The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 465 - Citizens Begin To Stand Up Against Tyranny

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, citizens in Michigan are standing up to the tyranny

00:00:04.200 from their power drunk governor. Is this the start of a trend? Are we going to see more and

00:00:08.220 more of this around the country? I really hope so. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines,

00:00:11.540 including CNN anchor Chris Cuomo making some interesting admissions about his job that I

00:00:17.220 sort of appreciate, though, what he had to say. So we'll discuss that. And in our daily cancellation,

00:00:21.180 the executive editor of The New York Times offers an absolutely ridiculous justification for why

00:00:26.540 the paper has treated the allegations against Joe Biden, the sexual assault allegations against

00:00:30.600 Biden so differently from how it treated the allegations against Kavanaugh. Of course,

00:00:34.760 we know the real reason why there is this disparity, but he came up with his own excuse. And it's so bad

00:00:41.080 that unfortunately, it pains me to do it, but I have to cancel him for it. So all of that on the

00:00:46.200 way. But first, I want to begin real quick with this. Just something I have to say at the top.

00:00:50.600 You know, I sent out this tweet over the weekend where I would take a look at it here where I

00:00:54.740 criticize those videos that you see all over TikTok now of nurses doing these choreographed

00:01:01.020 dance routines at hospitals around the country. And as you can see there, I said, we were told we

00:01:07.900 had to willingly plunge ourselves into a Great Depression because hospitals are being overwhelmed.

00:01:12.140 Meanwhile, TikTok is full of videos of hospital staff performing choreographed dance routines.

00:01:17.040 What a joke, this whole thing infuriating. That's what I said. Okay. The point being, well,

00:01:22.920 I think the point's pretty straightforward. I think my point there is pretty obvious.

00:01:27.360 Millions of people have lost their jobs because we're told about overwhelmed,

00:01:30.680 overrun hospitals. And imagine being one of those people, maybe in line at a food bank,

00:01:36.060 and you go and you check your phone and you see another video of nurses literally dancing in the

00:01:41.880 hallways of empty hospitals. Okay. That might make you a little bit upset. And that was my point.

00:01:47.060 Now, the response to this tweet that I sent has been extraordinary, extraordinarily bad

00:01:53.720 for the most part. People have been very upset. I've been getting criticized very harshly for it

00:01:58.340 because I have dared to criticize the sainted nurses, which, you know, you're just not allowed 1.00

00:02:04.760 to do that. You can't criticize them for anything they do right now. And because apparently I am anti-fun

00:02:12.080 and anti-joy, I am against people having any sort of fun at all. Because I'm against nurses doing

00:02:19.000 choreographed dance routines and recording it and putting it online in the middle of a pandemic and

00:02:23.020 a shutdown that has cost millions of people their jobs, because I'm against that, it means I'm against

00:02:27.560 fun in general, which is true. Of course, I am against fun, as you know. I've been informed that

00:02:33.540 my tweet is insensitive, cruel, judgmental, on and on and on. And people have said, I need to apologize.

00:02:40.440 I need to apologize profusely, take it down, delete it. So after all this criticism, I've had time to

00:02:50.960 reflect. And I just want to say, I need to say, I'm not sorry about anything that I said at all.

00:03:03.540 And if you're offended, I'm not sorry that you're offended. In fact, I don't care about your

00:03:11.980 feelings. I just don't. It has no sway or pull with me whatsoever, makes no difference. So I just

00:03:19.860 don't care. Even if I was wrong, I still wouldn't apologize on principle. I'm not going to apologize

00:03:28.640 when you've got a gang of whiny idiots demanding one. Even in that case, I could be 100% wrong, 1.00

00:03:35.660 and I still wouldn't. But in this case, I'm not wrong. I'm 100% right. And if you disagree with

00:03:41.240 my point here, then you're wrong. And again, I don't apologize. If I could do it all over again,

00:03:45.860 I would do the exact same thing. And a million more emails will not make me change my opinion.

00:03:51.220 Because, and this is the point I really want to drive home.

00:03:53.040 When you get mad, and you scream at me, and you tell me I'm wrong, and that I need to stop having

00:03:58.940 the opinion that I have, and I need to stop expressing the opinion that I've expressed,

00:04:02.760 all that does is make me even more sure of my opinion, and more likely to say it even louder.

00:04:09.640 So again, not sorry at all. And I just want to clarify that. And it's good to get, you know,

00:04:13.880 it's good to get that off your chest. A little bit of a conflict resolution there. Okay. Now,

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00:05:33.880 out some, as I said, some other positive news. I consider this to be positive. Some citizens are

00:05:41.220 rising up and taking action. The Michigan Conservative Coalition and the Michigan Freedom

00:05:47.200 Fund, two organizations, have organized a protest at the state capitol in Michigan. Thousands of

00:05:53.940 people are expected to show up, descending on the city, in their cars. They're going to stay in their

00:05:58.600 cars. They're not getting out of the cars. But they're going to be in their cars. It's kind of

00:06:01.900 like a march, except in their cars. And they're going to circle the capitol building, and there's going

00:06:06.660 to be gridlock. There's going to be traffic. That's the idea, to make a statement against

00:06:11.520 Governor Gretchen Whitmer and some of the measures that she has adopted, ostensibly, supposedly, to

00:06:20.060 fight the coronavirus epidemic. But really, it's just about her flexing her muscle and her power,

00:06:25.600 and that's what this is all about. So they're going to be standing up against that. Now, Emperor

00:06:28.180 Whitmer has, like so many other mini emperors around the country, taken advantage of the crisis,

00:06:34.580 of course, to grab power that she is not entitled to and to boost her national profile, which is a big 1.00

00:06:41.140 thing for her, obviously. She's a petty, narcissistic tyrant. She's drunk on fame and power. She's the 1.00

00:06:48.340 kind of politician who, and there are a lot of these in government, the kind of politician who

00:06:53.740 would have been dangerous with the power given to her. Like if she was an assistant manager at a pizza 0.97

00:07:00.700 place, she would have been dangerous with that amount of power over a few people, you know, over 1.00

00:07:06.540 like three teenagers working with, for her at a pizza place. She would have been dangerous with that

00:07:11.320 power. But you make her governor, and you put her into the middle of an emergency situation like this, 0.84

00:07:16.960 and she goes literally insane with power. She becomes basically like this.

00:07:23.740 Yeah, that's really governors all across the country. I've become like Jafar after he gets

00:07:48.980 after he gets the genie's lamp at the end of Aladdin and wishes to become the most powerful genie in the

00:07:53.440 world. I could have gone with maybe the Gollum and the Ring analogy would have worked too, but I

00:07:58.220 decided to go with the more millennial reference, which by the way, the one problem I have with that

00:08:03.240 movie is at the end, you know, Jafar becomes the most powerful genie, and then it turns out that he 0.56

00:08:07.760 gets tricked because now he's a slave as a genie, and then Aladdin puts him back in the lamp, and he's

00:08:12.440 stuck in the lamp now. And then the good genie, Robin Williams, the Robin Williams genie, he takes the lamp

00:08:18.740 with the evil genie, and he just chucks it into the desert. And I'm thinking that is not probably the

00:08:25.420 safest disposal method for evil genies. You're just throwing it into the desert. It was, Aladdin found

00:08:33.060 the thing in a desert. Someone's just going to find it, and we're going to go through all this again.

00:08:37.320 So why not, I mean, put it at the bottom of the ocean at least, or burn it? Anyway, so there's going to be a

00:08:45.640 protest, and that's great. And this is exactly what we need to happen. Just to give you an idea

00:08:49.900 of why Emperor Whitmer is being protested, she instituted a stay-at-home order back several

00:08:54.900 weeks ago, like they have in many states now, but which, as we talked yesterday, is not a quarantine,

00:09:02.100 okay? These are, we call them stay-at-home orders, but really it's effectively house arrest. She has

00:09:07.100 placed the entire state under house arrest, which she also does not have the authority to do, but no one's

00:09:11.640 worried about that anymore. But this past week, she made it even stricter. And now, by decree of the

00:09:18.020 emperor, residents are banned from, for example, traveling between their own residences. Okay,

00:09:26.280 so if you happen to own two houses in Michigan, you cannot go from one house to the other.

00:09:32.620 Why? Well, no reason. There's not a reason for that. If you live in a house, and you get out of

00:09:42.420 your house, and you cross your yard into your driveway, you get in your car, and then you drive

00:09:47.380 to your second house, and you get out of the car, and you go, there's really no point in between that

00:09:52.520 whole process where you're likely to contract or spread the virus. So there's no reason to ban that,

00:09:58.100 except for the fact that Emperor Whitmer can, so she does. Also, let's see, there's a bunch of other

00:10:07.760 stuff in this new order. I'm going to read now from the text of the emperor's order. It says,

00:10:12.940 subject to the exceptions in section seven of this order, blah, blah, blah, all individuals currently

00:10:18.020 living within the state of Michigan are ordered to stay at home or at their place of residence.

00:10:23.200 Subject to the same exceptions, all public and private gatherings of any number of people

00:10:30.660 occurring among persons not part of a single household are prohibited.

00:10:37.620 Okay, private gatherings of any number of people are prohibited. Well, what does that mean?

00:10:45.860 It means you are barred in Michigan from welcoming your own family members into your home.

00:10:53.200 If you have a brother who lives across town, he's not allowed to enter your house.

00:10:59.940 This is an order from the emperor of Michigan saying your brother cannot come to your house

00:11:04.820 or your uncle or grandmother or whoever else.

00:11:10.100 Emperor Whitmer has assumed the power to tell residents that they cannot have their own families

00:11:14.540 in their homes. This is something, now I would call this dictatorial, but this is trailblazing

00:11:20.520 as a dictator really because as far as I know, now I'm not really familiar totally with the

00:11:25.100 legislation in a place like North Korea, but as far as I know, even Kim Jong-un has not thought of

00:11:30.920 this. He hasn't even thought of telling the peasants of North Korea that they can't have their own

00:11:35.020 families over for dinner. So this is, she's blazing a new trail. The supreme leader of North Korea is 0.65

00:11:45.020 looking at the supreme leader of Michigan and thinking, wow, that's a good, I should have thought of that.

00:11:48.660 These are some good ideas. He's like taking notes while he reads these executive orders.

00:11:55.840 Now, on top of that, she's also, as has happened in many other states, she has told

00:12:05.260 the so-called essential retailers what they're allowed to sell and what they're not allowed to sell.

00:12:12.720 And the exceptions and the things that are not accepted are pretty absurd. We'll get to that in

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00:14:00.280 that the following sections of all stores, for all the essential stores that are still allowed to be

00:14:05.120 open, according to her degree, are to be cordoned off. That is, carpeting or flooring. Cancel

00:14:10.080 carpeting or flooring. Furniture, garden centers and plant nurseries, and paint. Those are the things

00:14:18.320 she's decided. If you go and try to buy one of those, you might get coronavirus. So you can't buy

00:14:23.880 that. Garden centers and plant nurseries. So you can't grow your own vegetables because of coronavirus.

00:14:30.760 Now, I would think that now is especially a good time to have your own garden and grow your own

00:14:38.380 vegetables because it provides you with fresh produce and all the natural vitamins that come

00:14:43.380 with that. It makes you healthy. And you don't have to go to the store as much because you can

00:14:48.540 grow it in your own garden. I would think this is a perfect time for that. If anything, the government

00:14:52.400 should be encouraging people to go and buy seeds and start their own garden. But no, it's gone the

00:14:57.920 other way. She says you can't. You can't do that. Someone, I was talking about this and someone told

00:15:04.260 me this morning on Twitter, defending the governor's order, the emperor, sorry, rather, use her appropriate

00:15:10.020 title, saying that, no, no, no, it's not that you can't buy seeds and plants. It's just that you can't

00:15:16.100 buy it at a big box retailer. So if you're at Walmart or Target or something, you can't go to their

00:15:21.420 garden center because those are shut down. But you can go to a separate place and buy seeds and

00:15:27.280 vegetables and plants and stuff. Now, I'm not sure if that's true or not. I don't know exactly. In

00:15:32.820 Michigan, there are actual garden stores. Are those places allowed to be open? I don't know.

00:15:41.780 But the fact that this person thinks that that's a defense, see, that would make it even more 0.88

00:15:45.680 arbitrary and ridiculous. Because then what they're telling you is if you're already at, let's say,

00:15:51.140 Walmart buying groceries and you want some seeds to start a garden, you can't just walk across the

00:15:57.920 aisle and grab some, which would be the easiest and quickest and safest thing. Instead, you have to

00:16:03.280 get in your car and go to a separate place across town instead of just walking across the store.

00:16:10.540 So if that's how it's working, that doesn't make it better. That makes it 10 times worse

00:16:14.660 because now it's even more arbitrary and it's counterproductive because you're creating more

00:16:20.360 travel that's unnecessary. By the way, the emperor has also said, apparently, that novelty t-shirt

00:16:27.740 printers are essential businesses, it would seem. Because she took the time during this emergency to

00:16:33.120 appear on Comedy Central wearing a custom t-shirt she made for herself, or she had made for herself.

00:16:38.440 You can see that right here. And it says, that woman from Michigan. And that's a reference to,

00:16:44.720 I guess, Trump referred to her as that woman in Michigan or a woman from Michigan or something.

00:16:49.780 And so she had a, you know, she had a custom t-shirt. Does that make sense? So you can't buy

00:16:55.460 seeds, but you can make a custom t-shirt. That's an, that's, that's essential.

00:17:01.820 No, it doesn't make sense, but she's in power, you peasant scum. And it's just as simple as that. 1.00

00:17:06.340 You can buy lottery tickets too, by the way, in Michigan. You can go to the gas station and buy

00:17:12.000 lottery tickets. You can buy scratch-offs, whatever you want. Can't buy furniture, can't buy paint,

00:17:16.440 can't buy seeds. You can buy lottery tickets. Does that make sense? No. Once again, it doesn't,

00:17:23.160 but it doesn't matter because what she says goes. This is about a petty, ridiculous person who has 0.99

00:17:29.580 been given the opportunity to live out her fantasy as essentially a political dominatrix. And that's 1.00

00:17:35.460 what's happening here. You know, this whole experience, as this has been happening, I've been

00:17:39.760 thinking a lot about speaking before of, of, uh, managers at pizza places. The reason I use that

00:17:46.040 example, I was thinking of a manager I had when I worked as a pizza chef, as a teenager, and I was

00:17:51.640 a chef. Okay. I could, I could do things like I could do the thing where you spin the dough in the

00:17:56.660 air. And that was pretty good. So that's, that's chef stuff. I wasn't just a guy working at a pizza

00:18:00.680 place. Um, but my manager at that job was just an absolute tyrant. He had minimal, just a minimal 0.93

00:18:10.820 amount of control over the high schoolers who worked for him during his shift. And he exploited

00:18:17.240 it to the fullest extent. So if that power was in like a sponge, he, he, he was wringing that sponge

00:18:23.920 out and just getting every last drop and morsel he could of power out of that thing. Right. And we've

00:18:30.480 all had bosses like this. We've had teachers like this. Uh, there are people in every profession and

00:18:36.260 every line of work. We've encountered customer service representatives like this. I mean, if you've

00:18:42.080 ever, uh, called, you've had to call someplace, a 1-800 number and deal with someone at a call center.

00:18:48.960 And we've all had an experience where the person you're talking to is they have a minimal amount of

00:18:55.740 control. This is just somebody working at a call center. They have very little power,

00:18:59.240 but right now in this moment, because you need something from them and they have the thing you

00:19:05.300 need, even if it's just something like information or you need them to pass you along to somebody else

00:19:09.940 who has the information you need, they're going to exploit that power as much as possible just

00:19:14.880 because they can. And they're going to be difficult and they're going to try to make your life miserable

00:19:18.760 because they're miserable. So we've all encountered people like this. Um, now

00:19:25.020 then we have to think, you know, who, who generally are the sorts of people who even want to be

00:19:33.140 politicians who want to have this kind of power and control? Well, it's exactly like, it's exactly

00:19:38.260 these sorts of people, the tyrannical boss at a pizza place or that jerk at the call center. I mean, 0.99

00:19:44.740 these, these narcissists who are miserable people and want to control others. 0.88

00:19:49.340 That, that, that doesn't have to be your motivation for wanting to become a politician. 0.56

00:19:55.200 It's possible in theory that you could be motivated by a desire for public service.

00:19:59.740 And I'm willing to believe that there might be of all the politicians in America.

00:20:03.860 There might right now be maybe like three or four of them who were motivated by a desire for public

00:20:09.060 service, but the vast majority of them are just the petty narcissists.

00:20:13.320 And that's why they became politicians. And now they're in a position where, uh, they have been

00:20:21.440 giving, given basically unlimited power over large numbers of people. And they're going to exploit it

00:20:29.820 to the fullest extent. And that's exactly why they shouldn't be given that power to begin with.

00:20:35.420 All right, let's go to, uh, news headlines. Number one, here's a report from, uh, it's called

00:20:40.660 spectrum news, New York. And I thought this was a interesting report. Watch this Delta airlines

00:20:47.220 is temporarily changing the way passengers board its planes. Travelers whose seats are in the last

00:20:53.080 row will board first. And then the process will make its way row by row to the front with those

00:20:58.940 passengers boarding last passengers will have to wait for their row number to be called.

00:21:03.960 This change is so that people will interact less while getting to their seats.

00:21:08.720 Customers in first or business class can still board whenever they want. They are being encouraged to

00:21:14.500 wait for their row to be called. And there will still be pre-boarding processes for those who need

00:21:20.820 extra time or assistance. Delta says the changes will stay in place until May 31st.

00:21:26.780 First of all, what's up with the people boarding the plane in that package you watch there?

00:21:30.760 See how they were all smiling as they got on the plane. Nobody looks like that when they're boarding a

00:21:34.180 plane. Everyone is, is just gloomy and miserable, especially on a Delta flight of all things.

00:21:39.580 But more to the point, why did it take a pandemic for airlines to adopt a sane boarding procedure?

00:21:46.900 Obviously, this is one of the things that has perplexed airline passengers like myself for years.

00:21:54.740 Why, why do you start by boarding the people in the front of the plane? And then you have,

00:22:00.080 it just, it takes, it makes the, it makes the whole procedure five times as long as it needs to be.

00:22:05.320 So you start people in the back and then you fill in from there. And I guess part of the reason they

00:22:11.360 changed it is because they want to give the people who are in first class and the, you know, people in

00:22:17.660 comfort, the comfort section. So they get like two inches more of legroom than everybody else.

00:22:22.100 They want to give them the privilege and honor of boarding the plane first. But I never understood

00:22:25.980 that either. Because on the, on the rare occasion where someone's been paying for my flight and I get to

00:22:32.320 fly first class because I'd never pay for it myself. I don't, I don't really consider it a

00:22:37.820 great honor to board the flight first because then you're just, you're just sitting on the plane

00:22:41.580 longer than everybody else. Why is that so exciting? So that's a, at least this is one good thing that

00:22:48.020 will come of the whole pandemic is that airlines will start boarding in a reasonable way.

00:22:51.980 Number two, speaking of tyranny, reading now in a report from Amanda Preston-Giacomo in the Daily

00:23:00.040 Wire, it says, after fighting a grueling seven-year legal battle for respectfully declining to create

00:23:05.880 a cake for a same-sex wedding, openly Christian baker Jack Phillips landed a 7-2 ruling in his favor of

00:23:10.740 the Supreme Court. The win was not enough, however. The same Colorado agency that went after Phillips over

00:23:15.460 the same-sex wedding cake then sued the cake artist for refusing to create a gender transition

00:23:19.680 celebration. Um, and that was the, uh, so that he was, he was first sued by the gay couple that

00:23:27.360 wanted the gay wedding cake that goes to the Supreme Court. And then you've got this transgender person 1.00

00:23:33.500 who comes in and wants a gender transition cake after all that's over. And he, he basically won in 0.79

00:23:39.360 the Supreme Court. He all but achieved a victory in the Supreme Court. Um, after that happens, then you've

00:23:46.280 got this person, Autumn Scardina, who comes in for a gender transition cake in an, in an obvious attempt 0.99

00:23:52.240 to, to just entrap Jack Phillips and find an excuse to sue. He gets the excuse to sue. And now the latest

00:23:59.640 is that there's a second lawsuit. Um, this is going back to court again and from the same person, Autumn

00:24:06.460 Scardina. Um, and it just, it never ends. Jack Phillips, you know, he has been, this all started, when did this

00:24:16.620 start? This started, I think in 2012, I believe, 2013. I mean, round there. It's been, it's been many, many years

00:24:24.420 and it all just started with Jack Phillips, not even refusing to make a cake for a gay couple. That's not what 0.50

00:24:31.440 happened. You know, he just, he didn't want to make a custom cake for a gay wedding. He was willing to 0.97

00:24:38.340 sell the gay couple any pastry or dessert they wanted in the entire, so they could have whatever 0.99

00:24:42.280 they wanted. It's just, I don't want to make a custom cake specifically for a gay wedding. All starts 1.00

00:24:48.400 with that. And here we are six, seven years later, and, uh, it still has not ended. Uh, number three, a team

00:24:56.040 of researchers published a paper in the journal M systems. And in their paper, they say that, uh,

00:25:02.640 two of the best things we can do to fight the coronavirus, according to them is one, get fresh

00:25:07.420 air to get lots of sun. Now it's not known to what extent sunlight kills the virus, but we do know in

00:25:15.720 general that sunlight is a great disinfectant when it comes to germs and viruses and so on. Uh, plus lots

00:25:21.800 of air circulation obviously is going to reduce your risk of contracting a virus. When if somebody

00:25:26.120 coughs or something, a few feet from you and you're inside and you've got all that stale, still

00:25:32.120 recirculated air, there's a much greater likelihood you're going to get infected than if you're outside

00:25:37.220 and there's, there's tons of fresh air and the air is circulating and moving and everything. And

00:25:41.840 there's wind and a breeze. Uh, obviously there's gonna be less of a chance of you getting infected.

00:25:45.380 Now I bring that up because what have many States and localities done in many places,

00:25:52.160 they've shut down parks, they've banned outdoor recreation. Uh, they're arresting people who go

00:25:58.320 to the beach. And it sounds like to me, speaking of beaches in particular, it seems like one of the

00:26:05.740 best possible places you could be right now is on a beach. You've got lots of fresh air. You've got

00:26:11.760 lots of heat, lots of sunlight, lots of space. There's probably no better place to be for avoiding

00:26:19.380 a virus, but instead what have many places done? They've shut down the beaches and said, no, go to

00:26:24.480 your home where there's a much greater chance of circulating and spreading and contracting the

00:26:29.100 virus. Makes a lot of sense. Uh, finally, Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor was on Sirius, Sirius XM radio,

00:26:37.900 and he had quite a lot to say about his job and, and media in general. Um, take a listen.

00:26:44.280 I don't want to spend my time doing things that I don't think that are valuable enough to me

00:26:53.180 personally. Like what? Well, I don't like what I do professionally. I've decided. Um,

00:27:02.540 I like doing this show. I like talking to you guys, but I don't value

00:27:08.460 indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship. I don't think it's worth my time. And I don't want

00:27:19.940 some jackass loser, fat tire biker, um, to be able to pull over, uh, and get in my face and in my space 1.00

00:27:29.180 and talk bulls**t to me. I don't want to hear it. And just like you would, right? You're not going 1.00

00:27:35.940 to tolerate that, right? Some cat just basically pulls up in the driveway next to yours and starts

00:27:41.780 getting in your face about stuff. How, how's that going to go? How's that going to go? Right?

00:27:47.540 That matters to me more than making millions of dollars a year. That matters to me more.

00:27:55.000 Why? Because I've saved my money. Some honesty there, which I respect. And also it seems like

00:28:00.160 one of the reasons he doesn't like his job and doesn't want his job anymore is that, uh, he wants

00:28:05.920 to be able to yell at or punch or insult someone who insults him. The fact that he's not able to do

00:28:15.260 that because he's a public figure upsets him. And, and, and he would be willing to give up his

00:28:20.920 multimillion dollar a year job just so he can, just so he can have the ability to insult people

00:28:26.380 who insult him. I respect that personally. I really do. Um, so let's, uh, there's not a lot I

00:28:34.380 can say. I can't often say that about CNN anchors, but that at least I can respect. Let's go to your

00:28:39.340 daily cancellation. Well, I had to let the New York times off the hook yesterday because I had to cancel,

00:28:44.900 um, our chickens instead, which if you didn't watch the show yesterday, we'll just leave it there.

00:28:50.360 No context. But, uh, today we're going to circle back and cancel them. You, you remember the, the

00:28:55.660 New York times published a piece over the weekend, which went to absurd lengths to essentially absolve

00:29:00.700 Joe Biden of the sexual assault charge made against him by Tara Reid. Um, this after first of all,

00:29:06.900 taking many days and or weeks really to even acknowledge the story in the first place.

00:29:11.540 Uh, and then meanwhile, the times in the past has jumped on sexual assault claims made against other

00:29:17.900 people and reported them right away, uh, uncritically. And it just so happens coincidentally,

00:29:25.620 they usually do that when the person who is being accused is a Republican. I'm sure it's just a

00:29:30.400 coincidence. Well, Dean back back wet, executive editor of the times was being interviewed in the

00:29:38.720 times by the times for some reason about all of this. And that was published yesterday. I want

00:29:45.120 to read just one of these exchanges to you. Um, so a question I've been looking at the times is

00:29:53.820 coverage of justice Brett and Kavanaugh. I want to focus particularly on the Julie Swetnick

00:29:58.800 allegation. She was the one who was represented by Michael Avenatti and who suggested that Kavanaugh

00:30:03.320 had been involved in frat house rapes and then appeared to walk back elements of her allegations. 0.71

00:30:08.680 The times wrote that, uh, that's the times wrote that story the same day she made the allegation

00:30:14.620 noting that quote, none of Ms. Swetnick's claims could be independently corroborated.

00:30:19.340 Why was Kavanaugh treated differently? That's the question. We'll get to the answer in a second,

00:30:22.500 but remember it took them many days to even acknowledge this claim, this allegation against

00:30:29.000 Joe Biden. And then when they do, they essentially exonerate him. Um, but let's remember the Julie

00:30:36.020 Swetnick. Now, no, we were, we remember Christine Ford, that allegation, which there was no evidence

00:30:39.840 for. She didn't even remember most of the details, no witnesses, nobody corroborated anything.

00:30:44.260 So that was bad enough. Julie Swetnick, she was the one who claimed not just that Kavanaugh was involved

00:30:50.900 in rapes at frat houses. She claimed that he was essentially the ringleader of a, of a,

00:30:57.080 of a group of gang rapists who were known to show up at parties and rape women. They was just like, 0.94

00:31:04.040 according to her, everybody knew this. And yet, according to her, um, women would still go to these

00:31:09.840 parties with these gang rapists. The story was completely ridiculous. It's not just that there 1.00

00:31:14.760 was no evidence for it. It's that it was a, on its face, absurd story. Uh, and the New York

00:31:21.700 Times published it the same day that it was made. Okay. Now here's the answer that Dean

00:31:28.300 Backwet gives. He says Kavanaugh was already in a public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh's status

00:31:35.740 as a Supreme court justice was in question because of a serious, of a very serious allegation. And when

00:31:40.900 I say in a public way, I don't mean in the public way of Tara Reads. If you ask the average person in

00:31:45.680 America, they didn't know about the Tara Read case. So I thought in that case, if the New York

00:31:49.940 Times was going to introduce this to readers, we needed to introduce it with some reporting and

00:31:54.160 perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very different situation. It was a live ongoing story that

00:31:59.320 had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment

00:32:03.340 moment. Oh my gosh. I look in, in, in fairness to Dean Backwet, uh, there's no good answer to give

00:32:16.540 because of course the real answer is there a bunch of partisan hacks. So that's the real answer.

00:32:24.100 And I, I would respect the hell out of him actually, if he had just come out and said that

00:32:27.240 I wish that had been, his answer should have just been, and I would have respected it if he had said,

00:32:31.480 listen, you guys know what's up here. Okay. We're partisan hacks. The Biden's the Democrats,

00:32:36.640 different rules. Okay. I mean, what you think we care about, about sexual assault? Come on.

00:32:41.120 Uh, but no, he, he, he's not going to say that. And so if he's not going to go with the truth,

00:32:46.120 there really is no good answer to give, but even without a good answer or excuse, he, he,

00:32:53.280 he could have given it a little bit more effort. Kavanaugh was in a public forum. Uh, yes, he was,

00:33:00.480 but I don't know. I don't, don't you think that, that a presidential campaign is a public forum?

00:33:06.600 Uh, the former vice president running for president, now the presumptive nominee. I,

00:33:13.760 you know, I don't know. I would call that a public forum too, not just a public forum,

00:33:18.440 but a public forum in a large way. In fact, I would argue that a presidential candidate for a

00:33:23.960 major party has a much bigger public forum than, uh, someone who's been appointed as a Supreme Court

00:33:30.360 Justice. Um, and then he says, uh, so that, that excuse doesn't wash at all. And then he says,

00:33:40.080 uh, if you ask the average person in America, they don't know about the Tara Reid case. Yeah.

00:33:45.280 Why don't they know about it, Dean? Because people like you aren't telling them.

00:33:50.500 They don't know about it because you are, are going out of your way to bury the story.

00:33:55.060 So the media goes out of its way to bury the story and then uses as justification for burying it.

00:34:03.340 The fact that it was buried. Well, we had to bury it. I mean, it's been buried.

00:34:09.660 What are we supposed to do? It's buried. We buried it. We had to bury it because we buried it.

00:34:17.100 Amazing. Really amazing. Okay. Let's go finally to emails, Matt. Uh, you can always email the show

00:34:22.900 by becoming a daily wire member and you can access the mailbag that way. This is from Damon says,

00:34:29.640 love your show. While I see how people might get the wrong impression from the nurses posting the

00:34:33.960 dancing videos, they are still wrong impressions. You saying that they are doing this while people

00:34:39.420 are dying is a misrepresentation. You saying they must have plenty of time on their hands is a

00:34:43.960 misrepresentation. You claiming that is especially bad during this time is a misrepresentation of how

00:34:49.060 things work in a hospital. Being a nurse myself, I think you shouldn't disparage them without actually

00:34:53.360 understanding how things work on a hospital floor. Just my opinion. Thanks for having a great show

00:34:57.560 though. Well, you call it all misrepresentations, but then you don't explain. So I don't know how to

00:35:02.680 respond to this exactly. Um, first of all, there are two things we know here. People are dying.

00:35:11.400 Okay. Um, the, the, the virus is a very real thing. I never said it was a hoax. It's a very real

00:35:17.520 thing. It's a very serious thing. My point has simply been the way the government is responding

00:35:22.380 to the, to the, to the virus is, uh, is tyrannical, counterproductive, arbitrary, wrong, et cetera,

00:35:29.620 et cetera, et cetera. There are better ways of responding. So people are dying. It's not a

00:35:34.900 misrepresentation that is actually happening. And the way I look at it, these dancing videos of nurses,

00:35:40.180 um, there, there are two possibilities, right? Either these videos are being in these, these

00:35:47.400 dances are being choreographed in hospitals where people are dying of the coronavirus or not in

00:35:56.260 either case. It's not good because if people are dying of a pandemic in your hospital and you're

00:36:02.680 downstairs choreographing a dance routine and then posting it online, I would say that's not a very

00:36:07.380 appropriate response. And that's just not an appropriate time. By the way, the media, they're

00:36:13.380 the ones who have compared this to nine 11. And I guess now they would say that the, this is whatever

00:36:17.720 10 times worse than nine 11 or something by the, by the death toll. So they're the ones who made this,

00:36:23.620 this, this, this comparison. Um, they're also the ones who have defended these videos. Well, so if that

00:36:31.000 comparison works, then wouldn't this be like a, a nine 11 first responder doing a choreographed dance

00:36:38.460 routine at ground zero, you know, uh, the week after nine 11, I mean, that's not my comparison.

00:36:47.480 That's the media's comparison. So by, by that logic, it's the same sort of thing. Would anyone

00:36:53.000 deny that that would be wildly inappropriate? And it's not that we're saying that nine 11 first

00:36:59.080 responders can't have any fun or can't enjoy their lives or, or have to be solemn and gloomy all the

00:37:05.420 time. But, uh, I'm not even saying they can't dance, but probably don't dance on the job. And, uh,

00:37:13.520 and if you do, which you shouldn't, but definitely don't record it and put it online.

00:37:19.980 And then the other possibility is that these dancing videos are being done at hospitals where,

00:37:24.660 uh, there, there isn't really anybody or hardly anyone dying of the coronavirus.

00:37:29.080 And if that's the case and you've got so much time on your hands, um, then, you know,

00:37:34.240 I think that's going to be very annoying to put it mildly for all the people who have lost their

00:37:38.760 jobs because of supposedly overwhelmed hospitals. And then it turns out that actually you've got all

00:37:43.500 these hospitals that are not only overwhelmed are not only not overwhelmed, but they're, but the,

00:37:48.400 the hospital staff have so much time on their hands that they're choreographing dance routines.

00:37:52.680 I think someone who's lost their job or can't go to work, we'll look at that and say, okay,

00:37:58.440 well maybe I can get back to work then in that case. So that's the point. Uh, this is from Janice.

00:38:04.560 Finally, it says, I'm glad you, you have nothing to do with public health decisions. You are a moron. 1.00

00:38:09.760 My questions are, were you born a crack baby? Uh, didn't you get enough? The answer's no to that, 1.00

00:38:16.740 by the way. Uh, didn't you get enough oxygen at birth? Not sure. Abused by an uncle when you were

00:38:22.640 a teenager? No. Something is seriously wrong with you. Um, and then, uh, she quotes me, uh, quote,

00:38:30.480 if you think the government has the right to summarily declare all churches non-essential and then arrest 1.00

00:38:34.580 anyone who tries to enter one, you're entitled to make that insanely stupid argument. Just please, 1.00

00:38:37.860 I beg you never again, pretend to be a proponent of religious liberty. Yes, that is a quote. I did

00:38:41.720 say that and I'm exactly right. Uh, and then she continues, this isn't about religious liberty.

00:38:45.860 You effing nut job. These people are fake effing Christians. They are okay with harming others so 1.00

00:38:51.660 they can go to church. If you nut jobs had it your way, we'd all be dead. F you and F your fake 0.97

00:38:56.300 Christianity. Churches are not essential. Churches and religion are only essential quote unquote to people 1.00

00:39:01.360 who cannot think rashly and critically. You all claim God is everywhere. Why do you need to be in an

00:39:05.700 effing church? You don't. Effing religious liberty doesn't extend to harming others. You're the

00:39:10.620 insanely stupid one actually. You even look disturbed. Well, Janice, um, I, I, all I could say 1.00

00:39:19.960 is I guess it would take one to no one on, on that end, but, but thank you for that. I think I probably

00:39:24.020 don't need to add anything to that. I really do appreciate, uh, your perspective and you revealing

00:39:30.520 all of that to everybody. Um, and I, I want to thank you for that. I, I, no response

00:39:36.320 is necessary. I believe. I appreciate the feedback and we'll leave it there, everybody. Thanks

00:39:42.620 everyone for watching. Have a great day. Godspeed. Wait, have a great day. God bless and Godspeed.

00:39:49.180 I missed it up. See you later.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 14, 2020

Ep. 465 - Citizens Begin To Stand Up Against Tyranny

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