The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 497 - The Protesters Are Killing My Grandma

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the same people who fear-mongered about the coronavirus for months

00:00:04.520 and months and months on end are now applauding and celebrating mass protests of people who are

00:00:08.780 not socially distancing and are getting together in large groups. So were they lying about the

00:00:13.660 virus or are they okay with protesters infecting themselves and each other and dying from the

00:00:18.660 virus? Those are really the only two options. And we'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines,

00:00:23.920 including Drew Brees, quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, of course, apologizing for saying

00:00:28.260 that we should respect the flag. He said we should respect the flag. People were upset and he

00:00:32.220 apologized for saying it. And in our daily cancellation, I will address yet another false

00:00:37.580 narrative that has been spread widely online. There's been a lot of them recently, especially

00:00:41.520 this is one that I think I want to address. We'll get into that today. Let's begin here setting the

00:00:46.700 stage. Okay. With this report in the daily wire, this is from Emily Zanotti. It says Joe Biden,

00:00:53.300 the presumptive 2020 democratic nominee is expected to attend the funeral of George Floyd, the

00:00:57.880 Minneapolis man who's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer sparked a week of

00:01:01.360 anti-police brutality demonstrations across the country. According to a report from CNN,

00:01:07.320 plans are being discussed, but arrangements have not been finalized. The outlet said Wednesday,

00:01:13.160 noting that while a spokesman for Biden's campaign refused to comment on the matter,

00:01:16.560 an attorney for George Floyd's family, Ben Crump, told the network that Biden is expected to be in

00:01:21.160 attendance. Floyd's funeral will be held in Houston, Texas next week, and it is expected to draw

00:01:26.520 hundreds if not thousands of attendees. There will also be a public memorial service on Thursday in

00:01:31.720 Minneapolis. Okay. Now, the first thing that jumps out at you about this, of course, is just the

00:01:38.180 naked cynicism and opportunism of Joe Biden and the Democrats going to his funeral. Biden did not know

00:01:47.540 George Floyd, as far as I'm aware, has no connection to the family. Why does he need to be there?

00:01:55.400 You could say because George Floyd died unjustly. All right. Well, many people die unjustly in the

00:02:01.440 country every year, unfortunately. In fact, anyone who is murdered dies unjustly. All of the hundreds

00:02:07.300 of black men who die at the hands of other black men every year in this country, they die unjustly.

00:02:14.660 Joe Biden's not going to any of their funerals, is he? The black people who have been killed by 0.96

00:02:20.060 rioters and looters over the last week died unjustly. David Dorn, we talked about him yesterday, 0.55

00:02:27.240 77-year-old retired police captain, St. Louis, went out to stop looters from ransacking a pawn shop

00:02:34.920 and was shot in the stomach and bleed to death on the pavement. Is Joe Biden going to go to his funeral?

00:02:40.320 No, of course not. Just this one. Why? Well, because it's a political opportunity.

00:02:47.140 And everybody knows that's the reason, of course. We all know that. Everyone knows that Joe Biden will

00:02:52.700 be there for political optics. And imagine what a horrible human being you have to be to do that, 0.50

00:02:59.240 to show up at a funeral where there are truly grieving people, family members, friends who knew

00:03:06.140 and loved him. They are there because, for the same reason, anybody would go to the funeral of a

00:03:11.540 family member. And you're just there for the photo op. You are taking advantage, explicitly taking

00:03:19.380 advantage of their grief and pain for your own reasons. I mean, it's no better than running up to

00:03:26.440 the casket during the wake, during the viewing, and taking a selfie with the corpse. It's exactly the

00:03:33.340 same kind of thing. It's no less tacky and inappropriate and offensive. But that's not

00:03:40.120 the point that I want to focus on this afternoon. The fact that a Democrat politician is a shameless 0.98

00:03:45.760 opportunist exploiting grief and racial tension for his own gain, that is hardly news. We're used to it.

00:03:53.180 It hardly even needs to be pointed out. I think there's something else, though, that does need to

00:03:57.960 be pointed out about this. And I will point that out in just one second. But before I do,

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00:05:50.940 Biden. We know about that. The thing that I'm really zeroing in on is the part where it says

00:05:57.200 Floyd's funeral is expected to draw hundreds, if not thousands, of attendees. And not just thousands

00:06:05.580 of attendees, but attendees from apparently other parts of the country who will be flying in to

00:06:10.920 attend it. What's interesting about that is that for the past three months in places all across the

00:06:17.740 country and even across the world, funeral services have been postponed, canceled. Attendance has been

00:06:25.920 capped. In many places, graveside only services were held with limited attendance. This in fact is what

00:06:33.460 the CDC recommended. Still recommends. You can go to the CDC website right now and read their

00:06:39.160 guidelines for funerals. And in fact, let me read them to you. It says, consider options for

00:06:44.100 modified or new practices that would be acceptable to you and your family and friends, such as holding

00:06:49.260 a graveside only service. Consider whether it would be acceptable to hold modified funeral arrangements

00:06:54.320 by limiting attendance to a small number of immediate family members and friends shortly after the time

00:06:59.060 of death. Now, in many states, this has been not just a guideline, but a requirement. And that's why

00:07:07.760 in many cases, people have not been able to attend their own family members' funerals

00:07:14.100 because of these coronavirus restrictions. Now, you can go back and Google and look at some of this

00:07:20.700 stuff. Box has an article published in April titled, How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways We Grieve and

00:07:25.940 Mourn the Dead. And there are many examples of this kind of thing. People not allowed to bury their own

00:07:30.620 family members, not allowed to be there when their family members are buried. Let me read just one

00:07:34.640 example from this article. It says, Reverend Bill Parnell, a leader in the Episcopal Diocese of

00:07:38.980 Massachusetts, told me that many people in the 175 worshiping communities he helps oversee are

00:07:43.860 struggling with the restrictions social distancing has put on their grieving process. For instance,

00:07:47.720 a retired priest died from the coronavirus two weeks ago in Cape Cod, leaving behind his wife,

00:07:52.480 who was also infected. The priest's family couldn't visit him while he was sick, nor can they attend

00:07:57.280 his funeral service because of travel and space restrictions. Recall how large funeral services

00:08:03.540 were broken up by law enforcement in some cases, and especially in places like New York, where de

00:08:08.440 Blasio threatened anyone who holds a large funeral for a deceased family member. He threatened them.

00:08:13.740 Remember this. Team coverage for you this afternoon across the tri-state. We'll start with News 4's

00:08:19.460 Miles Miller, live in Williamsburg, where police miles are still upset about last night's huge

00:08:24.220 gathering there. Well, Stephan, the mayor called that gathering unacceptable, and he said it was the

00:08:31.380 largest such gathering of any type since social distancing rules took effect. Few regrets today for

00:08:38.660 mayor Bill de Blasio after this controversial tweet singling out, quote, the Jewish community,

00:08:44.620 end quote, for a funeral in Williamsburg for a prominent rabbi that drew thousands of Satmar Jews.

00:08:50.740 I spoke last night out of passion. I could not believe my eyes, Marsha. It was deeply, deeply distressing.

00:08:59.300 The mayor's choice of words drew criticism with his former spokesperson, saying his tweet singled out

00:09:05.720 the Jewish community for persecution and the head of the Anti-Defamation League, saying generalizing

00:09:11.640 against Jews in large is outrageous. The mayor says he got word of the funeral for Rabbi Haim Mertz

00:09:18.600 and had a security detail drive him to Williamsburg to witness it himself.

00:09:22.920 Members of the Jewish community were putting each other in danger. They were putting our police officers 1.00

00:09:28.120 in danger. Putting each other in danger. Putting police in danger. That's kind of weird because now

00:09:36.120 the mayor is suddenly encouraging and celebrating large gatherings. You know, even ones that include

00:09:42.200 actual assaults on police officers. Forget about the chance of the cops contracting COVID-19,

00:09:50.360 which is what de Blasio and many others said would happen. 0.54

00:09:52.920 So this thing with the funeral is just one example of the incredible hypocrisy and double

00:10:00.040 standard that we're witnessing right now. Thousands of Americans for months were prevented from holding

00:10:05.720 full funeral services for family members. And now we're tossing that to the side so that George

00:10:10.760 Floyd can have thousands of people at his funeral. And this is totally in keeping, of course, with what

00:10:19.400 we've seen, the double standard that we've seen across the board. Where again, for months, people were

00:10:25.400 arrested for going to the beach, going to church, gathering for parties, even gathering for family

00:10:32.200 events. In Michigan, you weren't allowed as a family member to visit your family if they lived in a

00:10:40.520 different house. People were shouted at and shamed for protesting or for going to the park, for doing

00:10:49.160 anything in any group of any size. And now this same exact people who did the shaming, the same exact

00:10:57.560 politicians who sent out cops to arrest these people are celebrating, cheering, applauding, encouraging mass

00:11:05.320 mass gatherings of thousands of people to protest ostensibly the death of George Floyd. Of course, we know

00:11:10.680 these protests really have nothing to do with George Floyd and aren't actually protests at all. But that

00:11:14.840 aside, the change of tune, the sudden dropping of all that fear mongering that brought our nation to a

00:11:21.400 standstill for months and put 40 million people out of work is just staggering. Now, some people, some of the

00:11:30.600 shameless hypocrites who shut down gatherings for months and are now applauding gatherings have tried 0.96

00:11:36.280 to justify the contrast. de Blasio is one of them. de Blasio was asked about this at a press conference 0.99

00:11:41.960 yesterday. And this is the the reasoning that he gave. This is the other piece of the equation.

00:11:50.920 When you see a nation, an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary

00:11:57.880 crisis seated in 400 years of American racism. I'm sorry, that is not the same question as the

00:12:05.320 understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services.

00:12:12.360 So his answer is that he ruthlessly shut down church services and other kinds of protests and

00:12:16.280 other kinds of gatherings, not to mention shutting down hundreds of businesses and leaving business

00:12:20.440 owners destitute. But he's not shutting this down because he personally feels that this gathering

00:12:27.640 is important while the others were not. He personally is moved by their cause. He wasn't moved by the

00:12:34.520 cause of the people who wanted to go to church or wanted to run their business or wanted to end the

00:12:38.840 lockdowns. He wasn't moved by that. He's moved by this. He agrees with this. And so that's why this is

00:12:46.200 allowed. That's his answer. And that's how elected leaders, mayors, governors across the country are

00:12:52.440 operating. This is tyranny. This is flat out tyranny. And I'll tell you this, the next time they try to do

00:13:00.040 one of these shutdowns, because it will happen again, we all better just completely ignore them.

00:13:06.200 Completely ignore. Continue on with our lives as before. Ignore everything they say. We cannot forget this.

00:13:15.320 And I know this is the kind of thing I'm talking about it today. It's a topic for the podcast.

00:13:19.480 We'll talk about something else tomorrow. But it's not just a topic. It's not just some

00:13:26.920 annoying thing that we talk about today for a topic and we move on. This is, I mean,

00:13:33.800 this really is tyranny. This is politicians who shut down the entire country, put 40 million people

00:13:46.760 out of work, and are now basically admitting that it was all a sham, that it was all a sham.

00:13:54.360 And it's not just politicians. I read yesterday a statement from public health experts, quote unquote,

00:13:58.920 who were supporting the protests. The same public health experts who shut down our society to save lives,

00:14:03.800 supposedly, are now supporting mass gatherings of thousands of people.

00:14:08.680 And then you remember this, let's recall the way that healthcare workers responded to protests and

00:14:16.440 mass gatherings. Recall this, healthcare workers who bravely came out to interfere with and demonstrate

00:14:22.680 against protests. Because there you see a guy standing in front, there's someone in a protest,

00:14:28.680 someone in a car, attending a protest. And you've got a nurse standing there saying,

00:14:33.720 no, we're not going to allow that. Because they said it wasn't safe to protest during a pandemic.

00:14:39.320 But now, here's what healthcare workers are doing. 1.00

00:14:51.960 Thank you!

00:14:52.760 Thank you!

00:14:53.000 Thank you!

00:15:08.840 Standing off to the side during a mass gathering of non-socially distanced people applauding.

00:15:15.900 these are the heroic nurses, the ones who were recording TikTok videos, and now they're applauding

00:15:23.640 as thousands of people violate social distancing. Just an absolute joke and sham.

00:15:34.400 And here's the thing. Let's say that I agree for a moment, because this is the justification,

00:15:42.380 right, that we keep hearing for this double standard. It's like, well, this is such an

00:15:46.700 important protest. It's so important. Let's say I agree for a moment that these protests are super

00:15:54.380 important and way more important than the lockdown protests, way more important than every small

00:15:59.640 business that was decimated and those small business owners who wanted to go back to work,

00:16:03.120 way more important than that. Let's say I agree with that. And let's say I agree that George

00:16:07.580 Floyd's funeral is somehow, for some reason, more important than anyone else's funeral.

00:16:12.680 If your grandma died in the last three months and you couldn't go to the funeral,

00:16:16.140 let's say I agree that George Floyd's funeral is more important than your grandmother's funeral.

00:16:21.180 Now, I don't agree with any of that, of course, at all. But let's say for argument's sake, I do.

00:16:26.560 How does that change anything? We were told that the coronavirus is a lethal virus

00:16:32.400 that spreads easily in large gatherings. And if you get together like this, many people will die.

00:16:39.280 Many of you will die, plus many others will get infected. And first responders will be put in

00:16:45.720 harm's way. That's an important part of this because they said another argument I'm hearing is

00:16:53.700 that these protesters have just decided that this is worth the risk because it's so important to them.

00:16:59.260 OK, that's all fine and good, except that you said it's not just about their own risk. They put other people at risk.

00:17:06.400 That's the same exact argument that many of us have been making, saying that if somebody wants to go out

00:17:13.900 and they want to go to a concert or they want to go to the store or they want to go to church,

00:17:19.700 wherever they want to go, if they want to take that risk on themselves, they should be allowed to do it.

00:17:23.860 But the response from the people who are now supporting the protests is that that's not good enough

00:17:29.860 because it's not just about you. You're putting other people at risk. You're going to kill my grandma

00:17:35.120 by doing this. That's what they said. So you can't say now, oh, it's worth the risk for them. 0.99

00:17:42.260 OK, it's worth the risk for them. But what about my grandma? They're allowed to kill my grandma

00:17:46.100 because this protest is important to them. So all that stuff that you said, it's either true or it

00:17:54.280 isn't. If it's true, then these protests are killing thousands of people. Thousands are going to die

00:18:02.080 because of if everything we were told about the coronavirus is true. Remember, the coronavirus still

00:18:05.980 exists. There's no vaccine. OK, still out there. In fact, it's wider spread now than it was

00:18:12.700 three months ago when all the lockdown started.

00:18:17.880 So everything you said about the coronavirus, either it's true or it isn't.

00:18:21.980 If it's true, then these protests are going to kill thousands of people and not just the people who

00:18:29.960 are there. Thousands of innocent people who did not make the decision to take the risk

00:18:34.320 are going to die. My grandma might die. Your grandma might die. And our hospitals are going to be

00:18:41.180 overwhelmed again. And many doctors and nurses are going to be exposed and many of them will die.

00:18:46.720 No matter how important the protest is, how could that possibly be justified? And if you believe that

00:18:52.140 Black Lives Matter, wouldn't that be all the more reason to oppose the protest, considering that the 1.00

00:18:58.100 virus is now going to kill thousands of black people because of the protest? These protests are 0.96

00:19:03.480 happening. Many black Americans are at the protest. These are happening, many of them in black

00:19:08.840 neighborhoods in the city. And this is going to decimate the black population. If you believe 1.00

00:19:14.060 Black Lives Matter and you also believe all that crap that was said about the coronavirus, 0.99

00:19:18.600 then you should be standing up and saying, no, no, go home. You're going to die. This is going to 1.00

00:19:22.840 kill you. How can you say, I believe that Black Lives Matter, therefore I'm in favor of thousands of 0.99

00:19:29.060 black people infecting themselves and others with a deadly virus? How does that make any sense? 1.00

00:19:33.700 Now, on the other hand, the other option is, it's that everything that we were told about the

00:19:40.580 coronavirus was a lie. And it was never as deadly as they said, or as contagious. And actually, you can

00:19:47.980 have large gatherings safely, and it's not going to be a huge problem. And you could basically, you

00:19:54.480 know, for the most part, go about your life. That's the other option. That's what you would have to

00:20:01.840 believe if you support these protests. Unless you're a psycho who doesn't care about the lives 0.99

00:20:06.460 of thousands of black people. So those are the only two options. For everybody who screamed about 1.00

00:20:13.160 the virus for three months and advocated for shutting down society because of it, but are now

00:20:19.560 supporting the protests, if you're in that camp, there are only two options to explain your position.

00:20:26.220 Only two. Either you're a sociopath, psychotically applauding while protesters infect themselves, 0.99

00:20:34.840 kill themselves, and kill many others. Or, second option, you were full of crap in your fear-mongering 1.00

00:20:42.360 about the virus, and you never really believed it, and it was all a lie. So you're a psycho or you're 1.00

00:20:49.200 full of crap. There is no third option. There really isn't. This really is A or B. 1.00

00:20:56.160 Okay? This is an A or B binary type of situation here. Either what you said isn't true, and you're

00:21:05.200 full of crap, or you're a psycho, and you're applauding while these people kill themselves. 1.00

00:21:11.720 Now, I will allow, by the way, I guess for an option C, where you're both a psycho and full of 1.00

00:21:17.040 crap. So there might be an element of that too. But I am thinking that for most people, 1.00

00:21:24.460 it's actually option B, that you're just full of crap, and that what we were told about the 0.99

00:21:29.300 coronavirus was a flat-out lie. And though it is a virus that is dangerous and that is killing a lot 0.98

00:21:36.920 of people, it's not nearly as bad as what they said. And many of the things we were told we can't

00:21:42.800 do, we actually could have been doing all along. And 40 million people were put out of work for no

00:21:47.480 reason. And we decimated our society. We shut down society. We tore up the Bill of Rights for no

00:21:52.340 reason. I think that's actually what's going on here. All right, let's move on to emails. Or no,

00:22:00.280 not emails, sorry. Actually, headlines is what I'm searching for. That's the word I'm searching for.

00:22:04.640 Number one, Drew Brees, NFL star quarterback for the Saints, was interviewed by Yahoo yesterday,

00:22:08.940 and he made comments that provoked a huge backlash. Many people were very upset, reduced to tears over

00:22:16.320 what this NFL player said. Now, I'm going to play the comments for you. I want you to prepare yourself.

00:22:21.860 They are highly offensive, very upsetting. In fact, if you have any kids in the room and you're

00:22:27.040 listening to this, I want you to have them leave the room. I don't want them to be exposed to this at

00:22:31.220 all. It could traumatize them like it traumatized me. This, I warn you, what he has to say,

00:22:38.940 is very, very offensive. And I think it will, you're not going to be the same after you hear it.

00:22:51.380 But anyway, here it is.

00:22:53.860 Everyone is looking back now at Kaepernick's protest from a few years ago, and obviously,

00:22:57.860 they were always about police brutality. And now it's coming back to the fore. And a lot of people

00:23:02.100 expect that we will see players kneeling again, even when the NFL season starts. I'm curious how you

00:23:08.080 think the NFL will and should respond to that. And of course, you're such a leader

00:23:11.580 in the league. What is your responsibility as a leader in times like this for the rest of

00:23:16.960 your teammates and players in the league?

00:23:20.980 Well, I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our

00:23:28.040 country. Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played

00:23:35.080 and when I look at the flag of the United States. I envision my two grandfathers who fought for this

00:23:41.720 country during World War II, one in the Army and one in the Marine Corps, both risking their lives

00:23:47.600 to protect our country and to try to make our country and this world a better place.

00:23:54.020 So every time I stand with my hand over my heart, looking at that flag and singing the national anthem,

00:24:00.660 that's what I think about. And in many cases, it brings me to tears, thinking about all that has

00:24:06.320 been sacrificed, not just those in the military, but for that matter, those throughout the civil

00:24:12.060 rights movements of the 60s and everyone and all that has been endured by so many people

00:24:17.740 up until this point.

00:24:19.140 Wow. Wow. I am appalled. I am frightened. I may have wet my pants, frankly. I may have,

00:24:31.260 if you want to know the truth, listening to that. I cannot believe, or maybe on second thought,

00:24:37.240 actually what Drew Brees said there is totally normal and fine and uncontroversial and just like

00:24:42.480 a completely standard and by the way, correct point of view that most Americans agree with.

00:24:49.140 You know, maybe that's it. And yet, because we live in an enormously stupid time and our country 0.99

00:24:55.520 is filled with idiots and whiners and pathetic crybabies who should all be deported to Jupiter, 1.00

00:25:01.140 those comments provoked lots of anger. And now get ready for this part. So that's what he said. 1.00

00:25:10.180 Almost every normal person in the country agrees and says, yeah, I mean, we should respect the flag.

00:25:15.380 Fantastic. But now here's the part that you definitely saw coming. Drew Brees has apologized.

00:25:22.300 And in comments posted to Instagram, he says, this is after about a day, less than a day of a

00:25:27.560 backlash. He says, quote, I would like to apologize to my friends, teammates, the city of New Orleans,

00:25:33.580 the black community, NFL community, and anybody I hurt with my comments yesterday. In speaking with

00:25:38.240 some of you, it breaks my heart to know the pain I have caused. In an attempt to talk about respect,

00:25:43.100 unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that

00:25:47.000 were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country.

00:25:51.120 They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy. Instead, those words have become

00:25:55.620 divisive and hurtful and have misled people into believing that somehow I am an enemy. This could

00:25:59.740 not be further from the truth. And it is not an accurate reflection of my heart or my character.

00:26:03.340 This is where I stand. I stand with the black community in the fight against systemic racial

00:26:06.480 injustice and police brutality and support the creation of real policy change that will make a

00:26:10.180 difference. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It goes on and on and on. I mean,

00:26:13.920 just groveling, groveling before the outraged masses. Actually, actually lying about what he himself

00:26:23.600 said. He is dishonestly assigning himself nefarious motives, saying that it lacked empathy and sympathy.

00:26:33.900 What are you talking about? You were talking about empathy. You were saying, you know, empathy for

00:26:39.800 our soldiers and people that have died. And that's what you were talking about. It was a very empathetic

00:26:44.940 perspective that you had. And now you're lying, claiming that you lacked empathy when you actually

00:26:52.840 didn't. I'm sorry for the pain I caused. I caused so much. Yeah, I'm sure you really caused a lot of

00:27:02.540 very sincere and genuine pain because you said you said we shouldn't disrespect the flag. I'm sure a

00:27:07.400 lot of people were very much in real pain over that. I'm sure it wasn't just a bunch of performative

00:27:12.600 outrage. But he caved to it. And here's the thing that really frustrates me. You know, when I see an

00:27:20.400 average person who attracts the ire of the mob and because because they said something normal and

00:27:27.760 sane and rational, and these days that's how you're going to attract the ire of the mob is by saying

00:27:32.600 normal, rational, sane things. If you go out and say things that are truly insane and irrational,

00:27:37.740 you'll be fine. But the moment that you make the mistake of revealing yourself to be someone who has

00:27:46.100 common sense, that's when they come after you. Now, when you've got just an average person, not in the

00:27:50.840 public light, not rich or anything, not a famous celebrity, you know, makes the mistake of having

00:27:56.620 common sense publicly. And then people come after that person and they apologize. Now, I don't like

00:28:03.780 it. I'd much prefer that they stuck by their guns. But I get it. I understand because they want to have

00:28:10.060 a job, right? And they don't want people coming to their home and throwing bricks in the window.

00:28:14.140 And so they're worried about their safety and their family safety. They're worried about

00:28:18.420 their financial security, especially. It's very sad that we live in a country where

00:28:24.560 you have to make those kinds of calculations. But I, so I get that. I'm really, I just,

00:28:31.920 I'm not going to hold it against somebody when they make that decision because I understand.

00:28:35.900 But somebody like Drew Brees, he's a multimillionaire, famous celebrity. He's got the money to tell these

00:28:45.540 whiners to kiss his ass. I don't know what Drew Brees' net worth is, but I guarantee you it's over $100 1.00

00:28:52.240 million. So he could look at them. He's got all the money in the world. You know,

00:28:58.100 if they run him out of town, so what? I mean, he's not going to be destined to,

00:29:02.160 he's not going to be homeless on the street. He could look at them and say, and I mean,

00:29:06.840 worse, even if he got kicked off the team for saying this, he's Drew Brees. Somebody will hire

00:29:12.280 him to play, to play football again. I can guarantee you that. So he's, he's, he's in a

00:29:18.360 position where he could look at these people and say, oh, you're offended by, by the totally normal

00:29:23.320 common sense thing that I said. You're offended that I said we should respect the flag. You're

00:29:27.180 offended by that. But guess what? I don't care. I don't care. Oh, you're crying. So what? Cry some

00:29:32.880 more. Cry some more, you crybabies. Makes no difference to me. It's your problem. Go, go tell 0.95

00:29:42.400 to your therapist. Okay. How about that? That's what he could say, but he doesn't. These people

00:29:49.520 have nothing on him. They've, they've got nothing to hold up. What are they going to take from Drew

00:29:52.780 Brees? That's what makes it to me. That's what makes it so just pathetic. And, and I always think,

00:30:02.760 you know, you consider what a stubborn jerk I am already, and I'm not rich and famous. 0.99

00:30:09.480 If I was rich and famous, can you imagine what a stubborn jerk I would be? 0.99

00:30:14.700 I mean, most people dream of having that kind of money where they can, where they're in a position 0.98

00:30:18.700 where they don't need to worry at all about what people think of them. Drew Brees has it and doesn't

00:30:25.120 use it. Just a shame. Okay. Number two, Chick-fil-A, uh, home to the overrated chicken and third best

00:30:31.600 French fry put out a statement yesterday. And, uh, here's what the statement says.

00:30:36.960 Words are not enough and they sometimes aren't the right words, but we want to say something.

00:30:42.620 Racism should have no place in society. Not now, not ever. It cannot be tolerated. Our hearts are

00:30:48.800 breaking for our black team members, operators, and staff, and all those in the black community who

00:30:53.580 are suffering and have suffered for too long because of racism. At Chick-fil-A, we know we have a

00:30:57.620 role in moving us all forward. We will listen. We will be intentional. We will share.

00:31:04.160 I just wanted to play. I just want to share that with you because it's, it's so inspirational and

00:31:08.420 courageous, right? To be a brand, to be a major brand coming out against racism. Think about the

00:31:16.000 courage that takes. It's not like everybody agrees with them and, and, and feels the same way.

00:31:25.880 And so it doesn't need to be said. No, it's not like that at all. Of course we need people. I just,

00:31:30.380 I enjoy when you've got someone, a brand or anybody saying something that requires no courage

00:31:36.900 whatsoever, something that everybody agrees with and is, it is guaranteed to provoke zero backlash.

00:31:43.140 And they say something like that, but they set it up as if it's going to be some really bold statement.

00:31:48.020 And so the beginning of this statement is we got something we need to say, sit down for this. All

00:31:54.160 right, sit down for this because you're not going to like it. Okay. I'm ready for the backlash, but I

00:32:00.500 got to say this. I'm not going to be scared to say this. Here it is. Racism is bad.

00:32:07.480 All right. Um, and, and, and here's the thing, Chick-fil-A, I know why they, they put the

00:32:13.200 statement out because they're, you know, they're hoping Chick-fil-A has gotten a lot of bad press

00:32:17.920 among liberals and in the last very many years. And they're hoping that something like this will

00:32:22.540 change it. It's not going to change anything. They still hate you. It doesn't matter what you do.

00:32:27.180 It doesn't matter any, any of the groveling that you do, any of the dumb platitudinous, 0.98

00:32:31.400 platitudinous, uh, platitudinous, that's the word statements that you put out makes no difference. 0.93

00:32:38.880 Number three and looting and rioting is not over, by the way, it's still happening. Here are the

00:32:43.260 sights and sounds at a CVS in Santa Monica.

00:32:54.300 Everything in this store is completely destroyed.

00:33:01.400 Platitudinous. Platitudinous. That's a word, right? I think that was a word that I used.

00:33:18.000 Anyway, you saw all those grieving people, um, you know, uh, perusing a pharmacy for stuff to steal.

00:33:23.180 I like how casual the, the, the looters are at this point. You see that most of those people aren't

00:33:27.880 running because they know that the police aren't going to show up. They've been doing this for a

00:33:32.100 week now. It's like a full-time job of looting. I wonder if they set their alarm in the morning

00:33:37.220 and they get, they say, ah, well, it's 8am. Got to get out there, hit the pavement, do some looting,

00:33:42.500 pack a lunch and everything. Well, I guess you don't have to pack a lunch. You can steal it.

00:33:45.640 But, uh, you see them there. Now they're selective about it as they're walking through

00:33:48.980 because there are entire aisles and no one's looted, I guess, because they think like they walk through

00:33:53.140 and they say, huh, do I, do I need a whole case of car chargers? Oh, no, no, no. Actually, I looted.

00:33:58.360 I stole that from a Rite Aid back past their last Thursday. So I guess I probably don't need that.

00:34:02.640 That's a, that's, that's where we've gotten now where the local government has so abandoned its duty

00:34:09.320 that looters are almost getting bored with it. That's the plan. We're not going to arrest them.

00:34:13.700 We're not going to stop them. We're going to wait until they get bored and they've stolen

00:34:17.240 everything they could possibly need and can fit in their homes. And then they'll stop.

00:34:21.340 Number four, this is interesting. Um, Karens are now patrolling the streets 1.00

00:34:26.180 to yell at you for not doing graffiti. This is a plot twist. Nobody saw it coming. Watch this.

00:34:35.540 Why are you guys removing Black Lives Matter's graffiti?

00:34:39.360 We're trying to take care of it. Yeah, we tried over there and it wasn't coming off. It's still

00:34:43.100 not coming off. Well, why do you want that to come off?

00:34:46.480 Well, I don't. It's in the federal building.

00:34:48.360 Yeah, it's just a big container.

00:34:49.760 But so you don't care about Black Lives then?

00:34:52.720 Not at all. That's not at all.

00:34:53.980 We certainly do care about Black Lives.

00:34:57.700 Not enough to leave up a message.

00:35:00.820 If you don't disagree with the message, maybe it's just on the building. We're just trying to clean it.

00:35:05.720 Great. Not, not a great way to use your white privilege, ladies. Not a great. 1.00

00:35:11.380 That's disgusting. 0.99

00:35:14.840 Disgusting. It's disgusting to clean up graffiti on a government building. 0.99

00:35:20.600 Karen's point here is that if you clean graffiti off of something, then you must automatically be disagreeing with whatever message that graffiti is ostensibly supposed to be spreading.

00:35:34.320 So then if that's the case, I guess, you know, somebody should go and paint, spray paint equality for all on the side of Karen's house.

00:35:43.160 Or in fact, maybe right across her forehead.

00:35:47.200 Yeah, you can't clean it off, Karen.

00:35:48.680 If you go home and take a shower and clean it off, what are you saying?

00:35:52.060 You don't believe in equality?

00:35:54.640 I mean, that's the only conceivable reason why you wouldn't want it spray painted across your forehead.

00:36:00.840 Five, finally, how about a legitimately inspiring video?

00:36:03.460 Okay, this one is actually inspiring, actually courageous.

00:36:06.920 No sarcasm.

00:36:09.340 Just watch this.

00:36:10.640 It's pretty great. 1.00

00:36:12.200 Black kids in Chicago get killed every single day. 0.97

00:36:15.720 Where is the Black Lives Matter in Chicago? 0.99

00:36:18.680 Where are they? 1.00

00:36:20.200 When black people kill black people, they don't come out and do this crap. 1.00

00:36:24.140 The only time they do this crap is when a white person touch them. 1.00

00:36:26.500 They're the racists. 1.00

00:36:28.700 They're the racists. 1.00

00:36:29.960 Because white cops, it's wrong for a white cop to kill a black person, that's for sure. 1.00

00:36:35.680 But if it matters, it shouldn't matter at all times. 0.98

00:36:38.720 So what are you fighting for?

00:36:40.120 What are you fighting for?

00:36:41.280 You're not here to fight injustice.

00:36:43.280 You're here to cause drama.

00:36:43.940 Embedded message will be stop violence. 0.99

00:36:46.000 It's not about blacks. 0.91

00:36:47.080 In a unicorn world. 0.81

00:36:48.740 That's not a unicorn world.

00:36:49.820 Stop the violence, give it.

00:36:50.660 Okay, since you're so...

00:36:51.820 You guys are so... 0.99

00:36:52.720 Blacks are oppressed. 0.97

00:36:53.360 I am black, I'm not oppressed. 0.99

00:36:54.840 I am free.

00:36:56.400 That's not for you.

00:36:57.280 That's an individual person.

00:36:58.460 What about a systemic issue?

00:37:00.200 Where?

00:37:01.660 I am black.

00:37:02.540 I'm what we want it to be.

00:37:03.660 I have a...

00:37:04.260 Like, I do what I want.

00:37:05.620 You have the skills.

00:37:06.280 This is a country where you have the skills.

00:37:07.480 You want to do what you want.

00:37:08.320 You do it.

00:37:09.140 Stop forcing on people to accept that they're oppressed.

00:37:12.180 They are not.

00:37:12.700 I am not oppressed.

00:37:13.760 I am black.

00:37:14.820 Stop making people accept that they're oppressed.

00:37:17.220 You're forcing a rhetoric into your mind, which is not true.

00:37:19.820 That's my point.

00:37:20.740 Violence is wrong, period. 0.79

00:37:22.060 It's not about blacks. 1.00

00:37:23.140 You agree that whites kill whites too, right? 1.00

00:37:26.160 Have you seen any white person coming out and saying white life matters? 1.00

00:37:29.260 No, violence is wrong.

00:37:31.480 They literally do.

00:37:32.220 All the time.

00:37:32.900 Every time there's a black lives matter process, a white person... 0.86

00:37:35.840 It's not a black problem. 0.97

00:37:36.860 It's a violence problem. 1.00

00:37:38.400 The blacks kill blacks in black neighborhoods every single day. 1.00

00:37:41.920 I have never seen a black life matter in those neighborhoods. 1.00

00:37:45.440 Never.

00:37:46.720 Never.

00:37:47.320 Do you know what they say? 0.99

00:37:48.460 When a black person kills a black in a black neighborhood, they come out and they say, 0.98

00:37:52.140 when the police comes, do you know what they tell the police? 1.00

00:37:54.800 Snitches get snitches. 1.00

00:37:58.180 Snitches get snitches. 1.00

00:37:59.660 But if a white person kills a black person, black life matter. 1.00

00:38:02.940 Stop the hypocrisy. 1.00

00:38:04.180 Nobody takes this seriously.

00:38:05.580 Nobody.

00:38:06.260 You hear that message. 0.63

00:38:07.440 I am black.

00:38:08.220 I am not oppressed.

00:38:09.080 I am free.

00:38:11.300 That is the definition of an inspiring, empowering message.

00:38:19.940 That is empowering.

00:38:22.940 The word power is empowering.

00:38:25.100 Something that expresses, that gives power, autonomy to a person.

00:38:31.560 Well, the message of I am free, I am not oppressed, that is...

00:38:35.460 Saying I'm oppressed, I'm a victim, that's the opposite of empowering.

00:38:40.220 That is rejecting your power and your freedom.

00:38:44.260 That, what you just heard there, is an empowering message. 0.74

00:38:46.760 But then you see, you can kind of laugh about it because of how ridiculous this scene is. 0.95

00:38:53.440 Where you've got a black woman, obviously an immigrant, talking about the fact that she's free. 0.98

00:39:01.180 And then you've got a white woman trying to convince the black immigrant that she's oppressed. 1.00

00:39:07.960 And could there be a better illustration of the way that the Democrat Party works?

00:39:16.020 The white woman in that discussion, she is a representative of the Democrat Party.

00:39:21.320 A bunch of white people trying to convince black people and minorities that they're oppressed.

00:39:26.560 And getting upset and offended if they won't agree that they're oppressed. 0.96

00:39:31.100 But great stuff, great stuff from that woman.

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00:41:16.360 Okay, let's go to our daily.

00:41:19.440 Let's go to our daily.

00:41:20.220 Good thing there was nothing in that.

00:41:21.420 I was lying about having something in it, as you can clearly see.

00:41:24.080 For our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling the promoters and propagators of false narratives. 0.92

00:41:30.400 Obviously, there are a lot of false narratives out there, like the false narrative about racist police hunting and killing black people.

00:41:36.420 You know, that's the narrative that's fueling the destruction of our cities right now. 0.93

00:41:39.220 I've already dealt with that this week.

00:41:40.740 I want to take a smaller, more specific example so we can kind of look at the anatomy of a false narrative, how it works, how it spreads, how it's concocted.

00:41:50.960 So here's a tweet from some random person.

00:41:53.480 I don't think this person is someone in the media or anything like that.

00:41:56.040 But I'm pointing to it because last I checked, this morning anyway, that tweet was pushing 70,000 retweets.

00:42:04.060 70,000, which is a lot.

00:42:07.160 And here it is.

00:42:08.260 It says, they were all charged for the exact same crime, the exact same day, and in the exact same city, but y'all don't see the problem?

00:42:16.640 And then it shows screenshots.

00:42:18.880 It doesn't give us a link to the, does not give us a link to where the screenshots are from, which is red flag number one.

00:42:26.420 And it shows how three people were arrested for violating curfew in Greensboro, North Carolina, but they were all given different bond amounts.

00:42:33.860 With the black guy given the highest bond amount at 500 bucks.

00:42:37.000 And the obvious insinuation here is that it's racism.

00:42:40.560 I mean, they did the exact same thing, right?

00:42:44.120 How could the black guy get the highest bond? 0.83

00:42:46.160 Doesn't make any sense. 0.71

00:42:47.060 Exact same thing.

00:42:48.380 No differences in the situation.

00:42:52.280 Well, already we've got one red flag.

00:42:56.420 There's no link.

00:42:57.740 Another red flag is just the very idea that they would blatantly set bond based on race.

00:43:03.880 A policy like that would be shot down by the Supreme Court in 60 seconds flat.

00:43:10.960 Okay.

00:43:12.200 So what's really going on here?

00:43:13.760 I think we should, we should take a look and see.

00:43:15.420 I mean, maybe it's true.

00:43:16.900 Maybe in Greensboro, North Carolina, they've got a policy where if you're black, you get a higher bond amount.

00:43:21.720 As I said, I would be shocked that that policy has not been challenged yet by the Supreme Court.

00:43:26.900 But it's, I can't say it's impossible.

00:43:28.640 It is possible.

00:43:30.120 So I went and I took a look at the story and I found it.

00:43:33.620 It wasn't hard.

00:43:35.720 WFMYnews2.com.

00:43:37.040 And this is where this person got the information for this massively viral tweet going all over social media.

00:43:43.960 People are buying it.

00:43:45.420 CA goes, oh, well, look at that.

00:43:46.560 Isn't it racism and everything?

00:43:47.960 Let's read the entire context.

00:43:49.540 Okay.

00:43:51.000 Now, the first two guys, for the first two guys, the information is exactly what the tweet says.

00:43:57.660 Troy Herring, 21, of Greensboro, was charged with violating curfew.

00:44:01.620 His $100 bond was posted and his next court date will be September 15th.

00:44:06.820 Jeff Schwanzu, 21, of Stokestale, was charged with violation of curfew.

00:44:12.100 His bond was set at $300.

00:44:14.060 And his next court date is September 15th.

00:44:16.160 But then we get to the black man. 0.96

00:44:19.460 And there's actually a little bit more information.

00:44:23.200 It says Malik Perry Davis was arrested after he climbed a statue in downtown Greensboro following the protest that was dispersed.

00:44:30.820 Greensboro fire crews used a ladder truck to remove Davis from the statue before he was arrested.

00:44:36.000 His address is listed in Jacksonville and Onslow County, but he said he was from a mix of Greensboro, Jacksonville, and Greenville, and Hawaii.

00:44:44.820 According to social media, he lives in Greensboro.

00:44:47.780 He was charged with curfew violation and his bond was set at $500.

00:44:51.200 His court date is September 15th.

00:44:53.760 Hmm.

00:44:54.760 Okay.

00:44:55.800 Now it's all coming together because this viral tweet, the person who put the tweet together,

00:45:00.940 they coincidentally forgot to include all of that additional information.

00:45:06.600 Malik was arrested not just for violating curfew, but because he had climbed a statue and they had to bring in a fire truck to get him down.

00:45:15.940 Okay.

00:45:16.900 And apparently he has no fixed address.

00:45:19.420 He's from a mix of several different places, including a place 5,000 miles away.

00:45:24.220 And he says he's from one place, but social media says he's from another place.

00:45:28.280 And then he also says, yeah, by the way, I'm also sort of from Hawaii and all these other places.

00:45:33.820 All right.

00:45:34.420 Well, that's why bond was higher, right?

00:45:37.540 They're going to raise bond if you're a flight risk.

00:45:40.360 If they can't tell exactly where you're from and one of the places is 5,000 miles away, that's going to raise your bond.

00:45:48.560 And also they're going to raise bond if, while violating curfew, you pulled a stunt that required them to use the fire department to come get you.

00:45:59.180 And they're using the fire department while there are riots, you know, across the country and things are being set on fire.

00:46:04.980 So, you know, they might really be thinking, we need this fire truck potentially for something more important like a burning building.

00:46:12.580 Now we have to use these fire department resources to get you down from a statute because you refuse to come down.

00:46:18.400 You do something like that, yeah, your bond's going to be higher.

00:46:21.140 And there you go.

00:46:25.060 Now, so it's very obvious.

00:46:28.160 I mean, there's nothing racial about this.

00:46:30.160 No racism.

00:46:31.860 In fact, this guy's lucky for only a thousand dollar bond.

00:46:34.920 Given that he was violating curfew and they had to take him down from the statute with a fire truck, they only charged him with violating curfew.

00:46:44.720 Flight risk, only a thousand dollar bond?

00:46:48.040 He did pretty damn well.

00:46:52.320 But, of course, we're not told that.

00:46:54.220 And what we know is that with false narratives, you know, for one thing, it's oftentimes, it's not that things are being just totally made up out of whole cloth.

00:47:06.840 Now, there is that.

00:47:07.800 Sometimes you have things totally made up out of whole cloth.

00:47:09.580 With Michael Brown, hands up, don't shoot.

00:47:11.180 That was whole cloth fabrication.

00:47:14.360 But oftentimes, it's based on a morsel of truth.

00:47:18.600 It's just that the false part of the narrative comes not from the part they tell you, but from the part they don't tell you.

00:47:26.520 And the reason it spreads is because most people are concerned with stuff that confirms their priors.

00:47:33.420 That's all they care about.

00:47:34.900 They have prior held beliefs.

00:47:37.840 They have their own biases and their own prejudices and their own perspectives that they're bringing to it.

00:47:44.620 And all they're looking for is confirmation of what they already believed.

00:47:49.460 So a whole bunch of people said, oh, yeah, well, I already believe that racism, you know, that there's a pervasive systemic racism, especially in the South.

00:47:57.880 This fits in nicely with that.

00:47:59.660 And so I'm just going to spread it and assume it's true.

00:48:03.280 Why would I do the work to see if it actually is true?

00:48:06.060 All that really matters is, you know, the ideology and everything else.

00:48:10.720 So that person is canceled.

00:48:13.560 All of the propagators of false narratives are canceled.

00:48:16.120 And I trust that now that I've done this, there will be no more false narratives.

00:48:21.500 And I have just solved the problem.

00:48:24.060 You're welcome.

00:48:25.100 And we'll leave it there.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 04, 2020

Ep. 497 - The Protesters Are Killing My Grandma

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