The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 841 - How The Media Rigged The Rittenhouse Trial

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as we await a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, we ask this question.

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00:02:15.900 As the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial continues its deliberations, deliberations that should have lasted about five minutes before landing on a full acquittal on every single charge,

00:02:24.000 it's been revealed that the prosecutors who already committed, quote-unquote, grave constitutional violations, according to the judge who said that during the trial,

00:02:31.660 went back to that same bag of tricks by withholding evidence from the defense, reportedly.

00:02:35.540 The Daily Mail reports, quote,

00:02:38.080 Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was, quote,

00:02:42.220 at the center of their case, only sharing the high-definition drone video footage on which they have hung their prosecution after the trial had concluded.

00:02:51.100 Dailymail.com can reveal.

00:02:52.300 Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger played the enhanced drone footage to the jury during his closing statements and claimed that it showed Rittenhouse pointing his gun at people,

00:02:59.720 an assertion that opened the door to state, the state claiming that Rittenhouse provoked the violence on the night of August 25th, 2020.

00:03:06.780 Now in the motion obtained by DailyMail.com, Rittenhouse's defense insisted that the state only shared it with the defense after evidence had closed on Saturday, November 13th.

00:03:16.200 This is just one of the grounds on which they have made a motion for a mistrial with prejudice filed by Kyle Rittenhouse's defense Monday afternoon.

00:03:23.920 And a mistrial with prejudice, by the way, means that they can't refile it.

00:03:29.120 Mistrial, and then that's it.

00:03:30.780 Double jeopardy would apply.

00:03:31.900 So if you're wondering why the deliberations are taking so long, this is part of the reason.

00:03:36.500 The jurors have been bombarded by lies from the district attorney, and every underhanded, dirty tactic has been utilized.

00:03:44.480 For Rittenhouse to have any shot at a fair trial, he would need 12 jurors who are, first of all, smart enough, right, and savvy enough to wade through all of the half-truths and untruths and falsehoods and fabrications,

00:03:59.620 spotting, you know, the sleight-of-hand tricks and the red herring distractions along the way, and somehow sift the truth out of all of that.

00:04:07.440 But, and that would be tough enough to find 12 people who can do that.

00:04:10.280 But that alone is not enough.

00:04:13.020 It's not simply a matter of being intelligent and observant, something that, I mean, the average person, let's face it, is not.

00:04:19.440 That's why we would call the average person average.

00:04:21.760 But also, they have to have the courage and the wherewithal to do the right thing at potential cost to themselves.

00:04:30.200 You know, that's not the kind of calculation that a member of a jury in the United States should have to make.

00:04:35.100 The whole system breaks down when members of juries start balancing, you know, the right verdict on one hand against their physical safety on the other because they can't have both.

00:04:46.020 When that becomes a mutually exclusive proposition where you could do the right thing or the safe thing when you're in, you know, when you're deliberating, that's when the whole system breaks down.

00:04:56.780 The system is breaking down, and that's the case no matter the ultimate conclusion of this trial.

00:05:05.300 It's already taken longer than it should precisely because of the way the game was rigged.

00:05:10.720 And who rigged it, we should ask?

00:05:13.160 Well, the prosecutors, of course.

00:05:16.140 We know that.

00:05:17.480 And also the media.

00:05:18.280 I mean, the media has intentionally made it so that men like Kyle Rittenhouse cannot get a fair trial in the United States of America, period.

00:05:27.960 We live in the information age, which is not to say the truth age.

00:05:32.460 This is not an age of truth.

00:05:33.720 It's an age of information because information is not always true.

00:05:37.840 We walk around every day inside this tornado, this never-ending tornado, this storm of information, most of it false and misleading.

00:05:46.400 And nobody can really escape it.

00:05:50.240 And what this means is that the media has the absolute power to pollute any jury pool that they want to pollute.

00:05:57.540 They can do this absolutely.

00:05:59.280 If they decide that they want you to be convicted of a crime, if you, for whatever reason, fall into their crosshairs,

00:06:08.040 and you might be sitting there thinking, well, I don't have to worry about it.

00:06:10.460 I'm not, you know, I'm not a prominent person.

00:06:13.120 They're not going to come after me.

00:06:15.340 Well, you never know.

00:06:16.100 Kyle Rittenhouse was not a prominent person before all this happened.

00:06:19.960 You never know when the spotlight will fall on you in a way you don't want it to fall.

00:06:24.660 And if they decide that they can craft a narrative about you, craft it quickly, almost at lightning speed, really,

00:06:31.680 and with the same speed, send it around the entire world and inject that narrative straight into the minds of the masses.

00:06:38.540 Once it's there, once everyone has been exposed to it, and most have come to believe it, because most people do.

00:06:45.800 Most people just accept whatever they're told.

00:06:47.740 Once that happens, you cannot possibly get a fair trial.

00:06:51.960 Your only hope at that point is that you manage to extract a fair outcome from this incredibly unfair situation.

00:06:59.540 And that's possible.

00:07:01.000 It's not likely.

00:07:02.920 I mean, it is possible.

00:07:03.880 But whether you get the right outcome or not, the fact remains that you did not have a fair trial.

00:07:08.140 So when I say that fair trials are over in America, that's true.

00:07:12.800 They are over.

00:07:13.480 They don't exist anymore.

00:07:16.180 But that's not the same thing as saying that every innocent person will be found guilty and every guilty person will be found innocent.

00:07:22.960 Sometimes, even in an unfair situation, just by happenstance, against the will of the people trying to rig it, the right thing can happen.

00:07:31.980 But that's going to be the minority of cases.

00:07:34.420 And so we're left with this kind of farce.

00:07:37.360 The legal system itself has become a farce thanks to the media.

00:07:40.980 We talk about an impartial jury, but we all know that every single person on that jury had heard about Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:07:47.820 Every single one.

00:07:50.240 They're not going to find anybody, especially in Kenosha, who's never heard of that.

00:07:54.040 And every single one of them, again, every single one without exception, had been exposed to 18 months of propaganda, painting Kyle as a murderous white supremacist.

00:08:05.320 Every single one of them has been living in that environment.

00:08:10.080 Not only that, but we also know that all of them, again, every single one, no exception, is aware of the potentially devastating personal consequences of passing down an acquittal.

00:08:18.560 So we all know this, which means that the trial from the very start is a charade.

00:08:24.200 It's a pageant.

00:08:26.100 And all we can hope is that Kyle manages to free himself from its clutches like he freed himself from the clutches of the mob in Kenosha, even with the odds stacked against him.

00:08:35.020 The media has subverted our justice system and ripped our country to shreds.

00:08:41.220 They deserve not just to be sued into oblivion, though they do, of course, deserve that, but to be put in prison.

00:08:49.920 I mean, the media members responsible for this should be in prison.

00:08:53.540 This is the way elected Republicans need to start talking.

00:08:57.360 Yeah, I don't want to hear vague general complaints about the media anymore.

00:09:01.840 What they need to start saying is that this is criminal.

00:09:05.000 And we're going to put you in jail for it.

00:09:06.780 The people who lied about the Jacob Blake case in the first place in order to provoke the riots, provoke them, by the way, as part of a larger effort to influence the presidential election, and then lied about Rittenhouse, they shouldn't just face monetary repercussions.

00:09:22.400 They should be in jail. 0.99

00:09:23.080 They should be locked in cages like the rats they are. 1.00

00:09:26.100 They have no right to do what they're doing. 0.99

00:09:28.000 This is not free speech.

00:09:30.060 This is terrorism, is what it is.

00:09:32.440 Of course, the left has never met a truth that it won't deny, so they'll still claim that, really, when it comes to the justice system, in fact, they'll agree that the justice system is rigged and that it's unfair and everything, and that it's all a farce, but they would say it's because of white privilege, and white people are so privileged and they have the advantage.

00:09:51.120 And they still claim that somehow Kyle Rittenhouse is getting better treatment than he would if he were black, and they say this even though we all just witnessed only a few weeks ago a black school shooter waltz out of jail less than a day after opening fire in his classroom and then go home to a welcome home party that was broadcast live on Facebook.

00:10:12.720 Not only that, but we also saw gang members in Chicago shoot each other in the street in full view of security cameras, by the way, leading to at least one person's death, and none of them were charged with crimes.

00:10:26.220 To reiterate, straightforward homicide on camera, and there were no charges.

00:10:32.480 None.

00:10:32.820 Not even for illegal firearm possession or, you know, I don't know, disturbing the peace.

00:10:39.920 Not even so much as a misdemeanor charge for first-degree murder.

00:10:45.460 Privilege?

00:10:46.440 I mean, what white privilege?

00:10:48.040 In the court system?

00:10:50.680 No, that's not the kind of privilege you'll find in the court system.

00:10:53.160 And it's not black privilege either, necessarily.

00:10:55.320 If Kyle Rittenhouse were black, but still, but, you know, associated with being right-wing, and I don't even know if that's true or not.

00:11:02.920 I don't know what his politics are, but that's how he's associated.

00:11:05.640 So if he were black and associated with being right-wing, and he had been in Kenosha under the same circumstances, and everything had played out the exact same way, he'd probably still be facing the same fate. 0.88

00:11:13.580 In fact, just as the media is calling Rittenhouse a white supremacist right now, even though he shot three white people who were attacking him, I have no doubt that they would still call him a white supremacist for shooting white people, even if he was black, provided that he was associated with being right-wing.

00:11:31.420 So the privilege in the court system, just as in society at large, is not strictly racial.

00:11:38.100 It's ideological.

00:11:39.480 It's determined by the media, most of all.

00:11:41.640 The media dispenses the privilege, right?

00:11:44.200 The media decides who will get favored treatment and who will not.

00:11:48.480 The media's rigged the entire system, destroyed the entire system.

00:11:53.140 So Trump was right.

00:11:54.700 It was the most right thing he ever said, the most correct he ever was, was when he said the media are the enemy of the people, because they truly are.

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00:13:25.220 So the Daily Wire is on the scene in Kenosha.

00:13:28.940 They're outside of the courthouse, and there's been a few interesting interactions.

00:13:35.220 We'll start with this.

00:13:36.160 I want to play this for you.

00:13:37.860 Here's the Daily Wire's Georgia Howe talking to—this is Jacob Blake's uncle who's there.

00:13:43.860 And now, let's just remember again, we have to review this all over again because this all started with Jacob Blake.

00:13:52.980 And really, it began not even at the police shooting.

00:13:55.320 It actually began when he allegedly broke into a woman's home early one morning, I think on a Sunday morning, and raped her and then stole her credit card and her vehicle and drove away.

00:14:06.920 Now, the thing about that is he was never convicted in that case.

00:14:11.300 In fact, they dropped the charges for that.

00:14:14.840 This happened a few months ago, and of course, there was no outrage from the Me Too set or anything.

00:14:18.880 I mean, this was a guy accused of breaking into a woman's house and raping her, and they dropped the charges.

00:14:24.280 And yet, what we know—and part of the reason, by the way, that they said they dropped the charges is that they weren't getting a lot of cooperation from the victim.

00:14:34.400 But of course, you're not going to get a lot of cooperation from the victim because the entire media and society and culture and everything, they're all on Jacob Blake's side.

00:14:42.920 They have made him a hero.

00:14:44.400 He's a folk hero.

00:14:45.680 And so that's what she's up against.

00:14:48.740 And so she's afraid for her own well-being, not without reason.

00:14:52.920 And I would imagine that's why she was not very cooperative.

00:14:56.200 And they decided to just take that as an excuse to drop the case entirely.

00:14:59.280 But we still know, you know, this was not one of those cases where Jacob Blake was accused of rape 10 years later or 30 years later, you know, like a Brett Kavanaugh situation.

00:15:10.820 No.

00:15:11.320 The morning of this alleged incident, the victim called the cops, trembling and crying and telling them what happened, you know, in her pajamas.

00:15:21.940 And they showed up in the morning that it happened.

00:15:26.960 So I guess you could decide.

00:15:28.080 I mean, did she just wake up one morning and decide to, you know, this was she was going to go go for an Oscar and and and put on this whole show.

00:15:34.440 Now, it seems pretty clear to me that, you know, that we could drop the alleged from the rapist part, but I'll keep it on there just for litigation reasons.

00:15:44.720 So that's that's where this begins.

00:15:48.040 And it has to begin there because he's got a warrant for his arrest stemming from that.

00:15:52.700 And then he shows up again to his alleged victim's house. 0.99

00:15:55.260 And he is accosting her and she calls the police to come and save her from this violent scumbag of a man. 0.99

00:16:03.720 The police show up. 0.99

00:16:04.840 He fights the police.

00:16:07.220 Pulls a knife on the cops.

00:16:10.200 And they're still doing everything they can to apprehend this guy without without. 1.00

00:16:14.680 He gave them an excuse almost right away to just shoot him there on the spot and shoot him dead. 0.98

00:16:18.920 And they gave him a reason as soon as he pulls the knife out. 0.99

00:16:22.680 That's their reason.

00:16:23.440 But they still didn't.

00:16:26.080 And he walks around the car, not his car.

00:16:29.180 It's his victim's car where there's children inside and the cops are trying to stop him and telling him to stop, telling him to stop.

00:16:34.960 And he starts to climb into the car where there are children into a car that is not his while he's wielding a knife.

00:16:40.440 And so we've got this knife wielding accused rapist trying to steal a car with children inside.

00:16:45.540 And that's when they open fire and they were absolutely justified in doing so.

00:16:48.920 So that's what happened with Jacob Blake.

00:16:52.620 And that's and that's where all of this begins.

00:16:54.700 In fact, if we were to start, if we were to make a list of who to blame for the Rittenhouse shootings, who's really to blame for it?

00:17:01.900 Well, first, we have the the rioters who attacked Rittenhouse.

00:17:06.900 And then we have the media.

00:17:09.440 For ginning up this mob in this riot in the first place, again, in an effort to influence the election.

00:17:15.040 And then we have the government officials who abandoned their communities to the mob.

00:17:18.440 And but then also Jacob Blake, he's he's actually the first to blame.

00:17:22.220 He's the one who started all this.

00:17:24.880 And yet, in spite of all this, Jacob Blake's family, they're still out there.

00:17:27.980 I mean, they got a visit from the president.

00:17:30.740 And the vice president, you know, president, president, vice president made their state visit to the here. 0.86

00:17:36.880 The folk hero, Jacob Blake, accused rapist, knife wielding madman who tried to kidnap kids and steal a car.

00:17:43.020 They made their visits and and the family is still, you know, they're they have no shame whatsoever.

00:17:48.500 They're still out there painting them even there.

00:17:51.500 They're a victim, too, by extension.

00:17:54.120 So that's the context.

00:17:55.340 And here is Georgia Howell.

00:17:56.880 We'll watch a little bit of this talking to Jacob Blake's uncle.

00:17:59.860 Now, a lot of people have been making this about race.

00:18:04.460 And I noticed we have some Black Lives Matter protesters here.

00:18:07.680 Do you think this case is about race?

00:18:09.640 Of course.

00:18:10.660 I'm going to be just cold blooded.

00:18:12.100 Honest with you.

00:18:12.820 Of course it is.

00:18:13.880 A young black man was shot seven times in the back who was never charged with any crime, who was not being aggressive and who had his back turned on a police officer. 0.53

00:18:22.460 Now, when it comes to the Kyle Rittenhouse case, all of the men that he shot were white.

00:18:28.520 So how is the Kyle Rittenhouse case about race?

00:18:31.100 So to be blunt with you, back in the 50s, 40s and 60s, they were referred to him as lovers.

00:18:38.260 So they were sacrificed.

00:18:40.160 They were sacrificed.

00:18:41.400 And this young man was used.

00:18:42.920 So if they can, the tone that we're setting today is that I don't believe our Caucasian counterparts are willing to give up the lives of their young people on the street.

00:18:54.940 This is no different than the shooting in Colorado, the shooting in Florida.

00:18:59.220 It was a young person because he would have been in high school or just out of high school and he shouldn't have had a gun.

00:19:03.860 And he murdered people with the gun that he had illegally.

00:19:06.740 Some people would say, you know, Jacob Blake was visited in the hospital by the vice president of the United States.

00:19:11.500 They would say that is a form of privilege, sort of like what you're discussing.

00:19:14.320 Let me tell you, I wish you would mention the president of my presence.

00:19:18.200 He has failed us.

00:19:19.580 He has betrayed the Floyd family.

00:19:21.760 He's betrayed the Taylor family.

00:19:24.100 That's great.

00:19:24.640 Bianca Taylor.

00:19:25.540 I love that they're still here.

00:19:26.400 Okay, we can cut out of this.

00:19:28.220 We've heard that.

00:19:28.860 We've heard this guy babbling enough.

00:19:31.020 Just lying.

00:19:32.340 I mean, it's just someone with no soul whatsoever.

00:19:34.720 He knows the truth.

00:19:36.640 This was a this was a non by Jacob Blake was a was a good young man.

00:19:40.620 And he didn't do anything.

00:19:42.240 He was charged.

00:19:42.780 He wasn't charged with any crime.

00:19:43.800 They went there to warn out for his arrest.

00:19:45.260 What do you mean he wasn't charged with any crimes?

00:19:48.920 Many of those charges have been dropped for political reasons.

00:19:54.240 But but a fair number of the crimes he committed is are on camera.

00:19:58.660 We can all see him do it.

00:19:59.720 And they continue right along with the narrative.

00:20:04.200 It doesn't matter.

00:20:06.800 But he still they still don't let he goes on for a while there.

00:20:09.860 It's actually an interesting conversation.

00:20:11.480 I was going to continue playing it, but I just I can't stomach listening to this guy anymore.

00:20:16.100 I really don't want to hear from anybody in the in the Blake family.

00:20:19.140 But he it's it's great that he doesn't like Joe Biden.

00:20:23.900 You know, Joe Joe Biden showed up. 0.99

00:20:28.060 Joe Biden showed up and like bowed before this absolute scumbag, Jacob Blake, this nothing of a worse than a nothing. 1.00

00:20:36.680 This absolute total dirtbag, Jacob Blake. 1.00

00:20:40.640 Nothing positive can be said about this man. 0.98

00:20:42.800 He's contributed nothing positive to society.

00:20:44.680 Only negative.

00:20:46.020 He has been an absolute net negative for humanity in every single way.

00:20:49.920 Jacob Blake.

00:20:52.480 He gets shot by the police.

00:20:55.340 Totally deserves it. 1.00

00:20:56.860 Every every bullet he took, he deserves. 0.96

00:21:00.660 And the president still shows up and bows before him at his hospital bed.

00:21:06.820 And what are the BLM protesters say?

00:21:09.260 Still not good enough.

00:21:10.860 Not enough.

00:21:12.620 It's not just not enough. 0.99

00:21:13.780 We hate you.

00:21:15.720 They don't even know why they hate him. 0.99

00:21:17.520 Like what else?

00:21:18.220 What more do they want Joe Biden to do?

00:21:20.300 They don't know.

00:21:22.720 But their whole gig is to be perpetually aggrieved no matter what.

00:21:27.760 So if you're in a position of authority, they're going to hate you because you're they are all they are the victims.

00:21:36.360 And if you're running the system, then you are responsible for victimizing them no matter what you do.

00:21:41.300 Meanwhile, we had some other protesters who were on the scene and protesters on both sides of it.

00:21:49.340 Let's let's watch a little bit of some of some of the pro some of the anti Rittenhouse protesters and see maybe a few of them will make some interesting points.

00:21:57.660 Maybe they can explain why they're there and they can be eloquent and articulate about it.

00:22:02.160 My hopes are not very high, but we'll see.

00:22:03.740 I wanted them to think of the word hero when they see Anthony Huber.

00:22:09.600 I want them to think hero because you guys, they were running after Kyle not to, like, kill him.

00:22:18.680 They were just trying to stop him because he just shot somebody.

00:22:22.360 They're treating him like a child and making it as comfortable and as non-threatening as possible.

00:22:31.540 And what did you make of the footage of the actual incident?

00:22:34.840 Did it look like self-defense or not self-defense to you?

00:22:39.600 It looked like a crazy situation.

00:22:43.380 It looked like it looked like murder to me and it was an illegal, horrendous act.

00:22:54.480 Has it been your opinion that Kyle has been treated as if he was innocent?

00:22:59.120 I don't have an opinion on that.

00:23:01.920 It's really up to the jury to decide what's going to happen.

00:23:05.620 You don't have an opinion on that. 1.00

00:23:07.020 What are you doing there with a poster board sign, you idiot? 1.00

00:23:09.620 I'm here to call Kenosha to come together to denounce the hateful ideology of white supremacy as depicted here by Killer Kyle at Pudgy's Clavern in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. 1.00

00:23:25.140 Here's a man shouting Kyle is a killer into a lampshade.

00:23:31.100 All right.

00:23:32.080 So there you go.

00:23:33.940 I love the one guy.

00:23:35.120 He's got a sign calling for a conviction of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:23:38.100 He said, I really have no opinion.

00:23:40.020 About the case.

00:23:41.240 I think the jury should decide.

00:23:42.260 What are you doing protesting, though, if you want the jury to decide?

00:23:47.260 Well, they have no idea.

00:23:48.620 These people have no clue whatsoever.

00:23:52.000 Useful patsies for the left that are out there.

00:23:54.860 But it is interesting, you know, that it's not a huge crowd outside the courthouse.

00:24:03.880 There's a great amount of interest in the case, obviously.

00:24:06.620 And if you go online, you see, I mean, every leftist is calling for Kyle Rittenhouse's head.

00:24:10.660 But it's not a big crowd out there.

00:24:13.300 It's really a very sad assortment.

00:24:15.840 It reminds me of the people who protested at Netflix because of Dave Chappelle.

00:24:19.800 It might actually be the same people.

00:24:23.960 Or, you know, maybe they all kind of end up looking the same, slightly overweight oftentimes.

00:24:29.400 Not the stereotype. 0.99

00:24:30.280 But this sad, pathetic assortment, like a handful of people out there. 0.98

00:24:36.480 And that's why I might end up eating these words. 0.98

00:24:38.880 But, you know, most people on the right, most conservatives are kind of predicting and expecting that if Rittenhouse is acquitted, that there's going to be massive, massive riots.

00:24:50.180 And it's going to be even worse than it was in 2020 after the Jacob Blake shooting.

00:24:54.080 And there's certainly a possibility of that.

00:24:56.540 But I wouldn't put my money on it.

00:24:57.800 If I were to put money down on something like this, I would not put my money on massive riots.

00:25:02.120 There will be some protests.

00:25:04.660 But it's probably not going to be anything like it was in 2020.

00:25:07.860 And why is that?

00:25:08.800 Well, because as we said, why did the media, there was a reason why the media made the decision to foment these riots at that point.

00:25:17.080 It's not a coincidence that this happened to be right leading up to a presidential election.

00:25:22.680 That's why they did it.

00:25:25.580 You know, they were trying to get people fired up in a very literal sense with this idea that it's a racist system.

00:25:33.220 And that we, you know, it also gives everyone the impression when there's rioting and there's violence in the street and everything, it makes people more inclined to want change.

00:25:41.660 And so they got to get rid of whoever's on the top.

00:25:43.940 They don't want this now because Democrats are running the system. 0.98

00:25:46.180 So they don't want that, you know, this feeling of unease and chaos and violence.

00:25:51.980 They don't want that, even though there is a lot of chaos and violence in the streets of our cities, whether there's riots or not.

00:25:58.340 But the other problem is they realize that Democrats are running the system right now.

00:26:03.180 So a riot, because everybody is upset about systemic oppression and systemic racism and everything, well, that's going to put the blame on the Democrats who are running the system right now.

00:26:14.000 Therefore, the media has no real interest in fomenting riots.

00:26:19.520 The riots in 2020 across the country, these were not organic things.

00:26:23.440 These were not spur of the moment, spontaneous.

00:26:27.380 There's a reason why we saw, you know, vans showing up with signs and all the rioters were carrying the same signs and the same kind of slogans.

00:26:34.280 These were funded. These were coordinated. These were promoted.

00:26:38.360 They had the whole PR mechanism of the media behind it.

00:26:40.660 That's not going to be the case this time.

00:26:42.060 So I would expect, no matter what happens to the trial, it's not going to be the same kind of reaction.

00:26:47.680 Though I could be incredibly wrong about that.

00:26:50.320 All right.

00:26:50.520 But let's and then and then obviously had a lot of protesters also saying that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there.

00:26:57.900 So this is cross state lines, even though he lives 30 minutes away and he worked there and his dad lived there.

00:27:02.200 But he crossed state lines and he shouldn't have been there.

00:27:04.580 You hear this a lot. This is something you hear on the right.

00:27:06.360 Also, David French wrote an article recently saying Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero.

00:27:10.900 He shouldn't have been there.

00:27:11.640 And quickly to address that notion one more time.

00:27:15.860 If you are saying that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there.

00:27:21.660 And really, that's irrelevant to the case, whether or not it was self-defense, whether he should have been there or not, it's irrelevant.

00:27:26.860 But if that's what you're saying, that's a position you're taking.

00:27:30.120 And what you're saying is that when the government surrenders your community to the mob and surrenders it to anarchy and violence and says that they will not uphold the law anymore for a period of time.

00:27:46.200 What what what the he shouldn't have been there, folks are saying, is that your moral obligation is to sit there and take it.

00:27:52.820 And I guess hunker down, batten down the hatches, go into a storm cellar and wait for it all to be over and hope that your house isn't burned down in the process.

00:28:02.580 That's what you're saying.

00:28:04.480 Now, that that is the actual reaction of most people.

00:28:10.140 But is that like the morally right reaction?

00:28:14.340 When the government decides there's going to be this huge hole, this void where they're not going to enforce the law, are we is our is it our moral responsibility to say,

00:28:22.820 well, the government doesn't want to enforce these laws anymore.

00:28:24.600 So, well, that's it.

00:28:29.420 Or are we morally justified in stepping into that void and saying, if you're not going to do it, then we have to do it.

00:28:38.500 I would say that you are morally justified.

00:28:40.360 OK, huge development here.

00:28:42.120 Report from Yahoo.

00:28:43.780 It says citing an internal email provided by an FBI whistleblower, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee revealed Tuesday that the Bureau has created a system to track

00:28:52.540 threats against school board officials and administrators and accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of misleading lawmakers.

00:28:58.640 When he asked about the subject during his previous testimony, when he was asked about the subject during his previous testimony before the committee,

00:29:05.020 the FBI's counterterrorism and criminal divisions created a threat tag,

00:29:09.580 EJO officials, to track instances of related threats, according to the email.

00:29:14.300 The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective engagement with law enforcement.

00:29:24.740 The email was signed by Counterterrorism Division Assistant Director Timothy Langan and former Criminal Division Assistant Director Calvin Shivers, who retired earlier this month.

00:29:33.040 In the letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Representative Jim Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote that the whistleblower email provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement officials employed counterterrorism tools against concerned parents.

00:29:51.420 The FBI has denied this.

00:29:53.200 If you care at all what the FBI has to say, here's what the FBI says to the Wall Street Journal, a statement.

00:29:57.600 The FBI has never been in the business of investigating parents who spoke out or policing speech at school board meetings, and we are not going to start now.

00:30:05.460 The creation of a threat tag in no way changes the longstanding requirements for opening an investigation, nor does it represent a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats.

00:30:15.780 Of course, Merrick Garland, so he lied, he perjured himself.

00:30:18.780 He should be disbarred from that, for that.

00:30:21.320 He should resign in disgrace, but neither of those things will happen.

00:30:25.420 And the problem is, there's no denial from the FBI that matters to anyone at this point.

00:30:32.940 I mean, nobody has any faith in the FBI.

00:30:38.540 How is this going to work when we get into, you know, federal criminal trials and that sort of thing?

00:30:44.020 It's all based on work by the FBI and FBI testimony.

00:30:49.240 You've got people from the FBI up there on the stand testifying.

00:30:52.040 Nobody trusts them.

00:30:54.940 No one believes anything they have to say.

00:30:58.620 And that's something that they brought on themselves.

00:31:00.480 And when you weaponize the FBI against average Americans, well, average ordinary Americans like parents, that's going to change how they see the FBI.

00:31:07.680 So this is the great crisis that we're facing.

00:31:12.240 It's just a total collapse in trust in our institutions.

00:31:16.140 And you can't have a functioning society when no one has any faith in the institutions underpinning it.

00:31:24.820 One of our most fundamental institutions is the court system, the justice system, law enforcement.

00:31:34.640 And when no one has any faith in any of this stuff, then it, as I said, it breaks down.

00:31:43.040 Although maybe I keep using the phrase breaks down.

00:31:45.500 I probably shouldn't because that makes it sound sort of accidental.

00:31:47.900 It's not being broken down.

00:31:49.280 It's more being demolished, deconstructed, as the left likes to say.

00:31:53.700 All right.

00:31:53.980 I want to get to this.

00:31:56.340 This is from the Gainesville Times.

00:31:59.040 It says, a Gainesville woman says she was threatened at a Waffle House on November 7th by employees who said they needed nooses after her biracial family walked in to eat.

00:32:07.340 While at the Waffle House in Gainesville, a woman, Angelica Tabor Fells, recorded a video describing the allegations, which has since gone viral on TikTok with 2.5 million views, of course.

00:32:22.020 And so there's, you know, this has already gone viral.

00:32:24.500 The police department is investigating it.

00:32:26.720 The Waffle House has released a statement.

00:32:28.600 It's a whole thing.

00:32:29.700 Let's watch.

00:32:30.260 We have the TikTok video.

00:32:31.280 Here is, what's her name again, Angelica Tabor Fells with a story of a noose-related hate crime. 0.99

00:32:38.720 These things are always, okay, up until this moment, and we'll watch it together and we'll see what we think about it.

00:32:44.080 But up until this moment, these stories have always been false.

00:32:49.140 I mean, like 100% of the time, for the last 30 years at least, anytime there's a claim of a noose-related hate crime or a racist incident involving a noose, it is always false every time.

00:32:59.840 It's incredible that we have, I mean, to bat 1,000 on something like this is pretty incredible.

00:33:05.560 But maybe this will be different.

00:33:06.840 Maybe this is the one real one, the one real incident.

00:33:11.260 Let's watch and find out.

00:33:13.340 So we're at Waffle House in Gainesville.

00:33:15.580 I've won 29.

00:33:17.320 Look at my family.

00:33:18.420 It's very diverse.

00:33:21.100 See my family?

00:33:22.400 So I'm about to show you a waitress that decided to ask for a noose in front of me and my daughter. 1.00

00:33:33.800 And then when I asked to speak to the manager, the manager, who said that he has two nooses in his car.

00:33:38.620 So I'm pretty daggone sure this is probably the racist place I've ever been.

00:33:49.360 Now they're trying to hide.

00:34:08.080 Ma'am, can I get my ticket to go? 0.81

00:34:11.220 Because Miss Thang over there needs a noose, and we're the only black people in here. 1.00

00:34:16.300 And your manager said he got two nooses in his car. 0.95

00:34:19.080 So we're getting the hell up out of here.

00:34:22.200 And I need a number for corporate.

00:34:23.780 Okay.

00:34:30.160 I don't mean to laugh at your pain, Miss Angelica.

00:34:34.340 Angela, whatever your name is.

00:34:37.960 Angelica's name.

00:34:39.560 Yeah, I find this extremely hard to believe.

00:34:42.640 I really do.

00:34:44.420 So some customers walk in, and the waitress looks at them and says, I've got to grab my nooses.

00:34:50.120 And the manager says, I've got to fuel my cargo grab.

00:34:54.580 What?

00:34:56.660 It doesn't even make any sense.

00:34:59.340 Okay.

00:35:00.060 Did she say, oh, I need to get some juice?

00:35:03.220 I mean, can we go through words that rhyme with noose here?

00:35:08.580 Of course, as we said, batting a thousand, these stories are always fake.

00:35:12.680 And I've got to say, this one, this one I would put on the tier of the claim a couple years ago

00:35:19.860 that there were racist nooses hanging from a, at a cracker barrel that someone had put there.

00:35:26.140 And then it turns out that they were just cords, like extension cords.

00:35:30.020 So I would say, I'm going to give this a 99.9999999% chance of being false.

00:35:39.720 Let's round up and call it 100%.

00:35:43.660 These stories are always fake, and I'm thinking this one's going to be no exception.

00:35:49.860 You know, if we wanted to break this down and analyze it, there are a number of questions we could ask.

00:35:55.920 Probably no reason to do it.

00:35:57.040 But here's one question.

00:36:01.640 Why would they be the first black people at this Waffle House to have this experience?

00:36:09.860 I mean, if this Waffle House is that racist that you simply walk in and they start talking about going to grab a noose,

00:36:17.220 wouldn't there be other customers who would have similar stories?

00:36:20.440 Or are we supposed to believe that these are the first black customers that have ever gone into this Waffle House?

00:36:28.320 Are we really supposed to believe that?

00:36:31.400 Waffle House in Gainesville has never seen a black customer before.

00:36:37.720 You know, I'm a big fan of Waffle House, by the way, assuming that they're not committing hate crimes like this.

00:36:44.020 If they are, then I will not go on any more Waffle Houses.

00:36:46.100 But on the assumption that they're not, I'm a big fan of Waffle Houses myself.

00:36:50.840 I consider myself to be sort of an aficionado of Waffle Houses.

00:36:53.740 And what I will tell you is one of the great things about it is Waffle Houses are very, very diverse.

00:36:58.220 I've never been to a Waffle House that was anything less than racially diverse.

00:37:02.780 That's another thing that makes this story not make a lot of sense.

00:37:06.640 Okay.

00:37:08.100 What else do we got here?

00:37:12.120 I threatened a few days ago to talk about this Britney Spears thing.

00:37:14.980 Britney Spears, this is the story from Elle magazine.

00:37:19.080 I'm a big reader of Elle magazine.

00:37:21.400 This is a couple days old now, but a Los Angeles judge ruled that the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life for over 13 years should end today, according to New York Times.

00:37:30.300 The pop icon, now 39 years old, has been under the court-ordered legal arrangement since 2008 following struggles with her mental health.

00:37:37.780 And now the conservatorship has ended.

00:37:39.980 Yeah, I've been threatening to talk about this, and there are more important things to talk about, so I've kind of skimmed over it.

00:37:46.460 But I have the same – I have followed this story, as I said, not very closely, so maybe I've missed something along the way.

00:37:57.300 But as happy as I am for Britney Spears that she's free now and she can do whatever she wants, that's wonderful.

00:38:04.920 Because I had something I've been deeply – I personally have been deeply worried about for the last 13 years.

00:38:09.740 I have not been able to sleep well at night knowing that Britney Spears is under a conservatorship, so I feel that relief like everyone else does.

00:38:17.400 But the reason she was under the conservatorship is because she was judged mentally unwell and so mentally unwell that she was a danger to herself and others.

00:38:26.980 That's also why she lost custody of her children, which is a very hard thing to do as a woman. 0.88

00:38:31.060 And it's very hard to lose custody of your children, especially in – I believe this was in California.

00:38:34.980 So to be in California and to lose custody of your kids, that is not – that's not something they do lightly anywhere, but especially in California.

00:38:44.980 So that was the judgment, that she was psychologically unwell to the extent of being a danger to herself and others.

00:38:52.580 That's why she was under the conservatorship.

00:38:57.660 I assume that the people who want the conservatorship to end – I assume those people aren't claiming that it's impossible for someone to be judged mentally unwell and unable to care for them – a threat to themselves and others.

00:39:11.000 Obviously, there are people who fall into that category.

00:39:13.840 And so there should be arrangements like conservatorships for those sorts of people.

00:39:17.620 We should also have institutions to put them in.

00:39:21.480 And we used to – we don't do that nearly as much as we used to.

00:39:25.020 But assuming we can agree on that, the question is, is that the case for Britney Spears?

00:39:31.420 And I guess my point is, I don't really know, but all the people calling to the conservatorship to end – do they have evidence?

00:39:36.580 Do they have some information about her psychological health?

00:39:39.600 Could they somehow prove that she was not as crazy as they said?

00:39:43.260 Instead, I never saw anyone produce that evidence.

00:39:47.280 It's just sort of an assumption.

00:39:49.400 This is what the court had decided, and there's an assumption that it's false.

00:39:52.260 It could be wrong.

00:39:53.260 We just talked about not trusting the court system.

00:39:55.860 But do you have any reason to think that?

00:40:00.520 And if the original judgment was correct that she's a danger to herself and others,

00:40:04.740 and now she's been released of this conservatorship, and then she goes on to hurt herself or hurt someone else,

00:40:09.880 you know, all the protesters who have been calling for this for the last several years,

00:40:14.420 how are they going to feel then?

00:40:16.040 One other thing.

00:40:16.840 We've got to mention this also.

00:40:19.320 Some closure here from the New York Post.

00:40:21.180 Brass against rocker Sophia Urista has apologized for going too far by peeing on a fan on stage

00:40:27.580 while insisting that she's not a shock artist.

00:40:30.300 This is not something she normally does.

00:40:33.060 In fact, she's never peed on someone's face on stage before.

00:40:36.580 If anything, it's something she does in the privacy of her own home.

00:40:39.200 And she always makes sure to take sanitary precautions, puts down some newspaper and all that sort of thing. 1.00

00:40:43.480 So not something she normally does.

00:40:44.640 She got carried away.

00:40:45.360 This is her statement.

00:40:46.060 She says,

00:40:46.440 I've always pushed the limits in music and on stage.

00:40:48.360 That night I pushed the limits too far.

00:40:50.460 I love my family, the band, and the fans more than anything,

00:40:52.880 and I know that some were hurt or offended by what I said.

00:40:56.100 And so she apologizes.

00:40:57.600 We all make mistakes sometimes.

00:40:59.180 When you accidentally pee on someone's face on stage, it happens.

00:41:03.100 I would like to get an explanation.

00:41:04.420 You'd be interested in what the explanation is.

00:41:05.940 Like, what was the thought process that led to this?

00:41:08.180 I'm curious.

00:41:11.600 But we don't need to talk about it anymore.

00:41:13.180 This whole thing is gross. 0.52

00:41:14.960 It's just really not my cup of pee, to be honest. 0.58

00:41:18.960 Sorry, I used up all the good urination puns yesterday, so I'm all out.

00:41:22.240 The bladder is empty, you might say.

00:41:24.400 I just wish this video had never leaked.

00:41:26.120 I mean, talk about a live stream.

00:41:30.980 Okay, I'm sorry, I'm done.

00:41:32.560 You know, this singer, she's not a big star in the music industry.

00:41:35.360 She's like a little star, really.

00:41:37.380 So she went tinkle, tinkle, little star.

00:41:39.140 Okay, that was a bad one.

00:41:40.860 I even wrote that one down.

00:41:42.200 Can you believe I wrote down tinkle?

00:41:43.060 I wrote down tinkle, tinkle, little star so I could tell that joke.

00:41:45.600 And I hate myself for it now.

00:41:47.200 I really do.

00:41:48.420 Let's go to the comment section.

00:42:00.440 You're killing me, Smalls, says, hey, Ben Shapiro.

00:42:03.240 Hey, Ben Shapiro referred to you as my friend Matt Walsh during the Q&A with a trans activist

00:42:07.640 who couldn't answer what is a woman. 1.00

00:42:09.020 That was heartwarming.

00:42:10.440 I did see that exchange.

00:42:11.540 Ben Shapiro speaking in Florida, University of Florida, I believe.

00:42:15.060 And he had an interaction with a trans activist, and he dropped the what is a woman question

00:42:19.920 and gave me some credit for that.

00:42:22.220 And, of course, the response from the trans activist was that there was no response, as

00:42:26.560 always.

00:42:27.460 I think the trans activist accused Ben of a red herring fallacy.

00:42:32.920 And this is something, you know, people who grow up on the Internet at a certain age, they're

00:42:36.500 very impressed with themselves because they know about certain fallacies.

00:42:40.000 And so their response to any argument you present is always to label it with a certain fallacy

00:42:46.620 and then to define it for you.

00:42:47.980 Well, that was a red herring fallacy.

00:42:49.620 That was a red herring fallacy and a straw man fallacy.

00:42:54.220 It's not a red herring fallacy.

00:42:55.360 It's the opposite of a red herring.

00:42:56.360 This is the whole point.

00:42:57.900 You know, can you, within the context of gender theory, even define what these genders are?

00:43:01.960 If you can't, then that shows that the whole thing's incoherent.

00:43:03.800 And the other interesting thing is that, ironically, while accusing Ben of a fallacy, the trans 0.62

00:43:11.560 activist, their entire argument is structured around an appeal to authority, listing all

00:43:21.700 of these supposed public health authorities who have said that, actually, you know, it's

00:43:26.740 great to give kids hormones and everything. 0.99

00:43:28.040 So that's the whole argument is appeal to authority while accusing Ben of being a trans

00:43:31.720 activist.

00:43:31.940 As far as calling me his friend, I do appreciate that because if I was in his position and the

00:43:35.980 roles were reversed, I would refer to him as my subordinate and employee.

00:43:39.960 I certainly would.

00:43:40.860 So I appreciate that on his part.

00:43:44.960 Jimmy says, Matt giving away the banjo in order to get out of playing it for his adoring

00:43:49.420 a fan.

00:43:50.000 Such a Chad move. 0.95

00:43:51.200 Yeah, I feel like that needed more explanation than we gave it.

00:43:53.080 That was sort of out of nowhere, wasn't it?

00:43:54.120 We are giving away the banjo.

00:43:56.260 So and if you if you this is something we're going to this is a gift we're going to give

00:44:02.860 to a someone who signed up for our newsletter, the Matt Walsh newsletter.

00:44:07.180 And so if you want to win the banjo, you have to sign up for the newsletter.

00:44:11.100 But I do want to clarify one other thing.

00:44:14.040 Obviously, I'm a legendary banjo player, and that's why you would want the banjo.

00:44:17.300 And this is a banjo that's near and dear to my heart because I've played many, many tunes

00:44:21.980 and many melodies on it, many beautiful tunes.

00:44:24.620 I'm always walking around the office.

00:44:26.260 I mean, anyone at Daily Wire will tell you.

00:44:28.020 I'm always walking around the office playing music, singing, bringing joy to everybody.

00:44:34.580 That's just what I'm all about.

00:44:36.420 And they call me the music man, actually.

00:44:38.100 That's the nickname they give me.

00:44:39.880 But the banjo that it's in my studio right now that the alien is holding, that's not the

00:44:44.700 original banjo.

00:44:45.700 Okay, that's my Daily Wire Nashville banjo, which we will be giving away.

00:44:50.660 But don't worry, there will still be a banjo on set.

00:44:53.420 The original banjo from my studio in my house, that will replace it.

00:44:58.260 So everything will be fine.

00:44:59.400 You'll get a banjo.

00:45:00.260 I'll still have a banjo, and everything will be great.

00:45:02.200 But you got to go to dailywire.com slash banjo to sign up and possibly win it.

00:45:10.400 Cyril says, oh, I saw a fairy in the garden.

00:45:13.640 What?

00:45:13.960 Am I the only person who never believed that fairies and unicorns were real?

00:45:17.640 Matt makes it seem like it's normal for kids to do this.

00:45:20.240 As a child, I always had a very good idea of what was real and what wasn't.

00:45:24.120 And I think it was because my parents did the exact thing Matt is mocking.

00:45:26.920 And before you say that I'm a special case, I have three siblings who shared in this upbringing

00:45:29.820 and had a similar early understanding of these things.

00:45:32.480 So either all four of us are special cases, or there may be something to that approach.

00:45:36.560 No, I was not there for your childhood.

00:45:40.740 Far be it for me to say, but I will tell you.

00:45:43.340 Far be it for me to tell you what happened in your childhood.

00:45:45.940 But I will tell you what happened in your childhood.

00:45:47.800 And I can tell you 100% certainty.

00:45:50.120 You definitely, at some point in your childhood, believed that things like fairies and unicorns

00:45:54.720 and dragons and everything were real.

00:45:55.720 You absolutely did.

00:45:57.640 And the reason that you did is because you were not born with the brain you have right now,

00:46:04.180 which is a really good thing. 1.00

00:46:05.180 Because if you were, you would have killed your mother on the way out, okay? 0.99

00:46:08.100 So your brain was not fully developed as it is right now, hopefully as it is right now.

00:46:13.480 And early on in childhood, once again, you do not have the neurological equipment in place

00:46:22.260 to differentiate between real and not real, okay?

00:46:26.900 So when you go to a two-year-old and you say, such and such is not real, it's a fantasy, 0.62

00:46:32.520 that doesn't mean anything to them.

00:46:34.480 They don't understand the difference, okay?

00:46:37.340 Which is why little kids, they're afraid that there's a monster under the bed.

00:46:42.000 You could explain to them, no, monsters aren't real.

00:46:44.380 That doesn't even make any sense.

00:46:45.520 What would a monster be doing under your bed in the first place?

00:46:47.800 I mean, if there were monsters, they wouldn't be under your bed in any way.

00:46:50.680 Here, I'll turn the light on.

00:46:51.760 You can look under, there's nothing there.

00:46:53.380 And that's not enough to convince them.

00:46:55.540 Because they see it in their head, they feel it, and so it's real to them.

00:47:01.160 And the idea that you could feel something, see it, think it, and that it's not real,

00:47:06.780 that's something, that's a realization that develops later in life.

00:47:09.560 If you're a leftist, it never develops, right?

00:47:12.480 So that's the case for everybody.

00:47:15.620 And you're no exception.

00:47:16.520 You might not remember those times because it was a long time ago.

00:47:18.600 Now, let's see.

00:47:21.280 BH says, if you have to wear a band on your wrist to relieve you from your helpless feeling of nausea,

00:47:26.840 you are a female. 1.00

00:47:28.960 How dare you, sir? 0.95

00:47:30.420 How dare you? 0.89

00:47:31.520 More bigotry against the motion sick community. 0.97

00:47:34.120 The MSC, as we call ourselves.

00:47:36.740 We are not, actually, we are not motion sick people, by the way.

00:47:39.420 We are people of motion sickness inclination.

00:47:41.580 And how dare you, once again, I say.

00:47:45.000 You're banned.

00:47:47.840 Nate says, conservatives, there's no such thing as your truth.

00:47:51.720 Your personal experiences don't determine reality. 0.97

00:47:54.280 Walsh, if you don't have kids, your opinions on anything parent-related is completely irrelevant and silly.

00:47:59.860 Okay, well, this isn't about people having their own truth, okay?

00:48:03.400 I'm not saying that if you're a parent, you have one truth, and if you're not a parent, you have another.

00:48:07.580 What I'm saying is that if you aren't a parent, you can't really know the truth about parenting.

00:48:13.540 There are certain truths, certain realities of parenting that you can't really know until you are one.

00:48:20.680 And this is something that I know if you're not a parent, and, you know, if you're younger, you don't believe me on this.

00:48:27.400 You don't think I'm right.

00:48:28.020 I was in your shoes, too, okay?

00:48:29.640 There was a time in my life when I was younger, and I was childless, and I sat there judging parents and making all of these declarations.

00:48:37.200 And sometimes in my head, sometimes out loud about what I would do as a parent and how everything would be as a parent and what, you know.

00:48:43.900 And I was, before I had, this is what I can tell you, before I had kids, I was an absolutely perfect parent.

00:48:49.520 Perfect.

00:48:50.100 I was a model for everybody else.

00:48:51.660 And then I had kids, and I start to understand certain realities that I simply didn't have access to when I wasn't a parent.

00:48:58.740 And when you have kids, this same thing will happen with you.

00:49:01.760 I guarantee it. 1.00

00:49:03.140 You will look back at the things that you said and the things you thought before you had kids, and you'll think, what a moron was I? 1.00

00:49:08.740 Like, so that's just, I can tell you to take it from me. 0.99

00:49:13.160 I know you won't, but it is the truth regardless.

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00:51:12.100 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:13.180 All right, so today we cancel Sesame Street.

00:51:20.560 We could have canceled Sesame Street a week ago when Big Bird tweeted.

00:51:24.100 Big Bird has a Twitter account now, by the way.

00:51:25.860 He tweeted that he'd just gotten the vaccine despite having natural immunity from respiratory viruses due to the fact that puppets don't have respiratory systems.

00:51:34.120 But I suppose if we're giving the vaccine to kids who are almost completely immune to severe COVID illness, then we might as well give it to fictional birds also.

00:51:39.680 To make matters creepier, Big Bird then appeared on a CNN town hall to further push pharmaceuticals onto kids.

00:51:47.620 Big Bird seems to have really settled into his new role as drug dealer.

00:51:51.620 Here's what that looked like.

00:51:53.400 You know, my granny bird says that since I'm six years old, I can get the vaccine.

00:51:58.460 Oh, yeah, that's right, Big Bird.

00:51:59.720 But, well, I have a lot of questions like what is a vaccine and does it have to be a shot and will I still need to wear my mask?

00:52:10.740 Those are such great questions, Big Bird, and it turns out lots of kids and families have questions, too.

00:52:16.720 So over the next half hour, we're going to be answering your questions, talking with experts and giving you the information you need about vaccinations for kids.

00:52:25.980 Oh, um, uh, you know what? Elmo better go change. See you later.

00:52:35.260 Oh, come on! It's time for the town hall! Yay! 0.97

00:52:45.020 Okay, this raises a number of questions.

00:52:48.380 Questions like, what the hell happened to Big Bird's voice? 0.95

00:52:50.840 Why does he sound like a child molester now? 0.85

00:52:55.000 He sounds distinctly creepy all of a sudden.

00:52:57.260 And also, what kind of six-year-old is watching a CNN special about vaccinations in the first place?

00:53:02.400 Who is the audience for this?

00:53:05.880 When I was a kid, the only thing I knew about CNN was that it's the channel my dad watches sometimes when he wants to yell at the TV,

00:53:11.560 which, come to think of it, explains a lot.

00:53:13.160 Now, in any case, this is all very weird and inappropriate and dystopian and horrible,

00:53:16.920 as a show for preschoolers hawks a drug that nobody in the preschool demographic actually needs.

00:53:21.980 But that's not why I'm canceling Sesame Street.

00:53:24.860 It would have been the reason until they gave us a whole new reason.

00:53:29.200 As ABC reports, quote,

00:53:30.620 Sesame Street debuts Ji Young, the first Asian-American Muppet.

00:53:34.600 That's the headline.

00:53:35.180 The article says,

00:53:35.840 At only seven years old, Ji Young is making history as the first Asian-American Muppet in the Sesame Street canon.

00:53:42.140 She's Korean-American and has two passions, rocking out on her electric guitar and skateboarding.

00:53:47.100 The children's TV program, which first aired 52 years ago this month, gave the AP a first look at its adorable new occupant.

00:53:52.840 Ji Young will formally be introduced in See Us Coming Together, a Sesame Street special.

00:53:57.940 Simu Liu, Padma Lakshmi, and Naomi Osaka are among the celebrities appearing in the special, which we'll drop on Thanksgiving.

00:54:05.840 Now, if you want to see Ji Young in action, which I know you do, here she is.

00:54:11.580 Actually, there's something really cool about my name.

00:54:14.740 So, in Korean, traditionally, the two syllables, they each mean something different.

00:54:20.960 And Ji means, like, smart or wise.

00:54:25.580 And Young means, like, brave or courageous or strong.

00:54:30.120 Yeah.

00:54:30.240 And I think it was honestly inspired, unfortunately, by the past year and the rise in, you know, attacks and racist incidents against Asian people, especially during COVID.

00:54:41.640 My one hope, obviously, is to help have Ji Young help teach, you know, what racism is, help teach kids to be able to recognize it and then speak out against it.

00:54:53.000 But then my other hope for Ji Young is that she just normalizes seeing different kinds of looking kids on TV.

00:54:58.900 And I'm excited to share kimbap and dhokboki and kogi and jiggas and panchans and kimchi and chapcha and all sorts of stuff.

00:55:09.800 Ah, yes.

00:55:13.380 Okay.

00:55:13.660 Well, we need the Asian Muppet to tell kids about racism in case they didn't pick up on the racism lessons from literally every other show or movie they've ever watched. 0.67

00:55:21.680 It's very important, you see, that we don't allow young children to go more than 17 minutes without being reminded of racism.

00:55:27.140 Even 17 minutes is probably too long.

00:55:28.600 I'm concerned that, you know, like SpaghettiOs hasn't released a new product where the letters in the soup are R-A-C-I-S-M so that even when they're eating, they can still be reminded of racism.

00:55:41.880 Plus, as the puppeteer behind the Asian Muppet explains, we also need to normalize Asian people for kids.

00:55:50.340 This is important in case there are any children in America who've never seen an Asian person before.

00:55:54.560 We need to think about, you know, all those kids maybe who were raised inside a crater on the moon and haven't encountered any members of another race or ethnicity.

00:56:04.000 We need to make sure we normalize other ethnicities for all of those moon children who might be watching. 0.98

00:56:09.660 But this all leads to a confusing question.

00:56:12.800 G. Young is the first Asian puppet on Sesame Street.

00:56:16.780 Okay.

00:56:17.900 Well, then what race are the other Muppets?

00:56:21.060 What race is Ernie?

00:56:22.660 What is Elmo's nationality?

00:56:25.660 Where is Grover's ancestral home?

00:56:28.400 We know that the Count is from Transylvania, so we know that. 0.66

00:56:31.300 We know Oscar the Grouch is from New Jersey, which is why he prefers living in a trash can.

00:56:35.080 But the rest of the characters seem to be very intentionally non-racial.

00:56:38.980 I mean, what the hell is Snuffleupagus supposed to be?

00:56:42.000 Does Cookie Monster have an ethnic background?

00:56:45.200 I guess he's from New Jersey also.

00:56:46.680 In fact, he was the governor of the state from 2010 to 2018.

00:56:49.060 But you see the point.

00:56:50.220 Now, most of these characters have no ethnicity, no race, no nationality.

00:56:54.960 They're fictional characters that all children can relate to equally.

00:56:58.840 And I think that was sort of the point, right?

00:57:01.100 They exist in a fantasy world where there are no races.

00:57:04.600 And there was a time when this was the liberal utopia, a world of sameness where nobody is different, everyone is the same.

00:57:11.920 And when it comes to things like gender, that kind of homogenous, ambiguous paradise is still what they strive for. 0.77

00:57:17.680 But the realm of race, in the realm of race, as equity replaces equality, the pendulum has swung back in the other direction dramatically.

00:57:24.380 And now, rather than emphasizing similarities and downplaying differences, the left wants to make sure that everyone is categorized and labeled and put into a box.

00:57:32.760 And that makes things even more confusing because our gender is all fluid and there's no differences and it doesn't matter.

00:57:40.400 But as far as race goes, we are strictly in our box and we can never leave it. 0.71

00:57:45.540 They want kids to see themselves in those terms.

00:57:49.260 Sesame Street actually has been pushing this message for a little while now.

00:57:51.580 They debuted their first Black Muppets a few months ago.

00:57:55.320 And here's how those characters explained race.

00:57:59.220 Well, it's because the more melanin you have, the darker your skin looks.

00:58:04.380 The color of our skin is an important part of who we are.

00:58:08.320 But we should all know that it's okay that we all look different in so very many ways.

00:58:14.220 Well, Emma's fur is red and soft.

00:58:17.600 Oh, and my hair is black and curly.

00:58:19.800 Things on the outside, like our skin color, our hair texture, our noses, our mouths and eyes, make us who we are.

00:58:31.640 Many people call this race.

00:58:35.780 Our skin color is what makes us who we are, says the Black Muppet.

00:58:41.420 As woke Sesame Street tries its hardest to ensure that kids see race first and foremost.

00:58:46.800 But our skin color is what makes it.

00:58:48.420 When I was a kid watching Sesame Street, the message was precisely the opposite of that.

00:58:55.080 Of course, the funny thing is, you'll notice, the Asian puppet doesn't actually look or sound all that Asian. 0.93

00:59:02.680 And so this is always the conundrum for the identity box checkers when it comes to cartoons and puppets. 0.98

00:59:07.200 They want to make sure that there's proper representation, but they also can't allow themselves to be accused of stereotyping.

00:59:13.060 Which is a problem because when you're making a puppet or a cartoon that's supposed to represent a certain race, then inevitably, by definition, there is a caricature, a stereotype going on.

00:59:28.360 But they can't do that yet.

00:59:30.360 They want to have the representation, which just means that the diverse characters meant to represent a specific ethnicity or race end up representing really nothing and nobody in particular.

00:59:39.340 They want to racialize the fictional world as much as they've racialized the real world.

00:59:44.160 But they can't really do that because then they'd be engaging in stereotypes.

00:59:47.020 So they're left then with this weird kind of half measure, which is what wokeness always boils down to.

00:59:52.480 It boils down to incoherence and weirdness in the end.

00:59:56.080 Though on a different note, I'm wondering if we'll see the episode where the Asian puppet G. Young applies for college and is turned down in favor of the Black Muppet. 0.72

01:00:04.580 You know, that would be, you know, that's another important real world lesson about equity.

01:00:08.480 Maybe we'll get that as well.

01:00:10.040 And I look forward to that.

01:00:11.140 But in the meantime, Sesame Street, we must say, is canceled.

01:00:15.160 And we'll leave it there for today.

01:00:17.780 Thanks for watching.

01:00:18.380 Thanks for listening.

01:00:19.200 Have a great day.

01:00:20.300 Godspeed.

01:00:45.160 The show is produced by Sean Hampton, executive producer Jeremy Boring.

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Ep. 841 - How The Media Rigged The Rittenhouse Trial

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