The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 549 - The Truth About The Police Shooting In Wisconsin

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, another police shooting caught on tape, another round of

00:00:03.760 rioting. Once again, the shooting is declared a racist murder right away as soon as the video

00:00:08.820 comes out. But as we always try to do on this show, we'll look at the actual facts of this case

00:00:13.720 and see what they say, because they tell a different sort of story. Also, five headlines,

00:00:17.980 including an NHL announcer getting suspended for an utterly innocuous joke that feminists 1.00

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00:02:04.380 Okay. Well, so let's get into this. As we continue to live through this never ending

00:02:12.940 Groundhog's Day, rioting and looting broke out in yet another city this weekend. Black Lives Matter

00:02:18.840 protesters in big scare quotes there in Kenosha, Wisconsin, burned, pillaged, destroyed, stole,

00:02:26.540 all in the name of justice, of course. Here's what some of that looked like. Take a look.

00:02:34.380 Rioters also burned an entire car dealership, so you can take a look at the footage there.

00:03:04.380 And I think by far one of the most disturbing incidents from this round of rioting and really

00:03:13.040 any of the rioting we've seen is the apparent attempted murder of a police officer who was hit

00:03:17.700 directly in the head with a brick during the melee.

00:03:22.700 Now the rationalization, the excuse being offered for this latest round of rioting,

00:03:52.680 of rioting and chaos, is the police shooting of a man named Jacob Blake on Sunday. At this point,

00:03:59.680 not much is known about the circumstances surrounding the shooting, but we'll show you

00:04:03.940 now the video that has gone viral and prompted, allegedly, all of this widespread rioting.

00:04:09.680 Now, media reports indicate that police arrived on the scene in response to a domestic disturbance.

00:04:26.480 They tried to arrest Blake, who resisted even after a taser was used on him. Blake then walked

00:04:33.120 around his car with multiple officers pointing their weapons at him, as you saw, and he opened

00:04:37.560 his door and reached inside, and he was shot seven times at that point. He's currently alive,

00:04:41.420 though in critical condition. Neighbors claim that Blake was trying to break up a fight between two

00:04:46.500 women before the cops showed up. That hasn't been confirmed, but it does appear that Blake,

00:04:54.040 that there were multiple warrants out for Blake for multiple alleged crimes. Were cops arresting him

00:05:01.660 because of his involvement in the disturbance, or because of the warrants that were out for him,

00:05:05.640 or both? Who knows? Apparently, Blake has had other violent run-ins with police as well,

00:05:10.340 including an incident in 2015 when he had to be subdued by a canine unit after pulling a gun at a bar.

00:05:16.440 Now, it's not clear, again, whether police on the scene on Sunday knew about his violent history,

00:05:20.900 or his warrants, or anything else. What we're left with, for now, is a man who chose not to comply

00:05:26.660 with lawful orders, instead opened his car door and leaned inside even as police guns were pointed

00:05:30.940 at him at point-blank range. As always, the dearth of evidence and context has not stopped

00:05:37.240 the media, protesters, politicians from leaping to drastic and firm conclusions. The governor of

00:05:42.480 Wisconsin, Tony Evers, has already tied the case to racism and essentially accused the officers of

00:05:47.960 carrying out a racist hit on an innocent man. Evers tweeted in part,

00:05:52.400 Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times in broad daylight in Kenosha,

00:05:57.680 Wisconsin. Kathy and I joined his family, friends, and neighbors in hoping earnestly that he will

00:06:01.720 not succumb to his injuries. While we do not have all the details yet, what we know for certain is

00:06:08.140 that he is not the first black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed

00:06:12.960 at the hands of individuals and law enforcement in our state or our country. I have said all along that

00:06:18.620 although we must offer our empathy, equally important is our action. In the coming days,

00:06:23.960 we will demand that just that our elected officials in our state who have failed to recognize the

00:06:28.580 racism in our state and our country for far too long. Okay. Needless to say, a decent human being

00:06:35.380 who is interested in providing leadership rather than intentionally fanning the flames of anarchy

00:06:40.560 would never use phrases like mercilessly and racism to describe an officer-involved shooting

00:06:46.620 before he even has the details by his own admission. But Tony Evers is not a decent human

00:06:52.820 being or a leader or a good man. I mean, these are really bad people that are doing this,

00:06:58.920 that are intentionally causing chaos and rioting, even after he knows that one of his police officers

00:07:03.360 was nearly killed. The people in the media and politics encouraging the chaos that, again,

00:07:09.800 has nearly killed a Kenosha police officer also are not decent or good people. Putting the politics

00:07:15.020 and narrative aside then, what should we really think about this situation? Well, the first thing

00:07:20.700 we should keep in mind is that we've only heard one side of the story and there's quite a lot we

00:07:25.080 still don't know. Here's a rather significant detail that's being treated as irrelevant somehow.

00:07:29.720 Did Blake have a gun in his car? Media is reporting that he was unarmed, but they don't appear to have

00:07:35.660 any firm basis for that characterization. Blake went back to his car for something, for some reason,

00:07:41.760 right? Was it to retrieve a firearm? He has a history of pulling guns. Did he try it again here?

00:07:47.120 If he did, then case closed. No honest person could possibly claim that a police shooting is

00:07:51.400 unjustified when the suspect is reaching for a gun to use against the officers.

00:07:56.020 But what if there was no gun? Then we're back to the original question.

00:08:01.200 Why was Blake going to his car and reaching inside? Could there be any plausible or even imaginable

00:08:07.720 innocent reason to resist arrest, walk to your car as police point their guns at you and tell you to

00:08:12.380 stop and then open your door and reach inside? Is there a version of this story where Blake's actions

00:08:17.500 are justified or innocuous? I can't see what that version would be. And more important than how I see

00:08:25.500 this or how you see it, we have to ask whether the police on the scene had good reason to suspect

00:08:31.640 that Blake was reaching into his vehicle to grab a weapon. The answer there is, without question,

00:08:36.680 yes. Again, why else would he be reaching into his car in that situation? If you can scarcely come

00:08:44.640 up with an innocent reason as you sit pondering it on your couch out of harm's way, how can we expect

00:08:49.420 the officers to imagine an innocent reason while they're in the thick of it? And even if they could

00:08:53.660 imagine an innocent reason, are they expected to assume that his actions are innocent and stake their

00:08:57.520 own lives on that gamble? You know, anyone who doesn't understand why police would want to prevent

00:09:04.480 you from reaching into your car during an arrest need only watch this dash cam video from a highway

00:09:10.580 stop in Pennsylvania for that, for clarification on the matter. And just a warning, it's very graphic

00:09:14.800 here, but I think this is important because it's, it's additional context for the way police are

00:09:19.380 looking at this. Look at this. Okay, sir. You're going 87 miles an hour. All those costs are

00:09:26.100 associated with the traffic citation. Okay. Okay. Are you okay? All right. I mean, it's okay. Do me a favor.

00:09:37.560 Come over here. Place your hands behind your back.

00:09:42.840 I got him. Keep the taser on.

00:09:59.820 Go for the taser on.

00:10:15.840 All right.

00:10:17.040 Go for the taser. 0.76

00:10:21.500 Keep the taser.

00:10:24.860 Keep the taser.

00:10:26.140 Schwe precision.

00:10:28.340 Keep the taser.

00:10:29.240 the shooter there daniel clary resisted arrest um even threw zaps from a taser eventually made

00:10:46.480 it back to his car where he drew his gun and nearly killed two police officers the clary arrest

00:10:51.380 and the blake arrest are eerily similar in many respects except that in one case it's the cops

00:10:57.620 getting shot in the other it's a suspect one excuse i've heard offered for blake is that he was going

00:11:04.480 back to his car because he wanted to get inside and drive away well i would note that driving away

00:11:10.300 while there's a warrant for your arrest and cops are attempting to detain you is not a legal option

00:11:15.280 driving away in that case would be far from innocent also the family's lawyer benjamin crump who manages

00:11:23.160 to involve himself in every high profile police shooting in the country um says that blake's

00:11:28.600 kids were in the car now this is supposed to make blake more sympathetic but it does the opposite

00:11:33.240 why was blake bringing the officers back to his car where his kids are sitting he knew they had

00:11:39.720 their guns out why would he want to put his own children in harm's way and if his plan was to drive

00:11:45.500 away and get into a high spade high speed chase with kids in tow um that would in itself be justification

00:11:52.380 for opening fire because uh before he could get inside and endanger his children's lives in that way

00:11:57.400 i don't see any excuse for blake here i see a number of reasonable possible excuses for the police

00:12:04.500 officers now it's possible that more details could emerge that change the equation and if so then i'll

00:12:10.800 change my opinion to comport with the facts the protesters on the other hand form their opinions

00:12:17.220 completely separate from the facts and no additional evidence or context can sway them

00:12:21.680 from the conclusion they drew within five seconds of seeing the original video

00:12:25.200 that is why our society is falling apart at the seams not because of police shootings or racism or anything

00:12:32.560 like that but because a certain very large segment of the population doesn't care at all about the truth

00:12:40.400 and it really is as simple as that and that's what we're witnessing and that is what is burning our

00:12:47.360 cities as we speak let's get to five headlines

00:12:50.520 reporting from cnn here white house counselor kellyanne conway announced sunday uh evening that she will

00:13:03.320 leave her post at the end of the month while her husband george conway said he was withdrawing from

00:13:07.460 the lincoln project both citing a need to focus on their family uh cnn continues quoting from kelly

00:13:13.480 and conway statement i will be transitioning from the white house at the end of this month george is

00:13:17.540 also making changes we disagree about plenty but we are reunited on what matters most to kids

00:13:21.640 our four children are teens and tweens starting a new academic year in middle school and high school

00:13:26.120 remotely from home for at least a few months as millions of parents nationwide know kids

00:13:30.040 doing school from home requires a level of attention and vigilance that that is unusual at these times

00:13:35.080 um and then george conway also tweeted that he'll be leaving the lincoln project um

00:13:40.500 so and this all happens uh while one of and cnn says one of conway's high school age daughters has

00:13:49.260 generated attention on social media about her family and their political views over the last several

00:13:53.980 months now the high school age daughter by the way i believe is 15 and this is all newsworthy

00:14:01.840 because of conway's position and the fact that she's she's leaving it so you know fine that that part is

00:14:07.320 newsworthy but all the rest of it the family drama the stuff with the child all of that is none of our

00:14:14.080 business and not relevant to anyone else but them and the way the media is using a 15 year old girl to 0.99

00:14:22.640 attack her parents um well it's it's redundant at this point to say but the media of course has behaved

00:14:29.480 disgracefully not that they care but just for the record once again it's happened and also you just

00:14:34.820 you know a 15 year old girl um professing to hate her parents there is nothing new about that okay she 0.99

00:14:43.440 can she can join the club with all the other 15 year old girls in the country now it's unfortunate that

00:14:49.180 this is a normal phase of of adolescence in in modern society and we could talk about why that is and

00:14:55.040 and you know because i don't think it should be as normal as it is but but it is normal um so i you

00:14:59.560 know the fact that her her parents are high profile doesn't necessarily have anything to do with that

00:15:04.140 whatsoever okay nhl announcer mike millberry has been taken off of all nhl broadcasts for the remainder

00:15:11.920 of the year because of a terrible horribly offensive thing that he said while calling a hockey game

00:15:18.460 on friday we're gonna roll the tape on that it's pretty rough i'm just telling you hopefully i can

00:15:23.920 play it without bleeping it out i don't know uh but this is really outrageous stuff really bad take a

00:15:30.040 listen come here and play hockey and if you think about it it's a terrific environment with regards to

00:15:36.520 if you enjoy playing and enjoy being with your teammates for long periods of time it's a perfect

00:15:41.340 place not even any woman here to disrupt their concentration yeah that's it that's the whole thing

00:15:48.440 that was it um millberry said that it's good there aren't women there because uh then they won't 1.00

00:15:53.840 be disrupting the hockey players concentration that was all that was the joke harmless innocuous

00:15:59.520 nothing to it but that was shared by a female i believe it was a female nhl reporter who was deeply

00:16:06.400 offended and then a bunch of other women all chimed in to say they are deeply deeply offended uh here's 1.00

00:16:13.000 emily caplan another nhl reporter talking about her own deep offense which she feels so deeply and so

00:16:19.320 offendedly listen to be honest it's highly disappointing it undermines anything that any

00:16:25.980 woman who is in this industry does you know the athletic came out with their 40 people in hockey

00:16:30.620 under the age of 40 and i was just impressed by how many women were on that list whether it was from 1.00

00:16:35.500 scouting ranks analytics um now we have an agent who's going to represent the likely number one pick

00:16:40.680 and when i look at meg milberry this is a pattern of behavior this is not the first time he's made

00:16:46.220 sexist comments it was so cavalier and natural the way he said it and he's in such a position of

00:16:52.020 privilege and power there's so few people who do what he does and i just think it's a shame that we're

00:16:57.340 giving someone like that a platform when they continue to say these things and alienate large swaths

00:17:02.920 of people who can be hockey fans and can enjoy this great sport um and you know i hope that nbc

00:17:08.000 takes that into consideration you know he said well there's no distractions to women in the bubble 0.98

00:17:11.760 and i think he's talking about wives and spouses but also at press conferences and i think okay i'm

00:17:16.980 a woman that shows up for the press conferences he considered me a distraction if i'm in the locker 1.00

00:17:20.960 room like that's bs that's my job um so yeah you know that makes me feel like hockey is not for me or

00:17:26.500 i'm not welcome and you know we have these conversations a lot about race we do have it about

00:17:30.280 gender we have it about sexuality and i think the important thing is that we keep having these 0.62

00:17:34.300 conversations and we keep the league needs to keep their eye on the prize and keep their eye on the

00:17:39.760 ball and keep doing with initiatives even if we don't have change right away um that doesn't mean

00:17:43.600 we can stop oh my gosh uh you know this the irony here is that all of this only proves millberry's

00:17:50.500 point all of these women getting emotional and crying about a joke or it proves a similar point i

00:17:57.660 should say i think what millberry was getting at was that women can distract men sexually which 0.98

00:18:02.520 actually is a compliment to women if a man says that he's distracted by your beauty that's a 1.00

00:18:08.060 compliment you know i think i think um any any man in the country would love to be told that by women 0.97

00:18:14.020 you know you know how any man would feel if they walked in and there's a group of women and and he 0.93

00:18:18.660 was there he's told that he's a distraction because he's so good looking um that's uh that's a compliment

00:18:23.440 so and i sometimes wonder the type of women who get offended by these kinds of jokes 1.00

00:18:29.400 are they getting offended because they never hear comments like that and are jealous is there some

00:18:35.880 envy going on i don't know it's just it's one theory but um there's another reason why a group

00:18:41.320 of men might want to just have some time without the girls and the reason is this so they can joke

00:18:48.560 around and have some fun and say what they want without anyone getting emotional or taking things

00:18:54.540 too seriously now granted with the state of masculinity in this country that's no guarantee

00:19:01.300 anymore just because it's a bunch of guys doesn't mean that you're not going to end up with someone

00:19:04.480 crying and getting emotional these days uh but still the the likelihood is is reduced dramatically

00:19:10.260 if it's just the guys around so as i said the irony is that these feminists are only proving the 1.00

00:19:14.780 point exactly and i'll tell you another thing if you're a female sports reporter and you want to be 1.00

00:19:20.240 accepted then pretty much the last thing you should do is start crying because a harmless innocuous

00:19:28.340 comment that you heard is sexist according to you like when you start ranting about male privilege

00:19:35.520 do you really think the guys are going to want you around why would they they're trying to play hockey

00:19:42.040 why would they why would they particularly want someone around to lecture them about about the patriarchy

00:19:47.080 and and sexism and male privilege and and you know toxic masculinity um it's just it's probably not

00:19:57.360 something they want any more than if you're a woman and you're out with the girls do you want a guy 1.00

00:20:01.520 around to tell fart jokes like when you're sitting around at the at the the winery or whatever you're

00:20:06.920 doing is anyone at the table saying hey you know i wish there was a guy here to fart that's what we're 0.64

00:20:13.360 missing probably not so okay uh let's go to our next one i think this is what is this number three

00:20:19.000 uh i hate to be the bearer of bad news here but you may have heard about this asteroid that might hit

00:20:24.320 the earth the day before the election day great timing of course but turns out it's only six feet

00:20:29.800 long and um has less than a one percent chance of hitting and you know so it's like it's six feet

00:20:34.660 even if it hits what are the chances that it does any significant damage um so i'm sorry to ruin your

00:20:41.380 monday at this point i feel like the universe is just toying with us sort of tormenting us

00:20:45.700 dangling these asteroids in front of us like hey bet you like this wouldn't you sorry it's hitting

00:20:51.740 mercury instead and then and then we you know to make it worse we we look out at the night sky

00:20:56.900 and we see the moon over there flaunting its crater covered body bragging at all the time

00:21:05.480 and and we have to see that and it's just really it's really it's difficult for me i'm sure it is

00:21:11.340 for you as well okay let's go uh number four here police arrested two women in delaware who stole a

00:21:16.820 seven-year-old's trump hat outside the dnc um the boy and his mom were were protesting outside the dnc

00:21:23.740 and uh then here's the altercation that was caught on tape by the boy's mom and led to the arrest watch

00:21:28.720 that's can you get off my property get off my property are you destroying my property yes we are

00:21:34.260 you know that's a felony that one too get away from 1.00

00:21:37.960 get it touch my hat

00:21:41.920 that's somebody else's hat

00:21:47.660 get your hat back baby look at what you just did to my son get your hat back baby get your hat back

00:21:54.780 baby

00:21:59.040 get me back my hat

00:22:01.620 let me back my hat give me back my hat

00:22:04.600 give me back my hat give me back my hat

00:22:05.860 give me back my hat

00:22:07.980 give me back my hat

00:22:09.300 give me back my hat

00:22:10.840 I'm telling you right now

00:22:11.940 you're gonna steal my property

00:22:13.700 I'll follow you to your car and get your license plate 0.98

00:22:15.880 okay so I'm I'm glad that the the two trashy women there got arrested and they were obviously wrong 1.00

00:22:24.520 for taking the boy's hat. Bullying a seven-year-old boy when you're an adult is 0.98

00:22:28.300 clearly, I don't know how to explain why that's wrong, but the mother is no victim in this. Let's

00:22:33.900 just be clear about that as well. The boy is a victim, but he's a victim of all three women 0.97

00:22:38.960 involved, the mother and the two others. So let me just state this very simply. There is no good

00:22:44.820 reason, no good reason ever to involve your young children in politics. Bringing a seven-year-old

00:22:53.520 boy to counter-protest the DNC convention and dressing him in Trump gear is an absolutely 0.97

00:23:01.980 inexcusably crappy parenting decision. I would never in a million years do that.

00:23:09.420 I have seven-year-olds. I go into contentious environments where there might be serious

00:23:13.680 pushback, whether it's a protest or I'm speaking out of college or something. I would never bring

00:23:21.280 my kid. And it's not that if I brought my kid and my kid was attacked, it's not the fault of

00:23:29.180 the protesters for doing it. No, it would be their fault. But I'm not going to bring my kid

00:23:33.380 in as some sort of guinea pig. I'm not going to take a gamble, take a chance. I would never,

00:23:37.900 ever do that. Why? Because I love my kids. I want to keep them out of harm's way. There's just no

00:23:45.120 possible way that this could benefit them. It's, you know, there's only downside. There's no upside

00:23:51.020 whatsoever. So leave your kids out of politics. Just leave them out of this garbage. And using your 0.99

00:23:57.500 kid as bait to get a reaction so you can film it for clicks, which I believe is what happened here, 0.95

00:24:02.760 let's not be naive, is disgusting. And I hate it. I hate everything about it. I mean, notice how the 0.99

00:24:08.940 mom actively involves the kid every step of the way. Go get your hat back, baby. Go get your hat 0.78

00:24:13.380 back. No, you get it back. You're the adult. What do you send a seven-year-old to go retrieve

00:24:17.560 his stolen property from an adult? That'd be like if I was in my house and I looked out my window and

00:24:21.920 I saw, you know, my kid's bike is on the front lawn. I see a man drive up and try to steal the

00:24:27.600 bike. And I yell to my seven-year-old, hey, go get your bike. Go get your bike. Go get it. I'll wait

00:24:32.260 in here and film it. This will be good for YouTube. No, I wouldn't do that because, again, I care about my

00:24:39.100 children's well-being. I'm the adult. If there's an adult situation, I will handle it. I keep my

00:24:45.760 kids out of it. And that's what we should all do. Let your kids be kids. Your seven-year-old doesn't

00:24:50.980 need to be spending his nights holding signs outside the DNC. He doesn't even understand what

00:24:55.360 the signs say or anything. He doesn't know anything about this. He's seven years old. He should be

00:25:01.520 running around the yard, you know, making a tree fort or something. Even playing video games would be

00:25:06.360 better than this. Let him be a kid. Just let him alone, for God's sake. All right. Finally, let's

00:25:12.780 go to this. I thought this was just wonderful in many ways and also relatable. I've never related to

00:25:17.660 LeBron James really at all until I saw this clip. So you're holding the autobiography of Malcolm X

00:25:25.740 along with Alex Haley. I don't know how far you are into the book, but what's your biggest takeaway

00:25:29.660 so far? I kind of just started a couple days ago, but I've read a lot of notes over the years.

00:25:38.240 This is my first time actually reading this from start to finish, but just a very, very smart man.

00:25:46.160 Very, very, very, very smart man. And basically, his words in the 60s and what was going on is actually

00:26:00.240 what's going on today still. Him understanding how powerful the Negro can be. He used that word a lot.

00:26:11.760 How powerful we are. But we have to unite and we have to be together. We have to stand strong

00:26:20.000 because there's always going to be obstacles. There's always going to be

00:26:22.380 things that's going to be thrown at us where they try to weaken us.

00:26:27.520 They try to make us feel like we're not kings and queens. And it's going to come from all

00:26:33.760 different races and different shapes and sizes and things of that nature.

00:26:40.100 And just a very powerful minded gentleman.

00:26:44.240 That's just great there. I mean, he didn't read the book at all, obviously. And the first clue is

00:26:48.680 that he's holding it during the post-game conference. Why does he have his book with him?

00:26:54.160 Did he think he was going to be able to read a few chapters in between each question?

00:26:57.140 Um, but like I said, I relate to that painfully. So it reminds me of, well, pretty much every day

00:27:02.380 in English class when I was, when I was a kid, a teacher would call on me. So, so Matt, we were

00:27:07.780 supposed to read chapter three of To Kill a Mockingbird last night. What, what were your impressions of

00:27:11.540 the chapter? Um, chapter three? Oh yeah. Well, geez. Whew. Chapter three. My goodness. Chapter three. Am I

00:27:21.460 right? Chapter three. It's just, you know, the main thing about chapter three is just like, it's,

00:27:25.460 it's, it's, it's, it's like, it's, you're, you're part of the way into the story, but you're not,

00:27:29.920 but there's still so much of the story. And so like, there's so much that's, that's happening

00:27:33.600 that has happened. And, but there's a lot that will happen. And so the main thing is just like

00:27:38.420 the threeness of chapter three is what jumps out at me, you know? Um, and it never, I, I never got,

00:27:46.600 I got better at BSing as I got older. Uh, but, uh, I never got much better than that,

00:27:51.420 unfortunately. And neither did LeBron James. And, but I will mention just one note for the

00:27:55.240 kids. Uh, if, when you have school reading, you should actually do it. Don't take your lessons

00:27:59.740 from me. And actually I discovered, um, when I left school that I really enjoy reading,

00:28:05.700 I just enjoy it when I'm not being forced to do it and I can read books that I really care about.

00:28:09.860 So it's funny how that works. Anyway. Uh, so there's maybe, uh, we'll have to check in with

00:28:14.300 LeBron James in a little bit to get his full book report. We're going to go to daily cancellation

00:28:19.320 just a second. But, um, if you haven't heard by now, Joe Biden is officially the Democrat

00:28:23.700 party's presidential nominee for 2020. Very exciting. We know this because they made me

00:28:27.560 watch his acceptance speech at the DNC last week. And it was the worst thing I've ever had to do.

00:28:37.820 And you might say that speaks to a very comfortable life maybe, or it could just speak to how horrible

00:28:43.680 the DNC convention was. Maybe both. Um, they said that they had a good reason for me doing this though.

00:28:48.900 Uh, because I was, you know, I was hosting all access live over at dailywire.com with our all

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00:29:00.440 in live stream and in the comments. Usually these sessions are casual hangouts, but on special

00:29:04.500 occasions, we host watch parties like that one this Thursday, August 27th. We'll do it again.

00:29:09.260 Live stream and all access live watch party for the final night of the RNC hosted by Michael

00:29:12.740 Knowles. The live stream will start at eight 45, uh, a few minutes before the convention kicks off.

00:29:17.840 So make sure you tune in for that dailywire.com slash walsh right now to get signed up 20% off

00:29:22.560 all access with coupon code access at dailywire.com slash walsh with coupon code access to get 20%

00:29:27.500 off your membership today for our daily cancellation. We will be canceling the pollsters at CBS. Uh,

00:29:33.960 now the media and the left were engaged in more of their customary performative hysterics yesterday

00:29:38.220 over the results of a recent CBS poll as a quick side note here. This is, this is yet another poll

00:29:43.660 for which I was not contacted. I have never been contacted about any poll or survey

00:29:47.640 ever in my life. Neither has anyone in my family or anyone I've ever asked. Do they just pull the

00:29:53.060 same 600 people? Where do they keep these? Are they being held in a dungeon somewhere or maybe like

00:29:58.020 a robotic womb a la the matrix? But these are questions for another day, I suppose. Um, in any

00:30:03.920 case, this poll asked respondents about the coronavirus. Um, I don't know how they would even

00:30:08.960 know about the virus from their matrix womb, but that again is beside the point. One of the questions 0.99

00:30:13.080 was this is how it was. It was framed. The number of us deaths from the coronavirus has been,

00:30:18.880 and then the options are acceptable or unacceptable. And as you can see, 50% of Republicans said it was

00:30:26.480 acceptable while 90% of Democrats bravely took a stand and said, no, no death is unacceptable,

00:30:33.680 entirely unacceptable. I will not accept it. Uh, and I guess this explains why I don't get called

00:30:40.120 for polls because if they had asked me, I would have said option C the poll question is unacceptable 0.99

00:30:47.660 because the poll question is unacceptable because it's, it's stupid and incoherent and has absolutely 0.99

00:30:52.480 no function or purpose except to trap Republicans into saying exactly what 57% of them did say 0.99

00:30:57.800 acceptable. What, what the hell could that possibly mean in this context to call something acceptable

00:31:04.780 is to say that you accept it. And to say that you accept it is to say that you will allow it,

00:31:10.040 you will tolerate it, you will bear it. So what else could a death toll be other than acceptable?

00:31:17.060 Phrased another way, what choice do I have, but to accept it? 1500 people died when the Titanic sank.

00:31:25.020 Is that acceptable to me? Well, it's sad. I don't like it. I wish it hadn't happened,

00:31:29.380 but now that it has, do I accept it? I suppose so. What other choice do I have? If I say, no,

00:31:35.820 I don't, I don't, you know, no, I don't accept the Titanic death toll. Okay. Then what does that

00:31:39.840 mean? What does that amount to? Can I cause those lives to regenerate by refusing to accept their

00:31:45.340 loss? Will the ship emerge from the icy depths fully intact because Matt Walsh has announced that

00:31:50.860 it's, it's sinking was simply unacceptable to him. Everything that has happened in the past

00:31:56.560 is acceptable to you because it must be. It might also be horrible, infuriating, outrageous,

00:32:04.380 tragic, terrible, a million other things, but it must also be acceptable because you have

00:32:08.940 literally no other option besides begrudging acceptance. You know, try conducting a poll

00:32:15.100 on an airplane after both engines have failed and it's plummeting to the earth. Ask the passengers

00:32:20.680 if gravity is acceptable to them. I'm sure a lot of them will say no, but sadly,

00:32:25.260 gravity will still be gravity and they're still going to be going down whether they accept it or

00:32:28.920 not. So the dichotomy of acceptable versus unacceptable is meaningless here. There's a

00:32:34.580 reason why nobody ever polls, you know, to ask how many cancer deaths are acceptable or diabetes

00:32:39.460 deaths or heart disease or car accidents. If they did, you might think on one hand, no deaths are

00:32:44.640 acceptable. Death itself is unacceptable. But on the other, if you possess even the slightest capacity

00:32:49.980 for honest self-reflection and assessment, you will see that inevitabilities don't care whether you

00:32:55.180 accept them or not. Now you could argue that what this question is really trying to ask is whether

00:33:00.900 the respondent respondents think the response to the coronavirus was acceptable, whether more could

00:33:08.740 have been done, whether steps could have been taken to save some of those lives, whether the policies

00:33:12.700 put in place were effective or not, et cetera. But those are not the questions that were asked.

00:33:17.820 Those questions could have been asked, have been asked, but this question is different. This is

00:33:23.160 asking whether you accept what has already occurred. They might as well ask you whether you accept that

00:33:31.400 the color blue is not the color red. You might say that I'm playing a game of semantics here, splitting

00:33:37.100 hairs, missing the larger point. But if you say that, I would say that it is you who is missing the larger

00:33:41.060 point. Because the fact that the question makes no real sense is exactly the point. It's why it was posed in

00:33:47.760 the first place. There is no right answer to a nonsense question. And there can only be one reason

00:33:55.420 why pollsters would pose a nonsense question. It's because they can frame the answer however they want.

00:34:01.840 It becomes like some sort of strange reverse Rorschach test type of thing. But let's pretend for a moment

00:34:07.540 that this question had been posed about the future. Rewind the clock back. What if they'd been asked

00:34:14.060 whether 170,000 potential deaths in the future would be acceptable? Maybe if you want to be

00:34:20.560 generous, you'd say that that's what the poll question is getting at. It's asking, if you could

00:34:24.260 go back in time to before the deaths occurred, would you consider 170,000 plus deaths acceptable? Of

00:34:30.720 course, again, if that's what they meant to ask, they could have asked it. But let's pretend they did.

00:34:35.560 Would that make more sense? No, not at all. Past deaths obviously can only be acceptable to us

00:34:43.640 because they are facts. And one can only accept facts or shut his eyes and think happy thoughts

00:34:49.320 instead. But not a lot of good that does. What about future deaths? Those aren't facts yet. Can

00:34:56.380 we talk about acceptable versus unacceptable in that context? No, we can't. Or we can, but it will be a

00:35:02.400 totally arbitrary and meaningless conversation. 170,000 deaths is a lot. You say it's unacceptable. Fine.

00:35:10.080 What amount of death from the coronavirus would have been acceptable to you? And how did you arrive

00:35:15.260 at that figure? Would you have insisted that zero people are allowed to die from this? Even one death

00:35:20.440 is unacceptable? Okay, but was that ever an option? Was there ever even a theoretical possibility of no

00:35:26.660 one in America dying from the global pandemic? Probably not. So what is your acceptable figure?

00:35:33.020 And how did you arrive at that number? Let's pull something out of the blue. Let's say 50,000.

00:35:37.280 Would that have been acceptable? If you say yes, then I'd have to ask how you know that 50,000 was

00:35:42.900 ever in the cards, ever possible. And whether it was or wasn't, 50,000 is still a lot. It sounds

00:35:49.260 horrible to say that 50,000 deaths are acceptable. Just like it sounds horrible to say that of 170,000

00:35:55.800 deaths or any amount of death. There just is no way to ever attach the word acceptable to death,

00:36:01.560 any death in any number that won't sound bizarre, callous, and somewhat sociopathic. That's because,

00:36:07.780 again, acceptable versus unacceptable is a meaningless dichotomy in this realm. And wherever

00:36:13.080 we draw the line between the two, it will be unavoidably arbitrary. But I do think there's

00:36:19.320 something deeper going on here, deeper than a dumb and pointless question. Our reaction to this 0.96

00:36:25.540 pandemic, to this confrontation with a mortal threat, and thus a confrontation with the fact

00:36:30.860 of our own mortality, has revealed again that we are a culture totally unwilling to accept the

00:36:36.560 reality of death or confront it in an honest way. In fact, it turns out lots of us really do think

00:36:42.520 that not accepting death is a viable option, which is why many people support the idea of locking down

00:36:48.100 all of society and hiding in our homes indefinitely. Economy be damned, thousands of small businesses be

00:36:52.920 damned, personal liberty be damned, constitution be damned, everything be damned, as long as we can 0.98

00:36:57.920 avoid at all costs any amount of physical risk. We cannot bring ourselves to face the fact that this 0.99

00:37:05.380 disease is out there, that it will probably always be out there in some form, and that people will die

00:37:10.360 from it. You know, that we can and should take steps to mitigate the risk to some extent, but that

00:37:15.780 society still must function, and that as society functions, people will die from this and a million other

00:37:21.940 things. We can't face that because we're so terrified of and overwhelmed by the very idea of our own

00:37:27.540 mortality. You know, we will not say to ourselves, I might die, and I accept that. And we mock anyone

00:37:35.840 who does say it as though they're suicidal nihilists, when in fact, those, you know, they're saying it are

00:37:41.680 only acknowledging a fact that applies to us too, no matter what we do, because we cannot escape mortality

00:37:47.740 any more than we can escape the waves on the ocean while we sail across it. Another example of this

00:37:53.460 feeble refusal to accept the inevitable can be found in climate alarmism. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this

00:38:00.320 weekend tweeted in response to the news that two hurricanes might strike the Gulf Coast at the same

00:38:04.760 time, and she said, talk to me again about how a Green New Deal goes too far to address the problem.

00:38:09.540 This is a woman who really believes that a piece of legislation can stop hurricanes. It's not an 1.00

00:38:17.560 exaggeration to say that climate alarmists like her think we can legislate hurricanes away. They

00:38:23.600 believe we can raise our hands and halt the winds and calm the seas like gods. Our utter powerlessness

00:38:30.420 in the face of these natural forces is too much for them to accept. Our smallness and finitude and

00:38:36.360 vulnerability against the scale of the whole earth and cosmos is so terrifying that they try to reduce

00:38:41.080 it all down to a problem for bureaucrats in DC to handle. They might as well hold a congressional 0.96

00:38:46.040 hearing to come up with a strategy to stop our galaxy from colliding with Andromeda in 5 billion years.

00:38:51.200 The refusal to face the inevitable and the unstoppable, especially that most inevitable and unstoppable of

00:38:57.480 things, mortality, has been a driving force for human society since the birth of consciousness.

00:39:01.840 But in our society in particular, the force is very strong. And never has that been more obvious

00:39:08.560 than right now. And that is why... Wait, who was canceled at the beginning of all this? Oh yeah.

00:39:15.600 CBS pollsters are canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 24, 2020

Ep. 549 - The Truth About The Police Shooting In Wisconsin

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