The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 464 - Your Rights Are Suspended

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, religious liberty has been canceled for the foreseeable future,

00:00:04.660 in case you hadn't noticed. Or as one police officer explained as he was breaking up a drive-in

00:00:10.320 worship service for Easter, your rights have been suspended. But what makes us think the

00:00:16.600 government will politely restore our rights after having suspended them for this pandemic? And

00:00:22.500 is it a good idea in general to give the state the power to suspend our rights in the first place?

00:00:30.000 So we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including the New York Times basically attempting

00:00:34.120 to exonerate Joe Biden of sexual assault. And the attempt was disastrous and ineffective for a

00:00:40.260 number of reasons. We'll talk about all of that coming up. But first, just to begin with, I want

00:00:45.020 to say Happy Easter, of course, and I hope you had a blessed Easter. I know my kids did,

00:00:51.320 mainly because of the candy. Now, of course, we tell them they know the real meaning of Easter,

00:00:55.260 and they appreciate that. But when it comes down to it, at their age, the main thing is going to be

00:00:59.740 the candy. And that was certainly the case for them. My youngest son in particular, speaking of

00:01:03.580 candy, is lucky to still be alive, I think. Because we put him down for a nap yesterday afternoon,

00:01:10.380 Easter afternoon. And he snuck out of his room, apparently, like a ninja. He was able to sneak

00:01:16.300 out. I was out in the main area. I mean, I should have seen him. I didn't see him. That's what kind

00:01:20.740 of an attentive parent I am. He snuck out of his room and grabbed his Easter basket and smuggled it back

00:01:26.160 into his room with him, and then was gorging on candy in his crib for about 45 minutes when I

00:01:30.960 thought he was napping. And the only reason I found this out is because 45 minutes later,

00:01:34.540 he tried to sneak out of his room again to get a glass of water because he was understandably

00:01:38.760 parched from all the candy. And that was really kind of pushing it. So he pushed his luck. I saw him then.

00:01:43.440 So as a father, you know, you might get away with it the first time if you're a kid,

00:01:47.540 if you're my kid. But the second time, I'll catch you. And if not the second time,

00:01:50.920 the third time, I'll definitely catch you. Anyway, I saw him coming out,

00:01:53.900 and he had chocolate all over his face. And he was currently in the process of chewing another

00:01:57.620 piece of candy. He had a piece of candy in his mouth that he was eating while I was talking to

00:02:00.940 him. And I said, what's going on, buddy? Eating candy? And he said, no. I said, what's all that

00:02:06.800 stuff all over your face? I don't know. And I said, I'm going to go check your room to see if there's

00:02:11.000 candy in your room. And then he tried it. He bolted for the door to try to lock me out to get there

00:02:17.160 before me. And I had to run and stop him. And I went in and sure enough, there's candy all over his crib.

00:02:21.900 He's got a whole pile of it. There's empty Easter egg shells all over the floor. He'd eaten probably

00:02:28.500 about a pound of candy. Although I should say, in fairness, this is all alleged because he did

00:02:35.460 explain that he doesn't know how the candy got in his crib. And then at another point, when I asked

00:02:41.040 him again, he said it got there by accident. He said it was on accident. I guess he tripped and fell,

00:02:47.000 and candy went all over the crib and some went into his mouth. It was a total accident.

00:02:51.060 And then a third time when I asked him later, he got into this elaborate story about how Darth

00:02:55.540 Vader had put the candy in his crib. So who really knows what happened? I've got my theories. He's

00:03:01.420 got his clients. Who knows? But either way, it was a good Easter for him. Okay. So because it was

00:03:10.000 Easter yesterday, and in times past, people would go to church on Easter. But it is illegal now to go to

00:03:16.740 church in most states in the union. In most states in the United States right now, it is illegal to go

00:03:21.000 to church, even on Easter. And many states stepped up their enforcement of these laws that they have

00:03:27.460 passed, or these not even really laws, just policies, directives from the governor saying

00:03:31.880 you can't go to church. Now, about two weeks ago, I talked about this issue on this show,

00:03:40.380 and I wrote a Daily Wire column about it. And I said that, in my opinion, the forcible closure

00:03:45.180 of churches and the arrest or fining of pastors who hold services and people who attend those services

00:03:51.140 is a clear and direct assault on the First Amendment. And in fact, if that is not a clear and direct

00:03:56.480 assault on the First Amendment, I don't know what is. If that doesn't qualify, then I don't know what

00:04:02.180 possibly ever could. That, to me, seems like the clearest example you could ever dream of,

00:04:09.520 of the government infringing on the First Amendment. Land of the free, also. We say land

00:04:15.840 of the free, home of the brave. And eventually, when these lockdowns are lifted, and we have sporting

00:04:22.700 events again, which maybe will happen, let's hope, again in the future, there's going to be football

00:04:27.480 games, and they're going to sing the national anthem, and people are going to stand up and sing

00:04:30.760 land of the free, home of the brave. And we're going to have to figure out how to do it with a

00:04:34.920 straight face. And I'm not sure how we do that at this point. Because what does it even mean anymore?

00:04:40.140 How can you look around at this country right now and say we are land of the free and home of the brave?

00:04:47.000 Where are we seeing that exactly? It has to mean something. And if our commitment to freedom

00:04:57.240 is, it can be, can be suspended. Or if we are only committed to freedom up until the point when

00:05:05.280 we're afraid of something, then our commitment to freedom is not really any different. It's about

00:05:09.680 on par with the rest of the world. There's nothing special about us in that regard. So let's just

00:05:14.380 admit that, at least. If we are basically free most of the time, until the government has a compelling

00:05:21.620 interest in its opinion to suspend those freedoms, if that's what free for us means, then we are no

00:05:27.580 different from dozens of other countries across the world. We're no freer. We're no different.

00:05:33.260 We're no better when it comes to that. Now, we may be better than still countries like North Korea. 1.00

00:05:39.220 But most countries on the globe right now, if you go there, you're basically free most of the time,

00:05:45.580 unless people are really afraid of something or unless the government says it has a special

00:05:49.800 interest in taking those freedoms away. So if that's what it is right now in America,

00:05:53.720 then we're no different from those other countries. Now, at the time when I made that

00:05:59.540 argument, a shocking number, well, at least for me as a hopelessly optimistic and naive sort of person,

00:06:06.960 as you know, it was a shocking number of self-described Christian conservatives who stood up to valiantly 0.96

00:06:13.520 defend the state's right to close every church at gunpoint. They defended it on the

00:06:19.780 basis that people who go to church might get sick, and we can't have that, and also that you don't

00:06:25.760 really need to go to church. It's not a need, right? It's not essential. So they're agreeing with all

00:06:32.640 these state governments who have figured out that they can easily get around the First Amendment.

00:06:37.360 All they have to do is just declare that churches are non-essential. It was that easy. Apparently,

00:06:42.520 getting rid of the First Amendment was as easy as a governor standing up and saying churches are

00:06:47.820 non-essential. That's all they had to do. And First Amendment doesn't exist anymore, effectively.

00:06:54.280 And that's what they did. Now, of course, abortion clinics are still essential. Liquor stores are 0.78

00:06:58.360 still essential. But churches are not. And they're able to close them down. And what I discovered is

00:07:05.840 that many conservatives agreed. Yeah, that churches are non-essential. Close them up. It's fine.

00:07:11.200 And then they turned around and said that actually people like myself and others who have opposed

00:07:17.660 this, that we're the problem. Okay, we're the irresponsible ones. We're the real danger.

00:07:25.220 Well, I wonder what the people in that group, the Christian conservatives defending the government

00:07:29.820 as it shuts down churches and arrests people for going to church, what will they have to say about

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00:09:18.140 Okay, so a few things that happened yesterday. First, there's this in Mississippi. A pastor by

00:09:25.980 the name of Eric Simmons tried to hold a drive-in service. So that means that everybody was in their

00:09:31.480 cars. Windows rolled up, attending church, no plausible chance of anything being spread,

00:09:38.620 really. You're in your own car. Very safe. You had a bunch of cops rolled up and dispersed the

00:09:45.300 crowd anyway. Threatened fines and everything. Shut it down. Shut down this drive-in church service

00:09:51.740 for Easter. And I want you to listen to what one of the police officers says when explaining why this

00:10:00.180 is happening and why they have the right to shut down this church service. Listen.

00:10:04.620 Look at this, y'all. They heard through the grapevine we're having service at 630.

00:10:09.300 And there's more police cars at a church service. Yes, this is King James Bible Bible Church where

00:10:17.740 Pastor Hamilton, where I'm the pastor of the church at. I'm a good citizen.

00:10:25.100 Ain't breaking no law. Ain't selling no drugs. I'm just preaching the word of God.

00:10:29.700 And look at all these police cars here. I mean, our service don't start until 630.

00:10:36.660 This is America, private property of a church.

00:10:39.420 When you get an order from the government, your right are suspended.

00:10:45.140 No, the government, our right don't come from authority. It comes from the Bible. So the

00:10:49.540 authority does not have the right over the Constitution. We're talking about the Constitution

00:10:53.740 law. The First and Second Amendment, the U.S. Constitution that was given to us by our

00:10:56.880 forefather. Tate Reed can't take it away. Eric Simmons can't take it away, nor the police

00:11:01.920 officer. It can't be suspended. It can't. Not a military. No, it can't.

00:11:06.000 Your rights are suspended. That's what he said. So just to review here, what we're dealing with,

00:11:12.840 a bunch of cops shutting down a drive-in church service and informing the congregants that their

00:11:18.800 First Amendment rights have been suspended. Suspended by order of the governor, if you heard,

00:11:23.800 that's what he actually said, which makes it even creepier. By order of the governor,

00:11:28.020 your First Amendment rights have been suspended. Now, this is really interesting because when I've

00:11:32.620 claimed in the past that these shutdown orders amount to a suspension of the First Amendment,

00:11:38.080 I've been told that, no, no, no, that's not what's happening. What are you, any crazy? 0.95

00:11:41.680 You still have your First Amendment rights. They're not suspended. Well, here's a police officer who is 0.92

00:11:47.080 shutting down a church service saying your rights have been suspended. Is that enough? Is that enough

00:11:52.600 evidence? I would think that the guys in guns arresting people for going to church is evidence

00:11:58.640 enough that your First Amendment rights have been suspended. But maybe when they tell us that your

00:12:03.440 First Amendment rights have been suspended, we can all now admit that our First Amendment rights have

00:12:07.360 been suspended. And now the only question is, are we okay with that? And if you are, then here's my

00:12:15.960 question. In what sense are you a proponent of religious liberty? I mean, if you want to argue that the

00:12:22.820 state can do this and that it's fine, then go ahead and argue that. But please don't turn around in the

00:12:27.980 future and say, I believe in religious liberty. Religious liberty. Tell me, give me a definition of

00:12:34.780 religious liberty that allows for the possibility of cops threatening to arrest or fine people simply for going

00:12:41.160 to church and telling them their rights are suspended. Please give me a definition of religious

00:12:45.840 liberty and free speech that incorporates that. And then tell me, in what sense is that liberty or

00:12:53.140 freedom? Now, it gets worse. Over in Kentucky, and this is all happening in the South, in the Bible 0.99

00:12:59.060 Belt, which makes it so much worse. But in Kentucky, the governor decided that anyone who goes to church

00:13:04.860 on Easter will have their license plate taken down and will be put in a system and then will be placed

00:13:12.000 on a mandatory 14-day house arrest for going to church. Now, they call it a quarantine, but that is

00:13:18.680 not the right term. And I'll explain why in a second. But first, let's take a look at some of the reporting

00:13:23.360 from Sarah Ladd, who's a local reporter there in Kentucky, on the scene at a church that was holding

00:13:29.120 services on Easter. And cops were there to take down the plates, put it in the file, and place them

00:13:35.060 all under house arrest. So here are just, here's a little footage of some of the cops putting out

00:13:41.680 these notices. And then here's a photo of one of the notices. My eyes aren't great, so it's hard for

00:13:49.140 me to read this, but you can see it says, this vehicle's presence, and these are notices that were

00:13:52.720 put on all the cars there. This vehicle's presence at this location indicates that its occupants are

00:13:57.540 present at a mass gathering, prohibited by orders of the governor and the cabinet for health and

00:14:02.340 family services. As a result, this vehicle's occupants and anyone they come into contact with

00:14:07.380 are at risk of contracting COVID-19, a respiratory illness that can be severe and lead to death,

00:14:13.100 particularly for older adults and those with underlying health, heart, lung, kidney, and immunity

00:14:17.260 issues. Where people congregate unnecessarily or fail to follow adequate social distancing practices,

00:14:24.100 they are spreading COVID-19, creating scenes of an emergency. And then later, it's kind of down at

00:14:31.000 the bottom, it's obscured by the wiper, but it says, associate, so it says, this is a self-quarantine

00:14:38.940 document. And so now they have to go into self-quarantine for 14 days. And if they fail to follow

00:14:45.800 this, then there will be further enforcement measures. All right. Now, of course, by this logic,

00:14:54.100 if their simple presence at a, quote, mass gathering means that now they're at risk of

00:15:01.080 contracting COVID-19 and have to be put on quarantine, then that would mean that every

00:15:06.140 single person who goes to Walmart or Target or to any of the other, quote, unquote, essential places

00:15:12.020 also has possibly contracted it and should be under a 14-day quarantine. Right? Now, you can tell me all

00:15:18.440 you want. Well, those are essential. Well, does the fact that it's been arbitrarily decreed essential by

00:15:23.320 the government mean that you're somehow at less of a risk? Is the virus itself going to take note of

00:15:28.020 that and say, oh, well, the governor called that essential, so we're going to lay off here. No. If

00:15:33.900 you're saying that simply being around a lot of people puts you so much at risk that you have to

00:15:38.600 be put on a 14-day quarantine, then that should apply to every single person who's been in a mass

00:15:43.500 gathering, essential or not. And if it doesn't apply to both, then what you're really telling me that

00:15:48.820 this is not actually about safety. It's about something else. Now, but I think we need to clarify

00:15:58.220 here. This is not a quarantine. This is a house arrest. To be clear, he is ordering men with guns

00:16:06.460 to take down the plates of people who go to church on Easter and place them on house arrest for 14 days

00:16:11.660 for the crime of being at church, which will simply be a stricter version of the house arrest

00:16:17.740 that we're all currently under, or at least if you're in every state except for the seven

00:16:21.900 sane ones. Now, I know we've been using the word quarantine. I've been using it just for the sake

00:16:29.240 of simplicity, you know, just calling it a quarantine. That's actually a mistake. We shouldn't

00:16:33.400 be calling it that. I wish that I had not been calling it that all along. This is not a quarantine,

00:16:37.140 and the distinction is actually very important. Here is a health and human services, the HHS website

00:16:42.660 providing an official government endorsed definition of what a quarantine is. This is

00:16:48.940 what HHS says. And anywhere you look for a definition, you're going to find basically

00:16:53.260 something similar to this. It says quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people

00:16:57.240 who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick. These people may have been

00:17:02.840 exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease, but not do not show any

00:17:06.960 symptoms. And then isolation separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not

00:17:13.380 sick. So quarantine is for people who are known to have been, or who we have specific and very good

00:17:22.460 reason to think may have been, exposed to a contagion, right? That's what a quarantine is.

00:17:29.540 But the government doesn't know that anyone in that church has the disease, and thus has no

00:17:35.580 specific reason to think that anyone in the church has been exposed to the disease. So this is not a

00:17:41.840 quarantine. Kentucky, as of this morning, has fewer than 2,000 cases and fewer than 100 deaths in a

00:17:48.200 population of 4.4 million, and spread out over a relatively large state with not a very high

00:17:56.080 population density. There is no specific reason to assume that people in a church automatically have

00:18:02.340 been exposed to a virus, given the fact that there are only 2,000 confirmed cases, or fewer than 2,000.

00:18:08.260 Now, you might say that the virus could have been much wider spread than we're aware, so that there

00:18:14.580 are exponentially more than 2,000 who actually have the virus or had the virus at some point. That might

00:18:20.740 be, okay? But the problem is, for the government anyway, the problem is that the only way to make the

00:18:26.540 case that anyone who attends any mass gathering or goes to a church can automatically be reasonably

00:18:32.600 suspected of being exposed to the virus, the only way to make that case is to say that probably,

00:18:38.580 you know, it's not just 2,000 cases, but there are hundreds of thousands of cases or millions of

00:18:42.640 cases. There would have to be so many cases that you have a high probability of being exposed to it

00:18:48.220 if you're simply around a bunch of other people. But if that's the case, then that would mean that

00:18:54.580 the death rate is much, much, much, much lower than what they're telling us. That makes the death

00:19:02.160 rate exponentially lower than what they're currently saying. And if that's the case, then that means

00:19:09.240 that there's no reason for the quarantine in the first place. That would mean that the disease is not

00:19:16.300 actually much deadlier than the flu, or even, you know, maybe as deadly as the flu, in which case

00:19:21.940 there's no reason to respond to it this way. Now, I don't know if that's true or not, but here's my

00:19:26.820 point. Either way, you know, either the disease is much more widely spread than the numbers show,

00:19:33.920 or it's not. But either way, you can't call this a quarantine. It's house arrest. You see,

00:19:40.560 in either case, the logic doesn't work. So we are all under a version of house arrest.

00:19:47.620 As I said, this is an important distinction. Because those who defend the shutdowns have

00:19:53.320 argued that state governments have a lot of latitude when it comes to putting people under

00:19:57.280 quarantine, people under isolation. And that's true. They do. But that's not what this is.

00:20:03.040 In this case, they are shutting millions of businesses down, closing churches, suspending

00:20:07.080 the right to religious liberty, suspending the right to assembly, suspending our Fourth Amendment

00:20:11.580 rights, basically suspending the entire Bill of Rights, locking people in their homes, etc.

00:20:15.200 and doing this to healthy people who we have no reason to think have been exposed to anything.

00:20:22.960 And in many cases, states, the states where this is being done, there is no coronavirus emergency and

00:20:28.620 never has been. In many of these states, hospitals are not only not overflowing, but in fact, are so

00:20:35.460 empty that health care workers are being laid off. So what is happening is that the government is

00:20:42.540 seizing near total control based on projections. And that makes it very different from other

00:20:50.940 that people would argue, you know, similar things have been done, like in this with the Spanish flu

00:20:55.640 100 years ago, we're told that, well, there were some places that went into lockdown. Yeah, but that was

00:21:00.560 not nearly as widespread. And in those cases, that was that was, you know, places where there was an

00:21:07.020 actual present emergency with this virus. That's not what's happening here in most states.

00:21:15.420 In most states, they are not simply isolating the sick and quarantining the exposed, which I

00:21:19.820 absolutely think is the right thing to do. Now that I'm totally in favor of. But they're not doing that.

00:21:25.100 They are based on projections, shutting society down by force, preemptively, because of something bad

00:21:32.520 that might happen possibly in the future. This raises a whole bunch of questions. The first one

00:21:39.560 being, what exactly are the limitations on the government's newfound right to preemptively shut

00:21:45.640 down society and lock healthy people in their homes indefinitely, based on the predictions of the

00:21:50.660 scientists on its own payroll? Because even if you support what the government is doing,

00:21:56.680 you must at least acknowledge that the potential for abuse, which is being set by this, is absolutely

00:22:05.060 enormous. You must at least admit that. It's not hard to imagine situations where the government

00:22:13.000 would erroneously declare, you know, hey, most of you currently aren't in any serious danger. But we

00:22:20.940 have projected that because of XYZ threat, you might be in the future at some indeterminate point.

00:22:27.480 And so we are going to go ahead and curtail your civil liberties now, just in case. And then proceed

00:22:34.240 to drastically, you know, do just that. Now, it's not hard to imagine scenarios where they would do

00:22:40.340 that on a faulty basis. Even if you don't think this is a faulty basis, even if you think that the

00:22:48.560 predictions and the projections are good in this case, you must admit that giving the government

00:22:52.380 the power to do this based on projections, whether good or bad, does mean that we are now susceptible

00:22:58.800 to this kind of abuse of power in the future. And the thing is, isn't that reason enough to oppose it?

00:23:06.740 Whatever you think of the coronavirus and its relative threat to society, shouldn't we as Americans

00:23:12.160 be skeptical of authority, you know, jealous of our liberties, and therefore be opposed to the

00:23:17.400 government having this kind of power under any circumstance? I mean, it's something to think

00:23:24.160 about at least. And most of the people that are still supporting the shutdowns, from what I've seen,

00:23:30.960 they're just not grappling with this in anything close to a sufficient manner.

00:23:38.000 They're putting blind faith in government. And I think we've learned throughout history that you

00:23:41.900 simply cannot do that. Okay, let's go to headlines. But before we do, quarantine, you know, might not

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00:25:03.880 All right. So, number one, headlines. This really should go into my daily cancellation,

00:25:11.740 but I have an even more urgent matter I have to address there. So we're going to put it here

00:25:15.200 instead. The New York Times published this past weekend, perhaps, well, it may just be one of the

00:25:22.340 most shameless pieces of faux reporting we have yet seen from them. And that is saying quite a lot.

00:25:26.680 The Times did a, quote, deep dive investigation into the allegations by Tara Reid against Joe Biden.

00:25:34.320 She says that the then senator in 1993 sexually assaulted her. The upshot is that the Times,

00:25:40.500 as you can imagine, found no reason to believe the allegations and all but exonerated Joe Biden,

00:25:45.320 or attempted to at any rate. Now, remember, the New York Times, when it came to Brett Kavanaugh,

00:25:51.640 found no allegation that it would not believe. But in this case, it says, with these allegations,

00:25:58.380 there's very little credibility here. The Times report includes a really amazing paragraph. Now,

00:26:06.780 this is actually from a tweet thread that it posted along with the article.

00:26:10.740 But the claim is repeated in the article itself. And though it has been since deleted from the article

00:26:16.740 and from Twitter, but it said, no other allegation of sexual assault surfaced in the course of our

00:26:22.020 reporting, nor did any former Biden staffer corroborate Reid's allegation. Listen to this.

00:26:27.880 We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden beyond hugs, kisses, and touching that women

00:26:33.580 previously said made them uncomfortable. In other words, we found no pattern of sexual misconduct

00:26:40.100 except for the pattern of sexual misconduct. Except for the pattern of sexual misconduct,

00:26:44.420 there's no pattern of sexual misconduct, which makes a lot of sense, right? That's like if a lawyer

00:26:52.680 of a serial killer for a serial killer in court were to say, your honor, my client resents the claim

00:26:59.560 that he's a serial killer. He has no pattern of murdering anybody except for the 46 people buried

00:27:04.980 in his backyard. Except for them, there's no pattern here. This is erroneous. But of course,

00:27:12.740 the Times is not alone here. The media and the left in general seems to have decided that the

00:27:17.660 creepy old man who regularly gropes women in public could not possibly be guilty of sexual assault.

00:27:24.120 And these are the same people who decided that Brett Kavanaugh was definitely the ringleader of a 0.98

00:27:30.000 roving band of gang rapists because one person said that he was.

00:27:33.960 Now, I'm not saying that Biden is guilty. I think there are plenty of good reasons to doubt the

00:27:41.080 allegations. And I think just in general, my first instinct, as I think it should be for anybody,

00:27:46.340 is skepticism when you have allegations without much evidence with this kind of timing that come

00:27:54.380 up in a political campaign or with Brett Kavanaugh, you know, right before he's confirmed to the Supreme

00:27:58.740 Court. That doesn't mean they're not true. But with the timing, you can imagine other motivations a

00:28:08.000 person might have to make up a story or to embellish or misremember it, perhaps willfully.

00:28:14.960 So I don't know if it's true or not. I'm kind of agnostic about it when it comes to Joe Biden. But

00:28:20.860 here's what I do know. There is no basis at all to disbelieve Tara Reid while believing Christine

00:28:30.740 Ford. Now, you could be skeptical of both. Or if you really are in the believe all women camp,

00:28:37.040 you could believe both, which I think would be would be silly. But but that would at least be

00:28:41.080 consistent. And you could make a case, as I'll explain in a minute, you could make a case for

00:28:47.620 leaning towards believing Tara Reid while not believing Christine Ford. There is no way for

00:28:53.460 an honest person to make the opposite case. Because think about Tara Reid, here are the things

00:28:58.780 in her favor, or in favor of her allegations being true. Tara Reid, she told people about the alleged 0.76

00:29:06.580 assault when it happened. And they corroborate it. There's at least two people who said they heard

00:29:12.620 about this way before she came forward to the to the media, you know, during the political campaign.

00:29:18.220 So that's that's something. Other aspects of the story have been corroborated by witnesses,

00:29:24.960 you know, tangential sort of aspects that she talks about. She remembers every detail. So that's three

00:29:29.960 things. And she's accusing a man with a known and recent history of inappropriate physical behavior

00:29:36.900 to women. And this is behavior that we have seen for ourselves. So we know for a fact that it occurred. 0.96

00:29:42.840 So that's four things. Christine Ford, on the other hand, told nobody about it. No aspect of her story

00:29:49.580 was corroborated by anybody. Remembered almost nothing about what happened. And was accusing a

00:29:55.720 man with no established or recent history of inappropriate behavior to women. So given those two

00:30:01.780 things, if you find yourself saying, yeah, but I still believe Christine Ford, well, then you're just

00:30:07.580 a partisan hack. That's all there is to it. Number two, and social media, the social media site,

00:30:14.740 TikTok in particular, has recently been overrun by videos kind of like this one. Watch.

00:30:19.840 And this one.

00:30:38.940 Nice little conga line there. And then also there's a nice little Cupid shuffle that some of the other

00:30:43.280 nurses were doing. Watch this. 1.00

00:30:59.620 And then this one's probably my favorite right here.

00:31:01.440 So this is a new trend where nurses and hospital staff are recording choreographed dance videos

00:31:21.720 at the hospital and posting them online. And the media has been swooning over it, you know,

00:31:26.980 saying it's inspirational and motivating and whatever. Now, I've gotten myself into a lot of

00:31:31.200 trouble on Twitter because I tweeted a criticism of this. Now, call me crazy. A lot of people have

00:31:37.220 over this and just in general. But I don't think hospital staff should be taking time out to choreograph

00:31:43.560 dance routines at the hospital and post them online. You know, I would say that that's actually

00:31:49.260 wildly, insanely inappropriate. And I would say that even in normal times.

00:31:54.860 If I had a loved one that was at the hospital dying and the nurse was off choreographing a dance

00:32:04.560 routine on the clock at the hospital, I'd be upset about that. I would be. It seems reasonable to be

00:32:11.760 upset about that. But especially they shouldn't be doing it now because we have been told that we

00:32:18.920 needed to shut down the whole economy and embrace a Great Depression because hospitals are being

00:32:23.720 overwhelmed. That's what we were told. All right. And now, while millions of Americans wait in line

00:32:30.060 at food banks because their jobs have been taken from them because of the overrun hospitals, while

00:32:36.940 that's happening, we have hospital staff posting dance videos. I think a lot of people are going to look

00:32:44.560 at that and say, why did I lose my job? You're telling me my business was destroyed and for this?

00:32:50.920 They got nothing to do. And they're recording dance videos. Okay. Then why can't I get back to

00:32:56.420 work then? Isn't that a, that's a, that's a, that's a good question, isn't it? Because there are two

00:33:02.620 possibilities here. When you see these videos, either these are hospital staff that have nothing to do.

00:33:09.740 Um, and so are just, or are, are dancing and recording it. Okay. In which case let's get back

00:33:16.000 to work or these are happening at hospitals where there are people dying in a pandemic and you've

00:33:22.020 got nurses dancing down the hallway, literally dancing down the hallway and recording it and

00:33:26.600 posting it online. I mean, either way. And I think it's kind of a mixture too. I mean, some of these

00:33:30.420 videos are, are at the coronavirus hospitals and some are at hospitals where they got nothing better

00:33:34.560 to do. Um, either way, in both cases, I would say wildly, insanely inappropriate.

00:33:42.980 And I can't believe that so many people are defending it. I mean, I, I don't know. I keep

00:33:46.520 saying I can't believe when people have stupid positions on things, but maybe I should start 0.99

00:33:51.140 believing it because it's pretty common. Um, listen, I, the, the argument I've, I've heard in response to 0.99

00:33:58.700 my criticism and not just my criticism. I mean, lots of people, I've gotten a lot of emails and

00:34:02.920 messages from people who work at hospitals anonymously telling me and saying, Hey, I don't

00:34:08.060 want you to put this out there publicly with my name attached to it, but I totally agree with you.

00:34:11.680 I work at a hospital and this is crazy. I mean, we would, we would, we would never do this at my

00:34:15.660 hospital. Right. So, uh, I'm certainly not the only one critical of it, but the argument I've heard

00:34:20.060 is that, um, well, uh, well, two things. One, I I've been told that, uh, I'm, I'm, I shouldn't be

00:34:29.540 against people having fun. You know, I'm coming out against joy and fun. No, I it's, it's to say

00:34:39.360 that nurses shouldn't be recording choreographed dance routines and posting them online in a hospital 0.62

00:34:44.900 during a pandemic and a shutdown that's cost 17 million people their jobs in three weeks.

00:34:50.200 That is not the same thing as saying nobody should ever have fun. Okay. There's a, there's a lot of

00:34:56.140 room in between nobody have fun and nurses, please don't record choreographed dance routines and post

00:35:01.220 them online during a pandemic. I feel like there's a lot of room in between, right? And then the other

00:35:06.580 thing is, well, I don't understand that people that are having these high stress jobs, they, there's a

00:35:11.660 lot of gallows humor and, and, you know, they, sometimes they joke around and have fun just as a way of

00:35:15.960 lightening the environment. I get that. Okay. But you don't need to post it online and it doesn't

00:35:21.760 need to be choreographed either. I would think, but, but, but even why do you need to post it online?

00:35:27.380 Okay. Why does it need to go? It's like if I, let's say I did have a loved one that was dying

00:35:34.080 in the hospital. Um, now I'm under no illusion that the nurses who are tending to my dying loved

00:35:41.140 one, that they're in a state of mourning and, you know, are living the rest of their lives somber and

00:35:46.280 going home and crying about it. I'm sure they're not. Okay. Probably they're in dealing with my, my dying

00:35:51.160 loved one. And then they go to the next room and they could be smiling and joking around for all I know.

00:35:54.400 So that's fine. But obviously, yes, I understand they're doing that, but they're not going to walk

00:36:00.940 into the room with me when I'm sitting there with my dying loved one and say, I was just having a

00:36:05.260 great laugh in the next room. Let me tell you this joke that I heard. No, that would be extremely

00:36:10.420 inappropriate. Not because I'm saying they shouldn't be joking around, but keep that to yourself.

00:36:16.320 Okay. Have some decorum and some class. You keep it to yourself. You don't bring it into the room

00:36:19.960 with the dying people. Clearly. But no, I'm just, I'm a big Scrooge. Of course, that's the main thing,

00:36:27.960 which I am a Scrooge, but I don't think that has anything to do with this. Number three,

00:36:30.740 the Philadelphia transit authority last week issued guidelines, apparently asking people in the city

00:36:36.140 who use public transportation to put on a mask. And a few days later, when some people tried to get on

00:36:42.340 a bus without a mask, they were informed that they had to get off and they couldn't ride. And here's,

00:36:48.060 here's how that, that went. Watch this. If you do not have a mask, you cannot ride public

00:36:53.420 transportation, sir. Sir, you have to get off the bus. You have to get off the bus. Sir, sir.

00:37:03.620 Now notice how that guy who's screaming in an enclosed environment, spreading his spittle all around,

00:37:09.440 is not wearing a mask himself. A guy without a mask is screaming at people for not having masks,

00:37:14.560 which is just great. And then one of the people on the bus didn't have a mask and wasn't able to

00:37:20.380 just produce one out of thin air. And so then this happened.

00:37:24.160 It seems like it'd be easier maybe to just give the guy a mask or a bandana.

00:37:54.140 Or something to wear around his face. Instead, officers dragged him off the bus by his feet,

00:37:59.520 violating social distancing in order to enforce social distancing, which seems like a rather foolish 0.91

00:38:04.600 strategy. Where you see a guy who's supposedly violating social distancing, so you get in his

00:38:10.340 face and you start wrestling him. Like, maybe that's not the best way to approach this. I don't know.

00:38:16.560 But then again, I'm the guy who thinks that nurses shouldn't be doing choreographed dance routines 1.00

00:38:19.960 at hospitals during a pandemic. So what do I know? Right? Because if any, look, if anything was

00:38:25.520 spread on that bus, it was spread either when the guy without a mask was shouting or when they were

00:38:30.720 wrestling the guy with the other guy without a mask. Like those would be the two occasions where

00:38:34.980 there was really a risk of a virus being spread. And that is when they were making an attempt to

00:38:39.780 enforce these policies to prevent the spread of the virus. So that just doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:38:44.160 And it gets even dumber, in fact, because after the outcry from this video, the transit authority

00:38:50.420 announced that they're no longer going to enforce the policy. So they said, oh, you know, never mind. 0.81

00:38:55.700 We're not going to enforce the policy anymore. Well, hold on a second. I mean, either the policy

00:38:59.740 is necessary for public health or it isn't. If you're just going to get rid of the policy because

00:39:04.140 people were upset, then doesn't that prove that the policy had no reason to exist in the first place?

00:39:07.920 Or how about this? This is why government agencies are so stupid. They're not capable. The people in 1.00

00:39:15.160 government are not capable of thinking with any nuance or actually thinking through a problem

00:39:18.960 because it's actually not a bad idea to encourage people to have a mask when they ride on public

00:39:25.440 transportation. But there is rather than trying to enforce the law by dragging people off the bus by

00:39:33.880 their feet and then and then going to the other extreme and saying, never mind, we're not going to

00:39:38.380 have that policy. How about just think of better ways of enforcing it? You don't have to get rid of

00:39:43.360 the policy. Just think of a better way of enforcing it. Like, for example, if somebody doesn't have a

00:39:49.480 mask, then you give them one or even something as simple as, hey, like put your shirt over your nose

00:39:55.360 or something, something like that. Now, it's not as good as a medical mask, but it's a lot better than

00:40:00.380 nothing. And so even how about that instead? But again, what do I know? All right. That was three

00:40:09.320 headlines, but I think we'll keep it at three. Those are three longer ones. And finally, the last

00:40:15.580 thing I need to do before we wrap up for the show, we get to our daily cancellation. This may seem a

00:40:21.500 little bit like out of left field here, but I will have to cancel today some chickens, some actual

00:40:29.600 chickens, I mean. Chicks, actually. That's what they call baby chickens in the farming world. Just

00:40:35.080 a little bit of technical terminology for you. So my wife went out this weekend and bought some chicks 1.00

00:40:39.820 and she had been threatening to do this for a while. And then she went out and she was supposed

00:40:44.040 to be going to the store for something. And somehow, I think she went to Walmart and on the way home,

00:40:49.700 she found some chicks. I never really found out how exactly. And she came home with them

00:40:54.460 because she apparently has dreams of being a chicken farmer. And who am I to stand in the

00:40:58.820 way of my wife's dreams? But unfortunately, after only one day of having the chicks, I have to cancel

00:41:05.120 them. And I'm going to show you why. This is pretty disturbing stuff. Okay. I went to check on them

00:41:10.940 before bed the other night and only because my wife asked me to. So I usually check on my kids before

00:41:17.920 bedtime, but now I got to check on the chickens too. I don't really know what I'm checking on the

00:41:22.200 chickens for exactly. Or like, what, what am I looking for? And even if I discover something

00:41:28.280 amiss, what am I supposed to do about it? Like, am I, if I find that a chicken is dying, what do you

00:41:33.380 want me to do? Am I supposed to perform mouth to mouth CPR? I don't know, but I went to check on

00:41:37.940 the chickens and, um, dutifully, you know, as a good husband. And what I discovered, uh, is pretty

00:41:44.520 terrifying. Take a look at this picture here and they're under the, they're under a heat lamp. So the

00:41:48.840 color, you know, so that's why there's the reddish tint to it. But, um, I think the reddish tint works

00:41:53.180 because it gives it a sort of satanic vibe and these are satanic chickens. You see here, this is

00:41:59.340 how they group themselves. The dark colored chickens are huddled together while the light colored chickens

00:42:07.100 are huddled in a different group. They have segregated themselves by color. My wife brought racist

00:42:14.440 chickens into the house, which personally I should cancel my wife too, because how do you not ask

00:42:21.440 this question when you're at the farm or wherever buying your chickens? You didn't think to ask them,

00:42:27.120 are these chickens racist? You didn't think to say, can I get the non-racist chickens?

00:42:33.780 This is worse than the time that my wife came home with a transphobic kittens once. This is even worse

00:42:38.360 than that. Now I have tried my hardest, as you can imagine, to instill an appreciation for cultural

00:42:46.480 diversity and racial tolerance in my household. It is my number one priority as a father and a husband.

00:42:53.020 It's the main thing I'm concerned about. And so imagine my shock when I look and I see racism and

00:42:58.820 prejudice among the poultry in my house. And yes, they are in my house right now. Those chickens are in 0.91

00:43:06.040 my house physically because I've been told we can't put them outside. It's too cold for them.

00:43:10.380 I mean, they're animals. I think they go outside, but what do I know?

00:43:14.940 So of course I forcibly desegregated and integrated them. And I'm sitting there for like 20 minutes 1.00

00:43:20.740 trying to get them, trying to desegregate. I'm initiating a desegregation policy and they keep 1.00

00:43:27.200 going back, clumping together by color. So anyway, I killed them all and turned them into chicken 0.99

00:43:34.040 nuggets. So that's the end of that story. All right. Let's leave it there on a happy note. 0.99

00:43:39.860 And again, happy Easter once more. Have a great day. Be safe. God bless. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 13, 2020

Ep. 464 - Your Rights Are Suspended

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