Ep. 627 - They Don't Care About You
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Congress passes a stimulus bill it s what we expect from Congress in all the worst ways, including another brave celebrity coming out as the opposite sex, and the left attacks Marco Rubio for getting a vaccine before other groups who need it more get it, while ignoring Democrat lawmakers who are doing exactly the same thing. Plus, our daily cancel and much more!
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Congress passes a stimulus bill. It's what we expect from Congress
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in all the worst ways. Also, five headlines, including another brave celebrity coming out
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as the opposite sex. And the left attacks Marco Rubio for getting a vaccine before other groups
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who need it more get it, while ignoring Democrat lawmakers who, of course, are doing exactly the
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same thing. Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Well, if one thing has become clear during the course of this pandemic, it's that our leaders
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simply don't care at all about the well-being and welfare of the people they're supposed to
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represent and lead. And it's not that they hate us. You hear that a lot. Oh, they hate us. No,
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hatred would require a passion that they don't possess. It would mean that they care if in the
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wrong way. What we get from Washington instead is much more banal, much emptier, worse even.
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What we get is disregard, indifference, neglect. And this is, put it mildly, not the attitude you want
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from your lawmakers at any time, and especially not at a time like this. It was easy to predict
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this, you know, in hindsight or even in foresight. If you have a group of people in charge who don't
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really care what happens to you or your family, and also don't really care about the law, and then
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a pandemic hits, what are they likely to do? They're not just going to leave you to your own
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devices, which would have certainly been preferable. But they are, you know, they're going to do that
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because they want to appear like they're doing something. Also, they realize that they're being
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presented with a profound opportunity to seize more power and influence. So instead, they shut
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everything down, tell you to stay home, tell your children to skip school for a year, tell you not
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to visit your elderly parents or let your children see their friends, and then pat themselves on the
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back when the numbers go down. When the numbers go up, as they have, they will just blame you for not
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listening to their instructions. No concern for your overall health and well-being. No concern for your
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quality of life. No concern for your life at all. No concern for your child's education. None of
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that. You're just a number, a statistic. What do they care how a statistic feels? Why should they
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care about a number's suffering? This dynamic was thrown into sharp relief this week with the
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stimulus bill that Congress came up with in a compromise. Now, you always know you're in trouble
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whenever there's a bipartisan compromise. People always love bipartisan compromises. I don't.
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It's bad enough when one party has a bad idea, but when they both agree on a bad idea, it has to be
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especially horrendous. And it is. The bill, 5,000 pages long, totaling almost a trillion dollars in
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spending, would, among other things, many, many other things, which we'll get to in a minute,
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provide $600 checks to some Americans. Now, some lawmakers have objected to this portion,
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including Rand Paul, who should be commended at least for objecting at all, but his objection
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Why stop at $600 a person? Why not $1,000? Why not $2,000? Maybe these new free money Republicans
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should join the everybody gets a guaranteed income caucus. Why not $20,000 a year for everybody?
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Why not $30,000? If we can print up money with impunity, why not do it? The Treasury can just
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keep printing the money. That is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that
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the dollar no longer has value. To so-called conservatives who are quick to identify the
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socialism of Democrats, if you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better.
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When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of
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moral or fiscal integrity. Now, I agree that the government spends too much and is spending too
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much in this bill, as always. It's a trillion dollars. Absurd. But when it comes to the direct
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payments to individuals, there are two ways of looking at it. One is that the federal government
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shouldn't be giving anything to anybody in this case. The states are the ones that have imposed
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these lockdowns. Why should a taxpayer in, say, North Dakota have to bail out a small business
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owner in New York? Shouldn't New York do that? It's New York's fault. This line of thinking would
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lead to Congress spending zero dollars on direct payments. The other line of thinking is that the
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federal government is also responsible for pushing the lockdowns, especially through mouthpieces
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like Fauci and Birx. And besides, as this line of thinking would go, whoever is to blame,
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the fact is that millions of Americans are in dire straits through no fault of their own. It was
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public policy on whatever level that brought us here. We pay Congress to help solve problems like
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this. Now they need to do their jobs. But that's going to require a lot more than $600 for the people
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who need it. Now, place the blame wherever you want. The fact is that the government has shut down
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entire industries, prevented millions of people from going to work, bankrupted businesses, thrown families
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into financial ruin and destitution. The government did this. If the government tells you that you
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aren't allowed to go to work or that as a business owner, you aren't allowed to serve customers or you
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could only serve, you know, 30 percent of your customers, the government is taking from you and
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it owes you restitution, compensation. This isn't welfare. This isn't the normal sugar daddy routine
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from the government. This is about Americans getting what they're actually owed, actually entitled to,
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an entitlement in the true sense of the word. The whole problem with what we normally call
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entitlements is precisely that the people getting them are not entitled to them. In this case,
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they are. But the problem is that $600 is an insult. It's a slap in the face. It's worse than
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nothing. It's the equivalent of on a smaller scale, you know, when I was delivering pizzas as a teenager
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and one time the customer was mad that his order was late, not my fault, by the way. So he paid his bill
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and then pulled out a nickel to hand it to me as a tip. He meant it as an insult. And if it was like 50
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cents, at least, maybe I would have taken it, but even I won't lower myself for a nickel.
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This is like that. You know, they're tossing a nickel at the people that they have bankrupted.
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$600 may as well be a nickel if you just lost your business or about to lose your house, can't afford
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food, and so on. If you have, say, $4,000 of necessary monthly spending, including mortgage and
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food and utilities and all that, car payment, whatever, $600 isn't better than nothing. It is
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nothing. It gets you nowhere. It does nothing for you. And it gets worse. The bill also includes
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all sorts of goodies put in there by various politicians for the sake of their special
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interests. Tom Elliott with Grabian Media has a good thread on this. Let me read some of what he
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found in this bill. And this doesn't even begin to cover it as the thing is, again, 5,000 pages long.
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There is no good reason for a piece of legislation to be 5,000 pages long or even 100 pages or even 50
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pages. All of those extra pages give you stuff like this, as Elliott documents, quoting from his
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thread, says the COVID relief bill lays groundwork for a climate security advisory council. The COVID
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relief bill also includes $10 million for gender programs in Pakistan. Not exactly sure what that
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even is. The COVID relief bill sets aside funds to investigate the 1908 Springfield race riot.
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The bill includes a lengthy subsection titled the Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020.
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The bill creates a committee regulating performance enhancing drugs in horse racing.
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The bill outlays funds to address gender inequality amongst statues. Not sure that's, I think we need to
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read closer into that one, but this is just what he's come up with. The COVID relief bill includes
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funds for a museum that will offer programming, education, exhibitions on the life, art, history,
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and culture of women. The COVID relief bill includes $1.5 million for the Appropriations
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Committee's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, as well as lots of money for receptions.
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And we could go on listing things again, 5,000 pages. That's three copies of War and Peace
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stacked on top of each other and somehow even more boring to read, I'm sure. This is what we get.
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Our elected leaders playing games, you know, tending to their special interests while millions of
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Americans plunge into destitution. This should make us all, there's a lot of cheap outrage out
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there every day over dumb things. This is, this is real, this is something that is really outrageous,
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that is really worthy of our, of our outrage. I see people online, I don't know how many, I don't
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know if I could trust them or not. You know, I think people are probably exaggerating, but around
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this time you see people, you know, posting their, their reading list for the year. Oh, look, I, I read
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75 books this year, bragging about it. Uh, I don't know if I could trust that or not, but what I can
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tell you for me, I, I did not read all the books I wanted to read this year. Uh, my reading list is not
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that extensive at all because it's just been a busy year and you don't always have time to read the books
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you want. Um, and, uh, that's unfortunate because there's a lot of information, a lot of knowledge out
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Now let's get to our five headlines. Okay. So, um, just saw this. Anthony Fauci was on CNN
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this morning and a reading article in the Hill says Anthony Fauci said Monday that he would not
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recommend suspending flights from the UK over a more infectious coronavirus strain detected in
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Southern England. The U S should Fauci said without a doubt, keep an eye on it, but we don't want to
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overreact, follow it carefully, but don't overreact to it. Now this is a, they're saying a new strain of,
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of COVID, which is at least they think, uh, quite a bit more contagious than the other, than, than
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the other strain. Um, and Fauci is saying, well, we don't want to, we don't want to shut down travel.
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Let's not overreact. Now here's the thing. I agree with not overreacting and that's advice
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that I wish Fauci had been taking. I wish he would take his own advice and had been taking over the
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last seven months. Yeah, we shouldn't overreact, but it seems to me we should be here. Here's,
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here's Fauci's approach and the approach of, of, of many of our health experts and people in charge
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has been, they're, they're very reluctant to shut down foreign travel,
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but not reluctant to shut down American businesses. Call me crazy. I think it should
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be the exact opposite. We should be extremely reluctant to shut down American businesses to
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the point of, we don't do it at all. But as far as shutting down foreign travel, I don't think we
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should be reluctant to do that at all. Even if there isn't a pandemic, if there's any concern,
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if there's something going on overseas that you want to contain, shut down foreign travel. Sure.
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I don't think there should be very much reluctance at all in that, in that, in that realm, especially
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now. So if you're telling us that there's a vastly more contagious strain of coronavirus and it's in
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the UK right now, and as far as we know, it hasn't made it here yet, shut down travel. Why wouldn't you
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do that? Shut it down so that we don't end up shutting down businesses again or more businesses.
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We know how that, this is exactly how it played out back in March. We have seen this movie before.
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Guys like Fauci say, well, we don't want to shut down travel. And when, when President Trump started
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shutting down travel, you had Democrats complaining about it, accusing him of xenophobia.
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And then a few weeks later, it's here and everyone's like, why do you do anything to stop it?
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I just, I get a very bad feeling with stories like this because I feel like we've, we've, we've seen
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this movie. I feel like it's just repeating again. I am not at all, um, a, uh, someone who's
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propagating panic over, over COVID. But if, if they're telling us the strain is there in the UK,
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why not just shut down the travel? I don't see why we don't just shut it down.
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Um, next, Nancy Pelosi on the floor of the house yesterday claimed once again that her opponents
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are the ones who, uh, deny science. Let's, let's listen to this.
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We didn't do it. We couldn't pass legislation until now because the administration simply did not believe
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sometimes I'm faith oriented, so I don't believe in science. And I said, well, you can do both.
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Science is an answer to our prayers and our prayers have been answered with a vaccine. And in this
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People say around here sometimes I'm faith oriented, so I don't believe in science.
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Just a quick fact check on that. Nobody has ever said that. That's, I guarantee you, nobody has ever
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said that to, uh, to Nancy Pelosi. I'm faith oriented, so I don't believe in science. First of all, I don't
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think anyone who is faith oriented would call themselves faith oriented. Eh, more faith oriented.
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I don't believe in science. Get that science out of here. That black magic. This, this is what people
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have in their heads when they think about the people on, on the other side of the ideological divide.
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But, uh, but no, that is, that is not something that anyone has actually said to her. And of course,
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uh, taking Marco Rubio to task for getting a vaccine, but there seems to be a little bit
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of a disconnect here. Listen, I don't think they should include, uh, the senators period,
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particularly, listen, there's something that really gets stuck. I think in my craw and other people's
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crawl at the idea that people who have been enabling Donald Trump downplaying the COVID virus,
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calling it a hoax who have attended, spoken at, encouraged, promoted, and participated.
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And so many of his reckless rallies where people have been packed like sardines and have spoken
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at these rallies, knowing people are there maskless who have attended super spreader events at the
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White House. Like we've seen, you know, so many people get infected with COVID at them. And then,
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and then after they've been selfish, after they've been reckless, after they've been servile to Donald
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Trump, then they get to jump the line and go in front of people who are in nursing homes and go in
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front of people who've been risking their lives for 10 months to keep others safe, like medical workers.
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They get to go in front of people who are on dialysis and who are on chemo. Give me a damn break.
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Yeah. I, it's, it sounds like what she's talking about here is a political, basically a political
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test to decide who gets the vaccine because she's not, she's now it's one thing if you're saying,
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well, the lawmakers shouldn't be putting themselves in front of the line to get the vaccine. I agree with
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that, except that the first person who you should be blaming for that or yelling at is Alexandria
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Ocasio-Cortez, because she's the youngest. She went and got the vaccine yesterday and had it on
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Instagram. But that's not exactly what Anna Navarro is talking about here on CNN. What she's saying is,
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she starts by saying, oh, you know, the senators and he's a, he's a lawmaker and he should, but then she
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gets into, uh, he's servile to Donald Trump. You know, he's, he's going to rallies. So the fact
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that he's quote unquote servile to Donald Trump, that's the reason he shouldn't be allowed to get
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the vaccine because he hasn't passed the political litmus test. That's what she's proposing here,
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a political litmus test. People have the right political views. They should be allowed to get
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vaccinated. Pretty horrifying, but it's what we come to expect from, uh, from CNN. All right.
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Reading from the daily wire actor, Eddie Izzard, uh, appearing on sky arts portrait artist of the
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year, which is a competition series where artists are challenged to create a portrait of three famous
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subjects. Uh, it came out as a, as a, uh, as a girl, but it was kind of interesting how he did it.
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I think we have the audio. It's the audio is a little bit hard to understand, not the best audio
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quality, but let's, uh, let's listen to this. Eddie, you told us a little bit about why you've done
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this. Can you elaborate? Well, I try to do things that I think are interesting. And this is the first
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program I've asked if I could really, she and her transition. How does that feel? Well, it feels great
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because people assume that. Oh, well, they just know me from before, but I'm gender fluid. I just
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want to be based in girl mode from now on. What if it feels right? It's something positive.
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And I'm saying life is the stuff. So just keep trying everything. One life, live it well. Exactly.
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Okay. So Eddie Izzard, he says, um, he tries to do things that are interesting.
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And so he's, he's, he's still gender fluid, whatever the hell that means. He's still gender
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fluid. Um, but he wants to be based in girl mode now, uh, because that's interesting.
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The first thing here is that none of that means anything based in girl mode. Well, I'm in, I'm in
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girl mode. What does that mean? But he wants to do it because it's, it's interesting. It's just
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sort of a dead, it's interesting thing to do. And this plays into this, uh, I, I think highlights
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two points that I often make about this. The first thing is, okay, Eddie Izzard is wearing girl
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clothes and he puts on lipstick and then says, I'm in girl mode. Now I'm on guy, you know, I put
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wear lipstick and now I'm in girl mode. And when you do that, and when the left celebrates it,
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they are only perpetuating and promoting the very, uh, gender, you know, paradigm that they're
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supposedly trying to dismantle. Cause what is wearing lipstick and wearing girl clothes? What
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does it have to do with being a girl? They would say it has absolutely nothing to do with it.
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So now you, you wear lipstick and you're in girl wearing lipstick puts you in girl mode.
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Um, that's supposed to be the, that's supposed to be exactly the paradigm, the dynamic, um, that
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they're wanting to get rid of. And a lot of this transgenderism stuff only promotes it, solidifies
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it. As I talk about all the time, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, for we were, we were always told
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that, well, there's nothing in particular feminine about wearing a dress just because you wear a
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dress doesn't mean you're feminine. These are all artificial constructs. There's, there's,
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there's no reality to them. And now they tell us a boy puts on a dress and he is a girl. If a boy
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wants to wear a dress, that's a sign that he actually, not just that he, that he, that he's girly,
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but that he is a girl. Okay. So you're, you are reinforcing that, um, that dynamic that you were
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supposedly trying to destroy. So that's the first thing. But then also you see, this is just
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narcissism. That's all this is. It's not, it's not that hard to decipher. This is narcissism. This
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is someone who's extremely full of himself. And, uh, and he want, he wants to be interesting. He wants
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to be more interesting than just the normal pleads who are happy to stick with normal pronouns and to
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just be a man or a woman. No, I'm, I'm more interesting than that. I'm, I'm a much more
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along with United States Senator Tim Kaine and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton. For 111 years,
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the Confederate statue has stood along with America's first president, George Washington,
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as Virginia's contributions. Uh, Governor Northam said, we should all be proud of this important
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step forward for our Commonwealth and our country. The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia's racist and
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divisive history. And it is past time we tell our story with images of perseverance, diversity,
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and inclusion. Uh, let me just say that first of all, any civilization that puts forward diversity
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and inclusion as its highest virtues will die. You cannot base a civilization on that because those
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are not virtues at all. Diversity and inclusion are not virtues. Dignity, courage, selflessness,
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selflessness. These are virtues. And these are the things that we should be hailing. These are the
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things we should be celebrating. And, uh, men and women who exemplify those virtues, those are the ones
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who deserve to have statues. I would say Robert E. Lee. One thing I could tell you for sure about Robert E.
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Lee, a lot more impressive and a lot more of a consequential of a man than Ralph Northam.
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And I would also say a better, if I was a Virginian, I would rather, I would say Robert E. Lee is a
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better representative of Virginia than Ralph Northam. Ralph Northam who, remember, um, the man who
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smeared shoe polish on his face to dance around like Michael Jackson, the man who much, much worse
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even than that, uh, came out and talked about legalizing the abortion of, of, of babies after birth.
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Now he's worried now that Robert E. Lee is a problematic figure for Virginia. So we've got
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to get rid of him. Listen, um, when this was announced yesterday, of course, you know, as
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always, you know, the left celebrates it and says it's a, it's a great step forward and everything.
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And we expect that, but as always, you know, you see conservatives who come out and defend it as
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well and say, yeah, I'm not, I don't like tearing down statues in general. And I don't think that we
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should be taking Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. This has happened to Thomas Jefferson.
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I'm not into that, but, uh, but this I'm okay with. I think this is reasonable. This is fine.
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111 year old statute's been there. Ralph Northam decides he doesn't like it. And so he's going to
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take it down. I'm fine with that. Just realize if you're a conservative and you're supporting this,
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you, you, you are, you are supporting the exact same logic that leads to, and is right now,
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right now, as we're watching, this is happening hand in hand with Abraham Lincoln's name comes
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off the school. You're supporting that same logic. The same thing is applied to Abraham Lincoln,
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George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was a racist slave owner.
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He was no way around that. So if that's the reason for taking Robert Lee statue down,
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then it's going to be applied to Thomas Jefferson. This really isn't that difficult to understand.
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Which is why as conservatives, we should be opposed to all of this. Tearing down statues,
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tearing down statues in the name of diversity and inclusion. We should never, ever support that
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slash Matt. Also, Daily Wire is excited to announce that the historical docu-series
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with us. It's good to be here, Matt. I'm sorry we haven't had a chance to meet in person, but you do
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great work out there. I appreciate it. Thanks. And congratulations on this series. I thought it was
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great listening to it. It's even better when you get the full visual experience. Can you talk about
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maybe some of the things that surprised you as you were researching and preparing for this series?
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Obviously, it's a famous story, one that everyone feels like they already know. But as a viewer and
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listener, there's so much that you get from a series like this that maybe you'd forgotten or you didn't
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know. Did you have any sort of wow moments when you were getting ready for this?
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Well, I've had like two different kinds of wow moments. There were a number of times during the
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course of... I knew this story really well when we started, but as I started to drill down deeper
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into it, there was just every hour of research or stuff. I didn't know that. The one that stays in
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my mind just off the top of my head was that on Apollo 13 and 14, Alan Shepard was supposed to be
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commanding Apollo 13 and Jim Lovell was supposed to be commanding Apollo 14. But Shepard was getting
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a little late into his training, so Lovell and Shepard agreed to switch, which meant that Jim Lovell
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went on Apollo 13, which was, of course, the one that had the explosion on the way to the moon.
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So if they hadn't done that switch, Lovell would have walked on the moon. He was there twice.
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And those are the little things I didn't know. But to be honest with you, Matt, the real payoff for me
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has been just the number of people that I've heard from who've said, I used to believe in the moon
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landing conspiracy, and now I just don't. It just doesn't hold any water anymore.
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One thing that concerns me, maybe depresses me, is that it seems your generation was the last to have
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this great defining moment, a moment of triumph. And I think about my generation, we have defining
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moments, but they're all terrible. 9-11 would be one. We're living through another one right now.
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What do you think about that? Do you think that's true, that maybe that was the last sort of great
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triumphant moment where the whole world could come together and celebrate in that way?
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Well, I don't know the answer to that. Certainly, like you looking around at what we see going on now,
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sometimes I think that July 20th, 1969 is going to be recorded. That was the pinnacle of human
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history. That was as good as it got. But then I saw the SpaceX boosters landing, and I continue to
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see what Elon Musk is doing. And Elon Musk, I think, is going to be able to pull this off only because
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Elon Musk owns that company, does whatever he wants with it. All the initial, the early pioneers of
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aviation, the guys like Lockheed and Boeing and Cessna, Lear, all of these guys were individuals
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that ran their companies the way they wanted them to. And since the Apollo landings, companies like
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Boeing and Lockheed have become these enormous bureaucracies, and they can't do anything right,
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Matt. Their vehicles don't work. They've already decided that one of the vehicles that they've been
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working on for 12 years now or something, they couldn't get the primary system to work,
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so they're going to fly with Band-Aids and backups. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is out there with a barge
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called, of course, I still love you. And when he let go of that Tesla Roadster, and they started
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playing David Bowie, and don't panic from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was on the
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navigation screen. I said, this guy's going to pull it off because he understands the fundamental
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thing about it, is that it needs to be new, it needs to be shocking, it needs to be cool,
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and it needs to be fun, something to be proud of. And if this upcoming so-called administration,
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I don't even want to call it that, but in any event, if they leave him alone,
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So this series is just one piece of all the new content that we have coming down the pipeline,
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including a new show with Candace Owens, the entire PragerU library, a new entertainment channel,
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a new investigative journalism team, tons of stuff coming up, and you don't want to miss any of it.
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of our new and existing content. Let's get now to our daily cancellation.
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Today for our daily cancellation on this final show of the year, 2020, for me anyway,
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I'm going to potentially maybe cancel myself. It would be a fittingly tragic way to end the year.
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There may even be some poetic justice in it for me to fall in the end on my own cancellation sword,
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but I'm not sure yet if I'm canceled. I figure what I would do today is go back
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and do sort of a year in review of my own show based on Media Matters hit pieces.
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So I went to Google, looked up the articles that have appeared on Media Matters' website
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about things that I've said on this show over the past year. These are, we can assume,
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the most offensive and outrageous and objectionable things I've said, the things that earned me
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a patented Media Matters rebuke. So now I'm going to go over them, review these offensive comments,
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and decide if I should be canceled for my sins. So I hope, first of all, that you appreciate the
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great bravery that's required for me to expose myself to you in this way, not in a Jeffrey
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Toobin sort of way, but in a spiritual sense. This is accountability and transparency and perhaps
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in the end, repentance. So let's take a look. These won't be exactly in chronological order,
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and we can't go through all the articles as there are quite a few on Media Matters about the Daily
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Wire and about all the hosts, including myself. But let's review the top three, okay? And we'll see
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if I need to apologize and be canceled at the end of the year here. First, we have a Media Matters
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article from March 3rd, 2020. Headline, Daily Wire hosts calls for extreme measures, including
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violence against drag queens. And then I'm quoted in the subheading, quote, real men should be grabbing
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that drag queen by the collar and kicking him out on his ass. The article says the Daily Wire's Matt
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Walsh and Michael Knowles called for drastic measures to prevent drag queens from being
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around children, with Walsh explicitly calling for violence against them by saying real men
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should kick a drag queen out on his ass and call the police. Walsh also said that the adults in a
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room in which a drag queen danced in front of a child should be going to prison, and Knowles
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called on the arm of the state to stop this. The Daily Wire's official YouTube account uploaded
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video of Matt Walsh's extreme comments made during the Matt Walsh Show podcast, which has received
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more than 31,000 views. The video cuts off before Walsh's explicit calls for violence, but includes
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his claim that the adults should be arrested for letting a drag queen perform in front of a child.
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Okay. Am I canceled for this? Verdict. No. I'm not. In fact, I was quite profoundly correct in
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everything I just said, and everything I said that was documented there. Drag queen story hour should be
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illegal, and men should not be allowed to perform in drag for children. This is basic common sense.
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The kind of thing that people would have stared at you in confusion if you had said it out loud at
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any point in history up until like last Tuesday. They wouldn't have understood why you felt the
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need to actually say out loud that drag queens shouldn't be performing for children at the
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library. So I can't be canceled for this. Though I can't speak for Knowles, nor can I defend his shameful
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bigotry. Second, article from February 25th, headline, Daily Wire's Matt Walsh melts down about
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pedophilia because Pete Buttigieg helped the kid come out. Well, you wouldn't want to melt down
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about pedophilia, apparently. And then I'm quoted, quote, creepy Pete and other forces of evil will
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eventually be arguing in favor of legalizing pedophilia. The article says, after openly gay
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presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg helped the child come out as gay, the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh
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freaked out that progressives will legalize pedophilia, claiming, quote, I can predict that nearly
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every leftist who today is arguing that three-year-olds can choose their gender will
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eventually be arguing in favor of legalizing pedophilia. On February 22nd, a nine-year-old
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asked Buttigieg to help me tell the world I'm gay. At a campaign rally, Walsh responded by calling him
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creepy Pete, going on a rant about child sex and pedophilia, and claiming Buttigieg was exploiting a
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child's emotional confusion. Walsh's claim that LGBTQ allies will eventually be advocating for
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pedophilia as patently false and part of a right-wing smear that often targets drag queens and
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trans youth. All right, verdict. Not canceled. Unfortunately, it turns out that I'm once again
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completely correct. It is not Pete Buttigieg's job to help a kid come out of the closet. And the
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sexualization of children happening on the left does put us on a slippery slope to the normalization
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of pedophilia. Absolutely. Third, finally, from October 7th, headline Daily Wire host says it's
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treasonous for stupid people to vote. Here they present just the video clip, which I guess is
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supposed to be so horrifying that it speaks for itself. We don't need to play the video clip. The
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quote is accurate. You know, there doesn't need to be any more context than that. I did argue that
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stupid people should be legally prevented from voting. And I did say that a stupid person who chooses
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to vote is doing such harm to the country that you could almost consider it treason. Verdict on this.
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Um, I got to say not canceled. If anything, I should get a medal for being so right about
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everything you just heard there. And that's the main thing that I think when I look back on these
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moments that Media Matters has highlighted, I'm frankly stunned and inspired by my own rightness.
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I'm in awe of the fact that I've managed to be so correct so often. You know, I really did intend to
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acknowledge and make amends for the wrongs I'd committed and to take my cancellation like
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a man. But it turns out I'm not eligible to be canceled this year. I have canceled my wife
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multiple times, my kids, dogs, cats, birthdays, Christmas trees, Biden, Trump, phone calls,
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hallways, Canada, Australia, a hundred other things, but I cannot join them in their cancellation.
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Not this year anyway, maybe next. And so to all of you who also survived the year without being
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canceled, all five or six of you, congratulations. We are the few, the chosen, the survivors. And to
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you and myself, I say congratulations and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. To the rest of you,
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I say, how dare you? Do better. Do better next year. And we'll leave it there for the day and the year.
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Congress passes an insulting relief bill. A prominent commentator suggests Republicans should
00:45:09.980
not receive the vaccine and Eddie Izzard becomes a chick. Check it out on The Michael Knowles Show.
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