The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 657 - Arrest Andrew Cuomo

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, new revelations shed more light on Andrew Cuomo's disastrous

00:00:04.240 decision to send infected COVID patients into nursing homes in New York.

00:00:08.080 The scandal's even bigger than we thought. We'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines,

00:00:11.220 including Dave Ramsey getting himself into trouble by criticizing the stimulus bills.

00:00:15.500 But does he have a point? And in our Daily Cancellation, we'll discuss

00:00:18.060 the backlash against a film critic who committed the sin of critiquing an actress.

00:00:23.940 Can't do that as a film critic. Plus, I'll read my YouTube comments and much more today

00:00:27.360 on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:55.760 have died from COVID in New York nursing homes. As far as we know, emphasis on that part of it,

00:02:02.640 the number is already much higher than the previous figure, which it turned out was being underreported

00:02:07.900 by about 50%. We could probably assume that the actual number is higher still, but even pretending

00:02:13.100 that the numbers at this point are accurate, 15,000 is a staggering figure. How did it get

00:02:18.540 so bad? How could so many die, especially when they were already ostensibly isolated in care

00:02:24.580 facilities? Shouldn't that have made them more protected instead of more vulnerable? Well,

00:02:30.140 the how has been coming into sharper focus lately, and some revelations this week especially have

00:02:35.740 helped to reveal the magnitude of this scandal in New York. First, the AP reports based on records that

00:02:42.540 it obtained, it says, uh, that quote, more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York

00:02:47.640 state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the pandemic under a controversial

00:02:52.080 directive that was scrapped amid criticism accelerated outbreaks. The new number of 9,056

00:02:57.980 recovering patients sent to hundreds of nursing homes is more than 40% higher than what the state

00:03:03.420 health department previously released. And it raises new questions as to whether a March 25th

00:03:08.460 directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration helped spread sickness and death among residents,

00:03:13.900 a charge the state disputes. Okay. 9,000, that's 9,000 people carrying a deadly virus,

00:03:21.200 a virus known to especially infect and kill the elderly and carrying it right into nursing homes.

00:03:26.720 Keep in mind that we knew on March 25th that the elderly are most vulnerable to coronavirus. It cannot be

00:03:33.320 claim, claim that Cuomo and his administration didn't realize what they were doing or didn't

00:03:38.780 understand the implications. One of the first established facts about the coronavirus was that

00:03:44.860 it hits the elderly hard and that it hits kids hardly at all. Those were the two things we knew about it

00:03:51.320 right away. Those are maybe the two, maybe the only two facts about the coronavirus that have not changed.

00:03:56.960 And yet leaders like Cuomo responded by shutting down schools and opening up the nursing homes to

00:04:04.620 COVID. Why was this done? I mean, what was the reason? Or at least the stated reason? Well,

00:04:11.480 the AP says this, the Cuomo administration's March 25th directive barred nursing homes from refusing

00:04:17.240 people just because they had COVID-19. It was intended to free up space in hospitals swamped in the early

00:04:24.280 days of the pandemic. It came under criticism from advocates for nursing home residents and their

00:04:28.680 relatives who said that it had the potential to spread the virus in a state that had at the time

00:04:33.280 had the nation's highest nursing home death toll already. Okay. Free up space. So they had,

00:04:39.500 they had no choice but to send COVID patients into the nursing homes, effectively condemning thousands

00:04:44.120 to death because the hospitals were swamped, overflowing at capacity, they say. Well, that's strange.

00:04:52.040 Um, it's strange when you consider this reading from a USA today article published on April 23rd,

00:04:59.020 2020, it says the Naval hospital ship USNS comfort is set to leave New York city city's Harbor after

00:05:07.280 it floated for three weeks, mostly empty of patients. Projections about the spread of the

00:05:12.440 coronavirus sent New York state scrambling to increase its hospital bed capacity by more than double

00:05:17.240 its 53,000 limit. The federal government was called in to convert spaces like the Jacob Javits

00:05:22.920 center in Manhattan to overload into overflow hospitals. But a month after shutdown efforts,

00:05:27.920 that capacity hasn't been stretched to its limits comfort and it's 1000 hospital beds sailed into New York

00:05:34.660 late last month, but was under scrutiny for being sparsely used of four overflow hospitals built in the

00:05:39.920 state. Only the Javits center has taken a patient so far, according to state officials. Okay. That

00:05:45.980 again, April 23rd, 2020, the hospital ship had been in the Harbor for three weeks. At that point,

00:05:52.940 the directive to send COVID patients into nursing homes because of overflowing hospitals

00:05:58.560 was signed on March 25th. So for the entire month of April, just about, um, patients were sent to

00:06:07.120 nursing homes to free up space while an entire Naval ship floated there unused along with four other

00:06:14.660 overflow hospitals that were also barely used. How do you make sense of this? Granted, I don't know all

00:06:22.040 the logistical complications of sending patients into a hospital ship, but whatever they are, whatever extra

00:06:28.240 effort or red tape had to be gone through, whatever it would be. Wouldn't you make that effort rather

00:06:34.920 than intentionally introducing the virus into communities of elderly people? So why weren't the

00:06:41.680 ships used? We can only speculate. Here's one speculation that you can't help, but wonder about.

00:06:46.760 Did Cuomo choose to send the patients into nursing homes rather than onto the ships because he didn't want

00:06:51.840 to have to say that Trump was helping? Was this all about making sure that Trump didn't get credit?

00:06:58.240 Can't help, but wonder. Did 15,000 elderly people die in order to protect Cuomo's political ego?

00:07:07.860 Now this possibility becomes even more prominent when you consider another big revelation this week.

00:07:12.840 This is from the New York post. This is what they report. Governor Andrew Cuomo's top aide

00:07:17.760 privately apologized to democratic lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing home death toll from

00:07:22.720 COVID-19, telling them, quote, we froze out of fear that the true numbers would be used against us by

00:07:29.400 federal prosecutors. The stunning admission of a cover-up was made by secretary to the governor,

00:07:35.100 to the governor, Melissa DeRosa, during a video conference call with state democratic leaders in

00:07:39.480 which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because,

00:07:44.840 quote, right around the same time, President Donald Trump turns this into a giant political football,

00:07:49.360 according to an audio recording of the two-hour plus meeting. She continues, he starts tweeting that we killed

00:07:55.520 everybody in nursing homes, DeRosa said. He starts going after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, starts going after

00:08:01.640 California Governor Newsom, starts going after Gretchen Whitmer. And the post report continues, in addition to

00:08:08.880 attacking Cuomo's fellow democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump directs the Department of Justice to do an

00:08:13.940 investigation into us, and basically we froze. Okay, if this is true for the New York Post, and I see no

00:08:22.200 reason to think that it isn't, then we have an admission of a cover-up, and one of the worst cover-ups

00:08:26.960 in American history. That's not an exaggeration. This is easily, without question, one of the country's

00:08:32.080 deadliest political scandals. We're talking about decisions that were made for political self-serving

00:08:36.100 reasons, it would seem, that directly led to the deaths of thousands of people. More from the post.

00:08:43.980 Quote, but instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors,

00:08:48.880 or the critics who say the health department spread COVID-19 in the care facilities with a March 25th

00:08:53.480 state health department directive, DeRosa tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the

00:08:59.520 political inconvenience it caused them. She said, so we do apologize. I do understand the position that

00:09:06.440 we, that you were put in. I know it's not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political

00:09:11.900 position with the Republicans. Ah, yes, a political position with the Republicans. That's the concern here.

00:09:20.040 Not, you know, all the dead bodies. Not the position you put your elderly citizens in, the position of 0.73

00:09:25.900 lying in a damned coffin. Well, let's not forget, while this was all going on, infected patients 0.99

00:09:33.240 sent into nursing homes, thousands of people dying, a cover-up habit. Andrew Cuomo, the guy behind it

00:09:37.560 all, was being awarded an Emmy for his press briefings. And he signed a book deal to brag

00:09:44.200 about his COVID leadership. And he was going on CNN for cutesy interviews with his little brother.

00:09:49.660 Let's all remember this. You know what? I understand. This is the normal swab I'm holding

00:09:56.160 up here now. And for everybody at home, a very valuable object. There's only one company in the

00:10:01.500 entire country that makes these up in Maine. All right, here's the swab. Is it true that this was

00:10:08.480 the swab that the nurse was actually using on you? And that at first it went into your nose and

00:10:16.640 disappeared so that in scale, this was the actual swab that was being used to fit up that double

00:10:26.040 barrel shotgun that you have mounted on the front of your pretty face?

00:10:34.700 See, I said I was going to be nice and sweet. I just want to yes, no. Was it this?

00:10:41.740 I was trying very hard. Or was it this? Look. Which was it?

00:10:45.980 Oh, isn't that so cute and sweet? Isn't that so funny?

00:10:52.760 You know, in hindsight, that's one of the most embarrassing moments for the American media

00:10:56.580 ever. Well, not in hindsight. It was embarrassing at the time, too.

00:11:01.800 Cuomo will continue to get this kind of treatment from the media, no matter what's revealed about it,

00:11:05.980 because they're invested in the narrative that Trump and Republican governors are the ones

00:11:10.800 who botched the COVID response. That's the narrative. They cannot waver from it. But the

00:11:17.000 reality is clear. There's plenty of evidence that Andrew Cuomo was guilty of criminal negligence and

00:11:22.340 rampant abuses of power. He should be arrested, prosecuted immediately. Maybe once they're done

00:11:29.920 with this show trial in D.C., they'll get around to that. But I won't hold my breath. Let's get now

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00:13:07.980 skin. Now, I just have to say, I almost, this is something I almost talked about for the daily

00:13:12.300 cancellation, but then something else came along that annoyed me more. And so I'm doing that instead.

00:13:16.180 But this is, this is a, something that has plagued me for, for my whole life. And it happened to me

00:13:22.140 again this morning when I was coming in, I was at the, at the stopping the gas station. You know,

00:13:26.160 the only thing worse than someone who doesn't hold the door for you when you're walking into a building

00:13:32.840 right behind them is when somebody holds the door for you when you're too far away. Now I had,

00:13:39.660 I was at the gas station. I was practically just getting out of my car. I was like 25 paces away.

00:13:44.280 And this guy looks back, sees that I'm heading towards the door and holds it for me. And I tried

00:13:48.120 to give him the wave and say, no, it's fine. Go ahead. Just keep, just keep going. And he gives

00:13:52.380 me the way, well, I'll stand here. And so now it's just that awkward walk where I have to do that sort

00:13:56.340 of half jog walk to get to the door faster than I otherwise would have. All for the sake of me not

00:14:03.400 having to just do this and open it myself. I'm perfectly capable of doing that. You can just keep going.

00:14:07.760 So that is a lot worse. And here's, cause here's the mistake people make. And this is just the tip

00:14:13.380 I'm going to give you. Walking inside a building. It's a very complicated procedure, but here's what

00:14:18.080 you want to do. Cause if you're walking into the building and then you look back or you do the

00:14:22.140 check to make sure there's no one coming in behind you. If you catch eye contact with someone coming

00:14:26.000 in behind you, now you feel like you have to hold it for them. Right. Uh, and even if they're 20 paces

00:14:30.520 away. So make sure when you look back, your eyes are looking down. So you'll catch just their feet.

00:14:35.360 And then you can make a judgment of how many paces. If it's more than 10 paces,

00:14:39.240 you just keep going, let them open the door for themselves. That's it. Okay. And at the end of

00:14:43.500 the day, if they have to open the door for themselves, it's not a big deal. Always err on the side

00:14:47.160 of being too rude than too polite. That's my tip. That's my etiquette tip. Take it or leave it.

00:14:55.860 You probably want to leave it. Okay. Um, speaking of Andrew Cuomo, he, uh, and, and him embarrassing

00:15:01.080 himself. I also want to play this for you. Number one, he shared a PSA yesterday from something

00:15:07.880 called hip hop public health. I don't know what that is. I don't know why it is, but it is.

00:15:15.600 And, uh, well, here it is.

00:15:18.180 I got the vaccine. You got the vaccine. They got the vaccine. We got the vaccine.

00:15:24.980 We can get back the norm. Let me inform you. Let's all get the vaccine. It's about community

00:15:31.080 immunity. I'm talking unity for you and me. If doc says it's good, trust me. It's good.

00:15:37.860 Now let's all get the vaccine. There is none higher. DMC. I will inspire time for us to trust

00:15:45.760 and not debate. The vaccine believe it's safe to take. Nine out of 10 people won't get sick.

00:15:51.800 That's 90% effective and legit. This COVID thing is real and it will find you. It's killing out

00:15:57.520 people. Let me remind you back in the days, back in the days, there was polio, smallpox back in the

00:16:03.880 days. Measles and mumps, man, back in the days. Okay. We can cut that off. Say it would seem bad

00:16:10.680 enough that, uh, you know, that's going to be really effective messaging, uh, to the teens in

00:16:16.780 1988. So if there's any teenagers in 1988, you know, hanging around a back to the future type of

00:16:24.880 situation, I think they're going to be very, that that's something that they're going to be really

00:16:27.860 interested in. It is, it is just so insulting though, because, because of course, in reality,

00:16:31.920 they call this hip hop public health. That's the organization. Um, this is obviously meant it's

00:16:37.980 supposed to, supposed to speak to the black community. And, uh, it's, it's just so, it's

00:16:42.560 so insulting. Anytime you get these efforts by the left or by the government with messaging for a

00:16:49.460 certain community, uh, one community or another, it's always insulting. If you want people, people

00:16:56.120 to get vaccinated, whether they're white, black, otherwise, just, just say so get, get, give the

00:17:01.360 info. We don't need the rap. We don't need run DMC of all things. Um, just give, give the

00:17:07.320 information. I think someone, uh, regardless of their race or ethnicity, that's, that's probably

00:17:12.800 all they're really looking for. I would assume. Um, and you know, information is actually important,

00:17:21.140 not in the form of a rap, but here's, here are the facts about the vaccine

00:17:27.020 because people have questions about it. It's okay to have questions. If you're asking, uh,

00:17:33.540 millions of people to inject something into their body, perfectly rational for them to have

00:17:38.300 questions. So maybe just present that information in a, in a, in a way that is easy to understand.

00:17:46.340 Uh, okay. Number two, Dave Ramsey is finding himself in front of the cancellation firing

00:17:53.500 squad for his comments on student loan forgiveness and, and also the stimulus. And he was trending

00:17:59.420 yesterday, uh, because people were very upset about this. And let's take a listen to his offensive

00:18:03.920 remarks and we'll decide if they really are all that offensive. This is a political gimme by

00:18:09.820 progressives simply trying to buy votes. And we know that because when you go from 10,000 in

00:18:14.260 forgiveness to 50,000 in forgiveness, the people who benefit are not lower income people. The vast

00:18:19.740 majority of people that have an average income or less have less than $10,000 in student loan debt.

00:18:25.320 The vast majority of people who'd be blessed by moving it from 10 to 50 are high income earners. So

00:18:30.740 again, this is all political rhetoric. It's not reality. You come from an interesting perspective.

00:18:36.380 You talk to Americans across the country every day on your radio program. What, what, what do you

00:18:41.240 believe is the right number or the right answer for a, for the next stimulus check?

00:18:47.300 Well, I don't believe in a stimulus check because if $600 or $1,400 changes your life,

00:18:53.040 you were pretty much screwed already. You've got other issues going on. Uh, you have a, you have a

00:18:58.320 career problem. You have a debt problem. You have a relationship problem. You have a mental health

00:19:02.640 problem. Something else is going on. If $600 changes your life and that's not talking down to folks, 1.00

00:19:07.980 I've been bankrupt. I've been broken. I work with people every day who are hurting. I love people.

00:19:11.940 I want people to be lifted up, but this is, again, it is, it is just political rhetoric and it's just

00:19:16.940 throwing dollars out there. It's peeing on a forest fire. Okay. So that's what people were crying about,

00:19:22.260 which first of all, agree or disagree just the crying about it. Give me a break.

00:19:28.040 You're, you're, you're talking, you're talking down. You're, you're being just shut up. You're not 1.00

00:19:32.520 actually offended by that. So stop it. We'll get to a point where people can just express their

00:19:38.700 opinion, their point of view. That's a, it's a, it's a valid point of view. In fact, now I'm in

00:19:45.100 favor of the stimulus, as I've said a million times, because just really on, on principle, more than

00:19:49.340 anything else that the government has told people they can't go to work and has shut down entire

00:19:54.300 industries and, and, and, you know, thousands of, um, of businesses have gone over under because of the

00:20:00.020 government. And so they owe it. They owe it. If, if they, if, if, if the government has told you,

00:20:05.380 you can't go to work, or if they've destroyed your business, they owe you money. And so it's not an

00:20:11.900 entitlement. Now, unlike student loan forgiveness, which was what we, what he was first talking about

00:20:17.620 there. Now that is like an entitlement and entitlement in the sense, in, in, in the way that

00:20:22.660 that word has been used historically in this country, which is that when we talk about entitlements,

00:20:27.040 usually we're talking about people getting money that they're not actually entitled to.

00:20:29.860 So, uh, with a stimulus, the, the irony is that that actually another, in another sense,

00:20:34.200 in a, in a very literal sense, that is an entitlement because you are actually in this

00:20:37.340 case entitled to. So that all gets very confusing, but, um, as far as the stimulus goes, this is the

00:20:43.920 government's fault for shutting down the economy and they owe it. So that's my take on it. However,

00:20:50.760 however, it's also true that $600 or $1,200 or $2,000, that's not going to solve anybody's

00:21:00.680 problem. If, if you've been bankrupted or your business has been destroyed by the lockdowns,

00:21:10.240 then $600, even $2,000, that's, that is, that's not even a bandaid.

00:21:20.920 So it is a question. How, how many people in the country right now are in a position

00:21:26.780 because of the lockdowns where they're really hurting, but what all they need is 1200 and 1200

00:21:33.660 bucks is going to, is going to solve everything. Does anyone fall into that category? I think

00:21:38.220 there are a lot of people who've, who've done okay through the lockdown because their industry

00:21:42.880 wasn't that affected by it. That's the case, by the way, for the media of which I'm, I am in the

00:21:47.680 media. Um, so there's a lot of people that are, that are doing fine or, or they're in another,

00:21:51.780 they're in another industry where they could work from home. It's a lot of people and they don't

00:21:55.020 need the money. They shouldn't get anything. A lot of them will get money, but they shouldn't

00:21:58.880 because they don't need it. If you haven't, if you've, if you have been working through the

00:22:02.980 pandemic and have not taken a big hit in your, um, in your paycheck, you should get $0. Why

00:22:10.140 should you get anything? I think many of us have been in the situation, maybe especially recently,

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00:22:24.620 back the past few years and you feel like, you know, you never have enough money in the bank or you

00:22:30.160 only have enough to pay your bills. And so you put it in, it's like putting it into a sieve and

00:22:34.000 it just drains right out again. That's not really the American dream, is it? That's not what we're

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00:23:43.280 So if you're in that category, you shouldn't get anything. But when you look at the people who have

00:23:47.540 been legitimately devastated financially by this, what is $600 or $1,200 or $2,000 going to do for

00:23:56.100 them? Not much. Although I would say it's better than nothing. But the point is the real thing that

00:24:01.300 we can do for those people is we get the economy open. You let people go back to work. You let

00:24:07.500 restaurants serve customers again and not with a capacity of 10% or whatever crazy thing they're

00:24:14.440 doing, or you have to feed them outside like dogs. That's the real solution. But his point there,

00:24:23.620 it's not, it's not unreasonable. It's not irrational. If you're crying about it, just get over yourself.

00:24:29.660 Look, anytime the government is talking about spending trillions of dollars, it's good for

00:24:37.840 people to criticize that. Even if you agree with it, there should be an open debate. There should be

00:24:44.300 no criticism of a government spending bill that's out of bounds or out of line.

00:24:53.120 The rest of what he said about the student loan forgiveness is 100% right. You know,

00:24:59.200 you talk about $50,000 of student loan forgiveness. Who are the people who have $50,000 of student

00:25:05.020 loan debt? Who are these people? Are these, are these for the most part, poor people with $50,000

00:25:10.000 of student loan debt or blue collar workers or, you know, retail workers at, at, at Walmart? No,

00:25:17.620 for the most part, these are upper income people. And so it's, that is a bailout for upper income

00:25:23.580 privileged people. That's what a $50,000 student loan forgiveness is. So he's right about that too.

00:25:29.200 All right. Um, number three, I just, I want to play this for you. Ron DeSantis,

00:25:33.800 uh, proving why he's our 2024 candidate. Let's, let's play this.

00:25:41.200 The media is worried about that. Obviously you guys really love that. Uh, you don't care as much

00:25:45.900 if it's a quote, peaceful protest and then it's fine. You don't care as much if they're celebrating

00:25:50.960 a Biden election. You only care about if it's people that you don't like. So I'm a Bucks fan.

00:25:56.180 I'm damn proud of what they did on Sunday night. And so in terms of the UK variant, here's what we

00:26:03.920 know. We know based on all the, the evidence that these vaccines are going to be effective against

00:26:11.260 that. And that's really the main concern. I mean, we're getting our seniors vaccinated. Uh,

00:26:16.660 we've not seen any data or any evidence to suggest that these vaccines are not effective. And so if we

00:26:22.980 get the seniors vaccinated, we're going to be good. Uh, and that's what we're going to do. If there's

00:26:27.580 data that comes out, not an academic model. Yeah, I guess I should have set that up a little bit,

00:26:33.840 a little bit of framing there. Uh, he's, he was responding to a question about all of the,

00:26:37.660 the Bucks fans in Florida that were out celebrating, you know, the, the victory and maybe

00:26:44.520 they were wearing a mask or maybe they weren't. And his response was exactly what you just heard.

00:26:48.600 Like, well, I didn't hear you asking that about BLM protests. You weren't talking about that when

00:26:53.340 people were in the street. That's the most egregious thing of all is when you, when you think about

00:26:58.340 the, for a couple of days, the Biden fans in the street dancing and celebrating

00:27:04.040 because there you don't have the excuse with, with, with the BLM riots, the excuse we hear is that

00:27:11.520 they were, they were protesting injustice. And this was something they had that people had to do.

00:27:16.160 Uh, really they were say they're saving lives actually in the end, you know, that that's, 0.91

00:27:20.020 that's excuse, which of course completely bogus and ridiculous. Um, with the Biden celebrations

00:27:25.840 though, you don't even have that bogus and ridiculous excuse. There's no excuse. These are 0.96

00:27:31.220 people that were happy because their guy won. And so they're out in the street celebrating no

00:27:35.460 criticism from the media about that. That's a, that's a good response. You, you, you consistently

00:27:42.100 hear Ron DeSantis, uh, responding to the media in exactly the right way. So saying the kinds of

00:27:49.260 things in response to their questions that like you or I would say, if we were in that position,

00:27:53.680 that's what I like about it. Okay. Uh, so that's someone responding the right way to a thing.

00:27:59.900 Here's someone I think not responding the right way. Morgan Wallen, we know the country star who got

00:28:06.560 himself canceled after he was secretly recorded by a neighbor saying the N word drunkenly to a friend

00:28:13.080 drunkenly and jokingly saying it. And next thing you know, he's, he's, his songs are kicked off of

00:28:19.380 pretty much every radio station in the country. Uh, he's, you know, he's, he's not eligible for

00:28:23.360 country music awards anymore. He's suspended by his record label. All this stuff is happening

00:28:26.720 and he's already apologized for it. He apologized immediately. As soon as TMZ got their hands

00:28:32.140 on the video and they contacted Morgan Wallen, he immediately apologized, but that's not enough.

00:28:40.060 You know, he apologized. It didn't have the effect he was hoping for probably. And so here he is

00:28:45.160 apologizing again. Hey y'all, it's Morgan. I'm long overdue to make a statement regarding my last

00:28:53.500 incident. I wanted to collect my thoughts, seek some real guidance and come to you with a complete

00:28:59.360 thought before I did. I was made aware of the video being posted to TMZ with hardly any time to

00:29:05.980 thank before it was released to the public. I was asked if I wanted to apologize. And of course I did.

00:29:11.980 I wrote many detailed thoughts and only a portion of those got used with painting me in an even more

00:29:17.200 careless light. I'm here to, I'm here to hopefully show you that that's not the truth.

00:29:22.800 Um, the video you saw was, was me on our 72 of 72 of a bender. And that's not something I'm proud of 1.00

00:29:30.940 either. Obviously the, the natural thing to do is to apologize further and just continue to apologize,

00:29:40.600 but because you got caught and that's not what I wanted to do.

00:29:44.600 Yeah. I mean, I guess I'm not going to criticize him for it. I think when you're in that position,

00:29:51.720 it's hard to know what are you supposed to say, right? What are you, he's already apologized.

00:29:58.520 He's trying to apologize again. Uh, so I understand why he's, why he's doing it, but at the same time,

00:30:07.400 you know, the, the, the problem is like we talked about already this week, the people who are calling

00:30:17.000 for his cancellation and want his career to be destroyed over this and are celebrating over the

00:30:21.900 fact that it has effectively been destroyed, at least for now, uh, there's, there's just nothing

00:30:27.480 you can say to them. It doesn't matter that forgiveness is not part of the bargain. They don't

00:30:33.560 care because they don't care about the initial offense. They weren't really offended by it.

00:30:41.000 Nope. Let me tell you, not one person in the country was offended by that video of Morgan Wallen.

00:30:48.300 Nobody go online and try to find an example of someone who appears to be actually offended.

00:30:55.680 No, the reaction is we got them. This is going to take him down now. All right. This is now we're

00:31:01.580 going to take this guy down. It was like a celebratory, vengeful kind of blood lust for,

00:31:09.260 for most people. It's, they don't really care one way or another, even if they are calling for his,

00:31:14.880 you know, for him to be fired and all this kind of stuff, they don't really care. There's no

00:31:18.160 passion in it. It's just kind of casual. Let's destroy another person for the sake of it. Uh,

00:31:24.320 and then for, but as far as the passionate people, it's more, it's, it's vengeful.

00:31:30.480 This is a guy, you know, he's, he's a white guy's country star, uh, lives in Nashville,

00:31:36.920 suspected Trump supporter, even if he's not, he kind of fits the bill. And so, yeah, we got him.

00:31:43.980 Let's take him down. That's the attitude. Um, so there's, there are, there isn't any injured party

00:31:51.660 for you to apologize to in reality. If there are people close to you in your life who are

00:31:58.020 actually disappointed, maybe people in your family, especially as he, as he points out,

00:32:02.560 he was on a bender, you know, all these kinds of things. Maybe he's got family members or

00:32:05.620 personal friends who are really disappointed by this. Then you speak to them privately.

00:32:09.340 You don't need to do it for the entire world. It's none of our business. It's not everybody in

00:32:14.600 the public. We don't know Morgan Wallen. We were not involved in this. We're not injured by it.

00:32:21.020 If there actually is anyone in his life who he feels he needs to, but then you speak to them.

00:32:24.960 Maybe he's already done that. That that's enough. The apology does not need to be put on display

00:32:29.900 for everyone. So continuing to address it and continuing to apologize, it's just not,

00:32:35.640 it's not going to have the desired effect because you're asking for grace and forgiveness from people

00:32:42.000 who categorically deny, will deny it. They will refuse it. No matter what you do.

00:32:50.500 All right. Uh, number five, speaking of which the daily beast is reporting on another major racism

00:32:56.580 scandal. Supposedly. Um, they say, this is what they report. Once again, the bachelor is trying to feel

00:33:02.460 its way through a racism controversy. And this time it's not just a vexing contestant who's landed

00:33:07.500 in hot water, but host Chris Harrison as well. On Wednesday, the bachelor guru apologized for

00:33:13.300 defending Rachel Kirk Connell after photos surfaced of the season front runner, attending a plantation

00:33:19.240 themed party. Now, I don't know who any of these people are. I've never watched the bachelor one time

00:33:23.220 in my life. I don't know anything about the original controversy, but this is what they say.

00:33:27.280 So she, she attended a plantation themed party. Kirk Connell has already come under scrutiny for

00:33:33.740 apparently liking racist social media posts. Now, big grain of salt there. The daily beast is saying

00:33:41.120 that they're racist social media posts. Maybe there were, I have no idea, but there's a very good

00:33:45.080 chance they weren't racist at all. Just because the media calls something racist does not at all mean

00:33:48.520 that it was. So grain of salt there. Um, I'm not sure what the social media posts were. They could have

00:33:52.860 been anything. That's the thing with the media and the left. When they say the word racist,

00:33:56.240 you just have no clue what they're actually talking about. They could be referring to actual

00:34:00.200 racism. Maybe 99% of the time, the time though, they're not. So the word is lost meaning when

00:34:05.720 they use it. Um, as well as, uh, there were resurfaced photos of her wearing a native American

00:34:11.760 Halloween costume. Oh no. Oh my God. Oh dear God. She was wearing a costume pretending to be

00:34:17.960 someone she's not on Halloween. That's not the time for that. These posts are only more troubling

00:34:25.180 given that she's competing for the heart of Matt James, the franchise's first black bachelor

00:34:29.720 in nearly two decades on the air. Um, well, why is that troubling?

00:34:36.720 Matt James, maybe want to maybe make, let him make decisions for himself.

00:34:41.460 Why is it troubling to you? Maybe you let Matt James decide if, if he cares about the native

00:34:46.800 American costume or whatever. Why would you be troubled? Uh, during a recent conversation with

00:34:53.140 Rachel Lindsay, the first black bachelorette on extra Harrison seemed bent on convincing the 0.91

00:34:57.580 bachelor alum that really fans have been too hard on Kirk Connell. Um, and so that's, so that's it.

00:35:04.560 That's, that's what the host now is in trouble for the host, Chris, Chris Harrison. He's in trouble

00:35:11.600 for, for saying, and this is him now he's addressing it. Now he's apologizing. So he's apologizing.

00:35:18.320 He was, he was originally saying that we should accept the apology of this other person who was

00:35:24.360 allegedly did a racist thing. And now he has to apologize for that. And this is his apology for

00:35:28.600 saying that we should accept the other apology. This is what he says to my bachelor nation family.

00:35:33.240 I will always own a mistake when I make one. So I am here to extend a sincere apology.

00:35:37.700 I have this incredible platform to speak out about love. And yesterday I took a stance on topics about

00:35:42.340 which I should have been better informed. Well, I do not speak for Rachel Kirk Connell. My intentions

00:35:47.080 were simply to ask for grace and offering her an opportunity to speak on her own behalf.

00:35:51.880 What I now realize I have done is cause harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates

00:35:56.720 racism. And for that, I am so deeply sorry. No, you haven't caused any harm. You, um, Chris,

00:36:02.300 whatever your name is again, Chris Harrison, you've caused no harm to anyone. Nobody has been harmed.

00:36:08.460 Nobody has been harmed by comments that the host of the bachelor made, um, about some other controversy.

00:36:14.520 Remember what I said about Morgan Wallen, forgiveness and grace are ruled out. You are not going to get

00:36:21.340 it from the cancel mob. Well, here, here, here, this proves that point. Exactly. Now, Chris Harrison

00:36:27.300 is being canceled simply for saying we should have grace and forgiveness for someone else.

00:36:33.980 Absolutely not. To even call for grace and forgiveness is itself racist now,

00:36:41.400 but that won't stop this guy from apologizing. And, uh, another apology that will be

00:36:48.040 absolutely ignored. Okay. Um, we're going to read the YouTube comments in a second. Oh yeah. But one

00:36:54.000 other thing, here's a bonus. This is from a local news report. I wanted to play this for you. It's a

00:36:58.800 great video, almost as good as the cat lawyer, not quite as good, but almost as good. Here's a mother

00:37:03.740 proving why she should be the first NFL player, not Sarah Fuller. Let's watch this.

00:37:09.800 A police officer's dash cam rolling when a Houston area mother tackles a suspected peeper

00:37:15.920 who she says was looking into her daughter's bedroom. Even if you think you can run from the

00:37:21.160 cops, good luck getting past this mom captured on police dash cam, taking down a man she says was 1.00

00:37:26.920 trying to look into her 15 year old daughter's bedroom window early on a Sunday. That is a nice

00:37:32.200 tackle. I got to say that's good form tackle. She plants the shoulder, right? Especially if you're 1.00

00:37:36.780 on the chief's defense, especially in the defensive backfield after the performance we saw in the

00:37:40.120 Superbowl, you can take some tips from this. You see what she does. First of all, she wraps up. 0.99

00:37:43.920 Okay. She's not just throwing her body into the guy. She's going for the full wrap up. You see,

00:37:48.800 she wraps her arms around his body and look at her shoulder. Look where her shoulders place. Now,

00:37:53.260 this is great form. She, she plants the shoulder into his chest. Okay. Now you could argue she's 0.98

00:38:00.140 hitting him a little high. She could go a little bit, she could go a little, you know, maybe,

00:38:03.120 maybe bend the knees a little bit more. Um, but still I say pretty good form and a great pursuit

00:38:10.960 angle. That's the other thing you got to consider as a defender. You got to take the right angle and

00:38:16.240 you see how she, she squares up and she takes this angle and boom, she gets them. That is a great

00:38:22.460 tackle. I love that. That's a heartwarming video. You got to love to see that. Uh, and the thing is

00:38:27.260 everybody loves that, right? You see that, you see a mother defending her daughter, taking this guy

00:38:31.560 down and it just, it warms your heart to see it doesn't. Whether it's a, whether it was a mother

00:38:37.240 or father, it warms your heart. Why does it, why, you know, it's, it's worth thinking about, like,

00:38:40.420 why do we love seeing a video like that? Because this is, this is a, this is motherly love properly

00:38:47.420 ordered. Okay. She's, she's going to defend her daughter. And we all love to see that. We love

00:38:53.580 to see mothers and fathers doing what mothers and fathers do. That properly ordered familial love.

00:39:01.880 We love, we, we, we all enjoy seeing that. And that's worth thinking about when you consider,

00:39:06.900 for example, the black lives matter movement saying they want to, um, destroy the nuclear family.

00:39:12.320 Well, that's what they're trying to destroy right there.

00:39:18.220 All right, let's move on to read our YouTube comments. We've got a bunch of comments on the

00:39:22.180 show yesterday. We won't read all of them, but a few, um, this is from FFVI girl. She says,

00:39:29.900 Hey Matt, I signed up with charity mobile so far. So good. Thank you for the recommendation.

00:39:33.700 And thank you. Thank you for supporting the sponsors of this show. Um, that's, that's something that,

00:39:37.500 that I certainly appreciate and they appreciate as well.

00:39:39.840 Shayna Siliker says, Matt, two things. One, I agree with you on so much, but would have to

00:39:45.520 disagree about star Wars being overrated. Save, uh, the three movies that came out in early

00:39:50.620 two thousands. Those can just go away. Number two, as a pregnant woman who already can't breathe 1.00

00:39:54.700 in one mask, I hope you're wrong. I hope you're wrong on the pattern of the CDC, making it required

00:39:58.820 to wear two masks. Love what you guys are doing. Yeah. Well on the, on star Wars being overrated,

00:40:04.060 listen, how many star Wars movies have there been and how many have actually been good?

00:40:09.840 At most, you can argue that the first three were good. I, I, I, I don't, I think they,

00:40:15.320 that your, your judgment on the first three is skewed by your nostalgic attachment to them.

00:40:21.680 But even if I were to agree that they're good, you've got what nine movies and a third of them

00:40:28.920 arguably are okay. I think that qualifies as overrated. Lobster puncher, another great username

00:40:36.160 says, I don't know what lobsters ever did to him, but, um, Matt Walsh prohibits his subjects

00:40:41.760 from using emojis. Also, Matt Walsh cold opens with a cat filter. His ways are not our own. I

00:40:47.220 don't know what you're referring to. What cat filter are you talking about? I have no idea.

00:40:51.300 Aaron Hamner says the left wants strong, beautiful, intelligent, and courageous women

00:40:55.640 unless they disagree with their views. What a petty group of fascists. That's exactly right. They want, 0.97

00:41:01.080 they want women to be strong and independent, uh, girl power, all of that until the moment comes 1.00

00:41:10.000 when a woman expresses a viewpoint that they disagree with, in which case destroy her.

00:41:16.640 That's the way that we, we know, of course, that's how it always, that's how it always works.

00:41:20.760 Um, Bill Berger says, Matt, a guy in a stairwell this morning screamed at me to maintain a six feet

00:41:27.580 distance as I came closer to him. And while he was climbing up towards me, a stairwell in a public

00:41:32.480 building, we both had masks on. And I said to him and laughed that it would be coming to that at some

00:41:37.800 point. If it could happen, it will. He screamed at me after I passed him going, uh, down the up,

00:41:43.300 down the stairwell, six feet distancing, you jackass. I hope you get COVID. The wheels are not 0.99

00:41:48.760 coming off America. They've been off for a long time. I hope you get, yeah, it is funny how quickly

00:41:53.840 the real, the, the very paranoid people, pro maskers. It's, it's funny how quickly they go from 0.93

00:42:02.180 I'm wearing a mask to protect you, to protect, to protect you. They go from that to, if you don't

00:42:08.020 wear a mask, I hope you die. You know, they go from, I'm trying to protect you to, I hope you die 1.00

00:42:13.860 in like one second flat, but she'll tell you something about the pro mask message. Chrissy Jensen

00:42:20.760 finally says, so you say to get your kids out of public schools, but also you want the schools to

00:42:25.580 open. Seems like maybe you should be celebrating that the public schools aren't teaching. It's kind

00:42:29.580 of like your shoe cancellation. You don't want to see our feet, but also you canceled shoes. Hashtag,

00:42:35.480 there is no winning. Hashtag, everything is bad. Well, I don't disagree with your hashtags, but

00:42:40.000 yes, ultimately as a society, I think we should move away from public schools. Ultimately, I think we

00:42:49.080 should get the government out of the education business because they've done such a poor job of

00:42:52.940 it. And I don't think that's just something the government should be doing period. I don't think

00:42:56.560 that's something we should rely on the government to do. Um, so that's ultimately, and I've been

00:43:01.960 saying that for years, but that's a gradual change you have to make as a society. You can't do it all at

00:43:10.720 once because then disaster unfolds. It's not fair to the families. It's not fair to the kids.

00:43:15.800 And the other important thing is if we're getting rid of the government school system,

00:43:20.160 you got to replace it with something. I never said there should be no education.

00:43:25.380 And what's happening now is that we have effectively suspended the government school

00:43:29.900 education for, for a year and replaced it with nothing for a lot of these kids

00:43:34.260 because zoom class is nothing. It amounts to nothing.

00:43:38.860 So rather than kids being educated in the public school system, they're just not being educated at

00:43:45.340 all. And on top of having no other social interaction, not being around their friends,

00:43:49.900 being isolated and all these things. Um, so yes, while I, while I think that society should move that

00:43:55.740 way, this is not the way to do it. And besides whatever my opinions are, the public school system,

00:44:02.380 the fact that I'm a homeschool advocate, that doesn't change the fact that the teachers who

00:44:07.080 are refusing to go to work and do their job are despicable and should be called out for it.

00:44:13.120 All right, let's get to our daily cancellation.

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00:45:28.720 please join me in a special edition of my daily cancellation featuring Disney Plus and their long

00:45:34.600 list of double standards. More excitingly, this cancellation comes with some bitty, some pretty big

00:45:38.960 news. I think the Daily Wire just announced that we'll be making a movie with Gina Carano,

00:45:43.720 the Mandalorian actress that Disney just canceled her crime disagreeing with woke Hollywood. Pretty 0.83

00:45:50.420 unbelievable times we're living in right now. So, uh, you know, you could lose your job for being an

00:45:54.620 independent thinker. That's what it comes down to, but add it to the list. I guess this was a classic

00:45:58.700 Disney happily ever after public display of contempt for conservative opinions. The irony, however, is

00:46:03.560 whether Hollywood realizes it or not, they're just encouraging conservatives to be more active

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00:46:42.780 our daily cancellation. Today we're going to cancel Variety, the magazine Variety, and also

00:46:48.420 Carey Mulligan, who's an actress who I actually thought was pretty good in the one thing I saw

00:46:53.340 her in. Unless I'm thinking of something else, I don't know. Anyway, to understand how this

00:46:57.800 cancellation came about, we must reach back in time, all the way back to January of 2020.

00:47:03.440 So back then a year ago, a film critic named Dennis Harvey wrote a review for Variety of Carey

00:47:08.900 Mulligan's new film, which was called Promising Young Woman. Now that movie, according to IMDb,

00:47:15.040 is about, quote, a young woman traumatized by a tragic event in her past who seeks out vengeance

00:47:19.800 against those who crossed her path. Not exactly revolutionary stuff from the sound of it, but that's

00:47:25.080 all right. The film critic Harvey basically liked the movie, but thought that some elements of it

00:47:30.980 didn't quite work. Specifically, he thought that Mulligan's performance was maybe a little bit off.

00:47:35.880 Okay, here's what he said. Mulligan, a fine actress, seems a bit of an odd choice as this 1.00

00:47:41.940 admittedly many-layered apparent femme fatale. Margot Robbie is a producer here, and one can

00:47:47.620 perhaps too easily imagine the role might once have been attended for her. Whereas with this star,

00:47:53.200 Cassie wears her pickup bait gear like bad drag. Even her long blonde hair seems a put-on. The flat

00:47:59.440 American accent she delivers in her lowest voice register likewise seems a bit meta. Though it's not

00:48:04.560 quite clear what the quote marks around this performance signify. Still, like everything

00:48:08.340 here, this turn is skillful, entertaining, and challenging, even when the eccentric method

00:48:12.600 obscures the precise message. That's what he said. Now, you might hear that and think,

00:48:18.580 how dare this man critique that poor woman? I mean, you might think that if you're a stupendous 0.84

00:48:23.940 moron who doesn't understand that critiquing is literally the whole job of the critic. 0.99

00:48:27.860 So it seems that Mulligan herself did not understand this or pretended not to understand 1.00

00:48:32.920 it, and whether what comes next is the result of her being a stupendous moron or just a petty, 1.00

00:48:37.940 ridiculous bully is up to you to decide. I tend to think it's more of the latter. 1.00

00:48:42.320 What happened is that a year later, in an interview with the New York Times,

00:48:45.760 published with the title, Carrie Mulligan Won't Let Hollywood Off the Hook, Mulligan complained

00:48:50.780 about that variety of review, which again, at this point, was a year ago, and she's still thinking

00:48:55.800 about it. She said, quote, I read the variety review because I'm a weak person, Mulligan said,

00:49:02.960 and I took issue with it. She paused, debating whether she really wanted to go there.

00:49:08.340 It felt like it was basically saying that I wasn't hot enough to pull off this kind of ruse,

00:49:12.380 she said finally. Mulligan can still recite some of the lines from that review, but she said,

00:49:17.980 it wasn't some sort of ego-wounding thing, like I fully can see that Margot Robbie is a goddess.

00:49:23.040 What bothered Mulligan most was that people might read a high-profile critique of an actress's

00:49:28.520 physical appearance and blithely accept it. It drove me so crazy. I was like, really? For this

00:49:34.740 film, you're going to write something that is so transparent now in 2020? I just couldn't believe

00:49:39.540 it. Yes, a film critic criticizing. In 2020? Unbelievable. No, Carrie, what's unbelievable,

00:49:48.580 or perhaps all too believable, is that you were roundly praised and celebrated for your performance 0.91

00:49:55.060 in this dumb movie, and one guy offers a mild dissent and you stew over it for a year and then 0.98

00:50:01.660 smear him as a misogynist? That's the part that stands out to me. The only part of Mulligan's 0.99

00:50:09.600 diatribe that I agree with is that she says she's a weak person. Now, that is clearly true.

00:50:14.240 But weak people can still be bullies. In fact, they often are. And that's what she's doing here. 0.79

00:50:20.100 She is bullying. And she didn't stop. A couple of months later, she was doing an interview or a

00:50:25.240 discussion with another actress. And in fact, she was doing this for Variety. This was filmed by

00:50:30.500 Variety and published on their platform. And in this discussion, she still couldn't shut up about

00:50:37.380 the one film critic who sort of criticized her one time. Let's take a listen.

00:50:42.000 I know recently you called out a movie review and their criticism and saying that it was sexist and

00:50:48.480 they ended up apologizing for it. And I just wanted you to kind of speak to that and what

00:50:53.040 that really meant for you.

00:50:54.020 I feel it's important that criticism is constructive. I think it's important that we

00:51:02.740 are looking at the right things when it comes to work and we're looking at the art and we're

00:51:07.720 looking at the performance and the way that a film is made. And I don't think that that goes to

00:51:14.380 the appearance of an actor or your personal preference for what an actor does or doesn't

00:51:20.620 look like. I think in criticizing or bemoaning a lack of attractiveness on my part in a character,

00:51:26.260 it wasn't a personal slight. It wasn't something that I felt it didn't wound my ego, but it made me

00:51:31.140 concerned that in such a big publication, an actress's appearance could be criticized and it

00:51:37.660 could be, you know, that could be accepted as completely reasonable.

00:51:43.160 Okay. So she's concerned. She's very concerned.

00:51:46.080 Very, she's just, she's just, she's not worried about herself. That's why, that's not why she's

00:51:50.160 stewing over this review for a year and a half. It's not that she's concerned. It's, it's that she's,

00:51:56.440 it's not about herself, right? It's she's, she's looking out for everybody else and all the women 0.61

00:52:01.580 out there. That's what this is about. Everything she's saying about the review is completely wrong.

00:52:06.040 Of course, he didn't say that she isn't hot enough. He was talking and he's, he's, by the way,

00:52:11.260 the reviewer is a gay man. So, uh, it's probably unlikely that he would be judging her on that basis.

00:52:16.880 Anyway, he was talking about the way that she inhabited and embodied the role. This is a very common

00:52:23.040 thing for critics to bring up for both men and women. A Carey Mulligan says, it's not about your

00:52:28.180 personal opinion about, of course, it's about his personal. He's a critic. That's all it's about.

00:52:32.100 It's about his opinion. Now, how far that opinion goes with you, how much you care about his opinion,

00:52:36.500 that's a different subject. Personally, I don't care about the opinion of a film critic hardly at

00:52:40.580 all, but either way, that's what he does. Men and women, anytime a new Batman is cast, we hear about

00:52:47.600 this kind of discussion. Uh, we always hear this kind of discussion. You know, nobody's asking whether

00:52:52.260 the actor is hot enough to be Bruce Wayne, but, but we're asking whether he has the physical

00:52:56.620 presence to pull off that role. You hear that all the time for male roles. And that was Harvey's

00:53:02.700 point. Any semi-literate person can understand that. So is Mulligan illiterate or is she just an

00:53:10.680 enormous egomaniac? Those would seem to be our two options. We could ask the same questions about the, 0.93

00:53:17.060 um, the illiteracy of the powers that be at variety because after hearing that an actress

00:53:22.840 didn't enjoy being critiqued by their film critic, they tacked on an editor's note onto the one-year-old

00:53:30.160 review, which says now, now if you go to that review, here's what it says right at the top

00:53:33.360 editor's note. Variety sincerely apologizes to Carrie Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language

00:53:39.920 and insinuation in our, in our review of promising young woman that minimized her daring performance.

00:53:45.420 Yes. They apologized for allowing the film critic they employ to criticize her. They also called her

00:53:54.920 performance daring in the editor's note as if it's some sort of objective fact. It's not. In fact,

00:54:01.440 I haven't seen the movie, but I can say right now, definitively, there is nothing daring about it.

00:54:07.420 An actress playing a woman seeking vengeance in a performance that received near universal praise

00:54:12.300 is not daring. Might've been a good performance, but daring? No. An ABC news reviewer being a good boy

00:54:20.680 and saying only what he's allowed to say called the movie quote, a diabolically funny takedown of toxic

00:54:26.740 masculinity. Now maybe he's right that it's diabolically funny. I don't know. Um, I haven't

00:54:31.760 seen it, but what I can say for sure is that there is nothing at all, even a bit daring about a Hollywood

00:54:36.280 film trying to take down toxic masculinity. That's not daring. At any rate, um, maybe that's a minor

00:54:44.800 detail. The greater point is that a film critic was attacked as a misogynist for doing his job

00:54:49.760 and his publication caved like a sinkhole and threw him under the bus. We should note also that the

00:54:55.500 National Society of Film Critics did come out and defend the critic, Dennis Harvey, but it took them

00:55:00.860 two months to do it because even the Society of Film Critics has to spend two months working up the

00:55:08.200 nerve to defend the concept of being a film critic. And you would think that if the Society of Film

00:55:14.500 Critics has any function at all, that's it. This is the world we live in now. The power of victimhood

00:55:22.120 knows no bounds. It can even exempt an actress from criticism by film critics. It is a get out of jail

00:55:28.920 free card, quite literally in many cases, and also a get out of criticism card. Get out of accountability

00:55:34.340 card. Get out of any unpleasant situation card. People like Carey Mulligan know that. They know that

00:55:42.160 they have this card. They know the power that comes with it and they're eager to play it. The only way

00:55:48.560 this ever changes is if we get to a point as a society where we can look at somebody like Carey Mulligan

00:55:53.760 and say, listen, okay, listen, lady, I understand your feelings are hurt. However, your feelings are

00:56:00.500 unreasonable. Your point of view is ridiculous. You're being obnoxious. You are not owed an apology 1.00

00:56:07.180 and you will not get one. Get over yourself. That must be the response to these self-victimizing,

00:56:14.880 manipulative bullies. Until we start responding that way, this will never change. 0.93

00:56:21.080 But, at least I can still say, to Carey Mulligan and Variety, you are canceled.

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