The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 826 - A Country That Values Puppies Over People

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Dr. Fauci is coming under fire from both the left and the right.

00:00:04.420 And what is it that has finally made the public turn on him? The answer to that question tells

00:00:08.400 us quite a bit about our culture and its priorities. Also, a Virginia court rules that a girl was in 1.00

00:00:12.880 fact raped inside a bathroom in a Loudoun County school, but the media still isn't ready to accept

00:00:17.360 the story fully. In fact, they're now engaging in what in any other circumstance would be called

00:00:20.880 victim blaming. And a GOP Senate candidate says that he doesn't believe in the separation of

00:00:25.900 church and state. He's getting criticism for that, but he has a point. Plus, the Republican candidate

00:00:29.720 for governor of Virginia is surging in the polls after leaning into cultural and social issues.

00:00:36.040 Might the Republican Party finally learn a valuable lesson from that? We'll talk about all that and

00:00:40.760 more on the Matt Wall Show. It was revealed some months ago that the National Institute of Allergy

00:00:55.000 and Infectious Disease, under the leadership of Anthony Fauci, spent hundreds of thousands of

00:00:59.400 dollars funding experiments in which aborted babies at 20 weeks gestation were chopped into pieces

00:01:05.060 and little bits of them were then grafted onto rodents to create, as it is described by the researchers,

00:01:11.240 humanized mice. This really happened. The mice with baby scalps attached to them were monitored for weeks

00:01:17.940 in an effort to learn more about infectious diseases and cancer and whatever else. Now, there's a very good

00:01:23.820 chance that you never heard about those experiments at all. But whether you did or didn't, it can be said

00:01:29.880 that there was little public outcry over it. There was no public outcry. There was certainly no bipartisan

00:01:34.520 outrage about it. Just as there's been no bipartisan outrage, there's been outrage, but no bipartisan outrage

00:01:42.100 over the fact that Fauci's NIH funded virus research in Wuhan, something that the National Institute of Health

00:01:47.540 finally admitted this week after months of denial from Fauci personally in front of Congress in many

00:01:54.180 sessions, arguing back and forth with Rand Paul, saying this didn't happen. Now they admit that it did.

00:02:01.400 That's to say nothing of Fauci's incompetence, indifference, and political gamesmanship during the

00:02:05.820 pandemic, the pandemic that his institution may partially be responsible for in the first place.

00:02:11.040 I mean, overall, Fauci has shown an utterly callous disregard for human life and human suffering.

00:02:16.380 He has special contempt for life at its most vulnerable stages in the womb, which is also why

00:02:22.180 he went running to the World Health Organization a day after Biden's inauguration to triumphantly

00:02:27.120 announce that the Mexico City policy banning funding of abortion overseas would be lifted. I mean,

00:02:32.200 he couldn't wait for that to happen. This is the kind of man that Fauci is, a soulless bureaucrat,

00:02:38.480 a shill who feels no guilt for the blood on his hands. And there's a substantial amount of

00:02:43.840 human blood on his hands. But in spite of the moral crimes I just listed, and perhaps partially

00:02:49.600 because of them, Fauci has been, as you've noticed, not only let off the hook, but hailed

00:02:54.680 as a hero, much like Andrew Cuomo was in the early months of the pandemic. You recall that Cuomo was so

00:03:00.280 widely acclaimed that people on the left were proudly declaring themselves Cuomo-sexual, even as the

00:03:06.400 then governor consigned thousands of elderly people to their deaths by locking them in nursing homes

00:03:10.560 with COVID-positive patients. That didn't hurt his reputation at all, until it came out that Cuomo,

00:03:16.380 along with being a serial killer of the elderly, also made inappropriate comments to women.

00:03:22.060 You know, the mass graves of grandmas and grandpas, those were tolerable, but flirtatious remarks to

00:03:27.560 women were not. And so Cuomo was summarily knocked off of his perch and then right out of the governor's

00:03:33.520 mansion. Perhaps Fauci may face a similar fate as this week for the first time in his career.

00:03:38.900 He's been the target of negative headlines in the corporate media, and we're told bipartisan

00:03:44.120 outrage, not because little babies were chopped into pieces and stitched onto rats, not because

00:03:49.800 the NIH funded research in Wuhan, not because of the thousands dead due to incompetence and malice

00:03:55.020 from our public health expert class, including Fauci, but because some dogs were mistreated.

00:04:01.960 Here's our local Fox 17 in Nashville with the story. It says a Tennessee congressman is among

00:04:08.540 23 other federal lawmakers, bipartisan group, to sign a letter calling on Dr. Anthony Fauci and the

00:04:14.020 National Institutes of Health to respond to reports on the testing and killing of puppies in the name of

00:04:18.440 science. The issue centers around a report from the Animal Advocacy Group and taxpayer watchdog

00:04:23.960 White Coat Waste Project, which has previously reported on puppy testing, specifically beagles.

00:04:29.120 WCWP reports this is the fourth time they've uncovered inhumane practices on beagle puppies

00:04:35.600 funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a part of the NIH, which

00:04:40.180 Dr. Fauci heads. The report states that the NIAID spent $1.6 million in taxpayer funds to poison and

00:04:48.560 debark 44 beagle puppies, force feeding the puppies, an experimental drug, cutting their vocal cords,

00:04:54.700 and then killing and then dissecting them. The cutting of the vocal cords known as debarking

00:04:59.260 is opposed by the Humane Society of the United States and the American Veterinary Medical

00:05:03.180 Association, or a procedure that the WCWP calls a pain, painful and cruel, adding that their fundings

00:05:10.420 were a result of a freedom of their findings, rather a result of a Freedom of Information Act

00:05:14.480 request, saying the studies on beagles were unnecessary as the drug being studied had already

00:05:19.200 been extensively tested and confirmed on different animals. Okay, and PETA has, of course, come out

00:05:24.980 strongly, as expected as well. Even though PETA kills dogs all the time, so they shouldn't have an issue

00:05:30.620 here. As mentioned, the lawmakers demanding answers from Fauci are bipartisan, marking the first time

00:05:36.140 that the phrase bipartisan lawmakers and demand answers from Fauci can be used in a sentence together.

00:05:41.800 In another first, there have been actual critical headlines about Fauci in mainstream

00:05:46.540 news sites. And the criticism is warranted, of course. It sounds like the beagle experiments were

00:05:53.480 unnecessary and cruel, even if the ultimate goal was to develop medical treatments that might benefit

00:05:58.920 human beings. I mean, I would rather, if you got to test this stuff, I'd rather it be tested on animals,

00:06:04.360 not people. But even so, sounds like it was a very cruel and terrible experiment.

00:06:11.800 And yet, dogs are not people. Puppies are not babies. Not human babies, anyway. There is nothing

00:06:21.540 you could do to a puppy that would be worse than scalping an infant, which is what they did in those

00:06:28.600 other experiments that nobody cared about. They scalped infants. Now, I am welcoming of any warranted 0.93

00:06:37.480 criticism that Fauci receives. And if this is ultimately the thing that leads to him to resign

00:06:42.560 in disgrace, much like Cuomo, I don't know if that'll happen or not. But if it does, I'll be happy to see

00:06:48.480 him go. But at a certain point, we have to stand back and assess our priorities and figure out how we

00:06:55.800 ended up in a culture where tortured puppies attract more outrage than tortured babies. 1.00

00:07:00.800 I mean, this isn't, this is not a what about thing. It's not a what about isn't because I'm not trying

00:07:09.140 to change the subject from, from, uh, from these experiments. What I'm trying to do is talk about

00:07:18.560 priorities. And the fact that we, and I speak in general terms when I say we value the lives of dogs

00:07:26.000 over the lives of our fellow human beings, we practice the weirdest form of pagan animal worship 0.81

00:07:32.600 in this country that the world has ever seen. It's not based in mythology like other cultures,

00:07:38.200 unless we count all the anthropomorphizing Disney movies that we grew up watching. And I do think

00:07:42.760 actually that has something to do with it. Um, and there are no standard religious practices

00:07:48.340 surrounding it. We've come to our animal worship, not from a position of religious fervor necessarily,

00:07:54.080 but more from a place of despair and indifference. We don't recognize the inherent worth and dignity

00:08:01.720 in human beings anymore. So we've elevated dogs to take that place instead. This is something so

00:08:09.600 pervasive that you hear it even from conservatives. This, unfortunately, I wish I could say this is a

00:08:16.980 left versus right. This is another left versus right, um, uh, paradigm here, but it's not.

00:08:21.960 I hear from self-professed conservatives all the time saying, in fact, proudly saying, openly saying,

00:08:29.280 yeah, I, I, I, I, I value dogs more than people. I care about my dog more than I care about most

00:08:34.240 people. This is, and you're a conservative saying that you value human life below dogs. And you think

00:08:44.120 that, that you can qualify as a conservative. What exactly do you think you're conserving here?

00:08:48.320 I thought one of the most fundamental things we're conserving is the dignity and moral worth of human

00:08:53.440 life. And if you're putting dogs above people, then you're not conserving that. And you're not on

00:09:00.680 my side. I don't know whose side you think you're on. And this is something we don't want to talk

00:09:08.260 about. This is something nobody wants to talk about. I mean, I've been talking about it for, for years.

00:09:12.700 There is something, and I know it's difficult for a lot of people

00:09:19.280 because our, because of our attachment to dogs. And no one is saying that we shouldn't have pet dogs

00:09:26.520 as pets, or we shouldn't care about our dogs. But if you notice something within yourself where you

00:09:31.780 value the lives of dogs over people, then that is a deep sickness in your soul that you need to try to

00:09:40.340 fix. Because this, this, this, we cannot have a society like this, where this even needs to be a

00:09:50.380 discussion, where it can come out that they were chopping babies into pieces and nobody cares until

00:09:59.580 they say, oh yeah, they, they also did it to dogs. Our priorities are massively out of a line

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00:11:23.620 And, you know, there's just one other note on the dog thing.

00:11:32.540 There is the other thing about it, the other factor here that plays into it. I think there is

00:11:38.920 the fact that a lot of people value dog life over human life. That's the big story here.

00:11:43.960 Um, but also because we tend to be pretty shallow and, and, um, and, uh, we, we have difficulty

00:11:52.420 following stories that are a little bit more complicated when there's an image attached to

00:11:58.460 the story, it's going to get a lot more attention. It shouldn't be that way. You know, you shouldn't

00:12:04.040 need the image. You shouldn't need the photograph. If someone tells you that something happened and you

00:12:08.400 know that it happened, that it's true that it happened, like the experiments they did with, um,

00:12:12.940 quote unquote fetal tissue. There's, there's no denying that that happened. It's just, we don't

00:12:16.420 have any images of it with the, with the dog experiments. There is one image of the dogs with

00:12:22.980 their heads in the, in the glass boxes where they're being eaten alive by sand fleas, I guess.

00:12:27.980 And there's an image of that. And so that, that is another factor that plays into it,

00:12:32.720 but that doesn't justify the discrepancy.

00:12:35.840 That also speaks to our shallowness, um, as, as people.

00:12:44.820 All right. Let's, uh, move on to another issue that we, we, that we should all care about.

00:12:51.560 And at least most of us on the, on most of us seem to care about, at least on the right. Anyway,

00:12:55.280 this should be another thing that's bipartisan from the daily wire. It says a Virginia court ruled

00:12:59.200 Monday that there is enough evidence to find that a teen accused of sexually assaulting a fellow

00:13:04.020 student allowed in County high school bathroom in May engaged in non-consensual sex, i.e. it was a

00:13:09.720 rape. The daily wire broke the story of the sexual assault in Lowne County last month, uh, bringing to

00:13:14.920 light two alleged rapes at two separate schools, one of which involves Scott Smith's daughter.

00:13:18.600 Smith was later arrested at a Lowne County school board meeting. So we know about that. The teen who

00:13:22.700 appeared in court on Monday is standing trial on two separate cases. So we have, we finally have an

00:13:29.060 official confirmation of that as well, because we heard about the second rape and it wasn't officially

00:13:32.380 confirmed that it was by the same student, but now that's official as well. Um, one involving a

00:13:38.080 student at Stonebridge high school and a different incident in a classroom at Broad Run high school,

00:13:42.500 both in the Lowne County school district. So there was a girl raped in a bathroom and then that the 1.00

00:13:50.940 rapist is sent to a different school where he then rapes a student, a fellow student in a classroom

00:13:57.520 this time. The teen who reportedly identifies as gender fluid is alleged to have assaulted Scott, 0.99

00:14:02.940 Scott Smith's daughter in a girl's restroom at Stonebridge while wearing a skirt. Um, despite

00:14:09.640 indications that he had committed a serious crime, the boy was, was then transferred. So this is,

00:14:15.140 this is confirmation. The rape did occur. Um, we know that the coverup happened too. We have absolute

00:14:22.040 confirmation of that. We know that it happened because we have the Lowne County school board

00:14:27.440 on record. We have the superintendent on record saying that they had no information of any assaults

00:14:33.340 happening in bathrooms. When we know that they did, we know that they were told about it. So we know

00:14:39.000 they lied. There was absolutely a coverup. No question about it. We don't have to say alleged.

00:14:43.700 We don't have to say alleged about the rape either. Now these are things that happened.

00:14:47.800 So what's the media going to do? Um, they've tried ignoring this. They can't fully ignore it

00:14:54.040 because we have, we have forced them to acknowledge it. And so now they are retreating to what in any

00:15:01.280 other circumstance they would call victim blaming. So here is Justin Juvenal, who's a reporter, um,

00:15:08.620 calls himself a justice reporter, ironically enough for the Washington post. And he, he posted,

00:15:14.000 he said, a teen testified. She met a classmate for consensual sex in the girl's bathroom of a

00:15:18.280 Loudoun County high school before, but in a May encounter, she was sexually assaulted. 0.99

00:15:23.980 New details in the case of the center of a firestorm. Now, even that detail that according to the

00:15:30.200 Washington post, this teen girl had a previous, um, had previous sexual encounters, previous consensual

00:15:38.760 sexual encounters with this boy. But in this case, it was not consensual. Now adding in that detail,

00:15:46.900 especially making it sort of a headline, uh, Justin here posted it on Twitter, making it kind of the

00:15:53.360 headline in any other circumstance that would be called victim blaming. And for good reason,

00:16:01.600 actually, because what, what, what difference does that make? What does it have to do with anything?

00:16:05.100 Because, because in the past she's, she'd had consensual encounters with this, you know, this,

00:16:13.180 what, 14 year old girl had had consensual 14 or 15 year old years old, had consensual encounters with

00:16:19.500 this boy. That means, what does that mean? It doesn't mean anything at all. The fact is she did not

00:16:24.500 consent in this case. And so that's right. But there is, given what's at stake here, as far as the left

00:16:33.400 and the media is concerned, you know, there's, there's, it's really two levels. First of all,

00:16:41.800 this is about assaults in public school and a public school coverup. Something that, as we've

00:16:48.780 talked about on this show is endemic in the public school system. There is a, there is a real sexual 1.00

00:16:54.000 assault epidemic, a crisis in the school system. And there has been for decades.

00:16:58.580 And before we ever injected any of the gender ideology aspects into any of these stories,

00:17:05.480 the media had no interest in talking about it because it's the public school system. And if

00:17:12.020 we're going to talk about epidemics of sexual assault, they much, you know, they're fine talking

00:17:16.960 about it in Hollywood, even though Hollywood is left wing, they certainly would, would like

00:17:21.500 talking about it in, in the Catholic church, but not in the public school system. So already

00:17:28.080 they're predisposed to ignore these cases. And then you add in the fact that this kid is

00:17:34.960 gender non-conforming. This happened in a bathroom at a time when the school board was pushing through

00:17:41.840 a policy to open up the bathrooms for boys and girls to share together. You add in that. And, um,

00:17:49.280 there is no level they won't to which they will not stoop

00:17:53.540 to include victim blaming. All right. Um, this is from CNBC as the media continues its war on

00:18:04.220 Facebook. It says the Facebook papers, a series of articles published by a consortium, uh, of 17

00:18:11.660 U S news outlets beginning Friday shed new light on the company's thinking behind its actions leading

00:18:16.420 up to the Capitol insurrection quote unquote on January 6th and its ability to fend off hate

00:18:21.220 speech and languages outside of English. Facebook shares vacillated between slightly negative and

00:18:26.080 slightly positive Monday after the news outlets published their stories based on the leaked

00:18:29.320 documents. So now we've got, uh, 17 outlets coming together to dump all the information that

00:18:34.900 they have, all, all of the dirty little secrets about Facebook. Um, CNN, in fact, had a segment

00:18:42.340 this morning about Facebook where they're talking about the quote unquote damning allegations. And

00:18:48.780 at a certain point they scroll a kind of star Wars scroll of all of the crimes and high crimes and

00:18:54.680 misdemeanors committed by Facebook. Let's, uh, let's watch that. The following are accusations,

00:19:00.540 revelations, or admissions of what Facebook and its branches are doing to the world told not in the

00:19:07.000 words of Facebook's outside critics, but critics from the inside that it is a platform for spreading

00:19:13.200 of hate speech, that it is ripe for abuse by those who wish to do harm, that it is a Petri dish for

00:19:20.520 poisonous misinformation, that it is open the floodgates to conspiracy theories that cost lives.

00:19:26.260 It's a safe haven for politicians to lie a marketplace for trafficking and for selling human 0.99

00:19:32.060 beings. And it's especially damaging to the self-esteem of young girls that have provided

00:19:37.140 some of the fuel for the capital insurrection and empowerment vehicle for extremists at home and

00:19:42.000 abroad and has a different standard for safety based on the country in which you live. And much

00:19:47.680 of this hasn't been or can't be stopped. Facebook has not or cannot sufficiently police itself.

00:19:55.280 Critics say misleading investors along the way. And perhaps most damning of all is that the company

00:20:00.720 is accused of knowing so much of this, but doing so little to stop it. Instead, whistleblowers show

00:20:06.800 Facebook has and continues to prioritize growth over safety and profit over people.

00:20:12.860 Uh, the thing that continues to be so funny about this Facebook story from the media is that

00:20:20.520 there is a scandal with Facebook and with big tech and all big social media sites,

00:20:26.780 which is the way that they censor and find ways to undermine and minimize and negate conservative

00:20:35.520 content. These are all of them intensely left leaning, uh, companies run entirely by people

00:20:45.240 on the far left. There is no one in any position of significant leadership at any of these companies

00:20:51.780 that could at all be described as right wing. They would have been, they would, they would have

00:20:55.680 been tossed out long ago. They never would have made it to that position in the first place.

00:21:02.060 So there, there's, there are real scandals. There are real things that could be uncovered,

00:21:05.760 but CNN and the new, and the Washington Post and New York times and the corporate media,

00:21:11.700 they have no interest in any of that. In fact, they're trying to make the opposite case about,

00:21:15.120 about, about, about, uh, Facebook and, and even Twitter now. Uh, there was a, there was a story

00:21:21.860 from one of these corporate media outlets about how on Twitter, big scandal turns out that there are

00:21:27.580 some right wing accounts on Twitter that get more engagement than left wing accounts. I mean,

00:21:34.420 they're actually trying to claim, actually trying to claim that there is a pro right wing bias,

00:21:40.600 uh, on Facebook and, and, and on Twitter. But that's, again, always staying on, on the offense.

00:21:50.220 No, they're not going to be on defense and defend themselves or, or, you know, defend Facebook and

00:21:58.140 Twitter from claims of, of, uh, of anti-right bias or pro. No, they're going to go all the way to the

00:22:04.300 other, other end and say, no, actually these, these sites are, are pro right wing.

00:22:11.140 That's how you're getting so much engagement. Yeah. There are accounts on Facebook and Twitter

00:22:17.100 that get a lot of engagement and are on the right, but that is in spite of everything these companies

00:22:22.500 have done to minimize us. Why do we still get that engagement? Well, maybe because our content

00:22:29.380 is engaging because people are interested in it. So they don't, but they don't want to talk about

00:22:37.540 that. That's the, that's the one real scandal. They can't talk about it. So they're grasping

00:22:41.200 at straws to find something else. And, uh, there's just nothing there. I mean, I've read through

00:22:49.380 yet 17 corporate media outlets releasing this major report about all the things they've discovered

00:22:56.580 about Facebook, just like the Facebook whistleblower testifying in front of Congress. I've listened to

00:23:02.180 all of that. I've read all the reports and there's this, there's simply nothing.

00:23:10.560 The headline is just that, uh, is Facebook values profits. Whoa. I had no idea. And also,

00:23:18.040 also that it's not particularly good for people, no matter where you fall on the political spectrum

00:23:22.660 to spend a lot of time on social media. And that's especially true for our kids.

00:23:26.400 Another, another stunning revelation. But outside of that, they, they, there's really, 0.98

00:23:34.280 there's, they've, they have dug up nothing. They've been digging and digging and they've dug

00:23:39.000 up nothing because what they could be digging up is over there. It's the other side of the field,

00:23:43.500 but they're, they're digging holes over here where, where the, uh, skeletons aren't buried.

00:23:48.180 All right. Here's a tweet from Ora Bogato, media person in reaction to Alec Baldwin's statement

00:23:55.000 about the shooting where, um, you know, he released a statement about, uh, the shooting

00:24:02.300 on the, on the set of his film. And he calls the victim a wife, mother, and colleague, which

00:24:07.720 is what she was. Ora Bogato says, Halyuna Hutchins was a person in and of herself. She was a

00:24:15.120 cinematographer. She was a professional for men, women, uh, for men, women continue to exist

00:24:20.500 only in reference to men. It's patriarchal, it's violent. And in this particular case,

00:24:26.560 it feels especially disgusting. So for Ora Bogato, this is what she's upset at Alec Baldwin

00:24:32.900 for, not for shooting the poor woman and killing her, but for after the fact, describing her as a

00:24:39.240 wife. This is patriarchal apparently. Meanwhile, you know, the, the funny thing is she said, well,

00:24:47.440 don't, don't describe her as a wife, um, describe her as a professional, describe her as a, you know,

00:24:52.600 a cinematographer, cinematographer, but that also, if you describe people in terms of what

00:25:00.460 they do for a living, you're still describing them based on their relationship to other people.

00:25:08.680 And that's how, that's how we are all defined. That's how we all define ourselves.

00:25:12.560 None of us define ourselves in a vacuum. We define ourselves by our relationship with and to other

00:25:20.860 people. And for almost everyone, fundamentally, the relationships that matter, most of them, it's,

00:25:28.700 it's not at work. It's not their profession. It's their family, their spouses, their kids.

00:25:34.100 Um, but for feminists, they, they find this very upsetting, even though it's, it's, it is fundamental 1.00

00:25:44.400 and basic to human nature. You really, you can't describe anyone in a, in a vacuum. I mean, try,

00:25:50.260 try doing that. Try, try describing someone in a meaningful way without making any reference to

00:25:55.640 their relationships to other people. Impossible to do. Uh, next we have Josh Mandel. He's a Senate

00:26:01.540 candidate in Ohio and he caused a little bit of a stir online. He was trending online for a while

00:26:05.960 because of what he said about the separation of church and state. Let's play that first.

00:26:11.860 Left, the fake news media, the Uniparty in Washington, they're trying to take God out of

00:26:19.200 all aspects of society. And they're trying to water down on the Judeo-Christian bedrock of America.

00:26:26.800 And my personal feeling is we shouldn't be watering down. We should be doubling down. We should be

00:26:34.000 instilling faith in the classroom, in the workplace, and everywhere in society. The secular left, the ACLU,

00:26:44.400 the Southern Poverty Law Center, a lot of these Soros funded organizations, uh, they, they advance

00:26:50.920 the argument that the separation of church and state exists. And for that reason, you can't teach

00:26:57.780 kids about religion. My personal feeling is there's no such thing as separation of church and state.

00:27:06.800 The framers of the constitution envisioned a country where in the classroom, kids would learn

00:27:12.760 about God, that in the classroom, kids would learn about good versus evil. And that Judeo-Christian 1.00

00:27:19.420 ethic separates itself from Islam and atheism and all these other belief sets on so many levels. But

00:27:26.240 one of the main levels is our acknowledgement of good versus evil. Uh, yeah, of course, there's

00:27:33.120 nothing you can do that's more, uh, short to cause outrage these days than to, than to speak basic

00:27:37.820 comments. That's everything you said there was basic comments and also historically accurate. Of course,

00:27:41.660 the separation of church and state, uh, should, it should be, it should be widely known and understood.

00:27:47.400 The separation of church and state is not in the constitution. That was in a letter

00:27:50.240 written by Thomas Jefferson. And in fact, um, and, and usually letters written by political figures

00:27:57.600 don't carry any kind of legal weight. At least they shouldn't. But his concern in the letter was not

00:28:04.640 with religion's effect on government, but with government effects, government's effect on religion.

00:28:09.320 And that's why he was talking about the need for a separation of church and state, but he's

00:28:14.000 correct in the clip there that you can't really, no matter what the Supreme court says, no matter what

00:28:19.820 we claim, you can't actually separate, uh, church and state in that way, especially not in a classroom,

00:28:28.060 especially not in an educational context. Because a person's religious views, you know, if they're,

00:28:36.520 if they're in charge of education, if they're in charge of teaching, their religious views are

00:28:41.860 always going to come through. There's always going to be a value system attached to the education.

00:28:51.460 Not, not simply attached like some sort of accessory, but the education is going to come

00:28:56.340 in the context of a value system. That's always going to be true. There's no way of getting around

00:29:03.840 that, which is why I'm always saying, you know, we can't, it's easy to talk about how we don't want

00:29:09.300 our kids to be indoctrinated, but that's not actually the issue here. The issue is not that

00:29:16.160 our kids are being indoctrinated period. It's the way that they're being indoctrinated and who's doing

00:29:22.340 the indoctrination and what they're being indoctrinated into. But indoctrination simply means

00:29:29.140 instilling values. It means passing on a belief system, a worldview, which is as parents, of course

00:29:37.480 we want to do that with our kids. So yes, I want to indoctrinate my kids. All parents do, whether

00:29:41.980 they use the word or not. And that's going to be the case in the school system, no matter what.

00:29:49.200 And yes, right now in the school system, it is very much a religious environment.

00:29:58.040 When I was at the Nashville public school board meeting talking about masks, there were religious 0.96

00:30:07.100 icons all plastered all over the room. People were wearing them, except the religious icon,

00:30:14.600 they weren't crucifixes. It was gay pride flags. That for the left is a religious icon. It's part

00:30:22.220 of their religion, whether they call it that or not. Critical race theory, gender ideology, all of

00:30:28.220 this. These are not just religious views. These are intensely religious views. Gender ideology.

00:30:36.780 There's nothing else you can call that. I mean, the belief that a boy or a man can somehow, in some

00:30:47.840 mysterious and mystical way, can really be a woman. You know, you can have the essence of a woman 1.00

00:30:53.140 trapped inside him. This doesn't make any sense on any level. But if you want to even begin to make

00:30:59.560 sense of it, you have to engage with it on a spiritual level. This is a spiritual, religious

00:31:06.260 claim. So all of that is true. You're going to have that in the classroom, no matter what.

00:31:12.000 It's just a matter of what the value systems are, what the religious views are.

00:31:15.980 Now, with all that said, would I actually want public school teachers to be teaching the Christian 0.99

00:31:30.240 religion? Well, the answer there is no, because I wouldn't trust them to do it. 1.00

00:31:37.340 I say the same thing with sex ed. But there's always the argument about, do we want, should it be

00:31:44.920 so-called comprehensive sex ed or should it be abstinence first sex ed? And usually conservatives

00:31:52.560 say, oh, no, I want teachers teaching abstinence. Yeah, that's better than the so-called comprehensive

00:31:57.880 sex ed. But I don't really want that either because I don't trust the teachers to do that correctly.

00:32:03.040 I don't trust them to impart, you know, to kind of make the moral case for saving yourself for

00:32:11.760 marriage. I don't trust them to do that. That's a very important and delicate message. And I

00:32:17.600 wouldn't trust government employees with it. So all this goes back to homeschool. That's really

00:32:25.180 the answer. All right. Let's see. I also wanted to mention this. This is from Bloomberg. It says,

00:32:29.980 a Virginia museum is proposing to melt down a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that was

00:32:34.740 the focus of a violent white nationalist rally in 2017 in Charlottesville and create a new work of

00:32:40.340 public art. The Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center submitted its proposal last week

00:32:45.580 to Charlottesville City Council and city manager. It outlines a plan to create the new work of art

00:32:49.820 through a community engagement process and then give it to the city to be installed on public land.

00:32:55.220 So you see the progression here. First, it was, OK, we just want to take down a few Confederate 0.71

00:33:00.660 statues. And then it was, OK, I actually want to take all of them down, but that'll be it. That'll be

00:33:06.660 the end of it. We promise. And then it was actually, all right, we want to take down all

00:33:10.640 the Confederate statues and also Columbus. And he's coming down, too. But that'll be it.

00:33:15.480 And then it was, never mind. Yeah, we got to tear down the founders, too. Sorry. They

00:33:19.220 got to come down. Sorry, TJ. He's got to go down, too. But don't worry. It'll all go to a museum.

00:33:26.620 And then finally, now we're told, hey, funny story. The museum is going to melt down. The museums where

00:33:31.520 we said we're going to send all this up because it's not a war on history. We're just sending it to

00:33:34.560 a museum. That's all. But funny story. In fact, the museum is going to melt the statues down

00:33:39.400 and turn them into a sculpture of George Floyd riding a unicorn to heaven. And of course, at each

00:33:46.400 step along the way, idiots on the right have said, well, OK, as long as this is it.

00:33:56.460 The whole claim that they're going to take all these sculptures, which they say are hateful

00:34:04.180 and bigoted and they're going to respectfully store them and put them on display in a museum.

00:34:11.280 I mean, if you believe that, I don't know what to tell you. That was never going to be

00:34:15.240 the case. Most of these things they've taken down and said are going to museums, but some

00:34:20.640 of them have already been destroyed. Most of them are just in a warehouse somewhere and

00:34:24.580 will never see the light of day or will be destroyed.

00:34:26.940 And we talk about how this is a war on history, which it is.

00:34:34.160 But it's also important to point out that this is not only a war on history, it's part

00:34:41.360 of our culture's continued war on beauty. Because it's not irrelevant that many of the statues

00:34:50.340 that have been taken out, including this Robert E. Lee one. These are whatever you think

00:34:55.960 of the subject. These are beautiful works of art that were made by by real artists

00:35:02.520 decades and, you know, over a century ago in this case.

00:35:09.080 And we're destroying beautiful works of art.

00:35:14.380 To replace them with, you know, God knows what God knows what they're going to come up

00:35:18.540 with in place of that. All right. Finally, I'm afraid I have to play this as much as it

00:35:23.960 pains me. Ben Shapiro is back on the college circuit again, doing YAF events, which is

00:35:30.760 great. But during the Q&A event, one of our courageous brothers, one of our comrades from

00:35:37.660 the Sweet Baby Gang was generous enough. This was an act of generosity. And we in the Sweet

00:35:43.460 Baby Gang are very generous. And so he was generous enough to offer Ben an opportunity to pledge

00:35:48.960 his undying loyalty to the gang. And Ben was, I have to say, not gracious in his response.

00:35:55.860 Listen. One more question. Would I be able to get you right here, right now to pledge your

00:36:03.720 undying allegiance to Matt Walsh's Sweet Baby Gang?

00:36:10.880 No. Okay.

00:36:17.540 Reprehensible. Not even worthy of an explanation, says Ben. Let's be honest about what this is,

00:36:25.260 gang. Ben Shapiro has declared war on the Sweet Baby Gang. And because anyone who does

00:36:35.700 not swear fealty to the Sweet Baby Gang is our enemy. We all understand that. You're either

00:36:42.100 in the gang or you're not. And if you're not, then you're an enemy and an existential threat

00:36:46.860 to our existence. That's the side that Ben Shapiro has chosen. And he will rue the day.

00:36:52.800 Rue the day. Next time I see him here in the office, I'm going to, I'm not going to say

00:37:01.100 anything, but I will think. You have no idea the kinds of things I'll be thinking. Although

00:37:06.540 I do, when I listened to that clip, I did like the fact that he mentioned the Sweet Baby Gang

00:37:10.120 and the crowd, you know, I was kind of expecting the crowd, just there to be a confused silence

00:37:15.280 in the crowd. What? But no, the Sweet, this, this is the, this is how fast the Sweet Baby Gang

00:37:21.620 has grown. This is how our movement is growing. Everyone in that crowd knew exactly. They were

00:37:26.440 all members of the gang. All right. Let's, uh, speaking of which, let's read the comments.

00:37:32.360 Jay Maron says, I grew up without either parent and was subsequently raised by my grandparents,

00:37:55.800 whom I called mom and dad. Now that I'm married and have two boys of my own, I can attest that

00:37:59.860 everything Matt said about fathers and the parenting dynamic between the parents is absolutely

00:38:04.420 100% correct. Uh, yeah, I, this, that's because it's, we can all attest to that fact. Uh, whether

00:38:13.320 we had a father growing up, you know, if you, if you had an attentive father growing up, then

00:38:18.960 you know how valuable fathers are. And if you didn't, then you know even more how valuable

00:38:23.640 fathers are. Um, but at least temporarily the media finally discovered it yesterday.

00:38:29.860 As we talked about, um, uh, bad house media says, I do love how genuinely angry Matt gets

00:38:39.040 when he talks about what's happening to kids, his concern and real anger towards the left

00:38:43.320 is really inspiring. Well, I'm not the only one. I mean, this is, this is something that

00:38:47.860 I think, and we'll, I don't want to give it all away cause we're going to talk about this

00:38:51.720 in the daily cancellation, but this is something that, that does provoke and should provoke real

00:38:57.120 anger in, in, in all of us as parents. When we see what's happening to, to our kids. Jake

00:39:02.440 Williams says an astronaut with a sword is clearly a Jedi Matt. No, I mean, a Jedi is even more

00:39:10.480 useless than that. So I, I, I didn't watch star Wars as a kid. And if I, if I had watched

00:39:17.660 it, I would not have gone trick or treating as a Jedi. One of my many problems with star Wars

00:39:24.880 is that massive hole in the story of, you've got these, but first of all, this, this is happening.

00:39:31.960 Well, I guess it's happening long, long ago in a galaxy far away, but it's still, you know,

00:39:35.580 they, they have futuristic technology. Anyone, any old person like the, the, the star Wars equivalent

00:39:43.240 of a middle class, lower class person can buy a spaceship at a, at a secondhand store that,

00:39:50.240 that goes, that goes the speed of light. And then you've got Jedis who, who also on top

00:39:56.700 of it had magical powers and their weapon of choice is a laser sword. That has never

00:40:03.000 made any sense to me. Danny says Matt's parents only told him that the candy was poison so

00:40:08.460 that they could eat it. Why? That is something that I figured out only much, much later in

00:40:12.180 life that I figured that out. But I, I've realized that now. Ed Proctor says, dear God, Matt

00:40:19.100 has a view of what marriage is that dates back to the caveman. I feel sorry for his wife,

00:40:25.080 not to mention his poor kids. Yeah. I mean, I it's, it is, it's a caveman view. Well, how

00:40:31.920 dare I, how embarrassing and shameful of me that, you know, I have the same view of marriage

00:40:39.100 that almost every man in the country does, that we would like to share a name with our

00:40:45.520 wives. This is yet another example of something that, you know, I can say that provokes all 1.00

00:40:52.440 this outrage. Meanwhile, almost everyone agrees. Almost every man in America would strongly

00:41:00.580 prefer when they do get married, their wives share the names and they, and if they're not

00:41:04.840 married yet, they would strongly prefer it. And in fact, this is a, is a tradition that

00:41:13.440 goes back, I think about a thousand years. But Ed, if you want, if you want to say it

00:41:18.900 goes back all the way to caveman times, I'll take that too. That makes it an even more timeless

00:41:22.520 tradition, even more reason to respect it. Ryan says, this isn't the first time I've heard

00:41:29.320 you reference the crucible and I'm all, and I, for one, I'm all for it. Do you think with

00:41:33.340 the full lobby of the Sweet Baby Gang Daily Wire, I might look into the rights to stream

00:41:36.560 it? Yeah, I don't know about that, but I do think the crucible, you know, that to me is

00:41:39.940 sort of like my, the way that people reference 1984 all the time. Yeah, I guess I referenced

00:41:45.900 the crucible, especially in our cancel culture. I think that there are a lot of important parallels

00:41:52.340 to the crucible. And let's see, what else do we got here? Finally, Lightbrand says, I'm with

00:42:01.140 Matt on his excellent explanation of name and unity. Yet Matt's answer as to why we should keep

00:42:06.600 the man's name rather than the woman's is because it's tradition. I was hoping for a more profound

00:42:11.960 reason in going behind the merit of it all and why said tradition is correct. But after five minutes

00:42:16.800 of babble, it's still, it's tradition and we shouldn't change it without good reason

00:42:19.560 because our forefathers did it and we're inheriting it. So don't question it. Well, I did give the reason

00:42:27.000 behind it, which is that the, the man is supposed to be the head of the home and the leader in the

00:42:32.240 home, which is what I, which is what I believe. Um, so that's the reason. Um, or at least that's

00:42:41.080 one of the significant reasons, but see, you're, you're, you're showing the same attitude to

00:42:46.580 tradition. That's very common on the left, very common in our, in our culture today, generally

00:42:50.500 that, you know, if it's, if it's just a tradition, then we might as well throw it out. Even if we

00:42:57.460 don't know why it was there, even if we have no reason to throw it out, a thousand year old

00:43:02.020 tradition, ah, just dispense of it because you don't see any value in tradition itself. Um, that's

00:43:10.680 certainly not a conservative view. I can tell you that. That's another thing we talk about what we're

00:43:16.320 trying to conserve as conservatives. I would think that's, that's another of the big, the big ones.

00:43:20.500 Trying to conserve our cultural traditions. Uh, all right, let's get now to our daily

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00:45:05.420 The Virginia's governor's race will be decided in a week from today. Most pundits and prognosticators

00:45:11.300 thought it had already been decided months ago, coming off a presidential election where Biden

00:45:14.660 carried the state by 10 points. And with, at the time, the Democrat challenger Terry McAuliffe

00:45:19.620 leading in the polls by a healthy margin. But things have changed. And now Republican Glenn Youngkin

00:45:24.500 is tied neck and neck with McAuliffe in a race that was never supposed to be close at all.

00:45:28.660 And all the momentum is on his side as well. Youngkin is doing something that Republicans

00:45:32.580 are very rarely able to do. He's dictating the terms of the race. He's deciding what the main

00:45:38.960 issues are. Donald Trump was always good at that. He was good at dictating terms

00:45:43.120 in this way. Few other Republicans have been able to do the same, but that's what's happening right

00:45:47.280 now in Virginia. That's what Barack Obama was railing against when he showed up to a stump for

00:45:51.820 McAuliffe yesterday, whining that Republicans were focusing on phony culture war issues. Here's that clip

00:45:57.380 again. We don't have time to be wasting on these phony trumped up culture wars. This fake outrage

00:46:07.840 that the right wing media's pedals to juice their ratings. And the fact that he's willing to go along

00:46:14.140 with it instead of talking about serious problems that actually affect serious people. That's a shame.

00:46:20.340 That's not what this election is about. That's not what you need, Virginia.

00:46:24.820 Instead of forcing our communities to cut back at a time when we're just starting to recover,

00:46:31.520 we should be doing more to support people who are educating our kids and keeping our neighborhoods

00:46:36.660 safe. Of course, this is a risible claim coming from Obama complaining about fake outrages after

00:46:42.480 his side just had a month-long psychotic meltdown over a stand-up comedy schedule. I mean,

00:46:46.980 these are the people who made headline news out of an NFL coach's vulgar emails a decade ago.

00:46:51.020 They turned a high school kid into a national villain because he smiled at a Native American 1.00

00:46:55.520 guy in D.C. Fake outrages are their specialty. It's what they do. And yet, Obama is not entirely

00:47:01.420 wrong. And we would make a mistake to entirely dismiss his point. He's wrong when he uses words

00:47:06.920 like phony, but he's right that the governor's race of Virginia has become centered around the

00:47:11.640 culture war. It has indeed become a cultural fight. And that's worked out well for the Republican

00:47:17.260 in the race. Youngkin, who began his campaign as a kind of standard factory-issue GOP guy,

00:47:23.220 has in the last several weeks moved away from that mold and leaned into the social and cultural

00:47:28.200 issues. And that's largely why he's now surging. Whether he wins or loses next week, this is a

00:47:34.060 point that Republicans at all levels everywhere in the country need to absorb. It's also a point that

00:47:38.140 I've been screaming for years. Contrary to the faux wisdom of the establishment, you don't win

00:47:43.460 elections by speaking to people exclusively through their wallets. You're not going to motivate

00:47:48.580 masses of voters to flock to the polls because you have a tax plan that's moderately better than

00:47:53.240 the other dude. No, you speak to people through their hearts, their souls, by connecting with what

00:47:58.580 they value even more than money or financial security. I mean, the March for Life has attracted

00:48:05.340 a half a million people annually to D.C. for four decades. No other movement in the history of the

00:48:11.960 country has ever been able to do anything like that because the pro-life movement is animated by

00:48:17.580 its determination to protect the dignity and worth of human life. Our belief in the dignity and worth

00:48:22.540 of human life is fundamental. It gets down to the core of who we are. I believe strongly that taxes

00:48:29.600 should be lowered, but I probably wouldn't die for that cause. I would die for the pro-life cause

00:48:33.880 because that's how deeply it matters to me. And I know that every other pro-lifer feels the same.

00:48:37.520 So that's just an example to show how much the quote-unquote social issues actually matter.

00:48:43.580 The social issues fueling the Virginia race are less about abortion and more about parental rights.

00:48:48.180 Now, the media will say that the debate is about education, and it is,

00:48:51.360 but this isn't some dry back and forth over education policy. These are parents who want

00:48:56.580 to protect their children from being indoctrinated into the far-left cults of critical race theory and

00:49:01.320 gender ideology. The battle over education in Virginia is very much a cultural battle.

00:49:06.020 It's a culture war. Obama's right about that. It's just not the kind of culture war that he wants

00:49:12.440 to have. Democrats would rather not discuss indoctrinations in the schools at all, for good

00:49:17.420 reason. Terry McAuliffe has been fumbling the issue spectacularly for weeks, first saying out loud that

00:49:23.720 parents shouldn't decide what their kids are taught, and now, most recently, admitting that there are

00:49:28.360 some issues with education, but then he intentionally misses the point about what those issues really are.

00:49:33.100 Listen. I make the point that we've got to do a better job in our education system. We've got to

00:49:39.200 go back K to six. Early on, we've got to start teaching, talking about these issues much earlier

00:49:46.660 than we've done it before. And we don't do a good job in our education system talking about diversity,

00:49:51.320 inclusion, openness, and so forth. We don't. We've got our textbooks. But, you know, there has to be a

00:49:55.700 big part of how do you fit in into the social work of our nation and our fabric. How is it that we deal

00:50:02.860 with one another is, to me, is as important as, you know, your math class, your English class, and so forth.

00:50:08.000 And we don't.

00:50:10.480 Yes, the education system is failing to teach diversity and inclusion, Terry says.

00:50:15.000 Meanwhile, the parents rallying at school boards in the state feel exactly the opposite about it.

00:50:19.380 The school spent entirely too much time imposing their twisted ideas of diversity and inclusion onto

00:50:25.220 their students. We don't want to live in a culture guided by leftist notions of diversity and

00:50:30.180 inclusion, the kind of inclusion that includes boys and girls' bathrooms, for example. That's why

00:50:35.200 McAuliffe would prefer to just not talk about these issues at all. Democrats would much rather

00:50:39.460 indoctrinate your children quietly, induct them into the leftist ranks without anyone noticing, 0.93

00:50:43.980 while never having to defend the practice, much less defend the ideas that they're foisting

00:50:48.300 on our kids. Youngkin is perhaps on his way to a once improbable victory precisely because he's

00:50:54.920 forcing Democrats to talk about the things they don't want to talk about. So who is canceled today?

00:51:02.820 I hope we can say that establishment republicanism, which shies away from cultural battles and social

00:51:08.420 issues in favor of issues nobody really cares about, is canceled. Should have been canceled long ago.

00:51:14.620 Recent events, not just in Virginia, but across the country, should, I would hope,

00:51:18.460 put a final nail in its coffin. And that'll do it for us today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for

00:51:23.600 listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 26, 2021

Ep. 826 - A Country That Values Puppies Over People

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