The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 473 - The Media Openly Roots Against America

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.

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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 1.00

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 1.00

00:05:20.980 responds, China has to be blamed, babes. Isn't that obvious? Then Samira says, babes, puke face emoji. 0.76

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.51

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 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:18:01.160 dawdling around. He said, this is what he said, quote, women take a longer time grocery shopping 1.00

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 0.90

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, 1.00

00:19:13.300 then yeah, you want the woman to do the grocery shopping because she is. She's going to be thinking 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.98

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. 0.77

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 0.83

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, 0.99

00:28:08.460 very dumb. And then the media twists it into something even more dumb. And then conservative 1.00

00:28:14.340 media comes along and righteously, you know, uh, calls the media to task, calls them God forsaken 0.99

00:28:20.520 liars and explains that Trump didn't say that dumb thing. He said a slightly less dumb thing. 0.99

00:28:26.540 You liars. He didn't say that dumb thing. I mean, he did say something pretty dumb, 1.00

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 0.96

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 1.00

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. 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:29:09.560 feel like doing that. So many people in conservative media have spent years doing this. This has become 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.99

00:29:44.120 bad in and of itself. And if they stuck to the truth, then the story would remain, um, the dumb 1.00

00:29:50.700 thing Trump said, which is what they would prefer instead of the story becoming them lying about 0.97

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 0.93

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 0.97

00:30:13.240 reason to. So it's just stupidity all across the board. And that's why I say everybody is 1.00

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 0.59

00:32:23.180 know what a Scantron is weirdo. She was no different from all the other students and proved to be kinder 0.95

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 1.00

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, 0.71

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 0.96

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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The Matt Walsh Show - April 24, 2020

Ep. 473 - The Media Openly Roots Against America

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