The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 600 - The Leftist Misinformation Machine Goes Into Overdrive

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left-wing media is hunting down and combating misinformation,

00:00:04.680 quote-unquote, about the election. The only problem is that much of what they call

00:00:07.220 misinformation is actually completely true. Small little detail there. Plus, five headlines,

00:00:12.320 including the CDC's new Thanksgiving guidelines, which I will be sure personally to completely

00:00:17.060 ignore, and I would urge you to do the same. And in our daily cancellation, I will have to cancel

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00:01:55.500 we've heard quite a lot over the last four years about quote unquote misinformation. And now as Trump

00:02:02.420 challenges the ostensible results of the election, this campaign by the media to combat what they call

00:02:08.980 misinformation has gone into overdrive. Everywhere they look now, they're finding this misinformation.

00:02:14.220 Some of the headlines just over the last few hours, uh, quote, the misinformation media machine

00:02:19.720 amplifying Trump's election lies. Election misinformation continues staying up on YouTube.

00:02:25.240 Misinformation channels claim Biden is no longer president elect. That's not true.

00:02:30.440 Internet sleuths use misinformation in an attempt to prove dead people voted in Michigan

00:02:35.140 and on and on. Now you'll notice of course that the word misinformation is only ever used to apply

00:02:41.100 to conservatives and conservative outlets. And I don't think I'm exaggerating here. I'm not aware

00:02:45.240 of a single case ever of the mainstream media labeling a leftist claim as misinformation.

00:02:51.660 And that's not because leftists never engage in it. We'll have more on that in just a minute.

00:02:55.940 Kevin Roos of the New York times is on the misinformation beat. He tweeted this out, uh,

00:03:01.380 yesterday. He said, Facebook is absolutely teaming with right-wing misinformation right now.

00:03:05.660 These are all among the 10 most engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours.

00:03:11.360 Then he provides screenshots of four misinformation articles. One of them written full disclosure by

00:03:16.800 the daily wire. The headlines are, these are the headlines. These are the misinformation headlines.

00:03:20.800 Okay. Listen to these Republican in Michigan goes from loser to winner after technical glitch fixed.

00:03:27.500 Officials urge confidence in system. Michigan legislature holds rare emergency session to

00:03:32.940 investigate irregularities. Attorney General William Barr authorizes DOJ to look into voting irregularities

00:03:38.980 and Perdue Loeffler call on Georgia Secretary of State to resign over election. Those are the

00:03:44.700 misinformation headlines. The problem with calling them misinformation, of course, is that

00:03:48.920 they all happen to be true. The misinformation here is in labeling them misinformation.

00:03:55.700 Now, after a bunch of people pointed this out, Roos followed it up with this. He said,

00:03:59.280 for the conservatives who are mad about this, yes, it is possible for a story to be factually accurate

00:04:04.780 and for it to be part of a misinformation campaign aimed at undermining confidence in the election.

00:04:11.560 Okay. So do you understand that? A story can be factually accurate and also be misinformation.

00:04:18.760 Factually accurate misinformation. That's what we're dealing with now. Then he starts scrambling to

00:04:23.960 make his position seem coherent because of course it's totally incoherent. Finally, he settles on this.

00:04:28.780 He says, we need a better word than misinformation to distinguish between totally false stories and

00:04:33.420 true stories that are published in service of an attempt to mislead people. But nobody who studies

00:04:39.140 this stuff is confused by what's happening. Okay. True stories that are published in the service of an

00:04:45.560 attempt to mislead people. Do you mean like, I don't know, this segment that aired on ABC News

00:04:51.280 suggesting that the defense secretary getting fired might mean that Trump is on the verge of

00:04:55.460 staging a military coup? Listen to this. Well, Martha, you've covered Washington,

00:05:00.960 you've covered the Pentagon for years. Have you ever seen an interim period like this? A defense

00:05:05.120 secretary out, three more top Pentagon officials tonight. And if this is unsettling for folks at

00:05:09.960 home, what do your sources tell you tonight? Is there any concern that this could put national

00:05:13.540 security at risk? You know, David, no one has seen anything like this. There is concern about what

00:05:19.340 this means. Is the president planning a military operation or the use of federal troops, which

00:05:24.980 Esper opposed? Even Mitch McConnell praised Esper today. And Republican John Cornyn, a member of the

00:05:31.900 Senate GOP leadership, said of Trump's decision to fire Esper. I don't think it helps him and I don't

00:05:39.500 think it helps the country. Now, the insinuation that Trump is about to declare himself military

00:05:44.080 dictator of the country seems an awful lot to me like misinformation. And so does this from Bloomberg

00:05:51.920 published yesterday. It says, for perhaps the first time in American history, a coordinated effort

00:05:57.100 to taint or overturn a presidential election may be underway. Yes, Bloomberg has pulled out the flashy

00:06:04.400 thing from Men in Black, and they're attempting now to wipe out our memory of the last four years.

00:06:09.520 So has CNN. Here's a segment they aired just this morning.

00:06:12.420 When it comes to claims about mass voter fraud, let's be clear. Trump supporters, you're being lied

00:06:19.280 to. Donald Trump has a history of lying loudly, turning baseless accusations into play to the base

00:06:25.660 articles of faith. Now, the goal is often to create a fake scandal to distract from a real one. But when

00:06:31.520 the accusation is actually investigated by Republicans in Congress or the Trump Justice Department,

00:06:37.460 it comes up empty because there was never anything there. Okay, fake scandals that fall apart upon

00:06:45.220 further investigation. I can think of quite a few of those personally, such as, for example,

00:06:52.060 pretty much every single Trump scandal over the last four years. But the media will never call

00:06:57.680 their own misinformation misinformation. That's never going to happen. So what do they really mean

00:07:03.300 when they use the term? Well, I think that Kevin Roos made it clear, being for a moment

00:07:08.040 more honest than he meant to be. To the media and also to the big tech companies like Facebook and

00:07:14.880 Twitter, a fact can still be misinformation, even if it's a fact, it can still be misinformation if

00:07:21.620 it's inconvenient or offensive to some favored group of people anyway. Or if it might lead people

00:07:27.940 to a conclusion at which our overlords and truth ministers do not want us to arrive. And often,

00:07:35.600 the forbidden conclusion is the right conclusion. But even if it isn't, I mean, even if some set of

00:07:40.240 true facts may really be interpreted by some group of people in the wrong way, set them down the wrong

00:07:46.280 path, that's no excuse to censor the facts or to mislabel them as false when they aren't.

00:07:52.000 People don't need to be protected in this way. An important part of being an adult and an American

00:07:58.160 in a free country in the information age is to pursue facts and form conclusions using your own

00:08:03.820 discernment. We don't need daddy CNN or mommy Facebook to hold our hands and guide us this way

00:08:09.460 or that. Besides, if you want to talk about cherry-picked facts, half-truths, out-of-context tidbits

00:08:16.180 being used in service of an attempt to mislead, as the New York Times says, I can think of no

00:08:22.580 better example of that in modern times than what we've witnessed over the past five or six months

00:08:26.740 in cities across the country. Police shootings caught on tape, posted online without context,

00:08:32.260 or with dishonestly framed context, and spread by the media in order to convince people that racist

00:08:38.200 cops are prowling the streets, murdering innocent minorities at will. Now, there is an example of how a

00:08:44.600 reality, the reality that so-and-so was shot by the cops, can be presented in such a way as to cause

00:08:50.860 people to form conclusions that are wildly off-base and dangerous and destructive. But even

00:08:57.680 then, I wouldn't be in favor of censorship to solve the problem. Instead, people who know the truth

00:09:04.740 have to stand up, speak it, and battle the lies head-on. That's the only way to deal with it.

00:09:10.020 The left relies on forms of censorship. And by the way, a major media outlet baselessly labeling a

00:09:16.400 truthful thing as misinformation is a form of censorship. Let's be clear about that, especially

00:09:21.900 because they know that big tech's going to take that and run with it. But they rely on these strategies

00:09:25.680 because they don't have the truth on their side. They cannot meet you out on the battlefield of ideas

00:09:30.960 and present their side that way. They can only shout you down, shut you down, shut you up, label you,

00:09:37.660 maybe throw a Molotov cocktail through your window for good measure. These are the weapons of liars and 1.00

00:09:43.020 con artists. These are their tactics. And we should be sure not to fall for it. Let's get to our five 0.93

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00:12:39.540 All right. Well, the CDC has released its Thanksgiving guidelines. I will be disregarding all of their Thanksgiving

00:12:54.660 guidelines just as I've disregarded everything else they've said. But just for fun, here they are from Fox 5 NY.

00:13:01.800 Here are the guidelines. I'll read a few of these to you in case in case you're wondering, in case you in case you want to get

00:13:08.500 the CDC's approval, like you're planning your Thanksgiving dinner and celebration and you're thinking, what does the CDC think

00:13:15.520 about this? Here's what they say. Limiting the number of attendees as much as possible and allowing people from home from different

00:13:21.980 households to social distance at all at all times is also encouraged. Hosting the gathering outdoors rather than indoors as much as

00:13:29.320 possible and requiring guests to wear masks when they aren't eating or drinking is also encouraged. If you're hosting an indoor

00:13:35.820 gathering, the CDC says to increase ventilation as much as possible by opening windows and doors. Thanks for that

00:13:41.680 recommendation, CDC. I never would have thought to open my windows if it's a little stuffy inside. I needed the CDC to tell me that.

00:13:47.820 When it comes to food and drinks, the CDC says hosts should encourage guests to bring food for themselves and members of

00:13:52.580 their household and to avoid potluck-style gatherings. Okay, so you're all bringing your own

00:13:59.300 meal and you're just sitting down with glass partitions with masks on. Lift the mask up, stuff

00:14:10.180 the turkey wing in. If you're preparing or serving food for guests that don't live in your household, you should

00:14:15.680 wear a mask. Guests are encouraged to have a plan for storing their mask while eating and drinking. As always,

00:14:21.820 everyone is asked to wash their hands with soap and water for 20 seconds. Again, I needed the CDC to tell me

00:14:28.500 that. I would never have thought to wash my hands with soap and water. Usually, I use ginger oil to

00:14:36.960 wash my hands. And so every time I see this reminder from the CDC, use soap and water, I think, oh yeah,

00:14:42.920 I forgot. The second iteration of CDC Thanksgiving guidance also includes recommendations for safe

00:14:47.740 travel and overnight stays and blah, blah, blah, on and on. Yeah, this is something I just will not be

00:14:56.620 paying attention to whatsoever. And yet again, this is the CDC. Now, at least it's the CDC here. It's a lot worse

00:15:09.080 than like in a place like California, where you've got the health department taking all of these guidelines

00:15:14.620 and actually making it a matter of law. Even though, of course, the Department of Health doesn't have the

00:15:20.460 authority to just create laws, but they're trying to do it and they're trying to use the force of law

00:15:26.060 to force you to do it. So at least with the CDC, it's just a guideline, which we don't have to listen

00:15:31.100 to. And I won't. You know, this is one of the worst things to come of the COVID hysteria is just

00:15:39.980 the paranoia and suspicion that we're supposed to have, even towards our own families.

00:15:46.360 Like if your, if your aunt comes to your Thanksgiving and she brought her green bean casserole,

00:15:54.160 you know, you don't want to eat that. It might be infected with COVID. Number two,

00:15:58.340 this from the Daily Wire says, the fallout from this summer's riots, which saw businesses large

00:16:04.760 and small looted and burned to the ground continues to be seen as a new report from the New York Times

00:16:08.660 shines a light on the insurance woes faced by those whose livelihoods were destroyed in the name of

00:16:12.920 racial justice. Um, it says the outlet reported while large chains like Walmart and Best Buy have

00:16:19.740 excellent insurance, many small businesses that have been burned down since the riots lack similar

00:16:23.980 coverage. And for them, there is no easy way to replace all that they lost in Kenosha. More than

00:16:28.980 35 small businesses were completely destroyed and around 80 have been damaged. According to the city's

00:16:33.860 business association, almost all are locally owned and many are underinsured or struggling to manage

00:16:38.420 now. And the report goes on with the Daily Wire. You can read it there, but I wanted to highlight

00:16:44.800 that because this is something you heard from the rioters and from BLM. The, the excuse they gave

00:16:51.600 is that, uh, including that clip we played a few times of the BLM activists. I think she was in Chicago

00:16:57.340 saying that looting is a form of reparations and encouraging people to do it and saying,

00:17:02.600 oh, the businesses all have insurance. So you just take what you want.

00:17:04.940 Now, these are people who don't understand how insurance works. It's not just you, you have

00:17:10.160 insurance. You can, you can take whatever you want and magically like you, you could burn down

00:17:14.900 their business. And because you have insurance, it will magically regenerate on its own. Like the

00:17:21.880 Wolverine and X-Men or something as regeneration power suggests you steal whatever you want. You can

00:17:26.160 steal the TV and then the TV will, will, will rematerialize in its place. Um, that seems to be what

00:17:31.680 they think, but that's not how insurance works. And also, as it turns out, of course, a lot of

00:17:36.040 these businesses, um, don't have insurance or underinsured. And even, even if they, even if they

00:17:44.180 do have insurance that can cover all of it, of course, just, this should go without saying that

00:17:48.140 doesn't mean you can just go and take whatever you want. Like if, if I'm, if I'm sure that you have

00:17:56.440 really great car insurance, that doesn't mean I can just ram into you on the highway and say,

00:18:01.900 well, you got car insurance. What are you, what are you whining about? You got car insurance.

00:18:06.600 Number three, this is a tough time for the media because they can't quite decide if, if now, you

00:18:10.740 know, now that they've declared Biden the winner, they can't quite decide if they should just pretend

00:18:15.220 that COVID has gone away and been cured, or if they should double down on the fear porn in hopes

00:18:21.140 that Biden will put us into a full lockdown again, mask mandates and everything else. So

00:18:26.920 they're kind of trying to walk this high wire act of propaganda where they're, they're, they're sort

00:18:31.260 of doing both. And I feel for them because it's gotta be difficult to figure out exactly how you want

00:18:37.840 to lie to people. But on the fear porn side of things, um, there's this article from Reuters headline

00:18:45.240 is very scary headline. Listen to the headline. One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness

00:18:52.700 within 90 days. Okay. Now this makes it sound like COVID is causing some kind of neurological damage,

00:19:01.660 making people go insane or something when they have COVID-19 that that's what it sounds like when

00:19:06.560 you see that headline. And if you saw that headline, you didn't click on it. You would just absorb that

00:19:11.100 impression, that half-baked vague impression and bring it with you throughout your, your day. And

00:19:17.860 that's, that's what you're supposed to do. That's the point. But then you click on it and here's what

00:19:22.780 it says. Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at a greater risk of developing mental illness.

00:19:27.360 According to psychiatrists, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus

00:19:31.360 are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days. What are the disorders though? Anxiety,

00:19:38.740 depression, and insomnia were the most common, uh, reported among recovered COVID-19 patients in

00:19:45.320 the study. Anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Okay. So people with coronavirus, a disease that the

00:19:54.720 media says will kill them, a disease that we're told, you know, we had to shut down the country for,

00:20:00.760 um, when they have it, they feel anxious and depressed. Wow. Amazing. Huge news. Amazing. Put

00:20:11.320 this in a headline. You got it. It's incredible stuff. I can't believe that people who get sick

00:20:16.080 with a virus that even Donald Trump calls the plague, which by the way, I really wish you would

00:20:21.680 stop doing that. But it's crazy that the people with that virus would have anxiety about it.

00:20:26.600 Totally unexpected. Hey, you know, I wonder what kind of mental illness have the lockdowns caused

00:20:33.900 and the media coverage. I bet there's a lot of anxiety and depression out there from people who

00:20:39.000 never even got sick. Now, this is ridiculous, but then, you know, I, I must admit, I say all this,

00:20:48.340 um, admittedly as someone who holds an extremely heterodox view about anxiety and depression.

00:20:53.660 Um, I don't really agree that either of those things are mental illnesses to begin with.

00:20:59.860 Like I said, I know it's heretical these days. You're not allowed to say this.

00:21:03.760 Um, I, I actually think that anxiety in particular is a completely normal, though not enjoyable

00:21:11.420 aspect of the human experience. Um, even a defining aspect of the human experience. Part of what makes

00:21:17.580 us human is that we can contemplate our own existence and feel despair or feel worried about

00:21:24.680 it, feel anxious, which doesn't mean that despair and anxiety are good or should be welcomed, but it

00:21:31.300 does mean that it's not a disease. It's not a disorder. It's not a medical issue. And this is a

00:21:36.120 perfect example of why. Oh, they have, they have depression and anxiety. There's a very,

00:21:41.500 a very discernible reason for that. So to call it a mental illness is absurd. It's just,

00:21:47.840 you're reacting in a pretty normal way to your environment. Now, I think there are a lot of

00:21:54.000 people that have way too much anxiety about the coronavirus because of all the fear porn that

00:21:57.580 the media puts out, but still it's a, it's a normal and predictable reaction to your environment.

00:22:02.780 And in general, even, even without, even without coronavirus, the fact is that there's, there's a

00:22:10.860 lot in the world that could make someone feel despair, make them feel anxious, make them feel

00:22:15.720 anxiety. Again, not saying you should feel it, not saying if you do feel it, you should just embrace

00:22:20.220 it and live with it. Um, but it's, it's not, it's not disordered. It's not diseased. But of course,

00:22:27.220 what the, what the pharmaceutical industry has done is they've just decided they've, they've taken

00:22:31.180 these normal aspects of the human experience and they've drawn completely arbitrary lines and said,

00:22:39.660 um, you know, it's okay to feel this much despair. Like here's the despair line and you can feel

00:22:44.900 despair up to that line. But if you feel it over that line, now it's a disease and we're going to

00:22:49.120 medicate it. Who, who says, says who, where did you come up with this? Who told you where the line is?

00:22:55.040 All right. Um, as we have covered, leftists have been busy making lists recently, lists of all the

00:23:02.540 heretics who have been insufficiently loyal to leftist orthodoxy, especially anyone who's expressed 0.93

00:23:07.180 support for Trump. And they seem to have gotten on the, on the list kick and are going wild with it

00:23:11.540 right now. Uh, here's a list that was on CNN yesterday. This woman, whoever she is, I'm not 0.98

00:23:15.640 sure who it is. She has a list of GOP senators who have not congratulated Joe Biden. And it's, it's like all

00:23:23.260 of them, except for, I guess, Mitt Romney. So it's pretty much all the GOP, there might be one or two

00:23:26.520 others who have congratulated. So I look at this and I can pretty much guarantee you that this lady

00:23:32.240 has a similar list at her house, probably up on her fridge of every acquaintance who didn't wish her a

00:23:38.080 happy birthday. I'd like to see a segment on that subject. Maybe CNN could do a segment about all the

00:23:44.180 people who didn't wish this woman a happy birthday, or maybe extended family members who still haven't sent

00:23:48.360 her a wedding gift, you know, even though her wedding was three years ago. These list, list makers,

00:23:54.500 they just, they can't help themselves. Finally, I want to play this for you, uh, simply because

00:23:58.180 it is to my mind, the most important piece of reporting that's MSNBC has ever done. Um,

00:24:04.400 this was really hard hitting stuff. And I just thought it was a really, really important piece

00:24:09.480 of reporting. Here it is. Take a look.

00:24:11.880 NBC's Ken Delanian has some new reporting on something that we talked about at the top of the hour,

00:24:17.460 how the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team, or

00:24:23.520 not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent. This time it involves our intelligence

00:24:29.260 community. Uh, Ken, what have you learned, sir? Oh, s**t. F**k.

00:24:39.400 Okay. Uh, I think we lost, I think we lost Ken for a sec. 1.00

00:24:43.060 I think the explanation that he gave for that is that he was having, um, technical difficulties

00:24:48.960 and didn't realize he was on camera. And so that's why that happened. But the way that I read it,

00:24:55.060 at least what I would like to think is that he got some, he's reacting to like some news

00:25:00.880 via text message, or maybe he was trying to order chicken wings by DoorDash, but the place was outside

00:25:07.460 of the delivery zone. And I admit I have reacted in a similar way in, in similar situations many,

00:25:14.560 many times, just not usually on, on camera though. That's the only difference. So, but that is maybe

00:25:20.260 MSNBC's best moment. I think it's only right for us to take a moment and recognize it. All right,

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00:29:45.100 let's get to our daily cancellation. Now, before we really get into it, I have to address something

00:29:49.180 briefly from yesterday's cancellation. As you know, I was canceling a whole bunch of states for their

00:29:54.380 incorrect viewpoints on what the best Thanksgiving side dishes are. During that cancellation spree,

00:30:01.120 I did cancel Alabama for listing dressing as its favorite side dish. I thought they meant salad

00:30:08.660 dressing, like ranch or something. I've since been informed that dressing in the South means stuffing.

00:30:14.640 Many in the audience are demanding that I retract my cancellation of Alabama, apologize to Alabama

00:30:21.540 for slandering them. Let me be very clear about this. I do not retract. I do not apologize.

00:30:28.740 It's not my fault that you people use the wrong word to refer to stuffing. Stuffing is stuffing,

00:30:35.060 so-called because often you will stuff it into the cavity of the turkey. I don't know who first came up

00:30:40.660 with the idea of stuffing chunks of bread into a turkey's ass, but that's neither here nor there. 0.98

00:30:45.560 Dressing makes no sense as a name for stuffing. So Alabama is canceled for using the wrong word 1.00

00:30:50.600 to refer to it. I take no responsibility for this. I apologize to no one. In fact, I demand that you

00:30:56.840 all apologize to me for making me feel stupid and embarrassed when in fact I'm the one who's using

00:31:01.300 the proper names for things. You all should be ashamed. How dare you? How dare Alabama? You're 1.00

00:31:07.520 canceled again. Now, today for our daily cancellation, another spree. Maybe spree is too aggressive and

00:31:15.300 intimidating of a term. Maybe I'm not going on a cancellation spree, but rather daintily spreading

00:31:20.340 the cancellations around like a fairy sprinkling pixie dust. I don't know. However you'd like to

00:31:24.980 describe it. I must cancel first the Associated Press for this tweet from their style book. It says,

00:31:31.360 do not use derogatory terms such as insane, crazy slash crazed, nuts, or deranged unless they're part 0.77

00:31:38.580 of a quotation that's essential to the story. Avoid using mental health terms to describe unrelated

00:31:43.740 issues. Don't say that an award show, for example, was schizophrenic. Now, they noticeably 0.99

00:31:49.840 do not rule out calling someone whacked out, cuckoo for cocoa puffs, one fry short of a happy meal,

00:31:56.760 one can short of a six pack, one card short of a full deck. Bonkers. I still retain the right to use 0.96

00:32:02.420 all those terms then. And also all the other terms that the AP has just outlawed. I can use all that

00:32:07.760 too. But the situation gets worse because this tweet was met with appropriate derision and mockery

00:32:13.860 from a lot of people. But the mockery was not as universal or widespread as it should have been.

00:32:20.020 In fact, lots of comments were agreeing and adding to the insanity. Excuse me. No, insanity was the right

00:32:28.280 word. I'll stick with that. Here are some of the comments. Okay. These are from real people.

00:32:32.780 Thank you for this. Addicted is another word casually thrown around, which is something those

00:32:38.640 of us in recovery often struggle with. Someone else said, I would like to adjust and add calling

00:32:44.640 people wild wouldn't be your best choice of words. This term can be slash has been used to oppress

00:32:50.220 POC slash indigenous people and their cultures. Use wisely. Someone else explains that bonkers is not 1.00

00:32:57.740 an acceptable replacement term. She says bananas. Yes. Bonkers. No. Bonkers is thought to stem from

00:33:04.460 terms related to being hit on the head, et cetera, and still means crazy, mad, et cetera. Bananas is

00:33:10.320 just a way of saying something is silly. She then suggests wild also has a choice. And someone else 0.59

00:33:17.360 corrects her by informing her that wild can be offensive to native tribes, as we just heard. All of

00:33:23.100 this is real, by the way, these are not satire accounts. So let me add a couple of notes here.

00:33:27.880 First of all, bananas is still offensive because it brings to mind the cartoons of people slipping

00:33:34.900 on banana peels, hitting their heads, which also minimizes and diminishes the suffering of head

00:33:41.020 injury patients. Also, bananas grow in tropical regions, often harvested by poor people and minorities. 0.99

00:33:46.880 This is their livelihood. To suggest that their livelihood is silly or a joke to you 0.56

00:33:51.340 is extremely dehumanizing and offensive to those poor tropical islanders who I'm sure

00:33:55.860 have nothing better to do with their time than troll Twitter looking for things to be offended by.

00:34:01.620 Really, any synonym you might find for crazy can be offensive. Any word at all can be offensive.

00:34:07.100 Any object or thing or concept can be offensive. I can walk outside right now, pick up a random like

00:34:13.140 stick off the ground and find a dozen reasons, at least, to be offended by the stick.

00:34:18.660 I can be offended by anything if I want to be. I once spent three hours offended by a potato just

00:34:23.960 for fun. So this is child's play to me. And by the way, the term child's play is offensive because

00:34:29.860 it suggests that only children play games, which can be humiliating to gamers who don't like it when

00:34:34.620 you notice that they have no life. Once you go down this road, it never ends. The whole exercise is

00:34:41.700 absurd. The one guy saying he doesn't like to hear the word addicted used because he's an addict.

00:34:47.240 So you struggle with this issue, which means none of us are allowed to even say the word in your

00:34:51.500 presence. Or you have mental health problems and that means five dozen words have to be ripped out 0.87

00:34:56.340 of the dictionary so that you never have to experience a moment of discomfort by simply hearing a word that

00:35:01.560 vaguely and jokingly refers to your condition. That's not how language works. That's not how

00:35:06.520 communication works. The point of communication is to convey meaning. A person communicates in order

00:35:13.880 to take the thoughts that are in his head and make them understandable to his listener. The point

00:35:19.820 of communication is not to avoid offense. If that were the point, we'd all just stop talking to each

00:35:25.100 other completely. We'd become like monks, monks with a vow of silence, which increasingly I'm starting

00:35:31.640 to believe would be perhaps the best solution for a lot of problems in our society. But for now,

00:35:37.940 in any case, the AP is canceled again. And that'll do it for today. Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:35:45.880 Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 11, 2020

Ep. 600 - The Leftist Misinformation Machine Goes Into Overdrive

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