The Matt Walsh Show - March 03, 2020


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


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

178.1321

Word Count

8,621

Sentence Count

602

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Today on the show, we'll discuss the continued bastardization and degradation of Christianity by the media and the political class, including one of the best questions I've ever heard at a town hall meeting with a politician. And finally, some emails telling me why I'm wrong.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, we'll discuss the continued bastardization and degradation of Christianity
00:00:05.600 by the media and the political class. Also, five headlines, including one of the best
00:00:10.860 questions I've ever heard anybody ask at one of these town hall meetings with a politician.
00:00:16.780 Usually you get a bunch of terrible questions, pointless questions. This was a very good
00:00:20.380 question, so we'll play that. And I'm canceling Reuters today. I think this might be the second
00:00:24.680 time I've canceled them in just a week or two. But, you know, I keep canceling them. They keep
00:00:30.880 coming back. They're like a turd that won't flush. And if you know what movie that quote is from,
00:00:36.480 we can be best friends. And finally, some emails telling me why I'm wrong. Always my favorite
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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
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
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.
00:05:58.660 You're using your alleged faith as a cudgel, as a battering ram to advance your political ends,
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.
00:06:12.100 That's what hypocrisy is. As I've explained many times, hypocrisy is not simply saying one thing
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
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
00:07:45.760 partake in, then you can't also use it to make a point, can you? So meanwhile, we have people
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
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.
00:08:57.300 And this is why I talk about in my book, church of cowards in stores now and get on Amazon,
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
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
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.
00:14:26.980 But if that's your attitude, think of all the people that you're accusing of being silly and stupid.
00:14:31.800 All the guys I just listed.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
00:32:23.420 rules. Women can say what they want. Different rules for women. No. You know what? You guys on
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
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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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
00:47:06.920 though for the, for those emails. MattWallShow at gmail.com. MattWallShow at gmail.com. Church
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