The Matt Walsh Show - April 24, 2020


Ep. 473 - The Media Openly Roots Against America


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

187.33122

Word Count

8,116

Sentence Count

543

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

The media continues to openly root against the United States, which is something they've been doing for decades. But it's been even more grotesque and getting more grotesque by the day. Also, 5 headlines, including a whole bunch of congressmen who apparently don't understand how to wear a mask and don t understand why we are wearing masks, and I think need to be reported to the various snitch lines for their violations of social distance.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media continues to openly root against the United States,
00:00:04.720 which is something, of course, they've been doing for decades.
00:00:06.680 But it's been even more grotesque and getting more grotesque by the day during this crisis.
00:00:12.400 Also, five headlines, including a whole bunch of congressmen who apparently don't understand
00:00:18.300 how to wear a mask and don't understand why we are wearing masks and I think need to be
00:00:22.980 reported to the various snitch lines for their violations of social distancing.
00:00:27.300 And today in our daily cancellation, I will be canceling everyone, just everybody.
00:00:33.000 It's time. It needs to be done. And I'll explain why. All of that is coming up.
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00:00:53.900 anything. You know, if you have a cut, they've got a Band-Aid ready to go. If you need a battery,
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00:02:08.320 I wanted to just mention one thing. And I don't know if I'm alone in this among people who wear
00:02:14.500 glasses, but I've discovered that if you don't wear glasses, you can't relate to this. Okay.
00:02:20.080 Because you're not, you're not in the victim group, you know, that we're in as visually impaired
00:02:24.640 individuals. But apparently you can't wear glasses and also a face mask and still be able to see
00:02:32.400 because the glasses get fogged up. So I try to go to the store, I got the face mask on and I'm
00:02:37.320 wandering around the store, bumping into things because my glasses are getting fogged up.
00:02:40.860 Because as you're breathing, the air from your mouth goes up into your glasses and causes this
00:02:46.160 fog situation. And so now I'm starting to think of all the doctors and surgeons that you see that
00:02:51.820 wear glasses. I mean, I had an Achilles surgery last year and my doctor wore glasses and now I'm
00:02:57.440 realizing that he couldn't see a thing he was doing the entire time. And I'm just now realizing this
00:03:03.560 and I wish I didn't know it, to be honest with you. So if there's any solution to that,
00:03:07.700 that you're aware of as a glass, any, any glass, glasses wearing people, if you've discovered a
00:03:12.920 solution to the fogging of the glasses, please let me know for my own, my own safety and the
00:03:18.540 safety of those around me. Okay. Well, it's not news. I suppose that the media roots against America,
00:03:23.420 especially in recent years as, and, and especially now that America is governed by a man that they
00:03:31.980 despise with every fiber of their being. But this spectacle of the media rooting against us
00:03:37.920 has been especially grotesque and outrageous and traitorous, traitorous, at least in a moral sense
00:03:44.960 during this coronavirus crisis, I think. And it makes you think back to the very early days of 9-11.
00:03:50.120 I've been thinking about this a lot. It's like, you know, we, we've, we've always talked about
00:03:55.760 right after 9-11, there was, at least it seemed at the time, there was a very real national unity
00:04:04.180 for a while. Didn't last, it was temporary, but even the media for the most part, Democrats,
00:04:10.780 Republicans, most everybody for a time, a brief glorious time in history, there seemed to be a real
00:04:19.640 sense of common purpose and everybody was on the same side for at least a few days.
00:04:25.640 But we never had that with this. And I wonder if we're even capable of it anymore. I think,
00:04:32.980 I think probably not. I think we're at a point in, in our, in our, in our, in our culture where
00:04:37.540 we're not capable of that kind of unity, even when we're facing a common threat. So I want to talk
00:04:44.240 about just one example of the media rooting against us and celebrating, seeming to celebrate
00:04:48.520 our, in their minds, demise. And in fact, before I do that, just one other really egregious recent
00:04:55.600 example that I happened to see online when I was, when I was, yesterday. This is a woman named Samira
00:05:01.220 Khan, who's a foreign policy analyst. And here she is. Now follow this exchange on Twitter. Samira says,
00:05:09.700 sick of the following COVID-19 talking points. One, it's a hoax. Two, severity and death count
00:05:14.980 equals exaggerated. Three, China is to blame. Feel free to add to the list. Then some random guy
00:05:20.980 responds, China has to be blamed, babes. Isn't that obvious? Then Samira says, babes, puke face emoji.
00:05:29.080 No, I don't know what your crap media is telling you, but the world should be thanking China for their
00:05:34.900 efforts. Now, I don't know if this woman lives in America or not. I think she does. But that was so
00:05:41.960 egregious that I had to mention it. Thanking China. We should be thanking China for their efforts.
00:05:48.900 Their efforts in starting and lying about and thereby causing the uncontrollable spread of
00:05:56.240 a deadly virus. We should thank them for that. Anyway, so on to the AP. Here's the AP's tweets of their
00:06:03.680 article. The caption says, it wasn't supposed to be this way. America was the greatest of all nations
00:06:10.220 with can-do spirit in its DNA, but now it leads only in COVID-19 deaths. What's gone wrong?
00:06:18.000 And then the title of the article, coronavirus shakes the conceit of American exceptionalism.
00:06:23.380 The byline is Calvin Woodward wrote it, but then it says that Lauren Neergaard in Washington,
00:06:28.840 Ted Anthony in Pittsburgh, and Aya Batray in Dubai contributed to this report. So a reporter who
00:06:36.220 doesn't live in America contributed to a report about how America is not exceptional. So that's
00:06:40.040 just great. Reading from the article, it says, when the coronavirus pandemic came from distant
00:06:44.620 lands to the United States, it was met with cascading failures and incompetencies by a system
00:06:49.760 that exists to prepare, protect, prevent, and cut citizens a check in a national crisis. The molecular
00:06:55.120 menace posed by the new coronavirus has shaken the conceit of American exceptionalism like nothing
00:06:59.840 big enough to see with your own eyes. A nation with unmatched power, brazen ambition, and aspirations
00:07:04.880 through the arc of history to be humanity's shining city upon a hill cannot come up with enough simple
00:07:10.140 cotton swabs, despite the wartime manufacturing supply powers assumed by President Donald Trump.
00:07:15.700 Then it continues on, for effective diagnostic testing, crucial or an infectious outbreak,
00:07:20.400 look abroad to the United Arab Emirates, or Germany, or New Zealand, which jumped to test the masses
00:07:27.720 before many were known to be sick. Or to South Korean exceptionalism, tapped by Maryland's Republican
00:07:33.500 Governor Larry Hogan, who accepted a plane load of 500,000 testing kits from South Korea to make up for
00:07:39.580 the U.S. shortfall. Simple gloves, complicated ventilators, special lab chemicals, test swabs, masks,
00:07:47.200 gowns, face shields, hospital beds, emergency payouts from the government, benefits for idled
00:07:50.920 workers. Each has been subject to chronic shortages, spot shortages, calcified bureaucracy,
00:07:57.960 or some combination. Okay, and then it goes on from there. I can't read the whole thing. It's very,
00:08:01.660 quite lengthy. Now, here's the thing, and you get this a lot from the media. Many of the points being
00:08:09.720 raised that I just read there and throughout the article are not wrong. It would certainly be hard to
00:08:16.020 argue that the response from our country has been stellar, exactly, and we were caught unprepared,
00:08:21.820 and we shouldn't have been unprepared, and we have government agencies that are supposed to be
00:08:26.400 keeping us prepared for this sort of thing, like the CDC. And they didn't do their job. And many of the
00:08:32.380 other things that this article points out are true, yes, but they marshal all of these facts in service to
00:08:40.680 an ideological point, and then they cover it in a falsehood. The ideological point is that American
00:08:46.880 exceptionalism is just a conceit and a false one. And the falsehood is that we lead only in COVID-19
00:08:54.420 deaths, which implies, obviously, first of all, that we don't lead in any other category, which is not
00:08:59.220 true. But it's also untrue that we lead in COVID-19 deaths. That, you know, the only way to get to that
00:09:05.020 statistic. And the media has to know this. So when you've got the media constantly saying that we lead
00:09:10.620 in COVID-19 deaths, they have to know that what they're saying is not true. I mean, at best, highly
00:09:18.700 misleading, but really simply untrue. Yet they keep saying it. Why do they keep saying it? Well, I mean,
00:09:24.940 it's almost like they want it to be true. Or at least they want us to believe that it's true.
00:09:29.600 And this is what I'm talking about with rooting against America.
00:09:35.500 So the only way to get to that statistic, the only way to support the idea that we lead in deaths
00:09:39.880 is to do two extremely disingenuous things. One is to ignore population size and to just do a
00:09:46.520 straight up comparison between our total deaths and total deaths in like New Zealand, you know,
00:09:52.520 and Denmark, completely putting aside that our population is many, many, many, many, many times
00:09:57.660 larger than those countries. So obviously we're going to have more deaths. Then you also have
00:10:01.320 to ignore total cases. And of course, we don't know the total cases for any country. And the fact
00:10:06.320 that we don't know that is a problem because it also means that the death toll is probably a lot
00:10:09.640 lower than we think. But still, obviously, if you have more cases, you're going to have more deaths.
00:10:14.180 And obviously, America is going to have more cases than a place like New Zealand because we
00:10:17.320 have a lot more people. And also, we have a lot more people coming here from other parts of the
00:10:21.160 from other parts of the world. Now, according to USA Today, and this is in an article meant to
00:10:29.620 basically debunk Trump's claim that our death rate is low compared to other countries, which is
00:10:35.160 actually true that it is low compared to many other countries. But in the process of trying to debunk
00:10:39.640 that claim, the USA Today, USA Today did admit, quote, when compared only to the 10 countries with the
00:10:46.180 most cases, the U.S. ranks as the second lowest mortality rate as a percentage of total cases.
00:10:51.360 That means eight of those countries hit hardest by the coronavirus have higher mortality rates than
00:10:55.460 the U.S. Well, that's the honest comparison to make. You have to look at other countries that got
00:11:01.520 a ton of cases because they have larger populations in most cases and also because maybe they have more
00:11:07.940 people coming into their countries. And then or you can look at deaths per 100,000 people or per a
00:11:17.040 million people. And when you do that, so you're looking at it more per capita basis. And when you
00:11:21.560 do that, we're nowhere near the top of the list. In fact, I don't even I don't think we even make it
00:11:25.540 into the into the top 10 when you look at it that way. And then in order to claim that America leads
00:11:32.300 and deaths, you also have to take China at its word on its death count. And you have to assume
00:11:38.480 that a country like India with a billion plus people claiming only 700 deaths, you have to
00:11:44.420 assume that that number is accurate. And not to say that India would be lying about their death count.
00:11:49.840 Maybe they would be. But also you have to think in a country like India, they may not have
00:11:54.100 successfully counted all the people who actually died of this illness.
00:11:56.820 Um, so but you have to put that to the side. You have to assume that in India with with with
00:12:04.840 one point, I think it's 1.3 billion people, only 700 have died of coronavirus. And China's being
00:12:11.380 honest. So you assume all of that. And then and then even then you don't get to to America having
00:12:18.460 the most cases. Now, none of this, again, is to say that our response in America has been good.
00:12:24.820 It hasn't, in my view. But the media wants us to believe that it's the worst and that we're the
00:12:30.420 hardest hit and that we're the most incompetent. And you can practically see the gleeful smiles when
00:12:36.900 you read this stuff. This is what happens when you buy into the narrative that America is the
00:12:42.460 villain of the world. And then when bad stuff happens to your country, if that's if you've bought
00:12:48.000 into a narrative that your country is the villain, bad stuff happens to your country. And then I guess
00:12:52.780 you feel pretty good about it, which it seems it seems that that's the case for a lot of people in
00:12:56.980 the media. OK, let's move on to headlines. Number one, NFL draft was last night. They had to do it all
00:13:07.220 virtual, which meant that Roger Goodell, for the first time ever, wasn't booed every time he spoke,
00:13:12.320 the NFL commissioner. Usually at these events, he gets up there for the first round anyway to announce
00:13:17.240 the people who've been drafted to the various teams. And every time he goes, takes a stage,
00:13:21.700 he's booed. But that didn't happen this time. I watched a little bit of it,
00:13:26.500 mainly because I'm desperate for sports, like most red-blooded American men. So I'll even sit and
00:13:34.800 watch guys on a webcam list the names of players who've been drafted. That's how desperate I am for
00:13:40.220 some kind of live sporting event. But it was kind of awkward because they had webcams
00:13:45.320 in all of the homes of the projected first round draft picks. So we could see their excitement in
00:13:52.600 real time as they learned that they were drafted, which had to be annoying. You know, I felt bad for
00:13:58.640 those kids because this is one of the biggest moments of their lives, the moment their life
00:14:03.360 changes, the moment that all the years of hard work pays off. It's a very significant, profound,
00:14:08.620 beautiful moment for them. And they've got a camera shoved in their face so that millions of
00:14:14.280 people can watch and judge their reaction as they learn the news. Now, I mean, I think even
00:14:20.320 like during holidays or a birthday, when I have to open presents in front of other people, and I don't
00:14:26.400 have a camera shoved in my face. Well, sometimes I do, but I don't have millions of people watching.
00:14:30.600 But even that, I really hate opening presents in front of other people. That's why I don't like
00:14:36.520 holidays. And I would just, I'd be in favor of abolishing the gift giving process altogether.
00:14:41.520 Because then I feel like I've got all this pressure. I have to be excited about every gift
00:14:45.380 that I open. And I'm not an excitable person. So even if I'm very excited about a gift, like I could
00:14:50.440 get a gift, I could open a gift and it could be a treasure chest full of gold bars, you know,
00:14:56.560 adding up to like $3 million in value. And my reaction to that would be something like,
00:15:01.520 oh, cool. Wow, really cool. Thanks so much. Yeah, I really, thank you. Really cool. That'd be my
00:15:08.600 reaction. That would also be my reaction if you give me socks. Either way, just how I am. So I felt
00:15:16.380 bad for these kids, because I think a lot of them are sort of the same as me, not as excitable.
00:15:21.840 And so you're watching their reactions. And many of them do not appear excited at all. And so it's
00:15:27.940 very awkward, especially the guy that was drafted by the Jaguars. Here was his reaction.
00:15:38.320 Well, there you see happiness all the way around. And just so you know, obviously it makes a lot of
00:15:43.160 sense because the Jaguars moved on from Jalen Ramsey last year. They clearly needed help at
00:15:47.380 the cornerback position. Now, in fairness, I think he was actually overcome with emotion there. And so
00:15:52.400 I think he was excited. But it did kind of look like he was mourning over being drafted by the
00:15:58.220 Jaguars. And I wouldn't blame him for that if he was. By the way, his reaction was judged by jerks
00:16:03.900 like myself, as I am doing to him right now what I hate when people do to me. So moving on. Dr.
00:16:10.060 Scott Gottlieb on Twitter says this, study of 318 outbreaks in China found transmission occurred
00:16:16.980 out of doors in only one involving just two cases. Most occurred in home or public transport.
00:16:23.360 Raises key chance for states to move service outdoors, religious gym classes, restaurants,
00:16:28.880 etc. Now, this is, you know, in spite of this, you still got morons panicking over people going to
00:16:36.160 the beach. And as I've been saying all along, even though I'm not a doctor, it seemed obvious to me
00:16:42.220 that the beach is probably one of the safest places in the world you can be right now.
00:16:47.920 Fresh air, open air, lots of wind, lots of circulation there. It's hot, it's sunny.
00:16:54.780 Just doesn't seem like the best environment for a virus to be transmitted. You know, if I were a
00:17:01.200 virus and I wanted to be transmitted, I would not choose, and I could choose anywhere, I would not
00:17:05.480 choose a beach. I would choose a public transportation. And in lieu of that, if not that,
00:17:13.180 at least, yes, being, I think the best case scenario would be, you know, being cooped up in a house with
00:17:20.380 other people. Now, that's a great opportunity for a transmission. So, yeah, I think this could be a
00:17:25.080 solution for a lot of businesses that are apprehensive about opening when they're allowed to open.
00:17:30.840 If you can, move, you know, move the, move it outside, have people sitting outside as much as
00:17:37.240 possible. Churches doing outdoor services, you know, as we move into the warmer months in the
00:17:41.980 summer and everything, I think that could be a great solution. Might not be possible for every
00:17:46.160 church and every restaurant, of course, but where it is possible, I think that could be a good way of
00:17:50.120 doing it. Let's see, number three, the mayor of a city in Japan is under fire for saying that men
00:17:56.420 should do the grocery shopping because women take too long and they clog up the lanes at the store by
00:18:01.160 dawdling around. He said, this is what he said, quote, women take a longer time grocery shopping
00:18:06.360 because they browse through different products and weigh out which option is best. Men quickly grab
00:18:11.340 what they're told to buy so they won't linger at the supermarket. That avoids close contact with
00:18:16.020 others. I think this is obviously true. People are upset, of course, because they're always going to
00:18:20.040 get upset when you make any sort of observation about women that appears to be less than flattering.
00:18:25.460 You know, if you dare say anything about women that is short of bowing before them and worshiping
00:18:31.440 them, anything short of that, and it's highly offensive. But this is obviously true, it seems to
00:18:37.380 me. Certainly in my experience of both being a man and a husband and also going to grocery stores
00:18:44.480 and also just what I know about men. Men are all about efficiency, okay? Men are going to be more
00:18:51.220 efficient in pretty much everything. If you want efficiency, go to a man. Whether it's grocery
00:18:56.480 shopping, whether it's telling a story about what happened to them during the day, whether it's
00:19:00.660 anything, man's going to be more efficient. Now, that's not to say that the man is always going to
00:19:07.120 do a better job. Because yeah, I would say that women, if you got all the time in the world,
00:19:13.300 then yeah, you want the woman to do the grocery shopping because she is. She's going to be thinking
00:19:18.580 very hard about what she's buying. She's going to be finding the best deals, you know, and all of
00:19:24.080 that. But we're in a position right now where we just need to get in and get out. And if you need
00:19:30.980 someone to get in, get it done, and get out, that's, you need men. You need men for that.
00:19:35.700 Um, so that's now when I'm at the grocery store, I've got my list and I'm just going through the
00:19:45.780 aisles as fast as I can, you know, grabbing it. I don't even look at it hardly. I just grab first
00:19:50.520 thing I see first version. You know, if there's something on the list that says, uh, you know,
00:19:55.180 uh, mayonnaise or whatever, I'm just grabbing the first jar that I see. I'm not sitting there. Now,
00:20:00.740 if it was my wife, she's going to sit there and she's gonna look at all the different versions of
00:20:03.720 mayonnaise. You think, you know, what's the healthiest? What's the cheapest? Can I get a
00:20:06.800 deal here? What brand do we like the most? Uh, you know, this jar is a little bit bigger than that
00:20:11.960 jar. Is that a better deal than that one? Oh, do I want, do I want mayonnaise that has a olive oil,
00:20:16.840 uh, uh, flavoring or do you know, do I, we don't have time for that right now, maybe in the future,
00:20:24.320 but right now you just got to grab the mayonnaise. And so I think that obviously you need men,
00:20:27.680 need men for that. Um, number four, I'm going to be putting a report into de Blasio's
00:20:35.200 social distancing snitch line where you report violations of social distancing rules,
00:20:40.360 because I saw a new, a New Yorker, a New York resident flagrantly violating social distancing
00:20:45.940 policies. And I think this needs to be reported to a de Blasio ASAP.
00:20:50.600 On behalf of my constituents in the Bronx and Queens, New York's 14th congressional district,
00:20:54.720 the most impacted district in America, calling people, losing their families every day. It is a
00:21:00.380 joke when Republicans say that they have urgency around this bill. The only folks that they have
00:21:05.360 urgency around are, are folks like Ruth's Chris Steakhouse and Shake Shack. Those are the people
00:21:11.000 getting assistance in this bill. You are not trying to fix this bill for mom and pops. And we have to
00:21:16.080 fight to fund hospitals, fighting to fund testing. That is what we're fighting for in this bill. It is
00:21:22.880 unconscionable. If you had urgency, you would legislate like rent was due on May 1st and make
00:21:28.100 sure that we include rent and mortgage relief for our constituents. So there is AOC inside around
00:21:34.360 other people holding her mask in her hand while she shouts. I think taking the mask off to shout,
00:21:43.020 taking the mask off in order to shout seems like it really defeats the purpose of the mask. In fact,
00:21:48.080 you probably mainly need the mask for the shouting part. Like you'd be better off not wearing it for
00:21:54.200 any other part and just putting it on for the shouting because that's when the spittle is going
00:21:58.160 to be going all over the place. That's like, that's like if you have a mask and you're walking around
00:22:03.720 to the store or something. And as soon as you have to cough, you just pull the mask down to cough and
00:22:07.200 then you put the mask back up. It defeats the purpose. It reminds me of the fact I was at Walmart the
00:22:11.560 other day and there was a woman. I'm not, I'm not joking. She was walking through the store
00:22:17.060 and she had pulled her mask down to sing. She was singing with her mask pulled down in Walmart.
00:22:25.540 And I almost did report her as much as I'm against snitching. And I believe snitches get stitches.
00:22:30.120 And for good reason, I almost reported her, but not really because of the mask thing is it's more
00:22:34.780 that she was happy at Walmart and you're, you're just, you're not supposed to be that happy at Walmart.
00:22:38.800 Walmart. It's not a place for happiness. Um, but anyway, this was a common theme actually in
00:22:44.600 Congress. Uh, none of these people who lead our country apparently understand how to wear a mask
00:22:49.900 or why we wear them. So let's take a look at a couple more examples of these pictures here.
00:22:54.880 Uh, these are people that have masks at various different places on their face, but not really
00:23:00.080 covering the mouth and the nose, which is what it's supposed to do. And then the worst of all is this.
00:23:04.980 This is a very important piece of legislation. So we come to the floor,
00:23:10.400 very important piece of legislation. So we come to the floor with such heartache,
00:23:17.360 with just sorrow about those who have lost their lives and their loved ones,
00:23:22.060 those who are suffering from the virus, uh, assault now.
00:23:26.360 So that's Nancy Pelosi mask off, wipes her nose and then touches the podium that a bunch of other
00:23:34.780 Congress people are going to be using. That's a, that's a, that is a terrorist attack really is what
00:23:42.740 that is. That's a, that's a national security emergency, which has happened there. She could
00:23:48.320 have unleashed a deadly pathogen into, into the, the halls of, of, of, of the U S Congress.
00:23:56.080 I think she needs to be arrested immediately for this and many other reasons. Finally,
00:24:01.660 a report from the CBS affiliate in New York says, um, MTA subway conductors say trains are
00:24:11.340 filthier than ever amid coronavirus pandemic. It says the subways are only supposed to be for
00:24:16.660 essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic, but conductors say the trains are filthier than
00:24:20.580 ever. The MTA says that, uh, only about 5% of its regular ridership is taking the subway.
00:24:25.540 And that's made up of people who work in hospitals, grocery stores, and every other essential
00:24:29.180 service. But conductors say the subway has become a homeless shelter and social distancing is near
00:24:32.840 impossible. Cell phone video shows subway cars lined with people passed out using shoes as pillows,
00:24:38.660 not wearing masks, trash piled in shopping carts, um, urine, feces, so on and so forth
00:24:46.320 everywhere. And this is what's happening in the, in the subway system in New York. Uh,
00:24:50.400 we, we see how, and this has been the case all along that it's pretty clear that public
00:24:54.800 transportation in New York subway system was a vector of disease. It was basically a disease
00:24:59.840 transmission system. You want to talk about efficient, getting the virus from one corner
00:25:04.700 of the city to the other. If you're wondering why one of the reasons why New York has had it so
00:25:09.480 much worse than every other place in America, it's this, when you've got this disease transmission
00:25:14.560 system, shooting the disease all over the place. And then you've got, you know, like 20,000 people
00:25:19.620 per square mile living, uh, in this densely packed place. It's not hard to see why that,
00:25:26.720 why they've, um, had such a hard time of it. Okay. Now let's move to our daily cancellation.
00:25:33.640 Um, for our daily cancellation, I'm going to be canceling everybody. You know what? I'm,
00:25:38.240 I'm, everybody's canceled everybody. And I'll tell you why there have been headlines in the
00:25:44.340 media like this from NBC. Uh, and it says Trump suggests injection of disinfectant to beat
00:25:50.520 coronavirus and clean the lungs. So Trump suggests injection. And then tweets like this from a Biden
00:25:57.740 staffer. It says this election is a choice between two competing visions for America. One that says
00:26:01.700 you should drink bleach to cure viruses. And another that says do not drink bleach. And then we've got
00:26:07.100 indignant fact checks from conservative sites like Breitbart, uh, fact check. No, Trump didn't propose
00:26:13.100 injecting people with disinfectant. So this is what's going back and forth. Okay. Here's what
00:26:19.480 Trump actually said. Let's go to the tape. Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous,
00:26:25.940 uh, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light. And I think you said that hasn't been checked,
00:26:33.760 but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body,
00:26:37.720 you can, which you can do either through the skin or, uh, in some other way. And I think you said
00:26:43.900 you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting. Right. And then I see the disinfectant where it
00:26:49.780 knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, uh, by
00:26:56.640 injection inside or, or almost a cleaning? Cause you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous
00:27:04.640 number. So it'd be interesting to check that so that you're going to have to use medical doctors
00:27:09.220 with, but it sounds, it sounds interesting to me. Okay. So Trump didn't propose or urge
00:27:17.180 injecting disinfectant. He certainly didn't say we should drink bleach. Okay. That, that was never
00:27:23.020 brought up, but he did clearly. And we all heard it. You heard the tape. That's that, that there it is
00:27:29.560 in context. Uh, he did ask whether we could inject disinfectant into the body to clean the body.
00:27:37.640 He did ask that he did bring that up. Uh, he didn't urge it, didn't propose it, didn't tell
00:27:44.740 people to run out and do it. He certainly didn't say, go, go, uh, you know, grab some Lysol or Clorox
00:27:49.940 or something and inject it into your veins. He didn't say that, but he did ask about it. And so we see
00:27:56.240 here a familiar dynamic. And this is a, this is a dynamic that I, I'm really tired of. Uh, I, I,
00:28:02.020 I loathe it in fact. And that is where Trump says something dumb and let's face it. This was very,
00:28:08.460 very dumb. And then the media twists it into something even more dumb. And then conservative
00:28:14.340 media comes along and righteously, you know, uh, calls the media to task, calls them God forsaken
00:28:20.520 liars and explains that Trump didn't say that dumb thing. He said a slightly less dumb thing.
00:28:26.540 You liars. He didn't say that dumb thing. I mean, he did say something pretty dumb,
00:28:29.680 but it wasn't that dumb. And I'm just so tired of the whole thing. I, yeah, the media is lying
00:28:36.240 about it, but I can't muster the energy to be that angry at them when he did in fact say something
00:28:42.260 very stupid. And so I, I kind of think he's the president of the United States. He's an adult.
00:28:47.240 Maybe don't say the stupid stuff. Just a thought. I don't know. You're, you're, you're doing a press
00:28:53.020 conference. It's the middle of a crisis. Maybe, maybe for once think a little bit before you speak
00:28:57.960 maybe. And if you're not going to, I don't really feel like going to the mat for you 50 times a
00:29:03.620 freaking week, uh, to, to explain that the dumb crap you said is not quite as dumb as I just don't
00:29:09.560 feel like doing that. So many people in conservative media have spent years doing this. This has become
00:29:14.500 their entire job is doing. This is just explaining every dumb thing that he says. And I, that to me is
00:29:21.320 annoying. It's also annoying, of course, that the media would lie about. I mean, the idea that he,
00:29:24.520 that he would propose drinking bleach is totally crazy. And there is a significant difference
00:29:30.900 between asking, can we do this, uh, or speaking about it hypothetically and urging it. And the,
00:29:38.180 the really stupid thing for the media is if they could just stick to the truth, the truth is pretty
00:29:44.120 bad in and of itself. And if they stuck to the truth, then the story would remain, um, the dumb
00:29:50.700 thing Trump said, which is what they would prefer instead of the story becoming them lying about
00:29:55.400 it. Because of course, what conservatives want to do is they want to, they never want the story to be
00:29:59.440 the dumb thing that Trump said. They want the story to be media lying about it. And I mean, that's no
00:30:04.520 secret. Many conservatives and media, they would like to deflect every time Trump says something
00:30:07.860 dumb. They're looking for a reason to deflect it. And the media always comes along and gives them a
00:30:13.240 reason to. So it's just stupidity all across the board. And that's why I say everybody is
00:30:18.480 canceled. Trump is canceled. The media is canceled. Conservative media is canceled. I'm canceled.
00:30:23.400 You're canceled. Your pet goldfish is canceled. Everyone and everything is canceled. Period. Okay.
00:30:29.900 That's the only way we can be free of this.
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00:31:33.940 beverage vessels times two. Uh, let's see. Uh, this is from
00:31:40.320 Madison says, good afternoon. I just finished listening to your program and felt compelled
00:31:47.400 to comment after hearing the stories about weird homeschooled kids in college. I wanted to refute
00:31:52.260 the idea that these people are somehow less or strange because of it. I'm perfect. I'm currently
00:31:57.000 in college and help mentoring, uh, help mentor income incoming freshmen. I can't speak. I can't,
00:32:01.620 I can't read or speak and I went to public school. So what does that tell you? Don't blame this on
00:32:07.260 homeschooling. Uh, I mentor incoming freshmen as they transitioned from high school. Back in August,
00:32:13.000 I met a woman named Penelope who'd been homeschooled from middle school. And she was one of the nicest
00:32:17.740 people I'd ever met except for not knowing what a Scantron was. What a freak, what a freak doesn't
00:32:23.180 know what a Scantron is weirdo. She was no different from all the other students and proved to be kinder
00:32:28.360 and more intelligent than a lot of incoming freshmen. She has been accepted into the
00:32:31.460 mentoring program and we'll be helping other students next year. It seems to me that all
00:32:35.040 these stories are coming out now because people are jealous. Homeschooled students are ahead of
00:32:38.820 the curve and are doing better with the transition to online than most other students that I've
00:32:42.700 helped. I appreciate what you do on your show and thank you for being one of the few people in the
00:32:46.180 media who are keeping their heads on. Yeah. And I wanted to read that because we were getting all
00:32:50.260 these anecdotes from people that I did read, uh, you know, in fairness, trying to get both sides
00:32:53.940 of it, but anecdotes from people talking about the weird homeschoolers and so on. I've, I've responded to
00:32:57.400 that. I'm not gonna respond to it again, but all these people saying that, you know, these homeschoolers
00:33:02.280 and they're so weird. I don't know what, I'm not saying they don't exist, but, but what I've met a
00:33:08.420 lot of homeschoolers and, uh, for the most part, these are really impressive people. So what, what
00:33:13.200 homeschoolers are you meeting exactly if you've never met any of the really impressive ones? So I agree
00:33:18.520 with Madison. That's been my experience as well. This is from Kyle says, hi Matt. I enjoy hearing you talk
00:33:23.200 about the arguments for God, especially the arguments for God that you don't like. Most apologists aren't
00:33:27.240 willing to do this. So your honesty and critical thinking is refreshing. I've never heard you talk
00:33:31.080 about the transcendental argument for God and would love to hear your take on it. I know you're not a
00:33:35.200 fan of the presuppositional approach, so I think I know how you'll feel about this. I'm not, that's true.
00:33:40.400 If you aren't familiar, tag, transcendental argument for God, uh, goes like this. Sorry, I lifted this
00:33:46.960 from Wikipedia just because it's a short explanation. Uh, one, God is a necessary precondition for logic
00:33:53.080 and morality because these are immaterial yet real universals. Two, people depend upon logic and
00:33:58.720 morality showing that they depend upon the universal immaterial and abstract realities which could not
00:34:03.040 exist in a materialist universe, but presuppose, presumes the existence of an immaterial and absolute
00:34:08.060 God. Three, therefore God exists. If he didn't, we could not rely upon logic, reason, morality, and other
00:34:12.940 absolute universals and could not exist in a materialist universe where these are no, where there are no
00:34:18.760 absolute standards or an absolute law giver. Or to, and going back, this is now in the, we go back to Kyle's
00:34:26.260 phrasing, uh, or to put it in the terms that Matt Slick, he's an apologist, puts it, one, we, we have only two
00:34:32.920 possible options by which we can explain something, and one of those options is, um, is removed. By default, the other
00:34:39.620 option is verified since it is impossible to negate both of the only two existing conditions. I think there was a word
00:34:46.020 missing there. If we have only two possible options by which we can explain something, and one of those
00:34:50.120 options is removed, then by default the other option is, is the one that we have to go with. Two, God
00:34:55.060 either exists or does not exist. There is no third option. Three, if the no-God position, atheism, clearly
00:35:02.500 fails to account for logical absolutes from its perspective, then it is negated, and the other option
00:35:08.040 is verified. Four, atheism cannot account for the necessary preconditions for intelligibility, namely the
00:35:13.600 existence of logical absolutes. Therefore, it is invalidated as a viable option for accounting for
00:35:17.580 them, and the only other option, God exists, is validated. Back to Kyle, I'd love to hear your
00:35:24.300 thoughts on this. Thanks. Okay, um, that's interesting. I, I haven't given this line of argumentation much
00:35:32.280 thought. I am vaguely familiar with it. So, uh, just off the top of my head here, I will say that I
00:35:42.220 appreciate what the argument is trying to do. It's trying to prove God. Prove God, right, by using
00:35:50.000 logic. And most apologetic arguments are not actually trying to prove God, because they can't.
00:35:57.840 Um, because, you know, they are, most apologetic arguments that you hear are evidential arguments.
00:36:05.020 And an evidential argument, the problem with an evidential argument, and I, and I like many of the
00:36:10.300 evidential arguments, but they can only go so far. They, they are limited, because there's always
00:36:14.220 going to be different ways of interpreting the evidence. And if you're following the rules of
00:36:18.100 philosophy, you can't make an evidential argument, even a strong one, like fine tuning, which I think
00:36:24.220 is a very strong evidential argument for God. Uh, but you can't make that and then say that based on
00:36:29.600 that, you know, for a fact that God exists, you can only say, and this is how, you know, someone like
00:36:34.320 William Lane Craig is going to phrase it. He's going to say that God is more plausible than not
00:36:38.280 God. Um, and of course, if you're an apologist or if you're a Christian in general, you would like
00:36:53.560 to have arguments that don't leave that open. And so you want an argument, right? That is,
00:36:57.860 that's going to a hundred percent prove logically that God exists. So that's what this argument is
00:37:04.460 trying to do. That's what the ontological argument is trying to do. I appreciate the attempt. Uh, I,
00:37:09.800 I, I, but I don't think this argument is successful. Um, it doesn't strike me as successful.
00:37:18.180 The first problem is the premise that God is a necessary precondition for logic and morality.
00:37:24.180 That, you know, the issue is now, obviously I agree with it, but that's a highly contentious
00:37:29.200 premise. I mean, it's almost like trying to make an argument and your first premise is something
00:37:35.080 like, I don't know. Um, this maybe isn't a great analogy, but it's like if your first premise was
00:37:40.220 the Bible is the most important book ever written. If that was like the first premise of an argument
00:37:44.960 you were making for God. Now I agree that the Bible is the most important book ever written.
00:37:49.480 I think it's a fairly easy thing to prove or at least to argue in favor of,
00:37:53.680 but it is controversial. It's not self-evident. You, you, you do have to argue for it. So you
00:37:59.460 can't really start there. You got to start further back to get there. And I think something like God
00:38:05.460 isn't necessarily a precondition for logic and morality. Um, that's a highly contentious
00:38:08.860 premise. It isn't, it's an argument in fact, in and of itself that you have to provide evidence for.
00:38:16.200 You can't just assert it because first of all, you know, you could rebut this by saying, well,
00:38:21.040 morality doesn't exist. Um, uh, at least in an objective sense, there is no objective morality.
00:38:26.720 So even if God is a necessary precondition for it, so what? Because objective morality doesn't exist.
00:38:33.280 And I think for an atheist, when it comes to the moral argument, which I think is another strong
00:38:36.560 argument for God, but with the moral argument, now there are some atheists like, like Sam Harris,
00:38:41.580 who will try to argue that no objective morality does exist without God. And he can make an
00:38:47.760 interesting argument. I don't find it persuasive. I think the, the, the better, the stronger argument
00:38:53.220 for an atheist perspective is just to say, no, there is no objective morality. Okay. Uh, I mean,
00:38:58.120 I think we kind of pretend in order to make society function, we have to do things like not kill each
00:39:02.800 other and we have to punish people who do just so society can function. But there's no reason to say
00:39:07.160 that it's objectively wrong to kill somebody. Um, that's the route some atheists will go. It's a
00:39:12.260 little bit, I could see why they wouldn't want to defend that because of the implications of it.
00:39:16.720 But, um, in terms of an argument, that's going to be stronger. So anyway, they could always say
00:39:21.380 that. Uh, and I think that's going to undermine your premise. Um, and then, uh, the idea that
00:39:28.340 logical absolutes can't exist without God strikes me as somewhat unintelligible. I mean, a logical
00:39:34.440 absolute, what's a logical absolute? A logical absolute is something like a is a, um, or a,
00:39:42.260 A is not B. Therefore, B is not A. Those are logical statements. They are logical absolutes.
00:39:50.380 Why couldn't that be true without God? I mean, you might argue that we couldn't come to know
00:39:55.720 the logical absolutes without God. And that gets into the question of consciousness. Where did
00:40:01.620 consciousness come from? But then again, you're going back to the consciousness argument, which
00:40:05.300 I've already said, I think is maybe one of the strongest arguments for God, maybe the strongest,
00:40:08.940 but that's really the argument. It's about the argument of consciousness.
00:40:13.260 Um, so you got to go all the way back there, but can logical absolutes exist? You know, if
00:40:19.660 there was no God and the universe just existed, would A still be A? Sure. I don't see why it
00:40:29.120 wouldn't be. Um, and then there's the issue that I guess a Christian apologist, you know,
00:40:34.400 if you're a Christian apologist and you're making this argument, um, you would want it to prove
00:40:40.540 the Christian God, I would imagine. And, but it doesn't really prove the Christian God.
00:40:45.940 It just, at best, if the argument is successful, it proves some kind of God. The problem is, you
00:40:51.840 know, um, I could use Matt Slick's formulation and I could use it to prove any God, right? Couldn't
00:40:59.540 I? Um, so I could say Brahma is the Hindu God. So couldn't I say, if the no Brahma position,
00:41:08.000 atheism clearly fails to account for logical absolutes from its perspective, then it is
00:41:12.740 negated. And the other option is verified. Atheism cannot account for the necessary
00:41:16.640 preconditions for intelligibility, namely the existence of logical absolutes. Therefore,
00:41:20.680 it is invalidated. And the only other option, Brahma exists, is validated. I don't see why
00:41:27.420 I couldn't do that by this logic. I could prove Brahma, I could prove Vishnu, I could prove
00:41:33.820 Zeus, Poseidon, you know, anybody. And maybe that's okay because the argument is only trying
00:41:40.280 to establish some kind of God. It's only trying to get you to that point. And if it could get
00:41:45.380 you to that point, that's pretty significant in and of itself, I would think. But you still
00:41:49.000 have a lot of work still in front of you to do. Um, and, uh, so, uh, but, but anyway, I don't,
00:41:59.180 I don't think that the argument gets you to that point. I don't think it, I don't think it really
00:42:02.000 achieves a liftoff because of the problems with the, um, premises. I have to think more about it
00:42:08.720 though. It's an interesting, as I said, I, I, I think this is good for apologists to be doing,
00:42:13.120 to be thinking in terms of logical arguments as well as evidential arguments. Um, but I don't
00:42:20.760 know if this one really works. Thanks for that though. Thank you for that question. Always
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