Ep. 755 - Stop Assaulting Me With Your Violent Opinions
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The American Booksellers Association apologizes for a violent incident where they promoted a book that leftists don t like. We ll talk about this story, and more broadly, about the idea that words, books, and opinions can be violent. What does that even mean? Also, including the Surgeon General s pledge to start putting warning labels on speech it doesn t like, the White House says that it s working with Facebook to tamp down misinformation, Pope Francis continues his war against conservative Catholics, and leaked audio proves that Sharon Osbourne was indeed set up and framed as a racist before being kicked off her talk show.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, the American Booksellers Association apologizes for a
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violent incident where they promoted a book that leftists don't like. We'll talk about this story
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and more broadly about the idea that words, books, and opinions can be violent. What does that even
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mean? Also, five headlines, including the Surgeon General's pledge to start putting warning labels
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on speech it doesn't like. The White House says that it's working with Facebook, working with
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Facebook to tamp down misinformation. Pope Francis continues his war against conservative Catholics
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and leaked audio proves that Sharon Osbourne was indeed set up and framed as a racist before being
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kicked off her talk show. And our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the new efforts to combat
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the negative stereotypes of sharks. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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find, of course, information, insight, unmatched wisdom, and also violence. Because as we've learned,
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words and ideas are violence. Which brings us to the American Bookseller Association, a trade
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organization that works with booksellers in the country, hence the name. And recently they sent out
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what they call their white box mailing, which sounds a little racist to me, frankly,
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to 750 bookstores. One of the titles in that package was Abigail Schreier's excellent book
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called Irreversible Damage, The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. If you want to hear more
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about that book, you can check out my interview with Schreier on my YouTube channel. But the mere
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sight of this book was apparently quite traumatizing to some of the people who received it. And that led to
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backlash, and that led to the American Bookseller Association releasing one of the most pitiful,
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embarrassing, self-flagellating, groveling apologies we have yet seen. Yesterday afternoon,
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they put this out on Twitter. This is what they said. Quote,
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an anti-trans book was included in our July mailing to members. This is a serious, violent incident that
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goes against ABA's policies, values, and everything we believe and support. It is inexcusable. We
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apologize to our trans members and to the trans community for this terrible incident and the pain
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we caused them. We also apologize to the LGBTQIA plus community at large and to our bookselling
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community. Apologies are not enough. We've begun addressing this today and are committed to engaging
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in the critical dialogue needed to inform concrete steps to address the harm we caused.
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Personally, I'm offended because in their statement, they did not include the phrase
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lived experience, and they also didn't include the phrase do the work. And we know that in these
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kinds of statements, those two phrases are required. You know, it's an interesting thing,
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though, about the LGBTQIA plus community. We're told that they're strong and proud and brave and
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stunning. Yet we're also told that they're so fragile as to be harmed by merely looking at the cover of a
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book they don't like. So which is it? Is it strong and brave and proud or fragile prone to collapsing
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into puddles of tears at the sight of a book? It's kind of got to be one or the other, right?
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Now, the next part of the story is so predictable that you can fill in the blanks yourself.
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Well, I'll ask you, do you think that the ABA was forgiven for this grave offense? Was the apology
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accepted? Did the groveling and self-abasement achieve whatever end they had in mind? Of course
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not. Publishers Weekly reports, quote, booksellers said the apology fell short, calling out the
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organization's use of the passive voice in the opening sentence. They also demanded greater transparency
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about how the decision to include the book was initially made and called for demonstrable steps
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to restore trust with trans book workers and authors. Some called on the ABA to offer promotions
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for trans authors' books at no cost. Just straight up extortion. You want our feelings to not be heard
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anymore? Just give us promotions at no cost. That'll heal our emotional wounds.
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Okay. Anyway, back to the statement. It says, ABA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee member
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Louis Correa, who works as a bookseller at Avid Bookshops in Athens, Georgia, was first made aware
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of the issue and fellow booksellers emailed him Morrissey's tweet. Correa identifies as a queer Latino
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and fat-bodied person. Oh my gosh. Identifies as a fat-bodied person. Well, you either have a fat
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body or you don't. But what's the point of saying that? You're either a man or you're not, right?
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He said he thought the apology was flawed. I'm disappointed with the use of the passive language
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at the beginning of the statement and the shift in blame. They really should have said that we
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included this book, Correa said. So the apology was not enough. So what do they do? Apology is not
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enough. What do you do now? Well, you keep apologizing. More from Publishers Weekly. They
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say, in an email late Wednesday, ABA CEO Alison Hill issued an additional statement to booksellers.
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She apologized not only for the promotion of Shryer's book, but also for a racist incident last
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week in which the organization featured blackout by Danielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nick Stone,
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Angie Thompson, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon on its Indie Next Bestseller list, but included an
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incorrect cover image. Instead of using the actual cover, the ABA used a book cover by an author who
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Hill described as, quote, a different black author, a right-wing extremist. Editors note here,
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the right-wing extremist is our very own Candace Owens, who also wrote a book called Blackout.
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Apparently, it's racist to promote Candace Owens, who you may have noticed is black. But the apology
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said, we traumatized and endangered members of the trans community. We erased black authors,
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conflated black authors, and put the authors in danger through a forced association.
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We further marginalized communities that we want to support. Hill wrote, she reiterated that the
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organization will take steps to address both instances in the coming weeks, adding that, quote,
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there is nothing that I can say that will make this right. This should not have happened. I want to
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apologize for both of these harms and for the pain that ABA caused. But I know only action matters.
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These were egregious, harmful acts that caused pain and violence. One negligent, irresponsible,
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and racist. The other negligent, irresponsible, and transphobic. She then took out a knife and committed
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Harry Carey on the spot. Perhaps not literally, but figuratively at least. And even if she had done
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it literally, the left still would not have been satisfied. They would have said that, like, that
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form of suicide isn't painful enough. She should have done something more progressive, like throw
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herself into a wood chipper. Their whole gig, the whole point, is to be offended and victimized and
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traumatized all the time, always, by everything. Anything you do to relieve the trauma will only further it.
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But that won't stop the gutless, spineless blobfish among us from trying.
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Now, as for the book itself, you will notice that none of the people complaining about it
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have bothered to articulate any sort of criticism about the content of the book itself.
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What is your problem exactly with the book? What's wrong about it? What does it get wrong?
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Well, they can't say. That's because the book itself is well-researched, balanced, almost entirely
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non-polemical, and it focuses specifically on the explosion of trans identification among adolescent
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girls who are so often pushed along the path to full medical transition without anyone stopping to
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even consider why else a young girl might feel dysphoric about her body. Nor do they worry about
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any of the long-term effects that they are consigning her to. In other words, the book,
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from a content perspective, is unassailable. It is unassailable factually, scientifically, and morally,
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which is why they assail it, in general terms, on an emotional level, based on the title and the cover.
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But the most interesting and disturbing thing about this story is the use of the word violent,
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I think. ABA called the mailing of the book a violent incident, and they kept using, you know,
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violence, harm, pain, all these kinds of words. I can see how mailing something might be violent if,
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you know, Ted Kaczynski is the guy sending the package, but how can a book be violent?
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How can words and ideas be violent? I think the answer refers us back to the opening of the show
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yesterday when we talked about the left's intense, obsessive, nearly exclusive focus on the self,
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specifically on how the self feels about itself. According to the leftist religion,
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nothing matters so much as that. Your self-perception is more important even than your
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own physical health, which is why people mutilate their physical bodies in order to conform to their
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self-perception. If there's a lack of correlation, if there's an incongruity between the self-perception,
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the mind, the emotions, and the physical body, rather than try to conform the self-perception
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to the physical body, they go the other way around. Literally chopping pieces off of the body in order
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to make it conform with the self-perception. Everything must be enslaved, subjugated by the
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self's perception of itself. Everything is in service to that perception. Everything and everyone
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must affirm that perception. And the problem is that self-perception is a fragile, fickle,
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ever-changing thing. Emotions change. How you feel about yourself changes. How you see yourself changes.
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Which means that the world's affirmation must be unyielding and unconditional.
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This is what's meant by violence. This is how speech and opinions and ideas become
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violent. They're violent because an opposing idea, an argument, a fact presented, might undermine or
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cause you to question your self-perception, or at the very least, it may fail to enthusiastically
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affirm that perception, which is to do it harm, which is violence. Everything that matters to a leftist
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is happening in the realm of emotions and thoughts, in the ego. Actual reality is irrelevant to them. And so
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when you hurt their feelings or cause them to think uncomfortable thoughts, you have hurt them in
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the way that matters most to them. You have committed violence. That's where this is coming
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from, which is not to defend it. I mean, this is all quite insane, deeply disordered, not a way for any
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human to live. It's a recipe for confusion and despair and a life wasted, trapped in your own ego,
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looking in the mirror, smelling your own farts. But this is the life that a leftist leads.
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And it's the life he wishes for you, and especially for your children, to join him in his psychosis.
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All right, you know, it is interesting to talk about perceptions. It's interesting as, you know,
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to see how your priorities change your perceptions in different phases of your life, your desires.
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And so I'm in a phase of my life right now, raising a bunch of young children where I really
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appreciate loud and sort of technically unpleasant dining experiences. And people who don't have young
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children probably can't understand or appreciate the comfort that we as parents of young children
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take when we walk in. This is why we love, you know, chain restaurants. You got like a place like
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Texas Roadhouse. You go in there and there, I mean, it's loud. It's like there's loud music and
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everyone's being loud and they're talking to each other at a decibel that could drown out a jet engine
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and they're throwing trash on the floor. I mean, they give you a bucket of peanuts and you just
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toss the shells on the floor. There's trash everywhere. And it's cheap and they give you
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crayons and there's a kid's menu. And in a certain way, it's deeply unpleasant, but also it's great
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because you have kids. It's a low pressure, low anxiety situation. And you know that you're around
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your own people. You're with your kind and you don't have to worry about anything. And at a minimum,
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I mean, your table just has to be less obnoxious than the most obnoxious table in the building.
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And so again, very low pressure, but things can go horribly awry when you miscalculate.
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And this is something, again, if you're not a parent, if you don't have young kids, you might not
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understand that the just anxiety and panic attack that ensues when you miscalculate and you go into
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a restaurant that's way quieter and classier than you thought. So this happened to my wife and I a
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few days ago. We were driving, we stopped in this restaurant and based on my brief preliminary
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investigation, it seemed like a family-friendly place. And by family-friendly, you know, I mean
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loud, dirty, obnoxious, and cheap. And I walk in and immediately I'm suspicious because we go up to
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the hostess stand and there are no crayons and no children's menu. And that should have been the clue
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right there to turn around and walk out, but we didn't. Rookie mistake. They lead us back to our
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table. The whole building, it's quiet. You know, no one is making a sound. And there's a little bit of
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music on the speaker, but they take us to the quietest place in the quiet restaurant with all these
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quiet, childless couples sitting there having their nice meals. And at a place where you couldn't even
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hear the faint music. It was just dead quiet. Now, people sitting at their tables weren't even talking
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to each other. They were just sitting there in stone silence. It was like being at a wake or a funeral or
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something. And then we sit down and every single noise that our kids make just reverberates. The one-year-old
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throws her apple juice on the ground and then starts crying because the apple juice that she threw on
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the ground is now on the ground and everyone can hear it. Everyone can hear every single
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noise. Everyone, you know, all they do is we just get the icy glares the entire meal.
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And by the way, I get it. If you're at a restaurant without any kids, someone walks in with kids,
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I get it. You don't have to, you don't have to stare. I understand how you feel.
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Moral of the story. If you walk into a restaurant with your kids and there are no crayons and no
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children's menu, turn around. It's not worth it. That's the moral of the story. All right.
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So some news from 1984. First, the Surgeon General said that they're going to start putting,
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you know, you know, Surgeon General warnings. You see them on cigarette boxes of cigarettes.
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Usually it's associated with things that you eat and, you know, things that could cause physical harm
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to you. But now they're going to start putting Surgeon General warnings on speech. So staying
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on this theme of speech causing physical harm or some sort of harm, speech being violent.
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That's the plan now. And here is the Surgeon General explaining.
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Today, I issued a Surgeon General's advisory on the dangers of health misinformation.
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Surgeon General advisories are reserved for urgent public health threats.
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And while those threats have often been related to what we eat, drink, and smoke, today we live in a
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world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health.
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Health misinformation is false, inaccurate, or misleading information about health,
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according to the best evidence at the time. And while it often appears innocuous on social media
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apps, on retail sites, or search engines, the truth is that misinformation takes away our freedom
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to make informed decisions about our health and the health of our loved ones. During the COVID-19
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pandemic, health misinformation has led people to resist wearing masks in high-risk settings.
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It's led them to turn down proven treatments and to choose not to get vaccinated. This has led to
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avoidable illnesses and death. Simply put, health information has cost us lives.
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If that's not an Orwellian statement, I mean, that is, that is, I'd have to read the book again. It
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sounds like something that would actually be in the book itself. So misinformation takes away our
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freedom. In other words, you know, a statement that you don't like takes away your freedom.
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Free, so that's free speech. Free speech takes away our freedom.
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Free speech undermines our freedom, is what's being claimed here. I thought it was really fascinating
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that he, that he, uh, specifically mentions, this is the, the Surgeon General saying that, uh, well,
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misinformation about masks made people reluctant to wear masks.
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Okay. Well, yeah. Do you know who at the beginning of the pandemic, beginning of the pandemic was telling
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people not to wear masks? The Surgeon General sent out a tweet, the Surgeon General's office, not the
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same guy, but the Surgeon General's office sent out a tweet back in whatever it was, March of last year
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Public health officials, Dr. Fauci said, don't wear a mask. Now they say, wear the mask.
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But the point is, and I think they were right the first time, by the way, but the point is that when,
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on this, on this basis here, when the Surgeon General had said a year ago, don't wear the mask.
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If you said, no, I think you should wear a mask. You would have been, that would have been tagged as
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misinformation. And now they say, wear the mask. And you say, no, you know what? I think you were
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right the first time. Now that's misinformation. Opposing views, both are misinformation because
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what is misinformation? It's not, we don't label things or they're not labeling things misinformation
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based on its relation to truth. It's misinformation based on its relation to the claims that they are
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making. And that is the very obvious problem with the government's campaign against misinformation.
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It's the problem with labeling misinformation, some sort of public health threat. Many problems with
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it. Once again, equating speech with violence, which is a direct attack on the very concept of free
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speech. But the other issue is that what do they consider misinformation? They have made themselves
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the scientific authority. And to trust the science is to trust them. Conflating the two, it's exactly
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the same. If you don't trust them, then you don't trust the science. Think about vaccines. Sure, there can
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be misinformation, claims that are made about vaccines on either side of the debate that are simply wrong.
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Sure, that exists. But much of what is labeled vaccine misinformation is really a matter of
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priority, right? It's someone expressing their priority, the risk level that they're comfortable with.
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Many of the people who have not gotten the vaccine, it's because if you listen to what they're saying,
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okay, just most of the average people haven't got it. You actually listen to what they're saying.
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What they're saying is, you know, I'm worried about potential side effects. I'm worried about,
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we don't know about the long term. And I'm judging this base. And then I'm also comparing that to
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the threat posed to me in my own demographic group by COVID. And I'm making a judgment.
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And that's why I don't want to get the vaccine. Now you could disagree with that decision.
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You could say that you think it's a foolish decision or whatever. That's your own personal
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opinion based on your own priorities. But that's what we're talking about. So how can that be
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misinformation? It's just someone weighing risks, balancing everything out and saying, you know,
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here's, here's, here's how, here's how it all shakes out for me personally. Here's the risk level that
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I'm comfortable with. Here are the risks that I'm risks that I'm worried about. And then these risks
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over here, I'm not as worried about. That's it. I don't, how can that even be misinformation? It's,
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it's, it is a matter of personal priority. That's it.
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Um, meanwhile, Jen Psaki kind of on the same theme here, dropped this bomb rather casually. Let's
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listen. This is a big issue of misinformation specifically on the pandemic in terms of actions,
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Alex, that, uh, we have taken, or we're working to take, I should say from the federal government,
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uh, we've increased, uh, disinformation research and tracking, uh, within the surgeon general's office.
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We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook, uh, that spread disinformation. We're working with
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doctors and medical professionals to connect, uh, to connected medical experts with popular,
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with popular, who are popular with their audiences with, uh, with accurate information and boost
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trusted content. So we're helping get trusted content out there. That's nice of them. They're
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flagging misinformation for Facebook. They're really, really helpful. They're trying to help out.
00:25:12.520
Uh, so this is something to keep in mind. And I like how she, she mentions that, like, it's no big
00:25:20.560
deal. Um, nothing controversial about it. Oh yeah, we're doing this with Facebook. We're, we're,
00:25:28.080
we are telling as, as a, you know, as the white house is a political entity, we're telling Facebook
00:25:35.980
what qualifies as misinformation or disinformation. And she says that like, it's no big deal.
00:25:45.400
Like it's, it's obvious that they would be doing that. And actually it is kind of obvious that they
00:25:50.280
would be doing that. That doesn't make it okay though. But it's something to keep in mind when
00:25:53.920
you hear about, um, how Facebook is nothing but a private company. That's all no, no different from
00:26:03.260
the, uh, from the small town baker. And so if you think that the small town baker should be able to
00:26:08.420
bake whatever cake he wants, then, uh, Facebook should, should be able to do whatever they want.
00:26:15.140
Of course, the absurdity of that argument is that the people who make it don't think the baker
00:26:20.720
should be able to bake whatever cake he wants. They think that the decisions made by a baker in Colorado
00:26:29.500
are more significant and, um, carry with them a deeper national and global consequence than the
00:26:40.060
decisions made by these multi-billion dollar corporations that control the way that people
00:26:47.360
communicate and the ideas that are allowed to be communicated. So that's the, that's the,
00:26:54.380
the utter absurdity of it. The same people who make that comparison. Oh, you're the one who said,
00:27:00.660
uh, they bake whatever the cake they want. Yeah. No, you see the, the conflict here,
00:27:05.600
the irrationality it's on your end because it's very easy for me to explain how Facebook is different
00:27:15.580
from a baker. It literally, it harms no one. If a baker just bakes whatever cake he wants,
00:27:23.640
um, doesn't want to bake a gay wedding cake, uh, or, or he'll say you sell you a cake,
00:27:31.820
but he's not going to cut. That's, that's really what the issue was, right? It's not even we're
00:27:35.900
refusing service to gay couples. It's just, we're not going to make a customized cake for this
00:27:41.220
particular event. You can still buy a cake from us and customize it yourself, or you can go to any
00:27:45.620
of the dozens of other bakeries around and get the cake that you want. Now in that scenario,
00:27:50.980
it harms no one. There, there is no national consequence whatsoever.
00:28:00.160
What happens when these multi-billion dollar big tech companies that control the way that
00:28:09.780
what happens when they have political bias, ideological bias?
00:28:14.800
I would say the consequences are quite a bit more severe.
00:28:20.880
All right, let's move on here. Nicole Hannah-Jones of 1619 and, uh, just sort of general race baiting
00:28:26.480
fame. Back a couple of years ago, she was talking about Cuba in a podcast. Uh, and you may have
00:28:33.500
noticed that we, I've talked about the Cuba thing a little bit on the show. I haven't spent a lot of
00:28:37.300
time on it. Um, and not because it's not important. Part of it is just my focus is always on issues
00:28:45.680
that are happening right here in America that affect, you know, American families. That that's,
00:28:49.980
that's my focus. That's always been the focus of the show. And I bring that up because I've,
00:28:53.680
I've been asked actually by several people, why haven't I talked about the Cuba thing more?
00:28:58.040
And it's, uh, man, that's, that's one of them. I just, I don't talk about international issues
00:29:01.440
all that much. It's not where my focus is. It's certainly not where my, uh, if I have any
00:29:05.860
expertise at all, it does, it's not there, but I also have to confess, I'm, I get a little annoyed,
00:29:11.160
um, in some ways to see all of these Republicans, especially a lot of elected Republicans coming
00:29:22.020
out very strongly against the communist Cuban government, you know, in a, in a, in a very direct
00:29:30.220
way. They're, they're coming out against it aggressively, aggressively opposing communism
00:29:37.640
in the Cuban government. And that's fine. I, I agree with them that the communist Cuban
00:29:42.340
government is bad, fully agree. But then I noticed that a lot of these same Republicans,
00:29:48.780
uh, they're not nearly as aggressive or outspoken about the communist takeover of our own country,
00:29:55.220
because to me, that is the bigger problem. That's what I'm worried about.
00:30:03.280
So that's, that's, you know, my thinking there, but there are still some relevant issues to be
00:30:08.620
discussed, discussed surrounding that. And so this brings us back to Nicole Hannah-Jones.
00:30:12.980
Uh, she, uh, was, uh, on a podcast back in a couple of years ago and the subject of Cuba came up
00:30:21.100
and this is what she said about Cuba back then. Is there, are there candidates right now or even
00:30:26.940
just places that you think have a viable and sufficiently, um, ambitious integration agenda?
00:30:35.100
And if so, what, what is it? That, that laughs at a lot right there. I mean, one, let me just, um,
00:30:42.240
I, I, I'm definitely not an expert on, uh, race relations internationally. Um, and it's also hard
00:30:51.700
to look at countries that didn't have, you know, a large institutions of slavery and compare them to
00:30:58.700
United States. The answer is probably going to be surprising, uh, that I'm going to give, which is
00:31:04.960
if you want to see the most equal, uh, multiracial, uh, it's not a democracy, most equal multiracial
00:31:13.280
country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba. Cuba has the least inequality between black and white
00:31:20.300
people, uh, uh, any place really in the hemisphere that, uh, I mean, the Caribbean, most of the Caribbean,
00:31:27.820
it's, it's hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very,
00:31:32.160
very small. Their country's run by black folks, but in places that are truly, um, at least bi-racial
00:31:38.500
countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality. And that's largely due to socialism, which I'm sure
00:31:44.900
no one wants to hear. Now, I do want to hear this in fact, and I'm glad that she brought that up.
00:31:53.200
She's now that this clip has resurfaced, uh, she's being criticized for that again, claiming that Cuba
00:32:00.380
has the most equality, Cuba has more equality than the United States, but she's right. She is
00:32:08.280
absolutely right. Uh, the, uh, at least the fundamental point she's making there is that
00:32:16.820
there's more equality in Cuba than there is here. True. Um, because almost everyone is impoverished
00:32:24.160
and oppressed in Cuba. So that's what we mean when everybody is poor and miserable and oppressed,
00:32:31.680
there is equality. We are, we are all equal, uh, down here in, in the gutter with this boot on our
00:32:38.860
neck, right? So equality in that sense, she is right about that. You're, you're going to find,
00:32:47.920
and that's, that's, that's one of the reasons why, um, I don't, I don't talk about equality as much.
00:32:56.040
Quality is not a priority for me. It's not a value. Like a lot of people claim to think it is for them.
00:33:04.420
You know, when we talk about the kind of equality we should strive for,
00:33:07.760
we, we, we mean equality or we should mean equality in a highly qualified way.
00:33:13.440
What, what's the kind of equality that we should have in this country? I'll tell you what it is.
00:33:21.220
This is it. Equality under the law. And all that means is that no one should get any special favors.
00:33:28.440
Everyone should be treated the same, should get the same amount of justice. The laws should be the
00:33:33.940
same for everybody. Maybe just simply put it that way. The laws should be the same for everybody,
00:33:38.980
no matter who you are, what your demographic is, how much money you have or don't have.
00:33:44.940
That's the way it should be. That's oftentimes not the way it really works here,
00:33:49.900
but that's the equality we should be striving for. In an ideal scenario, that should be the goal.
00:33:55.240
And that's it. Same laws for everyone. That's it. That's all of the equality that we should want.
00:34:00.680
That's all the equality we should be talking about. Because equality in any other context
00:34:09.120
is, in practice, a horrific thing. The most equal countries, when we talk about equality of outcome,
00:34:22.220
equality in terms of the way people live, the success that they have or don't have,
00:34:28.940
if you want equality there, well, you're going to find that kind of equality in places like Cuba,
00:34:35.300
in places like North Korea, where most people, except for the top of the top, the elites,
00:34:41.980
a relatively small group, almost everyone else is impoverished and oppressed. That's where you find
00:34:45.920
equality. In a country with true freedom, there's no equality to be found anywhere except for in the law.
00:34:53.540
Now, but everywhere else, because you have freedom, outcomes will vary. People are all different.
00:35:05.440
There is no equality among people. We are all, because equality means sameness. We are not the
00:35:11.120
same. We are all different. We have different strengths, different weaknesses. Some of us are
00:35:14.500
smarter. Some of us are dumber. Some of us are stronger. Some of us have more talent. You know,
00:35:19.380
all these things vary. Some of us have more ambition. Some of us try harder.
00:35:25.180
And so on and so forth. All right. Next, we have from the AP, it says,
00:35:32.520
Pope Francis cracked down Friday on the spread of the old Latin mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict's
00:35:38.880
the 16th signature decisions and a major challenge to traditional Catholics who immediately decried it
00:35:43.740
as an attack on them and the ancient liturgy. Francis reimposed restrictions on celebrating the Latin mass
00:35:48.780
that Benedict relaxed in 2007. It went further to limit its use. Pontius said he was taking action
00:35:53.440
because Benedict's reform had become a source of division in the church and been exploited by
00:35:58.620
Catholics opposed to the Second Vatican Council. And now the new law requires individual bishops to
00:36:05.600
approve celebrations of the old mass, also called the Trinity mass, and requires newly ordained priests
00:36:09.960
to receive explicit permission to celebrate it from their bishops in consultation with the Vatican.
00:36:13.680
Under the new law, bishops must also determine if the current groups of faithful attached to the old
00:36:18.980
mass except Vatican II, which allowed for mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.
00:36:23.420
These groups cannot use regular churches for their services. Instead, bishops must find an alternate
00:36:28.320
location for them without creating new parishes. So Francis is doing everything he can here
00:36:33.480
to shut down the Latin mass without saying, I'm shutting down the Latin mass. He's putting as many
00:36:38.640
hurdles as he can. There were already plenty of hurdles. And now putting many more hurdles,
00:36:46.520
some of them are going to prove to be, in many cases, insurmountable. And that's the idea,
00:36:51.360
to just shut it down. He doesn't want it. Now, one thing you should know if you don't follow these
00:36:56.320
kinds of things in the church, because you're not Catholic, or even if you are Catholic, a lot of
00:36:59.540
Catholics don't follow it. To begin with, this almost never happens, where you have one pope coming
00:37:10.260
immediately after another pope and so directly contradicting him and just reversing something
00:37:16.740
that he did, one of his most signature moves that he made. So that's highly unusual.
00:37:28.520
And meanwhile, as far as the Latin mass, here's what you need to know about that.
00:37:32.860
As a Catholic, either kind of mass is legitimate. I don't judge people, whether you go to the
00:37:44.780
Novus Ordo mass, which is the normal mass that most people go to, the only kind of mass that Pope
00:37:51.240
Francis wants anyone to go to, or you go to the Latin mass. One doesn't make you a better Catholic
00:37:57.280
than the other. But the Latin mass has proven to be deeply appealing, especially to young people.
00:38:06.960
And it's pretty incredible. A lot of this is anecdotal, but I've been to plenty of Trinitine
00:38:13.160
masses. And I walk into these churches, and my experience almost always is, and I talk to almost
00:38:18.660
anyone else in any other part of the country who goes to Latin mass, and they'll tell you the same
00:38:22.260
thing. You walk into these churches, which are very conservative, doing this ancient liturgy in a
00:38:31.920
language that most of the people sitting there don't fully understand. They give you a book,
00:38:35.520
though, that you can read to follow along, and you learn it as you go along. And you walk in,
00:38:41.440
and so often the place is packed with young families, little kids, young parents, energetic people.
00:38:52.260
By far, the youngest and most energetic parishes I have ever been to, Latin masses.
00:38:59.660
No, it's when you go to the Novus Ordo masses, and you find very often these old parishes of,
00:39:06.460
you know, average age of 72, and people are sitting there silently, and everyone is bored to death,
00:39:13.660
and there's no energy. There's no, there's, there are very few young people, very few young families.
00:39:18.920
You can just, you can just, you can see the parish going extinct in front of your eyes.
00:39:28.140
What Pope Francis is saying is, we want more of that. I don't know, we don't want,
00:39:32.280
I don't know, the last thing we want are parishes that are young, energetic. We don't want any of that.
00:39:35.860
Now, average age of 72, at the youngest, Pope Francis is saying.
00:39:45.220
All right, um, I wanted to hit this quickly before we move on to reading the YouTube comments,
00:39:54.760
Sharon Osbourne, we've talked about this story.
00:39:57.320
You may remember what happened to Sharon Osbourne, formerly a co-host of the show, The Talk.
00:40:01.820
She was forced off the air and condemned as a racist after an argument that she had with some other women
00:40:08.500
It was an argument stemming from her defense of Piers Morgan,
00:40:11.320
who himself was forced off the air for criticizing Meghan Markle.
00:40:15.580
And Sharon Osbourne, all she said was that he's not a racist for doing that
00:40:22.780
This whole issue was brought up to Sharon Osbourne live on the air.
00:40:26.760
And she claimed at the time and after that it was a setup,
00:40:30.380
that they were putting her on the spot, supposedly giving her a chance to
00:40:33.140
defend herself against charges of racism, but really framing her as a racist in the process.
00:40:37.840
Because when you go on TV and you're put on the spot and someone says,
00:40:42.340
you're accused of being a racist, care to defend yourself?
00:40:47.840
I mean, the only thing you can say is, I'm not going to play that game.
00:40:53.900
And that's the correct response, is to refuse to play the game.
00:40:57.020
If you endeavor to actually prove that you're not a racist,
00:40:59.560
all you're doing is proving that you are a racist.
00:41:04.560
The other women on the show have said that it was not a setup at all
00:41:09.520
Two of the other women involved are Cheryl Underwood and Elaine Welter-Roth.
00:41:14.400
And they both, after Osbourne left the show, they threw under the bus.
00:41:17.180
They said publicly that it was not a setup and that Sharon Osbourne was at fault for all of this
00:41:21.080
because she refused to listen to them, et cetera, et cetera.
00:41:25.500
The talk co-host Elaine Welter-Roth can be heard consoling a distraught Sharon Osbourne
00:41:32.080
moments after the British TV star's heated on-air conversation with Cheryl Underwood.
00:41:35.800
In a newly unearthed audio recording obtained by the Daily Mail,
00:41:38.340
Welter-Roth, 34, is heard apologizing to her former co-star
00:41:42.060
and reassuring her that no one thinks she's racist
00:41:44.760
in a conversation in Sharon's dressing room after the explosive March 10th show.
00:41:49.540
So this was immediately after all that happened.
00:41:54.240
One of them still has their mic on, and that's how this was caught on tape.
00:42:10.580
I said, wait, what's the intention of this conversation?
00:42:20.280
I said to them, this is going to be a train wreck.
00:42:26.960
Sharon, I'm just so sorry that that went the way that it went.
00:42:34.240
When you have to sit there and defend yourself,
00:42:37.760
it makes you look guilty because you can't get out of it.
00:42:56.980
So it's a, there you hear Welteroth in the dressing room saying, yeah,
00:43:07.060
And that same woman, Welteroth, goes on the air and throws her to the bus.
00:43:20.840
I mean, these, these are, these are, these, these snakes just put her in this position.
00:43:24.920
Um, uh, because, because why, you know, she's, she's an easy target because she's an older
00:43:30.900
white woman and, uh, she was a sacrificial goat.
00:43:34.220
And also it was just good publicity and all the rest of it.
00:43:36.720
And I, you almost want to feel sorry for Sharon Osborne, even though, you know, she's a rich
00:43:45.720
Even so for a person to be treated this way and betrayed in this way, of course, if you
00:43:50.020
want to feel some pity, you feel sorry for them.
00:43:51.900
And normally I would, but you know what my policy is.
00:43:58.940
Um, if you are, you know, submitting yourself to this madness.
00:44:05.380
If you go to the altar and you bow before the altar, then there's nothing I can do.
00:44:10.240
Sharon Osborne, nothing, there's nothing anyone can do.
00:44:13.800
Sharon Osborne, um, prior to all of this, according to the Daily Star, reported Daily Star, she,
00:44:20.280
and according to her, she says that she donated $700,000 to Black Lives Matter.
00:44:28.140
Seven, of all the things to donate to $700,000.
00:44:35.380
That we know that they didn't, they didn't put to any good use at all.
00:44:40.860
So she goes and, um, bows her head at the BLM altar only to have them chop it off right
00:44:57.560
Let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.
00:44:59.120
Uh, a bunch of comments that are all in a similar vein.
00:45:03.560
Uh, Matt should cancel himself for the banjo trap.
00:45:08.500
Matt is canceled for that poor display of banjo skills.
00:45:11.960
I think we can all cancel Matt for not actually playing the banjo.
00:45:15.960
Matt, I'm now converting to sour baby gang after your banjo stunt.
00:45:33.400
Do you, do you want me to start playing the banjo when it's not properly tuned?
00:45:37.280
And I haven't checked to make sure that there are no squirrels or anything hiding inside
00:45:40.700
These are the basic things that any banjo player does before playing the banjo.
00:45:47.000
And then I ran out of time and I couldn't play it.
00:45:51.220
And then for you to turn around and attack me in this way, when you know that there's
00:45:58.480
nothing more important to me than the banjo and my music that I love to play and absolutely
00:46:07.280
And I wanted to share that with you, that gift.
00:46:11.880
And I wasn't able to think about how bad I feel about that.
00:46:21.440
Christine says, you have always had to have a license plate on the front of your car in
00:46:27.700
Anyone for that probably has to do with the visibility.
00:46:30.420
Since in the winters here, there is snow caked all over your car all the time and dirt and
00:46:35.780
It might increase your odds of at least being able to see one of them.
00:46:40.140
Yeah, that is the law with, with the plates in Minnesota.
00:46:43.180
And that's why that state legislator was pulled over.
00:46:50.880
I think it's, I think it's ridiculous to, you know, to have a law where you're now you're
00:46:54.560
pulling people over because they have one license plate instead of two.
00:47:00.140
I think the police should be focused on other things.
00:47:04.880
As we talked about yesterday, they are law enforcement.
00:47:10.960
Their job is to enforce the laws that are made.
00:47:14.200
And yes, if a law is immoral, if the law is calling them to do something immoral, then
00:47:20.220
they should refuse to do it even if it costs them their job.
00:47:23.160
But a lot of these traffic laws and stuff, they're not immoral.
00:47:25.980
It's not morally objectionable to have a law requiring two license plates instead of one.
00:47:37.560
So if you don't like that, then you talk to your legislators about changing the laws.
00:47:45.180
If there is a law that we would say it's not worth the cops enforcing it, then the law shouldn't exist.
00:47:55.380
And finally, Tony of Scrub Nation says, my dream is that Matt will read one of my comments someday.
00:48:07.060
This is the generosity that I display on this show, even as I am ruthlessly attacked.
00:48:17.120
Well, we were just talking earlier about the dangerous extremist, Candace Owens.
00:48:21.740
We've got a few dangerous extremists on the staff here.
00:48:24.640
I like to think that I'm myself am quite dangerous.
00:48:29.440
Candace Owens certainly is dangerous with her controversial opinions that might hurt people's feelings.
00:48:35.120
And if you have not had a chance to check out Candace Owens, well, now's your chance to do it.
00:48:41.180
Her latest episode, Cuba Communism and the Democratic Death Cult, is available right now on demand for Daily Wire members.
00:48:47.020
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00:48:50.720
And also, you know, as a political dissident, as political dissidents are thrown onto no-fly list by the federal government and children are consistently being exposed to the left's obsession with identity in classrooms, it's become incredibly clear American culture is becoming authoritarian.
00:49:04.960
That's why there's no better time to learn about what authoritarianism looks like.
00:49:10.560
Even eventually I'll learn how to say it, which will be good too, why it happens and how to stop it.
00:49:15.820
It may sound like a tall order, but Ben Shapiro explains it all in his new book, The Authoritarian Moment.
00:49:19.880
In it, he helps people understand as much as they can about how we reach this point and how we can all begin to fight back.
00:49:25.680
So order a copy of The Authoritarian Moment today at Amazon or any bookseller.
00:49:37.500
You know, sometimes I reflect on the fact that people have been complaining about political correctness for my entire life.
00:49:43.820
I can remember hearing criticisms of our PC culture in the 90s.
00:49:49.920
But in hindsight, PC culture back then was mere child's play compared to now.
00:49:55.020
You had to put in some effort to run afoul of it in those days.
00:49:59.680
You had to be enterprising to earn the label politically incorrect in the 90s.
00:50:04.660
For example, Eminem was politically incorrect, but he also made songs about murdering his own wife.
00:50:15.400
You can be politically incorrect with a pronoun.
00:50:18.220
You can be politically incorrect by reciting basic facts about biology.
00:50:21.140
You can be politically incorrect by saying something objectionable like,
00:50:25.860
Or, hey, please don't loot my store and burn it down.
00:50:33.040
The speech codes aren't just stifling and oppressive,
00:50:40.280
25 or 30 years ago, a politically correct person was someone who was polite,
00:50:46.200
Now a politically correct person is a lunatic, or at least pretends to be one.
00:50:51.380
We have truly put the political in politically correct.
00:50:54.740
What is politically correct now is really only politically correct,
00:50:59.840
In other words, it is in accordance with the prevailing political and ideological dogmas of our day.
00:51:04.740
It is correct in that sense, but rarely correct in any other sense.
00:51:09.540
And, of course, these codes invade every aspect of our lives, everywhere we go,
00:51:16.200
The speech police have decided that they cannot limit themselves to dry ground
00:51:19.780
and have now begun instituting speech codes to govern the aquatic realm as well.
00:51:26.360
One is really stupid, and the other is really very extremely profoundly stupid.
00:51:33.640
Minnesota State Senator Fung Hodge was never a fan of the Asian carp label,
00:51:39.840
commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland,
00:51:44.680
infesting numerous rivers and bearing down on the Great Lakes.
00:51:47.400
But the last straw came when an Asian business delegation arriving at the Minneapolis airport
00:51:54.300
It was a well-intentioned plea to prevent spread of the invasive fish,
00:51:58.240
but the message was off-putting to the visitors.
00:52:00.700
Now some other government agencies are taking the same step in the wake of the anti-Asian hate crime
00:52:04.940
epidemic that has surged through during the coronavirus pandemic.
00:52:09.280
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service quietly changed its designation to invasive carp in April.
00:52:14.420
The move comes as other wildlife organizations consider revising names that some consider offensive,
00:52:37.700
including the Entomological Society of America,
00:52:40.220
which this month dropped gypsy moth and gypsy ant from its insect list.
00:52:56.000
So this was not a conspiracy meant to encourage anti-Asian hate crimes.
00:53:03.120
Well, because there are also other kinds of carp that originate from Europe.
00:53:14.800
It's pretty common to name an animal after the place where it lives or originates.
00:53:19.340
It's not entirely clear why an Asian business delegation would be upset by a sign calling for people to kill Asian carp.
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I mean, these business people were presumably people.
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If they had any concerns, perhaps someone could have explained to them that they are people
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and that the distinction is rather significant.
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it's possible someone in the delegation was named Carl
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One way to do that is to convince people to eat them.
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because all you have to do is reverse the R and the A in carp
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It sounds like something you might get at a Chinese restaurant.
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from using the word attack in reference to sharks,
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has been unfairly stigmatized as a deliberate killer.
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which has worked with a shark survivor support group,
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That's one way to describe the plot of Jaws, I guess.
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about the prehistoric flesh-eating death machines
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and perhaps nibble on a few of your appendages,
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it's not to be construed as any sort of attack.
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He came over to make a little small talk with you,
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are based in my own deep-seated anti-shark bias.
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