The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 583 - Big Tech Wages An All Out War To Influence The Election

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the big tech giants are waging an all-out war to suppress damaging

00:00:04.200 stories about Joe Biden right before the election. We're facing a very dangerous moment.

00:00:08.200 And though conservatives like myself don't like to think in these terms, it is time for the

00:00:12.760 government to step in. It's long been time, in fact. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines,

00:00:16.500 including more faux controversies coming out of the Amy Coney Barrett hearings. Those are always

00:00:20.340 fun. And in our daily cancellation, it's finally time for me to cancel Barbie. That's a very

00:00:25.680 important segment of the show. We'll get to that soon. But first, maybe less important news than

00:00:30.240 Barbie, but still, two major stories happening here. The first is the series of alleged revelations

00:00:36.460 stemming from, according to New York Post reports, a trove of documents, emails, videos, and other

00:00:41.440 files which were recovered from a laptop, dropped off but never picked up from a computer repair store

00:00:47.180 in Delaware. Here's the New York Post reading now. The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in

00:00:53.940 Biden's home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store's owner. The customer

00:00:58.740 who brought in the water damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or retrieved it

00:01:03.580 or a hard drive on which its contents were stored, according to the shop owner, who said he tried

00:01:09.020 repeatedly to contact the client. The shop owner couldn't positively identify the customer as Hunter

00:01:14.500 Biden, but said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation named after Hunter's late

00:01:20.180 brother and former Delaware attorney general. Photos of a Delaware federal subpoena given to the post

00:01:25.880 show that both the computer and the hard drive were seized by the FBI in December after the shop's

00:01:31.860 owner says he alerted the feds to their existence. But before turning over the gear, the shop owner says

00:01:37.420 he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's lawyer, Robert

00:01:43.100 Costello. Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Trump, told the post about the existence of the hard drive

00:01:48.980 in late September. And Giuliani provided the post with the copy of it on Sunday. OK, so that's that's

00:01:55.740 the post report on how the information came to light. As for the information itself, I'll read a

00:02:01.160 little bit of that to you. I can't post this stuff on Twitter or Facebook, but I can read it to you at

00:02:05.620 least. So I'll give you some of it. This in an article titled Smoking Gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden

00:02:12.460 Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad. In this article, we're told, quote, Hunter Biden introduced his

00:02:18.560 father, then Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a

00:02:23.320 year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who

00:02:28.720 was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by the post. The never before revealed

00:02:34.700 meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadim Pozarsky, an advisor to the board of

00:02:41.480 Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17th, 2015. About a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at

00:02:48.420 a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month. Pretty nice deal if you can get it. Says, dear Hunter,

00:02:53.380 thank you for inviting me to D.C. and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spend some

00:02:57.060 time together. It's really an honor and pleasure. The email reads an earlier email from May 2014

00:03:03.260 also shows Pozarsky reportedly Burisma's number three executive asking Hunter for advice on how you

00:03:09.720 could use your influence on the company's behalf. The blockbuster correspondence, which flies in the face of

00:03:16.020 Joe Biden's claim that he's never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings, which never

00:03:20.720 made sense anyway, by the way. I mean, just in general, you're a dad, you never talk to your son

00:03:24.260 about what he's doing in his business. Doesn't make sense. Anyway, back to the report, it says this is

00:03:28.100 all contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer. Okay, now another article from

00:03:32.980 New York Post has this headline. Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family

00:03:39.680 with Chinese firm. The report reads, Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China's largest

00:03:45.540 private energy company, including one that he said would be interesting for me and my family.

00:03:50.740 Emails obtained by the Post show. One email sent to Biden on May 13th, 2017 with the subject line

00:03:56.120 expectations included details of remuneration packages for six people involved in an unspecified

00:04:03.540 business venture. Biden was identified as chair slash vice chair, depending on agreement with CEFC,

00:04:09.180 an apparent reference to the former Shanghai-based conglomerate CEFC China Energy Company. His pay

00:04:15.420 was pegged at 850, and the email also noted that Hunter has some office expectations that he will

00:04:21.700 elaborate. In addition, the email outlined a provisional agreement under which 80% of the equity

00:04:27.480 or shares in the new company would be split equally among four people whose initials correspond to the

00:04:32.400 sender and three recipients, with H apparently referring to Biden. The deal also mentions or lists

00:04:38.760 10 Jim and 10 held by H for the big guy. Neither Jim nor the big guy was identified.

00:04:46.440 All right. Now, there's a lot more to these stories, and I'd suggest going to the New York Post website,

00:04:50.880 reading it for yourself. There are other alleged revelations, too. Lots of stuff about Hunter,

00:04:55.000 you know, allegedly doing drugs and cavorting with hookers and so on. I don't really care about any of

00:05:00.000 that. I do care, and everybody should care, about Hunter leveraging his connections to the vice

00:05:05.460 president and getting involved with China and all of the things that point to real corruption. That

00:05:11.740 matters. And what matters, perhaps even more than that, has been, of course, the response from big

00:05:17.100 tech. Because as the cliche goes, you know, the cover-up is worse than the crime. And that holds here,

00:05:21.840 that holds true here, too, I think. As you've probably heard by now, Twitter and Facebook

00:05:26.860 together have been working overtime to suppress and censor the New York Post reporting about this

00:05:31.940 scandal. And they have punished, suspended, flagged people who share the stories. And that includes

00:05:38.660 not just random accounts, politicians, reporters, officials, prominent people all being targeted by

00:05:45.260 the big social media giants for trying to alert the public to this story. The White House press

00:05:49.820 secretary was the latest this morning to be locked out of her Twitter account for posting the article. 0.96

00:05:55.160 Twitter actually disabled the link to the story so that you couldn't read it or share it.

00:06:00.100 I've never seen that before. Facebook announced right away through its spokesman that it would be

00:06:04.960 reducing access to the story. So this has been an all-out, full-court press to suppress credible

00:06:11.880 reporting from a major news publication three weeks out from an election. This is a direct effort by

00:06:17.040 these billion-dollar companies to influence the election. There's no other way to look at it.

00:06:21.620 Now, Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, said last night that Twitter's handling of the situation has been

00:06:27.380 not great, quote-unquote. But they continue doing it. They're still doing it today.

00:06:32.720 The reasons we're given by Twitter and Facebook is that the story is, for one thing, they say,

00:06:38.180 misinformation. Andy Stone, Facebook spokesman, said,

00:06:40.560 this is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation.

00:06:45.400 We temporarily reduce distribution pending fact-check or review. Standard process, right.

00:06:51.180 Also, we're told that the story violates alleged policies against publishing hacked material

00:06:55.440 and publishing material obtained without consent. The Twitter safety account tweeted,

00:07:01.080 quote, the policy established in 2018 prohibits the use of our service to distribute content

00:07:05.560 without authorization. We don't want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as

00:07:10.980 distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials. Now, notice something, okay? The story

00:07:17.160 is suppressed based both on being misinformation and being hacked material. Well, how can it be both?

00:07:25.000 If Hunter's computer was hacked, then it's not misinformation. It's real. But if the story is made up,

00:07:31.460 then it's not hacked material. In reality, of course, it appears that it's neither hacked nor

00:07:37.060 misinformation. It appears the emails are real. That's what it appears anyway. And they were on

00:07:43.480 a computer that allegedly was abandoned. So that's not hacking. But my point is that it can't be both

00:07:49.820 misinformation and hacked. What is it? Hacked misinformation? So let's look at these excuses

00:07:57.440 one at a time, though. Misinformation. Again, no reason to think that this is misinformation.

00:08:01.460 But regardless, do Facebook and Twitter have a consistent policy and record of suppressing

00:08:08.440 misinformation or claims that are dubiously sourced? Of course not. Not even close. Not

00:08:13.620 remotely. Dozens of examples come immediately to mind. Like, for example, every anonymously sourced

00:08:20.340 Trump story we've ever seen. Every week, there's another claim from some anonymous person alleging this

00:08:26.540 or that about Donald Trump. People in the White House go on the record denying it.

00:08:29.860 Are those reports ever censored, banned, taken down, flagged as harmful?

00:08:35.840 No. But here's an even better example. Every time there's a police shooting, immediately wild claims

00:08:44.600 are made based on no evidence or in direct contradiction of the evidence. This goes all

00:08:49.740 the way back to the debunked hands up, don't shoot stuff and all the way up to now. Every time there's

00:08:55.100 a shooting, social media is used to advance the claim that the cop is a racist serial killer out 0.99

00:09:00.320 hunting black men. There's never any evidence of this. It is always, always misinformation. And the 0.94

00:09:06.460 direct consequence of the misinformation can be seen in the form of smoldering buildings and dead

00:09:12.020 people. Twitter and Facebook have never flagged any of that. Never suppressed it. What about

00:09:19.260 distributing content obtained without authorization? Again, dozens of examples spring immediately to

00:09:24.660 mind. How about Trump's tax returns? How about secret audio recordings of Melania Trump? Those

00:09:30.900 were not only posted to Twitter, but trended proudly for days. There was no news value to them. None. It

00:09:37.100 was an invasion of privacy and released solely to embarrass the first lady. That's the only reason. 1.00

00:09:43.360 Twitter made no attempt at all to restrict access to it. Quite the opposite, in fact. And besides,

00:09:48.700 plenty of legitimate reporting involves content obtained without authorization.

00:09:52.260 By this standard, nearly every major political news story over the last 50 years wouldn't be allowed

00:09:58.820 on the platform. When's the last time a politician explicitly consented to the publication of material

00:10:04.860 that would damage him politically? So this standard is nonsensical and applied unevenly. Very unevenly,

00:10:11.600 to put it mildly. Speaking of unevenly today, guess what was trending on Twitter? While the Hunter Biden

00:10:17.600 story is shut down, one of the top trends was hashtag Eric Trump's Ukraine scandal. Eric Trump's Ukraine

00:10:24.480 scandal. That's insane. That's flat out election interference. Flat out. Listen, I believe in private

00:10:31.180 property rights, but I also believe that billion dollar corporations that control the flow of

00:10:37.200 information should not be allowed to employ fraud and subterfuge in order to influence the outcome of

00:10:42.200 elections. That's where I stand. And I note that many of the people preaching about the rights of

00:10:46.500 Twitter also have spent the last eight years telling us that small town bakeries who don't want to make

00:10:51.420 custom wedding cakes for gay weddings are waging a dangerous assault on freedom and democracy. 1.00

00:10:57.480 No, that's exactly the other way around. There is zero danger to the public. Zero danger. If your local

00:11:03.860 baker doesn't want to put figurines of two dudes on top of a wedding cake, you could do it yourself.

00:11:08.280 It causes no harm to anyone. It is completely irrelevant. The only thing it hurts maybe is

00:11:14.480 your fragile feelings. But Twitter and Facebook are multi-billion dollar companies. They are not

00:11:20.000 bakeries. This is much more in line with your phone company cutting off service because it doesn't like 0.94

00:11:27.220 the political opinions you express while on the phone. It is that sort of danger, only worse, much worse

00:11:32.500 because people these days do a lot more communicating on social media than they do through telephone

00:11:39.020 calls. And that's why it's time for conservatives like myself to get over our visceral disgust at the

00:11:45.780 idea of government involvement in anything. And we have to just get over that. There is no free market

00:11:51.160 solution to this problem. There isn't. Unless you have $100 billion to throw around, you aren't going

00:11:55.640 to go out and make your own Facebook. It's just not going to happen. It can't happen.

00:11:59.060 So we have to decide whether we want to live in a world where big tech giants run society and decide

00:12:05.700 elections or if measures should be taken to regulate them and hold them to a basic standard of honesty

00:12:11.340 and fairness. That is the question we face. Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:38.980 Number one, early voting is underway and record turnouts are being reported. Here's a story from

00:13:45.220 the News Times. It says, with less than three weeks to go before the November 3rd election,

00:13:49.560 more than 14 million Americans have voted in the fall election, reflecting an extraordinary level

00:13:54.460 of participation despite barriers being erected by the coronavirus pandemic. In Georgia this week,

00:14:01.080 voters waited as long as 11 hours to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting.

00:14:04.920 in North Carolina, nearly one in five of roughly 500,000 who have returned mail ballots did not

00:14:10.740 vote in the last presidential election. In Michigan, more than a million people have already voted.

00:14:19.020 And then it goes on to say much of the early voting seems to be driven by enthusiasm among Democrats.

00:14:24.340 So, you know, you could believe that or not take it with a grain of salt. I know a lot of my listeners

00:14:29.800 maybe don't want to, don't want to hear this, but there does appear to be a lot of enthusiasm among

00:14:36.080 voters who hate Trump and want him gone. This, this is what I expected. I expected a massive

00:14:42.220 anti-Trump turnout. That's going to happen. It didn't happen in 2016. There was not a massive

00:14:48.120 anti-Trump turnout. And I think, I think part of the reason for that is that everyone thought he'd lose

00:14:51.920 anyway. And, um, also because Hillary Clinton was so just unappealing as a, as a human being, 1.00

00:14:58.540 you might say Biden is unappealing too, but it's, it's not to the level of Hillary. Nobody is at the

00:15:03.860 level of Hillary Clinton when it comes to be, comes to being viscerally unappealing, right? 0.99

00:15:08.600 So, um, that's the way things are trending. The good news is that the election isn't over yet.

00:15:14.180 There are still three weeks to go, but as I've been saying for a long time now, Trump needs to do

00:15:19.400 something, make some kind of pitch, have some kind of strategy to mobilize other than just the MAGA

00:15:26.200 crowd. Yeah. You need the MAGA crowd. You've already got them. That's good. You're going to need more

00:15:32.660 than that. There aren't enough people who wear MAGA hats to win the election. You cannot, you cannot,

00:15:38.480 that's your base. That's your core supporters. Great. You need more than that. Um, he needs to reach

00:15:44.180 the sorts of people who don't love him personally, maybe don't even like him personally, but also

00:15:51.160 don't like the Democrats. And right now are trying to decide, and I, I could be wrong. This is just my,

00:15:56.600 my guess. My guess is that there are a lot of people right now who are undecided only because,

00:16:04.440 not because they're trying to choose between Trump and Biden. They're trying to choose between voting for

00:16:08.680 Trump or not voting at all. And so Trump needs to have some sort of a strategy for mobilizing and

00:16:17.300 reaching out to those voters who are on the fence right now between not voting at all at all or

00:16:22.260 voting for him. He has to give them a reason to vote for him. He needs to make those voters feel

00:16:27.040 better about voting for him. He needs to do something. And his norm, his normal routine with

00:16:33.000 the rallies and the tweeting and everything, that's not going to be enough. And so I am worried about

00:16:39.160 this. I'm worried that three weeks from the election, I have no idea what the Trump campaign

00:16:43.700 strategy is other than just do all the same stuff he always does. That's not a campaign strategy.

00:16:51.220 Again, that's a, that's a campaign strategy for the people who are already excited about you.

00:16:55.440 I don't know what his strategy is for the, for the other million, that, that, that whole pool of

00:17:00.060 millions of people who are, who are gettable, you can get them, but they're not going to come to a

00:17:05.680 rally because they're not that excited. What is this strategy for those? Do you know? Does anyone

00:17:10.620 know? It doesn't seem like there is one. And that, that worries me. Um, I know Trump kind of ad-libbed,

00:17:18.720 ad-libbed his way to, to, to the win in 2016. Very impressive. I don't think we should assume it's

00:17:24.460 going to happen a second time. Conditions are very different. So I'm concerned about that.

00:17:28.960 Number two, during day three of the hearing yesterday, uh, Wednesday, there was a moment

00:17:34.220 from Amy Coney Barrett that if she were a liberal, it's only one, I'll play this for you because if

00:17:39.440 she were a liberal, this moment would already be, be turned into merchandise and, and t-shirts and 1.00

00:17:45.380 bumper stickers and everything else. Uh, here it is. Listen to this. To be clear, as I said, I think in

00:17:51.000 response to this question yesterday, I do share Justice Scalia's approach to text, originalism and

00:17:56.900 textualism. But in the litany of cases that you've just identified, the particular votes that he's,

00:18:02.380 he cast are a different question of whether I would agree with the way that he applied those

00:18:07.720 principles in particular cases. And I've already said, you know, and I hope that you aren't suggesting

00:18:15.560 that I don't have my own mind or that I couldn't think independently or that I would just decide,

00:18:20.680 like, oh, let me see what Justice Scalia has said about this in the past. Cause I assure you,

00:18:24.280 I have my own mind. Um, but everything that he said, um, is not necessarily what I would agree

00:18:33.180 with or what I would do if I were Justice Barrett, that was Justice Scalia. So I share his philosophy,

00:18:38.540 but I've never said that I would always reach the same outcome as he did.

00:18:43.960 I assure you, I have my own mind. She says that was a good moment from Barrett. I'm not saying that

00:18:48.880 I think it was some kind of epic smackdown of some sort, but, uh, or, or any kind of, uh,

00:18:53.840 empowering feminist anthem. I'm saying that in our vapid culture, if Barrett was liberal,

00:18:59.180 that's how it would be seen. I mean, during the, the, the vice presidential debate,

00:19:03.880 Kamala Harris said, um, I'm speaking and feminists turn that into, you know, the most brilliant comeback 1.00

00:19:09.840 and in the history of debates, they turn it into a shirt, like right away, you see the shirt here.

00:19:14.060 Um, so that's the way that goes. Meanwhile, another moment from the hearings. Uh, this one

00:19:19.080 was, uh, also seized upon by the left, um, in an incredibly dishonest way. I know that won't

00:19:26.420 surprise you, but first watch, watch this. Do you think Brown versus board of education,

00:19:32.920 super precedent is that you're not aware of any effort to go back to the good old days of segregation

00:19:38.140 by a legislative body. Is that correct? That is correct. Okay. So what's the news there?

00:19:42.740 Not immediately obvious to a normal person. You see that you think, okay, what's, what's the

00:19:47.360 problem? Well, they're making a big deal out of the fact that Lindsey Graham said good old days of 0.97

00:19:53.600 segregation, obviously sarcastically in the same vein that somebody might say, uh, when they're told

00:19:59.020 they need a root canal by the dentist, they might say, Oh, great. Does anyone, you hear that? Do you

00:20:04.060 think, Oh, that person must love root canals. Um, or, you know, if someone says, Oh, just what I,

00:20:09.740 you run into traffic and you say, just what I need the way the left is responding to what Lindsey

00:20:15.220 Graham, I guess if they were in the car with you, they would think, why do you need traffic? What

00:20:18.720 are you talking about? Doesn't compute. Um, so here's Jamie Harrison, Graham's opponent in South

00:20:24.820 Carolina. He said, Lindsey Graham just called segregation. The good old days, the good old 0.98

00:20:30.760 days for who Senator it's 2020, not 1920 act like it. And there were articles like this in media.

00:20:37.520 Um, it says Senator Lindsey Graham raised eyebrows during his questioning of judge Amy Coney Barrett

00:20:42.780 when he asked the Supreme court nominee, how much confidence she has in the landmark Brown versus

00:20:47.760 board of education. Um, uh, how much confidence she has in, I don't know that this is phrase.

00:20:56.420 Anyway, if she was asked if this was a super precedent Brown versus board of education. Uh, anyway,

00:21:02.540 it says curiously, however, Senator Graham who finds himself in a hotly contested reelection

00:21:06.200 also asked, um, if it's the, it also referred to the good old days of segregation. The article

00:21:13.060 says, wait, what good old days of segregation. I mean, he could have been joking despite the lack

00:21:18.460 of any facial cue or body language suggesting sarcastic hyperbole. However, Senator Graham got

00:21:24.760 a lot of attention during a recent debate with his political foe, Jamie Harrison, when he said that

00:21:28.500 young black people and immigrants could go anywhere in South Carolina, but added, you just need to be 1.00

00:21:32.560 conservative. Um, and then it goes on from there. Just to call this, to call this merely bad faith

00:21:40.360 would be a massive understatement. Yeah. I'm sure you're really confused about this. Aren't you?

00:21:44.980 Well, I don't know. Was he serious or not? I have no idea. Maybe he was really openly and publicly

00:21:50.620 reminiscing in a favorable way about segregation while on TV in a Supreme court hearing during an election.

00:21:56.980 He could have been, who knows? Um, okay, let's see here. There was one other thing.

00:22:06.580 One of the things I wanted to mention from the hearings that I didn't get a chance to yet. This

00:22:09.680 article from CNN, uh, headline is Amy Coney Barrett says she owns a gun, but could fairly judge a case 1.00

00:22:17.560 on gun rights. Obvious implication is she can't. If you own, if you, if you own a gun, how can you be

00:22:23.360 fair in judging a case on gun rights? All I'm going to say in response to this is imagine during

00:22:28.220 the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation in 2009, imagine the following headline. Sonia Sotomayor says she's

00:22:34.800 a woman, but could fairly judge a case on women's rights. Something, something tells me, I sort of 0.85

00:22:41.620 doubt that you, we would have ever seen that headline. I don't think we did. I could go back

00:22:44.780 and check. Uh, number three, scary stuff here. Tommy Lee, former rockstar speaking with the big issue,

00:22:50.520 uh, has said that he might leave the country if Trump is reelected. Here he is. He says,

00:22:55.600 dude, I swear to God, if that happens that I'm coming over to visit the UK, I'm out of here.

00:22:59.620 I'll go back to my motherland, go back to Greece and get a house on one of the islands.

00:23:04.540 And then he goes on from there talking about how bad Trump is. Um, to me, the big headline here is

00:23:08.440 that Tommy Lee is still alive. I honestly thought that he died years ago. I'm not, I'm not trying to

00:23:13.020 be funny. I really thought that. So congratulations to Tommy Lee. First of all, on not being dead

00:23:17.340 as far as him leaving the country. Well, now that I know he's still alive, you know,

00:23:22.840 I couldn't bear to lose him again. I can't lose him twice. In fact, I'll probably vote for Biden

00:23:29.080 just to keep Tommy Lee here. I am now a single issue voter. And my issue is making sure Tommy Lee

00:23:35.900 does not leave us because I don't want to live in a country like that. I don't know about you.

00:23:39.920 Number four, um, here is, uh, it's always, it's always tough when you take a politician like Kamala 0.97

00:23:49.340 Harris and you try to make her seem human. And, uh, but Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, they did what they 0.65

00:23:55.680 could to get a human moment out of Kamala Harris. And here's how that went. I just realized that I

00:24:01.620 would kick myself if I didn't just ask you, uh, before I let you go, if you noticed the fly

00:24:08.660 on vice president Pence's head at the time during the, or if that was something that only

00:24:14.000 go, could we could see it at home? Could you see it sitting next to him?

00:24:23.960 Did, did you have feelings about like, did you have the instinct to

00:24:29.660 you know, Rachel? I just, you know, I think that it's important that we kind of, um, find a way

00:24:45.720 all of us to move on and, you know, kind of fly away from this subject onto something else.

00:24:54.440 Yeah. Senator Harris, you are very kind. And let's just spare a thought right now for the

00:25:01.800 people who have to write closed captions for this portion of the interview. Uh, and for those who

00:25:07.060 have to transcribe it, cause they're going to have no idea how to convey what we just communicated.

00:25:10.940 That just, it makes my skin crawl. Doesn't it? It, it, it's, it's all, it's almost as bad as

00:25:15.800 Hillary Clinton trying to pretend to be, to be, you know, not a robot. Um, that's, that's tough to 0.76

00:25:23.880 watch. Tough to get through. Okay. Number five, my producer sent me this story. I haven't read it

00:25:27.320 ahead of time. I never read this stuff ahead of time if you can't tell. Um, but here's the story

00:25:32.200 from the Bristol post. It seems promising. Headline is man who farted in Uber ends up in court.

00:25:39.660 Uh, and then says, let's see, breaking, breaking wind in the back of an Uber taxi cost a man a

00:25:47.780 suspended jail term, but the repercussion for the taxi driver was that he is, he has to return to

00:25:52.300 his native Bulgaria. Drunken James Mallett let rip as Alexander Bonchev was driving him to Chaser's

00:26:00.300 nightclub in Kingswood. Bristol crown court heard it was the final straw for the cabbie who after

00:26:05.600 suffering abuse, abuse from other affairs told Mallett to get out of the vehicle because he,

00:26:09.700 you know, he farted to get out of the vehicle. Um, and at that point, Mallett began hitting the

00:26:14.560 driver. And, uh, so then there was a fight. Okay. So he's, so he's not going to jail for farting in

00:26:21.520 the Uber. He's going to jail for first, he farts in the Uber. It sounds like, and then he beats up,

00:26:26.060 starts beating up the Uber driver, um, insult to injury there. And he's in, and so that's,

00:26:31.940 that's what, what gets him prosecuted. So I was hoping, listen, I would, I would be fully in favor

00:26:38.340 of a law that penalizes people for flatulence in certain scenarios. I think in an Uber, you know,

00:26:46.940 is, is one big one on a plane. I've, I have in the past shared my own experience. We've all had

00:26:53.040 experiences like this sitting next to someone with chronic flatulence. Um, it is, it is, it's,

00:27:00.060 it's biological warfare. You shouldn't allow biological terrorism, especially on a plane.

00:27:04.920 And so I'd be in favor of prosecution in, in circumstances like that. It sounds like that's

00:27:08.880 not what happened here, but it gives us something to aspire to in any way. Um, all right, we're

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00:28:28.800 cancellation, something that was sent to me by one of my daily wired colleagues who said that

00:28:32.360 they thought it'd be good fodder for the daily cancellation. And he was right. Uh, it is my

00:28:36.120 pleasure today to cancel Barbie. I've been waiting for an excuse to do that. And here it is. Um,

00:28:41.780 what I'm about to play for you, this is a vlog from Barbie's Instagram account. Yes. The plastic

00:28:47.800 toy has a vlog and an Instagram account. And by the way, if you're wondering, Barbie has 1.8 million

00:28:54.080 followers on Instagram, 1.8 million people decided that they needed to keep up to date about what a

00:28:59.580 plastic toy is thinking and doing. So just more evidence that everybody on Instagram should lose

00:29:04.300 their right to vote. That's my opinion. And TikTok too. Um, okay. So here's the, the Barbie vlog 0.67

00:29:09.880 description says on today's vlog, Nikki talks to Barbie about racism and some of the ways that 0.99

00:29:15.540 she's been treated unfairly because of the color of her skin. Having conversations like this is one

00:29:19.960 of the first steps in addressing and combating a systemic problem together. Let's keep listening,

00:29:25.320 keep learning and take action to inspire change. Obviously we're in for a treat here. Um, so let's,

00:29:31.320 let's listen to what Barbie and Nikki have to say. Barbie and I had a sticker selling contest on the

00:29:36.660 beach last month. We split up and went different directions to see who could sell the most.

00:29:40.720 Well, while I was on the boardwalk, beach security stopped me three times.

00:29:44.860 What? They asked me all these questions over and over and they even called my mom.

00:29:49.900 I never told you, but that's why I sold a few stickers that day.

00:29:52.940 Okay. First of all, um, uh, a sticker selling contest on the beach. That's the most random

00:29:59.160 collection of things. You know, it's like, it's like I said, if I said I was having a celery eating

00:30:04.200 contest in the woods, like why that? And why there to each their own, I guess, but, but what a weird

00:30:11.420 thing to do with your time. And, and who is on the beach looking to buy stickers anyway?

00:30:16.160 If you only sold a few stickers, it's because every person you approach probably thought to

00:30:19.840 themselves, what, why would I want to buy a sticker? Who sells stickers? I get a free sticker at the

00:30:25.460 dentist or the bank. And even if I was going to buy one, why would I buy it here? Where am I going

00:30:29.920 to put it? I'm about to jump into the ocean. You want me to buy a sticker? You might as well be

00:30:33.500 selling toasters on the beach. It doesn't make any sense. It's the last thing I'm looking to buy in this

00:30:38.460 environment. Listen, if I was working beach security and I saw a couple of weirdos selling

00:30:44.100 stickers, I'd stop them too, because I'd figure there's something else going on here. So I'm not

00:30:48.360 buying this racism claim from Barbie's friend. I just, I'm not buying it. I'm sorry. It's a hoax.

00:30:54.220 Let's see what else she's got. And remember when we were going to join that French honor club at

00:30:58.880 school? Well, I made a perfect score on the entrance test. But when the teacher who didn't know me at all

00:31:04.520 gave me my results, he told me I only did well because I got lucky. He said he knew I couldn't

00:31:10.220 speak French that well. What? You speak French better than all of us. Why didn't you just stay 0.98

00:31:15.700 in the club and prove I'm wrong? I don't want to have to constantly prove and reprove myself.

00:31:21.000 I'm starting to get narcissism and entitlement vibes here, frankly, which is what I'd expect from

00:31:27.460 Barbie's crew. Spoiled brats, the lot of them. And okay, let's get to the big conclusion. 0.91

00:31:34.720 People did these things to me because I was black and they made the wrong assumptions about me.

00:31:39.040 And they don't make those assumptions about white people like me. And that's not fair because that

00:31:45.980 means that white people get an advantage that they didn't earn and black people get a disadvantage 0.97

00:31:50.680 that they don't deserve. Exactly. It's really serious. Some people even get hurt when others 0.99

00:31:56.940 think the wrong things about them. That's exactly why people are marching. Because when enough of us

00:32:02.040 stand together, people pay attention. Right. Because when we don't say anything,

00:32:08.040 we're just letting it continue. Yes, a really serious problem, she says. But the only example

00:32:13.980 she can give are the times she only sold a few stickers on the beach and problems in the French 0.98

00:32:20.120 club at school. You got to come with more evidence than that, Barbie or Nikki, whatever, whatever the

00:32:25.120 names are. Now, you might say that I am the one who should be canceled because I'm spending my time

00:32:30.940 on this show and your time debunking racism claims made by a cartoon character.

00:32:35.640 And you'd have a point, which is why maybe I'll get away from dissecting the specifics of these

00:32:40.960 claims and instead ask you to reflect on the fact that even your child's toy is repeating Black 0.86

00:32:48.800 Lives Matter propaganda. We're getting stuff about systemic racism and white privilege from a

00:32:52.980 children's toy. Pretty soon, we're going to be at a point where you walk through the toy aisle at

00:32:58.300 Target and press a button on a teddy bear's foot where it says, try me. And the bear delivers a monologue

00:33:04.120 about the dangers of heteronormativity and cisgendered privilege. And, you know, of course,

00:33:10.180 we can make jokes about it. And we can always say, well, it's just Barbie, who cares? Which,

00:33:16.040 fair point. But this is one very small symptom and example of a larger cultural reality, which is that

00:33:22.560 radical left ideas have seeped into every nook and cranny of society. In the leftist mind,

00:33:29.920 everything, I mean everything, every last thing is a tool to convert the heathen masses.

00:33:38.000 And that only means that I have to keep canceling more and more things. It's a war of attrition at

00:33:43.600 this point. And Barbie is the latest casualty. And that's it for me today. By the way, before we wrap

00:33:52.460 up, I want to say, make sure to hit subscribe while you're here. If you're watching this on

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 15, 2020

Ep. 583 - Big Tech Wages An All Out War To Influence The Election

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