the soul in any such way.

00:36:05.160 Likewise, it is the jar which ensures the unity of the Kool-Aid man's liquid and of the Kool-Aid

00:36:09.840 man himself. The liquid does not ensure the unity of the jar. We could also put it like this.

00:36:14.340 The soul is the form of the body. Now, what is the form of the Kool-Aid man? The jar or the

00:36:18.460 amorphous unjarred liquid? The question answers itself. I think C.S. Lewis gives us an especially poetic

00:36:23.780 way of understanding this question. Inspired by Platonism, he portrays the spiritual domain

00:36:27.940 as more solid than the material domain. Well, if that's so, then I ask you, which is more solid,

00:36:33.180 the solid jar or the liquid of the Kool-Aid man? Okay. I understand your point, but I will see your

00:36:41.300 Aquinas and raise you Augustine who said, the soul, which is spirit, cannot dwell in dust.

00:36:46.780 It is carried along to dwell in the blood. Now, I believe that he meant this as metaphor,

00:36:52.040 not that the soul is literally in the blood, but that the soul is not spatially limited,

00:36:56.840 is not rigid and static. So now let's look at the Kool-Aid man. Let's look at him from an

00:37:02.440 Augustinian perspective. What do you think represents his blood metaphorically and thus his soul

00:37:08.320 metaphorically? Well, gee, might it be all that red liquid inside him? The point here again is not that

00:37:15.140 the blood is literally the soul or that the liquid in the Kool-Aid man is literally his soul.

00:37:19.080 So I don't know if the Kool-Aid man has an immortal soul and neither do you. The fact is that he appears

00:37:24.820 to be conscious and that might lead you to the conclusion that he has one. But all he really does

00:37:31.120 is burst through the door and serve beverages. Do you need to have the inner experience and awareness

00:37:36.820 of consciousness to do that? Probably not. In any case, what I'm saying is that all we can do is draw

00:37:43.400 analogies between the Kool-Aid man and a human person. But it's not a one-to-one comparison. I

00:37:49.140 think that's where you're getting hung up here. At the end of the day, I maintain, and I think you

00:37:56.320 would agree, the Kool-Aid man's essence is a unity of jar and liquid. You're trying to decide which is

00:38:04.960 preeminent, which drives the other. But I think that's just the wrong way of looking at it.

00:38:09.180 Would the Kool-Aid man be the Kool-Aid man without the liquid? No. He would just be a jar.

00:38:17.900 Would he be the Kool-Aid man without the jar? No. And I think perhaps that's all we need to

00:38:22.340 say on the subject. But thank you for that email. And this is from Nate. This is an email from last

00:38:31.120 week talking about the issue we discussed last week on the show of the young six-year-old girl

00:38:38.100 that was arrested at her school for hitting a teacher. And I was very much against the arrest.

00:38:43.760 I've gotten a lot of emails telling me why I'm wrong in my position on that. I wanted to read

00:38:47.440 one of them because I didn't get a chance to read anything about it. This is from Nate. It says,

00:38:50.220 Dear Matt, as an educator for seven years, let me give you a few examples of when it wouldn't be

00:38:54.220 acceptable for the police officer to teach this girl a lesson. The teachers and administrators

00:38:58.360 didn't warn the parents of her behavior. There weren't consequences for her behaviors in the past.

00:39:03.340 The teachers or anyone else in the room is allowed to touch the girl and remove her from the room

00:39:06.760 and it not be considered a form of abuse. The main teacher is allowed to grab the student herself

00:39:11.280 and remove her from the room. If these are in place, there would be no reason for them to ever

00:39:15.280 call the police. My hunch is they're not allowed to do any of those things. You have to understand

00:39:19.080 the teachers and everybody else in the schools have very limited opportunities to be allowed to

00:39:22.340 control violent behavior no matter what the age. If none of this is in place for the benefit and

00:39:26.340 sake of the other children, something must be done. Furthermore, you talk about how traumatic it is.

00:39:32.740 I'm not sure what the worst thing could happen to this girl other than, wow, I shouldn't be doing

00:39:36.520 this or else I'll get thrown in jail. There might be such a thing as a traumatic experience that could

00:39:40.900 teach a positive lesson about physically harming others. Well, Nate, I'm just not buying your

00:39:49.480 reasoning here at all. First of all, worst case scenario, if a child that age is being a disruption

00:39:56.520 and you can't carry on with teaching because of it, and that does happen, well, then you call the

00:40:01.920 child's guardian and you have the guardian take them out of the school. You don't call the police

00:40:05.440 and have her cuffed and sent to the detention center to get her mugshot taken and be charged 1.00

00:40:10.380 with criminal assault at the age of six. Now, if there's no guardian that is available to pick up

00:40:15.240 the kid, then you segregate her. You send her to the principal's office or something. Whatever

00:40:18.700 happened to that? Send her to the principal's office. You don't have to send her to jail. 1.00

00:40:23.020 Well, now, obviously, there could be really extreme situations where maybe the police do

00:40:29.320 need to step in for everybody's safety. Extreme situations. Now, a six-year-old girl hitting 0.99

00:40:34.580 somebody is not an extreme situation, but in very extreme situations, somebody has a weapon or

00:40:39.300 something, obviously, in that case, the police may need to step in. But even then, you're not going

00:40:45.460 to charge a six-year-old girl who's, you know, she's been out of diapers for like three years. Okay,

00:40:49.920 that's how mature she is. You're not going to charge her with a crime even then. You have to,

00:40:55.260 again, you might have to take her out of the situation. You might have to bring her to a

00:40:58.540 facility depending on the situation. But you get her treatment in that case. You're not charging her

00:41:04.700 with a crime at the age of six. Now, as for your claim that sometimes the best way to teach a child

00:41:11.060 a lesson is to cause them trauma, all I can say, Nate, is that I'm glad you're not my children's

00:41:18.300 teacher because that attitude is extremely concerning. You don't teach kids lessons by

00:41:23.560 traumatizing them. That's not how kids learn. The whole point is that very young children lack

00:41:28.900 the emotional and psychological tools and development to control themselves fully and to

00:41:34.600 express themselves the way that we can. You are impeding that process by causing trauma. Trauma does

00:41:41.180 not help in a child's emotional growth. It impedes it. You know, fear and violence are not ways to

00:41:51.300 teach kids. And, you know, no, you don't want a six-year-old girl to be afraid that every time

00:41:58.140 she breaks a rule, she's going to get arrested. Maybe you want her to be concerned that if she breaks

00:42:04.080 a rule in school, she'll, you know, be punished. She'll have to write. I mean, when I was a kid,

00:42:09.400 they made you, they like things like you'd have to write a hundred sentences or something like that.

00:42:13.960 Maybe you're worried about that. You're worried about getting sent to the principal's office.

00:42:16.860 You're worried about getting in trouble at home. That's different, but no, you don't want to six

00:42:21.960 to coerce good behavior out of a child with the fear of criminal prosecution.

00:42:30.160 The best you could hope for in that case is that they're going to behave simply because they're

00:42:35.560 terrified. And, and, but that's, and that might be good for you. It's convenient for you because,

00:42:42.200 well, at least they're behaving. It's not good for the child. And in the long run, you have not

00:42:48.140 helped this child, uh, you know, get, become well-adjusted. And in the long run, you're going to end up

00:42:54.700 with worse behavioral problems that you, that you would have had otherwise. This is the same attitude

00:43:00.700 that some parents and teachers have that lead to kids being drugged where you're putting seven-year-old

00:43:06.000 boys on, on these, on these psychotropic drugs because they're not, you know, because it's

00:43:13.120 convenient for you and it, and it, and it neuters them effectively, uh, mentally. It's like a mental

00:43:18.900 neutering that happens. Uh, and so it makes it easier for you. It makes, it makes them easier to 0.52

00:43:23.520 manage. It's not good for the kid. There's no way it's good for a seven-year-old to be on,

00:43:28.980 on psychiatric medicine. That's mess, messing with his brain in ways that we don't even understand.

00:43:35.420 So any doctor who says, oh, it's perfectly safe to give these kids drugs, that doctor is lying.

00:43:39.860 And I know he's lying because he doesn't actually know exactly how this is going to affect the kid

00:43:46.220 or what the long-term effects are going to be because we don't understand everything about the

00:43:51.360 human brain or how it develops, especially in a child. So you couldn't possibly really know

00:43:57.460 that it's not going to have any negative long-term effects. You couldn't possibly know that.

00:44:02.840 You're just hoping, you're guessing. Um, and I don't think it's right to do.

00:44:10.400 Last thing I'll say is when I hear teachers justify this kind of thing, uh, on the basis that teaching

00:44:17.500 is hard and I don't know what it's like, so I have no room to judge. I'm sorry. I, I just,

00:44:23.900 I have no patience for that. I have a, I have a lot of sympathy for teachers who, who, who are doing

00:44:28.960 the best they can. I know that it is a hard job. Um, and so I have all the sympathy in the world with

00:44:34.420 it and all the admiration and respect for good teachers, but teachers who are bad and try to

00:44:40.920 justify their, um, you know, ineffectiveness, um, and their, their, you know, incompetence

00:44:51.320 on the basis that it's such a hard job. You don't know what it's like. It's so hard. That's where I

00:44:56.860 lose all sympathy for the same reason that if you hired someone, a roofer to, to fix your roof

00:45:03.020 in July, well, you know what? Fixing a roof in July is, is, is a really hard job. It's dangerous.

00:45:08.760 It's, it's physically demanding. I mean, you don't know what it's like. Have you ever been on a roof

00:45:12.120 for, for six hours a day in July? I haven't been, but, and you have all the sympathy in the world

00:45:18.660 for, for people that do that job. You have all the admiration and respect in the world for people

00:45:21.700 that do that job. Um, because we need people to do it, you know, so thank God for them. But if you

00:45:27.060 hire a roofer and he does a terrible job and your roof collapses because of it and you call him up to

00:45:33.020 tell him and he says, but it's so hard. You don't know what it's like. It's such a hard job.

00:45:37.140 You're going to say, shut up. You whiny baby. I don't want to hear that. I paid you to do this job. 1.00

00:45:42.700 I pay you and paid to do it. Don't cry about it. You don't want to do it. Don't do it. I paid you

00:45:47.780 to do the job. You didn't do it right. Now my roof is collapsed. So, you know, the moment he starts

00:45:52.800 justifying that by whining all your sympathies out the window and it should be. Well, I say the same

00:45:58.980 thing with people that work with our kids. The moment you justify hurting kids. And I think if you're

00:46:06.160 justifying arresting six-year-old kids, you're, you're justify hurting them. The moment you

00:46:10.940 justify that on the basis that it's hard, I don't want to hear it any more than I want

00:46:18.040 to hear it from parents. Being a parent is hard, but if you're hurting your child and you're

00:46:23.900 neglecting and abusing them, I don't want to hear your complaints about how hard, how hard

00:46:28.960 it is because you know what? There are millions of parents out there who also have it hard, but

00:46:34.020 managed to do the job without abusing or neglecting their kids. I expect you to do the same.

00:46:40.780 There are many teachers out there who do the job despite how hard it is without, you know,

00:46:48.120 having to have their students shipped away in handcuffs at the age of six. So it can be done. 1.00

00:46:55.340 I expect you to do it. If you can't do it, you don't want to do it. Don't take on the job.

00:46:59.640 I think that's a very fair perspective. All right. And we will leave it there. Thank you

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 03, 2020

Ep. 436 - The Left's Bastardization And Degradation Of Faith

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