The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 652 - Dems Turn Congress Into Group Therapy

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Democrats, who sat back and cheered while millions of Americans were

00:00:04.580 impacted by rioting all summer, spent last night on the House floor tearfully describing their own

00:00:09.540 trauma from a riot in which none of them were harmed. It's kind of a group therapy session

00:00:13.940 and a cynical and disgusting display as well. So we'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, 0.66

00:00:17.860 including the White House declaring that even after you get the vaccine, you still need to

00:00:21.960 wear a mask. So what's the point of the vaccine then? And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss

00:00:25.040 the resurgent career of Nick Cannon, who got his job back after calling white people subhuman 0.92

00:00:31.440 savages. What does that tell us about the nature of privilege in America? Plus, I'll read some of

00:00:35.920 my YouTube comments, all of that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show. Before we really

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00:02:18.120 right now to learn more. So last night in what somehow managed to be one of the most sickeningly

00:02:25.440 cynical and fraudulent displays we have ever seen on the floor of Congress, and I understand what a

00:02:30.300 statement that is, a group of Democratic representatives decided to hold a group therapy

00:02:34.760 session. As the lockdowns continue to cripple American businesses, millions of our citizens

00:02:39.760 face financial ruin, and our nation faces a host of crises from multiple fronts, the Democrats 0.63

00:02:45.820 still carved out some time to talk about their feelings, their favorite subject after all.

00:02:51.760 This special House hearing was requested by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose own cinematic tale of narrowly

00:02:58.780 avoiding death at the hands of right-wing assassins took a major hit when it was revealed that

00:03:02.700 the riot was happening in an entirely different building from the one she was in. Nonetheless,

00:03:06.900 Cortez was given more time and space on the taxpayer's dime, in this case, to spin her yarn.

00:03:13.080 So here she is introducing the evening's program while unabashedly labeling herself and her colleagues as

00:03:19.820 survivors. Listen.

00:03:21.700 Less than 29 days later, with little to no accountability for the bloodshed and trauma of the sixth,

00:03:28.500 some are already demanding that we move on, or worse, attempting to minimize, discredit,

00:03:36.260 or belittle the accounts of survivors. In doing so, they not only further harm those who were there that

00:03:42.840 day and provide cover for those responsible, but they also send a tremendously damaging message

00:03:49.740 to survivors of trauma all across this country.

00:03:52.720 Survivors, yeah. AOC is as much a survivor of this riot as I am. She was never in any direct danger.

00:04:01.560 She was never confronted by any mob. She did not survive anything except in the general sense of

00:04:06.260 having made it through another day without dying in the sense that we're all survivors by virtue of

00:04:10.540 the fact that we're all still currently alive. If that's what she means, then fine. I'll wear the

00:04:14.860 label too. I'm a survivor. Someone cue the Beyonce song. Now, AOC was joined in the spectacle by such

00:04:20.960 squad luminaries as Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib. The former vacillated between openly weeping 0.99

00:04:27.880 and boldly declaring that she would have personally whooped the asses of any rioters who tried to 0.99

00:04:33.140 accost her. So here she is making that claim. Madam Speaker, St. Louis and I rise to reflect 0.99

00:04:39.620 on how our office experienced the white supremacist attack on our nation's Capitol on January the 6th.

00:04:50.960 Everybody is everybody's experiences are different and everybody's experiences must be validated.

00:05:00.340 So I remember sitting in the office with my team and just thinking to myself, I feel like I'm back

00:05:09.900 at this very minute. I feel like I'm back. I feel like this was one of the days out there on the streets

00:05:16.440 when the white supremacists would show up and start shooting at us. This is one of the days when the 0.87

00:05:20.800 police would ambush us from behind trees and from behind buildings and all of a sudden now we're on

00:05:26.680 the ground being brutalized. It felt like one of those days. And now just remember taking a second

00:05:31.160 thinking, if they touch these doors, if they hit these doors, the way they hit that door, if they hit

00:05:37.940 these doors and come anywhere near my staff. And I'm just going to be real honest about it. My thought

00:05:46.240 process was we banging to the end. I'm not letting them take out my people and you're not taking me

00:05:53.600 out. We've come too far. Yeah. Okay. Corey, you're about to go full kill bill. I'm sure had the katana

00:06:00.560 ready and everything. Uh, now, and, and she says it took her back to the days of white supremacists

00:06:06.080 shooting at her. When were those days exactly? What, what is she referring to? That's a, I mean,

00:06:10.120 that's a headline. I'd like to know what, what happened. She says that when they were shooting

00:06:13.840 at us, apparently this is something that happened to her. I'm not aware of that story. Notice too,

00:06:18.660 how she casually labels the rioters white supremacists as she has from the beginning. This isn't very

00:06:24.980 interesting as she thinks everything is white supremacy. She would probably label a literal jar of 1.00

00:06:28.960 Manny. He's a white supremacist, but even so it bears repeating that there's no evidence and never

00:06:34.640 was any evidence that anything that happened on January 6th was at all racially motivated for her

00:06:41.060 part. Rashida Tlaib could barely speak through her tears. So overcome with emotion, even though she

00:06:48.420 wasn't even in DC on the day of the riot. Let's listen to that. So what happened on January 6th? All I

00:06:55.100 could do is thank Allah that I wasn't here. I felt overwhelming relief and I feel bad for Alexandria.

00:07:03.120 So many of my colleagues that were here, but as I saw it, I thought to myself, thank God I am not

00:07:09.480 there. I saw the images that they didn't get to see until later. My team and I decided at that point,

00:07:18.080 we'd keep the death threats away. We try to report them, document them, to keep them away from me

00:07:25.300 because it just paralyzed me and all I wanted to do was come here and serve the people that raised me.

00:07:35.200 Now she mentions earlier in her speech, the death threats that she's gotten during her career, which

00:07:39.380 have nothing to do with the riot, but death threats to a congresswoman or to anyone else are horrible.

00:07:44.820 I can tell you that I know that from experience. I myself have had plenty of them. I've gotten

00:07:50.400 messages, plenty of messages saying terrible things about not just me, but my wife and my children.

00:07:56.140 I've had violence threatened against, against my kids. It's very upsetting to endorse something like

00:08:01.620 that. I know from experience and the people who make these kinds of threats or send these kinds of

00:08:06.440 emails are vile filth, the lowest of the low. The point simply is that this happens to anyone in the

00:08:13.600 public eye as a consequence, not of systemic racism or anything like that, but of living in such a

00:08:17.540 tribalized society. Another consequence of living in a tribalized society, ironically, is this display 0.53

00:08:23.820 on the House floor. This is political stagecraft disguised as raw human emotion. For proof of that,

00:08:31.520 if you need it, here finally is Representative Dean Phillips in what was hailed as a moving and powerful

00:08:38.360 speech, but what was really one of the most shamelessly cynical diatribes we have ever heard

00:08:43.800 in such a forum. Here it is.

00:08:46.360 We know what it feels like searching for something, anything with which to defend ourselves and

00:08:53.040 realizing a pencil is about all we had. And we know what it feels like thinking that it's a real

00:09:02.060 possibility that we would not see our families and loved ones again. We won't forget. We won't forget.

00:09:12.360 But I'm not here this evening to seek sympathy or just to tell my story. Rather, to make a public

00:09:19.020 apology for recognizing that we were sitting ducks in this room as the chamber was about to be breached.

00:09:25.960 I screamed to my colleagues to follow me, to follow me across the aisle to the Republican side of the

00:09:32.440 chamber so that we could blend in, so that we could blend in. For I felt that the insurrectionists who

00:09:42.160 were trying to break down the doors right here would spare us if they simply mistook us for Republicans.

00:09:50.300 But within moments, I recognized that blending in was not an option available to my colleagues of color.

00:10:02.520 So I'm here tonight to say to my brothers and sisters in Congress and all around our country, I'm sorry.

00:10:11.620 I'm sorry.

00:10:13.340 Give me a break, dude. I mean, it's really quite brilliant, if also completely dishonorable and disgusting. 0.85

00:10:19.160 He implicates all of his Republican colleagues in the riot, positions the riot as somehow racially

00:10:25.140 motivated, and pretends to humble himself while at the same time engaging in naked self-aggrandizement.

00:10:31.420 All in the span of 90 seconds, it was, the whole thing was, the whole show, the whole therapy session

00:10:35.260 was in some ways a master class for those who are utterly soulless and care for nothing but power. 0.99

00:10:41.500 Now, if you're not in that category, though, you will be revolted by the display.

00:10:45.200 Especially when you consider that these very same people did not care to hear the stories of trauma

00:10:52.140 from their own constituents who lived through much worse, much more damaging, much more deadly rioting,

00:11:01.300 sustained for a much longer period of time.

00:11:04.880 Yes, I'll say it again. I'll say it a thousand times.

00:11:06.760 The rioting that happened in our cities was much, much, much worse than this.

00:11:12.600 And the fact that this happened to politicians does not make it worse unless you believe that politicians

00:11:20.000 are more worthy, are worth more, have more value than just regular citizens.

00:11:25.920 I don't believe that.

00:11:28.520 Our members of Congress endured an unpleasant few hours one afternoon.

00:11:32.820 I admit that.

00:11:33.800 None of them were ever harmed in any way.

00:11:37.920 Afterwards, they were flanked by National Guard, fortified behind protective barriers.

00:11:42.700 The world cared about what they went through.

00:11:44.700 The system responded forcefully because, after all, these people are the system.

00:11:49.120 And the people responsible are being hunted down and hit with every possible criminal charge.

00:11:54.620 Okay, so that's been their experience.

00:11:56.420 For average Americans, though, in towns like Kenosha, Minneapolis, Atlanta, any of the hundreds of other cities,

00:12:03.900 for them, Portland, Seattle, it's been quite different.

00:12:07.300 In many cases, their neighborhoods are still in ruins.

00:12:09.820 And nobody cares.

00:12:10.800 Nobody's talking about it.

00:12:12.060 The people responsible have not faced justice.

00:12:14.460 If they were arrested at all, their charges were dropped.

00:12:17.120 I mean, they went through weeks and weeks and weeks of chaos, violence, and destruction.

00:12:23.800 And when it ended, nobody helped them pick up the pieces.

00:12:28.240 Nobody's bringing them up on the House floor to shed their tears under the spotlight.

00:12:32.620 They suffer alone and they are forgotten. 1.00

00:12:35.340 Even the people who are ostensibly on their side are too cowardly or too stupid to really help. 1.00

00:12:39.640 After all, the Republicans could have done what the Democrats just did. 1.00

00:12:43.980 They could still do it.

00:12:45.140 They could have brought the victims of BLM rioting to Congress and set aside an hour or more for them to speak and tell their stories.

00:12:52.580 To reveal their lived experience. 0.95

00:12:56.060 Or Republicans are too incompetent. 0.97

00:12:57.640 Or else disinterested. 1.00

00:12:58.860 Or else plain dumb to do something like that. 0.99

00:13:02.440 And so the very people who normalized rioting and cheered it on and created the situation that we now are in 0.99

00:13:07.340 get to make themselves the victims of it.

00:13:12.500 Talk about privilege.

00:13:13.520 What we saw on the floor of the House last night.

00:13:16.980 That's it.

00:13:18.760 That's what privilege looks like.

00:13:21.380 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:04.260 Well, the first piece of news, not our first headline, but I just wanted to mention that David Hogg, anti-gun activist, is apparently starting his own pillow company to compete with MyPillow and Mike Lindell.

00:15:19.840 So he's going to start a liberal, he's going to start a leftist pillow company.

00:15:24.360 And it really, in some ways, this strikes me as the most leftist thing in the world, to make a pillow company out of spite.

00:15:31.560 He's going to be angrily just stitching pillows together.

00:15:34.220 I'm going to get these people.

00:15:36.680 Take this.

00:15:38.200 Here's a pillow for you.

00:15:39.300 But it's good because, you know, it's good that now pillows are tribalized.

00:15:47.100 Next, I think we need our bedsheets and our blankets to be political statements.

00:15:52.680 I think it's great.

00:15:54.280 I can't wait till we're at a point where every item in our house and everything we eat and everything we wear is a form of political branding.

00:16:03.420 You can wear your liberal socks or your conservative socks.

00:16:08.940 You could drink liberal water or conservative water.

00:16:12.880 That's where we're headed.

00:16:13.840 It's great because this is how you form a healthy and happy society, isn't it?

00:16:19.900 All right.

00:16:20.200 Number one from the Daily Wire says, a well-known emergency doctor who's been promoted by the Biden White House said Thursday that folks who did not wear masks to a market in Florida, we played that video for you.

00:16:28.220 The CNBC, Shep Smith, was very scandalized because people in Florida at a grocery store weren't wearing a mask. 0.54

00:16:35.300 And he couldn't just mind his own damn business, so he did a whole story about it and everything. 0.99

00:16:38.700 Well, this doctor said that in reference to those people, he said that they should be denied vaccinations against COVID-19, adding, let them die. 0.99

00:16:49.440 That's a great thing to hear from a doctor, isn't it? 0.99

00:16:51.680 Let them die. 0.98

00:16:52.700 In a now-deleted post, Dr. Cleveland Gilman captured a video of the mask-less Florida marketgoers saying, Naples, Florida, let them die. 0.99

00:17:01.360 I'm so tired of these people.

00:17:02.800 No vaccine for y'all.

00:17:06.320 And then he continued, I'm working in the COVID ICU tonight.

00:17:09.080 I'm so tired of giving 200% while others in the U.S. can't even help by simply wearing a mask.

00:17:12.980 My spirits are high.

00:17:14.040 We'll get through this pandemic together.

00:17:15.820 I'll keep doing my part until we're all vaccinated.

00:17:18.180 And then eventually he took it down and deleted it. 0.97

00:17:19.660 And this is what he says when his spirits are high, let them die.

00:17:24.580 Okay, if that's him with his spirits high, I would hate to see this guy when he's pissed off, especially if he's my doctor.

00:17:32.140 You know, this whole thing, even if you believe that, you know, not wearing a mask is this terribly reckless thing and all of that,

00:17:43.160 and if you get sick, you brought it on yourself, and it's very common to hear this.

00:17:47.820 Now, usually you don't hear it quite so explicitly from doctors saying, let them die, but at least the peanut gallery on Twitter and elsewhere,

00:17:54.900 they've been saying this for months, that if you don't wear a mask, then you should get medical treatment.

00:17:58.480 But you notice these people, they would never apply that philosophy in any other context.

00:18:04.940 Like, what about someone who is morbidly obese because of their terrible eating habits and then has heart disease? 0.93

00:18:14.180 Would we say, let them die?

00:18:17.080 You did in many ways bring that on yourself.

00:18:20.980 What about someone who gets an STD because they're, you know, going out to a bar?

00:18:25.680 Well, I guess we're not doing that anymore.

00:18:26.640 But someone who meets a different person on Tinder every week ends up with an STD, a consequence we all knew would, anyone knew would come. 0.87

00:18:37.760 And would we say, let them die or just let them suffer?

00:18:43.420 At least if you're going to take this position that allegedly reckless behavior means that you do not deserve medical treatment for the consequences of that behavior,

00:18:52.960 then at least have the guts and the intellectual consistency to go all the way with it.

00:18:59.560 I wouldn't agree, but at least in that case, I would respect your consistency.

00:19:03.440 Okay, number two, the war between the mayor of Chicago and the teachers' union is heating up.

00:19:08.460 And I have to say, I'm enjoying it, or I would enjoy it if not for the fact that the kids are being hurt by this.

00:19:13.960 So if not for that, I would enjoy it, but I don't.

00:19:17.100 Here's Mayor Lightfoot taking it up to another level against the teachers' union.

00:19:21.980 Watch.

00:19:22.960 Schools are safe.

00:19:25.620 And we all know that to be true based upon our actual in-person experience.

00:19:31.820 And let me remind you of the over $100 million in mitigations that CPS has invested in our schools to make them safe.

00:19:43.300 They included ventilation, testing, health screening, face coverings, enhanced cleaning, and other in-school settings.

00:19:52.960 And as the expression goes, the proof is in the pudding.

00:19:58.060 CPS had three weeks of successful implementation of these mitigation plans in our schools.

00:20:05.320 That was until the CTU blew up that success and created chaos that we are now enduring.

00:20:13.700 You know, I would like to say that maybe this is some kind of small awakening moment for Democrat mayors across the country.

00:20:21.560 She's not the only one trying to get the schools open and teachers' unions are refusing. 0.98

00:20:26.560 They don't want to work.

00:20:28.100 Because as we've been talking about, the teachers' union exists for the teachers, not for the kids.

00:20:36.260 And what that means is that they're pitting the interests of the kids against the teachers.

00:20:42.480 Anytime the interests of the kids and the interests of the teachers collide, teachers' unions are always going to say, well, it's all about the teachers.

00:20:49.140 In fact, it's not just that they put teachers above the kids.

00:20:53.920 It's just that the kids are irrelevant to the teachers' union.

00:20:56.960 They don't take into consideration.

00:20:59.120 Education is also irrelevant to the teachers' union.

00:21:02.640 The only thing the teachers' union cares about, why they exist, is just to get more perks and advantages for the teachers. 0.57

00:21:08.080 And anything they can get, they'll take.

00:21:10.560 That's all that matters to them.

00:21:11.640 So I would like to say that this is an awakening moment, maybe, maybe a small little red pill moment for some Democrat mayors where they're realizing that, oh, gee, the teachers' union, they're sort of a cancer on the education system.

00:21:25.180 I mean, maybe we shouldn't have this really powerful organization in the education system that does this, that discards, disregards the interests of kids and of education.

00:21:38.340 Maybe this is a bad thing.

00:21:39.280 I would like to say that, but we all know that this lesson that Mayor Lightfoot and others are learning will not be, will not last long.

00:21:46.800 Once we get past this, however long it takes, if it takes 10 years, eventually they're going to go right back into propping up the teachers' union again, unfortunately.

00:21:58.200 Number three, Jen Psaki at the White House press conference reiterated something that we've been hearing more and more recently and that some of us predicted long ago.

00:22:07.540 But let's listen.

00:22:08.360 What we're also trying to do is make our health and medical experts available to ensure people understand, and I'll reiterate it here today, it's not just a vaccine.

00:22:16.820 It's obviously an incredible medical breakthrough, and we want every American to have one.

00:22:21.860 But even after you're vaccinated, social distancing, wearing masks are going to be essential, and we'll need to continue communicating about that through health and medical experts.

00:22:31.080 If you want people to actually get vaccinated, if you believe in the vaccination, and you want people to get vaccinated, and you want this to end, if all those things apply to you, which the White House, Joe Biden, Jen Psaki would say that it does, then this is the worst possible message that you could possibly have.

00:22:51.740 All you're doing is discouraging people from getting the vaccination.

00:22:55.780 Because what you're telling people, what you're implying anyway, I mean, the message people will take from this is that, oh, well, apparently the vaccine doesn't really do much.

00:23:04.780 You're saying my lifestyle is not going to change at all.

00:23:07.020 I have to take all the same precautions.

00:23:08.680 And why am I getting the vaccine exactly?

00:23:11.960 Either the vaccine is effective or it isn't.

00:23:15.740 If it's effective, then I shouldn't need the mask, and I shouldn't need to socially distance.

00:23:20.160 And in fact, this is the reason, I'm guessing, like 90% of the people, especially those who are not elderly and who do not have preexisting conditions, 90% of those or more that are going off to get the vaccine or who will get the vaccine in the future,

00:23:36.780 it's the thing that's going to motivate them is this idea that they can get back to normal once they have it.

00:23:41.060 If you're taking that away, then people aren't going to get vaccinated.

00:23:44.620 And when you have trouble getting people vaccinated, that's your fault for that message.

00:23:51.080 So the truth, though, why are they saying this?

00:23:54.420 I think there's two reasons.

00:23:55.640 Number one, it's just people in power like having it.

00:24:02.480 We know it's the same old story.

00:24:03.840 And they're not going to relinquish it easy.

00:24:07.280 They like having it.

00:24:09.840 People in positions of power, they can control what we wear on our faces.

00:24:14.000 They can tell us how close we can be to other human beings.

00:24:17.260 They like that power.

00:24:18.280 They do.

00:24:18.980 They're never going to admit it, but they enjoy it.

00:24:21.500 And so they're clinging on to that.

00:24:22.520 And also, at another level, they just don't trust us as the American people.

00:24:29.020 So the problem, from their perspective, probably, is that if they say, well, okay, you get the vaccine and then, you know, you really don't need the mask anymore because the vaccine works, right?

00:24:41.520 If they say that, well, then how are they going to know, right?

00:24:46.020 If you're going into a store without a mask, how are they going to know whether you got the vaccine or not?

00:24:49.860 I mean, maybe they give out vaccine cards or something, but they're not sure if people will go along with that.

00:24:55.900 They don't want to go that far.

00:24:57.880 So the next solution is just to have everyone wear a mask whether they want it or not.

00:25:03.020 Because that's what this has been about all along. 0.99

00:25:06.440 Many of these regulations and everything, it's just because they think we're stupid and reckless and basically suicidal. 0.99

00:25:13.240 And so they have to treat us that way. 0.99

00:25:15.620 And that's how they've been approaching this pandemic from day one. 1.00

00:25:19.460 Treating us like absolute children and morons. 1.00

00:25:24.760 And the unfortunate thing is that a lot of people are perfectly okay with that. 1.00

00:25:29.420 Perfectly okay with being treated that way.

00:25:32.020 Number four from the Daily Wire, a USA Today sports columnist says that NFL superstar quarterback Tom Brady

00:25:38.600 eluded criticism over his support from former President Donald Trump because of white privilege.

00:25:44.100 In a piece published Tuesday, headline, Tom Brady has gotten an undeserved pass for his past support of Donald Trump.

00:25:49.960 Nancy Armour said the Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB shouldn't get a pass just because he's a star.

00:25:55.660 She wrote, quote, how mighty white of him.

00:25:58.420 Brady's ability to enter and exit the debate at his choosing to shield himself from accountability is the height of white privilege.

00:26:03.660 As this country grapples with the far reaches of systemic racism, look no further than Brady,

00:26:08.760 for whom the expectations and allowances granted will always be different.

00:26:12.740 This, you keep hearing this point. 1.00

00:26:14.560 It is so unbelievably stupid on so many levels. 1.00

00:26:16.800 We covered it in the Daily Cancellation, at least the comparison with Tom Brady and Kaepernick. 1.00

00:26:20.400 Oh, why does Kaepernick not have a job but Tom Brady does?

00:26:22.740 Well, Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in NFL history, bar none.

00:26:25.980 There's no debate about it anymore. 1.00

00:26:27.420 And Colin Kaepernick, well, sucks. 0.99

00:26:30.560 And so that's why he doesn't have jobs. 1.00

00:26:31.680 And on top of that, he's also a huge headache and he's got the circus act that he brings along with him.

00:26:36.540 And there's just no good reason.

00:26:38.640 If you own a team or if you're a general manager, why would you want a second or third string caliber guy 0.66

00:26:43.780 who's going to bring a lot of unwanted negative attention and probably accuse you of racism when you don't start him?

00:26:49.320 Why would you want him on your team?

00:26:50.240 You wouldn't.

00:26:50.960 Why would you want Tom Brady on your team?

00:26:52.660 Well, again, because he's won six Super Bowls, he's the greatest quarterback in history.

00:26:55.780 Okay?

00:26:56.480 Pretty simple there.

00:26:57.120 But this claim is trying to make Tom Brady into this guy, this political guy.

00:27:02.120 When has Tom Brady made any political statement?

00:27:04.880 Through his own career.

00:27:06.080 His whole career.

00:27:07.940 This thing about him being a Trump supporter.

00:27:11.100 That is based on the fact that like five years ago, he had a MAGA hat in his locker.

00:27:19.280 He didn't call attention to it.

00:27:21.000 He didn't put it on and say, hey, everybody, look, I'm a Trump supporter.

00:27:23.520 He just had it there.

00:27:24.960 And cameras spotted it.

00:27:26.760 And this is being called a political statement.

00:27:29.100 And it's being compared to the statements of Colin Kaepernick,

00:27:32.740 who protested during a game and during the anthem.

00:27:36.720 We're going to compare those two things.

00:27:40.520 Give me a break.

00:27:42.760 Tom Brady has been very consistently apolitical through his whole career.

00:27:49.740 Now, so it's not that Tom Brady is dipping in and out of political conversations at will,

00:27:56.120 and he's able to do that because of white privilege.

00:27:58.060 Do you know someone, a star athlete, who's able to do that, what Tom Brady is accused of?

00:28:03.800 If she says, enter and exit the debate at his choosing, you know who's doing that?

00:28:09.340 LeBron James, not a white guy.

00:28:12.480 LeBron James, he can, massive star athlete, and he can enter into a political debate,

00:28:20.200 say a bunch of incendiary, inflammatory things,

00:28:24.240 lob a couple of rhetorical grenades into an already chaotic situation,

00:28:28.220 and then just step out and go about his day.

00:28:31.380 And he plays, and he's going to be starring in Space Jam.

00:28:34.020 He gets all the Hollywood jobs.

00:28:36.640 He's got shows on, I think, HBO or Netflix.

00:28:39.840 Very marketable celebrity, an athlete.

00:28:43.940 And he is able to do that while also being, at times, intensely political

00:28:48.580 and in very unhelpful and inflammatory ways.

00:28:52.960 That's not Tom Brady, that's LeBron James.

00:28:57.360 Number five, a defendant in Florida.

00:29:01.220 I don't know, maybe you've got to respect this.

00:29:02.860 A defendant in Florida tried to make a move on the judge during his bond hearing.

00:29:09.520 And bold move.

00:29:11.760 Let's see if it paid off.

00:29:13.940 Demetrius Lewis on page 26.

00:29:17.180 That's good.

00:29:18.360 Just the one, yes.

00:29:19.280 How you doing, how you doing?

00:29:22.480 All right, I'm good, sir.

00:29:23.420 How are you?

00:29:25.300 George, you are so gorgeous, Mr. Judge.

00:29:27.440 I just have to tell you, you're gorgeous.

00:29:29.840 Thank you, Mr. Lewis.

00:29:31.580 All right, Mr. Lewis.

00:29:33.420 Flattery will get you everywhere, but maybe not here.

00:29:37.380 Flattery will get you everywhere, but maybe not here.

00:29:39.320 I mean, you've got to respect it.

00:29:41.320 Maybe you do, maybe you don't.

00:29:43.140 But I saw that, and in some ways, it reminded me of a video.

00:29:49.760 This is from a few years ago.

00:29:51.760 But unfortunately, there are many people who have never had the pleasure of seeing this.

00:29:55.740 And that came to my attention recently.

00:29:58.140 It's been one of my favorite videos for a long time.

00:30:00.080 Many people have never seen this.

00:30:01.280 A similar, now this, okay, so that guy, he's sitting on the judge during the bond hearing.

00:30:06.860 He's making an attempt.

00:30:10.360 There was a guy a few years ago.

00:30:13.020 This was during the sentencing hearing.

00:30:15.540 And I think he was arrested.

00:30:17.500 He was charged, convicted, false imprisonment, and a number of other felonies.

00:30:21.920 And he tries actually serenading the judge during the sentencing hearing.

00:30:28.400 And if you've never seen or heard this before, well, you're in for a treat.

00:30:31.560 Let's watch.

00:30:33.720 That's why I wrote a song.

00:30:36.740 Hello there, your honor, I want to say I'm sorry.

00:30:42.860 This is based on Adele.

00:30:44.200 This is when the hello to Adele song was going to be good.

00:30:48.000 And I try and be stronger in this life I chose, but I want you to know.

00:30:54.860 Notice how no one's laughing in the background.

00:30:56.620 That door I close, in your honor, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:31:03.600 To my mother, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:31:07.980 Everyone just, like, does this happen all the time?

00:31:10.160 Is this a common occurrence?

00:31:12.020 To the victim, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:31:16.160 False imprisonment, he kidnapped somebody.

00:31:18.020 He's singing, I'm sorry.

00:31:18.920 Yes, your honor, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:31:22.380 Everyone just business as usual.

00:31:25.920 Thank you, your honor.

00:31:26.640 There you go.

00:31:28.420 Now, that guy got 17 years in prison.

00:31:31.220 So, the song, I don't know, I guess the judge was not an Adele fan.

00:31:36.220 Should have chosen maybe a different pop song to go with.

00:31:40.800 You know, that, we talked yesterday about people are indoctrinated by Disney movies.

00:31:47.760 And we've seen way too many Disney movies growing up, brainwashed by them.

00:31:50.340 So, we think we can anthropomorphize animals.

00:31:53.060 A similar thing here, maybe this guy has seen too many musicals.

00:31:56.500 And so, he watches the musicals and he sees how someone can get themselves out of a bind

00:31:59.960 by just singing a song, expressing their feelings.

00:32:05.320 And that's enough.

00:32:06.260 And he tried it here and fortunately it doesn't work in real life.

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00:33:59.200 reading the comments, the YouTube comments.

00:34:01.120 A couple of comments from yesterday worth noting, if I can find them.

00:34:04.460 Here we go.

00:34:06.360 Here we go.

00:34:07.240 A rogue addict says, in reference to that bat story that we talked about yesterday, 0.97

00:34:12.600 the flightless arthritic bat whose caretakers are flying it around, 0.99

00:34:19.180 even though it can't fly, it doesn't know any better because it's blind. 0.96

00:34:22.060 And I said, the most merciful thing with an animal like this is,

00:34:24.980 even though it's very cute and heartwarming to keep them alive,

00:34:27.820 the most merciful thing is to just put them down.

00:34:30.220 When the animal cannot perform its basic function,

00:34:33.680 like fly or walk, whether it's a dog or a bat, you put them down.

00:34:36.920 That's the most merciful thing.

00:34:38.340 Rogue addict says, using your logic, 1.00

00:34:40.760 should we also kill the vets that came back without limbs or with the PTSD? 1.00

00:34:45.140 They are also far from happy and they are in pain. 0.99

00:34:49.020 I heard this from a lot of people when I made that point.

00:34:52.060 And this is why it always somehow manages to surprise me each time

00:34:56.000 when I have to clarify something here.

00:34:59.780 And that is that people aren't bats.

00:35:04.580 Okay, that's the difference.

00:35:05.540 No, I'm not in favor of killing people who are, say, crippled or blind. 0.89

00:35:11.120 I'm not in favor of that.

00:35:13.440 That's because they're people.

00:35:16.420 And people are more important than bats.

00:35:20.020 People are more important than animals.

00:35:22.100 People are more important than your dog, who you love so much.

00:35:25.980 Every person on earth is more important than your dog.

00:35:29.240 And we all know that, but we pretend not to.

00:35:31.880 We all know that, which is why when you're driving down the road

00:35:36.800 and you see a dead raccoon or a dead deer on the side of the road,

00:35:41.340 you don't think anything of it.

00:35:42.700 You don't pull over.

00:35:43.640 You don't start crying.

00:35:45.100 You don't say, oh my God, what happened?

00:35:47.360 You don't do that.

00:35:48.620 Now, if you were driving by and you saw a dead person on the side of the road,

00:35:52.000 you're going to react very differently to that, aren't you?

00:35:55.320 Why is that?

00:35:56.020 Because people are more important, have more value than animals.

00:36:00.200 For some reason, when you say it out loud, it's scandalous to people,

00:36:03.960 but it's one of those things that everyone thinks.

00:36:07.060 Even the people at PETA think it.

00:36:09.520 That's why they kill animals in their shelters all the time. 1.00

00:36:14.460 All right. 0.97

00:36:15.920 Rogue addict.

00:36:17.320 Not good.

00:36:19.280 Steve A says, our local hardware store says masks are optional.

00:36:23.760 Business is booming.

00:36:24.580 People are smart.

00:36:25.380 They know who's at risk and who isn't. 1.00

00:36:26.620 But the fake outrage from that jackass on MSNBC is more disgusting. 0.99

00:36:30.960 That is CNBC, not MSNBC. 1.00

00:36:33.080 Okay, don't. 0.95

00:36:34.040 It's more disgusting than the filthy rags people are covering their face with.

00:36:37.240 And that is what it comes down to.

00:36:38.300 People just don't, you know.

00:36:41.380 The message, if we had leaders who respected us,

00:36:46.160 the message from the very beginning would have been just be smart.

00:36:49.120 Be careful, you know.

00:36:53.080 And if you're at a particular risk of COVID,

00:36:56.640 then, you know, you want to take even more precautions maybe than someone who isn't.

00:37:01.860 And so we're not going to have the same,

00:37:03.460 not everyone's going to be doing exactly the same thing.

00:37:05.900 Not everyone has to lock themselves in their home.

00:37:08.740 Not everyone is at the same risk level.

00:37:10.860 Not everyone is at the same risk of being severely affected by COVID.

00:37:15.300 And not everyone's at the same risk of spreading it either.

00:37:17.300 Don Hathaway says,

00:37:21.440 Your decision to forego using a private jet to help save the planet has inspired me to do the same.

00:37:25.720 If ever I get the chance to own a Lamborghini, I pledge to never drive it.

00:37:28.660 Thank you for setting the bar so high.

00:37:29.860 And thank you, Don.

00:37:30.560 These are things where we all, you know, we all have to do our part.

00:37:32.960 I'm not flying a private jet.

00:37:34.340 You're not driving a Lamborghini.

00:37:35.420 We're all doing our part.

00:37:37.300 Elaine says,

00:37:38.120 Matt Walsh channeling boondock saints.

00:37:40.520 And then she quotes,

00:37:41.680 They all just watched as Kitty was being stabbed to death in broad daylight.

00:37:44.580 They watched as her assailant walked away.

00:37:46.620 Now we must all fear evil men, but there is another kind of evil which we must fear most.

00:37:51.800 And that is the indifference of good men.

00:37:54.120 Yeah, good quote there.

00:37:55.160 And boondock saints.

00:37:56.020 Of course, I'm a child of the 90s.

00:37:57.460 So I loved that movie when I was a teenager.

00:37:59.540 I haven't gone back and watched it again because it's one of those movies that I suspect if I watched again as an adult, it wouldn't hold up.

00:38:04.480 Although I don't know.

00:38:05.220 I'm just going to let it be, you know, in my memories as a great movie.

00:38:08.880 But I actually, I disagree.

00:38:10.380 See, it's not the indifference of good men that we have to worry about in society.

00:38:12.940 Because good men, by definition, are not indifferent.

00:38:16.420 If you're a good man or a good woman, then you have virtue.

00:38:20.060 And virtue is not indifferent.

00:38:21.400 Virtue is an active, present thing.

00:38:24.680 Virtue is something that you're doing every day.

00:38:28.800 Virtues like courage and humility and mercy.

00:38:33.120 These are things that we do.

00:38:34.960 So, no, it's not the indifference of good men we have to worry about because that's kind of a misnomer.

00:38:38.340 It's a contradiction in terms.

00:38:40.360 It's the indifference of bad people.

00:38:43.900 And I would submit that the primary or at least the most harmful form of badness in our culture today is indifference.

00:38:55.880 It's not hate per se.

00:38:58.700 There are a lot of hateful people, but those aren't really the people we've got to worry about the most.

00:39:02.180 It's just the empty, indifferent people who maybe don't care.

00:39:08.080 They don't hate their fellow man.

00:39:09.940 They just don't care about their fellow man at all.

00:39:12.340 It makes no difference to them.

00:39:14.300 That's what we have to worry about.

00:39:15.740 Finally, Scott says, Matt, stop showing your biceps.

00:39:18.720 I want to be able to actually listen to you.

00:39:21.160 Well, Scott, out of respect for you, I have worn long sleeves today.

00:39:24.420 Anyway, you know, I would never want to cause, I'm a Christian.

00:39:30.620 I would never want to cause my brother in Christ to stumble.

00:39:32.860 So, I'm looking out for you, protecting your heart, as they say.

00:39:37.720 Well, you know, it's February and not a lot going on in February.

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00:39:42.800 You know how I feel about that.

00:39:44.080 Valentine's Day.

00:39:44.580 You know how I feel about that.

00:39:46.180 The Super Bowl.

00:39:46.860 I mean, that's one thing at least.

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00:42:12.240 Now today for our Daily Cancellation,

00:42:13.680 let's look at two stories that are happening at the same time.

00:42:15.920 First, Morgan Wallen is watching his career implode before his eyes

00:42:19.900 as a consequence of a video that catches the country music star using a racial slur.

00:42:26.920 Now, Wallen and his buddies were laughing and carrying on

00:42:29.320 after returning home from a night of drinking this past weekend,

00:42:32.600 and their antics were so loud and disruptive that they woke up the neighbors,

00:42:36.120 one of whom decided to pull out a phone and document the commotion.

00:42:40.440 Unfortunately for Wallen, the camera had been turned on right before

00:42:43.380 he shouted to one of his friends across the street,

00:42:46.020 presumably referring to another friend who was in perhaps an especially drunken state.

00:42:50.140 He said,

00:42:50.560 Take care of this blank N-word.

00:42:54.120 Here's the video.

00:42:55.420 Okay, so I just,

00:43:18.480 I wanted you to see or hear that just to get the tone of it.

00:43:22.060 Um, it's clear that Wallen used the word he should not have used.

00:43:26.540 It's also clear that he didn't mean for it to be public,

00:43:28.800 though he did shout it in the street, which is not a good way of keeping things private.

00:43:32.600 And he meant it as a joke.

00:43:34.420 Okay.

00:43:35.860 Nonetheless, as expected, the penalties have been quite significant.

00:43:39.100 Wallen apologized profusely, but that didn't stop the inevitable from happening.

00:43:42.120 His record label suspended him.

00:43:43.320 The Academy of Country Music Awards revoked his eligibility.

00:43:46.680 Cumulus Media, iHeart Media, and SiriusXM pulled all of his songs from their stations,

00:43:50.520 effectively removing him from the radio altogether.

00:43:53.200 Okay.

00:43:53.760 This is the swiftest and harshest backlash we have probably seen against a star,

00:43:57.680 a star musician in, I don't know how long.

00:44:00.640 Years, at least.

00:44:02.620 Even though star musicians do and say objectionable things all the time.

00:44:06.080 While Wallen's star is rapidly plummeting after saying one offensive thing,

00:44:11.780 a thing which, if context matters, was said drunkenly and in jest,

00:44:16.100 another star is ascending again after a minor and temporary dip.

00:44:20.320 The juxtaposition here, I think, is quite instructive.

00:44:22.920 Nick Cannon and ViacomCBS have reunited and are feeling so good,

00:44:27.440 and the production of his VH1 series Wild and Out will resume following a brief suspension

00:44:32.100 of their relationship following comments that Cannon made on his podcast last summer.

00:44:38.520 Now, you might remember what provoked the backlash was Cannon's claim

00:44:42.020 that black people can't be anti-Semitic because they are the Semitic people 0.93

00:44:47.400 and they are, quote, the true Hebrews.

00:44:50.100 This is what prompted the brief severing of ties with ViacomCBS and an apology from Cannon.

00:44:56.620 But that's all water under the bridge now, apparently.

00:44:58.640 Cannon's career is back and it's on track and he's rolling again.

00:45:01.320 No problem.

00:45:02.800 But the true Hebrew stuff wasn't close to the worst thing he said during the podcast.

00:45:09.240 The really offensive and racist remarks were never acknowledged by the media

00:45:13.600 or by Cannon himself or even by ViacomCBS when they initially condemned his statements.

00:45:17.900 They just ignored this part.

00:45:19.860 Cannon, in fact, has faced no consequence, not even a temporary consequence, 0.92

00:45:24.120 for his actual racist diatribe in which he claimed that white people fear black, 0.90

00:45:29.920 quote, unquote, and have a, quote, lack of compassion because of their melanin deficiency. 0.98

00:45:36.060 And if that wasn't enough, he also said that white people are, quote, a little less, 0.98

00:45:40.180 read, inferior to black people. 0.99

00:45:42.020 And that because they don't have the power of the sun, they behave, quote, out of fear, 0.99

00:45:48.280 out of low self-esteem and out of deficiency and can, quote, only act evil. 0.50

00:45:54.620 Robbing and raping in order to survive, he says. 1.00

00:45:57.340 White people, Cannon says, are, quote, closer to animals and are, quote, the true savages. 1.00

00:46:01.700 Okay, that's, these are all things that he said. 0.99

00:46:05.300 This is by far in a way the most racist thing that any celebrity of his stature has said in many years.

00:46:11.360 If you've got a, if you've got a more racist thing, then let me know.

00:46:14.120 And he never apologized for it.

00:46:15.760 And he never, and he, and now he has his job back.

00:46:18.140 So let's stack these two situations up against each other.

00:46:20.880 Wallin used a racial slur in a non-racial context,

00:46:26.040 was drunk and joking and never meant for it to be recorded.

00:46:30.080 Cannon, on the other hand, expressed his true feelings about white people with thorough detail

00:46:35.600 and did so publicly and proudly. 0.99

00:46:37.400 His opinion, as he says himself, is that white people are subhuman animalistic savages 1.00

00:46:42.040 and are inferior to him. 0.99

00:46:44.540 So who's committed the greater sin here?

00:46:47.020 Who suffered the worst consequence?

00:46:49.860 Objectively, there is little doubt that Wallin is the lesser offender,

00:46:53.640 also the lesser human by Nick Cannon's way of thinking,

00:46:56.100 and even less doubt that he has endured the more severe professional consequences.

00:46:59.160 He's also the only one between the two of them who apologized.

00:47:04.060 So, talking about privilege as we were earlier, who has the real privilege here?

00:47:09.560 The man who said a bad thing apologized and lost his career anyway,

00:47:13.440 or the man who said a worse thing didn't apologize and got his career back?

00:47:19.360 You cannot say that the first man has all the privilege without removing all meaning from the word privilege.

00:47:24.820 So, is it enough then, in that case, to say that white privilege is a myth,

00:47:30.040 but black privilege is real?

00:47:32.800 Is that what I'm getting to here?

00:47:34.920 No, not quite.

00:47:35.860 Because if it were as simple as that,

00:47:37.720 then Candace Owens, not only black but a woman as well,

00:47:41.200 would enjoy all of Nick Cannon's privilege and then some.

00:47:44.200 But that's clearly not the case.

00:47:45.500 So, rather than black or white privilege,

00:47:48.240 it's probably more accurate to speak of identity privilege,

00:47:51.800 or more accurately, tribal privilege.

00:47:54.980 Your privilege is tied to your tribe.

00:47:57.580 And within the privileged tribe,

00:47:59.940 the pecking order is determined by a complicated and convoluted hierarchy of identities.

00:48:04.200 Nick Cannon can survive and thrive in spite of his insanely racist views,

00:48:08.280 or even partly because of them, maybe,

00:48:10.480 due first and foremost to his leftism.

00:48:12.780 Okay, now, if Cannon were a conservative,

00:48:16.360 an acolyte of, you know, Thomas Sowell instead of Louis Farrakhan,

00:48:20.580 there would be no redemption arc for him.

00:48:23.780 But within that leftist tribe,

00:48:26.180 which affords him power and prestige to begin with,

00:48:29.180 he earns his rank according to his racial and sexual identity.

00:48:32.520 Though the privilege of his tribe, 0.89

00:48:34.600 so through the privilege of his tribe,

00:48:36.160 and by its own internal rules,

00:48:38.300 he can say pretty much whatever he wants about race.

00:48:41.000 But he's not at the very top of the intersectional heap.

00:48:45.080 So if instead of white people, 0.79

00:48:47.300 he had labeled, say, gay people or transgenders or women, 0.91

00:48:52.100 as, quote, a little less, 0.92

00:48:54.400 then he'd be banished from polite society

00:48:56.440 with all the same speed and vigor that has been directed at Morgan Wallen.

00:49:01.100 Now, as for Morgan Wallen,

00:49:03.580 he's white, a country singer,

00:49:06.080 and he lives in Nashville,

00:49:07.060 which makes him, for all intents and purposes anyway,

00:49:08.900 a conservative, or at least conservative adjacent.

00:49:11.900 He is the wrong race and in the wrong tribe. 1.00

00:49:15.140 The only privilege he has, then,

00:49:16.960 is the kind he can buy with all his wealth.

00:49:19.460 And that'll probably be enough to keep him comfortable for a while,

00:49:21.960 but not enough to save his career or his reputation.

00:49:24.980 And this is privilege.

00:49:25.960 This is how privilege works.

00:49:30.180 This is, Nick Cannon shows exactly how privilege works.

00:49:34.260 It's kind of confusing.

00:49:36.360 It's a tangled web indeed,

00:49:38.340 but this is the way it goes.

00:49:41.740 And this is why the concept of white privilege is canceled.

00:49:47.500 And Nick Cannon is canceled.

00:49:49.100 By me, anyway, if not by anybody else.

00:49:51.860 For whatever that's worth,

00:49:52.900 which is, unfortunately, nothing at all.

00:49:55.500 We'll leave it there for today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 05, 2021

Ep. 652 - Dems Turn Congress Into Group Therapy

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