The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 525 - Tucker, Hannity Targeted With The Most Frivolous Harassment Allegations Yet

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the latest Me Too allegations against Fox, including this time

00:00:05.480 Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, are perhaps the most frivolous harassment claims we've heard yet.

00:00:11.240 We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including George Stephanopoulos' wife

00:00:14.960 says that she would watch porn with her adolescent daughter. She says it would be a 0.83

00:00:20.540 learning experience for them, and so she would be willing to do that. And in our daily cancellation,

00:00:25.240 we discussed the unnamed woman, speaking of pornography, who got naked for the cops at a 0.98

00:00:31.440 Portland protest and showed off her genitals to the police officers. Something tells me that, 0.99

00:00:37.940 you know, although this woman is being celebrated as a hero by the media, she would not be received 0.81

00:00:42.820 in quite so positive a light if this was a naked dude showing off for women. So we'll talk about 0.61

00:00:51.580 the double standard there, that and much more on the way today on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:55.240 Now, we begin here, you know, and I must admit, I'm not a huge fan of cable news myself. It's not

00:01:02.380 how I choose to get my information. I generally find that cable news hosts tend to be uninteresting

00:01:08.120 and the insights they offer, such as they are, the talking points they offer are usually superficial

00:01:14.380 and redundant. One of the very few exceptions, in my opinion, to that rule is Tucker Carlson,

00:01:21.020 who actually uses his platform to say things that are necessary and important. And he engages with

00:01:27.140 issues and engages in a way that others won't, even other conservatives won't, especially other

00:01:33.680 conservatives with comparable platforms won't. And this has made Tucker the highest rated host on cable

00:01:39.280 news, the most relevant voice in media by far, the most talked about voice in media. It's also made him

00:01:46.200 a target, a prime target. And it's why, even though he has the highest rated show on cable news,

00:01:54.140 a lot of advertisers have fled because the left is focused intently on scaring away his sponsors to

00:02:01.220 silence him. Last week, the media ran wild with a story about inappropriate stuff. One of Tucker Carlson's

00:02:09.240 staff members posted anonymously on a message board. And this was supposed to be a huge scandal for

00:02:15.840 Tucker Carlson, for some reason, that one of his staff members was posting edgy content on a message

00:02:23.420 board anonymously. Because I guess, what, Tucker is supposed to be monitoring the activity, even

00:02:29.820 anonymous activity of all the people that work for him? Because that's a normal thing that I guess all

00:02:35.060 media personalities do. Then last night, Tucker revealed that the New York Times was planning to

00:02:40.740 dox him and expose his family to harm. Again, not for the first time. Here he is addressing that. Watch.

00:02:50.800 Last week, the New York Times began working on a story about where my family and I live. As a matter

00:02:56.580 of journalism, there is no conceivable justification for a story like that. The paper is not alleging we've

00:03:01.720 done anything wrong, and we haven't. We pay our taxes. We like our neighbors. We've never had a

00:03:06.280 dispute with anyone. So why is the New York Times doing a story on the location of my family's house?

00:03:13.000 Well, you know why? To hurt us. To injure my wife and kids so that I will shut up and stop disagreeing

00:03:19.240 with them. They believe in force. We've learned that. Two years ago, a left-wing journalist publicized 0.96

00:03:24.980 our home address in Washington. A group of screaming Antifa lunatics showed up while I was at work. 0.61

00:03:29.940 They vandalized our home. They threatened my wife. She called 911 while hiding in a closet. 0.96

00:03:35.620 A few weeks later, they showed up again at our house. For the next year, they sent letters to

00:03:40.420 our home threatening to kill us. We tried to ignore it. It felt cowardly to sell our home and leave.

00:03:46.040 We raised our kids there in the neighborhood, and we loved it. But in the end, that's what we did.

00:03:51.220 We have four children. It just wasn't worth it. But the New York Times followed us. The paper is

00:03:56.460 assigned a political activist called Murray Carpenter to write a story about where we are

00:04:00.460 now. They've hired a photographer called Tristan Spinsky to take pictures. Their story about where

00:04:05.920 we live is slated to run in the paper this week. Editors there know exactly what will happen to

00:04:11.120 my family when it does run. I called them today, and I told them. But they didn't care. They hate

00:04:16.500 my politics. They want this show off the air. If one of my children gets hurt because of a story

00:04:21.180 they wrote, they won't consider it collateral damage. They know it's the whole point of the

00:04:25.240 exercise to inflict pain on our family, to terrorize us, to control what we say. That's

00:04:31.360 the kind of people they are.

00:04:32.520 Now, the Times, for the record, says they aren't planning to run with any piece like

00:04:37.600 that. So it's a he said, they said sort of situation. And I can tell you that I don't

00:04:43.860 believe the New York Times for a second. It's not like they don't have a track record of doing

00:04:48.240 this kind of thing. I have no trouble believing what Tucker Carlson is saying here. It's much

00:04:52.600 harder to believe that Tucker would just invent this out of whole cloth and name names, which

00:04:58.280 is something he came up with on his own, a fiction story. It's harder to believe that

00:05:03.620 than it is to believe that the New York Times got called out and is now lying to cover their 0.99

00:05:07.560 own asses. And then, so that's, you know, two things. And remember, this is all within, 0.97

00:05:14.680 you know, a week or two. Then yesterday, also, we have the big breaking news, which the rest of

00:05:20.620 media is amplifying with trumpet blasts of celebration, that two women are filing harassment

00:05:26.280 suits against a whole bunch of Fox News employees and personalities, including Tucker Carlson and

00:05:31.600 others. As per usual, when people on the right are accused, these allegations are being taken at

00:05:37.700 face value because, of course, we're back to believe all women, right? We're back to that again. 0.99

00:05:42.260 We took a break with Joe Biden. Now we're back. Now we're, now we're believing women again. You

00:05:46.660 know, we, we, there was a couple of months there when we weren't supposed to believe women anymore,

00:05:49.640 but now, yeah, we can believe them again. Um, and, uh, but if, and of course these allegations

00:05:57.120 then, because believe all women, these allegations are being taken at face value as fact with very

00:06:03.080 little skepticism, but let's take a look at the actual allegations. Um, you tell me if these seem

00:06:10.440 credible to you, you be the judge here. Okay. I'm going to read now from the AP report.

00:06:16.900 This is what it says. Fox News channel stars, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Howard Kurtz were

00:06:21.940 accused of sexual harassment by a frequent on-air guest in a lawsuit filed Monday that the network

00:06:26.840 called frivolous and untrue. In the same case, a former, uh, Fox employee said she was harassed and

00:06:32.900 raped by news anchor, Ed Henry, who was fired July 1st, shortly after the network became aware of the

00:06:37.220 accusations. Henry's lawyer, Catherine Foti said Monday that her client's accuser, Jennifer Eckhart

00:06:42.980 initiated and encouraged a sexual relationship. Hannity and Carlson represent two thirds of Fox's

00:06:48.200 lucrative primetime lineup while Kurtz hosts the weekend media buzz show. None of the men have been

00:06:52.980 mentioned before in any misconduct allegations of Fox until the charges were made by Kathy RU.

00:06:59.240 I think that's how you pronounce it. A R E U. The lawsuit filed in New York describes RU's discomfort 0.97

00:07:04.920 with a, uh, March 28, 2018 incident on the set of Hannity show where the host allegedly put a hundred

00:07:11.920 dollars on a desk and challenged the men on his staff to take her out on a date. She said she was

00:07:17.400 a guest on Carlson show in December, 2018, and that after it was over, he told her he was staying in a

00:07:23.120 hotel room in New York that that night without his wife and children. In 2019, she said Kurtz invited her

00:07:28.980 to his hotel room to discuss her hope of getting a full-time job at Fox. When she instead invited him to

00:07:33.760 dinner with her and a friend, he declined, she said. In the cases of Carlson Kurtz, uh, RU believed the

00:07:40.040 men were making sexual advances, the lawsuit said. RU said she was also propositioned by

00:07:44.560 Gianno Caldwell, a Fox contributor. Based on an outside law firm's investigation, Fox said it found all of RU's

00:07:51.900 claims patently false, frivolous, and utterly devoid of any merit. Fox said it would defend itself

00:07:57.100 vigorously. Um, and then, uh, and then RU also said she got lewd messages from Ed Henry. And then

00:08:04.460 we have also the accusations against Ed Henry from, this is from Jennifer Eckhart. Uh, she said she was

00:08:10.500 24 at the time. She said that 49 year old Henry restrained her with metal handcuffs, took a nude

00:08:15.620 pictures of her and raped her in a hotel room. She said that she had asked Eckhart to, or that he had 0.58

00:08:21.460 asked Eckhart to be his sex slave and, uh, quote, little whore and punished her when she did not 1.00

00:08:26.940 comply with these demands. Um, okay. So there you go. There's all, there's all the information. 1.00

00:08:33.600 First, we have Kathy RU, who, who, who, by the way, was not an employee of Fox at the time of these

00:08:38.660 alleged incidents, who says, uh, let's, let's go through these one at a time. She says that Sean

00:08:45.620 Hannity put a hundred dollars on a table and offered to, uh, pay any man in the studio to take

00:08:51.580 her out. Now this, even if it happened, isn't sexual harassment at all. It makes no sense at all.

00:09:00.360 Why would Hannity, but he was going to pay someone to take her on a date. What does,

00:09:06.080 what does that even mean? What's, what's the context here? Unless there is a context that,

00:09:11.940 that, that, and this was a joke that would make sense in the context that we're not being told

00:09:17.480 about. Now that seems plausible, I guess the idea that Hannity did it randomly for no reason

00:09:23.900 with no context, just out of nowhere, here's a hundred bucks. Someone take this lady on a date. 1.00

00:09:29.780 It's just not plausible, but either way, whether it happened or not, whether there's context or not,

00:09:36.380 it's not harassment. It's a weird joke at absolute worst. Then she says, Kurtz asked her to come to

00:09:42.420 his hotel room and talk about getting a job. She says, let's go to dinner. And he said, no,

00:09:46.560 uh, the end according to her, you know, again, not harassment. Harassment would be if the 1.00

00:09:52.060 propositions continued and they were unwelcomed, um, inviting a woman to your hotel room when she's 0.95

00:09:58.180 not your coworker may not be appropriate. It may not be morally right. Especially if Kurtz is married.

00:10:03.380 I don't know if he is or not, but it's not harassment. And to the charge against Tucker.

00:10:09.180 I mean, this is really just one of the most frivolous sexual harassment claims I've ever

00:10:15.420 heard in my life. And the people that are amplifying these claims, they know that they

00:10:21.600 know it. And they know that if you actually click on the headline and the link and you read

00:10:27.140 what the claim is, you're going to immediately say, this is ridiculous. 0.65

00:10:32.940 So they know that, but, but the, the goal here is just to have Tucker and Hannity labeled as sexual 0.99

00:10:39.480 harassers. They, all they want, because as it says in the AP article, um, there have been plenty of

00:10:45.980 other claims made against Fox news people. As we know, uh, Hannity and Tucker have never been

00:10:51.840 mentioned by anybody before. And I think that is much to the chagrin of the left and their competitors

00:10:58.840 in the media who would love it. If these guys were also mentioned. And here we go. Finally,

00:11:03.140 they get it. The fact that it's frivolous doesn't matter because now all they can do, all they care

00:11:07.420 about is that they can label these guys as sexual harassers and that they can, they can put that

00:11:11.580 asterisk next to their name for the rest of their lives. Uh, but what does she say? She says, um,

00:11:16.320 that he said to her, I'll be alone in the city tonight. The end. That's it. That's all that

00:11:24.040 happened. According to her, even if her account is completely accurate, which we have no reason

00:11:30.060 to believe that it is, this isn't harassment saying I'm going to be alone tonight in the city

00:11:35.900 is sexual harassment. She chose to interpret it as a sexual proposition, which even if it was,

00:11:43.920 again, we have no reason to think it was, we have no reason to think any of this even happened,

00:11:47.280 but even if it was, even if it happened and even if she interpreted it correctly, that's not harassment.

00:11:54.660 I can easily imagine a non-sexual way and reason why something like that would be said.

00:12:01.840 Just for example, uh, you know, someone could say how they're, they're going to be,

00:12:07.960 they're going to be alone tonight. They have a hotel room to themselves and they're just happy to get

00:12:11.560 a break. That's, that's, that's a, that's a, a sentiment. People that have traveled and have

00:12:17.480 spent a night alone in hotel room when they've got kids, you know, happy for the break. Maybe they

00:12:21.780 can relate to that sentiment. So you could easily interpret it that way, but this is how she chose

00:12:27.760 to hear it. If it, again, if it happened at all, this is how she chose to hear it. She also says we

00:12:33.040 should note that she suffered punitive damages for turning down this alleged implied potential.

00:12:38.240 This is an alleged implied potential sexual proposition. And, uh, for turning down this

00:12:45.200 alleged implied potential sexual, sexual proposition, she says that she was, uh, punished

00:12:49.420 because she was only asked to appear on Tucker's show three times after that. Oh, the horror,

00:12:54.700 the horror, you know, I've only been asked to appear on Tucker's show once. I guess he sexually 0.94

00:13:00.000 harassed me too. I don't know. I, I, apparently, in fact, I've been on cable news shows frequently,

00:13:05.920 um, for, for a period. And then suddenly I'm not invited on again. It's pretty common. It happens

00:13:11.600 to a lot of people. It could be just that they have other guests they're bringing on. They just

00:13:15.480 haven't thought about it. It could be that they didn't find me that interesting. It could be that,

00:13:19.020 uh, maybe I said something on air they didn't like. Uh, it could be that the news cycle has

00:13:24.200 turned in a direction where they figure I don't have as much to offer. I mean, it could be any of

00:13:27.640 those explanations or yes, maybe it could be sexual harassment. I'm being, I'm being punished in some way.

00:13:31.880 Uh, yeah, let's go with that last explanation. It certainly is the most flattering to me,

00:13:36.700 right? That's, I would prefer for, for that to be the reason it's better than thinking that I

00:13:41.940 wasn't invited on because I'm not interesting. Uh, that, that, that would be, that would,

00:13:46.240 that would really hurt my self-esteem. So those are the claims against Tucker, Hannity and Kurtz.

00:13:50.520 The allegations against Ed Henry are obviously quite a bit more serious, but the seriousness of

00:13:54.380 them raises questions in and of itself. She says that she was stripped, cuffed, and assaulted

00:13:59.000 in a hotel room. Now, if that happened, um, it's a brutal, violent felony, multiple,

00:14:07.120 this is rape, kidnapping, aggravated assault. I mean, we've got probably a dozen violent felonies

00:14:12.480 here. And, uh, according to this, he's a, he's, he's a, he's a violent kidnapper and rapist 0.99

00:14:17.780 and should be facing life in prison if all of this happened exactly as it said. So why is this a civil 0.52

00:14:24.480 complaint in that case rather than a criminal complaint? Why didn't she go to the police 0.88

00:14:30.180 to say that I was kidnapped, bound and raped by a man? That's, I mean, according to this story,

00:14:38.060 this is a, this is a, uh, a shocking felony that was committed. Why didn't she immediately go to

00:14:45.940 the police after freeing herself and escaping? You know, uh, I mean, you can argue that in some of

00:14:52.720 these cases of legitimate harassment and, you know, there's always the question of, well, why didn't

00:14:57.320 you say something earlier? And sometimes there, there could be a, uh, a valid reason that nothing

00:15:04.480 was said earlier. Maybe you were uncomfortable. Maybe, you know, you, you weren't sure if it rose

00:15:09.660 to the level of, uh, of, of harassment or not. Maybe, you know, you were worried about professional

00:15:15.340 consequences. I mean, we could see all that, but with something like this, it's mind boggling that

00:15:22.360 you wouldn't go to the police right away with something like that. I mean, that is, that is so

00:15:27.000 that is such a horrific crime that you would have suffered that it's, it's hard to understand why

00:15:34.500 you wouldn't immediately go to the police. Um, so it's, it's, it's a strange thing and it's not

00:15:40.860 something that a thinking person can just take immediately on face value. Maybe it happened.

00:15:46.260 Maybe it's exactly as it's being described, but there are reasons to take a step back and,

00:15:51.760 and wonder, uh, what's, what's going on here. And anyway, regardless, this can't be lumped in

00:15:58.340 with the claims against Tucker and Hannity, which are just completely and obviously without merit.

00:16:05.880 And we know that because even if they happened, they don't rise anywhere close to the level of

00:16:12.520 harassment. Again, she wasn't even a coworker of theirs and call me cynical, but I suspect that that's

00:16:19.440 actually what she might be mad about. You know, she's not getting those sweet Fox bucks like she 1.00

00:16:24.320 wants. So she's finding another way to go about it. That would just be a potential theory of the case

00:16:29.880 here. Uh, in a theory that to me makes a lot more sense than what we're getting from this woman in

00:16:35.160 relation to Tucker and Hannity, especially. And the real point here is that all of this,

00:16:40.660 the avalanche of attacks, all of them gratuitous against Tucker Carlson specifically is what happens

00:16:48.620 to people who peak their heads too far above the crowd, who become too much of a problem to the left

00:16:54.380 because this is how the left plays the game. It's a take no prisoners approach, win at any cost.

00:17:00.060 Um, they, it's not enough to just beat you. Um, they want to destroy you. They want to destroy you

00:17:08.780 and everyone you love and everyone who knows you. That's the way they handle it. And we should

00:17:14.480 always remember that and act accordingly. All right, let's go to five headlines.

00:17:22.300 The rioters in Portland are still at it. Of course, let's check in and see how that's going on.

00:17:52.300 You know, you see videos like that and it, we should remember that, yes, these are violent

00:18:05.160 domestic terrorists who should all be arrested and sent to prison. Um, but also these are scrawny, 0.56

00:18:14.280 weak, pathetic wimps. And that's, and that's the thing that always jumps out at you when you see 1.00

00:18:19.940 these videos. There's a reason why they operate in packs and groups, and that's how they attack

00:18:25.740 people. That's how they do everything because one-on-one, these are just utterly pathetic and 0.99

00:18:30.400 unimpressive people. And that's, I think that's a big reason why they're doing what they're doing. 0.98

00:18:37.100 Um, it's, it's a way of feeling. I mean, a lot of these people probably were bullied in school,

00:18:41.600 um, and have just been treated as pathetic and unimpressive because they are their whole lives.

00:18:48.200 And now they're finding a way to finally an outlet where they can feel strong and powerful. 0.98

00:18:52.660 They put on the black costume and the mask and they go out and smash stuff. Uh, but they can't

00:18:57.180 even successfully smash glass with a, with a, you know, with a fire extinguisher. Um, because,

00:19:02.960 you know, probably the guy you were seeing there probably bench presses 47 pounds or something,

00:19:06.900 if that. Um, so that's, and that's the balance I always want to strike when we talk about

00:19:12.740 Antifa and the rioters that on one hand, they do represent a very real threat,

00:19:18.880 but I don't, you know, I also don't want to make the mistake of portraying them as if they

00:19:26.420 individually are tough and scary people because they aren't at all. But you put a group of any,

00:19:32.300 I mean, you put, it doesn't matter how weak and, and, and pitiful you are as a person.

00:19:35.940 If you get together in a group of a hundred people or more and you've got weapons and you're

00:19:41.520 setting fires. Yeah. Um, you're, you're going to be dangerous. Okay. Let's go to number two here.

00:19:46.520 Report from the daily wire says the wife of ABC's good morning host, George Stephanopoulos revealed 0.98

00:19:53.620 she's perfectly willing, uh, to teach her teenage daughters about sex by watching porn with them. 1.00

00:20:00.420 Allie Wentworth, whose daughters are 15 and 17 told the dissenters podcast that porn 0.98

00:20:05.000 would be educational for them because she could explain that porn is performative rather than

00:20:09.440 realistic. According to Yahoo news. Wentworth said in porn, women have been conditioned to look and 0.99

00:20:14.740 act a certain way. They are performing and it's dangerous to have boys see this as something women

00:20:19.060 want. You can't stop them. So I would watch it with them. I would look at the

00:20:23.460 porn with them that one time, like they're performing. Um, and then she goes on. I have

00:20:31.960 an issue with how we are raising this generation of children because we grew up without social media 0.85

00:20:36.640 for us, our children, us as parents are Guinea pigs. You know what I mean? I don't know what to 0.58

00:20:41.440 say about don't use your phone, use your phone. And I started learning as I went, uh, when I would

00:20:47.560 see other people's daughters and how sexualized they were on social media. And I became very passionate

00:20:51.920 about the idea that we went to, we want to regulate social media. We need to chart these

00:20:55.640 waters for our kids. So I started doing these panels on the social media and its effects.

00:20:59.420 And my feeling was, this was a very dangerous thing. I see it with other kids. Our suicide

00:21:04.240 rate too has doubled. I see the bad effects. I think there are good effects too. I mean,

00:21:08.660 this is, I'm just reading a transcript right now. This doesn't make any sense. It sounds like,

00:21:12.680 was she drunk or something? When that, that wouldn't make it much better. That would make it a little

00:21:17.620 bit better if she was drunk when she did. I have no idea if she was or not. Um, but this is largely

00:21:23.500 incoherent. I mean, we, we, we do find that she's worried about people's daughters being sexualized. 1.00

00:21:27.920 She seems to be worried from what I can decipher, um, um, about the effects of social media and her

00:21:33.760 way of responding to that is to watch hardcore pornography with her daughters, including her 1.00

00:21:38.940 15 year old daughter. Nothing matters. I mean, really no matter how old the daughter is, that's just 0.76

00:21:43.500 creepy and disgusting and weird, um, to put up mildly. So there's George Stephanopoulos's wife.

00:21:49.180 Number three, reading, um, again from the daily wire, it says St. Louis circuit attorney, Kim

00:21:58.420 Gardner, a Democrat announced on Monday that she's charging the St. Louis couple who defended their

00:22:02.100 private property using firearms last month with felony unlawful use of a weapon. The couple also

00:22:08.780 reportedly faces a fourth degree misdemeanor assault charge. Uh, the St. Louis dispatch reported Mark

00:22:16.320 and Patricia McCloskey each are facing a single felony count of unlawful use of a weapon exhibiting

00:22:21.340 charging documents say he pointed an AR 15 rifle at protesters and she wielded a semi-automatic handgun

00:22:27.260 placing those protesters in fear of injury. Um, so just to reiterate on this case, because this is

00:22:37.820 obviously an outrageous miscarriage of justice and the governors are has already said that he would

00:22:44.980 pardon. If there were charges brought, he would pardon these two, uh, American citizens who are

00:22:49.840 only defending their own property. And I'm glad to hear that. But the fact that charges were pressed at

00:22:54.920 all, uh, is as I said, outrageous. They're standing on their own property holding firearms. That is their

00:23:05.500 second amendment. Right. This is a direct attack on the second amendment. And it's not as though,

00:23:11.140 despite what we hear from the media, it's not as though they had no reason to think that these

00:23:16.420 supposed peaceful protesters might be violent. This is how dumb the media thinks we are. And this is how 0.98

00:23:22.680 dumb a lot of people actually are that they're, you know, they're, they're portraying the McCloskeys as 0.99

00:23:28.180 these gun toting lunatics and say, well, what, why would they think that they were at any risk? I mean, 0.99

00:23:33.900 these were peaceful as if we haven't all been watching the news for two, for two months and

00:23:38.400 seeing cities across the country, buildings being burned, random people assaulted. Let's pretend we

00:23:44.040 haven't seen that. No, except for all of that, there's just no reason at all to think that for

00:23:53.160 them to have thought that they were in any physical danger at all. Uh, number four, going back to the

00:23:57.760 Portland riots for a moment. Here's another interesting recent phenomenon at these riots. Uh, first,

00:24:02.440 let's just watch this footage here.

00:24:32.440 So what you're seeing there are the moms, the Antifa moms have shown up and they are forming a human

00:24:50.500 chain, a shield to shield their precious children as their precious children commit felonies, such as

00:24:57.260 trying to set a federal building on fire. Uh, so commit serious, serious, dangerous felonies.

00:25:02.640 The moms have shown up to, uh, help them, aid, abed them in their crimes. So to, to those of us who

00:25:09.380 had been theorizing that one of the reasons why Antifa exists is because of horrible parenting.

00:25:16.220 Now we have confirmation for that theory. If there was any doubt at all,

00:25:19.640 the, the pair, the terrible neglectful, awful parents have actually showed up to advertise

00:25:26.160 to all, but announce, Oh yeah, yeah. We're horrible. Well, look at us. Look how horrible we are. 0.93

00:25:30.780 They're on parade. They are parading their awful parenting for all of us to see.

00:25:35.600 So glad to, glad to get that confirmation. That feels, that feels good at least number five.

00:25:39.720 And now the AP, um, the AP is the latest to come out and say that the, the word black,

00:25:44.640 um, should be capitalized, but not white. And we, we, we've seen this more and more recently,

00:25:51.520 but I want you to listen to, here's the AP explaining why, um, there is this dichotomy

00:25:57.300 where we capitalize one and not the other. It says the AP said, this is according to an AP report.

00:26:01.860 The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture and don't have the

00:26:06.460 experience of being discriminated against because of skin color. We agree that, um, this is now John

00:26:12.540 Dana Showsky, the AP is vice president for standards said in a memo. We agree that white 1.00

00:26:17.480 people's skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to

00:26:21.800 robustly explore these problems, but capitalizing the term white as is done by white supremacists

00:26:28.000 risks subtly conveying legitimacy, uh, to such beliefs. Okay.

00:26:33.380 Okay. This is obviously nonsense. I mean, even if I were to agree that white people are never 0.99

00:26:45.000 discriminated against because of their skin color, which of course is not true, talk about systemic

00:26:51.620 racism. Okay. The only explicit out in the open example of actual systemic racism, like it's a

00:27:03.260 policy that we're going to discriminate against certain races. The only one that the only example 0.99

00:27:07.920 anyone could come up with is affirmative action. And that's, that is discrimination against white 0.68

00:27:12.800 people. So, but even if I were to agree with that, um, you know, white people don't have the 0.93

00:27:17.280 experience of being discriminated against. What does that have to do with grammar? What does that

00:27:21.540 do with punctuation? So we're, we're, you're going to, uh, or capitalization rather you, you capitalize

00:27:29.200 the first letter in the word black because they're discriminated against, but not, but not white because

00:27:33.840 they're not. What relation is there between those two things? It's total nonsense, but this is the left

00:27:46.020 turning grammar into as, and this is not the first example of it, obviously, but this is grammar

00:27:52.280 being politicized. This is a grant. Even grammar now is an ideological concern. And so even when

00:27:59.720 you're deciding what letters to capitalize, it's, you're not, you're not making that determination

00:28:03.960 based on any grammatical rule. You're making it based on ideological doctrine. And that's what we see

00:28:10.860 once again. All right, we're going to go to our daily cancellation. Um, before we do, you know,

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00:29:35.720 okay. Now for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling this naked exhibitionist 0.75

00:29:44.200 and her fans and media. Maybe you've seen this picture. Uh, this is, I'm told an iconic

00:29:49.600 picture, uh, historically significant picture. I have been, I have been reliably informed of an

00:29:57.080 unidentified pervert showing up naked to the Portland riots. And actually, as you can see here, 0.73

00:30:02.440 spreading her legs for the officers. This is supposed to be a way, I guess, of, uh, of showing the

00:30:09.680 officers, showing them something. She, she is certainly showing them something. All right.

00:30:16.320 Specifically her genitalia is what she's showing them. And of course the media loves this, perhaps 0.99

00:30:21.960 not surprisingly. Here's the LA times practically breaking into poetry when describing, uh, this

00:30:29.420 woman is their article. It says she emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas as federal

00:30:35.300 agents fired pepper balls at angry protesters in the early Saturday darkness. A woman wearing nothing 0.99

00:30:40.620 but a blast black face mask and a stocking cap strode towards a dozen heavily armed agents,

00:30:45.960 attired in camouflage fatigues lined up across a downtown Portland street. The agents dispatched

00:30:51.560 by the Trump administration over a vociferous objections of state and city officials are part

00:30:55.960 of a force that has fired projectiles at and detained activists protesting nightly since the

00:31:00.660 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, May 25th. Oh, we're still pretending. We're still

00:31:04.840 pretending this has anything to do with George Floyd whatsoever. Okay. Um, numerous photos and videos

00:31:10.780 posted on Twitter show the unidentified woman as she, she halted in the middle of the street at about 0.98

00:31:14.880 1 45 AM. She stood calmly a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering

00:31:21.040 force that has been criticized nationally by civil rights advocates. The agents and gas masks and

00:31:26.620 helmets continued firing pepper balls in a staccato pop, pop, pop heard on video aiming low at the

00:31:33.020 asphalt where puffs of smoke mingled with clouds of gas. Um, before it was over, she struck ballet poses

00:31:42.240 and reclined on the street. She also sat on the asphalt in a yoga like position facing officers before 0.96

00:31:48.100 they left. The woman making her statement Saturday was altogether uninhibited at one point standing on 1.00

00:31:53.280 one leg and raising her arms in a arc type motion. As she struck ballet poses, a patrol car arrived and a 0.91

00:32:00.020 dozen officers in blue uniforms replaced the line of agents. Um, uh, okay. And then it goes on. I mean, this thing

00:32:09.300 goes on forever. I was, I can't even come near arguing, uh, or reading the entire thing.

00:32:18.620 Okay. But this is all for a chick who showed the cops her genitals. Now I want you to imagine for a 0.99

00:32:26.340 moment, a different scenario, slightly different. Okay. But, but analogous, let's say this was a woman's 0.52

00:32:33.640 march. And those were a bunch of women holding shout your abortion signs instead of cops, instead of 1.00

00:32:39.620 male cops, largely. And then imagine a naked man comes out, emerges as an apparition from the darkness,

00:32:48.720 as the LA times would say, and strikes a bunch of naked poses, uh, exposing his whole nude self in all

00:32:57.740 his glory, uh, before these, these, these women. What do you think? Any chance that dude is celebrated?

00:33:04.580 What do you think? You think they're gonna be celebrating that? No. Um, on the contrary, of course,

00:33:09.360 he would be condemned as a sex predator, probably arrested as such and officially charged. Uh, he'd be

00:33:15.520 on the sex offender registry already. And his performance would be seen as further evidence that

00:33:20.580 masculinity is toxic and dangerous and women are oppressed and so on and so on and so on and so on.

00:33:25.220 This is why we need the Me Too movement. You see, right here. Oh, but this is different somehow. Right?

00:33:32.380 This is, this is different. How's it different? Why is it different? Nobody can explain. No one can

00:33:40.120 explain, but it just is. We're supposed to accept. We're supposed to simply accept that it's different

00:33:45.640 and go along with it. Well, no, we shouldn't accept it. And this is something that when it comes to,

00:33:52.500 uh, especially the double standard, I mean, the double standard when it was, especially with

00:33:56.360 how women are treated versus men, this, the standards that men are held to versus women. I 0.50

00:34:01.560 mean, the double standards there are glaring, um, obvious to anyone with two brain cells,

00:34:07.340 but this does become, I think for some conservatives, uh, a little bit complicated

00:34:14.940 because as conservatives, and I actually agree that men and women are not the same.

00:34:21.860 And this is what we've been saying all along. And actually men and women should not be treated the

00:34:26.920 same. Um, you know, we, we, we shouldn't in, in our daily lives and in the way we treat each other,

00:34:33.800 we shouldn't just pretend that if you're dealing with a woman or a man, it's exactly the same.

00:34:38.140 There is a difference. And so as conservatives, we should, we should recognize that. And I've

00:34:45.500 heard some conservatives, in fact, someone on Twitter today was making this argument to me

00:34:48.320 that, uh, yeah, this is a double standard, but there should be a double standard. This is what

00:34:52.380 we think as conservatives. So we shouldn't complain about this. Um, no, no. Uh, yes, I, I believe

00:35:02.780 that men and women are not the same and shouldn't be necessarily treated the same. That's what

00:35:06.720 chivalry is about. Okay. As men, we're going to, you know, respond to women a little bit

00:35:11.800 differently. If we want to be chivalrous, I believe in that, but that doesn't mean this

00:35:16.800 should go without saying. It doesn't mean that we should give women the license to be jerks 0.99

00:35:22.160 and perverts and degenerates while condemning men for the same. Not only that, but giving women 1.00

00:35:28.300 license and actually celebrating them for being jerks, perverts, and degenerates while accusing 1.00

00:35:32.720 men of being those things, even when they're not. So just perfect example here, here's a woman 1.00

00:35:38.580 naked, spreading her legs for officers in the middle of the street. Okay. And, and, and, 0.98

00:35:43.620 and we're supposed to celebrate that. On the other hand, if you have a man on a subway who's fully

00:35:49.440 clothed and slightly spreading his legs a little bit, because he's, you know, it's just, he's a man.

00:35:55.220 And so anatomically, he's not able to sit exactly how a woman can sit because he has other, 0.95

00:35:59.680 shall we say concerns he has to take into account here. That is supposed to be gratuitous and awful

00:36:06.240 and patriarchal. And, and, you know, that's a big problem. We have that PSAs about it and,

00:36:10.460 and signs on the subway telling men not to man spread. Okay. That's an example of treating men 1.00

00:36:18.380 and women differently in a way that is not good and that we should not support as conservatives or as 0.99

00:36:23.980 anybody. I don't care what your political leaning is. We should not support that. So there's a

00:36:29.420 difference between advocating for, for chivalry and for recognizing the inherent differences

00:36:35.340 between the sexes. You know, you can do that. That doesn't mean giving license to women, um, 1.00

00:36:43.120 to act in exactly the kinds of ways they're constantly accusing men of acting and complaining

00:36:48.560 about men acting that way. So no. Uh, and there's of course nothing chivalrous about seeing that

00:36:56.340 display and celebrating it. Again, should, should need to be explained. I don't think I should need

00:37:01.760 to spell this out, but I think I do. Um, these double standards. No, we can't accept them. We

00:37:07.220 shouldn't accept them. We shouldn't go along with them. I think too many people are willing to

00:37:11.020 and we should. All right. So, uh, canceled. We're canceling who we cancel. We're canceling the woman. 1.00

00:37:18.260 We're canceling, you know, the media, everybody, everyone involved is canceled on this one.

00:37:23.200 And we're going to wrap it up there. Uh, but before I do, you know, I just wanted to mention

00:37:27.100 Ben Shapiro's book, how to destroy America in three easy steps, uh, goes on sale Tuesday, July 21st,

00:37:33.380 which last I checked is today. So it goes on sale today at 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific. Ben's going to

00:37:38.420 be doing a virtual live signing event. Um, with, uh, your purchase of a signed copy, you can write in

00:37:43.920 questions, which may be read on air. And, uh, he'll, you know, as he's signing the books, he'll,

00:37:48.460 he'll read those. So go to dailywire.com slash Ben right now. Uh, now's your chance. Still,

00:37:54.420 you still have a little bit of time to pre-order the book. So I would encourage you to do that.

00:37:58.860 Uh, and then be a part of Ben's live signing on Tuesday, July 21st, which is today. So that'll

00:38:05.660 be exciting. And it's a great book as well. I have it on my shelf and I've been, I've been reading it,

00:38:09.240 uh, the last couple of days. Uh, we'll wrap it up there. Thanks for watching everybody.

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