The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 744 - Spoiled, Ungrateful Brat Turns Her Back On The Flag

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, an Olympic athlete turns her back on the flag as the national anthem

00:00:03.940 is played. There's a catastrophic lack of gratitude in this country. It's become a real

00:00:07.980 epidemic, in my opinion, and this is just the latest symptom of it. So we'll talk about that.

00:00:11.840 Also, five headlines, including peaceful protesters exercise their free speech rights by defacing a

00:00:16.900 George Floyd statue. Also, a self-proclaimed intellectual and MSNBC calls white conservatives

00:00:21.980 maggots and then apologizes, sort of. And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the LGBT 0.96

00:00:27.540 activists and people in the media who are very offended and upset that the latest Pixar film

00:00:32.580 about two young boys is not a gay romance. All of that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:53.000 chat with them online at charitymobile.com. So it's not often that I begin the show by quoting ancient

00:01:59.920 Roman philosophers, but today this quote comes immediately to mind. Cicero, at least according

00:02:05.060 to a Facebook meme that I saw once, said, gratitude is not only the greatest, but is also the parent

00:02:10.500 of all the other virtues. That's the more famous version of the quote anyway. Actually,

00:02:15.080 the full version is better. He said, in truth, oh judges, while I wish to be adorned with every

00:02:19.460 virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than the being and appearing grateful.

00:02:25.280 For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.

00:02:31.000 Now, the Facebook meme didn't tell me why he said this, but it's not difficult to imagine how one

00:02:36.680 might defend that claim, that gratitude is the parent of all virtues. Many other virtues seem to be

00:02:43.260 contained in gratitude. In order to be truly grateful to someone or for something, you have

00:02:49.640 to be humble. You have to be prudent. You must be kind. Gratitude is the sister of generosity.

00:02:56.880 Generosity is in the giving. Gratitude is in the receiving. If one is present in the interaction,

00:03:02.220 but not the other, there's a risk that soon both will be lost. You know, if you've ever tried to be

00:03:06.580 consistently generous to a habitually ungrateful person, you know how this works. Gratitude is

00:03:13.340 certainly not something that a deeply selfish person can experience. A selfish and entitled person

00:03:19.180 won't be grateful for anything because they believe that everything they're given was already owed to

00:03:24.160 them. And whatever it is, it's not enough anyway. They're never satisfied, let alone grateful.

00:03:29.140 And this is why, as parents, we spend so much time teaching gratitude to our children.

00:03:33.760 After you take your child out for ice cream, or you go to the zoo, or you put dinner on the table,

00:03:39.480 there's that common refrain. I know I say it all the time. What do you say? And the child,

00:03:44.940 prompted, shouts, thank you, until hopefully he doesn't need to be prompted anymore.

00:03:50.220 Now, this isn't a simple matter of teaching good manners, though it is that also, of course.

00:03:55.000 But on a deeper level, you're instilling gratitude. And it does have to be instilled,

00:03:59.700 instilled, inculcated, taught. It doesn't come on its own. Children are naturally inclined to take

00:04:05.140 things for granted, to think, well, you know, of course mommy and daddy gave me this. That's their

00:04:09.060 job. They're mommy and daddy. We have to teach them that much of what we do for them is above and

00:04:14.900 beyond the mere fulfillment of a job. We don't have to give them ice cream. We do that because we love

00:04:19.940 them. And for that, they should be grateful. And even the things that are fulfilling the job,

00:04:26.000 making them dinner, for example, putting a roof over their heads, that should still be met with

00:04:30.680 gratitude. This is a lesson we teach them for their own sake, not for ours. Grateful people are good

00:04:39.620 people. They're happy people. They're well-adjusted people. Grateful people have friends. They get hired

00:04:44.940 for jobs. They enjoy life. So it is then no surprise that in a country where so many people are miserable

00:04:52.700 and angry and depressed all the time, there's also a catastrophic lack of gratitude, which brings us

00:04:58.740 finally to a woman named Gwen Berry. This past weekend was the U.S. Olympic trials for track and

00:05:05.140 field. One of the track and field events is the hammer throw. Now, unfortunately, and I just learned

00:05:11.540 this today because I don't really watch the Olympics. They're not throwing hammers like the ones you find

00:05:17.580 at a Home Depot, as fun as that would be. I had imagined like a toolbox and they're just chucking hammers,

00:05:22.120 maybe at each other. That'd be fun. Instead, it's like the shot put, except with kind of a sling.

00:05:28.760 Gwen Berry is one of the athletes who competed in that event, and she managed to achieve third place

00:05:34.560 behind a woman named Deanna Price in first place and Brooke Anderson in second. Now, as it happens,

00:05:41.140 Deanna Price had a record-breaking day of chucking the metal ball around. She actually was great. I think 0.99

00:05:46.700 she broke her own record, which she had set before, but that achievement was overshadowed by third place

00:05:52.240 Berry, who, while standing on the podium, turned her back on the flag and began visibly pouting as the

00:06:00.020 national anthem was played. Towards the end of the song, she covered her head with a black t-shirt that

00:06:05.160 read, activist athlete. This is all it takes to be an activist these days, of course. All you need to do

00:06:11.220 is stand around like a pouty, sullen child, which at least she didn't burn anything. I guess we could

00:06:18.120 be grateful for that, speaking of gratitude. Perhaps she's saving that for when the Olympics

00:06:21.700 actually start. Now, after her little stunt, Berry explained to reporters that she reacted that way 1.00

00:06:29.100 to the anthem because she considered it a personal affront that it had been played at all. This is

00:06:35.900 her quote, the quote from her. She said, quote, I feel like it was a setup. I feel like they did that on

00:06:41.360 purpose, and I was pissed, to be honest. I was thinking about what should I do? Eventually, I just

00:06:47.300 stayed there, and I just swayed. I put my shirt over my head. It was real disrespectful. I know they did that

00:06:53.400 on purpose, but it'll be all right. I see what's up. Now, to be clear, she's not saying that her turning her

00:07:01.400 back was disrespectful, which it was. She's saying that they were disrespecting her by playing the

00:07:08.360 anthem in the first place. She felt personally disrespected by the anthem. This woman is not only

00:07:17.900 an unpatriotic, whiny, disgusting brat, but she also believes the world revolves around her. 1.00

00:07:24.380 They play the anthem every day during the trials at around that time. Yet, if it plays on the day that 0.99

00:07:30.780 she's competing, it must be some kind of personal attack against her. But it's no surprise she has

00:07:37.020 this attitude. Grateful people tend to possess all the other virtues. Ungrateful people, in contrast,

00:07:42.220 tend to possess none at all. She's ungrateful, so of course, she's also self-centered and petty and 1.00

00:07:47.940 everything else. Now, of course, in a healthy country, an Olympic athlete who turns her back on her own

00:07:55.740 flag would be kicked off the team and publicly shamed and reviled for being the disgraceful, 1.00

00:08:01.980 embarrassing jackass that she is. But we're not a healthy country, so instead she will be and already 1.00

00:08:06.580 has been lionized as some sort of civil rights hero standing up against oppression. What sort of

00:08:12.960 oppression, though? I mean, what exactly is she so angry about? In what precise way has this person

00:08:19.600 been at all victimized? What is she mad about? What's the problem? That's never made clear.

00:08:27.280 Out of all these people claiming to have some deep grievance against the United States,

00:08:33.040 none of them can ever explain what it is. They could talk about history. They could talk about

00:08:39.740 things that happened 200 years ago. But they can't explain what's happened to them. What did this

00:08:46.960 country do to you specifically that's made you feel this way? That's because their grievance doesn't

00:08:53.680 stem from anything external. It comes internally from their own lack of gratitude. This country has

00:09:01.440 given Gwen Berry everything. Now it even gives her an international forum to complain about it, 0.96

00:09:10.140 to complain about her country. But it's not enough. Nothing is ever enough. Her attitude, similar to the

00:09:16.160 attitude of so many others, is not that she's grateful for all that she's been given, the freedom

00:09:23.400 she's been afforded, the luxuries she enjoys, and yet she still recognizes the problems in our society

00:09:29.160 and wishes to fix them. That's one thing. I mean, it's one thing if you say, I'm very grateful for this

00:09:33.980 country. I love this country. But it's not a perfect country, obviously. No country is perfect. And so here are

00:09:40.040 some problems we should fix. That's a perfectly fine attitude. Anyone should have that attitude.

00:09:47.980 Nobody is saying that in order to be patriotic, you have to think that your country is flawless.

00:09:53.360 I certainly don't. No, but the problem for her is that she sees only darkness and horror. That's all

00:10:00.840 she sees. She can't even bear to look at the flag. Can't bother to stand for two minutes with her hand on her

00:10:08.560 heart. She won't even give that to her country. She will give her country nothing in exchange for the 0.63

00:10:15.300 everything that it has given to her. Because although her life is good, and far better than it would be

00:10:23.360 literally anywhere else on earth, which is why she chooses to stay here, rather than move somewhere

00:10:28.060 else, even so, it's not perfect. And if she hasn't been given a perfect life, then she won't be grateful

00:10:36.640 for a good but imperfect one. This is a woman who, again, like so many others, was never taught gratitude

00:10:44.040 as a child, we can assume. And it's probably too late to teach it now, but even so, maybe we should try.

00:10:50.680 Okay. So, so Gwen, what do you say? What do you say to America? You say, thank you. And you do it

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00:12:27.520 hire. All right. So, uh, yeah, so I am back from vacation. Maybe you noticed, um, sort of, I'm actually

00:12:34.100 taking another few days around July 4th, but if you complain about that, then you, then you're also

00:12:41.580 un-American. It's just, this is my, I think part of my patriotic duty take a couple of days around 0.86

00:12:45.700 July 4th. Uh, but it, it, it did, it did go well, especially considering 20 drive ended up being 20

00:12:51.380 hours with four kids. And, uh, I'm not usually a guy who relies on electronics with the kids in the

00:12:58.980 car and all that, but 20 hours, I thought, okay, we have a DVD player in the car. We'll put the DVD

00:13:04.600 on, not the whole time, but, um, of course we get in the car, the DVD player is broken.

00:13:10.380 So in spite of that, it went well. There was, there was one dust up when we were at our vacation

00:13:16.640 home on the lake and my, my four-year-old son, he, uh, often when we're staying outside of our house,

00:13:24.420 he gets nightmares, I guess, cause he's feeling a little, a little out of sorts, a little homesick.

00:13:28.300 So he got nightmares one night and he comes into our room and, uh, it's like three o'clock in the

00:13:32.560 morning. And so I just let him sleep in our room with us, which I knew it was a mistake because

00:13:36.020 then the next night he wants to do the same thing. And I'm saying, no, you got to stay,

00:13:39.380 you got to stay in your own room. And he's worried about having nightmares again. So I'm sitting there

00:13:43.460 talking to him and trying to, you know, figure out a strategy to avoid nightmares. And at first I tell

00:13:49.860 him, well, if you start getting a nightmare, just remind yourself that you're in a dream, you know,

00:13:56.240 and then, and then you'll wake up. And then I realized that's a bad strategy because sometimes you can do

00:13:59.860 that where you realize you're dreaming while you're dreaming, but you can't escape the dream.

00:14:03.580 And then it's become sort of an inception type of situation, which can be even more horrifying.

00:14:08.360 So then I said, okay, why don't we just plan a good dream to have? And I said to him, think about

00:14:14.920 what would be the, if you could go anywhere in the world or do anything, what would it be?

00:14:21.180 And he said he would want to go to a candy store. And I said, well, this is a dream. I mean,

00:14:25.540 you could be in a forest where candy grows on the trees. You could be, there'd be candy falling from

00:14:29.720 the sky. You don't need to go to an actual store. But he said, no, he wants to go to a candy store.

00:14:34.480 And I said, okay, how much money do you want to have in your dream in the candy? You could have

00:14:38.560 all the money. He said, he wants to have a hundred dollars. I said, you can have a bill,

00:14:42.140 you can have $50 billion in the candy store, but all he wanted was a hundred. And so I said,

00:14:47.040 just plan to dream of the candy store with a hundred dollars. I will also dream about the candy store

00:14:53.040 and I'll meet you there in our dream. And then if any monsters show up, I'll fight them off and

00:14:58.280 I'll protect you. And that was the plan. But then my wife goes in to talk to him and he recruits her

00:15:05.680 to be involved in the dream too. And then he's talking to his sister and his brother. And now

00:15:09.840 they're all, and now we're all coordinating this one dream we're going to have together.

00:15:12.980 It gets way too complicated. And then I have the dream. I'm at the candy store and no one else shows

00:15:18.980 up. They all went off somewhere else. Cause I get stood up, even in my dreams, I get stood up by my

00:15:24.600 own children. That's the moral of the story. But other than that, it was a good vacation.

00:15:30.280 Now, uh, we, uh, we start here with a story that I guess this happened on Friday. This happened on

00:15:35.460 Friday. So this is from a report from NBC, New York. It says outrage mounted Friday over vandalism to

00:15:44.160 newly unveiled George Floyd statues in Brooklyn and Newark, New Jersey. As the former Minneapolis

00:15:50.280 police officer accused of murdering, the 46 year old father of five was sentenced to more than 22

00:15:55.220 years in prison, a punishment that some didn't believe was harsh enough. Uh, yeah, 22, 22 years

00:16:01.660 of prison. You probably heard that on Friday. It's what, this is what Derek Chauvin was sentenced to.

00:16:05.480 Yeah. Not harsh enough. That's 22 years in prison because someone else died of a drug overdose.

00:16:13.120 That that's, that's a pretty harsh sentence for a drug overdose that someone else had a guy on

00:16:21.160 four times the lethal dose of fentanyl died of a drug overdose. And, uh, and you get sentenced to 22

00:16:27.340 years. I would say it's pretty harsh given the circumstances. Anyway, back to this report. It says

00:16:31.920 many, including tens of thousands in New York city applauded the initial verdict, uh, and frustration is

00:16:37.880 growing as the NYPD is hate crimes task force searches for the vandals who defaced the new

00:16:42.860 George Floyd sculpture on Flatbush Avenue. The vandalism to the Flatbush statue, which was

00:16:47.620 unveiled on Flatbush Avenue last weekend amid the city Juneteenth celebration was discovered Thursday

00:16:52.920 morning. Uh, they said that what was the vandalism? They said that the, that it had much of the

00:16:57.360 statue had been painted black. The name of a group considered to be a white nationalist hate group by

00:17:02.440 the Southern poverty law center, always a reliable source on these things was spray painted on the

00:17:07.220 statues pedestal. And then another tribute to Floyd, um, was also vandalized. This in Newark,

00:17:15.140 the 700 pound bronze statue in Newark, which debuted earlier this month, outside city hall,

00:17:22.360 had the face painted black. And then with the name of the same group on the front of it.

00:17:26.220 Um, and they're, they're investigating this as the article says, as a hate crime, Bill de Blasio

00:17:32.920 tweeted on Friday. He said last night, a far right extremist group vandalized the statue of George

00:17:38.160 Floyd in Brooklyn, a racist, loathsome, despicable act of hate. The city cleanup core is repairing the

00:17:44.440 statue right now. And a hate crime investigation is underway. We will bring these cowards to justice.

00:17:48.980 Now, first of all, I thought vandalizing statues was an acceptable form of peaceful protest.

00:17:57.440 I thought that there's no such thing as violence against property. Isn't that what we heard for

00:18:02.940 the whole last year? This is, this is them exercising their free speech rights. This is the precedent

00:18:10.040 that's been set. If you don't like a statue, you can deface it. You could tear it down.

00:18:14.820 I mean, they should be, they should be happy that the George Floyd statue was only defaced

00:18:22.460 and not torn down, set on fire and tossed into a river as other statues have been.

00:18:29.720 Um, but a couple of things to think about here. First of all, calling this a hate crime and calling

00:18:37.520 it racist. What is it? It's a hate crime against a statue. Who is it a hate crime against? Because

00:18:46.540 typically in a hate crime, and I'm not a big fan of the hate crime designation. I don't think it

00:18:50.800 should exist at all. But, um, but it, it, as I understand it, usually in a hate crime, there has

00:18:58.060 to be a victim, right? Someone is, is a victim in a hate crime. So who's the victim here?

00:19:07.700 George Floyd? Is George Floyd, well, he's, he's dead, so he can't be the victim of a hate crime.

00:19:13.280 So who is it? Well, I guess I can only assume I, I, the statue can't be the victim. It's only property.

00:19:20.700 And by the way, I'm sure it was insured. That's the other thing we learned. As long as, as long as

00:19:26.520 it has insurance, then, uh, you can tear it down and do whatever you want. You can burn down a CVS

00:19:31.900 as long as it has insurance, but you can't commit a hate crime against a statue. Uh, you can't commit

00:19:38.540 a hate crime against someone who's dead. So then, then who is it against? And I guess it's a hate crime

00:19:47.620 against all black people. Is that what we're supposed to understand? So George Floyd is now 0.98

00:19:55.520 a representative of the entire black race is what we're being told. In order for this to be a hate 0.98

00:20:03.720 crime, that's, that would have to be, you have to view it that way. What? Talk about racist.

00:20:12.720 Talk about loathsome and despicable taking this guy and making him some sort of representative 0.99

00:20:21.660 for a whole race. This guy, George Floyd, who, who achieved precisely nothing of value in his entire 0.69

00:20:36.780 life. As far as we know, no one's ever told us if he did anything of value or significance,

00:20:42.800 we've never been told what it is. The only thing of value and significance that he achieved was when

00:20:49.400 he died. And that was valuable and significant to the left because they could exploit it.

00:20:55.740 That's all they care about. But as far as how he actually lived his life, he did nothing

00:21:01.060 except victimize other people. He was a danger and a threat to his community.

00:21:10.320 A violent felon, a career criminal, a drug addict who died high on fentanyl after trying to pass off 0.96

00:21:19.140 bad checks or a bad $20 bill. And you're making him a representative. I can tell you that that's not

00:21:31.940 what I would want. I wouldn't want to take some, some random criminal and make him a representative 0.97

00:21:42.700 for all white people. I wouldn't want that. You know, the difference between every time I talk 1.00

00:21:50.240 about this and why George Floyd doesn't deserve statues and monuments. In fact, I would say,

00:21:55.920 and I know there are a lot of, there are many candidates for this title. So I'm a little bit

00:22:03.100 hesitant in saying it, but there's an argument that you can make that George Floyd is the most

00:22:08.240 undeserving person to ever have a statue built in his honor. Again, I know there are others you could

00:22:14.180 point to who are in the running, but he's certainly in the top five, at least

00:22:19.640 as someone who did nothing of significance at all. And anytime I bring this up, I'm always,

00:22:29.580 I'm always told, well, what about this or that historical figure who was a problematic and who

00:22:36.960 did bad things? Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. And you start going

00:22:44.320 through the litany, right? Well, yeah, see, there's, there's a difference here. We know that nobody is

00:22:51.920 perfect. We know that great people who do great things very often have great flaws and are also

00:23:02.080 capable of, capable of, and sometimes, and will commit great evil. We know that. And if you are

00:23:11.700 set on only celebrating people who are perfect, then you've really narrowed down your list.

00:23:23.020 So that's something that we know, but the difference is that if we're talking about

00:23:28.220 Christopher Columbus or Thomas Jefferson, or many of these other figures who have had their statues

00:23:34.840 torn down, they achieved great things. They are remembered by history for what they, for things

00:23:42.920 that they actually did. They changed the course of history through their actions while living

00:23:49.440 and in a good way. What about George Floyd? What did he do? Nothing. He broke into, forced his way

00:24:03.880 into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint in front of her child. That's as, as, as far as we're

00:24:10.160 aware of, as far as with, with George Floyd's biography, that is the most significant thing he did with his

00:24:15.960 life. The most impactful thing he did with his life was that. And I'm sure it made an enormous

00:24:22.940 impact on the woman who was victimized and her child. Of course, nobody cares about her. Nobody

00:24:29.060 wonders how she must feel walking down the street and having to see a statue built to the man.

00:24:33.320 Just imagine that. Imagine walking down the street and seeing a literal monument to a man who not but a few

00:24:40.800 years ago was forcing his way into your home and putting a gun to you. But nobody cares about

00:24:48.240 her. Her voice is silent. That's it. That's the most significant thing. And then he died.

00:24:58.940 And he died in a way that was, that's exploitable for the left. And that's all they care about. And

00:25:03.960 that's why they build a monument to him. There's, there's a big difference. All of most of the other

00:25:11.040 people who've had statues torn down, even if, even if they are guilty of some of the atrocities

00:25:17.020 they're accused of, and oftentimes they're not guilty of all of the atrocities, but even if they're

00:25:22.140 guilty of some of the bad things they're accused of, there is no question that they achieved great,

00:25:26.940 that they did great things with their lives. That the world is different today because of what they

00:25:34.500 did with their life and different in a good way. All right. Um, so yeah, George, George Floyd

00:25:46.320 statues should, should all be torn down. If we're tearing down statues, if we're tearing down statues

00:25:52.480 of violent oppressors, yeah, let's do that. Let's start with George Floyd, tear down the George Floyd

00:25:58.380 statues and throw them in the river. He was a violent oppressor of women and a bad person. 0.99

00:26:09.280 All right, let's go. Uh, number two here, Michael Eric Dyson, speaking of bad people, uh, is, uh, an 0.85

00:26:14.520 academic and intellectual and a minister. And we need to put air quotes around all of those descriptors,

00:26:19.780 but that's how he describes himself. And maybe you saw this last week. He was on MSNBC and he attacked,

00:26:25.540 um, white conservatives, calling them among other things, maggots. And we have an update to this story, 0.97

00:26:31.640 but first let's play, uh, that clip of him saying that here it is. And speaking about, you know, the

00:26:37.780 maggots, I'm sorry, the MAGA, um, that is so corrosive in this, you know, political, uh, moment. I resent

00:26:47.920 as an intellectual and as a black person in America that we have taken the brunt of anti-intellectualism.

00:26:55.280 We have borne the brunt of being disloyal to this nation. And we have stood by to see mediocre,

00:27:02.500 mealy-mouthed, uh, snowflake white men who are incapable of taking critique, who are willing to 0.97

00:27:09.480 dole out infamous repudiations of the humanity of the other. And yet they call us snowflakes and 0.92

00:27:16.520 they are the biggest flakes of snow to hit the earth. They are incapable of criticism. They are

00:27:23.160 incapable of tolerating difference. They're scared of, Oh my God, critical race theory is going to

00:27:27.660 kill your mother. And they don't even know they're not critical. They have no race and they don't

00:27:32.480 understand theory. And yet they are allowed to wax eloquently about the means and limits of

00:27:39.740 rationality in this country. And they couldn't save themselves if the world depended on it.

00:27:46.240 And I am tired of hearing mediocre white men, uh, take to their pulpits to excoriate women and trans 0.99

00:27:55.220 people and bisexuals and black folk and every other thing that ain't them. It is time that we in America 0.99

00:28:02.740 take back this country for certain and to seize the reins of authority so that rhetorics of compassion,

00:28:10.340 discourses of empathy and love in the most radical sense possible would prevail.

00:28:18.500 Rhetorics of compassion, discourses of empathy. By the way, people who speak like this are stupid. 1.00

00:28:26.120 When they're speaking in a way where you could tell they're trying to impress you with their 1.00

00:28:29.660 intelligence, um, that's a sign of stupidity. Rhetorics of compassion, discourses of empathy. 1.00

00:28:38.600 Nobody speaks, nobody talks like that. Uh, and putting aside the irony that he, he began by calling

00:28:48.960 millions of people maggots, snowflakes, and, uh, and, and then he ends with, with, uh, we need more

00:28:57.400 rhetorics, rhetorics of compassion. We need more compassion from these damned maggots. 1.00

00:29:06.340 You know, the problem with these filthy, disgusting, worthless, stupid maggots, they don't have 1.00

00:29:11.440 compassion. They lack, they lack kindness. Rhetorics of compassion. And I know this isn't even the, 1.00

00:29:21.060 the, the, the main point here, but I also, I, I, I took note of, uh, where, where he was talking 0.97

00:29:25.280 about the, the mediocre, mealy-mouthed white men. And, uh, once, once again, it goes without saying, 0.96

00:29:32.240 uh, but I, I always say it every time that if this was a white guy on cable news, complaining about 0.97

00:29:41.100 the quote, mediocre, mealy-mouthed black men, we can imagine what the reaction would be, but it's okay 1.00

00:29:47.380 for him to do. He's allowed to do that. Nobody can explain why, but he can. Uh, but he, he says, 0.99

00:29:52.440 uh, these, the mediocre white men who are excoriating bisexuals. What? Hey, where, have you ever heard a 0.99

00:30:01.900 bisexual be excoriated? Who's doing that? He also said that transgender people and women are being

00:30:09.760 excoriated. That's not happening either, but bisexual is such a specific category to choose here. And I,

00:30:17.020 I've, I've never heard anyone get up on any pulpit and say, these, you know what's problem in America

00:30:24.040 today? These damn bisexuals. I've never heard anything like that ever from anyone. Uh, but there, 1.00

00:30:34.080 there he was. And, uh, uh, with, with his, with his, his version of what a rhetoric of compassion sounds

00:30:41.400 like. And then he came back on MSNBC a couple of days later and sort of apologized for some of that,

00:30:49.020 but not really. Let's listen. I myself, the other day, let me, let me apologize on this program.

00:30:54.720 I was trying to be cute and clever when I was talking about MAGA, therefore MAG-GATS, not

00:30:59.800 MAG-GATS. I didn't anticipate that, uh, you know, brothers and sisters who were white would hear it as

00:31:04.420 that. So I deeply and profoundly apologize for that, but I have been hit with an onslaught of

00:31:08.940 death threats and being called the N word, uh, out of white rage, uh, for a mistake I made for

00:31:15.600 which I'm willing to apologize. Certainly. And what black people are often up against

00:31:20.260 is the fact that we have to be told that emotion will not judge, will not lead, um, our, uh, you know,

00:31:27.800 offering of justice to you. Emotion will not drive, uh, or a statement to be made to the American

00:31:33.340 public would not drive what we do legally. And yet so much emotion is directed at us. So much

00:31:38.960 hatred is directed at us. So much white rage is directed at us. Yeah. I mean, every part of that

00:31:45.980 is total nonsense. First of all, he says it was a, it was a mistake. I didn't, I didn't anticipate

00:31:51.980 that anyone would take it that way. What? Uh, no, I, I called him maggots, but I, I didn't,

00:31:58.960 I didn't know that anyone would think that I was caught. I, all he did was call you a maggot. 0.99

00:32:05.140 I didn't think that you would think that I was calling you a maggot. What, what do you, 0.98

00:32:10.980 what did you mean to say? Um, so he's not taking ownership at all. There's, there's no real apology

00:32:19.280 there at all. But then, and then, uh, and then of course we always hear about the, I've got the

00:32:23.020 onslaught of death threats. You know what? Show me the receipts, uh, Michael, cause I, I don't,

00:32:27.620 or whatever your name is. Yeah. Michael, show me the receipts on that. I get tired of people always

00:32:32.480 talking about, we always hear this. Anytime someone's getting criticized, they say, I've been

00:32:38.500 getting death threats for the last. Have you really? Maybe you have, but, uh, but I, I show me the

00:32:44.120 receipts on that. I want, I want to see the death threats because I do get death threats. Um, and

00:32:51.980 when I get them, I, I do show the receipts. I'll show you what they look like. It's, it's relatively

00:32:58.140 rare. What's, what's a lot more common that I get all the time are people wishing death on me saying,

00:33:03.700 uh, go kill yourself and that kind of thing, which is a horrible thing to say to a person,

00:33:07.540 but I don't call that a death threat. So anytime someone claims that they're dealing with an onslaught 0.95

00:33:14.000 of death threats. And so you imagine like hundreds of people threatening to kill them.

00:33:21.280 Yeah. I got to say, I don't really believe it. Could, could be, maybe it happened. I don't know.

00:33:28.060 But in either case, when you, not that a death threat would be justified,

00:33:32.740 but when you get up on national TV and you call millions of people maggots, 0.72

00:33:39.440 you're going, you're going to get an angry response. It doesn't matter who you're, what that, 0.71

00:33:47.060 whatever group you're targeting with that comment, they're going to be angry.

00:33:51.780 And they're going to let you know that they're angry. And since it's the internet,

00:33:54.580 they're going to let you know in hyperbolic terms, but now he's the victim. 0.96

00:33:59.580 All I did was call millions of people maggots. I didn't anticipate all this anger. And you know, 0.92

00:34:06.040 this is the problem. Anytime a black man speaks up in America, he has to deal with white rage. 0.98

00:34:11.300 Yeah. If a black man calls people maggots, he's going to have to deal with rage. Just like if a 1.00

00:34:15.900 white man did it, he'd also have to deal with rage. That tends to enrage people. People tend to get

00:34:23.080 upset about that. Most people, when you call them a maggot, they're not going to laugh about it 0.91

00:34:30.000 or say, well, you're entitled to your opinion. You believe I'm a maggot. I don't think I am, 0.99

00:34:37.120 but we'll let bygones be bygones. Now on the internet, you can't even, I say what your favorite

00:34:47.160 flavor of ice cream is without people taking it as a personal attack. So if you call them maggots, 0.93

00:34:54.720 how do you think anyone's going to respond?

00:34:59.360 But he gets, he gets close to the precipice of an apology and then turns right back around and says,

00:35:05.960 uh, nevermind. You know what? Actually, I'm the victim.

00:35:11.060 And it's okay. He'll get away with it. Even the, the non-apology that he gave was,

00:35:16.660 uh, not even actually necessary because no one's going to hold him accountable and

00:35:21.180 he can still appear on cable news and he's not going to lose any jobs or, you know, if he's,

00:35:27.920 I don't know what he, if he works for a university or something, they're, they're not going to get

00:35:31.060 rid of him. So there's no accountability there at all. All right. Um, a couple other things I

00:35:38.840 wanted to mention. We got to do, eh, maybe we'll save this for tomorrow. Cause we also have the,

00:35:45.460 the UFO report, but you know what? I was going to skip over it because I am,

00:35:52.060 this is the moment I've been waiting, as you know, I've been waiting for this moment.

00:35:56.580 I bought the t-shirts. I had the merchandise my whole life leading up to this moment. And, uh,

00:36:03.060 and then the, the, the, the much anticipated UFO report is released. And, uh, basically it's,

00:36:11.040 it's not even worth going over because it's everything that we already knew.

00:36:17.560 So if there's any headline from the UFO report, um, it's that, uh, reading out from the daily

00:36:23.800 wire, it says the director of national intelligence on Friday released a highly anticipated report

00:36:28.520 outlining what the government knows so far about unidentified flying objects and the threat they

00:36:32.980 pose, but it offered scant conclusions about such phenomena. The DNI announced Friday afternoon

00:36:38.500 that it has submitted a preliminary report to Congress on the progress that the U S Navy's

00:36:42.460 unidentified aerial phenomena task force has made an understanding unidentified aerial phenomena

00:36:46.940 more commonly known as UFOs. The intelligence report said, this is, I guess is really the headline,

00:36:51.320 the only headline. The intelligence report said that U S intelligence cannot explain 143 of the 144

00:36:57.320 cases of UFOs observed and reported by military aircraft from 2004 to 2021. The one incident that they

00:37:04.180 could categorize with certainty was identified as a large deflating balloon. But I don't know how,

00:37:13.040 isn't a large deflating balloon rather, uh, rather easy to identify. Why was it in the report at all?

00:37:20.540 But the others remain unexplained. So that's kind of it. I was hoping that in the report,

00:37:29.700 you know, they would confirm aliens are real and they're among us

00:37:35.340 and they're standing right next to you. That's what I was hoping the report would say.

00:37:44.440 Was that a delusional hope? You know, was that the hope of a, of a, of a, of a deluded and,

00:37:53.220 and pretty stupid individual? Yes. But even so, 1.00

00:37:59.700 I wait for months and this is what I get. I guess this is kind of, I'm now experiencing the letdown

00:38:07.240 that people feel, I guess, when a new star Wars comes out. I never quite understood that as a,

00:38:13.720 as an, as a, as a non-star Wars fan, as someone who recognizes that all the star Wars movies are

00:38:18.260 bad anyway, I've never quite felt or experienced the anger and disappointment and letdown that

00:38:26.100 everyone feels every time a new star Wars comes out. And you have all this anticipation that it

00:38:29.680 doesn't live up to the hype at all. I feel that way about this because this was supposed to be the

00:38:34.660 real star Wars. And, uh, just didn't work. Didn't happen. All right. We're going to have one more

00:38:45.160 here. A report from the NBC affiliate in Orlando, um, says president Joe Biden is celebrating pride

00:38:50.720 month with a series of activities, a reflection of the growing stature of the LGBTQ community at

00:38:55.820 the white house. On Friday, Biden signed into law, a measure designating the pulse nightclub as a

00:39:01.180 national memorial. The shooting at pulse in 2016 was the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in

00:39:06.860 us history. Biden made the announcement of the designation on the fifth remembrance of the

00:39:10.840 deadly shooting. The president emphasized that the country must do more to reduce gun violence,

00:39:15.820 such as banning assault weapons and closing loopholes and regulations. Um, and then the,

00:39:21.580 uh, the one pulse foundation said in a statement, quote, today is a major milestone of fulfilling the

00:39:27.340 mission of the national pulse Memorial museum. It is so meaningful to everyone here, especially in

00:39:31.820 families of the 49 survivors, first responders, and, uh, all the lives affected. It's also clear,

00:39:37.540 a clear and lasting message to the LGBTQ plus community that what happened at pulse matters and will

00:39:43.560 never be forgotten for future generations. And that we will always out love hate, out love hate.

00:39:50.720 Now we should mention, um, because it matters because it's the truth that this connection that

00:39:58.860 they're trying to make now, and that Biden is sort of implying, um, and that we hear in the media

00:40:05.320 between anti-gay hate and the pulse nightclub shooting, that connection is, is not real. Uh, the killer,

00:40:13.840 there's, as far as we know, and has ever been determined, this shooting had nothing to do with

00:40:19.120 anti-gay hate at all. In fact, the killer was himself gay, according to people close to him

00:40:24.900 anyway. And he himself said that he was motivated by revenge for drone attacks in the Middle East.

00:40:31.220 And what we learned from investigators early on is that he had a couple of targets in mind. Um,

00:40:38.480 one happened to be the gay nightclub, and then there was another bar nightclub in town that he was,

00:40:42.620 he was kind of deciding between the two. And he decided on a whim that it was going to be

00:40:45.780 the pulse nightclub. That doesn't make it any less horrific, obviously. Um, but this is what we get

00:40:54.100 from the left and from Democrats. They can't stick with the simple facts. Just say that it was a,

00:41:01.260 a horrible, uh, travesty, a massacre. There are any negative adjective meant most of the negative

00:41:12.480 adjectives that you could use would apply here, except it's not an anti-gay hate crime.

00:41:18.000 And that doesn't make it any better. Okay. You get to a certain level, and this is one of my

00:41:25.240 problems. This is one of the problems I have with the hate crime designation. You get to a certain

00:41:29.300 level where an act is so evil and so horrible that it can't possibly be worse. So we get the hate crime

00:41:41.680 designation and we're trying to parse, uh, well, was this, was, was the person motivated by hate?

00:41:48.000 Were they motivated? Why does it even matter? Look at what they did in terms of condemning it,

00:41:55.540 in terms of, uh, of, of punishing the, the perpetrator, if they're still alive.

00:42:04.160 What, what, what does it matter? What motivated it?

00:42:08.680 It's obviously can't be motivated by anything good,

00:42:10.800 but also, and, uh, I'm afraid I just have to point this out at the ceremony. I wanted to show you

00:42:17.900 Jill Biden, the good doctor. I just wanted to show you this. I'll put this up on the screen.

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00:42:58.400 And I just see that, like, what do you think, especially at a solemn occasion like this,

00:43:02.660 wearing a dress like that, a memorial where 49 people died. And that's the dress you put on.

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00:45:44.580 A couple of weeks ago, Pixar released its newest film, a coming of age tale about two young boys in

00:45:50.080 Italy who spend a summer getting into mischief, going on adventures, discovering the true meaning of

00:45:54.780 friendship, et cetera. Uh, the twist is that both of the boys, Luca and Alberto are actually sea

00:46:01.320 monsters. And when they venture in onto dry land, they assume the appearance of human beings, but

00:46:06.040 whenever they're in the water, they revert back to their true sea monster form. This apparently is

00:46:10.960 the plot. Now, not to give away the ending, but eventually everybody on land learns that the boys

00:46:16.720 are actually sea monsters and things get a little hairy at first, but then they all learn to accept Luca

00:46:20.540 and Alberto for who they are. While more importantly, Luca and Alberto learn to accept

00:46:25.480 themselves. And I don't need to see the movie to tell you it ends that way. Almost every kid's movie

00:46:30.200 since the dawn of time has been at some level, a coming of age story. And there's almost always

00:46:35.060 prominent themes of self-acceptance of being yourself and so on. Pixar isn't doing anything new here.

00:46:41.180 Even the sea monster bit is clearly reminiscent of the little mermaid, a disturbing tale about a

00:46:45.920 monstrous aquatic freak who crawls onto land and stalks a young prince, eventually ensnaring him

00:46:51.180 in a romantic relationship on false pretenses. The only thing that's arguably unique about Luca

00:46:56.440 is that the film centers around male friendship. There, there is no romance here. Um, unlike in

00:47:03.520 Little Mermaid. Now, when I was growing up, those kinds of stories were a little more common. The

00:47:07.960 Sandlot is one example. I was a big fan of that movie as a kid. But these days, most movies feel the

00:47:13.760 need to shoehorn in some kind of romance angle. And of course, there always has to be at least as

00:47:19.420 many female protagonists as male. Luca slightly breaks from that mold, it seems, by telling a

00:47:25.720 more simple, innocent, straightforward story of two young boys who become friends. But nothing is

00:47:32.760 allowed to be simple and innocent and straightforward anymore. Not when there is so much indoctrinating to

00:47:37.580 be done and so little time to do it. And that's why many people on the LGBT left and the media have

00:47:43.100 spent the last several days insisting that Luca must, in fact, be a gay movie. It's not a gay 0.96

00:47:49.780 movie. The boys are not gay. And there's no romance between them, which is good because the characters

00:47:55.240 are prepubescent children. We're not yet at the point where Pixar will release a movie about eight

00:48:00.600 year old boys in love. We may get there eventually. But for some on the left, that time can't come soon

00:48:06.420 enough. They're impatient. And that's why if you go to Twitter and you search for Luca right now,

00:48:11.220 you'll find many tweets like this from a guy named Eric Rosewood or Rosswood, I think self-professed

00:48:18.360 LGBT activist and author of the book, The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads. And he tweeted, quote,

00:48:24.900 just saw Luca. And I don't care what anyone else says. It's the first gay animated film by Disney

00:48:29.900 Pixar. Feeling like you might have to hide a part of yourself, meeting someone you like for the first

00:48:35.080 time, strangers calling you and your friends monsters, finding the good ones. I cried.

00:48:41.220 Now, he's not alone in this assessment. A headline from BuzzFeed says, I'm sorry, but Luca is totally

00:48:47.540 a gay movie. And that's why I loved it so much. Screen Rant announces why Luca is an LGBTQ story,

00:48:55.140 despite what Pixar says. The AV Club has a lengthy missive explaining in strenuous detail

00:48:59.900 why the gay interpretation of Luca is entirely valid. And Vanity Fair takes a more sort of middle 0.94

00:49:05.960 the road approach with its contribution to this discussion. The headline is Luca Pixar's first

00:49:12.080 gay movie. Maybe. We should note, meanwhile, that the director of the film, who may be considered an 0.91

00:49:19.020 authority on what the movie is about, has addressed these claims and clarified that no, it's not a gay

00:49:23.940 thing. The boys are just friends. Boys are allowed to be friends. In fact, most boys have friends who are

00:49:30.740 boys and there's nothing sexual about it. This is quite normal and healthy. What is not normal and

00:49:36.560 healthy is to see all male friendship, even prepubescent fictional animated male friendship

00:49:41.640 through a sexual lens. The insider website has taken a different approach, accepting that Luca is not a

00:49:49.280 gay story and castigating Pixar for lacking the courage to sexualize a relationship between two

00:49:56.160 elementary age children. The author, Jacob Sarkeesian, he writes, quote, while the implications of

00:50:04.160 queerness are there, particularly in the friendship between Luca and Alberto, it's disappointing that

00:50:09.160 Disney's Pixar wasn't brave enough to fully commit to their first queer animated tale. He continues, Luca is 0.99

00:50:15.580 immediately taken by the free-spirited Alberto when he meets a fellow sea monster off the coast of

00:50:20.880 Portor Rosso. They're casually physical with one another, sleeping side by side under a star-filled

00:50:26.280 sky, wrapping their arms around each other's waist, and watching the sunset together. In fact, they spent

00:50:31.160 a lot of time embracing one another, teasing that their relationship could blossom into something more.

00:50:36.240 The comparisons to Call Me By Your Name, a film where two young men fall in love, are well-earned.

00:50:41.380 The Italian seaside setting, the hazy beauty of the summer scenery, and the tale of two boys

00:50:46.660 experiencing love for the first time. Now, Sarkeesian begrudgingly accepts that the nine-year-olds in

00:50:52.880 the cartoon aren't sexually interested in each other. It's just that he's disappointed, is all.

00:50:58.200 He says, this may seem refreshing to some to see a Disney movie explore friendship as opposed to a

00:51:03.300 fairy tale love story, but it's a shame that this decision has come when a gay romance could have so 0.99

00:51:07.800 easily and naturally been explored. Making Luca and Alberto explicitly gay or queer wouldn't have felt

00:51:13.520 contrived, it would have been a meaningful confirmation of what is already a story rich in

00:51:18.460 gay subtext. Yes, why tell any other kind of story when you could have so easily told a gay one? 0.99

00:51:25.500 Why does Sylvester Stallone fight Carl Weathers and Rocky when they could have been gay lovers instead? 0.70

00:51:32.300 Why is Apollo 13 about an aborted lunar mission when it could have been a romance between two gay 0.97

00:51:37.560 astronauts on Mars? A kind of broke-back mountain in space type of thing.

00:51:41.680 And by the way, I hope you'll admire my restraint in refraining from making a Uranus joke right here.

00:51:47.180 I'm not doing that. But why should any story be told if it's not a mechanism for sexual indoctrination?

00:51:53.820 Why should anything exist if it's not ideologically useful to progressives?

00:51:59.000 These are the questions that torment our friends on the left, and the questions are all the more

00:52:03.800 disturbing when applied to a movie about eight or nine-year-old boys.

00:52:07.340 It's bad enough for them to sexualize children as they do, but now they're offended when children

00:52:15.060 are not sexualized. The writer of that insider article is experiencing something like moral

00:52:22.560 indignation at the fact that a couple of prepubescent cartoon characters aren't depicted

00:52:27.840 in an explicitly sexual embrace. I'd really hate to see what sort of improvements, quote-unquote,

00:52:33.700 this weirdo would make to those stories of male friendship that I grew up watching.

00:52:38.180 Don't let them anywhere near the sandlot, is all I can say. Don't let them anywhere near an actual

00:52:43.200 sandlot either, if there are kids on it. The implications here go beyond movies and cartoons.

00:52:48.020 The real point for these leftists, with their half-baked Freudian notions, is that all people

00:52:54.160 are driven primarily by sexual impulses, and this includes children to them.

00:52:58.860 In their dark, pedophilic vision of reality, innocent platonic friendships don't exist,

00:53:05.840 can't exist. They see two boys with their arms around each other, and they think,

00:53:10.380 well, why would anyone behave this way unless it's for sexual reasons?

00:53:14.440 No other kind of love, no other sort of bond, can or should be formed.

00:53:20.400 And this kind of over-sexualization of everything makes it more difficult for boys in reality to

00:53:27.480 form those platonic loving bonds with each other. When we hear so much about a lack of representation

00:53:32.680 in film, well, male friendship is not represented very often or very well, and so boys are not

00:53:41.920 provided with examples of what those relationships look like. And here we see part of the reason why.

00:53:47.800 Pixar can't even put out a movie about a couple of sea monsters becoming friends

00:53:52.920 without leftists trying to drape a rainbow flag over the whole thing. 0.94

00:53:57.820 And for that reason, they are, of course, all of them together, very much canceled.

00:54:05.180 And that'll do it for us today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 28, 2021

Ep. 744 - Spoiled, Ungrateful Brat Turns Her Back On The Flag

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