The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 582 - Leftism Is Indistinguishable From Insanity

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, desperate Democrats grasping for any reason to hate Amy Coney Barrett

00:00:05.780 have now decided that her use of the term sexual preference is offensive and horrible.

00:00:11.240 The entire left decided in the span of 24 hours that this term is offensive.

00:00:15.180 We'll talk about the implications of living in a culture where words change meaning so quickly,

00:00:19.740 and also why the left's theory of sexual orientation completely contradicts their

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00:01:53.780 Well, you know, it's immensely tempting to say that Democrat senators questioning Amy Coney Barrett

00:02:00.720 during her confirmation hearings this week are engaging in quite a lot of mansplaining. 0.99

00:02:06.080 The condescension is there, the unnecessary, long-winded lectures, the interruptions.

00:02:12.560 They're even using poster boards and other visual aids to get their points across. 0.99

00:02:16.520 The only reason I won't call any of this mansplaining is that the term is vapid and stupid 0.99

00:02:21.720 and used unironically only by people whose minds have been warped by politics and ideology. 0.98

00:02:28.680 Still, by the left's rules applied equitably, as they like to say, it must be concluded that 0.91

00:02:34.020 Barrett's inquisitors are sexist bullies, even the women who are apparently infected with 0.98

00:02:38.860 internalized misogyny or some such nonsense. But if the meaning and application of mansplaining 0.99

00:02:46.100 changes according to the political needs of the moment, at least the word is contrived and

00:02:50.600 meaningless from the start. The left invented that term. I suppose they could do whatever they

00:02:55.840 want with it. The far more disturbing thing is to witness how real words, words that existed before

00:03:01.580 our era of woke politics, are now redefined with rapid speed on the fly and with coordinated

00:03:07.980 efficiency. The hearings have provided us with perhaps the most glaring and most striking example

00:03:13.380 of the left's language manipulation scheme that we've seen yet. And we talked about the game

00:03:18.280 they're playing with the term court packing already. But this is this is way worse than that.

00:03:23.560 So on Tuesday morning, as you ate your breakfast burrito, the term sexual preference was perfectly 0.75

00:03:31.160 normal, perfectly acceptable, perfectly common. And if you used it anywhere, everyone would know what

00:03:37.320 you meant and almost nobody would think to be offended by it. By bedtime, as you crawled beneath your

00:03:42.900 covers, sexual preference had become an unspeakable slur. In the span of 18 hours, this new meaning

00:03:49.240 had been adopted by the media, politicians, even the dictionary itself. Anyone who wasn't paying

00:03:56.040 attention to the news on Wednesday will no doubt use this newly minted gay slur at some point in the 0.72

00:04:01.600 future and be utterly baffled and horrified by the looks and breathless chastisements that follow.

00:04:07.520 That, of course, is part of the plan. So how did this happen? During the course of the confirmation

00:04:14.520 hearings early on Tuesday, Amy Coney Barrett responded to a question about gay rights. And she said that

00:04:20.780 she would, quote, never discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. Here she is in her own words.

00:04:25.900 I do want to be clear that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not

00:04:33.080 ever discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. You know, like racism, I think discrimination is

00:04:38.900 abhorrent. Gasp. Shocking. Well, not really. To most observers, this seems like a totally normal

00:04:45.920 statement. Hardly noteworthy. But some on the left, sensing that Barrett would give them few

00:04:52.180 opportunities to be offended, decided to make do with what they had. So leftist Twitter accounts

00:04:57.360 began setting the stage, claiming that the judge's use of the term sexual preference is somehow

00:05:02.240 abhorrent. All of a sudden. It wasn't before. It is now. Kyle Griffin, an MSNBC producer with almost

00:05:08.900 a million followers, was early on the bandwagon tweeting, sexual preference, a term used by Justice

00:05:14.620 Barrett, is offensive and outdated. The term implies sexuality is a choice. It is not. News organizations

00:05:20.740 should not repeat Justice Barrett's words without providing that important context.

00:05:26.240 Various others joined the chorus. Eventually, they seem to have attracted the attention of Senator

00:05:31.120 Mazie Hirono, who leapt into action. That evening, Hirono circled back to scold Barrett, calling her

00:05:38.220 choice of language offensive and outdated, repeating Kyle Griffin's tweet verbatim. She then explained that

00:05:45.600 only, quote, anti-LGBTQ activists use the term because they want to suggest that sexual orientation

00:05:50.740 is a choice, when in fact, says Hirono, it is a key part of an individual's identity, and it is,

00:05:57.460 she says, immutable. Listen.

00:06:00.160 This morning, Senator Feinstein asked you a question about the Supreme Court's 2015 decision

00:06:05.580 in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case in which the court recognized the constitutional right to same-sex

00:06:11.740 marriage. And I was disappointed that you wouldn't give a direct answer on whether you agreed with the

00:06:16.520 majority in that case, or if you instead agree with your mentor, Justice Scalia, that no such right

00:06:22.240 exists in the Constitution. So even though you didn't give a direct answer, I think your response did

00:06:28.000 speak volumes. Not once, but twice. You used the term sexual preference to describe those in the LGBTQ

00:06:38.560 community. And let me make clear, sexual preference is an offensive and outdated term.

00:06:46.700 It is used by anti-LGBTQ activists to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice. It is not. Sexual orientation

00:06:56.040 is a key part of a person's identity. That sexual orientation is both a normal expression of human sexuality

00:07:04.140 and immutable, was a key part of the majority's opinion in Obergefell, which by the way, Scalia did

00:07:11.600 not agree with. So if it is your view that sexual orientation is merely a preference, as you noted,

00:07:21.020 then the LGBTQ community should be rightly concerned whether you would uphold their constitutional right

00:07:27.660 to marry. And then, expectedly, Cory Booker, never missing an opportunity to grandstand,

00:07:33.340 also jumped in to register his objection to the term.

00:07:37.800 Judge Barrett, five years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects the rights of

00:07:42.440 same-sex couples to marry. This was a Obergefell case, which has been discussed today. The court declared

00:07:47.940 the Constitution grants LGBTQ Americans equal dignity in the eyes of the law. Hundreds of thousands of

00:07:53.380 couples have built their lives on this decision. I've married some of them myself. On that day, five years

00:07:58.420 ago, the court fulfilled really that ideal of equal justice under law. And yet now, the same-sex marriage is

00:08:05.200 legal. We've seen efforts to try to undermine that decision. Justice Ginsburg wrote about legal rules that would

00:08:11.160 quote, create two kinds of marriage, full marriage and skim milk marriage. I firmly believe that our laws shouldn't allow

00:08:18.100 discrimination against people on the basis of who they are. I have a number of questions on this topic. If I can

00:08:23.260 get through them, but I wanted to offer you a further opportunity to address the issue that I don't

00:08:28.580 think you got to fully address, that my colleague brought up. When you did use the term sexual

00:08:33.140 preference earlier today, rather than sexual orientation, is there a difference and what is it?

00:08:38.960 Senator, I really, in using that word, did not mean to imply that I think that, you know,

00:08:44.820 that it's a matter, not a matter of, that it's not an immutable characteristic or that it's solely a

00:08:51.260 matter of preference. I honestly did not mean any offense or to make any statement by that. But by

00:08:55.620 what you just said, you understand about that immutable characteristic, in other words, that one's

00:09:00.260 sexuality is not a preference, it is who they are. Is that what you're saying? Senator, I'm saying I was

00:09:08.080 not trying to make any comment on it. I fully respect all the rights of the LGBT community.

00:09:12.580 A booger file is an important precedent of the court. I reject any kind of discrimination on any sort of

00:09:20.980 basis. And then it was off to the races. Slate, Jezebel, Vox, other outlets all joined the dogpile

00:09:27.380 publishing articles condemning sexual preference as offensive, degrading, bigoted, a dog whistle.

00:09:33.720 Well, we must say orientation, not preference. They all suddenly agreed. Our sexuality is not a

00:09:40.380 preference. It is ingrained. It is fundamental. It is an unchangeable part of our essence as human

00:09:46.980 beings. And to cap it all off, Webster's online dictionary changed its definition of the word

00:09:52.280 preference at the end of the night to note that it is offensive when applied to sexuality. Now, of course,

00:09:58.680 dictionary definitions change to reflect evolving meanings and common usages, and that's fine.

00:10:05.220 But the usage and meaning of preference has not evolved. The left, to include now the dictionary,

00:10:11.420 is not merely noting a change in common usage, but trying to affect a change by pretending that

00:10:18.280 it has already occurred. Words evolve gradually and organically over many years. Changes in language

00:10:26.020 in our society are, rather than gradual and organic, sudden, artificial, orchestrated, ideological.

00:10:33.880 And this is a very different sort of thing. Now, it's probably no use to point this out, but

00:10:39.100 many of the people and media outlets lambasting Barrett for her use of sexual preference have

00:10:45.420 themselves uttered or written it many times over the years. The Advocate, for example, blasted the

00:10:51.500 anti-LGBTQ plus language only two weeks after publishing an article that makes uncritical use of

00:10:59.820 that same term. Slate professed to be so alarmed by Barrett's language after years of using the exact same

00:11:07.020 language in its articles. Indeed, just this year, Slate's advice column featured a question from a 65-year-old

00:11:13.200 straight man wondering if his, quote, sexual preference may have changed over time as he finds

00:11:19.920 himself fantasizing about men. And he decided to write Slate about this. The response from Slate

00:11:24.620 writer Rich Juzwiak certainly does not sound consistent with sexual orientation as an immutable

00:11:30.220 characteristic. This is what he says, quote, from Slate, some people keep evolving sexually,

00:11:35.620 finding different things they're into at different times. In an episode of Netflix's Sex Explained,

00:11:40.600 fantasies are compared to language. Research suggests we don't unlearn old ones, but we can

00:11:46.040 learn new ones. Dr. Justin Lay Miller, who has studied fantasies extensively, suggests that one

00:11:54.000 way of picking up new sexual interests would be exposure, via porn, for example, to something novel

00:11:58.820 when on the brink of orgasm. For many, that's when the disgust response is reduced. The ensuing orgasm

00:12:05.860 could prompt the stimulus to be sought again, and a new fantasy slash kink is born. Okay, that's 0.73

00:12:11.600 Slate. Evolving sexually, new sexual interests, a new fantasy is born. This makes sexual orientation

00:12:18.720 sound an awful lot like a preference that can be changed, and in many cases does change. There are

00:12:25.280 many real-world examples of this happening. Slate itself provided one of them. Sexual orientation is

00:12:31.700 immutable is dogma, impotently asserting itself against a reality that clearly contradicts and

00:12:37.400 disproves it. Besides, there is an inescapable logical problem for adherents to left-wing gender 0.85

00:12:44.240 theory who also claim sexual orientation as ingrained and unchangeable. The problem is that

00:12:50.080 their gender theories cannot coexist with their theory of sexual orientation. These are mutually 0.97

00:12:57.840 exclusive propositions for reasons that should be obvious. Take the example of a gay man who 0.59

00:13:04.080 transitions into a woman. If he is really a woman now, he is no longer gay. Thus, sexual orientation 0.83

00:13:10.680 can change. If he must always be gay because orientation is immutable, he must always be a man. 0.93

00:13:16.700 There is no way around this without undermining or denying his self-identity somewhere along the

00:13:22.280 timeline. In order to make both propositions work, you must point to this individual and say that

00:13:27.740 he was wrong about being gay or wrong about being a man or he's wrong about being a woman now.

00:13:33.560 But that is to claim that it's possible for a person to be wrong about their own self-identity,

00:13:39.100 which would cause the whole artifice of left-wing gender theory to collapse. 1.00

00:13:42.540 The scheme doesn't work if outsiders are able to judge a person's identity as incorrect

00:13:47.300 based on our own logical or physical observations. This is a problem that cannot be overcome,

00:13:54.180 though it can be blithely ignored. The advantage, after all, to being a relativist

00:13:59.440 is that you get to invent your own truth to suit the moment. Different moments call for different

00:14:04.780 truths. The relativist feels no need to maintain any common logical thread from one moment to the

00:14:10.620 next. Now, you may say that this is also the hallmark of insanity, and you would be correct.

00:14:16.500 But insanity, as we have discovered, is our culture's most powerful political ideology.

00:14:21.860 Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:48.500 Let's see. Okay, good. Big report here in the Daily Wire says, newly published emails allegedly show

00:16:53.220 that Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, leveraged his relationship with

00:16:59.220 his father, then Vice President Biden, to increase his pay at Ukrainian gas company Burisma. The email

00:17:05.540 comes from a laptop computer that was dropped off at a computer repair store last April in Biden's

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00:17:14.600 never retrieved the device. Federal law enforcement officials reportedly seized the laptop in December

00:17:19.600 after the store owner alerted them to it, but not before the store owner made a copy of the hard

00:17:24.980 drive. The New York Post, which was given a copy of the hard drive on Sunday, reported,

00:17:28.960 quote, Hunter Biden discussed leveraging his connection to his father in a bid to boost his

00:17:34.640 pay from a Ukrainian national gas, natural gas company. In a lengthy memo to his then business

00:17:40.680 partner, Devon Archer, who already sat on Burisma board, Biden repeatedly mentioned my guy while

00:17:48.520 apparently referring to then Vice President Joe Biden. Under President Barack Obama, the elder Biden was

00:17:53.920 the point person for U.S. policy towards Ukraine and held a press conference there with the Prime

00:17:59.920 Minister on April 22nd. And then it goes into the specific, you could read the New York Post report,

00:18:05.920 but it goes into some of the examples, quoting from these alleged emails. Sounds to me like,

00:18:13.200 I don't know, a massive scandal, but the deflating thing is that political scandals are, of course,

00:18:17.380 meaningless if they aren't reported. For this to do any damage against Biden, it would need to

00:18:22.640 be reported by more than just Fox News and the New York Post and us. It would need to be reported

00:18:29.040 in the mass media, which it won't be, of course. So you want to talk about influencing elections,

00:18:34.320 while the mainstream media refusing to cover massive scandals when they pertain to one particular

00:18:39.000 candidate, that is certainly one way to influence an election. And that is also,

00:18:43.980 most of the time, the essence of fake news. I say this all the time. Fake news is usually not

00:18:49.880 inventing stories. That's not generally how fake news works. Fake news is in the stories they choose

00:18:56.520 not to cover. It's in pretending that something isn't news. That's the fake news part, most of the

00:19:03.040 time. All right, Joe Biden is continuing his outreach to black voters. And as is often the case,

00:19:09.780 when white Democrats reach out to black voters, the results are pretty patronizing. 0.90

00:19:15.280 Um, and he, you have to just hear this to believe it. This is the Biden ad on his YouTube page 0.77

00:19:21.400 featuring two guys having a rap battle where they discuss Joe Biden's policies

00:19:28.280 in the rap battle. Take a listen.

00:19:32.860 Yo, why you ain't been answering your phone? You know why I'm calling you. You have to vote.

00:19:37.540 You know why I don't vote. Why? Because as a black man, I just feel like there's no hope.

00:19:45.280 Our president telling people to go back to China, taking the coronavirus as a joke. And that's the

00:19:51.840 part that frightened me. When you choose a president, it's supposed to be a knockout. Then why this

00:19:57.220 situation doesn't entice in me? If you got the answers to get me out this dark path, my brother,

00:20:02.080 enlighten me. We always telling each other to stay woke. That's why this time we got to use our voice

00:20:08.460 and you have to vote. The facts should show Biden has a plan for African-Americans. We're not dealing 0.88

00:20:13.900 with your average Joe. I see the way you looking right now. You know exactly where I'm going to go

00:20:18.120 with this. For four years, we had Trump in office and we made the most of it. But we finally got

00:20:22.880 somebody that could be in office that could give us a chance to have home ownership. I'm talking to

00:20:27.640 all of you, $640 billion over the course of 10 years so we could finally get house and that's

00:20:33.860 affordable. Okay. A couple of things here. First of all, you have here in this ad, two black men

00:20:41.120 on a basketball court having a conversation through rapping. If this isn't the most stereotypical

00:20:49.660 and insulting political ad we've seen in decades, I don't know what is. What would you

00:20:56.260 what earns that title if not what you just heard right there? Second, um, you know, maybe beside

00:21:04.240 the point, but the freestyle, most of what you just heard there didn't even rhyme. So he says,

00:21:09.820 uh, but we finally got somebody that could be in office that can finally give us the chance to have

00:21:14.160 home ownership. I'm talking to all of you, $640 billion over the course of 10 years. So we finally

00:21:19.820 get housing that's affordable. That's not, it doesn't rhyme. That's isn't a rap supposed to run.

00:21:24.540 If you don't have music and, uh, if there's no background music and it doesn't rhyme,

00:21:31.660 then that's just nor that's just speaking. All you're, you're, you're speaking is what you're

00:21:36.580 doing. You're just speaking with hand gestures. So, I mean, by, I guess I'm, I, I freestyle all the

00:21:43.540 time. I guess I freestyle at my house to my wife. I already took the trash out. Please stop asking me.

00:21:51.220 Um, that was my freestyle. I just, uh, I dropped a bar right there. As the kids say,

00:21:56.840 is that what you do? You drop the bars, spit the bar. How's it go? I don't know. Uh, so that,

00:22:04.960 that's man, that's, that's great. That's we've done the cringe challenge before.

00:22:12.280 Try to get through that whole video. That's like four minutes. I think the whole thing I played 30

00:22:18.080 seconds of it. So see if, see if you can get through the whole four minutes. It's difficult.

00:22:23.060 All right. Um, boycott NBC is currently trending. Uh, it's the, we've got another boycott going.

00:22:30.380 And the reason is even dumber than, than you think. The reasons are always dumb for boycotts most of the 0.98

00:22:36.300 time. Uh, but this, the reason is they're boycotting NBC. The left is because they're having, uh, NBC is 0.95

00:22:43.020 having a town hall with Trump, which will run opposite of a different town hall on ABC with

00:22:49.980 Biden. And so that's the reason for the boycott. This is bad because, well, the reason, the real

00:22:55.440 reason it's bad is because it, it involves Trump. And so that's why it's bad. But the reason they're

00:22:59.880 giving is that, um, if, if you do both town halls at the same time, people won't be able to watch

00:23:08.360 both. And so this is really a form of voter suppression because the voters are not able

00:23:13.400 to inform themselves because you got both town halls going on at the same time. And that's a reason to,

00:23:17.640 uh, to boycott. Yeah. Well, the problem is for one thing, who the hell actually wants to watch

00:23:22.960 either of these town halls, let alone both of them, who would willingly sit and watch a politician's

00:23:29.720 town hall for fun. And second point, do you not have DVR? Is there anybody left in America who

00:23:36.640 doesn't have the capability to digitally record programming? And even if you don't, don't you

00:23:41.920 have the internet? You can, if you're boycotting, if you're, if you're hashtag boycott NBC, you

00:23:45.800 probably have the internet. You can go on and find the clip of it later and watch if you really want

00:23:49.960 to. So obviously a very stupid reason for a boycott. Number four, uh, more big news here. Oreo is, uh, 1.00

00:23:56.080 defeating discrimination by releasing a rainbow colored cookie. I feel like they've done this

00:24:02.880 before. Maybe I'm wrong, but either way, remarkable. Just, uh, all you can do is marvel at the courage

00:24:10.680 and boldness to have this rainbow colored cookie. And the good thing is whatever distracts them from

00:24:17.380 making more double stuffed Oreos. Yeah. Like that's good to me. If they focus their energy on making

00:24:22.660 the rainbow Oreos instead of the double stuffed, um, I, I consider that a win because double stuffed

00:24:29.060 Oreos are disgusting. And I say that as a loyal Oreo eater going back decades. The problem with the

00:24:35.500 double stuffed Oreo is that, you know, when, when you have that much of the cream, you start to realize

00:24:41.140 that the cream is not really cream. It's some sort of hideous synthetic goop. It's really the same

00:24:46.960 problem with the quarter pounder at McDonald's. I think like the big Mac is great because it's

00:24:51.520 mostly just bread and, and, uh, and the, the sauce with two little slivers of, of would be meat.

00:24:57.920 But then you get the bigger cut of the meat and it becomes obvious that this is not meat,

00:25:01.720 but rather salty, greasy styrofoam. So it really becomes too much of a good thing.

00:25:08.300 Why are we talking about this? I forget. Oh yeah. Rainbow colored Oreos. So there you go.

00:25:11.720 Five, finally, um, more big news and innovation, almost as impressive as the rainbow colored Oreo.

00:25:18.660 The iPhone 12, uh, was unveiled yesterday. Moment we've been waiting for. Here it is. You can look

00:25:25.340 at it right here, uh, spinning around and dancing for you. So there it is. So it's, it's, you know,

00:25:31.980 you look at that and you think, well, it's a lot like the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 10 and the iPhone

00:25:38.360 nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Very similar to that, except this time

00:25:44.080 with more cameras. This is all they're doing now with the iPhones. I guess they're just,

00:25:49.700 they've run out of ideas. They just add new cameras each time. Every, every successive iPhone

00:25:55.060 from now on, there's just another camera. They had on the thing is pockmarked with cameras at this

00:25:58.520 point. And, uh, all of this camera technology only so that narcissists can take clearer pictures of

00:26:06.220 their own ugly faces. That's all anybody uses it for anyway. Pretty soon. It's going to be, 0.93

00:26:12.340 you know, like pretty soon. It's just going to, it's going to be just a camera. I think that that's

00:26:17.600 where we're headed, that the phones, we're going to, we're sort of transitioning back. We're going

00:26:21.140 full circle. And by the iPhone 20, it'll be just an, a Polaroid camera dancing around there on the

00:26:27.480 screen for you. Personally, I would like a phone. Here's my crazy idea. Um, I would like a phone.

00:26:34.820 That's a phone and also has the internet. I like the internet part of it. So just a phone with the

00:26:41.160 internet. That's all I need. I don't need anything else. And, and also, and this would be the advantage.

00:26:46.320 You don't have any of the other technology. Uh, then it also maybe we'll have a battery that lasts

00:26:51.520 more than 14 seconds. That's my dream. That's what I'm waiting for. Because the problem is that with

00:26:57.280 all this new technology added, you need more power so that, so that now you have to like plug your iPhone

00:27:02.060 directly into the core of the earth in order to get a charge that lasts even, you know, a few hours.

00:27:07.800 So that's what I would like to see. Battery life, internet, phone, text message. That's all I need.

00:27:13.660 I'm a simple man. Okay. We're going to get to our daily cancellation in just a second. But first,

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00:27:46.180 cancellation. So today I'm canceling the NBA. Um, well, I'm not really canceling them or, or it isn't

00:27:52.260 just me. This is a democratic cancellation. We have canceled the NBA together. I think, uh, for me,

00:27:59.020 I'm, I'm just sort of a typical case. Probably I never qualified as a diehard NBA fan to begin with,

00:28:04.500 but I did enjoy the sport and typically became more invested during the playoffs. I loved watching the

00:28:10.120 NBA finals, especially, and had missed probably very few NBA finals in the past decade or so.

00:28:15.940 I never had a home team, but I rooted for my favorite players. I had followed, uh, LeBron James's

00:28:21.940 career in particular, since his first stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers. But I didn't watch a single

00:28:26.380 minute of this past NBA season, which just concluded. LeBron and the Lakers won the trophy

00:28:31.460 on Sunday. I didn't realize the game was even happening or that the Lakers were up in the series.

00:28:36.200 I didn't know anything about it. I found out the next day due to the viral footage of Lakers fans

00:28:41.460 rioting and celebration, because again, apparently revelers celebrating a basketball team's victory are

00:28:46.600 immune to COVID just like BLM activists and attendees of memorial services for Democrats. All of them 0.98

00:28:51.780 are immune. Very, very fascinating science. So this was the first NBA season that I've ever

00:28:57.160 ignored. And I have to tell you, I didn't miss it. Being a sports fan is like being under some sort

00:29:02.140 of trance. You care immensely about this thing for reasons you can't quite explain, but if the spell

00:29:08.760 breaks and you stop caring, you'll wonder why you ever did or why you should start again. So for me,

00:29:16.940 the spell broke because of the NBA's ceaseless political propagandizing. Too aggressive,

00:29:23.000 too wearying, too irritating, just too much. This sort of thing may be tolerable up to a certain

00:29:28.560 line. I'm not sure where that line is exactly, but it has surely been crossed when a league

00:29:33.280 canonizes an accused rapist and serial abuser like Jacob Blake and its top star tries to foment more 0.98

00:29:39.800 division and chaos by telling wild tales about racist cops hunting black men. And nearly all the 0.97

00:29:45.540 players and coaches decide to turn the national anthem into a forum for self-aggrandizing political

00:29:49.380 stunts. That's, you cross the line. I can deal with a little bit of politics from professional

00:29:54.280 athletes, but if getting smacked in the face with an ideological two-by-four is the price of admission,

00:30:00.300 I'd rather just go do something else with my time. And I'm not alone. According to Nielsen,

00:30:05.260 this was the lowest rated NBA finals in 40 years. A mere 5.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the game

00:30:12.000 that I didn't know was even being played. To put that into perspective, double that number watched

00:30:19.240 a regular season Sunday night football matchup on the same night. Game six of the finals last year

00:30:23.900 had three times the viewership. Back in the Michael Jordan era in the 90s, the championship round would

00:30:29.200 routinely draw four, five, six times as many viewers. There's no mystery about why people are

00:30:35.120 tuning out. Now, some in the sports world have tried to rescue the NBA from the consequences of its

00:30:40.340 own politicizing, claiming that viewership is down because of other things like COVID, you know,

00:30:45.160 for example. Yahoo Sports published an article yesterday arguing that the ratings decline suffered

00:30:51.240 by other professional sports leagues like the NFL and MLB prove that politics can't be the driving

00:30:56.920 factor. But other professional sports leagues like the NFL and MLB have also engaged in political

00:31:01.980 sermonizing to one degree or another. If the NBA is being hit especially hard, it's because they've

00:31:06.320 been especially loud while screeching from their soapbox. Besides, just ask the fans why they're

00:31:13.860 turning away. They'll tell you. There was one poll done recently has nearly 40% watching fewer games

00:31:20.760 because of politicization. And that poll separately counts the fans who've switched off because of the

00:31:26.880 NBA's dealings with China. So China hypocrisy and political posturing, which are two very interconnected

00:31:32.260 issues, together account for almost 60% of fans. These are not small numbers. And this is not a

00:31:38.920 small problem for the NBA. Now, it's probably true that COVID isn't helping matters. The absence of fans

00:31:46.100 does tend to make the games less exciting, even without all the social justice stuff. But COVID, the

00:31:51.420 election, the riots, all of the other unpleasant and worrisome subjects dominating the news are major

00:31:58.060 reasons why so many Americans would like to turn to sports for an escape and major reasons why we have

00:32:06.160 little interest in our sports escapism being served to us with a side of left-wing moralizing. It's like

00:32:11.740 it's like, you know, going to Chuck E. Cheese as a child, only to be told that you can't jump in the

00:32:16.780 ball pit or go on the jungle gym until you complete your multiplication tables and finish a plate of

00:32:21.800 Brussels sprouts. You know, Chuck E. Cheese exists precisely to be a place where multiplication tables

00:32:27.900 and Brussels sprouts don't exist. You have defeated the purpose by combining these two universes.

00:32:35.240 Now, granted, that may not be the best analogy because vegetables and mathematics are good for

00:32:40.120 you, even if you don't like them. BLM talking points, on the other hand, promoted so relentlessly

00:32:45.200 by the NBA, are not good or true or healthy or helpful in any way. It's just that when we turn on the

00:32:51.120 news or we enter into a political debate with someone, we're prepared to encounter and engage

00:32:56.960 with that kind of rhetoric. They're part of the bargain. They should not be, need not be, part of

00:33:04.220 the sports bargain, which makes our tolerance in that setting much lower. We would rather sit and

00:33:10.140 watch the game, enjoy the sport for its own sake, focus on a fun and frivolous and pointless thing for a

00:33:17.360 while. And that's it. And if that's too much to ask, so be it. We'll turn the TV off and turn our

00:33:22.840 energies elsewhere. And, you know, it's probably for the best on second thought. So the NBA is really

00:33:32.040 just canceled. As I said, I'm not the one doing it. They've just been canceled. And it honestly is like

00:33:39.020 a trance because once, once, once you just say, okay, I don't, I don't want to watch this anymore.

00:33:45.400 And then you look back and you think, what, why was I even watching to begin with? In what way is

00:33:50.600 my life, you know, my life now without watching the NBA playoffs, especially in what way has it been

00:33:57.120 harmed? Is my life, am I, am I worse off now without this in my life? No, I'm not. In fact,

00:34:03.160 I just have more time to do other things. Of course, I ended up wasting that time too, but still

00:34:07.920 I can waste it in other potentially more fruitful ways. So that's why the NBA is canceled. And that's

00:34:13.820 going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 14, 2020

Ep. 582 - Leftism Is Indistinguishable From Insanity

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