The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 608 - The Media Suddenly Decides That Evidence Is Important

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we have heard a lot about the need for evidence, but many of the people

00:00:04.400 in the media screaming about the alleged lack of evidence of voter fraud have themselves advanced

00:00:08.880 many wild claims, and recently, and insisted that we shouldn't require evidence to believe those.

00:00:13.940 So we'll go over some of those wild claims today. Also, five headlines, including some of the

00:00:18.040 American public beginning to stand up and resist the unconstitutional lockdown orders. This is

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00:00:31.380 committed the sin of cultural appropriation. But we're also going to cancel the owner of that

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00:02:26.100 voter fraud allegations we have heard over the past few weeks are nothing short of extraordinary.

00:02:31.380 The claim that Donald Trump won in a landslide, but the victory was taken from him by voting

00:02:36.460 machines that have been rigged to switch millions of votes from himself to Biden, and that many

00:02:40.400 powerful people, to include the Republican governor of Georgia, as has now been alleged by Sidney Powell,

00:02:45.860 were in on or aware of this scam, is one that should not be accepted at face value. Evidence

00:02:52.760 is needed. The Trump campaign released a statement on Sunday night announcing that Sidney Powell is not

00:02:58.480 a part of the president's legal team and is practicing law on her own, quote unquote. This

00:03:02.180 is helpful because some of the other issues raised by Trump's official team, problems with mail-in

00:03:07.020 voting, early voting, poll watchers being banned from polling stations, et cetera,

00:03:11.460 would seem to be far less cinematic in scope and far more provable, but in those cases, too. The claims

00:03:17.940 must be evaluated based on evidence, of course. As for the voting machine conspiracy, it will ultimately

00:03:23.540 prove to be either the greatest crime in American history or one of the greatest, one of the most

00:03:27.780 outlandish hoaxes in American history. Time and evidence will tell which is which. But after time

00:03:33.600 passes and the evidence or lack thereof is presented, will it matter? Will anyone adjust

00:03:40.080 their initial views accordingly? The challenge now is that no matter the issue, fewer and fewer people

00:03:46.080 are persuadable. Fewer and fewer people will alter their views to conform with the evidence. This is not

00:03:52.000 simply the result of stubborn ignorance on the part of the American public. That's how the media wants to

00:03:57.200 spin it, putting all the blame on you for not knowing who to trust. In truth, though, most people have made

00:04:03.040 the very correct observation that mainstream sources of information are nakedly partisan and therefore

00:04:09.360 untrustworthy. Nobody is persuaded by arguments advanced by sources they don't trust, even if the

00:04:16.080 arguments are good. They're going to fall on deaf ears if they're made by known con artists and hatchet

00:04:22.080 men. You know, you might not even believe a man who walks into the house soaking wet and tells you it's

00:04:26.320 raining if he's already lied to you a dozen times that day. So this level of extreme skepticism directed towards

00:04:33.120 someone who has so thoroughly demolished their own credibility is entirely warranted. The problem

00:04:38.640 is that hyper skepticism towards one source of information can sometimes lead to blind faith in

00:04:44.560 another competing source of information. Bad actors enter into the vacuum, make sinister use of the

00:04:51.600 crisis of trust by presenting themselves as the real truth tellers. And a public exhausted by lies,

00:04:58.560 desperate for the truth, may be led into the very pit they've been studiously avoiding by someone who

00:05:04.320 echoes their skepticism and exploits it for his or her own ends. But a few of the self-professed real

00:05:10.400 truth tellers may actually be real truth tellers promising to tell you what's really going on and then

00:05:15.200 actually telling you what's really going on. And listening to them will lead you not into the pit where they can

00:05:21.520 keep you confused and monetize your confusion, which is what most of the media is interested in

00:05:26.800 doing, but out into the clean air and sunlight where you can see clearly and understand. These

00:05:32.800 are not messiahs, but simply honest people who care about what's true and wish to share whatever

00:05:38.720 truths they know with you. The task is always to discern which is which and who is who. But that's

00:05:44.240 hard to do in the dark amid the noise and the chaos. I think the only way to do it is to maintain a

00:05:50.320 healthy skepticism but an open mind, willing to believe anything that's logically possible so long

00:05:55.120 as good reason is presented to believe it. One way to tell the real truth teller from the con man

00:06:01.680 is that the former, the real truth teller, wants us to have this discerning and thoughtfully skeptical

00:06:06.720 attitude even towards themselves. The latter demands trust they haven't earned and expects you to

00:06:13.120 believe without providing good reason to believe. Now we know that the mainstream media falls into this

00:06:18.880 latter con man category precisely for this reason. They bloviate about the need for evidence of voter

00:06:24.720 fraud and I agree with them, but they do not agree with them. Until this moment they have treated

00:06:30.560 evidence as irrelevant in principle. Irrelevant. Not just irrelevant, but we've been repeatedly told

00:06:36.320 that to ask for evidence or reserve judgment until evidence is presented is a sign of sexism or racism or

00:06:44.400 insufficient faith in the doctrines of the day. From the left in the media we have been given the

00:06:50.080 anti-evidence slogan of believe women. We've been thus instructed to blindly believe the rape and

00:06:56.480 assault claims made by many women, though as Tara Reid can attest, not all women, based solely on

00:07:03.120 their word alone. It's not just that the people screaming we need evidence today were okay with

00:07:08.880 little or no evidence during the Me Too craze or the Kavanaugh hearings, but that believing without

00:07:13.760 evidence back then was put forward as a sign of virtue. The same with the recent hysteria over

00:07:20.640 police shootings. The media and the left certainly did not wait for evidence before accusing

00:07:26.080 police officers of committing racist hate crimes in the line of duty. They took the BLM narrative as

00:07:31.360 gospel truth and demanded that the American public do the same. And if you said, hey, wait a second,

00:07:36.880 let's wait for the evidence, you were slandered as racist. Now we can go on for quite a while listing all

00:07:43.600 the claims that the media has recently advanced without evidence. Longer if we list every debunked

00:07:49.680 hate crime hoax separately, which would take us all day. For now, we'll just file them all under the label

00:07:54.960 Jussie Smollett, etc. Last week, Joe Biden, as you can see here, provided another example

00:08:01.760 of the left's distaste for evidence when he sent out a tweet implying that trans people are the

00:08:07.520 victims of a hate crime epidemic. This was during the Trans Day of Remembrance, which happened last

00:08:12.480 week. I don't know if you're aware of that. Now, there's no evidence of this epidemic, yet it is referred

00:08:18.160 to as a self-evident fact by the people who now pretend to think that conclusions should be grounded

00:08:24.480 in provable reality. And what they do with that, by the way, is they list every single trans person

00:08:31.200 who was murdered, and then they imply or outright state that every single one of those murders are

00:08:37.360 hate crimes, with zero evidence. Of course, no list of evidence-less claims validated and amplified by

00:08:46.720 the media would be complete, without mentioning the parade of accusations made against Donald Trump

00:08:52.240 over the last four years, five years, starting with the accusation that he's a Russian spy.

00:08:57.760 There have been, as well, many claims related to the lockdowns and mask usage, namely that they work,

00:09:04.880 which we are expected to believe, potentially to the point of giving up our livelihoods,

00:09:08.960 even though the evidence is, at a minimum, insufficient. We could also add the claims that

00:09:14.560 men can get pregnant and women can have penises. These claims certainly lack evidence, to put it mildly,

00:09:20.400 and yet that's not supposed to prevent us from accepting and repeating them.

00:09:25.680 The point is that the media and the left have a quite selective passion for facts and evidence.

00:09:30.880 And this is why they have no credibility when they cry about a lack of evidence for voter fraud.

00:09:37.200 It's also why nobody cares or is persuaded when they make the case that we need to see evidence.

00:09:43.440 And nobody's convinced by their interpretation of the evidence that is provided. Nobody trusts them.

00:09:49.360 And they want to blame everyone else for that. But it's their fault. This is what their dishonesty

00:09:56.880 and their propagandizing has done. It's the monster they have created. 100% their own fault.

00:10:03.520 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:16.160 reading from Buffalo News, it says, a gathering of about 50 business owners and their supporters inside

00:12:21.360 an Orchard Park gym, shut down by COVID-19 restrictions, turned into a confrontation with Erie County

00:12:26.800 authorities on Friday night. The owner of the gym, Athletes Unleashed on California Road. Pretty

00:12:32.320 sure it's Athletes Unleashed on California Road. That's not all one name of the gym. Describes the

00:12:37.680 gathering as a protest of the state's orange zone regulations that have closed gym salons and other

00:12:43.100 businesses deemed non-essential. No one was cited. No arrests were made, according to two people who

00:12:48.960 attended. But video of the incident shows an Erie County health inspector accompanied by three

00:12:53.120 sheriff's deputies arriving about 20 minutes after the gathering began. There's the the setup for it.

00:12:58.480 So there's the gathering there at the gym. Health inspectors show up. And rather than reading a

00:13:02.500 description, let's just play the video, which I think is one of the most beautiful videos you'll

00:13:06.980 ever see. I found this to be truly inspiring. And I say that not sarcastically whatsoever. Watch this.

00:13:14.080 These people actually work for their money and they don't want to lose their livelihood.

00:13:17.460 I've lost friends. I've lost family who've killed themselves. I've seen clients die because they've

00:13:22.960 lost their livelihood. I'm sorry to hear that. I know you are. And I'm just, I'm asking for you

00:13:27.160 to guys have some compassion for the people that have lost everything. We do have compassion for

00:13:32.220 people. Okay, well, you need to go have compassion out in the parking lot. This is private property.

00:13:36.360 This is private property. This is private property. This is private property. It's private property.

00:13:42.320 Listen, man, this is private property. They're not wanted here. So do your jobs.

00:13:47.460 Well, her job is. Well, no, no. Your job is to remove people that are not wanted here.

00:13:51.580 We're wanted here. They're not. She's hiding her name.

00:13:54.780 I'm not. It's right here. It's my name. You can see my name.

00:13:57.900 They're just doing that job. There we go. You should don't be wearing masks.

00:14:00.600 I'm not doing anything wrong. Don't worry about my health. My health isn't your concern.

00:14:04.580 You're meant to be wearing a mask. Is it going to be wearing a mask?

00:14:05.420 Okay, well, then write me up. It's the law. Okay, then take me to jail.

00:14:09.800 It's not the law. Then take me to jail.

00:14:11.380 Show me the law. Show me the law.

00:14:13.660 Show me the law.

00:14:15.960 You have to leave. You guys have to leave. You have to leave.

00:14:21.820 Right now you're trespassing without a warrant.

00:14:23.840 Mass civil pistol training starts now.

00:14:25.800 You don't get to violate the Constitution. It's code enforcement. This isn't the same as that.

00:14:30.240 You don't circumvent or subvert the Constitution.

00:14:33.040 Okay, meth, you need to leave.

00:14:34.160 Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out.

00:14:51.240 There you go.

00:14:51.800 See, this is exactly what needs to happen.

00:14:53.720 There have been several videos.

00:14:55.140 This is the best one, I think.

00:14:57.880 But over the last few days, there have been several videos like this.

00:15:01.020 There's also a video of, which we're not going to play, but you can find online,

00:15:05.260 of the governor of New Jersey being confronted by some New Jersey citizens

00:15:11.540 because he's sitting at a restaurant without a mask.

00:15:13.860 You know, this sort of thing.

00:15:14.520 We're seeing more of this.

00:15:16.200 This is what needs to happen.

00:15:17.980 We need to get to a point where we're just going to say, you know what, I'm not going to listen to it.

00:15:22.140 I'm not going to do it.

00:15:25.240 You know, call their bluff, especially when it comes to these ridiculous rules for Thanksgiving.

00:15:32.680 Call their bluff.

00:15:34.680 This is the only appropriate response as Americans.

00:15:37.120 If we ever want to be free again, there's a real precedent being set here,

00:15:42.620 which has always been my concern.

00:15:45.420 It's been the concern of everyone who's a critic of the lockdowns.

00:15:48.880 It's what's happening right now is a problem.

00:15:51.200 Also, the precedent for the future.

00:15:53.360 What's the limiting principle?

00:15:54.600 When does this go away?

00:15:56.300 And because the government has announced that it has the right to do this,

00:15:59.980 to shut down your business, to tell you how many people you can have in your own home,

00:16:03.420 to tell you that you have to wear masks in your own home,

00:16:06.260 that's the latest madness from Pennsylvania now.

00:16:09.560 Actually passing, I don't want to call it a law.

00:16:11.600 It's not a law.

00:16:12.620 This is just a declaration, a decree, from on high, from the emperor of Pennsylvania,

00:16:20.320 that in your own home you have to wear a mask if you have a visitor over.

00:16:24.800 And if they have the right to do this, the power to do it, the authority to do it,

00:16:29.260 when does it end?

00:16:31.020 When does it go away?

00:16:32.100 And they could do it again anytime they want.

00:16:34.680 You know, when you get to, there's a vaccine for the coronavirus, okay, that gets under control.

00:16:43.980 And then what about next flu season?

00:16:45.520 We have a bad flu season.

00:16:47.440 Tens of thousands of people are dying.

00:16:48.960 I mean, these are people who are dying.

00:16:50.680 The flu is a serious illness.

00:16:52.160 It is.

00:16:52.580 Well, if we're going to say you got to wear masks, we're going to, you know, to save lives,

00:16:58.800 we're going to shut down businesses, we're going to have capacity limits, 10 p.m. curfew,

00:17:02.740 that saves lives.

00:17:03.540 Well, why not save lives again?

00:17:04.740 The only way to put a stop to it, the only way, is for people to just stand up and say,

00:17:11.580 no, I'm not going to listen.

00:17:13.400 You want to barge into people's homes and arrest everyone on Thanksgiving,

00:17:17.220 you want to do that, then go ahead and do it.

00:17:21.120 All these business owners, just open your business.

00:17:23.820 That's what I would say.

00:17:24.600 Just open it and go about, open your business, open it up, call their bluff.

00:17:31.200 All right, let's go to this.

00:17:32.740 Here's a local news station, Orlando 6, with an interesting report.

00:17:39.880 Watch this.

00:17:41.320 Today, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center is showcasing a new exhibit.

00:17:46.320 It displays powerful images taken after the death of George Floyd.

00:17:50.460 As News 6's Eze Castro got a look at this exhibit and spoke to the photographer who captured moments

00:17:55.580 he says he'll never forget.

00:17:58.240 When you walk inside the Holocaust Center in Maitland,

00:18:00.960 you'll be able to see some of the faces of those who mourned the death of George Floyd,

00:18:06.000 a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.

00:18:10.480 His death sparked protests across the city and around the country.

00:18:15.300 The portraits captured by photographer John Noltner.

00:18:18.560 When George Floyd was killed, that happened 11.6 miles north of my house.

00:18:24.820 And I knew, with a piece of my mind's goal being to hear voices that aren't always heard as well as they should be,

00:18:33.500 I knew that I wanted to go up to that site.

00:18:35.620 Just days after Floyd's death, Noltner came to the site where dozens were gathering,

00:18:40.140 many who were still trying to process the tragedy in their community.

00:18:44.020 And he decided to capture the tears behind his lens.

00:18:48.300 What was the vibe?

00:18:49.380 What was the feeling that you were feeling when you arrived to that location?

00:18:55.000 There was clearly pain and frustration and mourning happening,

00:18:59.460 but it was a space that was open to anybody who wanted to show up and understand what was going on.

00:19:05.060 The exhibit shows 45 strangers, each of them sharing their own message to the world.

00:19:10.360 Yeah, not much needs to be said there, I don't think.

00:19:13.720 Hopefully, I don't have to explain why it's gratuitous and insane to have a George Floyd exhibit at the Holocaust Museum.

00:19:24.680 But the elevation, the canonization of guys like George Floyd is one of the most gratuitous and insane things

00:19:31.500 we've seen the left do in the last several years.

00:19:35.020 And that's saying quite a lot.

00:19:37.060 Speaking of insane, let's go to number three here.

00:19:38.640 Let's check in with Joe Biden.

00:19:40.920 Here's what Joe Biden is.

00:19:42.660 Maybe you can interpret this for me.

00:19:44.180 I'm having a little bit of trouble.

00:19:45.100 But here's the latest from Joe Biden.

00:19:47.600 Here's what he's thinking and talking about.

00:19:49.200 Listen.

00:19:50.120 They talked about that in some detail.

00:19:53.140 Thirdly, we discussed the need to help states with Title 32 funding for the National Guard.

00:19:58.380 That's a fancy way of saying governors, governors need to be able to get funding when they need to bring their National Guard into play.

00:20:11.680 And National Guards are going to have to play this.

00:20:13.260 It costs a lot of money.

00:20:14.240 Just think, that's how bad it is right now.

00:20:17.260 And we see this, we've seen this kind of thing many times from Joe Biden, of course.

00:20:22.760 But still, that's how bad it is right now.

00:20:26.840 If he does become president and he, you know, his win is legally certified, becomes president.

00:20:33.140 But that's how bad it is now before he has actually taken on the most stressful job on earth and aged, you know, a few more years.

00:20:44.540 How are we going to know that we are entering into a potentially unprecedented territory?

00:20:50.900 How are we going to know when Joe Biden gets to the point where he has completely lost his mind, which I feel very confident, if he is the president, that will happen during his first term.

00:21:00.220 I feel completely confident in that.

00:21:01.500 He's already losing it without taking on.

00:21:05.160 I mean, think about it.

00:21:06.400 You know, if you had a 78-year-old, many of us have been in this situation.

00:21:10.920 You've got a grandfather or a parent who's, you know, who's going down this path.

00:21:18.500 And think about in your own life how quickly this disease progresses.

00:21:24.900 And usually that's with like a grandparent who's retired.

00:21:28.640 And not only doesn't have it, certainly doesn't have the most stressful job on planet earth.

00:21:37.140 So you think about how quickly that progresses.

00:21:40.200 And now imagine in your own life, your grandparent had the most stressful job on earth.

00:21:46.780 It's going to be bad.

00:21:47.520 But how do we know when he gets to the point where he completely loses his mind?

00:21:50.480 Are they going to tell us?

00:21:53.300 Or is Kamala Harris just going to sort of assume the role of president behind the scenes?

00:21:59.300 And, you know, we're just not going to be told.

00:22:03.180 Number four, a man named Orlando Hall was executed by the federal government a couple of days ago.

00:22:08.340 So many on the left were upset that this man was executed.

00:22:14.260 Here's Keith Boykin of CNN.

00:22:16.420 He sent out this tweet.

00:22:18.180 Orlando Hall was executed last night.

00:22:20.040 Hall was a black man convicted by an all-white jury.

00:22:23.200 He's the eighth person executed this year by the Trump administration.

00:22:26.400 There were no federal executions under President Obama.

00:22:28.940 And Biden plans to end them as well.

00:22:30.760 And then he talks later on in the thread about how he's against that capital punishment and so on.

00:22:35.960 Mentioning the race of the guy, obviously implying that there's something racist going on here.

00:22:41.260 Now, if you're wondering what Orlando Hall did to deserve and to earn himself capital punishment,

00:22:47.440 in fact, I was going to read a description of the crime to you, a report here in NBC News.

00:22:53.200 But it's so graphic that it's too disturbing to even read.

00:22:58.420 What I'll say is that he, along with some accomplices, abducted a child, a 16-year-old child,

00:23:05.980 tortured and raped her over the course of several days, I believe,

00:23:11.780 doused her with gasoline, beat her with a shovel, and then buried her alive.

00:23:18.080 So that's what he did.

00:23:19.640 That's how he got himself the death penalty.

00:23:21.520 By the way, his victim, also black.

00:23:25.060 You know, you love how the victims are always erased in these situations.

00:23:31.040 Always erased.

00:23:31.760 The left always erases the victims.

00:23:35.600 You know, this is the kind of thing.

00:23:37.620 I've talked about capital punishment a lot on this show over the years.

00:23:41.560 And I've kind of talked about how I've wrestled with it.

00:23:44.940 And I've been back.

00:23:45.400 I used to be against capital punishment.

00:23:46.940 And over time, I've sort of been back and forth on it.

00:23:49.440 And I'm at the point right now where I don't even, I'm not even sure, maybe part of this is,

00:23:55.000 I'm sure part of this is emotional, but I'm not even sure what I was wrestling with.

00:23:59.460 I'm at a point now where it seems so clear to me.

00:24:03.260 Obviously, someone like this, you execute them.

00:24:04.960 What else would you do with them?

00:24:06.120 The only problem I have is that it took so long.

00:24:08.960 This crime happened, I'm not sure when this happened.

00:24:12.140 This happened, let's see, I'm not sure, years ago.

00:24:17.940 It happened several years ago, as is always.

00:24:19.660 Oh, 1994, that's when it happened.

00:24:23.540 I didn't realize it was that long ago.

00:24:25.960 So this happened, and this happened like 25 years ago.

00:24:28.600 That's my only problem.

00:24:31.420 Executions should be, you get the conviction, they're found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,

00:24:36.120 and take them out back that day and dispatch them.

00:24:44.340 It is an injustice to society, that society is expected to house these people and feed them

00:24:52.840 and protect them, you know, a lot of times in, you know, protective custody in prison,

00:25:00.220 because the people that get capital punishment, a lot of them, especially if they're committing

00:25:03.340 sexual crimes against children, they're so evil and disgusting that even their other fellow

00:25:08.780 convicted criminals don't want to be around them.

00:25:11.180 And so we have to pay extra to protect them from their other fellow criminals.

00:25:16.380 That's the injustice, is the burden on society to keep this person alive.

00:25:21.260 So he should have been executed 25 years ago, but I'm relieved and happy that it happened now.

00:25:28.260 So society is a little bit better off today without this monstrous, despicable, evil scumbag.

00:25:35.940 Five, finally, speaking of which, I'm going to play something for you.

00:25:39.840 I'll have much more to say about it later, probably tomorrow, because what you're about

00:25:43.400 to witness is just begging for a daily cancellation.

00:25:48.360 So we'll do that probably tomorrow.

00:25:50.640 But for now, I just want to play this for you because I just saw it, and I have to play it.

00:25:54.680 This is being shared on social media, kind of going viral.

00:25:56.760 So it's from an HBO documentary.

00:26:00.420 I believe the documentary is called Trans Hood on HBO.

00:26:05.700 Anyway, check it out.

00:26:06.880 Here it is.

00:26:08.020 Good morning.

00:26:09.920 Today we choose to recognize, honor, love, and celebrate anyone here who would claim their

00:26:17.160 identity publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning, intersex,

00:26:24.520 sex, pansexual, asexual, or any category that I've left out.

00:26:31.660 This is Phoenix.

00:26:32.960 You're a little shy.

00:26:44.420 Do you want to tell your family if you're a boy or a girl?

00:26:48.560 I just want to tell them that I'm a girl.

00:26:50.780 No.

00:26:51.220 Okay.

00:26:51.600 You can tell them that.

00:26:52.420 Phoenix would like you to know that she's a girl, and she prefers she and her pronouns.

00:27:05.880 This way.

00:27:07.360 May you be well, safe, and whole.

00:27:11.280 We honor you exactly as you are.

00:27:14.500 Okay, I'm only going to say just two quick things about what you just saw.

00:27:19.800 More to come later.

00:27:20.920 But first of all, as I always point out, in a healthy and well-adjusted society, that video

00:27:31.480 would end with police breaking down the door and arresting every single adult in the building

00:27:39.400 and hauling them away in cuffs.

00:27:42.460 And then even better, in a really healthy society, as they're being frog-marched out

00:27:48.120 to the big bus or van where they're all going to be taken to prison, the people in the town

00:27:53.580 would be gathered around, like, throwing tomatoes at them and shouting at them.

00:27:57.160 That's how you know we'd be in a really healthy society.

00:28:01.140 Because that ritualized child abuse that you just saw, that is the appropriate response

00:28:05.300 to it.

00:28:06.620 That's my first observation.

00:28:07.620 My second observation is, you saw in the video there, quickly, it kind of scanned to

00:28:12.340 the, I'm not even going to call it a congregation.

00:28:15.080 Well, maybe it is a congregation.

00:28:16.660 You know, this is basically a satanic temple that you just saw.

00:28:20.480 And so you saw the congregation at the satanic temple.

00:28:24.460 Satanic temple by another name.

00:28:27.300 But what did you notice?

00:28:28.800 What was missing in the audience?

00:28:32.240 Who was missing?

00:28:35.300 Men.

00:28:36.080 Fathers.

00:28:36.400 It was almost entirely women.

00:28:39.240 It was women up on stage.

00:28:41.560 Of course, it was a woman dragging this poor child up there.

00:28:45.660 You know, it was the mother.

00:28:46.680 I hesitate to even call her mother.

00:28:48.420 But it was the mother dragging her up.

00:28:49.980 No father in sight.

00:28:51.000 I don't know if the father was there or not.

00:28:52.020 He wasn't on stage.

00:28:54.460 Mostly women.

00:28:56.100 Not a lot of men.

00:28:56.900 Not a lot of fathers.

00:29:02.060 That's not a coincidence, is all I'll say.

00:29:04.980 But as I said, more on that tomorrow.

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00:32:03.080 Now, today for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling this person.

00:32:06.460 Her name is Evie Kwong.

00:32:08.580 She works for the Toronto Star.

00:32:11.080 She was recently horribly offended by some of the offerings at a pop-up broth bar

00:32:14.980 inside of an athletic apparel store in Toronto.

00:32:17.380 Of course, many questions are immediately raised about why there's such a thing as a broth bar

00:32:22.860 and what that is exactly and why it's inside of an athletic apparel store

00:32:27.060 and how any human could possibly manage to be offended by broth.

00:32:31.940 We may be able to answer some of those questions in due course as we proceed.

00:32:36.260 But first, to Evie Kwong's tweets.

00:32:39.080 She says, this is a long tweet thread as she goes on about it.

00:32:43.180 She says,

00:32:43.520 A white-owned trendy spot on Ossington is selling bone broth across from golden turtle pho,

00:32:50.000 also sexualizing jerk sauce and pho hot sauce, and making superfood dumplings for profit.

00:32:57.040 Y'all, I'm sick.

00:32:58.560 The cultures they are taking from literally fight daily for legitimacy.

00:33:02.500 The wellness cleansing of the food, the lack of historical understanding,

00:33:06.420 and the number of followers is alarming.

00:33:08.020 I'm not trying to knock small businesses, and it is Trina, by the way, T-R-Y-N-A.

00:33:15.040 I'm not trying to knock small businesses, but damn, this one hurt.

00:33:19.660 I legit threw out my Chinese food lunches because white kids would make fun of it all day.

00:33:24.580 I bought into Pizza Day and dry-ass turkey burgers.

00:33:27.280 So did many others.

00:33:30.800 And now you're taking our culture and selling it?

00:33:33.840 And people think it's legit?

00:33:35.780 Damn.

00:33:36.800 It took hella unlearning and relearning to love my identity to get over that.

00:33:41.560 Don't come at me with organic grass-fed immunity dumplings.

00:33:45.460 It's Zhao Long Bao.

00:33:47.300 I have no idea if I pronounced that correctly.

00:33:48.720 Surely if I did not, I am racist.

00:33:51.200 Anyway, she continues.

00:33:52.160 And while you're here, support your local Chinatown, Little India, Little Jamaica, Little Tibet,

00:33:57.600 Koreatown, J-Town, and spots our aunties and uncles opened, moving here to support their families.

00:34:03.100 Know that they've had to assimilate too.

00:34:05.560 Okay.

00:34:06.920 A lot of problems.

00:34:07.500 That was hard.

00:34:08.180 First of all, this is someone who works in the media.

00:34:09.780 This is, I guess, a journalist or something.

00:34:12.300 And that's how she writes.

00:34:14.060 Words like Trina, hella.

00:34:16.780 That's a problem.

00:34:17.500 But to translate, Kuang is upset that this business is selling a few traditionally Asian food products.

00:34:24.440 Somehow the existence of bone broth cooked by someone who is not Asian has caused her to flash back to some teasing she received in grade school.

00:34:32.840 And because she has this weird emotional association between broth and bullying,

00:34:37.640 she believes that the business that produced the broth should be destroyed.

00:34:41.820 It is, after all, cultural appropriation, she says.

00:34:44.260 Now, something tells me, and I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.

00:34:49.280 Something tells me that Ms. Kuang has never once complained about restaurants run by Asians selling hamburgers or pizza.

00:34:57.580 And that's a problem because if we're going to play this game, then it must be played consistently and equally.

00:35:03.220 It never is.

00:35:04.320 You never hear anyone complain about non-white people selling products that, quote, belong to white people.

00:35:10.440 Which, objectively speaking, in a vacuum is fine.

00:35:13.520 Because nothing belongs to white people as a group, but also nothing belongs to any other group or race or ethnicity or culture as a group.

00:35:22.560 Asians don't own broth.

00:35:25.040 They don't own Asian, any Asian food.

00:35:27.380 I got news for you.

00:35:28.960 Individual items of food can be owned, but entire types of food cannot be owned.

00:35:35.220 IHOP owns the pancakes it makes.

00:35:37.620 But who owns pancakes in general?

00:35:41.240 What group lays claim to the concept of pancakes?

00:35:45.380 Answer, none.

00:35:46.560 No group.

00:35:47.700 Pancakes are the property of the whole human race.

00:35:50.260 And what a glorious thing that is.

00:35:52.360 And guess what?

00:35:53.540 What we call Asian food is also the property of the whole human race.

00:35:58.580 Anyone can make it.

00:35:59.980 Anyone can eat it.

00:36:01.040 Anyone can sell it.

00:36:03.120 So, Evie Kuang, you don't own Asian food.

00:36:05.060 I own it just as much as you do.

00:36:07.620 Guess what?

00:36:09.040 I am just as much as you allowed to make it, sell it, eat it.

00:36:13.040 I have just as much of a claim to it as you do.

00:36:16.180 That's the way it goes.

00:36:18.200 In fact, the cultural appropriation charge is never as absurd as it is in relation to cuisine.

00:36:23.820 Because cuisine especially cannot be owned by any group of people.

00:36:27.280 As there's probably no dish you could possibly name which originates entirely with one group.

00:36:32.420 And has remained unchanged and uninfluenced for centuries.

00:36:36.040 There may be some dishes like that, but they're few and far between.

00:36:39.540 Almost all foods and dishes are a fusion of different influences and have changed and been adapted and adopted over time.

00:36:45.520 I'm no historian of pho, but as far as I'm aware, pho itself has very heavy French influences.

00:36:51.980 This is a fact overlooked by Miss Kuang.

00:36:54.960 These kinds of facts are always overlooked by the people who rail against cultural appropriation.

00:36:59.800 Now, I have to add one other thing.

00:37:03.780 It's not just Evie Kuang getting canceled today.

00:37:06.240 I must also cancel the business that she herself canceled.

00:37:09.700 I'm afraid I have to jump in with the Pitchfork mob, but only because the business caved to the Pitchfork mob.

00:37:16.300 You know, after the outrage sparked by Kuang's psychotic tweets, the business, called Ripe Nutrition,

00:37:23.120 posted on Instagram the following message from its founder.

00:37:25.840 This is what they said.

00:37:26.560 Over the course of the past 48 hours, it has come to my attention as the founder of Ripe Nutrition

00:37:31.860 that I've made some mistakes, big ones.

00:37:35.100 It was important to me to take a moment to collect my thoughts and decide how to best address this situation.

00:37:40.360 First, I want to thank each and every person who took the time to bring this to my attention,

00:37:44.000 something that I now realize should have never been their burden to bear.

00:37:47.800 It is not the responsibility of people of color to educate me, a white woman,

00:37:51.920 on why cultural appropriation isn't acceptable.

00:37:54.120 The responsibility is mine and mine alone.

00:37:57.380 Anyone who has spoken out about this should never have had to do this work,

00:38:00.740 and I apologize for my insensitivity and ignorance as the founder of Ripe Nutrition.

00:38:07.520 Oh, dear God.

00:38:10.260 We should note that in spite of this groveling apology,

00:38:13.260 the business was still kicked out of its location in the apparel store.

00:38:16.380 So it was still shut down.

00:38:17.360 This is the way it always goes, of course.

00:38:20.040 The apologies never make a difference.

00:38:22.920 They never have the effect that the apologizer hopes for and intends.

00:38:26.500 Never.

00:38:27.120 It doesn't matter.

00:38:28.480 They're not going to go any easier on you just because you apologize.

00:38:31.920 And that's why everyone must stop apologizing.

00:38:35.560 I am at the point where people who do apologize lose all sympathy from me.

00:38:42.240 If you're going to cave and kowtow and prostrate yourself at the behest of these lunatics,

00:38:46.960 then I am not going to defend you.

00:38:49.260 Why should I bother defending your dignity and honor if you're just going to set it on fire willingly anyway?

00:38:55.340 I mean, burden to bear?

00:38:57.300 The owner of this company actually just said that her broth was somehow an emotional burden

00:39:02.520 that some in the public had to bear,

00:39:05.380 as if there were people up late at night tossing and turning,

00:39:09.060 distraught because some white lady was selling broth in an apparel store in Toronto.

00:39:13.780 If any such person actually exists, which I doubt,

00:39:18.680 if there's actually any person who was at all traumatized by this broth,

00:39:22.580 then they are mentally ill and should be committed to an asylum.

00:39:25.860 Anyone who has ever felt any kind of authentic distress

00:39:30.500 because the, quote, wrong race of person was cooking a certain food

00:39:34.420 is not only a bigot, but a lunatic.

00:39:38.040 And that's exactly what you should say to them when they try to cancel you.

00:39:42.820 These lunatic bigots will never stop, will never slow down,

00:39:47.640 so long as there are limp, spineless, jellyfish-like creatures floating around there,

00:39:53.260 out there, such as the owner of Ripe Nutrition,

00:39:55.860 who can so easily be manipulated and dominated.

00:39:59.280 Have some damn self-respect.

00:40:01.520 Grow a spine.

00:40:02.980 Stand up for yourself.

00:40:05.700 You know, how about issuing a statement on your little Instagram account saying,

00:40:09.280 hey, guess what?

00:40:09.920 I'm not sorry.

00:40:10.680 It's broth.

00:40:11.500 Get over it, you insane babies.

00:40:14.820 Get over yourself.

00:40:15.640 How about that for a statement?

00:40:20.020 So everyone who complains about cultural appropriation is canceled.

00:40:23.820 And everyone who emboldens and encourages and validates the complainers is also canceled.

00:40:31.420 Canceled, canceled, canceled.

00:40:32.600 That's how we're ending it today.

00:40:36.820 But other than that, hope you have a great day, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:40:40.160 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 23, 2020

Ep. 608 - The Media Suddenly Decides That Evidence Is Important

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