The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 511 - The Noose That Wasn’t

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, it wasn't a noose, it turns out, as any intelligent person already

00:00:04.520 knew. But still, the left, the media, Bubba Wallace himself, are trying to retain the narrative,

00:00:09.680 even as it's exposed as fraudulent. They don't care. They're going to keep it going. So we're

00:00:13.160 going to sort through all this today. And I want to pay special attention to the fact that the FBI

00:00:17.980 sent 15 federal agents to investigate a rope in a garage. So we're going to talk about that. Also,

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00:01:53.500 I sent you. Okay, shocker of shockers. Who besides me and anyone else with a brain could have possibly

00:02:01.640 seen this coming? Who besides those of us with IQs above that of a soggy paper towel could have ever

00:02:09.420 predicted this outcome? The noose in Bubba Wallace's garage was not a hate crime. It was just a rope,

00:02:16.220 a rope to pull the door closed. That's it. Now, before we get into this, let's reminisce just for

00:02:22.640 a moment. Reminisce about the old days, back in the good old days, back way, way back, two days ago,

00:02:29.000 in fact, when NASCAR came out in an emotional show of support for Bubba Wallace, and the other drivers

00:02:36.520 escorted him around the track as he wept openly before Talladega. And then NASCAR put together this

00:02:45.600 inspirational video. Let's just remember this video again. Watch this.

00:03:15.600 All of that over a garage door. All of that because Bubba Wallace was afraid of his garage

00:03:27.220 door. We are truly living in an idiocracy. Now, here's the statement from NASCAR. 0.57

00:03:36.100 In this, remember, after they spent the previous day condemning this racist, vile act and rallying

00:03:42.180 around Bubba and putting together inspirational videos with the inspirational music in the

00:03:46.520 background. And then they come out with this and they say the FBI has completed its investigation

00:03:50.080 at Talladega Super Speedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.

00:03:53.980 The FBI report concludes and photographic evidence confirms that the garage door pull rope,

00:03:59.480 fashioned like a noose, has been positioned there since as early as last fall. This was obviously

00:04:04.140 well before the 43 teams arrived. And we're given the garage assignments. We appreciate the FBI's

00:04:11.040 quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional racist

00:04:14.800 act against Bubba. We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive

00:04:18.980 environment for all who love racing. But the left and the media, NASCAR, Bubba Wallace, all of them,

00:04:24.680 they're not ready to let this go. They're not going to let this go so easily, okay? And they

00:04:29.440 certainly won't admit that they were wrong. That's not going to happen. And even more certainly,

00:04:33.380 they're not going to apologize. They will not apologize to those of us who were skeptical of this story

00:04:37.780 and were right and were accused of racism because of our skepticism. No one's coming back around.

00:04:44.040 No, I was called racist many times over the last few days. Well, I'm always called that just like 0.98

00:04:49.800 every other ist and ism I'm called. But especially the last few days because I was immediately skeptical

00:04:55.260 of this story and I was told that's because you're racist. I'm here. I'm available if you want to come

00:05:01.060 and apologize. You want to send me a letter? Send me an email. I am ready to accept your acts of

00:05:06.860 contrition. If there are any takers. Surprisingly, there aren't. Wallace said earlier yesterday that

00:05:15.720 skeptics were simple minded. He insulted us, called us stupid. Do you think he's apologizing for saying 1.00

00:05:23.060 that? Is he going to at least apologize for that? Is he at least going to say, hey, you know, maybe it

00:05:29.180 turns out you weren't very simple minded. I mean, it turns out you were actually on to something.

00:05:34.320 In fact, you guys who were not even there and didn't have all the information that I had,

00:05:41.540 you were able to figure this out in 10 seconds. So, wow, not only are you not simple minded,

00:05:46.900 but compared to me, you're a genius. You guys are like, you should be private, private eyes. You're

00:05:51.840 detectives. You were on the case. No, he's not going to say that. He just called us idiots and is

00:05:57.640 going to leave it at that. And he's still making himself into the victim. Wallace went on CNN last 1.00

00:06:02.520 night for, well, I'm not going to call it an interview. It certainly was not an interview.

00:06:06.360 It was more of a therapy session. Don Lemon, the alleged news anchor, didn't ask any prying

00:06:11.280 questions or really any questions at all. Didn't try to get to the truth. Never does, of course.

00:06:16.920 Instead, he just complimented and soothed Bubba and told him how wonderful he is. In fact, I watched

00:06:23.640 this. For some reason, I subjected myself to it because I'm a masochist, I suppose. But really,

00:06:29.160 Don Lemon did most of the talking. And he spent the whole time just telling Bubba, nobody blames you.

00:06:35.480 This isn't your fault. You're a great guy. You know, we all understand where you're coming from.

00:06:42.840 If the media was capable of embarrassment, they would be embarrassed by that sickening spectacle.

00:06:49.920 And Bubba agreed, by the way, of course. Bubba agreed that he's a wonderful guy and brave. And

00:06:56.800 he said so many times in so many words. I kept talking about how I'm still standing up. I'm not

00:07:02.640 going to let this stop me. It's a garage door opener. What do you mean you're still standing up and

00:07:08.580 you're brave? I'm not going to be sure. They're not going to stop me. No garage door is going to stand

00:07:14.140 in my way. But here he is at the very beginning because he's still making himself a victim. Here

00:07:21.820 he is at the very beginning of this faux interview saying that he's still the victim. You know,

00:07:26.120 he's not the victim of a hate crime, but because there wasn't one. But now he's the victim of people

00:07:29.740 who doubted the hate crime, even though the doubters were right. He's still the victim 0.99

00:07:33.580 of them. Watch this. I'm pissed. I'm mad because people are trying to test my character and the

00:07:42.440 person that I am and my integrity. And they're not stealing that away from me, but they're just

00:07:48.420 trying to test that. And as a person, Don, that doesn't need the fame, doesn't need the hype,

00:07:54.300 doesn't need the media, I could care less. I could give two craps about that. But to sit there and

00:07:59.660 read, and that's my problem. I'm reading too much into it and investing too much time into it.

00:08:04.480 I am. I am. Don't, don't, don't, don't. I know. I know. I know. I'm trying hard not to. And after

00:08:11.440 the night, I'll probably turn my phone off, unfortunately, until about 730 in the morning

00:08:16.040 where the interviews start back up again and we get to it all over. And then, and then, so we have

00:08:20.180 that. He's still a victim. Later on, he insists that it was a noose. He doubles down and claims that,

00:08:25.760 you know, it was still a noose. And he's never in his life, never in his life has he seen a rope

00:08:31.860 with a loop on it hanging in a garage. Watch. I've, I've been racing all my life. We've, we've

00:08:39.460 raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pools like that. So people that want to

00:08:45.860 call it a garage pool and put out old videos and photos of, of, of knots being in, in, in, in there,

00:08:53.460 as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, um, that I have, uh,

00:09:00.240 it's a straight up noose. The FBI has stated it was a noose over and over again. NASCAR

00:09:05.340 leadership has stated that it was a noose. I can confirm that I actually got evidence of what was

00:09:11.940 hanging in my garage over my car around my picker guys to confirm that it was a noose and never seen

00:09:19.140 anything like it. Never seen it. Never, ever couldn't, couldn't possibly imagine ever seeing

00:09:24.840 something like that. Um, and, but the left also, as I said, is not ready to let this go. Here's Al

00:09:30.140 Sharpton calling for further investigations into the potentially racist garage door.

00:09:36.420 We should take it as good news that someone didn't place it into his stall specifically as

00:09:41.260 the only full-time black driver in NASCAR who pushed to have those Confederate flags removed

00:09:46.360 from NASCAR events. And NASCAR did take that step last week, but it does appear there was a noose as

00:09:53.280 the FBI is calling it placed in that garage last fall. The FBI identified it as a noose. NASCAR,

00:10:01.360 uh, said it was a noose or went along with the FBI's characterization. It was a noose. So the question

00:10:08.600 is, even if they did not know that Bubba Wallace was going to use that stall, why was a noose in the

00:10:15.940 stall? It's clear what a noose represents. And I think to, to go whether or not they knew that

00:10:23.260 sooner or later, the one black driver would use that stall really doesn't answer why it was in the

00:10:29.700 stall at all. And then did someone know that it was in the stall when they did belatedly assign Bubba

00:10:37.580 there? So I don't think this answers a lot of questions. And clearly from what we just saw

00:10:42.680 of Bubba Wallace, it does not seem he, who is the victim and possible target in this matter,

00:10:49.060 seems to be satisfied with this. So I do not think that we've seen closure in this particular

00:10:54.580 inquiry. Okay. There's a bunch of other stuff like that from the left and the media. Uh, you know,

00:11:00.040 oh, it still might be a hate crime. Why was there a noose there in the first place? Even if it wasn't a

00:11:04.640 hate crime, it still could have been. So we had a valuable conversation that we needed to have. We

00:11:09.300 should thank Bubba for that. Bubba's innocent in this. He didn't know, you know, that it wasn't a

00:11:13.900 hate crime. It was reasonable for him to interpret it the way that he did. And the excuses go on and

00:11:17.980 on and on. So I want to make a few points about this. We're going to go through this one by one

00:11:21.720 as we sort through it. Um, and as we continue to dissect and analyze a piece of rope in a garage,

00:11:27.160 because this is, this is what we do now. And it's a, it's a worth, it's a, it's a good way to spend our

00:11:31.200 time. So number one, it was not a noose. Okay. Um, that's, that's not what it is. A noose is a

00:11:42.220 certain type of knot. And the whole point of it is that if you put weight on it, it tightens.

00:11:47.540 That's why it's also called a hangman's knot. And yes, they use it to hang people. They also use it

00:11:52.480 for many non-lethal applications. So a noose, and that's the other part of this. That's sort of a

00:11:58.340 side note. But this idea that a, a, a, a, you know, quote unquote noose is a, some sort of

00:12:04.360 universal sign of, of racism. Since when did that become the case? These, these types of knots,

00:12:13.660 slip knots are very useful. People use them for practical reasons all the time.

00:12:19.520 When I see a knot like that, I don't immediately think, oh, someone's going to die. That's not what I

00:12:24.400 think. Um, but this was, uh, this was more of just a standard loop knot. It was not a slipknot.

00:12:32.960 And we know that because you aren't going to make a slipknot to close a garage door.

00:12:37.980 The knot, the knot would tighten around your, your hand. You're not going to make a, a, a noose

00:12:42.600 to close the garage door. You put weight on it. The thing about you got a heavy garage door to an

00:12:49.160 NASCAR garage and you grab a noose around your hand and you yank down. That's a good way to break

00:12:55.720 your hand. That's not, if the thing was hanging there for a year, then it was not a noose. No way

00:13:02.420 was it a noose. People do not make nooses to close garages with. They don't use them as handles.

00:13:09.020 Part of the problem here, maybe an underrated aspect of this story is that the left is comprised

00:13:14.900 of a bunch of wusses, you know, a bunch of, a bunch of wusses and shut-ins who have no practical 1.00

00:13:21.620 knowledge at all and never go outside. They don't know how to identify basic knots when they see them. 0.97

00:13:29.260 You know, Sharpton says, well, why was it in the garage at all? Well, that's not a mystery.

00:13:33.860 It was, it was there to hold onto as you close the door. Yes. In many garages, the pull down will have

00:13:40.940 a handle or a little lever or something to grab. But you see, Al, sometimes men, uh, you, rather

00:13:47.340 than sometimes they'll just tie a knot or do something like that to solve a problem rather

00:13:51.000 than going out to Lowe's and buying a specific garage door closer, they might say, Hey, let me

00:13:55.680 just tie a knot. That's what a man's going to do. This is what men do. We tie knots. We also use duct

00:14:00.300 tape. Okay. So many times we say, I don't need, I fixed a hole in my kayak the other day with duct tape.

00:14:05.860 Okay. Good as new, at least for now, until I drown in the lake. Uh, this is what we do. We tie knots.

00:14:11.560 We use duct tape. You, I mean, I, you don't know much about that apparently about just being a normal

00:14:16.940 guy. I think, you know, people need just like go do some camping, do some fishing, learn about basic

00:14:26.160 knots. Now I'm not a, I'm not a knot expert myself, by the way, mostly because most of the knot tying I do

00:14:32.460 is fishing and the Palomar knot is really going to, it's basically indestructible. It's almost

00:14:37.520 the only knot you need a couple other knots, uh, like the Arbor knot, which is when you tie the

00:14:41.280 line around the reel, but the Palomar knot, when it comes to tying a hook, I, you know, I've been

00:14:45.560 using that. I haven't had a broken, I haven't lost a fish to a broken knot in years. I've lost it to

00:14:51.160 broken line, you know, or because the fish jumps up because you don't keep the rod tip down when you're

00:14:55.100 reeling it in. But, um, anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah. Um, bubble Wallace. Okay. So that's,

00:15:01.420 that's that. Number two, an attempt is being made to absolve Bubba Wallace of all guilt in this case.

00:15:11.480 And we're being told that this is not a Jussie Smollett situation. Uh, it's, it's really not

00:15:16.180 similar at all. It's a completely different type of thing. And besides Wallace, isn't the one who

00:15:21.220 called the feds. He didn't report it. He didn't see it. That's what we're told. Well, let me say,

00:15:25.420 if you fell for the original story and now you're falling for the story that Bubba didn't know and

00:15:32.240 was innocent, then congratulations, you got fooled by the hoax and are now being fooled by the hoax

00:15:38.580 that covers the other hoax you got fooled by. You damned moron. Listen, let, let me explain this. 1.00

00:15:46.500 Do you know how I, I knew this was, this, this was probably not a hate crime. Anyone, anyone who knew

00:15:50.900 it? How did we know that it wasn't a hate crime? Do you know what, what magical sorcery we used to

00:15:56.280 see the future and predict this outcome? Well, I'll tell you. Okay. Here's the sorcery. It's

00:16:01.880 called common sense. That's all it takes. Common sense. Common sense told us that there probably

00:16:07.860 wasn't a hate crime noose hanging in a NASCAR garage with security and cameras and stuff like

00:16:13.700 that all around. We just, we knew it immediately. That's probably not the case. There's probably

00:16:19.060 another explanation. Common sense also tells us, and you should listen to our common sense because,

00:16:25.320 you know, you apparently have none, so you can borrow ours for a minute. Common sense also tells

00:16:29.780 us that even if the initial person who saw the quote unquote noose really did misinterpret it,

00:16:36.400 which is possible, maybe they did, it would not have taken very long for everyone else down the line

00:16:43.200 to figure out the truth. So when someone comes to you and tells you there's a noose in your garage

00:16:48.700 and it's a hate crime, your next immediate response is not going to be, wow, okay, let's

00:16:54.440 alert the press. No, no, that's, see, that's, again, it's just common sense. Yes, I was not there.

00:16:59.780 I can't prove this. But common sense tells me that is not how human interactions work.

00:17:05.380 No, your response is going to be something like, what? Are you serious? Let me see. Let me go see it

00:17:10.020 for myself. And then you go and you look or you look at a photo and you would then see that it's a rope

00:17:15.920 hanging from a garage and you would at a minimum realize that it's at least possible that this is a

00:17:22.700 totally innocent thing. So again, the only innocently duped person was maybe possibly the first person

00:17:31.320 who saw the thing. Everyone else from Wallace to the NASCAR president, everyone else, they at a

00:17:37.460 minimum would have known that there's a good chance it's not a hate crime. They would have known that

00:17:42.700 because they would have looked at it and seen that it's a loop knot hanging from a garage door opener.

00:17:50.960 And assuming that these are not actual certifiable clinical lunatics we're dealing with,

00:17:57.200 they at least somewhere in their, in their head in a probably pretty prominent place would have been

00:18:02.840 the thought of, you know, this could really just be nothing. And yet they all came out. Wallace included

00:18:11.600 stated as fact that it's a hate crime, an act of hate despicable was the word that Wallace used

00:18:18.980 in a very self-aggrandizing way, talking about how he's, he's going to stand up. He's not going to be

00:18:25.140 intimidated. I will not be, I will not be intimidated. I will not be cowed down under the,

00:18:31.820 under the weight of this garage door. No, see, that's, that's what he did. He didn't say,

00:18:39.760 hmm, you know, guys, this is a little bit concerning, but let's check it out and see what's

00:18:43.320 going on. It might be fine. That would have been a good response. That would have been a response that

00:18:49.060 an innocent and, and intelligent and honest person would have given an even better response would have

00:18:54.740 been, Hey guys, calm down. Like it's, it's just, it's a garage door opener. I'm sure that's all this

00:19:00.100 is. Okay. He choose, he chose neither of those responses. Instead, he went all in on the hate

00:19:07.000 crime, despite at least knowing that there's a likely innocent explanation. So did he perpetrate

00:19:13.720 a hoax? Yes, absolutely. 100%, 100%. This is a hoax. And yes, he was, he was the ring,

00:19:22.300 one of the ring leaders of it. Um, maybe not one that he planned or staged, maybe not one that he

00:19:29.840 paid two Nigerian dudes to carry out, but it's a hoax all the same. Also keep in mind that Wallace 0.96

00:19:35.560 went on the view after he'd been interviewed by the FBI. He said in the interview that he, you know,

00:19:40.900 that he, that he talked to the FBI. The FBI at that point would have already looked at the tapes

00:19:45.600 and known that it wasn't a hate crime. They would have figured that out in 15 seconds.

00:19:51.100 As soon as they, now, if they've got any common sense at all, they would have known it as soon as

00:19:54.620 they looked at the rope. But, but if not then, then as soon as they looked at the security camera

00:20:00.340 footage and saw that, okay, that thing's been there for months, over a year, they would have known. So

00:20:06.400 by the time they talked to Wallace, they knew that this was not a hate crime.

00:20:10.560 And that fact would have come up in the quote interview. In fact, I doubt that it was really

00:20:16.800 an interview at all. It was more of a meeting of the FBI saying, Hey, listen, this wasn't a hate

00:20:22.200 crime. I'm, I would say 90% certainty that that's what the interview was because there'd be nothing

00:20:28.980 for them to interview Wallace about at that point. Um, yet he still went on the, on the view and

00:20:35.720 perpetuated the, uh, hate crime hoax and even shamed and insulted the people who he knew were

00:20:44.920 right, that it wasn't a hate crime. So this guy, this guy's a liar and a fraud. And the fact that 1.00

00:20:52.520 how, how gullible and stupid do you have to be that you fell for it the first time 1.00

00:21:00.200 falling for it again? Good God. I really think there are a lot of people in this country that 1.00

00:21:08.820 just love being fooled. They, they, they, they, they love making asses of themselves. They enjoy it. 1.00

00:21:16.500 Number three, here's the most important thing to focus on. I want to read the FBI statement to you,

00:21:20.680 uh, because there's one thing in this statement that really jumps out.

00:21:24.320 Let me pull it up. Okay. FBI statement says on Monday, 15 FBI special agents conducted numerous

00:21:32.260 interviews regarding the situation at Talladega super speedway. After a thorough review of the

00:21:37.280 facts and evidence surrounding the event, we have concluded that no federal hate crime

00:21:40.280 was committed. Um, and then it goes on from there. I don't even need to go any further.

00:21:45.380 What I'm really homing in on here is 15 FBI agents

00:21:53.000 investigated a rope in a garage, 15 FBI. And they're proud of it. They're telling us 0.86

00:22:04.180 we were on the case. 15, 15, what are these, what are they doing? I know what one guy is good at. One

00:22:12.920 guy looks at the rope and probably at that point says, Hey guys, just a, it's just a loop knot is

00:22:17.840 you close the garage with it. Look, see here, look, that's all you do. So one guy is doing that. Maybe

00:22:24.000 another guy goes and then, and then, and then another guy is told, Hey, go check the security

00:22:27.440 camera. Let's be sure about this. Okay. That's two guys at most. What are the other 13 guys doing?

00:22:33.580 What are they, what exactly are they doing? Are they dusting for fingerprints? Are they,

00:22:37.360 what is they doing to a, doing a forensics investigation? Good Lord. Now what makes this

00:22:47.340 even more, uh, it goes from being absurd and almost funny to actually infuriating when you realize

00:22:56.100 that the federal government sent 15 agents to look at a freaking rope in a garage while there are

00:23:04.280 violent mobs, tearing our cities apart. As we speak, tearing down monuments and statues, statues, 0.64

00:23:13.160 burning buildings. It's still going on attacking police officers. And there's a lot that the

00:23:19.980 federal government could and should be doing about this. There are, there are a lot of questions that

00:23:25.960 they could be investigating. There are a lot of arrests they could be making and, and, and things they

00:23:31.260 could be investigating. Like what are the groups backing these, these violent quote unquote

00:23:37.000 protesters? You know, who's funding BLM? Who's funding Antifa? They could be investigating that

00:23:43.020 kind of stuff. You can put 15 special agents on that. Put, put, put 50, put a hundred. The full force

00:23:51.220 of the federal government and our, and the federal government's law enforcement arm should be focused

00:23:57.280 focused on this, that we have violent insurrectionists right now trying to tear the country apart.

00:24:06.760 And they're all over the place. And you send 15 agents for a rope.

00:24:14.700 My God. Uh, and, and that is the headline. That's the real headline of all of this is the,

00:24:23.560 the federal government's involvement. Even if, I mean, even if it was a noose, okay. Even if,

00:24:32.860 even if some jerk had put a noose there as a hate crime, even then, what the hell do you need 15 0.99

00:24:40.320 agents for? Why do you need any federal agents for that? If you're going to involve law enforcement 0.99

00:24:47.140 all in a situation like that, then, you know, I'm sure a local cop could, could handle it.

00:24:51.800 A local cop can go and look at the security camera and see who did it and find that guy.

00:24:59.340 So even if this was a verified hate crime, it would still be insane to send 15 federal agents for it.

00:25:07.940 But it's not.

00:25:10.980 All right, let's move on to headlines. Number one, Lincoln County in Oregon has issued a new order

00:25:18.160 requiring that everyone wear masks in public, but the order exempts quote people of color.

00:25:24.460 So if you're a black person, you don't have to wear a mask. If you're white, you do. 1.00

00:25:27.940 The reason given is that black people might be concerned about racial profiling. Here's the

00:25:31.800 reading out from the daily wire. It says the post sites ACLU racial justice program director

00:25:37.300 Renika Moore, who said, uh, who told CNN for many black people deciding whether or not to wear a

00:25:42.960 bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose

00:25:46.620 situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way. CNN quoted Trevin

00:25:51.580 Logan, who is black, also as saying a mandate to wear face coverings are basically telling black

00:25:56.720 people to look dangerous given racial stereotypes that are out there. This is in the large context

00:26:01.460 of black men fitting the description of a suspect who has a hood on, who has a face covering on.

00:26:05.240 Okay. So first of all, has there, have there been any cases of a black person who's wearing a face 0.56

00:26:14.000 covering for coronavirus, you know, getting assaulted or shot or arrested erroneously? Has that

00:26:20.280 happened at all? Is there one case of it? One single case or the ACLU is, is certain that this is a big

00:26:26.780 problem. They're certain it's a big problem. Okay. It's a, is it, if it's a problem that it should be

00:26:33.220 happening? Is it happening? If it's not happening, then it's not a problem. There's some more basic

00:26:38.780 common sense for you. If a thing is not happening, then it's not a problem because it's not happening.

00:26:46.120 But the other issue here is that there's no way this is constitutional. There is no way that a law

00:26:52.000 specifically exempting a certain race is constitutional, which isn't to say that it will be,

00:26:58.280 that it's going to be struck down by, by the courts. I'm, I'm not predicting that at all.

00:27:02.140 Just because the law is unconstitutional doesn't mean the court's going to strike it down. And just

00:27:07.040 because, uh, uh, you know, just because a law is constitutional doesn't mean that the court won't

00:27:12.080 strike it down. We know that that's how it works. The court's full of far left activists, as we know,

00:27:15.680 but in reality, the constitution does not allow this. This is not equality under the law. You can't

00:27:20.660 make an ordinance and say, if you're, if you have a certain skin pigmentation, you don't have to

00:27:24.920 follow it. Number two, and, uh, in statue toppling news, protesters, quote unquote, in Wisconsin tore

00:27:32.400 down, uh, the Lady Forward statue. Here's a picture of that. And then they defaced and tore down the Hans

00:27:37.340 Christian Hegg monument in Wisconsin. This was all in one night. Lady Forward is a monument to social

00:27:44.840 progress. Hegg was an abolitionist and a union soldier. Well, I believe died in the civil war. I'm

00:27:53.400 pretty sure about that. Uh, this was someone who just dedicated his whole life to abolishing

00:27:58.520 slavery. That was his, he was a anti-slavery activist and put his money where his mouth is on

00:28:04.060 it. So, and yet they tore his statue down and they tore down a statue to progress,

00:28:11.160 which I think is very appropriate. In fact, because yes, these are enemies of progress,

00:28:17.940 but you wouldn't think that they would see themselves that way. So why did these statues

00:28:24.560 have to come down? Why? Well, because the statues depicted white people. That's it. That that's 0.88

00:28:32.400 really all there is to it. Now, if it's a statue of a white person, it has to come down.

00:28:37.600 That's the only litmus test. This is, this is racism. And if it was a crowd, if it was a white

00:28:47.000 crowd, let's say a crowd of, of violent, uh, white supremacists who are tearing down statues of black 0.97

00:28:55.280 people for no discernible reason, other than their race, we'd call it a hate crime on top of not only 0.97

00:29:04.420 would they be arrested for destruction of property, property, they would also be arrested for

00:29:08.540 committing a hate crime. Yet in this case, you've got violent left-wing mobs going around tearing

00:29:14.540 down statues for no, I mean, the reason doesn't even matter. I don't care what your reason is,

00:29:18.880 but it's worth noting that at this point, their only reason is that's a statue of a white person

00:29:25.100 that can be the only, that could be the only coherent, uh, vaguely coherent reason to tear down a

00:29:31.600 statue of an abolitionist or a statute of progress is that it's depicting a white person.

00:29:37.060 So this is a racist campaign to take down monuments to white Americans, which isn't to say that these

00:29:42.200 are monuments to white America. They are, no, these are monuments to individual Americans who

00:29:48.720 happen to be white and also happen to do incredible and great things, but they have to come down. 0.99

00:29:55.720 So this is racism. The only other thing it could be, and I think also is, it's kind of a combination of

00:30:01.360 these things is destruction for destruction's sake. Nihilism, sociopathy, all of this is mixed into

00:30:08.580 it. I think there are people involved who just want to tear down a statue because it's fun. There's

00:30:12.560 a lot of that. There are people involved who just don't care about anything. Um, sociopaths, nihilists,

00:30:18.660 uh, there are people involved who have a beef with Western civilization in general. And then there are

00:30:24.260 people involved who just want to tear down statues of white people. All of that is mixed in. So 1.00

00:30:29.600 nihilism, sociopathy, uh, psychopathy, racism, all of that bigotry. Yeah. Number three, here's

00:30:38.360 somebody at a Trump event talking about the American dream.

00:30:42.000 Aunt Jemima was canceled. And if you didn't know Nancy green, the original first aunt Jemima, 0.93

00:30:49.820 she was a picture of the American dream. She was a freed slave who went on to be the face of the

00:30:56.520 pancake syrup that we love and have in our pantries today. The American dream is to be the face of

00:31:03.020 pancake syrup. That, that could be someone's dream. Uh, people are making fun of this, uh, this girl 0.99

00:31:09.060 for, for saying that, but I, you know, it could be someone's dream. Personally, I'd like to be the face

00:31:14.160 of Dijon mustard. I don't so much, you know, syrup, not really, not really my thing, but, uh,

00:31:19.280 if I was gonna be the face of any kind of condiment, I'd love to be the face of Dijon mustard. That's,

00:31:22.960 that's my great dream and goal, uh, in life. It's the only thing I want to achieve, but we all have

00:31:28.960 our own dreams, of course. Number four, as if we didn't have enough problems on our hands already,

00:31:34.040 uh, now a massive cloud of dust is floating our way from the Sahara desert. CBS news reports,

00:31:39.880 a massive plume of dust from the Sahara desert in North Africa has been traversing the atmosphere

00:31:45.200 thousands of feet above the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and is now cloaking the Caribbean and

00:31:49.760 closing in on the southeastern U.S. Um, while summer dust plumes are common occurrence, this

00:31:58.320 appears to be one of the most extreme in recent memory. Pablo Mendez Lazora from the University of

00:32:03.360 Puerto Rico's School of Public Health said, this is the most significant event in the past 50 years.

00:32:07.840 Conditions are dangerous in many Caribbean islands. Wait, wait a second, what? The most significant

00:32:12.760 event in 50 years? The dust? The dust is the most significant event in 50 years? Maybe he means

00:32:19.640 this is the most significant dust-related event. Uh, and, and that I could see. Though personally,

00:32:26.520 I think the great dust storm of 87 or maybe the dust cloud of 72 could perhaps rival this, but this is a

00:32:32.840 debate that never ends among dust enthusiasts, um, the dust enthusiast community. So that's, that's

00:32:39.400 interesting anyway, but look out for the dust on, on, uh, on its way over here. Five, finally, sports

00:32:44.600 writer, genius, and scholar Rob Parker has written an article for Deadspin that I'm pretty sure is not

00:32:51.400 a parody. You could never be entirely sure these days, but, uh, here's, here's, here's the article.

00:32:58.040 He says that the name of the masters must now be changed. And here's how he argues the point. He says,

00:33:03.160 the name, the masters must go the heralded, the heralded golf tournament. One of the four majors

00:33:10.840 needs to go back to its original name, the Augusta national invitation. It became the masters in 1939.

00:33:16.760 Tiger woods, other big time golfers and corporate sponsorships should demand it in the current climate

00:33:21.480 with all the sweeping changes. It's only right. And just best of all, in this case, it's a simple

00:33:25.480 and smooth fix. The masters never felt good or even sounded good when you said it. And before we hear

00:33:30.920 from the choir about tradition and history, save it. When that history and tradition is rooted in

00:33:35.560 slavery, it shouldn't be preserved and honored. Augusta national was built on grounds that were

00:33:41.080 once a slave plantation and was the property of a slave owner. So then why do you want to call it

00:33:46.360 the Augusta national invitation? You're saying that you want to name it after a property that was,

00:33:51.160 that was, was owned by a slave owner. I don't, I don't understand how that's an improvement.

00:33:56.280 And according to a 2019 New Yorker piece about the course, it's believed that enslaved blacks were

00:34:00.680 housed on the property and be honest. When you hear anyone say the masters, you think of slave

00:34:05.800 masters in the South. There's nothing else, nothing special. You don't think of someone mastering the

00:34:12.120 game of golf. What has anyone mastered? When has anyone mastered golf? I can't even, I can't continue.

00:34:21.080 I'm losing brain cells. Brain cells are leaking out of my ear. As I, as I speak right now,

00:34:26.680 I can feel them dropping out like dandruff, just falling, falling onto my shoulders. I mean, this is

00:34:34.360 when you hear the masters, you don't think of someone mastering the game of golf.

00:34:37.640 That's exactly what I think. That's what any normal person thinks. When have you heard of someone

00:34:42.680 mastering golf? I don't know. I mean, everybody at the masters has mastered it pretty much. They're

00:34:46.840 professional golfers. Yes, be honest. Be honest. When you hear of the masters golf tournament,

00:34:55.480 your mind immediately conjures images of slave masters golfing. Admit it. Be honest. Oh wait,

00:35:02.680 you don't think of that? Okay, that was just my own psychosis talking. Okay then. No, but Rob really

00:35:07.400 makes a good point, I think. Because I also think the name of the show Master Chef should be changed.

00:35:13.320 Because when I hear Master Chef, I think of slave owners baking cakes. The rapper Master P

00:35:22.200 has to change his name, obviously. Master Peace Theater. Can't have that. Because that brings to mind

00:35:30.840 a piece of a slave master. Just a piece of him. Like an arm or something lying there.

00:35:36.040 A masterpiece. So maybe that's okay actually. Because that brings to mind dismembered slave

00:35:43.720 owners. Maybe that's okay. I don't know. I don't know what the new rules are. But there's Rob Parker

00:35:50.120 with a great take, as always. We're going to move on to our daily cancellation. Before we do,

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00:36:13.560 editorial I wrote about, The White Privilege Myth, which I would really recommend. Getting a great

00:36:18.920 reaction to that. Well, I don't know if I call it great reaction. Great as in the passion behind the

00:36:24.840 reaction and the amount of reaction. But much of it is not positive. But anyway, you can read that and so

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00:36:33.800 Sign up for just a buck. Now, daily cancellation. Today, we're going to be canceling the claim

00:36:39.880 that America is a racist country. And in canceling it, I'd like to echo the point made by many others

00:36:45.720 that if America was truly a racist country, if racism was rampant in our country, as it is claimed,

00:36:53.880 then there wouldn't be any need or desire to invent hate crimes. The existence of guys like Jussie

00:37:01.000 Smollett and Bubba Wallace. And the prevalence of these hoaxes. And the fact that the intelligent

00:37:07.080 among us knew the news story was a hoax just because they are so often hoaxes. This all amounts

00:37:14.600 to very strong circumstantial evidence against the systemic racism theory. This does not in itself,

00:37:21.160 by itself, disprove systemic racism. I think there's other things you can look at that

00:37:27.000 make that essentially disprove it. But it's very good circumstantial evidence.

00:37:33.560 Because this is not what you would expect.

00:37:37.160 Someone tells you about a systemically racist country, a country that is beset by racism,

00:37:41.720 racism, and you don't know anything about this country or this culture. The last thing you would

00:37:46.680 expect is that the, you know, the people who are allegedly victims of this, of this rampant systemic

00:37:53.640 racism, you know, would be, would be inventing instances of it. So let's think about why this

00:38:01.160 keeps happening. We all know that it does keep happening, but why does it keep happening? Why would

00:38:06.360 someone do something like this? Why pretend that a hate crime has been committed against you?

00:38:12.520 This happens so often, but we barely, we rarely stop to ask, why would someone do this? What's the

00:38:18.200 point? Or why would you allow yourself to be deceived into thinking that it has happened?

00:38:24.200 Why would a person be eager to interpret it this way? Well, it's because victimization is power in

00:38:30.520 our culture. Victimization is trendy. Victimization means attention, admiration, money,

00:38:35.880 sympathy, clout, political influence. But is that how it would be if America was systemically racist?

00:38:44.280 Could a person expect to profit off of claims of racist victimization in a racist country? How so?

00:38:51.400 How could they? How could you profit off of a claim like that? Benefit from it. Benefit from it so much

00:38:59.320 that you would make it up or be eager to interpret an innocent act as a hate crime if the country is

00:39:05.320 actually racist? Now, you notice something. Look back through history. Look at all the examples,

00:39:11.720 unfortunately many examples, of oppressed groups in various societies around the world,

00:39:18.680 including in the history of this country. In the history of this country, there obviously have been

00:39:24.520 systemically oppressed groups. But what you don't find in these examples,

00:39:28.760 you don't often find these groups inventing additional oppression. Why not? Well, because

00:39:35.480 there's nothing to be gained from it. They're oppressed. How much more oppression, how would

00:39:39.800 more oppression help their cause? They're already oppressed. Also, they wouldn't need to invent it. 0.79

00:39:44.760 Even if they wanted to, even if they thought that somehow an instance of oppression would benefit

00:39:49.480 them, they wouldn't need to invent it. And anyone in one of these oppressed groups anywhere,

00:39:54.120 they wouldn't need to invent it because there's an ample supply of it already on offer. There's a

00:39:59.720 whole, you know, there's a buffet of oppression that's there at all times. They don't need to

00:40:06.200 invent additional oppression. You think about, you know, an example would be Christian minorities in 0.99

00:40:13.720 the Middle East who are oppressed and persecuted and killed. They're not making it up. They're not

00:40:21.880 inventing additional instances of it. If they get executed, if they're at church and get rounded

00:40:28.760 up and executed by Muslim militants, that's all the oppression that is needed. They're not going 0.99

00:40:34.920 to go and come up with some other example. It wouldn't make any sense to do that.

00:40:39.960 And thirdly, and this is important, truly oppressed groups have no appetite for fake martyrdom.

00:40:45.960 Oppression and victimization isn't a game to them. It's real. The last thing they would want is to

00:40:50.520 exaggerate or fabricate. There's no appetite for that. No, no desire for it. It's kind of like if,

00:40:58.120 you know, if someone who isn't actually sick, but exaggerates their symptoms to get sympathy,

00:41:03.560 or maybe to get out of work, or, you know, as I used to do very often as a kid to get out of school,

00:41:08.760 compare that to someone who's very sick, legitimately sick. Let's say so sick they're in the hospital,

00:41:15.300 maybe even deathly sick. Maybe they're, you know, they've got terminal cancer or something,

00:41:18.920 a very sick person. Now, that person isn't going to exaggerate symptoms. They're not going to make

00:41:25.960 up symptoms they don't have, because there's no need anyway. The symptoms are bad enough as it is.

00:41:31.300 And also, they'd be in no mood for that. For them, sickness is not a game. It isn't play acting. It

00:41:37.420 isn't a tool they're using. It's just, it's real. It's terrible. It's inescapable. And they just want to

00:41:44.180 get better. They want to be free of the sickness. That's their desire. Oppressed people seek to be

00:41:49.640 free of the oppression. They don't seek to extend it, or add to it, or, you know, fabricate it,

00:41:59.200 or find more of it, or create it. They want to be free. Bubba Wallace is not oppressed. He is not a

00:42:07.960 victim. He is a rich man of power and privilege. He lives a luxurious and enviable life. He lives a

00:42:17.100 better life than almost everyone else on earth. Okay? He is at the, he is, he is in terms of everyone

00:42:24.000 on earth, and everyone that's ever existed on earth. Being a, you know, being a famous person,

00:42:30.600 a rich professional athlete, he's up close to the top. And all of that, I think, made him greedy.

00:42:41.340 He wanted more. And he used fake victimization to get more. Because no real victimization was on

00:42:47.980 offer for him. This country is not systemically racist against him. Which is good news. And

00:42:55.440 something that he would celebrate, and should celebrate. If he weren't a fraud. Which he is.

00:43:03.560 And that's the other thing. The very revealing thing. When I, when something is claimed to be a

00:43:09.740 hate crime, and it turns out not to be one. Notice how the left, and the race hustlers, and, you know,

00:43:18.620 hacks like Al Sharpton. Notice they're upset. They're angry. Palpable disappointment is on 1.00

00:43:27.160 their face. And in their words, they're desperate to preserve it as some kind of hate crime, or sort

00:43:32.580 of a hate crime, semi-hate crime. What does that tell you? They should be relieved. They should be

00:43:40.340 saying, thank God. And then they should also be embarrassed that they were fooled. Relief and

00:43:45.540 embarrassment. It should be the two things. But no. No. They're clinging on to it. They want it.

00:43:55.700 The people on the left, they wanted, they wish it was a hate crime. They are disappointed that it

00:44:02.460 isn't. And I think that right there tells you everything you need to know. And we'll leave it

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