The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 572 - The Craziest And Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory In America

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we'll talk about the most dangerous conspiracy theory in America

00:00:04.160 today. And it's not the one the media is freaking out about. It's the conspiracy theory that's

00:00:08.200 currently fueling riots and anarchy in the streets. Also, five headlines, including BLM

00:00:13.300 and Antifa, speaking of that, protesters in LA, protesters in LA. They're using cars now to chase

00:00:19.200 down innocent motorists and attack them. And guess who the cops are arresting? Then a very special

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00:02:01.180 Back then, lesbian wasn't about sexuality. A lesbian was just any woman not laughing at a man. 1.00

00:02:06.880 Is the joke here that feminists are hysterical and oversensitive and constantly imagining that 1.00

00:02:14.640 they're being persecuted when they're really not? If that's the joke, it's a pretty good joke. 0.90

00:02:18.160 But I suspect that's not the joke.

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00:02:55.720 I plead with you. I beseech you. All right. Now, let's get into this. I'm a little fuzzy on some of

00:03:02.800 the details, but as far as I understand it, the QAnon conspiracy theory alleges that Donald Trump is

00:03:08.700 secretly at war with a global ring of satanic pedophiles and some shadowy agent who goes by

00:03:15.000 codename Q is keeping devotees of the theory abreast of new developments through anonymous

00:03:21.660 internet posts. Now, there's about as much solid evidence to support this idea as there is to

00:03:28.320 support the claim made by a lot of the same people as it happens that the Sandy Hook massacre was a

00:03:33.140 hoax, which is to say there is no evidence. As is usually the case with these sorts of things,

00:03:38.700 those advancing the conspiracy theories tend to think that the existence of a certain fact

00:03:43.740 is itself sufficient proof for the whole cinematic storyline they've concocted to explain it.

00:03:51.460 Sandy Hook truthers point out that certain web pages, memorial sites, news articles, etc.,

00:03:56.200 were timestamped supposedly for before the attack occurred. This along with a couple of other random

00:04:01.720 points of data, some true and some not, is supposed to be all the evidence needed that 20 dead children

00:04:08.620 never actually existed or were paid actors or whatever. Now, a more logical explanation, of

00:04:14.060 course, and one that doesn't require a whole frantic succession of additional unproven assertions is

00:04:19.020 that timestamps on the internet are sometimes wrong and there's nothing terribly unusual or bizarre

00:04:23.740 about that. In the case of QAnon, proponents can point to the existence of global sex traffickers like

00:04:29.120 Jeffrey Epstein. And this somehow is supposed to strongly indicate that all the other claims made

00:04:34.720 by some random guy posting on 4chan are reliable. This is how conspiracy theories work. They feed on

00:04:40.380 our credulity and on our very human tendency to make sense of the world by drawing false connections,

00:04:47.720 assuming motivations, and imagining, hoping that reality is as decipherable and organized as it seems

00:04:53.620 in Hollywood films. These theories are baseless and rather embarrassing, but the media wants to make

00:05:01.260 them into something more than that. We're frequently told that Q acolytes are a danger to our democracy, 1.00

00:05:07.640 that they may turn violent at any moment. Yet, with extremely rare exception, that simply hasn't

00:05:13.880 happened and there are no signs that it will start happening. QAnon remains a constant threat to 0.85

00:05:19.460 spam our Twitter threads and post wacky memes. Other than that, there's no reason to fear them.

00:05:25.780 But there is another popular conspiracy theory that should perhaps cause some anxiety among the sane.

00:05:32.980 One with many more adherents, vastly greater influence, amplified by mainstream voices in media and

00:05:40.160 entertainment, and which has proven to be a real and catastrophic threat to our physical safety, our system of

00:05:45.480 government and the future of our democracy. On an intellectual level, it's no more credible than QAnon or 0.99

00:05:51.060 Sandy Hook, and probably quite a bit less credible. Worst of all, this conspiracy theory has the advantage of

00:05:57.220 not being widely and properly considered or labeled a conspiracy theory, which only increases its perceived

00:06:03.860 legitimacy and causes it to grow and spread like mold in a flooded basement. I refer to the theory that

00:06:11.440 agents of white supremacy, within law enforcement and without, are hunting and murdering black people all across the 0.99

00:06:18.360 country. That's a conspiracy theory. It is false. After the grand jury decision was announced on Wednesday, a guest on 1.00

00:06:26.320 MSNBC ranted against, quote, state-sponsored white supremacy and killing of black people, and claimed that you can't go 0.99

00:06:34.540 anywhere if you're black because blacks are being murdered by racist whites with such regularity. Let's listen to that. 1.00

00:06:39.640 That is why people are upset. That is why protesters are mad at the media, because they're tired of these discussions being

00:06:49.640 teased out in ways that give justifications for nothing other than state-sponsored white supremacy and killing of black 0.99

00:06:56.260 people. It is so infuriating and so maddening. You're not safe anywhere, because I can't go anywhere, Nicole. If I go jogging, I can end up 1.00

00:07:04.220 like Ahmaud Arbery. Right. So as proof of this extraordinary claim made, it should be remarked by a black man who

00:07:11.300 says he can't go anywhere and yet is sitting comfortably on national TV launching wild accusations against the

00:07:16.660 very country that protects his right to do so safely. But the guest, Jason Johnson, mentions three unrelated

00:07:23.440 cases over the course of two years. In two of the cases, Atatiana Jefferson and Botham Jean, the cops responsible

00:07:29.720 were indicted. Neither case has any plausible connection to racism at all. He also mentions Ahmaud Arbery, whose killers have

00:07:38.980 likewise been charged. This doesn't come anywhere close to justifying the claim that black people can't go anywhere for fear of being

00:07:46.460 executed by state-sponsored white supremacists. And he is, of course, completely ignoring the statistical reality that blacks are more 0.99

00:07:54.940 likely to kill whites than whites are to kill blacks and that blacks are not significantly more likely to be killed 0.99

00:07:59.720 during the course of an arrest than are whites. He has done exactly what conspiracy theorists always do, taking a few 0.99

00:08:06.720 random facts or events, plucking them out of context, disregarding from the outset all alternative explanations for those

00:08:15.600 facts, making no attempt to view them from a wider perspective, and constructing around them a far-reaching narrative that

00:08:22.380 creates more holes than it fills and requires more explanation than it provides.

00:08:27.800 That's what conspiracy theorists do. Now, Johnson may be making claims that are absurd, dangerous, stupid, and utterly 1.00

00:08:34.900 lacking any factual basis whatsoever, but he's not alone going out on that limb. This is the narrative presented by 1.00

00:08:43.240 BLM and its mouthpieces. LeBron James says that black people can't leave their homes because they're being hunted. 1.00

00:08:48.640 There's no elected Democrat on the national stage who will publicly disagree with any of that, and most have made

00:08:55.280 similar statements. The mainstream liberal media, Hollywood, the Democrat Party, all have joined with the

00:09:00.740 delusional rioter in the street who speaks of a white supremacist conspiracy to exterminate innocent black 0.99

00:09:06.960 Americans. None have offered any evidence of this conspiracy. They have only random anecdotes, all of which can be 0.99

00:09:15.400 easily accounted for without recourse to imaginary genocides. Now, unlike QAnon, this conspiracy 0.96

00:09:22.140 theory has real-world consequences. One wacko was motivated by the Pizzagate conspiracy theory to show

00:09:28.680 up to comet ping-pong pizzeria in D.C. and fire off three shots, hitting no one but damaging a wall and a door

00:09:34.820 and maybe a desk or something. Four years later, this event is still trotted out as an example of the dangers of

00:09:40.880 far-right conspiracy mongering. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have been motivated by the

00:09:46.480 white supremacists are hunting black people conspiracy theory to torch cop cars, destroy buildings, loot, 0.98

00:09:52.400 vandalize, assault, kill. If Pizzagate and QAnon have dangerous implications, then the theory promoted by 0.99

00:09:59.600 BLM is downright apocalyptic in its consequences. It is intended to be. Those who propagate it are actively 1.00

00:10:06.960 trying to destroy the public's faith in our institutions. One's faith in our institutions

00:10:12.060 will naturally tend to waver if one seriously believes that they're run by genocidal white 0.97

00:10:17.180 supremacists. And now the calls for the abolition of police can be heard even from mainstream voices, 0.60

00:10:22.480 as well as the radicals and militants who prowl our communities every night, rampaging and pillaging,

00:10:29.420 feeling morally justified all the while because they're only tearing down a system that murders 0.99

00:10:34.580 innocent black people in droves. This is the conspiracy theory that burns our cities and tears 1.00

00:10:41.520 our country apart and threatens to damage us in ways that I fear cannot be undone.

00:10:50.520 So if you're worried about dangerous conspiracy theories, this is the one you should be focused on

00:10:57.060 debunking. We'll get to our five headlines.

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00:12:40.400 That's Bambi.com slash Walsh spelled B-A-M-B-E-E.com slash Walsh. Well, the insurrectionists,

00:12:48.520 as we've been discussing or swarming, uh, our, our cities across the country again, last night,

00:12:53.400 I could probably stop saying that you can just assume that they're out there every night being 0.99

00:12:57.820 scumbags, doing what scumbags do. But this incident in LA is above and beyond much of what 0.99

00:13:05.460 we've seen so far. So let's first watch the video and then I'll describe it for those listening on the

00:13:10.980 audio podcast, but watch it right now. Okay. So you have there a driver trying to drive around the

00:13:16.120 rioters who are in the middle of the street. Now, yes, they think we we've seen this all across 1.00

00:13:22.080 the country. They think that they have the right to shut down any street they want to, you know,

00:13:27.200 direct traffic. They can do whatever they want. Um, and if you try to, it's not just, it's not if

00:13:33.280 you, if you run them over, if you try to just go around them to go down a street that they don't

00:13:38.680 want you on for whatever reason, then they think now they have every right to, uh, smash your windows, 0.95

00:13:44.980 assault you, pull you out of the car, kill you if that's what they decide to do. So in this case, 0.98

00:13:49.440 you've got a driver trying to go around the rioters. They swarm his car. He's successfully

00:13:54.500 say escapes. Doesn't, doesn't hit anybody is driving away on an empty street. Okay. It's not

00:14:00.240 like he's plowing through, uh, like a bowling ball going through rioters. No, he's going down an empty

00:14:05.540 street. And then, uh, what do they do? They get into cars and they chase him in vehicles, cut him off,

00:14:12.420 attack the vehicle, and then, uh, and try to pull them out. And finally at the end,

00:14:18.480 we see cops show up and arrest him, the victim. So two points here. The first is that just again,

00:14:27.560 these protesters are monsters. They are evil. They'll, they're soulless dirtbags. Uh, the divide 1.00

00:14:34.780 between good guy and bad guy in this situation is so clear. We have rarely seen in America,

00:14:41.860 a political movement that was so thoroughly and obviously evil with no redeeming qualities

00:14:48.900 whatsoever. BLM and Antifa, we're talking about one of the most evil political movements in American

00:14:57.380 history, utterly destructive, violent and hateful, attacking innocent people at random for no good

00:15:06.500 reason. Not that it could be a good reason, but they certainly don't have one. Also pathologically

00:15:10.480 dishonest. They lie about everything. Their whole movement, as we've already discussed is based on

00:15:16.220 total lies and fabrications. So there are a lot like the pro-abortion movement in that way. Um,

00:15:21.840 and there's a lot of crossover there too, I imagine. And the pro-abortion movement is,

00:15:25.300 is one of the, one of the other most evil movements in American history. So that's one point.

00:15:31.620 Second point is that the police, I think should be really careful about alienating the people who are 0.97

00:15:37.740 on their side. You see videos like that. You know, if you're a police officer, as I'm sure you've

00:15:43.380 noticed, you don't have a lot of friends and, uh, it's probably not a good idea to alienate the few

00:15:48.680 friends you do have, but that's, what's going to happen when we see law-abiding innocent victims

00:15:54.360 getting arrested like that. And there are others. Speaking of alienating the good guys,

00:16:00.320 um, let's, uh, maybe you've seen this video from a couple of days ago. Here's a, a Christian being

00:16:06.700 arrested in, I believe this is in Idaho for gathering to sing, uh, and, and praise and worship. Watch this.

00:16:15.160 Always trust in chariots, and others trust in horses. But we recall our Lord our God,

00:16:26.340 strong past our own resources. Our enemies have fallen low, but we are held and not. So save us,

00:16:38.620 Lord our God in gear, as we in trouble call thee, as we in trouble call thee, as we in trouble call thee.

00:16:48.620 Amen!

00:16:50.620 Amen!

00:16:51.620 This is embarrassing.

00:16:52.620 How you doing, Gabe?

00:16:53.620 I'm doing great.

00:16:54.620 I'm doing great.

00:16:55.620 Yeah, man, I'm doing great.

00:16:56.620 Cover this patrol car here.

00:16:57.620 Back side and the left.

00:16:59.620 Yeah.

00:17:00.620 Didn't see this happen for BLM, Gabe.

00:17:02.620 Uh, it's unbelievable.

00:17:03.620 Isn't that weird?

00:17:04.620 Hey, just get us a little space for you, please.

00:17:06.620 Yeah, that's right.

00:17:07.620 Yeah, just get us a little space.

00:17:08.620 Got it.

00:17:09.620 Got it.

00:17:10.620 Got it.

00:17:11.620 You guys should not be doing this. 0.99

00:17:12.620 And doing this kind of crap for the mayor? 1.00

00:17:14.620 This is embarrassing. 1.00

00:17:15.620 You guys are stronger than this.

00:17:18.620 You shouldn't be doing this.

00:17:20.620 You guys are tough people.

00:17:22.620 This is wrong.

00:17:23.620 Yeah, there was also a video that's been circulating of a woman being tased and arrested and cuffed

00:17:28.620 for sitting without a mask on a, you know, mostly empty bleachers at a football game.

00:17:34.620 This is the kind of thing that's going to alienate the, you know, the people that are on your side.

00:17:38.620 The good guys.

00:17:39.620 Going to alienate them. 0.97

00:17:41.620 With this sort of nonsense. 0.95

00:17:43.620 Number two.

00:17:44.620 Uh, I love this from Charles Barkley.

00:17:46.620 Listen to this. 0.99

00:17:47.620 You know, I hear these fools on TV talking about defund the police and things like that. 0.98

00:17:53.620 We need police reform and prison reform and things like that. 0.99

00:17:57.620 Because you know who ain't going to defund the cops?

00:18:00.620 White neighborhoods and rich neighborhoods.

00:18:03.620 So that notion they keep saying that.

00:18:06.620 I'm like, wait a minute.

00:18:07.620 We just going to leave. 0.97

00:18:08.620 Who are black people supposed to call ghostbusters? 1.00

00:18:10.620 When we have crime in our neighborhoods, we need police reform. 0.92

00:18:14.620 But like I say, white people, especially rich white people, they're always going to have cops. 0.99

00:18:18.620 So we need to stop that defund or embolish the cops crap. 0.99

00:18:22.620 Yeah, just basic common sense there. 0.97

00:18:24.620 Um, and what does it tell you that at this point when somebody is on TV saying just basic common sense stuff?

00:18:35.620 Well, all he's really saying is, no, of course, we don't want to get rid of the police department.

00:18:39.620 Are you kidding me?

00:18:40.620 And of course, if you're in a neighborhood that's got more crime, then that's all the more reason why you want police officers.

00:18:47.620 Very basic common sense.

00:18:49.620 But what does it say?

00:18:50.620 And I appreciate him saying it.

00:18:52.620 I don't mean to dismiss it or belittle it because it is important to say.

00:18:55.620 But what does it say about our culture that someone just making a basic common sense statement like that is such a relief.

00:19:01.620 And you are so overcome with joy just to hear it.

00:19:04.620 You know, it's like it's like a just a fresh cup of water when you've been wandering in a desert.

00:19:09.620 That's what it feels like.

00:19:10.620 A little cup of water, a little cup of sanity amid the desert of madness.

00:19:15.620 So good job from Charles Barkley there.

00:19:19.620 Number three, a few days ago, speaking of we'll get back into the madness part of it now.

00:19:23.620 A guy who goes by the name Dreadhead Cowboy, an activist in Chicago.

00:19:27.620 He's worked with Mayor Lightfoot over there in Chicago, is well known for that locally.

00:19:32.620 And he decided to call attention to the issues by riding a horse down the highway in the middle of traffic.

00:19:40.620 So here's some of that.

00:19:41.620 You can see you can see him riding there.

00:19:43.620 All the cops are trailing.

00:19:44.620 Well, now the Dreadhead Cowboy is very shocked and appalled and victimized because he got arrested for that stunt. 0.72

00:19:51.620 Shocker of shockers.

00:19:52.620 Actually, it is kind of a shock that they arrested someone in Chicago for breaking the law.

00:19:56.620 So I appreciate that.

00:19:57.620 But the main charge is animal cruelty.

00:19:59.620 The animal was ridden almost to death, might still be euthanized.

00:20:04.620 It's in critical condition right now.

00:20:05.620 He rode the animal seven miles on the pavement without proper equipment, nearly killed it in the process, all in the name of activism.

00:20:13.620 But here he is.

00:20:15.620 Now, of course, as we know, who's the real victim here?

00:20:20.620 He blocked traffic, rode a horse almost to death.

00:20:22.620 Who's the real victim?

00:20:23.620 Well, it's him.

00:20:24.620 And here he is explaining that and defending his actions in a press conference.

00:20:27.620 Listen.

00:20:28.620 My first time ever, I'm just going to go into, I'm an animal lover period.

00:20:33.620 Like, all my life, I've always been an animal lover.

00:20:36.620 And four years ago, it was my first chance ever being around a horse.

00:20:41.620 And two years later, my first chance owning a horse.

00:20:44.620 And I fell in love with horses since then.

00:20:46.620 And I done owned up to nine horses.

00:20:48.620 And when I say it's a beautiful thing to own a horse, and I couldn't even tell y'all, the people that don't know anything about horses from looking for the outside.

00:20:58.620 Then you would think that what I did was cruelty to animals.

00:21:02.620 But if you go to the racetrack, a hundred times worse, if you go to the circus, worse than what?

00:21:11.620 I'm sorry.

00:21:12.620 Okay.

00:21:13.620 Like, it's way worse than what I do to my horse.

00:21:18.620 And I probably could have did a little bit less, but I had to make a statement.

00:21:24.620 They've done worse at the circus.

00:21:27.620 That's his defense.

00:21:28.620 That may be one of the worst criminal defenses I've ever heard in my life.

00:21:33.620 They've done worse at the circus.

00:21:36.620 Maybe if he gets arrested for murder, he can say, hey, come on.

00:21:39.620 You know, they did worse in the Roman Coliseum.

00:21:42.620 Haven't you seen Gladiator?

00:21:43.620 Come on, guys.

00:21:44.620 Give me a break.

00:21:45.620 We'll see if that works out for him.

00:21:47.620 It is Chicago, so maybe it will.

00:21:49.620 Number four, another one for the get your kids the hell out of the public schools file.

00:21:53.620 Here's a report from the Daily Wire.

00:21:54.620 It says, earlier this summer, the Fairfax County public school system in Virginia paid $20,000

00:22:00.620 to host author Ibram Kendi for a virtual event on anti-racism, the left-wing ideology whose

00:22:07.620 adherents believe it is impossible to not be racist.

00:22:10.620 It's impossible to not be racist, yet they hold seminars on how to not be racist.

00:22:15.620 According to a copy of the contract, a link to which was included by journalist Azra Nomani,

00:22:23.620 the school district paid $20,000 to the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau for a 45-minute

00:22:29.620 virtual event with Kendi, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

00:22:34.620 School released a statement defending it, saying that he's a leading anti-racist voice in America,

00:22:41.620 blah, blah, blah, blah, etc. $20,000 for one hour online.

00:22:46.620 He didn't even have to leave his house.

00:22:48.620 Now, I admit, I am a little salty, as the kids would say.

00:22:52.620 I've done some virtual events during this pandemic, and I've been paid for a few of them.

00:22:59.620 I can tell you that I don't get paid anything close to $20,000 for a virtual event.

00:23:03.620 Actually, it never even occurred to me to ask for that kind of money to sit when you don't have to leave your house.

00:23:10.620 Like, here's really the scale.

00:23:13.620 If I don't even have to put on pants to do the event, then I feel like I can't ask for that kind of money.

00:23:19.620 That's the scale.

00:23:20.620 If I have to put on pants, there's going to be charges and fees that are attached to that.

00:23:27.620 And I'll put that on the invoice of putting on the pants fee.

00:23:31.620 But when you're just Skyping from your house, $20,000, my God.

00:23:34.620 Now, I ask you to consider this, though.

00:23:36.620 Reflect on this.

00:23:38.620 Is a country oppressing black people when a black man can get $20,000 to talk about how oppressed he is?

00:23:48.620 What do you think?

00:23:50.620 Think about historical examples.

00:23:52.620 Think about, you know, other oppressive countries, Nazi Germany.

00:23:56.620 The left often compares the two.

00:23:59.620 Could people who were oppressed in Nazi Germany make thousands of dollars talking about that oppression?

00:24:06.620 I don't think so.

00:24:08.620 It almost seems like if you can get paid a lot, if you can make a lot of money in a certain country going around talking about how bad the country is to you and how you're oppressed,

00:24:18.620 pretty good indication you're not oppressed at all.

00:24:20.620 In fact, the country is very kind to you.

00:24:22.620 And again, you're doing very well in the country.

00:24:25.620 I don't know.

00:24:27.620 Maybe I'm crazy.

00:24:28.620 Number five.

00:24:29.620 Finally, important PSA for you black licorice fans out there.

00:24:32.620 A Massachusetts man died last year from eating an excessive amount of black licorice.

00:24:37.620 Doctors said on Wednesday, the unusual case was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing how the man consumed a bag and a half of the candy.

00:24:47.620 This is from the New York Post, by the way, I'm reading a bag and a half of the candy every day for two weeks prior to his death.

00:24:52.620 Licorice contains certain acids and things which can deplete potassium levels and contribute to heart rhythm problems, according to doctors.

00:25:01.620 So he collapsed inside a fast food restaurant, died the next day.

00:25:04.620 Very sad, of course.

00:25:06.620 I will say, though, that I recently discovered that black licorice is good.

00:25:11.620 And a lot of people are biased against black licorice.

00:25:15.620 I think that the bias is mostly because people and this is a big problem with food in general.

00:25:20.620 You have your first experience with black licorice when you're in childhood, right?

00:25:25.620 And when your palate is unrefined and you hate anything that isn't sickly sweet.

00:25:31.620 Think about when you're a kid.

00:25:33.620 You could eat like pixie sticks.

00:25:35.620 In fact, I don't even know if they sell these anymore.

00:25:37.620 Probably with all the public health people out there, they can't.

00:25:40.620 But when I was a kid, they used to sell these massive like garden hose sized pixie sticks just full of sugar.

00:25:49.620 And so you would just take the garden hose of sugar and spray it directly in your mouth.

00:25:55.620 And I enjoyed that.

00:25:57.620 Now, now I couldn't do that without vomiting.

00:25:59.620 That's because as your kid, your palate isn't quite developed and you can't you can't deal with more nuanced, complex flavors.

00:26:06.620 And so you try black licorice you don't like, a Brussels sprouts, another one, olives, liver.

00:26:11.620 You got to go back around as an adult and discover that these things are actually good.

00:26:16.620 Although apparently they can kill you within two weeks.

00:26:20.620 So that's the downside. 0.90

00:26:22.620 All right.

00:26:23.620 We're going to get to our daily cancellation in just one second.

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00:27:17.620 Today for our Daily Cancellation, something special here, a little different.

00:27:21.620 You know, normally here I cancel someone.

00:27:23.620 That's why I call it the Daily Cancellation.

00:27:25.620 But today what I really like to do is flip it around.

00:27:28.620 And rather than canceling, I'm going to defend someone from cancellation.

00:27:33.620 This is more of an anti cancellation today.

00:27:35.620 I think it's important sometimes to come out to the defense of those who are unjustly accused, unjustly canceled.

00:27:42.620 And frankly, it's the right thing to do. Simple as that.

00:27:45.620 I believe in doing the right thing.

00:27:47.620 So today, the person I'd like to defend from cancellation is someone who is, for my money, one of our greatest living Americans.

00:27:55.620 A man of virtue and generosity who is unfairly maligned and does not deserve any of the negative treatment this person receives.

00:28:04.620 And I refer, of course, to myself.

00:28:07.620 I am the one who is being unjustly canceled.

00:28:10.620 And worst of all, it's my wife trying to do it to me. 1.00

00:28:13.620 Honestly, I can't believe that my own spouse would try to cancel me in public.

00:28:17.620 That is something I would never do to her.

00:28:19.620 But again, this is how it usually goes in my life.

00:28:22.620 I find that I am so often the victim while everyone else so often is wrong.

00:28:25.620 It's the burden I carry.

00:28:27.620 Now, my wife last week put me on blast, as the kids say, or did say in 2003 anyway.

00:28:33.620 This is what she tweeted.

00:28:36.620 She says,

00:28:37.620 Hypothetically, what would you do if your spouse forgot your anniversary?

00:28:41.620 Clearly a hypothetical situation that would never happen, right, Matt Walsh?

00:28:45.620 Yes, if you can believe it, she is insinuating, accusing me of forgetting our anniversary.

00:28:52.620 This is a libelous charge.

00:28:54.620 And she also has her facts completely wrong. 0.97

00:28:57.620 She says, I forgot the anniversary, even though our anniversary hasn't happened yet.

00:29:01.620 It doesn't happen until late October.

00:29:03.620 Or maybe November.

00:29:05.620 Definitely sometime in there.

00:29:06.620 Anyway, the point is, I cannot have forgotten that which has not occurred.

00:29:11.620 The reason she accuses me of this is simply that I may have hypothetically, allegedly, scheduled

00:29:16.620 something for the same day as our anniversary, something work-related which I may not be able

00:29:21.620 to cancel or change at this point.

00:29:23.620 I may have done that because I may not have realized at the time of the scheduling that

00:29:26.620 it was our anniversary.

00:29:28.620 I may have mentioned in passing to my wife, I may have said, oh, hey, I got this thing

00:29:33.620 coming up.

00:29:34.620 And she may have said, you know that's our anniversary, right? 0.99

00:29:37.620 And I may have responded, oh, s***.

00:29:41.620 But does this count as forgetting an anniversary? 0.93

00:29:44.620 Well, only in the sense that anyone in the world can be accused of forgetting anything.

00:29:48.620 Now, here's the argument I presented to my wife.

00:29:50.620 I came with facts and logic.

00:29:52.620 She simply couldn't handle it.

00:29:54.620 But here are the facts.

00:29:56.620 Merriam-Webster defines forget as, quote, to lose the remembrance of, to cease remembering

00:30:02.620 or noticing.

00:30:03.620 Dictionary.com adds this, to fail to think of, take no note of.

00:30:08.620 Okay, so you're forgetting something if you're ceasing to notice, failing to think of, failing

00:30:13.620 to take note of.

00:30:14.620 Well, in that sense, as I explained to my wife with devastating logic, in that sense, everyone

00:30:19.620 forgets all future events.

00:30:21.620 Because unless you're presently thinking of a certain future event at every moment of

00:30:26.620 every day, you're guilty of forgetting it.

00:30:28.620 For example, did you wake up this morning thinking about your own birthday three years

00:30:32.620 from now?

00:30:33.620 Well then, you forgot your own birthday in that moment.

00:30:36.620 Are you, at this present moment, thinking about Thanksgiving coming up?

00:30:40.620 Well, you are now because I mentioned it, but before that, you forgot it.

00:30:44.620 So you see, I forgot the anniversary, a future event, only in the same sense that all people

00:30:50.620 forget everything.

00:30:51.620 And indeed, the same sense that she herself forgets everything, including the very anniversary

00:30:56.620 that she's accusing me of forgetting.

00:30:58.620 I laid out this case to her, and she cut me off and said, and I quote, Matt, stop.

00:31:04.620 But that is not an argument.

00:31:05.620 That's an attempt at censorship, an assault on free speech.

00:31:09.620 The fact remains that my argument is reasonable and fact-based.

00:31:12.620 And I haven't even gotten into the fact yet that time is relative, and we base anniversaries

00:31:16.620 on the Earth's orbit of the sun, which is arbitrary in any case.

00:31:19.620 If we lived on Pluto, we'd still be 239 years away from our first anniversary.

00:31:24.620 Our first anniversary, we'd have no anniversaries if we lived on Pluto.

00:31:28.620 Think about that.

00:31:29.620 So in conclusion, I am not canceled.

00:31:32.620 I am an innocent man falsely accused.

00:31:35.620 I will not fall silent in the face of these attacks, and my wife, I trust, will come in

00:31:38.620 time to appreciate both the sound logic of my position and the inspiring bravery required

00:31:43.620 to defend it.

00:31:44.620 You might even say that through this example I'm providing, I am providing an anniversary

00:31:49.620 gift in a certain way.

00:31:52.620 Yes, that's good.

00:31:57.620 I think that works.

00:32:00.620 So, I am not canceled today.

00:32:03.620 And that's going to do it for us today, and this week.

00:32:08.620 I hope you have a great weekend.

00:32:11.620 Mine might be a little dicey, to be honest with you, but that's all right.

00:32:16.620 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 25, 2020

Ep. 572 - The Craziest And Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory In America

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