The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 665 - Shocking Survey Shows Just How Effective Media Disinformation Has Been

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a recent survey shows just how thoroughly the media has misled

00:00:04.720 the public on the topic of police shootings. Also, five headlines, including Dr. Fauci stating that

00:00:09.240 society will not be allowed to go back to normal until he says so. He's the boss. And Biden's

00:00:14.440 health secretary pick tries to dodge questions about his support for infanticide. And our daily

00:00:19.220 cancellation will cancel the chief of Cherokee Nation who demands that Jeep stop using his

00:00:24.500 tribe's name. But we can't explain why. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 In recent years, the media has been in a much publicized war against misinformation.

00:00:43.040 One might think it would be quite easy for them to slay that particular dragon. All they have to do

00:00:47.380 is stop misinforming people. They are, after all, the primary purveyors of fake news and all of its

00:00:52.540 forms. Some people may be led astray by, you know, Facebook memes and random tweets that pop into their

00:00:58.680 Twitter feeds. But the internet trolls who spread lies and innuendo through those avenues are mere

00:01:04.600 amateurs compared to the American media. The latter group has elevated misinformation to an art form.

00:01:11.000 They have perfected it. They are experts in the field. And now the world's greatest misinformers

00:01:16.700 have given themselves the task of combating misinformation. It's a classic case of the fox guarding the

00:01:23.920 penthouse. But if misinformation is the media's art form, then their narrative around police shootings

00:01:29.580 is their Mona Lisa, their Pieta, their masterpiece. On no other issue is the general public so thoroughly

00:01:37.240 deluded, misled, and confused. And on no other issue has the consequence of that delusion

00:01:43.240 been so utterly catastrophic. Billions of dollars of damage inflicted, hundreds of buildings torched,

00:01:49.120 dozens of people murdered, disastrous public policies and laws enacted, and this just over

00:01:54.640 the past nine months, thanks almost exclusively to the media's misinformation campaign about police

00:02:00.640 shootings. A recent survey from Skeptic Magazine illustrates in profound terms exactly how effective

00:02:07.800 this campaign has been. Interviewing a sample of American adults across the political spectrum,

00:02:13.340 researchers asked the people two questions. One, if you had to guess, how many unarmed black men were

00:02:21.260 killed by police in 2019? And respondents were given options that ranged from about 10 to over 10,000.

00:02:29.220 Two, if you had to guess, in 2019, what percentage of people killed by police were black? And here the 0.73

00:02:35.660 survey group could respond with any percentage between zero and 100. The responses to these two questions

00:02:42.000 reveal confusion, intentionally cultivated confusion on a massive scale. 30% of those identifying as very

00:02:49.840 liberal guessed that about 100 unarmed black men had been killed by police in 2019. 38% of self-identified

00:02:58.120 liberals guessed the same. So you got very liberal and liberal, as did 40% of moderates, 40% of conservatives,

00:03:05.240 and 33% of very conservatives. 31% of the very liberal group thought that the number of unarmed black men killed by

00:03:13.080 police was around 1,000, as did 26% of liberals, 16% of moderates, 9% of conservatives, and 13% of very

00:03:20.920 conservatives. There were even sizable portions of each group that thought that 10,000 or more unarmed black men had been

00:03:28.400 fatally shot by police in a single calendar year. For very liberals, it was over 20% that thought that.

00:03:35.720 Liberals, 11%, moderates, 8%, conservatives, 4%, very conservatives, 6%. Now, the actual number of unarmed black men

00:03:43.940 killed by police in 2019, according to the Washington Post database, is 13. 13. Not 100, not 1,000, not 10,000, 13.

00:03:52.960 And even 13 is likely a significant overestimation. As I previously showed, only six of the 13 unarmed

00:04:00.540 shootings in that year were clearly unjustified. Only one was a case of apparent murder, and that

00:04:06.920 officer has been charged accordingly. You could make a case for manslaughter in two or three of the other

00:04:11.160 cases, and those officers have been charged with crimes too. But in eight of the 13 unarmed shootings,

00:04:17.360 the suspects were in the process of running officers down in their cars, violently assaulting them,

00:04:22.380 or otherwise presenting themselves as lethal threats. For example, Kevin Mason of Baltimore is

00:04:28.320 categorized as an unarmed man shot by cops, and he was, but he also told officers that he had a gun

00:04:35.320 and intended to, quote, kill every last one of them. Marzu Scott was shot while unarmed, but only

00:04:41.200 because he assaulted a female officer, knocked her to the ground, and forced her to use the gun after

00:04:46.080 her taser was ineffective. Isaiah Lewis pounced on an officer and knocked him unconscious before getting

00:04:51.520 shot. He also may have been unarmed, but he was no less of a threat because of it. The point is that

00:04:57.100 not every unarmed shooting is unjustified or even really unarmed. In fact, at least in 2019, most of

00:05:04.520 the unarmed shootings were clearly justified. Putting all that to the side, we're left with, 1.00

00:05:11.460 quote, about 10 unarmed black men and one woman shot by cops in 2019. What this means is that the

00:05:18.780 majority of people in every ideological category overestimated the number by at least a factor of

00:05:25.500 10? Huge numbers of liberals and moderates overestimated by factors of 100 or 1,000.

00:05:33.360 The situation isn't much better for the second question. On average, liberals thought that between

00:05:38.580 55 and 60 percent of people killed by police in 2019 were black. Moderates thought the figure was

00:05:43.760 around 45 percent. Conservatives and very conservatives thought it was between 35 and 45 percent.

00:05:48.920 Again, all of the groups missed the mark by a wide margin. In reality, only 23.4 percent of those

00:05:55.640 killed by police in 2019 were black. Between 2015 and 2020, the figure averages out to about 26 percent.

00:06:02.820 Conservatives came the closest to the truth, but even they tacked on an imaginary 20 percent

00:06:08.140 on top of the 23 percent that it actually was. Now, you might argue that the average person isn't

00:06:14.280 spending much time researching the exact demographic details of police shootings in 2019 or any other

00:06:19.340 year. Okay, this is part of my job, so I've done the research. I've looked into it. Not everybody has,

00:06:25.780 and so you might say, well, it's not very surprising that they get it wrong in a survey of this sort.

00:06:31.020 But the problem isn't that they didn't know the precise number. It's that they couldn't land in

00:06:37.700 the ballpark or even in the neighborhood of the ballpark. The average person may not know exactly

00:06:44.700 the number of Americans killed each year by lightning strikes, but if I gave you options of,

00:06:50.160 you know, here's a survey question. How many Americans are killed each year by lightning strikes?

00:06:53.820 Your options are around 50, around 5,000 or around 50,000. Now, I'm guessing that you already

00:07:01.380 thought to yourself, well, it's probably around 50, and that's correct. That's because the average 1.00

00:07:06.660 person has the capacity to make reasonable judgments about the threat posed by lightning strikes. We all

00:07:11.480 know they happen, but we also know they're pretty rare, and there's no way in hell that lightning bolts

00:07:16.140 from the sky are smiting 50,000 people in this country every year. The idea that police are killing

00:07:23.020 1,000 or 10,000 unarmed black people in a year or that half of the people killed each year by police 0.99

00:07:31.060 are black is just as absurd. It's just as obviously bogus. But the average person can't see the absurdity 1.00

00:07:39.160 for what it is because their judgment and capacity for making reasonable estimations on this issue

00:07:43.680 has been obliterated after years of relentless propaganda from the media. This is what we're up

00:07:49.780 against. For all of the skepticism rightly targeted at the media, even the skeptics can be wildly misled

00:07:57.300 by that same media. No matter how much of an independent thinker, a critical thinker you might

00:08:02.840 consider yourself to be, it's difficult to keep your wits about you when surrounded by a constant fog of

00:08:08.940 lies and half-truths. Ed Harris's character in The Truman Show had it right when he said,

00:08:15.860 we accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

00:08:20.900 And it is indeed that simple for many of us, but it shouldn't be. As we have learned time and time

00:08:26.220 again, the reality and what we are presented can often be two very different things. Let's get now to

00:08:35.840 five headlines. So we've heard from Fauci in sort of vague terms in recent days, implying that the

00:08:47.100 masking and social distancing and all of that would have to continue even for people who are vaccinated

00:08:53.940 basically indefinitely. But now we have him in a teleconference, I think with the National Institute

00:09:00.240 of Health, being as clear and explicit on this subject as we've heard him so far. And here's

00:09:07.420 what he had to say. Listen. There are certain aspects of being vaccinated and what that means

00:09:13.480 to you personally and your own personal safety and that of your family versus what vaccines will allow

00:09:20.520 you to do in society. One relates to you yourself being vaccinated and the other relates to the number

00:09:28.700 of people and the relative percentage of people in society that will be vaccinated because there

00:09:34.280 will be things that you will not be able to do because the burden of virus in society will be very

00:09:42.660 high, which it is right now. Even though we're going way down on the decline that Dr. Walensky

00:09:47.520 showed you, we are still at an unacceptably high baseline level with the seven-day average being quite high.

00:09:57.020 So there are things, even if you're vaccinated, that you're not going to be able to do in society.

00:10:02.300 For example, indoor dining, theaters, places where people congregate. That's because of the safety of

00:10:09.800 society. You yourself, what you can do when you are together with another person, we are looking at

00:10:16.980 that and we're going to try and find out very quickly what recommendations could be made about what

00:10:23.180 people can do. Okay. So there we go. Um, they're looking at it, you know, what, what can you do

00:10:28.800 with another person? If you're waiting around for a guy like Fauci to tell you what you can do when

00:10:34.600 you're around another person, then he's looking at it and he'll get back to you that, but for right

00:10:40.060 now, sit on your couch with your hands tucked under, under your legs and don't move and don't touch

00:10:46.300 anything and don't talk to anybody. And he'll get back to you, let you know exactly what you're allowed

00:10:49.240 to do in your own house with, uh, with, with other people. I mean, if, if you are actually

00:10:55.040 still waiting around for guys like Fauci to give you the okay, before you go and live your life,

00:10:59.800 then, um, then I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to, there's nothing I could do

00:11:02.760 for you really. I mean, you're a hopeless case at this point. Uh, you are, you are hopelessly mindless

00:11:08.840 if you're still waiting for a guy like Fauci to give you the okay. Of course, unfortunately there, 0.74

00:11:15.100 depending on where you live, there may be a lot of things that you want to do that you actually

00:11:18.000 can't do because they have been shut down. Now I will say I, part of me laughs when I

00:11:22.740 hear stuff like this, like, um, well, you know, it's, we'll, we'll, we'll find out soon enough

00:11:29.060 when we can start doing things like indoor dining again. I've been doing indoor dining since the

00:11:33.580 spring. I took a brief pause in indoor dining because I had to, because where I live, they shut

00:11:38.740 down all the restaurants, but, uh, they opened up after about a month and I'm going out with my wife

00:11:43.640 regularly, uh, to, to go eat. And you know, it's, and if, if, if restaurants are open around you and

00:11:52.500 again, but you, you would rather sit around and, and, and still order DoorDash or whatever and pay

00:11:57.060 the extra $45 fee they tack on top of it for soggy, cold food. If you want to do that, then fine. I mean,

00:12:04.360 it's more room for the rest of us, I guess, at the restaurant, but you shouldn't be waiting

00:12:09.000 around anymore. You have, you just have to think about, and I always have to emphasize this

00:12:15.180 because it's, it's important for us to stay under for us to understand psychologically,

00:12:19.700 um, guys like Fauci, you know, this is not like some kind of conspiracy theory.

00:12:25.500 This is a basic understanding of human nature. Fauci over the last year has been given enormous

00:12:34.740 power over our everyday lives. Now in reality, in actuality, he should have no power over what any

00:12:43.060 of us do. He's not an elected official. He's not, he's not a lawmaker. He's not a law enforcement

00:12:48.840 officer. He should really have no power over us, but he's been given enormous power and also

00:12:55.820 prominence and fame. How many people knew Fauci's name before, before all this started? Now he's a

00:13:02.840 household name, household name, incredibly famous, still loved and adored, uh, by somehow by many

00:13:10.380 people and with, with incredible power. It it's even for, for people of great virtue and humility

00:13:20.980 and integrity, which I don't think any of that applies to Fauci, but even if you had all that

00:13:27.020 stuff and then you're given that kind of power and that kind of fame and that kind of recognition

00:13:32.240 and acclaim and all that is very difficult to not be corrupted by it. Number one, and also very

00:13:38.740 difficult to willingly give it up because the minute that Fauci says, okay, you know what? We

00:13:47.300 could start moving back to normal. This, uh, the virus is, is really receding. We've gotten a hold

00:13:52.880 of it now. You know, millions of people have already been infected. They're immune to it. Millions more

00:13:57.640 are getting vaccinated. And so you can go and live your, your, your daily life and you'll probably

00:14:02.220 be fine. The minute that Fauci says that, then he goes back to basic irrelevance. Nobody cares.

00:14:06.660 He's not doing the, he's not, no one's calling him in for interviews anymore. He's not, he's not

00:14:09.980 giving a press conferences that 50 million people are going to watch. He goes back to having no,

00:14:15.900 you just being a, basically a nameless bureaucrat.

00:14:18.080 I don't think he wants to give that up. And it's not just him. There are a lot of people

00:14:26.700 from Fauci's level all the way down to your local bureaucrats, you know, town halls, school boards,

00:14:34.060 all that kind of stuff. They have been given importance and power and prestige that they've

00:14:40.320 never had before. And they don't want to give it up. So always keep that in mind when you hear these

00:14:45.620 people speaking. Number two, on Monday, Virginia's state Senate passed a bill that was already

00:14:51.920 approved by the house of delegates, officially banning, this is from the daily wire, officially

00:14:55.260 banning the death penalty in the Southern state. The bill now waits to be signed into law by

00:14:59.260 democratic governor, Ralph Northam, which is expected. The bill would join Virginia with 22

00:15:04.240 other States that have voted to end capital punishment. The associated press reported that

00:15:08.640 Virginia has executed more people in its long history than any other. So now Virginia under Ralph

00:15:13.680 Northam is gearing up to ban the death penalty. It's a pretty major story, pretty major development.

00:15:23.020 And what that's going to mean is that in Virginia under Ralph Northam, and we should remember this

00:15:29.940 when we hear, well, the death penalty is abolished in Virginia. Not exactly. There's a qualifier needed

00:15:36.780 here. The death penalty is abolished in Virginia for adults. What this means is that as an adult,

00:15:43.020 you can no longer receive the death penalty, no matter what you do, you could go out, rape and 1.00

00:15:47.900 kill, kill children. And there's in Virginia, like in, like in 22 other States. Now there's nothing 0.99

00:15:53.940 that you can do that will earn you death, no matter how heinous. Um, I mean, no matter how much you send

00:16:03.800 the message to society that you don't want to be a part of it, that you don't want to be treated like a 0.99

00:16:09.620 human being, because you want to act like an animal, no matter how much you do it, society is

00:16:13.480 still going to keep you around and keep you alive and pay money too, to keep you around and keep you

00:16:17.300 alive. Um, and not just that, but, but in fact, the more heinous your crime, the more money society

00:16:28.060 has to pay to house you and keep you alive in prison because you're going to need protect. If

00:16:35.300 you, if you do something so horrible, let's say you, you rape and murder a child, it's so horrible 1.00

00:16:42.740 that even the other murderers in prison hate you for it. Well, now you need protective custody for 0.99

00:16:47.600 your whole life. That's going to cost even more money. So society has to, society has to assume the

00:16:52.100 burden, the extra burden to pay more money to keep you alive because what you did was so heinous.

00:16:59.920 So that's the situation in Virginia for adults, but children can still be executed in Virginia.

00:17:07.100 Like in all the other States, children can still receive the death penalty and due to the tune of

00:17:11.220 about a million a year. Ralph Northam famously, infamously is in favor of the death penalty for

00:17:18.020 infants, born infants. The child is born. We can make a decision about what to do with the child.

00:17:26.280 Can't do that with a, with a child murderer. We can't make any decisions there. There's no decision

00:17:29.860 to be made. I'll keep them alive. Three hot meals a day for their whole life. Uh, sort of on the same

00:17:38.200 subject here. Number three, Biden has nominated Xavier Becerra to be the new health secretary. He has no

00:17:43.420 medical background of any kind, as far as I can tell, but he's going to be health secretary for whatever

00:17:47.120 reason. The greater concern is that he's a, he's an infanticidal lunatic, um, like every other 0.99

00:17:51.800 Democrat, like Ralph Northam, like the whole democratic party. Senator Romney questioned him 0.96

00:17:56.220 yesterday in a hearing about that, about his support of infanticide, uh, partial birth abortion

00:18:00.920 specifically. And let's listen to that exchange. There's a division in our country with regards to

00:18:07.120 the issue of abortion, of course, as you know, and mainstream Republicans, mainstream Republicans or

00:18:11.620 Democrats disagree, but most people agree that partial birth abortion, uh, uh, is awful. Uh, you voted

00:18:19.880 against a ban on partial birth abortion. Why? So Senator here, um, I understand that people have

00:18:28.420 different deeply held beliefs on this issue and I respect that. Um, I have worked, as I've mentioned

00:18:36.140 for decades, trying to protect the health of men and women, young and old, uh, and as attorney general,

00:18:42.680 my job has been, uh, to follow the law and make sure others are following the law. And I'm also

00:18:49.660 sitting in front of a high risk OBGYN who for several decades had the work of protecting the health

00:18:56.980 of women and a future baby. And so I will tell you that when I come to these issues, I understand that

00:19:03.360 we may not always agree, uh, on where to go, but I think we can find some common ground on these

00:19:09.280 issues because everyone wants to make sure that if you have an opportunity, you're going to live

00:19:15.160 a healthy life. And I will tell you that I, I hope to be able to work with you and others

00:19:18.960 to reach that common ground on so many different issues. I think we can reach common ground on many

00:19:23.400 issues, but on partial birth abortion, it sounds like we, we're not going to reach a common ground

00:19:27.980 there. Yeah. I'm going to agree with Romney there. There's no common ground. And, uh, you know,

00:19:31.540 he, he, he says, I respect, I respect everyone's opinion. He didn't answer the question at all.

00:19:36.060 If you notice, the question was very simple. It wasn't a gotcha question. It wasn't trapping him

00:19:41.660 at all. He just said, Romney asked, you voted against a ban on partial birth abortion. Why?

00:19:49.320 That's the simplest question. You voted. Why'd you do that? Uh, and didn't, didn't get an answer.

00:19:54.960 No answer. Instead it's, I respect, I deeply respect the deeply held views of everyone. And I deeply

00:20:00.200 respect all the deeply, all the deep things that are happening in this deep country. Um, well,

00:20:04.600 it's nice that you respect everyone's view. I don't really believe you that you respect everyone's

00:20:07.660 views, but I'll be honest with you and tell you that I don't respect your views at all.

00:20:11.560 Um, I also don't respect you as a person, as a man at all. I don't respect you because if you get this

00:20:16.640 issue wrong, then you're not deserving of any respect at all as a human being. Okay. You are a disgrace

00:20:22.360 and a scumbag. That's what you are. You're, you're, you are, you are a terrible excuse for a man 1.00

00:20:27.200 and for an American. So I have no, I want to be really clear about that. You get this issue wrong. 0.98

00:20:33.220 I have absolutely no respect for your opinion, which is horrific and stupid. And I have no respect 1.00

00:20:39.020 for you as a horrifically stupid person. Partial birth abortion is, we talked yesterday about the 1.00

00:20:45.600 males and the females, uh, sports leagues and how that's the easiest societal question we faced. 0.98

00:20:52.900 Despite the fact that another one of Biden's nominees was saying how difficult it is. So

00:20:57.860 it's such a difficult question. All these questions they find so difficult. Well, I might have to amend

00:21:02.060 my statement. I said, that's, I said the, the, the female sport thing is the ease is actually is in 1.00

00:21:06.000 fact the easiest societal question we've ever faced. Um, I'll amend that and say actually partial birth

00:21:10.980 abortion or really abortion generally, especially partial birth abortion is the easiest question

00:21:16.980 in partial birth abortion. You're, you're taking a child who is in the process of being born. This is

00:21:26.760 a fully developed child, an infant. Okay. You can't hide behind embryo here. It's not an embryo. This

00:21:35.280 is a fully developed infant. You take any, any, any newborn child you've seen in the lovingly cradled

00:21:41.000 child in its mother's arms. That's what the child looks like in the partial birth abortion

00:21:45.320 in the process of being born. And you are murdering that child as it emerges from the birth canal

00:21:50.740 and you're doing it in the birth canal on a technicality because you know that once it's once,

00:21:56.420 once the child emerges from the birth canal, uh, now it will legally count as infanticide unless

00:22:01.020 guys like Ralph Northam get their way, in which case, even then you can go, which really by the

00:22:05.240 logic of late term abortion, you may as well kill children who are five days older, five months 0.99

00:22:10.620 old or five years old because morally there's no difference. And you can't hide behind any excuses 0.97

00:22:19.360 about it's the woman's body woman. The baby is in the process of leaving the woman's body. 1.00

00:22:26.220 So even if I, even if I bought into your bodily autonomy arguments for abortion, which I don't,

00:22:32.180 but even if I did, that's out the window, the child's in the process of being born. He's not going

00:22:37.280 to be in your body anymore. The question is, are you going to kill that child a second before it's 1.00

00:22:42.300 born? Are you going to take the extra step of killing that child before it's born? If you do, 1.00

00:22:48.540 and if you are in favor of that, you're, you're simply in favor of murder. That's it. You are in

00:22:53.200 favor of murdering a baby because it's an inconvenience to society, to the mother, whatever. 0.99

00:22:57.540 And yeah. So, I mean, call me crazy, but if you, if you think it's, there is ever a scenario where

00:23:07.420 it could be okay to suck the brains out of a baby, then I don't respect you or your opinion.

00:23:16.840 And I think, you know, that your opinion is not worthy of respect, which is why you won't defend it. 0.80

00:23:23.380 You can't defend it. And you know it.

00:23:29.520 All right, let's go, uh, number four here. You heard a lot about the kids in cages during Trump's

00:23:35.220 term. That was obviously a ridiculous false narrative, talking about false narratives, 0.92

00:23:40.300 uh, police shootings. I think that's number one on the list of false narratives from the media, 0.66

00:23:45.620 but kids in cages, the only reason that isn't number one is because the consequences of that lie

00:23:51.640 have not been nearly as dire as the consequences of the police shooting lie as a simple lie.

00:23:58.720 And one of the reasons that you knew it was a lie from the beginning when the left was going on about

00:24:03.060 kids in cages and how worried they are about it and, and, and all of that. One of the reasons you

00:24:07.860 knew it was a lie is it goes back to what we were just discussed that there's no way these people

00:24:14.440 actually give a damn anyway. And that's a, that's a, a, a hint for everybody. Anytime someone on the

00:24:22.540 left is pretending to care about children, you know, something is up because they don't actually

00:24:27.180 care. There's got, there's something else going on here. Something is wrong. Anytime someone on the

00:24:33.440 left is pretending to care about children. And probably what they're saying is completely bogus

00:24:38.700 as it was here. So, uh, the kids in cage narrative was, was bogus. Um, and, but it was pushed by the

00:24:46.040 media and Democrats and Biden himself. Interesting thing now though, is that Biden himself is keeping

00:24:51.220 migrant kids in the same places that Trump was keeping them. Jen Psaki was asked about this, uh,

00:24:57.560 at a press conference. And here's how that went. And to ensure the health and safety of these kids,

00:25:03.040 HHS took steps to open an emergency facility to add capacity where these children can be

00:25:08.520 provided the care they need while they are safely before they are safely placed with families and

00:25:13.000 sponsors. So it's a temporary reopening during COVID-19. Our intention is very much to close it,

00:25:18.980 but we want to ensure that we can follow COVID COVID protocols, uh, as we, uh, as we, as unaccompanied

00:25:25.240 minors come into the United States. But it's the same facility that was open for a month in the

00:25:29.460 Trump administration, summer 2019. That is when Joe Biden said under Trump, there have been horrifying

00:25:35.420 scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages. And Kamala Harris said, uh, basically babies in

00:25:41.020 cages is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government. So how is this any

00:25:46.400 different than that? We very much feel that way. Uh, and these, these are facilities. Let me be,

00:25:51.300 let me be clear here. One, there's a pandemic going on. I'm sure you're not suggesting that we have

00:25:56.380 children right next to each other, uh, in ways that are not COVID safe. Are you?

00:26:00.980 I'm suggesting that Kamala Harris said that this facility, putting people in this facility was a

00:26:07.080 human rights abuse committed by the United States government. And Jill Biden said under Trump,

00:26:12.380 there have been horrifying scenes of border, uh, at the border of kids being kept in cages. Now it's

00:26:17.540 not under Trump. It's under Biden. This is not kids being kept in cages. This is, this is kids.

00:26:23.680 This is a facility that was opened. That's going to follow the same standards as other HHS facilities.

00:26:29.420 It is not a replication. Certainly not though. That's, that is never our intention of replicating

00:26:35.040 the immigration policies of the past administration. Okay. All right. Well,

00:26:40.440 we'll find that nevermind. They're not cages. They're facilities now. You see, there's a clear

00:26:47.520 difference. It's exactly the same situation, the exact same place. Everything's the same,

00:26:52.000 but, uh, not cages. They're facilities. That's all. Yeah. Well, they were facilities all along

00:26:59.980 and yes, that's, see, that's, that's the point. Um, and that's why this, the tricky thing you run

00:27:08.140 into anytime you're trying to hold Democrats to their own standard or to the standards that they've

00:27:12.660 applied to you, because we can, we can criticize Biden for this immigration policy because he criticized

00:27:20.860 Trump for the same and mischaracterized it and lied about it. But we're not saying that what's

00:27:27.400 happening right now was wrong. Like, of course the kids are here, especially if they're unaccompanied,

00:27:32.940 you know, what else are you going to do? Just send them off into the wild world by themselves.

00:27:40.080 You have to, when, when people are coming here and especially if they're coming here illegally, 0.74

00:27:45.540 you got to do something. And if we're talking about kids, you have to have a place for them.

00:27:54.200 And we also know to complicate matters that, um, that oftentimes the adults with the children may

00:28:01.940 pose as parents, but oftentimes are not actually the parents. This could be a trafficking situation.

00:28:08.760 You don't know. You don't know. You have no way of knowing this is the situation that, you know,

00:28:15.480 the, the, the, the law enforcement officials, immigration officials are put in because of the

00:28:21.580 decision to, you know, among illegal immigrants to do that, to commit that crime and to involve kids in 0.94

00:28:29.900 it. So there's no perfect answer. There's, there's, there's, there's a lot of times there's no happy

00:28:37.640 conclusion. You have to do something and it makes sense to have, yes, facilities. So we're not

00:28:44.140 criticizing that. However, we also can't let you get away with this without pointing out what you're

00:28:51.740 doing. So that's the, um, that's the balancing act that we always find ourselves in when dealing

00:28:57.560 with the hypocrisy of the left. Number five, finally, I thought this was fantastic. Some cops

00:29:01.940 in Pakistan have adopted a new crime fighting strategy, which is rollerblading. We have the 1.00

00:29:08.160 video here. Let's play some of this video of the rollerblading cops. Um, and there's some cool,

00:29:13.420 there's like some cool eighties music that goes with it. Just, just, just perfect music for this.

00:29:19.000 Almost perfect music. I think what we really need is maybe, is maybe something, something nineties,

00:29:25.160 maybe ace of base, even limp biscuit. And, uh, but they're rollerblading. One cop pulls his gun out

00:29:34.420 while they're, while they're rollerblading. What I want to see now is what I want to see now is a gang

00:29:41.160 of criminals on skateboards. So we can have a rollerblade versus skateboard battle. That's what I

00:29:47.740 actually want to see. It's become like a movie or something. There's the music, a movie that I might

00:29:54.800 have written in fourth grade. The other thing that's missing here with these rollerblading cops

00:29:58.900 is, um, walk, walk mans. I'm not sure if the plural is supposed to be walk man or walk mans.

00:30:03.460 I was never sure, but, uh, you know, the walk man cassette player that I had when I was in fourth

00:30:07.220 grade, maybe fanny packs. I don't know, but this is great. I don't know. How do you take a cop

00:30:15.200 seriously? I have enough trouble taking the cops seriously on bikes. I understand the bike cop thing.

00:30:20.720 I mean, it's a practical solution, especially in the city. Um, it's hard though, to take someone

00:30:26.680 seriously as a, you know, as a, as a, as a figure of authority when they're on a bike with a bike

00:30:31.480 helmet and in rollerblades, it makes it even worse, but I appreciate creative, you know, ingenuity is

00:30:39.020 what we need in law enforcement. So that's great. All right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube

00:30:43.460 comments. Here are some comments from the show yesterday, uh, from username history and headlines.

00:30:48.500 He says, it's pretty, pretty clear that what happened over the summer was domestic terrorism.

00:30:52.920 Yeah. Pretty clear to you and I, to the guy that's going to be the attorney general though,

00:30:56.920 um, Merrick Garland, not, not very clear at all because as we learned yesterday and he,

00:31:01.980 and he actually said this, this is not me. It's not hyperbole. I'm not exaggerating,

00:31:05.600 not a straw man. He actually said that domestic terrorism at night doesn't count. It might still

00:31:12.880 be a crime, but it's not domestic terrorism because you do it at night. Um,

00:31:16.740 Jenny V says came for Shapiro, but now it's all about Matt. When will we see you do more shows

00:31:23.900 or longer shows? Well, I'm, I do five shows a week. We put out content on Saturdays too.

00:31:30.620 I am doing longer shows. Like the shows are 45 minutes to 50 minutes at this point. What more

00:31:34.680 do you want from me, Jenny? What more do you want from me? What else can I do for you? Back off. 0.78

00:31:41.160 But thanks for watching. Uh, floor Saza says, Matt, you're pretty damn sexy with big guns and

00:31:48.940 a fantastic beard. Oh, you're also a great chef chef. You know, I don't like being catcalled and

00:31:54.440 there's far too much of that happening in the comments I've noticed. Actually, I do like being

00:31:58.820 catcalled. Let's be honest about it. Getting catcalled is great. I don't know why women complain 1.00

00:32:03.100 about it. It's what's, what's the problem. People are saying complimenting you. I don't

00:32:09.120 have an issue with it. You can compliment me all you want. Um, let's see. Nicholas says,

00:32:14.880 okay, let's get to more serious topics. When is your Easter candy review? Well, I don't have

00:32:20.200 much of a review for Easter candy. I'm in favor of giving people freedom to eat whatever candy

00:32:24.480 they want on Easter, unless it's Peeps or the big jelly beans. So only the small gourmet jelly

00:32:30.140 beans are acceptable. Um, they're the only ones worth a damn big jelly beans can go to hell. 0.98

00:32:34.720 Peeps can go to hell. And if you eat those things, you can too. That was a little strong. 0.99

00:32:39.420 I'll back up a little bit. I won't, I won't wish eternal damnation on you for eating the bigger

00:32:43.200 jelly beans, but seriously get better taste. And finally, Wayne says, Hey Matt, love the show.

00:32:48.220 Been listening to it since March of last year. I'm from Namibia and here there's a lot of trophy

00:32:52.480 hunting. Yes, you're right. The meat does go to the local locals in the area. There are small shops

00:32:57.580 that clean up the skins, horns, and heads of these animals. And they get money as a result.

00:33:02.180 It shows that people in the West know nothing about trophy hunting and it's, um, and it's

00:33:06.480 benefits to the local community here. Firstly, all hunts are documented and highly regulated by

00:33:11.040 the government. It's like people think that others just come here and shoot animals that were in a

00:33:14.940 park or something. No, there's immense regulation. It's quite expensive. And each head of something like

00:33:20.020 a giraffe could be up to a hundred thousand dollars. Uh, these shootings usually happen in a

00:33:23.940 conservation farms owned by commercial farmers. And this is one of the driving forces of tourism

00:33:28.740 and conservation in my country specifically. Well, even though I don't know a lot about

00:33:33.500 trophy hunting, I said yesterday that I suspect it's probably okay because of the way that it

00:33:37.300 benefits the people in that region. And based on your knowledge, uh, in Namibia, Wayne, I will say

00:33:43.280 that, uh, yeah, I'm, I, I will officially declare that I am firmly in the camp of pro trophy hunting.

00:33:50.140 I am totally in favor of it. If it benefits people, you know, if we're using animals in a way,

00:33:56.660 uh, where we're not being like reckless and destructive for its own sake, but we're using

00:34:01.700 them in a way that benefits people and people who need that benefit, you know, people who need the

00:34:06.640 food, especially need the money. So we think about the people that depend on the food and the money

00:34:12.100 from the tourism for, for trophy hunting. If we were to take that away because Westerners, 1.00

00:34:19.360 it makes their tummies hurt when they see pictures of giraffes laying dead. Um, you know,

00:34:25.820 we take that away and it, it, it, it harms people. So I'm not in favor of that.

00:34:30.420 Kill all the giraffes you want, but you know, do it in the way that benefits people. 1.00

00:34:34.120 And, uh, it's not, it, it, I'm not going to fly 2,000, 3,000 miles away or more to go, um, 0.99

00:34:41.940 kill a giraffe. But, uh, if you want to do it in this way, then more power to you. Godspeed and God

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00:36:39.360 the big news coming ever since then. We, we announced the big movie deal with Gina Carano.

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00:36:51.720 you can ask questions that we will then answer on the air. We'll also be talking about Ben Shapiro's

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00:37:19.360 subscribe and use code debunked for 25% off. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:37:24.340 So today we are canceling the chief of the Cherokee nation, Chuck Hoskin Jr. It appears that

00:37:35.460 Chuck has decided that it's time for a Jeep to stop using the Cherokee name on its Jeep Cherokees,

00:37:41.560 which have been on the market under that label for something like 40 years. Chuck is concerned

00:37:45.780 that Jeep has appropriated the Cherokee name. Now I'm tempted to say that if Jeep has to give back

00:37:51.200 that name, Cherokee, then I think Chuck has to give the name Chuck back to us white people.

00:37:58.280 But I'm not going to say that. I'm tempted to say it, but I'm not saying it. Instead,

00:38:02.640 let's just listen to the Cherokee chief himself explain his reasoning such as it is. Here it is.

00:38:07.560 Listen. Today in 2021, as chief of the Cherokee nation, I am saying categorically that I think

00:38:13.000 it's wrong to use our name to peddle a vehicle. For most people, tribes don't even maybe seem real.

00:38:21.200 In terms of their experience, seeing something in history and naming something after something in

00:38:27.540 history probably doesn't feel too bad, particularly if it engenders some strong, positive emotions.

00:38:34.620 But I think in this year, 2021, we ought to be talking about the fact that tribes are still here.

00:38:41.160 We're vibrant. We do a great deal for our people and our communities and that our names mean something.

00:38:46.080 And they've been here a lot longer than the Jeep company and other corporations that have seized our

00:38:52.480 name for profit. Is there some way that Jeep could use that name that you'd be fine with it?

00:38:58.540 Well, there's no way that they could use the name that I would be fine with it. It certainly doesn't

00:39:02.580 honor us by using that name. And it was surely never intended to.

00:39:07.160 Now, just to clarify here, if you're listening to the audio podcast, that was not Ted Cruz. I know

00:39:12.620 it sounds exactly like it. I mean, exactly like it. It does. But I don't want you to have conjured

00:39:18.160 in your head an image of Ted Cruz in a Native American headdress pretending to be a tribal chief.

00:39:23.700 There's already one person in the U.S. Senate pretending to be Native American. We don't need 1.00

00:39:26.500 another. So that was not Ted Cruz. No, that was, in fact, Chuck Hoskin Jr. And you heard his reasoning.

00:39:32.000 It could be summarized, I think, in three key points. Number one, it's the year 2021. Number

00:39:38.620 two, it's wrong to use the Cherokee name to pedal a vehicle. And number three, the Cherokee tribe still

00:39:44.420 exists. So those are his three reasons. I think I'm fairly summarizing them, right? Now, I would

00:39:50.140 respond to those points this way. Number one, that's not an argument. Number two, that's not an

00:39:56.060 argument either. And number three, neither is that. None of those are arguments.

00:40:00.900 The fact that it's the current year and not some other year does not itself explain why

00:40:06.320 any course of action is wrong or right. Indeed, it is always the current year. That's the crazy

00:40:11.720 thing. It has never been anything but the current year. There has never been a time when people

00:40:16.120 have lived in a year that was not the current year. Like, yeah, it's 2021 and people are living

00:40:22.980 in 2021 and not in, you know, 2007. But in 2007, they lived in 2007 and not 1982. That's the way it

00:40:30.460 works. None of this even begins to explain why Jeep shouldn't put the name Cherokee on some of its

00:40:37.420 vehicles. Also, simply stating that it's wrong to use the Cherokee name to pedal a vehicle doesn't

00:40:42.920 explain why it's wrong. That's the assertion. That's the proposition you're trying to defend.

00:40:48.520 You can't defend it by saying it and restating it over and over and again using slightly different

00:40:54.160 words. This is something that people nowadays don't seem to understand, especially on the

00:40:56.980 internet. An assertion is not an argument. The argument is what you present to defend or explain

00:41:06.580 the assertion. It's not like it's self-evident. It's not at all evident to me why it's inherently wrong

00:41:12.820 to use the name of a tribe to sell a vehicle. It's just a name after all. Names are fluid things.

00:41:18.060 They're used in different ways. They take on different meanings. You'd think that a culture

00:41:21.540 that wants everything to be fluid, wants even biological reality to be fluid, could understand

00:41:26.660 that names really are fluid. Gender is not fluid. Names actually are. That's one of the reasons why 0.83

00:41:33.280 if a man claims to be a woman and says, my name is Susan, I'll call him Susan because a name,

00:41:40.720 you can pick whatever name you want. Now, I'm not going to pretend that you're a woman because you're not 1.00

00:41:45.840 and you can't pick whatever gender you want. So names are fluid. And I'm sure if I go back far

00:41:52.600 enough, I can find a time when the Cherokee weren't even called the Cherokee. What we're

00:41:58.520 seeing here is this very weird dynamic wherein representation is considered so important. It's

00:42:03.700 an urgent necessity to make sure that minority groups are portrayed, named, mentioned, shown all

00:42:08.920 the time everywhere. But at the same time, the very same people fighting for representation also are

00:42:15.880 fighting to remove representation. It's a victory for minority groups to be represented. It's also 1.00

00:42:22.060 somehow a victory that Native American groups are less represented in general culture today than they 0.99

00:42:26.860 were a year ago. So which is it? Are we supposed to be representing or not? The only way to make sense

00:42:34.020 of this seeming contradiction is to see the Native American identity and the names associated with

00:42:39.780 it as somehow specially sacred and deserving of reverence. You know, there's nothing insulting

00:42:47.340 about the Jeep Cherokee. There was nothing insulting about the Native American woman that was used on the

00:42:52.540 Lando Lakes butter containers. The only way to see this stuff as inappropriate is to ascribe an almost

00:42:58.840 mystical quality to the Native American identity. But it's not mystical or sacred or deserving of any 1.00

00:43:05.940 sort of religious reverence. Native Americans are people. We put all kinds of people and names on

00:43:14.240 cars, sports teams, helmets, product packaging, etc. There's no reason why Native Americans should be 1.00

00:43:20.440 exempt from that. So the only logical response then to Chuck in this case is to say, dude, get over

00:43:27.300 yourself. Just get over yourself. But we all know that is not the response that he's going to

00:43:33.560 receive. In fact, Jeep, in response to this totally manufactured controversy, said, quote,

00:43:39.220 our vehicle names have been carefully chosen and nurtured over the years to honor and celebrate Native

00:43:43.340 American people for their nobility, prowess and pride. We are more than ever committed to a respectful

00:43:48.540 and open dialogue with the Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. Uh-oh, the open dialogue.

00:43:55.700 We all know where this is headed. I mean, there should be no dialogue. They should say to Chuck,

00:44:02.340 yeah, we aren't going to talk about that because it's stupid. That should be it. That should be the 1.00

00:44:06.280 beginning and end of their statement. But they're open to a dialogue, which means that within six

00:44:11.980 months, we're going to get the big announcement that Jeep is helping to end racism by erasing yet

00:44:16.360 another cultural reference to Native Americans. Hooray. I'm certain that this is where that that is where 0.59

00:44:22.800 this is going to go. Uh, and for that reason, I am canceling Jeep too, preemptively. I won't even

00:44:29.000 give them a chance. They are canceled. Chuck is canceled. Ted Cruz is canceled in case that really

00:44:34.980 was him. Everyone is canceled. And that'll do it for us today. Thanks for listening. Thanks for

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