The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 639 - The 1776 Report

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, one of Trump's best achievements as president just came this week at

00:00:04.600 the very end. His administration's 1776 report offers a needed corrective to the anti-American

00:00:09.740 brainwashing in schools. Of course, the left is steaming mad about it, as they tend to be. We'll

00:00:14.080 address their criticisms today. Also, five headlines, including Katie Couric, is wondering

00:00:18.480 how conservatives might be deprogrammed. And Nancy Pelosi discusses the, quote, trauma Congress

00:00:23.840 suffered during the riots on January 6th. And our daily cancellation, we will cancel some very bad

00:00:29.140 parenting advice on TikTok, but probably all parenting advice on TikTok should be canceled.

00:00:34.120 All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:19.460 A few months ago, President Trump announced that he was forming the 1776 Commission to counter the

00:02:25.520 anti-American, anti-truth indoctrination in our schools and other institutions. The focus was

00:02:30.980 especially on debunking the noxious lies told to the public, and in particular, our children,

00:02:36.300 by proponents of critical race theory and the 1619 Project and similar things. Ultimately,

00:02:42.380 the commission's goal was to offer a corrective to leftist historical revisionism and to promote,

00:02:47.640 as Trump calls it, patriotic education. Now, to my mind, this is not only a noble endeavor,

00:02:53.780 but perhaps one of the most important things Trump has done with his presidency. Any attempt to

00:02:59.080 reverse the cultural tide must begin by addressing the fundamental sickness in our education system.

00:03:05.700 Entire generations are being trained from the youngest ages to hate their country, and if they're

00:03:10.960 white, despise their ancestors and themselves. So this is not simply a matter of kids being 0.76

00:03:16.860 brainwashed into a lack of patriotism. At a much deeper level, they're being conditioned to believe

00:03:22.700 and build their worldview around what is not true. So I would much rather we call the corrective

00:03:29.020 truthful education rather than patriotic education. I'm not going to quibble much over those sorts of

00:03:35.460 details, but that's really what we're talking about here. Yesterday, the 1776 Commission released its

00:03:41.500 report, reaffirming the basic truths of America's founding and offering its critiques of the radical

00:03:47.620 leftist version of history. The final product is about 45 pages long. It's well worth the read.

00:03:53.180 And if you take the time to read it, you will already be one step ahead of most of the report's

00:04:00.360 critics who do not appear to have even skimmed the document before issuing their many denunciations.

00:04:06.000 For example, CNN's headline declares, Trump administration issues racist school curriculum

00:04:11.960 report on MLK Day. By the way, that's it. That's not an op-ed. That's their news article calling it

00:04:18.000 racist. The Washington Post quotes outraged historians who are incensed by the report's

00:04:23.640 outright lies. The New York Times also claims that, quote, historians are, quote, deriding it for its

00:04:29.660 false narratives. Now, a brief sampling of the Post article gives you an idea as to the general flavor

00:04:36.000 of the criticisms. It says, quoting now, I don't know where to begin, said public historian Alexis

00:04:41.960 Coe. This report lacks citations or any indication books were consulted, which explains why it's riddled

00:04:47.460 in errors, distortions, and outright lies. Callie Nicole Gross, a history professor at Rutgers and

00:04:53.600 Emory Universities, and the co-author of A Black Women's History of the United States, said it was

00:04:58.520 dusty and dated, and the usual dodge on the long-lasting harmful impacts of settler colonialism,

00:05:04.760 enslavement, Jim Crow, the oppression of women, the plight of queer people, as the true threat to 1.00

00:05:09.340 democracy. This report makes it seem as if slave-holding founding fathers were abolitionists,

00:05:14.980 that Americans were the early beacons of the global abolitionist movement, that the demise of

00:05:19.940 slavery in the United States was inevitable. Boston University historian Ibram X. Kendi tweeted,

00:05:24.900 it's very hard to find anything in here that stands as a historical claim or as the work of a

00:05:28.720 historian. Almost everything in it is wrong, just as a matter of fact, said Eric Roachway.

00:05:33.500 I may sound a little incoherent when trying to speak of this because the report itself is not

00:05:40.980 coherent. It's like historical whack-a-mole. Okay. You'll notice here, as you'll notice in nearly

00:05:46.980 all the denunciations of the 1776 report, that little attempt is made to engage with the specific

00:05:52.600 and most essential historical claims that it makes. We're simply assured that the report is

00:05:58.580 completely false and misguided and silly and racist, but nobody issuing these assurances will 0.96

00:06:04.160 bother to explain why. That CNN article that called it racist, at no point in the article did 0.98

00:06:09.420 it defend or justify or explain that characterization. It just said, well, it's racist. You know, of course

00:06:16.680 it is. In fact, the critics say, you know, the report isn't just wrong, but incoherent.

00:06:21.540 And this causes me to suspect that perhaps these professional historians are having trouble with

00:06:26.380 the document because they're illiterate, which would explain quite a lot about how history is

00:06:30.440 taught these days and would explain why they, by their own omission, cannot seem to understand a

00:06:35.120 report that lays out its case very clearly and cogently. You can agree or disagree with what

00:06:39.760 the report says, but any literate person should at least be able to comprehend what is being said.

00:06:45.480 These historians can't even do that, they say. They just don't understand it. They're completely

00:06:49.560 confused. Mostly it seems that the scholarly community takes great umbrage with the report

00:06:55.760 section on slavery. That's the part that's gotten the most attention, which they say dismisses or as

00:07:01.420 Huffington Post headline claims, justifies the practice of slavery. That's what they're saying.

00:07:06.580 They're saying that the report justifies slavery, defends it. So let's read what it actually says on the

00:07:13.160 subject. Hopefully you'll find this at least coherent. I mean, you tell me if you can at a minimum

00:07:18.140 understand what's being said. Okay. This is a quote now from the 1776 Commission report.

00:07:24.540 The most common charge leveled against the founders, and hence against our country itself,

00:07:28.140 is that they were hypocrites who didn't believe in their stated principles, and therefore the 0.92

00:07:31.760 country they built rests on a lie. This charge is untrue and has done enormous damage, especially 0.92

00:07:37.620 in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric. Many Americans

00:07:41.920 labor under the illusion that slavery was somehow uniquely American evil.

00:07:45.560 It is essential to insist at the outset that the institution be seen in a much broader perspective.

00:07:51.140 It is very hard for people brought up in the comforts of modern America,

00:07:54.460 at a time in which the media, in which the idea that all human beings have inviolable rights

00:07:59.660 and inherent dignity is almost taken for granted, to imagine the cruelties and enormities that were

00:08:04.280 endemic in earlier times. But the unfortunate fact is that the institution of slavery has been

00:08:08.900 more the rule than the exception throughout history. It was the Western world's repudiation of slavery,

00:08:13.680 only just beginning to build at the time of the American Revolution, which marked a dramatic

00:08:17.680 sea change in moral sensibilities. The American founders were living on the cusp of this change

00:08:22.560 in a manner that straddled two worlds. Okay, did you understand that? It seems coherent,

00:08:30.080 isn't it? I had no trouble understanding the point. It goes on to discuss the attitudes that the

00:08:35.760 founders had towards slavery. Some were against it, some were for it. Some wrestled with the issue

00:08:40.080 throughout their lives. Ultimately, of course, slavery was abolished in this country, and it

00:08:44.040 only took America 90 years to do it. America was only a country for 90 years, give or take,

00:08:51.040 before slavery was abolished. Compare that to the track record of other nations, some of which have

00:08:55.280 been around for millennia, and still to this day have not completely abolished it right now.

00:09:02.660 And when you do that, you see that our country is not guiltless, but its guilt is no greater than

00:09:07.500 most any other nation on earth, and in many cases, it's quite a bit lesser. Now, it may be hard for

00:09:13.220 media people and scholars to understand the simple but crucial point being made here, but that's either 0.99

00:09:17.940 because they don't want to understand, or they're too stupid to understand, or both. The goal of 0.99

00:09:22.860 critical race theory, and of the modern left generally, is to saddle white Americans with a

00:09:27.500 special and lasting guilt stemming from these historical injustices, and to paint America itself as

00:09:34.060 uniquely evil, and almost singularly responsible for atrocities like slavery. This is wrong, and it

00:09:41.980 matters that it's wrong. We cannot assess our own history, or the people who comprise it, if we do not

00:09:48.860 have an accurate and a complete understanding of the context in which these people lived and acted.

00:09:54.660 So we can quite easily and self-assuredly sit here right now from our comfortable position,

00:09:59.020 and condemn men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson for not being racially enlightened enough.

00:10:04.320 But to thoughtful people, it should make a difference that Washington and Jefferson lived

00:10:10.340 at a time when almost nobody on the entire planet was racially enlightened by our standards today.

00:10:17.400 Slavery was indeed a foregone conclusion, a normal part of life for nearly everyone everywhere through

00:10:22.400 all of human history until the last couple of centuries. We could have an interesting discussion about

00:10:27.320 why this was the case. How was this the case? How is it that the whole world could have been so blind

00:10:34.140 to a moral truth that we all now see so clearly? And when I say we all, I mean we in the West,

00:10:40.920 because in other parts of the world, they still don't see it. But we cannot have that discussion

00:10:45.700 if we insist on absolving everyone everywhere of guilt, except for white men in North America.

00:10:51.900 America. The discussion becomes absurd at that point and pointless, and whatever conclusions

00:10:58.720 you draw will be false and harmful. They'll be the conclusions of the 1619 Project and critical race 1.00

00:11:04.200 theory, which the 1776 report rightly condemns. Now, the report ends with this passage, which I like.

00:11:11.480 It says, to be an American means something noble and good. It means treasuring freedom and embracing

00:11:15.960 the vitality of self-government. We are shaped by the beauty, bounty, and wildness of our continent.

00:11:21.820 We are united by the glory of our history. We are distinguished by the American virtues of openness,

00:11:27.140 honesty, optimism, determination, generosity, confidence, kindness, hard work, courage, and hope.

00:11:32.160 Our principles did not create these virtues, but they laid the groundwork for them to grow and spread

00:11:36.860 and forge America into the most just and glorious country in all of human history.

00:11:40.780 Admittedly, some of that is a matter of opinion. I'm not sure there is any objective, factual measure

00:11:47.860 for the gloriousness of a country. But it's good for a person to feel this way about his country.

00:11:55.420 And there is good reason to feel this way about our country.

00:11:59.660 It's how many other people in many other countries feel about their countries.

00:12:03.880 All in all of those countries have their own troubled histories, their own sins, their own guilt,

00:12:11.700 many cases much worse than our own. Yet nobody would mock or scold them, the people in those

00:12:19.480 countries, for their patriotism. It's only us. We are the only ones, the only ones who are supposed

00:12:26.820 to be ashamed of our country and its history and its heroes. We're the only ones who are not supposed

00:12:32.000 to be too enthusiastic in our patriotism. You know, we're supposed to issue a thousand apologies

00:12:37.520 as a preamble for every good thing we say about our country. At least that's what they tell us.

00:12:44.880 At least that's the rules they want to impose. And we should not listen. We should reject that.

00:12:52.860 Absolutely. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:02.000 All right. By the way, I just have to, this is more a question I'm asking. I just have to say this

00:13:08.340 because I don't know where else to say it. But it's something that's really been, it's been a

00:13:11.400 source of great contention in my home and something we've been dealing with. But those robotic vacuums,

00:13:19.940 I don't know if you've gotten one of these things, like a Roomba, the robotic vacuum. Seems like a great

00:13:25.380 idea, right? You get the Roomba. I think we got a knockoff version. Maybe this is the problem,

00:13:29.620 but we just got it. And I was very excited about the, about it. Cause the idea is you just put it

00:13:34.260 on the ground and you never have to sweep again or vacuum just does it on its own. You got a robot

00:13:39.360 in your house doing a chore. It's everyone's dream come true. They're very excited about it,

00:13:46.800 but the thing is useless. It just ambles around on the rug. I was watching it yesterday and it was, 0.55

00:13:53.300 there was a Cheerio on the ground and it navigated around the Cheerio like three times.

00:13:58.000 And I'm just sitting there like, get the Cheerio. I'm not going to bend down and pick it up. I'm

00:14:04.340 too busy. For instance, I'm sitting here watching the vacuum cleaner. So what's, do we just, do you

00:14:10.260 need a better brand or what's the deal? Do these things actually work? That's my question. Someone

00:14:14.500 can answer that for me, please. Maybe more important issues to talk about. Number one,

00:14:18.040 Katie Couric and Bill Maher are, well, they're worried about, about, about deprogramming Republicans,

00:14:25.000 you know, because that, that's what, that's, that's the, the, the project that we're going to

00:14:28.880 have to undertake in the years ahead, um, in this, this, uh, deprogramming because we're all brainwashed

00:14:34.400 and, uh, let's listen to that now. It's really bizarre, isn't it? When you think about how AWOL,

00:14:41.200 so many of these members of Congress have gotten, but I also think some of them are believing the 0.76

00:14:46.380 garbage that they are being fed 24 seven on the internet by their constituents. And they bought into 0.93

00:14:53.120 this big lie. And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who

00:14:59.600 have signed up for the cult of Trump? Deprogram. And she talks about the cult of Trump. Uh, of course,

00:15:07.060 we know that she's not only referring to that. And when we hear this from the media, they're not,

00:15:11.000 they're not, that that's, they, they mean conservatives in general. Now I'd be the first

00:15:16.180 to admit, and I've said many times there is among, there has been in some quarters, uh,

00:15:22.940 this is a minority of conservatives, but there has been among some, a, a cult like, um, dedication

00:15:31.260 and obsession, a personality cult. There's, there's no denying there has been a personality

00:15:36.580 cult around Donald Trump. I don't think anyone, I don't think any rational person could possibly

00:15:39.540 deny that. And I've talked many times about how, how damaging personality cults are no matter

00:15:44.860 where you find them on the political spectrum and you find them on the left and right. Now they

00:15:48.580 bother me a lot more on the right because it's, cause that's where I am. And I don't like to see

00:15:52.960 that where I am. I don't like to see it so close to home. Uh, but we know about the, the personality

00:15:57.140 called around Barack Obama, the, the, the messianic, um, way that he was, that he was celebrated and

00:16:04.640 embraced by the media. So that, that is, that is an issue, but that's not what, that's not what

00:16:10.820 they're talking about. That's maybe what they're saying. That's not what they really mean.

00:16:14.860 And the point is, you know, it's, it's one thing when they talk about conservatives, 0.96

00:16:20.060 like we're all a bunch of evil, racist bigots, you know, that that's troubling enough, especially 0.83

00:16:26.020 when these people seize control of the entire government as they're about to. Um, what's 0.98

00:16:31.740 even worse though, is when they talk about us, like we're sick, that's what you really have

00:16:36.260 to look out for. If they're just screaming at you, you're a big meanie, you're a bigot. 0.98

00:16:40.620 Okay, fine. When they start talking to you and about you, like you're sick, like you need 0.99

00:16:46.280 to be treated for a disease, like your ideas are a disease. That's, that's, that's the really

00:16:54.400 disturbing thing. And that's when things can go, uh, in a very dystopian direction.

00:17:00.660 Um, speaking of which, number two, representative Steve Cohen has concerns of his own. Um, and he's

00:17:07.740 worried that, you know, basically that the DC right now is militarized. It's under military

00:17:13.360 occupation, but he's not worried about that. He's worried instead about the race of some 0.90

00:17:19.380 of these, uh, national guard guardsmen that are, that are there. Let's listen to this.

00:17:23.000 It was certainly raised this morning. I was reading about this on the, on my Twitter account,

00:17:29.200 I guess, and people were reminding people of Anwar Sadat and Indira Gandhi who were killed

00:17:34.380 by her own, their own people. Um, you know, I was thinking the guard is 90 some odd percent,

00:17:41.700 I believe male, um, only about 20% of white males voted for Biden. You got to figure that

00:17:49.780 in the guard, which is predominantly more conservative. And I see that on my social

00:17:53.040 media and we know it. They're probably not more than 25% of the people that are there protecting

00:17:58.080 us who voted for Biden. The other 75% are in the class that would be, uh, the, the large

00:18:03.460 class of folks who might want to, uh, do something. Who might want to do something. Just what does

00:18:10.660 that mean? I think we all know what it means. Just casually accusing national guard of being

00:18:16.680 a bunch of potential assassins. Eh, no big deal. But of course that's what he's focused

00:18:22.780 on is the, the racial makeup. Meanwhile, there are real criticisms that you could lob against

00:18:29.900 the fact that, that DC is essentially under military occupation at present. Um, you, you remember

00:18:37.200 when in the midst of the BLM riots and, uh, finally, finally, after days of it, there was a response

00:18:44.940 and, um, a response that almost met the violence coming from the rioters and the media all day

00:18:53.180 long was, was complaining about it's militarized. It's, uh, it's, it's overboard yet. They seem to

00:18:58.720 have no problem with this. You know, I've, I've friends who are in DC sending me pictures or talking

00:19:04.420 about the experience, but it's just eerie. It's like, they've never seen anything like this

00:19:07.640 in any American city, least of all Washington DC. So if we're going to be criticizing, I think,

00:19:15.000 I think, I think that, I think that would be the issue no matter the race of the people who are doing

00:19:20.540 the occupying. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, um, was, was on Hillary Clinton's podcast. And I, I just learned

00:19:27.320 that Hillary Hillary Clinton has a podcast. Apparently, I don't know who would sit down and 0.94

00:19:31.880 listen to a Hillary Clinton podcast of all things, but I guess some people do, at least Nancy Pelosi

00:19:38.960 does. And, uh, she was on the podcast, uh, talking about many things, but really focusing on the

00:19:46.720 trauma that, uh, people in Congress suffered on January 6th during the riots. Let's listen to that.

00:19:53.020 I, as an American, am incredibly grateful for your steadiness and your devotion to our democracy.

00:20:01.300 How are you holding up? Well, first, let me just say, I was very much looking forward

00:20:07.020 to being with you. Uh, the kind words that you say, I accept on behalf of my House Democratic

00:20:13.160 Caucus colleagues, they've been so courageous, so steadfast, so patriotic, so committed to their

00:20:19.920 oath of office. And they said at that point that there were storming the Capitol and the security just

00:20:27.180 whisked away. But it was stunning. But I know, again, they are protective. And I thought, well,

00:20:33.980 okay, yeah, I'll go with you because it's your job to make sure that I do. And I don't want to

00:20:39.340 endanger anybody else. And I'm a target, you know? So, so when we got in the car, I said, well, where

00:20:45.800 are we going? Like to another room? No, we're going to an undisclosed location.

00:20:51.100 You know, when I hear, um, talk of the trauma that, and they haven't stopped talking about how

00:20:58.160 traumatic it was for them, this whole experience. But whenever I hear this, my mind, I go back to a

00:21:05.220 story that you may have forgotten about, or you may not have heard at all because it wasn't exactly

00:21:09.440 something that the mainstream media was eager to report. But just one example, you know, you go back

00:21:13.880 to the riots throughout the summer. And, um, so many, just, just, just, you have your pick of the

00:21:19.360 litter. You can pick so many examples of traumatic things that, uh, that regular American citizens

00:21:24.480 suffered. And the people like Nancy Pelosi never said a word about that, never spoke a word about

00:21:29.360 the trauma of people who live in these cities that have been wracked by, by rioting, uh, the businesses

00:21:34.680 burned down, family members killed, you know, I don't know the family members of, of David Dorn,

00:21:41.220 for example, Nancy Pelosi ever say anything about that, the trauma they're suffering.

00:21:46.080 But I go, my mind goes back to one particular incident. Um, the Chicago Ronald McDonald house

00:21:53.440 cancer center for children during the rioting in Chicago, which there was writing all throughout

00:21:59.400 the summer, right? Uh, during the BLM writing, the cancer center was attacked by rioters. Okay. Yes.

00:22:08.360 They attacked a cancer center for children and there were kids inside, there were families inside

00:22:13.280 and they were terrified because they're listening to the windows being smashed downstairs. Now,

00:22:19.380 just imagine that for a second. I mean, imagine you're a child and you're sick with cancer and

00:22:22.460 you're, and, uh, and then you hear this, this commotion outside these, these unruly crowds,

00:22:27.240 you hear the windows being smashed in your building. Imagine you're a parent of a child going through

00:22:32.520 that. There was one young child and we talked about this at the time. So maybe if you've been

00:22:36.680 listening to this show, you heard about this at least, um, one young child, Owen, believe was his

00:22:43.500 name, two years old fighting stage four cancer. And he was supposed to go home to sell it for his

00:22:49.700 birthday party that day. And he couldn't go home. He missed his birthday party. Now they celebrated it

00:22:53.600 later, but he missed his birthday party that day because of the, um, because of the writing outside

00:22:57.620 it was, it was unsafe to leave the building. So I, you know, I don't know when I think about trauma

00:23:03.060 that people suffered, emotional trauma that they suffered during writing. I am much, much more

00:23:09.640 concerned about those kids and many other children too, affected by it. But even just that one case,

00:23:17.560 I'm more concerned about their emotional trauma. Think about the emotional trauma they are suffering.

00:23:24.460 That's something that they're going to remember in their nightmares, probably for the rest of their

00:23:27.300 lives. I just, I'm a lot more concerned about that than I am about the trauma, the emotional trauma of

00:23:36.220 grown adults, powerful people, politicians in Congress. That's just me. I certainly reject the

00:23:46.820 idea that we're supposed to be more concerned about that, about their trauma, the politicians.

00:23:51.680 And what happened to them was so much worse. It was, it was desecrating sacred ground

00:23:59.060 and sacred people, apparently. I absolutely reject that.

00:24:08.400 All right. Number three from Variety, it says, Walt Disney, Frank Capra, uh, Whitney Houston,

00:24:15.080 Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, and Alex Trebek are among the entertainment industry figures who have been

00:24:19.220 added as a proposed, as proposed honorees in the National Garden of American Heroes monument project

00:24:24.880 unveiled by President Donald Trump in July. As he began his final 40 hours of president, Trump issued

00:24:30.500 an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the planned

00:24:35.560 statue, uh, statuary park. So there's all kinds of, all kinds of names. This is going to be a whole park.

00:24:42.700 It's kind of like a wax museum that he's got planned now. So I guess that these are going to be,

00:24:46.200 you know, these are going to be sculptures, statues. Um, so Kobe Bryant, Humphrey Bogart,

00:24:54.000 Miles Davis, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Stewart,

00:25:00.740 Ray Charles, Nat King Cole. Um, I, I'm pretty sure Christopher Columbus is going to be that George

00:25:07.300 Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson. So we're throwing some of them into Martin Luther King Jr.,

00:25:12.200 Jackie Robinson, Amelia Earhart. So it does seem like kind of a, a random assortment of people,

00:25:19.120 but I like the idea. My, my only, of course, my only issue with, with any

00:25:25.820 statue or monument project being undertaken right now, right before Democrats take over,

00:25:32.560 is that all that stuff is just going to come down.

00:25:34.580 Um, but I'm in favor of just, just keep building the statues. And if this is what it comes to,

00:25:41.660 every time we have a Republican president, just build like a thousand more statues, just keep

00:25:45.600 building them. Um, all right. Number four, I wanted to play this for you just because I thought it was

00:25:53.680 very inspiring. Um, I personally, I was inspired by it. We played yesterday, Kamala Harris talking about

00:26:00.260 her shoes. And that also was pretty inspiring, but, uh, here she is with some invigorating words

00:26:07.260 of encouragement, just for anyone out there. She says she's a, she's kind of a motivational

00:26:11.040 speaker and she's a mentor. And these are her words of encouragement. I thought this was pretty

00:26:14.820 great. Listen, I was raised to understand many people will tell you it is impossible, but don't

00:26:22.480 listen. I mentor a lot of people and I tell them that there will be people who will say,

00:26:28.160 it's not your turn. It's not your time. No one like you has done it. And I'll tell them,

00:26:33.060 and don't you listen. And then I will go on to tell them I eat no for breakfast.

00:26:39.260 So authentic, so authentic. It's the parade of cliches.

00:26:45.860 Throw a bunch of cliches in a blender, you know, blend it up and pour it out. And that's,

00:26:52.200 that's what you have every time. Uh, every, every time Kamala Harris speaks, I eat no for breakfast.

00:26:56.580 Do you really say that? Is that really what you say to people? I hope you don't say that in real

00:27:00.840 life to people in a normal conversation. Hey, listen, I eat no for breakfast. What? Why would

00:27:07.920 you say that? Uh, but you know, on the other hand, I have to credit where it's due. Um, Kamala Harris,

00:27:17.480 early on in her career to establish her political career. It cannot be denied that, you know, she,

00:27:27.340 she, she took a very hands-on approach, hands-on, you know, hands, all kinds of places. I mean,

00:27:34.620 she really took a hands-on approach and she was going to get down and dirty and really make sure 1.00

00:27:39.400 that she, uh, that she got her political career going. And I, and I, and I, and that, that much you

00:27:43.440 do have to respect. That's all I'll say. By the way, I just saw that Sarah Fuller, a kicker for 0.99

00:27:48.060 Vanderbilt. Remember she was the, you know, the, the, the, the woman they brought in to kick at 1.00

00:27:52.280 Vanderbilt. She's going to be at the inauguration apparently, which means there will be a person

00:27:58.700 who won the job because of her gender, despite a mediocre performance. And also Sarah Fuller will 0.98

00:28:04.840 be there. So that's going to be great. Number five, Chicago prosecutors say that, uh, this is from

00:28:09.180 Daily Wire. Chicago prosecutors say that 36 year old Adyita Singh lived in the city's O'Hare

00:28:14.440 International Airport for three months to avoid flying home to Los Angeles amid the coronavirus

00:28:20.100 pandemic. This is one of those very strange stories. I've seen it everywhere. And I kind of

00:28:25.060 assume we're going to find out in a couple of weeks that half of this is just wrong. It didn't

00:28:29.740 happen because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Um, CWB Chicago, which regularly covers the city's

00:28:36.480 bond hearings, noticed, uh, Singh's case on Sunday when Singh came up for bond on charges of criminal

00:28:42.100 trespass to a restricted area and petty theft, apparently for continuing to use an airport

00:28:45.780 worker's misplaced credentials. Singh first arrived to Chicago on a flight from Los Angeles on October

00:28:51.540 19th. Um, and then he just decided to stay there and he's been relying on other passengers to provide

00:28:58.620 him with food. Shouldn't that, I mean, the moment you have a panhandler in the airport, so you're

00:29:05.540 telling me this guy was panhandling in the airport and it took him, took people three months to notice

00:29:11.060 an airport of all places with security everywhere. I've, cause I've, I've never seen that. I've never

00:29:18.340 seen you see in Chicago, you see panhandling everywhere. The only place you wouldn't see it

00:29:23.100 is in an airport. So I don't know, I guess people just, they were going through Chicago airport.

00:29:28.100 They figured, well, this is part of the culture here. Um, so he, uh, let's see, he was using the

00:29:33.080 credential and he, I don't know, we don't know where he slept or what he did. My first question

00:29:40.200 is why O'Hare of all places? I can understand spending a few months, you know, in maybe the

00:29:44.180 Minneapolis airport or even Charlotte, but O'Hare, Chicago. The only good thing about O'Hare is that

00:29:51.360 it's the one place in Chicago where you probably won't get shot. But other than that, it doesn't

00:29:55.160 have much to recommend it. Um, as much as I kind of like airports, actually good thing about airports,

00:30:01.740 you can drink at 7am. Nobody judges you. It's like the one place in the world where you can do

00:30:05.420 that, that in a cruise ship, I guess. But that's a strange story. I guess we'll, we'll have to keep

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00:33:46.500 Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling someone who dispensed some bad

00:33:51.220 parenting advice on TikTok. Really, I suppose we should just cancel all parenting advice that is

00:33:56.020 given on TikTok. Frankly, I'm horrified to discover that parenting advice on TikTok is even a thing,

00:34:01.380 but it is a thing apparently. And very much so our culprit today has a TikTok account with a hundred

00:34:06.040 thousand followers. And the video we're going to play in a moment has 7 million views and 700,000

00:34:11.440 likes. Okay. So the sad reality, as much as we might hate to admit it, is that a great many young

00:34:16.640 people are going to learn about parenting and get their parenting wisdom and advice from TikTok. 0.99

00:34:21.460 So it does matter that the advice is so abysmally stupid and also dangerous. 0.99

00:34:26.160 So we'll go through this video. It's less than a minute, but here it is. And we'll start here and 0.99

00:34:32.960 we'll discuss. Why I don't use a crib for my five-month-old. If you look at a typical American 1.00

00:34:38.600 nursery, you will notice that it's set up for the parents' benefit, not the child's. Okay, you're

00:34:43.580 right. That's true. Let's just stop right there. The nursery is for the parents' benefit. In fact,

00:34:47.740 everything in the house is for the parents' benefit in the sense that it's all set up how it's set up

00:34:52.440 because the parents want it that way and know they need it that way. They also know their kids

00:34:57.540 need it that way, even if their kids don't want it that way. You know, if it were up to my kids,

00:35:02.100 we would be living in refrigerator boxes outside, defecating in the yard, eating fast food for every

00:35:08.480 meal. Yes, I'm teeing up for a San Francisco joke here, but it's probably not necessary to spell out

00:35:13.100 the punchline. The point is the nursery, the kitchen, the living room, everything in the house,

00:35:18.820 they're all going to be set up to the parent's specifications for the benefit of both the parent

00:35:23.520 and the child. I cannot imagine what a nursery set up to an infant's specifications would look

00:35:28.360 like because infants don't have specifications because they're infants. Okay, let's get back to

00:35:34.080 the clip. The artwork is usually up high where babies can't even see it. We literally buy these

00:35:39.120 little baby jail cells so that we can just leave our baby in there and walk away. 1.00

00:35:42.780 Well, again, yeah, you know, I wouldn't call it a jail cell. That might be a bit dramatic,

00:35:47.880 but it is certainly a huge benefit to be able to put your baby down and walk away. The other option

00:35:51.980 is to what? Never walk away from your child ever? I mean, just 24 hours a day, every day, you're never

00:36:00.100 in a different room? See, this is how you know the young lady here only has one child and only has

00:36:04.860 been a parent for a few months. And it's also why nobody with one kid who is still, and the kid is still a

00:36:10.260 baby, should be giving any parenting advice at all ever to anyone. If you're still at the point

00:36:16.200 where you're scandalized by the idea of a parent putting their child down for a minute and walking

00:36:20.200 away, then you haven't been in this game long enough. You need a few more circles under the

00:36:24.200 eyes, a little more drool and spit up on the shoulder, a little dirt under the fingernails

00:36:28.780 or something under your fingernails. You hope it's dirt. You never know when there are kids in the

00:36:33.720 house. I can tell you, I can't tell you how many times as a parent I've been holding a child or even

00:36:38.080 like sitting in a chair or something. And then I look down and there's some sort of ominous

00:36:41.700 substance on me. And I think, what the hell is this? Is this pudding? Please tell me this is

00:36:46.800 pudding. Who had pudding? Anyway, back to the video. I don't have a crib because I will never

00:36:53.380 enforce my baby to have a bedtime. Babies are people too, and forcing anyone to sleep when they're not

00:36:58.840 tired is inhumane. Imagine if your partner locked you in a container you couldn't get out of and told

00:37:04.120 you you had to sleep even though you weren't tired. That would be abuse, and you'd probably

00:37:08.280 leave them. Kids deserve the right to bodily autonomy just like we do, and that involves sleep. 0.92

00:37:14.280 Okay, many problems here. First, your baby is not your partner. That is a very strange way of

00:37:21.300 characterizing it. Your baby is not your partner in any sense at all. Your baby is your baby. And the

00:37:27.600 thing about your baby being your baby is that he's a baby. As such, he has no idea when he's tired.

00:37:33.360 He has no idea when he needs to sleep. Babies cry when they're tired, okay? It's extremely

00:37:38.320 irrational behavior. I have turned to my kids when they're crying because they're tired. And I have

00:37:44.500 said, hey, if you're tired, just go to sleep. You're a baby. Don't you understand that? You could

00:37:49.000 literally just lie on the floor right now and sleep, and nobody would judge you. I can't do that. I wish I

00:37:54.980 could. I can't just pass out on the floor. What are you crying about? I should be the one crying.

00:38:00.840 You've kept me awake for the past nine months. I'm hallucinating. I'm literally going to die.

00:38:06.400 You don't see me crying. I have said this to our babies many times, but it's no use, I've

00:38:11.820 discovered. These are the lessons you learn with parenting. They can't be reasoned with. They

00:38:15.700 don't understand anything. They don't know that they're supposed to sleep when they're tired.

00:38:20.640 You have to teach. Think about that. This is how clueless kids are. This is your job as a parent.

00:38:23.980 You have to teach them that you're supposed to sleep when you're tired. That is not something

00:38:29.460 that comes naturally. You have to give them that structure and guidance. My 14-month-old was

00:38:38.180 fussy and tired the other day, so she literally started, this is what she was doing because she

00:38:42.540 was tired. She was running in circles in the living room, periodically throwing herself on the

00:38:47.420 ground and crying, and at other points, laughing hysterically. This is the behavior of a lunatic, 0.99

00:38:53.720 but she gets a pass because she's 14 months old. That's why I had to pick her up, put her in the 0.99

00:38:59.820 crib, and say, okay, bedtime. So forcing your child to sleep is one of the best things you can do for

00:39:06.140 them. Give them structure. Get them on a schedule. Make sure they're rested. It's a very good idea.

00:39:11.700 All right, let's finish this, put ourselves out of our misery. One last clip. Let's go.

00:39:15.620 This is our current setup, but we also have a floor bed. The floor bed allows the baby to sleep

00:39:21.240 when the baby is feeling sleepy and get up and move around when the baby's not.

00:39:28.140 My God. Get up and move around whenever he wants? He's five months old. What is he going to do?

00:39:36.780 Walk out to the kitchen and fix himself a sandwich in the middle of the night?

00:39:39.440 Don't mind me, Mom. Just grabbing a midnight snack. By the way, please, and this is all joking aside,

00:39:46.480 and I really mean this, everyone. If you're watching the video, you can see this image of

00:39:51.280 the child. As a parent of four kids, this to me is one of the most terrifying things I've ever

00:39:55.860 looked at in my life, this picture right here. You tell me that's the bed of a five-month-old?

00:39:59.480 Please, do not put your babies in beds with blankets and pillows and stuffed animals,

00:40:06.140 as this woman has apparently done. I am genuinely concerned for the child's welfare. 1.00

00:40:11.440 They can easily suffocate at that age with that sort of stuff in their bed. Do not do that.

00:40:16.660 I mean, really, you want to be... I may be a little bit more paranoid about choking and suffocation

00:40:23.520 as a parent than I need to be, but what I would say is you want to be well into their first...

00:40:28.780 into their second year of life. You want to be well past the one-year mark before you start putting

00:40:33.340 them in bed with any kind of blankets or pillows or anything. They don't need it.

00:40:37.060 And at five months, do not do that. Do not do that. They can get that... That stuff gets wrapped

00:40:42.740 around their head, and that's how you get SIDS. That's how kids die in their sleep. Okay, it happens.

00:40:47.140 So put your baby in a crib. Treat your baby like a baby, because he is a baby. That's what you should 0.54

00:40:55.760 do. Basically, do the opposite. This is my recommendation. You can take it from the guy

00:40:59.880 with four kids or the woman who's had one kid for five months. What I would say is do the opposite 0.97

00:41:05.940 of everything you just heard from our friend in the video. All of that. Take all of that and just do

00:41:11.100 the opposite of it. That's a good way of being. Because for now, she is canceled. And I really

00:41:18.700 hope to God someone talks some sense into her. And soon. And that'll do it for us today. Thanks

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 19, 2021

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