The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 801 - The Media Spins Its Most Absurd False Narrative Yet

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media specializes in spinning false narratives,

00:00:04.380 but the narrative they've concocted about Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping and lassoing

00:00:09.000 Haitian immigrants is perhaps the most absurd yet. We'll discuss that today. Also, speaking of those 1.00

00:00:13.440 illegals, shouldn't we be treating the immigrant invasion as a biological terror threat, given that 0.99

00:00:18.420 none of them are masked or vaccinated? We treat unvaccinated American citizens that way, after 1.00

00:00:23.540 all. Plus, Australia descends further and further into fascism. Is it a preview of things to come

00:00:28.500 in this country? And Facebook conducts its own research and discovers that social media

00:00:33.060 is deeply harmful to kids. It then did the responsible and ethical thing and immediately

00:00:38.320 swept those findings under the rug. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:05.240 Go to expressvpn.com slash Walsh to learn more. It seems redundant to talk about the crisis down on the

00:02:11.480 border because the border has been in a constant state of crisis for decades, but the overall underlying

00:02:16.760 crisis flares up occasionally into what, what may more technically be described as, I don't know,

00:02:22.480 a super duper crisis. And that's what we're facing right now, particularly down in Southwest Texas in

00:02:28.000 Del Rio, where thousands of illegal immigrants have set up an expansive, bustling, impoverished 1.00

00:02:34.480 tent city of sorts. This is what the compassionate, quote unquote, immigration policies of the Democrat

00:02:41.000 Party get you. They get you shanty towns in the desert. They get you immigrant families living 1.00

00:02:47.280 under a bridge. They get you a third world invasion, which ultimately harms both the invaded and the 0.89

00:02:52.740 invaders. They also get you slavery and sex trafficking. They get you kids raped and killed

00:03:00.220 by human smugglers. This compassion brings all manner of misery and death and suffering to everyone 1.00

00:03:06.980 touched by it on both sides of the border, because this compassion is not compassion at all. It is

00:03:12.520 total abject indifference. This is why defending the border and defending it vigorously, harshly,

00:03:20.960 with force if necessary, is not only the most just and appropriate policy, as it is the basic duty of

00:03:27.400 our government to protect its borders and its people, but it's also the most truly compassionate.

00:03:31.920 If you're actually concerned with minimizing human suffering to the greatest possible extent,

00:03:38.640 and we all should be concerned with that, then you'll make sure that immigrants know that the trek across

00:03:44.000 the desert will be fruitless. There's no need to come. Certainly don't send your children.

00:03:49.660 Don't risk their lives or your lives for this. It won't work. That's a message of compassion.

00:03:55.960 Compassion both to the would-be illegal immigrant,

00:03:58.220 or the would-be child who's going to be smuggled across the border,

00:04:03.000 and also to your own people who live in a sovereign nation and deserve to have that sovereignty

00:04:07.540 preserved and defended. This is a conversation we should be having when it comes to illegal immigration,

00:04:14.260 but the media is not interested in that conversation. So instead, as always, they change

00:04:18.780 the subject. They are perpetually on the lookout for false narratives to help them do that.

00:04:22.920 And yesterday, they found a very convenient one. Images began circulating online of Border Patrol

00:04:27.700 agents on horseback, apprehending immigrants as they attempted to storm the border. There is,

00:04:33.560 of course, nothing at all strange about this. Border Patrol agents are supposed to patrol and defend

00:04:38.160 the border. It's right there in the name, Border Patrol. And considering they're out in the desert,

00:04:43.200 it makes quite a lot of sense for them to perform this duty on horseback. You see cops in major

00:04:49.640 cities on horseback. And sometimes that, to me, seems a little silly. But on the border, 0.92

00:04:55.980 in the desert, makes a lot of sense. But the images of white-looking Border Patrol agents on

00:05:02.900 horseback, and I say white-looking because, in fact, many of these Border Patrol agents are Hispanic.

00:05:09.780 But the image of a white-looking Border Patrol agent on horseback rounding up mostly Black

00:05:15.640 Haitian immigrants, and more on the Haitian part of this story in just a minute, presented an

00:05:20.400 opportunity to media propagandists that they simply couldn't pass up. So it began with a guy named

00:05:25.440 Sawyer Hackett, who providentially actually has the word hack in his name. And he posted two images of

00:05:31.520 the mounted Border Patrol agents along with this caption. Caption is,

00:05:34.540 And now, pardon the pun, we're off to the races. The news was trending across social media. Border

00:05:54.320 agents are using whips against Haitian refugees. Every major media outlet published their own

00:05:59.600 headline, These days, a narrative cements and metastasizes within minutes, seconds even.

00:06:05.720 That's all it takes. Now, it used to take longer for a false narrative. The media has always

00:06:11.380 perpetrated false narratives, perpetuated false narratives. But in the past, it would take some

00:06:17.040 effort to get people to believe it. But now, with the internet, it just takes a second.

00:06:23.940 All across social media and the news media, people were breathlessly condemning the evil officers who

00:06:29.920 are whipping and lassoing Haitians down on the border like some kind of old Western film. 0.96

00:06:34.860 Comparisons to slavery were made. The White House was asked about the whips. And Jen Psaki,

00:06:41.620 though admitting that she doesn't know the context, still said that the images are inappropriate and

00:06:46.980 terrible and even horrific. Listen.

00:06:49.100 I have seen some of the footage. I don't have the full context. I can't imagine what context

00:06:55.080 would make that appropriate. But I don't have additional details. And certainly, I don't have

00:07:00.380 additional context. April, I don't think anyone seeing that footage would think it was acceptable

00:07:05.040 or appropriate. Thanks so much, Jen. I want to follow up on the question about Haitians and

00:07:11.280 specifically these photos that are surfacing on border patrol agents, seemingly using whips.

00:07:16.940 I know you said that there's no context that it would be seen as inappropriate. So the question

00:07:20.780 really is, why would this be happening under the Biden administration? Is this going to stop?

00:07:24.960 What would the problem? I wonder sort of what are going to be the consequences if what we're seeing

00:07:30.000 is what we're seeing? I mean, Yamiche, it's all good questions. We just saw this footage.

00:07:34.840 It's horrible to watch. I just have to get more information on it.

00:07:39.920 Again, April, I don't have more information on it. I've also seen the video. I can't imagine what the

00:07:45.720 scenario is where that would be appropriate. I'm certainly not suggesting that. But we've just

00:07:50.080 seen the footage earlier this morning. And if I could also ask, I have a photo. I know you said

00:07:54.060 that you're still assessing it. But just to add, if this is what we see, is it the president's stance

00:07:59.780 or the White House's stance that whoever these border agents are using, what seems to be whips

00:08:04.060 on migrants, that they would be fired or at least never be able to do that again?

00:08:08.620 Of course, they should never be able to do it again. I don't know what the circumstances would be.

00:08:12.680 It's obviously horrific, the footage. I don't have any more information on it. So let me venture

00:08:17.040 to do that. And we'll see if there's more to convey. Yes, I have no idea what's actually going

00:08:22.120 on, she says. But whatever it is, it's definitely bad. These men down on the border who work for us

00:08:27.420 and are doing the job they were hired to do are clearly guilty of horrific atrocities. I don't know

00:08:33.080 anything about the situation, but I know enough to throw our own people under the bus. That's for sure.

00:08:37.400 The White House showing more of its trademark moral courage with that response. But is it true

00:08:43.780 that the Border Patrol agents were using whips? Well, the first answer is that it doesn't matter

00:08:47.480 if it's true. The narrative is all that matters. The truth is irrelevant to almost everyone who is

00:08:54.880 propagating this narrative. The second answer is that no. Of course, it isn't even remotely true.

00:09:00.240 City Boy Sawyer was, perhaps intentionally, misinterpreting the horse reins for a whip.

00:09:07.760 That's what those ropes on the horse are. They're reins. And if you've ever seen someone on horseback

00:09:14.520 and you've wondered how they managed to steer the horse in the direction that they want the horse to

00:09:19.680 go, this is how they do it. And that must have seemed like a pretty weird magic trick if you didn't

00:09:26.340 know about horse reins. They don't use animal telepathy, it turns out. They also don't jump

00:09:32.400 on the horse and say, all right, Sparky, take me wherever you want to go. Where are we going today?

00:09:37.600 No, they use these things called reins to steer the animal in the preferred direction.

00:09:44.100 That's what those ropes are. But we know the left has long had trouble dealing with ropes. They're

00:09:49.480 very scandalized by really any rope in any form, they're scandalized. First, they thought a garage

00:09:55.320 door pull in a NASCAR garage was a noose. I mean, they thought a rope hanging from there for like

00:10:01.440 a tire swing in a park was a noose. They thought a cord at a cracker barrel was a noose. And now

00:10:10.840 they think horse reins are a whip. They seem to think that every rope is somehow sinister. I can

00:10:15.700 only imagine what would happen to these people if they ever went into, I don't know, an indoor rock

00:10:20.280 climbing facility. Whips and nooses all over the place. They probably think it was some kind of

00:10:25.320 BDSM dungeon. So on second thought, they'd feel right at home, I guess. But all of this talk of

00:10:31.480 whips and nooses obscures another more important point. We are told that the immigrant horde being 1.00

00:10:37.160 whipped, quote unquote, down in Del Rio are Haitians. Now Haitians, I hope I don't have to remind you, 0.99

00:10:43.080 are from Haiti. Haiti, I also hope I don't have to remind you, is not in Mexico or even near Mexico.

00:10:50.380 It is an island nation thousands of miles away across the sea. The media is talking about these

00:10:57.100 people as if they're fleeing Haiti itself, which would mean that they got in boats, presumably,

00:11:03.740 thousands at a time and sailed up the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds and hundreds of miles,

00:11:09.260 docked somewhere on Mexico's coast and then walked through the desert parallel to the U.S. border,

00:11:14.600 only to then convene around southwest Texas and try to enter there all at once. That makes no sense at

00:11:22.220 all. There would have been many potential ports of entry much closer and easier to access. I mean,

00:11:27.800 if you're taking a boat from Haiti and you want to get into the U.S., how do you end up in Del Rio?

00:11:35.080 So that doesn't make any sense. But that's the impression we're supposed to have when they talk

00:11:39.780 about it. Well, the Haiti, they're fleeing political persecution and so on. The implication

00:11:44.860 is that they are fleeing Haiti. But again, that doesn't make any sense. If you're fleeing Haiti,

00:11:51.000 you're not going to end up in Del Rio of all places. So why are they there? And why isn't anyone

00:11:59.200 in the media asking this? Why are we having to talk about horse reins instead of discussing the origin

00:12:04.280 and intentions of this mysterious mass of Haitians hanging out in Del Rio for unknown reasons?

00:12:11.000 Now, I don't have all the answers myself. I have the questions, which is why I'm asking them.

00:12:16.660 But it does seem pretty clear that many of these people, probably all of them,

00:12:20.460 are not coming from Haiti at all. They were, would stand to reason, already in Central America somewhere

00:12:28.220 and probably had been there for years. Now, this makes it dubious to refer to them as Haitian refugees

00:12:35.500 or Haitian asylum seekers. If a Haitian man moves to Guatemala and lives there for five years 0.61

00:12:42.300 and then tries to enter the U.S. illegally, is he a Haitian refugee seeking asylum at that point?

00:12:48.680 I mean, in one sense, technically, he's still Haitian, of course, but the term gives a misleading

00:12:54.080 impression. Also, why would we grant him asylum here when he's already been living in another 0.99

00:13:00.400 country? He wants asylum from Haiti, right? Well, he was in Guatemala. Why can't he stay there? 1.00

00:13:08.920 And if he's leaving from there, he's got to cross other countries to get to our country.

00:13:12.920 But whatever we call these people, whether Haitian asylum seekers or just illegal immigrants,

00:13:23.080 I tend to favor the latter term. The question then becomes, and if they are leaving Central America,

00:13:29.800 why are they all leaving Central America and coming here now? Why now? Why all at once? How did they all 1.00

00:13:37.800 get there? Why at that spot? These are valid questions, I believe. Questions worth asking?

00:13:46.440 That, again, should be the first question anyone in the media asks if they're sitting in a press

00:13:50.960 conference and being told about a tent city of Haitian immigrants in Del Rio. Everyone should say,

00:13:57.440 well, what Haitian immigrants? Why? Nobody even asks it. Nobody. 1.00

00:14:02.880 Nobody. Well, the media, you know, because they don't want to talk about that.

00:14:09.820 That's not a question they want to ask because it's not an answer they want to be given.

00:14:15.740 They'd rather talk about imaginary whips and scary guys on horseback.

00:14:22.400 They'd rather talk about anything but the real point, as always. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:32.880 We know that the left is in a constant state of panic over everything, but the panic over abortion,

00:14:40.940 especially after the Texas abortion law, has been certainly a sight to behold.

00:14:44.960 And it's, I'm sure, given you as a pro-lifer many opportunities to talk about this issue and debate it with people.

00:14:51.740 But maybe you found during those conversations that you don't have all the tools you need or you're not equipped

00:14:57.460 or ready to respond to the, just the rapid fire barrage of arguments that will be thrown at you.

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00:15:23.700 It tells you what to say and what not to say. Everything is very neatly organized.

00:15:28.420 And so you can read it from cover to cover, as I did, or you could just, you could go back and

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00:15:41.060 at 40daysforlife.com. And I also think it's funny, even if those guys on horseback were using WIPs,

00:15:49.960 which they 1000% were not. But even if they were, okay, they're using a rope, they're using

00:15:59.520 a WIP against people who are trying to illegally invade the country. They are in a place they don't

00:16:06.420 belong, doing something that they shouldn't be doing. It's just interesting to me that the idea

00:16:14.140 of using a WIP is this horrible atrocity. I mean, you WIP someone, maybe give them a little bit of

00:16:20.660 whiplash or something. They have a little bruise there. That's a horrible atrocity.

00:16:26.920 And yet the same people calling that a horrible atrocity, even though for the fifth time,

00:16:31.900 it's imaginary, it didn't even happen. But the same people saying that

00:16:37.380 also cheered joyously with like tears of joy in their eyes when Ashley Babbitt was shot in the

00:16:49.160 chest and killed inside the Capitol building, an unarmed woman. In that case, it's lethal force

00:16:57.180 being used on an unarmed person. And that's, you know, that's according to the left, that's not

00:17:03.320 even sad. They're happy that it happened. And yet the idea of someone of like a, of an illegal 0.61

00:17:11.400 immigrant trying to invade the country, getting a little bruise on their arm from a WIP, that, 1.00

00:17:15.200 that horrifies you. The unarmed woman lying dead with a gunshot wound is no problem there. 0.97

00:17:22.540 Well, of course, here I am trying to make sense and trying to, you know, uh, hold them to their

00:17:31.100 own standards and all that. Cause we know how fruitless that is, but I, I did feel it necessary

00:17:34.740 to make that point. In any case, um, we're going to get back to some issues dealing with, uh, you know,

00:17:42.580 related to the illegal immigrant, illegal immigrants down there at the border in just a second.

00:17:46.320 And we have to hear more from Jen Psaki, unfortunately, but before we get there, I think, uh, some, uh,

00:17:52.960 congratulations are in order to, uh, Canada because Justin Trudeau was reelected yesterday

00:18:01.480 as prime minister, prime minister of Canada. So congratulations Canadians. You got this doofus 0.99

00:18:08.300 for another term. I can't for the life of me imagine why you wanted that.

00:18:16.320 And I, I want to ruthlessly make fun of you for this, that you, what is it? This is his third term,

00:18:22.520 right? Am I, am I wrong? I don't pay very close attention to politics up there in Canada. I got

00:18:27.620 to be honest with you, but I believe this is his third term. I can't imagine why you would want this

00:18:33.140 guy for three terms. What has he shown you? What has he done for you to demonstrate competent

00:18:41.320 leadership? I don't know how you could live through that being run by this laughing stock of a man

00:18:50.060 and then say, yeah, I need some more of that. And I want to make fun of you so badly for it,

00:18:56.340 but then I realized we have a dementia patient running our country. So I can't even do it.

00:19:03.780 And that's maybe the worst thing about Biden's presidency. There are a lot of bad things.

00:19:08.000 Maybe the worst one is that it deprives me of the ability to make fun of Canada to the extent

00:19:12.960 that I really want to, but I can still make fun of Justin Trudeau anyway. And here he is.

00:19:18.840 I think this is after he was reelected and he's talking about who knows what he's talking about,

00:19:23.420 but this is just funny. Let's play it. I will never apologize for standing up for an

00:19:29.660 LGBTQ2 plus kids' rights to not have to undergo conversion therapy.

00:19:42.560 Yeah, you can't. LGBT, LGDB, LGD. It is difficult, you know, at this point to memorize the entire

00:19:53.700 alphabet soup. So you can't blame him for that very much. What is the actual, I tried to look

00:20:02.100 this up. I don't even know what the, the acronym expands every week. They add a new letter to it.

00:20:07.080 So I'm not even sure what the full acronym is supposed to be now. And to me, it feels a little

00:20:13.420 bit offensive because now they sort of put the plus at the end and that's supposed to cover all of the

00:20:19.720 other identities. So now I guess the, the official acronym is LGBTQIA plus. And the plus goes for all

00:20:31.280 the rest that we're not listing. Now, how do, but how do they lose out like that? Why don't, why don't

00:20:37.580 they get, they, they all have to be lumped together under plus. And meanwhile, you give Q, I, and A

00:20:44.560 their own letters. We've already talked about the problem with intersex. So I, the intersex, 0.99

00:20:50.340 they get their own letter, even if they don't want it, because there's no reason for them to be

00:20:55.040 included in LGBT, in the LGBT label at all. They've got nothing to do with it. That's a birth defect. 1.00

00:21:02.260 And then A is what? A is asexual. Asexual, these are people who allegedly have, have no sexual 0.86

00:21:10.380 impulses or interests at all. How do they get lumped in with people who define themselves by

00:21:16.700 their sexual impulses? This is, this seems like an entirely opposite category of person

00:21:23.680 and they get their own letter and, uh, they get singled out. Meanwhile, all of these other identities,

00:21:32.700 they all get dismissed with a mere plus. I find that offensive personally.

00:21:39.420 All right, let's go back to the border for a moment here. Another question we might, we might

00:21:45.780 have when we see these images, whether it's the quote unquote Haitian refugees or any of the other

00:21:52.600 immigrants trying to cross the border. And you look at the footage of it. One thing you notice is that

00:21:59.840 none of them are wearing masks and we can assume that almost none of them are vaccinated.

00:22:10.240 So we're, we are allowing during, as we're reminded, a deadly global pandemic.

00:22:18.320 We still have thousands of people unvaccinated, unmasked, untested, streaming across the border.

00:22:24.740 Uh, Jen Psaki, going back to her for a moment. Unfortunately, she was asked about this by, uh,

00:22:32.720 Peter Doocy, who's the only actual reporter in these briefings. And here's how she dealt with

00:22:37.780 that question.

00:22:39.080 A question about what's going on at the border. Is somebody asking the foreign nationals who are

00:22:43.420 walking into Del Rio, Texas and setting up camps on this side of the border for proof of vaccination

00:22:49.740 or a negative COVID test? Well, first of all, I can re re I can readdress for you or re re talk you

00:22:57.400 through what steps we take policy for people who fly into the country. So if somebody walks into the 0.52

00:23:03.760 country right across the river, does somebody ask them to see their vaccination card? Well, let me

00:23:10.460 explain to you again, Peter, how our process works as individuals, as individuals come across the border,

00:23:16.380 uh, and, uh, they are, uh, both assessed for whether they have, uh, any symptoms. If they have symptoms,

00:23:23.200 they are, the intention is for them to be quarantined. That is our process. They're not

00:23:27.640 intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time. I don't think it's the same thing. It's not

00:23:32.140 the same thing. These are individuals as we've noted, and as we've been discussed, we are expelling

00:23:37.460 individuals based on title 42 specifically because of COVID because we want to prevent a scenario where

00:23:43.580 large numbers of people are gathering, posing a threat to the community and also to the migrants 1.00

00:23:48.080 themselves. So those are the policies that we put in place, um, in large part, because again, the CDC

00:23:54.920 continues to recommend title 42 be in place given we're facing a global pandemic. Where's the vice

00:23:59.760 president on any of this? Isn't she supposed to be addressing the root causes of migration? 0.99

00:24:04.680 Absolutely. And she has been addressing the root causes of migration by working with countries in the

00:24:08.780 region to ensure they have the assistance they need to reduce the number of people who are coming 0.70

00:24:13.460 and trying to make those journeys across the border. We've actually seen some reductions in

00:24:17.260 some of those numbers. That doesn't change the fact that this is a very challenging situation in

00:24:22.100 Del Rio. We're working to implement our policies and we're working to, uh, ensure we are also

00:24:26.820 addressing root causes. Okay. Now for a little bit of a fact check there, Fox, let's go to a Fox

00:24:34.120 report. Uh, and, and here we'll see some of the images of the, uh, immigrants, the quote unquote

00:24:39.900 asylum seekers crossing the river, but also, um, we'll, we'll get an answer to the question of,

00:24:48.280 are we actually testing any of these people as they come across the border? And it's a different

00:24:53.380 answer than what you might expect. If you believe what Jim Psaki is telling you, let's play that.

00:24:57.980 DHS secretary, uh, secretary Mayorkas was here today. This is what the, uh, the message he had

00:25:03.700 for migrants who are considering crossing. Take a listen. The majority of migrants continue to be 1.00

00:25:10.620 expelled under CDC is title 42 authority. Those who cannot be expelled under that authority and do

00:25:18.520 not have a legal basis to remain will be placed in expedited removal proceedings.

00:25:26.120 And back out here live. Here's the deal with title 42. Yes. Most of the single adult men in this camp

00:25:31.880 will be removed from the country, sent back to their country of origin, uh, via title 42. That 0.99

00:25:37.540 is not true. However, of the women, the children and the family units, the Biden administration has

00:25:42.360 not used title 42 on family units. So a lot of these family units you see in here will have the

00:25:47.240 chance to stay in the U S they will be processed. They will be released into the country. What's called 0.77

00:25:51.600 an NTA, a notice to appear in court for a court date, sometimes years down the road,

00:25:56.400 whether or not they show up for it. We got no way of knowing. We'll send it back to you.

00:26:00.620 And no, no COVID testing, uh, going on down there. Right, right, Bill? Nope. Nope. No,

00:26:06.220 no, no vaccine mandates, no COVID test. Just a reminder that the president's going to speak

00:26:10.040 at the UN tomorrow. And one of his signature pieces is how well COVID is being handled in the

00:26:15.280 United States. And the importance of that as his top issue, uh, that his presidency is, is undertaking.

00:26:20.940 So no COVID testing, which, which we already knew that was the case. I mean, this putting all the

00:26:28.640 other issues aside that we talked about at the opening, which you really can't put them aside,

00:26:33.760 but the basic duty of our government to protect our sovereignty, like that's, if you want to list

00:26:39.640 the reasons why we should protect our borders, that that should be the only reason that you need to

00:26:45.200 give. That's the only reason that any other country needs for protecting their own borders.

00:26:50.940 That's kind of the mind blowing thing about this discussion is that

00:26:55.060 this discussion doesn't exist in any non-Western country. Some European countries, it certainly

00:27:05.700 does, but I'm not aware of any non-Western country that feels the need to justify protecting its own

00:27:15.420 borders. And they all do. And many of them use much harsher force than we do.

00:27:24.360 Harsher even than a whip, which is really the reins of a horse. And there's no discussion about it.

00:27:30.400 There's no real debate internally about, you know, gee, should we be doing this? Should we be,

00:27:35.600 we have this border here, but now should we bother stopping people from crossing it?

00:27:41.400 There's no discussion about that. There are no other countries scolding them for doing it.

00:27:47.120 And the reason why every other country on the planet, at least non-Western country, 1.00

00:27:56.080 defends their border first and foremost, and the only reason they would give if they were ever asked

00:28:01.740 to give a reason, which they're not, is that this is our country and it's our sovereignty and we have

00:28:06.000 to protect it. It would be a bizarre question to even have to answer. Um, but if we're going down

00:28:17.560 the list of reasons, there are the other reasons that I said as well, that this is the most, this is

00:28:22.360 also the most compassionate thing, even for the immigrants, but on the list is also the issue of

00:28:31.380 COVID. And from the left's perspective, this should be the only reason they need for shutting down the

00:28:39.460 border completely by whatever means necessary, shutting down the border because every single

00:28:48.460 one of these people coming in is a, is a biological hazard by their logic. By their logic, these are

00:28:55.560 essentially biological terrorists coming across the border, ticking time bomb. They're going to spread

00:29:02.480 disease and kill. They're going to, they're going to kill our grandmothers and our children from COVID. 1.00

00:29:09.020 That's the left's logic. That is certainly how they talk about American citizens who are not vaccinated

00:29:15.620 and are simply going about their lives. That's even how they talk about children who are unvaccinated.

00:29:25.560 So that should be, that, that should be it. That should be, if they're serious about it,

00:29:29.280 if they really believe all the things they say about COVID

00:29:32.640 and they take seriously all of their own blustery condemnations of unvaccinated Americans,

00:29:39.820 if they took any of that seriously and believed any of it,

00:29:42.640 then it would be the left more than the right, right now who would be standing up saying,

00:29:47.720 shut down the border. We can't have these people coming in. 1.00

00:29:50.400 Our grandmothers' lives are not worth it. That's what they would be saying, but none of them are.

00:29:58.880 You may notice. None of them. All right. I don't know. Maybe if some of these immigrants end up, 1.00

00:30:06.920 end up vacationing in Florida, then they'll, then they'll fit under the umbrella of, of people that

00:30:15.360 the media feels comfortable condemning. I'm not sure. All right. Late last week, the Pentagon admitted

00:30:21.460 that the drone strike that killed those ISIS operatives in Afghanistan actually didn't kill

00:30:27.340 any ISIS operatives at all and instead incinerated an entire family. Three adults, seven children were

00:30:34.040 killed. Here's Commander General Kenneth McKenzie addressing this and admitting to it and offering

00:30:40.260 an apology. I mean, you tell me if this is enough for you, but let's listen.

00:30:45.760 Having thoroughly reviewed the findings of the investigation and the supporting analysis by

00:30:50.280 interagency partners, I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children,

00:30:56.460 were tragically killed in that strike. Moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and

00:31:03.660 those who died were associated with ISIS-K or were a direct threat to U.S. forces.

00:31:08.240 I offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed. This strike was

00:31:15.380 taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at

00:31:21.300 the airport, but it was a mistake. And I offer my sincere apology. As the combatant commander,

00:31:27.860 I am fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome.

00:31:31.780 Well, he's right about that. But he offers his, uh, I offer my sincere apology.

00:31:40.060 And that's all we're going to get. I offer my sincere apology. Oh, sorry about that. Yeah,

00:31:44.160 we killed seven children. My bad. And then they move on and no one is held accountable. There,

00:31:50.920 there have been no resignations over this. Certainly nobody has been fired.

00:31:54.620 And we've already moved on. They can come out and admit now and say, yeah, we did it. We killed seven

00:32:03.380 children. And a few days later, we're not even talking about it anymore. There's, there's really

00:32:11.860 no outcry, no public outcry anyway, to hold anyone accountable. I mean, think, think about

00:32:18.700 what you would have to do at your job to get fired. It kind of depends on what your job is. I mean,

00:32:27.440 if you're a public school teacher, then, then you'd have to do quite a lot to get fired. And

00:32:30.400 probably then you still wouldn't, but that's government. I mean, outside, if you, if you work

00:32:33.980 outside of government, I guess I should stipulate, what would you have to do? What kind of mistake

00:32:38.560 would you have to make on the job to get fired? It probably wouldn't take much.

00:32:42.540 I know for me, I can walk out there right now and get fired. If I wanted to, I could do it in like

00:32:49.720 10 seconds. The sky's the limit. If I decided I want to get fired, I wouldn't have, in fact,

00:32:54.880 I could do it right here on air, get myself fired. And that's the case for anyone who live, who works 1.00

00:33:00.500 outside of the government. You wouldn't have to do much to get yourself fired. And I, and you know,

00:33:04.400 you also wouldn't have to kill seven kids. Probably if you killed just like one person, um, 0.96

00:33:10.020 in your job outside of government and outside of the pharmaceutical industry, now we have to

00:33:16.300 stipulate as well, you'd get fired. But in the government, you can directly murder 10 people,

00:33:23.620 including seven kids and still have a job at the end of the day. That's the government for you.

00:33:32.000 Um, kind of on the same topic here, moving on and over to Australia, as we know, full on fascism

00:33:37.340 has come to Australia. Here is a footage that's all the footage we see out of Australia is it's

00:33:43.320 just sends chills down your spine. Um, here's a law enforcement official showing up to somebody's

00:33:48.060 house because she allegedly posted on social media that she would be attending a protest

00:33:54.400 potentially. That's the allegation that she posted something on social media about going to a protest. 0.75

00:33:59.740 And next thing you know, there are multiple, it looks like there's one on camera, but multiple

00:34:04.740 law enforcement officials at her house talking to her about this. Let's listen to that.

00:34:10.720 Sure. Okay. All right. Is there a reason why you're recording me today?

00:34:15.120 Yes. For my protection. You think I'm going to assault you or something?

00:34:19.200 No. Um, so I don't understand why you're here and

00:34:25.520 I haven't even spoken to you and you think I'm going to do something to you.

00:34:29.500 Well, we have seen a lot of police violence in recent times towards the public. Um, there

00:34:34.900 is a growing, there is a growing mistrust. I, as you can understand, um, you, yeah, not

00:34:42.380 here to do anything like that. All right. Cool.

00:34:44.640 We're here to have a chat to you because we have instructions that, um, you've been posting

00:34:48.220 some things on social media. Um, that you,

00:34:54.020 Is there a protest?

00:34:55.360 Protest on Tuesday.

00:34:57.200 Um, there's no protest on Tuesday.

00:34:59.540 Okay.

00:35:00.200 There isn't.

00:35:01.200 Okay. That's fine. But what I'm here is to remind you to ensure that you need to stay

00:35:05.780 at home in relation to COVID and, um, stay at home orders. And if there is or is not a

00:35:11.960 protest on Tuesday, regardless, you still can't leave and go to a protest of any sort.

00:35:17.900 I understand.

00:35:20.080 And this is what fascist, this is what tyranny looks like when it actually comes to, it comes

00:35:23.700 in the form of a woman in a pantsuit saying she wants to have a chat with you. She's very

00:35:30.080 polite about it. She even said both the, the, the, it was a little hard to hear there, but

00:35:34.880 both of them said to the woman that was filming, Oh, we're not here to assault you. Don't worry

00:35:38.760 about that. You're perfectly safe. You just have to stay home. Just stay in your house. Don't

00:35:44.600 ever leave your house and you'll be fine. Of course, if you leave your house, we might knock

00:35:50.100 you down and, uh, spray bear mace in your face, cart you off to prison. Some of the footage we've 0.92

00:35:58.600 seen out of Australia has shown that, but stay in your house and you'll be safe. We'll make sure

00:36:03.900 you're taken care of. We'll make sure you have all you need. Just stay here and never

00:36:08.140 leave. That's all we want to chat about today. But the really worrying thing, I mean, the whole

00:36:15.780 thing is worrying. Um, but you have to wonder how did these, whoever they are, these law enforcement

00:36:25.140 officers, how did they become aware of this alleged social media posts from this, uh, from

00:36:32.440 this woman? And we can be sure the government is monitoring all that stuff and maybe they 0.99

00:36:37.640 saw it on their own, but, but more than likely someone else snitched, you know, some other

00:36:43.800 citizen saw, maybe her friend on Facebook or whoever saw the post on Facebook and alerted

00:36:49.720 the authorities and sent the authorities to her house. And the person who snitched knows

00:36:55.540 how that could go. She might end up getting, going to prison. She might, she might end up 0.98

00:37:01.080 getting assaulted. We've, we've seen the footage. We know how the Australian authorities are handling

00:37:05.180 this. And that's what worries me the most this entire time. That's what's worried me the

00:37:10.900 most in Australia and also here. It's been the most depressing aspect of all of this, because

00:37:19.340 if this was a simple matter of us against them, you know, the people against the government,

00:37:24.420 we're all in this together as we're constantly told and our, our government, uh, rulers are

00:37:32.060 oppressing us and we're, we're, we're, we're coming together under that oppression to resist

00:37:36.320 it. Like if that was the story, then it would be far less distressing than what's actually

00:37:42.380 happening, which is, you know, the government is oppressing us with the help of our

00:37:49.240 fellow citizens. Who are eager to become little tattletales. Reporting, not just citizens,

00:38:02.520 reporting businesses, even though they're not, you know, the person doing the tattletaling,

00:38:09.360 they're not in any great risk. They could just continue on their day.

00:38:13.280 But they see the opportunity to, through, through the force of government, to kind of use the force

00:38:21.580 of government by proxy to impose themselves on their fellow citizens. There are a lot of tyrants

00:38:29.240 who have come out of the woodwork during COVID and not just in government. A lot of people who

00:38:37.760 have been given this power to impose themselves on others and they, uh, that's a power that they,

00:38:46.440 they can't forego. They can't pass that up. They can't pass the opportunity up. Here's something, uh,

00:38:52.160 funnier than it is enraging. Two people on a plane, very upset and worried that the guy next to them

00:38:58.080 has dared to take his face mask off. Let's play a little bit of this. The guy's, uh, he's sitting on a

00:39:03.100 a plane. I'm not sure which airline this is. Go ahead and play it. He's sitting on a plane and,

00:39:08.060 um, he's eating a candy bar. He's got his face mask turned off. And then you've got these,

00:39:13.220 this older couple sitting next to him and they've got visors and face masks on.

00:39:21.480 And now the woman is huddling in fear, covering her face because this guy's eating a Snickers bar

00:39:27.780 next to him while the husband in the window seat is shouting over, you're putting our lives in

00:39:34.260 danger. They've got visors, face masks. You know, you know, they're vaccinated on top of it.

00:39:41.440 And we go back to this irony of they've got all of that and they don't trust any of it.

00:39:48.480 They have such little faith in the measures that they themselves are taking here that they think

00:39:55.060 they might be killed because a guy next to them is eating a Snickers bar.

00:40:01.360 And yet they're on, this is great. Okay. And yet they're on the plane. That's will continue to

00:40:11.120 be the mind boggling thing to me. Difficult for me to understand psychologically. I can understand

00:40:16.940 the virtue signaling. And some, and when you see people walking around with visors and face masks,

00:40:22.420 oftentimes they're accused of virtue signaling. And we know that virtue signaling is an empty gesture

00:40:27.800 where you're trying to broadcast to everyone how seriously you're taking this. And, and, and I

00:40:34.520 believe that there's, that there's certainly some of that going on, but the people going to that

00:40:39.860 extent with the visor and the face mask, that that's not virtue signaling. They really are terrified.

00:40:43.740 The people driving in their car at night with a mask on, they're, they're, they're not signaling to

00:40:50.980 anyone. This is, their brains are broken. They are that terrified. And that's why they're wearing it. 0.98

00:40:58.100 And yet they're still on the plane. If you are that worried, if you're that afraid that you think

00:41:07.940 even with a mask, a visor and a vaccine, you might be killed if somebody takes their mask off next to

00:41:15.060 you to eat a Snickers bar for 45 seconds, if that's how you feel about it, why did you get on the plane?

00:41:25.880 Because I guess I can only use myself as a reference here. And I know that for me,

00:41:29.920 if I really believed that, um, if I walk outside of my house, if I sit next to somebody eating a

00:41:40.500 Snickers bar, even with a mask on, that there's a very good chance that I'll die. If I was that

00:41:47.660 worried about it, I probably would just stay home. I don't think I would leave my house at all.

00:41:53.260 The people walking down the road with a mask on, they think that, that simply

00:41:56.420 walking alone outside without a mask, they might die. That COVID might drift over on the wind

00:42:03.600 and make it into their nostrils and kill them. And again, if I thought that, I, I just wouldn't

00:42:12.020 leave the house at all. Yet they, they, they still leave and they want to participate in society and

00:42:20.540 do all these normal things. And yet they get angry at other people who are trying to live their normal

00:42:26.400 life. So it's all kinds of confused. It doesn't make any sense at all. All right. Let's, um,

00:42:33.140 let's say one other thing here, let's get away from the politics. This is also important for the

00:42:36.840 New York post. It says a Russian MMA fighter dubbed Popeye because of his massive biceps has been warned.

00:42:42.300 There he is there. Look at that. It has been warned that he might die if he doesn't get the lumps of

00:42:48.440 petroleum jelly removed soon. So this guy, his name is Kirill Terashin, 25, former soldier. Um,

00:42:55.560 he injected petroleum jelly into his arms and, uh, made those biceps. And now he has to get the lumps

00:43:02.480 of petroleum jelly taken out of his arms or he might die. And I don't know. It's just a really sad

00:43:08.040 story. I'll tell you what makes it sad. Um, the fact that this man has been pressured into conversion

00:43:15.440 therapy like this, you know, I mean, he identifies as a big muscle person. That's how he identifies.

00:43:20.460 He identifies as Popeye, a big muscle person, a BMP, we call them. That's his truth that he's trying

00:43:26.480 to live. And yet he's being told that he has to go through this medical deconversion. I find it very

00:43:33.300 upsetting personally. Let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments. This is, uh, from someone who

00:43:37.880 says, Matt, if you want to watch a good movie with your wife, then watch The Courier. It's great.

00:43:42.860 You can ban me if you don't like it. Uh, I did actually watch that one and, uh, that's the

00:43:48.240 Benedict Cumberbatch one, right? And yeah, that was, that was pretty good. I don't know

00:43:52.940 if I'd call it great. Oh, wait, we've got, oh, we forgot to play the song. Let's play the

00:43:57.120 song. Go ahead. Play it.

00:43:59.880 This theocratic house's dictatorship is on its way. Daily cancellations are the law and order

00:44:06.600 of the day. Okay, good. I can't believe I, I, I forgot that I was going to, I was going

00:44:17.860 to pass right over the Sweet Baby Gang anthem. I should be canceled for that. Anyway, The Courier

00:44:22.700 is a good movie. It's, I wouldn't call it a great movie though. I haven't seen, um, I

00:44:28.760 don't think a really great movie has been made in several years. I can't remember the

00:44:32.540 last movie I've, I've seen that was made over the last two or three years that was, that

00:44:39.760 would, that truly qualifies as great. And, you know, one thing about what makes it a great

00:44:45.640 movie is that it's great movies are, are rare by definition. That's why they're great. But,

00:44:50.960 uh, even so it's been quite a drought. I've seen a lot of, uh, I've seen, I've seen several

00:44:58.300 B plus B minus movies. There've been a lot of D's, a lot of C's, D's and E's. I haven't

00:45:05.200 seen a great one. Uh, let's see. Another one says, Matt, when the commenter said the

00:45:11.280 divorce of the USA would be the kid's fault, he was comparing it to the founding fathers.

00:45:16.240 Everyone alive today in America would be the kids in this analogy. Oh, that would make sense.

00:45:21.760 You're right. That would make more sense than how I interpreted it. Now I feel stupid.

00:45:25.000 And for making me feel stupid, you are banned from the show. The real Bridget says, 1.00

00:45:31.600 you said the mask, that masking kids, uh, the masking, the kid, the kid video gave you

00:45:36.880 ungodly rage. I think the term you're searching for is godly rage. I think you're probably right

00:45:41.320 about that. Um, Matt two says, what's the biggest small mouth you ever caught? I don't know. I don't,

00:45:49.040 I don't fish for a lot of small. It's usually large mouth. And the biggest large mouth I've

00:45:52.820 caught is, uh, seven, eight pounds. I've never gotten up into the double digits. Small mouth.

00:45:59.640 I don't know. Not, not very large. Three pounds. Maybe, um, live cruelty free now says just when

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00:46:18.940 come off as macho or overtly masculine? Think it's so cool or impressive to act totally indifferent

00:46:23.980 and flippant about animals? Hint. It's just, it just comes off as juvenile and insensitive. Well,

00:46:28.940 you seem to be under the impression that I'm joking about the panda thing, but I don't tell jokes,

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00:48:56.140 So, you know, my oldest kids, the twins, are eight years old. And more and more, I'm noticing

00:49:01.380 something about them that seems increasingly unique among their peers, but shouldn't be.

00:49:06.980 And that is that my eight-year-olds act like eight-year-olds. They are naive and innocent and

00:49:12.880 energetic. They like to play imaginative games. They like to run around outside. They love books.

00:49:16.940 My son especially loves Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. And, you know, he loves those characters.

00:49:21.740 He'll run around the yard in overalls and bare feet, pretending that he's on some great adventure.

00:49:26.340 A little while ago, all the kids built a raft out of logs so that they could float down the

00:49:30.840 Mississippi River, even though we don't live anywhere near the Mississippi River. But still,

00:49:34.700 they wanted to build the raft. My daughter plays with dolls still. She likes to dress up in

00:49:39.680 costume. She likes to sew and make different kinds of crafts. Last week, she made herself a dress 1.00

00:49:44.600 out of an old blanket. Actually, it might have been a new blanket that my wife had just bought,

00:49:48.560 and she cut it up and made it into a dress, but that was fine. Now, none of this information is

00:49:53.480 terribly fascinating or special. I mean, they're just kids being kids, right? Very gender stereotypical 1.00

00:49:59.020 kids, too, which I know makes me an extremely unenlightened parent, and I'm fine with that.

00:50:03.480 But I've noticed that a lot of kids their age, not all certainly, but a lot, aren't like this.

00:50:10.220 Many kids these days at eight and nine years old don't have the same kind of energy or creative

00:50:17.020 drive or the desire to run around outside all day. This isn't just my own anecdotal observation,

00:50:22.680 either. Lots of research has shown that many kids today aren't playing the way we did when we were

00:50:26.800 kids. They aren't running around outside. They're not reading books. They're not playing physical or

00:50:31.020 imaginative games. And there are many societal factors which may help explain this shift. But the

00:50:36.360 biggest one, without question, is that many kids today are living out their childhoods inside a

00:50:42.960 digital world. The single greatest factor that explains why my kids seem a bit different from

00:50:48.480 some of their peers is that my kids don't play video games. They don't have phones. They don't

00:50:53.600 use the internet. We're not living off the grid in the forest either, though I kind of wish we were.

00:50:58.300 I mean, nothing wrong with living that way. We're living a pretty normal life, for better or worse,

00:51:02.260 except that our kids don't have video games and they don't use the internet. There are plenty of

00:51:06.720 parenting decisions that I have made that I later questioned or second guess, but this is definitely

00:51:10.580 not one of them. My wife and I decided early on that we would force our kids to have a real

00:51:16.660 childhood. We're not going to give them a choice in the matter. You can't give a kid a choice in this

00:51:22.100 because if you give them a choice, they're going to choose the TV and the internet and everything

00:51:25.360 else. I mean, every kid's going to choose that if you let them choose. So for us, there is no choice.

00:51:32.260 A childhood full of imagination and physical play and scraped knees and all the rest of it. That's

00:51:36.600 what they're going to have. And so far, they've had that kind of childhood because we're keeping

00:51:40.520 them away from every screen except the one single TV we own, which is in our living room and which

00:51:45.060 they're allowed to watch for limited periods of time. And of course, only shows that we

00:51:49.760 approve of ahead of time. I thought about this today when I read a report revealing how Facebook,

00:51:55.820 which owns Instagram, has for a long time been aware that Instagram is harmful to kids,

00:52:00.380 especially girls. The tech giant apparently conducted its own research into the effects 0.96

00:52:04.600 of social media on the developing minds of kids, and they found that the effects are rather dire.

00:52:09.300 Social media, the focus was on Instagram, but this holds true across the spectrum.

00:52:13.140 Social media for kids causes anxiety, depression, body image issues, lower life satisfaction,

00:52:18.820 and so on and so on and so on. Makes kids lonelier. Makes them more depressed. It makes them

00:52:25.440 unhappier. Now, Facebook knows this, and this is the research they did. Again, that's not the only

00:52:31.220 research on this topic. This has been studied again and again and again and again, and almost

00:52:38.440 all the research you'll read will tell you this. And Facebook knows it, but they swept its own

00:52:43.620 findings, their own findings under the rug, which has drawn comparisons to the big tobacco companies

00:52:48.100 that discovered a link between smoking and cancer decades ago and didn't tell anybody about it.

00:52:52.240 And I think the comparison is apt, though, if anything, it undersells the problem.

00:52:56.420 This is going to sound extreme, and maybe it is, but I would rather my kids smoke cigarettes

00:53:00.780 than spend all day on the internet. Because the damage done by the latter is that deep and that

00:53:07.300 profound. Our kids are being fundamentally changed. They're being turned into different sorts of people,

00:53:15.120 worse sorts of people, because of their overexposure to screens. They're not learning how to be authentic

00:53:20.940 people or how to live an authentic human life. Many kids today simply do not know how to find joy or

00:53:27.760 happiness or fulfillment outside of the screen, though they can't really find it inside the screen

00:53:32.320 either, so they just don't have it at all. And that's why when I hear about what Facebook has

00:53:37.780 done to cover up the damage its own product does to the people who use it, I don't blame Facebook

00:53:42.880 primarily. I mean, they obviously deserve 100% of the blame for the things that they're doing,

00:53:47.700 but there's another 100% portion that can be assigned to parents. Look, I understand that at

00:53:54.280 a certain age, it might be difficult to keep your kids away from the internet. It's different when a

00:53:59.520 kid is 16 or 17. But parents today are giving their six, seven, eight-year-olds phones with internet

00:54:07.360 access. That's what parents are deciding to do. And they can't use the excuse of, well, I want my kid

00:54:14.300 to have a phone in case he needs me in case of an emergency. Even that is pretty extreme. Like the

00:54:19.980 idea that your kid needs to have this constant connection with you all of the time. No kids in

00:54:27.500 history had that. I didn't have that when I was a kid. I didn't have a phone where I could call my

00:54:32.860 parents at the drop of a dime. And, you know, I survived. It was okay. But if you do want that for

00:54:39.300 your kid, you can buy them a phone that doesn't do anything but make a phone call. And you can make

00:54:46.360 it so that it only can call two numbers, you know, your house phone and your cell phone, if you

00:54:51.640 actually still have a house phone or whatever. I mean, you can decide. So you can give your kid a

00:54:55.280 phone like that. That's one thing. But there are parents who say, you know what? No, no, no. I'm going

00:55:00.500 to give my kid, my eight-year-old, a phone with full and complete internet access. And I'm going

00:55:07.500 to let them have it all the time. It just blows my mind. Do you know how you can keep your seven-year-old

00:55:18.660 off the phone? Here's how you do it. Real easy. Don't give him one. It really is that easy for a

00:55:28.140 seven-year-old. For a 17-year-old, it's different. For a seven-year-old, that's all you got to do.

00:55:33.140 Because they can't have anything if you don't buy it for them.

00:55:38.120 How does your child, your young child, benefit from having the internet in his pocket 24 hours a day?

00:55:43.460 What are the advantages? I mean, make a chart and list them. List all of the advantages to your

00:55:49.300 seven or eight-year-old having 24-hour access to the internet. You know, in what ways is his life and

00:55:54.940 existence enhanced by spending almost all of it online? And go ahead and write all those

00:56:00.560 advantages down. Now go to the other side. List the negatives. In what ways can he be harmed?

00:56:08.300 What are the downsides? And then when you look back at the chart, which column has more bullet points?

00:56:15.540 And it must be the negative column because I can't actually think of one single genuine advantage

00:56:20.600 to an elementary schooler having a smartphone. And yet millions of parents make this choice for

00:56:27.260 their children. And then they blame the social media companies for the harm that they, the parents,

00:56:33.900 have intentionally exposed their children to. Maybe think of it this way. Imagine a parent

00:56:41.680 who keeps their kid away from the screens, doesn't give them a phone, doesn't let them spend five hours

00:56:47.380 a day playing video games and so on. Now imagine that parent sitting at the child's high school

00:56:53.740 graduation. Do you think that he, sitting there in the stands, is going to look back on his son's

00:56:59.520 childhood, reflecting, nostalgic, and say, man, I wish I'd let him spend more time staring at screens.

00:57:07.700 Do you think any parent who makes that choice will have that regret? We all know the answer.

00:57:14.160 And we all also know that many parents will regret and already have regretted allowing the internet

00:57:20.440 and the media and video games and everything else to consume their children, shape them, mutate them,

00:57:26.180 dominate their lives. And that is why today it is not social media that I'm canceling. It's not Facebook,

00:57:33.380 but parents who allow their kids to use social media in the first place. They're the ones who are

00:57:38.360 canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 21, 2021

Ep. 801 - The Media Spins Its Most Absurd False Narrative Yet

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