The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 535 - George Floyd Bodycam Footage Is Out. We Weren't Told The Full Truth.

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, after two months of being kept from the public, the body cam footage showing the minutes leading up to George Floyd's death has been released.

00:00:08.020 Let's just say that the issue is far more complicated than what the media led us to believe.

00:00:13.300 We'll discuss that in detail today.

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00:02:16.720 We're going to talk about this now.

00:02:19.700 We'll back up and review a few things.

00:02:23.520 Two months after footage of George Floyd's death went viral, sparking an epidemic of rioting

00:02:28.460 and violence that killed dozens of people and caused untold damage to countless communities

00:02:32.440 across the country, body cam footage of the incident has finally been made public.

00:02:37.340 It was published by the Daily Mail.

00:02:38.900 It was leaked to the outlet, and then they published it.

00:02:42.660 The additional video, it lends crucial context to the fatal encounter between Floyd and Officer

00:02:49.060 Derek Chauvin.

00:02:50.080 It also gives insight, importantly, into the states of mind of both men.

00:02:54.920 That's one of the main things you take away from this.

00:02:57.180 Now, given that this tragic episode and the reaction to it has been the most significant

00:03:02.120 story in the country for two months and one of the most significant of the past decade,

00:03:06.080 you might think, if you didn't know any better, that the media would treat the new evidence,

00:03:10.020 this new footage, as a rather big story.

00:03:12.640 You might think it'd be headlines everywhere.

00:03:14.180 It'd be the main thing they're talking about.

00:03:15.500 But so far, the opposite has been the case.

00:03:17.840 The news media, for the most part, has had a noticeably muted reaction to the footage.

00:03:21.920 One might even say suspiciously muted.

00:03:24.600 Perhaps that's because the story the new footage tells is, at the very least, far more complicated

00:03:32.900 than the one the media and activists have been screaming into our ears since May.

00:03:38.100 That story, with which we are all extremely familiar, of course, is that George Floyd was

00:03:42.160 a compliant, peaceful man who was strangled to death, they said, by a racist, anti-black, 0.98

00:03:49.960 sociopathic cop. 1.00

00:03:51.960 Straightforward, we were told.

00:03:53.340 Quite literally, black and white.

00:03:56.040 And the only opinion one can really have about it is the kind of opinion that is easily expressed

00:04:00.400 on a protest sign.

00:04:02.220 That's what we were told.

00:04:03.380 Now, of course, we've known from the beginning that some of this was, to put it gently,

00:04:07.720 not exactly accurate.

00:04:11.820 However Floyd was or wasn't acting on the day of his death, it strains credulity to use

00:04:16.480 a word like peaceful to describe a man who once forced his way into a woman's home and robbed

00:04:20.500 her at gunpoint in front of her child. 0.99

00:04:22.560 That's a very difficult thing to call peaceful.

00:04:25.880 As for the racism claim, well, there was perhaps no evidence to disprove it, but neither was

00:04:31.180 ever any evidence presented to support it.

00:04:33.900 It's merely assumed that any white police officer who kills a black suspect, no matter

00:04:39.000 the circumstances, is motivated at some level by racism.

00:04:42.420 Now, some of these killings may be motivated by racism.

00:04:45.500 I don't know, but the burden of proof is on those who make the claim.

00:04:50.100 Yet those who make the claim rarely acknowledge that there is any burden of proof to meet,

00:04:54.100 much less make any honest attempt to meet it.

00:04:56.600 Also, anyone following the story has known for some time that, in addition to everything

00:05:01.340 else, according to the medical examiner's report, Floyd was not strangled to death and

00:05:06.400 did not die from asphyxiation as the media had so confidently declared in the immediate

00:05:10.120 aftermath, it was found that Floyd, who had pre-existing heart conditions, three illicit

00:05:15.200 drugs in his system, including fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than morphine and known

00:05:19.660 to cause respiratory distress, it was found that he died of cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating

00:05:25.460 law enforcement, subdual restraint, and neck compression.

00:05:29.380 That's what the medical examiner said.

00:05:31.200 A medical examination performed by an examiner hired by Floyd's family contradicted those findings,

00:05:36.240 claiming that he was, in fact, he did, in fact, die of asphyxiation.

00:05:41.200 So that was the status of things prior to this week's developments.

00:05:48.100 We had an out-of-context video, a bunch of assumptions, and not much more.

00:05:54.320 And those assumptions were considered reason enough to burn our cities.

00:05:57.940 Now, the new footage doesn't necessarily clarify everything.

00:06:02.040 In fact, it does the opposite.

00:06:02.960 It adds complications and nuances to an issue that was once assumed to be utterly and completely

00:06:09.040 straightforward.

00:06:10.280 It's not.

00:06:11.880 The body cameras worn by officers Alex Kang and Thomas Lane, the first two cops on the

00:06:16.520 scene, show a number of things.

00:06:18.880 They show that Floyd is agitated and uncooperative from the first moment that officers arrive in

00:06:24.100 response to a call from a business owner who accused Floyd of trying to pass off counterfeit

00:06:27.480 bills.

00:06:27.800 Floyd is in his car when law enforcement first shows up.

00:06:33.300 One of the officers draws his weapon because Floyd is initially hesitant to show his hands.

00:06:37.540 They keep telling him to show his hands.

00:06:38.640 He doesn't.

00:06:39.460 Gun comes out.

00:06:40.140 Once Floyd places his hands on his head in full view of the officers, the gun is holstered.

00:06:45.880 After much coaxing, he's eventually removed from his car, taken to the police cruiser.

00:06:50.400 Now, Floyd appears to have trouble walking on his way over to the police car, and they

00:06:55.160 ask him several times if he's on something, and he was.

00:06:57.960 He was on several things.

00:06:59.640 He shouts, ow, and seems to be in pain, even though he's only being grabbed by his arm.

00:07:05.080 He's quite, he's doing a lot of screaming and acting as though he's in pain.

00:07:10.580 Once at the vehicle, he repeatedly refuses to get inside, saying that he's claustrophobic,

00:07:15.980 though he'd just been sitting in his own car without any apparent difficulty.

00:07:18.960 On the contrary, he was extremely reluctant to get out of his own vehicle, only to then

00:07:23.440 claim he's too claustrophobic to get back inside one.

00:07:26.500 At one point, as officers try to convince him to get in the car, Floyd actually says

00:07:29.740 that he'd rather lay on the ground.

00:07:32.560 He also says several times that he's going to die, that he can't breathe.

00:07:36.540 All of this before he was on the ground.

00:07:40.200 And he ends up there on the ground because he either falls or pushes himself out of the

00:07:44.540 other side of the police cruiser as officers struggle to get him inside the vehicle.

00:07:49.800 From that point, the scene unfolds, as we all saw on the initial video two months ago.

00:07:55.140 Now, you can go online and watch the full body cam footage.

00:07:58.160 I would recommend doing that so you get the whole context.

00:08:00.240 Obviously, I can't play all of that footage here.

00:08:02.360 But I will play a clip of the interaction between Floyd and the officers at the police cruiser,

00:08:06.640 because I think this is perhaps the most relevant portion.

00:08:11.120 Hands on top of your head.

00:08:15.520 Step out of the vehicle and step away from me, all right?

00:08:18.440 Step out and face away.

00:08:20.580 Step out and face away.

00:08:22.140 Please don't shoot me.

00:08:23.100 Please, man.

00:08:23.640 I'm not going to shoot you.

00:08:24.580 Step out and face away. 0.99

00:08:25.840 I'll make you out of the house, man. 0.74

00:08:27.260 Please don't shoot me, man.

00:08:30.680 I just asked my mom, man.

00:08:32.320 I'm taking one out.

00:08:37.360 Stop resisting, man.

00:08:38.860 I'm not.

00:08:39.880 Yes, you are.

00:08:41.460 Oh, ouchie, man.

00:08:43.040 Are you on something right now?

00:08:44.040 I'm not knowing nothing.

00:08:44.900 You're acting already.

00:08:46.200 Let's go.

00:08:46.920 Yeah, man.

00:08:47.840 Let's go.

00:08:48.220 Let's go.

00:08:48.240 Why the hell do I mean I did it?

00:08:49.940 Please crack it for me and stuff, man.

00:08:52.460 I am claustrophobic for real.

00:08:54.620 You got him?

00:08:55.440 Please crack it for me.

00:08:56.560 Yes, I'll crack it.

00:08:57.480 I will.

00:08:57.960 Please stay with me, man.

00:08:59.540 Thank you.

00:09:00.600 I'm not the kind of guy, man.

00:09:02.260 Take a seat. 0.89

00:09:02.900 Yo, I'm going to die in here. 0.65

00:09:04.360 Take a seat. 1.00

00:09:04.900 I'm going to die, man. 0.94

00:09:05.800 You need to take a seat right now. 0.97

00:09:07.240 And I just had COVID, man.

00:09:08.400 I don't want to go back to that.

00:09:09.380 Okay, I'll roll the window down.

00:09:10.760 Hey, listen.

00:09:11.660 Dang, man.

00:09:12.380 Listen.

00:09:13.100 I'm not the kind of guy.

00:09:14.480 I'm not a bad guy, man.

00:09:15.600 Get in the car.

00:09:16.240 I'm not a bad guy.

00:09:17.540 I'm not a bad guy.

00:09:19.380 I'm not a bad guy.

00:09:21.380 I'm not a bad guy.

00:09:22.380 I'm not a bad guy.

00:09:23.380 Please, take a seat.

00:09:25.680 Please, man.

00:09:26.600 Please.

00:09:27.000 No, I can't take a seat.

00:09:29.720 I can't choke.

00:09:31.060 I can't breathe.

00:09:32.320 Please.

00:09:34.140 My wrist.

00:09:36.820 My wrist, man.

00:09:38.080 My wrist, man, please.

00:09:39.500 I can't take a seat.

00:09:40.860 I'm going to die on the ground.

00:09:42.560 I'm on the ground. 0.98

00:09:43.680 I'm going to die on the ground.

00:09:45.820 I'm on the ground. 0.90

00:09:47.560 I'm on the ground.

00:09:50.240 Get out of the ground.

00:09:51.080 Now, as previously stated, none of this conclusively exonerates the officers of any and all wrongdoing,

00:10:00.740 but it does establish a few facts that might mitigate their culpability.

00:10:06.180 Number one, to review the facts, George Floyd was uncooperative, clearly intoxicated, and resisting arrest.

00:10:14.000 Number two, the officers were remarkably calm and reasonable for most of the interaction.

00:10:19.960 Number three, George Floyd claimed that he couldn't breathe and was going to die well before he had a knee on his neck.

00:10:25.940 Number four, the officers never did or said a single thing that any reasonable person could possibly construe as racist.

00:10:35.680 Now, all those points are important, but let's focus on point three for a moment here.

00:10:41.020 Floyd said that he was too claustrophobic to get in the police car and that he might die and couldn't breathe,

00:10:45.520 even though he was just sitting in a car.

00:10:47.560 He was screaming that he was in pain, even though officers at that point weren't doing anything that could have caused him any physical harm.

00:10:55.860 We should also note that he said at one point that his mom had just died, even though she'd been dead for over two years.

00:11:01.960 Now, the officers would not have known that, you know, when his mom died, obviously, but presumably.

00:11:06.160 But the point is that cops, they hear nonsense like this from suspects all day, every day.

00:11:12.660 Just ask them and they'll tell you.

00:11:14.240 This can create a kind of boy who cried wolf situation where it's harder to tell when a suspect is actually in distress.

00:11:19.820 If he's claiming he's in distress the entire time, even when he's not, then how do you know when he really is?

00:11:24.680 When Floyd was on the ground saying he was going to die,

00:11:27.100 it was no different from what he was saying while he was standing or what he was saying when he was in the car.

00:11:30.920 These facts may not be exculpatory, but they certainly are relevant.

00:11:36.560 The narrative, as it was originally presented, does not take into account any of these details.

00:11:41.760 It demands that we see the event as nothing more or less than a wanton act of random cruelty

00:11:46.860 with nothing precipitating it, no context, and with not even an ounce of blame or responsibility to be shared by Floyd himself.

00:11:54.200 Now, in reality, Floyd may still be the victim of some degree of negligence,

00:11:59.440 but it seems that the murder charge will be difficult to prove.

00:12:04.120 The truth just isn't that simple, and it rarely is.

00:12:07.380 And that's a lesson we would all do well to remember for the future,

00:12:10.260 especially where these police videos are concerned.

00:12:13.500 One final point I want to make here, because I can't move on without pointing this out.

00:12:17.580 As I said, the media has not been anxious to talk about the body cam footage.

00:12:23.360 They have not been anxious.

00:12:24.960 But the interesting thing is that CNN did report rather extensively on this body cam footage

00:12:29.760 back before anyone in the public had seen it.

00:12:33.540 They were able to view it weeks ago.

00:12:35.260 It was being held from release at that point by the courts, but they let the media watch it.

00:12:40.320 And that enabled CNN to describe it in their own words without anyone contradicting them.

00:12:44.840 And you can imagine how that went.

00:12:47.000 The video offers basically context and clues that aren't included in the transcript,

00:12:53.300 mainly the emotion of it and the speed with which this happens.

00:12:57.400 Remember, these officers responded to a call over a fake bill being used.

00:13:01.260 Within 36 seconds of them speaking to the store owner, that last words with the store owner,

00:13:07.020 they now had a gun pointed in George Floyd's face saying,

00:13:11.680 let me see your effing hands after initially knocking on the window with a flashlight.

00:13:16.860 And then throughout that interaction, George Floyd is sobbing throughout as he is pleading with officers,

00:13:22.540 asking what he did, eventually calming down to the point where he seems to be complying and a struggle ensues.

00:13:28.220 Then it's minutes after that, another struggle trying to get him into a police car.

00:13:33.620 And this is part of why viewing the video as opposed to just a transcript is so important.

00:13:38.540 The last words listed in at least a transcript for former officer Thomas Lane lists those words as pleas.

00:13:45.840 But then as you watch the actual video, you actually see a little bit later, there's another please.

00:13:51.860 And then, man, I can't breathe.

00:13:54.540 This is actually a very important lesson in media bias, what you just saw there.

00:13:57.740 And it's the true reality of fake news that we should all understand.

00:14:04.240 You heard the CNN reporter describing the body cam footage weeks before anyone in the public had seen it.

00:14:10.380 Was his description a lie?

00:14:13.000 No, not really.

00:14:15.460 The effect is, yeah, it was misleading and intentionally so.

00:14:19.360 But nothing he said was in itself factually inaccurate.

00:14:22.840 Floyd does cry and plead.

00:14:25.720 And there are points in the video when he seems to be complying.

00:14:29.620 Of course, he's not really complying at any point at all, but he's resisting the whole time.

00:14:33.700 But he does seem to be complying in individual spots in the video.

00:14:37.840 That's how it was phrased.

00:14:39.700 And when you describe it like that, like the reporter does here, it sounds pretty damning for the police.

00:14:44.460 When you watch it, on the other hand, it feels very different and looks very different.

00:14:48.820 That's because CNN left out many details.

00:14:52.340 And this is where the fake news almost always comes in.

00:14:55.300 It's what they leave out.

00:14:56.700 It's not what they say.

00:14:57.800 It's what they leave out.

00:14:58.780 They leave out that he's clearly intoxicated.

00:15:00.780 They leave out that he says he's going to die and that he can't breathe before he was on the ground.

00:15:04.900 They leave out that the officers themselves were patient and reasonable.

00:15:08.000 They leave out that Floyd had a mysterious bout of claustrophobia right when they tried to get him in the car.

00:15:13.820 They leave out that he said that he wanted to lay on the ground.

00:15:16.420 They leave out nearly every detail that I already mentioned.

00:15:19.520 Now, I'm not going to continue to rehash here.

00:15:21.160 They leave all of that out.

00:15:23.100 So they issued a report that was dishonest, misleading, grotesque, reckless, defamatory, and yet technically accurate.

00:15:30.680 And that is fake news.

00:15:32.960 That's how it works.

00:15:33.700 It's far more insidious than we tend to think in the way that we portray it.

00:15:38.420 We act like they're out there fabricating outlandish stories all the time.

00:15:42.460 And there has been a little bit of that, but mostly not.

00:15:44.440 What they do is they take real stories and they whittle them down into the shape and form, getting rid of the details they don't like, whittling them down into the shape and form that they prefer.

00:15:55.060 And that's exactly what happened here.

00:15:56.640 Perfect example of it.

00:15:58.200 But there's the full context that we all should know.

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00:17:33.200 Some really shocking footage.

00:17:36.260 Incredible, horrible footage out of Beirut.

00:17:39.800 And there's video of this from different angles all over social media right now.

00:17:44.040 Massive explosion.

00:17:45.420 I want you to watch this with the sound.

00:17:47.720 Watch this.

00:17:51.380 Yeah, from what I'm being told, or not what I'm being told, like I have special sources.

00:18:13.720 From what I've read, they're right now trying to blame that on a fireworks factory explosion or something.

00:18:22.660 I've never seen a fireworks factory explode.

00:18:25.100 I confess I'm a little skeptical that it would look like that.

00:18:28.140 But also, I'm not going to really speculate because I have no idea whatsoever.

00:18:33.540 But there is the story that everyone will be, of course, following.

00:18:37.660 Let's go number two. 0.97

00:18:38.780 Donald Trump, for some reason, did an interview with Axios.

00:18:43.180 Axios.

00:18:43.760 Axis.

00:18:44.200 Maybe the O is silent.

00:18:45.080 I don't know.

00:18:45.320 A-X-I-O-S. 1.00

00:18:46.980 Something.

00:18:47.460 I don't know how to pronounce it.

00:18:48.280 So he was on HBO giving an interview.

00:18:51.380 And some clips of that interview have been circling, circulating.

00:18:54.580 And the clips are, well, they're not great.

00:18:58.080 They're really not great at all.

00:18:59.880 Let's just watch one of the clips.

00:19:02.420 John Lewis is lying in state in the U.S. Capitol.

00:19:05.280 How do you think history will remember John Lewis?

00:19:07.740 I don't know.

00:19:08.440 I really don't know.

00:19:09.640 I don't know.

00:19:10.600 I don't know John Lewis.

00:19:12.500 He chose not to come to my inauguration.

00:19:16.380 He chose...

00:19:17.700 I never met John Lewis, actually.

00:19:20.160 I don't believe it.

00:19:20.720 Do you find him impressive?

00:19:24.740 I can't say one way or the other.

00:19:26.300 I find a lot of people impressive.

00:19:27.580 I find many people not impressive.

00:19:29.320 But, no, but I didn't go...

00:19:30.620 Do you find his story impressive?

00:19:31.720 He didn't come to my inauguration.

00:19:33.940 He didn't come to my State of the Union speeches.

00:19:36.200 And that's okay.

00:19:36.900 That's his right.

00:19:38.140 And, again, nobody has done more for...

00:19:41.080 For black Americans than I have.

00:19:43.620 I understand.

00:19:44.020 He should have come.

00:19:44.900 I think he made a big mistake.

00:19:46.480 But taking your relationship with him out of it,

00:19:49.520 do you find his story impressive,

00:19:51.540 what he's done for this country?

00:19:53.340 He was a person that devoted a lot of energy

00:19:56.780 and a lot of heart to civil rights,

00:19:59.520 but there were many others also.

00:20:01.820 There's a petition to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge

00:20:05.840 in Selma, Alabama, as the John Lewis Bridge.

00:20:08.980 Would you support that idea?

00:20:10.120 I would have no objection to it if they'd like to do it.

00:20:12.660 Yeah, that's a good idea.

00:20:13.160 Would have no objection to it whatsoever.

00:20:15.260 And that actually is not at all the worst bit of the interview,

00:20:18.800 but it is the shortest clip I could find,

00:20:20.440 so that's why I decided to play it.

00:20:21.580 That's how I make editorial decisions.

00:20:23.240 It's all about efficiency.

00:20:24.720 So, listen, here's all I'm going to say, okay?

00:20:27.280 Just some unsolicited advice that won't be heeded and won't matter,

00:20:30.400 so I'm just offering it up to the universe, okay?

00:20:33.160 I'm shouting it out into the ether for no reason.

00:20:37.440 Trump should take one of two paths here.

00:20:41.920 Either stop doing media, stop doing interviews, the Biden approach,

00:20:47.200 or do them but come in prepared with a plan and be on the ball,

00:20:54.040 ready to answer basic questions.

00:20:56.260 I think either of those approaches will be fine.

00:20:59.220 I really, I have no preference.

00:21:00.640 Either one, I take either one.

00:21:03.200 But doing the interviews and having no plan

00:21:05.500 and just stammering around the questions,

00:21:08.820 evading them in the clunkiest possible way,

00:21:11.000 constantly bringing everything back to your own personal gripes,

00:21:14.000 that is the worst of all worlds.

00:21:16.380 That is literally the worst possible way

00:21:19.360 to approach this particular facet of campaigning.

00:21:22.140 And I find it endlessly frustrating.

00:21:26.520 And anyone like me who really doesn't want Democrats to win in 2020

00:21:30.600 should also be frustrated by this

00:21:32.600 and should be voicing their frustrations.

00:21:34.780 Because it is, I think, in part because of all the yes-men around Donald Trump

00:21:39.600 and of all of his fans who just will never criticize him,

00:21:43.960 it's in part because of them that he thinks

00:21:47.520 that he can just wander, waltz his way into an interview

00:21:50.200 with a talented interviewer, which this guy was,

00:21:54.820 and sit down with no preparation

00:21:56.600 and just wing it and say, yeah, bring it, you know,

00:21:59.480 and he's going to come off well.

00:22:00.780 That's what he thinks about himself.

00:22:02.660 It's not true.

00:22:05.040 Most people don't have the talent to do that.

00:22:08.200 Maybe some people do.

00:22:10.220 Trump is not one of those some people.

00:22:12.660 He's not.

00:22:13.800 He needs to be prepared

00:22:15.180 or he's going to get chewed up and spit out, 0.58

00:22:17.560 which is what happened here.

00:22:18.380 And also, by the way, you know, I've read some I've seen some reactions

00:22:23.440 on social media from Trump people, you know,

00:22:25.860 trying to pretend this was like an unfair interview

00:22:28.940 and these were gotcha questions.

00:22:30.340 No, they weren't. 0.91

00:22:31.420 I mean, I'm quite certain that this reporter hates Donald Trump's guts.

00:22:37.500 So what?

00:22:38.220 The questions he asked were actually perfectly fair and reasonable.

00:22:42.240 They weren't gotcha questions.

00:22:43.780 If a question like, you know, what do you think of John Lewis?

00:22:49.040 If that's a gotcha question for you, 0.95

00:22:51.260 then, again, you're too incompetent to be doing interviews at all. 0.95

00:22:56.140 That's a really easy question to answer.

00:22:58.240 Oh, he's a civil rights icon, a real hero.

00:23:00.600 Sorry to see you.

00:23:01.520 Sorry.

00:23:01.940 It's very sad at his passing.

00:23:03.560 That's it.

00:23:03.940 That's all you have to say.

00:23:04.700 And then when they come back with, oh, but you guys were at odds.

00:23:07.180 He didn't come to your inauguration.

00:23:10.260 I mean, it seems like, oh, that's fine.

00:23:11.940 That's that's fine.

00:23:12.860 He has every right to do that.

00:23:14.220 But that doesn't change the fact that he was a heroic man

00:23:16.380 and have great respect for him and his family.

00:23:18.340 There you go.

00:23:18.800 That's all you have to say.

00:23:19.820 And the thing is, before you try to say, well, Trump didn't want to pander.

00:23:24.440 He's not he's going to shoot from the hip and he's not pandering.

00:23:26.860 Not true.

00:23:27.660 He got around to saying that.

00:23:30.360 Right.

00:23:31.400 But it's just before he got there, he stammered around for a minute and a half

00:23:34.900 and kept saying over and over again, like a like a sixth grader with his feelings hurt.

00:23:38.420 He didn't come to my inauguration. 0.99

00:23:39.960 Just cut that crap out and get right to the answer. 0.95

00:23:44.580 Or don't do the interviews. 1.00

00:23:47.120 Be like Biden.

00:23:48.320 Hide in the basement.

00:23:51.400 All right.

00:23:52.800 Let's go to number three.

00:23:54.280 Jonathan Isaac of the Orlando Magic was the first player to stand for the anthem before a game.

00:24:00.780 And and, you know, this is literally taking a heroic stand here.

00:24:05.040 You got to think about what that involves.

00:24:06.840 He's the first guy in the entire NBA to include coaches and everybody actually standing to show

00:24:15.980 his respect for the flag.

00:24:17.580 And then Isaac shortly after blew out his ACL and is, of course, done for the for the year.

00:24:23.540 The left wonderful people that they are have been gloating about this, including an ESPN host,

00:24:28.420 Dan Levitard, who posted a poll online asking whether the injury was funny.

00:24:34.240 And now Levitard is has apologized and claimed that he wasn't claiming it was funny.

00:24:40.040 He was just asking whether other people think it was funny.

00:24:42.500 Sure.

00:24:43.380 So Levitard, to be clear, is white and Isaac is black. 0.86

00:24:47.380 So this is a white man laughing over a black man's injury because the black man doesn't agree with his 0.72

00:24:53.400 politics. That's what's happening there. But the thing I really wanted to home in on here is is the 0.95

00:24:59.140 line of questioning that Isaac endured after the first game where he stood for the anthem and didn't

00:25:05.680 wear the Black Lives Matter T-shirt. Listen to this. This is this is this is a question he was asked

00:25:10.460 at a postgame press conference. So you didn't kneel during the anthem, but you also didn't wear a Black 0.62

00:25:16.260 Lives Matter shirt. Do you believe that Black Lives Matter? 1.00

00:25:20.560 Absolutely. I believe that Black Lives Matter. A lot went into my decision. And part of it is,

00:25:26.740 first off, is my thought that, you know, kneeling or wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt don't go hand in

00:25:34.220 hand with supporting Black Lives. And so I felt like just me personally, what it is that I believe

00:25:41.220 in standing on a stance that I do believe that Black Lives Matter, but I just felt like it was a 1.00

00:25:46.920 decision that I had to make. And I didn't feel like putting putting a shirt on and kneeling one hand in

00:25:54.820 hand with supporting Black Lives or that it made me support Black Lives or not. I believe that for myself,

00:26:01.840 my life has been supported through the gospel of Jesus Christ and that everyone is made in the

00:26:08.400 image of God and that we all for sure of God's glory. Do you believe that Black Lives Matter? 1.00

00:26:13.540 That was the act. This is a Black man you're talking to. That would be a dumb enough question 0.99

00:26:19.420 if it was a white. It would be exceedingly dumb to ask a white athlete that if he stood for the 1.00

00:26:25.680 national anthem. Oh, does standing for the national anthem mean that you hate Black people and think 1.00

00:26:29.120 their lives don't matter? Exceedingly dumb to ask a white person. You're asking a Black guy. 1.00

00:26:34.800 So you're asking him, so are you standing for the national anthem because you think your own life 0.84

00:26:39.360 doesn't matter? What? Talk about a non-sequitur. Are you really asking me that, you moron? I mean,

00:26:47.040 this will be my response. Of course, this player is much nicer and more gracious than me, Jonathan Isaac,

00:26:53.120 so he answers the question without indicating how incredibly stupid it is. Good for him there. 0.99

00:27:00.920 Very patient man. But just think, they actually asked a Black man whether he thinks Black Lives Matter.

00:27:10.900 All right, number four. Here's Governor Cuomo lobbing a rather large, significant accusation at

00:27:21.040 Donald Trump. This was a colossal blunder, how COVID was handled by this federal government.

00:27:28.920 Colossal blunder. Shame on all of you. Six months. Lives lost. Hit the reset button. Yes.

00:27:41.500 But the way the medical experts are talking about it, it won't work.

00:27:45.380 It won't work unless you hit the reset button and you start with the truth.

00:27:51.160 Because if the American people are continued lying to, the confusion and the chaos and the denial

00:27:59.820 will continue. Hit the reset button. It's called the truth. It's called the plain truth.

00:28:07.800 The American people are smart.

00:28:09.020 If the president actually tells them the truth and says, I made a mistake,

00:28:17.560 he's not going to be telling them anything they don't know.

00:28:22.220 Every American knows he made a mistake.

00:28:26.660 Every American knows this was the worst government blunder in modern history.

00:28:34.220 Worst governmental blunder in modern history. Now, you know where I'm going with this. I don't even

00:28:41.640 think I need to say it. But this is the guy who made the decision to force nursing homes to take

00:28:49.600 in COVID patients, directly resulting, and along with other Democrat governors, directly resulting,

00:28:56.180 directly causing the deaths of thousands of elderly people. Forced them to take them in, 0.54

00:29:02.020 thousands of elderly people die. And he's accusing Donald Trump of the worst blunder in modern

00:29:06.880 history. All of the blunders that he's accusing Donald Trump of are things that Trump said.

00:29:13.220 And granted, some of that stuff was very stupid. Like when he said that 15 people have COVID and 0.99

00:29:18.480 it's going to go away after this and it's going to magically disappear. He said that a few times,

00:29:22.620 very stupid thing to say. Those are words though. Okay. This is policy. The blunder that 1.00

00:29:28.560 Cuomo made was a policy that killed thousands of people. So I think Cuomo's being a little modest

00:29:37.860 here. He's being a little too humble and he's trying to say to Trump, oh no, Trump can have

00:29:43.260 the top spot for worst blunder. Not me. I'll give it to Trump. No, no, no. No, Cuomo. I find your

00:29:49.140 humility admirable, but I think actually you get to take that top spot for worst governmental blunder

00:29:53.540 in modern history. Number five. Finally, it's maybe a stretch to put this in the headline

00:29:58.640 section, but I'm not sure where else to put it. So here we are. A tweet from the WNBA account on

00:30:03.720 Twitter. It says, have you been keeping up with the 2020 season? Test your knowledge every Monday

00:30:08.480 to see if you're the biggest WNBA fan. There's a link to the trivia. I thought it could be fun if

00:30:13.700 we actually went ahead and tried to take this quiz together. I just thought, you know, to test our

00:30:19.560 WNBA knowledge because I figured that WNBA trivia is the hardest test you could ever take. 1.00

00:30:26.320 Getting all this right would be like the moment in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon solves the

00:30:31.080 math equation nobody else could get. It seems almost impossible. There's probably two or three people

00:30:36.280 on earth who could ace a WNBA trivia quiz. And so we're going to try and see how this goes.

00:30:43.720 All right. Let's see. Follow along. Last weekend, I don't know how many questions there are. Hopefully

00:30:50.500 it's not that many because this bit will really get old after about two minutes. Last weekend,

00:30:55.240 Chennedy Carter, maybe it's Kennedy, C-H-E-N-N-N-N-N-E-D-Y. Chennedy? Kennedy?

00:31:02.120 It better not be pronounced Kennedy. You name your kid Kennedy and spell it with a C-H? I don't know.

00:31:07.120 I don't know how it's pronounced. I mean, I'm a big fan. Don't get me wrong. I've been following

00:31:10.620 Chennedy Carter for years. Made her rookie debut for, oh, well, she's a rookie. So I didn't,

00:31:15.500 I guess I've been following her for weeks. It feels like I've known her forever. Last weekend,

00:31:20.180 Chennedy Carter made her rookie debut for which team? Chicago Sky, Washington Mystics,

00:31:26.380 Atlanta Dream, Dallas Wings, Connecticut Sun. Why do all the team names sound like Crayola colors?

00:31:33.880 Chicago Sky, Atlanta Dream, Connecticut Sun. Okay. I'm going to say Chicago Sky.

00:31:47.920 Nope. She was selected by the Atlanta Dream. All right. Which team finished the first week of the

00:31:54.740 season with a three-in-one record? All of the above, Minnesota Lynx, Seattle Storm, Washington Mystics,

00:32:01.900 or Chicago Sky. First of all, the all of the above option is at the top. There's nothing above it.

00:32:07.960 All of the above goes at the bottom. It's like the WBA, they can't even do a trivia quiz right.

00:32:13.220 No offense. But usually when you're doing a quiz and there's an all of the above,

00:32:18.780 I say from experience as a student who took many quizzes without ever really knowing the answers to

00:32:24.360 anything because I never studied or did my homework, usually when there's an all of the above option

00:32:29.420 and there isn't one in every question, you go with all of the above. So I'll say all of the above.

00:32:35.040 Correct. Okay. That's one. Which rookie dropped 33 points in her second game?

00:32:41.720 Satow Sabali, Sabrina Ianskew, Lauren Cox, Bella Allery, Chennedy Carter.

00:32:50.600 Big fans of all these women. Great, great players. But I'm going to say Lauren Cox. If any of these

00:32:57.360 players, you know, when you follow her career, even go back to high school and you follow, you know,

00:33:04.000 considering the position she plays on the court of point guard, I just think that Lauren Cox is, 0.98

00:33:12.160 oh, no, it's not. It's Sabrina Ianskew scored 33 points. Well, good for her. Okay. Which player is

00:33:17.700 leading the league in points per game after week one? Ariel Atkins, Aja Wilson, Bria Hartley, Kelsey

00:33:25.960 Mitchell, Dawana Bonner. I got to say that I know for a fact it is Ariel Atkins. She is a scoring

00:33:38.860 machine. She can even jump up and touch the net. Pretty impressive. And nope, it was Dawana Bonner 0.99

00:33:47.840 currently leads the league. All right. So I got one out of four. That's the end of the quiz. One

00:33:51.860 out of four. This, this puts me easily in the top 5% of all WNBA fans. But I could get one out of four

00:33:59.840 right. So I got to, I got to give myself a lot of credit for that. That was a lot of fun. Hopefully

00:34:04.700 we all learned something about the WNBA today. You didn't think you would learn WNBA trivia, 0.95

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00:35:08.700 speak Ryan Cooper. He's a correspondent for the publication of the week. And he was reacting to

00:35:14.720 an article in the wall street journal, an article that, uh, complains that pickup trucks are too big

00:35:19.800 these days because someone decided to write an entire article around the kind of banal observation

00:35:26.380 you make when you've been in a car for seven hours with somebody and there's nothing left to talk

00:35:30.900 about. So you're just driving along and you turn to them and say, well, these pickup trucks are really

00:35:35.040 big. You notice that really big these days. Yeah. Yeah, they are. Yeah. But they're really big.

00:35:45.600 In fact, all kinds of cars are big these days. Yeah. Uh, riveting conversation as always in the cars,

00:35:52.940 but Ryan's observation though, is not quite that banal. In fact, it's actually pretty fascinating.

00:35:58.940 This is what he says. Sales of mega pickups, which have basically been deliberately designed

00:36:04.460 to intimidate and kill pedestrians are booming. It's one thing to say that they're too big. It's

00:36:10.260 another thing to say they're deliberately designed to kill pedestrians. Now, uh, well, no, no, sorry.

00:36:18.980 He didn't say deliberately. He said basically deliberately designed. And can I just say for

00:36:22.720 the record as we're doing this, in fact, I'm going to cancel the word basically too, because

00:36:27.880 the word basically is not as it is so often used in escape hatch, allowing you to make wildly

00:36:34.560 inaccurate claims. Okay. People throw the word basically into a sentence thinking that they can

00:36:40.000 then veer off into fantasy land. And basically is this magical incantation that makes their fantasy

00:36:45.440 into a reality. So this happens all the time, especially in arguments. I mean, we've all,

00:36:49.860 it's very common these days where you say something like, um, well, I think that we,

00:36:53.780 we, we spend too much on entitlements, uh, entitlement programs in this country. And the person responds,

00:36:58.840 Oh, Oh, so you're basically saying that we should round up all the poor people and throw them into the

00:37:03.580 sea. Isn't it? That's, that's, that's basically what you're saying. No, that's not what I'm basically

00:37:08.560 saying at all. In fact, that's, uh, what I'm basically saying is what I said, because it's a pretty basic

00:37:13.900 concept. So I said what I said, and that's really all that I said. As for the claim that Ryan is

00:37:19.560 making here, I hope I don't have to spend too much time debunking it. Um, you know, uh, I, I, I don't

00:37:26.920 know if I need to present like sources and evidence to, to debunk the claim that pickup trucks are

00:37:31.820 designed with the intention of killing pedestrians. Um, I guess he imagines a scenario where people go to

00:37:38.780 the dealership, like the Ford dealership and say, yeah, I'm looking for a pickup truck with a good

00:37:44.800 towing capacity, a long bed. Um, oh, and the ability to pulverize five old ladies at a time 1.00

00:37:51.200 while they're crossing the street. You have anything for that? Oh, right this way, sir. Yeah, we have,

00:37:54.240 we have a section just for that right over here. Um, that's what he imagines. Let me put his mind to

00:38:02.620 rest. Ryan, don't worry. Um, I myself have, have lived in many small towns and rural type areas.

00:38:11.800 I've been around quite a lot of pickup trucks. I don't drive one myself. As I said before,

00:38:17.100 I drive a suburban cause I have four kids as well. Um, and, but I've been around them quite a bit and

00:38:24.800 I can tell you that they are not designed to kill you. So you can calm down city boy. You, uh,

00:38:30.080 no one's going to run you over while you're sitting at your cafe, eating French pancakes or

00:38:34.940 whatever the hell you're doing. Pickup trucks are not designed for that. They're designed very simply

00:38:42.420 to carry machine guns, really big machine guns. And that's how pickup drivers kill pedestrians with

00:38:51.520 machine guns. Okay. And it's, it's, it's a much quicker death, you know, less, less painful.

00:38:58.360 So just stop being so paranoid and stop complaining also. All right. And you're canceled.

00:39:06.700 Um, there we go. Hopefully, hopefully I thought we could, we could end on a positive note there.

00:39:13.460 Just a word of encouragement for our friend, uh, Ryan. All right. We'll leave it there.

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Ep. 535 - George Floyd Bodycam Footage Is Out. We Weren't Told The Full Truth.

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