The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 636 - Dems Don't Know How To Quit Trump

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Donald Trump is impeached for the second time. I'm sure you've

00:00:03.540 heard. We'll have some analysis about that and five headlines, including another elementary

00:00:06.960 school indoctrinating children into radical left wing racial and sexual theories. But this again

00:00:12.460 is an elementary school now where they're doing it. And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss

00:00:15.820 the apparently extremely important story of the so-called Soho Karen. It's a woman who made

00:00:21.640 headlines for weeks after accosting a black teenager over her missing cell phone. The media

00:00:26.200 thinks this is a very important story and we'll talk about why. All that and much more

00:00:29.940 today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:31.640 Walsh. ExpressVPN.com slash Walsh to protect your data today. So the year is 2059. Donald Trump has just

00:02:39.080 been posthumously impeached, marking his 40th impeachment overall, and what has become a

00:02:44.980 sacred annual ritual. As Trump is no longer there to stand trial, a goat is brought in to be his

00:02:51.500 symbolic replacement. After conviction, the goat is ceremonially disembodied and disemboweled and

00:02:58.720 sacrificed by House Speaker and High Priestess Nancy Pelosi, still maintaining her leadership position

00:03:04.300 despite being about 132 years old by now. This is only a very slightly exaggerated look into the

00:03:11.400 future. In the non-exaggerated present, the Democrats have impeached Donald Trump for the

00:03:15.040 second time in a little over a year. It took Congress about 244 years to impeach a president

00:03:19.820 two times. So about 244 years, we had Congress impeaching two presidents, one each. So that's two

00:03:26.260 total. The Democrats doubled that number in 13 months. And now that Mitch McConnell has announced

00:03:32.520 that he will not call the Senate back in session for trial, the Democrats will also be the first

00:03:36.720 to try to convict and remove a president who's already left office. They're going to run into

00:03:41.940 the logistical problem when they try to remove him of him not being there to remove. Now, this

00:03:47.140 controversy over whether this is legal to do in the first place, though it seems to me unlikely that

00:03:52.280 it is, and whether it's legal or not, it certainly is certain that it's an absurd thing to attempt to

00:03:59.920 do in any case. But these Democrats just cannot pass up an opportunity for political theatrics.

00:04:06.180 Speaking of theatrics, here is Nancy Pelosi on the House floor yesterday making her little stump 1.00

00:04:12.100 speech. Here it is. Watch. I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter,

00:04:19.560 a daughter whose father proudly served in this Congress.

00:04:23.860 I just wanted to note there, gendered language has been banned by her own rules. But exceptions 1.00

00:04:32.040 can be made, apparently, so that female politicians can identify themselves as a wife and mother 1.00

00:04:36.980 before going on to make a point that has nothing to do with the fact that they are wives and mothers. 0.87

00:04:42.220 I love when politicians do that. I am a wife and mothers. Okay, what does that have to do with

00:04:45.760 anything? Really, I'm disappointed that their commitment to genderless language isn't more

00:04:50.720 serious. You know, I was looking forward to hearing about the impeachwimant of Donald Trump.

00:04:57.380 Meanwhile, one of the newest members of the squad and making a strong push to be crowned

00:05:02.300 the most obnoxious, I would say, is Cori Bush, Representative Cori Bush. And she had this to say, 0.95

00:05:08.580 listen. If we fail to remove a white supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection, 0.97

00:05:15.080 it's communities like Missouri's first district that suffer the most. The 117th Congress must

00:05:20.540 understand that we have a mandate to legislate in defense of black lives. The first step in that

00:05:25.880 process is to root out white supremacy, starting with impeaching the white supremacist in chief. 0.76

00:05:32.860 You know, it's hardly noticeable or notable anymore when they do it. But still, we should take we should

00:05:37.840 take note of the fact of how Democrats have just casually and in such a perfunctory way turned the

00:05:44.440 Capitol Hill riot into a racist event. Because of course they're going to do that, even though race had

00:05:49.760 absolutely nothing to do with it. There are, in fact, many ways to condemn something without calling

00:05:55.660 it racist. But the belief on the left now is that anything that is bad must also be racist. If it's bad,

00:06:01.660 it's racist. Also, most of the things that aren't bad must also be racist. For her part, Maxine

00:06:08.260 Waters played a similar race card, but she took it even further than that. Listen. This president is

00:06:13.960 headed toward a civil war and we're the object of their hate. And so it is not only about protection

00:06:20.220 and security for the Capitol and us. We need to talk about what we're going to do to force diversity 1.00

00:06:27.180 and inclusion and protection for our communities. Yes, the remedy for rioting is to, quote,

00:06:33.740 force diversity and inclusion. Don't ask Maxine Waters what she means by that, because she clearly

00:06:39.600 has no idea. All she knows is that it seems is that conservatives are an apocalyptic threat to the

00:06:46.740 United States and President Trump is going to lead them like a warlord into a civil war. If Maxine's goal 0.56

00:06:53.500 here with her little rant there was to provide a great example of what incitement actually sounds 0.97

00:06:58.960 like, then she succeeded brilliantly. Because that's the irony of it. As the Democrats impeach

00:07:04.660 Trump over incitement, much of what they have said in the process of impeaching him is far more

00:07:10.620 inciting than anything Trump said last Wednesday. But here's the central question. Why did the Democrats

00:07:16.500 do this? What's the point of all this? We already touched on one point, political theatrics,

00:07:20.640 showmanship, the spectacle of false bravery, standing up to the fascist dictator and all that.

00:07:26.700 Also, general contempt for him and for his voters. No, those are the obvious things. Many other things

00:07:32.220 went into it as well. But let me suggest another, if I'm going to get really psychological here,

00:07:37.600 let me suggest another, perhaps slightly deeper motivation. And I think it's this. The Democrats

00:07:44.080 don't know how to quit Donald Trump. This is, in its way, a romance. Not the kind of love affair that

00:07:51.120 you'd read about in a romance novel, but not too far off. They're setting it up so that they can

00:07:55.900 continue railing against Donald Trump even after he's left office. He's been the center of their

00:08:01.260 political and ideological world for so long. They've defined themselves by their opposition to him.

00:08:07.020 He's been the object of nearly all of their attention. Think about that. For five years,

00:08:11.460 he has been everything. They have defined themselves and their agenda by him.

00:08:19.240 And they can't stand to lose him. They hate him, but they can't stand to lose him. They need him.

00:08:24.320 He is their identity, their purpose, the wind beneath their wings. This is especially true of the media,

00:08:30.460 which has spent thousands and thousands and thousands of hours talking about Trump. And now

00:08:36.140 we'll have great gaping holes in their programming to fill. Holes that will be even harder to fill now

00:08:40.820 because they're going to have to ignore any scandals or controversies that come out of the next

00:08:44.520 administration. So they're not going to have that to talk about either. This is the quandary that

00:08:49.600 the left finds itself in. One familiar to anybody who's been in a codependent relationship. They want

00:08:55.240 out, but they're scared of leaving. And it's not just them, in fairness. The political and cultural

00:09:00.380 universe has revolved around Trump for everybody. Every issue has been distilled down to Trump.

00:09:06.480 And a lot of that has to do with the media. That's the media's doing. Or everything begins

00:09:12.320 and ends with Donald Trump. But it's not supposed to be this way in America. We're not supposed to

00:09:17.400 talk so much about the president or care so much about him. In times past, and you probably have to

00:09:23.660 go back to before the advent of cable news for this, but in times past, people went weeks or months,

00:09:32.080 even longer without thinking about the president at all. They weren't inundated with news about him

00:09:39.780 every day. They didn't live in an ecosphere that was so saturated with his presence.

00:09:44.960 Presidents were not omnipresent

00:09:47.040 for most of American history. So people had political and cultural identities that were not

00:09:55.100 defined by the president, not defined by one man, one politician. And I would say it was better that way.

00:10:02.640 A lot of other things may not have been better in those times, but that piece of it certainly was.

00:10:08.780 And that would be the one silver lining going forward. That we can talk about something else for

00:10:14.540 a change. It may seem small. Maybe it is, but it's not nothing. You can think about something else.

00:10:21.740 Of course, the problem is that the Trump obsession will be replaced by something else. Probably not a

00:10:26.520 Biden obsession. He's not quite, he doesn't quite have the flair to attract that sort of devotion,

00:10:30.140 either in a negative or positive way. But there'll be something, or someone, or a series of

00:10:35.160 somethings and someones that the media dangles in front of us to keep us from getting down to the

00:10:39.320 heart of the matter and discussing important issues on a deeper level. But hopefully, after this

00:10:44.580 experience, we can be on guard against that in the future. Let's get now to our five headlines.

00:10:51.560 Well, a lot of you have been leaving comments. I've seen a ton of them asking when the Andrew

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00:11:28.000 You know, I really hate that it's become so common for people to make up stories about their

00:11:33.440 things that their kids said to them, you know, or in Kamala Harris's case, to make up stories about

00:11:38.640 things they said as kids. And this genre is used normally in a political context to prove a point.

00:11:43.440 Like, I guarantee you could go on Twitter right now. There are probably a bunch of tweets

00:11:47.180 of people talking about their alleged six-year-old who heard the news about Trump's second impeachment

00:11:52.180 and had some really insightful thing to say. But the reason I hate this is that kids actually do

00:11:57.220 say hilarious and oddly insightful things all the time. You know, anyone who's a parent knows.

00:12:02.060 Your kid's capable of saying some really great things, but you can't share it anymore publicly

00:12:08.660 because of this veil of suspicion that will cover it because it will sound like you made it up

00:12:14.080 because that's what everybody does. So for example, the reason I bring this up is here's a real thing

00:12:18.160 my son actually said to me last night. I took my, the two boys out for ice cream and on the way home

00:12:23.940 we were talking and he was sharing with me how he had burped loudly earlier in the day and made his

00:12:30.780 sister cry because she was so disturbed by the, by the burp, which I, you know, some things you had to

00:12:36.860 stifle laughter on as a parent. But then my son says to me, this is a direct quote. He says,

00:12:40.740 girls will never understand the ways of men. My seven-year-old son who said that direct quote.

00:12:48.960 Where did that come from? I don't know. Kids just say stuff. And really they say so much stuff.

00:12:55.640 They're just constantly talking that eventually they'll stumble on something like that on a little

00:12:59.420 morsel of brilliance. Um, and quite poignant. I thought guilt girls will never understand the 0.98

00:13:05.400 ways of men. Very well put though. I confess, uh, the reverse is probably even more, even more true

00:13:10.940 than that. All right, let's go to number one. Um, a Virginia school district is considering a slew of

00:13:17.540 progressive icons as candidates. This is from the Washington free beacon, by the way, uh, considering

00:13:22.320 a slew of progressive icons as candidates to become the new namesake of T.C. Williams high school.

00:13:27.100 Who's if you remember, if you, if that name sounds familiar, that's the high school that was, uh,

00:13:31.920 featured in remember the Titans. In November, on, uh, November 20, in November of 2020, the

00:13:38.080 Alexandria city, uh, public schools board unanimously voted to change the school's name because its

00:13:43.060 namesake, Thomas Chambliss, uh, Williams was a segregationist community activists initiated calls

00:13:48.660 for a name change following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. Um, now the district

00:13:54.280 introduced a poll. And by the way, this is, this is not the first school district or the only school

00:13:59.680 district in Virginia right now. That's contemplating name changes. We talked a few weeks ago. Uh,

00:14:05.100 there's a school school district getting rid of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson high school

00:14:08.500 is out the window. They're going to think of some new name to put there. So here are, um, among the

00:14:13.500 choices, uh, Kamala Harris high school. So she hasn't done anything yet, but already she's going to get

00:14:22.340 her own name. It's kind of like the Barack Obama gets a Nobel prize system or before he had done

00:14:28.980 anything, he still gets the prize. So Kamala Harris already gets the, already gets the high schools 1.00

00:14:32.400 named after has done absolutely nothing. Um, so Kamala Harris high school, Megan Markle high school,

00:14:38.840 and also George Floyd Memorial high school that is being considered. And I wish I could say that

00:14:47.680 there's no way they actually choose this one, but given the state of things, I would have no such

00:14:54.200 confidence. George Floyd, who's the only distinction about this man's life is that he was, that he died

00:15:00.700 at the hands of police. Um, that's the only distinction. Other than that, he was a violent

00:15:07.920 felon, forced his way into a woman's home, put a gun to her stomach and robbed her in front of her 0.93

00:15:12.480 kid. Like that's, that's the other major event from his life that, and he was any, and he died while

00:15:18.940 being arrested and get it as on high school. Uh, and then I'm looking through some of the other

00:15:23.300 choices. Somehow George Washington is, is, is an option. George Washington high school. So maybe

00:15:30.140 they can rename it to George Washington. And then a year from now, take his name off. Cause he was a

00:15:34.240 slave owner. Just keep it going. Um, diversity high school is another option. So Hercules high school, 0.83

00:15:43.780 a lot of options here. Some of them, not terrible. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of course on there as well. 1.00

00:15:50.660 All right. Um, number two, Mayor Bill de Blasio went on the news yesterday and he had a big announcement,

00:15:58.100 a big and brave and bold announcement to make. Uh, and here it is. Listen,

00:16:04.180 Nika, uh, here to announce that the city of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump

00:16:10.240 organization. Our legal team has done an assessment and the contracts make very clear. Uh, if a company

00:16:17.120 and the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity, we have the right to sever the

00:16:23.500 contract, uh, inciting an insurrection. Let's be clear. I'm going to say these words again,

00:16:29.040 inciting an insurrection against the United States government and clearly constitutes criminal activity.

00:16:34.320 So the city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump organization.

00:16:40.240 Okay. The, the, now the Trump organization is guilty of inciting a riot, not just Trump himself.

00:16:45.460 This is especially rich coming from Bill de Blasio, uh, of all people who did more than almost any,

00:16:53.800 any other mayor in encouraging and legitimizing and romanticizing the BLM riots. Uh, but he didn't

00:16:59.500 do quite as much as mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland. And since we're on the subject of, of feckless mayors,

00:17:06.040 here's an interesting moment with Ted Wheeler, again, mayor of Portland. Uh, let's watch this.

00:17:10.820 Just three weeks ago, protesters broke into the Oregon state Capitol. I have heard people at these

00:17:15.620 protests elsewhere saying, well, they let it happen in Portland. So why not do it here? It seems in

00:17:21.060 some way, the actions of these small groups that you're referring to have set the stage for what

00:17:25.460 has happened on a state level and potentially a national level. I know you said it will take time

00:17:30.320 to crack down on these groups, but do we have that time? Are, are you blaming me for what happened

00:17:36.100 at the U S Capitol? I don't buy that. Are you blaming me? Are you, are you saying I could be

00:17:42.540 respond? I could have something to do with it. Is that what you're suggesting? Uh, yeah, it's what

00:17:47.440 I'm suggesting Ted. I don't know if that's what she was suggesting, but it's what I'm suggesting.

00:17:51.400 You certainly have something to do with it. This is what happens when you give people the idea that

00:17:59.620 rioting is not, it's, it's a really important facet of this. Not just that rioting is, uh, that it's

00:18:07.600 okay. You know, that's the message that we've gotten from Ted Wheeler and many others on the left,

00:18:12.200 but also that it works because on the left, when they rioted, they got what they want.

00:18:20.540 Uh, now you might say the cost to them was not worth the price, at least the cost of them

00:18:27.220 ideologically, because at the same time, did they scare a lot of other people away who are sort of

00:18:31.400 in the middle, who see the rioting and defund the police? And you know, are they scared away from the,

00:18:36.480 from the left now? That's a question. But in terms of affecting policies and that sort of thing,

00:18:41.060 they, they got what they want. They got, they got utter and total capitulation from people like

00:18:47.440 Ted Wheeler. Now on the right, that's, that's not how it works. Right? So with, with, with, uh,

00:18:56.480 the Capitol Hill rioters, what, what has happened? What has happened since then? Um, Donald Trump is

00:19:01.600 impeached, deplatformed thousands of, of conservatives banned from social media, entire conservative social

00:19:09.900 media apps taken down. Um, not to mention people died and dozens of arrests. So that's what happens

00:19:18.720 when conservatives do it. Uh, and that's, that's also something that, that I think conservatives have

00:19:25.160 to keep in mind. We have to live in reality and, you know, we shouldn't be rioting because it's,

00:19:29.540 it's wrong in the first place, whether it works or not, you shouldn't be doing it,

00:19:33.620 but it's also something conservatives should remember when they say, well, the left does this

00:19:38.520 and so we can do it. Yeah. But two things, number one doesn't make it right. Number two,

00:19:44.840 uh, we, we live, we don't, we don't live in the same universe as them. That's just the reality.

00:19:54.140 That's the reality of the situation. They, they own the system. We don't. So if you go and riot,

00:20:02.980 you're not going to get utter and total capitulation from, from, from your leaders and politicians,

00:20:09.540 people that rule over you, you're not going to get it. They'll get it. You won't. That's just the

00:20:12.720 reality. And I'm a big fan of operating within reality. I'm a big fan of that. All right. Number

00:20:21.560 three, I just want to read this headline headline from the wall street journal. Um, Pope Francis

00:20:25.840 says women can read at mass as debate on women clergy continues. You see these things throughout,

00:20:31.860 throughout, uh, his pontiff. We've seen headlines like this. And I always enjoy them as a Catholic

00:20:35.740 where we're told the media tells us that Pope Francis has made this revolutionary radical step.

00:20:42.620 And as a Catholic, you read it and you say, well, no, it's all, it's, what do you mean? It's,

00:20:46.080 it's been like that for a long time. I can tell you right now, if you've seen this headline,

00:20:49.240 women have been reading in Catholic masses for decades. I mean, my, my whole life is I've seen

00:20:55.100 this and goes back even further than that. Uh, so this is, this is not news at all. So Pope Francis

00:21:00.980 has said that women can keep doing the thing that they already were doing. Big news there. All right. 0.95

00:21:06.960 Um, Christopher Ruffo, who we've, we followed, he works for the city journal. We followed his

00:21:12.240 reporting. Um, he reports on a lot of the, the, uh, brainwashing, especially the critical race 0.66

00:21:17.640 theory of brainwashing in public schools. And here's his latest thread. This is on Twitter.

00:21:21.760 He says a Cupertino elementary school forces third graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual

00:21:27.900 identities, then rank themselves according to their power and privilege. Just to highlight again,

00:21:33.520 this is an elementary school. Okay. Not a high school, not that it's okay in a high school, but

00:21:37.280 even worse, the younger they get. Um, he says, I've obtained exclusive whistleblower documents from

00:21:42.800 inside the classroom. They will shock you. We'll read through some of this. It says first,

00:21:46.960 the teacher told the eight and nine year old students that they live in a dominant culture

00:21:50.800 of white, middle-class, cisgendered, educated, able-bodied Christians who created and maintain 0.99

00:21:56.800 this culture in order to hold power and stay in power. This to a bunch of eight year olds 0.99

00:22:02.620 and eight year olds are just sitting there. And this is, this is why this stuff is so,

00:22:06.920 is so evil and infuriating because the six year olds are just sitting there soaking this in.

00:22:10.900 They have no idea what's being said. When an eight year old hears this, all they can say is,

00:22:15.780 okay, if you say so, they do not have the information, the knowledge, the critical thinking

00:22:24.180 skills, and it's no knock on them. It's just, they, they, they just don't have it to analyze this

00:22:28.900 stuff. Reading, going back to the, his, his thread says reading from this book is anti-racist.

00:22:36.420 The teacher taught the children, the theory of intersectionality and claim that those with

00:22:41.700 privilege have power over others. And that folks, by the way, folks, F O L X, that is the genderless 1.00

00:22:51.420 way of saying folks because somehow K S is gendered. Replace it with an X and it's okay. 0.98

00:22:58.820 Maybe you've learned that by now. You know, all existing words are offensive because they already

00:23:04.200 exist. If you want to make them non-offensive, just put X, just randomly throw an X in there

00:23:08.920 somewhere. Folks who do not benefit from their social identities have little to no privilege

00:23:15.960 and power. The teacher asked students to create an identity map listing their race, gender, class,

00:23:22.640 religion, family structure, and other characteristics. They were told to circle the identities that hold

00:23:27.120 power and privilege. In a related assignment, the children were asked to write short essays

00:23:31.920 describing which aspects of their identities hold power and privilege and which are oppressed,

00:23:36.300 in effect, ranking themselves according to their intersectionality hierarchy. Okay. So you,

00:23:42.400 so certain parts of your identity can have power and certain parts could be oppressed. Is that how

00:23:47.780 it works? So you can, so you can, you can oppress yourself, I guess, because if the people that are

00:23:56.740 the oppressors, so you have, you have oppressors and you have the oppressed. Well, now, according to this,

00:24:01.940 parts of your identity can belong to either group. Now I'm assuming I haven't read the, uh, I haven't,

00:24:08.680 I haven't looked through all of the PowerPoint slides yet, but I'm assuming, for example, a white woman, 0.98

00:24:14.340 probably classic example of somebody oppressing themselves because you're white. So you got the

00:24:19.840 oppressor role covered, but you're also a woman. So you're oppressed, oppressing yourself. 1.00

00:24:24.220 This is not schizophrenic or insane at all. Um, parents at the school were scandalized. They were

00:24:32.160 basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old said one parent who rallied a half dozen families

00:24:36.140 to protest the curriculum and demanded a meeting with the principal. Um, and then it details some

00:24:43.080 of the other parents and their reaction to it. Okay. Well, all I can say with this sort of thing is,

00:24:48.160 I mean, it's the same thing I always say, and I can only repeat myself. That's all I can do.

00:24:54.220 Get your kids out of the public school system. This, I cannot stress enough. This is not going

00:25:00.700 to get better. It will not. And if you're in a school right now, or if your kids are in a school

00:25:06.760 where this isn't happening, first of all, how do you know it's not happening? You only think it's

00:25:11.800 not happening. Could be. Um, cause your kid is not even, is not even telling you like 10% of the

00:25:18.180 things that happen in a school day. If you remember when you were a kid, you didn't. Uh, so,

00:25:23.240 but if, if your kid is in a school where this isn't happening, eventually it will happen.

00:25:28.680 It will no way around it. This is what the public school school system exists for

00:25:35.680 to indoctrinate children into the overarching, the dominant dogmas and doctrines of the day.

00:25:47.920 Didn't mean to go for the alliteration there, but there it is. So get your kids out of public

00:25:51.400 school system. There are other options. I'm not saying everybody can homeschool, but there,

00:25:55.200 there, we got to start getting creative about, about, um, solving these problems about the way

00:25:59.880 we educate our children. The system relies on you just sending your kids there by default

00:26:07.080 because it's the easy thing to do. It's the automatic thing to do. It's what, it's what you

00:26:10.400 did as a kid. It's just what you're supposed to do. The system relies on that. So we have to break

00:26:15.020 free from that way of thinking, come up with creative solutions. Number five. Also, this is,

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00:26:30.980 missing. The bright cluster galaxy, a two, two, six, one, one of my favorites appears to have lost its

00:26:38.620 black hole. And some scientists think it could now be floating through space. All right. So that's,

00:26:44.940 that's, here's another thing we can worry about. Apparently black holes can just become dislodged

00:26:48.940 from their location in space and just float, just float away. That's, that's the next thing. I mean,

00:26:56.900 I, I, I, I couldn't say I would object that much if they told us that a black hole was floating

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00:30:49.140 get to our Daily Cancellation. So today for our Daily Cancellation, we start

00:30:55.820 with a quandary. What do you do when you want to convince people that America is a racist

00:31:00.360 country, but America stubbornly refuses to provide you with enough legitimate examples

00:31:04.760 to prove your point? This is a problem that leftists and race hustlers run into on a daily

00:31:08.620 basis and they've innovated several different ways to deal with it. One is to, of course,

00:31:12.680 invent racist hate crimes out of whole cloth, telling fables about bleach-wielding white supremacists

00:31:17.460 shouting MAGA country in Chicago and so forth. The other is to wildly misinterpret actual

00:31:23.240 statements or events to fit into the desired racism mold. In the most extreme cases, a garage

00:31:28.960 door pole may be labeled a noose and handed over to the FBI for investigation. These are

00:31:34.580 tried and true, but not nearly as cynically brilliant or effective as the third method,

00:31:39.340 which is to take a potential example of real but isolated racism or racial profiling and treat

00:31:45.300 it like Pearl Harbor, blow it up into a national crisis, and draw all sorts of broad and sweeping

00:31:50.400 conclusions from it. And that third strategy brings us to the story of the so-called Soho

00:31:56.200 Karen, real name Mia Pancetto. Now, Pancetto achieved national notoriety a couple weeks ago 0.99

00:32:03.180 after accosting a 14-year-old black teen, son of a musician named Keon Harold, and falsely accusing

00:32:08.820 him of stealing her cell phone. He didn't really steal it, but she accused him of it. The altercation,

00:32:13.400 which was caught on video by Harold, unfolded in the lobby of the Arlo Hotel in New York City,

00:32:19.000 Pancetto mostly ranted like a crazy person before grabbing the teen and actually tackling him to

00:32:25.140 the ground. The video quickly went viral and Pancetto, with her new Soho Karen moniker, 0.98

00:32:31.940 became infamous across the nation. The media conducted extensive investigations and published

00:32:36.640 lengthy reports revealing Pancetto's past criminal record, her DUI arrests, the vandalism of her

00:32:44.120 Airbnb apartment on the morning of her confrontation of the cell phone. She apparently smashed her door 0.99

00:32:49.240 with a fire extinguisher, I believe. Now, it's clear that Pancetto was firmly in the wrong.

00:32:56.740 It's possible that she racially profiled the young man, though it seems even more likely,

00:33:02.340 or at least just as likely, that she's simply an unstable woman who has acted this way towards

00:33:07.260 many people in her life with no regard to their race or ethnicity. I mean, she smashed her door

00:33:11.800 with a fire extinguisher right before this. So, maybe an equal opportunity lunatic, you might say. 0.73

00:33:19.840 But what's not clear in any case is why this deranged behavior by a random woman in a hotel lobby 0.89

00:33:25.460 needs to be the subject of national discussion. But the national discussion ensued anyway,

00:33:30.160 helped along by the likes of Al Sharpton and the ubiquitous ambulance-chasing lawyer Benjamin Crump,

00:33:36.900 though there were no ambulances or injuries reported in this case, but Benjamin Crump is

00:33:40.940 always on the scene now. And they both sort of rappelled down as though from helicopters hovering above

00:33:45.780 to conduct a press conference with the boy's parents and presumably to get a piece of any

00:33:50.380 forthcoming lawsuits. The parents claimed that their son's life was put in danger.

00:33:55.280 And they found reason, somehow, to blame the hotel where the assault happened,

00:34:00.380 arguing that the business is culpable for the arbitrary outbursts of any troubled woman who 0.94

00:34:04.940 happens to wander into their lobby. They even had a nifty refrain they kept repeating,

00:34:09.880 ready-made for t-shirts and posters, calling on the hotel to check out from racism.

00:34:15.740 Check out because it's a hotel. Get it? That's the, yeah, very clever.

00:34:18.900 Uh, let's, let's listen to a little bit of this news report about the case.

00:34:23.500 Keon Harrell Jr.'s parents say they're still traumatized by the attack on their son.

00:34:27.880 They want everyone involved to be held accountable.

00:34:30.580 This racial profiling thing is real. You don't have to say the N-word to, to act in a racist way.

00:34:37.880 The Arlo looked right over my son.

00:34:40.980 The incident took place at the Arlo Hotel in Soho last month. Surveillance video appears to show

00:34:45.700 this woman, 22-year-old Mia Ponsetto, tackled 14-year-old Keon Harrell Jr. after accusing him 1.00

00:34:51.560 of stealing her cell phone.

00:34:53.160 No, I'm not letting him walk away with my phone!

00:34:55.360 The manager of the hotel approaches the boy and asks to see the phone, which he does not have.

00:35:00.220 Checkout time! Checkout time!

00:35:02.940 The family is now asking for people to boycott the business and its parent company,

00:35:07.120 unless they put an end to what they call racial profiling.

00:35:10.040 Arlo Hotel is just as responsible as this Soho Karen, 0.99

00:35:14.600 and we're gonna check out if they don't check, step up.

00:35:18.740 The Arlo Hotel has apologized for the incident and says the manager did call police regarding

00:35:23.400 Ponsetto's conduct.

00:35:26.200 Check out if they don't step up. They got the poster boards ready, they got everything.

00:35:29.400 They're boycotting the family, the parent company.

00:35:33.840 They're accusing the hotel and the parent company of racial profiling.

00:35:39.600 They didn't do it. It wasn't their fault.

00:35:41.720 I mean, maybe, again, you know, if it were me, and I was walking out of a hotel,

00:35:49.760 and some crazy woman came up, accused me of stealing her cell phone, 1.00

00:35:52.100 it was draped all over me, trying to tackle me to the ground, 0.93

00:35:55.660 I would get her off of me. 0.96

00:35:59.280 I would call the police, because she's crazy, and that's illegal. 1.00

00:36:02.140 That is assault. 0.87

00:36:02.780 And then I'd probably just go about my day.

00:36:06.380 You know, I would probably just go home, and it would be a funny story I would tell

00:36:10.460 my wife, and, you know, probably from then on out, it's a story I would tell periodically.

00:36:14.940 But I just can't imagine holding a press conference about it.

00:36:17.720 A press conference about that.

00:36:19.260 Now, for all the talk of systemic racism in law enforcement,

00:36:25.300 the NYPD certainly expended more time and resources on this case

00:36:29.260 than they would on almost any other similar case of a random weirdo accosting somebody in public.

00:36:33.920 Detectives tracked Ponsetto all the way back to California

00:36:36.640 and brought her to California, to New York, to stand trial. 0.93

00:36:40.500 She was hit with four felonies in the case, attempted robbery,

00:36:43.460 endangering the welfare of a child,

00:36:45.580 attempted grand larceny, and attempted assault.

00:36:47.640 Again, Ponsetto's behavior was obviously wrong and also criminal,

00:36:51.620 but you might argue that it's a tad overkill to pursue her across the country 1.00

00:36:55.400 and put her on trial for four felonies when nobody was hurt in her outburst,

00:36:58.900 and the only long-term consequences of her actions will be suffered by the culprit herself.

00:37:03.620 I mean, you might argue that.

00:37:05.820 Hours before her arrest, Gail King on CBS conducted an exclusive,

00:37:09.900 multi-part interview with Ponsetto.

00:37:12.280 Now, when you watch it, when you watch this interview,

00:37:14.020 all you can wonder is why is this crazy woman who freaked out about a cell phone 1.00

00:37:18.880 getting so much attention?

00:37:20.620 An interview with Gail King on CBS?

00:37:23.180 For this, really?

00:37:25.260 With everything else going on in the world right now,

00:37:27.580 this is what you're devoting airtime to.

00:37:31.040 And CBS isn't alone.

00:37:32.080 A search for Mia Ponsetto's name on Google returns thousands of results,

00:37:35.280 many of them reporting breathlessly about every aspect of this earth-shattering case,

00:37:39.760 others offering lengthy analyses of the cultural implications,

00:37:44.620 then others like this article in the New York Post reporting that Mia Ponsetto wears ugly outfits. 0.99

00:37:50.700 Here's the headline. 0.72

00:37:51.700 Soho Karen Mia Ponsetto mocked for wearing trash crop top, sandals, and socks. 1.00

00:37:58.040 Well, if wearing sandals and socks is a fashion crime, then you're going to have to lock me up, too.

00:38:01.680 So I may not be the best one to defend her fashion choices, nor am I interested in it.

00:38:07.100 But I will say to her credit, she tried to beat the media at its own game. 0.89

00:38:12.260 So here she is in that Gail King interview,

00:38:15.320 claiming that she cannot be racist because she herself is a woman of color.

00:38:22.800 And note the reaction to that claim.

00:38:24.800 Here it is. Listen.

00:38:25.280 You might remember this video.

00:38:28.720 Mia Ponsetto approached 14-year-old Keon Harrell Jr. at a New York City hotel last month,

00:38:33.500 accusing him of stealing her phone.

00:38:35.760 His father, jazz musician Keon Harrell, recorded the encounter and accused Ponsetto of racial profiling.

00:38:42.120 I was approaching the people that had been exiting the hotel because, in my mind,

00:38:47.220 anybody exiting is probably the one that might be the one that is trying to steal my phone.

00:38:51.920 I admit, yes, I could have approached the situation differently or maybe not yelled at him like that

00:38:56.880 and made him feel, you know, maybe some sort of inferior.

00:39:01.640 I wasn't racial profiling whatsoever.

00:39:03.840 I'm a woman. I'm Puerto Rican. I'm like a woman of color.

00:39:05.980 I'm Italian, Greek, Puerto Rican.

00:39:09.020 You keep saying you're Puerto Rican.

00:39:10.700 Does that mean that you can't be racist because you're saying you're a woman of color?

00:39:14.060 Is that what you mean?

00:39:15.540 Exactly.

00:39:17.140 Well, I would disagree that people of color can be racist.

00:39:20.320 I love that.

00:39:22.880 Exactly. That's exactly what I'm saying.

00:39:25.860 And by the current rules, she's exactly right.

00:39:29.660 You know, I got to defend her on this one.

00:39:31.480 I don't agree with the rules.

00:39:34.180 I think anybody of any race or ethnicity can be racist.

00:39:37.560 Mia Ponsetto could be racist. 1.00

00:39:38.840 Gayle King could be racist if she wanted to be. 1.00

00:39:40.720 Anybody can.

00:39:41.600 Your skin pigmentation does not make you any more or less susceptible to racism.

00:39:46.260 That's not how racism works.

00:39:48.340 But again, I don't make the rules, unfortunately.

00:39:51.220 The people who do make them have long since clarified that only white people can be racist.

00:39:57.580 This is what critical race theory teaches.

00:39:59.280 It's what those kids in school are being indoctrinated into.

00:40:02.340 Power plus privilege equals racism.

00:40:05.700 And only whites have power and privilege.

00:40:07.840 According to this doctrine, Ponsetto says she isn't white.

00:40:13.260 That's what she says.

00:40:14.820 And by the looks of it, you know, it seems like she isn't lying.

00:40:19.140 So notice how quickly critical race theory is abandoned or exceptions and additional qualifiers are conjured out of thin air just to maintain the narrative about this woman. 0.57

00:40:28.440 Now we find many headlines like this one in Yahoo News.

00:40:31.200 Mia Ponsetto proves proves that simply being a person of color isn't enough. 1.00

00:40:36.400 Oh, really?

00:40:38.200 It isn't?

00:40:39.260 Well, that's the first I'm hearing that.

00:40:42.240 So who is canceled today?

00:40:44.540 It seems redundant to cancel Ponsetto, who is now facing four felonies and is a national disgrace and pariah.

00:40:51.200 The parents of the kids say, if it's not enough, there's not enough justice has been done.

00:40:57.520 I kind of feel like it is enough.

00:41:00.340 And she's a national disgrace. 1.00

00:41:01.980 Everybody hates her. 0.95

00:41:03.040 She's got four felonies. 1.00

00:41:04.300 Like, what else do you want?

00:41:06.980 Except for money from that hotel.

00:41:08.520 So I would say that's probably punishment enough, given the offense.

00:41:12.700 Instead, I'm canceling all of the people who were so excited to have a video like this, to prove their point, that they've made this woman famous in the process.

00:41:23.700 And I'm canceling the race hustling vultures like Sharpton, who've swooped in to get their piece of the action, doing their normal routine. 0.66

00:41:29.740 Of course, he's canceled as well.

00:41:31.180 A lot of cancellations to go around today.

00:41:34.000 And that's how I like it.

00:41:35.680 It's more efficient that way.

00:41:36.820 So they're all canceled.

00:41:39.460 And that's going to do it for us today.

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