The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 627 - They Don't Care About You

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Congress passes a stimulus bill. It's what we expect from Congress

00:00:04.660 in all the worst ways. Also, five headlines, including another brave celebrity coming out

00:00:09.060 as the opposite sex. And the left attacks Marco Rubio for getting a vaccine before other groups

00:00:13.780 who need it more get it, while ignoring Democrat lawmakers who, of course, are doing exactly the

00:00:18.260 same thing. Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:05.980 Well, if one thing has become clear during the course of this pandemic, it's that our leaders

00:02:11.360 simply don't care at all about the well-being and welfare of the people they're supposed to

00:02:15.040 represent and lead. And it's not that they hate us. You hear that a lot. Oh, they hate us. No,

00:02:19.740 hatred would require a passion that they don't possess. It would mean that they care if in the

00:02:25.540 wrong way. What we get from Washington instead is much more banal, much emptier, worse even.

00:02:32.260 What we get is disregard, indifference, neglect. And this is, put it mildly, not the attitude you want

00:02:39.440 from your lawmakers at any time, and especially not at a time like this. It was easy to predict

00:02:44.880 this, you know, in hindsight or even in foresight. If you have a group of people in charge who don't

00:02:49.820 really care what happens to you or your family, and also don't really care about the law, and then

00:02:55.080 a pandemic hits, what are they likely to do? They're not just going to leave you to your own

00:03:01.120 devices, which would have certainly been preferable. But they are, you know, they're going to do that

00:03:06.120 because they want to appear like they're doing something. Also, they realize that they're being

00:03:10.540 presented with a profound opportunity to seize more power and influence. So instead, they shut

00:03:16.700 everything down, tell you to stay home, tell your children to skip school for a year, tell you not

00:03:21.320 to visit your elderly parents or let your children see their friends, and then pat themselves on the

00:03:25.500 back when the numbers go down. When the numbers go up, as they have, they will just blame you for not

00:03:30.800 listening to their instructions. No concern for your overall health and well-being. No concern for your

00:03:36.060 quality of life. No concern for your life at all. No concern for your child's education. None of

00:03:40.560 that. You're just a number, a statistic. What do they care how a statistic feels? Why should they

00:03:46.740 care about a number's suffering? This dynamic was thrown into sharp relief this week with the

00:03:52.380 stimulus bill that Congress came up with in a compromise. Now, you always know you're in trouble

00:03:57.360 whenever there's a bipartisan compromise. People always love bipartisan compromises. I don't.

00:04:03.060 It's bad enough when one party has a bad idea, but when they both agree on a bad idea, it has to be

00:04:10.220 especially horrendous. And it is. The bill, 5,000 pages long, totaling almost a trillion dollars in

00:04:15.740 spending, would, among other things, many, many other things, which we'll get to in a minute,

00:04:21.200 provide $600 checks to some Americans. Now, some lawmakers have objected to this portion,

00:04:27.840 including Rand Paul, who should be commended at least for objecting at all, but his objection

00:04:33.260 might miss the point a little bit. Listen.

00:04:36.840 Why stop at $600 a person? Why not $1,000? Why not $2,000? Maybe these new free money Republicans

00:04:46.700 should join the everybody gets a guaranteed income caucus. Why not $20,000 a year for everybody?

00:04:54.100 Why not $30,000? If we can print up money with impunity, why not do it? The Treasury can just

00:05:01.520 keep printing the money. That is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that

00:05:09.520 the dollar no longer has value. To so-called conservatives who are quick to identify the

00:05:16.260 socialism of Democrats, if you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better.

00:05:22.100 When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of

00:05:30.160 moral or fiscal integrity. Now, I agree that the government spends too much and is spending too

00:05:36.700 much in this bill, as always. It's a trillion dollars. Absurd. But when it comes to the direct

00:05:42.700 payments to individuals, there are two ways of looking at it. One is that the federal government

00:05:46.540 shouldn't be giving anything to anybody in this case. The states are the ones that have imposed

00:05:50.760 these lockdowns. Why should a taxpayer in, say, North Dakota have to bail out a small business

00:05:55.380 owner in New York? Shouldn't New York do that? It's New York's fault. This line of thinking would

00:06:00.140 lead to Congress spending zero dollars on direct payments. The other line of thinking is that the

00:06:05.600 federal government is also responsible for pushing the lockdowns, especially through mouthpieces

00:06:10.100 like Fauci and Birx. And besides, as this line of thinking would go, whoever is to blame,

00:06:15.240 the fact is that millions of Americans are in dire straits through no fault of their own. It was

00:06:19.240 public policy on whatever level that brought us here. We pay Congress to help solve problems like

00:06:24.520 this. Now they need to do their jobs. But that's going to require a lot more than $600 for the people

00:06:30.080 who need it. Now, place the blame wherever you want. The fact is that the government has shut down

00:06:35.340 entire industries, prevented millions of people from going to work, bankrupted businesses, thrown families

00:06:40.200 into financial ruin and destitution. The government did this. If the government tells you that you

00:06:44.980 aren't allowed to go to work or that as a business owner, you aren't allowed to serve customers or you

00:06:49.700 could only serve, you know, 30 percent of your customers, the government is taking from you and

00:06:55.760 it owes you restitution, compensation. This isn't welfare. This isn't the normal sugar daddy routine

00:07:01.220 from the government. This is about Americans getting what they're actually owed, actually entitled to,

00:07:06.200 an entitlement in the true sense of the word. The whole problem with what we normally call

00:07:10.180 entitlements is precisely that the people getting them are not entitled to them. In this case,

00:07:15.820 they are. But the problem is that $600 is an insult. It's a slap in the face. It's worse than

00:07:20.560 nothing. It's the equivalent of on a smaller scale, you know, when I was delivering pizzas as a teenager

00:07:26.060 and one time the customer was mad that his order was late, not my fault, by the way. So he paid his bill

00:07:32.100 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

00:07:37.800 cents, at least, maybe I would have taken it, but even I won't lower myself for a nickel.

00:07:42.240 This is like that. You know, they're tossing a nickel at the people that they have bankrupted.

00:07:47.780 $600 may as well be a nickel if you just lost your business or about to lose your house, can't afford

00:07:52.920 food, and so on. If you have, say, $4,000 of necessary monthly spending, including mortgage and

00:07:58.200 food and utilities and all that, car payment, whatever, $600 isn't better than nothing. It is

00:08:04.100 nothing. It gets you nowhere. It does nothing for you. And it gets worse. The bill also includes

00:08:10.400 all sorts of goodies put in there by various politicians for the sake of their special

00:08:14.300 interests. Tom Elliott with Grabian Media has a good thread on this. Let me read some of what he

00:08:19.800 found in this bill. And this doesn't even begin to cover it as the thing is, again, 5,000 pages long.

00:08:26.560 There is no good reason for a piece of legislation to be 5,000 pages long or even 100 pages or even 50

00:08:31.780 pages. All of those extra pages give you stuff like this, as Elliott documents, quoting from his

00:08:37.540 thread, says the COVID relief bill lays groundwork for a climate security advisory council. The COVID

00:08:43.760 relief bill also includes $10 million for gender programs in Pakistan. Not exactly sure what that

00:08:50.640 even is. The COVID relief bill sets aside funds to investigate the 1908 Springfield race riot.

00:08:56.460 The bill includes a lengthy subsection titled the Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020.

00:09:03.920 The bill creates a committee regulating performance enhancing drugs in horse racing.

00:09:08.640 The bill outlays funds to address gender inequality amongst statues. Not sure that's, I think we need to 0.94

00:09:14.980 read closer into that one, but this is just what he's come up with. The COVID relief bill includes

00:09:20.200 funds for a museum that will offer programming, education, exhibitions on the life, art, history,

00:09:25.760 and culture of women. The COVID relief bill includes $1.5 million for the Appropriations

00:09:31.280 Committee's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, as well as lots of money for receptions.

00:09:38.140 And we could go on listing things again, 5,000 pages. That's three copies of War and Peace

00:09:43.440 stacked on top of each other and somehow even more boring to read, I'm sure. This is what we get.

00:09:48.640 Our elected leaders playing games, you know, tending to their special interests while millions of

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00:10:02.800 there every day over dumb things. This is, this is real, this is something that is really outrageous, 0.77

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00:11:57.880 Now let's get to our five headlines. Okay. So, um, just saw this. Anthony Fauci was on CNN

00:12:12.100 this morning and a reading article in the Hill says Anthony Fauci said Monday that he would not

00:12:20.740 recommend suspending flights from the UK over a more infectious coronavirus strain detected in

00:12:27.000 Southern England. The U S should Fauci said without a doubt, keep an eye on it, but we don't want to

00:12:33.240 overreact, follow it carefully, but don't overreact to it. Now this is a, they're saying a new strain of,

00:12:41.460 of COVID, which is at least they think, uh, quite a bit more contagious than the other, than, than

00:12:49.200 the other strain. Um, and Fauci is saying, well, we don't want to, we don't want to shut down travel.

00:12:54.420 Let's not overreact. Now here's the thing. I agree with not overreacting and that's advice

00:12:59.440 that I wish Fauci had been taking. I wish he would take his own advice and had been taking over the

00:13:04.220 last seven months. Yeah, we shouldn't overreact, but it seems to me we should be here. Here's,

00:13:10.880 here's Fauci's approach and the approach of, of, of many of our health experts and people in charge

00:13:16.780 has been, they're, they're very reluctant to shut down foreign travel,

00:13:20.900 but not reluctant to shut down American businesses. Call me crazy. I think it should

00:13:27.220 be the exact opposite. We should be extremely reluctant to shut down American businesses to

00:13:32.580 the point of, we don't do it at all. But as far as shutting down foreign travel, I don't think we

00:13:37.640 should be reluctant to do that at all. Even if there isn't a pandemic, if there's any concern,

00:13:43.140 if there's something going on overseas that you want to contain, shut down foreign travel. Sure.

00:13:47.480 I don't think there should be very much reluctance at all in that, in that, in that realm, especially

00:13:53.860 now. So if you're telling us that there's a vastly more contagious strain of coronavirus and it's in

00:14:00.300 the UK right now, and as far as we know, it hasn't made it here yet, shut down travel. Why wouldn't you

00:14:05.240 do that? Shut it down so that we don't end up shutting down businesses again or more businesses.

00:14:12.080 We know how that, this is exactly how it played out back in March. We have seen this movie before.

00:14:19.600 Guys like Fauci say, well, we don't want to shut down travel. And when, when President Trump started

00:14:25.720 shutting down travel, you had Democrats complaining about it, accusing him of xenophobia.

00:14:31.540 And then a few weeks later, it's here and everyone's like, why do you do anything to stop it?

00:14:35.220 I just, I get a very bad feeling with stories like this because I feel like we've, we've, we've seen

00:14:40.680 this movie. I feel like it's just repeating again. I am not at all, um, a, uh, someone who's

00:14:50.880 propagating panic over, over COVID. But if, if they're telling us the strain is there in the UK,

00:14:57.080 why not just shut down the travel? I don't see why we don't just shut it down.

00:14:59.620 Um, next, Nancy Pelosi on the floor of the house yesterday claimed once again that her opponents

00:15:09.940 are the ones who, uh, deny science. Let's, let's listen to this.

00:15:14.580 We didn't do it. We couldn't pass legislation until now because the administration simply did not believe

00:15:23.400 in testing, tracing, treatment, wearing masks, sanitation, separation, and the rest, scientific

00:15:32.780 approach. It had come clear to us now that they believed in herd immunity, quackery springing right

00:15:41.640 from the Oval Office and not denied sufficiently by some of the, uh, CDC and the rest. So now we have

00:15:53.260 a vaccine and that gives us hope. A vaccine that is springs from science. People say around here

00:16:02.220 sometimes I'm faith oriented, so I don't believe in science. And I said, well, you can do both.

00:16:08.800 Science is an answer to our prayers and our prayers have been answered with a vaccine. And in this

00:16:15.780 legislation, we had provision, uh, for it to be purchased, developed, purchased, and distributed

00:16:23.600 in a way, again, that is fair and equitable and free.

00:16:29.800 People say around here sometimes I'm faith oriented, so I don't believe in science.

00:16:35.240 Just a quick fact check on that. Nobody has ever said that. That's, I guarantee you, nobody has ever

00:16:43.160 said that to, uh, to Nancy Pelosi. I'm faith oriented, so I don't believe in science. First of all, I don't

00:16:50.540 think anyone who is faith oriented would call themselves faith oriented. Eh, more faith oriented.

00:16:55.560 I don't believe in science. Get that science out of here. That black magic. This, this is what people

00:17:03.720 like Nancy Pelosi, this is, this is what they think of their opponents. This is the cartoon that they

00:17:09.680 have in their heads when they think about the people on, on the other side of the ideological divide.

00:17:16.400 But, uh, but no, that is, that is not something that anyone has actually said to her. And of course,

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00:19:22.960 uh, taking Marco Rubio to task for getting a vaccine, but there seems to be a little bit

00:19:29.040 of a disconnect here. Listen, I don't think they should include, uh, the senators period,

00:19:34.560 particularly, listen, there's something that really gets stuck. I think in my craw and other people's

00:19:39.440 crawl at the idea that people who have been enabling Donald Trump downplaying the COVID virus,

00:19:45.920 calling it a hoax who have attended, spoken at, encouraged, promoted, and participated.

00:19:53.280 And so many of his reckless rallies where people have been packed like sardines and have spoken

00:19:59.280 at these rallies, knowing people are there maskless who have attended super spreader events at the

00:20:04.800 White House. Like we've seen, you know, so many people get infected with COVID at them. And then,

00:20:11.840 and then after they've been selfish, after they've been reckless, after they've been servile to Donald

00:20:17.680 Trump, then they get to jump the line and go in front of people who are in nursing homes and go in

00:20:24.000 front of people who've been risking their lives for 10 months to keep others safe, like medical workers.

00:20:30.720 They get to go in front of people who are on dialysis and who are on chemo. Give me a damn break. 0.99

00:20:38.400 Yeah. I, it's, it sounds like what she's talking about here is a political, basically a political 0.98

00:20:44.960 test to decide who gets the vaccine because she's not, she's now it's one thing if you're saying,

00:20:51.760 well, the lawmakers shouldn't be putting themselves in front of the line to get the vaccine. I agree with

00:20:56.240 that, except that the first person who you should be blaming for that or yelling at is Alexandria

00:21:02.400 Ocasio-Cortez, because she's the youngest. She went and got the vaccine yesterday and had it on

00:21:07.120 Instagram. But that's not exactly what Anna Navarro is talking about here on CNN. What she's saying is,

00:21:13.600 she starts by saying, oh, you know, the senators and he's a, he's a lawmaker and he should, but then she

00:21:17.920 gets into, uh, he's servile to Donald Trump. You know, he's, he's going to rallies. So the fact

00:21:26.720 that he's quote unquote servile to Donald Trump, that's the reason he shouldn't be allowed to get

00:21:30.560 the vaccine because he hasn't passed the political litmus test. That's what she's proposing here,

00:21:35.680 a political litmus test. People have the right political views. They should be allowed to get

00:21:40.640 vaccinated. Pretty horrifying, but it's what we come to expect from, uh, from CNN. All right.

00:21:47.920 Reading from the daily wire actor, Eddie Izzard, uh, appearing on sky arts portrait artist of the

00:21:54.000 year, which is a competition series where artists are challenged to create a portrait of three famous

00:21:58.960 subjects. Uh, it came out as a, as a, uh, as a girl, but it was kind of interesting how he did it.

00:22:06.480 I think we have the audio. It's the audio is a little bit hard to understand, not the best audio

00:22:10.640 quality, but let's, uh, let's listen to this. Eddie, you told us a little bit about why you've done

00:22:18.160 this. Can you elaborate? Well, I try to do things that I think are interesting. And this is the first

00:22:24.880 program I've asked if I could really, she and her transition. How does that feel? Well, it feels great

00:22:32.160 because people assume that. Oh, well, they just know me from before, but I'm gender fluid. I just

00:22:36.400 want to be based in girl mode from now on. What if it feels right? It's something positive. 1.00

00:22:41.520 And I'm saying life is the stuff. So just keep trying everything. One life, live it well. Exactly.

00:22:49.760 Okay. So Eddie Izzard, he says, um, he tries to do things that are interesting.

00:22:56.400 And so he's, he's, he's still gender fluid, whatever the hell that means. He's still gender 0.94

00:23:04.000 fluid. Um, but he wants to be based in girl mode now, uh, because that's interesting.

00:23:11.760 The first thing here is that none of that means anything based in girl mode. Well, I'm in, I'm in

00:23:17.200 girl mode. What does that mean? But he wants to do it because it's, it's interesting. It's just

00:23:23.120 sort of a dead, it's interesting thing to do. And this plays into this, uh, I, I think highlights

00:23:29.280 two points that I often make about this. The first thing is, okay, Eddie Izzard is wearing girl

00:23:35.360 clothes and he puts on lipstick and then says, I'm in girl mode. Now I'm on guy, you know, I put

00:23:40.640 wear lipstick and now I'm in girl mode. And when you do that, and when the left celebrates it,

00:23:46.320 they are only perpetuating and promoting the very, uh, gender, you know, paradigm that they're 0.96

00:23:55.120 supposedly trying to dismantle. Cause what is wearing lipstick and wearing girl clothes? What 1.00

00:24:01.240 does it have to do with being a girl? They would say it has absolutely nothing to do with it.

00:24:05.620 So now you, you wear lipstick and you're in girl wearing lipstick puts you in girl mode. 0.91

00:24:09.920 Um, that's supposed to be the, that's supposed to be exactly the paradigm, the dynamic, um, that

00:24:18.700 they're wanting to get rid of. And a lot of this transgenderism stuff only promotes it, solidifies 1.00

00:24:27.160 it. As I talk about all the time, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, for we were, we were always told

00:24:34.900 that, well, there's nothing in particular feminine about wearing a dress just because you wear a

00:24:41.760 dress doesn't mean you're feminine. These are all artificial constructs. There's, there's, 0.98

00:24:46.300 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 0.66

00:24:53.540 wants to wear a dress, that's a sign that he actually, not just that he, that he, that he's girly,

00:24:57.680 but that he is a girl. Okay. So you're, you are reinforcing that, um, that dynamic that you were

00:25:06.000 supposedly trying to destroy. So that's the first thing. But then also you see, this is just

00:25:11.000 narcissism. That's all this is. It's not, it's not that hard to decipher. This is narcissism. This

00:25:18.380 is someone who's extremely full of himself. And, uh, and he want, he wants to be interesting. He wants

00:25:23.460 to be more interesting than just the normal pleads who are happy to stick with normal pronouns and to

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00:27:33.600 Capitol overnight. Uh, representative from the governor's office was present for the removal

00:27:38.280 along with United States Senator Tim Kaine and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton. For 111 years,

00:27:44.360 the Confederate statue has stood along with America's first president, George Washington,

00:27:48.180 as Virginia's contributions. Uh, Governor Northam said, we should all be proud of this important

00:27:53.240 step forward for our Commonwealth and our country. The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia's racist and

00:27:58.680 divisive history. And it is past time we tell our story with images of perseverance, diversity,

00:28:04.340 and inclusion. Uh, let me just say that first of all, any civilization that puts forward diversity

00:28:15.640 and inclusion as its highest virtues will die. You cannot base a civilization on that because those

00:28:23.160 are not virtues at all. Diversity and inclusion are not virtues. Dignity, courage, selflessness,

00:28:32.240 selflessness. These are virtues. And these are the things that we should be hailing. These are the

00:28:36.780 things we should be celebrating. And, uh, men and women who exemplify those virtues, those are the ones

00:28:43.920 who deserve to have statues. I would say Robert E. Lee. One thing I could tell you for sure about Robert E.

00:28:53.660 Lee, a lot more impressive and a lot more of a consequential of a man than Ralph Northam.

00:28:59.500 And I would also say a better, if I was a Virginian, I would rather, I would say Robert E. Lee is a

00:29:07.000 better representative of Virginia than Ralph Northam. Ralph Northam who, remember, um, the man who

00:29:13.000 smeared shoe polish on his face to dance around like Michael Jackson, the man who much, much worse

00:29:19.400 even than that, uh, came out and talked about legalizing the abortion of, of, of babies after birth.

00:29:29.500 Now he's worried now that Robert E. Lee is a problematic figure for Virginia. So we've got

00:29:34.860 to get rid of him. Listen, um, when this was announced yesterday, of course, you know, as

00:29:42.280 always, you know, the left celebrates it and says it's a, it's a great step forward and everything.

00:29:46.780 And we expect that, but as always, you know, you see conservatives who come out and defend it as

00:29:52.340 well and say, yeah, I'm not, I don't like tearing down statues in general. And I don't think that we

00:29:59.040 should be taking Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. This has happened to Thomas Jefferson.

00:30:03.280 I'm not into that, but, uh, but this I'm okay with. I think this is reasonable. This is fine.

00:30:09.160 111 year old statute's been there. Ralph Northam decides he doesn't like it. And so he's going to

00:30:14.220 take it down. I'm fine with that. Just realize if you're a conservative and you're supporting this,

00:30:22.120 you, you, you are, you are supporting the exact same logic that leads to, and is right now,

00:30:28.900 right now, as we're watching, this is happening hand in hand with Abraham Lincoln's name comes

00:30:33.920 off the school. You're supporting that same logic. The same thing is applied to Abraham Lincoln,

00:30:43.000 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was a racist slave owner. 0.97

00:30:51.900 He was no way around that. So if that's the reason for taking Robert Lee statue down,

00:30:58.880 then it's going to be applied to Thomas Jefferson. This really isn't that difficult to understand.

00:31:03.920 Which is why as conservatives, we should be opposed to all of this. Tearing down statues,

00:31:11.940 tearing down statues in the name of diversity and inclusion. We should never, ever support that

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00:33:45.760 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

00:33:50.100 great work out there. I appreciate it. Thanks. And congratulations on this series. I thought it was

00:33:54.280 great listening to it. It's even better when you get the full visual experience. Can you talk about

00:34:00.560 maybe some of the things that surprised you as you were researching and preparing for this series?

00:34:05.960 Obviously, it's a famous story, one that everyone feels like they already know. But as a viewer and

00:34:11.040 listener, there's so much that you get from a series like this that maybe you'd forgotten or you didn't

00:34:15.320 know. Did you have any sort of wow moments when you were getting ready for this?

00:34:19.740 Well, I've had like two different kinds of wow moments. There were a number of times during the

00:34:25.340 course of... I knew this story really well when we started, but as I started to drill down deeper

00:34:29.400 into it, there was just every hour of research or stuff. I didn't know that. The one that stays in

00:34:36.800 my mind just off the top of my head was that on Apollo 13 and 14, Alan Shepard was supposed to be

00:34:44.300 commanding Apollo 13 and Jim Lovell was supposed to be commanding Apollo 14. But Shepard was getting

00:34:50.480 a little late into his training, so Lovell and Shepard agreed to switch, which meant that Jim Lovell

00:34:56.460 went on Apollo 13, which was, of course, the one that had the explosion on the way to the moon.

00:35:01.580 So if they hadn't done that switch, Lovell would have walked on the moon. He was there twice.

00:35:07.100 And those are the little things I didn't know. But to be honest with you, Matt, the real payoff for me

00:35:14.720 has been just the number of people that I've heard from who've said, I used to believe in the moon

00:35:20.040 landing conspiracy, and now I just don't. It just doesn't hold any water anymore.

00:35:25.460 One thing that concerns me, maybe depresses me, is that it seems your generation was the last to have

00:35:33.460 this great defining moment, a moment of triumph. And I think about my generation, we have defining

00:35:39.680 moments, but they're all terrible. 9-11 would be one. We're living through another one right now.

00:35:44.460 What do you think about that? Do you think that's true, that maybe that was the last sort of great

00:35:48.320 triumphant moment where the whole world could come together and celebrate in that way?

00:35:53.040 Well, I don't know the answer to that. Certainly, like you looking around at what we see going on now,

00:35:59.080 sometimes I think that July 20th, 1969 is going to be recorded. That was the pinnacle of human

00:36:05.940 history. That was as good as it got. But then I saw the SpaceX boosters landing, and I continue to

00:36:12.660 see what Elon Musk is doing. And Elon Musk, I think, is going to be able to pull this off only because

00:36:20.040 Elon Musk owns that company, does whatever he wants with it. All the initial, the early pioneers of

00:36:26.920 aviation, the guys like Lockheed and Boeing and Cessna, Lear, all of these guys were individuals

00:36:32.620 that ran their companies the way they wanted them to. And since the Apollo landings, companies like

00:36:38.580 Boeing and Lockheed have become these enormous bureaucracies, and they can't do anything right,

00:36:43.580 Matt. Their vehicles don't work. They've already decided that one of the vehicles that they've been

00:36:49.340 working on for 12 years now or something, they couldn't get the primary system to work,

00:36:53.360 so they're going to fly with Band-Aids and backups. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is out there with a barge

00:36:58.260 called, of course, I still love you. And when he let go of that Tesla Roadster, and they started

00:37:04.720 playing David Bowie, and don't panic from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was on the

00:37:08.840 navigation screen. I said, this guy's going to pull it off because he understands the fundamental

00:37:14.940 thing about it, is that it needs to be new, it needs to be shocking, it needs to be cool,

00:37:19.840 and it needs to be fun, something to be proud of. And if this upcoming so-called administration,

00:37:27.280 I don't even want to call it that, but in any event, if they leave him alone,

00:37:32.440 he's going to get us to Mars for sure.

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00:38:09.100 of our new and existing content. Let's get now to our daily cancellation.

00:38:12.220 Today for our daily cancellation on this final show of the year, 2020, for me anyway,

00:38:20.740 I'm going to potentially maybe cancel myself. It would be a fittingly tragic way to end the year.

00:38:28.540 There may even be some poetic justice in it for me to fall in the end on my own cancellation sword,

00:38:33.620 but I'm not sure yet if I'm canceled. I figure what I would do today is go back

00:38:38.080 and do sort of a year in review of my own show based on Media Matters hit pieces.

00:38:44.800 So I went to Google, looked up the articles that have appeared on Media Matters' website

00:38:49.760 about things that I've said on this show over the past year. These are, we can assume,

00:38:54.360 the most offensive and outrageous and objectionable things I've said, the things that earned me

00:38:58.600 a patented Media Matters rebuke. So now I'm going to go over them, review these offensive comments,

00:39:04.160 and decide if I should be canceled for my sins. So I hope, first of all, that you appreciate the

00:39:09.040 great bravery that's required for me to expose myself to you in this way, not in a Jeffrey

00:39:14.600 Toobin sort of way, but in a spiritual sense. This is accountability and transparency and perhaps

00:39:20.660 in the end, repentance. So let's take a look. These won't be exactly in chronological order,

00:39:25.240 and we can't go through all the articles as there are quite a few on Media Matters about the Daily

00:39:29.680 Wire and about all the hosts, including myself. But let's review the top three, okay? And we'll see

00:39:35.380 if I need to apologize and be canceled at the end of the year here. First, we have a Media Matters

00:39:40.340 article from March 3rd, 2020. Headline, Daily Wire hosts calls for extreme measures, including

00:39:45.540 violence against drag queens. And then I'm quoted in the subheading, quote, real men should be grabbing

00:39:51.060 that drag queen by the collar and kicking him out on his ass. The article says the Daily Wire's Matt 1.00

00:39:56.100 Walsh and Michael Knowles called for drastic measures to prevent drag queens from being

00:39:59.800 around children, with Walsh explicitly calling for violence against them by saying real men 0.99

00:40:04.840 should kick a drag queen out on his ass and call the police. Walsh also said that the adults in a 0.99

00:40:11.200 room in which a drag queen danced in front of a child should be going to prison, and Knowles 0.99

00:40:15.780 called on the arm of the state to stop this. The Daily Wire's official YouTube account uploaded

00:40:20.400 video of Matt Walsh's extreme comments made during the Matt Walsh Show podcast, which has received

00:40:25.420 more than 31,000 views. The video cuts off before Walsh's explicit calls for violence, but includes

00:40:30.260 his claim that the adults should be arrested for letting a drag queen perform in front of a child.

00:40:35.980 Okay. Am I canceled for this? Verdict. No. I'm not. In fact, I was quite profoundly correct in

00:40:43.180 everything I just said, and everything I said that was documented there. Drag queen story hour should be 1.00

00:40:47.260 illegal, and men should not be allowed to perform in drag for children. This is basic common sense.

00:40:51.160 The kind of thing that people would have stared at you in confusion if you had said it out loud at

00:40:56.400 any point in history up until like last Tuesday. They wouldn't have understood why you felt the

00:41:02.640 need to actually say out loud that drag queens shouldn't be performing for children at the 1.00

00:41:07.520 library. So I can't be canceled for this. Though I can't speak for Knowles, nor can I defend his shameful

00:41:13.540 bigotry. Second, article from February 25th, headline, Daily Wire's Matt Walsh melts down about

00:41:20.260 pedophilia because Pete Buttigieg helped the kid come out. Well, you wouldn't want to melt down

00:41:26.520 about pedophilia, apparently. And then I'm quoted, quote, creepy Pete and other forces of evil will

00:41:33.220 eventually be arguing in favor of legalizing pedophilia. The article says, after openly gay 0.97

00:41:38.740 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg helped the child come out as gay, the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh

00:41:42.960 freaked out that progressives will legalize pedophilia, claiming, quote, I can predict that nearly

00:41:48.400 every leftist who today is arguing that three-year-olds can choose their gender will

00:41:51.540 eventually be arguing in favor of legalizing pedophilia. On February 22nd, a nine-year-old

00:41:56.880 asked Buttigieg to help me tell the world I'm gay. At a campaign rally, Walsh responded by calling him

00:42:02.760 creepy Pete, going on a rant about child sex and pedophilia, and claiming Buttigieg was exploiting a 0.96

00:42:09.000 child's emotional confusion. Walsh's claim that LGBTQ allies will eventually be advocating for 0.94

00:42:13.820 pedophilia as patently false and part of a right-wing smear that often targets drag queens and 0.50

00:42:18.680 trans youth. All right, verdict. Not canceled. Unfortunately, it turns out that I'm once again 0.98

00:42:25.720 completely correct. It is not Pete Buttigieg's job to help a kid come out of the closet. And the

00:42:31.840 sexualization of children happening on the left does put us on a slippery slope to the normalization 0.77

00:42:37.480 of pedophilia. Absolutely. Third, finally, from October 7th, headline Daily Wire host says it's 0.72

00:42:42.840 treasonous for stupid people to vote. Here they present just the video clip, which I guess is 1.00

00:42:48.980 supposed to be so horrifying that it speaks for itself. We don't need to play the video clip. The

00:42:52.840 quote is accurate. You know, there doesn't need to be any more context than that. I did argue that

00:42:56.660 stupid people should be legally prevented from voting. And I did say that a stupid person who chooses 1.00

00:43:01.640 to vote is doing such harm to the country that you could almost consider it treason. Verdict on this. 1.00

00:43:06.720 Um, I got to say not canceled. If anything, I should get a medal for being so right about

00:43:12.980 everything you just heard there. And that's the main thing that I think when I look back on these

00:43:17.800 moments that Media Matters has highlighted, I'm frankly stunned and inspired by my own rightness.

00:43:24.520 I'm in awe of the fact that I've managed to be so correct so often. You know, I really did intend to

00:43:31.200 acknowledge and make amends for the wrongs I'd committed and to take my cancellation like

00:43:36.620 a man. But it turns out I'm not eligible to be canceled this year. I have canceled my wife

00:43:44.060 multiple times, my kids, dogs, cats, birthdays, Christmas trees, Biden, Trump, phone calls,

00:43:51.600 hallways, Canada, Australia, a hundred other things, but I cannot join them in their cancellation.

00:43:58.380 Not this year anyway, maybe next. And so to all of you who also survived the year without being

00:44:05.140 canceled, all five or six of you, congratulations. We are the few, the chosen, the survivors. And to

00:44:11.820 you and myself, I say congratulations and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. To the rest of you,

00:44:19.440 I say, how dare you? Do better. Do better next year. And we'll leave it there for the day and the year.

00:44:27.300 I'll talk to you in 2021. Godspeed.

00:44:57.300 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. 1.00

00:45:27.300 тер Kom표

00:45:29.120 is a chick. Can you wait until right? 1.00

00:45:31.980 We'll see you in the next two weeks.

00:45:36.820 Thank you, Mel.

00:45:42.180 Thank you, Mel.

00:45:43.240 Thank you.

00:45:43.720 Thanks, Mel.

00:45:45.820 You're right.

00:45:49.600 Thank you.

00:45:53.960 We'll be right back.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 22, 2020

Ep. 627 - They Don't Care About You

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